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4.00 Credits
A survey of African-American history from the Civil War to the present. It is designed to provide students with a better understanding of the past as it affects the present, and to help students acquire knowledge of the interpretations employed by scholars concerning the history of Blacks in the United States since 1865.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of early modern and modern Japan. Topics include the last feudal age (the Edo Period), the profound changes of the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the development of the Japanese nation-state, the building of the Japanese empire, victory and defeat in WW II, and postwar economic growth. The course concludes with an analysis of the economic difficulties that plagued Japan in the 1990s.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of the recent Chinese past. Topics discussed include: the last century of Qing rule, confrontation with Western nations, the Republican period, the warlords and the Nationalist and Communist movements in the early twentieth century, Japanese aggression, the communist state, the Cultural Revolution, and economic growth in the 1980s and 1990s.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of political, social, economic, and cultural trends in East Asia from 1800 to the present. The course focuses primarily upon China, Korea, and Japan and to a lesser degree Vietnam. After an introduction to the tenets of East Asian civilization, we explore the profound changes that occurred in all four states as interaction with Western nations increased in the nineteenth century. We then examine the political, economic, and military conflicts of the twentieth century and conclude by focusing on the tremendous economic development that has shaped the region in more recent decades.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of the Mexican past from the Mayan and Aztec empires, through the Spanish conquest, the colonial era, Independence, the Revolution, and the late 20th century. Special attention is paid to migration history, environmental history and the history of culture.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to Latin American history from the pre-Columbian era to the independence period. Topics considered include the diversity and complexity of Latin American indigenous civilizations before the arrival of Europeans; the Spanish impetus for New World exploration and conquest; the military conquest of the Aztec and Incan Empires; and the political and religious institutions, socio-economic structure, racial and ethnic attitudes, and cultural underpinnings of Spanish colonialism. Particular attention is paid to the modern ramifications of Latin America's colonial past.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of 19th- and 20th-century Latin American struggles to create effective national, political, and economic systems in a post- colonial global context. Through particular attention to legacies from the colonial period, students explore how gender, racial, ethnic, and class differences undergird political and economic structures, and how this historical relationship contributes to recent characteristics of the region, including "underdevelopment," dictatorship, guerrilla warfare, narco-trafficking, democratization, and neo-liberal trade.
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4.00 Credits
A comprehensive survey of ancient Greek political, social and cultural history based on the interpretations of primary sources, both literary and archaeological, from the Bronze Age to the end of the Classical period and the death of Socrates (399 BC). Topics include the intellectual history of 19th-20th century Bronze Age archaeology, the historicity of the society depicted in the Homeric poems, the rise of the Greek city-state, the constitutional history of Athens and Sparta, the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars, the development of Athenian drama (comedy and tragedy), and the origins and development of Greek philosophy.
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4.00 Credits
A comprehensive survey of ancient Roman political, and social history based on the interpretation of primary sources, both literary and archaeological, from the foundation of the city through the dissolution of the Empire in the west. Topics include the Roman aristocratic moral code, Roman imperialism, Roman diplomatic interaction with the Hellenistic World, the decline and fall of the Roman Republic, the establishment of the Augustan principate, the Roman provincial city, the third-century crisis, the origins and development of Christianity, and the conversion of the emperor Constantine.
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4.00 Credits
The age of experimentation. An examination of the principal developments of the period of the Renaissance. Among the topics considered are the rise of capitalism, social change and dislocation, the Italian city-states, the cultural and intellectual revival, and Humanism. The course concentrates on Italy during the period 1300-1500.
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