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3.00 Credits
Prereq: Sophomore standing or permission. Europe since the Second World War. Problems of reconstruction, the origins of the Cold War, the division between East and West, and the search for new patterns. Europe's effort to build super-national institutions such as the Common Market and the changing relationship of individual states and the European continent with the outside world.
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(3 cr) Prereq: Sophomore standing or permission. The cultural, social, and religious institutions of Ancient Israel from their antecedents in the Late Bronze Age until the Great Jewish Revolt and the beginning of Rabbinic Judaism. Literary works and material remains of the Israelites, and evidence from surrounding cultures.
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3.00 Credits
(3 cr) Prereq: Sophomore standing or permission. Traces the emergence and development of a distinctive Jewish culture and identity in medieval Europe and in the regions bordering the Mediterranean sea from the birth of rabbinic Judaism under the Roman empire until the 17th century orthodox synthesis of Talmudic learning, Kabbalah, and custom and Jewish responses to the Enlightenment. Includes interaction of Jews with majority cultures (including the development of anti- Semitism), and the impact of Jews and Jewish learning upon western culture.
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3.00 Credits
(3 cr) Prereq: Sophomore standing or permission. Examines the history of the Jewish people since the 18th century with geographical foci on Europe, North America, and the Middle East. Emphasis on the Jewish Enlightenment, emancipation and assimilation, anti-Semitism, migration to and adaptation in America, Zionism and the modern state of Israel.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: Sophomore standing or permission. History of the peoples who settled the lands that became the United States prior to the American Revolution (1776). Encounters among Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans, the development of political economies, multi-ethnic and religious societies, diplomatic relationships, and colonial regimes. Impact of colonialism in modern American society.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: Sophomore standing or permission. Analysis of the politics of 18th century anti-imperialism and colonialism and of the impact of force and ideology on social and political institutions as well as economic patterns.
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Prereq: Sophomore standing or permission. Survey of the development of the British Empire in the 19th century and its transformation into the Commonwealth of Nations in the 20th century. Attention to the responses of indigenous peoples to British rule, the nature of imperialism, and the transfer of cultural institutions and values. India, Australia, South Africa, Canada, Egypt, and the West Indies included.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: Sophomore standing or permission. Survey of the diplomatic and military history of Europe from World War I to the present. Includes the strategy, tactics, and diplomacy of the two world wars; international relations in the years between the wars; the emergence of a new postwar Europe; and Europe's involvement in the rivalry between the superpowers since 1945.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: Sophomore standing or permission. Europe-wide programs of persecution and genocide carried out under the auspices of the Nazi-German regime between 1933 and 1945. Focuses primarily on the Jewish dimension of the Holocaust, but also examines Nazi policies targeted against Poles, Gypsies, homosexuals, disabled Germans, and other groups. Events analyzed from the perspectives of victims, perpetrators, and bystanders.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: Sophomore standing or permission. Evolution of a distinct American legal culture from colonial times to the present, emphasizing the history of the components of the legal system, the judiciary, the bar, litigants, law enforcement and corrections, and legal doctrine.
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