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A. Guez These courses teach modern Hebrew as spoken in Israel and are designed for students who are interested in developing oral and written Hebrew skills. The courses are helpful to those who are interested in deeper knowledge of Jewish culture and wish to improve their knowledge of Hebrew for religious studies. HEBR 121 and 122 are also helpful in preparing students for travel in Israel. HEBR 121 is designed for students with no previous Hebrew background and students who have learned to read phonetically without comprehension. HEBR 122 is designed for students who have completed HEBR 121 or have equivalent knowledge. (Formerly HEBR 101-102.)
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A. Guez These are the continuing courses for students who have completed HEBR 122 ( formerly HEBR 102) and for students with equivalent or advanced knowledge of modern Hebrew. These courses aim at enhancing the students' reading, writing, comprehension, and speaking skills and involve extensive teaching of grammar. Instruction tools include audiovisual materials, popular texts, Israeli newspapers, and exercises in the language laboratory.
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Staff This course examines national states after 1450; conflict for domination in Europe and world-wide commercial and colonial ambitions; Renaissance culture, the Protestant revolt, Spanish ascendancy; 17th-century French absolutism and constitutional government in England; Austria, the weakened Germanies, the rise of Prussia and Russia; 18th-century liberalism; and the French Revolution, Napoleonic conquest, and European settlement of 1815. Not open to students with AP credit in European history.
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Staff This course explores the social, economic, political, and cultural history of Europe over the last two centuries. Topics include Metternich, the revolutions of 1848, nationalism and the unification of Italy and Germany, the Industrial Revolution and the growth of socialism, imperialism and the alliance system, the Russian Revolution and the two World Wars, Stalinism, the development of the European Union, and the fall of the Soviet Empire after 1989. Not open to students with AP credit in European history.
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Staff This course is a broad survey of key patterns, events, and the history of peoples in America from ca. 1500 to 1877. It covers the breadth of Native American life and the effects of European settlement, the colonial and constitutional periods through the age of reform, the crisis of union, and the Civil War and Reconstruction. Using lectures, discussions, slides, movies, and student research, the course prepares students for upper-level courses in early American history. Not open to students with AP credit in U.S. history.
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Staff A survey of United States history from the era of Reconstruction to the present. Topics include post-Reconstruction racial retrenchment in the South; immigration; the rise of industrialism and the response to it by farmers and workers; Populism and Progressivism; women's suffrage and the modern women's movement; the World Wars, the Cold War, Korea, and Vietnam; the New Deal and public policy; the cultural convulsions of the 1920s and 1960s; the victories and frustrations of the Civil Rights movement; and the post-Cold War period. Not open to students with AP credit in U.S. history.
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Staff This course trains students in historical methods by focusing on research, writing, and communication skills. Students learn to understand historiographical debates, assemble and assess bibliographies, find and interpret primary sources, construct effective written arguments, cite sources correctly, and develop appropriate oral communication skills. Depending on the instructor, the course may also include the use of non-traditional sources such as film or material culture, as well as the interpretation of historic sites, monuments, or landscapes. History Workshop is intended for majors or potential majors and should be taken in the first two years. Normally offered in the spring.
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A. Cooper The Middle Ages were a period of enormous transformation and creativity in Europe. This course examines the emergence of medieval civilization from the ruins of the ancient world and the subsequent evolution of that civilization into modern Europe. Themes to be covered include the fall of Rome, the spread of Christianity and the conflicts within the medieval church, the rise and fall of Byzantium, the challenge of Islam and the crusades, the Vikings, the development of the medieval economy, the feudal revolution, the 12th-century Renaissance, the origins of law and government, the effects of the Black Death, and the Italian Renaissance.
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G. Hodges This course covers the age of the American Revolution, beginning with the Stamp Act Riots in 1765 and ending with the election of Andrew Jackson in 1828, and the success of white male suffrage. Topics include the pre-Revolutionary debates and turmoil, the war itself, popular post-war government, and the construction of the Constitution. From there the course surveys the first presidential elections, the building of a federal government, and the expansion of the United States to the Mississippi River. The course will include debates over slavery, suffrage, Native Americans, and diplomatic history.
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