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3.00 Credits
The Western world from the decline of Rome to the age of discovery and exploration is examined. Special notice is taken of religious and intellectual developments: Byzantine and Saracenic civilizations; feudalism and the growth of feudal monarchy; the economic and cultural society of manor and town; the growth of trade and the political evolution of Western Europe. 3 semester hours
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The literary, artistic, and intellectual achievements of the 14th and 15th centuries in the context of the economic, political, and social development of Western Europe. 3 semester hours
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The origin and growth of Protestantism and the Catholic Reformation of the 16th century in the context of the economic, political, and social development of Western Europe. 3 semester hours
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An examination of the politics, society, and culture of early modern Europe. Topics of special interest include the crisis of 17thcentury Europe, the establishment of absolutism, salient characteristics of the Age of Reason and Enlightenment, and the emergence of the 18th-century balance of power. 3 semester hours
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This course is a survey of the origins and spread of rapid sustained economic growth since 1750 with emphasis on the change from a commercial and agricultural to an industrial economy. 3 semester hours
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This course is an interpretation of the far-flung events and movements of world history since the beginning of the First World War. 3 semester hours
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This course examines the experiences of British, French, German, Russian, and American women on both the homefront and battlefront during the First and Second World Wars. Through a comparative study of women's attitudes, their domestic and public activities, and government policies toward them, the course investigates women's traditional and nontraditional wartime roles. It also considers the impact of the World Wars on attitudes toward women and on women's opportunities and status in the immediate post-war years. Memoirs, diaries, and correspondence by women who worked in war industries, served in auxiliary military services, and fought on the front lines are among the primary sources students use to obtain evidence about women's wartime experiences. 3 semester hours
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The course examines the forces that shaped life and thought from the late medieval era to the early 20th century. In addition to making students aware of the conditions of life that prevailed for the vast majority of Europeans, the course will expose students to the application of cultural and gender theory, as well as cultural anthropology and quantitative methods to the study of history. 3 semester hours
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The course focuses on the changing nature of male and female genders from the Renaissance to the present. The purpose of the course is to familiarize students with gender as an analytical category, distinguish it from sex, make students conscious of the variability of gender, and knowledgeable of the forces that have acted upon gender in the past. Students will explore the nature of men's and women's conditions, social status, and thought, aswell as development of their political, social, and cultural powers from the 15th century to our day. 3 semester hours
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This course looks at ways in which late medieval Christian Europe attempted to enforce dominant social, religious, and sexual norms by defining standards of normalcy and punishing those who deviated from those standards. Students read and discuss historical monographs on witches, demons, heretics, sodomites, peasant visionaries, and portentous monstrosities, among other outcasts. Students also write papers that investigate historical and contemporary manifestations of otherness. 3 semester hours
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