2017-2018 Academic Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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To search for a course satisfying the Distribution Requirements in effect for students who entered Allegheny College in Fall 2016 or after please do the following:
- In the “Keyword or Phrase” box below, enter one of the eight Distribution Requirement abbreviations as a search term in quotation marks: “CL”, “HE”, “IP”, “ME”, “PD”, “QR”, “SB”, or “SP”.
- To search within a specific department or program, select the desired department from the “Rubric” drop down menu and enter the Distribution Requirement abbreviation in quotation marks in the “Keyword or Phrase” box (i.e., “HE”).
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FSGHS 201 - Topics and Approaches in Global Health
Credits: 4
An introduction to writing and speaking in the discipline of Global Health Studies. Students are introduced to the research methods and modes of communication used in the field of global health and use case studies to investigate different approaches to identifying, analyzing, and responding to global health issues. We read primary and secondary research, interpret data, evaluate tools for communicating effectively to different audiences, and explore various research methods. Ethical, cultural, and interdisciplinary dimensions of global health research and work are emphasized throughout. Must be taken on the letter-grade basis.
Prerequisite: GHS 130 .
Distribution Requirements: none.
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GHS 130 - Introduction to Global Health
Credits: 4
An examination of global health and development issues including region-specific challenges to the wellbeing of populations and the environment. Students explore the collaborative, interdisciplinary approach required to address complex health challenges worldwide and critically examine the notions that wealthy countries adequately protect the health of their citizens and that poor countries lack the ingenuity to solve problems and reduce risks. Historical and current case studies demonstrate that no region has eliminated challenges to health or wellbeing, no region lacks resourcefulness, and that solutions achieved in poor countries may be applicable to populations worldwide.
Distribution Requirements: none.
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GHS 215 - Global Health Ethics
Credits: 4
An introductory ethical study of global health inequalities and our responses to them. Topics include health, justice, and human rights; moral responsibility in global health contexts; power, poverty, and health; ethics and global health governance; the ethics of international medical research; global inequities in access to medical resources; and specific health injustices associated with culture, race, and gender.
Prerequisite: GHS 130 .
Distribution Requirements: PD.
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GHS 321 - Epidemiology
Credits: 4
An opportunity to apply epidemiological data to both global health policy and practice, focusing on the determinants of health and patterns and distributions of disease. Topics include the philosophical and ethical dimensions of epidemiology, historical origins, types of study designs, data types and interpretation, and differences between causation and association.
Prerequisite: GHS 130 and FSGHS 201 .
Distribution Requirements: QR, SP.
Students may not receive credit for both GHS 321 and BIO 321 .
NB: GHS 321 will no longer count as an Area C course in Biology.
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GHS 370 - Medical Anthropology
Credits: 4
An introduction to methods used by anthropologists to understand and study health, illness, health care, and health-seeking behavior. The premier method of empirical research in the field of cultural anthropology, “ethnography,” involves participant observation, conversation, and interviewing. In addition to participant observation, medical anthropologists make use of a variety of other research methods to study issues directly relevant to health, illness, and the provision of health care. To create their own “mini ethnography,” students complete the appropriate ethical training, conduct participant observation, collect field notes, learn to code and analyze qualitative data, and partner with a community institution during lab. One laboratory per week.
Prerequisite: GHS 130 or permission of the instructor.
Distribution Requirements: IP, SB.
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GHS 529 - Internship: Global Health Studies
Credits: 1-4
Academic study completed in support of an internship experience with a partner institution. An Allegheny faculty member assigns and evaluates the academic work done by the student. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
Distribution Requirements: none.
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GHS 553 - Junior Seminar: Behavioral Research on Alcohol (also listed as PSYCH 553 )
Credits: 4
An examination of current research and theory in the area of alcohol studies. Issues related to alcohol use and abuse are approached through the complementary disciplines of psychology and epidemiology. Special emphasis is placed on prevalence, individual and public health consequences, and causal and contributory factors, as well as treatment and policy-based interventions. In addition, attention is paid to methodological issues in alcohol research, particularly research design and statistical methods. Our study emphasizes close reading of selected primary sources in psychology and epidemiology, in-class discussion, and extensive writing, culminating in a detailed research proposal.
Prerequisite: PSYCH 206 ; PSYCH 207 ; EITHER one of PSYCH 170 , PSYCH 172 , PSYCH 176 , or PSYCH 178 OR GHS 130 and one of BIO 321 /GHS 321 or BIO 385 ; and permission of instructor.
Distribution Requirements: none.
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GHS 575 - Global Health Challenges
Credits: 4
A study of changing epidemiological environments in less developed regions and an evaluation of interventions to reduce disease and improve human health. Case studies explore culturally specific approaches and strategies. Students examine economic, social, political, and ecological foundations of disease and evaluate whether current strategies and best practices used elsewhere can be applied to these cases. We also review literature that evaluates successes in comparable settings and then research and propose strategies using evidenced-based approaches. Topics may include global food security, environmental change and emerging infectious diseases, megacities, and strategies that developing nations take toward a sustainable healthy future. This class is conducted in seminar format.
Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing, GHS 130 , and permission of instructor.
Distribution Requirements: none.
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GHS 600 - Senior Project I
Credits: 2
The first semester of a two-semester senior project. Students refine a proposal and begin preliminary data collection as appropriate for their project. They work with the project advisor and other appropriate faculty members to finalize a research question and identify proper approaches, project design, methods of data analysis and interpretation, and modes of communication. A final proposal is presented for approval, and oral and written progress reports are discussed and evaluated.
Prerequisite: GHS 575 or another approved Junior Seminar; permission of instructor.
Distribution Requirements: none.
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GHS 610 - Senior Project II
Credits: 4
A continuation of GHS 600 leading to the completion of the Senior Project. Group and individual meetings are held to evaluate the progress of individual student research projects. Emphasis is placed on data analysis and interpretation and on modes of presenting research findings. Students complete a written thesis and oral defense.
Prerequisite: GHS 600 or permission of instructor.
Distribution Requirements: none.
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FSHIS 201 - Communication in a Discipline: History
Credits: 4
An introduction to writing and speaking in the discipline of History. Must be taken on the letter-grade basis.
Prerequisite: FS 102 .
