HIST 229 - HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA Credits: 3 Survey begins with early human settlement, African-European encounters, and the creation of a slave-based colonial society. Exploring African state formation and British colonial expansion focuses on wars of conquest. The 19C mineral revolution stimulated industrial development. Examines the origins of apartheid, resistance, and liberation and, the challenges of post-apartheid nation-building. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 231 - AFRICA: ANCIENT THROUGH MODERN Credits: 3 Survey examines African History over the longue duree, placing persistent historical problems in contexts that span decades, centuries, and millennia. Includes Bantu expansions, development of food systems, politics of Swahili origins, spread of Islam and Christianity, medieval empires, the rise of stateless political complexity, long-distance trade, slavery, colonialism and independence. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 233 - HISTORY OF MODERN SCIENCE Credits: 3 Main issues in the history of modern science from the 17th century to the present. Topics might include: the "Scientific Revolution," Newtonianism in the 18th century. Darwinism and evolution, the relativity and quantum revolutions in physics in the early 20th century, and recent developments in the life sciences like molecular biology. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 234 - TECHNOLOGICAL DISASTERS Credits: 3 From the Titanic to Betamax, some technologies become by-words for spectacular failure. Engineers use such disasters as object lessons in how to improve design. Laypeople use them to evaluate unfamiliar technologies. Course combines case studies, guest panels, and class projects to see what disasters say about technology's role in society. Cross-list: ELEC 234. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 235 - THE WORLD AND THE WEST Credits: 3 Introduction to the last 500 years of world history, focusing on processes that define the modern period. Topics include industrialization, democratization, colonialism, and emergence of new forms of cultural production with exploration of how and why such processes have come to divide the modern world into "west" and a "non-west". Credit may not be received for both HIST 235 and HIST 365. Cross-list: HUMA 235, Equivalency: HIST 365. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 237 - NANOTECHNOLOGY: CONTENT AND CONTEXT Credits: 3 Course URL: http://www.frazer.rice.edu/nanotech Nanotechnology is science and engineering resulting from the manipulation of matter's most basic building blocks: atoms and molecules. This course is designed for humanities and science students who want to explore the content of nanotechnology, (e.g., the methods of visualization, experimentation, and manufacture, and technical feasibility) with the social context of nanotechnology (issues of ethics, regulation, risk assessment, history, funding, intellectual property, controversy, and conflict). Preference will be given to freshmen and sophomore students. Register for CHEM 235 to receive Group 3 distribution credit; register for ANTH 235 to receive Group 2 distribution credit. You may receive credit only for one group, not both. Cross-list: ANTH 235, CHEM 235. Preference given to freshmen and sophomores. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 241 - U.S. WOMEN'S HISTORY I: COLONIAL BEGINNINGS TO THE CIVIL WAR Credits: 3 Survey of American women's history examines the lives of elite, working, black, Indian, and white women, and traces changes in women's legal, political, and economic status from the mid-17th century through the Civil War. Topics include slavery, suffrage, sexuality, and feminism. Cross-list: SWGS 234. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 242 - U.S. WOMEN'S HISTORY II: CIVIL WAR TO THE PRESENT Credits: 3 Survey of American women's history examines the lives of black, Asian American, Chicana, native American, and white women, and traces changes in women's legal, political, and economic status from the Civil War to the present. Topics include suffrage, anti-lynching, welfare, birth control, and the modern civil rights and feminist movements. Cross-list: SWGS 235. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 246 - AMERICAN CIVIL WAR ERA Credits: 3 Survey of the Civil War era from 1848 to 1876. Topics include the causes of the war; the mobilization of Northern and Southern armies; race, slavery and emancipation; Reconstruction; the Civil War in contemporary popular culture and memory; and the global dimensions of the war and its aftermath. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 251 - CONTINUITIES AND CHANGES IN BRAZILIAN HISTORY Credits: 3 An exploration of themes essential to understanding modern Brazil, such as the origins of a multi-racial society, the transition from monoculture to industry, authoritarian and democratic trends, the emergence of a uniquely Brazilian culture, and the conflicts - environmental, political, and economic- over the development of the Amazon. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 252 - FAMILY CONFLICT IN AMERICA: 1600s TO THE PRESENT Credits: 3 An historical overview of family conflict in North America from the colonial period to the present. Focusing on cruelty and violence expressed by husbands, wives, and children, the course explores the complex development of marriage, gender roles, and the family. