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3.00 Credits
SO L.Gerstein This course--designed primarily for freshmen and sophomores--has several objectives this semester: first, as always, to introduce students to the craft and practice of history, to the ways in which historians imagine and [re]present the past; second, to survey the development of the modern European world over the past half-millennium; next, to explore the "languages" [of religion, politics, and science--for example] in which the West has come both to understand and to celebrate its modernity; and, finally, by reconsidering the factors that explain the "rise of the West," to better appreciate how the past influences the present.
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3.00 Credits
SO A.Kitroeff A year-long survey of topics in world history from the era of classical empires (Rome, Han China) to the present; with emphasis on the changing relationships among different regions and peoples of the world, and on the geo-politics of point of view in making history and in understanding it.
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3.00 Credits
SO B.Saler An exploration of the movement of peoples, goods and ideas across the four continents that border the Atlantic basin (Africa, Europe, North America and South America) over the transformative periods of exploration and empire from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Prerequisite: None
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3.00 Credits
SO A.Kitroeff An introductory course that examines the ways in which the countries of the Mediterranean region responded to the challenges of modernity from the 18th to the 20th centuries. Prerequisite: None Does not count toward the major.
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3.00 Credits
SO D.Hayton Although science is an essential characteristic of the modern world, it took nearly 4000 years to attain that status. This course surveys various sciences in the past focusing on both how and why humans have interrogated the natural world, how they have categorized the resulting knowledge, and what uses they have made of it. Topics can include science and medicine in antiquity, Islamic sciences, Byzantine and medieval sciences, early-modern science and the Scientific Revolution.
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3.00 Credits
SO (Cross-listed in East Asian Studies) P.Smith A survey of philosophical, literary, legal, and autobiographical sources on Chinese notions of the individual in traditional and modern China. Particular emphasis is placed on identifying how ideal and actual relationships between the individual and society vary across class and gender and over time. Special attention will be paid to the early 20th century, when Western ideas about the individual begin to penetrate Chinese literature and political discourse.
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3.00 Credits
HU (Cross-listed in East Asian Studies) P.Smith Prerequisite: Required of East Asian Studies majors and minors; open to History majors and other interested students.
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3.00 Credits
SO B.Saler This course charts the transformation in American political institutions, economy, and society from the ratification of the Constitution to the eve of the Civil War. Often identified as the crucial period when the American nation cohered around a national culture and economy, this period also witnessed profound social rifts over the political legacy of the American Revolution, the national institutionalization of slavery, and the rise of a new class system. We will consider the points of conflict and cohesion in this rapidly changing American nation. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or above. Typically offered in alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
SO (Cross-listed in Gender and Sexuality Studies) B.Saler This course surveys the history of American women from the colonial period through 1870. We will consider and contrast the lives and perspectives of women from a wide variety of social backgrounds and geographic areas as individuals and members of families and communities, while also examining how discourses of gender frame such topics as colonization, slavery, class identity, nationalism, religion, and political reform. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or above. Typically offered in alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
SO R.Edgington This course explores the complicated interactions between human communities and nonhuman natural environments in North America from the pre-Columbian period to the present. Topics include the "ecological Indian," the invasion of plant and animal species at the moment of cultural contact, the bison, hunt, law and water, urban environments, wilderness, and recent calls for environmental justice, amongst other topics.
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