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3.00 Credits
An examination of the development of the United States from its peripheral position in world affairs to its role as an international superpower. What has motivated American foreign policy What has defined America's international and national interests Can we discern a continuity to American foreign policy over time, or is it defined by contingency and reaction How have Americans defined themselves through their foreign policy How has American foreign policy betrayed American ideals How has it fulfilled those ideals How has September 11 changed our views of America's role in the world (Fulfills social sciences requirement.) J. Delton
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4.00 Credits
Studies the most important interactions to take place within and among society, politics, and culture that characterized this intellectual and cultural transformation. Influenced by revolutionary advancements in science and medicine, inflamed by seditious political treatises, and distrustful of Catholic reforms, eighteenth-century enlightened thinkers sparked the emergence of a new political and literary culture. Ultimately, the intellectual advancements that excited Europe's philosophers helped shape the ideological foundations of the American and French Revolutions. (Fulfills humanities requirement.) E. Bastress-Dukehart
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the difference between "race" and "ethnicity." What are we referring to when we use these terms Biology Culture Faith Skin color Nationality History Epistemology What makes categories based on apparently natural differences useful How has the meaning of "race" and "ethnicity" changed over time In the United States, the categories have variously overlapped, collided, or remained separate, depending on what those categories have been called upon to explain. At one time, Jews and the Irish were seen as separate races, then they were seen as ethnicities, and eventually they became "white." What accounts for these changes, and what does that say about these categories This course addresses these questions by examining how intellectuals, social scientists, the law, and cultural producers in America have historically defined and thought about race, ethnicity, "blackness," and "whiteness." (Designated as a Cultural Diversity course; fulfills social sciences requirement.) J. Delton
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3.00 Credits
Looks at how different ideas about race and ethnicity have shaped Latin American politics and societies from colonial times to the present. Themes covered include: interactions of Iberian, American, African, and Asian peoples; official and unofficial management of multiethnic and multicultural societies; scientific racism; and the relation between theories of race and development of ideas about class, gender, and nation. (Fulfills social sciences requirement; designated as a Cultural Diversity course.) J. Dym
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3.00 Credits
Examines the social, economic, political, and intellectual causes and consequences of important internal and international wars in 20th century Latin America. The course will consider cases of successful and unsuccessful attempts to achieve political change ranging from the Mexican Revolution to Central America's road from war to peace in the 1980s and 1990s, to U.S. interventions in the Caribbean and military dictatorships in South America. Why certain sectors promote war, the justifications of war, why others choose to instigate or participate in conflict and violence, what conditions are required to consider a conflict concluded, what factors (internal and international, ethnic, religious, gender, etc.) shape specific conflicts, are principal questions. (Designated a Cultural Diversity course.) J. Dym
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the ideas and impact of European and North American travel narratives on historical knowledge of Latin America and the Caribbean from the sixteenth through the early twentieth centuries. Students examine accounts by conquerors, diplomats, pirates, scientists, missionaries and tourists to consider what questions and analytical methods allow for interpretation of the factual or fictional elements in these important sources for the creation of historical knowledge about travelers, their values, the lands they visited, and the people, environments and cultures they described. (Fulfills social sciences requirement; when offered as HI 230W, fulfills expository writing requirement.) J. Dym
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3.00 Credits
The principal currents of modern European thought: the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. M. Hockenos
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the origins, nature, and history of fascism in Europe between the two world wars. Through primary and secondary source readings, novels, and films the course attempts to define fascism by exploring the similarities and differences between fascism, right-wing authoritarianism, anti-semitism, racism, and Nazism as they manifested themselves in Italy, Spain, and Germany. M. Hockenos
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3.00 Credits
A history of black people in America from slavery through emancipation to the present. The course examines such topics as slave culture, black resistance, the Harlem Renaissance, the development of jazz, blues, and soul music, the civil rights movement and its aftermath, and the crisis of the inner cities in understanding how African Americans have defined their place in American life. (Fulfills social sciences requirement; designated as a Cultural Diversity course.) J. Delton
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1.00 Credits
An introduction to the aims of the History major. A prerequisite for the Colloquium. Required of all majors and interdepartmental majors, to be taken in the sophomore or junior years. Open to non-majors with consent of instructor. The Department
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