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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the history and diverse cultures of the world since ca. 1492 - the era of the rise of European political, economic, and cultural worldwide dominance - until the present day. It is organized chronologically and thematically. Themes include the individual and society, world economics and politics, and racism, nationalism, and internationalism. (HSI)
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3.00 Credits
Fall and Spring semester A survey of the history of the United States from the age of Columbus to Reconstruction. Special emphasis is placed on the causes of the Revolution, constitutional foundations, westward movement, and the Civil War crisis. (HSII)
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3.00 Credits
Fall and Spring semester A survey of the history of the United States from Reconstruction to the present. Themes include industrial development, immigration, the Depression, the World Wars, and the development of contemporary American society and culture. (HSII)HS 3000. Ancient History (3) Topics include the origins of civilization in Mesopotamia and Egypt, the Hebrews and Judaism, Homeric Greece, the Spartan Way, Periclean Athens, Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age, Rome under the Republic, the Augustan Age, the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, early Christianity. (HSII)
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3.00 Credits
Topics include Christianity in the late Roman Empire, the barbarian invaders, Byzantium, Islam, the Carolingian Empire, feudalism, manorialism, revival of town life, monasticism, the Crusades, the university, the cathedral, the Investiture Controversy, the English Parliament, the Black Death, the Hundred Years' War. (HSII)
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3.00 Credits
Topics include humanism, art, and literature in Italy and northern Europe; the voyages of discovery; the causes of the Reformation; Luther, Calvin, Henry VIII; the radical reformers; the Catholic Counter-Reformation; the Council of Trent; the Society of Jesus; the Wars of Religion. (HSII)
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3.00 Credits
Topics include the Thirty Years' War; the Age of Absolutism; mercantilism; the Scientific Revolution; the English Civil War; the Age of Reason; Enlightened Despotism; France on the eve of the Revolution. (HSII)
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3.00 Credits
This course reviews events and developments in Europe during an era marked by popular revolutions and reform movements. Topics addressed include the 18th century American and French Revolutions, the rule of Napoleon, the Congress of Vienna and its aftermath, the Irish nationalist movement from the Revolution of 1798 to the Fenian uprising of 1867, the Revolutions of 1830, the Great Reform Act and the Chartist movement in Britain, the Revolutions of 1848, and the course and consequences of the Industrial Revolution. (HSII)
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3.00 Credits
This course reviews events and developments in Europe in an era dominated by the influences of popular nationalism. Topics include national unification of Italy and Germany, the rise of European alliance systems, the Second Industrial Revolution, the New Imperialism, the First World War and Russian Revolution, the Depression, the rise of totalitarian regimes, and the Second World War. (HSII)
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3.00 Credits
This course deals exclusively with events after 1945 while reviewing the problems attached to the study of contemporary history. Topics include the postwar political and economic reconstruction of Europe, the origins and course of the Cold War, the emergence of the welfare state, the decline of colonialism, the student revolts of 1968, the economic difficulties of the 1970s, the fall of Communism in eastern Europe, the reunification of Germany, and prospects for greater European unity. (HSII)
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3.00 Credits
A survey of British history from 1714 to the present with special emphasis on the development of Parliamentary government and political reform, the creation of a colonial empire and its demise, the social and economic effects of industrialization, prominent developments in British thought, culture and religion, the relationship of Britain and Ireland, and the contemporary state of the United Kingdom. (HSII)
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