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4.00 Credits
This course explores the development of American cities from the colonial time to the present. Great emphasis is placed on the relationship of the growth of cities to the larger social, economic, and political developments in American society. The newer quantitative techniques used to describe historical developments in urbanization are also emphasized.
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4.00 Credits
This course follows the history of women and gender ideologies in Latin America from the beginning of the Colonial period up to the present. It examines gender stereotypes, such as machismo, marianismo, and patriarchy and how they intersected and diverged with factors of race and class. Throughout the course students examine both extraordinary and ordinary women and discuss the diverse roles they have played in the history of Latin America.
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4.00 Credits
A majority of the persons who migrated to the Americas before 1800 came from Africa. Very few of them came willingly, but without their economic and cultural contributions the world we know today would not have come into being. The goal of this course is to begin to understand the experiences and achievements of these Africans and their descendants in four regions of the Atlantic world - Africa itself, Brazil, the West Indies and the Chesapeake - between the mid- 15th century and the revolutionary struggle for Haitian independence at the beginning of the 19th century.
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4.00 Credits
This course is a study of the fusion of classical and Christian culture, the Barbarian invasions, the nature of Byzantine and Islamic civilizations, the rise of early medieval kingdoms and feudalism, Church state conflict and the early Crusades. Careful attention is given to the blending of religion, politics, and social history with the literature and art of the period.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the growth of the state system and the crisis within the church: Papal power; the growth of new religious orders; dissent; the Inquisition and the dissolution of the medieval church; the flowering of chivalry; Romanesque, Gothic and Mudejar Art in the West; and a final synthesis of medieval civilization.
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4.00 Credits
What ties together the first use of knives and forks, witchcraft, coffeehouses, divine monarchs and the first electricity experiments? Europe's early modern period, extending from the end of the Renaissance to the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789. This era reflects the slow decline of certain notions of nobility and monarchy and the development of new ideas concerning science, rationality and freedom, all of which influence modern Europe to varying degrees. This course examines several facets of this time period, including the rise of absolutism, early modern popular culture, mercantilism and the rise of slavery, and the Enlightenment and its challenges to the established order.
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the hallmarks of Europe's 19th-century history. Historical and analytical constructs such as industrialization, social change, gender relations, racism, liberalism, nationalism, imperialism and socialism/communism provide the framework for examining specific topics including the French Revolution, the Congress of Vienna, the separation of gendered spheres, the revolutions of 1848, the unifications of Germany and Italy, dueling, honor and the "Scramble for Africa."
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the concepts, trends and events fundamental to Europe's development in the 20th century. Important themes - including socialism/communism, fascism, nationalism, racism, gender identity and post-war reconciliation - offer a framework within which students examine specific topics such as the First World War, the Russian Revolution, the rise of fascist regimes, the Second World War, the Cold War in Europe, the uprisings of 1968, the revolutions of 1989 and the war in the former Yugoslavia.
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4.00 Credits
In the fall semester, readings and topics are assigned on specific topics of United States history. The course is required of all history concentrators.
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4.00 Credits
The spring semester is devoted to topics in European history. This course is required for all history concentrators.
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