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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course explores American society, culture, and politics between the end of World War I and the beginning of World War II. During this period, the United States experienced the flowering of a mass consumer culture, the rise of religious fundamentalism and corporate power, the greatest depression in the country's history, an upsurge of labor and political radicalism, and the creation of the modern welfare state. Prerequisite: HIS 131 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
United States involvement in the Vietnam War, with reference to the origins of Vietnamese nationalism and communism, the Cold War roots of U.S. intervention, the escalation and decline of the U.S. role, the experience of the common soldier, the antiwar movement, the role of the media, and the war's longterm social and political effects. Prerequisite: HIS 100 or HIS 131, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the social and political developments in the United States from 1960 to 1974, including the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, the civil rights movement, the war on poverty, the origins of the counterculture, the revolution in the arts, the Vietnam War, the 1968 election and the crisis of liberalism, the Nixon administration, and Watergate. Prerequisite: SOC 110.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the history of the Ottoman Empire and introduction to Islamic civilization. The Empire was an extremely complex, sophisticated, and continuously evolving society whose history was determined by the mutual interaction of a tremendously large number of diverse social groups, including the ruling "slave nobility," landowners, notables,European and Asian non-Moslems, nomadic tribes, the orthodox religious establishment, and deviant but popular religious mystics. Much of the political evolution of the Empire will be presented as reflecting changing relationships between these component social and political groups. Prerequisite: HIS 100 or HIS 101, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
A critical survey of the messages and roles of the Hebrew prophets in light of their historical, cultural, and theological background in Israel and the ancient Near East. The course includes an examination of prophecy in the biblical literature. Prerequisite: REL 308 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Preparation of a senior thesis under the supervision of a departmental advisor and defense of the thesis before a departmental Thesis Committee. Prerequisites: At least 3 credits of HIS 300 or 301, and permission of the department.
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3.00 Credits
A study of varied expressions, in ideology and action, of the revolutionary impulse in the non-Western world since 1898. Case studies of the major revolutionary experiences in Turkey and China and lesser movements elsewhere will be emphasized. Prerequisites: HIS 100, 101, 130, and 131; 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 day. 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. Prerequisites: HIS 100, 101, 130, and 131; or permission of instructor.
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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. Prerequisites: HIS 100, 101, and 130; or permission of instructor. (E)
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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; thrived economically from the enslavement of millions of African Americans; and built a myriad of reform movements. Prerequisites: HIS 100, 101, and 130; or permission of instructor.
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