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3.00 Credits
Focusing on western Europe and the United States since the Industrial Revolution, this course will examine the history of manufacturing technologies and will include the following topics: mechanization and the rise of the factory; mass production; the process of innovation; design and diffusion of new technologies; technologies; technology and the changing nature of work; automation and lean production systems. Through readings, class discussions, and examination of artifacts (actual tools and machines), students will consider the central role played by technology in the making of modern society. (OC). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Internet/E-mail Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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This course introduces students to alternative perspectives on economic theory and method. These alternatives include: Marxian and radical political economics, institutional and evolutionary economics, behavioral economics, post-Keynesian economics and feminist economics. (OC). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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3.00 Credits
Traces changes in the way people have viewed themselves, the world and changes in the forms or orders of thinking; in other words, changes in consciousness and concepts of the unconscious. The mode is intellectual history and involves studies of the ideas of philosophers, psychologists and literary artists. The class will examine ancient and "primitive" consciousness as well as forms of society. (AY). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Discussion Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the relationships between language, myth, dreams, and thinking processes; considers the work of such scholars as Ernst Cassirer, Noam Chomsky, and Freud; studies the nature of the mind from philosophical, psychological and literary perspectives. (AY). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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An examination of the intellectual currents from the scientific revolution, the Enlightenment, the currents of 19th and 20th century thought including romanticism, conservatism, liberalism, socialism, Darwinism. Includes analysis of the reactions to World War I, the Russian Revolution, and World War II. Readings include works by Descartes, Rousseau, Marx, Darwin, Zola, Freud, Kafka and Koestler. (AY). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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A survey of urban workers from colonial times to the present. Among the topics covered are changing standards of living, the experiences of industrial work, labor organization, and working-class politics. (YR). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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A survey of the "immigrant experience" in the United States, from the early 19th century to the present. Particular attention is given to enduring problems of economic adjustment and cultural assimilation, and to the impact of immigration on the host society. (AY). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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A history of France from the French Revolution to the present. The major emphasis is on the political evolution of France with some attention to social and economic development. (AY). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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This course will examine the history of technology from a comparative perspective: studying the development and impact of technology in different societies during various historical eras. Topics include: irrigation control and the rise of ancient empires; technology's role in the industrial revolution; technological innovation and the pace of social change. Current issues and various analytical perspectives in the history of technology will also be examined. (OC). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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3.00 Credits
A survey of how and why millions of Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, and political and "racial" enemies of the Reich were so quickly and determinedly slaughtered. (YR). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Audio/Video Tape, Lecture, Internet/E-mail Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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