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PORT 1053 - LUSO-BRAZILIAN TOPICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course deals with literary, linguistic or cultural topics, or a combination of these, relating to Portugal, brazil or other Portuguese speaking areas.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PORT 1054 - MACHADO DE ASSIS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is a survey of the works of Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright, short story writer Machado de Assis
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PORT 1061 - SURVEY OF BRAZILIAN LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A general overview of Brazilian literature from the middle ages to the present.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PORT 1902 - DIRECTED STUDY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
This course allows students to work in depth in areas of their choice, with the approval and supervision of a faculty member, who meets regularly with the student. Evaluation is by examination or by the production of a term paper or series of papers.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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SPAN 0001 - ELEMENTARY SPANISH 1
Minimum Credits: 5
Maximum Credits: 5
This course is designed to develop the student’s communicative proficiency through an integrated approach to the teaching of all four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Grammatical structures; vocabulary and readings are presented as tools for developing good communication skills. The course also aims to foster cultural awareness of the Spanish-speaking world.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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SPAN 0002 - ELEMENTARY SPANISH 2
Minimum Credits: 5
Maximum Credits: 5
A continuation of Spanish 0001, the course builds on the skills acquired in the first term as students continue to develop their communicative language skills in Spanish.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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SPAN 0003 - INTERMEDIATE SPANISH 3
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course builds on the skills acquired during the elementary sequence (either Spanish 0001 and 0002 or Spanish 0015). It includes a functional review of the basic language structures and introduces even more complex structures. The course has a strong cultural component.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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SPAN 0004 - INTERMEDIATE SPANISH 4
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A continuation of Spanish 0003. Students continue to refine their language abilities and enhance their communicative competence. The course has a strong cultural component.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 0003 (MIN GRADE ‘C’) or Spanish Placement Test Score equal/greater 4
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SPAN 0007 - ELEMENTARY SPANISH FOR READING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is an introductory, independent course, primarily for graduate students who need to quickly acquire the basic vocabulary and grammar of written Spanish. Tapes are available for those who wish to practice the oral skills. Students begin to read increasingly more demanding passages.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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SPAN 0015 - INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY SPANISH
Minimum Credits: 5
Maximum Credits: 5
This is a condensed version of the first two courses of the Spanish language program (Spanish 0001 and 0002), and it has been designed for students who have taken at least two years of high school Spanish or its equivalent. Spanish 0015 follows a communicative approach: from the first day of class you will interact in Spanish in a meaningful context with your instructor and classmates. By the end of this course you will have a general knowledge of the grammar of the Spanish language and you will be able to communicate effectively in Spanish according to this level.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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SPAN 0020 - CONVERSATION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The goal of this fifth-semester course is to enhance fluency and the development of oral proficiency in Spanish. Although the emphasis is on speaking and listening skills, reading and writing assignments are an important part of the syllabus. This course helps students to improve their fluency, pronunciation, and strategic competence such as paraphrasing skills, and increases their vocabulary through readings, films, digital recordings and other authentic materials.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 0004 (MIN GRADE ‘B+’) or Spanish Placement Test Score equal/greater 20
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SPAN 0025 - GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course reviews Spanish grammar, and, in addition, is designed to aid the students in vocabulary building, improving their knowledge of idiomatic usage, and their ability to translate from English to Spanish.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 0004 (MIN GRADE ‘B+’) or Spanish Placement Test Score equal/greater 20
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SPAN 0050 - SPANISH CIVILIZATION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Span 0050 offers a comprehensive survey of Spanish history and civilization from the early prehistory period to the present. Readings and lectures are in Spanish.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: [PREQ: SPAN 0020 and 0025 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for Listed Courses); PLAN: Spanish (BA or BPH)] or [CREQ: SPAN 0020 or 0025 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for Listed Courses); PLAN: Spanish (MN)]
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SPAN 0055 - INTRODUCTION HISPANIC LITERATURE 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to introduce students to the study of Spanish and Latin American literatures, while dealing with concepts and terms that can be applied to all literature.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: CREQ: SPAN 0020 or 0025 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for Listed Courses)
