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3.00 Credits
This course examines Western society's attitudes toward women and how these attitudes shaped women's participation in the social, political, economic, and cultural development of the Western world from ancient times to the present. Aspecial effort is made to use primary source material in the course readings.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a global perspective on the past before 1500. Beginning with the emergence of civilization, the course surveys the diffusion of civilization and the development of selected societies in regions such as Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Attention is given to the major cultural, social, economic, and political experiences of the peoples in these areas.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a global perspective on the past since 1500. Building on the themes of "tradition" and "encounter," tcourse examines the development of political, social, economic, and cultural experiences that have shaped the peoples of such regions as Asia, the Middle East, and Africa from the 16th century to the present.
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3.00 Credits
American Civilization I surveys the history of the United States to 1877, with emphasis on how major economic, political, and social changes affected the lives and values of Americans. The focus is on how diverse peoples experienced and influenced the processes of colonization, nation-building, and sectional development. The class examines the kinds of evidence historians use to reconstruct the past and challenges students to think analytically about historical sources to learn how people made sense of and shaped American civilization.
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3.00 Credits
American Civilization II surveys the history of the United States from 1877 to the present, with emphasis on how major economic, political, and social changes affected the lives and values of Americans. The focus is on how the processes of industrialization, immigration, and urbanization transformed American life from a parochial, "homogeneous," rural, and agricultural experience to an urban, industrial, multicultural nation in an increasingly interdependent world. The class examines the kinds of evidence that historians use to reconstruct the past and challenges students to think analytically about historical sources to learn how people made sense of and shaped modern American civilization.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of ways in which political, socioeconomic, and cultural values and pressures have influenced medical theory and practice from colonial times to the present.
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3.00 Credits
Asurvey of the interaction between technology and society, with particular emphasis on the Western world since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the experiences of British, French, German, Russian, and American women on both the homefront and battlefront during the First and Second World Wars. Through a comparative study of women's attitudes, their domestic and public activities, and government policies toward them, the course investigates women's traditional and nontraditional wartime roles. It also considers the impact of the World Wars on attitudes toward women and on women's opportunities and status in the immediate post-war years. Memoirs, diaries, and correspondence by women who worked in war industries, served in auxiliary military services, and fought on the front lines are among the primary sources students use to obtain evidence about women's wartime experiences.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the changing nature of male and female genders from the Renaissance to the present. The purpose of the course is to familiarize students with gender as an analytical category, distinguish it from sex, and make students conscious of the variability of gender and knowledgeable of the forces that have acted upon gender in the past. Students explore the nature of men's and women's conditions, social status, and thought, as well as development of their political, social, and cultural powers from the 15th century to present day.
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3.00 Credits
An investigation of the origins and consequences of the Nazi regime, with particular attention to the planning and implementation of the "Final Solution" and the destruction of Europe's Jews
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