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3.00 Credits
An introductory course for history majors and minors which focuses on the nature of the discipline, historiography, and problems and controversies in history.
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3.00 Credits
This third year course will emphasize research, writing and historical methodology. Students in their junior year will develop a research project under the direction of a member of the History faculty. The seminar will enable students to implement their research design and present their work for review by peers and professors.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or permission of instructor. This course examines the history of the United States since World War II, with a special focus on the Cold War. The course will examine American foreign policy, but also will consider cultural, social, political, and intellectual developments as they relate to the international scene. Students will explore the ways in which Americans have influenced, and have been influenced by, global developments in the recent past. Gen. Ed. Designation: GS (G - Global Studies).
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or permission of instructor. An examination of the American Civil War as a problem in historical causation and the social, political, and economic impacts of the war during the period of Reconstruction.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or permission of instructor. This course examines American intellectuals and American thought from the colonial period through the Civil War. By focusing on the lives and works of individual thinkers, students will consider the various ways in which intellectuals responded to the challenges of their times. Themes of the course will include European images of the New World, Puritan thought, the Great Awakening, revolutionary ideology, sources of romanticism and nationalism in the early 19th century, and the impact of the Civil War on American thought.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or permission of instructor. An examination of the roles and accomplishments of American women from colonization to the present. Themes might include family and gender issues, suffrage, education and labor reform, sexual attitudes by and toward American women, and economic, social and political advances.
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Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or permission of instructor. This course traces the evolution of baseball from marginal urban sport in the 19th century to the Progressive era, when the game emerged as the "national pastime," and examines the origins of baseball's current distempers and disabilities.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or permission of instructor. A survey which examines the origins of medieval civilization in the late Roman Empire and traces its development to the zenith in the High Middle Ages (1050-1300). Gen. Ed. Designation: GS (G - Global Studies).
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or permission of instructor. A history of the Russian Empire from the era of Peter the Great (1682-1715) to the early twentieth century. After a brief survey of medieval and early modern Russian history, the course will focus on the impact of Peter's reforms, the social history of Russia in this period, Russian imperial expansion, efforts to reform and modernize the country, the rise of civil society, and the decline of the Romanov dynasty in the face of revolutionary movements and social crisis. Gen. Ed. Designation: GS (G - Global Studies).
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or permission of instructor. A history of Russia and the Soviet Union from the early twentieth century to the present. Important topics include the rise of revolutionary movements in the Russian Empire, the revolutions of 1905 and 1917, the evolution of Soviet communism, Stalinist repression and terror, Gorbachev's reforms, the breakup of the Soviet Union, and the emergence of new post-Soviet states. Gen. Ed. Designation: GS (G - Global Studies).
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