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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: HIST 204 suggested or permission of instructor. Examines the origins and evolution of colonial America, the development of a distinct American identity, the birth of the United States, the struggle for independence from Great Britain, and the problems and challenges of a new nation.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the early Constitutional era, the political, social, and diplomatic issues of Jeffersonian and Jacksonian America, the emergence of the two party political system, the evolution of social reform movements, and the growing complexities of territorial conquest and expansion.
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3.00 Credits
Considers the social, political, and economic background of events culminating in the sectional and constitutional crises of the 1850s, the American Civil War of the 1860s, and the subsequent reconstruction of the United States in the 1870s.
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3.00 Credits
Covers the period 1877-1929 with special emphasis on those events which were crucial to America's emergence as a great power. Particular attention will be given to the rise of industrialism and the city, the decline of American agriculture, the rise of the United States' worldwide empire, the Progressive Era, United States involvement in the First World War, and the 1920's.
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3.00 Credits
Covers the period 1929- 1960 in an effort to focus on America's response to world turmoil characteristic of that era. The Depression of the 1930's, the Second World War, the beginning of the Cold War, and increasing economic disparity represent the principle upheavals in which the United States found itself involved.
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3.00 Credits
Considers the problems of the United States since the beginning of the Kennedy administration including such topics as the Cold War, Vietnam, domestic politics, the radical left and the radical right, and the end of the Cold War. The social, cultural, and economic problems created by such forces in American life as Far- and Middle Eastern affairs, presidential politics, and the global electronic economy will be examined in detail.
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Examines the course of human development in the fertile crescent and Egypt from the furthest horizon of history to the Hellenistic period of the fourth century BCE. Analyzes the political, military, economic, social, and artistic evolution of Mesopotamia, Ancient Israel, and Egypt in the intercultural milieu that compromised the "trade basin" of the ancient Near East. Considerable attention will be given to primary sources and archaeological contributions.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the civilization of Ancient Greece from the Minoan Crete period (c. 2600-1400 B.C.) to the fall of the Corinth in 146 B.C. with emphasis on the contributions of politics, art, literature, and philosophy to the western tradition.
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3.00 Credits
Covers the history of ancient Rome from its earliest point through the years of the Republic and Empire.
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3.00 Credits
Considers the collapse of ancient civilization and the emergence of a new distinctive European civilization in the millennium between 300 and 1300 A.D. Emphasis is placed on the decline and fall of Rome; the integration of Greco- Roman, Christian, and German elements in a new culture; and the creation of European political, economic, social, and intellectual institutions.
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