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3.00 Credits
This course surveys modern world history from 1450 to the present. It focuses on global processes and regional particularities throughout the world (including the United States). Each instructor will choose several themes for students to engage with through targeted readings and class discussion in small sections. In addition, there is a weekly "lab" in which all students enrolled in the class will engage in large group activities like attending outside lectures or watching selected films. Offered: Fall semester Staff
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3.00 Credits
This seminar introduces students to the ways in which scholars study and interpret history. Students learn how professional historians analyze primary sources and then develop their own analytical skills through intensive writing assignments. Each section of the course focuses on a discrete historical topic. Current topics include: The Holocaust; Food Histories; Jacksonian Democracy; The Atomic Bomb; Slavery and the Civil War; Witchcraft. [W] Offered: Spring semester (usually one or two sections in fall semester as well) Staff
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3.00 Credits
This course trains students in the skills, methods, philosophies, and practices of the discipline of history. Students learn how the practice of history has changed over time, the problems and potential of historical evidence, and the role history plays in forming structures of individual and collective awareness. Strong emphasis is placed on learning key research and analytical skills. Potential history majors should take this course in their sophomore year. Open to majors and non-majors. Staff
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3.00 Credits
This course explores Israel from its remotest beginnings among desert tribes of the ancient Near East and the fulfillment of its national destiny as a religious commonwealth in Canaan, to its transfiguration into an exile people under the Romans. Emphasis is placed on cultural and religious factors that differentiated Israel from other Near Eastern kingdoms, especially the Temple at Jerusalem, the national religious cult, and the role of the prophets. The legacy of its religious and moral experience to Western civilization is also discussed. Staff
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to major developments and themes in ancient and medieval African history. Focusing on different parts of the continent, it examines issues related to migration, technological innovation, environment, political formation, gender, religion, and other systems of thought, economy, and Africans' interactions with peoples of other regions of the world. Coverage ranges from grand empires such as the 10th-century Ghana kingdom and the 12th- to 15th-century state located at the Great Zimbabwe complex to smaller scale societies such as the hunter-gatherer San in southern Africa and the BeTwaa of central Africa. Staff
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3.00 Credits
Over the last two centuries, the societies of modern Africa have encountered the forces of state-building, environmental change, slavery, colonialism and transition to self-rule, disease, religious transformation, and capitalism. This course explores three major themes, among others, in experiences on the continent and in global encounters. Our focus is on African perspectives in primary sources that include conventional documentary sources as well as personal writings, novels, material culture, films, and oral traditions. Staff
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3.00 Credits
A study of technology from the irrigation cities of the ancient world through militarily financed systems of the late twentieth century. The course stresses the important role played by cultural influences in determining the nature, extent, and direction of technological development. Attention focuses on processes of invention and innovation and their impact on the growth of modern Western civilization. Open to B.A. and B.S. engineering majors without prerequisites. Jackson
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3.00 Credits
A study of European history from the fall of the Roman Empire to the fifteenth century. The course focuses upon the interplay of political, economic, and ideological forces in the development and decline of medieval civilization, and attempts to assess the relationship of the Middle Ages to the Italian Renaissance. Fix
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3.00 Credits
Europe from the Renaissance to the early Enlightenment. The first half of the course concentrates on the Renaissance, the second half on the foundations of modern Europe. The emphasis in the second half is on the interrelationship of socioeconomic change, the new European political order, and the intellectual revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Fix
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3.00 Credits
The course centers on the French Revolution, beginning with an examination of its 18th-century social, economic, and intellectual roots, continuing with the Revolution itself, and ending with an assessment of its aftermath up to 1848. An underlying theme of the course is the connection between the Industrial Revolution and the political revolutions of 1789, 1830, and 1848. Fix
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