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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Conquest and settlement by the European powers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. European rivalries; rise of the sugar economy and slavery as a socioeconomic system. Comparative development of the English, French, and Spanish slave-holding colonies. The Haitian Revolution; the abolition of the slave trade and emancipation in the British colonies; the Ten Years'War and Emancipation in Cuba.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Historical forces in the evolution of Caribbean nations from the nineteenth century to the present. Includes material on Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad-Tobago among other nations. Concentrates upon national and international factors influencing each society as well as comparative analysis.
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3.00 Credits
3 Hours; 3 credits This course will examine the changing nature of social movements in Latin America from the nineteenth century to the present. Topics include social movements concerning citizenship, religion, unions, feminism, torture, poverty, indigenous rights, and environmentalism. This course is the same as Puerto Rican and Latino Studies 28.
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4.00 Credits
4 Hours; 3 credits This course will examine the changing nature of social movements in Latin America from the nineteenth century to the present. Topics include social movements concerning citizenship, religion, unions, feminism, torture, poverty, indigenous rights, and environmentalism. Writing-intensive section. Prerequisites: English 2; or permission of the chairperson.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Origins, development, and present state of the Chinese revolution. Social and ideological patterns in the breakdown of the Confucian order. The Revolution of 1911. Urban nationalism and the warlords. Rise of the Guomindang and the Communist Party. The Japanese invasion, Maoist ideology, and the Communist conquest. The People's Republic since 1949. Political, social, economic and ecological crises in the struggle to modernize. China's global impact. (Not open to students who have completed History 53.2 or History 53.10.)
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Chinese civilization from its Neolithic beginnings through the late sixteenth century C.E. The earliest Yellow River civilizations, beginnings of royal institutions, foundations of Chinese religion, the cultural, social, and economic revolution of the Warring States, the establishment and evolution of the imperial state, China and Inner Asia, the spread of Buddhism, the growth of commerce, the flourishing of art and literature, the social order and ideology of the late empire. Prerequisite: Core Studies 4 or Core Curriculum 2.2 or permission of the chairperson.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Comparisons of British rule in India and French rule in Indochina in the nineteenth century. The rise of nationalism in the two areas in the later nineteenth century. Comparative historical analysis of these movements, especially the development of leadership, organization, and ideology, and the interplay of violent and nonviolent techniques of struggle. Impact of World War II on European imperial rule in Asia and on nationalist movements. Independence in the postwar generation and consequences for the new nations. Extensive use of slides and films of both areas.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Japanese civilization from prehistoric times to the late sixteenth century. Earliest Neolithic civilizations on the Japanese archipelago. Beginnings of agriculture and bronze technology. Cultural interaction with mainland Asia. Development of imperial institutions and Shinto. Adaptation of Buddhism, development of indigenous Buddhist schools (Nichiren, Zen). Evolution of Japanese literature, drama, and art. Rise of the samurai. Prerequisite: Core Studies 4 or Core Curriculum 2.2 or permission of the chairperson.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Development of Japan as a modern nation. Tokugawa origins of modern institutions; emergence of the imperial state in the Meiji period; expansion on the Asian continent; nationalism, liberalism, and militarism between the wars. Destruction in World War II; recovery and the rise to affluence. Japan as a post-industrial power; its regional and global influence.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits The history of Daoism, the indigenous religion of China, from ancient times to the fifth century C.E. The roots of Daoism in ancient Chinese shamanism. Early mystical practices such as meditation, spirit journeying, macrobiotic diet, sexual yoga. The classical philosophy of Laozi and Zhuangzi. The political Daoism of the late Warring States and Han. The Daoist rebellions of 184 C.E. Magic and ritual practices of the Daoist church. Medieval Chinese alchemy. This course is the same as Religion 18. Prerequisite: Core Studies 4 or Core Curriculum 2.2 or permission of the chairperson.
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