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3.00 Credits
A study that emphasizes constitutional and cultural changes and influences and their interaction with social, political, and economic developments in 17th- and 18th-century Europe. Prerequisite: HIS 100 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
A study of three characteristics of 19th-century Europe that reflect intellectual, political, economic, and social forces involved in shaping the continent as it would be on the eve of World War I. Prerequisite: HIS 100 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Nationalism has been a force in European history from the nation-state building of the early modern period to the present. It has developed and changed from a force for political unity to a divisive and sometimes destructive influence. We will look at the growth of nationalism in places as diverse as Italy, Germany, Greece, Bosnia, and Albania. Prerequisite: HIS 100 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
The 20th century has been called the "century of total war." This course dealing with the World Wars of the 20th century attempts to explain what this means intellectually, politically, economically, ethically, and scientifically. Prerequisite: HIS 100 or permission of instructor. (A)
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3.00 Credits
This course will investigate and compare modern instances of genocide, while seeking to determine factors that make genocide possible in a given society. This study of attempts to exterminate whole races of people will include aboriginal peoples of America and Australia, the Armenian Massacre, the Holocaust, Cambodia, and the former Yugoslavia. Prerequisite: HIS 100 or permission of instructor. (E)
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3.00 Credits
This course traces American sports from their beginnings in Puritan-era games to the multibilliondollar industries of today. We look at the beginnings of horse racing, baseball, and boxing, and their connections to saloons, gambling, and the culture of the Victorian underworld. We follow baseball as it became the national pastime, see how college football took over higher education, and account for the rise of basketball. Finally, we study the rise of mass leisure, the impact of radio and television, racial segregation and integration, and battles between players and owners. Prerequisite: HIS 100 or HIS 101 or HIS 130 or HIS 131.
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3.00 Credits
Through an examination of political, cultural, economic, and social developments in the American colonies, this course examines the origins, course, and consequences of the central event in 17th- and 18th-century North America: the American Revolution. Prerequisite: HIS 130 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course deals with the period between the administration of George Washington and the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860. During these years, the United States grew rapidly; experienced a religious awakening and a market revolution; established the legitimacy of its federal government; fought wars against Indians, Great Britain, and Mexico; expanded the democratic rights of white men; and thrived economically from the enslavement of millions of African Americans. Prerequisite: HIS 130 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the central event in American history: the Civil War. Rather than focus on the war as strategy, tactics, and battles, this course will treat the context and course of the war, its causes and consequences. Students will use documentary and secondary sources to understand how all Americans slave and free, women and men, blacks and whites, Northerners and Southerners, combatants and civilians experienced and struggled to understand our greatest and deadliest conflict. Prerequisite: HIS 100 or HIS 130, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the creation of modern industrial America between the end of Reconstruction and the end of World War I. During these years, the nation was transformed from a predominantly rural and agricultural country with few interests overseas into a victorious global and urban industrial power. A huge wave of immigrants and migrants had built and changed American cities; American labor and farmer radicalism had flowered and died; and a new mass culture was born. Prerequisite: HIS 131 or permission of instructor.
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