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SPAN 0082 - LATIN AMERICA TODAY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is an overview of contemporary Latin America and its people and is designed to be an introduction for students who have no previous knowledge of the area. Students will be exposed to several aspects of Latin America. A special attempt will be made to show contemporary social reality as interpreted by some of the region’s most gifted writers. In English.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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SPAN 1031 - ELEMENTARY SPANISH 1 FOR MBAS
Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
This is an introductory conversational course specifically designed for business students who do not know Spanish. The student will be presented with the basic structures of the language, as well as the necessary vocabulary to be able to understand simple Spanish and converse on everyday (“survival skills”) topics. The course, conducted in Spanish, will be relatively fast-paced, and will require students to participate actively in a variety of exercises, group activities, and exchange of information.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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SPAN 1032 - ELEMENTARY SPANISH 2 FOR MBAS
Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
Spanish 0032, designed specifically for business majors, is a continuation of 0031 at the elementary level. Emphasis is on improving listening and speaking skills, with consider able in-class conversational practice. New grammatical structures and increased vocabulary are introduced. Limited business language will be included, along with selected cultural information.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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SPAN 1250 - HISPANIC CIVILIZATIONS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 0020 or 0025 (Min Grade ‘C’); PLAN: SPAN BA or BPH or MN
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SPAN 1255 - INTRODUCTION TO HISPANIC LITERARY AND CULTURAL CRITICISM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Introduction to hispanic literary and cultural criticism
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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SPAN 1260 - OVERVIEW OF SPANISH LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Overview of Spanish literature
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 0055 (Min Grade ‘C’)
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SPAN 1280 - OVERVIEW OF LATIN AMERICAN LIT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Overview of Latin American literature
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 0055 (Min Grade ‘C’)
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SPAN 1300 - SPANISH PHONETICS AND PHONEMICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is an introduction to the study and practice of the sounds of Spanish. The overall objective of this course is to understand the sound system of Spanish as compared to English. Successful students will develop good auditory perception of Spanish and awareness of their own pronunciation, which could help to improve it.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: [SPAN 0020 and 0025 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for Listed Courses) PLAN: Spanish (BA, BPH)] or [SPAN 0020 or 0025 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for Listed Courses) PLAN: Spanish (MN)]
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SPAN 1302 - ADVANCED COMPOSITION AND STYLISTICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This writing course builds upon the student’s knowledge of Spanish grammar and composition. In particular attention will be given to the many syntactical and lexical usages that the foreign language learner needs to incorporate in advanced writing. The teacher will help the student improve and polish his/her individual style, with some imitation of literary models.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: [SPAN 0020 and 0025 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for Listed Courses) PLAN: Spanish (BA, BPH)] or [SPAN 0020 or 0025 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for Listed Courses) PLAN: Spanish (MN)]
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SPAN 1303 - SEMINAR IN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will deal in depth with various cultural and linguistic topics.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (SPAN 1400 or 1600) and SPAN 0050 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for Listed Courses); PLAN: Spanish (BA); LVL: Sr
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SPAN 1304 - METHODS OF TEACHING SPANISH
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A course designed for those who plan to teach Spanish. Main focus is on practical information of how best (method and technique) to teach the language. Topics include: theory of learning, approaches, activities, dialogs and drills, the role of grammar, the lab, testing, vocabulary, and the like. Practice teaching, including videotaping.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: [SPAN 0020 and 0025 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for Listed Courses) PLAN: Spanish (BA, BPH)] or [SPAN 0020 or 0025 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for Listed Courses) PLAN: Spanish (MN)]
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SPAN 1305 - SPANISH APPLIED LINGUISTICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A thorough analysis of the linguistic problems in teaching Spanish to speakers of English. Particular emphasis on problems of interference by transfer from the native to the target language, using contrastive analysis as a method of problem solving. Study of phonology and grammar, with attention also to certain techniques in foreign language teaching. Included is a brief survey of the teaching of Spanish in the United States and elsewhere.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 0020 or 0025 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for Listed Courses)
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SPAN 1306 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The goal of this course is to further develop the oral proficiency of students through authentic materials including but not limited to interviews, movies, music, newspaper articles and role-playing. Emphasis on fluency and speaking skills, although reading and writing skills will not be ignored. We will review certain grammar points but communicative competence is not measured by grammatical competence alone. Pronunciation, comprehension skills, strategic competence such as paraphrasing skills, and an extensive active vocabulary are all equally important when it comes to becoming proficient in a foreign language. Students will often work in groups and pairs so it is imperative that they be willing to interact with one another and be tolerant of one another’s opinions. The instructor will rate students’ oral proficiency at the beginning and end of the semester based on the ACTFL speaking proficiency guidelines. These guidelines are used nation-wide as an assessment tool to identify an individual’s level of speaking competence in a foreign language.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: [SPAN 0020 and 0025 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for Listed Courses) PLAN: Spanish (BA, BPH)] or [SPAN 0020 or 0025 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for Listed Courses) PLAN: Spanish (MN)]
