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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course deals predominantly with the political history of the period, though some aspects of intellectual and social history will also be considered. The religious changes and the discord emerging between the Parliaments and the Monarchs will be areas of focus. PRQ: 18 hours of history. Scheduled: Alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
(XL: POLS 533) From its beginning, the United States had a foreign policy based on principles of exceptionalism, independent action, and manifest destiny. By the end of the 19th century, the nation had emerged as a world power. This course examines foreign policy ideology, open door policy, U.S. hegemony over Latin America, American imperialism, and the U.S. role in both world wars. PRQ: 18 hours of history. Scheduled: Alternating years.
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3.00 Credits
Following victory in World War II, the United States assumed its place as the most powerful nation in the world. Examining both domestic and international forces that buffeted the nation during the second half of the 20th century, the course examines episodes of international revolutionary nationalism, wars in Korea and Vietnam, Cuban-American adventures, years of nuclear deterrence, and the end of the Cold War, including the question "what's next?" PRQ: 18 hours of history. Scheduled: Alternating years.
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3.00 Credits
Internal policies, foreign policies and intellectual developments in Russia from the early 19th through the mid-20th century. Possible topics include the reforms of Alexander II, the Russian peasantry, the emergency of Russian radicalism, the revolutions of 1905 and 1917, Stalinism, and post-Stalin Russia. PRQ: 18 hours in history. Scheduled: Alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
This course integrates selected aspects of the political, social, cultural, and intellectual history of modern German. The period from 1815 to 1945 will be the primary concern. Topics include the impact of the French Revolution and Napoleon on Germany, Hegelianism and Marxism, Bismarck and German unification, foreign policy in Wilhelminian Germany, the Weimar Republic and the rise of Naziism, and post-Nazi Germany. PRQ: 18 hours of history. Scheduled: Alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
This course deals with France from the age of Louis XIV through the Revolutions of 1848. The Revolution of 1789, the Napoleonic era and the Revolutions of 1830 and 1848 will be the principal topics considered. PRQ: 18 hours of history. Scheduled: Occasionally.
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3.00 Credits
(XL: POLS 385) An examination of the origins and the successive phases of the Cold War, including its end following the dissolution of Soviet Hegemony in East Europe in 1989 and the unification of Germany in 1990. Based on the general overview of the U.S. Soviet and East-West relations, the course will include discussion of NATO and the Warsaw Pact. American and Soviet strategic doctrines, arms control negotiations, and the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. PRQ: POLS 282 or consent of instructor. Scheduled: On request. Meets: SNO.
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3.00 Credits
Significant works from the classical Greek, Roman, and Biblical traditions. Sample sources may include Homer, the Hebrew Scriptures, Thucydides, one of the Greek tragedians, Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle, Vergil, Cicero, Tacitus, the New Testament, and Saint Augustine. PRQ: Admission to the Honors Program. Scheduled: Fall, odd years.
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3.00 Credits
Significant works from medieval and early modern times. Sample sources may include Boethius, The Song of Roland, the Scholastic philosophers, Hildegard von Bingen, Dante, Boccaccio, Chaucer, Montaigne, Erasmus, Luther, and Calvin. PRQ: Admission to the Honors Program. Scheduled: Spring, even years.
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3.00 Credits
Significant works from early modernity through the mid-19th century. Sample sources may include Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Hobbes, Milton, Locke, Newton, Voltaire, Franklin, Rousseau, Kant, Wordsworth, Austen, and Mary Shelley. PRQ: Admission to the Honors Program. Scheduled: Fall, even years.
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