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HIS 0306 -
Kaiserreich to Third Reich
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2000, Spring 1998
HIS 0321 -
US Europe and the Muslin World
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 1999, Fall 1997
HIS 0325 -
History of Russia
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2000
HIS 0330 -
Women in the Middle Ages
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2000
HIS 0332 -
History of Pennsylvania
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 1999
HIS 0333 -
Tech and Society in Amer Hist
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 1999
HIS 0352 -
History of South Asia
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 1998
HIS 0360 -
Europe Since 1945
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 1999
HIS 0362 -
Problems of Contemporary Hist
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2000, Fall 1998
HIS 0363 -
Europe Since 1945
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 1997
HIS 0365 -
Mid East in World Affairs
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2000, Spring 1998
HIS 0370 -
Modern Arab World and Israel
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 1999
HIS 0379 -
Colonial British North America
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 1998
HIS 0380 -
Era of the American Revolution
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 1998
HIS 0385 -
Kennedy to Reagan
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 1999
HIS 0388 -
America and Vietnam
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2000, Spring 1998
HIS 1020 -
Hist of Western Civil I
Description: For AP and transfer credit only. Does not fulfill Arts and Sciences core history requirements.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 1995
HIS 1021 -
Hist of Western Civil II
Description: For AP and transfer credit only. Does not fulfill Arts and Sciences core history requirements.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 1997, Spring 1996
HIS 1040 -
Themes Pre Mod World History
Description: Introduction to the discipline of history through the comparative exploration of at least three different world civilizations during their formulative, pre-modern periods (pre-1750). Cultural contact and exchange; pre-modern economies, political institutions, and social structures; religion and culture art; art, architecture and literature. Civilizations to be examined may include Japan, China, Central Asis, India, Persia, Mesopotamia, Nilotic civilizations, sub-Saharan Africa, Arab Caliphate, Classical Mediterranean (Greece/Rome), Byzantium, Medieval western Europe, Andean, and Meso-American civilizations.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008
HIS 1050 -
Themes in Modern World History
Description: Introduction to the discipline of history through the investigation of major historical moments and themes in the transformation of diverse nations and regions of the world since 1500. Political, technological, and economic revolutions; cross-cultural exchange and the emergence of a global economy; environmental transformation and degradation; secularism, individualism, and values associated with modernism.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008
HIS 1903 -
Internship Elective
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008
HIS 1906 -
Internship Elective
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Credit Hours: 6.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008, Spring 2008
HIS 1909 -
Internship Elective
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Credit Hours: 9.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
HIS 2000 -
Investigating U.S. History I
Description: In-depth study of American history from the pre-Columbian period to the Civil War and Reconstruction, with a particular emphasis on engaging historical problems as a process of inquiry and interpretation. Designed especially for history majors and future teachers, but open to all students.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
HIS 2001 -
Investigating US History II
Description: In-depth study of American history from the end of Reconstruction to the present, with a particular emphasis on engaging historical problems as a process of inquiry and interpretation. Designed especially for history majors and future teachers, but open to all students.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
HIS 2151 -
Colonial America
Description: The political, economic, social, and intellectual life of the American colonies and the clash of racial and ethnic groups in America to 1763.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2008, Fall 2006, Fall 2003, Fall 2000
HIS 2161 -
Revolutionary & Fed Amer
Description: The colonial resistance to Great Britain; the making of the Constitution; and the continuing struggle, to 1810, to define the meaning of the Revolution.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Summer 2006, Fall 2005, Fall 2004
HIS 2171 -
Building a Nation 1800-50
Description: The development of the Republic from the presidency of Jefferson through the Mexican War; revolutions in transportation and commerce, struggles of nationalism and sectionalism; issues of race and gender and the ferment of reform.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Spring 2006, Spring 2004, Fall 2000
HIS 2181 -
Civil War & Reconstruct
Description: A study of the causes of a war in which Americans fought Americans; the war's evolving nature and eventual outcome; the fight over the meaning and the extent of reconstruction; and the long term political, economic, and social consequences of the war and the end of slavery.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
HIS 2191 -
Pursuits of Power, 1876-1920
Description: Causes and results of industrialization and urbanization; responses to economic and social change, including popular protest movements; nationalism following the Civil War; U.S. imperial ambitions.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2003, Spring 2002
HIS 2201 -
United States 1914-1945
Description: Major problems and domestic developments in the United States in World War I, the 1920s, the Great Depression and World War II.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2007, Fall 2002, Spring 1999, Summer 1998
HIS 2202 -
United States since 1945
Description: Major problems and domestic developments in the United States since 1945: reconversion, Cold War, the "Good Society" of the 1950s, turmoil of the 1960s, Vietnam War and its aftermath, contemporary challenges and problems.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Summer 2007, Summer 2005
HIS 2251 -
U. S. Foreign Rel 1776-1914
Description: The completion of independence, hemispheric diplomacy, expansion, Civil War, and imperialism.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2007, Fall 2005, Spring 2001
HIS 2252 -
U.S. For Rel 1914 - Present
Description: Diplomatic history from World War I to the present, including involvement in European and Asian struggles, cooperation in international organizations.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Fall 2006, Spring 2003, Summer 2000
HIS 2261 -
Frontiers in American History
Description: The frontier as a place, as a process, and as an idea animating and explaining American expansion since the revolutionary era, including the cultural, social, political, economic dimensions of this expansion, both in the American West and abroad.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2001, Fall 1999, Spring 1998, Spring 1995
HIS 2265 -
American Military History
Description: The wars of America from their European antecedents to 1900; relations between the military and society; role of the military in national development.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Fall 2005
