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3.00 Credits
This course explores the cultural, political, and human intercourse between North America and East Asia across the broad highway of the Pacific. The Pacific Ocean has been, since the days of the New England whalers and clipper ships, both a frontier and an opportunity, attracting Americans. Examines American interests in the Far East, how the U.S. acquired territories as diverse as Hawaii and the Philippines, and emerging American ideas about worlds beyond the West Coast. Also considers how America's interests have been reciprocated in Asia, Commodore Perry's role in the opening of Japan, and why people from Japan, China, the Philippines, the Pacific, and Southeast Asia have looked to America as a land of opportunity, a threat, a place of succor, and a source of exploitation. Prerequisite: HIST 101
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3.00 Credits
This course will look at how war and preparation for war have affected the lives, hopes, and images of women in the United States and around the world, examining the roles of women in war, military service, and militarism on societal development in world history since the eighteenth century Prerequisite: HIST 101 History 197
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3.00 Credits
This course explores World War One as it was experienced, imagined, and remembered through primary sources, memoir, poetry, fiction, film, media, and the visual arts. Through collaborative study we will look at the origins of the war and its ghastly battles, and then go beyond the trenches to study how gender and class, pacifism, nationalism, the home fronts, and theatres of war beyond the Western Front have contributed to making the Great War of 1914-1918 the greatest "imaginative event"of the twentieth century. Prerequisite: HIST 101
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3.00 Credits
The foundations of Chinese civilization. Analyzes China's religions, philosophies, government, economics, family and society, and attempts to bring into focus those aspects of Chinese civilization that have a direct bearing on our understanding of the Chinese today. Prerequisite: HIST 101
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3.00 Credits
China's response to the impact of the West with particular attention to the difficulties with which China adjusts itself to a modern, fast-changing world, and the developments that led to communism. Prerequisite: HIST 101
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the birth, evolution, and decline of Chinese communism. The foci of the course are as follows: First, it explores the origins of the Chinese communist movement in the early twentieth century. Second, it discusses the factors contributing to communist taking power in China in the wake of World War II. Third, it analyzes the decline of Chinese communism and the transformation of the communist state to a more plural society in the last three decades of the twentieth century. Prerequisite: HIST 101
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3.00 Credits
Surveys Korean history from the earliest times through the twentieth century. For the traditional periods, the foci are the evolution of Korean polity, social and economic structure, cultural life, and Korea's relationship with its neighbors in East Asia. For the modern era, the course examines the opening of the country in the nineteenth century, Japan's colonization, the nationalist movement, the Korean War, and the political and economic development in both South Korea and North Korea in the latter part of the twentieth century. Prerequisite: HIST 101
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3.00 Credits
South Asia under Mughal dominance from c. 1500 to the late eighteenth century: the course will examine the social, cultural, economic and political history of early modern India as well as the significance of European expansion. Prerequisite: HIST 101
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3.00 Credits
A review of the Ibero-Indian-African background of Latin America. Also deals with the discovery and conquest of the area; Spain's and Portugal's imperial policies; political,economic, and social developments of the colonial society; and the wars for independence. Prerequisite: HIST 101
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3.00 Credits
Such topics as problems of early nationhood; caudillismo versus modern dictatorships and quest for democracy; difficulties in moving from a colonial to a national economy; and the social tensions of a society in transition are explored with consideration given to Latin America's role in world affairs and relationships with the United States. Prerequisite: HIST 101
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