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  • 79 195: Colonial America and the Atlantic World 1450-1763

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course traces the origins and development of colonial North America, from contact to the eve of Revolution. While the mainland British colonies will be a major focus, this course will emphasize a broader Atlantic world perspective, examining the circulation of people, goods, ideas, and even plants and germs, between the Old World of Europe and Africa, and the New World of the Americas. As such, this course will also consider the development of the Caribbean islands, Canada, and the Southwest borderlands. Students will explore varying methods and motivations of colonization, including the search for commodities, and comparative successes and failures. Major themes of the course will include the development of new societies and cultures in New England, the Middle Colonies, the Chesapeake and the South, as well as frontier regions (incl. the Ohio Valley); the development of the British imperial system; the transatlantic slave trade; and especially, native encounters, resistance, struggle, and survival in an increasingly hostile imperial world. By the end of the course, students should have a fundamental understanding of colonial American societies and cultures, including various social structures, economic development, and religious life; immigration and labor, especially slavery; imperial rivalries; and Euro-American/indigenous relations.
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  • 79 198: Research Training History

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course is part of a set of 100-level courses offered by H SS departments as independent studies for second-semester freshmen, and first- or second-semester sophomores, in the College. In general, these courses are designed to give students some real research experience through work on a faculty project or lab in ways that might stimulate and nurture subsequent interest in research participation. Faculty and students devise a personal and regularized meeting and task schedule. Each Research Training course is worth 9 units, which generally means a minimum for students of about 9 work-hours per week. Prerequisites/restrictions: For H SS students only; minimum cumulative QPA of 3.0 (at the time of registration) required for approved entry; additional prerequisites (e.g., language proficiency) may arise out of the particular demands of the research project in question. By permission of the relevant professor and the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
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  • 79 205: 20th Century Europe

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course surveys the history of Europe from 1900 to 2000 and beyond. While it covers major political trends and social/economic changes of the last century, it concentrates on the following themes: the extraordinary violence of the two World Wars -- and their continuing impact on politics, society, and culture; social and political movements/regimes of the Far Right and of the Socialist/Communist Left; the rise and crisis of the European ?welfare state? and of the European Union; reactions to U.S. power and to ?Americanization?; cultural and political controversies surrounding Islam and Muslims in Europe today.
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  • 79 210: Identity, Statehood and Nationhood: Who is your Brother?

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course offers an overview of the history of Islam as a divinely-inspired religion, and a system of thoughts, principles and goals, laws, obligations and values that strengthen communities, foster cooperation and dialogue and can lead to a new international order like the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC).
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  • 79 214: 18th Century European History

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    The goal of this course will be to examine, in both breadth and depth, the history of Europe between roughly 1715 (the death of Louis XVI) and 1815 (the fall of Napoleon). Broad themes to be covered include ?old regime? Europe, European religiosity and secularism, the Enlightenment, the development of public opinion, the rise of Prussia, the industrial revolution in Britain and the continent, mercantilism, and trends in the arts. Students will be expected to attend lectures, participate in class discussion, write two exams, read and discuss a number of primary and secondary sources, submit weekly opinion papers, and complete a term paper on an 18th-century European topic.
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  • 79 221: Development and Democracy in Latin America

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course will use readings, discussion, film, and music, to explore development and democracy in Latin America. Beginning with the Mexican Revolution (1920s) and ending with Hugo Chavez's on-going "Bolivarian Revolution" in Venezuela, we will approach development and democracy as historically contested concepts that gave rise to a diverse range of practices and institutions. Specific regions and topics covered include export economies and civil wars in Central America; industrialization and populism in Argentina; gender, socialism, and dictatorship in Chile; and indigenous people and drug wars in the Andes. Students will write short response papers and a research paper.
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  • 79 224: Mayan America

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course will explore the history and culture of the Maya from before the European conquest of the Americas to the present. After a survey of ancient Mayan society and of the European conquest of Mexico and Central America, we will consider the experience of the indigenous Maya under Spanish colonial rule and under the rule of Latin American nation-states in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Finally, we will cover the recent history of political conflict and military repression in Guatemala, the Zapatista uprising in southern Mexico, and increasing Mayan migration to the United States. Drawing upon the varied perspectives of archaeology, cultural anthropology, and social history, this course will explore several recurrent themes in Mayan America, such as: conquest, adaptation and resistance; indigenous political and communal organization; popular religion, prophecy and apocalypse; Mayan cultural and ethnic identity; "tradition" and "modernity"; state violence and human rights; and indigenous political and cultural mobilization at the local, national, and transnational levels.
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  • 79 226: Introduction to African History: Earliest Times to 1780

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    A beginning point for this course will be the question: how do historians reconstruct history when few written sources are available? Breaking disciplinary boundaries, the course will draw on linguistics, "climateology," archaeology, and anthropology to reconstruct dynamic social, cultural, political, and economic processes in Africa before the arrival of Europeans and before the availability of written source materials. When written sources are available, the course will interrogate them to illuminate the changes that occurred in African societies during the early period of contact with Europeans. Lastly, by focusing on long-term processes, such as economic specialization, urbanization, and Islamization, the course will begin to put the slave trade in an African-centered perspective.
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  • 79 227: Introduction to African History: 1780-1994

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    The course is designed to give students an understanding and appreciation of African history and culture from the "inside out." Though it deals with the period of European expansion in Africa, it is centered on African language/ ethnic groups, villages, and individuals as historical actors who daily make collective and personal decisions to pass down, innovate, and borrow practices, technology, spiritual systems, etc. in the face of social, political, and economic realities. The course is also designed to get students thinking critically about how historians select and interpret sources to construct and reconstruct history at these different levels.
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