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Campion Content: The history of British overseas expansion from the early 17th century to the end of the 20th century. Theories of imperialism; Britain's Atlantic trade network; the Victorian empire in war and peace; collaboration and resistance among colonized people; India under the British Raj; Africa and economic imperialism; the effects of empire on British society; the creation of the British Commonwealth; the rise of nationalism in India, Africa, and the Middle East; decolonization and postcolonial perspectives. Extensive readings from primary sources. Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. History 121 recommended. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Hunter Content: The distinct experiences and culture of African Americans in relation to other minority ethnic and racial groups. The uniqueness of the African American experience; racism and prejudice; strategies of accommodation and resistance including gender and family relationships; the development of liberation movements. Readings of first-person narratives, secondary sources. Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Hunter Content: Formation of modern culture from the late Victorian era to the "me decade." The influence of consumer culture, popular psychology, mass media, changing definitions of work and leisure in the development of a modern self. Origins and impact of the gender and race revolutions, relationship of "high" and "popular" culture. Readings in primary and secondary sources. Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Beckham Content: Purposes of archaeology and its contributions to the understanding of North American prehistory, the culture-area hypothesis, relations with tribes from colonial times to the present, Native American responses. Federal Indian policy and its evolution over the past 200 years. Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Beckham Content: History of the trans-Mississippi West, including Euro-American perceptions of North America, issues of progress and preservation, and environmental history. Role of the federal government; contributions of minorities, women, and men in shaping the trans-Mississippi West. Voices of those who have sought to develop and conserve the West. Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Young Content: Social thought about race and nation in Latin America. The Iberian concept of pureza de sangre, development of criollo national consciousness, 20th-century indigenista movements. Linkages between national identities and constructions of race, particularly in the wake of revolutionary movements. Freyre (Brazil), Marti (Cuba), Vasconcelos (Mexico), and Sarmiento (Argentina). Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Young Content: Origins and development of the modern Mexican nation from independence to the contemporary economic and political crisis. 1811 to 1940: liberal-conservative battles, imperialism, the pax Porfiriana, the Mexican Revolution, industrialization, and institutionalizing the revolution. 1940 to the present: urbanization, migration to the United States, the student movement, neoliberal economics and politics, disintegration of the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party), and the new social rebellions (Zapatistas, Popular Revolutionary Army, Civil Society). Constructing mexicanidad in music, dance, film, and the cultural poetics of the street and the town plaza. Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. History 141 or 142 recommended. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Young Content: Development of the modern Cuban nation from the independence movement of the mid-19th century to the contemporary socialist state. Focus on how identity changed under the Spanish colonial, U.S. neocolonial, Cuban republic, and revolutionary states. 1840s to 1898: wars of independence, slavery, transition to free labor. 1898 to 1952: U.S. occupation and neocolonialism, Afrocubanismo, populism. 1952 to the present: Castro revolution, socialism, U.S.-Cuban-Soviet relations. Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. History 142 recommended. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Staff Content: Reading and critical analysis of major interpretive works. Organized around themes or problems; comparative study of historical works exemplifying different points of view, methodologies, subject matter. Focus varies depending on instructor's teaching and research area. Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Taught: Two to three colloquia annually, 4 semester credits each. May be taken twice for credit. Enrollment preference given to history majors and minors.
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3.00 Credits
Staff Content: Same as History 244 but requiring more advanced work. 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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