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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
(Writing Intensive) The Bourbon era, agrarian revolt, industrial revolution, racial problems, and the changes resulting from the impact of the Depression, New Deal, and two world wars.
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3.00 Credits
This history course investigates how the past has been rapidly digitized and explores the debates in the field of digital humanities knowledge production. From debates in the field, to theoretical approaches, to methodological practices, to technological tools, this course explores how the past has been preserved and presented in a digital format. Students critically analyze digital materials and evaluate and interpret such documents as historical primary sources, memoirs, literary works, films, photographs, artifacts, music, and art. Offered as needed.
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3.00 Credits
(3 credits) This course examines concepts, theories, and practices - notably memory, history, and heritage - used to frame, interrogate, embellish, exploit, propogate, obscure, and erase knowledge about the past. May be repeated under different topics for no more than nine credit hours. Offered as needed
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the development of the Roman Empire from the age of Augustus through the fifth century, focusing on the political, economic, social, religious, and cultural realms of the Empire, particulary through the lens of the built environment.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine a variety of historical developments that took place in late antiquity (c. 200-800 CE) through such lenses as the political, social, religious, cultural, economic, intellectual, and military changes of the period. Topics may include sport and entertainment; barbarian migrations, ethnicity, and identity; the transformations of Mediterranean powers; shifts in late-antique art, architecture, and urbanization, or other topics as determined by the instructor. This course may be repeated for credit under different topics for up to six credit hours. F.
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3.00 Credits
(3 credits) An inter-disciplinary examination of political, cultural, social, and economic challenges and conflicts in modern and contemporary France. Offered as needed
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the complexities and consequences of military action undertaken by the newly-Christianized Normans as they conquered the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England and Byzantine/Muslim Sicily and South Italy. The Normans, only minor nobles of little consequence at the outset, soon became the dominant feudal monarchs of Western Europe. Their acculturation in their new lands, and their political, artistic, textual, and legal strategies introduced Western Europe to new expressions of individual power and state authority.
Prerequisite:
Take HIST*101;
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3.00 Credits
This class examines the origins of crusading ideals, as well as the evolution of their religious economic and military expressions. Particular attention is paid to the many variant prespectives expressed in documents of the period; these include Byzantine critiques of Western crusaders, Muslim depictions of Christian opponents, Jewish protestation of anti-Semitic acts, Christian rhetoric promoting crusade, and gendered responses to crusade.
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3.00 Credits
(3 credits) A study of the roots and contemporary realities of human rights movements in Latin America. Students examine the origins of human rights crises in deeper social and political structures and analyze how the forces of peace and violence have shaped Latin American society over time. In this seminar students read the relevant literature, interpret sources, and apply this knowledge to contemporary issues. F,S,Su
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3.00 Credits
(3) This course will examine a variety of Latin American historical developments that may cover a specific period or larger chronology from the time of ancient civilizations, the European encounter, colonialism, the national period, and up to recent history. Topics may include but are not limited to: women in the Americas, urban history, race and nation, intellectual history, and 20th century revolutions. This course may be repeated for up to six credit hours under different topics. F,S,M,Su.
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