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HIST 101 - MODERN EUROPE, 1450-1789 Credits: 3 Course provides an introduction to European history from 1500 to the French Revolution, tracing Europe's rise to world dominance via capitalism, the nation-state, science and technology, and a secular world view. It asks how conditions in the rest of the world allowed European imperialism and colonialism to triumph. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 102 - MODERN EUROPE, 1789-PRESENT Credits: 3 Course provides an introduction to European history between the French Revolution and the collapse of the Soviet system in 1989-1990. The course examines industrialization, the development of the nation-state, World War One, Fascism and Communism, World War Two, European integration, decolonization and the Velvet Revolutions of 1989. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 108 - WORLD HISTORY SINCE 1492 Credits: 3 Class will explore the last 500 years of world history. The focus will be four long-term processes that have shaped the world today: struggles between Europeans and colonized peoples; forms of producing and exchanging goods; formation and spread of the modern state; and the development of 'bourgeois' ways of living. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 117 - AMERICA TO 1848 Credits: 3 Survey of North America from 1500 to the conclusion of the Mexican War. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 118 - THE UNITED STATES, 1848 TO THE PRESENT Credits: 3 A continuation of HIST 117 (though 117 is not a prerequisite) surveying the social, political, cultural, and economic history of the United States from the end of the Mexican War to the present. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 144 - FRESHMAN SEMINAR: THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT Credits: 3 Seminar traces the history and politics of the Arab-Israeli conflict, delving into both Palestinian and Israeli understandings of the past and present using books, documentaries, and films. The course seeks to understand how and at what costs Israeli and Palestinian nationalism's have been constructed and analyzes U.S. involvement in the conflict. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FSEM 144. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 151 - FRESHMAN SEMINAR: THE HERO AND HIS COMPANION FROM GILGAMESH TO SAM SPADE Credits: 3 How does presentation of heroic action illustrate the basic values of society? Historical sources including ancient texts, modern mystery stories, and two "western" movies, show the development of a style of community service linking heroism with alienation. The extent to which women participate will be traced. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FSEM 151. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 159 - FRESHMAN SEMINAR: LEGENDARY AMERICANS Credits: 3 Exploration of popular myths surrounding larger-than-life figures like Davy Crockett and Harriet Tubman. Specific figures vary. Through scholarly readings and analysis of cultural artifacts ling songs and films, we will consider why and how such figures become iconic and explore the relations between history, biography, and memory. This course is limited to first year students only, any other students will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FSEM 159. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 161 - FRESHMAN SEMINAR: THE USES OF THE PAST Credits: 3 Seminar analyzes how selected historical events are interpreted at different times and contexts. Sources include history books, novels, movies, court cases and political debates. Specific events studied will vary according to student interest from ancient times to the present. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FSEM 161. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 163 - FRESHMAN SEMINAR: BROWN V. BOARD Credits: 3 A first year seminar examining the origins and legacies of the civil rights case that all but defined the parameters of modern American society and race relations. Where did the case come from? How was it argued and decided: What have been its consequences? This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FSEM 163. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 165 - FRESHMAN SEMINAR: THE FRENCH REVOLUTION-HISTORIES AND LEGACIES Credits: 3 Freshman seminar will focus on the French Revolution and the era of Napoleon Bonaparte, 1789-1815. Lectures address three main topics: the history of the Revolution and its main actors; the diverging interpretations offered by historians; and the multiple legacies of the revolutionary period in the modern era. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FSEM 165. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 167 - NEWTON AND THE 18TH CENTURY Credits: 3 Newton was the indispensable starting point for 18th century thought from the physical sciences to medicine and the so-called Ahuman sciences. Seminar will consider Newton and the complex legacy of his thought in other 18th century thinkers: Locke, Leibniz, Boerhaave, Voltaire, D'Alembert, Hume, Maupertuis, Buffon, Kant, Priestley, Blake and Goethe. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FSEM 167. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 176 - FRESHMAN SEMINAR: TERROR AND AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY Credits: 3 From the Murder of James Byrd. From the early 1880's to 1978, lynch mobs murdered nearly 5,000 African-Americans Terror and black responses to it have shaped nearly every aspect of African American history. Seminar examines black society, politics, gender, and culture in the 20th century America against the backdrop of racial violence. This course is limited to first year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FSEM 176. