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OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2008-09 [Archived Catalog]
Course Descriptions
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The course information (including course titles, descriptions, credit hours, prerequisites, repeat/retake information, and active status) contained in this catalog is effective as of Fall Quarter 2008-09. This information is necessarily subject to change at the discretion of Ohio University. |
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HIST 309B - American Constitutional History, Part 2: Gilded Age to Present
Studies the history of American Constitutionalism from the last half of the 19th century to the last half of the 20th. Course will concentrate on the Federal Constitution and its role in shaping the public and private lives of Americans. Particular attention will be paid to the ideas, institutions, and individuals responsible for making the Constitution a battleground rife with intellectual, social, and cultural significance.
Prerequisites: JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 309C - Famous Trials in British History
Uses the medium of famous trials to explore the relationship between law and society in British history. Some of the cases studied are landmarks in the history of law, while others provide insight into the social, cultural, and political characteristics of a particular period in British history.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 310A - 20th-Century America, 1900-1928
Emphasis on political and cultural history. Major topics include early 20th-century progressivism as an intellectual movement and its manifestations in state and local politics; presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson; impact of World War I; ambivalent character of the 1920s in American culture and politics; origins and effects of the affluent society.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 310B - 20th-Century America, 1928-1945
Emphasis on politics, culture, and foreign policy. Major topics include origins and nature of the Great Depression; Franklin D. Roosevelt and the emergence of the modern presidency; political and intellectual character of the New Deal; origins and impact of American involvement in World War II; wartime military history, diplomacy, and politics.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 310C - 20th-Century America, 1945-Present
Emphasis on politics, culture, and foreign policy. Major topics include origins and nature of the Cold War; impact of foreign involvements on American politics; political leadership in the media age; radicalism and social change in the ‘60s and ‘70s; the rise of cultural politics and its effect on economic-based political coalitions; resurgence of conservatism in the ‘70s and ‘80s.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 311 - History of Public Health Disasters
Examines the history of public health in the U.S. through study of salient public health disasters. Explores the historic effect of public health disasters on societal attitudes toward disease. Explores how disasters contribute to creation of public health infrastructure and prompt change in personal behaviors over time. Topics include the historical significance of virgin soil epidemics, small pox, cholera, influenza, polio, milk-borne disease, childbed fever, tobacco use, and sexually transmitted infections.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 312A - United States in Urban History
Examines the influence of cities, suburbs, and exurbs on American economics, politics, and society.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 313 - Jews in American History
Examines political, economic, and religious interaction between Jews and American society. Includes Sephardic and Ashkenazic immigrants, growth of Reform and Conservative Judaism, Zionism, and modern problems of American Jews. Covers from 1654 to present.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 314A - American Social and Cultural History to 1820
How people lived and understood their world from the first European contacts through the Federalist era. Differences among the colonies and interactions with Native Americans; the establishment of slavery as a social system in the South; family life, gender roles, and class formation in the early market economy. Significant attention to material culture, art, and architecture.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 314B - American Social and Cultural History, 1820-1890
Social and work life; gender and family roles in Victorian America. The urban environment and the creation of new suburbs. Southern life in the slave economy and under Jim Crow. Urban working-class life and entertainment, middle-class gentility, and Gilded Age displays of wealth.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 314C - American Social and Cultural History, 1820-1890
Twentieth-century urban and suburban life in the 1920s, Depression, and Cold War. Literature and art of the Harlem Renaissance and civil rights era. Cold War-era suburbs, alienation, and inner city. 1960s artistic and cultural rebellions. Modern commercialized entertainment. Evangelical Christianity and conservative culture since the 1980s.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 314D - American Social Thought to 1815
Major aspects of intellectual history of American colonies and U.S. to 1815, organized around two major themes: Puritanism, and secularization of American thought in 18th century.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 314E - American Social Thought, 1815-1915
Major aspects of intellectual history of U.S. 1815-1915. Stresses rise of romantic nationalism, triumph of democratic attitude, slavery controversy, impact of Civil War and Darwinian evolution.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 314F - American Social Thought Since 1915
Major aspects of intellectual history of U.S. since 1915, with principal attention to continuing impact of evolutionary naturalism, especially in development of pragmatism; trends in liberal and conservative political ideologies; rise of pessimistic theology and its ramifications; modernism in arts; New Radicalism and Counterculture.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 314G - Cultural Rebels in the Modern U.S.
