It culminates with the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, his achievements and failures and the end of the Empire in 1815. 3 CR A survey of European social history from the fourteenth century to the late nineteenth century. Emphasis on the household and family, gender, social class and rank, the body and death and material and daily life. HI 218 Modern France 3 CR Follows the political, economic and religious developments from 1789 to the 1960s. It examines the last monarchy under Louis Philippe, the rise of democracy by 1848 and numerous political factions and World War I and II, culminating in the person of Charles de Gaulle.
Attention is given to continuity and change to understand the character of France.
225 African-American History 3 CR Examines the forced migration of Africans to America, the condition and nature of slavery, abolitionism, emancipation, twilight zone of freedom, growth of civil rights and Black power movements. A comparative, historical study of American immigration focusing on motives for immigration, patterns of settlement, adjustment and subsequent generational experience of successive immigrant groups. A study of the rise of Islam and the emergence of the Arabs as a world power. Discussion focuses on the achievements of Muhammad, the institution of the caliphate, Umayyad and Abbasid empires, crusades and decline of Arab influence in the Near East under the pressure of Turkish expansion. This course begins with the breakup of the Ottoman Empire and delineates the rise of the Arab states in recent times.