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3.00 Credits
Students applying for honors should have a 3.0 GPA overall, with a majority of As in the department. The honors course includes significant reading in the appropriate language, an examination on a reading list at the end of the first semester of the course and a thesis of approximately 50 pages, due at the end of the second semester of the course.
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Research Skills For Graduate Students
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Development of Western ideas and institutions from beginnings of Greek civilization to Europe of 1500. Significant aspects of culture, society, politics that have shaped modern world.
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Western civilization traced in its development from 1500 to present time, with emphasis on Europe, Europeans and their relationships to other peoples.
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Colonial period to 1877: American historical development in terms of distribution of power among social classes, dilemmas facing revolutionaries and reformers, origins of racial oppression and ways by which social changes have occurred.
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Development of American civilization from the latter part of the 19th century to the present. Agrarianism, capitalism, industrialism, racism, urbanization, immigration, colonial imperialism and world power, reform and reaction, corporate economy and corporate state, modern American expansionism.
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Introduction to civilizations of China, Japan and Korea ù their geographical settings, historical traditions and cultures ù focusing on problems of interpretation. The idea of East Asia (or the Far East) in Western and Asian thought. Commonality vs. diversity: the common heritage of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism, of Chinese political thought, of Western imperialism and of modern industrialization, versus radical national and regional differences within East Asia.
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Great Muslim empires of the Middle East in their heyday and ascendancy over Europe, in eras of decentralization, of reform and Westernization and in period of their final disintegration, c. 1918. Twentieth-century age of Western domination, of movements against imperialism and colonialism, and the rise of Arab, Turkish, Iranian and other nationalisms.
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A thematic exploration of global history in the period 1500 to the present and the ways in which societies and peoples have confronted fundamental issues of the human condition. Examines developments in China, India, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas. Themes include the impact of the European conquest of the New World; industrial transformations; subjects and citizens; revolts and revolutions, nationalisms; wars and decolonization; globalization.
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African social, political and economic history from the Pharaonic period to mid-20th century. Social, political and economic organization; religion and philosophy; education; women's roles and achievements; inter-African and international relations; slavery; internal and external migrations; resistance to European rule; nationalism; liberation movements; effects of European rule; problems of independence and post-independence; African peoples' contributions to civilization.
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