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4.00 Credits
Fall. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities, F3. This course addresses some of the major developments of the British empire from the early 1600s to the 1980s. Emphasis is on the changing nature of the empire, its role in Britain's rise and fall as a world power, the influence of empire on Britain' s political, economic, and cultural development, and the imperial impact o n Britain? ? colonies and possessions. Attention is also directed at the many enemies that the empire created, both in Britain and in the colonies. The course concludes by examining aspects of post-colonialism in Britain and its former possessions
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4.00 Credits
Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities, F3. This course will introduce students to some of the major historical developments in Britain since 1688. The focus will be on political events, but some attention will also be paid to social, economic, religious, and intellectual developments. Topics to be discussed include: Glorious Revolution of 1688-89; corruption and reform in eighteenth-century politics; origins, nature, and impact of industrialism; evolution of parliament and emergence of the office of prime minister; impact of the French Revolution; reform and radical movements of the nineteenth century; imperialism; the British experience in World Wars One and Two; origins and nature of the welfare state; British society and politics since 1945; and the Americanization of Britain.
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4.00 Credits
Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities, F3. This course investigates British, French, Spanish, African, and Native American encounters in North America from the Age of Exploration through the early political development of the United States. Major themes include the tensions between individual and community interests, the origins and development of slavery, the emergence of capitalism, religious diversity, and the American Revolution. (Course offered in alternate years, scheduled for 2008-2009.).
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4.00 Credits
Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities, F3. This course examines major social, political, economic, and cultural changes in the nineteenth century, including U.S. relations with Native North Americans, antebellum reform, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and industrialization/urbanization. Major themes may include the rise and decline of sectionalism and transformations in gender and race relations, as well as questions of individualism and community, liberty and order.
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4.00 Credits
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities, F3. This course investigates major social, political, cultural, and economic changes in the twentieth century, from Progressivism through the end of the Cold War. Major themes may include the effects of world war and economic depression on society, the United States' changing role in the global community, the rise and fall of American liberalism, the Vietnam War as watershed, and the emergence of cultural pluralism.
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4.00 Credits
Fall. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities, F3, F9. The experiences of African-American people in the United States can be described as a continuous quest for empowerment; this quest has been affected by myriad factors (e.g., gender roles, class divisions, secular and non-secular ideologies, regionalism) in addition to racism. This course, through the use of secondary and primary material, historical documentaries, and critical analyses, will chart the historically complex journeys of African Americans, from the impact of the African diaspora on colonial America to the Black student sit-ins and the formation of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in 1960, and beyond.
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4.00 Credits
Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities, F3, F11. This course provides an examination of the ways in which the concept of childhood has been defined throughout United States history, as well as a study of how children themselves have influenced and shaped institutions, laws, and popular culture. A service-learning component is required. (Course offered in alternate years; scheduled for 2009-2010.)
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4.00 Credits
Fall. Credits: 4 Degree Requirements: Humanities, F3. While the study of wars has always proven to be a popular subject for students of American history, the use of gender in analyzing the causes and effects of these conflicts has only recently been an important focus in historians' examinations of different conflicts. New studies have used gender to examine the origins of different wars and to understand the motivations of the soldiers who fought them. By emphasizing the importance of gender in historical study, students will be encouraged to examine historical evidence critically in order to bring their perspective to the study of wars in American history.
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4.00 Credits
Fall. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities, F3. This course examines the social, political, and cultural history of the South as a distinct region of the United States. The course will include discussion of the origins of a slave society, the culture of slavery and the Old South, the Civil War and Reconstruction, political and cultural change in the New South, and the Civil Rights Movement.
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4.00 Credits
Spring, Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities, F3. This course will examine attitudes toward the poor throughout the course of U.S. history, as well as the experiences of public and private relief organizations. Lectures and readings give attention to attempts to define "poverty," to vagabond/homeless experiences, to problems facing the working poor, to private and public attempts to eradicate poverty, and the assessment of various programs of poor-relief, public assistance, family wage. Field trips and a community-based group project are required. (Course offered every third year; scheduled for 2009-2010.)
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