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4.00 Credits
A course which examines special topics in United States history. .
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course puts Native American history at the center of U.S. history. We will study indigenous responses to the processes of contact, colonization, and conquest, beginning with Columbus' voyage, continuing through the early period of European exploration and settlement of North America, and turning to the period of U.S. western expansion, ending with the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890. We will sample different native groups' experiences throughout North America, especially in the present-day United States. A variety of primary and secondary sources, combined with class discussion and lectures, will allow students to analyze whether and how Native American oral histories and other ways of knowing about the past can integrate with more conventional academic methods of studying history. Distribution Area: Social Science, Alternative Voices.
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3.00 Credits
Water is so much a part of our everyday life that we easily take it for granted, from our drinkable tap water, gleaming automobiles, and emerald-green lawns to enormous freighters which transport goods across oceans, to modern-day "oasis" cities like Phoenix, Los Angeles, and Albuquerque, to the enormous, complex systems of levees in places like New Orleans. However, behind each of these forms of water control - whether getting water to very dryplaces, or preventing water from flowing along its natural course - lay the stories of their creation. This course traces how Americans from a variety of ethnic and social backgrounds worked to control water, and, thereby, attain or retain power in their communities. Such efforts oft times affected people of different races and socioeconomic status differently, revealing as much about Americans' everyday lives as they do about physicalities of water control. Distribution Area: Social Science, Alternative Voices.
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4.00 Credits
A course which examines special topics in European history. .
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3.00 Credits
This class examines the history of France from the end of the Hundred Years War to the French Revolution. France emerged from the devastation of the fifteenth century to become the most powerful nation - and cultural center - of Europe under Louis XIV. Students will examine numerous social, cultural, political, intellectual and religious developments, including the religious wars of the sixteenth century, popular revolts, the absolutist state, colonialism, dynastic wars, the Enlightenment and the societal crisis that preceded the French Revolution. The class concludes with an analysis of the early phases of the Revolution from the perspective of continuity with the 'Old Regime'. We will also investigate communities located along the borderlands of France, including those in present-day Belgium, the Rhineland and Catalonia and examine the utility of the nation-state as a model of historical analysis. Class themes include discussions of everyday life, gender, state power, political culture and religious identities. Distribution Area: Social Sciences.
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4.00 Credits
A course which examines selected topics applied across geographical boundaries or chronological periods. . 380A ST: Culture and Contact in the Atlantic World 1400-1800 (4, x) Hadley Between 1400 and 1800, civilizations on four continents - Europe, Africa, North and South America - became entangled across the broad expanse of the Atlantic Ocean. New identities and vocabularies arose from this cultural amalgamation, creating what is now known as "The Atlantic World." We begin by examining Atlantic World civilizations in the century before contact, contextualizing societal changes wrought by subsequent explorations, trade, migrations (voluntary and forced), conquest, colonization and resistance. Subsequent topics include the role of Africans in the Atlantic world and the persistence of African culture in the Americas; the Spanish conquest and colonization of Mexico and Peru; the role of coercion and domination in cross-cultural interactions; the new global economic order; religion as an agent of imperialism and a buttress of resistance; the intellectual impact that the New World had upon the Old ("possessing" the New World) and the examination of non-European perspectives. Course work includes lectures and discussion and use of primary documents and secondary analyses. Distribution Area: Social Science, Alternative Voice
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3.00 Credits
The six countries (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama) of Central America have often been considered small, peripheral areas of Latin America. Yet, since the mid-19th century, the region has frequently dominated U.S. foreign policy, most recently during the wars of the 1970s and '80s. This class will explore the patterns shared by the region as well as each country's national distinctiveness, from Independence to the late 20th century. Course work will include lectures and discussion, use of primary and secondary documents. Requirements include papers and exams. Offered in alternate years.
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4.00 Credits
not offered 2008-09 From the Monroe Doctrine to the Reagan Doctrine, Latin America has been a significant focus of U.S. foreign policy, for geopolitical and economic reasons. Uneasy Latin American neighbors have at times sought U.S. aid and at others vilified U.S. domination, but they have never been able to ignore the colossus of the north. This class will explore the history of this often conflictive relationship in the 19th and 20th centuries. Course work will include lectures and discussion, use of primary and secondary materials. Requirements include papers and essay exams.
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4.00 Credits
not offered 2008-09 The stereotype of women in Latin America is that they are trapped in a culture of machismo, limiting them to the roles of the two Marias - Mary Magdalene and the Virgin Mary. This class will examine the myths and realities of women's lives, looking at economic, political, social and cultural issues. We also will examine the ways that women's roles intersect with issues of class, race, and ethnicity. Course work will include lectures and discussion, use of primary and secondary documents. Requirements include papers and exams. This course will be conducted primarily by discussion. Offered in alternate years
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4.00 Credits
not offered 2008-09 The Cuban and Nicaraguan revolutions are arguably the two most important post-World War II events/processes in Latin America. Cuba's 1959 revolution became a model for the Left in Latin America, a rationale for repression on the Right, and an obsession for the United States. In 1979, the Sandinistas brought a different kind of revolution to Nicaragua, reflecting domestic realities as well as changes in the international community. Nonetheless, it too was a model for the Left, a rationale for the Right, and an obsession for the United States. Using primary and secondary documents, combining discussions and lectures, this class will focus on the causes and results of the revolutions and explore what they mean for the specific countries, the region, and the United States. Offered in alternate years.
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