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3.00 Credits
As an introduction to world and comparative history, this course tours the globe in an era when the world was engulfed by war. World War II was a period of intense violence, upheaval, and profound change that touched every continent in one way or another by destroying, remaking, and inventing international, domestic, and local institutions. Where conventional studies of the conflict focus on military and diplomatic matters, this course surveys the causes, scope, and consequences of World War II for a representative sample of the common people of Europe, the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. It uses the war's influence on race, gender, disease, propaganda, technology, literature, film, music, and material culture to introduce students to the basic concepts and methodologies of world and comparative history. Introductory course to the major and minor.
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3.00 Credits
Same as JNE 176
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3.00 Credits
Same as Hum 201A
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3.00 Credits
Who was Thomas Jefferson, and why has his reputation undergone so many changes? This course is an exercise in understanding how professional historians and the general public discover and use the past. It therefore sets four primary goals: to recover the past on its own terms; to understand the many different methods and standards applied in interpreting the past; to understand how and why each generation changes the way it views the past as it seeks to make it "useable"; and to develop the skills of exposition and argumentation necessary to describe and analyze complex historical issues and to express critical ideas effectively.
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3.00 Credits
This course seeks to explain the emergence of three of the most dynamic societies in early modern (1500-1800) and modern (1800-present) times: China, Korea, and Japan. In addition to offering an introductory overview of East Asian history, this course provides an alternative view to American and European interpretations of early modern and modern world history. Rather than imagining East Asia as a passive actor in history, this course explores the ways in which East Asia has shaped global modernity.
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3.00 Credits
Same as JNE 208F
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3.00 Credits
China has had one of the most mobile populations in world history. This freshman seminar explores migration patterns and networks in the creation of Chinese diasporas in the early modern and modern eras (1500-present). Rather than focus exclusively on the history of China or the Chinese overseas, this course more broadly considers practices and networks that sustained and linked internal and external migrations.
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3.00 Credits
Cities were important political, economic, and population centers in early modern Europe. For its diverse inhabitants, a city functioned as a source of identity and support and as a site for economic and social conflict. Using a wide variety of primary and secondary sources, this class examines how men and women, rich and poor, established citizens and marginal groups, tried to understand and manage the urban experience.
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3.00 Credits
Same as JNE 210C
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3.00 Credits
This introductory course uses historical case studies combined with readings in law, literature, and philosophy to illuminate key episodes in which definitions of justice were contested in 19th- and 20th-century America. Some of the conflicts explored include: Civil War era debates over southern secession; whether reparation should be offered to freed people to redress the injustices of racial slavery; the denial of voting rights to women as a case of "taxation without representation"; 20th-century controversies over legal bans on racial intermarriage; free speech vs. hate speech in the 1960s and '70s; and recent debates over affirmative action and gay marriage.
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