Distribution Requirements: none.
The topical material covered in this sophomore seminar varies from section to section and year to year. Some sections of this course may have additional prerequisites.
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HIST 101 - The Greek World, 1184-323 BCE
Credits: 4
A comprehensive survey of ancient Greek political, social, and cultural history based on the interpretations of primary sources, both literary and archaeological, from the Trojan War to the end of the Classical period. Topics include the historicity of the Homeric poems, the rise of the Greek city-state and panhellenic consciousness, the constitutional history of Athens and Sparta, the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars, political participation in the Athenian democracy, reflections of contemporary history in drama (tragedy and comedy) and philosophy, and the rise of Alexander the Great.
Distribution Requirements: HE, IP.
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HIST 103 - The Roman World, 753 BCE-180 CE
Credits: 4
A comprehensive survey of ancient Roman political, social, and cultural history based on the interpretation of primary sources, both literary and archaeological, from the foundation of the city to the height of the Empire. Topics include the Roman aristocratic moral code, Roman imperialism, Roman diplomatic interaction with the Hellenistic World, the decline and fall of the Roman Republic, the establishment of the Augustan principate, and the administration of the empire in the first and second centuries.
Distribution Requirements: HE, IP.
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HIST 105 - Europe in the Age of Popes and Princes, 476-1400
Credits: 4
An introduction to the Medieval era of European history. This survey course covers the period from the fall of Rome to the 14th century. Among the topics considered are the role of the Roman Catholic Church, the development of the monarchical form of government, the institutions of feudalism and manorialism, the emergence of commerce, urban life, and the universities, the social, religious. And political calamities of the 14th century, and the rise and decline of traditional forms of authority in the West.
Distribution Requirements: HE, SB.
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HIST 107 - Europe in the Age of Recovery and Reformation, 1400-1648
Credits: 4
An introduction to the Early Modern Era of European history. This survey course covers the period from the Renaissance to the Thirty Years War. Among the topics considered are the re-emergence of social, cultural, and political life following the calamities of the 14th century, the Protestant and Catholic Reformations, and the age of religious warfare in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Distribution Requirements: HE, SB.
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HIST 109 - Europe in the Age of Modernization and Revolution, 1648-1914
Credits: 4
A survey of three centuries of European history, with focus on the ages of absolutism and enlightenment, the French Revolution and subsequent revolts, the evolution of liberal democracy, the industrial revolution and the development of a modern economy, and the emergence of nationalism and socialism.
Distribution Requirements: HE. SB.
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HIST 110 - Europe in the Age of Dictatorship and Democracy, 1914-Present
Credits: 4
An introduction to major problems in the social, cultural, and political history of Europe in the 20th century, from the disillusionment of World War I to the challenges of post-communism. Among the topics explored are the impact of total war on European civilization, Nazism and the rise of authoritarian regimes during the inter-war period, the significance of the Russian Revolution for Europe, decolonization and Europe’s changing place in world affairs, the reconstruction of democracy after 1945, the division of Europe during the Cold War, and the future of the nation-state within a unified Europe.
Distribution Requirements: HE, SB.
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HIST 113 - The History of Modern East Asia, 1800-Present
Credits: 4
A survey of political, social, economic, and cultural trends in East Asia from 1800 to the present. The course focuses primarily upon China, Korea, and Japan and to a lesser degree Vietnam. After an introduction to the tenets of East Asian civilization, we explore the profound changes that occurred in all four states as interaction with Western nations increased in the nineteenth century. We then examine the political, economic, and military conflicts of the twentieth century and conclude by focusing on the tremendous economic development that has shaped the region in more recent decades.
Distribution Requirements: HE, IP.
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HIST 116 - Colonial Latin America
Credits: 4
An introduction to Latin American history from the pre-Columbian era to the independence period. Topics considered include the diversity and complexity of Latin American indigenous civilizations before the arrival of Europeans; the Spanish impetus for New World exploration and conquest; the military conquest of the Aztec and Incan Empires; and the political and religious institutions, socio-economic structure, racial and ethnic attitudes, and cultural underpinnings of Spanish colonialism. Particular attention is paid to the modern ramifications of Latin America’s colonial past.
Distribution Requirements: IP, PD.
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HIST 117 - Modern Latin American History
Credits: 4
An examination of 19th- and 20th-century Latin American struggles to create effective national, political, and economic systems in a postcolonial global context. Through particular attention to legacies from the colonial period, students explore how gender, racial, ethnic, and class differences undergird political and economic structures, and how this historical relationship contributes to recent characteristics of the region, including -“underdevelopment,” dictatorship, guerrilla warfare, narco-trafficking, democratization, and neo-liberal trade.
Distribution Requirements: IP, PD.
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HIST 119 - West African Civilizations
Credits: 4
A broad survey of West African history from the pre-colonial period to the present. Our study focuses on a number of key themes, including traditional West African culture, the rise of pre-colonial West African states, the transatlantic slave trade, the colonial era, anti-colonial movements, national independence, and major post-colonial developments.
Distribution Requirements: HE, IP.
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HIST 123 - A History of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1918
Credits: 4
A study of the Ottoman Empire and the Mediterranean region. Students examine the empire’s encounters throughout the Mediterranean, center and frontiers of the empire, and the lived experiences of individuals within the Ottoman Empire. Students investigate such topics as: Origins of the Ottoman Empire; its Boundaries and Crossings; Competing Expansions; Sacred Space (Spatial, Religious, Representational Questions); Frontiers (Interactions, Encounters, and Diffusion); Trade and Cultural Interactions; Networks, Mobility, and Ecological Crisis; Gender and Sexuality in the Ottoman Empire; and the Decline or Transformation question.
Distribution Requirements: IP, SB.
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HIST 124 - A History of the Modern Middle East, 1839-present
Credits: 4
An introduction to the history of the lands that comprise the former Ottoman Empire. Students investigate topics such as: the reform and independence movements of the late Ottoman Empire; the modernization and development programs within nation-states; the implications of the settlements following the First World War; the Arab-Israeli Conflict; post-WWII autocracies; US involvement in the Middle East; and recent challenges in the region. Also explored are the competing and overlapping concepts of religious and secular-structured notions of nation, identity, and coexistence.
