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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A history of Native American peoples from the discovery of America to the end of independent American Indian political life is studied. Consideration is given to the pre-contact balance of power, the fur trade, the European westward expansion and treaty commitments, the removal policy, and the Dawes Allotment Act. Special attention is given to the distinctions between European and Native American value systems and attitudes. Liberal Education: History.
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3.00 Credits
A consideration of the socio-economic and cultural adaptations in the 20th Century Native American life. Focus on national policies since the allotment act, including Indian reorganization, termination, relocation, and self-determination; reservation life and urban migration. Liberal Education: History.
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3.00 Credits
A history of the beginnings and development of Western European civilization from the later Roman Empire in 300 A.D. to the beginning of the modern era around 1500. The medieval period will be studied from the political, social, economic, and cultural perspectives of history. Liberal Education: History.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to modern European history. Major historical events such as the French and Russian revolutions and the rise of capitalism and materialism will be analyzed from a historical perspective. Books, novels, films, public records, and other sources will be used in this class. Imperialism, racism, and gender issues will be studies. Liberal Education: History.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the growth of global economic and cultural interdependence and exploitation from World War I to the present. Topics include European colonialism, the rise of Communism and Fascism, the Russian and Chinese revolutions, the two World Wars, the Holocaust, the Cold War, post-war colonial independence movements, and present cultural and economic globalization. Liberal Education: History.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a cultural study of the ways in which gender roles for both men and women in Europe have changed since the 18th century. Literary and other primary sources will complement secondary studies of conceptions of gender. Topics include Enlightenment conceptions of sex and gender, the French Revolution, the 19th-century cult of domesticity, the rise of consumer culture, nationalism and gender, the crisis of gender between the was, Fascism, and the modern feminist movement in Europe. Recommended preparation: ENG 111. Liberal Education: History and Cultural Diversity.
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3.00 Credits
This course traces the history of the area known today as the Middle East, from the beginning of Judaism to the present day, with a heavy emphasis on the 20th Century. Topics will include Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the rise of the Muslim Empire, the Crusades, the Ottoman Empire's heyday and decline, European and then American colonialism, Zionism, Arab nationalism, the Iranian Revolution, and Lebanese civil war, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Liberal Education: History and Cultural Diversity.
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3.00 Credits
An in-depth study of one of the most tragic and horrifying events in the modern world. This course will begin with background information on European anti- Semitism and racism and then examine the political and social crises of the 1930s and the course of World War II. Much of the course will then focus on the nature and structures of the Nazi concentration camps, gas chambers, and the massive mobilization of government and social resources for the purpose of genocide. Finally, the course will address the controversial issues of assigning guilt and the Holocaust's legacy and meaning for the contemporary world. Primary sources will include Nazi propaganda, eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust, and secondary studies of the nature and course of the Holocaust. Liberal Education: History and Cultural Diversity.
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3.00 Credits
This course combines instruction in the techniques of historical research and writing and a survey of historical philosophy from ancient times to the present.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the general circulation of the atmosphere and the mechanisms responsible for generation of daily weather. Liberal Education: Physics and Meteorology.
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