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SPAN 1310 - LINGUISTIC SEMINAR
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course allows students to work on various linguistic topics in depth; these may be theoretical or applied in nature. Students are expected to do original research and to present it both orally in class and as a written research document. Taught in Spanish.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: [SPAN 0020 and 0025 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for Listed Courses) PLAN: Spanish (BA, BPH)] or [SPAN 0020 or 0025 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for Listed Courses) PLAN: Spanish (MN)]
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SPAN 1315 - BUSINESS SPANISH
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course offers students a linguistic and cultural background enabling them to conduct basic commercial transactions in the Spanish-speaking world.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 0020 or 0025 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for Listed Courses)
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SPAN 1321 - BUSINESS SPANISH 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to acquaint students with the essential forms and documents utilized in the Spanish business world.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: [SPAN 0020 and 0025 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for Listed Courses) PLAN: Spanish (BA, BPH)] or [SPAN 0020 or 0025 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for Listed Courses) PLAN: Spanish (MN)]
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SPAN 1323 - MEDICAL SPANISH
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is intended for translators in training who desire experience in translating the types of medical documents professional translators handle “on-the-job”. Course emphasizes acquisition of practical translation skills, and introduces basic medical principles and terminology, as they are used in medical texts.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 0020 or 0025 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for Listed Courses)
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SPAN 1400 - SURVEY LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course surveys the development of Latin American literature from the Cronistas to the present. Taught in Spanish.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 0050 or 1250 or 1260 or 1280 or 1400 or 1600; (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for all listed courses)
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SPAN 1403 - LATIN AMERICAN NARRATIVE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course deals with the development of Latin American prose narrative as it moves from 19th century realism and naturalism in the direction of modernista and vanguardista innovations, culminating in the narrative of the boom and the post-boom. Taught in Spanish.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (SPAN 0050 or 1250); PLAN: Spanish (BA, BPH, MN); (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for all courses listed)
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SPAN 1404 - LATIN AMERICAN TOPICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course deals with literary, linguistic or cultural topics, or a combination of these. Its primary emphasis is on developing an understanding of contemporary cultures in Latin America. Taught in Spanish.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (SPAN 0050 or 1250); PLAN: Spanish (BA, BPH, MN); (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for all courses listed)
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SPAN 1405 - SEMINAR: LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course studies various cultural and literary topics according to the needs and interests of the students. Its purpose is to allow students to do original research on their own on topics of interest in the field of Latin American literature and culture. Taught in Spanish.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (SPAN 0050 or 1250); PLAN: Spanish (BA, BPH, MN); (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for all courses listed)
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SPAN 1406 - U.S. LATINO LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will focus on U.S. Latino literature. While Mexican-Americans have roots in North America that go back to colonial times, the Latino explosion has happened mainly in the last thirty years, giving rise to new processes and forms of cultural expression, including an emerging literature that is neither a subset of U.S. Literature nor an ex tension of modern Latin American literature, though it has connections to both. To get an idea of what this literature involves and where it is going, we will look at some representative novels, poetry, memoirs, plays and films.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (SPAN 0050 or 1250); PLAN: Spanish (BA, BPH, MN); (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for all courses listed)
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SPAN 1407 - U.S. LATINO FILM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The major purpose of the course consists of illustrating and analyzing the role of the audiovisual media film (fiction and documentary) and video (and television, to a certain degree) for an understanding of the socio-cultural and conceptual status that Latina/o identities have acquired in today’s society. Thematically, the course will focus on themes of modernity vs. tradition in U.S. Latino culture. The course uses a selection of audiovisual materials which is fairly innovative in its variety. Chicano films and videos will constitute the major part of the material.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (SPAN 0050 or 1250); PLAN: Spanish (BA, BPH, MN); (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for all courses listed)
