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Accounting 010
African Area Studies 016
Africana Studies
Aging 018
American History 512
American Literature
American Studies 050
Anthropology 070
Archaeology
Armenian 078
Art 080, 081
Art History 082
Arts and Sciences 090
Asian Studies 098
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Biochemistry
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Biomathematics
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Botany
Business Law 140
Catalan 145
Cell Biology
Central and East European Area Studies
Chemistry 160
Chinese 165
Cinema Studies 175
Classics
Cognitive Science 185
Communications
Community Development
Comparative Literature 195
Computer Science 198
Criminal Justice 202
Criminology
Dance 203, 206
Dentistry
Douglass College Courses
East Asian Languages and Area Studies 214
Economics 220
Education 300
Engineering
English
Entomology
Environmental Certificates
Exercise Science and Sport Studies 377
Film Studies
Finance 390
Food Science 400
Foreign Language Proficiency Certificates
French 420
Genetics
Geography 450
Geological Sciences 460
German 470
Gerontology
Greek 490
Greek, Modern Greek Studies 489
Hindi 505
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Courses (510)
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History/French Joint Major 513
History/Political Science Joint Major 514
Hungarian 535
Individualized Major
Interdisciplinary Studies
Italian 560
Japanese 565
Jewish Studies 563
Journalism and Media Studies 567
Junior Year Abroad
Korean 574
Labor Studies 575
Latin 580
Latin American Studies 590
Law
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Linguistics 615
Livingston College Courses
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Marine Sciences 628
Marketing 630
Mathematics 640
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Medicine and Dentistry
Medieval Studies 667
Microbiology
Middle Eastern Studies 685
Military Education, Air Force 690
Military Education, Army 691
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Nursing
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Operations Research 711
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Philosophy 730
Physics 750
Physiology and Neurobiology
Polish 787
Political Science 790
Portuguese 810
Psychology 830
Public Health
Puerto Rican and Hispanic Caribbean Studies 836
Religion 840
Russian 860
Russian, Central and East European Studies 861
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Science, Technology, and Society
Social Work 910
Sociology 920
Spanish 940
Statistics 960
Statistics-Mathematics
Study Abroad 959
Theater Arts 965, 966
Ukrainian 967
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Women's and Gender Studies 988
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  New Brunswick Undergraduate Catalog 2003-2005 Programs of Study for Liberal Arts Students Programs, Faculty, and Courses History Courses (510)  

Courses (510)

01:510:101Development of Europe I (3) Introductory survey of European history from ancient times to the early modern period. Introduction to historical interpretation and historical inquiry.
01:510:102Development of Europe II (3) Introductory survey of European history from the early modern period to the present. Introduction to historical interpretation and historical inquiry.
01:510:201Ancient Greece (3) Civilization of the eastern Mediterranean world in ancient times, with emphasis on the origins of Western civilization and the Greek contribution to Western culture.
01:510:202Ancient Rome (3) The Roman Republic and the Empire, with emphasis on the rise and decline of a Mediterranean world civilization under Roman leadership.
01:510:205Byzantium: The Imperial Age (3) Development of the medieval Greek state and its civilization, seventh through thirteenth centuries. Key themes of history and culture (political theory, theology, literature, art). Relations with the Slavs, Arabs, Turks, and the West.
01:510:207Byzantium: The Last Centuries (3) Development of Byzantine society and culture from the Latin crisis (1204-1261) through the Turkish conquest (1453), including the Byzantine impact on West European, Slavic, and Ottoman cultures.
01:510:209Emergence of Medieval Europe, 400-1150 (3) Europe from the fall of Rome through the Dark Ages and into the feudal age-the era of Charlemagne, the Vikings, and the Crusades. Credit not given for both this course and 01:667:281.
01:510:211Harvest of the Middle Ages, 1150-1520 (3) From feudalism to the Protestant Reformation, with emphasis on social and economic developments. Religious, political, institutional, and cultural changes. Credit not given for both this course and 01:667:282.
01:510:213The Crusades (3) Ideology and expressions of the crusades, eleventh to fourteenth centuries, including crusades against Muslims, heretics, and other papal enemies. Extensive use of film. Credit not given for both this course and 01:685:213.
