HIST

HIST 295 Language 112

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HIST

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course

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2026-2027-undergraduate

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catalog.csbsju.edu

Why do we presume that East Asia is a monolith when so many of its component parts are at odds? This introductory course looks at the political, cultural, and social history of China, Japan, and the Koreas while analyzing our preconceptions about truth and history. Students will grapple with primary texts, literary works, films, and propaganda to see how narratives can change and shape international relations. Attributes: Human Experience (HE), Thematic Encounter1/2 - Truth

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HIST

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4

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4

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course

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2026-2027-undergraduate

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catalog.csbsju.edu

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None

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HIST

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4

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4

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course

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2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Catalog

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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catalog.csbsju.edu

What if ARMY isn't just about music? What if anime isn't as new as Demon Slayer? Asian popular culture's reception in America is not just a 21st century phenomenon and isn't just a one-sided love affair. The reception of Asian popular culture in the United States provides an amazing lens into American ideas about gender, race, and ethnicity, even as the countries involved are politically fractious. Attributes: CSD: Identity (CI)

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HIST

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4

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4

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course

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2026-2027-undergraduate

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catalog.csbsju.edu

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None

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HIST

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4

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4

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course

Edition

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Catalog

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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catalog.csbsju.edu

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HIST

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4

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4

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course

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2026-2027

Catalog

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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catalog.csbsju.edu

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HIST

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4

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4

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course

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2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Catalog

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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catalog.csbsju.edu

For at least 2.5 million years, humans have created tools of increasing sophistication and variety. In this introduction to archaeology, we focus on the artifacts that are antiquity’s leftovers. What can this “stuff” reveal about past people? How and why did they use it? How did it shape who they were? How can literary evidence, where it exists, enrich and complicate the picture? And how do we use (sometimes abuse?) it to define who we are today? These are just some of the questions we will address. Along the way, we will learn about the discipline’s aims, history, and methods, consider its relationship to the field of history, and devote special attention to its modern practice, problems, and significance. Broadly speaking, the course will consider, in turn, the nature of archaeological evidence, how we interpret it, and finally what we should do with it. While we often will focus on archaeological sites in the Mediterranean and Near East, discussion will touch on others throughout the world. As will be clear immediately and throughout, at the heart of this course is the identity of human beings, past and present. Attributes: Human Experience (HE), Thematic Encounter1/2 - Truth

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HIST

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4

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4

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course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

Prerequisite

None

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HIST

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4

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4

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Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Catalog

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

4

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4

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course

Edition

2026-2027

Catalog

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

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HIST

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4

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4

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Credits

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course

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2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Catalog

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

This course examines major themes in European history since around 1750. Students will study the French Revolution and its legacy; nationalism and imperialism; world wars in the 20th century; and Europe since 1945, including the Cold War, decolonization, immigration, changing European identity, and the European Union. The course concludes with current events considered in historical context. Equivalent courses: HIST 140, HIST 142, HIST 142B, HONR 250P Attributes: Human Experience (HE), Thematic Encounter1/2-Justice

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HIST

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4

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4

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course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

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None

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HIST

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4

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4

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course

Edition

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Catalog

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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catalog.csbsju.edu

This course examines European history since 1750, prior to the French Revolution, and concludes with transformation of the continent in the European Union. Students will examine various themes that shaped this period of revolution, modernization, and transformation in European society. Equivalent courses: HIST 142, HIST 142A, HONR 250P Attributes: Human Experience (HE), Thematic Encounter1/2-Justice

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HIST

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4

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4

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course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

Prerequisite

None

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

4

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4

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Credits

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course

Edition

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Catalog

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

This course explores how the Holocaust has been and is remembered in the United States. From the publication of the Diary of Anne Frank in 1952, to the NBC TV miniseries Holocaust in 1978, to the opening of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1993, to the banning of Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel Maus by a Tennessee school board in January 2022, the Holocaust has played an enormous role in US memory and identity. In fact, developments in American approaches to the subject have for decades prompted debates over the “Americanization” of the Holocaust. In addition to remembering the Jewish experience, Americans’ remembering of the Holocaust has prompted comparisons to the experiences of Africans and Indigenous peoples in North America. Central to the course are questions of race, ethnicity, and gender, for they determined experiences and shaped remembrance of the Holocaust. Attributes: CSD: Identity (CI)

