The evolution of the Chinese and Japanese civilizations with emphasis on their characteristic institutions and intellectual traditions. The societies of China and Japan during the 19th and 20th centuries as they have confronted the modern West while still grappling with age-old problems. A history of ancient Rome with a view to the continuities and changes in institutions- from the beginning of the republic to the principate of Augustus to the disintegration of the empire. The Native American experience in North, Middle and South America before the arrival of European culture. Focus on what is common to the colonial experience and what is unique to specific cases.
Comparisons vary each time the course is offered.
The African American in the United States from the African slave trade through antebellum slavery, emancipation and Reconstruction to Jim Crow and the 20th century. May be repeated once for credit. Open to non-history majors by permission of instructor. Open to non-history majors by permission of instructor. A major moment of transition in Western Europe.