Examines the history of cultural rebellion (or radicalism) in the 20th century. Surveys rebellion from Greenwich Village at the turn of the century to the punk rock explosion of the 1970s and ‘80s. Larger questions include: How do people rebel in a culture that often seems to embrace rebellion? How do cultural rebels communicate their anger to the wider society?
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 315A - History of African Americans to 1865
Beginning with introduction of slavery in 1619, course deals with the black person’s role in America through Civil War. Concerns slavery, abolition, and many attempts by black people to improve their position.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: 2SS
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 315C - African Americans in American History, 1865-1939
Concerns Emancipation and its continuing effects on African Americans; life in the post-Civil War South; new black leaders such as Washington, DuBois, and Garvey; and the migration to the North.
Prerequisites: NOT HIST 315B & (JR OR SR)
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 315D - African Americans in American History, 1940-Present
Concerns World War II and its continuing effects on African Americans, migration to the North, the Civil Rights movement, and the problems of equality.
Prerequisites: (JR OR SR) & NO CREDIT IF 315B
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 316A - History of United States Foreign Relations to 1914
U.S. foreign relations from Revolutionary War to WWI. Development of traditional policies–isolationism, neutrality, Monroe Doctrine–and emergence of U.S. as world power are stressed.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 316B - History of United States Foreign Relations, 1914-1945
American foreign relations in two world wars and interwar period, emphasizing shifting perceptions of vital interests involved in transition from intervention to nonentanglement to intervention again and emergence as superpower.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 316C - History of United States Foreign Relations, 1945 to Present
American foreign relations in the Cold War and after, emphasizing confrontation between U.S. and Communist worlds, emergence of detente, and background of current foreign policy issues.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 317 - Ohio History
A survey of Ohio history, from the time of the Mound builders, through the conflicts between the British and French empires, to the creation of Ohio as a state. Much of the focus of the course is on the events of the 19th century, as Ohio was a central battleground in conflicts over slavery and abolition, and labor and industrial groups. Also examines the process of deindustrialization in the later half of the 20th century.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR & NOT 317A OR 317B
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 317A - Ohio History to 1851
Ohio to 1851: prehistoric Ohio, early exploration, settlement, government; statehood and economic development; political parties, antislavery movement, constitutional change.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 317B - Ohio History Since 1851
Ohio since 1851: pre-Civil War politics, Civil War; economic and political transition during post-Civil War; 20th-century problems; biographical sketches.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 318 - American Westward Movement
American West; Appalachian West, Ohio frontier, Far West. Explorers, fur traders and trappers, miners, cattlemen, stage lines and railroads, farmers. Conservation.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 319 - Sports in American History
Survey of evolution of organized sports in U.S., focusing on major spectator sports. Emphasis on personalities and particular events rather than sociological and psychological theorizing.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 319B - American Baseball to 1930
American baseball–as sport, entertainment, business, and cultural institution–from origins in children’s games and spread as adult activity in mid-19th century to emergence as full-blown professional sport after Civil War, formation of present league structures, Black Sox scandal of 1919-20, reconstitution of baseball’s governance, and Babe Ruth-dominated golden age of 1920s. Includes player-owner conflicts, foremost players, managers, and teams; separate development of black baseball.
Prerequisites: NOT HIST 319A & (SOPH OR JR OR SR)
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 319C - American Baseball Since 1930
American baseball–as sport, entertainment, business, and cultural institution–from Great Depression of 1930 through World War II; postwar boom, slump, and franchise migrations; major league expansion in 1960s; player-owner conflicts; and good and bad times in 1980s and ‘90s. Includes continuing evolution of game; foremost players, managers, and teams; Negro leagues and their demise; and All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (1943-54).
