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2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [FINAL EDITION]
Course Descriptions
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Writing enriched courses are designated W
Service learning courses are designated S.L.
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French |
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FREN 409 - Senior Seminar
3 Credit(s)
The required capstone for the French major, this course is designed to enable seniors to conduct research and produce a work of original scholarship for presentation orally and in writing.
Prerequisite(s): Senior status.
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FREN 488 - Special Topics in French
3 Credit(s)
Topics offered in response to student and faculty interest.
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FREN 499 - Independent Study
3 Credit(s)
Independent study and research; individual investigation of a problem in literature or a closely related topic may be arranged by a student and professor.
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Freshman Studies |
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FRS 101 - Freshman Seminar
1 Credit(s)
The transition from high school to college requires intellectual as well as social and emotional competencies. This course acquaints students with the social and emotional skills associated with emotional intelligence, and facilitates discussion of the direct application of these skills to students’ personal and academic life.
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Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies For the full list of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies related courses that fulfill the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Minor /Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, BA requirements.
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GWS 101 - Introduction to Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies
3 Credit(s)
This course focuses on the experiences of women and the significance of gender from an interdisciplinary and multicultural perspective. It explores the extent to which gender, as well as other social characteristics such as race, class, and sexual orientation affect access to opportunity, power, and resources. It also examines the contributions of women to society and to social change.
Satisfies distribution requirement in humanities or social sciences (varies each semester).
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GWS 188 - Special Topics in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
1-3 Credit(s)
Topics offered in response to student and/or faculty interest.
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GWS 239 - Women and Development in Latin America
3 Credit(s)
This team-taught service-learning travel course engages students in thinking about the challenges of development in Latin America, with particular emphasis placed upon the gendered dimensions of both development theory and practice. Through a combination of readings, films, lectures, discussion, and travel to a developing region in Mexico, Central America, or South America where women play key roles in development, students will be challenged to understand the burdens placed on women in underdeveloped nations as well as the roles that women have played in that region’s development. During all phases of this course, students are expected to reflect on their readings, service, and other experiences.
(SAME AS SOC 239 AND ANTH 239 )
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GWS 288 - Special Topics in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
1-3 Credit(s)
Topics offered in response to student and/or faculty interest.
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GWS 355 - Feminist Theories and Methodology
3 Credit(s)
This seminar-style course focuses on feminist theories as they have evolved since the beginning of organized activity on behalf of women’s rights. Theoretical foundations of liberal, radical, and socialist feminism are covered, as well as more recent works on standpoint theory, masculinist studies, post-colonial research, multiculturalism, social constructionism, post-modern and queer theory. Critical thinking is applied to the intersections of gender with race, class, sexual orientation, ethnicity, age, and other social group characteristics. Critiques and innovations in research methodology are also covered.
Prerequisite(s): GWS 101 or permission of instructor.
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GWS 388 - Special Topics in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
1-3 Credit(s)
Topics offered in response to student and/or faculty interest.
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GWS 394 - Practicum
3-6 Credit(s)
Students work in a sustained and in-depth manner with an organization whose focus is gender related, or on a gender-related project for a more broadly oriented organization. Students meet regularly with the director of GWS, or a designated faculty member or organizational leader, and are expected to write a reflective paper integrating the field work with research and scholarship in both the field of the practicum and gender, women, and sexuality studies. Permission of the chair is required. Open to juniors and seniors. Not available to students who are student teaching. May be taken in one or two semesters. Six credits maximum.
Prerequisite(s): GWS 101 .
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GWS 395 - Practicum
3-6 Credit(s)
Students work in a sustained and in-depth manner with an organization whose focus is gender related, or on a gender-related project for a more broadly oriented organization. Students meet regularly with the director of GWS, or a designated faculty member or organizational leader, and are expected to write a reflective paper integrating the field work with research and scholarship in both the field of the practicum and gender, women, and sexuality studies. Permission of the chair is required. Open to juniors and seniors. Not available to students who are student teaching. May be taken in one or two semesters. Six credits maximum.
Prerequisite(s): GWS 101 .
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GWS 409 - Senior Capstone
3 Credit(s)
This is a senior-level research course in a specialized area of gender, women, and sexuality studies available to all gender, women, and sexuality studies majors. This is a writing enriched course.
