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3.00 Credits
What is good government? What is freedom? What is equal opportunity? When is revolution justified? This course examines the struggle to attain social and political justice in the modern era, from seventeenth-century civil wars to current struggles over economic inequity, civic rights, and political power.
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3.00 Credits
How have scientists, engineers, and technological visionaries imagined the future? How do films and other forms of popular culture, such as comic books, fiction, and television, reveal society's hopes and anxieties about those visions? Weekly film showings, Lectures, readings, and other class activities to explore these fascinating questions.
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3.00 Credits
In this course we explore the history of the First State from the time of European contact to the end of the 20th century. Particular attention is paid to slavery and civil rights, political, economic, and social history, and key roles that Delaware played in the nation's history. The course features Lectures and discussion of assigned reading materials.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to theology, philosophy and history of Islam. Provides basic introduction to Quran, Traditions of Prophet Muhammad, and fundamentals of Islam law and jurisprudence. Explores different interpretations and manifestations of Islam, both historically and contemporaneously. Surveys rapid globalization of Islam and Muslim communities.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the history, operations and future of museums, historic sites, archives and related cultural organizations. Examines Collecting and collection management, conservation of collections, exhibition development, public programs and museum education, and digital outreach. Museum careers and volunteer engagement are explored.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of the history of warfare from the ancient Greeks through World War I, with emphasis upon tactics, weapons, armor, strategy and the human factors that contributed to success or failure in war.
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3.00 Credits
Examine the military activities of the United States, and of the thirteen British colonies that would become the United States, from the founding of those colonies to the present day. Explore sufficient European background to provide context and to explain its contributions to American military development. Examine changes in popular attitudes towards participation in the military, in preferred strategy and tactics, in military administration, and in the contribution of new technologies.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces students to material culture studies, broadly defined as study of all things people make and all the ways people have altered the physical world. Explores the approaches, concepts, and methods of numerous disciplines that investigate material culture.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course examines African American struggles for freedom, equality, and citizenship from the 1940s to the present.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the history and development of Hollywood and the movie industry as modern business and spectacle. Course includes viewing and discussing classic American films and film genres of the 20th century.
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