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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Staff Content: Early histories of China and Japan from earliest origins to the 13th century. Prehistory; early cultural foundations; development of social, political, and economic institutions; art and literature. Readings from Asian texts in translation. The two cultures, covered as independent entities, compared to each other and to European patterns of development. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Glosser Content: Key events and institutions in China from the 13th to the 20th century through primary sources (philosophical and religious texts, vernacular fiction, contemporary accounts and essays, translated documents). Social and familial hierarchies, gender roles, imperialism, contact with the West, statesociety relations, nationalism, modernization. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Bernstein Content: History of Japan from the start of the Tokugawa shogunate to the end of the 20th century. Tokugawa ideology, political economy, urban culture; intellectual and social upheavals leading to the Meiji Restoration; the Japanese response to the West; rapid industrialization and its social consequences; problems of modernity and the emperor system; Japanese colonialism and militarism; the Pacific war; postwar developments in economy, culture, politics. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Westervelt Content: Social, intellectual, political, and economic elements of European history, 800 to 1648. Role of Christianity in the formation of a dominant culture; feudalism and the development of conflicts between secular and religious life. Contacts with the non-European world, the Crusades, minority groups, popular and elite cultural expressions. Intellectual and cultural life of the High Middle Ages, secular challenges of the Renaissance, divisions of European culture owing to the rise of national monarchies and religious reformations. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Healy Content: Social, intellectual, political, and economic elements of European history, 1648 to the present. The scientific revolution, Enlightenment, national political revolutions, capitalism, industrial development, overseas imperial expansion. The formation of mass political and social institutions, avant-garde and popular culture, the Thirty Years' War of the 20th century, bolshevism, fascism, the Cold War, and the revolutions of 1989. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Young Content: History of Latin America from Native American contact cultures through the onset of independence movements in the early 19th century. Cultural confrontations, change, and Native American accommodation and strategies of evasion in dealing with the Hispanic colonial empire. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Young Content: Confrontation with the complexity of modern Latin America through historical analysis of the roots of contemporary society, politics, and culture. Through traditional texts, novels, films, and lectures, exploration of the historical construction of modern Latin America. Themes of unity and diversity, continuity and change as framework for analyzing case studies of selected countries. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Bernstein Content: In-depth study of the causes, dynamics, and outcomes of the wars fought by Japan in Asia and the Pacific from the late 19th century through World War II. The trajectories of Japanese imperialism, sequence of events leading to the attack on Pearl Harbor, social impact of total war. Japan's wartime culture as seen through diaries, newspaper articles, propaganda films, short stories, government documents. Short- and long-term effects of the atomic bomb and the American occupation of Japan. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Glosser Content: The Tang and Song dynasties, 7th to the 13th century. Transition from one dynasty to the next. Changes in the elite classes, transformation of women's roles, rulership and landholding, philosophical developments, aesthetic expression. How these developments defined the issues and set the context for China's contact with the West and its emergence into the modern world. Literature, religious texts, art, dress, biographies, and political and philosophical essays. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Glosser Content: The commercial revolution of the 12th century and the cultural flowering and political structures of Ming and early Qing dynasties (1367 to 1800) that shaped China's response to Western invasion. Major peasant rebellions, elite reforms, and political revolutions of the last 150 years including the Opium War, Taiping Rebellion, Hundred Days Reform, Boxer Rebellion, collapse of the Qing dynasty, Nationalist and Communist revolutions. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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