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HIEU 3251 - Imperial Spain and Portugal, 1469-1808
General survey of the Iberian peninsula from Ferdinand and Isabella to Napoleon, including the development of absolutism, the enforcement of religious orthodoxy, the conquest of the New World and the Iberian imperial systems, the price revolution, the ‘decline’ of Spain and the Bourbon reforms, and the arts and literature of the Golden Age.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3261 - History of Russia to 1700
Topics include the history of the formation of the Kievan State, the Appanage period, Mongol domination and the emergence of the Muscovite state; foundations of the first Russian state, evolution of its institutions, cultural influences from the origin to the decline; and the rise of successor states and particularly the multi-national state of Moscow.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3271 - Three Faiths, One Sea: The Early Modern Mediterranean
The course will provide students with an overview of the Mediterranean world from the conquest of Constantinople (1453) to the displacement of the sea in a globalizing economy. The main purpose of this course is to demonstrate the cultural, political, and religious diversity of the Mediterranean region. Special emphasis is placed on Christian, Jews, and Muslim interaction.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3291 - Stuart England
Studies the history of England (and its foreign relations) from 1603 to 1714, with commentary on some major themes of early Hanoverian England to the end of Sir Robert Walpole’s ministry. Includes newer interpretations on Stuart monarchy, the background and consequences of the Civil War, restoration ideology and politics in relation to the Cromwellian Interregnum, the Revolution of 1688, social and local history, and the creation of the first British Empire.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3311 - Social History of Early Modern Europe
Surveys social, economic, and demographic structure and change in pre-industrial Europe, focusing on social unrest and rebellions.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3321 - The Scientific Revolution, 1450-1700
Studies the history of modern science in its formative period against the backdrop of classical Greek science and in the context of evolving scientific institutions and changing views of religion, politics, magic, alchemy, and ancient authorities.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3322 - Science in the Modern Age: 1789-1950
This course covers major developments in modern science from the 18th through the 20th centuries in the fields of chemistry, biology, geology, and physics. Three scientists, Antone Lavosier, Charles Darwin, and Albert Einstein, will be discussed.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3331 - Intellectual History of Early Modern Europe
Analyzes the main currents of European thought in the 17th and 18th centuries. Emphasizes major social movements and cultural changes.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3341 - Society and the Sexes in Europe from Late Antiquity to the Reformation
Explores the changing constructions of gender roles and their concrete consequences for women and men in society; uses primary texts and secondary studies from late antiquity through the Reformation.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3342 - Society and the Sexes in Europe from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
Explores the changing constructions of gender roles and their concrete consequences for women and men in society; uses primary texts and secondary studies from the 17th century to the present.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3352 - Modern German History
Introduces the political, social and cultural history of modern Germany from the French Revolution to the present. Cross-listed in the German department. Taught in English.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3372 - German Jewish Culture and History
This course provides a wide-ranging exploration of the culture and history of German Jewry from 1750 to 1939. It focuses on the Jewish response to modernity in Central Europe and the lasting transformations in Jewish life in Europe and later North America. Readings of such figures as: Moses Mendelssohn, Heinrich Heine, Rahel Varnhagen, Franz Kafka, Gershom Scholem, Martin Buber, Karl Marx, Rosa Luxembourg, Walter Benjamin, and Sigmund Freud.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3382 - Revolutionary France, 1770-1815
This course will examine the social, cultural, intellectual and political history of France from the end of the Old Regime through the Napoleonic Empire. The origins, development, and outcome of the French Revolution will be the main focus. Attention will also be paid to the international legacy of various French revolutionary concepts and to the history of the interpretation of this critical period of upheaval.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3390 - Nazi Germany
Detailed survey of the historical origins, political structures, cultural dynamics, and every-day practices of the Nazi Third Reich. Cross-listed in the German department. Taught in English.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3392 - Women, Men, and Politics in the Age of Democratic Revolutions, 1760-1848
Surveys the origins, development, and consequences of key revolutionary struggles of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, emphasizing changes in gender relations. Prerequisite: A course in history or gender studies.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3402 - Nineteenth-Century Europe
Surveys the major social, economic, and political trends between the defeat of the Napoleonic Empire and the First World War. Stresses the developments in Western Europe as industrialization, democracy, nationalism, and representative institutions took root.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3412 - Twentieth-Century Europe
