3 credits Topical discussions of intellectual traditions and institutional structures in European history. 3 credits Historical roots and practices of Native American and African folk religions. Political role of Catholic Church and Protestantism. 3 credits Interdisciplinary analysis of gender issues in Latin America from the Pre-Columbian period to the present. Topics include ethnicity, modernization, and political action.
Second semester begins in Reconstruction.
3 credits Political, social, cultural and institutional history of Europe in the 18th century. 3 credits France, Europe and the world during the age of the French Revolution and the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte. 3 credits Selected topics in Russian, Soviet, and East European political, social, cultural, economic and intellectual history. Maximum of 6 credits. 3 credits Selected topics concerning medieval economic, social, political, religious and cultural developments such as feudal society, religious orthodoxy and dissent, universities and chivalry.