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3.00 Credits
This course examines British overseas expansion between 1500 and 1815: the Tudor-Stuart conquest of Ireland; the establishment of the North American colonies and West Indian plantations; the growth of British power in India during the 18th century; and the early phases of British rule in Canada, Australia, and South Africa.Students study the causes and effects of imperial expansion from the standpoints of British political development, British society, the English-speaking colonists, and the native peoples of the empire.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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This course examines the British Empire from its great 19th-century expansion into Africa and Asia to its eventual crumbling under the impact of 20th-century independence movements and global war.Students compare the various independence movements, from the relatively peaceful transitions of Canada and Australia to the more violent ones by Ireland, South Africa, and India.The course finishes with an examination of the current racial and cultural conflicts that beset Britain's former colonies, with particular focus upon Ireland and South Africa.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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This course examines the invention of the individual in the Italian Renaissance and further developments by the great Northern humanists (Petrarch, Boccaccio, Castiglione, Erasmus, Montaigne, Cervantes).Topics include visions of society and the realities (Dante, Marsiglio of Padua, Machiavelli, More, Rabelais); God and man (Erasmus, Luther, Calvin, Trent, the Jesuits, the Radicals); and the expanded universe - the discovery of America and the new astronomy.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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In this class, we begin by studying the Renaissance, interrupted by wars on Italian soil between France and Spain, the culture of the counter-reformation Church, Austrian influence, and end with the impact and legacy of Napoleon Bonaparte.We cover artistic currents in painting, architecture, music, decadence, regionalism, nascent nationalism, urban and rural economies, politics, rich and poor, and religion and science of Early Modern Italy.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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This course surveys the vast array of civilizations arising in the ancient Near East and Egypt from 3000 to 330 B.C.E.The course examines the history and culture of these fascinating peoples and, through the many texts recovered and translated from their myriad ancient languages, sees once again through theireyes the vivid and turbulent times in which they lived.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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This comprehensive study of the political, social, artistic, literary, and military transformation of Rome from the middle of the second century B.C.E.through the reign of Augustus gives special attention to Rome's response to the cultural and governmental challenges imposed by its growing empire and how its responses forever changed the course of Western civilization.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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This course covers the political, social, and cultural development of France from the 16th-century Wars of Religion to the ascension of Napoleon I in 1804, with an emphasis on the effects of revolutionary change on daily life (including the role of women, popular piety, the church and religious dissent, and labor relations), and on the impact of new political languages beyond the borders of France itself.Source readings, from the salon writings of the Bourbon court to the raucous songs of the streets of Paris, aid in considering if a French identity was formed during the period.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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This course covers material from the coming of the American Revolution through the Age of Jackson, including the Constitutional Convention, the Federalist era, Jeffersonian republicanism, and Jacksonian democracy.The course emphasizes the development of political parties in this era of alternating cohesion and division, giving special attention to the religious and reform movements of the antebellum period, including Shakerism, transcendentalism, Mormonism, abolitionism, and feminism.The role of outsiders - free and enslaved Africans, women, and American Indians - is stresse d.This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. (Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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This Ignatian Residential College course explores the experiences of individuals and social movements throughout U.S.history, who from a variety of religious and philosophical traditions found meaning in their lives and made an impact on U.S.society.Individuals range from Mary Dyer and Roger Williams to Lucretia Mott, Walter Rauschenbusch, Dorothy Day, John Cardinal Murray, and Jonathan Kozol, from the abolitionists to the anti-war movement.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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Participants study the major transformations in U.S.economy, society, and politics from the decade of the crisis that led to the Civil War until the beginning of the Progressive Era.The course analyzes forces of change in the United States - urbanization, industrialization, the maturation of corporate capitalism, and the growing importance of international affairs - and their effects on the way people lived, thought, and acted.The experiences of African-Americans, immigrants, and women receive special attention.(Prerequisite: HI 30) Three credits.
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