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90/ History 200 Environmental History Spring Beginning with the early ... civilizations of Mesopotamia, Mesoamerica, China, and ... the Mediterranean, this course integrates ... human experience with the natural order. The course examines ... changing ratios of humans to the land and of humans to other species and ... the impact of the transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between ... the hemispheres after 1492. We will also ... consider how perceptions of nature have differed over time. Case ... studies of environmental crises in the contemporary world will be based on ... their 19th- and 20th-century roots. One unit ... . History 201 Colonial America Fall The exploration, settlement, and ... development of North America from the late-16th to the mid-18th century. ...
91 This course examines the origins, development, and maturation of ... the Industrial Revolution in America, from ... 1800 to the present, with a special emphasis on the ... experience of workers and the labor movement they built. It also ... takes into account the perspectives and interests of ... capitalists and the American entrepreneurial tradition to ... as full and complete a picture possible of the often contentious relations between ... workers and their employers. One unit. History 214 Comparative Womenfs History ... Alternate years From the Victorian era of the 19th century to the age of the New ... Woman in the early 20th century, womenfs roles in ... society changed dramatically with the evolution of womenfs education, ...
nation than that which was created out of the American Revolution. Citizenship, ... itself, has changed. Civil society has been expanded such that we ... feel quite confident in our belief that the United States today is a fairer and ... more just nation in relation to the status of women, African Americans, and ... working people. We might account for these changes in various ways-the genius of ... the Founding Fathers, the general prosperity of the nation, even ... the feeling (an article of faith for some Americans) that gthings ... over time. This course is based on the idea that these changes have been the ... result of human effort, and that the efforts of American radicals have been ... essential to the rise of the American democracy. We shall examine ...
/ cal borrowing, at times on rejecting the Westfs values and struggling to ... Russiafs own. Focus is on this element of the Russian experience, as well as the ... role of ideas in Russian history, and the tensions between reform and revolution ... in Russiafs political life. Examines the factors that promoted the building, ... then the dismantling of Russiafs autocratic government in the ... period, from 1689 to 1917. One unit. History 253 Russia in the 20th Century ... Alternate years Studies the main stages in Russiafs 20th-century ... experience: the Russian Revolutions, 1905-1921; the ... development of a new order, the Soviet Union, 1921-1941; World War II ... and the Soviet super power, 1941-79; and ... stagnation and the end of Soviet Union, since 1979. One unit. ...
131 recipient of this scholarship will have available ... the 1985 four manual, fifty-stop mechanical ... action organ located in the beautiful St. Joseph Memorial Chapel. ... As the Holy Cross Organ Scholar, it is ... expected that the awardee will assist the College Organist in all aspects of the ... chapel music program. The Organ Scholar will also be expected to ... music and/or organ. Applicants for the scholarship should have experience in ... Christie, Music Department, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA 01610. ... Deadline for submission of scholarship applications is January ... 15th in the year when the scholarship is being offered. ... Performance Program The Performance Program consists of a ... series of courses offered by the Music Department in instrumental and ...
154/ Addresses the role of race in American political processes ... and institutions. Drawing heavily on the perspectives of African-Americans, the ... course surveys the history of race in American politics from the era ... of emancipation to the present. Topics include black political ... behavior, and rhetoric; race and the media; black women in politics; and ... varieties of black nationalism and conservatism. ... Annually Course begins by examining the role policy was intended to perform in ... readings will call attention to both the normative and empirical dimensions of ... policymaking. The intention is to understand policy in ... the broadest possible context-not as a ... distinct moment in time, but rather as the result of a dynamic process that itself ...
156/ Examination of fundamental problems of political life ... through the study of literary works such as Aristophanes, ... , Swift, Melville, and Faulkner. Themes include the effects of various forms of ... government on human character; the central ethical conflicts of political ... life; and the problem of race in the American polity. Political Philosophy. ... unit. Political Science 232 Science, History, and Political Philosophy Alternate ... years Examines the philosophic foundations of several ... highly influential trends of contemporary thought: idealism, ... . Readings include Kantfs Foundations of the Metaphysic of Morals and writings ... on history; Hegelfs The Philosophy of History (excerpts); Nietzsche, Beyond Good and ...
