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3.00 Credits
The United States emerged as a major player on the world stage during and after WWI. This course will discuss the role that the country has played in international relations during the course of the 20th century and will also examine the domestic implications of the United States' rise to world dominance.
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3.00 Credits
An intensive study of the American experience from the roots of the sectional conflict in the expansion of the United States through the stuggle over slavery, the War itself, and the controversies over the restoration of the Union.
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3.00 Credits
An intensive study of the American experience from the roots of the sectional conflict in the expansion of the United States through the struggle over slavery, the War itself, and the controversies over the restoration of the Union.
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3.00 Credits
An analysis of the Supreme Court and constitutional development, stressing the major controversies in the field.
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3.00 Credits
The Civil Rights movement stands out as one of the most significant social and political developments of the 20th-century American history. This movement, or rather collection of movements, ushered in major transformations in America life in law, in social relations, and in the role of government. This course will examine the modern implications of this movement, and other parallel or connected movements such as women's suffrage and rights as well as other ethnic and class struggles.
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore the history of how people in the United States identified themselves sexually and engaged in sexual behavior from the early nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century. We will focus on representations of sexuality in popular texts ranging from sensational fiction to sermons, from advice manuals to advertisements and twentieth-century sex-ed films. We will consider issues such as the emergence of a gay identity in the late nineteenth century, changes in reproductive technologies, sexual violence, prostitution, male and female body ideals, marriage, courtship and dating culture, and many other related topics.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines how the French Revolution and Napoleonic era changed that nation and its people socially, culturally, politically, and economically. It also reviews the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars and how they affected not only the French but other European nations and peoples: how they changed the way Europeans viewed themselves and others; how governments were organized and states constructed; and how diplomacy was conducted.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the British empire and its relationships to the rest of the world from the seventeenth century to the mid-twentieth century, with special emphasis on the period between 1760 and 1947. Although there have been other empires in the modern world, the British empire is perhaps the most interesting and the most ripe for historical analysis because of how long it lasted, the fact that it coincided with the industrial revolutions of the nineteenth century (and helped fund the first industrial revolution), and because British imperialism changed the twentieth century tremendously and continue to affect the contemporary world.
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3.00 Credits
The course begins with the establishment of the German Confederation in 1815, moves through the formal unification of Germany in 1871, and on to the “Deutsche Einheit” (Germany Unity) of 1990. While Germany is a central focus, other Western European nations also figure prominently as the class focuses on such developments as the emergence of civil society, political radicalism, industrialism, urbanization, and imperialism. The course will also address the evolution of European diplomacy, the impact of national and mass politics, and the interplay between military and economic power.
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3.00 Credits
This course deals with one of the most significant and controversial events of the 20th century: the Nazi effort to totally annihilate Europe's Jews. That one of the most advanced nations embarked on the horrific policy of genocide gives the event a special place in modern history and raises a number of fundamental questions about the very nature of western civilization.
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