Studies the main developments in European history from the turn of the century to the eve of the Second World War.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3422 - Twentieth-Century Europe
Studies the main developments in European history from the outbreak of the Second World War to the present.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3432 - France Since 1815
Studies French politics and society from the defeat of Napoleon to De Gaulle’s republic.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3442 - European History, 1890-1954
Surveys Continent’s troubled history from the Victorian Age to the welfare state. Addresses features of modernization and industrialization, nationalism and imperialism, causes and consequences of both world wars, Communist and Fascist challenges, Weimar and Nazi Germany, the Great Depression and crisis of capitalism, the Holocaust and decline of old Europe, and Social Democratic transformation.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3452 - Jewish Culture and History in Eastern Europe
This course is a comprehensive examination of the culture and history of East European Jewry from 1750 to 1935. Course cross-listed with YITR 3452.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3462 - Neighbors and Enemies in Germany
Explores the friend/foe nexus in Germany history, literature and culture, with an emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3471 - English Legal History to 1776
The development of legal institutions, legal ideas, and legal principles from the medieval period to the 18th century. Emphasizes the impact of transformations in politics, society, and thought on the major categories of English law: property, torts and contracts, corporations, family law, constitutional and administrative law, and crime.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3472 - Nineteenth Century Britain
A history of Britain and the British Empire from the Union with Ireland in 1801 to the death of Queen Victoria in 1901.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3482 - Twentieth Century Britain
A history of Britain and the British Empire from the death of Queen Victoria in 1901 to the re-election of Tony Blair in 1001.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3492 - The British Empire
Surveys the rise, rule, and demise of the British Empire from the Seven Years War (1756-63) to decolonization after World War II. Topics include the expansion and consolidation of empire, opposition, and resistance, and the cultural consequences of imperialism.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3502 - History of Central Europe
This lecture course will explore the 19th- and 20th-century history of Central Europe as both region and idea, tracing two stories in parallel: 1) the entangled history of Austrians, Czechs, Germans, Hungarians, Jews, Lithuanians, Poles, Slovaks, and Ukrainians; and 2) attempts by writers and scholars belonging to these groups (from Sigmund Freud to Milan Kundera) to “imagine” their own versions of a Europe caught between “East” and “West.”
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3559 - New Course in European History
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of European History.
Credits: 1 to 4
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HIEU 3602 - Twentieth Century Spain
Twentieth Century Spain
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3612 - Age of Reform and Revolution in Russia, 1855-1917
Studies the changes resulting from the wake of reforms following the Crimean War. Explores the social and political effects of efforts to modernize and industrialize Russia, which led to the growth of political and revolutionary opposition and the overthrow of the monarchy.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3622 - Russian Intellectual History in the 19th Century
Studies the background of Westernization, rise of intelligentsia, development of radical and conservative trends, and the impact of intellectual ferment on Russian culture and politics to 1917.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3652 - Russian and Soviet Diplomatic History, 1850-Present
Studies the foreign policy legacy of the Russian Empire to the present. Emphasizes World War I, foreign intervention in Russia, the Comintern, the Second World War and after, the Cold War, the expansion and decline of world communism, the collapse of the Soviet empire, and current Russian prospects.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3672 - Revolutionary Russia
Detailed study of the social, cultural, and political history of the revolutionary movement: the 1905 Revolution, the February Revolution, and the Bolshevik Revolution from Lenin to Stalin.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3692 - The Holocaust
This course aims to clarify basic facts and explore competing explanations for the origins and unfolding of the Holocaust (the encounter between the Third Reich and Europe’s Jews between 1933 and 1945) that resulted in the deaths of almost six million Jews.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3702 - Russia as Multi-Ethnic Empire
Traces and analyzes the ethno-religious complexion of the vast region governed by Russia and the USSR from the 16th century to the present. Special attention is given to the experiences of minorities such as Jews, the various Turkic-Muslim peoples, Ukrainians, Poles, and peoples of Transcaucasia, as well as the relations of these groups with the Russian state and ethnic Russian population.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3712 - Spanish Culture & Civilization
Spanish Culture & Civilization
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3721 - Witchcraft