Prerequisite(s): GWS 355 or permission of instructor.
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GWS 488 - Special Topics in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
1-3 Credit(s)
Topics offered in response to student and/or faculty interest.
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GWS 499 - Independent Study
3-6 Credit(s)
Students undertake independent study of significant issues concerning gender, women, and sexuality studies. A topic, approved by the instructor and the director of gender, women, and sexuality studies, is chosen for research and a written report is required. Discussions as to the progress of the work are held periodically.
Prerequisite(s): Open to qualified students with the permission of the faculty advisor and the chair of gender, women, and sexuality studies. Students must have a junior or senior standing.
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German |
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GRMN 101 - Elementary German I
3 Credit(s)
These courses introduce students to basic German grammar and vocabulary through a variety of speaking, listening, reading, writing, and cultural activities. Recommended for students with little or no previous German instruction.
Prerequisite(s): GRMN 101, or permission of instructor, is a prerequisite for GRMN 102 .
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GRMN 102 - Elementary German II
3 Credit(s)
These courses introduce students to basic German grammar and vocabulary through a variety of speaking, listening, reading, writing, and cultural activities. Recommended for students with little or no previous German instruction.
Prerequisite(s): GRMN 101 , or permission of instructor, is a prerequisite for GRMN 102.
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GRMN 103 - Elementary German Lab I
1 Credit(s)
These practice sessions emphasize the development of oral-aural competence. Through role-playing in a wide spectrum of real-life situations, students master proficiencies that enable them to react and respond naturally in current and accurate idiomatic German. These sessions integrate and expand upon materials concurrently studied in the elementary language courses.
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GRMN 104 - Elementary German Lab II
1 Credit(s)
These practice sessions emphasize the development of oral-aural competence. Through role-playing in a wide spectrum of real-life situations, students master proficiencies that enable them to react and respond naturally in current and accurate idiomatic German. These sessions integrate and expand upon materials concurrently studied in the elementary language courses.
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GRMN 188 - Special Topics in German
3 Credit(s)
Topics offered in response to student and faculty interest.
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GRMN 201 - Intermediate German I
3 Credit(s)
The language and culture of Germany are studied in an intensive review of German grammar and German linguistics done exclusively in German. An introduction to all elements of German culture and civilization through readings of graded literary texts and cultural materials is included.
Prerequisite(s): GRMN 102 or permission of instructor.
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GRMN 202 - Intermediate German II
3 Credit(s)
The language and culture of Germany are studied in an intensive review of German grammar and German linguistics done exclusively in German. An introduction to all elements of German culture and civilization through readings of graded literary texts and cultural materials is included.
Prerequisite(s): GRMN 102 or permission of instructor.
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GRMN 288 - Special Topics in German
3 Credit(s)
Topics offered in response to student and faculty interest.
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GRMN 301 - German Conversation and Composition I
3 Credit(s)
Intensive practice in oral and written expression. Topics for discussion and written assignments will be drawn from contemporary culture of the German-speaking world.
Prerequisite(s): GRMN 202 or consent of the instructor.
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GRMN 302 - German Conversation and Composition II
3 Credit(s)
Intensive practice in oral and written expression. Topics for discussion and written assignments will be drawn from contemporary culture of the German-speaking world.
Prerequisite(s): GRMN 202 or consent of the instructor.
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GRMN 304 - German Civilization and Culture
3 Credit(s)
A survey of the historical, political, and social factors from 763 A.D. to the present which have influenced the character and culture of the German-speaking countries of Western Europe.
Prerequisite(s): GRMN 202 or its equivalent.
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GRMN 306 - German Film and Society
3 Credit(s)
This course treats films from the German-speaking world over the past century. Films are discussed in terms of techniques and sociocultural contexts. All discussion and written work are done in German.
This course may be used for fulfilling the cultural requirement for the German minor.
Prerequisite(s): GRMN 202 or by permission of the instructor.
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GRMN 320 - Modern German Literature
3 Credit(s)
Reading and critical analysis of representative writers from Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. Classroom discussion, brief presentation, and short papers in German are required.
Prerequisite(s): GRMN 202 or its equivalent.
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GRMN 330 - Goethe
3 Credit(s)
The early works of Goethe are considered, with special emphasis on Faust.
