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4.00 Credits
A survey of the social, political, cultural and economic history of African-Americans from 1865 to the present day. Topics include Reconstruction, the implementation of segregation, the Harlem Renaissance, African-Americans' participation in both World Wars and Vietnam, the civil rights movement, the black power movement and activism in the 1980s and 1990s. Also offered through U.S. Cultural and Ethnic Studies.
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4.00 Credits
West Africans were building complex social systems from approximately 1000 to 1800. This was also a time of unprecedented strain; millions of Africans were uprooted from their homelands and spread across the world as a result of the Atlantic and trans-Saharan slave trades. Scholarly research in the last decade has attempted to explain both slavery and the slave trade and to assess their impact on Africa, the Americas and the West. An understanding of these processes and their legacy is crucial to a fuller comprehension of human struggles and conflicts during the past 200 years. Also offered through African Studies and Global Studies.
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4.00 Credits
This course is designed to achieve an understanding of the complexity and diversity of West African societies, of the numerous ways Africans reacted to external demands and challenges, of the major costs and consequences of colonialism, of the magnitude of efforts to achieve independence and of some of the most significant strategies to achieve development. Failures and achievements in West Africa during this period are relevant to an understanding of similar processes in many other parts of Africa and the Third World. Also offered through African Studies.
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4.00 Credits
The development of the Holocaust from 1933 to 1945, within the larger contexts of Christian anti-semitism, Nazi ideas of race and empire, and World War II. We consider the Holocaust's implications for Jewish and German identity, for Jewish and Christian theology, and for an understanding of racism, genocide and modernity. Course texts include scholarly analyses, philosophical essays, memoirs, images and poetry. Also offered as Religious Studies 267 and through European Studies.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of the history of the Southern United States from Reconstruction to the present. The primary focus is on the political, economic and social history of the South, although attention is paid to its cultural history, especially through an examination of stereotypes about the South. A major theme is the interrogation of the notion of Southern "distinctiveness," how that notion hasserved the needs of the nation outside the South and whether the South is still a culturally distinct region. The course ends with a consideration of the consequences of the powerful political and cultural influence the South exerts on the nation.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the civil rights movement in the United States, from Brown v. Board of Education to battles over Affirmative Action. The course traces the ideological developments and struggles in the movement, especially as major protest activities spread outside the South to the North and West; it focuses on the events of the movement and on the disagreements over strategies, tactics and goals. It traces the various ways Africans and Africa- Americans have worked for civil, political and economic rights since the introduction of slavery into the Colonies. Sources include memoirs, scholarly articles and monographs, Hollywood feature films and documentaries. Also offered through U.S. Cultural and Ethnic Studies.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the history of women in the United States in the context of broad social changes between 1600 and 1990. Political, social, legal, demographic and economic changes all shaped and informed the experiences of women in the colonies and the United States; the course examines how women responded to these changes and how they worked to bring about changes that improved the circumstances of their lives. Gender relations, race relations, industrialization, immigration and family structure provide focal points throughout the course.
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4.00 Credits
Designed for the exploration in depth of a topic not covered by an existing course, an independent project requires a proposal designed with the faculty sponsor that is approved by the department chair the semester prior to its undertaking. Only one such course may count toward the major or minor.
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4.00 Credits
This course has three sections, all turning around the central theme of revolution: 1) the rise of the Communist Party after 1920 and the civil war that ended with the victory of the Communists in 1949; 2) consideration of the causes, processes and effects of the Cultural Revolution of 1966-1976, using memoirs of Chinese who lived through that decade; 3) the "economic revolution" ofthe 1980s and 1990s in the context of the Pacific Rim region, including a unit on Hong Kong, which returned to China in 1997; in this section we research and debate current U.S. policy toward China, using primary documents such as newspapers and journals. Also offered through Asian Studies.
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4.00 Credits
This course, required for the major and the minor in history, is designed to offer students an opportunity to learn about and practice the tools of the historian's craft while examining a particular topic in detail. While topics vary, the course is held in seminar fashion and entails extensive reading and writing assignments. Prerequisite: a 100- or 200-level history course.
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