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3.00 Credits
This course explores significant people, movements, events, and ideas in the major civilizations of the world to about 1500. Cross-listed: See HIST 331
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3.00 Credits
This course explores significant people, movements, events and ideas in the major civilizations of the world from 1500 to the present. Cross-listed: See HIST 332
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3.00 Credits
This course is a historical study of the major East Asian nations with emphasis on developments in the last two centuries. Cross-listed: See HIST 272/372; PSCI 272/372
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3.00 Credits
What do historians do? How do they work? Why do they work the way that they do? In this course we will explore the intellectual skills that historians use to do their work. These skills are of use not only for professional historians but for many other areas you may pursue in life. Some of the skills we will practice include: using libraries, finding aids and information technology; presenting research orally and in writing; reading critically, thinking analytically and writing persuasively; learning various approaches to the study and interpretation of history; discovering the attitudes and values shared by most historians; and developing an understanding of the ethical considerations in historical scholarship.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor A tutorial reading course in significant historical works, this course is by arrangement with instructor. Cross-listed: See HIST 402
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Membership in Bascom Honors Program This seminar is intended to cover not only the military aspects of the Second World War, but its political, social, and cultural aspects as well, as these affected the major participants. The war’s origins and consequences will also be considered.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Membership in Bascom Honors program The seminar will explore the causes of the Civil War, the impact of the war and emancipation, and the long term outcomes of the Civil War and Reconstruction. In addition, we will try to understand the significance of the Civil War in American memory.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Membership in Bascom Honors Program In recent decades historians have added to their inventory of sources, especially in the study of popular culture. Historians now use film and television as a means to understand and interpret the past. This course proposes to explore films for their ability to recreate, reflect or reveal, measure change, and make or influence U.S. and world history. The course will survey the history of film in the United States and the world, looking both at history through the lens of film and at film through the lens of history. Students will work closely with film sources from a variety of perspectives; through classroom viewing and discussion, special projects outside of class, readings, historical research, and writing assignments.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Membership in Bascom Honors Program This seminar will integrate social, economic, political, and cultural history to explore the dramatic changes that occurred in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s. We will study a variety of events and people, but we will focus particular attention on two major themes of the period: the Cold War (both foreign and domestic) and the activities of various social movements (Civil Rights, Peace/Anti-war, Women). We will attempt to understand how Americans viewed their times by examining a variety of primary and secondary sources and popular culture examples such as magazines, movies, television, and music.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Membership in Bascom Honors Program This honors seminar will look at the recent past, the time period in which people are most interested but often know the least. The course will explore the history and culture of the United States from 1970 to the present. Topics include changing sex roles and values, race relationss, popular culture, the welfare state, the roles of liberalism and conservatism, the growth of the “imperial presidency,” the relationships between foreign and domestic policy, and America’s position in the modern world. We will analyze the post-Civil Rights era, the end of the Vietnam War, what films and music can tell us about recent American history, the Nixon presidency and Watergate, the “Me Decade,” the Ford-Carter presidencies, the Reagan era, the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Empire, the first Persian Gulf War, the Bush administration’s foreign and domestic policies, the Clinton presidency, the “Republican Revolution” of 1995-96, the 1996 presidential campaign, the Clinton impeachment, the disputed election of 2000, the presidency of a second Bush, the effects of September 11, 2001, the Iraq War, the 2004 election, and challenges for the future.
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