53 courses with the subject HIST, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
HIST 1000World Civilizations I3
Credit(s) Offered: every semester This course covers the beginnings of humanity to 1350. It investigates ancient empires and the development of the great world religions. The interdependence of Eurasia is stressed while the independent existence of the Amerindian and African empires is also explored.
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every semester World Civilizations II provides a thematic introduction to world history from the Early Modern period to the present. The course futhermore advances core Liberal Arts & Sciences goals, including problem solving and synthesizing, critical thinking, communication, and citizenship.
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every semester The course is a survey of United States History beginning with colonial times and continuing through the era of Reconstruction following the Civil War.
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: Fall This course will introduce students to historical thinking through the analysis of historical writing with attention to the reasons why the past is studied. It will consider how historians view the world, including human motivations, causality, contingency and the practice of empathy. The objectives of this course are to improve students’ reading skills and critical analysis through examination of trends and patterns in historical writing and media and to assess these skills through analytical writing. Topics chosen will vary according to the instructor.
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HIST
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: Spring The study of history involves a close reading of historical evidence; arguing about history requires evidence and knowledge of what other historians have written about a topic. More and more, technology has become a significant aspect of researching and accessing historical documents and secondary sources. This course will enable students to master the key historical methods necessary to carry out historical research and to construct history in the 21st century. We will create historical questions, find and analyze historical sources, and evaluate and build historical arguments and determine how our interpretations interact with ongoing historical conversations and debates.
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HIST
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3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every other year This survey of ancient history from the Bronze Age in the ancient Near East to the “fall of the Roman Empire,” focuses on the chief social, political, economic, intellectual, religious, and military achievements of the Greeks and Romans. By examining a variety of primary sources, secondary sources, and material culture, this course seeks to evaluate the contributions of ancient Greece and Rome to European history and the human experience.
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HIST
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3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
AMST 1800 or ENGL 1200 or HIST 1000 or HIST 1100 or HIST 1400 or HIST 1500
HIST 2102Life in the Roman City3
Credit(s) Offered: every 2nd/3rd Summer This course investigates aspects of ancient Roman society and culture, including private and public life, spectacles and entertainments, trade and exchange, and religion. Students will read and discuss specially selected primary and secondary sources in order to assess what it was like to live in an ancient Roman city. This is a study abroad course.
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HIST
Credits (min)
3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
AMST 1800 or ENGL 1200 or HIST 1000 or HIST 1100 or HIST 1400 or HIST 1500 Meets
HIST 2103The Byzantine Empire3
Credit(s) Offered: every other year An overview of Byzantine history and civilization from 330 to 1453, exploring a wide variety of primary and secondary sources and material culture to assess its broader significance in human history is presented. It examines the emergence of the Byzantine state from its Roman predecessor, the unique synthesis of Roman, Greek, Christian, and other elements achieved in Byzantium, its thousand year struggle for survival against foreign adversaries and internal challenges, and the spread of Byzantine and Orthodox Christian culture to neighboring peoples.
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HIST
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3
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3
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2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
AMST 1800 or ENGL 1200 or HIST 1000 or HIST 1100 or HIST 1400 or HIST 1500 Meets
HIST 2104The Silk Roads in History and Culture3
Credit(s) Offered: every other year This overview of cultural and economic exchange across Eurasia associated with the “Silk Roads” from earliest times through about 1500. It explores the physical, cultural, and political geography of Inner Asia, interactions between sedentary and nomadic peoples, the spread of religion, culture, and technology, and, most particularly, the mechanisms and products of East-West trade. This course examines a wide variety of primary and secondary sources, as well as material culture, to assess the world historical significance of the Silk Roads in the human experience.
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HIST
Credits (min)
3
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3
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Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
AMST 1800 or ENGL 1200 or HIST 1000 or HIST 1100 or HIST 1400 or HIST 1500
HIST 2112The European Renaissance3
Credit(s) Offered: every other year This course explores the idea of a European Renaissance, or a reemergence of and response to classical Greek and Roman ideals. Chronologically, the period bridged the medieval and early modern eras. Geographically, its effects were first felt in Italy, then France, England and the various principalities of the Holy Roman Empire. Intellectually, it embraced nearly every field of human endeavor.