HIS 2272 -
History of Amer Capitalism
Description: American economic growth from the colonial era to the present and its impact on political, social present and cultural life, including American industrialization; rise of the corporation; military-industrial complex; capital-labor relations; globalization of American capitalism.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2006, Summer 2005, Fall 2004
HIS 2274 -
History of American Medicine
Description: The evolution of American Medicine from the colonial period to the present day. Topics include the rise and fall of heroic medicine, the demise of scientific medicine, the growth of modern surgery, the evolution of medical practice.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
HIS 2276 -
American Environmental Hist
Description: Social, cultural and economic forces that reshaped the American landscape from the colonial era to the present; the place of nature in American thought and society; and the evolution of environmental politics in the 20th century.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006, Spring 2005
HIS 2278 -
Native American History
Description: Study of American Indians from pre-Columbian times to the present, including land use practices, social customs, gender relations, U.S. government removal and assimilation policies, post-colonial political economy, and contemporary issues of cultural identity and sovereignty.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2005, Spring 2004
HIS 2280 -
Catholic Church in America
Description: Development and shaping of the Roman Catholic Church by diverse cultures of Catholicism from 1500 to the present. The first contact of Europeans and Native Americans; growth through European immigration; challenges facing the modern, multicultural Church of the present day.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2005, Spring 2003
HIS 2281 -
Immigration in Amer Hist
Description: Population factors in the development of the American nation; the processes of migration, assimilation and intergroup relations and their effects in society and politics; intensive study of selected ethnic groups.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005, Fall 2004
HIS 2286 -
Irish-American Saga
Description: Pre-famine Irish emigration to North America; the famine; post-famine movement; Irish-American labor, politics, urban and suburban developments.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2002, Fall 2001, Fall 2000, Spring 1999
HIS 2291 -
African Amer His during Slaver
Description: The forced migrations of Africans to the New World, the institution of slavery, and the struggle of Afro-Americans to gain equality in American society.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005
HIS 2292 -
African Amer His since Emancip
Description: Themes of resistance and creativity with the development of the African-American communities in the era following the Civil War. Reconstruction, Northern migration, Jim Crow and segregation, and protest thought and Civil Rights.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2007, Spring 2006, Spring 2004, Summer 2003
HIS 2294 -
His of Childhood in US
Description: The experience of childhood in America, including topics such as the invention of adolescence; child abuse and protection; child labor; compulsory schooling and immigrant assimilation; juvenile delinquency; age of consent; dating; children in the movies; children as consumers; and youth culture and rebellion.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008
HIS 2296 -
History of American Women
Description: The study of the influence of region, race, and ethnicity on gender definitions in America; and the impact of those ideas in shaping women's lives, sexuality, housework and wage labor, and access to power and politics, from the colonial period to the present.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
HIS 2303 -
History of Philadelphia
Description: An investigation of the city's past and present through reading historical accounts and exploring today's city. Changes and continuity in politics, economy, and social composition from 1682 to today, with particular attention to social structures and the changing physical environment of the city.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2005, Summer 2004
HIS 2306 -
Culture of Indus Am 1820-1920
Description: Cultural sources of American expansion and economic development; the effects of industrialization on patterns of life and thought and the responses of different groups to these changes.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2006, Spring 1997
HIS 2309 -
Artifacts in History
Description: Cultural history as revealed through artificats, including everyday objects, decorative arts, and architecture; issues and controversies related to museum exhibits; the role of the Internet in material culture studies.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2007
HIS 2993 -
Hist Internship
Description: An internship in a local historical archive, museum, park, or library.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008
HIS 2996 -
Hist Internship
Description: A more extensive internship in a local historical archive, museum, park, or library.
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Credit Hours: 6.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008
HIS 2998 -
Topics in American History
Description: Selected topics in American history of interest to faculty and students.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
HIS 3005 -
Ancient World to 500 AD
Description: The formation of diverse Mediterranean societies and the emergence of the individual within those societies. Egypt, Mesopotamia, ancient Israel, and the broader Mediterranean cultures of Greece and Rome.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2002, Fall 2001, Spring 2000, Fall 1999
HIS 3006 -
Medieval Europe 500-1500
Description: The evolution of the European West from its classical origins. The influence of Christianity upon the development of European institutions and culture. Relations and mutual influences of the European West with its neighbors, the new world of Islam in the Near East and North Africa, and the Christian Byzantine East of Europe and Russia.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2007, Spring 2005, Spring 2004, Spring 2002
HIS 3007 -
Early Mod Europe 1500-1750
Description: The rise of Protestantism; the emergence of national monarchies; the growth of science and technology; colonial expansionism and the impact of the New World on the West; the clash of cultures with Islam and other civilizations on the peripheries.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2006, Spring 2003, Spring 2001, Fall 1998
HIS 3011 -
Greek Civilization
Description: The rise of Greek civilization from Mycenaean times to the Macedonian conquest of Greece by the father of Alexander the Great: Homer, the emergence of the polis, the Persian and Peloponnesian wars, and the flowering of Greek culture at Athens during the 5th and 4th centuries.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2006, Summer 2005, Spring 2004
HIS 3014 -
Medit Wrld Alexander to Caesar
Description: The interaction of cultural forces between the conquests of Alexander the Great and the consolidation of Roman rule under Caesar; Hellenistic civilization, the rise of Rome in Italy, Rome and the Greek world, and the fall of the Roman Republic.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2007, Spring 2007, Fall 2005
HIS 3017 -
The Roman Empire
