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3.00 Credits
An examination of modern cinematic and television depictions of the mythology, drama, and history of ancient Greece and Rome, including the Trojan War, Alexander the Great, Cleopatra, gladiators, and early Christianity. Special emphasis is placed on understanding why the ancient world is such a popular setting for modern films, how accurately such films portray the ancient world, and how they serve as vehicles to express modern concerns and ideologies. May not be taken for credit by students who have received credit for HIST 300M.
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Explores the relationship of religion to other aspects of medieval society. Includes exploration of religious orders, class, the arts, witchcraft, church-state relations, and feudal structures.
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An exploration of gender ideologies and practices in traditional European society. Evaluates the social meanings of sexuality and the ways they shifted over time. This survey begins with a political and social consideration of gender in the Greco-Roman world. It then studies images and roles for men and women in medieval and early modern Europe. Subjects considered include: sexual ideologies, labor and domestic roles, the regulation of sexual practices by church and state, and the use of gendered imagery in the construction of political authority. Meets major requirements in women's history.
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Europe in the era of the Renaissance and Reformation. Explores the rise of nation states in an era of profound religious change. Examines demographic and economic transformation as well as the beginnings of European expansion.
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Changes in European thought, art, and society from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Treats the development of two European cultures-elite and popular-in response to religious change. Examines literacy and printing, scientific thinking, and developments in political theory.
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Political, economic and cultural/artistic responses to WWI in Europe. Explores the attraction of totalitarian political ideologies, the aftermath of the Paris Peace Conference, economic upheaval in the Great Depression and the coming of WWII. Subjects include rise of Nazism, Spanish Civil War, Modernist movements in thought and the arts, rise of Stalinism, peace and appeasement.
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Changes in European thought, art, and society from the rise of romanticism to postmodernism.
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Examines the tumultuous and worldchanging ideas of the Enlightenment of 18th Century Europe. Looks at challenges to traditional views of religion, knowledge, politics, gender and peoples on other continents.
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Political, social, and cultural responses to revolutionary movements in Europe from 1789 to the present. Explores the role of class, gender, ideology, as well as political and economic structures in both "successful" and "failed" revolutions from tFrench Revolution through recent struggles in eastern Europe.
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Political, economic, and social developments in contemporary western Europe since the end of World War II. Themes include European relations with the United States and issues of "americanization"; political andeconomic integration and rivalry; terrorist, radical and youth movements since the 1960s; demographic trends and issues of immigration/multiculturalism.
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