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3.00 Credits
Cross-cultural trade in a broad chronological and geographical framework. Pre-modern and modern times, western and non-western locales. The role of religion in economic exchange and the movement of commodities. Offered on a graded basis only.
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3.00 Credits
History of poverty from pre-colonial times to the present. The evolution of economic systems and trading; impacts of trans-oceanic slave, commodity trading, and colonialism on Africans’ standards of living; contemporary African economic challenges of underdevelopment, debt, foreign aid, fair trade, and globalization. No credit for students who completed 295 section 3 in spring 2007 or 294 section 1 in fall 2008.
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3.00 Credits
Coexistence and conflict from 711 to 1492. The blend of cultures, languages, religions, and societies under both Christian and Islamic rule. Offered on a graded basis only. No credit for students who have completed JS 115F section 1.
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3.00 Credits
Images in and of South Asia as studied through maps, religious imagery, print culture, cinema, and architecture. The politics of visual stereotypes of India. The visual history of Orientalism, modernity, gender, and religion in South Asia.
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3.00 Credits
Youth, rock ‘n roll, sexual attitudes, black power, counterculture, and conservative reaction. Cultural revolution or myth.
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3.00 Credits
Social and cultural history of money, markets, and exchange in the black world in the twentieth century. Reparations and debt; wealth and class; black appropriations of Marxist thought and black endorsements of capitalism. Gifts and primitive money; informal economies and black markets.
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3.00 Credits
Causes, nature, and consequences of the English Revolution and the Glorious Revolution. Religious struggle, the fiscal-military state; political thought; parliament and party politics. The Stuart dynasty; the English Republic; court culture and civil war.
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3.00 Credits
(Formerly 244). (Also listed as English 280) Team-taught by a historian and an interdisciplinary scholar. Explores intersection of disciplines through close examination of texts in historical context. May be repeated for credit more than once if there is no duplication in topic. Students may enroll in more than one section of this course each semester. Topics vary; course may be taken more than once. Preference to students majoring in the English-History program.
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3.00 Credits
(Formerly 284). Themes in recent American history, politics, and culture. Religion as an organizing force in American political and civic life. "Red and blue" states. Class conducted on site in the Vanderbilt Office of Federal Relations in Washington, D.C. Serves as repeat credit for students who completed 284 prior to fall 2008.
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1.00 Credits
Preparatory seminar for Vanderbilt Internship Experience in Washington (VIEW) program. Topical, political, and policy case studies with readings in recent American political history. Internship preparation and career search strategies. Corequisite: Admission into the VIEW program.
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