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3.00 Credits
3 credits A general introduction to the history of American foreign policy in the 20th century. The course seeks to increase students' awareness of the relationship of the U.S. to important issues of war and peace as they unfold in the world. It also pays attention to the linkage between the domestic political environment and its impact on foreign relations. Furthermore, it looks at important events and crises in U.S. foreign relations as well as some theories and practices of U.S. foreign policies. Students will acquire a good set of tools to carry on their exploration of the impact of U.S. foreign policy on the rest of the world.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits The aim of this course is to do three things: provide a general introduction to the history of relations between the United States and the major countries of the East Asian cultural sphere (China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam); explore the changing images Americans have had of the peoples of these nations, the Chinese and Japanese in particular; and draw connections between both these themes and the experiences of Asian-American during the last century-and-a-half of American history. Special attention will be paid to crisis in American-East Asian relations, such as: the Boxer Uprising and the 1900 siege of Beijing, World War II and the Occupation of Japan that followed, the Vietnam War, and contemporary disputes over issues of human rights in China (stemming from the June 4th Massacre of 1989). Through classroom lectures, course readings, and a critical viewing of a variety of visual materials (including excerpts from newsreels, newscasts, and feature films) we will look at the process by which crisis involving American interests alter or give new life to enduring Western stereotypes concerning East Asia. A major goal of the course will be to provide students with the analytical tools and historical background necessary to put future crises in U.S.-East Asian relations, as well as the American media's coverage of these crises, in perspective.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course is a survey of the Middle Ages from the decline of the Roman Empire and classical culture to the fourteenth century. Primary emphasis is placed on understanding the process of creating Western civilization as the amalgamation of Roman, Christian, and Germanic cultures. Second, the course focuses on the principal characteristics of medieval culture such as: a feudal society, chivalry, the reform of the Church, the renaissance of the twelfth century, universities, the medieval synthesis, and the crisis of the fourteenth century.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course is an examination of contacts between Western (Latin) culture and other Mediterranean cultures during the Middle Ages. Topics include the Byzantine Empire, the Arab Empire, Judaism and the Mediterranean Diaspora, with an emphasis on religious culture. The First Crusade will be studied as a cross-cultural encounter from ecclesiastical, secular, Byzantine, and Arab perspectives. There will be an emphasis on a comparative historical method.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course proceeds from the assumption that the Renaissance refers to a particular and creative cultural movement in Western history from the middle of the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries. Students will explore traditional notions of the Renaissance such as: the revival of antiquity, humanism, innovations in art, and the Church. Non-traditional approaches such as the role of women in the Renaissance, are also discussed. The reading of primary texts by Petrarch, Castiglione, Machiavelli, Erasmus, and Thomas More is emphasized. Italian history is stressed but the Northern Renaissance will be studied as well.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits In traditional terms the Reformation refers to the sixteenth-century religious movement that culminated in both the reforms of the Church and its division. The course balances a study of the theological issues that defined the magisterial Protestant Reformation and its Catholic counterpart with an exploration of popular religion and the everyday religious experience of sixteenth-century men and women.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Selected topics in history may be offered depending on student and faculty interest.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course is an examination of the image, roles, status, and activities of American women. In addition, gender issues will be explored within their sociopolitical, cultural, and historical contexts. Special emphasis will be placed on a comparative approach to the study of women's lives as they interact with race, class, and ethnicity.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits The early modern period is one of the most tumultuous in Western history. Religious division, state building, war, and intellectual revolution are some distinctive features. Students will have an opportunity to investigate selected topics and historical methods including the development of absolutism, the Scientific Revolution, popular culture, and the Enlightenment. Topics may be added or deleted from time to time.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course is an introduction to the history of Europe during its explosive period of modernization, beginning with two concurrent world-changing events - the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution. Using a variety of sources, including works by historians but also primary sources ranging from manifestos and letters to plays and novels, students will investigate the ideas and movements which emerged from this "dual revolution" to change the world, including imperialism,liberalism, socialism, feminism, and nationalism.
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