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3.00 Credits
Students undertake a wide variety of writing and editing tasks, from working with historical documents and oral history transcripts to writing grant applications and critiquing articles for historical publication. Students also gain experience working with desktop publishing equipment.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the basic principles and practices of archival work, in particular the acquisition, evaluation, organization, description, and preservation of archival materials. Students work with actual archival materials in completing their course project.
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3.00 Credits
Considers administrative, curatorial, and educational functions of museum operation in the United States. It utilizes both lecture and hands-on sessions to introduce students to museum work. The course will include visits to various types of museums in the Pittsburgh area, and guest lecturers will bring their specialized knowledge and experience into the classroom.
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3.00 Credits
In seminar format, students will read widely in professional periodicals to gain an understanding of current problems in these fields such as the explosive growth of information in our society, evolving standards of collection for museums in the twenty-first century, and the impact of professionalization.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine some of the major political, social, economic and cultural aspects of the history of the British Empire since 1783. These include the abolition of slavery, the impact of industrialization on the empire, imperial wars, the expansion of empire into Africa, the world wars in an imperial context, and decolonization. Different historiographic themes will be analyzed in different semesters.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
Instead of defining the Atlantic Ocean as a moat dividing East and West and even North and South, it should be seen as a great conduit of not just peoples, but of products, pests, pestilence, and ideas. Changes in Europe fostered exploration and colonization, which in turn promoted the development of empires, conflicts over trade and territories, and social and cultural innovations. This course examines some of the issues that connected and divided countries and peoples along the Atlantic rim in the Early Modern Era.
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3.00 Credits
This class focuses on several key issues in the development of gender roles in North America from the colonial era through the present. While the bulk of the class will concern the evolving roles of women, we will also consider men's history and the history of sexuality.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of a rotating variety of special topics such as portraiture in 18th-century America, 19th-century American impressionism, American woman artists, and art and patronage in 19th- and early 20th-century America.
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3.00 Credits
Construction, style, building types, and the theory of architecture and city planning are examined from the seventeenth century to the present. Students are also introduced to the theory and practice of historic preservation.
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