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3.00 Credits
These courses examine problems in American history not fully addressed in the survey courses. Certain topics may be offered singularly at the 200 or 300 level rather than presented in a split course. While the focus will vary with each offering, the courses emphasize detailed work with primary sources. Topics range in time from colonial to modern America and include Race in Early America, US Women's History, Jacksonian America, the US South, Colonial America, Historically Bad Behavior, the New South, and Nineteenth Century America.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers a study of African Americans from the colonial period to the Civil Rights era. Students will pay special attention to the development of African-American identity, culture, and the quest for freedom and equality. Topics include the slave trade, slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era and the Civil Rights Movement.
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3.00 Credits
The most important issues of Latin American history will be introduced in this course. Course focus will vary with each offering. Topics range in time from colonization to modern Latin America.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores Latin American history form its Hispanic origins to the nineteenth century. Students will gain an appreciation of Hispanic and native environs. Focus includes the role of church and state, economic foundations, colonialism, and independence.
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3.00 Credits
Chronologically following Survey I, this course follows Latin American history as it develops in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Students will examine political changes in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Peru, Cuba, Venezuela, Columbia, and other countries. Focus includes economic systems, revolution, class, race, gender, and imperialism. Students do not need Survey I to succeed in this course.
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3.00 Credits
Required of all majors and minors. An introduction to the basic ways of thinking employed by practicing historians, with attention to main currents of historical interpretation through historiography. In addition, seminar members will learn research strategies in secondary and primary sources, while bringing a critical, analytical reading to the discipline.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the era of the American Civil War. The causes of the war, the military campaigns, and Reconstruction will be considered. Special emphasis will be given to interpretations of the era, the impact of military technology and doctrines of war on the campaigns, and the significance of Reconstruction for the South.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers students the opportunity to develop an understanding of American slavery from the early trans-Atlantic trade to the end of slavery during the Civil War. Primary and secondary source materials offer the chance to analyze slavery as it changed over time and region. Topics include: race and slavery, the slave community, plantation agriculture, slave resistance, and the politics of slavery.
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3.00 Credits
Starting in the Reconstruction period and culminating in the 1960s, America's confrontation with inequality remains a central story. This course examines the origins and maturity of black Americans' efforts demanding freedom from discrimination. The course will address at least three main questions: First, how is the movement understood in the context of the longer black freedom struggle and resistance to segregation in the South? Second, why did the movement take place when it did? Third, how does the movement fit into our understandings of social movements? Prerequisite: HIS 202 or permission from the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
A study of continental Europe between 1750 and 1850 with emphasis on the relationship between ideas and institutional change. The Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century, its origins and its impact, will be considered, as will the decline of the Old Regime, the crisis of the French Revolution, and the reorganization of Europe in the first half of the Nineteenth Century.
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