Description: The achievement of the Pax Romana from the reforms of Augustus to the break-up of the western Empire in the fifth century A.D. Topics treated include life in the provinces, the romanization of indigenous peoples, the legions and society, culture and decadence in the capital, and the rise of Christianity.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2008, Spring 2008, Summer 2006, Fall 2004
HIS 3018 -
Pagans, Jews, and Christians
Description: Society and religion between Alexander the Great and the coming of Islam. The classical pantheon, domestic religion, magic, the imperial cult; the variety of Judaism in Palestine and the Diaspora, Judaism and the state; the rise of Christianity, the persecutions, Constantine and the conversion of the empire.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2006, Summer 2003, Spring 2001
HIS 3019 -
The Fall of Rome
Description: The end of the ancient world -- ancient sources and modern theories. A multi-faceted analysis of Mediterranean society from AD 200 - 750: politics, economy, religion, urban life, art, social relations, literature.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2003, Fall 2001
HIS 3095 -
Topics in Ancient History
Description: Selected topics in Ancient history of interest to faculty and students.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007
HIS 3101 -
Early Medieval History
Description: Europe from the fall of Rome to the end of the Viking Age.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2000, Fall 1997, Fall 1996
HIS 3108 -
The Crusades
Description: The medieval conflict between the rival cultures and religions of Christendom and Islam.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Fall 2001, Fall 1998, Spring 1997
HIS 3115 -
The High Middle Ages
Description: The major western European institutions that took form during the classical period of medieval civilization and were bequeathed to modern European society.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2005, Summer 2004, Fall 2002
HIS 3118 -
Religious Poverty in Mid Ages
Description: The emergence of the mendicant orders (Augustinians, Franciscans, Dominicans, and Poor Clares), their mission and influence on medieval Christianity; popular piety, heresy, and the papacy; attempts at converting Jews, Muslims, and pagans.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
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HIS 3121 -
The Renaissance
Description: The decline of society in the Late Middle Ages and the emergence of commercial capitalism; the disintegration of the Holy Roman Empire and the evolution of city-states and new monarchies in the fifteenth century; the crisis of the Papacy and the emergence of humanism; the Italian universities in the Late Middle Ages and the development of new tastes in literature, art, and architecture.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2007, Spring 2006, Spring 2005, Spring 2004
HIS 3126 -
Hist of Italian Cities
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2008, Summer 2007, Summer 2006, Summer 2005
HIS 3131 -
The Reformation
Description: Catholic, Protestant, and popular reform theories and religious upheaval, and the revolution of the common people in the 16th century, with emphasis on the material "structures of everyday life" and the economic, social, and political background of the "crisis of feudalism" and critique of the church and early modern state.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2006, Fall 2005, Fall 2002
HIS 3142 -
The Enlightenment
Description: The cultural transition of traditional Western Christendom to modernity in the 18th Century, including its clash with religion; emphasis on scepticism and empiricism; rehabilitation of natural desires and emotion; efforts to re-engineer human society; new perceptions of economics, crime and punishment, and aesthetics; creation of a reading public; role in the American founding; impact upon issues of gender and race.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2003
HIS 3151 -
Eur Nationalism 1800-present
Description: Constructing nations and nationalism in Europe from the Napoleonic wars to post-Yugoslavia; competing conceptions of nationality (on the basis of race, gender, politics, culture, etc.) and resulting conflicts.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2006, Fall 2004, Fall 2000
HIS 3161 -
20th Century Europe
Description: Social, political, and cultural history of Europe from the fin de siecle to European unification; world wars and revolution, East-West divide, consumer society and popular protest.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2005, Summer 2003, Summer 2002, Summer 2001
HIS 3171 -
Europe since 1945
Description: Europe from the end of World War II to the European Union; postwar reconstruction; Cold War; the growth of consumer society; the collapse of the Soviet Empire; changing conceptions of European identity.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2006, Spring 2005
HIS 3200 -
Medieval Britain and Ireland
Description: The debts England owes to the Celtic, particularly the Irish, world; changed relations, from fruitful cultural exchange to antagonism, after the Norman Conquest of England. Irish missionary and educational importance; relations between Celtic peoples; why monarchy developed in England and Scotland, but not in Wales and Ireland.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2005, Fall 2002, Spring 2001
HIS 3202 -
Britain 1660-1815
Description: Emergence of Britain as the preeminent global capitalist economy and political power from the glittering court of Charles II to Britain's loss of its American colonies and its victory over revolutionary France. Connections between political-economic developments and social and cultural change including industrialization; war, economic growth and state formation; smuggling, gin, and criminality; empire; domesticity, women and the novel, high and low art in London.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2006, Spring 2005, Fall 2003, Fall 2000
HIS 3203 -
Great Britain since 1815
Description: British politics, society and culture from the triumph of Waterloo to youth culture in the post-industrial world of the Beatles. Topics include Liberalism; industrial conflict, urban poverty and radical politics; Anglo-Irish relations; degeneration and fin-de-siecle sexual anarchy; rise of Labour and Women's movements; imperialism and decolonization; race and ethnicity; film and social change.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2006, Spring 2003, Spring 2001, Fall 1998
HIS 3214 -
Eighteenth Century Ireland
Description: Ireland from the Reformation to the Act of Union with particular emphasis on the rise and impact of the Protestant Ascendancy.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2000, Fall 1999
HIS 3216 -
Ireland since 1800
Description: The social and political history of the Irish state in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Summer 2008, Spring 2008, Summer 2007
HIS 3221 -
French Rev and Napoleon
Description: Causes, nature and course of the French Revolution, including a study of its historical interpretation, and the Napoleonic aftermath of the Revolution.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Spring 2008, Fall 2006, Fall 2004
HIS 3222 -
History of Modern France
Description: Major developments, problems, and policies connected with the evolution of the French nation and its empire from 1815 to the present.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2006, Spring 2004, Fall 1996
HIS 3230 -
Modern Germany
Description: The German lands from 1800 to the present, changing conceptions of Germany and dilemmas of German history.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2005, Summer 2002
HIS 3233 -
Hitler and Nazi Germany
