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3.00 Credits
This course is a survey of American history from pre-colonial times through Reconstruction. It explores a wide variety of factors (economic, political, social, and cultural) that shaped the formation of the United States. Core themes include the Revolution, the Constitution, the Civil War, conflicts with indigenous peoples, the emergence of a market society, racial slavery, the place of women, geographic expansion, popular protest, and elite rule. The course challenges commonly held beliefs about the past and it encourages students to examine the veracity of popular beliefs about American history.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to explore America's historical development from the Reconstruction era to the present. It explores a wide variety of factors (political, economic, social, and cultural) that contributed to the creation of a multicultural industrial society and that shaped America's emergence as a world power. We will analyze key issues such as the changing relationships between government and the governed; the growth of a strong central state; the creation of a modern industrial economy; the evolution of an increasingly heterogeneous society; the country's development into a world power; the Cold War at home and abroad; and the origins and consequences of the Vietnam War
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on a particular topic in U. S. History. It only will be offered as a preceptorial class for entering freshmen.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides students with a basic understanding of how race and ethnicity have influenced American society from the colonial period to the present. Students will be exposed to a variety of topics and historical events that will help explain how and why Americans' attitudes about racial and ethnic differences changed over time. They also will look at how these attitudes have affected the nation's major immigrant and racial minority populations. Finally, the course will examine how ideas and attitudes about race affected major societal institutions and social policies in the United States.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the impact of historical events on the lives of American women and the varied roles women played in the shaping of American history. Topics include: witchcraft in New England; gender and family life under slavery; the impact of industrialization on women of different classes; the ideology of separate spheres; women's political activities including the antislavery movement, the suffrage movement, the 19th Amendment, and the resurgence of feminism in the 1960s; and transformations in the lives of modern women including work, politics, sexuality, consumption patterns, and leisure activities.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses primarily on the histories of China and Japan from the mid-19th century to the present. While placing the stories of these two countries in a cultural and historical framework, narrated chronologically, it will pay special attention to the similarities and differences between them, as well as the interplay between domestic forces in the two societies and the external impetus. The course will also address issues concerning the historical developments in Korea, and discuss the contemporary experiences of Taiwan and Hong Kong. Through this class, students are expected to understand the cultural traditions of East Asia, the causal relationships between key historical events, the complexities of East Asia-U.S. relations and the role that East Asian countries are playing in today's changing world. (lower-division requirement for the Asian studies minor)
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3.00 Credits
This class explores the cultural and intellectual changes that shaped the development of Western Europe from 1700 to the present. It pays particular attention to the core values of the Enlightenment heritage: rationality, political freedom, inner freedom, humanism, equality, and human dignity. Topics include the French Revolution and the Romantic movement; the challenge of Marxism; scientific culture and the rise of Social Darwinism; modern art and modern consciousness; the "new" imperialism; world wars and totalitarian governments in the 20th century.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on major themes in the history of humanity from 100,000 B.C. to A.D. 1500. It considers the evolution of the human species, the formation of hunter-gatherer societies, and the rise of great civilizations. It looks at how authority was manifested in architecture, government, writing, religion, philosophy, arts, science, and technology. A comparative approach will illuminate how world cultures differ, what they share, how they are differentiated, and what they exchange in the making of the modern world. The emphasis is on non-Western peoples.
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3.00 Credits
This course engages students in the study of modern world history in order to achieve a more critical and integrated understanding of global societies and cultures during the past five hundred years. Students will explore developments in Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe; consider the rise of the West after 1750; investigate the origins and outcomes of world war, revolution, and genocide in the 20th century; trace the disintegration of western empires after World War II; and ponder the global challenges of the post-Cold War era.
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3.00 Credits
Beginning seminar in historical research, problems of investigation, critical analysis, and presentation, correct use of footnotes and bibliography; acquaintance with major libraries, archives, and the use of media techniques. Some attention to the development of historical writing and the philosophy of history. This course fulfills the core curriculum writing requirement. (every semester)
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