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Hebrew, Modern (HEBR)
  
  
  
  
  

  • HEBR 101 - Hebrew Language and Literature

    Semester Hours: 3
    One course each semester
    HEBR (101-104 and 151-153) are an integrated sequence of courses emphasizing both advanced language skills and literature. This sequence aims at gradually developing the student’s proficiency in oral expression, composition (including grammar and syntax) and reading. The individual student’s needs, interests and prior experience determine the exact nature, pace and contents of each course. A detailed personal record is maintained to assure the development of each student’s skills.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    HEBR 4. This cycle of courses is to be offered one per semester in a three and one-half year cycle; may be taken in any order.
  

  • HEBR 102 - Hebrew Language and Literature

    Semester Hours: 3
    One course each semester
    HEBR (101-104 and 151-153) are an integrated sequence of courses emphasizing both advanced language skills and literature. This sequence aims at gradually developing the student’s proficiency in oral expression, composition (including grammar and syntax) and reading. The individual student’s needs, interests and prior experience determine the exact nature, pace and contents of each course. A detailed personal record is maintained to assure the development of each student’s skills.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    HEBR 4. This cycle of courses is to be offered one per semester in a three and one-half year cycle; may be taken in any order.
  

  • HEBR 103 - Hebrew Language and Literature

    Semester Hours: 3
    One course each semester
    HEBR (101-104 and 151-153) are an integrated sequence of courses emphasizing both advanced language skills and literature. This sequence aims at gradually developing the student’s proficiency in oral expression, composition (including grammar and syntax) and reading. The individual student’s needs, interests and prior experience determine the exact nature, pace and contents of each course. A detailed personal record is maintained to assure the development of each student’s skills.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    HEBR 4. This cycle of courses is to be offered one per semester in a three and one-half year cycle; may be taken in any order.
  

  • HEBR 104 - Hebrew Language and Literature

    Semester Hours: 3
    One course each semester
    HEBR (101-104 and 151-153) are an integrated sequence of courses emphasizing both advanced language skills and literature. This sequence aims at gradually developing the student’s proficiency in oral expression, composition (including grammar and syntax) and reading. The individual student’s needs, interests and prior experience determine the exact nature, pace and contents of each course. A detailed personal record is maintained to assure the development of each student’s skills.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    HEBR 4. This cycle of courses is to be offered one per semester in a three and one-half year cycle; may be taken in any order.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  • HEBR 151 - Hebrew Language and Literature

    Semester Hours: 3
    One course each semester
    HEBR (101-104 and 151-153) are an integrated sequence of courses emphasizing both advanced language skills and literature. This sequence aims at gradually developing the student’s proficiency in oral expression, composition (including grammar and syntax) and reading. The individual student’s needs, interests and prior experience determine the exact nature, pace and contents of each course. A detailed personal record is maintained to assure the development of each student’s skills.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    HEBR 4. This cycle of courses is to be offered one per semester in a three and one-half year cycle; may be taken in any order.
  

  • HEBR 152 - Hebrew Language and Literature

    Semester Hours: 3
    One course each semester
    HEBR (101-104 and 151-153) are an integrated sequence of courses emphasizing both advanced language skills and literature. This sequence aims at gradually developing the student’s proficiency in oral expression, composition (including grammar and syntax) and reading. The individual student’s needs, interests and prior experience determine the exact nature, pace and contents of each course. A detailed personal record is maintained to assure the development of each student’s skills.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    HEBR 4. This cycle of courses is to be offered one per semester in a three and one-half year cycle; may be taken in any order.
  

  • HEBR 153 - Hebrew Language and Literature

    Semester Hours: 3
    One course each semester
    HEBR (101-104 and 151-153) are an integrated sequence of courses emphasizing both advanced language skills and literature. This sequence aims at gradually developing the student’s proficiency in oral expression, composition (including grammar and syntax) and reading. The individual student’s needs, interests and prior experience determine the exact nature, pace and contents of each course. A detailed personal record is maintained to assure the development of each student’s skills.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    HEBR 4. This cycle of courses is to be offered one per semester in a three and one-half year cycle; may be taken in any order.
  

History (HIST)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  • HIST 11 - (HP) Western Civilization I

    Semester Hours: 3
    Fall, Spring
    Formation of the western tradition from classical antiquity, merging Judaic, Greek, Roman and Christian elements, to the derivation of distinctive and dynamic European offshoots in medieval and early modern times. Topics include Hebraic religion, civilization of the Greek city-states, Roman imperialism and law, the role of Christianity in western life, institutions and ideas of the middle ages and early modern Europe.
  