01:510:214European Intellectual Tradition (3) Examination of great texts in European intellectual tradition from the Old Testament to Dante`s Divine Comedy.
01:510:245The Arts of Power: Ritual, Myth, and Propaganda (3) Investigates how paintings, movies, poems, and ceremonies have been manipulated to bolster the political authority of rulers, including Louis XIV, Lincoln, Hitler, and Elizabeth II.
01:510:253History of Witchcraft and Magic (3) Witchcraft in relation to the history of religion, the phenomena of crime, deviance, and demographic change, and the history of women in Europe and America. Credit not given for both this course and 01:988:253.
01:510:260Remembering the Shtetl (3) How Jewish life in East European small towns has been documented and recalled from nineteenth century to present in fiction, art, ethnography, film, memoir. Credit not given for both this course and 01:563:210.
01:510:261History of the Holocaust (3) Development of anti-Semitism in modern European history culminating in the "Final Solution"; special emphasis on Jewish responses and resistance. Credit not given for both this course and 01:563:261.
01:510:271Russia and the West (3) Formation of traditional Russian society in isolation from the West; the impact of the West on Russia from Peter the Great to the present.
01:510:291,292Topics in History (1.5,1.5) Topics vary. Specific titles available at time of registration. Seven-week courses; may be taken consecutively or separately. Not for major credit.
01:510:300Greek and Roman Slavery (3) Social, economic, legal, and political aspects of slavery in Ancient Greece and Rome. The sources and numbers of slaves, forms of servitude, manumission, slave labor. Credit not given for both this course and 01:190:300.
01:510:301Early Greece (3) History of the Greek world from Minoan Crete through the Persian War. Readings (in translation) range from Homer through Herodotus.
01:510:302Classical Greece (3) Greek history from the Persian War to the Macedonian conquest of Greece. Readings (in translation) from Thucydides, Xenophon, Demosthenes, Plutarch, and others.
01:510:303Hellenistic World (3) Expansion and development of Greek culture from Alexander through the successor kingdoms in Greece, Egypt, Syria-Palestine, and Asia Minor.
01:510:304 The Rise of the Roman Republic (3) Roman political, social, and cultural history from the beginning of urban settlement through the emergence of the Roman state as the dominant power in the Mediterranean basin to the end of the second century b.c.
01:510:305 The Crisis of the Roman Republic (3) Roman political, social, and cultural history during the crisis of the late republic from 133 b.c., the tribunate of Tiberius Gracchus, through the establishment of the principate by the emperor Augustus.
01:510:306Roman Empire (3) Political, social, and intellectual developments of the imperial period until the age of Constantine, with emphasis on the first two centuries a.d. (Formerly 01:510:305)
01:510:307The Roman World in Late Antiquity (3) Development of the Roman state and society from the late third through early seventh centuries. The transformation of the late classical world, and the origins of Byzantium and the medieval West. (Formerly 01:510:306)
01:510:308Ancient Cultural and Intellectual History (3) Aspects of cultural, religious, and intellectual developments in the classical world. (Formerly 01:510:307)
01:510:309A History of Western Morals: Antiquity and Middle Ages (3) Examines the formative period of moral ideas in Western civilization in ancient Greek, Roman, and Hebrew societies, then traces the evolution of those ideas through the Middle Ages.
01:510:313Renaissance in the Middle Ages (3) Transmission and appropriation of classical culture in the patristic age; Irish, Carolingian, twelfth-century, and early Italian Renaissance; social and political bases of these movements.
01:510:315Reform and Dissent in the Middle Ages (3) Christian unity and its implementation, church structure, canon law, monastic reform, conciliar movement, academic and popular heresy, church-state relations, with emphasis on Italy and Germany.
01:510:317The Renaissance (3) Integrated, interdisciplinary study of the age of the Renaissance in Italy and northern Europe from 1300 to 1550.
01:510:318Era of World War I (3) Causes, course, and consequences of World War I in the light of political, social, and military forces. (Formerly 01:510:417)
01:510:319The Age of Reformation, 1500-1648 (3) The Protestant and Catholic reformations and their significance for European society.
