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3.00 Credits
See course description for PSC 312.
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3.00 Credits
This is a detailed examination of the origins, events and consequences of World War II. The breakdown of collective security and the failure of appeasement are followed by a comprehensive study of the Atlantic and Pacific theaters. Military and political developments are complemented by analysis of economic, social and technological trends and changes.
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3.00 Credits
This course presents an overview of the social history of women in the American past. The course will examine in some depth women’s roles in the family, work, education, religion, social change, political reform and health, considering in each case ethnic and class differences.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an in-depth global approach to the history of the world in the early 20th century, with special emphasis on the impact of western imperialism, the causes, conduct and consequences of the great war of 1914-1918, and the revolutions that occurred during this era in China, Russia, Germany, Ireland, eastern Europe and Mexico.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an in-depth global approach to the history of the world from 1920 to 1945, with special emphasis on the cultural and political anxieties of the 1920s; the global impact of the Great Depression; the growth and influence of racism, nationalism, communism, fascism, militarism and Nazism; and the causes, conduct and consequences of World War II and the Holocaust.
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3.00 Credits
An intensive study of superpower confrontations and conflicts from 1945 through 1964. Soviet and American attitudes and ideologies, the roots and origins of the Cold War, the nuclear arms race, crises and clashes in Europe and the Third World, social and cultural impacts.
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3.00 Credits
An intensive study of the later years of the Cold War and the post- Cold War period. Continued Soviet and American rivalry combined with efforts to control the nuclear arms race, Third World “proxy wars” such as Vietnam and Afghanistan, the collapse of the Iron Curtain and end of the Soviet Union, global adjustments to the development of a unipolar world, the rise of terrorism and jihadist tendencies, social and cultural impacts.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of Russian history from ancient times through the end of the 19th century, including Kievan Rus,’ the Mongol Yoke, the rise of Moscow, and Imperial Russia from Peter the Great to Nicholas II. Emphasis will be placed on social, cultural and religious developments, as well as on the political history of the Russian state.
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3.00 Credits
A study of Russian history from the reign of Nicholas II (1894-1917) to the present, including the revolutions of 1905 and 1917, the careers of Lenin and Stalin, the foreign and domestic policies of the Soviet Union, the disintegration of the USSR and life in post-Soviet Russia.
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce to students the history of East Asia from its Neolithic origins to 1600. It will examine the foundations of main East Asian nations, the important features of the classical East Asian civilization and further developments of East Asian cultures and societies prior to the arrival of the Westerners. Important East Asian classics, religious and ritual practices, such as Confucianism, Taoism, Shintoism and Buddhism, will also be introduced. Other topics to be studied include relations between East Asia and its nomadic neighbors, different political systems, literate and martial traditions, popular cultures, important technological innovations, commercial and urban developments, peasant revolts, local societies, gender relations, Christian missionaries and the early contacts with the West.
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