  • HIST 12 - (HP) Western Civilization II

    Semester Hours: 3-4
    Fall, Spring
    The rise of the modern west and the crises of the twentieth century: the struggles and contradictions which have led to continuing change in western civilization. Topics include the formation of the state, development of a capitalist economy, impact of technology on social change, development of science and philosophy, rise of industry and the emergence of a mass-society, modern nationalism, imperialism and war. A recurrent theme will be the role of revolution and the attempts to reconstruct society according to various ideal models including socialism, fascism and communism.
  
  
  

  • HIST 14F - First-Year Seminar

    Semester Hours: 3-4
    Fall

    This course gives first-year students the opportunity to work in a seminar format with a member of the faculty in an area of the faculty member’s research interests.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:

    The course is open to first-year students only. Topics vary by semester.  This course is offered for distribution credit; consult the Semester Planning Guide for proper category listing. Students may take only one 14F or 12F seminar and only one 14S or 12S seminar.



  

  • HIST 14S - First-Year Seminar

    Semester Hours: 3-4
    Spring

    This course gives first-year students the opportunity to work in a seminar format with a member of the faculty in an area of the faculty member’s research interests.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:

    The course is open to first-year students only. Topics vary by semester.  This course is offered for distribution credit; consult the Semester Planning Guide for proper category listing. Students may take only one 14F or 12F seminar and only one 14S or 12S seminar.



  
  

  • HIST 29 - (HP) American Lives in Historical Perspective

    Semester Hours: 3
    Fall, Spring
    A biographical approach to pre-twentieth-century America that explores the role of key individuals and/or important families in the development of American society and culture. Persons studied might include: Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Stephen A. Douglas, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Brown and Harriet Tubman. A familial focus might examine the Mathers, the Byrds, the Adamses, the Beechers, the Jameses, etc. Mutual influence of individuals on one another and the ways in which they both shape and are shaped by American thought and historical experience, are the central concerns of the course. Where appropriate materials are available, biographical and autobiographical readings are supplemented by films, sound recordings and visits to historical sites.
  

  • HIST 30 - (HP) Contemporary American Lives

    Semester Hours: 3

    Periodically

    In a biographical approach to historical understanding, the course considers the lives of four to six American men and women, chosen by the instructor to represent important aspects of American society since 1900. Individuals will be examined with regard to their interactions with society and one another, in the light of not only biographical and autobiographical texts, but also of sound recordings, films, and visits to historical sites.

     
  
  

  • HIST 71 - (CC) China and Japan to 1800

    Semester Hours: 3
    Once a year

    A general survey of the histories of Asia during the ancient and medieval periods, focusing primarily on China, but including consideration of Korea, Japan, India and Southeast Asia. Investigates major religious, philosophical, cultural, economic and political developments. Introduces different cultures that helped shape Asia, and explores interactions among diverse cultures and processes of change. Central themes include state formation, the family and social systems, gender relations, class conflict and resistance, and the historical significance of technological knowledge and religious beliefs.
  
  
  

  • HIST 100 - Honors Essay

    Semester Hours: 3
    Fall, Spring
    Research and writing of a substantial historical essay, under tutorial supervision. Open only to history majors desiring to graduate with departmental honors.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    Students should normally start work with their faculty adviser in the semester preceding their registration in HIST 100. Permission prior to registration is required.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  • HIST 108 - (HP) Renaissance Europe, from St. Louis to Luther

    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    The emergence of a society in which leadership was shifted from clergy to laymen in economy, government, religion, literature and art. Stress is laid on the impact of the Black Death, the rise of religious dissent, the Hundred Years War, the rise of parliamentary institutions and the city states of Renaissance Italy. The evidence of visual arts is drawn on throughout.
  
  
  
  
  

  • HIST 115 - The Afro-American in American History, 1619-1865

    Semester Hours: 3
    Every other year
    From the African origins of black slavery through emancipation and the Civil War. Emphasis is given to the slave trade, the nature of black society under slavery in both North and South, the relation of the American Revolution to the antislavery movement, and the role of blacks in Abolitionism and the Civil War.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    Same as AFST 115.
  

  • HIST 116 - The Afro-American in American History, 1865 to the Present

    Semester Hours: 3
    Every other year
    Emphasis is given to the end of slavery and the successes and failures of Reconstruction, the nature of black society in the era of national segregation and the changes developing during and after the two World Wars. The struggle for civil, educational, economic and political equality is traced in the context of an emerging diversified black leadership, provided by such figures as Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    Same as AFST 116.
  
  
  

  • HIST 119 - Blacks and Jews: Interrelation in the Diaspora

    Semester Hours: 3
    An examination of the relations between African-American and Jewish-Americans in the United States from the period of the “Grand Alliance” (ca., 1910-1967) to the current moment of “crisis.” Through the investigation of literature, sociological analysis, historical case studies, opinion pieces, and works of art, this course illuminates the complex and shifting relations between African-Americans and Jewish-Americans and their significance for questions of identity in the modern United States.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    Same as AFST, JWST 119.
  

