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Course Criteria
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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
The French Revolution and Napoleon; the Industrial Revolution and its effect on society; Romanticism; the age of democratic revolution. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
Liberalism and democracy; nationalism and imperialism; industrialism and technology. The Concert of Europe, the balance of power, and the coming of World War I. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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2.00 - 9.00 Credits
The roots and impact of total war, the rise and triumph of Fascism, Reconstruction, the Cold War, European Unification, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Attention to the development of mass culture and consumer society and to the prospects of democracy throughout Europe. (Not offered 2008-09.) 2 units.
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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
The Jews of Poland, Western Europe, and the Islamic world during the 17th century. The Impact of Enlightenment and Assimilation. Hassidism and reform. Anti-Semitism, Zionism, and the American experience. World War I and its consequences: the changing Middle Eastern framework, Communism, Nazism. Israel, and its neighbors, and the world. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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2.00 - 9.00 Credits
The experience of war in Western contexts compared to other major military cultures. Administrative, technical, and ideological contexts of war's evolution as the ultimate test of the cohesion of societies and the viability of nations. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: The West in Time requirement.) (Not offered 2008-09.) 2 units.
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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
The course analyzes the origins of "modernity" in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Beginning with the Scientific Revolution, it then looks at the social and political environment that made the "Republic of Letters" possible. A wide variety of primary-source texts, including social and political criticism, novels and poetry, painting and sculpture, will be examined. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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2.00 - 9.00 Credits
The relationships between these changes and social developments. (Not offered 2008-09.) 2 units.
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1.00 Credits
Herodotus, sometimes called the "father of lies," and Thucydides, sometimes called the first political scientist, treated as the first historians. Study of the ways of conceiving history and its relation to the peoples and periods explored. No Greek or Latin required. (Also listed as Classics 221.) 1 unit - Cramer.
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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
Critical issues in the philosophy of history and historical methodology as seen from the standpoint of the historian and the philosopher. (Offered by individual arrangement.) (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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3.00 Credits
Selected topics in the study of social and ethnic history. Subjects include, for example, ethnic divisions, women, the family, childhood. Specific content and emphasis to be determined by the instructor. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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