Subject

HIST

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4

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4

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Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

Prerequisite

None

Subject

HIST

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4

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4

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Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Catalog

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

4

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4

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course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

What is the American Experience? This question drives our exploration of the North American past from the early seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century. The historical themes of violence, empire, liberty and faith guide our study. To help us understand these themes and the experiences of Americans, we will read and discuss historical monographs and primary documents. During the semester, students will have opportunities to strengthen their analytical reading, critical thinking, argumentative writing, and public speaking. Attributes: CSD: Identity (CI)

Subject

HIST

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4

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4

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course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

Prerequisite

None

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

4

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4

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Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Catalog

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

When Americans talk about what makes our nation special or “great,” we often point to the idea of individual opportunity, or what historians call th American Dream. More specifically, the American Dream argument is that everyone has a chance to be successful, and that an individual’s talent and drive, rather than external factors, shape the outcome. In this class, we are going to ask how true the Dream is. Do all people have access? Are there groups who are simply excluded because of their race, gender, or other factors outside individual control? What have people done when the distance between the Dream and reality became intolerable? How has change occurred? We will start examining this question in the era when large monopolies began to dominate the economy, and end with contemporary arguments from Black Lives Matter to Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. Attributes: CSD: Identity (CI)

Subject

HIST

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4

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4

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Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

Prerequisite

None

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

4

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4

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Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Catalog

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

This course explores the history of the United States in the twentieth century, paying particular attention to events that have helped shape various communities within the nation and to the ongoing struggle to define just what “American” means. Topics covered will include changes in social, political, and economic life; the environment; race and gender relations; the growth of cities and industry; the American role in global conflicts; the progress of technology; the impacts of immigration and internal migration; and the role of popular culture in American society. We will approach the study of history with three major goals in mind: to develop knowledge of the basic “facts” of 20th century American history; to learn to think, speak, and write analytically about the past; and to better understand ourselves and the various communities to which we belong. CSBSJU Undergraduate Academic Catalog 2026-2027 335

Subject

HIST

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4

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4

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Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

Prerequisite

None

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

4

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4

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Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Catalog

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

This course explores the historical experience of growing up in the United States through the intersection of race and gender. We will analyze the ways that childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood have been constructed, as well as the social and cultural institutions which shape individual experiences and identities. We will answer such questions as: How do a range of femininities, masculinities, and other gender expectations impact us as we grow to be adults? How and why have the concepts of “race” and “gender” developed, and how do those ideas differ by class, sexual identity, religion, region, education, and other cultural and social markers? How have young people created their own youth culture and attempted to change social expectations using advertising, film and television, magazines, music, and social media? Attributes: CSD: Identity (CI)

Subject

HIST

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4

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4

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Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

Prerequisite

None

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

4

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4

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Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Catalog

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

In this course students and various members of the history faculty will read and discuss current and classic writings in the discipline. Topics will vary from semester to semester. Course is offered for S/U grading only.

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HIST

Credits (min)

1

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1

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

Prerequisite

None

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

1

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1

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Catalog

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

6

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

Prerequisite

None

Corequisite

XXXX 63

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

3

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6

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Catalog

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

This course covers the past and present of medicine in the United States, paying special attention to ways in which ideas of gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity intersect to shape medical practice and the experiences of patients and doctors alike. Topics include gender and racial dynamics in the shift from midwifery to obstetrics; barriers to medical education for e women and Black students; eugenics and medical experiments like the Tuskegee study; and debates surrounding LGBTQ+ health care. Attributes: CSD: Identity (CI)

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

4

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4

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Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

Prerequisite

None

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

4

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4

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Catalog

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

The ideas and events of the French Revolution continue to be hotly debated more than 200 years later. Was it a revolution of the bourgeoisie? Was it a revolution of the working class? What role did books and ideas play? Was the Revolution a success or a failure? We will explore these and other questions through an intensive role-playing game in which you, the students, become revolutionaries and debate the future of France. Equivalent courses: HIST 200A

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

2

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2

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Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

Prerequisite

None

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

2

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2

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Catalog

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

4

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4

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Catalog

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

4

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4

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Catalog

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

3

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3

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Catalog

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

3

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3

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Catalog

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

3

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6

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

Prerequisite

None

Corequisite

XXXX 63

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

6

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Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Catalog

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

Supervised reading or research at the lower-division level. Permission of department chair required. Consult department for applicability towards major requirements. Not available to first-year students.

