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4.00 Credits
This course will survey world history since the Second World War It will primarily focus on various regions in the non-western world. We will discuss the recent history in Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. While these regions are, of course, historically diverse, they all share the similarity of being pejoratively labeled the "third world." We will exploreissues and themes that have in many ways linked these areas. This course will examine decolonization, national liberation movements, the influ ence of the cold war and the recent break-up of the USSR, dictatorships and democracy, racial turmoil and economic modernization.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the history of the United States, from the earliest European contacts through the end of the Civil War. Major topics will include the economic and religious motivations of the European colonists, their conquest of Indian societies, the War for Independence, the Constitution, the development of political parties, the commercial and industrial revolutions, westward expansion, immigration, religious revivalism and reform, and the onset of sectional conflict culminating in the Civil War. Throughout the course, we shall confront the origins of a central paradox in the history of the United States: the existence and importance of slavery in a nation founded on ideals of freedom and equality.
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4.00 Credits
A history of American political, economic, and social life from 1865 to the present. The course examines the impact of the Civil War on American life, the period of Reconstruction, and the processes of industrialization, urbanization, and immigration in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The course also surveys World War I, modernization in the 1920s, the Great Depression and the New Deal, World War II, the Cold War, the affluent society, the Vietnam era, and life in modern America.
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1.00 Credits
This workshop will provide the opportunity for students to examine a special topic in History. Through readings, discussions and written assignments there will be opportunities to evaluate the topic at issue. Workshops may be taken Pass/No Credit only. Students may take no more than nine workshops for credit toward graduation. Workshops can be used as elective credit only. (For Weekend College students only.)
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4.00 Credits
In the American popular memory of today, the Revolution is sealed in the iconography of a generation of "Founding Fathers." Through an in-depthconsideration of changes in American society over the second half of the eighteenth century, we will resuscitate the conflicts, the possibilities, and the disappointments of this era. Shifting beliefs and alliances enabled Americans to mobilize for war. Americans not only fought against the British for independence, they also vigorously fought with one another over what the Revolution should mean in their daily lives. The Revolution was significant for the lives of all Americans, whether ordinary artisan or wealthy merchant, woman or man, slave or free. By studying the series of events that pushed Americans from resistance to Revolution and beyond to the establishment of a new federal government under the Constitution, we will witness repeated battles over the distribution of power, wealth, and status within American society.
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3.00 Credits
Gunmen, Orangemen, and Fenians: The Emergence of Modern Ireland What exactly is the IRA? Why are the English and the Irish continually at war? In order to answer these questions, we must examine the complex relationships among the people of the two territories by exploring the history of Ireland beginning in the sixteenth century. A related theme that we will address is the interplay between religion, social institutions, and politics. The course will also sharpen your use and understanding of the historical method, the critical use of both narrative, and record sources to reason about the past.
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4.00 Credits
This course traces the history of the "Greek" people, beginning with the Mycenaeansand ending with the Hellenistic monarchies that were established after the death of Alexander the Great. Students will examine the historical evidence, which ranges from archaeological finds to literary accounts. Emphasis will be placed on social and cultural aspects of the Greek world.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
A course designed to master the techniques of oral history involving actual experience for the student. May be taken only once.
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore the two religious revivals historians have referred to as the Great Awakening and the Second Great Awakening. The time frame of our inquiry will be roughly 1730 to 1850. While these two Protestant revivals will receive close attention, the definition of spiritual awakening will be more broadly conceived to encompass a wide range of other spiritual innovations within the time frame of our inquiry. Students will study topics as diverse as the Seneca revitalization movement of Indian prophet Handsome Lake, the founding of Mormonism, and the birth of African-American Christianity in the plantation South. Students will be asked to consider the social contexts for revival religion. What developments in secular society seem to inspire movements for religious revival? Alternatively, we will explore how religious impulses reorder secular life. How did various sects reconfigure sexual and social behavior within their communities? Did revivals cause a redistribution of power within America?
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3.00 Credits
Mission Accomplished: US Occupation in Japan and Iraq: This themed course consists of a presentation of topics in political, social, and cultural history of occupied Japan (1945-1952) and occupied Iraq (2003 - present). The course has been designed to provide a background against which contemporary developments in Iraq, and the very endeavor of nation building, may be better understood and appreciated.
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