01:510:320Women in Antiquity (3) Women in the ancient societies of Greece and Rome. Their roles and images in the social, legal, political, domestic, philosophical, and artistic spheres examined using primary sources. (Formerly 01:510:251)
01:510:321The Age of Enlightenment (3) Eighteenth-century European philosophy and philosophers examined within their historical contexts. The role of ideas in movements for social, moral, and political change.
01:510:323Age of Absolutism and Revolution, 1648-1815 (3) Survey of principal developments in Europe from 1648-1815; consolidation of sovereign states; critiques of absolutism and growth of parliamentary power; revolutionary crisis; commercial transformation; the impact of enlightenment.
01:510:325Nineteenth-Century Europe (3) Examination of the formative period of modern Europe, including the industrial and democratic revolutions, nationalism, imperialism, and the crises culminating in World War I.
01:510:327Twentieth-Century Europe (3) Major economic and social forces shaping life in twentieth-century Europe, and efforts of major social groups to cope with and shape these forces.
01:510:329Medieval Culture and Society (3) Topics in medieval religions, political, intellectual and social history; thematic focus varies by instructor.
01:510:331France 100-1000 (3) Interaction between Greco-Roman civilization and "barbarians``-Germanic peoples, Vikings, Slavs, Magyars, Saracens-with respect to institutions, law, language, customs, art, intellectual activity.
01:510:333France, Old Regime, and Revolution (3) French history from Louis XIV to the fall of Napoleon. The absolutist state and the impact of revolution, stressing the interplay of political, social, cultural, and economic history.
01:510:335Modern France (3) History of France from the fall of Napoleon to the present, with particular emphasis on the relation of political developments to social, intellectual, and economic change.
01:510:337Medieval Kings and Queens (3) Rulership in theory and practice, from Germanic chieftains to divine-right monarchs, with attention to royal rivals, myths and rituals, marriage, and gender.
01:510:338England in the Middle Ages (3) Political development of England from William the Conqueror to the War of the Roses.
01:510:343The Political History of England, 1485-1789: Centuries of Revolution? (3) Explores the political, religious, and intellectual history of early modern England. Topics include: the reformation, the state, political culture, revolutions of the seventeenth century.
01:510:344The Social History of England, 1580-1780: The First Modern Society? (3) Explores the socioeconomic and cultural history of early modern England. Topics include: popular culture; religion; sex and gender; urbanization; rise of consumerism, industrialism, capitalism.
01:510:345English Constitutional History to 1688 (3) Developments of English governments to 1688, with emphasis on those institutions and political and legal ideas that form the background for American constitutional development.
01:510:346The English Revolution, 1640-1660 (3) Explores the most tumultuous period in English history. Topics include: causes and revolution, the civil war, regicide and republicanism, radical politics and religion, Oliver Cromwell.
01:510:349Modern Britain (3) Developments since the eighteenth century that have shaped the character of contemporary Britain, including parliamentary democracy, industrialization, rise and fall of empire, and cultural change.
01:510:351Medieval Italy 476-1300 (3) The Italian peninsula from the fall of the empire in the west to the age of the communes: social, political, and religious history.
01:510:354History of Italy's People (3) Topical approach. Etruscans to present. Emphasis on culture, geography, religion, philosophy, family structures, agricultural systems, urban development, and universities.
01:510:361History of Germany to 1914 (3) History of Germany from the Reformation to World War I, emphasizing absolutism, militarism, unification, the rise of nationalism, and anti-Semitism.
01:510:363History of Germany since 1914 (3) Analysis of the collapse of imperial Germany, the failure of democracy in the Weimar Republic, Hitler`s Third Reich, the Holocaust, and restructuring of Germany since 1945.
01:510:371Russia from the Vikings to Peter the Great (3) Slavic, Scandinavian, Byzantine, and Mongol contributions to traditional Russian culture; development of the autocratic state and its relations with the church, nobility, townspeople, and peasantry.