  • HIST 120 - Reformation Europe, from Luther to Richelieu

    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    Religious revolution in Europe furthering the dominance of laymen and the acceptance of the ethical value of secular life. Stress is laid on the Protestant and Catholic religious controversies within the context of these other major developments: the rise and fall of the Hapsburg political ascendancy; the oceanic discoveries and the new colonial empires; scientific breakthroughs from Copernicus to Galileo; the new technology of printing, guns and clocks; the development of Renaissance into Baroque culture.
  
  
  

  • HIST 123 - Origins of Modern Law

    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    Roman, Canon, Germanic Customary, Feudal and English Common Law. Moved by the needs of an expanding and evolving society, Europeans of the 11th through 13th centuries created new legal systems. They drew on the legal wisdom of the ancient Romans and on the written and unwritten traditions of the early middle ages. The legal systems they created gave shape and direction to the society of early Europe, still observable in the modern world, especially in Europe and America.
  
  
  
  
  

  • HIST 132 - Europe, 1939 to Present: World War, Cold War and Beyond

    Semester Hours: 3
    Every other year
    World War II and the Holocaust, origins and course of the Cold War, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe from Stalin to Gorbachev. Decolonization and relations with the Third World, American influences and consumerism, European unity and its failings, de Gaulle and “neutralism.” The 1968 student uprising and Eurocommunism, decentralization and Soviet control in the Communist bloc, the problems of a European identity.
  
  

  • HIST 135 - Intellectual History of Europe, Reformation to Enlightenment

    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    Intellectual and cultural formation of modern western consciousness, from the 16th to the 18th century. The nature of the state, the basis of scientific thought as a way of finding order in nature, and the revelation of totalitarian traits in radical religious sects. Major beliefs about the significance of human experience.
  

  • HIST 136 - Intellectual History of Europe, French Revolution to 20th Century

    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    Intellectual and cultural crystallization of modern European consciousness into the ordering principles of pre-World War I society. The romantic view of nature and the individual, the historicization of western thought and the secular religions of new political and social mass-movements are analyzed. The achievement of a cultural synthesis and the signs of cultural dislocation in pre-World War I life.
  

  • HIST 137 - History of Russia from Its Origins to 1856

    Semester Hours: 3
    Every other year
    A study of such influences as Greek orthodoxy and the Tartar Conquest on the development of Russian society and its institutions. The role of “economic backwardness” and the compulsion toward modernization. The development of the autocracy and the rural peasant-serf style of life. The blossoming of Russian culture in the Age of Enlightenment and the French Revolution up through the Crimean War.
  

  • HIST 138 - Modern Russia: Reform and Revolution from the Russian Empire to Modern Times, 1856 to the Present

    Semester Hours: 3
    Every other year
    Historical roots of Russian society and institutions as transformed by the Great Reforms of the 19th century, the revolutions of the 20th century, the Stalin Era and the reforms of Khrushchev and Gorbachev. Examination of traditional Russian culture and government in the 19th and 20th centuries with an emphasis on continuity and change. Russia is compared and contrasted to the West. One of the themes is the gradual evolution of civil society up to and including the era of Perestroika.
  
  

  • HIST 140 - Economic History of the United States

    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    Trends and patterns in the production, distribution and consumption of material wealth that mark the economic development of the United States from colonial times to the 20th century. These matters are subjected to economic analysis, but are also seen in relation to changing social and political institutions and moral values.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    ECO 1 or HIST 13, 14C, or permission of instructor. Same as ECO 140.
  

  • HIST 142 - Latin America: 1810 to the Present

    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    The transformation of Latin-American society and culture in the crucible of revolution; the struggles of emerging nationhood; social, political, economic and cultural trends in the context of governmental experimentation and the quest for stability. Special attention is given to regional problems of modernization, urbanization, political unrest and revolution.
  
  

  • HIST 144 - American Revolution

    Semester Hours: 3
    Once a year
    Emergence of the United States out of the struggle between the colonies and Great Britain. The “Great Debates” prior to 1776; the Revolution as an internal and external struggle; the origin of political parties; state’s rights vs. national government; cultural nationalism. Particular attention will be devoted to assessing the roles of individual leaders.
  
  
  
  
  

  • HIST 149 - Women in America

    Semester Hours: 3
    Every other year
    An introduction to the history of women in the United States, focusing on four interrelated themes: evolving theories of feminism, patterns of women’s paid and unpaid work, changes in views of sexuality and movements for political change. Covers the span of American history emphasizing the period from the Civil War to the present.