Description: Germany from the rise of Hitler to the end of the Second World War.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2005, Fall 2004, Spring 2002
HIS 3240 -
Russia 1533-1801
Description: The development of Russia from the "rude and barbarous kingdom" of Ivan the Terrible to the great European power ruled by Catherine the Great. The political, economic and social systems of Muscovite and eighteenth-century Russia; civil wars, peasant rebellions, and foreign invasions; the reforms of Peter the Great; female monarchs in the 18th century; enlightened absolutism under Catherine the Great.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2003
HIS 3241 -
Imper Russia 1801-1917
Description: Major political, economic and social changes in the Russian Empire from the war against Napoleon to World War I; reform from above and revolution from below; Russia's industrial revolution; social and cultural modernization; the institution of monarchy under the last Romanov tsars; Russia's expansion in the East.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2007, Spring 2006, Fall 2004
HIS 3242 -
Russia in the 20th Cent
Description: Russia from the 1917 Revolution to the present; the radical transformation of a state, economy and society in revolution and civil war, the Stalin dictatorship, the trial of World War II, and the patterns of reform and continuity in the post-Stalin and post-Soviet eras.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2005, Spring 2003
HIS 3351 -
19th c. European Cult & Soc
Description: Social and cultural impact of industrialization, the evolution of mass society, changing conceptions of elite and popular culture; social conflict, revolution, and imperialism.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2001, Summer 1999, Fall 1997
HIS 3352 -
20th C European Cult & Soc
Description: Cultural modernism and the impact of modern technology, experience and representation of war, violence, and genocide; post-World War II social transformations; Americanization and Sovietization; post-industrial society and post-modern culture.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2005, Fall 2003
HIS 3360 -
Women in the Pre-Modern West
Description: Roles of women from ancient world to revolutionary France, including analysis of the status of women in Biblical, Greek, Roman, medieval, early modern and Enlightenment cultures and times. Themes of motherhood, women's work, women in literature and women's ways of exerting control over their lives.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2005, Fall 2001, Spring 2000, Fall 1998
HIS 3361 -
Women in Modern Eur Soc
Description: The changing roles of women in society and politics in Europe from the 18th to 20th centuries. Topics include women and the household economy; women and revolution; feminism and feminist movements; the rise of female professions; women's literature and feminist critical theory.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Spring 2004, Fall 2002, Spring 1999
HIS 3995 -
Topics in European History
Description: Selected topics in European history of interest to faculty and students.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
HIS 4031 -
Islamic Civilization to 1800
Description: The Islamic World from the seventh century through the eighteenth century with special emphasis on its cultural, social, and political history and contributions.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2006, Fall 2005, Fall 2002
HIS 4041 -
Hist Modern Middle East
Description: The political, economic and social history of the Middle East with emphasis on the passing of imperial institutions and emergence of republics, trade and commerce, colonialism, and revolutionary movements.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2006, Spring 2004
HIS 4076 -
Jewish History
Description: The relation of the Jews to the historical process; the Jews in relation to the larger civilizations in which they have lived; Jewish intellectual and moral contributions; Jewish history in the Christian world; the Holocaust; formation of a Jewish homeland, Israel.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2006, Fall 2003, Spring 2002
HIS 4090 -
Women in the Middle East
Description: Roles of Middle Eastern women from the seventh century to the present era. Women's lives and experiences, with emphasis on their influence and contribution to the economy, politics, literature and the arts. Attention to the effects of regional, ethnic, class, and religious differences on women's status and activities.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Summer 2007, Fall 2005, Spring 2001
HIS 4095 -
Top Middle Eastern Hist
Description: Selected topics in Middle Eastern history of interest to faculty and students.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Summer 2006, Spring 2005, Fall 2002
HIS 4115 -
Roots of African Culture
Description: Early African history and anthropology culminating in the emergence of Africa as an arena of European economic penetration, the rise of the African slave trade, and the impact of early European colonization.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2005, Fall 2003, Spring 2002
HIS 4120 -
Emergence Modern Africa
Description: The impact of 19th century European colonialism on Africa; the division of Africa into European dependencies; change and continuity in African culture; the emergence of independent African nation states after World War II; their difficulties and opportunities.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2007, Fall 2004, Fall 2002, Spring 2000
HIS 4130 -
South Africa His Perspec
Description: Development of southern Africa, with particular emphasis on the formation of South Africa; interaction of the various African peoples and the Europeans who came to settle the region and the way in which that interaction led to the establishment of, and resistance to, the system of apartheid. The collapse of apartheid.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2006, Spring 2004, Fall 2001
HIS 4195 -
Topics African History
Description: Selected topics in African history of interest to faculty and students.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2005, Summer 1998
HIS 4210 -
Byzantine Civilization
Description: The history and culture of the eastern Roman Empire from the founding of Constantinople in 330 by Constantine to its capture by the Ottoman Turks in 1453. The emperor and his court, Byzantine art and architecture, monasticism, Byzantine women, the rise of Islam, the Latin west and the Crusades.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2006, Spring 2005, Spring 2003
HIS 4315 -
Intro to Hist of Chinese Civ
Description: A broad and basic introduction to Chinese society, culture, and history from its inception some three thousand years ago to eve of first significant Western European presence in China proper.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2003, Fall 2002
HIS 4316 -
Intro to His of Japanese Civ
Description: A broad and basic introduction to Japanese society, culture and history from its inception to 1600 when Japan began to limit its citizen's contact with Christian nations.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2007
HIS 4320 -
Modern East Asia
Description: The political, economic and social history of Modern East Asia (China, Japan and Korea) with an emphasis on the impact of the West, the Japanese Empire and the development of modern institutions.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2001, Spring 1999, Spring 1998
HIS 4330 -
China in 20th Century
Description: China during its republican and Communist periods.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2004, Spring 2003, Spring 2002, Fall 2000
