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4.00 Credits
Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities, F3, F5. A collaboration between History and Theater, this course will immerse students in primary historical research and in the techniques of scripting, staging, and acting. Students will explore and critique some of the most mythologized elements of the American West: the fur trade, the Overland Trail, and the cattle drives. Using revisionist perspectives, students will "decolonize" western history, and then, using archival sources, students will create a performance piece. All students will engage in both historical analysis and dramatic interpretation.
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Fall. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities, F3. This course will provide an introduction to developments in conservative thought and politics in the 20th Century. Students will learn about the roots of American conservatism and learn how conservatives critiqued the creation of the New Deal, the rise of Stalinist Russia and the threat of communism, and the outbreak of World War II. Class will discuss conflicts between traditionalists and libertarians, Eisenhower's "modern Republicanism," conservatives and the Cold War, the campaign of Barry Goldwater, and the conservative response to the civil rights movement, Vietnam and "free love." Finally, the class will consider the Reagan revolution and its impact on the current state of conservative politics in the United States and suggest directions for conservatism in the 21st Century. (Course offered in alternate years; scheduled for 2009-201
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Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities, F3. How did liberalism, one of the dominant ideologies of the 20th century America, get transformed into the "L" word in current political debates? Did Ronald Reagan bury liberalism or might Bill Clinton have played a part in its decline? This course will examine the origins of modern liberalism in the Progressive Era, its rise and expansion during the New Deal, its ideological dominance through the fifties and sixties, and its eventual decline at the end of the century. This course will give students the opportunity to understand the rise and fall of American liberalism, and to suggest possible directions for American liberals in the future. (Course offered in alternate years; scheduled for 2009-2010.)
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4.00 Credits
Fall. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities, F3, F9. This course surveys the history of Latin America in the period before the Revolutions of Independence (before 1810). After studying the Native American (principally Aztec, Inca, Chibcha and Maya) and European (Spanish and Portuguese) civilizations that shaped the formation of colonial Latin American history, the conquest, the institutions and the social history/movements during this historical period will be addressed in a thematic fashion.
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4.00 Credits
Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities, F3, F9. This course surveys the history of Modern Latin America from the period of Independence (1810-1824) to the present, addressing the economic and social development of the Latin American region. Certain themes, such as religion, poverty, violence and foreign intervention will be covered in depth. Feature films, recent literature and oral history testimony will serve as "tools" for understanding contemporary Latin America.
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4.00 Credits
Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities, F3. This course focuses on Mexico as a geographic unit and addresses, principally, the social, cultural and economic history of the peoples who have inhabited Mexico. Beginning with an examination of pre-Columbian history, the course moves in a mostly chronological fashion, focusing on the European conquest of Mexico (1519-1521), colonial institutions and actors, nineteenth century independence, politics and instability. The course concludes with an examination of twentieth century revolution (1911 and after), reform and identity.
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4.00 Credits
Fall. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities, F3. This course examines the foundations and evolution of China's cultural tradition from the prehistoric period to the Song reunification in 960 CE, with emphasis placed on the imperial period (beginning 221 BCE). The themes of change and continuity within the structure of an enduring ideology are supplemented by a multifaceted approach that includes the history of society and the arts.
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4.00 Credits
Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities, F3. This course examines China's development into a modern nation from the tenth-century Song reunification through foreign conquest, native recovery, and yet another foreign conquest to the creation of the heavily bureaucratized and Confucianized Qing state. It also explores the beginnings of China' s encounter withthe West that led to the collapse of the traditional Chinese world order.
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4.00 Credits
Fall. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities, F3, F9. This course presents an examination of Japan's history and culture from prehistoric times to the mid-nineteenth century. Important themes will include Japan' s creation of a unique culture through both isolation and cultural receptivity, the formation and preservation of enduring values, the structure and transformations of Japanese society, an d Japan' s "cult of aesthetics
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4.00 Credits
Fall. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities, F3, F9. This course explores India from the era of the Indus civilization through the death of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in 1707 CE. Topics include the Harappa culture, Aryan migrations and emergence of Hinduism, Gangetic culture and rise of Mauryan and Guptan empires, Islamic invasions and creation of the Delhi sultanate, and the Vijayanagar empire. The course concludes with a close examination of the rise and fall of the Mughal Empire, one of the world's greatest empires. Considerable attention will also be devoted to religious, social, and cultural developments, including the evolution of Hinduism, the caste system, Islamic culture in India, religious reform movements, and architecture.
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