Prerequisites: NOT HIST 319A & (SOPH OR JR OR SR)
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 320A - Women in American History Before 1877
American women’s history from the colonial era through Reconstruction. Topics include the traditional life of Native American women, witchcraft in colonial New England, women in the American Revolution, African American women in slavery, early American childbirth customs, the early women’s rights crusade, women on the trans-Mississippi frontier, and women in the Civil War.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 320B - Women in American History Since 1877
American women’s history since Reconstruction. Topics include the experiences of immigrant women in the U.S., prostitution in the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era birth-control movement, achievement of the right to vote, women in the two world wars, women in the civil rights movement, the new feminist movement, the backlash against feminism, Roe v. Wade and the abortion debate.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 320C - Women’s Health and Medicine in America
Examines, from the colonial era to the present, changes in the medical treatment of women and changes in the perception of what constitutes women’s health and illness. Explores how the complex interplay of scientific inquiry, social mores, cultural fears and expectations, and the relationship between physicians and women have contributed to changing definitions of women’s health and medicine.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 321A - History of the Military in America: 1600 to 1898
Military institutions in American history; role of technology in warfare; innovations and reforms in military; war and its conduct; military and civilian society in war and peace.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 321B - History of the Military in America: 1898 to Present
Continuation of 321A. See 321A for description.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 321C - Military History of the Civil War
The military aspects of the US Civil War, who won and lost and why. Also the roles of individual men and women, white and black. Battles and leaders.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 322 - 1960s in U.S.: Decade of Controversy
Allows students to go beyond the popular stereotypes of the 1960s to understand the decade as a period of social, cultural and political confrontation that laid the groundwork for life in the present-day United States. Primary focus on social protest movements of the era: the Civil Rights movement, the student movement, the antiwar movement, the counterculture, and the women’s movement.
Prerequisites: JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 323A - Latin American History: The Colonial Era
Examines historical origins of Latin American society. Themes include internal nature of Iberian and pre-Columbian Indian societies, circa 1492; conquest and subordination of Amerindian civilizations by Spain and Portugal; distribution of power, land, and labor in post-conquest Latin America; order and instability in colonial society; and region’s position in international economy.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: 2CP
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 323B - Latin American History: The 19th Century
Examines 19th-century origins of modern Latin American underdevelopment, focusing on causes and consequences of Revolutions of Independence; dynamics of dictatorship and democracy in post-independence Latin American political culture; and decision-making process by which Latin America’s 19th-century leaders integrated their national economies into international economic system as specialized exporters of raw materials.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: 2CP
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 323C - Latin American History: The 20th Century
Survey of modern Latin American history focusing on causes and consequences of structural instability in Latin America since 1900. Special emphasis is placed on collapse of region’s traditional liberal/export model of national development in 1930s; competing political/ideological responses to structural crisis in region (social revolution, authoritarianism, democratic change); and ongoing search for viable formulas of economic development.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: 2CP
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 323D - History of Brazil
This course will explore the history of Brazil from the colonial period until the present. Combing classic and recent scholarship, and well-known literary works, it will focus on major historiographical debates that have shaped perceptions of Brazilian history, society, and culture.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 323E - The History of Modern Mexico
Examination of social, political, economic and political development in Mexico during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Special attention given to indigenous peoples, nation-state formation, modernization, revolution, consolidation of a one-party state, and democratization.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 325 - History of U.S.-Latin American Relations
Survey of inter-American relations in the 19th and 20th centuries. Focuses on evolving, and often conflicting, definitions of national interest that have shaped U.S. and Latin American policy orientations toward each other.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 327 - Slavery in the Americas
Examines the lives and experiences of slaves of African origin and descent as revealed by themselves in slave accounts and other documents. Explores, in a comparative perspective, African and Afro-American agency and identity in various New World societies.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 328 - The World of Aristophanes
Political, social, and cultural life of Athens in so called Golden Age of ancient Greece, 5th century B.C. Special attention to Aristophanes’ comedies as mirror of this period.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 328A - Jewish History to 1500
