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3.00 Credits
A survey of the role of technology from the Stone Age to the nuclear age. Three credit hours.
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A survey of humans' attempts to explain and control the cosmos from antiquity to the emergence of modern science around 1700, including the contributions of pseudo-scientific, occult, and magical world-views; internal developments in thehistory of science; and the relationship between scientific thought and the historical context. Dual-listed in the UALR Graduate Catalog as HIST 5302. Three credit hours.
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This undergraduate/graduate seminar will examine the career of one of the most interesting and important figures in world history. Alexander expanded the domain of Greek civilization from the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas to the lands of Afghanistan and India. Dual-listed in the UALR Graduate Catalog as HIST 5304. Three credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
Study of humanity's interrelationship with the natural environment throughout history, with emphasis on historical factors relating to current environmental problems. Three credit hours.
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Prerequisite: HIST 2311, 2312 or consent of instructor based on individual student need and ability. The role of objects in U.S. History including how different academic disciplines study artifacts; how to identify, authenticate, and evaluate artifacts (using decorative arts to learn visual literacy); and the impact of objects (especially their manufacturing and marketing) on American life. Dual-listed in the UALR Graduate Catalog as HIST 5306. Three credit hours.
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A holistic examination of various ways in which Europeans sought to cure disease in pre-modern times. Magic, folk cures, and miracles, as well as the work of physicians, apothecaries, and barber surgeons. The emergence of medicine as a profession and a science. How university-trained physicians came to dominate the healing professions. Dual-listed in the UALR Graduate Catalog as HIST 5312. Three credit hours.
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This course offers a history of beliefs about the end of the world in the western Judeo-Christian tradition. Through lectures and readings, we will examine such topics as the birth of apocalyptic thought, the medieval development of various aspects of traditions about the End (such as the figure of Antichrist and millenarian traditions), millennial influences on the discovery and colonization of the New World, millennial movements of the last two centuries (such as the Millerites and the Mormons), and contemporary apocalyptic scenarios. A major theme of the course will be the flexibility of apocalyptic language, its ability to interpret various historical situations, and its power to move people to acceptance or action. Dual-listed in the UALR Graduate Catalog as HIST 5313. Three credit hours.
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Examines past moments in which people take stock of the present by gazing into the future. Through literature and film, studies predictions of the future in their historical contexts. Looks at positive and negative views of the future, secular and religious predictions for humans? fate. Dual-listed in UALR Graduate Catalog as HIST 5314. Three credit hours
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Development of Protestantism including evangelicalism, new denominations, and fundamentalism; incorporation of Catholicism and Judaism into main stream; relationship between religion and social and political issues including church and state; minority religious beliefs and organizations; varying role of men and women in religious organizations. Dual-listed in the UALR Graduate Catalog as HIST 5315. Three credit hours.
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The late eighteenth-century age of revolution and its background. The crisis of the Old Regime; the contributions of Jansenism, the Enlightenment, constitutionalism, and the politics of gender to the formation of a revolutionary ideology; the course of revolution during the last decade of the eighteenth century. Emphasis on France, but some attention to Britain, Germany, Italy, and America. Three credit hours.
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