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3.00 Credits
British politics, society, and culture in modern times. The rise of parliamentary democracy, industry, liberalism, empire, feminism, social democracy and mass culture.
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3.00 Credits
Synthesizes the social, economic, political, and cultural developments during Britain's rise to world power. Topics include the rise of the novel, origins of political parties, voyages of Captain Cook, fascination with landscape, origins of empire, growth of industry, and changing nature of family, fashion, sex and marriage. Expected to write a number of short critical essays.
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3.00 Credits
Addresses the background, historical development and present state of Islamic fundamentalist movements.
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on the formation of ethnic and national identity in an attempt to explain the political and social makeup of the modern Middle East.
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3.00 Credits
North American archaeologists have joined a global archaeological discourse surrounding colonialism and imperialism, capitalism, nationalism, indigeneity, mobility, slavery, diasporas, ideology, space and place, consumerism, heritage, authenticity, and global justice. We will 1) apply comparative archaeological perspectives to study regional North American colonial and resistant cultures in historical contexts; 2) test models of cultural assimilation, creolization, and hybridity; 3) examine material objects as tools of colonization and cultural disruption; and 4) define and explore de-colonizing ways of teaching and researching colonized populations.
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3.00 Credits
Explores the roots and the historical complexity of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Topics include: the origins of Zionism, the nature of traditional Arab/Ottoman society in the 19th century, the relationship between the early Zionists and indigenous Arab population of Palestine, the creation of a Jewish society, the rise of Palestinian nationalism, and the protracted search for coexistence between Jews and Arabs.
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3.00 Credits
Surveys the history of mutual views of Islam and Christianity/Judaism/the West from the Middle Ages to the present. Topics include medieval polemics, Enlightenment attempts at respect and understanding,the question of Orientalism, and the current specter of a clash of civilizations.
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3.00 Credits
Social and cultural forces that have influenced the development of modern medicine.
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3.00 Credits
Reviews Irish and English sources to examine the cultural differences that underlay the conflict in Ireland. The distinction between pastoral and agricultural societies will be used to examine the civilizing process, the justification of dispossession, and the origins of colonialism.
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
Explore how history is presented to public audiences in a variety of settings (museums and historic sites, archives, public gardens) and media (documentaries, digital media). Field trips and discussion with professionals. Topics may also include art history, historical anthropology and natural history. RESTRICTIONS: Departmental permission.
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