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3.00 Credits
A comparative historical study of the southern African region. Topics will include the societies and cultures of foraging, herding and agricultural peoples; pre-colonial states, empires, and trade; early European settlement and evolution of Euro-African communities; slavery and settler colonies; colonial rule and African responses; resistance, independence, and apartheid; independent states and societies; modern regional trends and developments.
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3.00 Credits
The history of African peoples and cultures from the perspective of their interactions with the Europeans and Americans with whom they shared the Atlantic World, covering the period from its beginnings in the fifteenth-century until the early twentieth century. Topics will include contact between Africa and Europe and its impact on African societies; the Transatlantic slave trade and its impacts in Africa and the West; the development of African diasporas in the Americas; revolutions and abolitionism; European colonization in Africa; development of Western understandings of Africa; and “back to Africa” movements.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of Chinese history and culture prior to the impact of the West. Course readings provide a basic political and chronological orientation, but emphasis placed on literary and philosophical writings in translation, and on studies of the social structure of traditional Chinese society.
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3.00 Credits
The history of China from the founding of the Qing Dynasty. A survey of the Chinese response to imperialism, revolution, political break-up, Japanese invasion, World War II, civil war, and communism. Special attention will be given to China under Mao and the Deng Xiao-Ping reforms that have transformed China into a global industrial power.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of traditional Japanese history and culture prior to the impact of the West. Course readings provide a basic political and chronological orientation, but emphasis placed on literary, cultural, and artistic achievements, and on studies of the social structure of traditional Japanese society.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of Chinese history and culture prior to the impact of the West. Course readings provide a basic political and chronological orientation, but emphasis placed on literary and philosophical writings in translation, and on studies of the social structure of traditional Chinese society.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of Japan since Perry and the Meiji Restoration. Topics will include Meiji industrialization, foreign policy and Japanese imperialism, economic and social change, the rise of militarism, WWII, occupation, postwar economic growth, political and cultural change, and Japan’s role as an economic superpower.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of traditional Japanese history and culture prior to the impact of the West. Course readings provide a basic political and chronological orientation, but emphasis placed on literary, cultural, and artistic achievements, and on studies of the social structure of traditional Japanese society.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of Japan since Perry and the Meiji Restoration. Topics will include Meiji industrialization, foreign policy and Japanese imperialism, economic and social change, the rise of militarism, WWII, occupation, postwar economic growth, political and cultural change, and Japan's role as an economic superpower.
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3.00 Credits
East Asia since the mid-19th century and the effects of the West; the Opium War, modernization, the Chinese Revolution of 1911, Japanese expansion, Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima, Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communists.
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