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  • 3.00 Credits

    An examination of the ideas, institutions, and events in Western Civilization which specifically affected women. Lectures and readings will be organized topically rather than geographically or chronologically. Areas to be examined include religion, education, sex and marriage, the family, work and feminist and suffragist movements NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions.
  • 3.00 Credits

    A survey of Spanish and Portuguese colonial America to 1825. Topics include native populations on the eve of conquest; exploration and conquest by Europeans; the development of multiracial societies; the colonial economies; the institutions of Ibero-American empires; the social, economic and intellectual roots of revolution; independence movements. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions.
  • 3.00 Credits

    A survey of Spanish and Portuguese America since the wars for independence. Topics include the aftermath of the independence movements, incorporation into the international economy, changing social organization, race relations, the search for political stability, the role of the military, 20th century revolutionary movements and intellectual currents. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions.
  • 3.00 Credits

    An introduction to the pre-colonial history of sub-Saharan Africa. Special focus on the growth of Islam in West Africa, the East African city-states and kingdoms and the upheaval in 19th-century southern Africa. African slavery and the slave trade are also considered. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions.
  • 3.00 Credits

    A history of the development of Africa during the modern period, including European penetration, the Colonial era, African resistance and independence and contemporary issues. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Tradition, modernization, and change in the contemporary Islamic World. The impact of nationalism, secularism and Westernization in the Middle East, from the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of successor states, to the Arab-Israeli conflict, the oil crisis and Great Power confrontation. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions.
  • 3.00 Credits

    A survey of traditional Chinese history from earliest times to 1800. Emphasis is on intellectual development against the background of social, political and economic transformations. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions.
  • 3.00 Credits

    A study of Chinese history from 1800 to the present, emphasizing the transformation of the Confucian universal empire into a modern national state. The course focuses on the problems of imperialism, nationalism and revolution, the rise of communism, the proletarian Cultural Revolution and the Four Modernizations in post- Mao China. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions.
  • 3.00 Credits

    A survey of the political, economic, and cultural development of Japan from earliest times to 1800, with emphasis on the borrowing and adaptation of Chinese culture and the development of a unique Japanese civilization. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions.
  • 3.00 Credits

    A study of modern Japanese history from 1800 to the present, with emphasis on the creation of the modern state, the impact of Western civilization on Japanese culture, Japan's experience with liberalism and militarism and imperialism and the postwar transformation. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions.
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