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HIST
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3
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3
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Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
AMST 1800 or ENGL 1200 or HIST 1000 or HIST 1100 or HIST 1400 or HIST 1500 Meets
HIST 2113The European Enlightenment3
Credit(s) Offered: every other year The century of Enlightenment is examined through a history of ideas. Students will explore the many answers to the question, What is Enlightenment? Readings include cultural history, as well as eighteenth-century philosophy and anti-Enlightenment thought.
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HIST
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3
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3
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Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
AMST 1800 or ENGL 1200 or HIST 1000 or HIST 1100 or HIST 1400 or HIST 1500 Meets
HIST 2114The French Revolution3
Credit(s) Offered: every other year This course treats the Revolution not simply as an event, but also as an idea. Thus, we examine the origins and various manifestations of the revolutionary spirit between 1789 and 1815. Heavy emphasis is placed on primary sources, as well as theoretical and historiographical issues.
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HIST
Credits (min)
3
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3
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Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
AMST 1800 or ENGL 1200 or HIST 1000 or HIST 1100 or HIST 1400 or HIST 1500 Meets
HIST 2118Latin America: The Conquest3
Credit(s) Offered: every other year The course is an introduction to the societies, individuals and legal and moral issues involved in the European conquest of the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere to roughly 1650. The path of conquest is traced chronologically to provide an understanding of the Ibero-Mediterranean milieu that produced the early explorer-conquerors and the dominant indigenous civilizations of the Caribbean, Mesoamerica, the Andes, and coastal Brazil.
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HIST
Credits (min)
3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
AMST 1800 or ENGL 1200 or HIST 1000 or HIST 1100 or HIST 1400 or HIST 1500
HIST 2119Latin American Revolutions3
Credit(s) Offered: every other year This course will address the following questions through a survey of 20th century Latin American revolutions: What is revolution? What are its causes? Why do some revolutions succeed, while others fail? What do the revolutions of 20th century Latin America tell us about the specific countries in which they occurred, and about the region as a whole?
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HIST
Credits (min)
3
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3
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Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
AMST 1800 or ENGL 1200 or HIST 1000 or HIST 1100 or HIST 1400 or HIST 1500 Meets
HIST 213020th-Century Europe3
Credit(s) Offered: Day course offered every other year. This course studies culture, science and social developments as well as domestic and international politics from the first World War to the present.
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HIST
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3
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3
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2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
ENGL 1200 or HIST 1000 or HIST 1100 or HIST 1400 or HIST 1500 or AMST 1800 Meets
HIST 213120th-Century Germany3
Credit(s) Offered: every other year This course surveys the history of modern Germany from the origins of the Weimar Republic and National Socialism through German reunification.
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HIST
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3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
AMST 1800 or ENGL 1200 or HIST 1000 or HIST 1100 or HIST 1400 or HIST 1500
HIST 2132Nazi Germany: Hitler’s Rise and Fall3
Credit(s) Offered: every other year The course is a detailed inquiry into the rise and fall of Nazi Germany. Examining the Weimar Republic, the course will analyze how Hitler and the Nazis gained power. Analysis of the Nazi dictatorship will focus on how Hitler maintained power, how the Nazi years shaped German society, Nazi wars of aggression and the total defeat of Nazi Germany.
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HIST
Credits (min)
3
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3
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Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
AMST 1800 or ENGL 1200 or HIST 1000 or HIST 1100 or HIST 1400 or HIST 1500 Meets
HIST 2134Armenian Genocide3
Credit(s) Offered: every other year In 1915, Armenians, men, women, and children, were forced out of their homes in Turkey, slaughtered, and driven across the desert in a genocide that preceded the Holocaust by more than two decades. Despite the enormity of the crimes carried out against Armenians, this genocide was generally overlooked for many years. This course will examine the long and short-term causes of genocide, the implementation of genocide and the legacy of the Armenian genocide.
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HIST
Credits (min)
3
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3
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Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
AMST 1800 or ENGL 1200 or HIST 1000 or HIST 1100 or HIST 1400 or HIST 1500 Meets
HIST 2135Genocide in World History3
Credit(s) Offered: Summer The class investigates the definition and different possible origins of genocide in world history. The class examines major cases of cases of genocide including the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, Cambodia, and Rwanda. The class concludes by focusing on genocide today and the prevention of genocide.