Jewish history during the ancient and medieval periods in Europe and the Near East. Introduction to the basic beliefs and practices of premodern Judaism within a historical context; issues of imperialism, resistance, and persecution of minorities; cultural achievements.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 328B - Jewish History Since 1500
History of the Jewish people since 1500, covering developments in religion, culture and society in Europe, America and the Middle East, especially the themes of diaspora, Emancipation, secularization, Reform and Conservative movements, Zionism, the impact of immigration, the World Wars, the Holocaust and the foundation of the State of Israel.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken three times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 329A - Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia
Prehistoric eras; origins of Mediterranean civilizations; problems of ancient chronology; civilizations of Sumerians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Assyrians, Biblical Hebrews, and Persians. Stresses archaeological and literary sources, comparative social and religious concepts, acculturation, contributions to Western civilization.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 329B - Ancient Greece
Aegean prehistory, Minoan civilization, Mycenaean Greeks, Dorian invasions, Greek Renaissance, growth of the polis, Athenian society and culture. Persian and Peloponnesian Wars, political history of Greece to Alexander. Stresses archaeological sources, mythology, and drama. Hellenic contributions to Western civilization.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 329C - Ancient Rome
Early peoples of Italy, Etruscans, constitutional development of Republic, growth of empire, civil wars, history of the principates to Constantine. Stresses archaeological sources, Latin literature, Roman life and institutions, Roman contributions to Western civilization.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 330 - History Through Film
Examination of selected topics in U.S., European, or Third World history through films and readings accompanied by lectures and discussion.
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 330A - African History Through Film
Explores transformations in the nature of African societies, cultures and economies in the 20th century, particularly in the post-1960 period. Film is used as a medium for studying issues as they are understood by Africans themselves. African filmmakers seen as social historians - historians concerned with the everyday nature of the lives of common people.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 331 - The Ancient Greek Games: The Panhellenic Festivals
Examines panorama of Greek athletic activity over period of approximately 3,000 years beginning with Minoan or Cretan civilization, ca 3000 B.C., and terminating with decline of the polis, or Greek city-state, ca 146 B.C. Explains how Panhellenic festivals helped to unite various currents of Greek civilization.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 332 - History of Women in the Middle East
Main themes, divided chronologically and thematically, include the history of veiling, polygamy, divorce, and laws of personal status during the early periods of Islam; a re-examination of harem politics and the role of women in the Ottoman Empire; the effects of westernization and modernization in the 19th-century societies; and recent trends such as the enforcement of the veil in the Islamic Republic of Iran and Egyptian fundamentalist movements; section on women poets and novelists.
Prerequisites: JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 333 - Oil, the Persian Gulf, and World Power
Examines the international politics of oil from a historical perspective, emphasizing the importance of the Persian Gulf. Topics include: the roots and guiding principles behind oil policy; oil in the two world wars; postwar changes in global oil production, culminating in the oil crisis of the 1970s; the pattern and end of the British dominance in the Gulf; the subsequent expansion of U.S. commitments in the region since the 1970s; the role of local nation-states, in particular Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia; oil today and prospects for the future.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 334 - The Arab-Israeli Dispute
Analysis of underlying causes of Arab-Israeli confrontation from 1890s to present, including origins of Arab nationalism and Zionism, evolution of British Mandate in Palestine, Great Power involvement in Middle East, and recent developments in conflict between Israel and Arabs.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 334A - Zionism and Modern Israel
This course will examine the history and nature of Jewish nationalism. It will begin with the early twentieth century struggle for Jewish politics and culture internationally and how this served as an impetus for the establishment of Israel. The second half of the course will examine ways in which Jewish nationalism shaped daily life in the state of Israel since its founding to the present.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 335C - Legacy of Genghis Khan
An examination of Genghis Khan’s life and legacy, emphasizing historical problems such as the life of the Khan, Mongol military tactics, economic policies, the interaction between nomadic and settled peoples, premodern state formation, and Mongol-influenced artistic and literary achievements. Particular attention given to Genghis Khan’s legacy in the Middle East and Islamic world, including conquests of the warlord, Tamerlane, and the rise of the three gunpowder empires.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 335D - History of Modern Iran