Prerequisite(s): GRMN 202 or its equivalent.
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GRMN 388 - Special Topics in German
3 Credit(s)
Topics offered in response to student and faculty interest.
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GRMN 488 - Special Topics in German
3 Credit(s)
Topics offered in response to student and faculty interest.
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GRMN 499 - Independent Study
3 Credit(s)
Independent study and research; individual investigation of a problem in literature or a closely related topic may be arranged by a student and professor.
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History |
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HIST 021 - History Portfolio
0 Credit(s)
In this course, students compile the portfolios required to complete the history major, selecting their best work in each category. Students also review the two self-assessment essays they completed in the sophomore and senior years. Enrollment is limited to seniors in the history major.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
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HIST 100 - Western Civilization I (Ancient World–1300)
3 Credit(s)
A study of select themes in historical development from ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations through Classical Greece and Rome to the Later Middle Ages. A humanistic analysis of the traditional and popular elements in social behavior.
Prerequisite(s): No prerequisite.
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HIST 101 - Western Civilization II (1300–1789)
3 Credit(s)
A study of select themes in European history from the later Middle Ages to the French Revolution. Topics of special interest include the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, and the start of the French Revolution.
Prerequisite(s): No prerequisite.
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HIST 102 - Western Civilization III (1789–Present)
3 Credit(s)
A study of select themes in European history from the French Revolution to the present. Topics of special interest include the emergence of liberalism, nationalism, the growth of industrialization, socialism, and militarism.
Prerequisite(s): No prerequisite.
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HIST 104 - Women in the Western Tradition
3 Credit(s)
This course examines Western society’s attitudes toward women and how these attitudes shaped women’s participation in the social, political, economic, and cultural development of the Western World from ancient times to the present. A special effort is made to utilize primary source material in the course readings.
This course fulfills requirements for the GWS major and minor.
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HIST 105 - Wives, Witches, and Warriors (Honors)
3 Credit(s)
This course examines Western attitudes toward women from ancient to modern times. It focuses on three types of women: those who conformed to societal expectations (wives), those who resisted those expectations (witches), and those who consciously sought to change society’s attitudes about women’s roles and status (warriors).
This course fulfills requirements for the GWS major and minor.
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HIST 111 - World Civilization to 1500
3 Credit(s)
This course provides a global perspective on the past before 1500. Beginning with the emergence of civilization, the course surveys the diffusion of civilization and the development of selected societies in regions such as Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Attention is given to the major cultural, social, economic, and political experiences of the peoples in these areas.
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HIST 112 - Gods, Empires, and Engines: World Civilizations Since 1500
3 Credit(s)
This course explores key currents in global history since 1500. It focuses on close reading of primary sources—from the Islamic Quran to training manuals used by Japanese samurai, from Gandhi’s autobiography to Lenin’s speeches, from diaries of Portuguese missionaries to edicts of Chinese emperors. Through journals, class discussions, and research projects, students analyze how diverse cultures— African, Chinese, European, Indian, American and Islamic—interacted with each other at different points in time; how cultural, political, and economic events in one region affected others; and how these societies shaped our modern world.
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HIST 121 - American Civilization I
3 Credit(s)
American Civilization I surveys the history of the United States to 1877, with emphasis on how major economic, political, and social changes affected the lives and values of Americans. The focus is on how diverse peoples experienced and influenced the processes of colonization, nation-building, and sectional development. The class examines the kinds of evidence historians use to reconstruct the past and challenges students to think analytically about historical sources to learn how people made sense of and shaped American civilization.
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HIST 122 - American Civilization II
3 Credit(s)
American Civilization II surveys the history of the United States from 1877 to the present, with emphasis on how major economic, political, and social changes affected the lives and values of Americans. The focus is on how the processes of industrialization, immigration, and urbanization transformed American life from a parochial, “homogeneous,” rural, and agricultural experience to an urban, industrial, multicultural nation in an increasingly interdependent world. The class examines the kinds of evidence that historians use to reconstruct the past and challenges students to think analytically about historical sources to learn how people made sense of and shaped modern American civilization.
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HIST 188 - Special Topics in History
3 Credit(s)
Topics offered in response to student and faculty interest.
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HIST 288 - Special Topics in History
3 Credit(s)
Topics offered in response to student and faculty interest.