Distribution Requirements: IP, SB.
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HIST 151 - History of Medieval England, 1066-1485
Credits: 4
A survey of English history from the Norman Conquest to the Wars of the Roses. Students consider the social and economic foundations of political and cultural events. Emphasis is given to the development of English political and religious institutions. Among the topics considered are the establishment and growth of the monarchical form of government, the origin and development of the representative institution of parliament, the successes and failures of medieval monarchs, the dynamic tensions between local feudal authority and the royal court, the Hundred Years War, and the Wars of the Roses.
Distribution Requirements: HE, IP.
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HIST 153 - History of Imperial Russia, 1682-1917
Credits: 4
A survey of Russian intellectual, cultural, and political history from the reign of Peter the Great to the fall of the Romanov dynasty in the February Revolution of 1917. Problems considered include the strengths and weaknesses of autocracy, Russia’s rise to prominence as a European power, the role of serfdom in Russia’s development and underdevelopment, the formation of Russia as a multi-national empire, the politics and culture of the intelligentsia, and the internal dynamics which helped produce revolution at the beginning of the 20th century.
Distribution Requirements: HE, IP.
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HIST 155 - The Soviet Century, 1917-Present
Credits: 4
A survey of major problems in the history of Russia and the Soviet Union during the 20th century, from the promise of the October Revolution of 1917 to the uncertainties of post-Soviet life. Among the topics explored are the causes of the 1917 revolutions, the nature of Bolshevism, revolutionary culture and utopianism during the 1920s, Stalinism and the transformation of Soviet society, the idea of the Soviet Union as a multi-national polity, the Great Patriotic War against Nazism, de-Stalinization and Soviet culture, the reconstruction of the Soviet system under Mikhail Gorbachev, and the complex legacies of Soviet socialism.
Distribution Requirements: HE, IP.
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HIST 157 - History of Modern France, 1789-Present
Credits: 4
A survey of the major developments in French history beginning with the French Revolution. The course focuses on the economic and social foundations established for modern France in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic era and its political, intellectual, and cultural life since 1789. It considers such topics as the causes and importance of the Revolution, Napoleon’s career, the Revolutions of 1830 and 1848, the empire of Napoleon III, imperialism, socialism, industrialism, the impact of World War I, the Popular Front, Vichy and DeGaulle.
Distribution Requirements: HE, SB.
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HIST 159 - History of Modern Germany
Credits: 4
An introduction to the historical, political, social and intellectual background of modern Germany. Typical discussion topics include the Congress of Vienna, the 1848 revolution, the first unification of 1871, the Weimar Republic, National Socialism, and the division of Germany after World War II. Special attention is paid to the unification process since 1989 and Germany’s role in international politics.
Distribution Requirements: HE, IP.
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HIST 162 - History of the United States to 1865
Credits: 4
An examination of the forces that have shaped the experiences of the American people from the age of settlement through the Civil War. The course focuses on relations between European settlers and Native Americans, the development of Anglo-American colonial society, the foundation of the new nation, the emerging industrial economy, the causes of sectionalism, and the crisis of the Civil War.
Distribution Requirements: HE, PD.
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HIST 163 - History of the United States, 1865-Present
Credits: 4
An exploration of the emergence of modern America, addressing the effects of immigration, industrialization, imperialism, war and social change on the development of the United States since the Civil War.
Distribution Requirements: HE, PD.
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HIST 165 - Pre-Modern China: Religion, Philosophy, and Society
Credits: 4
An examination of pre-modern Chinese political and social history from 500 BCE to 1800 CE. This course focuses on the origin and transformation of the Chinese nation-state prior to its full-scale encounter with the West. Topics discussed may include: the origin of Chinese civilization, the formation of the nation-state, contending schools of philosophy and thought, the cycle of dynasties, the rise of pre-modern capitalism, women’s experiences, Han and minority relations, religions, and secret societies.
Distribution Requirements: HE, IP.
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HIST 167 - Modern China, 1800-2000
Credits: 4
An examination of the recent Chinese past. Topics discussed include: the last century of Qing rule, confrontation with Western nations, the Republican period, the warlords and the Nationalist and Communist movements in the early twentieth century, Japanese aggression, the communist state, the Cultural Revolution, and economic growth in the 1980s and 1990s.
Distribution Requirements: HE, IP.
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HIST 169 - The History of Mexico
Credits: 4
A survey of the Mexican past from the Mayan and Aztec empires, through the Spanish conquest, the colonial era, Independence, the Revolution, and the late 20th century. Special attention is paid to migration history, environmental history and the history of culture.
Distribution Requirements: IP, PD.
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HIST 173 - History of South Africa
Credits: 4
A survey of major events in South African history. Students learn about a wide range of topics including, but not limited to, South African cultures, geography, historical figures, and colonial encounters. We begin with a unit on the original inhabitants of South Africa-the Khoi, the San, and various Bantu-speaking groups-then transition into the period of Dutch settlement, the period of English settlement, the era of nation formation, the rise and fall of apartheid, and post-apartheid South Africa.
Distribution Requirements: IP, PD.
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HIST 249 - The Mystery of Courage
Credits: 4
An exploration of courage in historical context. Students consider what it means to be courageous. Topics discussed include the virtue of courage, its deficiency (cowardice), and its excess (recklessness), and the roles of nature and nurture in creating courage. Types of courage studied include valor, sacrifice, and resistance. Specific illustrations include speaking truth to power, violent and non-violent forms of dissent, and social protest. Specific types include the warrior, the dissident, and the rescuer. Case studies may include: the Spartan paradigm, the Zealots of Masada, Thomas More, Henry David Thoreau, Marion van Binsbergen Pritchard, and Nelson Mandela.
Distribution Requirements: HE, SB.
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HIST 253 - Citizenship, Democracy, and the French Revolution
Credits: 4
An introduction to the study of the French Revolution in which students are assigned and act out positions as leaders of major revolutionary factions. Role-playing begins as the newly-emerged National Assembly struggles to create a Constitution amidst internal chaos and threats of foreign invasion. Questions considered include: will the king be permitted to retain a semblance of power; can the Assembly contain the radical demands of “the People;” will Catholic priests obey the new revolutionary government or the dictates of the Pope; can the revolutionaries create a stable democratic regime, or was the violence and bloodshed of the Reign of Terror inevitable?
