14 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 1101Minnesota History3
Catalog Description This course is a survey of Minnesota history - the people, institutions, and cultural traditions from geologic origins to the present. It includes such topics as the Ice Age, indigenous peoples, exploration and the French fur trade, red-white relations, the treaty process, and social, economic, and political developments. It may include field trips to historic sites.
Catalog Description This course is a historical analysis of the contemporary world in global perspective from the aftermath of World War II to the present. Topics surveyed will include such areas as WWII and the Peace, Cold War containment, global, social, and economic patterns, neo-imperialism, decolonization, peace initiatives, local and international perspectives of global conditions and events, and global terrorism.
Catalog Description This course is a historical introduction to WWII including analysis of such topics as the causes of war and peace; strategy, tactics, and technologies in the major theatres; political and military leadership; and war crimes.
Catalog Description This course is a survey of world civilizations from about 1500-1870 emphasizing major historical transformations and processes that have shaped the interrelated global experience. Topics include the Reformation, colonization, mercantile imperialism, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, 19th century liberalism, industrialization, urbanization, socialism, and nationalism as they have affected life in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, South America, and Africa.
HIST 1121Modern World Civilizations II: 1870 to the Present4
Catalog Description This course is a survey of world civilizations from about 1870 to the present emphasizing major historical transformations and processes that have shaped the global experience. Topics will include capitalism and imperialism, social turmoil in the West, the Russian Revolution, World War I, totalitarianism, world depression, World War II, the Cold War and neo-imperialism, and decolonization and globalization, as they have affected life in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, South America, and Africa.
Catalog Description This course is a survey of human prehistory, the Agricultural Revolution, and rise and fall of civilizations in Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe from ancient times through the medieval period.
Catalog Description A study of the history of Africa, from pre-historic times to the present, that explores the rich and diverse heritage of the African peoples, the myths, stereotypes of and the historical dynamic between the West and Africa and its impact in today’s world, and develops an understanding of both Africa’s potential and the social, economic and political difficulties facing the continent in the modern age.
Catalog Description This course is a survey of U.S. History to about 1876 including such topics as indigenous peoples, exploration, colonial times, the American Revolution and Constitution, the young republic, growth of democracy, territorial expansion, slavery, Civil War, and Reconstruction.
Catalog Description Survey of U.S. history from about 1877-present including such topics as industrialization, Populist protest, U.S. imperialism, progressivism, the Great War, the Great Depression, the New Deal, WWII, and the post-war era.
Catalog Description This course is a historical introduction to the Vietnam War and the dramatic social, economic, cultural, and political transformations of the Vietnam era. It includes the French Conquest, rise of nationalism, WWII and the Cold War containment, secret CIA operations, civil rights movement, Environmental movement, Black Power, counterculture, political murder, anti-war movement, Watergate, Pentagon/VA transgressions, and normalizations.
Catalog Description This course examines women’s experiences in America from 1900 to the present. We will consider the relationship between race, class, gender, and sexuality as we learn about women’s roles as reformers, consumers, activists, students, mothers, workers, immigrants, etc. Topics covered include African-American women and the “Jim Crow” south, women’s participation in reform movements, the achievement of the right to vote and the debate about the Equal Rights Amendment, women in the “Roaring Twenties” and Great Depression, the “Feminine Mystique” and Cold War America, women’s participation in major social movements such as the Civil Rights Movement, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the Black Power movement, and the Women’s Rights Movement. We will read extensively from original documents (“primary sources”) for class discussion and to develop critical-thinking skills about historical methods.
Catalog Description This course provides a survey of the history of Britain from the ancient period including the Celts (Roman invasion, Artorius (Arthur legend), Angles/Saxons/Jutes), through the High Middle Ages (Viking invasions, Celtic Church, Roman Church, Norman Invasion), and up to the end of the fourteenth century (Magna Carta, Crusades, Scottish War for Independence, Welsh Rebellion, the Hundred Years’ War, etc.).
HIST 2280History of Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States4
Catalog Description This course examines the experiences of immigrants and ethnic groups in the United States from the colonial period to the present. Topics covered include: unfree labor in the colonial period, the Atlantic slave trade, relocation of American Indians, and the experiences of immigrant groups throughout U.S. history, with a focus on Minnesota’s largest ethnic and immigrant groups. We will discuss examples of discrimination against ethnic groups, and how government immigration policies have changed, often in response to anti-immigration social movements. This course also focuses on the concept of assimilation and the meaning of citizenship as our nation becomes increasingly diverse and multi-cultural.
HIST 2282Warfare in the Ancient and Medieval World3
Catalog Description This course is a historical introduction to warfare in the ancient and medieval world including analysis of such topics as the causes of war and peace; strategy, tactics, and technologies in Europe and the Middle East; and the political and military leadership.
