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3.00 Credits
An intensive study, discussion, and evaluation of life, politics, culture, economics, gender, and the race question throughout the many different areas of the American South between the end of Reconstruction and the end of World War II. We will cover, among many other topics, the shifting legacies of the Civil War and of Reconstruction, the Jim Crow segregation system, New South ideology, and the life and working experiences of the people of the South. As this is an advanced-level class, we also put considerable effort into analyzing an array of different historiographical interpretations and schools of thought on the history, meaning, and memory of the New South. Prerequisite: three semester hours in history and senior status or consent.
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1.00 Credits
During the 1930s the U.S. federal government spent 500 million dollars on the arts. These New Deal initiatives, a small part of the Works Progress Administration's efforts to alleviate massive Depression-era unemployment, funded visual artists, writers, musicians, directors, and actors. Thousands of creative projects and administrative documents related to WPA arts are available digitally in online archives. Taking advantage of these sources, students embark upon intensive research and analysis of the arts programs of the WPA, examining these projects' cultural, social, and political significance in the context of one of the most dynamic and fascinating periods in modern American history. As a major portion of this course, students also create New Deal-style art, individually and in groups, which is presented to the campus community at the end of the Winter Session. Prerequisite: senior status. Offered in selected Winter Sessions.
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3.00 Credits
An intensive examination of the varying themes and viewpoints historians grapple with in their study of religious dissent in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Includes a formal research paper in a student-led seminar format. Prerequisite: senior status or consent. Offered spring of odd-numbered years.
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3.00 Credits
An intensive examination of the African and American slave trades. While the focus varies, the course considers the causes and consequences of the slave trade and key questions in the historiography of slavery from an interdisciplinary perspective. Prerequisite: senior status or consent. Offered spring of odd-numbered years.
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3.00 Credits
Study of the decline of Imperial Russia, the development of revolutionary movements and ideas, the history of the USSR, and post-Soviet developments. Prerequisite: senior status or consent. Offered when department scheduling permits.
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3.00 Credits
Traces and evaluates the development of systems of liberalized trade, cultural exchange, communication, and transportation known as globalization and the related American pursuit of empire and power in this capitalist world system. Students also concentrate on the legal, administrative, political, ideological, cultural, and military systems and strategies created over time by policymakers in the United States to shape and dominate an increasingly interconnected and interdependent world. The class proceeds chronologically, although it focuses on systemic analysis of interrelated historical events. Students discuss and dissect the different theoretical approaches developed by legal and foreign policy historians to explain the meaning of globalization and empire in American history. Prerequisite: senior status or consent. Offered fall of evennumbered years.
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3.00 Credits
Intensive study of selected topics that vary from semester to semester. Prerequisite: senior status or consent. Offered on demand.
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3.00 Credits
Intensive study of selected topics that vary from semester to semester. Prerequisite: senior status or consent. Offered on demand.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the Holocaust from a variety of perspectives based on the General Studies Frames of Reference. Investigating the history of anti-Semitism, the emergence of racial ideologies at the end of the 19th century, the conditions that contributed to the rise of the Nazi Party, and the memory of the Holocaust, this course seeks to situate the Holocaust in a broad historical context. It also considers the Holocaust from aesthetic and ethical perspectives. The course revolves around an all-class project that commemorates Kristalnacht on November 9, which develops students' historical knowledge, communication skills, and aesthetic sensibilities. Prerequisite: senior status or consent. Offered fall of odd-numbered years.
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3.00 Credits
A workshop in which senior history majors apply previous learning. The student selects a historical problem, develops the appropriate methodology for its investigation, and carries out the project under faculty supervision and in close contact with other members of the seminar. The student is encouraged to consider a variety of approaches to historical investigation, including oral history, quantification, and archival research. Prerequisite: senior status, HIST 258 and 360 or consent. Offered each fall.
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