This course will be a survey of modern Iranian history from 1800 to the present. The course will cover the 19th Century Qajar Dynasty, the reforms of Reza Shah Pahlavi, the downfall of Muhammad Reza Shah, the Islamic Revolution and the rise of the Ayatollah Khomeini, and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Topics to be covered include the role of women in Iranian history, the role of Shi+ism in Iranian history and politics, Iran and human rights, the hostage crisis and relations with the US.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 336A - North Africa in Modern Times
Maghrib: its geography, ethnic composition, and history since antiquity; French conquest of Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco; administrative systems; economic development; French-Muslim relations.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 336B - North Africa Since 1914
Rise of nationalism; struggle for political independence; political, economic, and social problems in independent North Africa; North Africa in world affairs.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 337A - Middle East 600 to 1500
Islamic history and civilization from the rise of Islam to the end of the 15th century. Includes discussion of establishment of Islam, development and spread of Muslim rule, medieval caliphates and their cultural achievements, Mongol invasions, crusades, and contributions of Arabs, Persians, and Turks to Islamic civilization.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR & NOT HIST 335A
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 337B - Middle East 1500-1800
Islamic history and civilization during the period of the great gunpowder empires. Includes discussion of Turko-Mongol background, role of Tamerlane; origins of Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals; military organization, kingship, harlem politics, cultural developments, and decline and transformation of these great empires.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR & NOT HIST 335A
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 337C - Survey of Middle East History Since 1800
History of Middle East since era of French Revolution. Transformation of Ottoman and Persian empires into 20th century Middle East states; impact of nationalism, secularism, and industrialism on region; and position of the Middle East in contemporary world affairs.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: 2CP
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 338 - History of West Africa
History of West Africa from early times to present; peopling of sudanic and forest regions; development of trade; Islam and rise of sudanic empires; slave trade and forest states; colonial era; independence movements; problems of nationalism.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 338A - History of East Africa
History of East Africa from early times to present, with particular emphasis on period since 1750. Although neighboring countries also are studied, greatest attention is paid to the region that comprises present-day Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 339 - Women in African History
This course will examine the variety of women+s experiences and contributions to African history. Using examples from across the continent and different chronological periods, topics to be addressed include: women+s social, economic, and political roles and opportunities and changes over time and place; women+s labor, including slavery; and debates concerning economic production vs. biological reproduction, the gendered division of labor, the control of women, and women’s exploitation of women.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 340 - African Intellectual History
Studies the interaction of ideas and concepts with their social environment and shows how ideas in the sciences, humanities, and arts interact with social realities. Will examine the development of various ideas in different African historical and cultural contexts. Discussions will address the question What does it mean to be human? and the various answers to that question that different African civilizations have developed over time.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 341A - Early Africa
Africa in the ancient world; spread of agriculture and iron working; rise of Islam; migrations of peoples; development of states; arrival of Europeans; beginning of slave trade.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: 2CP
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 341B - Africa During Atlantic Slave Trade
Slave trade; religious revolutions in western Sudan; development of African states; commercial revolution of 19th century; birth of plural society in South Africa; European partition of Africa.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: 2CP
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 341C - Modern Africa 1890-Present
Establishment of European rule in Africa; colonial period; rise of nationalism; decolonization and independence; problems of modern Africa.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: 2CP
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 342A - South Africa to 1899
Establishment and transformation of African societies (Bantu migrations); coming of Europeans; evolution of Cape society (black, white, colored); conflicting nationalisms; Great Trek; rise of Zulu kingdom and the Mfecane; mineral revolution and subjection of African chiefdoms; British imperialism and coming of South African (Boer) War.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 342B - South Africa Since 1899
South African (Boer) War and reconstruction; formation of Union; global war and racial/regional/class conflicts over land, labor, and politics; rise of Afrikaner nationalism and triumph of apartheid; rise and radicalization of African nationalism; collision of nationalisms and expansion of conflict in 1970s; South Africa and the modern world.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 343 - Revolutions in Southern Africa
Historical background and developments up to present of revolutions in Mozambique, Angola, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia), Namibia (South-West Africa), and Azania (South Africa).