Distribution Requirements: CL, HE.
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HIST 255 - African-American History to 1865 (also listed as BLKST 255 )
Credits: 4
A survey of the history of African-Americans from the earliest appearance of Africans in colonial North America to the end of the Civil War. Students explore slavery, slave society and economy, slave culture, African Americans and politics, and the abolition of slavery.
Distribution Requirements: HE, PD.
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HIST 257 - African-American History since 1865 (also listed as BLKST 257 )
Credits: 4
A survey of African-American history from the end of the Civil War to the present. Students explore topics such as Reconstruction, the rise and fall of Jim Crow, the Great Migration, the Harlem Renaissance, the Civil Rights Movement, Black Power, and Hip Hop. The lives of major figures in America’s racial history are also examined.
Distribution Requirements: HE, PD.
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HIST 259 - The South in American History
Credits: 4
A topical survey of major historical issues in the history of the American South from first settlement to the present day. Students focus on race relations, including slavery, segregation, and civil rights; the formation and persistence of a regional identity, including its relationship to national and other regional identities; and the evolution of Southern society, economics, politics, and culture.
Distribution Requirements: HE, PD.
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HIST 261 - A Survey of American Women’s History
Credits: 4
A survey of the social, political, and economic role of women in American history from the colonial period to the present. Among the issues discussed are family as a force in American history, the impact of feminism on the major institutions of American life, the working lives of women, women’s sexuality, the role of race and ethnicity in shaping women’s lives, and the emergence of women on the political stage.
Distribution Requirements: PD, SB.
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HIST 263 - Biography and American History
Credits: 4
An introduction to American History through the study of biographical and autobiographical literature. Students will read biographies and autobiographies of such persons as George Washington, Louisa May Alcott, Frederick Douglass and Alice James. Special attention is paid to the relationship of biography to history, and how historians interpret the lives of those who have lived before them.
Distribution Requirements: HE, PD.
Open to first-year students and sophomores only.
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HIST 265 - Myth and Reality in the American Past
Credits: 4
An investigation of the myths of American history, why they were created, and how they reflect American values. Some myths that might be explored are those associated with the noble savage, George Washington, the Plantation South, as well as the “Camelot” myths created about the Kennedy Administration. Students will formulate their own interpretations of people and events that have been the object of America’s mythological past.
Distribution Requirements: CL, HE.
Open to first-year students and sophomores only.
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HIST 267 - Abraham Lincoln: The Man and the Myth
Credits: 4
An examination of the life, career, and legacy of Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States. Students explore Lincoln as a politician in his own lifetime and Lincoln as an increasingly legendary figure in the years after his assassination. Particular attention is paid to Lincoln’s own words and the interpretations placed upon them by succeeding generations of Americans.
Distribution Requirements: CL, HE.
Open to first-year students and sophomores only.
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HIST 269 - The Sixties in America
Credits: 4
An examination of the significance and the impact of one of the most dramatic decades in American history. Particular attention is devoted to an elucidation of various “myths of the sixties” and to the role of the mass media in generating these myths.
Distribution Requirements: CL, HE.
Open to first-year students and sophomores only.
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HIST 270 - Reagan’s America
Credits: 4
A survey of the middle decades of the 20th-century United States as seen through the life and career of Ronald Reagan. Students trace Reagan’s experiences as an actor, governor, and eventual president while exploring Hollywood and anti-Communism, state reactions to student protests, and impacts of conservative policies. Particular attention is paid to public perceptions of Reagan and his policies.
Distribution Requirements: CL, HE.
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HIST 272 - Socialism and Post-Socialism in People’s Republic of China
Credits: 4
An historical examination of the ideology, state policies, and social transformation in China’s socialist construction and market reform from 1949 to the present. We study the Chinese socialist state’s consolidation of control over all aspects of social life in the 1950s; its transformation of commerce, agriculture, and Chinese society through various campaigns; its industrialization and search for an alternative modernization path through the Great Leap Forward of 1958; and China’s marketization and the rise of civil society since the 1980s. Students analyze the PRC’s social control and governance, Maoist legacies, erosion of socialist ideals, and globalization’s impact on Chinese society.
Distribution Requirements: HE, IP.
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HIST 273 - Piracy in the Americas, 1500-1830
Credits: 4
A study of piracy in the Americas from 1500 to 1830 that traces the evolution of maritime piracy and examines the experience of both predators and prey. Discussion of pirate ethics, daily life, and criminal activity is followed by an assessment of piracy’s political and economic impact on Europe and its American colonies. Analysis of piracy in popular culture and imagination completes the semester.
Distribution Requirements: HE, SB.
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HIST 275 - Reacting to the Past
Credits: 4
An examination of key historical moments and trends in American history via historical role-playing. Students take on roles in elaborate games set in the past. While students are obliged to adhere to the philosophical and intellectual beliefs of the historical figures they have been assigned, they devise their own persuasive expression of those ideas in papers, speeches, or other public presentations. Our exploration presumes that individuals play a significant role in history; it asserts that broader economic and social forces place constraints on what individuals may do, but that those forces do not determine human events-people do.
Distribution Requirements: CL, HE.
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HIST 277 - An American History of the Body
Credits: 4
A survey of the history of American healthcare and ideas about the body from colonial American times through the twentieth century. Students explore healthcare practices, societal understandings of the human body, consent and relationships between care givers and care providers, and the influence of sex, gender, race, age, and morality on healthcare practices.
Distribution Requirements: HE, PD.
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HIST 280 - Bodies, Bloodletting, and Bile: Healers, Health, and Medicine from Antiquity through the Early Modern Period
Credits: 4
A survey of the history of medicine from Antiquity through the seventeenth century. This study traces the development and transmission of medical knowledge and practices between the Latin West, the Middle East, India, China, and the Americas. Students learn about medical theory and practice, concepts of the body, modes of healing and therapeutics, and the medical marketplace in their social and cultural contexts. Students also consider different historical debates about these topics.
Distribution Requirements: IP, SB.