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HIST 301 - Historical Perspectives On Technology
3 Credit(s)
A survey of the interaction between technology and society, with particular emphasis on the Western world since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
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HIST 310 - Topics in Medieval History
3 Credit(s)
The Western world from the decline of Rome to the age of discovery and exploration is examined. Special notice is taken of religious and intellectual developments: Byzantine and Saracenic civilizations; feudalism and the growth of feudal monarchy; the economic and cultural society of manor and town; the growth of trade and the political evolution of Western Europe.
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HIST 311 - The Renaissance
3 Credit(s)
The literary, artistic, and intellectual achievements of the 14th and 15th centuries are examined in the context of the economic, political, and social development of Western Europe.
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HIST 312 - The Reformation
3 Credit(s)
The origin and growth of Protestantism and the Catholic Refor-mation of the 16th century are examined in the context of the economic, political, and social development of Western Europe.
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HIST 313 - Europe in the 17th and 18th Centuries
3 Credit(s)
An examination of the politics, society, and culture of early modern Europe. Topics of special interest include the crisis of 17th-century Europe, the establishment of absolutism, salient characteristics of the Age of Reason and Enlightenment, and the emergence of the 18th-century balance of power.
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HIST 314 - The Industrial Revolution in Europe
3 Credit(s)
This course is a survey of the origins and spread of rapid sustained economic growth since 1750 with emphasis on the change from a commercial and agricultural to an industrial economy.
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HIST 315 - Contemporary Europe
3 Credit(s)
This course is an interpretation of the far-flung events and movements of world history since the beginning of the First World War.
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HIST 321 - Women in the World Wars
3 Credit(s)
This course examines the experiences of British, French, German, Russian, and American women on both the homefront and battlefront during the First and Second World Wars. Through a comparative study of women’s attitudes, their domestic and public activities, and government policies toward them, the course investigates women’s traditional and nontraditional wartime roles. It also considers the impact of the World Wars on attitudes toward women and on women’s opportunities and status in the immediate post-war years. Memoirs, diaries, and correspondence by women who worked in war industries, served in auxiliary military services, and fought on the front lines are among the primary sources students use to obtain evidence about women’s wartime experiences.
This course fulfills requirements for the GWS major and minor.
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HIST 325 - Family, Sex, and Death: European Social History
3 Credit(s)
The course examines the forces that shaped life and thought from the late medieval era to the early 20th century. In addition to making students aware of the conditions of life that prevailed for the vast majority of Europeans, the course will expose students to the application of cultural and gender theory, as well as cultural anthropology and quantitative methods to the study of history.
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HIST 326 - Sex and Gender in European History
3 Credit(s)
This course examines the political, economic, social, and cultural developments that occurred in Europe since the Renaissance with a focus on gender, family, marriage, sex, and sexuality. The purpose of the course is to familiarize students with gender as an analytical category as distinguished from sex, make students conscious of the variability of gender, and knowledgeable of the forces that have acted upon gender and sexuality in the past. Students explore themes such as gender construction, norms and transgressions; marriage and the family; concepts of masculinity/femininity and respectability; paternity; sex, deviance, and sexual danger; regulation, repression, and liberation; and the relationship between the state and the private lives of individuals.
This course fulfills requirements for the GWS major and minor.
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HIST 327 - Outcasts and Otherness in Late Medieval Europe, 1300 –1600
3 Credit(s)
This course looks at ways in which late medieval Christian Europe attempted to enforce dominant social, religious, and sexual norms by defining standards of normalcy and punishing those who deviated from those standards. Students read and discuss historical monographs on witches, demons, heretics, sodomites, peasant visionaries, and portentous monstrosities, among other outcasts. Students also write papers that investigate historical and contemporary manifestations of otherness.
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HIST 328 - The French Revolution and Napoleon
3 Credit(s)
The course examines the causes, development, spread, and defeat of the Great French Revolution. The course will first familiarize the students with the politics of the Old Regime and Enlightenment political philosophy. They will also explore the development of constitutional monarchy, political and economic Liberalism, a democratic republic, and authoritarian government. The course will especially focus upon the relationship between social and political conflict and between foreign and domestic policy. Students will become familiar with Romantic Nationalist, Marxist, Social, Revisionist, and more recent interpretations of the Revolution.