01:510:373State and Society in Imperial Russia (3) Autocratic government as a dynamic force in the eighteenth century and a conservative one in the nineteenth in the face of intellectual and socioeconomic development.
01:510:375Revolutionary Russia and the Soviet Union (3) Crisis of the old regime; revolution; building socialism in an underdeveloped country; Stalin`s terror; expansion and the cold war; the post-Stalin attempts at reform; the breakup of the Soviet Union.
01:510:381The Making of Modern Eastern Europe (3) Historical background and development of nationalist movements and independent states among Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Hungarians, Croats, Serbs, Romanians, Albanians, and Greeks to 1919.
01:510:382Genesis of Modern Greece: 1450-1830 (3) Political, social, religious, cultural, and intellectual experiences of Greeks under Ottoman rule, 1450-1830, culminating in national independence.
01:510:383Nationalism and Socialism in Eastern Europe (3) Creation of nation-states after World War I. The problems of underdevelopment, national minorities, and international tensions. The solutions offered by nationalist, fascist, and communist regimes. The formation, experiences, and breakup of the Soviet Bloc.
01:510:385The History of East European Jewry (3) Economic, legal, and political conditions of Jewish life from the sixteenth century to World War II. Forms of Jewish response: autonomism, messianism, Hasidism, emigration, and socialism. Credit not given for both this course and 01:563:385.
01:510:386History of Zionism (3) Messianism, forerunners of Zionism; ideology of Zionism; pioneer movements; the Yishuv and its institutions. The state of Israel: its structure and inner and outer life. Credit not given for both this course and 01:563:343.
01:510:387Development of the Marxist-Leninist System (3) Ideological background of Marxist-Leninist systems; evolution of Soviet system from Lenin to Gorbachev; disintegration of Soviet system since Gorbachev. Establishment of Marxist-Leninist systems in Eastern Europe and their evolution from Stalin to Brezhnev and dissolution under Gorbachev; special attention to Yugoslav dissidence under Tito; origins and evolution of Chinese Marxist-Leninist system after 1949, including Great Cultural Revolution and reforms under Deng Xiao-Ping; origin and development of Cuban Marxist-Leninist system.
01:510:389Power and Politics in Modern Jewish History (3) Political relationship of the Jewish community to the gentile authorities among whom they lived, from Rome in 70 c.e. to the contemporary period. Continuities and discontinuities of traditional conceptions of Jewish political behavior; rebellion and accommodation to structures of power in varying historical contexts. Credit not given for both this course and 01:563:389.
01:510:390Jewish Memory (3) Course explores various forms of Jewish memory shaped in response to major events, including myths, holidays, monuments, pilgrimages, testimonies, museums, literature, and film. Credit not given for both this course and 01:563:390.
01:510:391,392Historical Studies (3,3) Separate sections focusing on different topics at different times and in different areas. Specific titles available at time of registration.
01:510:403Ancient Warfare and Diplomacy (3) International politics and military history in the Greek and Roman world. Readings include ancient sources (in translation) and modern interpretations.
01:510:407Rome in the Age of Augustus (3) Examination of the career of Augustus and the developments in the Roman world during this period. Treatment of the problems of change and continuity through revival and innovation in political, social, and intellectual spheres with emphases on growth of imperial system and on the literary works and social legislation.
01:510:419Europe in the Contemporary World (3) Europe from 1930s to present, focusing on European responses to challenges of American power, Soviet revolution, and anticolonial movements.
01:510:425Intellectual History of Early Modern Europe (3) Study of major currents of thought (religious, scientific, political, and social) from the end of the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century.
01:510:427Intellectual History of Modern Europe (3) Study of major currents of thought (religious, political, social, and economic) from the eighteenth century to World War II.
01:510:431Origins of Capitalist Society (3) History of the origins and developments of life and consciousness characteristic of capitalist societies since the beginnings of the industrial age.
01:510:441The Social History of Medieval England (3) Concentrates on the interaction between individual and society in medieval England with special emphasis on the life experiences of the common people.
01:510:445The Industrial Revolution (3) Origins and consequences of the industrial revolution in modern Europe. The effect of industry on the fabric of society.
 
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