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

1

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4

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Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

Prerequisite

None

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

1

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4

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Catalog

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

Sport holds a significant place in the lives of many Americans. We play, watch, and talk about sports; many find joy in sport video games or gambling on the outcome of live events. Sports programming dominates television on weekends, and we have multiple networks devoted to both live programming and the dissection of sporting minutiae. In short, sport consumes major portions of our attention. Sport also shapes our society in many ways. Big time college athletes get the "promise" of an education while making millions for their institutions, professional athletes earn astronomical amounts, and the owners of sports franchises demand the public financing of stadiums as the price of staying put. On another level, even as the number of girls participating has grown, fan interest, especially at the professional level, is minimal. Furthermore, in the three most popular American sports, women find it difficult to be seen as having sufficient credibility to provide live commentary. On the other hand, at least some American minorities, particularly African Americans, have been able use athletic skill to improve their economic standing. Finally, we are increasingly aware that participants in many sports run the risk of serious injury, including permanent brain damage. How did we get here? Much of the description above would be very different if we traveled back a century, so one thing this course will do is to provide a brief overview on the how and why of change, while also examining areas of continuity. Using stories from a variety of sports, we are going to think about what drives athletics, and the ways that sports have shaped social change over the last century. More specifically, we'll examine ways that sport reflects/affects racial attitudes, and its interaction with assumptions about gender roles. We'll also look various economic and legal aspects of sport, from Title IX to big time college athletics, television, labor relations, and the complex dance of private ownership and public subsidies. Identity (CI). CI course may be taken prior to or concurrently with Focus Course. Equivalent courses: HIST 300C Attributes: Human Experience (HE), Thematic Focus - Justice

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

Prerequisite

Learning Foundations(LF), Cultural and Social Difference:

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Catalog

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

How have Americans used protests, riots, rebellions, & social movements to create social change and claim the rights of citizenship? This course will explore the processes of social and political change, considering how change happens and with what results, who gets to make changes and in what ways, and how social movements have impacted the United States as we know it today. We will specifically address the ways that Americans have used protests to influence meanings of justice, equality, and citizenship. Who has been included or excluded from being an “American,” and how did protests and collective violence change those definitions over time? We will use primary sources and scholarly articles to explore why the past helps us understand and create change in the present, as well as practice skills of critical thinking and analytical reading and writing. Identity (CI). CI course may be taken prior to or concurrently with Focus Course. Equivalent courses: HIST 152A Attributes: Human Experience (HE), Thematic Focus - Justice

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

Prerequisite

Learning Foundations(LF), Cultural and Social Difference:

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Catalog

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

This course examines fascism with respect to historical origins, its political and social manifestations in the 1920s-1940s, and its post- WW2 legacy. Specifically, the course addresses fascism as a general concept, Italian fascism, German Nazism, and other variants in the period of historical fascism. The latter part of the course examines fascism in recent past and present manifestations. Identity (CI). CI course may be taken prior to or concurrently with Focus Course. Equivalent courses: HIST 346 Attributes: Human Experience (HE), Thematic Focus - Justice

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

Prerequisite

Learning Foundations(LF), Cultural and Social Difference:

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Catalog

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

4

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4

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Catalog

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

4

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4

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Catalog

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

4

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4

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Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

4

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4

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Credits

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course

Edition

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Catalog

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

How did Britain become great—or was it ever? This course traces the rise and fall of Great Britain as a global superpower, using the themes of sex, murder, and empire. From mass murder on a slave ship, to serial killers hunting prostitutes in Victorian London, to the “empire strikes back” of decolonization and migration, we will trace how Britain was made and un-made from the eighteenth century to Brexit. This course is suitable to students of any major, including those who have not taken a previous history course. Identity (CI). CI course may be taken prior to or concurrently with Focus Course. Equivalent courses: HIST 347 Attributes: Human Experience (HE), Thematic Focus - Truth

