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  • INST 384: Fnd of East Asian Civilization

    3.00 Credits
    Gonzaga University

    This course seeks to give students an understanding of the history and culture of pre-modern China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. After exploring the historical roots of Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism in China, students will examine the ways in which these foundational philosophies helped form social, cultural, and political institutions in China and its neighbors. Students will also focus attention on the historical emergence of the Chinese imperial system, and its greatest pre-modern exemplars, the Qin, Han and T'ang dynasties. Not limiting the focus to China alone, students will also explore how the concept of China as the middle kingdom influenced the language, religion and political developments in Japan and Korea, leading to an authentic macro-culture in East Asia. The course will finish with a discussion of samurai culture and an analysis of how the Mongol conquests of Central and East Asia transformed the region, taking students to the threshold of the early modern period in Asia.
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  • INST 385: Latin American Politics

    3.00 Credits
    Gonzaga University

    Focus on the caudillo or leader in Latin American history, culture, and society, in the range of contemporary forms of government (democratic, dictatorial, revolutionary). Some treatment of U.S. foreign policy.
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  • INST 386: Europe in the 19th Century

    3.00 Credits
    Gonzaga University

    This course will examine the social and political history of Europe from the end of the Napoleonic era (1815) to the beginning of the First World War (1914). Special attention will be paid to those attitudes and structures which continue to play an important role in contemporary society such as industrialization, social revolutions, communism, socialism, womens movements, consumerism, racism, eugenics, nationalism, Church-State conflicts and the development of the middle class as an operative agent in government. This course will also examine how the arts both reflected these changes and acted as instruments of change within society.
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  • INST 387: Europe, 1918-1939

    3.00 Credits
    Gonzaga University

    Europe from 1918 to 1939 including the Great War, the Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles, the rise of fascism, the Great Depression, Hitler and national socialism, and the origins of World War II.
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  • INST 388: 19th Century Germany

    3.00 Credits
    Gonzaga University

    This course examines the history of the German states from the end of the Napoleonic era to the end of the first world war. Issues to be explored include German nationalism and liberalism, the revolutions of 1848-1849, the rise of Prussia and the formation of the German Empire, and the development of political and social institutions during the imperial period.
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  • INST 389: Politics of the Pacific Rim

    3.00 Credits
    Gonzaga University

    Focus on the role played by the East Asian capitalist development states (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore) in the accelerated economic growth of the Pacific Rim; a consideration of the Philippines as a representative of ASIAN; finally, a brief look at the likely impact of this Pacific Basin dynamism on the USA, Russia, and the P.R.C.
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  • INST 390: African Politics and Develpmnt

    3.00 Credits
    Gonzaga University

    Contemporary sub-saharan, black ruled Africa is examined in four key areas of development and politics: (1) contemporary social, economic, and ecological conditions; (2) colonial and nationalist eras; (3) development strategies and African decline; and (4) state and society tensions.
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  • INST 391: Fascist Italy

    3.00 Credits
    Gonzaga University

    Italian history from 1918 to 1945, including an examination of social and economic conditions in post-world war Italy, rise of the Fascist Party, the role of Benito Mussolini, the nature of fascist government in Italy, Italian imperialism under Mussolini, and the part played by Italy as an ally with Hitler's Germany.
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  • INST 392: Tyranny to Democracy 21st Cen

    3.00 Credits
    Gonzaga University

    Between 1974 and 2000 more than fifty countries in Southern Europe, Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe shifted from authoritarian to democratic systems of government. An examination of the causes and nature of these democratic transitions. Several case studies of democratic transitions in different areas of the world will be investigated in order to understand the factors responsible for the democratic trend and to ascertain which key variables best explain completed democratic transitions and democratic consolidation.
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  • INST 393: New Europe

    3.00 Credits
    Gonzaga University

    Traces the evolution of two Europes, East and West, from the Middle Ages through the 20th centurys Cold War. Looks at the emerging new Europe since 1989 as integration through the European Union deepens and widens it. Explores contemporary issues such as resurgence of extreme right-wing parties, increasing cultural diversity, building a supra-national European identity, managing immigration and migration, and Europes place in the global economy and foreign affairs as it challenges American hegemony.
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