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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits), Spring (4 credits). Introduction to the chief themes or issues shaping world history from the European age of discovery through the end of the Cold War. Unavoidably selective, the course focuses upon the forces of modernization and change revolutionizing traditional world cultures and resulting in the interdependent, global system of today.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits). Exploration of the profound transformation that occurred in European culture as it moved from its medieval configuration to the essentially modern form assumed by the end of the 18th century. Topics include the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, the birth of modern science, and the English and French revolutions.
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4.00 Credits
Spring (4 credits). Development of European civilization from its 19th-century display of vigorous, com - manding growth to its 20th-century expressions of uncertainty, fragmentation, and barbarity. Topics include the French and Industrial revolutions, Romanticism, the rise of radical social theory, the challenge of irrationalism, the savagery of totalitarianism, total war, and genocide.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits), Spring (4 credits). Major themes in the development of American culture and society from the colonial period to the Civil War are explored. Topics include colonization, the Revolutionary War, slavery, industrialization, the American Enlightenment, reform, the Civil War, geographic expansion, class, race, and gender.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits), Spring (4 credits). Major themes in the development of American culture and society from Recon - struction to the present. Topics include the "search for order," the West, leisure, worldwars, urbanization, political and social movements, radicalism, and class, race, and gender relations.
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4.00 Credits
Introduction to Latin America through analysis of selected social, economic, and political themes. Topics include the colonial heritage, economic dependency, a stratified society, the role of the church, the Latin American military, and the influence of the United States in the region. Offered as needed.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits). Study of the Chinese and Japanese civilizations before the encounter between East and West, and these civilizations' philosophical, material, and institutional contributions to world culture. Offered in alternate years.
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4.00 Credits
Spring (4 credits). China and Japan are traced from the height of empire through their respective transformations under the impact of Western imperialism to the present day. Offered in alternate years.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits) or Summer (4 credits). The history of sub-Saharan Africa before the era of European Imperialism. The diversity of African societies will be emphasized by exploring the relationships between geography, environment, and history across the continent. Topics include cultural ecology, ethnicity, Africa's place in the Islamic world, and the Atlantic slave trade. Offered as needed.
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4.00 Credits
Spring (4 credits). The history of sub-Saharan Africa from the end of the Atlantic slave trade to the present. Agency and the development of new African identities underscore an interdisciplinary examination of how Africa negotiated European colonization and the subsequent challenges of independence and neo-imperialism. Offered as needed.
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