Course Criteria

Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
  • 3.00 Credits

    An exploration of the history of English Common Law. Begins with a close investigation of the early history of Common Law, focusing on such issues as the origins of the jury trial, the legacy of the Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights, and the structures of the early English legal system, including primary source readings from trial law and important cases in British legal history. Continues with an exploration of the impact of the Common Law throughout the British Empire, which proved to be a contested space in which English legal traditions were faced with indigenous customs. Investigates the hybrid legal structures that were born of this legal cross-fertilization and the lasting legal legacies of Britain's imperial history both within colonized communities and Britain itself. T. Nechtman
  • 3.00 Credits

    From Washington through Jackson, 1789-1840. This course will examine the United States as an emerging nation in search of security and stability in the face of political, economic, social, and international pressures, and study how that republic evolved to become the democracy of the Jacksonian age. The Department
  • 3.00 Credits

    Division and reunification, 1840-1877. This course will examine the importance of sectionalism, the breakdown of national institutions, the revolutionary impact of the war, and the dilemmas attending reconciliation. Special attention will be given to the role of race in shaping popular attitudes and public policy before, during, and after the war. The Department
  • 3.00 Credits

    The United States' response to industrialization, immigration, urbanization, and economic crisis in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This course use a variety of primary and secondary materials to examine how Americans deal with the problems of modernity. J. Delton
  • 45.00 Credits

    The United States confronts economic collapse, totalitarian ideologies, and a global war, 1929-45. Course examines how these challenges force the United States to change. J. Delton
  • 3.00 Credits

    A consideration of the important aspects of Latin American politics, economy, society, and culture in historical context, focusing on a specific geographical region. From the encounters of Indian, African, and Spaniard in the fifteenth century through the turning over of the Panama Canal by the U.S. government to Panamanian authorities in 1999, Latin American society and political systems have developed in tandem with the rest of the Western Hemisphere. Topics might include: political traditions; sugar, coffee, bananas, and oil: dependent development; religious traditions; intellectual currents; popular culture; women; indigenous peoples and modern societies; race; labor; reform, intervention and revolution; and human rights. This course may be repeatable, if for a different topic/region. J. Dym A. Mexico B. Central America C. Southern Cone D. The Andes E. The Caribbean
  • 3.00 Credits

    An examination of the cultural, economic, political, and social history of Germany from 1918 to the present. Through primary and secondary sources, films, and novels, we examine Germany's brief and ill-fated attempt at democracy in the Weimar Republic, the genocidal rule of Hitler and the Nazis, the occupation and division of Germany after the Second World War, the ideological struggle between Germany's place in the Cold War and finally the (re)unification of Germany and the ghosts of the Nazi and communist past. Prerequisite: One college course in European history. M. Hockenos
  • 3.00 Credits

    An examination of the major issues and events in the Chinese Revolution, from the foundation of the Republic in 1911 to the present, with emphasis on the relationships between social, economic, and political goals; the methods used to gain them; and the impact of changes on personal and intellectual freedom. (Designated a non-Western culture course.) M. Pearson
  • 3.00 Credits

    The lives and works of men and women who transformed nineteenth-century Japan from feudalism to modernity, and from weakness and isolation to international prominence. Autobiographies, novels, films, and conventional histories will be used to show how Japan was able to change so rapidly. (Designated a non-Western culture course.) M. Pearson
  • 3.00 Credits

    Topically organized courses based on problems and issues of special interest at the advanced level. The specific themes to be examined will vary from year to year. Recent offerings include "The Historian as Detective," "Utopias and Science Fiction," and "The Fifties." This course with a different topic may be repeated for credit.
To find college, community college and university courses by keyword, enter some or all of the following, then select the Search button.
(Type the name of a College, University, Exam, or Corporation)
(For example: Accounting, Psychology)
(For example: ACCT 101, where Course Prefix is ACCT, and Course Number is 101)
(For example: Introduction To Accounting)
(For example: Sine waves, Hemingway, or Impressionism)
Distance:
of
(For example: Find all institutions within 5 miles of the selected Zip Code)
Privacy Statement   |   Terms of Use   |   Institutional Membership Information   |   About AcademyOne   
Copyright 2006 - 2025 AcademyOne, Inc.