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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Origins and development of American thought on the role of Blacks in American history. Consideration of such topics as African heritage, Blacks in the plantation society, slavery and the American idea of equality, Black Reconstruction, rise of Jim Crow, the myth of white supremacy, and the nature and origins of the Black revolution. Colonial era to the present.
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3 hours; 3 credits The nature and sources of American economic growth from the Colonial period to the present. The development of colonial economy; economic growth before the Civil War; industrialization of the American economy and the rise of big businesses, government, business, and labor, including the changing participation of women and minorities in the era of industrial maturity; the creation of a managed economy in the mid-twentieth century. (This course is the same as Economics 65.3.)
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Major ideas shaping American society from the colonial age to the civil war. Puritanism, entrepreneurship, and the idea of success; republicanism; America vs. Europe; democracy; reform.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits American thought in the industrial age. The idea of America and Europe from 1865 to 1920. Reformist perception in the populist and progressive eras. Immigration and acculturation. Concepts of America in the New Era and in the New Deal. Changing perspectives of postwar and contemporary America.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Topics vary from term to term. Course description may be obtained in the department office before registration. Students may take this course for credit twice, but may not repeat topics.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits New York City from its origins to the present. Amerindian inhabitants before the European invasion; Dutch and English imperial periods; the American Revolution; slavery; mercantilism and capitalism; immigration, ethnicity, and neighborhood; ruling and working classes; parks and recreation; housing and architecture; crime and violence; the fiscal crisis of the 1970s.
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3 hours; 3 credits The history of Brooklyn with an emphasis on the period from Consolidation to the present. The Lenape and early settlers; culture and community in rural Brooklyn; preindustrial Brooklyn, New York's "first suburb," industrialization and worin the nineteenth century; the Consolidation and urban growth; the borough's icons: The Brooklyn Bridge, Coney Island, and the Brooklyn Dodgers; immigration, ethnic succession, and race relations; deindustrialization and the post-World War II economic, political, and cultural landscape. Students will explore various methodological tools for the study of local history and will use Brooklyn as their laboratory for examining its history and conducting research.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits This course addresses issues of an interdisciplinary character. Questions of methodology will be raised as an essential aspect. Topics vary from term to term. Course descriptions may be obtained in the Scholars Program office. Students may take this course three times but may not repeat topics. Prerequisite: good standing in the Scholars Program or permission of the director of the Scholars Program.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Latin American history from 1492 to 1880. Discovery and conquest of America; Spanish and Portugese organization of government, church, and economic institutions. Colonization, settlement, and expansion of frontiers. Economic evolution of colonial America. Rise of the cities of Latin America. Education, universities, secular culture, and the Enlightenment. Reform movements of the eighteenth century. Background of the movements for independence. Establishment of modern nation states. (Not open to students who have completed History 66.1.)
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Latin America since 1880. Growth of selected countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, and Mexico. Regionalism, dictatorship, land reforms, and constitutional issues. Growth of nationalism, liberalism, dictatorships, and democracy from the standpoint of local conditions, domestic history, and inter-American and world politics. (Not open to students who have completed History 66.2.)
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