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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 hours A survey of the history of the Middle East from the emergence of Islam to our own age. Main themes will include the life and teachings of Muhammad, the Arab conquests, varieties of Islamic thought, principal medieval Arab kingdoms, the Seljuk and Ottoman Turkish empires, and the rise of modern Arab, Jewish and Iranian nationalism. Special emphasis will be given to the origins and nature of the Arab-Israeli and Lebanese conflicts and to the Islamic revival.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours Examines the histories of China and Japan. Special attention is given to institutional and cultural development. Lectures also explore the impact of Europe and America on traditional ways of life. The last section of the course focuses on war and revolution in southeast Asia.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours This course provides the student with the materials for understanding the political, economic, social, and cultural dimensions of European colonization and native reaction, British reforms and colonial independence, and the creation of an American Republic.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours An examination of the world as a whole over the last 125 years. Although it will discuss individual regions and use individual countries as case studies, the course will emphasize the development of the world as a system, the struggle for power in all its manifestations, and the experience of the "Third World" in the imperial and post-colonial world. It will discuss in detail the important ideologies of the20th century and the ways in which non-western countries have interpreted and implemented these ideas. It will also give considerable attention to the ways in which the experience of colonialism and decolonization impacted the lives of men and women in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. It will conclude by discussing the post-1989 move toward globalization.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours This course provides the student with the materials for understanding the political, economic, social, and cultural dimensions of those periods of time historians refer to as the Early National period, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours This course provides the student with the materials for understanding the political, economic, social, and cultural dimensions of those periods of time historians refer to as the Guilded Age, the Progressive Era, the Twenties, the Great Depression, and World War II.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours This course provides the student with the materials for understanding the political, economic, social, and cultural dimensions of such major development as the Cold War, the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, feminism, the Reagan revolution, and globalism.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours A sustained examination of a specific topic important in modern history. Topics will vary, but may include issues such as identity and nationality, imperialism, genocide and ethnic cleansing, and the world wars of the Twentieth Century. May be repeated for credit if the topic is different. Students taking this class for 300 level credit will be expected to complete additional requirements and participate at a higher level than students completing it for 100 level credit. May be offered simultaneously with HI120.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours An examination of Europe from 1789-1914. This course will emphasize continent-wide developments and ideas, including the revolutionary period from 1789-1848, the Industrial Revolution, imperialism, the success and failure of European efforts to regulate the international system, the rise of nationalism, the role of ideologies like liberalism, socialism and conservatism, and the increasing diplomatic and internal tensions that led to the First World War. The course will also pay some attention to individual countries such as Great Britain, France, and Italy.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours A survey of problems in European history from the close of World War I to the present. The focal point of the course is the destruction of the old European systems by World War I, the various attempts to replace those systems, the challenge posed by fascism and communism, the impact of World War II, the Cold War and the dismantling of the colonial empires, and the emergence of a new European consciousness.
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