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

Prerequisite

Learning Foundations(LF), Cultural and Social Difference:

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Catalog

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

“Renaissance Italy” calls to mind the sculptures of Michelangelo, the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci, the wealth and power of the Medici, the revival of the liberal arts, the opulence of the Vatican. Why was the Italian peninsula the site of such a burst of commercial, cultural, and intellectual innovation between the 14th-16th centuries? How did Italian city-states amass so much wealth and why did they invest so much of it in art, culture, and learning? We will examine literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, political thought, and philosophy in the context of Renaissance political, economic, and religious structures; gender, family and kinship networks; and social values to understand why profits, paintings, and the liberal arts were essential for power in Renaissance Italy. Identity (CI). CI course may be taken prior to or concurrently with Focus Course. Equivalent courses: HIST 336 Attributes: Human Experience (HE), Thematic Focus - Truth

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

4

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4

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Credits

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course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

Prerequisite

Learning Foundations(LF), Cultural and Social Difference:

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

4

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4

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Credits

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course

Edition

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Catalog

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

This course analyzes the causes, course, and consequences of the American Revolution within the context of the Atlantic World between approximately 1750 and 1820. This course is suitable for students of any major, including those who have not taken a previous history course. Identity (CI). CI course may be taken prior to or concurrently with Focus Course. Equivalent courses: HIST 351 Attributes: Human Experience (HE), Thematic Focus - Truth CSBSJU Undergraduate Academic Catalog 2026-2027 337

Subject

HIST

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4

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4

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Credits

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course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

Prerequisite

Learning Foundations(LF), Cultural and Social Difference:

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

4

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4

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Credits

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course

Edition

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Catalog

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

This course explores global health from a historical perspective. It examines global health challenges within a larger historical, cultural, political, and economic framework. This course will cover a wide range of health challenges from a variety of cultural and geographic contexts. We will examine a number of diseases – both infectious and non- communicable – through case studies in different parts of the world. Topics include gender inequality, maternal and child health, humanitarian aid, and the bioethics of global health practices. The course emphasizes the numerous political, economic, structural and cultural forces that lead to the unequal distribution of disease globally. Identity (CI). CI course may be taken prior to or concurrently with Focus Course. Attributes: Human Experience (HE), Thematic Focus - Truth

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

4

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4

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

Prerequisite

Learning Foundations(LF), Cultural and Social Difference:

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

4

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4

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Catalog

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Source

catalog.csbsju.edu

No more than 1 course (4 credits ) at the 100 level and at least 2 courses (8 elective credits) at the 300 level. Additional Requirements: General Education Requirements: All undergraduate students must complete the requirements of the Integrations Curriculum (IC) which is designed to ensure all of our students receive a liberal arts education. Please review details of the Integrations Curriculum (p. 23) requirements here (p. 23). Graduation Requirements: In addition to the Integrations Curriculum, all undergraduate students s must meet the following minimum degree requirements to earn their degree from CSB and SJU. Credits: 124 total credits, 40 of which must be from upper division coursework GPA: 2.0 or higher* Residency: At least 24 of your last 32 credits must be completed at CSB and SJU Please visit Graduation (p. 23) under the Academic Policies and Regulations (p. 14) portion of the catalog for additional details regarding degree requirements. * Cumulative GPA as well as major(s)/minor(s) GPA. Please note some majors/minors may require a higher GPA to earn their degree. Honors Scholars Program Page Program Director: Amelia Cheever s The mission of the CSB/SJU Honors Scholars Program is to transform ideas into action. The program provides a supportive intellectual community for a self-motivated and diverse group of students to take intellectual risks, participate in a challenging, integrative, and interdisciplinary liberal arts curriculum, develop their collaborative leadership skills, and apply their learning to community-engaged projects that contribute to the common good. The program welcomes students from all majors.

