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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the history of the Asian continent, analyzing common patterns in the cultures of West, South, Southeast, and East Asia.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers an introduction to South Asian religio-political history combined with an examination of how religion and politics intersect in India and Pakistan, with a focus on the 19th and 20th centuries. Cross list: RELS 3470
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3.00 Credits
This course traces the emergence of political states within China and their eventual unification into a single empire, an institution that persisted for millennia. The development of literature, religion, philosophy, and material culture in Chinese society all played a role in shaping the character of what became China today.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the dramatic clash of Chinese and Western cultures that spawned China's search for a modern identity. Conclude course with discussion of China's current challenges and future prospects.
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3.00 Credits
Explores foundation of Africa's contemporary problems. Surveys Africa's history of interactions with Asia and Europe. In addition to writing several short essays covering readings and films, students investigate an aspect of cultural, political, or economic interaction and prepare a short research paper.
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3.00 Credits
Surveys changing historical relationship between Africans and their physical environment. Readings cover ecological change in arid, savanna, rain forest, and montane environments. Students also survey and evaluate the methods and sources used by environmental historians to explain environmental stress, degradation, and rehabilitation.
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3.00 Credits
Students explore the historical cultures of three East Asian countries: China, Japan and Korea. Students gain an understanding of these cultures through readings, activities, video materials, writing, and discussions. Topics include: customs, traditions, beliefs, historical events, and more.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the modern story of how America as a Pacific nation helped to shape East Asia. Inspired by America's role in nineteenth-century Asia as both modernizer and colonizer, students trace the dramatic transformation East Asia underwent to become what is recognized today as modern nation-states. During the twentieth century, the US became involved with each of these countries in both hot and cold wars, resulting in shifting alliances and divided nations. We conclude with the current state of affairs in East Asia and the evolving relationships between these countries and with the US
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3.00 Credits
This class examines experiences of Latinx peoples throughout the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. It traces the migration of people from Latin American backgrounds to the US and the evolution of different movements that they created within the nation.
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3.00 Credits
Surveys art, culture, religion, and social organization of the Aztecs, Incas, and Mayas, and of the European dominated post-conquest. Introduces students to major historiographical problems in the field. Prerequisite: Fulfillment of Communications Literacy CL2 requirement.
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