|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
3.00 Credits
This course examines political, socioeconomic, and intellectual-cultural developments in Chinese society from the middle of the 14th century to 1800. This chronological focus largely corresponds to the last two imperial dynasties, the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911). Thematically, the course emphasizes such early-modern indigenous developments as increasing commercialization, social mobility, and questioning of received cultural values.
-
3.00 Credits
This course analyzes the evolution of Chinese foreign relations from the Opium War to the present. The course focuses on Chinese state relations with the rest of the world over the past century and a half, and addresses relevant issues of Chinese domestic political history over the same period. Throughout the course, we look for consistent themes in Chinese foreign relations.
-
3.00 Credits
A survey of China's history from the clash with Western powers in the 1800s to the present day economic revolution. This course examines the background to the 1911 revolution that destroyed the old political order. Then it follows the great cultural and political movements that lead to the Communist victory in 1949. The development of the People's Republic is examined in detail, from Mao to the global economy.
-
3.00 Credits
Same as WGSS 3172
-
3.00 Credits
This course covers the history of the Indian subcontinent in the 19th and 20th centuries. We shall look closely at a number of issues including colonialism in India; anti-colonial movements; the experiences of women; the interplay between religion and national identity; and popular culture in modern India. Political and social history is emphasized equally.
-
3.00 Credits
A survey of the history of the Japanese archipelago from prehistory to the Meji Restoration of 1868, this course is designed to acquaint students with pre-industrial Japanese society and the discipline of history. In addition to tracing political, social, and cultural narratives across time, we focus on three themes: the emergence of a centralized state and the subsequent transition from aristocratic to warrior to commoner rule; interactions with the world beyond Japan's borders; and issues of gender and sexuality.
-
3.00 Credits
For some, "Japan" evokes "Hello Kitty," animated films, cartoons, and sushi. For others, the Nanjing Atrocity, "Comfort Women," the Bataan Death March, and problematic textbooks. For still others, woodblock prints, tea ceremony, and cherry blossoms, or Sony Walkmans and Toyotas. Still others may hold no image at all. Tracing the story of Japan's transformations, from a pre-industrial peasant society managed by samurai-bureaucrats into an expansionist nation-state and then to its current paradoxical guise of a peaceful nation of culture led by conservative nationalists, provides the means for deepening our understanding of historical change in one region and grappling with the methods and aims of the discipline of history.
-
1.00 - 10.00 Credits
See department.
-
3.00 Credits
This course surveys the history of Latin America from the era of Spanish exploration and conquest up to the Wars of Independence (roughly 1492 to 1831). Stressing the experiences and cultural contributions of Americans, Europeans, and Africans, we consider the following topics through primary written documents, but also music, painting, and architecture: Aztec, Maya, Inca, and Iberian civilizations; models of conquest in comparative perspective (Spanish, Portuguese, and Amerindian); consolidation in labor, tributary, and judicial systems; religion and the Catholic Church; sugar and mining industries, trade, and global economies; urban and rural life; and ethnic, caste, class, and gender relations. Brazil provides a continuous counterpoint to Mexico and the Andes, while the experiences of "fringe" areas of empire, such as Haiti, Cuba, Argentina, and northern Mexico, become central in the second half of the course. This course satisfies the modern history course requirement for history majors.
-
3.00 Credits
Environmental history is a relatively new approach to Latin-American history that focuses on the relationship between nature and society. Taking nature seriously forces us historians to revise our understanding of social change, the rise and fall of civilizations, and contemporary problems of political instability. And by putting current environmental debates into historical context, we can contribute to a fuller understanding of the complexity of environmental problems.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2024 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|