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SPAN 1600 - SURVEY OF SPANISH LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course surveys the development of Spanish literature from the twelfth century to the present. Taught in Spanish.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 0055 (MIN GRADE ‘C’); PLAN: Spanish (BA,BPH) or PREQ: SPAN 0050 (MIN GRADE ‘C’); PLAN: Spanish (MN)
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SPAN 1601 - PENINSULAR LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course studies the various stages of development of peninsular culture and literature in the 20th century, ranging from the 40-year period of the Franco dictatorship to the relatively recent transition to democracy. Taught in Spanish.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: [(SPAN 1400 or 1600) and 0050 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for Listed Courses); PLAN: Spanish (BA, BPH)] or [SPAN 0050 (MIN GRADE ‘C’) and PLAN: Spanish (MN) ]
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SPAN 1602 - IBERIAN REGIONAL IDENTITIES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
No other courses deal with Iberia from a transnational or regional standpoint. It is becoming increasingly relevant, particularly in the European context, to articulate the study of culture in relationship to new forms of political and communitarian identities, thus moving away from the traditional focus on the nation-state. The present course will examine the cultural, political, and economic role of the regions within the Iberian peninsula in shaping the European and trans-Atlantic components of both Spanish and Portuguese history.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (SPAN 0050 or 1250); PLAN: Spanish (BA, BPH, MN); (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for all courses listed)
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SPAN 1603 - PENINSULAR TOPICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course looks at various cultural and literary topics according to the needs and interests of the students. Its major purpose is to allow students to do research on topics of interest in the field of peninsular literature and culture. Taught in Spanish.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (SPAN 0050 or 1250); PLAN: Spanish (BA, BPH, MN); (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for all courses listed)
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SPAN 1705 - SEMINAR: HISPANIC LITERATURE AND CULTURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course studies various cultural and literary topics according to the needs and interests of the students. Its purpose is to allow students to do research on topics of interest in the field of Hispanic literature and culture. Taught in Spanish.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (SPAN 0050 or 1250); PLAN: Spanish (BA, BPH, MN); (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for all courses listed)
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SPAN 1707 - AFRCN PRESEN LAT AMERN LIT/CULT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is a chronological and topical introduction to afro-Latin American culture, making use of literary texts, historical documents, feature films, etc. It aims at providing students with a concrete frame of reference for the African presence in Latin America.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (SPAN 0050 or 1250); PLAN: Spanish (BA, BPH, MN); (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for all courses listed)
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SPAN 1801 - DON QUIJOTE AND THE NOVEL
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course deals in depth with Cervantes’ Don Quijote as the first modern novel and its profound influence on European literatures. Taught in English.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (SPAN 0050 or 1250); PLAN: Spanish (BA, BPH, MN); (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for all courses listed)
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SPAN 1805 - CONTEMPORARY HISPANIC LITERATURE AND SOCIETY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course deals with contemporary Spanish and Latin American societies as revealed in short stories, novels and poetry in an effort to ascertain the cultural values and concepts of these societies. Taught in English.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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SPAN 1806 - CAPSTONE SEMINAR
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: (SPAN 1260 or 1280 or 1400 or 1600 or 0050 or 1250 (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for listed courses); PLAN: Spanish (BA, BPH, MN); LVL: Senior
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SPAN 1890 - THE NEW NOVEL IN LATIN AMERICA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Lectures, textual analysis and class discussions in English on the major novelists of the Latin American “boom” of the sixties, with reference to techniques of literary analysis and the social, ideological and cultural background of the works in question.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (SPAN 0050 or 1250); PLAN: Spanish (BA, BPH, MN); (MIN GRADE ‘C’ for all courses listed)
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SPAN 1901 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
This course allows students to work in-depth in areas of their choice; evaluation is by examination or by the production of a term paper.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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SPAN 1902 - DIRECTED STUDY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
This course allows students to work in depth in areas of their choice, with the approval and supervision of a faculty member, who meets regularly with the student.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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SPAN 1906 - SPANISH INTERNSHIP FOR CREDIT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit
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HIST 0010 - PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
You are at a family function and one of your relatives over hears what your major is asks you “do you know what you call a BA in history?” Then before you can answer or walk away, he/she responds with “waiter!” While this is the accepted wisdom of what happens to a history, is this the reality of life after college? The answer to that is an emphatic “no!” Therefore, in this class you will find out why this is false. Then you will prepare for the real world by practicing and implementing the skills needed to navigate your way through the process of finding a job or going on to graduate school.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit
Course Requirements: PLAN: History (BA)
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HIST 0050 - SOCIAL CHANGE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0089 - MAGIC, MEDICINE AND SCIENCE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Dietary purges, ritualistic spells, mystical transformation, and the balance of self with nature. In each of these approaches is the presence of magic. Magic is a phenomenon common to all societies. In this course, we will study how it has contributed to religion, medicine, the healing arts, and to the emergence of modern scientific thought. Also the extent to which similar systems of belief have given birth to science, religion, magic and therapeutic practice will be explored.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0100 - WESTERN CIVILIZATION 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The study of others leads back to ourselves. We learn about men and women from the past in order to compare their experience to our own, hoping that the comparison will make us more aware of the opportunities and limitations of present-day life. As an introduction to history, this course tries to suggest the excitement and uncertainties of studying the past. We begin at the time of the crusades, and continue through Renaissance and Reformation to the eve of Industrial Revolution.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0101 - WESTERN CIVILIZATION 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A history of the West from the Industrial Revolution to the late Twentieth Century, the period when Europe and its overseas extensions dominated world history.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0103 - EUROPE IN THE 18TH CENTURY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness. There was a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face on the throne of England; there was a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of state, preservers of loaves, and fishes that things in general were settled forever. This course surveys the political, economic, social, and cultural history of Europe in the eighteenth century. Focusing on the major transformations of European society from the Age of Absolutism through the Age of Enlightenment to the Age of Revolution, the course explores local and interconnected histories of Britain, France, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Austria, and the Dutch Republic. The course engages five major themes: ‘Power, Politics, and Warfare’, ‘Social, Demographic, and Economic Change’, ‘Culture, Religion, and the Public Sphere’, ‘European Expansion Overseas’, and ‘Revolutionary Europe.’ Readings include primary and secondary sources. The course is open to students of all levels.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0125 - RELIGIONS OF THE WEST
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is a historical introduction to the religious traditions that developed in ancient Near East and the Mediterranean. Our major emphasis is on the history of the religious traditions that emerged in late antiquity in this area and which continue to be major world religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. We will also touch on Zoroastrianism. We focus on key concepts, historical developments, and contemporary issues. Throughout the course, we also examine interactions among these religious traditions. In the last part of the course we examine the issue of globalization and the spread of these religions around the world as well as the presence of “non-Western” religion in the “West.” The course also serves as an introduction to the academic study of religion and provides a foundation for further coursework in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. No prior knowledge of any of the religions studied is expected or assumed.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0139 - VIKING AGE SCANDINAVIA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The Viking age, the period from 800 to 1050 AD Marks Scandinavia’s transition from prehistoric to historic times. This course will reassess Viking activities as constructive as well as destructive. Raids, commerce and colonization are best illuminated by a blending of written and physical evidence. Through the sagas, secondary readings and an assessment of archaeological sources such topics as state formation, trade, technology, rise of cities, religion and the voyages to Greenland and America will be examined.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0150 - HISTORY OF MODERN IRELAND
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This class will examine how Britain came to Ireland and why in the context of that period (16th and 17th centuries). It will also examine the very complex relationships between the Catholic church and the British crown in the 17th century, as these relationships played a great role in the Cromwellian era. This will lead us to the heart of the class where we will trace the very complex relationship between modern Irish republicanism and Cromwell.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0187 - WORLD WAR II-EUROPE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The causes of WW II are surveyed, including World War I, the Russian Revolution, the Great Depression, and the rise of fascist regimes. The determinants of German expansionism will be discussed and related to the outbreak of war in 1939. The military struggle receives attention, but such topics as economic mobilization, propaganda, occupation policies, resistance movements and the Holocaust are also discussed. The course concludes with an analysis of war time diplomacy, the Postwar settlement, and the onset of the Cold War.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0190 - THE DICTATORS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines and compares the dictatorships of Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union. We shall investigate the official methods and media that transmitted the ideologies and aimed to manufacture consent for national socialism and Stalinist communism. On the basis of myths, public art, films, spectacle, and mass culture of the regimes, we shall discuss such topics as leader cults, construction of utopias, cultural revolutions, identities, and the role of propaganda and entertainment.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0200 - EAST EUROPE CIVILIZATION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is devoted to the exploration of the historical experience of the lands between Germany and Russia from the time the region was first settled by Nomadic tribes to the present. During these one thousand years Eastern Europe was transformed from feudalism to communism and our emphasis will be to understand the ways in which the interaction of social, economic, intellectual, cultural, demographic and political processes contributed to this metamorphosis.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0201 - THE BALTIC SEA: FROM THE VIKINGS TO POST-SOVIET RE-UNION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