Surveys Western attitudes toward magic and witchcraft from ancient times to the present, with emphasis on the European age of witch hunting, 1450-1750. Cross-listed as RELG 3721. Prerequisite: First-year students not admitted except by instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3732 - European Social History, 1770-1890
Studies the evolution of private life from the era of early capitalism to the end of the nineteenth century. Focuses on family life, work experience, material conditions, women’s roles, childhood, and youth.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3742 - European Social History, 1890-1980
Studies the evolution of private life from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day. Focuses on family life, work experience, material conditions, women’s roles, childhood, and youth.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3752 - Evolution of the International System, 1815-1950
Analyzes the evolution of great-power politics from the post-Napoleonic Congress of Vienna and the systems of Metternich and Bismarck to the great convulsions of the twentieth century and the Russo-American Cold War after World War II.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3772 - Science in the Modern World
Studies the development of scientific thought and institutions since 1700, emphasizing the increasing involvement of science in economic, social, political, and military affairs and its relations with philosophical and religious thought.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3782 - Origins of Modern Thought, 1580-1943
Introduces central themes, theorists, and texts in secular European thought since 1580. Surveys the ‘age of reason,’ the Enlightenment, romanticism, historicism, positivism, existentialism, and related matters. Works by a variety of thinkers are read, explicated, and discussed.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3792 - Intellectual History of Modern Europe
Studies the main currents of European thought in the 19th and 20th centuries. Emphasizes major social movements and cultural changes.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3802 - Origins of Contemporary Thought
Studies selected themes in intellectual history since the mid-19th century, focusing on Darwin, Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, and other thinkers, emphasizing the intellectual contexts out of which they came and to which they contributed.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3812 - Marx
Introduces the social theory of Karl Marx. What Marx said, why he said it, what he meant in saying it, and the significance thereof. Situates Marx’s writing in the context of 19th-century intellectual history. Focuses on the coherence and validity of the theory and its subsequent history.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 3851 - History of London
History of London
Credits: 3
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HIEU 4501 - Seminar in Pre-1700 European History
The major seminar is a small class (not more than 15 students) intended primarily but not exclusively for history majors who have completed two or more courses relevant to the topic of the seminar. The work of the seminar results primarily in the preparation of a substantial (ca. 25 pp. in standard format) research paper. Some restrictions and prerequisites apply to enrollment. See a history advisor or the director of undergraduate studies.
Credits: 4
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HIEU 4502 - Seminar in Post-1700 European History
The major seminar is a small class (not more than 15 students) intended primarily but not exclusively for history majors who have completed two or more courses relevant to the topic of the seminar. The work of the seminar results primarily in the preparation of a substantial (ca. 25 pp. in standard format) research paper. Some restrictions and prerequisites apply to enrollment. See a history advisor or the director of undergraduate studies.
Credits: 4
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HIEU 4511 - Colloquium in Pre-1700 European History
The major colloquium is a small class (not more than 15 students) intended primarily but not exclusively for history majors who have completed two or more courses relevant to the topic of the colloquium. Colloquia are most frequently offered in areas of history where access to source materials or linguistic demands make seminars especially difficult. Students in colloquia prepare about 25 pages of written work. Some restrictions and prerequisites apply to enrollment. See a history advisor or the director of undergraduate studies.
Credits: 4
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HIEU 4512 - Colloquium in Post-1700 European History
A small class (not more than 15 students) intended primarily for history majors who have completed two or more courses relevant to the topic. Frequently offered in areas of history where access to source materials or linguistic demands make seminars especially difficult. Students will prepare about 25 pages of written work distributed among various assignments. Some restrictions and prerequisites apply to enrollment. See History DUS.
Credits: 4
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HIEU 4559 - New Course in European History
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of European History.
Credits: 1 to 4
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HIEU 4591 - Topics in Pre-1700 European History
Topics courses are small, discussion-oriented classes available to any student with sufficient background and interest in a particular field of historical study. Offered irregularly, they are open to majors or non-majors on an equal basis.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 4592 - Topics in Post-1700 European History
Topics courses are small, discussion-oriented classes available to any student with sufficient background and interest in a particular field of historical study. Offered irregularly, they are open to majors or non-majors on an equal basis.