    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    Credit given for this course or New College SHG 5.
  
  

  • HIST 151 - Social and Intellectual History of the United States: Colonial Period to 1870

    Semester Hours: 3
    Every other year
    Origins and development of the major social institutions of American life, evolution of the religious tradition, sources, content and impact of significant American beliefs and ideas. Topics include Puritanism, the Great Awakening, the Enlightenment, the rise of political and cultural nationalism, the impact of technology and early industrialism, the social myth of the “self-made man.”
  

  • HIST 152 - Social and Intellectual History of the United States: 1870 to the Present

    Semester Hours: 3
    Every other year
    Dynamic change in the American environment of modernization, mass production and postindustrial culture. Prominent themes are Pragmatism, Social Darwinism, the Social Gospel Movement, the challenge of organized labor and agrarian unrest, populism, progressivism and liberal reform, existentialism, the changing role of institutions and individuals in contemporary American life.
  

  • HIST 153 - Diplomatic History of the United States: 1776-1914

    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    American foreign policy and diplomacy from the Revolution to the beginning of World War I. Emphasis is given to diplomatic aspects of the Revolution, the Federalist Era, Louisiana Purchase, War of 1812, Monroe Doctrine, Civil War and American expansionism in the era of the Spanish-American War and the Panama Canal.
  

  • HIST 154 - Diplomatic History of the United States: 1914 to the Present

    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    America’s changing role in world affairs from the onset of World War I to the contemporary Cold War Era emphasizing the nation’s rise to the rank of a major power and the ensuing problems. Particular attention is given to U.S. involvement in two World Wars, Cold War diplomacy, the arms race and disarmament attempts, the Korean War, the Cuban crises, the Vietnam conflict, America’s present and probable future role in international affairs.
  

  • HIST 157 - History of Labor in the United States

    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    Work and workers from the colonial period to the present: social and economic forces interacting with changes in technology to shape changes in the structure of work and the work place and in the composition of the work force. Special attention is given to the rise of the labor movement, the emergence of labor leaders such as Samuel Gompers and John L. Lewis, and the impact of contemporary developments on the organization of work.
  
  

  • HIST 160 - Screening American History

    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    Through the medium of the popular film, this course provides viewpoints into the social and cultural history of the United States. The images, thematic concerns and ideological presuppositions of selected American films (1890’s to present) are examined for evidence of continuity and change in social and cultural attitudes. Students should expect to commit some time beyond the scheduled class hours in order to view some of the longer films that are shown. Class meets twice a week; each class period lasting 120 minutes.
  

  • HIST 162C - (HP) Protest and Reform in American History

    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    Exploration of the broad theme of social change in American historical experience. Through a consideration of selected aspects of radical and meliorist reform traditions, the dynamics of the interrelationships between individual conscience and social institutions, and the role of personal and collective idealism and commitment in the attempt to redirect cultural traditions and transform social institutions are studied. Movements examined might include: abolitionism, temperance, anti-war movements and pacifism, civil rights and social equality movements, women’s rights and Feminism, Anarchism and Socialism, Populism, Progressivism and the New Deal.
  

  • HIST 163 - American Popular and Material Culture

    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    The artifacts and processes of handcraft culture, their transformation by industrialism and mass production and the rise of mass culture in the post-industrial era. Special attention is given to the tools and objects of everyday life, popular amusements and recreations, folklore and popular literature, advertising and the cult of personality, the impact of the mass media, the commercialization of sex and pornography and the video revolution.
  
  

  • HIST 166 - Re-Viewing Vietnam

    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    An historical reconsideration of America’s longest, most unpopular, and most divisive war in the context of the impact of Imperialism and Westernization on the traditional societies of Southeast Asia. Since special attention is given to the role of the media in shaping the popular understanding of the war, a tele- vision history of the conflict and selected cinematic materials are incorporated into class sessions.
  
  

  • HIST 168 - Special Studies in Asian History

    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    This course examines major themes in Asian and Asian American history at the upper division level. Offerings include “Japanese History and Popular Culture: Knowledge, Power, and Representations,” “Gender and Sexuality in Asian History,” “World War II in Asia and the Pacific,” and “Asia and the United States in Historical Perspectives.”


    Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
    May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Same as ASST 168.




  
  

  • HIST 170 - The Middle East and the West

    Semester Hours: 3
    Periodically
    An examination into the diverse aspects and the complexity of cultural and religious interactions between the Islamic Middle East and the Western World in pre-modern and modern times. Topics include the evolving Western images of the East and Islam, mutual scientific and religious influence and the current attitudes towards Western culture, particularly the United States, in the Middle East.
  
  
 

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