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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; term paper, 3 hours. A survey of European history from the aftermath of the Black Death until the French Revolution. Introduces the geographic, demographic, and economic conditions underlying early modern European society, and examines cultural, political, and intellectual forms as they changed. Special attention is given to the historical experience of individuals, including commoners and elites.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. A survey of European history from the mid-eighteenth century to 1968. Focuses on the political and social revolutions in France and Russia, two world wars, and the consequences of rapid industrialization. Explains the emergence of a large middle class, the transformation of women's roles, and changing perceptions of the outside world.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; consultation, 1 hour. A close examination of the intellectual and cultural trends in the period from 1960-1975, with emphasis on the rise of the New Left, the Counterculture and the growing militancy of Blacks, Native Americans, Chicanos, and women.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): ETST 001, HIST 060, or consent of instructor. A study of the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. with emphasis on the civil rights campaigns he led in the period, 1955-1968, and on the social and political philosophies he taught and espoused. Cross-listed with ETST 061.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; consultation, 1 hour. The historical heritage of Latin America from its Indian, Spanish, and African origins to the present, including the related Latino experience in the United States. Contemporary and historical themes will range from poverty, revolution, race relations, and imperialism to music, art, sports, popular culture, and social mores.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 2 hours; term paper, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. An introduction to ancient and medieval science focusing on the development of mathematical description of nature in astronomy. Secondarily, the early histories of physics and mechanics as they relate to the history of astronomy are covered.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; online discussion, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. History of the scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries from Copernicus through Newton, stressing the cultural interaction of science, philosophy, and religion, with secondary attention to the historical sociology of science.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; online discussion, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. History of science in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, stressing the rise of the Darwinian world view, the genetic revolution and its social consequences, and the romantic rejection of science.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; online discussion, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. History of science in the twentieth century with attention to the revolutions in physics and biology, the role of scientists in the world wars, the social responsibility debate, and the rise of the United States as a scientific power.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; individual study, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Examines relations between society, machine, and state in ancient China, Greece, and Rome, and in medieval Europe. Focuses on key mechanical and civil technologies and the role of the state in differentiating their development between the four historic civilizations. A major theme concerns the relation of craft and state technologies to abstract natural reasoning as a historical background to scientific revolution in Europe.
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