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3.00 Credits
Group study of selected topics; open only by permission.
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3.00 Credits
Surveys Australian history from the Dreamtime to the present, examining the roles of the Christian church, people, events and issues in shaping Australia. Liberal Arts Exploration: Humanities and History major/ minor and Theology minor credit.
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This course will provide a survey of Islamic history between approximately AD 570-1979, representing Islam's inception with the birth of Muhammad and concluding with the Iranian revolution. It will cover major personalities, dynasties and themes. These will include the life of Muhammad, the Umayyad, Ottoman, Mughal and other great Islamic empires. Also addressed will be competing ideologies which have been most prominent throughout Islamic history, such as the debate between scholastic theology and textual literalism, and the rise of Islamic modernism in the early 20th century. The course will also consider the geographical diversity of Islamic history, covering Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East. Liberal Arts Exploration: Humanities.
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3.00 Credits
Growth of liberal democracy, influence of industrial revolution and impact of nationalism. French Revolution to 1890. Liberal Arts Exploration-Humanities.
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3.00 Credits
The changing intellectual climate, World War I, problems of inter-war period, challenges to democracy, background of World War II. Liberal Arts Exploration-Humanities.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of Roman history and cultures from the beginning of the republic until the disintegration of the empire, emphasizing political and religious developments. Liberal Arts Exploration-Humanities.
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3.00 Credits
The course begins with a searching examination of English society, politics, culture and religion in the early 17th century, taking in the debate about the origins of the upheavals of the 1640s and 1650s. The course of the wars themselves will be traced; the startling religious and political movements (Baptists, Quakers, democratic Levellers, apocalyptic Fifth Monarchy Men, and others) will be examined; the reasons for the fragility and failure of the republic will be explored - all with the aid of many source documents from the period. Liberal Arts Exploration--Humanities.
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3.00 Credits
This course will give an overview of the historical, cultural, religious and political development of these three countries since ancient times, down to the present. There will certainly be a comparative element - but also a look at each country's development in its own terms, and in the dynamics of inevitable domination by the often fraught, sometimes fruitful, relationship with England. Liberal Arts Exploration--Humanities.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to history and politics of East Asia from ancient time to present, with focus on China and Japan. Emphasis on historical and political developments in 19th and 20th centuries leading to founding of Communist China and new Japan. Liberal Arts Exploration-Humanities.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to Russian and Soviet history and politics from first records to present with focus on government, institutions, culture and society of Imperial and Soviet periods. Liberal Arts Exploration-Humanities.
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