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(HIST 2322) World Civilization Since 1660. Three semester hours. This course is organized around the question: Why are some countries so rich and others so poor? We will pursue this theme through an examination of what is today called globalization. The term itself is new, but the process it represents is not. Political and economic theorists have been wrestling with its implications for centuries. Find out how we got where we are. Current events will never look the same again.%
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A Nation Divided. Three semester hours. America is a country characterized by diversity. Its history is the story of interactions between groups divided by race, ethnicity, language, income, religion, ideology, culture, and gender. This course expolres the nature of encounters between social groups and the consequences such encounters had for American culture and politics. Topics such as Native American history, the Civil Rights Movement, and the labor movement may receive special attention.%
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A World Divided. Three semester hours. Encounters between human populations who perceive the differences that separate them to be greater than the similarities that unite them have punctuated world history. Such encounters have frequently led to war, imperialism and colonization, and less frequently to cultural imitation and syncretism. The modern world is the product of these encounters as much as, if not more than, it is the product of the development of district regional cultures, such as Western Civilization. This course explores th nature of such encounters and the consequences they had for cultural and political developments. Topics such as the slave trade, European colonization, and globalization may receive special attention.%
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Social Studies for Middle School Teachers. Three semester hours. Designed specifically for students seeking teacher certification in middle school social studies (grades four through eight), this course provides a survey of the content taught in those grades, including not only Texas, U.S. and World history but also the appropriate areas of government, economics and geography. This course also incorporates various strategies for teaching those subjects.%
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Historical Geography. Three semester hours. A study of the various ways in which history has affected and has been affected by geography, including but not limited to physical, political, cultural, and environmental elements. Topics may include the emergence of ancient civilizations, the spread of Islam, and global commercial relations. Majors: Pre or co-requisite: Hist 253. Non-majors may enroll with consent of instructor.%
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World Civilization to 600. Three semester hours. World civilization differs from traditional Western Civilization not only in its greater geographic scale but also in its greater chronological scope. This course, instead of beginning with Greco-Roman Culture, starts with the earliest human organizations and ends just after the fall of the classical world, namely, with a consideration of the rise of Islam. Topics include the orgins of human culture, the development of cradles of civilization in the eastern and western hemispheres, the growth and decline of classical cultures, interactions among calssical and nomadic cultures, and the establishment of great world religions. In addition, this course addresses the historiography of the ancient world, that is, how historians research and conceptualize ancient human societies.%
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World Civilization 600-1660. Three semester hours. Two profoundly significant developments in world history occurred during the period from the seventh through the seventeenth century: first, Western Europe changed from an insignificant hinterland to an area poised for global colonization and Imperialization; second, the geographic regions of the globe entered into a period of significant and continuous contact with one another which has persisted to the present. This course explores these developments. Topics include the political and social rebuilding after the collapse of the classical empires, the roles played by the great world religions in medieval cultures, the development of technologies of communication and transportation, the interactions among medieval and nomadic cultures, and the exploration and early colonization efforts by China and Europe. In addition, this courses addresses the historiography of the medieval world, that is how historians research and study medieval societies.%
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The Emergence of the Modern World. Three semester hours. This course covers the period from 1500 to the present and will focus on the ecological conditions of globalization, the rise of formal imperialism, and the construction and maintenance of colonial/imperial states. Themes covered will included paths to modernity, non-western philosophies of resistance, technological revolutions, and the intersections of world thought, religion, trade, and economy. Special emphasis will be given to the non-Wester world. Majors: Pre or co-requisite: Hist 253. Non-majors may enroll with consent of instructor.%
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