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Middle Eastern civilization from the rise of Islam to the present, with emphasis on the Arabian peninsula, the Fertile Crescent, Iran, Turkey, and Egypt, particularly after 1914. The origins and development of the modern state of Israel are also analyzed. 3 credits.
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Special Topics
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A study of European expansion from the fifteenth century to the process of decolonization in the twentieth. The course will examine trading post empires; colonization of the New World; the slave trade; the relationship among the industrial revolutions, nationalism in Europe, and nineteenth-century imperialism; independence movements; and neocolonialism.Prerequisites: sophomore standing or permission of instructor. 3 credits.
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The beginnings of civilization with analysis of the ancient Near East including the Tigris- Euphrates Valley, Egypt, Asia Minor and Assyria; and with particular emphasis on Greece and Rome. 3 credits.
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A study of the various geographic regions of the world and how the natural environment has influenced historical and cultural development. Prerequisites: sophomore standing or permission of instructor. 3 credits.
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A study of the thousand year period ending in 1500 that saw the emergence of a Christian European civilization with particular emphasis on politica, social, economic and cultural trends. 3 credits.
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Selected themes in the cultural, religious, economic, social, and political history of Europe from the end of the fourteenth century to about 1715. After a brief survey of the late Middle Ages, the course will then address focus on the Renaissance, Reformation, age of discovery, and finally state-making in the seventeenth century. Through the examination of these themes the course will chart the shift in the geographic centers of power in early modern Europe from Mediterranean to Northern Europe and the Atlantic seaboard. Writing process. Prerequisites: Sophomore standing or permission of the instructor. 3 credits.
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The course will chart the ways in which the French Revolution and the industrial revolution in Europe shaped the political, economic, social, cultural, and intellectual development of Europe in the nineteenth century. The major themes of the course include the development of the political ideologies that emerged as a result of the French Revolution, industrialization, nationalism, the development of class societies, gradual democratization in parts of Europe, the beginnning of the women's movement, challenges to liberalism, and finally, the causes of World War I. Writing process. Prerequisites: Sophomore standing or permission of the instructor. 3 credits.
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An introduction to the main political, social, economic and intellectual developments in twentieth-century Europe. The major themes of the course include the experience of the two world wars; the development of fascist and communist regimes under Lenin and Stalin, Mussolini, and Hitler; the weakness of the western democracies after World War I; the Holocaust; the Cold War; the Communist Bloc; the end to colonialism; the European Union; the development of the welfare state, and the new nationalism. Writing process. Prerequisites: Sophomore standing or permission of the instructor. 3 credits.
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Selected themes in British history from 1688 to the present. The course will begin with the Glorious Revolution of 1688 so as to extablish the background for an ongoing discussion of Great Britain's parliamentary tradition. Great Britain's industrial revolution, the rise of a working class, and the politics of labor will constitute another set of related themes. The course will also explore Victorianism and cultural developments in the nineteenth century. Other major topics will include British imperialism, the impact of two world wars, and the relationships among the component parts of the United Kingdon (Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England). Writing process. Prerequisites: Sophomore standing or permission of the instructor. 3 credits.
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