Credits: 3
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HIEU 4993 - Independent Study in European History
In exceptional circumstances and with the permission of a faculty member any student may undertake a rigorous program of independent study designed to explore a subject not currently being taught or to expand upon regular offerings. Independent Study projects may not be used to replace regularly scheduled classes. Open to majors or non-majors.
Credits: 1 to 3
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HILA 1501 - Introductory Seminar in Latin American History
Intended for first- or second-year students, this course introduces the study of history. Seminars involve reading, discussing, and writing about different historical topics and periods, and emphasize the enhancement of critical and communication skills. Several seminars are offered each term. Not more than two Introductory Seminars may be counted toward the major history.
Credits: 3
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HILA 1559 - New Course in Latin American History
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of Latin American History.
Credits: 1 to 4
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HILA 2001 - Colonial Latin America, 1500-1824
Introduces major developments and issues in the study of Latin American history from Native American societies on the eve of the Spanish Conquest to the wars of national independence in the early 19th century.
Credits: 3
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HILA 2002 - Modern Latin America, 1824 to Present
Introduces the history of Latin America from national independence in the early 19th century to the present.
Credits: 3
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HILA 2110 - Latin American Civilization
Latin American Civilization
Credits: 3
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HILA 2201 - The History of the Caribbean
The History of the Caribbean
Credits: 3
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HILA 2559 - New Course in Latin American History
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of Latin American History.
Credits: 1 to 4
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HILA 3031 - Mexico From Conquest to Nation
Studies Mexican history from 1519 to 1854, emphasizing Spanish/Indian relations, problems of periodization in cultural, economic, and social history, the state and the church in public life, the significance of national independence, and regional variation in all of these subjects.
Credits: 3
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HILA 3032 - Mexico, Revolution and Evolution, 1854 to Present
Studies Mexican history since the wars of reform in the 1850s. The Revolution, 1910-1920, its origins and meaning for modern Mexico, is the centerpiece. Topics include political ideas, church and state, the growth of nationalism and the state, economic changes, urbanization, land reform, and the intractable problem of inequality in the 20th century.
Credits: 3
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HILA 3051 - Modern Central America
Studies the history of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, and El Salvador from 19th century fragmentation, oligarchic, foreign, and military rule, to the emergence of popular nationalisms.
Credits: 3
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HILA 3061 - History of Modern Brazil
Explores Brazilian history from Independence to the present day. Through an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, the course examines the legacy of slavery, the importance of popular culture, and debates over national identity in the making of a distinctively ambiguous Brazilian ‘modernity,’ broadly understood.
Credits: 3
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HILA 3071 - History of Colonial Brazil
This three-hundred level class will provide students from the History department with the intellectual tools to understand the History of early Brazil in a comparative and transnational way. The class places Brazil in the broader context of Atlantic, underlining contacts with Africa and establishing comparisons with other colonial experiences throughout the Atlantic from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries.
Credits: 3
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HILA 3111 - Public Life in Modern Latin America
Introduces the forces shaping the emerging nations of Latin America since independence, emphasizing the dynamic reproduction of hierarchies that correspond to the patrimonial, aristocratic, and populist legitimization of social, cultural, and political relations in city life.
Credits: 3
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HILA 3201 - History of the Caribbean, 1500-2000
The Caribbean is a region of the Atlantic world bounded by Central America and the north of South America, and by an arc of islands which runs from Trinidad in the south, to the Bahamas in the north, and Cuba in the west. This course surveys its history from the pre-Columbian era to the present, with special emphasis on the Anglophone territories. It is at the same time an introduction to the intellectual history of the region, since readings are chosen almost exclusively from within its traditions.
Credits: 3
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HILA 3559 - New Course in Latin American History
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of Latin American History.
Credits: 1 to 4
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HILA 4501 - Seminar in Latin American History
The major seminar is a small class (not more than 15 students) intended primarily but not exclusively for history majors who have completed two or more courses relevant to the topic of the seminar. Seminar work results primarily in the preparation of substantial (ca. 25 pp. in standard format) research paper. Some restrictions and prerequisites apply to enrollment. See a history advisor or the director of undergraduate studies.
