ST-Topics in US Women's Hist

This course will focus on selected topics in U.S. women's and gender history from the colonial era to the present. Our focus will be on how interpretations of women's experience have been influenced by changing conceptions of race ethnicity, sexuality, family, class, religion, region, immigration, economics, and politics. We will consider and compare the lives of Native American women, African American, Asian American women, Latina women, and European American women from the colonial period through industrialization and into the twentieth century.

Age of the Crusades

Students will study the history of the Age of the Crusades (1090s-1290s). They will cover the eight major crusades to the Middle East and North Africa, including personalities, ideologies, and military and logistical challenges. They will investigate the European Crusaders, those Muslim, Christian and Jewish who were ?Crusaded Against?, and the cultural interactions among them all. Student will also examine Crusades in Europe, and Crusades of later centuries. Satisfies the Integrative Experience requirement for BA-Hist majors.

France Since 1789

Modern French history is a dizzying sequence of revolutions, wars, and empires. The history of OGreater FranceO is equally tumultuous, from revolt against slavery in Haiti during the French Revolution, the conquest of a vast new empire during the nineteenth century, and the bloody battles of decolonization after World War Two. In connecting these stories, we will focus on who has been defined as a OcitizenO and what citizenship has meant for men and women. We will look at changing class and gender relations, ideological struggles, and tensions between regional and national loyalties.

Advanced Information Assurance

This course provides an in-depth examination of the fundamental principles of information assurance: authentication, integrity, confidentiality of distributed systems, network security, malware, privacy, intrusion detection, intellectual property, and protection. Prerequisite: CMPSCI 460 (Introduction to Computer and Network Security), or 466 (Applied Cryptography).
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