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• HIS 423: Modern Germany

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries: Napoleonic era, rise of Prussia, nationalism and unification, imperialism and World War I, National Socialism, World War II, and divided Germany.
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• HIS 424: World of Communism

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course examines the history of communism. It traces the origins and development of Marxist theories of inequality as well as sometimes tragic efforts to put Marxist theory into practice in, among other places, Russia, China, and Cuba. Particular attention is paid to choices and commitments of individual communists. What vision of a new world motivated communists What solutions to class, gender, and racial inequalities did they propose Why was their idealism so often twisted into carnage
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• HIS 425: Twentieth-Century Russia

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Its rise and fall in light of traditional Russian patterns and the communist experiment.
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• HIS 427: Modern France: 1789 To Present

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  A survey of modern France from the Revolutionary era through the turbulent 19th century to the post-World War II recovery. Major themes include the social cultural political, and economic aspects of modern and contemporary France.
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• HIS 434: 19th Century Europe

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course will explore the major issues pertaining to developments in Europe in the "long 19th century", roughly from 1789 to 1918. Topics include the impact of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars on European life, the industrial and political revolutions of the century, and the advent of liberalism, socialism, nationalism, feminism, and imperialism.
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• HIS 440: American Jewish History

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course traces the history of the Jews in the United States from the earliest communities of the 17th century to the present. Topics will include Jews in the American colonies, Jewish immigration in the 19th century, anti-Semitism, Zionism, Jewish labor movements, the growth of Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox Judaism, and the impact of the Holocaust and Israel.
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• HIS 444: History of American Education

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course offers an historical examination of the complex historical, political, social, economic, and cultural influences that have contributed to the current state of education in America.
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• HIS 450: Internship In History

  1.00 - 3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Contact department for more information about this course.
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• HIS 451: Women and Gender in American History

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  The course examines the way ideas about women and gender have shaped the lives of Americans, their daily routines, social roles, and search for rights and identities from the pre-colonial period to the present.
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• HIS 458: History Of The Cold War

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
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