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Course Criteria
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This course explores the ways in which the past has been represented in film and, through a critical comparison with both primary sources and scholarly studies, examines the usefulness of film as a medium for presenting history.
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Examines the structure, organization, and development of medieval life, thought, and institutions. Topics include the medieval vision of reality, rural life and the growth of towns, the development of political and religious institutions, and the expansion of the intellectual and cultural life of medieval Europe.?Formerly HIS 125. 3 credits
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Studies the political, social, and economic history of the major centers of the Italian Renaissance, the Northern Renaissance and Christian humanism, the scientific revolution, the relationship between humanism and reform, the continental and English Reformations, and popular culture in early modern Europe. 3 credits
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Examines religion and politics in the 17th century, the English constitutional conflicts and the triumph of the common law tradition, the mystique and reality of royal power in the court of France, the trend toward secularization of thought, and the growing role of commoners in political institutions. 3 credits
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Explores the cultural backgrounds, political institutions, and social movements of Colonial America from the Age of Exploration through the American Revolution; emphasizes the transition from the first to the third generation, the long-term causes of the American Revolution, and the development of ""Republicanism"" ideology. 3 credits
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Examines the contrast between the images of women, both positive and negative, and the reality of women's lives in medieval and early modern Europe. Topics include women's role in the family, women's work, women and medicine, women's legal standing, life in the convent, the role of noble women, the education of women, and women's spirituality. 3 credits
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Contemporary World History examines major forces that have shaped the world since 1945, including nationalism, revolution, democratization, globalization, thenic and racial conflict, and technological transcformation and the information revolution. 3 credits
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Looks at the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. After first examining the factors that created the global imperial order at the end of the 19th century, the course traces the rise of nationalism, the impact of the world wars, the process of decolonization, and the challenge of nation building in an age of global politics. 3 credits
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Examines the relationship between Europeans' sense of self-identity and the way they depicted the larger world around them, focusing attention on geography, cosmology and astronomy, and physiology. Topics include reality and fantasy in medieval and early modern maps; the religious, philosophical, and social significance of the Copernican revolution; the ""magical"" view of the universe and the human body; and the mechanization of the world picture. 3 credits
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Examines the intellectual, cultural and social factors in the development of Darwin's theory of evolution and its acceptance or rejection by members of the scientific community; explores the impact of Darwin's theory on non-scientific aspects of society, both in the 19th century and today. 3 credits FLC Seminar II
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