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HIST
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3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
AMST 1800 or ENGL 1200 or HIST 1000 or HIST 1100 or HIST 1400 or HIST 1500
HIST 2136Modern Italian History: Risorgimento to Today3
Credit(s) Offered: every other year Surveys the political and social development of modern Italy from the origins of the Risorgimento in the 1840s through the end of political unification in 1870, immigration and the diaspora of late 19th century, post WWI instability and the rise of Mussolini’s fascist regime, post W.W.II economic resurgence, and concludes with a survey of contemporary political and social issues.
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HIST
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3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
AMST 1800 or ENGL 1200 or HIST 1000 or HIST 1100 or HIST 1400 or HIST 1500 Meets
HIST 2141Slavery in the Atlantic World3
Credit(s) Offered: every other year The course introduces students to the evolution of slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic World from its roots in the Mediterranean region and Africa to its transformation in the Caribbean basin as a forerunner of modern industrial production. The approach of the course will be comparative in the sense that students will see how slavery has changed over time, and how it differed from place to place and from plantation to plantation.
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HIST
Credits (min)
3
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3
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Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
AMST 1800 or ENGL 1200 or HIST 1000 or HIST 1100 or HIST 1400 or HIST 1500 Meets
HIST 2142African-American History3
Credit(s) Offered: every other year The course is an investigation of the African-Americans in the United States from their African origins to the present. Emphasis is placed on the role African-Americans play in the economic, political and social life of the United States. Cross-listed with AAST 2142
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HIST
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3
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3
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2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
AMST 1800 or ENGL 1200 or HIST 1000 or HIST 1100 or HIST 1400 or HIST 1500 Meets
HIST 2143American Colonial History3
Credit(s) Offered: every other year This course covers the exploration, settlement patterns, imperial system, social structure, rise of representative government in America and the 18th century wars for empires.
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HIST
Credits (min)
3
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3
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course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
AMST 1800 or ENGL 1200 or HIST 1000 or HIST 1100 or HIST 1400 or HIST 1500 Meets
HIST 2145U.S. Civil War3
Credit(s) Offered: every other year The course examines politics, slavery, and abolitionism. Political, military, and diplomatic aspects of the war and the failure of reconstruction is also covered.
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HIST
Credits (min)
3
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3
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course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
AMST 1800 or ENGL 1200 or HIST 1000 or HIST 1100 or HIST 1400 or HIST 1500 Meets
HIST 2147History of Mexico3
Credit(s) Offered: every other year Surveys pre-Columbian times to the present-day, beginning with indigenous background and continuing through conquest, colonialism and the century of social unrest that began with the struggle for independence in 1810. Concludes by considering the Mexican Revolution and its implications for Mexico’s contemporary political and social stability and economic development.
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HIST
Credits (min)
3
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3
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course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
AMST 1800 or ENGL 1200 or HIST 1000 or HIST 1100 or HIST 1400 or HIST 1500 Meets
HIST 2151Women in Latin American History3
Credit(s) Offered: every other year In this course students will utilize the concept of gender to explore the changing role of women in Latin America from pre-Columbian times to the twentieth century. They will focus on the activities and status of women in Aztec and late medieval Spanish society and examine the changes that occurred during the following eras and events: the Spanish conquest, the colonial era (1550-1810), the independence wars, and the national era (1820-present).
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HIST
Credits (min)
3
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3
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course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
AMST 1800 or ENGL 1200 or HIST 1000 or HIST 1100 or HIST 1400 or HIST 1500 Meets
HIST 2152Italian American History3
Credit(s) Offered: every other year The course examines the history of Italians in America and seeks to explain the causes and consequences of immigration, both at the national level and a personal level. Topics will include an examination of the unification of Italy and the conditions which impelled mass migration, regional differences and various responses to economic development in the late 19th and 20th centuries, the experience of migration and the adjustment to life in America.
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HIST
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3
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3
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2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
AMST 1800 or ENGL 1200 or HIST 1000 or HIST 1100 or HIST 1400 or HIST 1500 Meets
HIST 2153Urban America3
Credit(s) Offered: every other year This course examines the growth and development of cities in the United States from the late 19th century to the present, focusing on four broad, overlapping subjects: growth and differentiation within urban systems and city-regional relations, the built environment, urban society and group relations, and civic life.
