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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A study of the roles of geographic conditions and natural resources on the cultural and eco-nomic development of the major regions of the world as well as problems and proposed solutions. (every fall)
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3.00 Credits
Designed to give the student an overview of the experience of Africans in America begin-ning with their forced removal from Africa through the time of slavery and slave rebel-lions, the Civil War Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the back-to-Africa movements, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Civil Rights movement. The lives and work of Africans who made major contributions to these his-torical periods will be discussed. (fall 2009, fall 2011, or as needed)
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3.00 Credits
An Honors-level history of the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, and the im-pact of the eighteenth century revolutions in British North America, Extensive use of pri-mary source documents and the writings of thinkers of the Enlightenment. (every fall)
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the period from African, Native American, and European contact in North America to the Mexican War. Topics include the origin of slavery and the southern plantation system, Puritanism and the New England town, the American Revolution, the Federalist era, Jeffersonian and Jacksonian Democracy. (spring 2009, spring 2010, fall 2011)
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3.00 Credits
This course will emphasize the period from the sectional crisis to the Versailles Treaty. Topics include slavery and Civil War; Recon-struction and racism; Industrialization, urba-nization, and immigration; Populism, Progres-sivism, and turn of the century American im-perialism. (fall 2009, summer 2010, spring 2011)
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3.00 Credits
This course will emphasize the period from the 1920s to the present. Topics include Coo-lidge prosperity, the Great Depression, and the New Deal; the international crisis of the 1930s and WW II; the Cold War; the 1960s, Civil Rights, and Vietnam; the Nixon era and Watergate; the U.S. in the years from Carter to Clinton. (fall 2008, fall 2010) HIST/ SS 205 Electronic Research (3 credits) This course is an introduction to understand-ing electronic resources as a component of academic research. Students will evaluate web sites, join and participate in moderated scho-larly email discussion groups (listservs), telnet into libraries, and work with bibliography managers while exploring the possibilities and limitations of electronic research. Projects will also emphasize writing skills to effectively communicate research results. Although a re-quirement for majors in the department of History and Social Sciences, this course is open to all students interested in honing their research skills. (every spring)
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3.00 Credits
Students study the origins and changing na-ture of American family structure and domes-tic life from the 17th Century to the present. Emphasis is on the development of the roles of parents and children in American history, recent scholarship, and interpretations and techniques in the study of the family. (every fall)
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3.00 Credits
This course will trace the political, social, reli-gious, economic and diplomatic history of Latin America from pre-Columbian times to the present. Included will be both a topical discussion of common characteristics and a study of individual countries from the time of independence to the present. (every spring)
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
An exploration of selected topics in American history. Topics will vary from semester to semester and will be announced in the course bulletin. (every spring)
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to Western Eu-ropean History between the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. The focus will be more on breadth than depth, as necessitated by an at-tempt to cover the most important develop-ments within the religious, political, social, economic, and military spheres. (every spring, or as needed)
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