In this course we will explore the Baltic Sea region, and trace Northern Europe’s history from the age of the Vikings to the post-Soviet re-union in 1991. We will study the history of this region and its diverse language communities: Scandinavians, Finns, Balts, Slavs and Germans. We will discuss how the Baltic Sea region was shaped by several European powers, in particular Denmark, Sweden, Poland-Lithuania, Russia, Prussia, and Germany. The course will cover the history of Northern Europe over the course of the last 1,000 years, including the Vikings, the Hanseatic League, the Reformation, the Thirty Years War, the Nordic Wars, the Enlightenment, Nordic Romanticism, the Russian Revolution, the two World Wars, the Cold War, and the renewal of the Baltic Sea region as a unified trading space after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0300 - RUSSIA TO 1860
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines the social, political, economic and intellectual developments of Russia from the Great Reforms of Peter to the Emancipation of the Serfs in 1861.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0301 - RUSSIA TO 1917
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course analyzes the major social and economic problems of the Russian Empire from the emancipation of 1861 through the Revolution of 1917. The emphasis is on understanding the major issues that precipitate the first “socialist” Revolution in European history.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0302 - SOVIET RUSSIA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines the history of the USSR from 1917 to the present. Particular attention is paid to the revolutionary transformation of society, the construction of the Soviet state and Soviet society, and to the ways in which state and society relate.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0400 - EAST ASIAN CIVILIZATION TO 1800
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces major themes in the history of East Asia. It analyzes the relationships between East Asian thought systems; political, economic, and social institutions; and foreign influences for the purpose of understanding the forces that shaped the East Asian tradition. The course focuses on how this distinctive tradition produced two very different societies in China and Japan.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0401 - MODERN EAST ASIAN CIVILIZATION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This survey of Chinese and Japanese history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries compares and contrasts the development of these two East Asian nations through a format that includes lectures, discussions, films, and readings.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0403 - HISTORY OF MODERN SOUTHEAST ASIA: COLONIAL ERA TO PRESENT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is an introductory survey course in the political and cultural history of Modern Southeast Asia from 1815 through 1978 or roughly from the growth of European colonialism within the region through the end of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. It will emphasize the expansion of European influence in the political and economic spheres, the growth of nationalism, and the process of decolonization in Southeast Asia. It will also focus on the new political and cultural forces that transformed the region over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0430 - JAPAN AND THE WEST, 1600 - PRESENT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course considers the historical development of two very distinctive societies at opposite ends of the EurAsian continent: Japan and Western Europe. It focuses on the contrasting development of the early modern period-Europe’s age of expansion and Japan’s age of isolation, the course compares systems of thought, social and political institutions, and the importance of foreign influences in the two societies.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0475 - RELIGION AND CULTURE IN EAST ASIA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Words have consequences. How a society defines “religion” and “culture” have much to say about how they balance individual freedom and collective responsibility. This course focuses on how religion has been and is practiced in East Asia in modern and contemporary times. We begin with an overview of the major religions in the region (e.g., Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, Shinto, folk traditions), and examine various themes to help us learn how religion influences the lives of individuals and the wider societies in which they live. Themes dealt with include the relationship between religion and politics, nationalism, terrorism, secularization, gender and the family, the life cycle and ritual calendar year, healing, ethical behavior, and the environment. By looking at how these issues unfold in modern China and Japan and at their global significance enable us to better understand how religion shapes our world.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0487 - WORLD WAR II IN ASIA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The history of the war, 1937-1945, between Japan on the one hand and China, the United States, the soviet union and great Britain on the other. The course stresses the ideological, economic, political, social, diplomatic and military forces in those five countries, and how these forces led to a disastrous war beginning in the late 1930s. The course concludes with a discussion of the allied occupation of Japan and Japan’s postwar recovery.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0500 - COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
History of Latin America during the period of Spanish and Portuguese Colonial Rule, from 1500 to 1825.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0501 - MODERN LATIN AMERICA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
