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SOCIAL SCIENCE

401, 402. EUROPE IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES. (3 -3) First Semester: the history of European culture. institutions, politics in the Seventeenth Century (1610-1715). Second Semester: the history of European culture, institutions, and politics from the death of Louis XIV to the collapse of the Napoleonic Empire, (1715-1815). 403, 404. EUROPE IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES. (3-3) First Semester: the history of Europe from the end of the Napoleonic Empire to the end of the Franco-Prussian War, (1815-1870). Emphasis on the rise of nationalism. liberalism, international relations, and in­ ternal conditions of the major European countries. Second Semester: the history of Europe from the end of the Franco-Prussian War to the outbreak of World War I. (1870-1914). Emphasis on the rise of na­ tionalism, neo-imperialism. and the diplomatic background of the First World War. 407, 408 . HISTORY OF THE FAR EAST. (2-2) First Semester: the history of China and Japan from the earliest times to the beginning of Westernization.- Second Semester: the history of the transformation of the Far East in modern times under the impact of Western Civi lizati on . 409. HISTORY OF THE NEAR EAST. (2) An integrated study of the fundamental social , economic, and political changes in the Near East. Emphasis on Post World War II develop­ ments. 410. HISTORY OF MODERN RUSSIA. (3) A social and political history of modern Russia, with an analysis of Tsardom, the Revolutionary movement, · and the establi shment and development of the Soviet regime . 411. HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR.(3) A study of the causes, conduct. and interpretations of the Civil War; with special emphasis on military and political problems. 412. UNITED STATES IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. (3) A study of the political, economic, intellectual , and cultural aspects of American democracy in the Twentieth century . Emphasis on the impact of two World Wars upon the American way of life. 413. DIPLOMATIC HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. (3) A survey of American diplomatic history from the standpoint of the concepts of neutrality. isolation, expansion, manifest destiny, and the Monroe Doctrine. 414. SEMINAR ON CURRENT ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS. (3) Methods and techniques of research and formal writing. Emphasis on current problems. 69

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