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3.00 Credits
This course will explore the development of relations between the United States and East Asian countries (primarily China and Japan) since the mid-19th century. It will examine the economic, social, cultural, and political forces on both sides that have helped to shape the history of their mutual relations. Major topics include the U.S. participation in China's international treaty system in the 19th century, the American role in "opening" Japan and efforts at establishing a new order in the Pacific, the triangular relations among the U.S., Japan, and China during World War II, American involvement in Korea and Vietnam, and contemporary U.S.-East Asian relations
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3.00 Credits
A multi-disciplinary examination of the impact of war and potential war on the experience, thought, and values of the United States. Topics will include U.S. military policy from the American Revolution to the Cold War, popular American attitudes toward war and the armed forces, the moral issues inherent in war and peace decisions, and the nature of nuclear warfare in the modern era.
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3.00 Credits
History of the United States from 1850 to 1877 with special emphasis on the political, economic, social, and military aspects of conflict between the North and the South. Includes the causes of the war, military strategy, the aftermath, and its effects on the United States in later years.
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3.00 Credits
Topics may include the Progressive Era, World War I, Great Depression, New Deal, World War II, U.S.-Latin American Relations, or other topics in the political, economic, social, and cultural history of the United States from 1865 to the present. May be repeated for credit when the topic changes.
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3.00 Credits
This course - the first of a two-part, upper-division sequence on the history of American foreign relations - covers the period from 1775 to 1914. Three issues, in particular, are emphasized: the problems of the young republic in conducting diplomacy; the ways in which America's vision of itself as "a city upon a hill" and its belief in Manifest Destiny led to 19th-century U.S. expansionism; and the emergence of the United States as a world pow
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3.00 Credits
This course - the second of a two-part, upper-division sequence on the history of American foreign relations - covers the period from 1914 to the present. Three issues, in particular, are emphasized: the tension between isolationism and interventionism from World War I through World War II, culminating in the emergence of the United States as a superpower; the Soviet-American confrontation following World War II and the globalization of this confrontation during the 1950s and 1960s; and finally, the relative decline of American foreign relations in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as the consequences of the end of the Cold War.
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3.00 Credits
Topics may include ideas and movements that are part of the intellectual or social history of the United States, such as liberalism, conservatism, sectionalism, slavery, communications, architecture, labor, immigration, feminism, and progressive reform. May be repeated for credit when topic changes.
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3.00 Credits
A history of the mass media in the United States, focusing on selected topics, such as Television and American Politics, History and Film, the Newspaper in History, Media and the Presidency, and Broadcasting in American History.
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3.00 Credits
This class surveys the history of the American West. Topics include: pre-Columbian Indians, the competition between European empires over the American West; American expansion and conquest; the fur, mining, ranching, and farming "frontiers"; the railroad and populism; World War II and the growth of the urban west; the historical experience of workers, women, and Mexican-, Asian-, Native-, and African-Americans; environmental issues such as conservation, preservation, the dust bowl, and water politics; and representations of the West in popular culture.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys American Indian history from Pre-Columbian times to the present. Topics include: Pre-Columbian Native America; Spanish, English, and French invasions; Indians and the colonial period; Indian Removal; Indians and American expansion in the Far West; the reservation system, allotment, and federal Indian education; the Indian New Deal; termination, relocation, and the growth of urban Native America; and Indian militancy, cultural accommodation and revitalization, and the ongoing struggle for sovereignty.
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