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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
A history of China from the 17th to the early 20th centuries.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of Chinese history from 1911 to the present, focusing on social and political movements.
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4.00 Credits
(formerly HIS 239) Formation of the modern India nation state, from the Delhi Sultanate (13th century C.E.) to the present.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines Islamic history from the rise of Islam in the seventh-century to the early modern period. Topics include the early Islamic community and the development of the caliphate, the growth of independent dynasties, the Islamic legal tradition, state formation, the significance of nomadic conquest, ideologies of political authority and legitimacy, Islamic mysticism, cultural patronage, and gender.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the history of the Modern Middle East that includes social, political, intellectual and cultural developments from the eighteenth century to the present. Topics include the impact of European expansion and colonialism, the rise of nationalism and independence movements, the emergence of nation states following the break-up of the Ottoman Empire, reformist ideologies, resistance movements, issues of ethnic and sectarian identity, US-Middle East relations, modern debates on secularism, democracy and political Islam, issues of gender and the role of women, and post-9/11 regional and international developments.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of the Iranian pastoral nomads, the formation of the Greater Iranian World stretching from the western borders of China and southern Siberia to Spain, and its role in shaping outside societies in pre-modern history (from the Neolithic Period through the early Middle Ages). The formation of the Iranian language and religion, pastoral economy, material culture, social organization, and political structure will be of particular importance to the course. The class will also focus on the interaction between the Iranian nomadic world and other nomadic, sedentary, and hunting-gathering peoples.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of how, when, and why Inner Eurasia (the northern section) came to be connected with Outer Eurasia (the southern section) during the Middle Ages through expanding commercial connections, which, in turn, led to intellectual, cultural, epidemiological, religious, and technological borrowings between the two regions.
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4.00 Credits
History of Siberia from the initial human settlement of this part of Inner Eurasia in the Ice Age to the modern period. Specific emphases will be given to the diverse cultures, economies, and religions of the Native Siberian peoples and their contacts with the outside world. About half of the course will examine the fate of the indigenous inhabitants of Siberia after their incorporation into the Russian state.
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4.00 Credits
History of the Russian state as it was transformed from the European Grand Principality of Muscovy to the trans-Eurasian Russian Empire. Among the key issues considered in this course are: the territorial expansion of Russia, the development and growth of bureaucracy and autocracy, the entrenchment of serfdom as an institution, Russia's attempts to reform and modernize, and the many fates of Russia's national minorities.
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4.00 Credits
This course traces the history of the Soviet Union from last years of the old tsarist regime and the developments that led to the Russian Revolution of 1917, through the Russian Civil War, the Stalin era and World War II, the Cold War, to the collapse of the U.S.S.R. in 1991. HIS 350/Topics: Africa/Latin America 1 course unit Focuses on differing topics of historical significance having to do with African or Latin American history. This course may be repeated for credit when the topic changes.
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