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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits) or Spring (4 credits). How did Japan emerge from the ashes of World War II to become the world's secondlargest economy? The answer begins with feudal Japan's disintegration under the impact of internal rebellion and Western imperialism, continues with Japan's rise to imperialist and militarist power, and culminates with the post-war economic miracle. Offered as needed.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits), Spring (4 credits), May Term (3 credits). Introductory study of compelling contemporary problems any place on the globe, with an emphasis on how study of the past illuminates the present. Possible topics: the modern Middle East, issues in Native American history, modern Africa. May be repeated for degree credit given a different topic.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits). China, Japan, and Southeast Asia are regions of vital strategic and economic concern to the United States. Examination of past and present friction and cooperation, prospects for future harmony, mutual perceptions, and Asian contributions to the making of America.
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4.00 Credits
Spring (4 credits). The Information Revolution has ushered in a new age of transformative changes in social interactions, techniques of production and commerce, cultural modes and practices, and political institutions and processes. Examination of the impact of computers, the Internet, and the World Wide Web on human society and global culture. Offered as needed.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits). Reconstruction of the era through films, popular music, and political and military strategy documents, and social, economic, and political analysis made by contemporary writers. A special segment examines issues raised by the conflict and lessons learned for future military operations.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits). The great upheavals and ordeals of Europe in the first half of the 20th century: the first and second World Wars, the rise of fascism and communism, the Third Reich and the Holocaust, and the collapse of Europe after Hitler's war. Offered as needed.
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4.00 Credits
Spring (4 credits). The revolution in consciousness out of which modern culture has grown. Key figures: Nietzsche, Freud, Picasso, Schoenberg. Key issues: the problem of knowledge, the question of the unconscious, the problem of creativity in an age threatened with cultural exhaustion. Offered as needed.
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4.00 Credits
Spring (4 credits). Philosophy, social theory, and literature in a world where the center won't hold and foundations slip. Key figures and movements: Camus and Sartre; Beckett and the theater of the absurd; Habermas and the Frankfurt School; Lévi-Strauss and the structuralists; Foucault, Derrida, and Cixous. Offered as needed.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits). Exploration of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution as a continuous process of political, economic, social, and cultural transformation. Consideration of the ideological inspiration for revolution; conditions in late Imperial Russia; the Soviet regime's attempts to reshape human nature, economy, society, and culture; and the turn to Stalinism in the late 1920s. NU and EV only.
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4.00 Credits
Spring (4 credits). Examination of the nation's greatest crisis. Topics include the diplomacy of the North and South, the economic and social changes wrought by the conflict, and the conflicting forces that affected Reconstruction in the South.
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