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Course Criteria
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2.00 - 4.00 Credits
Topics in History
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2.00 - 4.00 Credits
Independent Study
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3.00 Credits
This course is an examination of popular perceptions and constructions of the Middle Ages and their relationship to the reality of medieval life and history. Through film and literature we will examine common assumptions held in the modern world about the nature of central features of medieval life, culture and institutions. These assumptions will then be compared with the corresponding reality of existence in the Middle Ages, at least insofar as this can be recovered by historians. This will be, then, not only a course about the history of the Middle Ages, but also about how we read the past through lenses of our own age and how, sometimes, we reinvent the past to fit our own preconceptions. NOTE: OFFERED EVERY THIRD SPRING SEMESTER
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3.00 Credits
A foundational course for students majoring in history, it examines various intellectual approaches applied to the study of the past, the history of the discipline, and the methods of historical research and writing. It is designed to enhance student effectiveness in subsequent history courses. Students are encouraged to take it during the sophomore year. NOTE: OFFERED EVERY SPRING SEMESTER
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the development of American journalism from colonial times to the present. Using primary source readings and films, in addition to textbooks, the course will examine changes within the journalism industry itself, the response of that industry to changes in American society and culture, and the effects journalism has had on American life. NOTES: CROSS-LISTED WITH JOUR 290 OFFERED EVERY OTHER SPRING SEMESTER
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3.00 Credits
Religious revivals, reasoned discourses, and cultural change characterize America in the 18th century. These phenomena shaped colonial demand for independence. This course explores the issues, events, ideas, and people that changed Englishmen into Americans and English colonies into an independent American Republic. NOTE: OFFERED EVERY OTHER SPRING SEMESTER
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3.00 Credits
This course traces the rise of the "American West" in American consciousness from the early 19th centuryuntil today. Understanding that American western expansion looks different for the indigenous cultures of the trans-Mississippi West, the course asks students to re-think the "myth of the West" with the reality ofwestern development. Specific topics include: Euro-American explorations of the West, American settlement of the region, the "cowboy," and the Indian wars of the late 19th century. In the 20th century,water issues, conservation, immigration, and demographic change take center stage. NOTE: OFFERED EVERY OTHER FALL SEMESTER
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3.00 Credits
A detailed, interpretive study of the developments that fostered both nationalism and sectionalism in the young American Republic and of the resolution of those divergent views through civil war, constitutional amendment, and reconstruction. NOTE: OFFERED EVERY OTHER SPRING SEMESTER
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3.00 Credits
Using the New Deal as its starting point, this course examines the changes America underwent from 1932 to the present. Specific topics will include FDR's America, World War II, the Cold War, race and gender relations, the "mass culture" and "consensus culture" movements of the 1950's, the civil rights moveme1960's counterculture, the Vietnam era, Watergate and America's "confidence crisis" during the 1970's, Reagan Revolution, and the American economy since 1945. NOTE: OFFERED EVERY OTHER FALL SEMESTER
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3.00 Credits
This course is a study of the history and theology of the Protestant Reformation. The primary focus is on the first generation of the Reformation, that is, the reform movements associated with Martin Luther and his contemporaries. Luther's "theological revolution" will be examined within the traditions of latMedieval scholasticism and Renaissance humanism. We will then move out of the ivory towers of the professional theologians to investigate how the Reformation unfolded within the social and political context of sixteenth-century Europe. NOTE: OFFERED EVERY THIRD SPRING SEMESTER
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