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3.00 Credits
A survey of Caribbean history from Columbus to Castro, stressing the important changes that occurred in the 1950s when the Caribbean became a focal point of the struggle between different world interests and ideologies. Prerequisite: HIST 101
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This course is designed to introduce students to the making of modern Brazil. The course examines Brazil's history from the arrival of the Portuguese crown in 1808 until the present day. Along with the political and economic history of Brazil, it focuses on social history and popular culture. Prerequisite: HIST 101
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This course is an in-depth study of the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1917. The course begins with Mexican independence from Spain in 1810 and traces the roots of the Mexican Revolution through the pre-Revolutionary Porfiriato(1867-1910). It also focuses on the socioeconomic and political impact in the post-Revolutionary period from 1920 to 1940. In short, the Mexican Revolution is a vehicle for studying the emergence of the modern Mexican nation. Prerequisite: HIST 101 Humanities and Social Science196 s
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This course examines the economic, social, political, and cultural processes and attempts to offer an interpretative synthesis of the intricate struggles around the definition of nationhood within the countries of the region. For this reason, most of the course will focus on the development of a sense of belonging to a nation among the conglomerate of peoples which made up the different countries in the nineteenth century. Particular attention will be paid to the human dimension of these large social, economic, and political processes. We will examine the history of conflict, accommodation, and resistance among the various ethnic and social groups that made up nineteenth-century society. Prerequisite: Hist 101
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the foundational period of contemporary Brazil. It examines the peculiar pattern of Portuguese colonial expansion in the Americas and its social, political, economic, and cultural impact on the Tupinamba and Aimore indigenous population of coastal Brazil. The course also analyzes the rise of African slavery in Brazil as a direct consequence of native labor shortages in the production of sugar. Most of the course, however, will focus on the interactions, exchanges, and transformations of Brazil's diverse populations and social groups from the sixteenth century to 1822. Particular attention will be paid to the way in which the Portuguese colonial heritage impacted Brazil's emergence as a modern nation-state after independence in 1822. Prerequisite: HIST 101
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The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the imperial indigenous civilizations of the American continent prior to European contact in 1492. The course focuses on the development of imperial civilizations in Mexico and Central and South America. It analyzes the political system, economic organization, religion, and social groups of Aztec, Maya, and Incan societies. Particular attention is paid to the transition these civilizations underwent from imperial status to colonial rule under Spain. Prerequisite: HIST 101
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3.00 Credits
A history of the formation of Mexican, Cuban, and Puerto Rican communities and cultures in U.S. society from the Spanish Conquest in the fifteenth century through the late nineteenth century. It covers the U.S. conquest of Mexican territories in the Southwest; land loss and occupational mobility; community and cultural formation; and cultural interaction. It also examines relations among Latina/os and European immigrants, and considers the effects of U.S. intervention and imperialism in Latin America on U.S. Latino communities. Prerequisite: HIST 101
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3.00 Credits
A twentieth-century history of people of Latin American descent (Latinos/as) living in the United States. The course focuses on the four largest Latina/o groups (Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, and Dominicans), and covers migration patterns, cultural interactions, community and cultural formation, and racial formations. It also examines relations among Latina/os and European immigrants, and considers the effects of U.S. intervention and imperialism in Latin America on U.S. Latino communities. Prerequisite: HIST 101
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3.00 Credits
This is a continuation of Islamic/Middle Eastern History and Civilization I. The course covers a seven-century span, from the Mongol Conquest and destruction of Baghdad and the Classical Abbasid Caliphate in 1258 to modern times in the Islamic Middle East. In addition to the political history of the Islamic World, the course surveys the institutional, administrative, religious, and intellectual changes that were intended to meet the successive challenges facing Muslim society, from the murder of the last Abbasid caliph by the Mongols to the rise of a resurgent Western Europe and Russia that ultimately, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, came to dominate the once powerful heartland of Islam, from Morocco to Central Asia. Prerequisite: HIST 101
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3.00 Credits
This course is a survey of Middle Eastern history from World War II to the present, with an emphasis on political, social, and economic development; nationalism and militarism; and contemporary problems threatening the uneasy peace in the region. Prerequisite: HIST 101
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