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3.00 Credits
This course surveys European history from the High Middle Ages through the end of the eighteenth century. Topics include medieval outlooks, the Black Death, the Italian Renaissance, the Protestant and Catholic Reformations, the building of nation states, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment. Through lectures and the examination of primary sources, students will explore the gradual development of the institutions we regard as "modern." Three credits.
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In this course we will focus thematically on the political, social, economic, and cultural development of Europe in the 17th-19th centuries. Lecture topics include: comparisons of different political structures present in Europe and the Americas, the geography of Europe and its colonial possessions, the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, national unification movements, Romanticism, liberal revolutions, the growth of science, and the Age of New Imperialism. Extensive use of audio/visuals. Map work. Three credits.
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In this course we will focus thematically on the political, social, economic, and cultural development of Europe from the late 19th through the end of the 20th century. Lecture topics include: World War I, the Great Depression, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Modern Art, the loss of colonies, the Cold War and its aftermath, and European economic and political unification. Explicit comparisons will be made between the different social, economic, and political structures present in Europe and America in the 20th century. We will discuss the geography of Europe and her colonies. Extensive use of audio/visuals. Map work. Three credits.
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This course surveys American History from the Colonial Era to the Civil War. Using a topical approach, the class will read about and discuss a wide variety of topics in the economic, social, political, and intellectual history of the United States. Three credits.
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This course surveys American History from the end of the Civil War in 1865 to recent times. A variety of readings introduce students to questions that historians are asking about the modern history of the United States. Three credits.
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This course will examine the history of ideas in the West from the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment through the present. Students will consider intellectual developments in the context of history to more fully integrate their understanding of human events and the ideas that inform them. The focus of this course will be cultural, with extensive use of images, films, and primary texts. Seminar format, discussion-based. Three credits.
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This course focuses on selected aspects of thought and culture in Western Europe from 500 to 1500, the millennium that has been called the Middle Ages. Lectures, readings, and discussions will cover such topics as monastic life, philosophical thought, church and state, the crusading movement, chivalry and courtly love, peasant life, and the Black Death. The purpose is to introduce students to a fascinating yet often neglected part of our cultural heritage. Three credits.
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This course will examine, both collectively and individually, the lives and experiences of women in Europe from the fifth through the fifteenth centuries. The goal is to understand better how medieval women fit into and occasionally influenced the largely patriarchal society in which they lived. Three credits.
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This course will examine the history and cultures of selected nations of indigenous people who inhabited the North American continent beginning as early as 40,000 B.C. We will look at the sociocultural/ religious, political and military history of each nation, the details of everyday life, gender relations and kinship systems, division of labor and economics. We will analyze the Spanish Conquest from the indigenous viewpoint and its effect on indigenous culture and make comparisons with the British and French conquests of the area north of the Rio Grande. Areas of particular concern will be the relationship of indigenous nations to the European populations of America in the colonial period. We will then explore the relationship between the indigenous people of North America and the United States of America from the Revolution to the present, including indigenous cultural contributions to European survival as well as Anglo-American culture, government and military ideology. Finally we will examine United States government policy towards indigenous nations, the "Indian Wars," the reservation system, and ultimately the "Red Power?ovement in the 1960's, the American Indian Movement, and the road to Wounded Knee II and Big Mountain. Three credits. Designated non-Western.
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Students in this course will explore the way that humans have interacted with their environment in what is now the United States from pre-colonial contact to the present day. We will explore two great questions in a number of different times and places, seeking answers that should inform our interaction with the environment today. How and why has society shaped the American environment, and how and why has that environment shaped our social, cultural, economic, and political lives? Finally, we will look at ourselves looking at our interaction with the environment in our focus on the emerging environmental movement of the twentieth century. Three credits.
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