definition of genocide as established by the United Nations following the Holocaust. Using this definition we shall survey other alleged and confirmed acts of genocide from the twentieth century. Taught: Fall. Alternate years. Credit: 3 hours; cross-cultural. 337: United States Women’s History
Goal: To enhance students' understanding of the social, economic, and political position of women in America from the colonial era to the present.
Content: The course focuses on major themes in US women's history, including family, sexuality, work, and reform, within the broader context of American history. Taught: Fall. Alternate years. Credit: 3 hours. 340: Europe in the Twentieth Century Goal: To enhance understanding of the social, economic, and political forces that shaped Europe during the period between the beginning of World War I and present. Content: Examines World War I and its influences upon European civilization, the tumultuous “Age of Extremes� of the interwar era, the catastrophic effects of World War II and the Holocaust, the division of Europe during the Cold War, and the effects of European reunification and integration since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Taught: Fall. Alternate years. Credit: 3 hours.
347: Modern Middle East Goals: This course will give students a basic understanding of the Middle East and its history and political systems. Content: The course begins by examining emergence and spread of Islam and then turns to the era of Ottoman domination. The bulk of the course focuses on the era of European imperialism in the Middle East and its legacy. Through scholarly studies, literature, and films students will examine the structural factors that transformed the Middle East during the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including culture, modernization, industrialization, nationalism, war and evolution, racism, gender, and religion. Taught: Summer. Alternate Years. Prerequisite: None. Credit: 3 hours; cross-listed as POL 347. 348: Terror and Terrorism in the Modern World Goal: Terror and terrorism have been prominent features of Western political culture since the French Revolution. For the most part, modern terrorism is of European origin, and the ideas, goals, and methods of European terrorists have inspired terrorists in non-Western nations. Content: This course familiarizes students with the ideology, motivation, and methods of numerous terrorist groups of the last two centuries in order to provide a basis for an understanding of contemporary terrorist organizations. Generally, the course will stress the motivation and goals of terrorist organizations and governments that use terror to achieve their policy goals. Specifically, we will address anarchy and revolutionary terrorism in nineteenth century Europe, European domestic terrorism in the 1960s and 1970s, twentieth century liberation and separatist movements, and Middle Eastern terrorism. Taught: Summer. Alternate Years. Prerequisite: None. Credit: 3 hours; cross-listed as POL 348. 357: African American History Goal: The goal of the course is to enhance students' understanding of the social, economic, cultural, intellectual, and political history of African Americans from the colonial era to the present. Content: The course focuses on major themes in African American history, including the transatlantic slave trade and the African Diaspora, slavery and freedom, reform and radicalism, assimilationism and nationalism, within the broader context of American history. Taught: Alternate Years. Prerequisite: None. Credit: 3 hours.
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