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American Environmental and Cultural History (XB160AC) |
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UC Berkeley Extension Online |
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This course focuses on the American environment and the ways in which different cultural groups (including American Indians, Europeans, and African Americans) have perceived, used, managed, and conserved it from colonial times to the present. The course examines natural resource development, including gathering, hunting, fishing, farming, mining, ranching, forestry, and urbanization, and studies changes in attitudes and behaviors toward nature, as well as past and present conservation and environmental movements.
This course satisfies the American Cultures requirement at the University of California at Berkeley and is based on a course taught each fall on the UC Berkeley campus. UC Berkeley campus students (upon approval of their Dean), transfer students wanting to fulfill certain requirements before coming to the Berkeley campus, distance-learning students, and members of the general public with a personal or professional interest in American environmental and cultural studies are all invited to participate.
Students enrolling in this course should have already completed approximately two years of college-level work or the equivalent. |
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American Environmental and Cultural History (XB160AC) |
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This course focuses on the American environment and the ways in which different cultural groups (including American Indians, Europeans, and African Americans) have perceived, used, managed, and conserved it from colonial times to the present. The course examines natural resource development, including gathering, hunting, fishing, farming, mining, ranching, forestry, and urbanization, and studies changes in attitudes and behaviors toward nature, as well as past and present conservation and environmental movements.
This course satisfies the American Cultures requirement at the University of California at Berkeley and is based on a course taught each fall on the UC Berkeley campus. UC Berkeley campus students (upon approval of their Dean), transfer students wanting to fulfill certain requirements before coming to the Berkeley campus, distance-learning students, and members of the general public with a personal or professional interest in American environmental and cultural studies are all invited to participate.
Students enrolling in this course should have already completed approximately two years of college-level work or the equivalent. |
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History of Buddhist Philosophy (X169) |
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This course surveys the 2,500 years of Buddhism, beginning in India with the teachings of the historical Buddha and progressing through the development of Mahayana thought and the philosophies of the Chinese and Japanese schools of Buddhism. Supervised final examination. |
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History of Islam (X21) |
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This broad-ranging course explores the rich and complex history of Islam from the birth of the religion to the present day. Students gain a greater appreciation for the cultural, geographical, and political diversity of the people who comprise the Islamic mosaic. Course materials will focus particular attention on the religious values of the culture as exemplified by the life of the prophet Muhammad and the Quran, and examine how its religious foundation accounts for Islam's attempts to remain a distinctive, separate civilization. |
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History of Islam (X21) |
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This broad-ranging course explores the rich and complex history of Islam from the birth of the religion to the present day. Students gain a greater appreciation for the cultural, geographical, and political diversity of the people who comprise the Islamic mosaic. Course materials will focus particular attention on the religious values of the culture as exemplified by the life of the prophet Muhammad and the Quran, and examine how its religious foundation accounts for Islam's attempts to remain a distinctive, separate civilization. |
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History of Western Philosophy from the Pre-Socratic Period to the End of the Middle Ages (X20A) |
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The major philosophical concerns and concepts in Western thought are introduced, beginning with early texts in which philosophy first becomes distinguishable from myth and concluding with the philosophical debates of medieval Christianity. You explore philosophical questions relating to politics, metaphysics, natural science, logic, ethics, and aesthetics. The philosophers covered include Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, and St. Thomas Aquinas. |
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Introduction to the History of the United States: From Colonial Settlement to the Civil War (XB7A) |
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This course examines U.S. history from the age of European exploration of the Americas until 1877. It sharpens your understanding of people, institutions, and ideologies. The course provides practice in analytic methods that historians use to research facts and develop interpretations.
Topics include exploration, settlement, colonial culture, the winning of independence, the constitution, the new democracy, early American technology, expansionism, sectional conflict, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.
A knowledge of American history and institutions is required of students graduating from the University of California. This requirement may be satisfied in varying ways on the several campuses of the University. Some combination of the Online courses: History of the United States XB7A, XB7B, and the Online or Independent Learning version of Introduction to American Politics XB1 will fulfill the requirement on most campuses. Students who wish to use UC Berkeley Extension Online courses for this purpose should determine specifically which are acceptable on the campus they are attending.
History of the United States XB7A or Introduction to American Politics XB1 satisfies the California State Department of Education teaching credential requirement for knowledge of the provisions and principles of the Constitution. |
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Introduction to the History of the United States: From the Civil War to the Present (XB7B) |
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This course surveys U.S. history from the 1870s to the new millennium. You increase your knowledge of events, institutions, and personalities and develop skills of historical analysis and interpretation.
Topics include robber barons and industrial growth, Theodore Roosevelt and progressivism, the roaring 1920s, the Depression and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, World War II and the emergence of the American Empire, Red Scare and McCarthyism, the turbulent 1960s, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Vietnam, Nixon and Watergate, the sexual revolution, Ronald Reagan and conservatism, and America at the beginning of the next millennium.
A knowledge of American history and institutions is required of students graduating from the University of California. This requirement may be satisfied in varying ways on the several campuses of the University. Some combination of the Online courses: History of the United States XB7A, XB7B, and the Online or Independent Learning version of Introduction to American Politics XB1 will fulfill the requirement on most campuses. Students who wish to use UC Berkeley Extension Online courses for this purpose should determine specifically which are acceptable on the campus they are attending.
History of the United States XB7A or Introduction to American Politics XB1 satisfies the California State Department of Education teaching credential requirement for knowledge of the provisions and principles of the Constitution. |
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Oral History Methods (033WRD121) |
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University of California, Davis Extension |
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Apply this practical guide of oral history methods and techniques to your history projects, whether you want a record for your family, a museum, historical society or business. Learn to document the experiences of someone who has personally experienced or observed a period, event or trend of historical interest. Interviews will emphasize significant participation, changes observed and accounts that highlight the particular era or events, and you?ll find out how to present them in a historical context. Find out how to use recording and transcribing equipment, as well as learn about publishing and archiving. You will prepare tapes to mail to the instructor. This format enables you to work at your own pace in your own community. Enrollment is limited to 20 students, so early registration is advised. |
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