Subject

HIST

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The ideas and events of the French Revolution continue to be hotly debated more than 200 years later. Was it a revolution of the bourgeoisie? What role did books and ideas play? Why did the revolution devolve into the Reign of Terror? Was the Revolution a success or a failure? Was women’s position better or worse as a result? We will explore these and other questions by examining a variety of primary sources (such as documents that provide eye witness accounts of events such as the fall of the Bastille, newspaper articles written from various political perspectives, revolutionary songs, and images from the period) as well as secondary sources. We will begin to explore these and other questions through an intensive role-playing game in which you, the students, become revolutionaries and debate the future of France. Students will assume, research, and reenact the roles of various revolutionary factions in the National Assembly. You will continue to follow your characters through the rest of the revolution to see how they might have reacted and fared by the Napoleonic era. Attributes: Benedictine Raven (BN), Human Experience (HE), Thematic Encounter1/2 - Truth

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Gripping stories from U.S. history provide the foundation for many popular films, novels, television shows, and other media. How do creators of those popular works decide which stories to tell and how to tell them? Where do filmmakers and authors get it right or wrong, or is that even the most important question? Are there larger historical "truths" to be shared by reinterpreting the past? This course will explore how creators of popular media, like historians, interpret and argue about the past. We will use popular works and secondary sources for background, but our emphasis will be on analyzing primary sources and constructing our own arguments about the past. This course will help you practice skills of historical thinking and analytical reading, writing, and discussion. Attributes: Benedictine Raven (BN), Human Experience (HE)

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What was a slave revolt? Historian Eugene Genovese suggests it was “a struggle for freedom.” This course focuses on enslaved peoples’ struggles for freedom in North America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. We will analyze their historical experiences within the larger contexts of the transatlantic slave trade and slavery in the Americas. We will use primary and secondary sources to investigate what we can and cannot know about the histories of enslaved people, and to understand the historian’s craft. Attributes: Benedictine Raven (BN), Human Experience (HE), Thematic Encounter1/2 - Truth

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2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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How did a few hundred Spanish adventurers defeat the mighty Aztec Empire? We will unpack this deceptively simple and misleading question as we examine the Spanish-Aztec encounter from 1517-1521. We will analyze this encounter from multiple perspectives to develop a deeper understanding of the historian’s craft. Texts will include firsthand accounts of the conquest by Hernando Cortés, the captain of the Spanish adventurers, by Bernal Díaz, a foot soldier in Cortés’ band, and by Aztecs who lived through the fall of their empire. We will also read later historians’ interpretations of the conquest and its consequences for Mexico. We will examine how an author’s perspective shapes the conquest narrative and explore how Spanish chroniclers invented the conquest of Mexico. Equivalent courses: HIST 200E Attributes: Benedictine Raven (BN), Human Experience (HE), Thematic Encounter1/2 - Truth

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2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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This course examines the Russian revolutions of the early 20th century. While the focus is Lenin's Bolshevik Revolution of October 1917 and the creation of the Soviet Union, students will learn that the Bolshevik Revolution is part of a continuum from the Revolution of 1905, the February Revolution of 1917, and Stalin’s “revolution from above” in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Using a variety of primary sources, students will explore topics including the legacy of imperial Russia, the impact of the Great War, the creation of a new society in the Soviet Union, and the early international implications of the Bolshevik Revolution. Attributes: Benedictine Raven (BN), Human Experience (HE), Thematic Encounter1/2 - Truth

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2026-2027-undergraduate

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catalog.csbsju.edu

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None

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This course covers the United States’ relationship with Vietnam from the 1910s to the 1990s. This class will explore the impact that the United States has had on Vietnam, and how the Vietnam War was a turning point in American politics, culture, and society. Students will read and analyze secondary literature and primary sources from a diverse array of historical perspectives. The main themes of this course are war, militarism, colonization, resistance, race, gender, trauma, and memory. Although topics will include some military history, the course will focus primarily on the cultural, social, and political ramifications of events. This course is suitable for students of any major, including those who have not taken a previous history course. and Cultural and Social Difference: identity (CI). Attributes: CSD: Systems (CS)

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HIST

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2026-2027-undergraduate

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catalog.csbsju.edu

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Learning Foundations (LF), Theological Encounter (TE),