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 177 - FRESHMAN SEMINAR: VESPUCCI'S MAP? Credits: 3 Part history of cartography; part historical detective work, this seminar will examine the first maps of the Americas and consider if any anonymous map of c. 1502-1506 might have been drawn by Amerigo Vespucci, whose influential letters shaped European thinking about the new world. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed. Cross-list: FSEM 177. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 188 - THE ATLANTIC WORLD: ORIGINS TO THE AGE OF REVOLUTION Credits: 3 Survey of social, political, economic, and intellectual ligatures which bound the particular histories of Africa, Europe, and the Americas one to the other, till by the late 18th century the Atlantic basin constituted a world unto itself. Credit may not be received for both HIST 188 and HIST 388. Equivalency: HIST 388. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 200 - ANCIENT EMPIRES: ORIGINS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATIONS Credits: 3 Course explores development of imperial systems from the Bronze Age to Roman Empire with attention to subject peoples' participation in multi-ethnic states. Aspects of art, law, economics, religion, and literature of the Hittites, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans examined with consideration given to strengths and weaknesses of contributions to the modern world. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 202 - INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL CIVILIZATION I: THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES Credits: 3 Introduction to the European culture of the "Dark Ages," from the fall of Rome to the end of the Viking invasions. Includes the use of historical, literary, artistic, and archaeological sources to trace changes in European material, spiritual, and cultural life between 300 and 1000 AD. Cross-list: MDST 202. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 203 - INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL CIVILIZATION: THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES Credits: 3 European culture from the year 1000 to the discovery of the Americas, which encompasses the Crusades, the "discovery of the individual", chivalry and chivalric literature, the Black Death, and the beginnings of the Age of Exploration. Cross-list: MDST 203. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 204 - SECULAR JUDAISM Credits: 3 The course examines the intersection and cross-section of secular Judaism and Jewish secularism from the seventeenth century until today. Is Judaism maintained or rejected in its secularization? Has secularization welcomed or rejected Judaism? Our discussions take a historical perspective to yield perspectives on their future. Cross-list: RELI 204. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 206 - INTRODUCTION TO ASIAN CIVILIZATIONS Credits: 3 A team-taught interdisciplinary course focusing on certain major philosophical, religious and artistic traditions of pre-modern Asia, with an emphasis on the historical processes by which ideas, people, products, technologies and skills circulated within and beyond state boundaries. Cross-list: ASIA 211, HART 211. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 214 - CARIBBEAN NATION BUILDING Credits: 3 Course will focus on the slow, steady process through which nation states emerged in the Caribbean from the 18th century to the present, as well as the difficulties they face amidst increasing globalization. Credit may not be received for both HIST 214 and HIST 314. Equivalency: HIST 314. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 215 - BLACKS IN THE AMERICAS Credits: 3 Comparative survey of black people in the Americas from the late 15th century to the present examines the Atlantic slave trade, the movement toward slave emancipation in various countries, and 19th century black self-help efforts. Course also concentrates on economic and social conditions for blacks in the 20th and 21st centuries. Credit may not be received for both HIST 215 and HIST 315. Equivalency: HIST 315. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 225 - EUROPE SINCE 1945 Credits: 3 Survey of the history of Europe from the end of World War II to 1989. The course focuses on the impact of the war on European societies as well as on decolonization, European unification, economic reconstruction and immigration and the rise and fall of communism in Eastern Europe. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 227 - LATIN AMERICAN CULTURAL TRADITIONS Credits: 3 A synthetic overview of the emergence of Latin American culture and society beginning with the 16th century encounters and continuing through independence in the 19th century. Discovery, conquest, slavery, family life, religious beliefs, and urban and rural communities are explored through chronicles, visual images, music, and maps. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 228 - MODERN LATIN AMERICA Credits: 3 Course introduces the student to the history of contemporary Latin America. For the most part political events will provide the periodic framework of the course, but we shall also consider major economic, social and cultural developments to understand the complex social formations that comprise contemporary Latin American societies. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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