History of the Latin American republics from independence, in 1825, to the present.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0502 - AFRO-LATIN AMERICA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A survey of black history in the countries of Latin America, from the period of European conquest (c. 1500) to the present.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0521 - CARIBBEAN HISTORY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Examines historical roots of modern Caribbean. Examines major historical developments from period of subjugation of indigenous population through era of slavery to rise of modern nationalism and impact of American intervention. Also analyzes related socioeconomic systems and institutions. Selected country case studies included.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0600 - UNITED STATES TO 1877
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is an introductory, lower division, course that develops the history of United States from the 1400s through the 1880s.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0601 - UNITED STATES 1865-PRESENT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An introduction to American history from the Civil War to the present which emphasizes selected topics on changes in American society and politics as an earlier agrarian society became an industrial-urban one and as the nation took up an ever larger role in world affairs.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0612 - ORIGINS OF AMERICAN CAPITALISM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course surveys the history of North American capitalism from the time of the first European settlements up through the emergence of a recognizably modern economy in the aftermath of the Civil War. It focuses in particular on the ways in which ordinary people made a living, how and why those ways changed over time, and what those changes in turn can tell us about the evolving structural determinants of the system as a whole.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0663 - 20THC AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN’S HISTORY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Using both a chronological and topical format, this course will investigate the history, culture, and activism of African American women in the Twentieth Century through readings of historical texts and articles, autobiography, and oral testimony. The content of the course includes an exploration of the responses of African American women to racism, sexism, and class and color consciousness within different historical periods.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0670 - AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course surveys the history of Afro-Americans from their African origins to their emancipation during the Civil War.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0671 - AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course surveys the development of black Americans from the time of the Civil War to the present.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0675 - WITCHES TO WALDEN POND
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A survey of American religious history from the colonial period through the civil war.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0676 - RELIGION IN MODERN AMERICA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines the impact of religion as a moral, intellectual, and institutional force in America from 1865 to the present. We seek to understand how religions have both shaped and reflected economic, social, and cultural conditions in the United States. The course format combines lecture with student discussion of religious conflicts and critical moments of cultural change. Documentary films, slides, and local sites are also used. Major emphases include religious responses to intellectual, scientific, and economic change, including Biblical criticism, evolutionary theory, immigration, urbanization, industrialization, Marxism, fascism, racism, feminism, and globalization.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0678 - UNITED STATES AND THE HOLOCAUST
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
With increasing interest in the Holocaust in Europe, this course focuses on the American side of the Atlantic - on issues of anti-Semitism and anti-immigrant sentiment in this country and on America’s response to the Holocaust. We will also look at some post-Holocaust issues as well.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0685 - UNITED STATES FOREIGN RELATIONS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course emphasizes three significant periods of development: (a) the period of origins, 1775-1825, (b) the period of hesitant entry onto the international scene, 1890-1941, and (c) the period of full participation in international affairs, 1941-present. In the process the course endeavors to demonstrate the changing role of such concepts as security, neutrality, isolationism, expansionism, and intervention in the evolution of the nation’s conduct of foreign affairs.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0687 - US IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course covers the history of political, economic, and cultural interaction between the United States and the Middle East beginning in the interwar period and continuing forward to the modern day. This course would concentrate on the history of American political and economic ambitions in the region from the 1920s and 1930s to the present. Themes to be explored in this course would include (in no specific order) oil and politics, Islam and the west, hard power versus soft power in diplomacy, American culture and politics post-9/11, and Palestine-Israel as it is conceived in the American mind. Course topics would proceed in a chronological order with details of each major political, diplomatic or military intervention in the Middle East in the twentieth century covered at length in course modules. Course topics would include analyses of the ramifications of American interventions in the region as well as a critique of contemporary U.S. foreign policy in the region.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0700 - WORLD HISTORY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is an introductory survey of world history, by which is meant an overview of major processes and interactions in the development of human society since the development of agriculture some 10,000 years ago. It is a selective overview, emphasizing large-scale patterns and connections in political, social, cultural, technological, and environmental history, yet it also provides balance among regions of the world. It encourages students to apply historical techniques to issues of their own interest.