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HIST 300 - The Crusades
Credits: 4
An examination of an age of Christian imperialism. Students investigate the motives and conduct of Europeans in the Age of the Crusades from the Council of Clermont in 1095, where Pope Urban II called for European rulers, nobles, and knights to wrest the Holy Land from the Muslims, to the fall of Acre, the last Christian stronghold in the Middle East in 1291. Among the topics considered are the explicit and implicit goals of the leadership of the Catholic Church and the European kingdoms, the organization and transportation of armies to fight for the Christian cause, and the rise and fall of the Christian kingdoms in the Middle East.
Prerequisite: HIST 105 or permission of the instructor.
Distribution Requirements: HE, IP.
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HIST 301 - Chivalry
Credits: 4
A study of the code of conduct for the Medieval European knight. Students investigate the principles and practices of the chivalric tradition during the period from the 12th to the 15th centuries. Among the topics considered are the social status of the knight, the techniques of knightly warfare, the tradition of courtly love, and the ideals and realities of knightly behavior. Consideration is given to transformation of the warrior of the Crusading era to the courtier of the age of the Renaissance.
Prerequisite: HIST 105 or permission of the instructor.
Distribution Requirements: HE, SB.
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HIST 303 - The Calamitous 14th Century
Credits: 4
The study of an age of unprecedented natural and human disasters in Europe. Students consider diverse topics including climate change; the Black Death; endemic warfare; the class revolts of the French Jacquerie, the English Peasants’ Rebellion, and the Florentine revolt of the Ciompi; the collapse of European banking; the end of the Champagne Fairs; the constriction of trade; and the depopulation of both the cities and the countryside.
Prerequisite: HIST 105 or permission of the instructor.
Distribution Requirements: HE, IP.
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HIST 305 - The Italian Renaissance
Credits: 4
The age of experimentation. An examination of the principal developments of the period of the Renaissance. Among the topics considered are the rise of capitalism, social change and dislocation, the Italian city-states, the cultural and intellectual revival, and Humanism. The course concentrates on Italy during the period 1300-1500.
Prerequisite: HIST 105 or HIST 107 , or permission of the instructor.
Distribution Requirements: HE, IP.
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HIST 306 - Enlightenment and Absolutism
Credits: 4
An examination of European social, cultural, intellectual, political and economic life from 1648 to the eve of the French Revolution. The rise of absolutist states, overseas expansion and competition for empires, the ideas of the Enlightenment, and Enlightened Despotism will be considered.
Prerequisite: HIST 107 or HIST 109 or HIST 157 or HIST 263 , or permission of the instructor.
Distribution Requirements: HE, SB.
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HIST 308 - The French Revolution and Napoleon
Credits: 4
An examination of the origins, nature, and impact of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic period. Among the topics considered are the birth of modern democratic political culture, the causes of revolutionary violence and terror, and the rise of modern nationalism.
Prerequisite: HIST 109 or HIST 157 or HIST 253 or HIST 306 , or permission of the instructor.
Distribution Requirements: PD, SB.
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HIST 310 - Europe at the Turn of the Century, 1880-1917
Credits: 4
A consideration of the cultural, social, and political questions associated with the rise of modern life and the weakening of traditional forms of thought and association. Topics considered include the concepts of individualism and society, the ideology of progress, the cultural dimensions of science and technology, the place of the city and urban culture in European civilization, the politics of class, race, and gender, the importance of Empire for European self-identity, and the significance of World War I and the Russian Revolution as expressions of the conflict between tradition and modernity.
Prerequisite: HIST 109 or HIST 110 , or permission of the instructor.
Distribution Requirements: HE.
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HIST 312 - State and Society Under Communism and Fascism
Credits: 4
A comparative investigation of the totalitarian regimes of Italy, Germany, and the Soviet Union during the period 1917-1945. Emphasis is given to the role of modern states in sculpting and mobilizing society. Topics include the creation of the new man and woman, the politics of reproduction and populations, the definition of citizenship and participation, the organization of politics and the economy, and the aesthetics of power. These themes are explored through the critical study of film, art and architecture, literature, and historical texts.
Prerequisite: HIST 109 or HIST 110 or HIST 155 or HIST 159 , or permission of the instructor.
Distribution Requirements: HE, SB.
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HIST 313 - The Third Reich and the Holocaust
Credits: 4
An investigation of the origins, rise, and outcome of National Socialism. Students investigate topics such as the role of nationalism, racism, and anti-Semitism in Nazi ideology; consent and coercion in the evolution of Nazi control; everyday life in Germany before 1939; the role of the Second World War in the realization of the Holocaust; motivations of the perpetrators, collaborators and bystanders; elements of resistance; historiographical debates over the writing of the Holocaust, and the manner in which the Holocaust has been represented and memorialized.
Prerequisite: One course in European History or permission of the instructor.
Distribution Requirements: IP, SB.
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HIST 318 - Environmental Thought in Modern Europe
Credits: 4
An examination of the origins of environmental and ecological consciousness in modern European society. Through a study of the works of leading social and political theorists and philosophers, this course traces the development of skepticism regarding the inherently beneficial nature of technological progress and scientific advance back to the dawn of the Industrial Age in late 18th-century Europe.
Prerequisite: One course in European history, or permission of the instructor.
Distribution Requirements: CL, HE.
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HIST 320 - Writing Ancient History
Credits: 4
An examination of the methodological objectives and practices of ancient historians. Students read extensively in primary sources and analyze historiographical strategies. Among the topics considered are the different effects of discursive and analytical styles, the relation between personal memoir and history, biography as history, divergent chronological frameworks, how Greeks and Romans viewed each other, and Roman innovations on Greek traditions.
Prerequisite: HIST 101 or HIST 103 or permission of the instructor.
Distribution Requirements: HE, IP.
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HIST 324 - Life in Colonial America
Credits: 4
An exploration of the development of Anglo-American society and culture in North America. The transfer of English ideas and institutions to the new world, the conflicts between native, white, and African cultures, the development of distinctive social, economic, and political differences in the colonies, and the emergence of an American identity are studied.
Prerequisite: HIST 162 or permission of the instructor.
Distribution Requirements: HE, PD.