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HIST
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3
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3
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2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
AMST 1800 or ENGL 1200 or HIST 1000 or HIST 1100 or HIST 1400 or HIST 1500 Meets
HIST 2154Immigration and American Identity3
Credit(s) Offered: once every two years This course examines immigration to America from the beginning of the Age of Exploration to the present day. It includes the experiences of those who came voluntarily, those who arrived in bondage, and those who migrated under other forms of duress. Our goal will be to address some of the major problems in American immigration history. We will conclude the semester by exploring how our own family and community histories have been shaped by immigration history, using our knowledge and research skills to make our own concrete contribution to immigration history.
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HIST
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3
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3
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Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
AMST 1800 or ENGL 1200 or HIST 1000 or HIST 1100 or HIST 1400 or HIST 1500 Meets
HIST 2161America in Crisis 1920-19453
Credit(s) Offered: every other year This course covers topics in American politics, economics and society from 1920-1945, with special emphasis on the development of liberalism, cultural and media developments, the great Depression and World War II.
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HIST
Credits (min)
3
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3
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Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
AMST 1800 or ENGL 1200 or HIST 1000 or HIST 1100 or HIST 1400 or HIST 1500 Meets
HIST 2162America in the Nuclear Era: 1945-19683
Credit(s) Offered: every other year This course will cover United States history from 1945 to 1968 and focus on developments in politics, culture, international affairs, and the economy. Topics will include the rise of suburbia, the politics of the welfare state, the grassroots civil rights movement and feminism, and the influence of Cold War tensions, television, and economic prosperity on American life.
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HIST
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3
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3
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Edition
2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
AMST 1800 or ENGL 1200 or HIST 1000 or HIST 1100 or HIST 1400 or HIST 1500 Meets
HIST 2163Vietnam: A Century of Conflict3
Credit(s) Offered: Day course offered every other year. Vietnam and its history is examined from a variety of international perspectives: Vietnamese resistance to colonialism in the Chinese, French, and Japanese periods, along with the emergence of nationalism and the First Indochina War (1945-54) between France and Vietnam, and then the origins of American involvement during the Cold War era. The course concludes with an examination of how the war has been memorialized and post-1975 political changes in Vietnam including the resumption of U.S.-Vietnam relations.
Subject
HIST
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3
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3
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Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
AMST 1800 or ENGL 1200 or HIST 1000 or HIST 1100 or HIST 1400 or HIST 1500 Meets
HIST 2164Cold War: A Global History3
Credit(s) Offered: every other year This course examines the impact of the Cold War in global perspective. Major themes include the developing U.S.-Soviet conflict in Europe, nuclear weapons proliferation, Third World revolutionary nationalism, detente, the collapse of the USSR and post-war globalization.
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HIST
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3
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3
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Credit(s)
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course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
AMST 1800 or ENGL 1200 or HIST 1000 or HIST 1100 or HIST 1400 or HIST 1500 Meets
HIST 2166America Since 19683
Credit(s) Offered: every other year This course will cover United States history from 1968 to the present and focus on developments in politics, culture, international affairs, and the economy. Topics will include the rise of cultural nationalism and second wave feminism, the transformation of politics and culture after the domestic and international upheavals of the 1970s, the conservative movement, the relationship between media and politics, and the culture wars.