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In 1903 W.E.B. Du Bois wrote, “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.” This course will explore the development of “race” in the US and analyze how and why laws created racial categories. Americans have repeatedly used laws to define ethnicity, slavery and freedom, religion, immigrant status, skin color, property ownership, and other labels to determine who was an American. Major themes of the course include the intersectionality of race and gender, questions and laws determining belonging and citizenship, and how labor and property shaped a person’s social, economic, and racial status in society. Through reading and discussion, argumentative writing, and critical thinking, students will analyze the racial possibilities, cooperation, and conflicts in the United States from its creation to today. This course is suitable for students of any major, including those who have not taken a previous history course. and Cultural and Social Difference: identity (CI). Equivalent courses: HIST 300P Attributes: CSD: Systems (CS)

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2026-2027-undergraduate

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catalog.csbsju.edu

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Learning Foundations (LF), Theological Encounter (TE),

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Contemporary global health inequalities and organizations are not new, but rather have their roots in colonial medicine and development programs from the 19th and 20th centuries. In this course, we will look at the connections between imperial power dynamics, the history of medicine, and global health structures in Africa, Asia, and the Western Hemisphere. We will examine both how science and medicine were used as “tools of empire” during the course of European and American imperial conquest, as well as how subject populations resisted, co-opted, and transformed Western medical knowledge. We will pay special attention to how constructions of gender, race, and ethnicity intersected in cross- cultural medical encounters, informing clinical practice and shaping public health policies. Some topics will include: the relationship between colonial medical interventions and the spread of epidemics, how imperial health policies created and sustained structures of inequality, and the ways in which understandings of race, gender, and difference have affected health initiatives across borders. This course is suitable for students in any major. and Cultural and Social Difference: identity (CI). Attributes: CSD: Systems (CS)

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2026-2027-undergraduate

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catalog.csbsju.edu

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Learning Foundations (LF), Theological Encounter (TE),

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HIST

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East Asia’s unique application of Christian belief and ideology to its indigenous cultures and beliefs offer a fascinating complement and contrast to Christianity in other parts of the world and in various doctrine. This course will explore the theological and historical underpinnings of Christian practice and faith in China, Japan and the Korean peninsula in the modern period (1600 to present). This course is suitable for any major, including those who have not taken a previous history course. INTG XXXG) and (HONR 220A or HONR 101 or HONR 110 or INTG 100 or INTG 200 or INTG 205 or INTG XXXF) Restrictions: Students with the 2025-2026 Registration Cohort or 2026-2027 Registration Cohort attributes may not enroll. Equivalent courses: THEO 319J Attributes: Theological Integration (TI), Writing Requirement (WR) CSBSJU Undergraduate Academic Catalog 2026-2027 339

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HIST

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2026-2027-undergraduate

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catalog.csbsju.edu

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(THEO 100 or THEO 111 or HONR 240A or HONR 240B or

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HIST

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How did China become the economic and political success story of the 21st century? This class analyzes China's rise from the collapse of the imperial system, the failed republic, and the chaos of multiple wars as the nation revises, redefines, and resuscitates communism throughout the last 100 years. Throughout the course, students will be expected to examine, analyze, and interpret what defines national success, how Chinese intellectuals, politicians, and bureaucrats have created their own definitions of national success (and failure), and whose interpretations prevail (and why) through discussions, information presentations, and analytical and reflective essays. This course is suitable for students of any major, including those who have not taken a previous history course. Attributes: Human Experience (HE), Thematic Encounter3 - Truth

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HIST

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2026-2027-undergraduate

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catalog.csbsju.edu

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None

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HIST

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2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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catalog.csbsju.edu

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2026-2027

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2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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catalog.csbsju.edu

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2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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The presence of the past immediately strikes foreign visitors to Mexico. In Mexico City, the sprawling cosmopolitan capital of Mexico, ancient pyramids and Spanish colonial churches stand next to glass and steel skyscrapers. Remnants of the colonial past are particularly visible. Imposing Spanish cathedrals and palaces dominate the centers of almost all modern Mexican cities. Spanish monasteries and government buildings dot the rural landscape. The ubiquity of Spanish colonial art and architecture in modern-day Mexico testifies to the profound impact Spanish colonization had and continues to have on Mexico. The question we will explore during this semester is three-fold: 1) how did the Spaniards colonize Mexico from 1519-1821, 2) how did this process of colonization shape new societies and cultures in Mexico, and 3) how does this particular history of colonization continue to affect Mexico today? Major themes that we’ll examine in our exploration of colonial Mexico include: pre-Columbian culture, the Spanish conquest, religion, race relations, the family and gender, political reform, and independence. This course is suitable for students of any major, including those who have not taken a previous history course. and Cultural and Social Difference: identity (CI). Attributes: CSD: Systems (CS)

