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4.00 Credits
The World of Ancient Rome: This course examines the Roman achievement, beginning with the establishment of Roman power in Italy and ending with world domination. The focus will be on social and cultural rather than military history.
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4.00 Credits
This course will trace the unique history of the Jews from the time of emancipation in the 18th and 19th centuries to the present. We will focus on the rise of anti-Judaism, the development of Zionism, the dilemmas posed by assimilation, the relationship of Jews to politics, the horrors of the Holocaust, and the obstacles to the founding of the State of Israel. The class will also study how recent tensions between Jews and Arabs have resulted in political and religious problems for Israel.
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3.00 Credits
Victims, Perpetrators, and Bystanders: The History of the Nazis and the Holocaust: See HIST 241 for a description of this course.
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3.00 Credits
The course will emphasize the transformation of Britain from a medieval to a dynastic state, the Reformation, the beginnings of early British imperialism, and the stirrings of the dysfunctions between Crown and Parliament. Primary documents, literature, and modern cinematic recreations of the era will be used extensively. Since there is considerable overlap with History 337, students can choose to take one or the other.
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3.00 Credits
The period between the stock market crash of 1929 and the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan in 1945 was an especially wrenching time for people around the world. This course examines American responses to the Great Depression and to World War II and the impact of those events on American life. Students will probe the causes of the Depression, the goals and strategies of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, the effects of the New Deal on American life, the American mobilization for World War II, the conduct of the war, and the impact of the war on U.S. society.
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3.00 Credits
History of Gender and Sexuality in the US: This course will survey some of the major issues in the history of American gender and sexuality. Several themes will organize this course: cross-cultural encounters, malefemale sexual politics, and the formation of homosexual and heterosexual identities. We will track these themes from the era of colonial settlement until the present day. As settlers arrived in the colonies they found Indians to possess gender roles and sexual practices at odds with their own. Looking more squarely at the colonists' own communities we will wit ness a surprising degree of tolerance towards behaviors still taboo in may modern circles. Sodomy and abortion seem to have been accepted as part of man's fate in a fallen world. The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries seem to have given birth to a vigorous assault on the female body by moral reformers and physicians in Northern society. As we turn to the twentieth century we will consider the breakdown of Victorian mores, as well as the emergence of homosexual identity, both as imposed by outsiders as well as defined by the gay community.
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3.00 Credits
The goals of this intensive course are to provide background and sketch the complexities of the violence in Israel and the surrounding areas. Specifically, this course is designed to acquaint you with the principal events, major players, and different perspectives on the conflict. But in a more general sense this class will introduce issues such as religion, ethnicity, diplomacy, and stereotypes that are applicable in many areas around the globe, not the least of which includes the USA. Some of the central questions we will explore are who has a better claim to land? How do the various sides use myth and history to buttress their arguments? Why is the area so heated? Why does one side feel such antipathy toward the other? Who or what is to blame? And is there hope for the future? In studying these concepts we will take a cursory look at the origins of Islam and Judaism, the political background of the Middle East, and some of the diplomatic agreements that have set the stage, and a variety of the attitudes of everyday people on all sides.
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3.00 Credits
The Civil Rights Movement in the United States, 1954 - 1980: This course examines the movement by African Americans and their supporters in the mid-twentieth century to achieve full civil rights, economic opportunity, and social equality. Students will explore the economic, cultural, and political changes that laid the foundation for the civil rights movement. They will study the ideas and strategies of various movement leaders and will evaluate the impact of the movement on American society as a whole.
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3.00 Credits
Cities, Towns, and Suburbs: US Urban History: This course examines the social history of the American city: the buildings, neighborhoods, transportation, and communication networks that constitute its physical form, and also the political, economic, and cultural structures that characterize urban society. We will explore the historical development of selected cities from the point of view of their inhabitants, as they have been defined by patterns of work, leisure, race, ethnicity, religion, class, gender, sexuality, and politics.
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4.00 Credits
Architecture of The Western Reserve: What It Is and How to Save It: This course is intended for students interested in the architectural heritage of Ohio's Western Reserve and in restoration and preservation projects. The course examines the elements of the classical language of architecture, with a focus on the Federal and Greek revival styles in the Hiram area. Knowledge is gained from the study of existing examples of the style, as well as from books. Additional study extends to the decorative and practical arts of the period (the furnishings and furniture), as well as the "house-life activities of the early 1800s."
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