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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the nature, history, and impact ofmodern technology upon ourselves, our lives, and the world we share with other living beings both human and non-human.We will study and evaluate various views towards technology and fromthis basis develop their own philosophical and ethical positions regarding the impact, purpose, and direction for technology. One of the aims here is to question, explore, and evaluatemuch of what wemay take for granted aboutmodern technology.
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3.00 Credits
This course aims to analyze the essential characteristics and experiences of themajor world regions and to consider those forces that had a worldwide impact. Topics to be considered: the ancient, classical, andmedieval civilizations of Eurasia; the Confucian,Muslimand non- European worlds on the eve of Europe's expansion; and the roots of European expansion.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of global history fromthe year 1500 to the present. Themajor civilizations in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas are examined as are the interactions between these civilizations over the last five centuries. The course aims to analyze the essential characteristics and experiences of themajor world regions and to consider those forces that had a worldwide impact. Topics to be considered include European expansion; European domination of the globe; the non-Western world's reaction against Europe's hegemony; and thedevelopment of liberalism, nationalism, and otherWestern ideologies and theirmanifestations. Global History I is not a prerequisite.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers the political, economic, and social history of Europe since the Congress of Vienna, 1815. It deals with the history of Europe and European civilization as a unit, and in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries it attempts to tell the story of an integrated, or at least interconnected, world. Emphasis falls on those situations andmovements-nationalism, socialism, liberalism, imperialismandmilitarism-that are international in scope and that have confronted and occupied Europeans and their descendants in common.
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce the student to Russia through both a geographic and an ethnic analysis of the country. The course will cover the 1917 Revolution and its causes, the establishment of the Communist dictatorship, the formation of Russia, the Stalinist years, and the aftermath of Stalin. The last part of the course will deal with Russian foreign policy and international Communism, with particular emphasis on the Sino-Soviet conflict and its implications.
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3.00 Credits
This course presents a synopsis of American history fromthe period of the earliest English settlement up through the United States CivilWar. The course examines significant political, social, and constitutional events that have shaped our national heritage during this period. The principal focus of the course is upon the development of sectional communities and the conflicts between those sections that ultimately led to the CivilWar.
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3.00 Credits
The course presents a synopsis of American history fromthe period of Reconstruction following the United States CivilWar to the present. The course examines significant political, social, and constitutional events that have shaped our national heritage during this period. The principal focus of the course is upon the growth of the federal government and federal power in both the domestic and international spheres.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a general survey of the history of theMiddle East fromancient times to the present with an emphasis on the period after 1700. The course examines the various cultures of theMiddle East and how those cultures have interacted. Of particular importance will be the rise of Islam, the effect of western influence upon theMiddle East after 1700, and the Arab- Israeli conflict of the twentieth century.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a general survey of the history of the causes, course, and consequences of WorldWar II. The course focuses upon the diplomatic, political, andmilitary facets of the war and those ideological forces that gave rise to the war. Topics that will be covered include the final diplomatic settlement ofWorldWar I, the rise of communismand fascismin Europe, the march to war in Europe and Asia, the European and Pacific Theaters of Operation, the Holocaust, and the origins of the ColdWar.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a survey of German history fromclassical times through the present day. The course will focus upon the growth of Germany, particularly its establishment as a nationstate and the role that it played in European history from1870 to the present. The course will also examine the political, social, economic, and foreign policy trends that have shaped Germany and its people. Finally, the course will examine the historiographical trends that have emerged fromthe study of German history.
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