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3.00 Credits
This capstone course for seniors concentrating in American history is an in-depth study of 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. Prerequisites: HIS 100, 101, and 131; or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This capstone course for seniors concentrating in American history is an in-depth study of American society, culture, and politics between the end of World War I and the beginning of World War II. During the 1920s and 1930s, 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. Prerequisites: HIS 100, 101, and 131; or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This capstone course for seniors concentrating in American history is an in-depth study of American society, culture, and politics during the most turbulent decade since the end of World War II. The course focuses on African Americans' struggle for civil rights and the growth of the Black Power movement; on the optimism and adventurousness of the Kennedy years; on the Vietnam War and the struggle to end it; on the birth of modern feminism; and on the growth of campus radicalism and the New Left. Prerequisites: HIS 100, 101, and 131; 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 will include an examination of prophecy in the biblical literature. Prerequisite: REL 308 or permission of instructor.
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Introduction to searching and evaluative techniques necessary for information literacy. Knowledge of general reference materials; subject-specific and primary sources; Internet resources, including FirstSearch, listservs, current search engines, library catalogs, and data bases. Successful completion of course required for all undergraduate students.
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3.00 Credits
Designed primarily for students with no previous formal training in music, to provide a foundation for intelligent and appreciative listening. Elements of musical form and style, with relevant historical background, are presented.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an approach to perceptive listening and an introduction to musical elements, form, style periods, composers' styles, and representative works drawn from the whole world of music making. The goal is to stimulate curiosity in and enrich the appreciation of what we call a "musical experience." Laboratory fee.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an in-depth study of the evolution of the American musical from the late 19th century to the present. With special focus on the contributions of major theatre composers, lyricists, and librettists, topics include European operetta, revue, musical comedy, musical drama, political satire, the director-choreographer "progressive musical theatre, and the ?heatrical pop event." Prerequisite: Open tomusic theatre majors or by permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course aims to offer the student a systematic overview of the entire field of music, an explanation of the various historical, theoretical, and sociological disciplines that investigate the field; and also to explain the characteristics of the major style periods of Western art music, including major forms of some of the most significant composers.
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3.00 Credits
This is an introductory course to world music and some of the basic issues important for an understanding of music in culture and music as culture, including discussion of major musical cultures throughout the world, with various listening, reading, and writing assignments. Three hours weekly.
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