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Click on the name of an online course offered at American Public University to view the detailed information; you can also find out about the college or university offering the course by clicking on "School's Profile". |
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World Literature since the Renaissance (HM212) |
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Humanities & Liberal Arts |
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American Public University |
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This course will examine readings in translation selected from a variety of cultures and authors from the 17th century through the 20th century. Representative selections will be drawn from Western and Eastern Europe, India, China, Japan, Africa and the Americas. Readings include the major genres of short story, novel, drama, and lyric verse. Major themes include the changing nature of warfare, the relationship between the citizen and the state, and the pleasures of private life. |
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World Literature through the Renaissance (HM211) |
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Readings in translation from a variety of cultures and authors from the Ancient World through the European Renaissance will be the focus of this class. Representative selections will be drawn from Classical Greece and Rome, China, India, and Western Europe. Readings include the major genres of epic poetry, drama, lyric verse, and prose fiction. Major themes include the warrior ideal, the relationship between the state and the citizen, and the pleasures of private life. |
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World War I (MH317) |
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This course examines the origins of America's role in World War I and its participation in the war in France, the war at sea, and the peace settlement. |
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World War II in Context (LW631) |
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This course is a comparative study of the economies, industry, society and culture of the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Germany during World War II, with lesser topical coverage of other countries. The course addresses the non-political and non-military aspects of each country as it prepared for, engaged in, and recovered from war. Topics include the roles of the citizen, the larger citizenry, industry, economics, and women. Issues include the post-war changes that the conflict facilitated and continue to influence society and culture in the industrialized nations today. |
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World War II in Europe (MH318) |
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This course examines the origins of America's role in World War II and covers the war at sea and the use of maritime power to resupply the Eastern Front, and the African, Italian, Continental Campaigns. |
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World War II in the Pacific (LW550) |
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An analysis of the fighting in the China-Burma-India Theater, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, the Aleutians, and in the Philippines, which, wound together with our amphibious campaigns through the Central Pacific, constituted the most massive movement of men and arms in history. This course focuses on land warfare, its strategies, tactics, leaders and lessons learned. |
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World War II in the Pacific (MH319) |
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History |
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This course reviews the events of the Pacific War from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to the surrender in Tokyo Bay. The war at sea and MacArthur's island-hopping amphibious campaigns receive special treatment. |
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Yom Kippur War (LW660) |
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The 1973 Yom Kippur War was the most tactically and strategically challenging war fought by Israel, America's long-standing ally in the Middle East. Israel started out on the strategic defensive and wound up with such a massive strategic advantage on Egyptian soil that the Soviets started threatening the Third World War in defense of their defeated Egyptian ally. |
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Zionism and Judaism in Israel (RE442) |
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Philosophy |
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This course explores the history of Zionism from the book of Genesis until the present day, plus the historical and contemporary political dimensions of Zionism within various religious and cultural contexts of Judaism and Middle Eastern religious ideologies. |
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