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3 HOURS, 3 CREDITS How criminal entrepreneurs seized the opportunities of their particular eras, from colonial days to the present. Topics include: pirates (Captain Kidd) and smugglers; slave revolts; river and railroad gangs; gambling and prostitution; prohibition-era bootlegging and the rise of organized crime (from the Mafi a to Murder Incorporated); stock market fraud; crime on the waterfront; shoplift ing; labor and business racketeering; drug dealing; arson for profi t; computer fraud; the savings and loan scandal; environmental crime; and street gangs, with special attention to those (Gophers, Westies) in the John Jay neighborhood. Prerequisite: ENG 101
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3 HOURS, 3 CREDITS An introductory course in the history of civilization from antiquity to the 18th century. Among the topics to be considered are: government and empire in Greece and Rome; Judaism, Christianity and Islam; the Arab impact on the West; church and state in the Middle Ages; the Renaissance and the Reformation; the expansion of Europe; Africa and African civilizations in the Atlantic world; the origins of the modern state; the Scientifi c Revolution and the Enlightenment; the origins of the American Revolution; concepts of citizenship and individualism; origins of the French Revolution and of industrial capitalism. Prerequisite: ENG 101
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3 HOURS, 3 CREDITS An introductory course in the history of civilization from the 18th to the 20th century. Among the topics to be considered are: the French Revolution; the American Revolution; industrial capitalism and imperialism; Marxism; the World Wars; the Russian and Chinese Revolutions; the Great Depression and its impact; the Cold War; decolonization and the Th ird World; intellectual and cultural developments; civil rights, civil liberties, and democracy worldwide in the late 20th century. Prerequisites: ENG 101 and HIS 231
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3 HOURS, 3 CREDITS U.S. economic and political relations with Latin American countries during the 19th and 20th centuries. U.S. reactions to reform and revolutionary movements, Th e ideological framework of U.S. foreign policy. Prerequisites: ENG 101 and sophomore standing or above, or permission of the section instructor.
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3 HOURS, 3 CREDITS Th is course will trace Cuban history from the War of Independence of 1868 through the establishment of the Republic up to and including the Revolution of 1959. Th e revolutionary period will be the main focus of the course. Prerequisites: ENG 101, and sophomore standing or above or permission of the section instructor.
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3 HOURS, 3 CREDITS Analysis of political and socioeconomic development, emphasizing major approaches to social change in the 20th century. Topics covered are class structures, demographic patterns, economic dependence, democratic liberal reform, neoimperialism, the Mexican Revolution, the Cuban Revolution and new trends of the last decade. A comparative, inter- American perspective, drawing on other relevant disciplines, is used. Prerequisites: ENG 101, and sophomore standing or above or permission of the section instructor.
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3 HOURS, 3 CREDITS Th is course examines the social and political forces in contemporary Caribbean. Th e course will focus on the following: the legacy of slavery, plantation society and underdevelopment, democracy, capitalism and socialism, race, class and ethnic confl ict. Prerequisites: ENG 101, and sophomore standing or above or permission of the section instructor.
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3 HOURS, 3 CREDITS Class structure, slavery, and race relations and the organization of the family will be examined in the colonial and neocolonial eras of Latin American history. A comparative approach, emphasizing urban and rural situations and economic change, will be stressed. Prerequisites: ENG 101, and sophomore standing or above or permission of the section instructor.
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3 HOURS, 3 CREDITS A comparative study of the most signifi cant aspects of Caribbean migrations to the United States during the 20th century. Emphasis on the political, economic and social framework of the migration process. Special attention will be given to the contemporary situations of the Haitian, Latina/o, and West Indian communities in the United States. Prerequisites: ENG 101, and sophomore standing or above or permission of the section instructor.
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3 HOURS, 3 CREDITS An analysis of the forces and circumstances that have infl uenced the course of American civil, criminal, and Constitutional law from the 17th century to the present. Th e course concentrates on the change from English-based common law through the rise of industrial capitalism in the late 19th century and the development of the modern welfare state in the 20th century and emphasizes such developments as the growth of the contract and corporate law, the use of litigation as an economic weapon, the rise of an independent judiciary and the ensuing confl ict with the legislatures of both nation and state, the role of the legal profession in shaping the legal system, and the social role of law in American life. Prerequisites: ENG 101 and sophomore standing or above.
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