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0712 - A GLOBAL HISTORY OF TERRORISM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will acquaint students with the remarkably long, diverse and widespread use of strategies of terror to advance political, economic, religious and social agendas. Our analysis will focus upon terror from below that is terror by non-state actors; will range from ancient Greece to the present; and will touch upon every inhabited continent. Using examples from many societies, we will discover that the human motivations for terrorist acts have changed little, but that their expression has changed a great deal, from the days of the Spartacus slave revolt, to the calculated terror of the Algerian revolution, to the media-centered “madmen strategy” of Al-Qaeda and Isis. Our organization will be roughly chronological, and will be combined with a typology of different kinds of terrorism. This inherently comparative approach will enable us to make this a true world history course, moving with ease from place to place, movement to movement, while still having a solid temporal and analytical framework to keep the material coherent.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0751 - ANCIENT WORLDS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is a lecture course on the earliest cultures of Egypt, Mesopotamia and China. The approach is comparative. The course will focus on the similarities and the differences in the cultural development of these ancient civilizations, and will stress their contributions and legacies to the civilizations of today.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0752 - EMPIRES OF THE STEPPE: EURASIA FROM THE MONGOLS TO THE SOVIET UNION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Over the last several centuries, EurAsia’s domination by successive nomadic steppe empires (stretching from Europe to China) was displaced by new imperial challengers from the periphery (notably Russia, China, and Britain). This course examines the nature of that transition by charting the history of EurAsian empires from the Mongols (thirteenth century) to the present day. From Genghis Khan to Tamerlane to Stalin; between Russian spies, Chinese armies, and the Taliban; spanning silk roads, great games, and more. The empires of the steppe were truly vast in scale, integrating territories usually studied in isolation from one another, and so this course provides important context for separate courses on Russian, eastern European, Chinese, and middle eastern history. The chronological scope of this course is similarly epic, spanning over seven centuries, and thus placing in relief recurring themes related to empires in world history. The thematic emphasis is on geopolitical strategies for imperial rule, but the course will also examine culture, religion, and political economy.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0755 - RELIGION IN ASIA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces students to Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Shinto, Confucianism, and Daoism. It focuses on two basic questions: What have been the key concerns of these traditions? How have they addressed those concerns? To answer these questions and to understand what people in Asian religions have said and done, we use primary sources, the textbook, and scholarly articles, and films.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0756 - INTRODUCTION TO ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course aims to introduce students to Islamic and Middle Eastern History from the time of the Prophet (ca. 600 C.E.) to the Iranian Revolution in 1979. We will proceed chronologically, focusing mainly on political events. However, a special emphasis will be given to the formation of the Islamic tradition, its evolution across different regions and cultures in time, and its interaction with other traditions. In the modern era, we will particularly explore the Islamic societies’ political, cultural, and military encounter with the rising power of the West in the Middle East. In addition to the several historical processes and developments such as modernization, nation-building, Islamic fundamentalism and globalization, which have shaped the history of the Middle East in the last two centuries, our class discussions will also touch on the main theoretical perspectives that have stamped the studies of Islam and the Middle East. Here, concepts such as orientalism, defensive development, and modernity will constitute our main focus.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0788 - WOMEN AND MEN IN ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN SOCIETY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines ancient Mediterranean society, particularly that of Greece and Rome, from the perspective of male and female gender roles.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0789 - WOMENAND MEN IN ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN SOCIETY/WRITING PRACTICUM
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Writing practicum for students taking HIST 0788 as a writing course.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 0795 - HISTORY OF AFRICA BEFORE 1800
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Surveys history of Africa from earliest times to eve of European civilization. Looks at Africa from the inside out and aims at promoting an appreciation of Africa’s contribution to world civilization and an understanding of the historical processes that have shaped modern Africa. Major themes and topics include ancient kingdoms, Islam the slave trade and the European contact.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 1000 - CAPSTONE SEMINAR
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course seeks to acquaint history majors with proper techniques of historical research and writing.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: HIST 1001; PLAN: History (BA)
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HIST 1001 - INTRODUCTORY SEMINAR
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces its students to the ways historians work. Either by focusing on various interpretations of a common event or series of events, or by looking at historiographical literature in general, the course demonstrates the diversity of historical interpretation.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PLAN: History (BA)
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HIST 1005 - SPECIAL TOPICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course entails the exploration of a special topic chosen by the instructor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HIST 1007 - SPECIAL TOPICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course entails the exploration of a special topic chosen by the instructor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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