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HIST 326 - The American Revolutionary Era
Credits: 4
An analysis of the evolution of the United States from the French and Indian War to the Constitutional Era. The course is topical in organization. Students explore the society, economy, politics and religion of the Revolutionary Era. Special attention will be paid to the Revolutionary War itself, and the impact of that war on the daily lives of both women and men. The experience of native Americans and slaves in the Revolutionary Era is also studied.
Prerequisite: HIST 162 or permission of the instructor.
Distribution Requirements: HE, SB.
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HIST 328 - The War of 1812 and the Development of the American Nation
Credits: 4
An examination of the history of the antebellum United States from 1812 to 1861, concentrating on the development of the nation after the War of 1812. Students focus on issues of sectionalism and social reform, including the age of Andrew Jackson, slavery, the causes of the sectional conflict, and the evolution of American society, economics, politics, and culture.
Prerequisite: One course in U.S. history.
Distribution Requirements: HE, PD.
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HIST 330 - The Gilded Age and the Birth of Modern America
Credits: 4
An examination of the transition of the United States from agrarianism to industrial world power (1876-1919). Topics may include the Gilded Age, industrialization, American imperialism, the rise of Jim Crow, urbanization, Women’s Suffrage, and the Great War.
Prerequisite: HIST 163 or permission of the instructor.
Distribution Requirements: HE, PD.
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HIST 331 - Problems in Nineteenth Century America
Credits: 4
A topical study of major historical issues in the United States during the nineteenth century. Topics may include the Civil War in American memory; the formation of American nationalism; the emergence of reform movements, including abolition and emancipation, temperance, women’s rights, and evangelism; the United States in the context of the Atlantic world; and the development of constitutionalism and law in the United States.
Prerequisite: One course in 19th-century U.S. history or permission of the instructor.
Distribution Requirements: HE.
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HIST 332 - Problems in Contemporary America
Credits: 4
A thematic study of major historical issues in the United States since the Great War. Topics include the Jazz Age, the Great Depression, the Second World War, the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement, Second Wave Feminism, the Gay Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, the Rise of the Religious Right, the Wars of the Persian Gulf, 9/11, and the Global War on Terror.
Prerequisite: HIST 163 or permission of the instructor.
Distribution Requirements: CL, HE.
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HIST 337 - History of American Masculinity
Credits: 4
An exploration of the meaning and construction of masculine identities in America from the founding of the Republic to the present. Male experiences, including social class, race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, and age, are investigated from a chronological and thematic perspective. The link between masculinity and the popularity of sports, pornography, and the American proclivity for violence are also examined.
Prerequisite: HIST 162 or HIST 163, or permission of the instructor.
Distribution Requirements: CL, PD.
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HIST 337 - History of American Masculinity
Credits: 4
An exploration of the meaning and construction of masculine identities in America from the founding of the Republic to the present. Male experiences, including social class, race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, and age, are investigated from a chronological and thematic perspective. The link between masculinity and the popularity of sports, pornography, and the American proclivity for violence are also examined.
Prerequisite: HIST 162 or HIST 163 , or permission of the instructor.
Distribution Requirements: CL, PD.
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HIST 339 - Problems in the History of American Women
Credits: 4
A thematic study of major issues in the history of American women. Topics may include: the experiences of women in the settlement process; the effects of war and revolution on women’s lives; the impact of the women’s rights and feminist movements on American women and men; how race, ethnicity, and class have shaped women’s lives; the history of sexuality; the changing nature of women’s roles within the family; and women and work in American history.
Prerequisite: HIST 261 or permission of the instructor.
Distribution Requirements: PD, SB.
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HIST 341 - American Environmental History
Credits: 4
A survey of the interaction between humans and the natural world in the United States since colonial times. Students are introduced to major themes, events, scholars, and methodologies in American environmental history. Topics, arranged chronologically and thematically, include the conquest and settlement of the future United States, industrialization, the U.S. conservation and environmental movements, and the place of nature and environmentalism in post World War II American Culture.
Prerequisite: HIST 162 or HIST 163 , or permission of the instructor.
Distribution Requirements: CL, HE.
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HIST 343 - Violence and the Coming of the American Civil War
Credits: 4
An examination of the era of Civil War in the United States, from 1830 to 1880, concentrating on issues of violence. Students examine a variety of civil and military issues, such as the causes of the war, the limits of individual dissent, and changes in the status of African Americans. In particular, students explore the two great debates of the antebellum period: one concerning slavery and the other concerning the power of the federal government.
Prerequisite: One course in U.S. history.
Distribution Requirements: HE, PD.
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HIST 345 - Skyscrapers, Slums, and Sprawl
Credits: 4
An examination of the history of urban and suburban development in the United States from the colonial era to the present, with emphasis on the twentieth century. Among the issues discussed are urban policy, environmental impacts, and the relationship between the built environment and social divisions such as race, class, and gender.
Prerequisite: One course in U.S. history.
Distribution Requirements: CL, SB.
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HIST 347 - Tax and Spend
Credits: 4
An examination of debates over taxation, welfare, and government subsidies in the United States from the 1930s to the present. Our study takes a broad view of government support, including that provided to the general public, families, and businesses. Among the issues discussed are the rationale behind different forms of subsidies, shifts in political support, and changing attitudes toward taxation.
Prerequisite: One course in U.S. history.
Distribution Requirements: CL, PD.
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HIST 353 - Women and Revolution in China
Credits: 4
A study of Chinese women’s emancipation from 1898 to 1989 as a historical process. Students examine the experiences of Chinese women, including their place within the patriarchal system, the rise of an emancipation movement, and their role as agents of change. Among the topics covered are the relationship between women’s liberation and Chinese nationalism, family and marriage, the challenges for women under socialism and globalization, and feminist literature and film.
Prerequisite: HIST 113 or HIST 167 , or permission of the instructor.
Distribution Requirements: HE, IP.
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HIST 355 - Modern Chinese Warfare
Credits: 4
An historical examination of modern Chinese warfare from the 1890s to the 1980s. With the two Sino-Japanese Wars (1894 and 1937-1945), the Chinese Civil War (1947-1949), and China’s involvement in the Korean and Vietnam Wars as case studies, we consider Chinese military strategy from multiple perspectives. Students investigate ancient Chinese military strategy and its modern application, the modernization and politicization of the Chinese army in the 20th century, the relationship between the army and the political parties, guerrilla warfare, logistics, and the impact of war on Chinese society and domestic politics.
