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3.00 Credits
This course examines the origins and development of key social, political, economic and cultural trends in Western civilization from 1500 to the present. Topics to be examined include the Reformation, the scientific revolution, the Enlightenment, the French and Industrial revolutions, nationalism, imperialism, communism, fascism, World Wars I and II, and the Cold War. Students will learn how to read and interpret historical documents, how the interplay of historical factors conditions subsequent events and different approaches and perspectives for understanding the past. Offered Fall
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3.00 Credits
The region's history beginning with oral traditions about the creation of the area, and ending with passage of the Alaska Native Land Claims Act in 1971. Concentrates on Yup'ik social, economic and educational changes, including both native and non native accounts. Offered only at the Kuskokwim Campus. Offered As Demand Warrants
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1.00 Credits
Cultural history of the Seward Peninsula peoples for the last 10,000 years using physical anthropology, ethnography, ethnohistory, linguistics, archaeology, social anthropology, ecology and climatology. Eskimo and Euro-American cultures which have existed in western Alaska. Cross-listed with ANTH F105. Offered As Demand Warrants
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3.00 Credits
The history of Alaska Natives from contact to the signing of the Land Claims Settlement Act. Offered Fall
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3.00 Credits
A survey of Alaska from earliest days to present, its peoples, problems and prospects. Offered Spring Even-numbered Years
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3.00 Credits
Origin and development of the civilizations of China, Japan and Korea from the beginning to 1800, with emphasis on traditional social, political and cultural institutions. Offered Fall Even-numbered Years
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3.00 Credits
This is a survey course on the history of East Asian civilizations from 1800 to the present. Multiple approaches to history such as political and economic history will be employed, but the main focus of the course will be intellectual history. Students will be asked to indentify broad historical and ideological trends in modern East Asian history based on the analysis of primary source data from the writings of governmental officials, leaders of political movements, and influential intellectuals in society. Current relations among East Asia countries will also be examined. Offered Spring
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A thematic overview of (sub-Saharan) Africa, covering its geography and environment, early human evolution, social, economic and political diversity, early external influences, European Imperialism and the African responses, transatlantic slavery and its impact, African struggle for independence. Focuses on the challenges and achievements, future trends and prospect in the context of Africa today. Offered As Demand Warrants
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3.00 Credits
The discovery of America to 1865. Colonial period, revolution, formation of the constitution, western expansion, Civil War. Offered Fall
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Surveys U.S. history from post-Civil War Reconstruction to the present. It examines challenges faced by the nation as it grappled with transformations and international crises that resulted from industrialization, urbanization, immigration, expanded globalization, economic crisis and two world wars. The U.S. emerged from World War II as a super power, but found itself locked in a Cold War struggle against communism that provided the backdrop to the second half of the 20th century. It influenced cultural, social, political and economic changes that continue to shape American life and foreign policy today. This course develops critical thinking and writing skills: introduces the methods, theories and approaches that inform historical interpretations of this era; and provides opportunities to use qualitative and quantitative data-- the primary source materials-- that historians use to defend their interpretations and arguements. Offered Spring
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