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3.00 Credits
In this broad survey of the history of Southern Africa (with a major emphasis on the Republic of South Africa), students engage in readings and classroom activities focusing on the following themes: race and ethnicity, gender, environmental studies, migrant labor, and apartheid and resistance. These focal points illuminate the broader context of change in the South African past. Offered most years.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the multiple and contested histories of South Africa in the terrain that was their source and their theater. Students visit historical sites and discover their meaning through literature and lectures, theater, music, story telling, and conversation and explore how contemporary history and culture draw on old narrative, historical, musical, and artistic traditions and how the historical identities of places, spaces, and the land have changed through time and with changing interest or perspective. Offered during Interim.
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3.00 Credits
In this survey of the modern Middle East from the 16th century to the present, students explore the changing nature of political and social institutions. Topics include: Ottoman society and institutions, the impact of the West, creation of the nation-state system, and the evolution of current conflicts in the region. Offered periodically.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores topics in American history, designed to emphasize active skills of critical reading, textual and contextual analysis, historiographical argument, and historical writing. Offered most years. Primarily for History majors - others by consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys women's experience in American life from the colonial period to the present. Students examine the changing economic, social, and legal status of women, society's attitudes towards women, and the growth of a women's movement. Offered most years.
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3.00 Credits
By examining the interaction of people and environment on the North American continent from the 15th century to the present, this course shows how history "takes place" in ecological contexts that change over time. Students compare Native American and Euro-American religious beliefs, social values, economic aspirations, and technological developments and examine their consequences for the flora, fauna, and peoples of the continent. Offered most years.
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3.00 Credits
In this study of African Americans in U. S. society from African origins to the present, students explore the African heritage, the experience of slavery, segregation, and the rise of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. The course pays particular attention to the issue of black nationalism as a force in American life. Offered most years.
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3.00 Credits
Spanning at least twelve thousand years and involving more than five hundred indigenous nations the history of Native America is complex and diverse. This course focuses on significant themes, time periods, or geographical regions, with emphasis on the peoples of modern-day continental United States. Examples include "Colonial Encounters in Native America," "Pontiac's America," "Native American Women," and "Native America through Autobiography." Offered periodically.
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3.00 Credits
In studying the impact of the Civil War era on American society and politics, students focus on slavery, emancipation, and race relations. They also address the impact of industrialization on northern society, encompassing immigration and nativism, the westward movement, and the dispossession of Native Americans. The course situates the dramatic political and military events of the era in the wider evolution of American life. Offered most years.
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3.00 Credits
Students examine the limitations and the enormous potential of film in depicting and interpreting past events in U.S. history. They analyze films using a variety of theoretical models and explore the connection between the present and the interpretation in film of famous past episodes in U.S. history, including, but not limited to, the American Revolution, the Civil War, Custer's "Last Stand," and the turbulent events of the 1960s. Required writing assignments enable students to demonstrate their analytical skills. Group projects offer the opportunity to write screenplays. Offered during Interim.
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