Credits: 4
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HILA 4511 - Colloquium in Latin American History
The major colloquium is a small class (not more than 15 students) intended primarily but not exclusively for history majors who have completed two or more courses relevant to the topic of the colloquium. Colloquia are most frequently offered in areas of history where access to source materials or linguistic demands make seminars especially difficult. Students in colloquia prepare about 25 pages of written work distributed among various assignments. Some restrictions and prerequisites apply to enrollment. See a history advisor or the director of undergraduate studies.
Credits: 4
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HILA 4559 - New Course in Latin American History
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of Latin American History.
Credits: 1 to 4
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HILA 4591 - Topics in Latin American History
Topics courses are small, discussion-oriented classes available to any student with sufficient background and interest in a particular field of historical study. Offered irregularly, they are open to majors or non-majors on an equal basis.
Credits: 3
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HILA 4701 - The Inquisition in Spain and Latin America
Explores the history of the ecclesiastical court dedicated to the eradication of heresy in early modern Spain, its impact on culture, religion and social behavior. History majors may submit written work and write exams in English; Spanish majors are expected to write in Spanish. Cross-listed with SPAN 4701. Prerequisite:At lest on 4000 level Spanish course.
Credits: 3
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HILA 4993 - Independent Study in Latin American History
In exceptional circumstances and with the permission of a faculty member any student may undertake a rigorous program of independent study designed to explore a subject not currently being taught or to expand upon regular offerings. Independent Study projects may not be used to replace regularly scheduled classes. Open to majors or non-majors.
Credits: 1 to 3
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HIME 1501 - Introductory Seminar in Middle East History
Introduces the study of history intended for first- or second-year students. Seminars involve reading, discussing, and writing about different historical topics and periods, and emphasize the enhancement of critical and communication skills. Not more than two Introductory Seminars may be counted toward the major in history.
Credits: 3
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HIME 1559 - New Course in Middle Eastern History
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of Middle Eastern History
Credits: 1 to 4
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HIME 2001 - History of the Middle East and North Africa, ca. 570-ca. 1500
Explores the historical evolution of the Middle East and North Africa from the birth of Islam to the establishment of the Ottoman state in the early 16th century. Topics include the Fertile Crescent, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Iran/Persia, and the Arabian Peninsula; Andalusia (Muslim Spain); North Africa, Anatolia; Central Asia; Islam as a religious system, way of life, and world civilization; and the historical development of cultural, social, legal, and political Islamic institutions.
Credits: 4
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HIME 2002 - History of the Middle East and North Africa, ca. 1500-Present
As a continuation of HIME 201 (which is not a prerequisite), this course surveys the historical evolution of the Middle East and North Africa, i.e., the region stretching from Morocco to Afghanistan, and from the Balkans and Anatolia to the Arabian Peninsula. Topics include the main political configurations of the area from the birth of Islam until the Mongol aftermath; the rise of the ‘gunpowder Empires’ of the 16th century; the Ottoman and Safavid (Iran) states; and the modern nation-state systems of the present century, ca. 1980. The dominant political, religious, economic, social, and cultural features of Middle Eastern peoples and societies are examined, as are relationships between the region and other parts of Eurasia, particularly Western Europe.
Credits: 4
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HIME 2012 - Palestine 1948
This course explores the dramatic war of 1948 in Palestine from the UN partition resolution of November 29, 1947 to the cease-fire agreements in early 1949. It covers the political, military progression of the war, within international and decolonization contexts, while paying special attention to the two major outcomes of the war and how they came about: Jewish independence and Palestinian dispossession.
Credits: 3
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HIME 2559 - New Course in Middle Eastern History
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of Middle Eastern History.
Credits: 1 to 4
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HIME 3191 - Christianity and Islam
Studies Christianity in the Middle East in the centuries after the rise of Islam.
Credits: 3
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HIME 3192 - From Nomads to Sultans: the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1700
A survey of the history of the Ottoman Empire from its obscure origins around 1300 to 1700, this course explores the political, military, social, and cultural history of this massive, multi-confessional, multi-ethnic, inter-continental empire which, at its height, encompassed Central and Southeastern Europe, the Caucasus, the Middle East, and North Africa.
