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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
A survey of Russian history from the origins of Kievan Rus in the 9th and 10th centuries to the Revolution of 1905. Major topics include the rise of Muscovy, the Mongol yoke, the development of the autocracy, Orthodoxy, serfdom, and most important, Russia’s alleged peculiarity vis-a-vis the West.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of Russian/Soviet history from the Revolution of 1905 to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Major topics include: the Russian Revolution of 1917, the NEP retreat, Stalinism, World War I, Thaw and Stagnation, and the Gorbachev reforms.
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4.00 Credits
A consideration of the causes, events, and results of a turning point in European history. In addition to the events of the Revolution, the course includes economic, political, and social conditions in 18th century France, the French Enlightenment, the Napoleonic Era, and the varied historiography of the French Revolution.
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4.00 Credits
Examines Spain and the Spanish world in the early modern period, from Fernando and Isabel to Philip V. Includes the exploration and colonization of the New World, as well as the economic, political, and social history of Spain itself.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of the sources and development of political, economic, social, and cultural institutions from the Roman invasion of Celtic Britain to the ouster of Richard II. Some topics include: the merging of Celtic, Roman and Anglo-Saxon cultures, the development of local self-government and law, the effect of Christianization, Viking invasions and royal government, the rise of towns and commerce, the effects of the Norman invasion, transition from personal rule to centralized government, the growth of Parliament, the Hundred Years’ War, the Black Death, and the economic disruptions of the 14th century.
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4.00 Credits
This course considers the social, political, religious, and cultural development of Britain and Ireland from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of empire and industrialization. Topics include: the Tudor revolutions in government and religion, relations between kings and parliaments, the evolution of toleration, and ideas about rights and liberty. Special consideration is given to the interaction of the three kingdoms (England, Ireland, and Scotland) in the formation of Great Britain and the role of that interaction in the emergence of the British Empire.
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4.00 Credits
The study of the evolution of British society from the beginning of the 18th century to the present. Major political, economic, social, and cultural developments are covered including: industrialization and the rise of the working class, the emergence of imperial Britain, the Irish Question, the rise of the welfare state, and the role of decolonization, diversity, and devolution in the emergence of contemporary Britain, as well as its place in a united Europe.
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4.00 Credits
This course will study the development of complex society in the parts of Mesoamerica dominated by speakers of Maya languages. These peoples first appear in the archaeological record in the middle of the first millennium BCE and persist to the present. The course will include consideration of the experience of the Maya through the period of Spanish contact to the present but will focus on aspects of Maya culture in the Classic period, from about 100 BCE to 800 CE.
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4.00 Credits
Economic development of the United States since the Revolution. Topics to be covered include capital formation and the growth of business concentration, distribution of national income, problems of agriculture, growth of the labor movement, patterns of inflation and depression, and the impact of international relationships on U.S. economic development. Prerequisite: ECON 201A or 201B or consent of the instructor.
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4.00 Credits
A study of the Mexican people from the early native cultures to the present, with particular emphasis on the Mexican Revolution of 1910 and the major political, social, economic, and cultural developments of modern Mexico. Includes: major Indian cultures, the Conquest, religion and the Catholic Church, literary and artistic expressions, machismo and women, and relations between Mexico and the United States.
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