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3.00 Credits
A survey of African history from the earliest times until 1800. The course examines major political, economic and cultural developments across the continent, including human origins, the great civilizations of the first millennium, and the slave trade.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of African history from 1800 to the 21st century. The course traces the major political, economic, and cultural developments on the continent, including European imperialism, African independence, and Africa in the age of globalization.
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on the encounter and conflict between the Native American people who inhabited the Americas and the Europeans and then Americans who challenged them for the land. The course will address the nature and history of a frontier that has moved and changed continuously since 1492. The course will also investigate the way the physical environment was transformed by the Europeans and Americans, and how the cultures of both were influenced by the other. Sources will include historical narratives, original documents, literature and film.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the social, economic, and political lives of Pennsylvanians from the period of European settlement to the recent economic and social changes resulting from the demise of large-scale manufacturing and the rise of the service economy. Particular attention will be paid to western Pennsylvania and its role in the development of the commonwealth.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of popular expression in art, music, literature, theatre, sports, newspapers, magazines, cartoons, comics, advertising, travel, vaudeville, radio, television, and movies. Distinguishing among elite, popular, mass, and folk culture, the course examines the cultural development of the American people through those forms of expression which have been neither narrowly intellectual nor creatively elitist.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the major currents of the intellectual and social development of the United States. Topics include the development of public and private education, American philosophers and their thought, the relationship between religion and science, the evolution of social behavior, technological development and its consequences, and main currents within the arts.
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3.00 Credits
A survey course beginning with the African background and tracing African-American history to the present. Emphasis is placed on understanding the development of an African-American culture through the words and experiences of contemporaries.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the nature of American foreign policy from the Revolution to the present with emphasis on the rise of the United States as a world power. What influence did individual policy makers, domestic events, and perceptions about foreign cultures have on diplomacy?
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on the politics and culture of America from the election of John F. Kennedy to the resignation of Richard M. Nixon. Through reading, discussion, research, and presentations, students will explore this fascinating period. Special topics will include the Civil Rights movement, the war in Vietnam, campus unrest, the various liberation movements, and the many other significant transformations of the period.
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3.00 Credits
This series of courses broadens the history curriculum by offering a challenging, yet accessible historical analysis and by providing an intermediate course between the introductory courses and those with prerequisites. Special topics will be taught by individual faculty members in areas of interest to them — areas that might not warrant a permanent offering, but which permit the incorporation of new research material, in-depth analysis, and stimulating readings. The topics will demand that students build up an appreciation for the continuities in one area of analysis. Finally, these courses will give students an opportunity to work beyond the introductory course level. Since Explorations in History courses are intended primarily for majors and minors in history who have already taken some lower-level courses, enrollment will normally be limited to declared majors and minors in history who have at least junior standing. However, with instructor’s permission, other students may enroll in these courses, as space permits.
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