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4.00 Credits
An examination of selected topics in the social history of the United States. Requirements include a major research paper based on original source material. May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different. Senechal.
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3.00 Credits
History of science-based development projects in Africa during the past hundred years. We study the origins and transformations of the idea of development, focusing on its scientific, cultural, and political roles in African societies. Jennings.
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3.00 Credits
Examines how this seemingly remote region became the inspiration for the first modern human rights campaign, the source of the uranium used to build the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, a hot spot in the Cold War, and the setting for a genocide that spilled over into an “African World War” fueled by intricate links between African resources and the global economy. Jennings.
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3.00 Credits
A study of Japan in the war including the Manchurian Incident, the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, the road to Pearl Harbor, the war, Japan’s decision to surrender, the controversy over the role of Emperor Hirohito. Using films, memoirs, and wartime and later Japanese writings, the period is viewed from both Japanese and western perspectives. Bello.
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3.00 Credits
The unprecedented expansionism of China’s last dynasty, the Qing (1644-1911), produced an ethnically and geographically diverse empire whose legacy is the current map and multiethnic society of today’s People’s Republic of China. The Qing empire’s establishment, extension and consolidation were inextricably bound up with the ethnic identity of its Manchu progenitors. The Manchu attempt to unify diversity resulted in a unique imperial project linking East, Inner and Southeast Asia. This course explores the multiethnic nature and limits of this unification, as well as its 20th-century transformations. Bello.
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3.00 Credits
The course covers the more recent periods of China’s so-called “3,000 years of unsustainable growth” from about A.D. 618 into the present. Themes focus on China’s historical experience with sedentary agriculture, fossil fuel and nuclear energy, wildlife and forest management, disease, water control, and major construction projects like the Great Wall. Bello.
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3.00 Credits
HIST 395 - Advanced Seminar FDR: HU Credits: 3 Prerequisites: Junior standing, 15 credits in history, and permission of the instructor. A seminar offered from time to time depending on student interest and staff availability, in a selected topic or problem in history. May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different.
Topic for Winter 2011:
HIST 395: Advanced Seminar: French Revolution (3). The French Revolution is one of the most fascinating and momentous events in European history. At once “the best of times” and “the worst of times,” this event was both the origin of modern democracy and a period of tremendous political violence – indeed, some say it is the origins of Western totalitarianism. Some of the questions we ask are: what are the origins of the Revolution? How did a revolution that began with proclamations of human rights turn into one of mass bloodshed in just a few short years? How did a desire for democracy lead to political violence? What was the nature of the Terror, and how can we understand it? Students write a number of short papers, as well as a 20-25 page research paper on a topic of their choice. (HU) Horowitz. Staff.
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4.00 Credits
A seminar in a selected topic or problem in history. May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different.
Topics for Spring 2011:
HIST 397A: Winning World War II: U.S. and Allied Grand Strategies, 1940-1945 (4). Prerequisite: 15 credits in HIST or POL and at least sophomore standing. Counts toward the American history area of the history major. The United States fought World War II as part of a coalition, one of the most successful wartime coalitions in history. This seminar explores how and why it did so, and why the Allied effort was so successful. Emphasis is placed on U.S. strategic planning, its relationship to U.S. foreign policies, and the ensuing conflicts between U.S. strategies and policies and those desired by its British and Soviet allies, and the ways in which these conflicts were resolved by Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. As such, it also focuses on civil-military relations and Allied diplomacy during the war, as well as how and why the alliance collapsed after victory had been achieved. Readings include key primary and secondary sources. (HU) Stoler.
HIST 397B: Seminar: The Freedom Ride. (4). An intensive study of the Civil Rights Movement through the lens of the Freedom Riders. This reading- and writing-intensive four-week study includes a two-week tour of major Civil Rights protest sites in the lower Southern United States. (HU). DeLaney
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1.00 Credits
HIST 401 - Directed Individual Study Credits: 1 Prerequisites: Cumulative grade-point average of 3.250 in all history courses and permission of the instructor. A course which permits the student to follow a program of directed reading or research in an area not covered by other courses. May be repeated for degree credit with permission. Staff.
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2.00 Credits
HIST 402 - Directed Individual Study Credits: 2 Prerequisites: Cumulative grade-point average of 3.250 in all history courses and permission of the instructor. A course which permits the student to follow a program of directed reading or research in an area not covered by other courses. May be repeated for degree credit with permission. Staff.
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