Prerequisite: HIST 113 or HIST 167 , or permission of the instructor.
Distribution Requirements: HE, IP.
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HIST 358 - Migrants & Refugees in the 20th Century
Credits: 4
An examination of the role of planned and unplanned migrations in the social and cultural transformations of the twentieth-century. Students investigate the economic, political, social, and cultural sources and byproducts of migration and flight from the late nineteenth-century through today. Students probe such themes as: theories of migration; contrasting pre- and post-1945 migrations; development of the United Nations displaced persons and refugee policies; refugees during the Cold War; and refugees in the contemporary world. Students will consider various conceptions of globalization as well as the prospects of and impediments to the growth of multi-ethnic societies.
Prerequisite: One history course.
Distribution Requirements: IP, SB.
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HIST 359 - Apartheid in South Africa and Beyond
Credits: 4
An exploration into the system of apartheid and the way it has been represented in academic, political, and popular writings. We cover the historical forces that helped to produce the apartheid system and examine its socio-cultural, political, economic, and racial dimensions. Students consider different representations of apartheid and are introduced to key works written by historians, anti-apartheid activists, Afrikaner statesmen, American presidents, and science fiction authors.
Distribution Requirements: IP, PD.
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HIST 360 - Middle East Nationalisms
Credits: 4
An investigation of race, ethnicity, and identity politics in the late Ottoman Empire and the early Turkish Republic. Students investigate topics such as the political reforms and changing communal dynamics of the late Ottoman Empire; competing notions of nationalism among Turkish, Armenian, Kurdish, and Greek political and cultural organizations; the context of the First World War in regards to changes within the Ottoman Empire; and historiographical debates over defining the events of the past and the politicization of past atrocities.
Prerequisite: One course on the Middle East, or permission of the instructor.
Distribution Requirements: IP, SB.
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HIST 361 - Race and Identity in the Atlantic World
Credits: 4
An intellectual history of racial identity in the Atlantic world. We explore the concept of race and consider its transnational development from 1492 to 1965, with a focus on the formation of distinct racial categories and how those categories affected the way that people saw themselves and each other. Places such as the West Coast of Africa, Haiti, and England are covered. Special attention is given to the United States, a nation that played a central role in contributing to the creation of the concept of race.
Distribution Requirements: IP, PD.
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HIST 365 - Conquest! Latin America 1492-1600
Credits: 4
An analysis of the physical conquest of Latin America and an examination of the ensuing blend of Spanish and Indigenous cultures. Topics considered include Spain’s assault on the Aztec, Inca, and Maya, Catholic efforts to convert Indigenous peoples, the rise of the Mestizo population, the role of women in the early colonial world, the effect of disease on the Native population, and creation of a “civil society” governed by Spanish crown.
Prerequisite: One course in Latin American history, or permission of the instructor.
Distribution Requirements: IP, PD.
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HIST 366 - Dictators and Development in Latin America
Credits: 4
An examination of twentieth-century Latin American dictatorships and the developmental ramifications of authoritarian rule. Subjects considered include dictators and the cult of personality, the search for economic development, leftist political struggles, the position of indigenous groups within Latin America, continuing violence and social problems, the Cold War and U.S. involvement in Latin America, and present-day efforts to come to grips with a totalitarian past or present. Countries addressed may include Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and/or Peru.
Prerequisite: One course in Latin American history, or permission of the instructor.
Distribution Requirements: IP, PD.
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HIST 367 - History of Political Crime and Political Justice
Credits: 4
An examination of how various societies have dealt with political opposition throughout history. Why do some societies tolerate activities that others regard as crimes? Why do some societies treat “political criminals” relatively leniently while others do not? How far can a society extend the limits of tolerance and leniency and still survive?
Prerequisite: One course in European history, or permission of the instructor.
Distribution Requirements: CL,HE.
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HIST 380 - Disease and Medicine in Modern History
Credits: 4
An investigation of responses to disease in different historical periods, with an emphasis on Europe and the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. The social and cultural influences on medicine and public health are a recurring theme. Among the topics explored are the definition of health and illness, epidemic and endemic diseases, the rise of professional and scientific medicine, therapeutics and theories of disease causation, public health and the individual, and the significance of class, gender, and race as factors shaping the experience of disease.
Prerequisite: One course in US or European history, or permission of the instructor.
Distribution Requirements: HE, PD.
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HIST 502 - Internship with Special Collections, Pelletier Library
Credits: 1-4
Liaison: History Chair and Director of Special Collections
Inventorying, scanning, cataloging and indexing papers, letters, documents and artifacts in Special Collections under the supervision of the Library staff. Creating web sites for these collections is an important part of the intern’s responsibilities. Interns also work on the College’s Ida Tarbell Web Site and participate in the preservation of materials in that collection.
Prerequisite: Permission of the History Department Chair and the Director of Special Collections.
Distribution Requirements: none.
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HIST 504 - Internship with the Historian of the College
Credits: 1-4
Liaison: History Chair and College Historian
Researching the history of Allegheny College as well as planning and installing displays of the College’s history on campus. Interns work closely with the Historian of the College, the College’s Heritage Committee, the staff of the Pelletier Library’s Special Collections, and local historical societies.
Prerequisite: Permission of the History Department Chair and the Historian of the College.
Distribution Requirements: none.
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HIST 506 - Internship with the Archivist, Pelletier Library
Credits: 1-4
Liaison: History Chair and College Archivist
The design and execution of interviews as part of an ongoing oral history project of Allegheny College under the supervision of the College Archivist. The intern’s responsibilities may include transcribing interviews and handwritten material in the collection, inventorying and describing collection materials, and conducting research for administrative histories and for exhibit preparation. Interns may design and install exhibits of College history within the library and elsewhere on campus. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisite: Permission of History Department Chair and the College Archivist.
Distribution Requirements: none.
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HIST 508 - History Under Sail: The Flagship Niagara and the Great Lakes
Credits: 4
Liaison: Professor Binnington
An experiential learning internship on the maritime history of the Great Lakes. The Flagship Niagara is a replica of the square rigged sailing warship which fought at the 1813 Battle of Lake Erie. In a three week program, students experience life during the Age of Sail, gaining lessons in seamanship, history, and citizenship. Students acquire a deeper understanding of maritime history and seafaring culture through living similar challenges and conditions faced by seafarers of the past. This internship is offered in partnership with a consortium of local colleges and the Erie Maritime Museum. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
Distribution Requirements: none.