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HIST 329 - World War and Memory
3 Credit(s)
The course examines the memory and commemoration of the two world wars, with an emphasis on European memories. Students study the political, social, and cultural construction of both personal and national memories during and after the wars. Students read about and discuss the fierce debates regarding major political decisions, personal initiatives, the experience of war, and issues of personal and national guilt and responsibility for war crimes.
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HIST 330 - Tudor and Stuart England
3 Credit(s)
A close study of the emergence of the modern English state under the Tudors and of the struggle between monarch and subject for the control of the machinery of government during the time of the Stuarts.
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HIST 331 - France in the Bourgeois Century, 1799–1914
3 Credit(s)
The course focuses on the history of France between the French Revolution and World War I, with a special emphasis on its political, social, intellectual, and cultural history. The purpose of the course is to explore French modernization.
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HIST 332 - Germany Since 1871
3 Credit(s)
The development of modern Germany is studied with particular emphasis on the era of National Socialism, the democratic experiments after the Second World War, and the process of German reunification.
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HIST 333 - Facism, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust
3 Credit(s)
An investigation of the origins and consequences of the Nazi regime, with particular attention to the planning and implementation of the Final Solution and the destruction of Europe’s Jews.
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HIST 334 - Russia in the 18th and 19th Centuries
3 Credit(s)
The political, economic, and social history of Russia from the reign of Peter the Great to the end of the 19th century. Among the topics examined are Russia’s territorial expansion, the growth of industrialization, the transformation of the nobility and the peasantry, and the emergence of the revolutionary movement.
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HIST 335 - Russia in the 20th Century
3 Credit(s)
A survey of Russia from the reign of the last tsar, Nicholas II, to the present. Special attention is given to the political revolutions of 1905, 1917, and 1990–91 in the context of the economic and social modernization of a multinational state. Topics to be considered include the transformation of the peasantry, the expansion of industrialization, and the emergence of a civil society.
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HIST 336 - Russia’s Holocaust: Life and Death in Stalin’s Time
3 Credit(s)
This course provides students with a better understanding of Josef Stalin’s dictatorship (1929–1953), a period of unparalleled terror and mass repression in the USSR. It will examine Stalin’s personality and policies; the apparatus of terror and repression he employed to gain and maintain power; and the social, economic, political, and cultural consequences of Stalinism for its victims and for the future development of the USSR/Russia.
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HIST 337 - Russia Since Communism
3 Credit(s)
This course examines the political, economic, social, and cultural development of post-Soviet Russia, with particular attention to the impact of the communist legacy after 1991. This examination takes place within the framework of two competing analytical perspectives: 1) Westernism, according to which Russia is in the process of assimilating Western values and incorporating Western institutions, and 2) Traditionalism, according to which Russia is fundamentally different from the West due to its authoritarian, communal, and Orthodox heritage, and thus highly unlikely to adopt Western ways. Primary sources—mainly observer and participant accounts—provide the basic reading for this course.
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HIST 343 - Allies, Enemies, and World War: European Diplomacy, 1871–1945
3 Credit(s)
An examination of European diplomacy in the last quarter of the 19th century and first half of the 20th century, with special attention to the origins and consequences of World War I and World War II. This course focuses on Great Power diplomacy to examine in detail how the development of imperialism, nationalism, and militarism shaped international relations and eventually led the Great Powers into two cataclysmic and catastrophic conflicts. In this examination, attention is given not only to the role of governments, but also to the role of individual diplomats and public opinion in shaping Great Power policy and diplomatic strategies.
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HIST 344 - Spies and Lies: European Diplomacy Since 1945
3 Credit(s)
An examination of European diplomacy since the Second World War, with special attention to the causes, course, and consequences of the Cold War. This course focuses on relations among and between Eastern and Western European states in the period 1945–1989, as well as on the process of international realignment that followed the subsequent collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
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HIST 346 - Medieval Popular Culture: Europe, 1300–1600
3 Credit(s)
This course examines popular culture in Central and Western Europe during the late Middle Ages. It briefly surveys the historical context of the period 1300–1600, focusing on the assumptions of the elite, literate establishment. It then considers elements of popular belief, notions of cosmic order and disorder, the customs of the reversible world (carnival), medieval attitudes toward sexuality, and manifestations of anticlericalism. In examining these aspects of the lives of non-elite, “ordinary” people, it pays special attention to the relationship between high and low culture, the use of imagery for the communication of ideas to the illiterate lower classes, and the subversive dimension of popular culture.
