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  • 4.00 Credits

    This course is an introduction to the landscape tradition and to the critical discourses which engaged with it. The contours of the landscape as genre and its relation to other pictorial modes are defined, beginning with the establishment of a landscape tradition in the 17th century. The landscape is traced from the French painter in Rome, Claude Lorrain, pursued through the Dutch Golden Age, followed through the English school established by Thomas Gainsborough and Sir Joshua Reynolds, turning to German and English romanticism succeeded by 19th century France and North American schools, and finally examining modernity in the paintings of Cezanne. The landscape figures prominently in the work of post-war artists and finds expression in different media. Part of the art history concentration and minor and the American artistic experience concentration. It may be taken as an elective. Class 4, Credit 4 (offered annually)
  • 4.00 Credits

    The senior thesis in cultural resource studies in the final requirement in the degree program. Students will formulate a research question that will entail some physical interaction with objects. They will conduct the appropriate research to address that question and will present their results in both written and oral formats. The course provides students the opportunity to develop their research and hand skills and to share the results with the department faculty and students. (0505-437 or equivalent) Required course for the cultural resource studies program. Class 4, Credit 4 (offered annually)
  • 4.00 Credits

    This course offers an analysis and interpretation of main themes in the history of the United States from the Civil War/Reconstruction Era (1865-1877) through contemporary America. Class 4, Credit 4 (offered quarterly)
  • 4.00 Credits

    The course offers an analysis of the political, social, economic, cultural and military events that have characterized the history of Europe from the modern period to the 20th century. Emphasis will be given to the ideas, events, movements and developments that have shaped the civilization of Europe and have contributed to the transformation, development and enrichment of other civilizations. One of the major goals of the course is not only to convey factual knowledge about the history of Europe from modern times to the 21st century, but to provide the history co-intellectual framework from which emerges the interconnection between European civilization and the rest of the world. Part of the international studies European track. Class 4, Credit 4 (offered quarterly)
  • 4.00 Credits

    Like the department's core course, "History: Modern America," this courswill examine the political, social, cultural, and economic development of the American people in the modern period. The difference is that this course will do so by focusing on a specific themes or topics to be chosen by the instructor, announced in the subtitle, and developed in the course syllabus. For more information about American History Special Topics courses, see https://www. rit.edu:8080/_proxy_/www.rit.edu/~696www/ Class 4, Credit 4 (offered quarterly)
  • 4.00 Credits

    Like the department's core course, "History: Modern Europe," this courswill examine the political, social, cultural, and economic development of the European people in the modern period. The difference is that this course will do so by focusing on a specific theme or topic, to be chosen by the instructor, announced in the subtitle, and developed in the course syllabus. Class 4, Credit 4 (offered occasionally)
  • 4.00 Credits

    Like the department's core course, "History: Modern American," this courswill examine the political, social, cultural and economic development of the American people in the modern period, and study the United States in its foreign relations. The difference is that this course will do so by focusing on a specific theme or topic, to be chosen by the instructor, announced in the subtitle, and developed in the course syllabus. Class 4, Credit 4 (offered occasionally)
  • 4.00 Credits

    This course considers the history of American women from the colonial era to the Seneca Falls convention. We will examine the experience of women of different races and classes across the country, looking at Puritans in Massachusetts and at planter's daughters in the Carolinas; at female slaves in the deep South and at mill workers in the urban North. We will investigate the impact of the American Revolution upon women, and we will also trace the emergence of the women's rights movement, culminating in the convention at Seneca Falls. Part of the history concentration; the American history minor; the women and gender concentration and minor (0522-401), and may also be taken as an elective. Class 4, Credit 4 (offered occasionally)
  • 4.00 Credits

    This course considers the history of American women from the Seneca Falls Convention to the present. We will trace the impact of the first women's rights convention and follow the story of the struggle for the vote. We will also consider the role of women in other important nineteenth-century reform movements, including abolition, temperance, spiritualism, and progressivism. We will also look at the varied experience of women in the 20th Century from birth control to second wave feminism to co-education. Part of the history concentration; the American history minor; the women and gender studies concentration and minor (0522-402); and may also be taken as an elective. Class 4, Credit 4 (offered occasionally)
  • 4.00 Credits

    Investigates the historical, political, moral, and legal dimensions of terrorism and intelligence. Uses a case-study approach with themes that include just war theory, terrorism in the colonial and post-colonial worlds, domestic terrorism, and mechanisms of intelligence and covert operations. Part of the history concentration and the American History and the Modern world history minors. It may be taken as an elective. Class 4, Credit 4 (offered annually)
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