HIS 4335 -
Modern Japan
Description: The social and political history of modern Japan (1868- Present); its dramatic rise to world power status, the long road to WW II, the impact of Allied Occupation; themes of cooperation and conflict in state-society relations.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Fall 2006, Fall 2004, Fall 2003
HIS 4350 -
VietnamColonialism/War 1940-85
Description: The War in Vietnam in historical perspective from colonialism to the Cold War and national liberation.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2007, Spring 2004
HIS 4360 -
History of Modern South Asia
Description: History of Indian subcontinent from late Mughal period through British Empire, culminating in independence and partition in 1947. Emphasis on knowledge, power and state formation; resistance, revolution, and nationalism; gender and the role of women; and post colonial legacies.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Spring 2006
HIS 4365 -
History of India & Pakistan
Description: History of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh in 20th century. Emphasis on struggle for freedom, challenges of post colonial period, regional conflict, democracy and development and contemporary issues facing the people today.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2006
HIS 4395 -
Topics in Asian History
Description: Selected topics in Asian history of interest to faculty and students.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007
HIS 4405 -
The Americas & Span Conquest
Description: Incas, Mayas, Aztec and Mochica cultures in Ancient Latin America; indigenous cultural and military clashes with European invaders; the 16th-century political economy and subsequent theological debates regarding the humanity of Indians; social repercussions of an "incomplete" conquest.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2003
HIS 4410 -
Colonial Latin America
Description: Establishment and maintenance of a Hapsburg colonial state; indigenous responses to religious and secular colonization; the creation of a multicultural society from African, indigenous, and Iberian peoples from the 1580s the 1780s.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2003, Fall 2001, Fall 1997, Spring 1995
HIS 4415 -
Revolutionary Latin America
Description: Latin America's revolutionary century from the beginnings of political revolt in the 1780s to the beginning of economic modernization in the 1880s. Social and economic impact of the Bourbon Reforms; indigenous revolts and slave rebellions; liberal revolutionary movements culminating in the political independence but economic dependence of Spanish America; slavery and abolition.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2004, Spring 2002, Summer 1999, Spring 1999
HIS 4420 -
Contemp Lat Amer History
Description: 20th century economic inequalities, U. S. intervention and military dictatorships, cultural imperialism and immigration Communism in Latin America, human rights within a multiracial society.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Summer 1999, Fall 1998
HIS 4495 -
Topics Latin Amer Hist
Description: Selected topics in Latin American history of interest to faculty and students.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2008, Summer 2007, Summer 2006, Fall 2005
HIS 4499 -
Topics in World History
Description: Selected topics in world or non-western history of interest to faculty and students.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2006, Spring 2004, Spring 2003
HIS 4520 -
World in 20th Century I
Description: The political, diplomatic, economic, and social upheavals from 1900 to the Munich Conference.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2005, Fall 2004, Fall 1997, Fall 1996
HIS 4525 -
World in 20th Century II
Description: The Second World War, its aftermath, the Atomic Age, the emerging nations.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2000, Spring 1997, Spring 1996
HIS 4526 -
Mod Science Art Invention
Description: Interactions among science, technology and art that have shaped modern culture since the industrial revolution of the late 18th century. Special attention to the sources, styles, and contexts of creativity in various fields.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2004, Fall 2002
HIS 4527 -
Frankenstein to Artificial Lif
Description: The origins of artificial life forms by modern science, the perspective of involved scientists, literary observers, politicians and businessmen, and society as a whole. Topics include cloning, transplantation, artificial organs, genetic engineering, and artificial intelligence.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Fall 2005, Fall 2004, Fall 2003
HIS 4528 -
Women in Mod Sci & Tech
Description: Women in the development of modern (since 1600) science and technology, including gender issues shaping theories and research, the impact of innovation on women's lives, and women as professionsals and as creative workers.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2005, Spring 2003
HIS 4620 -
20th Cent Military Hist
Description: The major wars of the 20th century: World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam. Cold War, wars of liberation.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Fall 2006, Fall 2002
HIS 4660 -
World at War, 1939-1945
Description: Visions and experiences of a global war; Nazism and a culture of total war; war and civilians; racism and the Holocaust; the atomic bomb; historical commemoration and memory.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Spring 2005, Spring 2003, Fall 2001
HIS 4700 -
"War Lords" of WW II
Description: The military leaders of the Second World War in both the European and Pacific theaters.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2007, Spring 2004, Spring 2001, Summer 2000
HIS 4701 -
The Cold War
Description: The origins, conduct, and outcomes of the Cold War, and analysis of evolving interpretations of this conflict and its significance.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2007, Fall 2005, Fall 2004
HIS 4995 -
Topics Comparative Hist
Description: Selected topics in non-Western and world history of interest to faculty and students.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Summer 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007
HIS 4996 -
Topics History of Gender
Description: Selected themes in the history of gender examined in depth.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2007
HIS 4997 -
Topics in the History of Race
Description: Selected themes in the history of race examined in depth.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007
HIS 4998 -
Topics in Public History
Description: Selected themes in public history examined in depth.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:
HIS 5501 -
Sem in Historical Methodology
Description: Student research and reports. Seminar format. Written permission of chair required.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
HIS 5515 -
Independent Research
Description: An intensive research project under individual direction. Written permission of chair required.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008
HIS 8002 -
Sem in North Amer Hist
Description: Selected topics in North American History. Topic will be announced in advance of registration.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008
HIS 8003 -
Amer Women & Gender His
Description: Topics in women's and gender history in America from pre-contact to the present, analyzing the relative positions of men and women within the various contexts of race, region, religion, class, ethnicity, law, sexuality, and society.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:
