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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
American politics, society, and culture from the Civil War to the present, including Reconstruction, late 19th-century urban-industrial world, Populist-Progressive era, America's emergence as an international power in two world wars, the 1920s, Great Depression, and 1945 to the present. Designed to give overall perspective and an introduction that can be followed by more specialized coursework. (M1) Ryan
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3.00 Credits
The Near Eastern world from the late Byzantine through emergence and development of Arabic-Islamic civilization. Reviews pre-Islamic Arabia and the Near East, achievements of the Prophet Mohamed, establishment of the Islamic religion, the caliphate, and the Arab Empire, including Spain, North Africa, and the Middle East. Islamic religion, law, mysticism, literature, art and architecture, and the Arabic-Islamic renaissance and its impact on the West via Islamic Spain. Ends by considering the Arabic-Islamic world in modern times. (M5) Staff
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3.00 Credits
Selected topics in the history of China, Japan, India, Korea, or Southeast Asia. Offered occasionally as staff is available; course includes historical and contemporary frameworks. Staff
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3.00 Credits
History and cultures of sub-Saharan Africa. Topics include human evolution in Africa, traditional lifestyles and beliefs, development of African kingdoms, Atlantic slave trade, European colonialism, and problems of modern African states to the present. (M5) Keim
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3.00 Credits
Spanish and Portuguese colonization of the Americas and struggles for independence, including ancient American civilizations, Iberian background and infl uence, Age of Discovery and conquest, development of colonial institutions, cultural and intellectual development, race and racial mixtures, colonial rebellions, wars of independence. (M1) Morrison
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3.00 Credits
Tradition and revolt in Latin America, the Hispanic-American caudillo, U.S.-Latin American relations, republican histories of Argentina, Mexico, and Cuba. (M5) Morrison
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3.00 Credits
This course allows students to explore the issues associated with political revolution and economics globalization in Latin America by focusing exclusively on the modern history of a single nation, Mexico. After a brief survey of Mexico's indigenous and colonial experiences, this course primarily covers elements of Mexico's evolution during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, beginning with a comparison of Mexico's independence movement to the American Revolution. It continues through the circumstances surrounding the Mexican Revolution of 1910, the impact of NAFTA of 1994, and the political transition fostered by the 2000 elections. (M5) Morrison
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3.00 Credits
History of the Greeks through Alexander the Great, with emphasis on readings in primary sources including Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides, and Plato. Topics include the classical city-state, invention of democracy, emergence of Greek philosophy and science, and diffusion of Greek culture. (M1) Glew
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3.00 Credits
Roman history through the emperor Justinian. Traces history of Roman state-building, with emphasis on social history, religion, and Roman law. Extensive readings in Roman sources. (M1) Glew
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3.00 Credits
The emergence of Western European civilization from the remnants of Roman and Germanic cultures, c. 500-1500 CE. Topics include the spread of Christianity, evolution of aristocracy and peasantry, the growth of towns, clashes between church and state, the emergence of universities, and the demographic disasters of the plague and warfare of the late Middle Ages. (M1) Bardsley
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