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Powers (Religious Studies) Content: The Middle East, its religious and cultural contributions, indigenous empires, and outside imperialists. The region's strategic significance as the connecting link to three continents. Effects on the region of the discovery of oil in the 20th century. The impact of nationalism on each nation's viability in the region, economic dilemmas, pressing national problems. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Every third year, 4 semester credits.
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Healy Content: The Nazi genocide of European Jews during World War II in comparison to other cases of 20th-century mass violence in countries such as Armenia, Cambodia, the former Yugoslavia, and Rwanda. Nazi Germany serves as the principal case study for discussion of the broader question: What has made possible the organization and execution of mass violence against specific ethnic and religious groups in a wide variety of societies around the world over the past century? Includes examination of strategies for the prevention of future incidents of mass ethnic violence. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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Staff Content: First course in U.S. history sequence. Cultural encounters between European settlers, Native Americans, and African slaves. Political, economic, and social patterns of colonial development in the north, middle colonies, south, and southwest. Imperial competition, Native American strategies of adaptation and resistance, development of economic and political systems, religious revival and the Age of Reason, sources of the American Revolution, the founding of the United States. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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Beckham Content: Second course in U.S. history sequence. How the young American nation coped with major changes and adjustments in its first century. Emergence of political parties; wars with Indians and Mexico, and expansion into a continental nation; the lingering problem of slavery; the rise of industry and urbanization; immigration; the development of arts and letters into a new national culture. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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Staff Content: Third course in U.S. history sequence. Expansion of the federal government and the birth of mass society. The founding and fortunes of the welfare state; imperialism, world wars, and globalization; conflicts over minority and women's rights and status; growth of cultural "modernism." Coverage of traditional topics (Progressivism, the New Deal, the Civil Rights movement, the Cold War) combined with a thematic approach and readings in primary and secondary sources. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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Hunter Content: The diverse experiences of American women from the colonial era to the recent past. Changing ideologies from the colonial goodwife to the cult of true womanhood. Impact of Victorianism, sexuality and reproduction, the changing significance of women's work. Origins of the women's rights movement, battles and legacy of suffrage, history of 20th-century feminism, competing ideologies and experiences of difference. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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Staff Content: An overview of the urban history and urban structure of New York. Emphasis on examining the process of continuity and change of New York from the colonial period to the 20th century. Prerequisites: None. Taught: Annually, on New York program, 4 semester hours.
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Beckham Content: Historical development of the Pacific Northwest over the past 200 years. Native American cultures, Euro-American exploration and settlement, fur trade, missions, overland emigration, resource development, the question of regionalism. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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Young Content: Exploration of the concept and region known as the Borderlands from when it was part of northern New Spain to its present incarnation as the U.S.-Mexico border. Thematic focus on the roles of imperialism and capitalism in the formation of borderlands race, class, gender, and national identities. The transformation of this region from a frontier between European empires to a borderline between nations. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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Staff Content: Experience in historical research, writing, interpreting, or planning. Specifics vary depending on placement with sponsoring agency. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Taught: Each semester, 1-4 semester credits. Eight credits may be applied to graduation requirements, but only four may be applied to the major.
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