HIS 8011 -
Amer Soc in Col. Era to 1750
Description: Colloquium on the Anglo-American colonies to 1750. The emergence of distinctive and diverse colonial societies; the response to the wilderness environment; the problem of race in early America.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2007, Spring 2006, Spring 2004, Fall 2000
HIS 8016 -
Amer Nation 1750-1800
Description: Colloquium on the revolutionary and Federalist eras. The movement toward revolution; the War of Independence; the emergence of new governmental structures; the Hamiltonian economic program and the organization of the first party system.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Summer 2006, Spring 2005, Fall 2001
HIS 8021 -
Early American Republic
Description: Study of selected topics on the Jeffersonian-Jacksonian eras, emphasizing the formation of the political and constitutional system, and including such topics as the party system, federal-state relationships, the presidency, and the emergence of popular democracy.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2005, Fall 2000, Spring 1998, Fall 1995
HIS 8026 -
Amer Civil War Studies
Description: Selected research projects and readings on the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction, covering the origins of the conflict, the events of the war and its consequences.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2007, Spring 2005, Spring 2003
HIS 8033 -
The Gilded Age, 1865-1900
Description: Colloquium on the development of American History from Reconstruction to the turn of the century, focusing on the political, social and economic changes attending the emergence of an industrial and urban society in America.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2005, Spring 2002, Fall 1998, Fall 1995
HIS 8041 -
Roosevelt to Roosevelt
Description: The Progressive movement, World War I, Normalcy and the New Deal, examined through selected historical documents and secondary readings.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2007, Fall 2004, Spring 2002, Spring 1999
HIS 8042 -
U S since the New Deal
Description: Domestic developments in the United States and its Cold War role from the Second World War until the Vietnam war, examined through selected historical documents and secondary readings.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Fall 2005, Spring 2003, Fall 2001
HIS 8061 -
Amer For Rel to 1914
Description: Foreign relations of the United States from the Declaration of Independence to World War I, covering U.S. diplomacy during the territorial expansion, and the emergence of the U.S. as a great power.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2006, Spring 2000, Fall 1996
HIS 8062 -
Amer For Rel sn 1914
Description: Readings in and discussion of such major issues as the ideology of American expansionism, American entry into World War I, Woodrow Wilson and the New Diplomacy, independent internationalism in the 1920s, the breakdown of the international system in the 1930s, U.S. entry into World War II, the origins of the Cold War, the institutionalization of the Cold War, and the U. S. effort to adjust to the end of the Cold War.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Spring 2004, Fall 1999, Spring 1997
HIS 8066 -
American Cultural History
Description: Readings and discussion of selected topics in American intellectual and cultural history, social Darwinist thought, political economy, modern cultural movements and the role of the intellectual in American life.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Summer 2001, Spring 1996
HIS 8071 -
Top:Early Amer Soc Hist
Description: Readings and discussion of selected topics in American social history to 1865, reflecting various social history perspectives and methodologies, including such subjects as the colonial economy, the social structure of the Revolutionary period, 19th-century cities and industry, and the ferment of reform.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Fall 1997
HIS 8072 -
Topics:Mod Amer Social History
Description: Readings and discussion of selected topics in American social history since 1865, reflecting various social history perspectives and methodologies, and including themes related to industrialization, expansionism, and their effects.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2006, Spring 2005, Fall 1996
HIS 8076 -
Topics: Amer Econ Hist
Description: Topics pertaining to the development of the American colonial economy, the rise of American industrialism in the nineteenth century, and the emergence of international American economic power and influence in more recent times.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2004
HIS 8077 -
Top in Af-Am Hist During Slav
Description: Selected topics on the development and experiences of the African American community during the age of slavery, including the African slave trade, bondage and freedom in North America, slave culture and society, the free black community, abolitionism, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2006, Fall 2002
HIS 8078 -
Top in Af-Am Hist since 1865
Description: Selected topics on the development and experiences of the African American community since the age of slavery, including Reconstruction, American apartheid, migration and urbanization, black nationalism, the Harlem Renaissance, the civil rights struggle, and race relations.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Fall 2003, Spring 2001
HIS 8081 -
Readings in Amer Ethnic His
Description: Study of selected ethnic groups and major issues in American history involving immigration and ethnicity.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2001, Spring 2000, Summer 1995
HIS 8202 -
Seminar Topics Euro History
Description: Selected topics in European history offered each semester. The topic will be announced in advance of registration.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Summer 2008, Spring 2008
HIS 8204 -
Sem Topics in Ancient History
Description: Selected topics in ancient history. The topic will be announced in advance of registration.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2006, Summer 2005, Summer 2002
HIS 8205 -
Ancient Mediterranean
Description: Issues in current historiography dealing with the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean, including state formation, social structure, economic life, and the interplay between imperial and indigenous cultures.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Summer 2007, Fall 2005, Fall 2003
HIS 8206 -
Dark Ages
Description: Comparative anthropological analysis of two "dark age" cultures in European history: ancient Greece 1200-750 BCE, and western Europe, 400-900 CE with special attention to such topics as oral poetry, forms of exchange, honor and status, ritualized behaviors, violence and social control, marriage and sexuality, and conceptions of the divine.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Summer 2004
HIS 8207 -
Wm & Gender in Europe 400-1650
Description: A survey of women and gender in Europe from ca. 400-1650 AD in Western Europe both northern and Mediterranean. Analyzing the legal, economic, and cultural position of women within the contexts of the family, religion, sexuality and society.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008
HIS 8208 -
Medieval Europe
Description: Important historiography in English, along with literary, historical, and legal sources in translation, focusing on selected political, economic, intellectual and social themes, such as courtly love, Muslim and Jewish culture in medieval Spain, the Black Death, peasant uprisings. Alternating between Medieval Mediterranean World (c.1100- 1400) and Medieval Britain (c.1100-1400).
