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3.00 Credits
The interplay of the political and social forces in America from the Colonial Period to the 1990's, with special attention given to the rise of political parties, the development of sectionalism, the causes and results of the Civil War, industrial growth, Progressivism, the New Deal, and the Cold War. The first semester concludes with the end of Reconstruction (1877). 3 credits each.
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The development and metamorphosis of Jewish political, social, and economic life from the Second Temple Period to the establishment of the modern State of Israel. The first semester ends with the expulsion from Spain. 3 credits each.
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A history of African-Americans from colonial times to the present. The course topics include the African background, the effects of the transatlantic slave trade, slavery in America, Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights movement. 3 credits.
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A two semester survey of modern European and world history. The first semester covers the Renaissance through the Reformation and Scientific Revolution until the downfall of Napoleon. The second semester begins with political and intellectual currents in the nineteenth century, focuses on the two World Wars, and concludes with the contemporary world scene. 3 credits each.
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3.00 Credits
A two-semester survey of Western history from the rise of Greek civilization to the 1900s. The first semester includes Classical Greece and Rome, the Early, High and Late Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Age of Discovery, and the Reformation. The second semester includes constitutionalism and absolutism, 16th century thought and culture, the Old Regime, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, economic advance and social conflict, the Age of Nation-States, and World War I. 3 credits each.
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Utilizing the disciplines of sociology and psychology, this course examines the causes and character of racial, religious, and ethnic violence, industry-labor confrontation, the vigilante tradition, political hysteria, and assassination, police action, and student revolt in the United States. Prerequisite: HIS 142 or permission of the instructor. 3 credits.
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This course examines the vicissitudes of Jewish-Arab cultural relations in the Middle East from the seventh to the twentieth century. Prerequisite: HMH 102 or permission of the instructor. 3 credits.
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Pre-Zionist messianic and national movements and the effects of social and political changes on the rise of modern Zionism, with emphasis upon Herzl and later Zionist ideologues until 1948. Prerequisite: HIS 156 or permission of the instructor. 3 credits.
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3.00 Credits
The role of Nazism in the destruction of European Jewry, 1933-1945, is studied, with special attention given to the reactions of world Jewry and foreign governments to the catastrophe. Ghetto and concentration camp existence, as well as, Jewish resistance movements are also analyzed. Prerequisite: HIS 156 or permission of the instructor. 3 credits.
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Study of the Sephardic legacy, German-Jewish migration and hegemony, the development of religious communities, the Civil War, migrations from Eastern Europe, acculturation and assimilation, responses to Zionism and the Holocaust, and current issues. Historical and literary texts on the interaction of Jew and Gentile are examined as well. Prerequisite: HIS 156 or permission of the instructor. 3 credits.
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