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HIST 351 - History of Women in America to 1870
3 Credit(s)
Explores the lives of women in America from the beginning of the colonial era to 1870, with a special emphasis on how race, class, region, and gender have affected women’s identities, relationships, and daily lives. Topics include religion, paid and unpaid labor, life cycles, friendships, family life, community, health and sexuality, the women’s rights movements, and the impact of the American Revolution and the Civil War.
This course fulfills requirements for the GWS major and minor.
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HIST 352 - History of Women in America Since 1870
3 Credit(s)
Explores the lives of women in America from 1870 to today, with special emphasis on how race, class, region, and gender have affected women’s identities, relationships, and daily lives. Topics include religion, paid and unpaid labor, prostitution, friendships, family life, community, health and sexuality, birth control, the women’s rights movement, and the impact of United States’ involvement in international wars.
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HIST 353 - Colonial America to 1760
3 Credit(s)
An in-depth survey of political, cultural, social, and economic developments in America to 1760. Topics include Native American societies, founding the English colonies, the adoption of slavery, religious diversification, the consumer revolution, the French and Indian War, and changes in the family.
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HIST 354 - Revolutionary America, 1760–1820
3 Credit(s)
An in-depth survey of political, cultural, social, and economic developments in America from 1760 to 1820. Topics include the imperial crisis, religious and intellectual currents, changes in the family, the American Revolution and its impact, the Constitution, the rise of party politics, and life in the Early Republic.
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HIST 355 - Antebellum America, 1820–1860
3 Credit(s)
An in-depth survey of political, cultural, social, and economic developments in America from 1820 to 1860. Topics include the development of classes, party politics, slavery, changes in the family, westward expansion, sectionalism, and the origins of the Civil War.
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HIST 356 - America From Civil War to World Stage, 1861–1914
3 Credit(s)
An in-depth survey of political, cultural, social, and economic developments in America from 1861 to 1914. Topics include Civil War, Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, national growth and its impact on people of color, and Progressive Reform.
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HIST 357 - America Between the Wars, 1914–1945
3 Credit(s)
An in-depth survey of political, cultural, social, and economic developments in America from 1914 to 1945. Topics include the decline of Progressivism, cultural conflict in the 1920s, the Great Depression and the New Deal, and the home front during World War II.
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HIST 358 - Recent America, 1945–Present
3 Credit(s)
An in-depth survey of political, cultural, social, and economic developments in America since 1945. Topics include the origins and development of the Cold War, McCarthyism, the rise of a counterculture, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, and recent ideological conflict between liberalism and conservatism.
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HIST 364 - Race, Violence, and Memory (Honors)
3 Credit(s)
An investigation of selected episodes of violent racial conflict in American history, with particular emphasis on clashes between African Americans and white Americans. Students explore collective memory of the African slave trade, slave revolts, black military participation, lynchings, race riots, and violence during the civil rights movement. Sources include fiction, films, official records, oral histories, and historians’ accounts. The course culminates in an oral history project on the civil rights demonstrations in 1960s Chester, Pennsylvania.
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HIST 371 - Women and Work in the 20th Century United States
3 Credit(s)
From the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in 1911 to the “second shift” in the 1980s, this course examines experiences of working women and the nature of women’s work in the United States in the 20th century. How have societal expectations for women shaped their paid and unpaid labor? How have class, ethnicity, and race impacted definitions of and women’s experiences with work? Researching from both primary and secondary sources that describe a variety of work settings and occupations, students study the labor process and sexual division of labor, consider changes in the labor market and modes of managerial control, and debate the historical resilience of job segregation and the ideology of sex-typing.
This course fulfills requirements for the GWS major and minor.
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HIST 372 - Studies in American Immigration History
3 Credit(s)
A focused examination of key themes in American immigration history from colonial times to the present. Topics include push-pull factors in immigration, assimilation and cultural diversity, changing immigration patterns, the development of American immigration policy, and the impact of immigration in American history. This is a seminar-style course centered on discussion of required readings, in-class presentations, and written assignments.
