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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Offers an opportunity to explore an area of study not included in the catalogue listing of approved courses. The topic of an Independent Study should be selected and carefully designed by the student and faculty sponsor, and must meet with the approval of the Division Chair. Normally, the student will be expected to have a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 and possess the appropriate background and interest to pursue the proposed area of study. A “Proposal for Independent Study” form may be obtained from the Registrar or from theoffice of the Division Chair. Independent Study courses are assigned numbers of 299, 399 or 499, depending on the level of the course.
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3.00 Credits
Principles and techniques of historical research. Major historians are studied. Prerequisite: one HS200-level course.
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3.00 Credits
The history of labor and work in the United States. Topics will include industrialization and its implications, worker resistance, labor force segmentation and discrimination in American history, and the development of unions. Prerequisite: one HS200-level course.
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3.00 Credits
The intertwining themes of immigration, ethnicity, and settlement form the basis of this upperlevel history course. Constituting powerful cultural forces in America, a number of key areas within the historical parameters of immigration and ethnicity will be examined. Course readings aim to generate an understanding of the processes through which the U.S. was colonized and settled by successive waves of immigrants. Challenging preconceived ideas, and focusing on issues of race and ethnicity that question the foundations of American culture today will form a vital aspect of this course. Prerequisite: one HS200-level course.
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3.00 Credits
A regional history of New England, covering pre-contact Native American culture, the Pilgrim and Puritan migrations, role of New England in the American Revolution, and the process of early industrialization. Unique aspects of New England life and cultural contributions will also be examined and the urbanization and diversification of New England in the 19th century. Prerequisite: one HS200-level course.
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3.00 Credits
An overview of the African-American experience in the United States, from colonial origins through the twentieth century. Issues relating to cultural and ethnic identity will be explored, and the basic historical dimensions of the American experience will be explored through the prism of ethnicity and race. Prerequisite: IC210 or one HS200-level course.
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3.00 Credits
Recognizing that gender identity plays a role in how both women and men negotiate their everyday lives, and that the meanings of femininity and masculinity have changed over time, this course compares the gendered experiences of Americans and Europeans from the era of the North American colonies forward. The course will focus on variations in the lives of men and women according to class, race, and sexual preference, and assess the influence of such experiences as slavery, work life, war, and domesticity on individuals’ understanding of themselves as male or female. From witchcraft to suffrage and royalty to revolution, this course aims at a more complete understanding of the role gender identity plays in the historical narrative. Prerequisite: one HS200-level course.
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3.00 Credits
Organized topically on the basis of the instructor’s particular historical interests. As such, it offers students the opportunity to probe one specific aspect of American cultural and intellectual development. For example, possible topics might include great thinkers, powerful intellectual developments, progress in industry, government, education, the arts, and any of the cultural and intellectual forces that have shaped the U.S. since its inception. May be repeated. Prerequisite: one HS200-level course.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of some significant developments in modern European thought in the period from the 17th-20th century. Topics may include the scientific revolution, the Enlightenment, emergence of modern democratic theory, romanticism, liberalism, nationalism, and varieties of socialism, psychological theories, and totalitarianism. Prerequisite: one HS200-level course.
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3.00 Credits
Political, economic, social and cultural developments in Russian history from the earliest times to the outbreak of revolution in 1917. Theories of the origin of Rus, Kievan Russia, the Mongol conquest, the rise of Muscovy, the Romanovs and imperial Russia, the struggle to Westernize, revolutionary opposition to autocracy, and the fall of the autocracy will be investigated. Prerequisite: one HS200-level course.
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