Prerequisites: HIST 131 OR 246
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 344A - History of the Malay World
Comparative view of Southeast Asian archipelago, emphasizing Indonesian civilization after 1750. Penetration of West, struggle with imperialism and modernization, and present dilemmas. Indigenous views are the focus of attention.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 344B - History of Burma and Thailand
Comparative study of neighboring Buddhist states, emphasizing themes of change and continuity since mid-18th century. Special attention given to divergent responses to colonialism and Western-style development, and similarities in political and social forms.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 344C - History of Vietnam
Modern Vietnamese civilization since 15th century, emphasizing political and social change after 1800. Special attention given to the Vietnamese struggle with outside powers, including China, France, U.S., and Soviet Union.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 345A - Southeast Asia to c. 1750: The Creative Synthesis
Highlights of prehistory and protohistory and development of classical states. Emphasis on cultural synthesis (Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, and animist influences) and theme of change and continuity in both great and little traditions of region.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: 2CP
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 345B - Southeast Asia, c. 1750 to 1942:Change and Conflict
Indigenous change and widening effects of Western penetration, with emphasis on social and cultural developments. Nature of colonialism in region, and response of the colonized seen in light of both traditional and modern influences.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: 2CP
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 345C - Southeast Asia, 1942 to the Present:The Search for Stability
Japanese occupation and its relationship to the great national revolutions of the 1940s. Social and cultural context of nationalism and revolt, search for new political forms, and struggle against disunity and poverty.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4General Education Code: 2CP
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 346C - Ancient China
Traces the evolution of the Chinese cultural norms from prehistory through the Qin to the Song dynasty. In some 3,000 years, the writing of the philosophical classics, the creation of literary and artistic models, and the development of the imperial governmental institutions made this China’s Golden Age.
Prerequisites: (JR OR SR) & NOT HIST 346A
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken 4 times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 346D - Imperial China
Surveys the middle period between ancient and modern China; from the 1200s, when the Mongol Empire rose to conquer the Song, through to the maturation of Chinese civilization in the Ming/Qing to the decline of the imperial state in the 19th century. Two of Chinas greatest premodern novels express contemporary values.
Prerequisites: (JR OR SR) & NOT 346A
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken 4 times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 346E - Modern China since 1911
This course spans the past century of revolutions, beginning with the overthrow of the Qing in 1911. From a disintegrated state with warlords, through the Kuomintang’s National Revolution and war with Japan to the victory of the Chinese Communist Party. Then, Mao Zedong’s political movements, and post-Mao economic reforms continue the efforts to make China once again strong and prosperous.
