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3.00 Credits
This course considers the role changing technology has played in shaping American society and how we live with this legacy today. The course will combine elements of History, Economics, Sociology and Urban Studies as we look at the building of transportation and communication networks across the continental United States and the construction of an American national identity. Specific topics include the railroad, telegraph, telephone, Henry Ford and the automobile, the interstate highway system and the internet.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the amazing history of the greatest state in America, from its founding by Spanish missionary Father- President Junipero Serra through its acquisition by the United States in the 1840s, the gold rush that provided its jump start, and into its phenomenal growth and development over the course of the 20 h- century and beyond, including its global roles as the gateway for Asian immigration to America and the production center for international cultural products. (Spring '08)
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3.00 Credits
This course studies the First World War as revealed in literature produced by participants, a literature now seen as important in shaping the modern imagination. Emphasis will be on British records, but we will also study the literature of France, Germany and the United States. ( Spring '09)
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3.00 Credits
This course studies the period of the late 18th- century that saw the overthrow of British imperial rule and the creation of the United States as an independent nation struggling, ultimately successfully, to construct itself as a functioning republic. (Spring '09)
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys aspects of African-American history from earliest times to the present. Topics include: the African background; slavery and the trans-Atlantic slave trade; Blacks in the colonial period; the Civil War and reconstruction; Black migrations, civil and social rights struggles; and political and cultural nationalism (Harlem Renaissance, the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements). Topics are examined within the context of American history so as to highlight both intimate links as well as distinctiveness. ( Fall)
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3.00 Credits
This course will look at this historical and theoretical debate and exchange of Orientalism and Occidentalism through the filter of art, film, and literature, dealing specifically with the Islamic cultures of the Middle East (including Iraq) and the Mediterranean (from Greece and Turkey to Egypt and North Africa). It examines both western representations of the "Orient" and "eastern" representations of the "West" and places them in their historical context. ( Summer) (Winter)
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the origins of Hitler's Germany and the consequences of his ambitions for a Thousand Year Reich. Particular emphasis will be placed on the psychopathology of fascism, including the doctrines of racial purity, which led to the Holocaust, as well as Hitler's ambitions for world domination. (Spring '08)
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3.00 Credits
This course is an overview of American immigration history from early settlement to the present. Topics include the motives and patterns of early European and African settlement and the enactment of early exclusionary laws in the new republic; the "first" great wave of 19th- century Irish, German, and later Asian immigrants and the impact of these groups on urban transportation and agricultural developments; the Ellis Island era of the "great migration" and its resulting impact on industrialization; the onset of government restriction in the early 20th- century and modern refugee problems. Students will also explore current issues of assimilation, acculturation, cultural identity and multiculturalism in American society. ( Fall)
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3.00 Credits
The course discusses the social, economic, cultural and literary significance of the New Negro Movement of the Harlem Renaissance from 1919 to 1929 and the impact it had on the self-defining of black people and the establishment of 20thcentury Pan-Africanism. ( Fall)
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the French Revolution as a watershed in the political development of western Europe. Special emphasis will be paid to the role of ideology, class, and culture during the old regime and throughout the revolutionary period. The ongoing historical debate about the interpretation of the revolution will also be considered. ( Fall '08)
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