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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Student self-conducted research on a selected topic of interest, finalized with a submitted paper and formal presentation with critique. The use of modern information retrieval techniques is emphasized.
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3.00 Credits
What’s different about the modern world system? How have modern institutions, cultures, and people changed since 1950? This course begins with a brief survey of the history of globalization and how the contemporary world is different from earlier times. The heart of the course is an examination of how the world has become inter-connected, along with an analysis of the agents involved in the process. This course is required for the major.
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3.00 Credits
This course is taken in the senior year as the capstone of the major. Students may do a thesis or special project under the supervision of an advisor from the student’s concentration area. This course is required for the major.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the historical and cultural legacy of western civilization through the study of a series of exemplary works, from classical antiquity to the present. Several critically important works of philosophy, history and literature are studied in the context of the cultural epochs which produced them and whose essential character they express or embody.
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3.00 Credits
A study of American history from the first Afro-European contact with North America to the present. The principal focus of the course is political, economic and social, but attention is also paid to architecture, literature, and popular culture where appropriate. Students are encouraged to explore these areas in their independent research.
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3.00 Credits
A study of American history from the first Afro-European contact with North America to the present. The principal focus of the course is political, economic and social, but attention is also paid to architecture, literature, and popular culture where appropriate. Students are encouraged to explore these areas in their independent research.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the development of liberal and democratic systems of government and free market economies from the end of the 18th century to the present. The political revolutions in America and France are studied, as is the emergence of industrial capitalism in England and America. Substantial attention is given to the philosophic principles that support liberal democracy and private enterprise, including those articulated by the writers of the Enlightenment, by the English classical economists, and by such 19th-century thinkers as Alexis de Tocqueville and John Stuart Mill. The course concludes with a consideration of the thesis that "history has ended," i.e., that liberal democracy and capitalism have triumphed and face no further fundamental challenges. This last consideration acquires particular urgency in the light of September 11th, 2001, and the conflicts that have followed.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the causes, character, and consequences of dictatorial rule in the twentieth century, this course uses Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and Communist China as the major examples. Both the similarities that link these dictatorships and the differences that separate them are studied in detail. Particular attention is paid to the ideas on which dictatorial rule has been based, including those of Marx Nietzsche, Sorel and Lenin. The course examines the popular appeal of revolutionary and counterrevolutionary ideologies as alternatives to parliamentary democracy and the social and economic programs these regimes put into practice. Propaganda, coercion, and forms of resistance are also considered.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the major artistic styles of the late 18th and 19th centuries, a period characterized by revolution and the birth of the modern era. Topics include neoclassisism, romanticism, realism, impressionism, the academic style and symbolism. These movements are studied against a background of dramatic political and social change and in the context of a continually evolving market for artistic production. Careful analysis of individual works, together with readings from primary source material, structure this investigation.
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3.00 Credits
(cross-listed as Honors 218)An examination of several European capitals as built environments and as public stages for the enactment of a variety of social and cultural roles. The design of urban space through art, architecture and engineering is studied, as is the reflection of changes in urban life that can be found in literature, criticism and film. Historical events, as they were witnessed and experienced in these cities, provide continuity and context for explorations in art and culture. Cities studied include Rome, Paris, London, Vienna, Budapest, and Berlin. For non-Honors students, permission of instructor required.
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