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economy in shaping the American mind and American international relations. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion. 210 THEMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY (2) Sections offered each semester in such areas as : Puritan Influence on America, The American West; The Immigration Experience, Response to Industrialization, The City in Contemporary U.S.A., Ethnic Minority Groups, Women in American History, U.S. and Global Interdependence. May be repeated with different content. 230 MAN, THOUGHT, AND CHANGE (4-History, [Western Civilization] I-Physical Science) The shaping of human culture and thought to 1900, using a team-taught approach integrating history, philosophy and science (history and scientific thought and development). See Physical Science 230 and Philosophy 230. 304 ANCIENT NEAR EAST (3) A study of the culture of the Ancient Near East with emphasis on history, literature, religion and the modes of thought. Attention is given to cultural preparation for the biblical faith. 305 ENGLISH HISTORY (3) Survey of British history from the Anglo-Saxon period to contemporary times; emphasis on social, intellectual, religious and political developments. 306 STUDIES IN BRITISH HISTORY (3) Period and thematic studies in British history to include: Tudor-Stuart England, Victorian England, Empire and Commonwealth, Religious history of England, British Politics, the English Middle Class. 307 THE COLONIAL ERA AND AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1607-1800 (3) Settlement and growth of the Anglo-American civilization; the American Revolution; development of the U.S. Constitution; growth of political, economic, social and religious institutions to 1800. 308 AMERICAN DEMOCRACY, CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION, 1800-1877 (3) Nationalism and the growth of sectionalism; reform movements; Manifest Destiny; disruption of American democracy, Civil War, and political reconstruction to 1877. 310 SOCIAL AND INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES (3) Social impact of westward expansion, immigration, industrialization, urbanization and cultural pluralism combined with major intellectual ideas instrumental in the shaping of American society. Prerequisite: 200. Alternate years, offered 1981-82. 312 HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA (3) Major indigenous civilizations; conquest by Spain and Portugal; colonial institutions and culture; wars of independence, political, economic and social developments to the present, including the role of the United States in the region. 313 MEDIEVAL HISTORY (3) Medieval Europe from the fall of Rome through the fourteenth century; emphasis on the church, theological development, political institutions, society, literature, and economics of the period. Alternate years, offered 1982-83.

314 RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION (3) Europe from the late-fourteenth to early seventeenth century . Stress on changes inaugurated by the Renaissance and Reformation; rise of nation-states and foundations of modern European society. Alternate years, offered 1982-83. 318 STUDIES IN MODERN EUROPE (1-3) Thematic and period studies in sixteenth through twentieth century Europe including: Exploration and Colonization; Enlightenment, Age of Baroque, Industrialization, Napoleon to Bismarck, the Holocaust and the Cold War. May be repeated with different topics. 320 THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY (3) Historical development of the office of the presidency; formal and informal powers of the president in executive legislative, judicial, military, diplomatic and political areas. 321 HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH (3) A historical survey of Church history from Pentecost to the present. Emphasis given to leading personalities and movements within the Church. 322 THE CHURCH IN THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE (3) A religious history of the United States from the colonial to the contemporary period, emphasizing the Church's effect on and its response to Puritanism, the westward movement, social and intellectual ferment, industrialization, immigration, urbanization and war. Alternate years, offered 1983-84. 323 ANCIENT GREECE (3) History of Ancient Greece from the Minoan-Mycenaean cultures to the Hellinistic period; emphasis on the literature, religion, art and modes of thought of the period. 324 ROMAN HISTORY (3) Roman history from its beginning to the fall of the Empire; Rome's part in the preparation of the Mediterranean world for the spread of Christianity; Rome's contributions to Western civilization. Alternate years, offered 1981-82. 327 HISTORIOGRAPHY (3) Philosophies and problems of history; historical methodology. Development of the historical discipline and introduction to research and writing. 330 GERMAN CIVILIZATION AND CULTURE (3) Typical aspects of German civilization and the significant historical events and major contributions of the German people. Readings in records of historical, literary and cultural importance. 331 GREAT ASIAN CIVILIZATIONS (3) Survey of the Inda-Aryan, Chinese and Japanese civilizations from ancient times to the present, stressing the religio-philosophical developments and their impact upon culture. 332 STUDIES IN ASIAN CIVILIZATIONS (3) In-depth study of specific regions of Asia . One or more sections offered every year in such areas as Emergent China, Emergent Japan, Emergent India and Emergent Southeast Asia, and the undergraduate colloquia on topics of relevance dealing with Asia in the modern world.

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