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HIST
Credits (min)
3
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3
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course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
AMST 1800 or ENGL 1200 or HIST 1000 or HIST 1100 or HIST 1400 or HIST 1500 Meets
HIST 2201U.S. Economic History3
Credit(s) Offered: Spring This course will take a panoramic view of the economic history of the United States, surveying the course of U.S. history from the early European settlement of the 1600s and 1700s up until the contemporary age of globalization, all from the perspective of and with an emphasis upon the economic matters that informed that history. Cross-listed with ECON 2201
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HIST
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3
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3
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Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every other year This course examines the origins and development of the American presidency from the eighteenth century to the present. It examines the executive branch of government and the development of the office in historical context. This enables us to examine the executive branch of government as it evolved in relation to the judicial and legislative branches of government in particular eras, to consider the role that contingency and individuals have had shaping the office, and to measure the evolution of the Presidency in times of war, amidst economic transformations, and in relation to public opinion and the media. Cross-listed with POLS 2202
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HIST
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3
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3
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2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
HIST 1000 or HIST 1100 or HIST 1400 or HIST 1500 or POLS 1000 Meets
HIST 2203The Civil Rights Movement3
Credit(s) Offered: every other year This course examines the modern Civil Rights Movement in the larger historical context of the African-American freedom struggle, from its roots in abolitionism and Reconstruction through the period of legalized racial discrimination to the dismantling of legal segregation to the ongoing persistence of white privilege. Cross-listed with AAST 2203 / AMST 2203 / POLS 2203
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HIST
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3
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3
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2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
AMST 1800 or ENGL 1200 or HIST 1000 or HIST 1100 or HIST 1400 or HIST 1500 or POLS 1000 Meets
HIST 2204Climate Change and Human History3
Credit(s) Offered: every two years Climate change and human history have been closely connected for thousands of years. This interdisciplinary course combines climate science and history to explore the connections between civilization and climate from the last ice age to the present. This course will provide students with the scientific and historical background to better understand one of the key issues facing today’s world by examining how human history has been affected by past climate change and how human activity has altered climate. Cross-listed with GEOG 2204
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HIST
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3
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3
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2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every other year Europe today is an introduction to the major themes in modern European history and political science. The focus will be on the roots of contemporary Europe, European politics and economics, ethnic and religious conflict, citizenship and immigration, European culture and Europe’s place in the world and relationship with the United States. Cross-listed with POLS 2206
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HIST
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3
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3
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2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
AMST 1800 or ENGL 1200 or HIST 1000 or HIST 1100 or HIST 1400 or HIST 1500
HIST 2207U.S. In World Affairs: 1898 to the Present3
Credit(s) Offered: every other year The class examines America as a global power. Events covered are World War I, the era of isolation, origins of World War II, American involvement and wartime diplomacy, breakdown of East-West relations, the Cold War, and the Korean and Vietnam conflicts and the post Cold War world.
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HIST
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3
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3
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2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
AMST 1800 or ENGL 1200 or HIST 1000 or HIST 1100 or HIST 1400 or HIST 1500 Meets
HIST 2225Honors Seminar History3
Credit(s) Offered: annually Leadership Academy students will be introduced to key historical issues and methods. Students will engage in intensive study of a historical topic or theme to be selected by the instructor. Cross-listed with HON 2225
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HIST
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3
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3
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2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
AMST 1800 or ENGL 1200 or HIST 1000 or HIST 1100 or HIST 1400 or HIST 1500 Meets
HIST 3010Methods of Teaching History (5-12) I3
Credit(s) Offered: Spring This is the first of two methods courses and will focus on content pedagogy of history at the middle and secondary level. Teacher candidates design and implement standards-based instruction and assessments that are aligned with best practices for teaching and learning in history. Special emphasis is placed on employing a variety of instructional practices and classroom management strategies that provide learning opportunities for diverse student populations and enhance multicultural pluralism. Disciplinary literacy is particularly emphasized to enhance reading, writing, speaking, and listening in history. A pre-practicum of 25 hours is required. Students will arrange pre-practicum hours on their own or through the support of the Placement Coordinator. An observation by the Supervising Practitioner, and the accompanying Pre-Practicum Targeted Feedback Form are required.