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HIST

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2026-2027-undergraduate

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catalog.csbsju.edu

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Learning Foundations (LF), Theological Encounter (TE),

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HIST

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2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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This course traces the history of Mexico from Independence in 1821 to the present. Although we will examine Mexico’s political development since 1821, this course focuses mostly on the social and cultural history of Mexico. We will explore Mexico’s ethnic diversity, national identity, religious traditions, and gender patterns and how all these elements changed over time—from a chaotic nineteenth attempt to forge an independent nation, through the throws of the Mexican Revolution, to the present-day struggles between the state and drug cartels. This course is suitable for students of any major, including those who have not taken a previous history course. Attributes: Human Experience (HE), Thematic Encounter3 - Justice

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2026-2027-undergraduate

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catalog.csbsju.edu

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None

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HIST

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2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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The changing nature of religious cultures in Latin America from the pre- Columbian period to the present day. Includes the study of indigenous religious practices the European “spiritual conquest” of the New World, the creation of syncretic forms of Catholicism, 19th century conflicts between religion and secularism, the spread of Protestantism in the 20th century, and the advent and course of liberation theology in Latin America. Within a historical context, examines the role of religion in shaping sense of self, forms of community, and human interaction with the physical world. This course is suitable for students of any major, including those who have not taken a previous history course. HONR 240B and (HONR 220A or HONR 101 or HONR 110 or INTG 100 or INTG 200 or INTG 205 or INTG XXXF) Equivalent courses: CORE 365E, THEO 317 Attributes: Theological Integration (TI), Writing Requirement (WR)

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2026-2027-undergraduate

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catalog.csbsju.edu

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(THEO 100 or THEO 111 or INTG XXXG or HONR 240A) or

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HIST

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2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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The multitude of churches and the seemingly constant tolling of church bells immediately strike most visitors to Latin America. It is impossible to walk more than a few blocks in any direction in the centers of Latin American cities without encountering a church. In rural villages, churches are the centers of community. It is simply undeniable that religious sentiment runs high in Latin America. But what type of sentiment? How have diverse groups of Latin Americans practiced and experienced religion? Catholicism has dominated religious culture in Latin America until recently, but have Latin-American peoples practiced a uniform type of Catholicism over the years? Furthermore, in the 20th century, Protestantism has spread rapidly in the region. Why have people in the most Catholic area of the world been attracted to new religious currents over the last century? We’ll address these and other questions over the course of the semester. Major themes include Indigenous and Afro-Latin American variants of Catholicism, revolutionary attempts to eradicate traditional Catholicism, the rise and spread of Protestantism, and the emergence and trajectory of liberation theology in Latin America. We will also examine how religion both shapes and responds to its context, changing as its context changes. Our explorations will challenge traditional understandings of Christianity and present a decoupling of European cultural heritage from Christianity. This course is suitable for students of any major, including those who have not taken a previous history course. THEO 111) and (HONR 101 or HONR 220A or HONR 110 or INTG 100 or INTG 200 or INTG 205 or INTG XXXF) Attributes: Theological Integration (TI), Writing Requirement (WR)

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HIST

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2026-2027-undergraduate

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catalog.csbsju.edu

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(HONR 240A or HONR 240B or INTG XXXG or THEO 100 or