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HIST 529 - Internship: History
Credits: 1-4
Academic study completed in support of an internship experience with a partner institution. An Allegheny faculty member assigns and evaluates the academic work done by the student. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
Distribution Requirements: none.
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HIST 551 - Orality and Literacy in Ancient Greece
Credits: 4
An examination of speech and writing as media of communication in ancient Greece, from the time of Homer into the fourth century BC. The course focuses on the development of writing in the Greek world and the effect of this development on Greek culture and society. Among the topics studied are the oral performance of poetry, the function of writing in the Athenian democracy, and the importance of rhetoric for the intellectual life of the classical period.
Prerequisite: HIST 101 or HIST 103 , and permission of instructor.
Distribution Requirements: none.
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HIST 554 - Dreaming in Greece and Rome
Credits: 4
An exploration of the interpretation and explanation of dreams in Greco-Roman antiquity, from the time of Homer to the early Roman Empire. We approach the material with the framework of dream categorization developed by ancient analysts, who variously treated dreams as divine messages or as a physiological phenomenon. Topics include dreams and divination, dreams as a literary motif, ancient dream handbooks and diaries, dreams in natural and medical philosophy, and the personal statements of dreams preserved on stone.
Prerequisite: HIST 101 or HIST 103 , and permission of instructor.
Distribution Requirements: none.
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HIST 556 - The French Revolution
Credits: 4
An examination of various historical problems raised by the French Revolution. Among the topics considered are the struggle between revolutionary moderates and radicals, the role of public opinion, the question of revolutionary violence and terror, and the impact of international war.
Prerequisite: One of HIST 109 , HIST 157 , HIST 253 , HIST 306 , or HIST 308 ; permission of instructor.
Distribution Requirements: none.
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HIST 557 - The Hundred Years War
Credits: 4
An examination of the struggle between England and France in the 14th and 15th centuries. Students explore the dynastic dispute over the French throne between the English royal house of Plantagenet and the French royal house of Valois. Among the topics considered are the battles that characterized the struggle, the personalities and capabilities of military and political leaders, the principles of chivalry, the development of strategy and tactics, and the rise of the mercenary.
Prerequisite: One of HIST 105 , HIST 301 , or HIST 303 ; permission of instructor.
Distribution Requirements: none.
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HIST 558 - Revolutionary Russia, 1900-1921
Credits: 4
A critical study of the major historical interpretations and problems regarding the fall of the Russian autocracy and the rise of the Soviet Union, the world’s first communist regime. Analysis focuses on scholarly works, primary sources, memoir accounts, art, literature and film to understand how the Russian Revolution has been portrayed variously in historical memory. Among the major themes explored are the role of personality, accident, and political parties, the influence of ideology on individual and government action, social polarization and the possibility of evolutionary change in Russia, and the creation of historical myth under the Bolsheviks.
Prerequisite: One of HIST 153 , HIST 155 , HIST 253 , or HIST 312 ; permission of instructor.
Distribution Requirements: none.
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HIST 560 - Witchcraft in Colonial America
Credits: 4
This seminar investigates the social, political, economic, religious, and literary interpretations of the Salem Village witchcraft trials of 17th century Massachusetts Bay Colony. The culture of Puritanism is explored. Students are required to formulate their own interpretation of the events studied.
Prerequisite: HIST 324 and permission of instructor.
Distribution Requirements: none.
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HIST 562 - The Family in American History
Credits: 4
The evolution of the family as a social, economic, and political institution is explored from the colonial period of American history to the present. The impact of wars, industrialization, immigration, and feminism on the family is analyzed. Special attention is paid to the methodology of family history and the relationship of family history to other forms of history and historical writing.
Prerequisite: HIST 162 or HIST 163 , and permission of instructor.
Distribution Requirements: none.
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HIST 563 - The Atlantic World
Credits: 4
A chronological and thematic study of the major issues in the development of the Atlantic world beginning with the voyages of Christopher Columbus and ending with the emancipation of the last African slaves in 19th-century Brazil. Students examine the development of trade, commerce, and the cultural and social exchange between Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Issues discussed include colonialism, mercantilism, the Columbian Exchange, the development of Indian and African slavery, the process of emancipation, and the role of the New World environment in shaping the development of the various cultures in the Americas.
Prerequisite: One of HIST 162 , HIST 163 , or HIST 255 ; permission of instructor.
Distribution Requirements: none.
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HIST 565 - Memory and the American Civil War
Credits: 4
An examination of the period of the American Civil War and Reconstruction, through the lens of social memory. Students explore issues that include how we have remembered the sectional development of politics, the changing sphere of liberty, the abolition of slavery and the developing meaning of freedom, the nature of military combat during this period, the relationship between the federal and state governments, and the relationship between politics and the Constitution.
Prerequisite: One of HIST 259 , HIST 267 , HIST 328 , or HIST 343 ; permission of instructor.
Distribution Requirements: none.
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HIST 571 - The Civil Rights Movement
Credits: 4
An exploration of African American freedom movements in the United States in the post-1945 era. Through a focus on the efforts of African Americans and their allies to overcome persistent white supremacy and achieve racial justice in the United States, students explore the legal, historical, economic, and social origins of the civil rights movement, as well as its impact on American culture, politics, and international relations.
Prerequisite: One of HIST 162 , HIST 163 , or HIST 257 ; permission of instructor.
Distribution Requirements: none.
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HIST 573 - Mao’s Cultural Revolution
Credits: 4
A critical study of the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) as sociopolitical movement, collective memory, and historical trauma. The course provides an historical perspective to analyze the origin, process, and aftermath of the Cultural Revolution as both the continuation and the culmination of modern Chinese political crisis. Subjects considered include the rise of the cult of personality, anti-traditionalism, anti-intellectualism, xenophobia, student activism, changing gender identity, and state-sanctioned political violence.
Prerequisite: HIST 167 and permission of instructor.
Distribution Requirements: none.
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