Credits: 3
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HIME 3559 - New Course in Middle Eastern History
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of Middle Eastern History.
Credits: 1 to 4
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HIME 4501 - Seminar in Middle East and North Africa History
The major seminar is a small class (not more than 15 students) intended primarily but not exclusively for history majors who have completed two or more courses relevant to the topic of the seminar. The work of the seminar results primarily in the preparation of a substantial (ca. 25 pages in standard format) research paper. Some restrictions and prerequisites apply to enrollment. See a history advisor or the director of undergraduate studies.
Credits: 4
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HIME 4511 - Colloquium in Middle East History
The major colloquium is a small class (not more than 15 students) intended primarily but not exclusively for history majors who have completed two or more courses relevant to the topics of the colloquium. Colloquia are most frequently offered in areas of history where access to source materials or linguistic demands make seminars especially difficult. Students in colloquia prepare about 25 pages of written work distributed among various assignments. Some restrictions and prerequisites apply to enrollment. See a history advisor or the director of undergraduate studies.
Credits: 4
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HIME 4559 - New Course in Middle Eastern History
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of Middle Eastern History.
Credits: 1 to 4
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HIME 4591 - Topics in Middle Eastern History
Topics courses are small, discussion-oriented classes available to any student with sufficient background and interest in a particular field of historical study. Offered irregularly, they are open to majors or non-majors on an equal basis.
Credits: 3
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HIME 4993 - Independent Study in Middle Eastern History
In exceptional circumstances and with the permission of a faculty member any student may undertake a rigorous program of independent study designed to explore a subject not currently being taught or to expand upon regular offerings. Independent Study projects may not be used to replace regularly scheduled classes. Open to majors or non-majors.
Credits: 1 to 3
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HISA 1501 - Introductory Seminar in South Asia
Introduction to the study of history intended for first- or second-year students. Seminars involve reading, discussion, and writing about different historical topics and periods, and emphasize the enhancement of critical and communication skills. Several seminars are offered each term. Not more than two Introductory Seminars may be counted toward the major in history.
Credits: 3
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HISA 1559 - New Course in South Asian History
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of South Asian History
Credits: 1 to 4
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HISA 2001 - History and Civilization of Classical India
Studies the major elements of South Asian civilization, from the Stone Age to 1200, including the Indus Valley, Vedic literatures, Buddhism, Jainism, Epic traditions, the caste system, Mauryan and Guptan Empires, and devotional Hinduism.
Credits: 3
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HISA 2002 - History and Civilization of Medieval India
Studies the social, political, economic and cultural history of South Asia from 1200 to 1800, from the Turkic invasions through the major Islamic dynasties, especially the Mughal Empire, to the establishment of English hegemony in the maritime provinces.
Credits: 3
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HISA 2003 - History of Modern India
Surveys 200 years of Indian history from the mid-18th century to the present, focusing on the imperial/colonial encounter with the British Raj before Independence, and the social and political permutations of freedom in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka since.
Credits: 3
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HISA 2559 - New Course in South Asian History
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of South Asian history.
Credits: 1 to 4
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HISA 3001 - History of Muslim India
Studies the nature of Islamic political dominance in a non-Muslim society; Turko-Afghan and Mughal political institutions; art, letters and learning under the Delhi Sultanate, regional rulers and Mughals; and religious and cultural life during the Muslim period in South Asia.
Credits: 3
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HISA 3002 - India From Akbar to Victoria
Studies the society and politics in the Mughal Empire, the Empire’s decline and the rise of successor states, the English as a regional power and their expansion, and social, economic and political change under British paramountcy, including the 1857 Revolt.
Credits: 3
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HISA 3003 - Twentieth-Century India
Surveys 100 years of Indian history, defining the qualities of the world’s first major anti-colonial movement of nationalism and the changes and cultural continuities of India’s democratic policy in the decades since 1947.
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HISA 3111 - Social and Political Movements in Twentieth-Century India
Considers the relationships between land, people, and politics in modern South Asia.
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HISA 3121 - History of Women in South Asia
Surveys the evolving definitions and roles of women in the major social and cultural traditions of South Asia, i.e., India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.
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