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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Surveys Rome from its earliest foundations to its emergence as an empire and its eventual decline. Topics include Etruscan background; Republican Rome; the Punic Wars; social and political problems of the Republic; collapse of the Republic; the Roman Empire; Roman culture; Christianity; and the fall of the empire.
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3.00 Credits
Explores the nature of European civilization from the fall of the Roman Empire to the beginnings of the Renaissance. Also studies the impact upon Medieval Europe of the Byzantine Empire and Islamic societies. Topics include: the Papacy, Byzantium, monasticism, feudalism, Romanesque and Gothic art and architecture, the Islamic challenge, the Crusades, medieval cities and commerce, the growth of monarchy, the Bubonic Plague. (This course also fulfills the Artistic Ways of Knowing requirement).
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3.00 Credits
Studies the waning of the Middle Ages and forms of new culture and new institutions in Europe. Topics include: the Renaissance and the new humanism, the Protestant Reformation, Catholic reform and counter-reformation, the Thirty Years War.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of Europe from the Belle époque through the end of the Cold War. Topics include: the Great War, the Russian Revolution, the women's movement, totalitarianism, World War II, post-war reconstruction, decolonization, European Economic Community, and the break-up of the Soviet Union.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the study of labor, the family, popular culture, the arts, class conflict, and social movements since the Industrial Revolution. Special emphasis is placed on developments in Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Russia.
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3.00 Credits
The History of Germany and the German speaking lands in the twentieth century. Topics discussed: the era of Kaiser Wilhelm II, the First World War, the Weimar Republic, the rise of Adolf Hitler and National Socialism, the Second World War, the Holocaust and anti-Semitism, West and East Germany in the age of the Cold War and the EEC, and the re-unified German nation.
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3.00 Credits
A detailed analysis of the European Revolutionary Era of 1789-1815 with particular emphasis on the old regime, the Enlightenment, popular culture, the course of the Revolution and the Reign of Terror. ( This class also fulfills the Writing Intensive course requirement). (If taken as Writing Intensive, prerequisites are ENGU 101/105 and ILA.)
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on France from the Bourbon Restoration of Louis XVIII to the Fifth Republic of Nicolas Sarkozy. Emphasis is placed on political, social, and cultural developments from 1815 to 1990s. Topics include: industrial revolution, French colonialism, women in French society, bohemian Paris, fascism and anti-Semitism, the student movement of the 1960s and the course of French socialism. ( This course also fulfills the Writing Intensive Course requirement) (If taken as Writing Intensive, prerequisites are ENGU 101/105 and ILA.).
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3.00 Credits
The history of Russia from the first revolution in 1905 through the break-up of the Soviet Union. Topics include: Lenin and the Bolshevik seizure of power, the Civil War, Stalin and the Five Year Plans, Soviet society, the "new woman," the Gulag experience, de-Stalinization, the Gorbachev experiment, and the age of free market reform.
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3.00 Credits
Highlights the cultural, social, political and economic development of modern Britain from the Tudors to the present. Special consideration is given to: Shakespearean England, the English Civil War, the growth of Parliament, Industrialization, Imperialism, women's suffrage, the Irish question, the two World Wars, and contemporary British society.
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