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To provide students with a historical introduction to the great philosophical and religious traditions that came into existence during the Axial Age (so-called by the German philosopher Karl Jaspers). Students will be challenged to develop a historical understanding of how such profoundly similar ideas about “the human condition” emerged in diverse cultural contexts within a period of approximately five centuries, but also to identify and understand the ways in which these cultural contexts shaped Axial Age thought into unique philosophical and religious traditions.
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IHHIST 221 – The Axial Age
IH-HIST 220: The Crusades: Identity and Religious War in the Middle Ages
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This is a new course specifically developed for the IS program. Building upon the format of the foundational “Thinking and Writing” Course, this class will reinforce and develop students’ critical thinking, reading, and writing skills by closely focusing on one topic. It will allow students to work on several writing projects (essays) throughout the semester. Thus, it is a writing intensive course. Additionally, it will offer students an in-depth historical understanding of the conflict between the cultures of Islam and Western Europe.
History Honors Program Proposal
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Students participating in the History Honors Program will have the opportunity to explore subjects of particular interest more intensively than in larger class settings, work more closely with department faculty members learning about the production of historical scholarship, and will have their accomplishments suitably recognized by the History faculty and the College. While the Honors program is in no way restricted to students who aspire to continue engaging in historical scholarship at the graduate or professional level, this program will provide qualified students with such aspirations a chance to prepare for future study in close collaboration with professional historians.
IHHIST 252/IHHGS 252 The Holocaust
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The course prefix is being changed to (a) fit the new Holocaust and Genocide Studies program, and (b) include the course within the Integrative Studies Program in the Humanities.
HGS 373/HIST 373 Race, Disability, and Eugenics
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Recognizing the importance of Rudolf Hess’s claim that “National Socialism is applied biology,” this course will examine the growth of physical anthropology in the late nineteenth century and analyze both the so-called science of eugenics and the application of its principles in American and European societies during the first half of the twentieth century.
HGS 353/HIST 353 Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
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The course prefix is being changed to fit the new Holocaust and Genocide Studies program.
IH-HIST 112: The Modern World
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To provide a course that affords a broad base for historical understanding of modern world civilization
IH-HIST 111: The Ancient and Medieval World
RATIONALE:
To provide a course that affords a broad base for historical understanding of world civilization
IH-HIST 162 “American Perspectives from 1877”
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This is a new course specifically developed for the IS program that will provide students with myriad perspectives into the American past. This will offer them the opportunity to question and challenge their own historical consciousness and identity, while allowing them to explore diverse perspectives.
HIST 339 – THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT
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The European Enlightenment marks the birth of modernity in the western world. This course will provide students the opportunity to explore major themes from the period and gain an understanding of how the Enlightenment shaped the world as we know it today. This course was offered as a Topics class (Hist 390) in the fall of 2006, and a course is currently being offered on Women in the Enlightenment.