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4.00 Credits
The development, transformations and decline of European imperialism with an emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. We focus on the ways that European constructions of gender and race influenced and were influenced by the encounters between colonizer and colonized. A partial list of topics includes the French in North and West Africa and Southeast Asia, the Dutch in the East Indies and Southern Africa, and the British in Ireland and India. Also offered through European Studies.
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This course examines a few of the major developments of the 19th and 20th centuries in some detail. Topics include evolution, genetics and a synthesis of the two; the wave theory of light and special relativity; the discovery of the atomic and nuclear structure of matter; and the Manhattan Project. Also considered are the various ways historians of science go about constructing the stories they write as well as some of the historiographic issues they face. This course satisfies the humanities distribution requirement. Also offered as Physics 311 and through European Studies.
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4.00 Credits
The discovery of the Americas, wrote Francisco Lopez de Gomara in 1552, was the greatest event since the creation of the world, excepting the Incarnation and Death of Him who created it. Five centuries have not diminished either the overwhelming importance or the strangeness of the early encounter between Europeans and the indigenous peoples of the Americas. Taking a comparative approach, this course conceptualizes early American history as the product of reciprocal cultural encounters by assessing the various experiences of Spanish, French and English newcomers in different regions of the Americas. Critical interpretation of primary source material is emphasized, as is the development of students' ability to reflect critically on these documents, taking into account the perspective of both the colonizers and the colonized. Also offered through Global Studies.
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4.00 Credits
"You should need a passport to come down here." In 2002, acharacter in the movie Sweet Home Alabama used these words to characterize the South as a region so unlike the rest of the nation that it is better thought of as a foreign country. From Birth of a Nation to Gone With the Wind to Oh Brother Where Art Thou, the South has captured the American imagination. This course explores the various ways in which the South has been depicted by non-Southerners and Southerners alike. A variety of genres - historical texts, memoir, fiction, film, music - are usedto interrogate the images of the South and to ask what national purposes these images have served and continue to serve.
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4.00 Credits
An in-depth examination of the causes, progress and consequences of the American Revolution, including a summary of the constitutional, economic and social development of the colonies to 1763; the alteration of British colonial policy after 1763 and the American response; internal unrest within the colonies; the development of a revolutionary movement culminating in the Declaration of Independence; the war to secure independence; and the Constitution of 1787. Also offered through Native American Studies.
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4.00 Credits
"Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered the immigrants are American history." This course examines the immigrants' expansion in America. Why did people from Europe emigrate to America? What happened to these people upon arrival? What happened to them after several generations? What is the fate of immigrants in America today?
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4.00 Credits
After an initial, hostile series of economic and military exchanges with Europeans, the Native peoples of northeastern North America have undergone a fascinating and dramatic series of transformations. This course analyzes the history of Native Americans in the Northeast from a variety of perspectives. Key themes include warfare, changes in gender roles and relations, land claims, the reassertion of tribal identity, land claims and casino gaming. Readings and discussions are drawn from secondary and primary sources including historical documents, traditional narratives, archaeological reports, the Internet and museum exhibits of material culture. Also offered through Native American Studies.
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4.00 Credits
The history and culture of the Iroquois people from the era prior to their first contact with European peoples through their diaspora following the American Revolution to their present-day struggles and achievements in Canada and the United States. Students are exposed to a variety of methodologies and approaches to reconstructing the Iroquois past. Readings and discussions are drawn from historical documents, traditional narratives, archaeological reports, ethnography, contemporary Iroquois literature, the Internet and museum exhibits of material culture. Students compose their own interpretation of some aspect of Iroquois history. Also offered through Native American Studies and U.S. Cultural and Ethnic Studies.
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4.00 Credits
When are Indians not Native Americans? When they are the stereotypes created as expressions of the cultural and historical hegemony of a predominantly non-Native society that obscures the diverse realties of the real people. Since the 15th century, when Native peoples were named "Indians" by a very confusedexplorer, Natives have been regarded as more historical objects than agents. We discuss the historical construction and use of "Indians" by colonists, settlers, modern (non-Native) Americansand Native Americans themselves, and examine the fundamental importance of Indian stereotypes in the construction of the American ideal and the expression of these stereotypes in history, art, film, literature, television and music. Also offered through Native American Studies.
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4.00 Credits
The first part of the course investigates the Islamic theological and juridical interpretations of jihad. A study of the relevant passages of the Quran reveals how contradictory the Islamic concept of jihad is, with many verses containing a strong limitation on fighting against non-Muslims. The second and third parts study several important movements of political Islam, Islamic Reformism and jihad, taken mainly from the Colonial Period of the 18th and 19th centuries (Nigeria, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Caucasus) as well as the 20th and 21st centuries (Iran, Afghanistan, al-Qaida). Prerequisite: History 261 or similar introductions into Islam.
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