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Gwynedd Mercy University
AY2020-2021 / Undergraduate Academic Catalog
This course examines the period of Nazi control in Europe and its impact on world history during the period 1933-45 . Topics include : the post-war circumstances that gave rise to Nazism ; the nature of National Socialism as an ideology and political movement ; the personality and role of Adolf Hitler as leader of Nazism and Nazi Germany ; German society under Nazism ; the Second World War ; and the Holocaust . Prerequisites : HIS-4000 History Seminar - Capstone ( 3 ) This course features research under direction of a faculty mentor on a theme or themes chosen by faculty and / or students . Work is reported both orally and in writing . Prerequisites : HIS-449 ( Required , Previous ). | senior level status ( Required , Previous ). HIS-401 Historiography ( 3 ) Prerequisites : HIS-430 Internship ( 3 ) This work experience is designed to give the student practical experience in a professional historical / archival field . Prerequisites :
HIS-437 Special Topics ( 3 ) This course allows for the investigation of a topic in history that is not adequately covered in any of the courses listed above . It may be repeated if the topic is different . Prerequisites :
HIS-439 Independent Study ( 3 ) Qualified advanced students may arrange independent study in areas not covered by existing courses . Registration is with consent of the involved faculty and the permission of the chairperson of the division and the Vice President for Academic Affairs . Prerequisites :
HIS-449 Historiography ( 3 ) This course introduces students to fundamental questions about the nature of history and to the varieties of history that different answers to these questions have inspired . Students will investigate the kinds of questions historians ask about the past , the relationship between theory and evidence in historical writing and the varieties of evidence historians use to reconstruct the past . Prerequisites : Senior status ( Required , Previous ).
Honors
HON-100 Mysticism and Transcendence ( 3 ) This course investigates the human being as having a capacity for transcendence and an ultimate desire to be with God . Students read the relevant works of the Western philosophical and theological traditions , surveying a broad range of possibilities and perspectives on mysticism , transcendence , the soul , philosophy of religion , and related themes . Prerequisites :
HON-150 Philosophy of the Sublime : the Awesome ( 3 ) This course is a historical introduction to the concept of the sublime , or the ' awesome '. The sublime , a feeling of great exhilaration , excitement , or awe , is a positive aesthetic experience in response to a vast or powerful object , or one that appears vast or powerful . Traditional examples of sublime objects , or things that evoke the feeling , are waterfalls , icebergs , raging storms , deep ravines , mountains ( Rockies ,
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