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3.00 Credits
Explores the literature, culture and history of Asian Americans and immigrants to the United States variously using fiction, drama, poetry, documentary, photography, narrative film, drama, court cases, primary and secondary historical materials. Patterns of Asian immigration, anti-Asian violence and internment, Asian American resistance in litigation, legislation, and cultural activities, from Gold Rush to globalization.
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Provides an in-depth overview of major ideas, events, controversies, and debates related to the LGBTQ experience in the 20th-century United States. While there is not a prerequisite, it is expected that most students who enroll will have some prior knowledge of the major themes and theoretical ideas essential to the histories of gender and sexuality.
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3.00 Credits
American Indian History is organized into four interconnected themes or paths that we will explore. These themes represent many of the perspectives and experiences of Indians in America. Our goal is for you to leave this class with a deeper understanding of what it has meant to be an Indigenous person in America from their emergence to the present, focusing on their long struggle to preserve their identities as Native people in the face of systemic attempts to erase, eradicate and ultimately appropriate their life, land and culture.
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3.00 Credits
Surveys the American West through the eyes of its diverse population as well as those who are drawn to study and define it. Particular attention given to themes currently debated concerning the legacy, meaning and imagery of the American West.
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3.00 Credits
Addresses the history of Indians in the American Southwest from pre-European contact to the present. Approaches the subject from multiple disciplinary and cultural perspectives and focuses on the histories of the "Pueblo," Hopi, Apache and Navajo people.
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on the social and political history of Brazil over five hundred years, from first indigenous contact with Europeans through independence, formation of the Republic, modernization and contemporary issues facing the country. Ends by examining Brazil's changing place on the global stage.
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3.00 Credits
Traces the rise, development and varied expressions of the drive towards the liberation and unity of black people on the continent (Africa) and in the diaspora. Covers liberation struggles in Africa and the Civil Rights movement in the United States.
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3.00 Credits
Explores the political, social, cultural, and economic history of the world, attending to the structures and systems of global connectivity. The emphasis when taught in Newark is on particular aspects of world history distinct from national narratives. Topics are typically complemented by visits to museums and appropriate historic sites when taught abroad.
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3.00 Credits
Surveys the complex historical development of South African society. Topics include African resistance to white expansion, wars of resistance, the impact of agricultural and labor laws on African societies, tensions in white society, Africaners in power since 1948, and African struggles for freedom.
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3.00 Credits
Course topics vary and may be chronologically or thematically based. Examples include "Christians & Muslims in the Middle Ages" and "Germany in the Middle Ages." RESTRICTIONS: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
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