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Spring 2004, Fall 1999
HIS 8209 -
The Renaissance
Description: The transformation of European culture in the Renaissance (14th - 16th centuries) with special attention to the role of intellectuals; the function of ideas and attitudes in socio-cultural change; philosophical and methodological issues in studying the Renaissance; and major historiographical trends.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2007, Fall 2004, Spring 2003
HIS 8211 -
Ref & Cath Counter Reformation
Description: An examination of late medieval religion and society; the various Protestant Reformations; the Catholic Reformation; and the social and political dimensions of religious change in early modern Europe.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2006, Fall 2003, Spring 2002
HIS 8225 -
The Enlightenment
Description: Selected topics in the social and intellectual history of eighteenth-century Europe, including philosophical critiques of the Old Regime, the rise of the bourgeoisie, and the condition of the peasants, expecially in France.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2007, Summer 2005, Spring 2003, Spring 1997
HIS 8231 -
French Rev and Napoleonic Era
Description: An analysis of the causes, nature and course of the French Revolution, including a study of its historical interpretation, with additional coverage of the Napoleonic era to 1815.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2004, Fall 2001
HIS 8235 -
Brit Econ Soc 1689-1815
Description: The relationship between economic, social and cultural change in Hanoverian England, including such topics as mercantilism and war, women and family life, industrialization, the rise of the novel, metropolitan and provincial culture, political economy, and radicalism.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2007, Spring 2005, Spring 1999
HIS 8241 -
Eur Natlsm 1815-1870
Description: Consideration of the nature of European nationalism, its origins, and factors leading to its successes and failures up to 1870.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2005
HIS 8245 -
Great Britain since 1815
Description: Major themes in the development of Great Britain from the end of the Napoleonic Wars until World War 1: industrialism, political reform, and the the modernization of the state, the triumph of liberalism, and the rise of labor.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2008, Spring 2003, Spring 2001, Fall 1998
HIS 8248 -
Early Modern Ireland
Description: Analysis of Irish society from 1600 to 1800, examining the events and conditions that led to the turbulent 1790s, a pivotal decade in Irish history, with a particular focus on the writing of history and historical controversies.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2000, Summer 1999, Spring 1996
HIS 8252 -
Modern France since 1815
Description: France since the collapse of the Revolution: the Restoration, the 1848 Revolution, the Second Empire, the Paris Commune, World Wars I and II, modern French art and thought.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2003, Fall 1997, Spring 1996
HIS 8262 -
Imperial Russia to 1917
Description: An examination of selected problems in Russian history from 1800 to 1917, relying primarily on recent English- language scholarship, memoirs and literature.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Fall 2005, Fall 2002, Summer 1999
HIS 8272 -
Europe on the Eve of WWI
Description: The development of the European state systems between 1870 and 1914, with special emphasis on the expansion of European imperialism in the colonial world. Historiographical analysis of the origins of the First World War.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Spring 1997
HIS 8274 -
Twentieth Century Europe
Description: Readings and discussions on selected topics in European history from World War I to the present, with emphasis on post World War II topics, such as the post-1945 division of Europe, the Cold War, and the decline of colonialism.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2007, Spring 2005, Fall 2001, Fall 1999
HIS 8275 -
European Imperialism
Description: Case studies of imperialism in various areas (the Mediterranean and Middle East, Asia, Africa) and in various forms during the period from the 1830s to World War II, examined from the perspective of both the imperialists and those subjected to imperialism; analysis of contemporary and historical arguments justifying and criticizing imperialism.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2006, Summer 2004
HIS 8279 -
Germany since 1945
Description: An analysis of divided Germany in both its domestic and international aspects. Social, cultural and economic developments in both East and West Germany including reunification.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2004
HIS 8281 -
Russia USSR 20th Century
Description: A study of the major events and issues in the political, economic and social history of Russia and the USSR, with emphasis on the period from 1917 to 1953. Focus on new research and historiographical debates.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Fall 2007, Summer 2006, Spring 2004
HIS 8290 -
Women & Gender in Mod Europe
Description: Investigation of change and continuity in the social, scientific, political and cultural definitions of gender and gender roles from the Enlightenment to the modern era; the roles of women and representations of them in social and political movements, culture, and the economy; women's relationship to the private and public spheres, and their involvement in war, revolution, and economic transformation in modern Europe. Readings will include both women's and gender history and theory.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:
HIS 8292 -
Eur Intell His since 1850
Description: Intensive study of themes in European intellectual and social History, such as Marxism in the twentieth century; Freudian thought and culture in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries; capitalism, communism and fascism in modern Europe; religion and ethics in the nuclear age.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2006, Fall 1996
HIS 8402 -
Sem Topics in World History
Description: Selected topics in world history. The topic will be announced in advance of registration.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
HIS 8410 -
Atlantic World 1500-1800
Description: A study of the Atlantic world in its imperial and economic aspects from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries, including Europe, the Americas, the Caribbean, and Africa.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2008, Fall 2006, Spring 2003, Fall 2000
HIS 8412 -
Colonial Latin America
Description: Hegemonic colonial rule and resistance; European institutions including Catholicism, slavery, racial hierarchies, and indigenous labor systems; African and indigenous resistance; 16th and 17th centuries.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2002
HIS 8414 -
Topics Latin Amer Hist.
