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3.00 Credits
3 s.h. A study of African American History from Africa through to Reconstruction. (LA) Cross-listed as ALS 263. Prerequisite: SoS or 3 s.h. 100-level HIST course.
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3 s.h. A study of African American History from the Age of Booker T. Washington to the present. ( LA) Cross-listed as ALS 264 Prerequisite: SoS or 3 s.h. 100-level HIST course. History
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3 s.h. A survey of the significant political, economic, and social trends and institutions in New York State. Attention to colonial growth and change, the emergence of the independent state, the development of a democratic commonwealth, urbanism, immigration, industrialism, and political factions. ( LA) Prerequisite: SoS or 3 s.h. 100-level HIST course.
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3 s.h. A study of American Foreign Relations to 1914. Includes formal diplomacy, development of policy, manifest destiny, decisions to avoid foreign entanglements, and economic and cultural relations with individual nations and the world. ( LA) Prerequisite: 100-level HIST course with a "C" or better or SoS.
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3 s.h. Survey of the changing status and role of women in American society. Main emphasis will be the origin and development of feminism from 19th century to the present, its ideology, and leadership and organization problems within the context of broader social change. Prerequisite: SoS or 3 s.h. 100-level HIST course. ( LA)
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3 s.h. This course will examine the prehistory and history of the indigenous people of the Americas before 1492. It will also sample the writings produced by indigenous people and Europeans during and after the Conquest. The emphasis will be on the great civilizations of Mesoamerica and the Andes though we will also look at societies in the Amazon and Northern South America. Major themes will include societal organization, sacred architecture, gender and family, religious rituals, technology, warfare, conquest, and science. Class sessions will include interesting visual material and student participation. Engaged reading will be a must. ( LA, HO2) Prerequisite: SoS or 3 s.h. 100-level HIST course.
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3 s.h. This course surveys the history of the Americas from 1492 until 1812. Major topics include pre-Columbian society in the Americas; the Spanish Conquest; the impact of disease on the indigenous populations & the creation of the New World. Major themes will include gender, family, the birth of individualism, and religion. We will try to get to the heart of this fascinating but painful story through a careful consideration of these themes over the course of the semester. Cross-listed as ALS 271. ( LA, HO2) Prerequisite: SoS or 3 s.h. 100-level HIST course.
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3 s.h. This course will examine the history of Canada from the first aboriginal contacts with European explorers to the modern era. It will focus on the development of distinct regional and ethnic identities within the framework of British and French colonization as well in an independent Canada. A key theme in this course will Canada's relationships with larger powers such as France, Great Britain and the United States. Students will discover how Canadians forged a society in North America with significant differences from the United States including two official languages, a different form of democracy, greater state involvement in the economy, greater levels of unionization, universal state Medicare, higher taxation, lower levels of violence and greater social liberalism. Key topics to be studied include the treatment of aboriginal peoples, New France, the British Conquesst, the War of 1812, Confederation, the Riel Rebellion and the settlement of Western Canada, urbanization and mass immigration, the changing roles of women, the World Wars, the Quiet Revolution and the threat of Quebec separatism and the debate over free trade with the United States. ( LA) Prerequisite: SoS or 3 s.h. 100-level HIST course.
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3 s.h. The course is designed to analyze the traditional status of women in Africa and the Middle East and movements to change their position in particular countries: Egypt, Israel, Turkey, Algeria, Ghana, Nigeria, Mozambique, etc. The focus of the course will be legislation and social practice in the twentieth century towards women on such topics as marriage (polygamy & monogamy) education, property ownership and political participation. Emphasis will be placed on the status of women in different socio-cultural situations: ruralurban context; non-Muslim and Muslim societies; and capitalist or socialist states. ( LA, HO2) ELIT 275 Jane Austen 3 s.h. An intensive reading of novels by a master of the English novel. Lectures will provide supplementary material on biography, criticism, the history of the novel, and contemporary literary developments. Prerequisites: COMP 100; LITR 100 or LITR 150. ( LA)
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3 s.h. This course covers the period after the British succeeded the Dutch as rulers of Cape Colony, examining aspects of frontier engagements between Africans and Colonizers, the effects of a mining-industrial economy and African resistance to the white state. Resistance to the South African racial formation will be discussed in its myriad expressions: labor, religious, artistic, new social groups. Cross-listed as ALS 275 ( LA, HO2) Prerequisite: SoS or 3 s.h. 100-level HIST course.
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