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 253 - THERE'S SOMETHING HAPPENING HERE: A BIOGRAPHICAL APPROACH TO THE 1960s IN AMERICA Credits: 3 Course will explore the decade of the 1960s in the United States by representative figures from the period, such as Robert F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Gloria Steinem, George Wallace, and Richard Nixon. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 255 - EASTERN EUROPE, 1800 - PRESENT Credits: 3 The peoples and states of Eastern Europe are varied, but the common experience of these "lands between" has been dominated by Germany to the west and Russia to the east. Course will focus on the emergence of nationalism and socialism, on the ideas of "backwardness" and what is "European." College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 256 - EUROPEAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY, 1890-1945 Credits: 3 Examination of European history in the age of total war. Includes imperialism and the development of the welfare state, institutional responses to the demands of total warfare, the crisis of liberal constitutionalism, the Russian Revolution, and the rise of fascism. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 262 - ROME: CITY AND EMPIRE Credits: 3 An introduction to the history of Rome from its origins to its collapse in western Europe ca 500 A.D. Emphasis is on the development of the city of Rome as the center of an evolving empire, seen through its monuments, buildings, art, and literature. Cross-list: CLAS 202, HART 215. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 265 - NORTH AMERICA IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION, 1763-1789 Credits: 3 An overview of the American Revolution from its beginning as a colonial protest to its transformation into a movement seeking independence from Britain. Also examines differences over the meaning and legacy of the Revolution in the new Republic, with consideration of its significance for the Atlantic World as well. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 266 - AMERICAN SLAVERY Credits: 3 Survey on American slavery from the African coast to the plantations of the southern U.S. With attention to cultural and social change within and in response to American slavery, course explores slavery from multiple perspectives with concerns on the role of slavery in making the U.S. as a nation. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 268 - BONDAGE IN THE MODERN WORLD Credits: 3 Slavery has re-emerged as a global issue in the 21st century. This course will explore the origins of slavery, convict transportation, indentured servitude and other forms of forced migration from the 17th century onward with examination of the colonial and post-colonial contexts of the Americas, Africa, Asia and Australia. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 270 - SOUTH AFRICA AND INDONESIA: EMPIRE TO NATION Credits: 3 Survey examines the histories of modern South Africa and Indonesia from the earliest indigenous societies of the present. Focus on the role of the Dutch Indian Ocean Empire; South Africa under British rule; and the rise of nationalism and dramatic transitions to democracy in the 20th century. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 271 - HISTORY OF SOUTH ASIA TO 1857 Credits: 3 Historical survey of cultural, religious, economic and political systems of South Asia from ancient settlements in the Indus River valley, appearance of Aryan-Vedic society, development of world religious systems and global trade networks, rise of Islamic empire, British imperialism, opposition and alliance. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 272 - HISTORY OF SOUTH ASIA, 1857 TO PRESENT Credits: 3 Course will focus on important issues facing various South Asian countries today. It will engage in a historical overview starting in 1857 until the present and covers topics such as nationalism, partition, gender, communalism, violence, urbanization, globalization, environmental movements and issues of poverty and justice. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 276 - RAJ AND RESISTANCE Credits: 3 Examination of the development and nature of the British-Indian relationship. From John Company to Company Raj (17th to 10th centuries), British mercantile and imperial ambitions in South Asia were met by indigenous movements of political independence and popular resistance across the subcontinent, in Bengal, Mysore, Punjab, Delhi and beyond. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 277 - HISTORY OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, 1453-1918 Credits: 3 Course surveys the political, social, economic, and cultural history of the Ottoman Empire. Credit may cannot be received for both HIST 277 and HIST 377 Equivalency: HIST 377. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 278 - THE ARAB WORLD IN THE 20TH CENTURY, 1918 TO PRESENT Credits: 3 Survey of the history and culture of the Arab world from World War I to the present. Topics include nationalism, colonialism, and Orientalism as understood and discussed in the contemporary Arab world through debates about Palestine, status of women, and rise of modern Islamic politics. Credit may not be received for both HIST 278 and HIST 378. Equivalency: HIST 378. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 279 - THE CARIBBEAN IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION, 1770-1820 Credits: 3 An examination and analysis of Caribbean societies as they sought to adjust to forces unleashed by the American and French Revolutions and amidst mounting antislavery sentiment in the western world. Credit may not be received for both HIST 279 and HIST 379. Equivalency: HIST 379. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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