Subject
HIST
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3
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3
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2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every other year This course traces the development of political philosophy from the early modern up to the birth of the modern. In a series of readings we will examine such concepts as the “state of nature” and its concomitants natural law, natural rights, civil society, the “primitive,” the right to property (private or otherwise) as well as the material foundations of social and political arrangements, warfare and its role in the state of nature and/or civil society, the power of the executive, and even slavery. By its very nature this course is interdisciplinary, as it is both an introduction to the history of ideas and a survey of political philosophy. Cross-listed with POLS 3305
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HIST
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3
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3
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2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
AMST 1800 or ENGL 1200 or HIST 1000 or HIST 1100 or HIST 1400 or HIST 1500 Meets
HIST 3900Methods in Teaching History (5-12) II3
Credit(s) Offered: Fall This is the second part of the methods course that focuses on history pedagogy at the middle and secondary level. Teacher candidates continue designing and implementing standards-based instruction and assessments that are aligned with best practices for teaching and learning in history. Special emphasis is placed on employing a variety of instructional practices and classroom management strategies that provide learning opportunities for diverse student populations and enhance multicultural pluralism. Moreover, teacher candidates will gain knowledge in using technology to facilitate teaching and learning appropriate for the needs of diverse learners and across varied subject areas. This course also addresses select history subject matter knowledge (5-12) required by ESE. A pre-practicum of 25 hours is required. Students pursuing initial licensure will be required to complete two DESE required Gateway Tasks in this course. Candidates must pass the Gateway Tasks to pursue licensure and to enroll in Practicum.
Subject
HIST
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
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Edition
2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: as needed The internship is designed to prepare students for a post-baccalaureate career. Students will avail themselves of off- or on-campus internship opportunities. Assignments depend on the needs of the participating agency and interests of the student.
Subject
HIST
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
12
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
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Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Sophomore standing, a minimum 2.0 GPA, and permission of the student’s advisor. Students must have taken at least one credit-bearing history course prior to embarking on an internship in history. Meets
HIST 4012Practicum Seminar3
Credit(s) Offered: Spring semesters concurrent with the practicum. This course is taken in conjunction with the practicum. Using peer collaboration and self-reflection, teacher candidates explore strategies to improve instruction, promote positive student behavior and social-emotional growth, and provide leadership at a school-wide level. The course also serves as a culminating experience in which candidates produce a Teacher Work Sample (TWS), a multi-step performance assessment that models the planning-teaching-assessment cycle of the professional educator, and that provides evidence of the candidate’s readiness to teach. Cross-listed with BIOL 4012 , CHEM 4012 , ENGL 4012 , ENGT 4012 , MATH 4012 , SCI 4012
Subject
HIST
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: Fall The seminar provides guided readings and research on a specified topic. It is designed to enrich research and analytical skills of future teachers and those desiring to enter graduate or other professional schools.
Subject
HIST
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
AMST 1800 or ENGL 1200 or HIST 1000 or HIST 1100 or HIST 1400 or HIST 1500 Meets
HIST 4860Practicum in a Secondary School I4.5
Credit(s) Offered: every semester Teacher candidates complete a practicum in an educational setting under the direction of a supervising practitioner who is certified in the area of licensure sought by the candidate, and under the guidance of a program supervisor. The purpose of the practicum is to ensure candidates are ready to teach and make impact with students on day one in a classroom. Targeted and specific feedback on observations of candidates, measurement of candidate impact on student learning, student feedback and additional evidence will be used to demonstrate and improve candidate performance on Professional Standards for Teachers indicators and the Candidate Performance of Assessment.
Subject
HIST
Credits (min)
4.5
Credits (max)
4.5
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) Offered: every semester One credit course taken in conjunction with the student teaching experience designed to support candidate completion of major practicum assessments: the Teacher Work Sample and Pre-Service Performance Assessment.
Subject
HIST
Credits (min)
1
Credits (max)
1
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Admission to the practicum. AMST 1800 or ENGL 1200 or HIST 1000 or HIST 1100 or HIST 1400 or HIST 1500
HIST 4870Practicum in a Secondary School II4.5
Credit(s) Offered: every semester Teacher candidates complete a practicum in an educational setting under the direction of a supervising practitioner who is certified in the area of licensure sought by the candidate, and under the guidance of a program supervisor. The purpose of the practicum is to ensure candidates are ready to teach and make impact with students on day one in a classroom. Targeted and specific feedback on observations of candidates, measurement of candidate impact on student learning, student feedback and additional evidence will be used to demonstrate and improve candidate performance on Professional Standards for Teachers indicators and the Candidate Performance of Assessment.
Subject
HIST
Credits (min)
4.5
Credits (max)
4.5
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Credit(s) The Independent Study is open to students majoring or specializing in History with the permission of the supervising instructor and the department. Meeting times and credit are arranged upon approval.
Subject
HIST
Credits (min)
1
Credits (max)
12
Credit unit
Credit(s)
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
Fitchburg State University 2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