Prerequisites: (JR OR SR) & NOT 346B
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken 4 times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 348A - Traditional Japan
Traces major elements of Japanese culture and thought from their indigenous origins, through major Chinese influence, results of medieval civil warfare, and up to premodern workings of Japan’s sophisticated commercial economy.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 348B - Modern Japan
Political weakness of Tokugawa system leading to opening of Japan to Western trade and restoration of emperor; favorable economic and political base that allowed Japan to enter successfully into competition with European nations; Japan’s ultranationalist era and postwar reconstruction.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 350A - History of Early Science
Overview of the history of science from the ancient world to the 17th century. Examines areas of knowledge and technique most modern people consider to be a part of science, and some they do not, including medicine, astronomy, construction, mining, navigation, and warfare. Considers how politics, economy, gender, and religion affected the development of these technologies and sciences.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 351 - Medieval People
In-depth inquiries into lives and epochs of representative individuals of medieval Europe: Middle Ages through biography.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 352 - Medieval Civilization
Survey of cultural and intellectual history. Transmission of Christianity and classical culture to barbarians and their work of combining them into a new civilization in the early Middle Ages. Medieval civilization at its height: Church, schools and scholastic thought, and secular culture.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 353A - The Barbarian West: Europe 400-1000
Foundation of Medieval synthesis, 300-1100; collapse of Roman world, establishment of successor states, spread of Christianity, formation and development of European culture.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 353B - The Later Middle Ages
Maturing of Medieval Europe and transition to early modern era, 1100-1450; developments in commerce, religious life and institutions, governments, politics, learning, and secular culture.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 353C - History of the Crusades
Provides an overview of three religious communities (Jews, Christians, and Muslims) brought into contact by the Crusades. Reviews the history of that contact, examining the political, social, cultural, and religious impact the Crusades had on each community.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 354A - Early Christianity:East and West
Investigates historical development and spread of Christianity from its origins to about A.D. 600. Content includes Greek and Hebraic backgrounds, early church fathers of East and West, ecumenical councils, early heresies, and development of church doctrine.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 354B - Modern Christianity
Explores the modern history of the world’s largest and most geographically diverse religious tradition. While primarily considering modern Chrisianity’s Euro-American heartlands this class will also examine Christianity’s transition during the modern period from a religion centered on Europe, its colonies and settlements to a global religion that has helped define and resist modernity.
Prerequisites: JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 354C - Medieval Christianity: Church and Society
Historical developments within Christian society between 5th and 14th centuries, with special focus on western Europe and the church of Rome. Includes the inner financial and legal workings of the church; monks as reformers and representatives of the papacy; heresy, mysticism, and the problem of uncovering popular devotion; the importance of gender in shaping religious theory and practice; cooperation and conflict between religious leaders and worldly rulers. Along with a textbook, students read, analyze, and discuss original source material in translation.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 356A - The Italian Renaissance
Major political, social, economic, and cultural currents of Italian city-states from 1300 to 1550. Focus on Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Bruni, Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, etc.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 356B - The Northern Renaissance
History of Renaissance outside Italy: politics, economics, sociology, and intellectual currents of Germany, France, Spain, Burgundy, and England from 1300 to 1600. Treated thematically, course focuses on Erasmus, More, Ximenes, Reuchlin, Hutten, Bude, etc.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 356C - The Reformation
Protestant, Catholic, and Counter-Reformations in Europe, showing their relationships to social, political, economic, and religious movements of 15th and 16th centuries. Roles of Luther, Zwingli, Calvin, Cranmer, Erasmus, Loyola, etc.; Protestant and Catholic churches and sects in western and eastern Europe.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 356D - History of Medieval Spain
Covers the history of the Iberian peninsula from late antiquity to the Renaissance, focusing especially on the political cultural interactions of the Christians, Jews, and eventually Muslims under Visigothic Kings, the rise of the Cordoban Caliphate, and the process of Christian Reconquest. Particular attention is given to the internal state of convivencia - Living together of Christians, Jews and Muslims - as well as the relationship of Iberia to the wider European World.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 357 - Florentine People
Major figures in Florence from 1300 to 1600, from Dante to Galileo; concerns are with some originators of modern thought in areas of artistic theory, poetic form, Italian language, political ideas, scientific method, and historical composition.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 357A - Spain in the Age of Discovery 1450-1700
Course explores Spanish society and culture during the era of discovery, conquest, and colonization of the New World, 1450 - 1700. It traces the rise to prominence of Spain as the colonial power of the 16th century, its domination of European politics and trade, and its subsequent decline in the 17th century. Course explores the development of Spanish society, culture, and institutions in relation to cultural encounters in Europe and the Americas.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 358A - Early Modern Europe, 1559-1648
Europe from 1559 to 1648. Main political, economic, and social developments in Europe during Age of Spanish Preponderance; Philip II, wars of religion, Richelieu, Thirty Years’ War, and ideological struggles.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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HIST 358B - Early Modern Europe, 1648-1715
Europe from 1648 to 1715. Main political, economic, and social developments in Europe during Age of Louis XIV; French hegemony, rise of balance of power, absolutism.
Prerequisites: SOPH OR JR OR SR
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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