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3.00 Credits
Development of society and state in Russia from their origins to the twentieth century.
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3.00 Credits
Russia underwent dynamic political and social changes between the October Revolution in 1917 to the establishment of the Soviet Union in 1922, and from World War II through the Cold War to the Union's collapse between 1985-1991. This course will explore how and why such changes occurred.
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3.00 Credits
The medieval and modern history of the small nations situated between Russia and Germany on the east and west, and the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas on the north and the south.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers the fascinating modern history of the land situated between Germany and Russia focusing on diverse ethnic groups, such as Poles, Croats, Slovaks, Serbs, Slovenes, Ukrainians, and Hungarians. The major themes include struggles for national independence, the impact of Soviet control after World War II, and the reassertion of national sovereignty after the end of the Cold War.
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3.00 Credits
The course will focus on the following topics: national unification, WWI, the rise and fall of fascism, WWII, the end of monarchy and establishment of a republic, the European Economic Community, post-WWII political instability and corruption, the Cold War and Red Brigades, the European Union and Euro, and the Mafia. Italian history will be examined within the larger context of European and global history. Rome campus.
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3.00 Credits
This course recounts one of the great success stories of Western history: the rise of a remote island off the coast of Europe to the brink of global greatness. It will examine the development of her unique political system of parlimentary sovereignty, her economic and social strengths, her role in European politics, and her intellectual contributions to Western thought. The story is peopled with fascinating characters and England's institutions and ideas have had a fundamental impact on the United States.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the factors and forces of Great Britain's internal development as well as its rise and subsequent relative decline as an imperial power in the world. It will study its unique political achievement of moving towards democracy without revolution. It will discuss the causes and course of its economic development. It will also describe the country's cultural contributions.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of Latin America from around 200 AD to the 1820s. The course begins with an in-depth look at the pre-Columbian Maya, Inca, and Aztec civilizations and their conquest by Spain. It then examines the socioeconomic, cultural, and political development of colonial Spanish and Portuguese society and the growing nationalistic tensions that led to the independence movement of the early 19th century.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of Latin American history since the 1820s that emphasizes the socioeconomic and political development of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Cuba, and Central America. Some of the themes emphasized will be Latin American economic underdevelopment, military rule, revolution, democratization, Liberation Theology, and the impact of these larger issues on the lives of ordinary people.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of more than one thousand years of Mexican history beginning with the ancient Toltec, Mayan and Aztec civilizations and proceeding through the colonial period under Spanish rule. Emphasis is on Mexico since independence in the 1820s, especially political instability, the US-Mexican War, the Porfiriato, the 1910 Mexican Revolution, the PRI’s seven decades of one-party rule, the transition to democracy, and NAFTA.
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