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  • HIS 250: Introduction to Archaeology

    3.00 Credits
    Meredith College

    (Varies, Contact Dept.Head) This course provides students with a basic introduction to the scope and concerns of archaeology, a deeper understanding of the human past, and a greater sensitivity to issues surrounding the reconstruction and representation of that past. Through the semester we will survey some famous archaeological discoveries of the past as well as more contemporary discoveries. Over the semester we will also conduct several activities dealing with the hands-on analysis of material culture, and will visit and critically analyze local archaeological sites and reconstructions.
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  • HIS 270: Introduction to Native American History and Cultures

    3.00 Credits
    Meredith College

    (Spring, Course Offered Even Numbered Years Only) An overview of the history of Native Americans in North America. Students will be introduced to such topics as original migrations into North America, impact of European contact, demographics, evolution of stereotypes, historical events, important leaders, religions, societal structures, indigenous arts, traditional lifeways, and current political and social issues.
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  • HIS 281: Introduction to African History

    3.00 Credits
    Meredith College

    (Fall, Course Offered Every Year) This course will introduce students to the history of the African continent. It will survey the variety of environmental conditions and the ecological impact on the growth of African civilization and culture. It will examine the emergence of states and kingdoms such as the trader empires of West Africa and Great Zimbabwe in the south. It will also examine traditional African myths and epics. Other topics include the impact of Islam, European contact and the slave trade, the struggle against colonialism and apartheid, the rise of nationalism, and the problems of Africa's newly independent states including the chaos of the Congo and Rwanda, and the legacy of Mandela's South Africa. And the course will show the amazing resilience of the Africans and their uncanny talent to survive and even prosper despite the best efforts of authority and environment.
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  • HIS 282: The Modern Middle East

    3.00 Credits
    Meredith College

    (Spring, Course Offered Every Year) This course will address cultural, social and political issues in the Middle East in the late 19th and especially in the 20th century. Topics covered will include imperialism, nationalism, the creation of modern states, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the Iranian Revolution, the politics of oil, U.S. - Middle East relations, and the emergence of activist Islamic groups. Also offered as POL-282.
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  • HIS 285: Women in Global Perspective

    3.00 Credits
    Meredith College

    (Spring, Course Offered Every Year) Economic systems have a formative impact on women's lives and the nature of their role in society. Women's experiences and the expression of these experiences in artifacts, historical documents, and literature will be studied to shed light on this relationship.
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  • HIS 300: Introduction to Public History

    3.00 Credits
    Meredith College

    (Spring, Course Offered Every Year) An introduction to the theoretical background of public history and its disciplines; historic preservation, museum studies, archives and records administration and documentary editing. Students read literature in these disciplines and solve practical problems in public history.
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  • HIS 302: Modern British History

    3.00 Credits
    Meredith College

    (Varies, Contact Dept. Head) This course will examine the significant political, social, economic, and cultural transformations that have shaped British history in the modern era. It will explore key events and themes that influenced British development, including: the nature of "Britain" as a multi-national, multiethnicpolity; the impact and influence of Britain as a commercial, and later military, global empire; the role of Britain as a "model" of evolutionaryhistorical development; the British experience of the two world wars; the creation of a socialist welfare state in the intellectual homeland of economic and political liberalism; and recent efforts to question and reform the post-war social and political consensus.
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  • HIS 304: Greek and Roman History

    3.00 Credits
    Meredith College

    (Fall, Odd-Numbered Years Only) A study of the cultural and historical characteristics of the ancient Greeks and Romans with special emphasis on their contributions to subsequent civilizations.
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  • HIS 305: Holocaust Experiences

    3.00 Credits
    Meredith College

    (Spring, Course Offered Every Year) The twentieth century has witnessed the mass destruction of peoples on a scale unprecedented on the planet. Using the Holocaust in Germany as a focus and point of departure, this class will examine the Holocaust experience, as it was understood by the participants-by the persecuted and the persecutors, and by those who passively acquiesced and by those who resisted.
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  • HIS 306: Russia in the Twentieth Century

    3.00 Credits
    Meredith College

    (Fall, Odd-Numbered Years Only) This course will examine the significant events, themes, and personalities that have shaped the turbulent history of Russia and the Soviet Union in the twentieth century. Key periods and topics will include: the failed "constitutional experiment" of late Imperial Russia; the dynamics of theRussian Revolution and Civil War; the impact of Josef Stalin's "revolutionfrom above" and its program of collectivization, industrialization, and mass terror; the traumatic Soviet experience of World War II; the role of the Soviet Union in the Cold War; the rise of Gorbachev and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union.
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