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HIST 376 - Slavery and Resistance
3 Credit(s)
This course examines the development of the slave system in the British colonies of North America and the United States along with efforts to abolish that system. The course places American slavery within a global-historical context and includes topics such as the varied experience of slaves and slaveholders, slave revolts, slavery and American politics, the economics of slavery, radical abolitionism, and emancipation.
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HIST 377 - Studies in the American Civil War
3 Credit(s)
A focused examination of the Civil War, from its origins to its immediate consequences. Social, cultural, political, economic, and military developments are emphasized. This is a seminar-style course, centered on required readings, in-class presentations, and written assignments.
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HIST 378 - The Segregated South
3 Credit(s)
This course explores life under the system of legal segregation that existed in the American South from the late 19th century to the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. Topics addressed include the sharecropping system, disfranchisement, segregation, and lynching, as well as ways in which black southerners resisted these economic, political, legal, and extralegal obstacles to racial equality in this period.
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HIST 379 - Industrial America, 1850–1950
3 Credit(s)
This course surveys the causes, dynamics, and consequences of America’s industrial growth and maturity from 1850 to 1950. Students read and discuss primary and secondary sources to explore the process of industrialization from economic, technological, political, and cultural aspects, as it transformed the nation’s social order and people’s everyday lives.
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HIST 380 - U.S. Labor and Leisure: History of the American Working Classes
3 Credit(s)
This course examines developments and important episodes in the history of the American working classes on the shop floor and beyond the factory’s gates from the 1820s through modern times. It surveys major themes and issues in U.S. labor history, including the rise of industrialization, formations of class and class consciousness, changes to labor markets and work processes, labor radicalism, unionization, and the impacts of gender, race, and ethnicity on working- class history.
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HIST 383 - The Civil Rights Movement
3 Credit(s)
This course contextualizes the movement for social justice and legal equality for African Americans that took place during the 1950s and 1960s within a much longer history of protest against racial injustice in the United States. It envisions the struggle for civil rights in America, even during the 1950s and 1960s, as not one movement but many, facilitated by a variety of individuals and groups that adhered to different goals, philosophies, and strategies in a collective quest for racial equality. Students examine the origins, achievements, and failures of the civil rights movement, as well as its legacy in our own time.
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HIST 386 - Samurai Japan: 1192–1868
3 Credit(s)
The Samurai era in Japan began with the Kamakura period (1192–1333) and ended with the 1868 Meiji Restoration. During this long span of Japanese history, elite warriors in Japan enjoyed significant political power. As rulers, administrators, land-managers, scholars, physicians, and martial arts instructors, they profoundly influenced the whole of Japanese society and in particular Japanese masculinity. Through studying the changing population, status, values, training, and individual experiences of the samurai class, students gain a critical understanding of feudalism, economy, religion, culture, gender relations, and daily life in medieval and early-modern Japan.
This course fulfills requirements for the GWS major and minor.
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HIST 388 - Special Topics in History
3 Credit(s)
Topics offered in response to student and faculty interest.
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HIST 390 - U.S.–China Relations
3 Credit(s)
This course is an overview of U.S.-China relations since 1900. Topics include the 1900 Boxer Uprising, the U.S.-China alliance against Japan during WWII, the U.S.-China military conflict during the Korean War, Henry Kissinger’s secret visit to communist China in 1971, and current trade disputes. Throughout the semester, students analyze how cultural identities, geo-political interests, commercial interests, religious establishments, and prominent individuals have influenced the historical trajectory of the relationship between the two countries.
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HIST 392 - China in the Modern World
3 Credit(s)
This course explores China’s often chaotic journey from empire to nation, and China’s ongoing work of being a nation in the modern world. The readings begin with the decline of China’s last dynasty and arrive at China’s hosting of the summer Olympics in 2008. China’s historic path into participation in the modern global and international system has been neither obvious nor inevitable. Over the course of the last century, China has undergone enormous changes, not just in terms of political regimes, but also of the cultural and social fabric and the changing values and identities of its citizens. Though the course is structured to follow chronologically through the major political changes China has faced during the 20th century, our emphasis is on the cultural and social changes affecting the lives of Chinese people and the intersection between state and society.
