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3.00 Credits
This course will explore the history and culture of the Iroquois people from the era prior to their first contact with European peoples, through their diaspora following the American Revolution, to their present-day struggles and achievements in Canada and the United States. Prerequisites: HIST 220 and HIST 221 or permission of the instructor. Credits: 3(3- 0) Offered every other fall
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An examination of the history of the intellectual and cultural aspects of the United States during the nineteenth century. Topics will include the issue of a national identity in a new nation, the sources of cultural unity in the United States, the development of cultural divisions (such as regional, racial, partisan, religious, and economic differences), and the dramatic transformations that occurred in Americans' ways of perceiving themselves and others during the period. Prerequisites: HIST 220 and HIST 221 or permission of the instructor. Credits: 3(3-0) Offered when demand is sufficient
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This course will explore African-American history from the period following Reconstruction (when racially-based segregation became both the law and practice throughout the United States) until 1954 (when the Brown decision ended the legal and Constitutional basis for racial segregation). The course will examine work, culture, gender, class, activism, and leadership as African Americans struggled against the strictures of Jim Crow. The course will also examine major events and movements, including the Great Migration, the Great Depression, Garveyism, the Harlem Renaissance, and World War II. Prerequisites: HIST 220 and HIST 221, or permission of the instructor. Credits: 3(3-0) Offered when demand is sufficient.
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This course will examine the emergence of American industrialism, the consolidation of a strong national state, the development of an expansionist foreign policy, and the ways in which the processes of immigration, urbanization, and proletarianization laid the foundations for modern America in the period between Reconstruction and the First World War. Prerequisites: HIST 220 and HIST 221, or permission of the instructor. Credits: 3(3-0) Offered at least once every four semesters
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This course will examine the ways modern American politics, economy, and culture were shaped by the period bounded by the two World Wars and marked by the Great Depression and the efforts of the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations to resolve it. Emphasis is on the domestic, social, political, and economic history of the period. Prerequisites: HIST 220 and HIST 221, or permission of the instructor. Credits: 3(3-0) Offered at least once every four semesters
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This course traces the historical development of American environmental thought and politics from the late 19th century to the present. It will be particularly concerned with the clash between two distinct forms of environmental thought and action: one promoting the sustainable use of the natural environment and the other opposing human intervention into wilderness areas. The course will also explore the ways in which gender, race, class, religion, and globalization have intersected with environmental thought and politics. Prerequisites: HIST 220 and HIST 221 or permission of the instructor. Credits: 3(3-0) Offered when demand is sufficient
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This course will examine the history of Mexico from 1810 to the present, focusing on social and economic evolution as well as political change. Special attention will be given to the history of U.S.-Mexican relations. Prerequisites: HIST 270 or HIST 271, or permission of the instructor; and for History majors HIST 220 and HIST 221. Credits: 3(3- 0) Offered when demand is sufficient
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An in-depth study of a particular topic in Asian, African, and/or Latin American history. Topics could be defined either by time or space: the history of Iran, the Islamic revival, liberation movements, and the history of Indo-China are possible areas that might be offered. (May be taken for credit twice under different subtitles.) Prerequisites: HIST 220 and HIST 221, or permission of the instructor. Credits: 3(3-0) Offered when demand is sufficient
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This course offers a study of the major historical eras in China, a country of long history and grand tradition. Special emphasis will be put on examining how schools of thought (e.g., Confucianism, Daoism, and Zen Buddhism) have shaped the social and political life of the Chinese people. Through reading selected classical texts and literary works, this course examines the important features of traditional Chinese society, including the structure of the extended family, the rule of the gentry in the village, the division of the inner (female) and outer (male) quarters, the civil service examination system, the constant dynamics between the local and central authorities. Prerequisites: HIST 220 and HIST 221 or permission of instructor. Credits: 3(3- 0) Offered spring, even years
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the momentous changes in modern China from 1911 to the present. It covers major historical events such as the 1911 Revolution, the 1949 Communist Revolution, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and Deng Xiaping's reform in the 1980s and 1990s. Based on first person accounts and specialized studies, this course calls attention to the multiple factors--historical, cultural, social, and economic--that have shaped contemporary China. Prerequisites: HIST 220 and HIST 221 or permission of the instructor. Credits: 3(3-0) Offered spring, odd years
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