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4.00 Credits
Studies the changing group setting for individual Americans, including family, community, class, and race/ethnicity. Dual focus on popular culture and the process of industrialization/urbanization. Also examines historians' models of social change. Prerequisite: 100-level history course or instructor's permission . 4 SH.
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Surveys the experience of African-Americans from the origins of slavery to the debate over affirmative action. Considers slavery, black abolition, blacks during the Civil War and their transition to freedom. Also covers life under institutional restrictions such as segregation and disenfranchisement, and civil rights and black power movements and the changing cultural expressions of African-Americans. Prerequisite: 100-level history course or instructor's permission. 4 SH.
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4.00 Credits
This course will acquaint students with the broad outline of U.S. diplomatic history for the past century and explore long-term controversies such as isolationism, imperialism, neutrality, interventionism, and the politics of power. It will trace American perceptions of the world, policymaking and its consequences within a global context, and the impact of ideological, economic, and international perspectives, as well as domestic politics, on foreign policymaking in the U.S. Prerequisite: 100-level history course or instructor's permission. 4 SH.
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Examines the post-World War II development, institutional structure, and policies of the European Union and its predecessors in the movement toward European integration. The course culminates with student participation in a multi-day mock European Parliament with students from other colleges. Same as POLI:321. 4 SH.
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An examination of the history and government of Pennsylvania. In addition to analyzing political developments and the structure of the state constitution, students will consider the experiences of a diverse set of historical actors who coexisted from the colonial period to the late 20th century. The course will emphasize the ways in which these groups interacted, as well as the means by which individuals made sense of such widespread changes as industrialization, demographic shifts, and urbanization. Prerequisite: 100-level history course or instructor's permission. 4 SH.
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An analysis of the history of American medicine from the colonial period to today. In addition to studying professional medical practice, the class will investigate the following topics: Native American medicine, enslaved healers, alternative medical practices, gender and medicine, race and medicine, class and medicine, and disease. Using both primary and secondary sources, students will analyze several important questions. What is medicine? What is disease? How did race, gender, and class affect American medical care? How has medicine changed or stayed the same over time? What is unique about American medicine? Prior knowledge of medicine or American history is not required. 4 SH.
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on the social, economic and intellectual changes and developments during the time of enormous creativity and transition from the ninth to 14th centuries. Examines the social and intellectual synthesis of the medieval period as an essential link between the Classical and Modern worlds. Prerequisite: 100-level history course or instructor's permission. 4 SH.
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4.00 Credits
An interdisciplinary study of the historical and literary figures of the Middle Ages. Although the content will vary from semester to semester, this course is designed to provide substantial first-hand knowledge of major works of the period, as well as an introduction to the historical and cultural contexts in which they were written. Same as HONS:340. Prerequisite: 100-level history course or instructor's permission. 4 SH.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the Renaissance and Reformation as interconnected intellectual responses to the social and economic upheavals of the 14th through 16th centuries. Prerequisite: 100-level history course or instructor's permission. 4 SH.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the origins, implementation and consequences of the Nazi program of mass murder. Topics include history of modern anti-Semitism, Nazi ideology and politics, the meaning of survival, forms of resistance, and ethical issues. Prerequisite: 100-level history course instructor's permission. Same as JWST:338. 4 SH.
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