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HIST 396 - Human Rights in China: A Historical Perspective
3 Credit(s)
Although an international human rights regime has come into being since WWII, debates concerning cultural relativism versus universalism are far from settled. Is there a specifically Chinese approach to human rights? When have human rights been discussed in Chinese history? What has been the historical development of human rights concepts, concerns, and instruments in global history? Where, when, and how have concerns about human rights in China been raised, and with what historical outcomes? This course explores these and other questions by examining the global history of human rights; debates about cultural relativism and non-Western states; Chinese historical concepts and institutions that may or may not have supported human rights; and the historical development of particularly sensitive human rights issues that tend to draw international attention to China.
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HIST 398 - The Two Koreas
3 Credit(s)
Despite a shared cultural and historical heritage, the two Koreas have moved in radically different directions since national division in 1945. Who divided Korea? How do we explain North Korea’s extreme totalitarianism and cult of personality? How do we account for South Korea’s economic miracle and its transformation from a military dictatorship to one of Asia’s most stable democracies? How can we understand the strong nationalist sentiment in both Koreas? Moreover, how do we appreciate the experiences of ordinary Koreans who have been caught in dramatic, tumultuous, and frequently devastating political, economic, and social transformations? This course seeks to understand Korea and its recent past by engaging both secondary and primary sources. To shed light on the above questions, students analyze the themes central to the fields of modern Korean history: colonialism and post-colonialism, communism and capitalism, democracy and authoritarianism, tradition and modernity.
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HIST 401 - Research Methods
3 Credit(s)
This course is designed to impart the basic skills needed to do historical research. It includes instruction in organizing and completing a research project; the nature, variety, uses, strengths, and weaknesses of primary and secondary sources; assessing the biases and reliability of source materials; use of traditional and computerized finding aids; synthesis and presentation of historical evidence; and citation and bibliography preparation. This course is intended for sophomores. A grade of C or better in this course is a prerequisite for HIST 409 .
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HIST 405 - History Praxis
3 Credit(s)
Students work off-campus eight hours a week with an area museum, government archive, historical society, or similar organization to acquire practical experience under the supervision of professionals in the field. Students keep a journal of their activities and meet regularly on campus with the directing faculty member. Each student also writes a final paper discussing the experience and the relationship of the job to the history profession generally. Available only to history majors and minors with at least junior standing.
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HIST 409 - Senior Seminar
3 Credit(s)
The required capstone for the history major, this course is designed to enable seniors to conduct independent research and produce a work of original scholarship for presentation orally and in writing.
Prerequisite(s): A grade of C or better in HIST 401 and in the designated preparatory course. This course may only be attempted twice.
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HIST 488 - Special Topics in History
3 Credit(s)
Topics offered in response to student and faculty interest.
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HIST 499 - Independent Study
3 Credit(s)
Individual investigation of a problem in history. Reading, research, consultation, and discussion as required. Credit, scope, topic, and prerequisite to be arranged individually. May be taken no more than once.
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HM 100 - Field Experience I
The first of two required paid summer field experiences. All students must complete two paid approved summer tourism/hospitality industry work experiences of 400 hours each, one after the freshman year and one after the sophomore year. The HM 100 field experience workbook is to be completed through the course of the summer and will include the employer’s evaluation. The workbook is returned to the student’s faculty advisor in the beginning of the fall semester. This is a noncredit graduation requirement, graded as pass/no pass, and a prerequisite for registration in the required cooperative education semester.
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HM 101 - Introduction to the Tourism and Hospitality Industry (S)
3 Credit(s)
This course provides an overview of the global tourism and hospitality industry and the many segments that it encompasses in the context of managing the service experience. Students are exposed to the various functions of each segment, as well as contemporary issues, trends, career options, and the complex role of the manager. Professionalism in the hospitality industry is emphasized and students learn the importance of corporate social responsibility through participation in service-learning projects. Service-learning course.
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HM 102 - Introduction to Lodging Management
3 Credit(s)
This course provides an overview of the lodging industry in the context of managing the service experience. Emphasis is placed on the management of the rooms division area of a hotel. Reservations, front office, guest services, registration, night audit, and account settlement functions are discussed. Safety and security, housekeeping, and revenue management areas are also introduced. Students experience the guest cycle through the use of a property management system.
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