Description: Selected themes in Latin American History of interest to instructor and students. Topics will be announced prior to registration.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:
HIS 8416 -
Modern Latin America
Description: Selected topics including nationalism; indigenous and African cultural identities; economic development; industrialization; U.S. intervention; socialist revolutions; women's movements; 20th and 21st centuries.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2003, Spring 1998
HIS 8421 -
China & Japan since WWII
Description: The politics of post war China and Japan in their cultural and economic interrelationships.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2000, Spring 1996
HIS 8423 -
Women and Gender in East Asia
Description: Readings and discussion of selected topics pertaining to the history of gender and women in East Asia.
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Corequisites:
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:
HIS 8425 -
Modern Japan
Description: A colloquium on the major historiographical issues in the history of Japan since 1600, including the role of the Emperor, economic development, and the causes of World War II.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2007, Fall 2001
HIS 8433 -
Imperial. & Natlism in MidEast
Description: Empire, modernization & nation building in the Middle East from the nineteenth century, through an examination of historical narratives & debates; gender as a factor in imperialism & nationalism.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2006, Spring 2001
HIS 8436 -
Women & Gender in Middle East
Description: Women's roles in Middle East societies with a particular emphasis on the influences of religion, culture, and class; analysis of women's social status and their participation in social movements.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2007, Fall 1999
HIS 8441 -
Africa & Emer from Colonialism
Description: An examination of the key issues of the pre-colonial and colonial eras and a study of the impact of these issues on the formation of modern African society.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2007, Spring 2005, Spring 2002, Spring 1997
HIS 8452 -
History of Modern South Asia
Description: Selected topics in the history of the Indian subcontinent from the late Mughal period through the British Empire to independence and the postcolonial period. Emphasis on knowledge, power, and state formation; resistance, revolution, and nationalism; gender, democracy and development; postcolonial legacies.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007
HIS 8454 -
Empire & Decolonization
Description: European empires & opposition to empire in Asia, Africa & the Americas, 1500-present. Emphasis on political, economic & cultural modes of domination & resistance. Interdisciplinary approach using historical, theoretical & literary readings on colonialism, nationalism & the post- colonial predicament.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:
HIS 8602 -
Sem Top in Comparative History
Description: Seminar on a selected topic of particular interest to faculty and students in comparative history. Topic will be announced prior to registration.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
HIS 8603 -
Topics in the His of Rev
Description: The comparative history of modern revolutions, including causes and consequences, and the roles of such factors as ideology, language, violence, and war; Marxist and post-Marxist interpretations and historiography; case studies of revolutions in various regions of the world since the eighteenth century.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
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HIS 8613 -
Topics in Gender & Women's His
Description: Studies of women and gender considered in non-western and transnational contexts, including such topics as women in the Third World, women and globalization, Third World feminism, and the ferminization of poverty.
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HIS 8642 -
Top in His of Science & Tech
Description: Comparative perspectives on selected topics concerning science and technology in modern history, from the European Scientific Revolution to the present.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2006, Spring 2004, Spring 1997
HIS 8648 -
Environmental History
Description: The influence of natural environmental forces on human activity and historical change, and the changes in social and cultural attitudes towards nature and natural resources. Focus on Europe and the United States with examination of such topics as European expansion, the scientific revolution, industrialization, and environmentalist movements.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2008, Summer 2003, Spring 1999, Summer 1996
HIS 8662 -
Impact of War on Society
Description: War's consequences for society in the 19th and 20th centuries in Europe and America, with some references to the Far East.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2005
HIS 8682 -
The Cold War as History
Description: Origins, conduct, and outcomes of the Cold War, and analysis of evolving interpretations of this conflict and its significance.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2004, Summer 2001
HIS 8702 -
Intro to Public History
Description: Methods, theory, and practice of history outside the classroom, including historic sites, museums, archives, and other public history settings. Interaction with public history professionals and investigation of issues of history and memory in public settings.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008
HIS 8704 -
Material Culture
Description: Artifacts as sources for understanding past cultures, with emphasis on both academic scholarship and the field of public history. Development of material culture studies, methods of material culture analysis; artifacts as sources for historians; and the role of artifacts in museum exhibitions.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
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