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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
This course will focus on the end of the British Empire, the part that was Asia. The main focus will be on South Asia, especially the emergence of the independent nations of India and Pakistan. We will more briefly consider some other new nations of South Asia, in particular Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Our focus will then move to China and the colony of Hong Kong. We will also study the British withdrawal from Burma, the collapse of Malaya, and the emergence of Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei. At the end, we will consider what the process of decolonization meant both for the new nations and for Britain.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Honors standing or permission of university Honors Program. This course will focus on the end of the British Empire, the part that was Asia. The main focus will be on South Asia, especially the emergence of the independent nations of India and Pakistan. We will more briefly consider some other new nations of South Asia, in particular Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Our focus will then move to China and the colony of Hong Kong. We will also study the British withdrawal from Burma, the collapse of Malaya, and the emergence of Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei. At the end, we will consider what the process of decolonization meant both for the new nations and for Britain.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Honors standing or permission of university Honors Program. The course will first discuss elements constituting the core of the Japanese culture, both traditional and modern, then focus on influences exerted on Japan by China and Korea beginning in the fifth century and from Europe and the United States after the mid-nineteenth century. The concluding portion of the course will examine influences by Japanese popular culture on both Asia and the West.
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4.00 Credits
This course is designed to introduce students to the history, religious diversity, political systems, economy, and culture of the Middle East. The course includes a brief examination of ancient Middle Eastern civilizations and its history to the world. The course also examines important historical junctures influencing the region today. It will include the contents, similarities, and diversities of Middle Eastern culture. The course examines three monotheistic religions and how Middle Easterners vary widely in their religious beliefs. It explores how this religious variance impacts Middle Eastern culture. The course introduces students to multiple aspects of the arts. Cross-listed with ARB 274 and PSC 274.
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4.00 Credits
Study of the social and cultural history of the United States, emphasizing the ways in which the beliefs, values, and world views of the American people are related to prevailing social conditions.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the American slave system of the nineteenth century, challenges to slavery, and the resulting political contest that eventually let to southern secession and civil war.
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4.00 Credits
Traces social change in the United States from the Civil War to the present with special emphasis on changes in social class formation, family, neighborhood, community, race, ethnicity, gender, and work. Traces major structural change in society, politics, and economy in relation to social transformations and impacts of technological change, urbanization and bureaucracy.
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4.00 Credits
Analysis of U.S. urban development with focus on spatial development of U.S. cities and changing internal structure and institutions of cities from the Colonial period through the mercantile, industrial, and post-industrial city. Traces the city's impact on migrants and others and their responses.
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4.00 Credits
Historical inquiry into the major social, cultural, and intellectual developments among Black Americans, including such movements as antebellum abolitionism, African immigrationism cultural and political accommodation, and Pan-Africanism and Negritude as expressed in the writings of major authors.
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4.00 Credits
The early development of Ohio as a territory and a state, transportation problems and economic development, industrialization and urbanization and their economic and social consequences, and ethnic composition.
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