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4.00 Credits
Spring. Credits: 4. This course represents the capstone experience for all majors in GRS. Although the specific topic of study will vary from year to year depending on the interests and goals of the participants, students will engage in a significant scholarly investigation into some aspect of the ancient world. The students' work must reflect an engagement with primary materials and their familiarity with and ability to use secondary resources. Students are encouraged to select topics that reflect their interests and postgraduate plans and incorporate their work as majors and minors in fields other than GRS. Normally, the project will culminate in a research paper, but other products are possible, such as a creative work. Generally, seniors will present the results of their work in an oral presentation for other students and faculty members at an event scheduled on campus or at a conference for undergraduate research.
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4.00 Credits
Fall ,Spring. Credits: 4-4. These courses are for students working on an honors project as described above. Permission of the advisor is required for enrollment in these courses.
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4.00 Credits
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities, F2, F3 (some sections). This writing intensive course, intended for first and second year students, provides an introduction to themes and topics from a variety of historical perspectives. Possible topics include: "The Mongol Empire", "Memphis and the American South", "British Empire and its Enemies", and "Why Hitler?" May not be repeated for credit. Not open to juniors and se
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4.00 Credits
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: F2. This course introduces prospective history majors and minors to the experience of how historians perform their craft. Each seminar will teach students the basic skills of research, historical writing, and historical analysis. Students will be introduced to historiography, the use of primary sources, and ethical issues in history. Written work will be emphasized, and an oral presentation may be required of all students. Not open to seniors.
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4.00 Credits
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities, F3 (some sections). Introduction to selected periods in history. Varies with instructor. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Not offered every year. Potential topics include "Russia Since 1861" and "Asian Societies: Past and Present.
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4.00 Credits
Fall. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities, F3. This course examines the transition from the world of late antiquity to that of the European Middle Ages, from the collapse of the Roman Empire through the fourteenth century. Lectures will focus on the medieval "braid" of Roman tradition, Christianity and Germanic custom. Topics will include patterns of migration, the Christianization of Europe, the development of social and political institutions, the conflicts between church and state, the urban revival of the eleventh century, and the intellectual "renaissance" of the twelfth century, culminating in the famine, plague, and chaos of the fourteenth century. (Course offered in alternate years, scheduled for 2009-2010
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4.00 Credits
Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities, F3. This course begins by examining the changes, as well as the medieval carry-overs, that brought about the period known as the Renaissance. The effects of impersonal forces such as climate change and epidemics, the impact of the discovery of the Americas, and a new understanding of human capabilities will be considered. The course then turns to a survey of the intellectual movements and of the religious, social, and political characteristics of European history from 1500 (the coming of the Reformation) to 1714 (the height of French power under Louis XIV). The emphasis will fall upon those changes that prepared society for the transition to what is now considered the "modern" world. (Course offered in alternate years, scheduled for 2009-2010.)
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4.00 Credits
Fall. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities, F3. The eighteenth century was an age of intellectual and political revolutions that destroyed what historians describe as the Old Regime. This course critically assesses the rhetoric, goals and legacy of the century's key philosophic movement, the Enlightenment. It surveys the development of the Old Regime in the eighteenth century and seeks to interpret the social, economic and intellectual forces that tended to undermine it. Particular emphasis will be placed on the French Revolution, the overthrow of the Old Regime, the Reign of Terror and the rise and fall of the Napoleonic system in Europe.
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4.00 Credits
Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities, F3. This course examines the impact of industrialization on the social, political, and intellectual life of Europe. The combination of nationalist idealism and the realism of state power that produced the unifications of Italy and Germany will be critically examined. The course will also examine the nationalist and imperialist rivalries that drove the European states to the brink of war after the turn of the century.
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4.00 Credits
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities, F3. By focusing on the experiences of ordinary people and significant shifts in their values, we will study how Europe evolved through what one historian has called an "age of extremes" in the twentieth century. Central issues will include the experience and legacies of "total war," daily life under Nazi rule and in the Communist countries of Eastern Europe, the psychological impact of the Great Depression, and the various ways in which people struggled to redefine themselves as Europe faded from a position of world dominanc
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