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3.00 Credits
A workshop course employing the detective and interview methods in historical research, including artistic, popular, or interdisciplinary topics. Students prepare weekly problem/ progress reports for grade and a 2,500-word paper. Class members serve as editorial assistants to each other and are guided by the instructor in the preparation of individual, possibly publishable, papers. Prerequisite: HIS 100 or HIS 101, or their equivalents. (Writingintensive course)
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Historical study of the presidential races and associated partisan campaigns. Emphasis is placed on critical elections since the colonial era. Participants have an opportunity to study original material in the University's collection of presidential Americana. Prerequisite: HIS 100 or HIS 102 or HIS 130 or HIS 131.
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3.00 Credits
Examining varieties of, and changes in, American families in the last 300 years, this course focuses on the connections between people's work lives and their family lives, on the relat ionship between public and private realms, and on the differing historical roles of women and men. Unlike most casual discussion of "the family," which assumes that everyone understands what "family values" are all about, thiscourse will question our assumptions about family life and measure them against historical families, from the Puritans to 1950s suburbanites. Prerequisite: HIS 130 or 131, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Southeast Asia is a mosaic of diverse people: Malays, Thais, Burmese, Vietnamese, and many others. These people and their nations are the budding economic "tigers" of the 21stcentury. This course selects certain Southeast Asian nations and examines their economy, politics, society, culture, and history. Prerequisite: HIS 100 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the responses of non- Western societies to contact with Western technological superiority since the Meiji Era in Japan and their varied experiences with the imperatives of induced industrialization, as distinguished from the earlier Western pattern of spontaneous industrialization. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores major social, economic, and political developments in Latin American history from the period following the Wars of Independence to the present. We pay attention not only to such dramatic events as the Mexican and Cuban revolutions but also to such long-term processes as state formation, rural-urban migration, industrialization, and changing gender roles. The course includes a consideration of Latin America's relationship with the outside world and particularly with its powerful neighbor to the north. Prerequisite: HIS 100 or HIS 101, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on the history of modern Africa since 1850. It will explore the interaction between Africa and the West in the 19th and 20th centuries, the establishment of colonial rule and the mode of administration in the colonies, the African response to European imperialism, social and economic change under colonialism, the development of nationalism and the struggle for independence, and Africa's emergence on the international scene and its experiences since independence. Prerequisite: HIS 100 or HIS 101, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Selected topics in history, varying from year to year in accordance with the needs of the curriculum and the availability of specialists in such topics.
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3.00 Credits
The preparation and criticism of a research project in areas of history of particular interest to a student, guided and directed by a faculty member. This gives the student an opportunity to develop and pursue his/her own interests in historical work and to gain experience in the techniques of historical research, writing, and criticism. Prerequisites: HIS 100, 101, and permission of the department.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides students with an overview of the chronological and cultural structure of the archaeological periods from the third millennium through the Byzantine period, with emphasis on the Roman and Byzantine eras. The course includes fieldwork in Israel, lectures, workshops on material culture, museum tours, and field trips. Daily field-school instruction is from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. (total: 15 days of excavation). Lectures and workshops take place each afternoon. Beyond these required activities, a primary objective of the course is a research paper to be completed during the spring or summer following the return to the United States. This course is linked to an integrated companion course, Archaeological Field Methods and Material Culture. All students will complete field- and class work for both courses.
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