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HIST

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2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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After brutal wars of conquest, Spanish colonizers, imbued with a late- medieval crusading spirit, attempted to uproot the sophisticated religious cultures of Latin American Indigenous civilizations and replace them with a European Counter-Reformation Catholicism. What motivated this conversion campaign? How did various Indigenous populations resist, deflect, and accommodate Christianity? Did the Indigenous people convert to Catholicism or did they convert Catholicism to fit their Indigenous realities? Later Church and secular authorities would try to eradicate the lavish hybrid Catholicisms that arose in Latin America and replace them with a more sedate religious practice. Why did they attempt to undermine one form of religion and promote another? We will examine these questions over the semester and examine how religion both shapes and responds to its context, changing as its context changes. Our explorations will challenge traditional understandings of Christianity and present a decoupling of European cultural heritage from Christianity. This course is suitable for students of any major, including those who have not taken a previous history course. THEO 111) and (HONR 101 or HONR 220A or HONR 110 or INTG 100 or INTG 200 or INTG 205 or INTG XXXF) Restrictions: Students with the 2025-2026 Registration Cohort or 2026-2027 Registration Cohort attributes may not enroll. Attributes: Theological Integration (TI), Writing Requirement (WR)

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HIST

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2026-2027-undergraduate

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catalog.csbsju.edu

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(HONR 240A or INTG XXXG or HONR 240B or THEO 100 or

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HIST

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2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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This course explores the relationship between missionaries and imperialism, focusing specifically on health, identity, and cultural change in Africa. Scholars have long debated the complicated relationship between missionaries and imperialism. Has the mission field been a place that aids imperial conquest, or one that resists it? As we investigate the relationship between Christian missions and colonialism in Africa, we will explore topics such as the effects of evangelism on African cultures, how colonialism affected mental health, and interventions of medical missionaries into the intimate lives of African women. This course is suitable for students of any major, including those who have not taken a previous history course. THEO 111) and (HONR 220A or HONR 110 or HONR 101 or INTG 100 or INTG 200 or INTG 205 or INTG XXXF) Equivalent courses: THEO 319I Attributes: Theological Integration (TI), Writing Requirement (WR)

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HIST

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2026-2027-undergraduate

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catalog.csbsju.edu

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(HONR 240A or HONR 240B or INTG XXXG or THEO 100 or

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HIST

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4

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2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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catalog.csbsju.edu

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2026-2027

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2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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The Classical Period in Greece (c. 480-323 BCE) is a cornerstone for western history, and its legacy very much extends into our modern world. In this course, we will concentrate on investigating Greek society and culture at this vibrant time. In particular, we will explore the complexities of Greek identity, broadly defined. At the heart of this course will be the contention that identity was (and is) not a fixed and immutable concept. Rather Greeks constructed and negotiated key elements of their identity as part of a dynamic social process. With this in mind, this course will focus on evidence that illustrates how Greek identity was articulated and debated in a social context in general and in certain social spaces in particular. Such “spaces” of interest will include political debates, battlefields, theatrical productions of tragedies and comedies, funerals, philosophical dialogues, legal trials, drinking parties, and athletic events. In considering how Greek identity was worked out in various ways in these different social contexts, we will learn about a wide range of Greek social and cultural practices related to government, ethnicity, the military, family, gender, religion, death, humor, intellectualism, the body, and education. Humans today are social animals, and the ancient Greeks were no different. Appreciation of the Greeks’ intensely social orientation will lead us to new insights about them – and ourselves. This course is suitable for students of any major, including those who have not taken a previous history course. Attributes: Human Experience (HE), Thematic Encounter3 - Movement

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2026-2027-undergraduate

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catalog.csbsju.edu

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None

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2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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Students will investigate the forces that shaped the social and cultural constructions of masculinity and femininity and examine how they informed the identities, experiences, and imaginations of late medieval and early modern Europeans (1300-1800). Students will analyze the impact of gender on sexuality, family life, work, crime, religion, and intellectual life of early modern Europeans and how these intersected with socio-economic status, age, marital status, and religious identity. Students will uncover and analyze the gaps between gendered expectations and the lived experience of early modern men and women. Historical perspective allows us to uncover the origins, evolution, and persistence of gendered expectations and understand how they influence human experience. This course is suitable for students of any major, including those who have not taken a previous history course. and Cultural and Social Difference: Identity (CI). Attributes: CSD: Systems (CS)

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HIST

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2026-2027-undergraduate

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catalog.csbsju.edu

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Learning Foundations (LF), Theological Encounter (TE),

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HIST

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2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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The western Christian church was splintered by a religious revolution in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. But this was not simply a revolution made by theologians—ordinary men and women, from elites to ordinary people participated. The implications of revolutionary religious ideas about salvation, scripture, and faith were felt far beyond the pews, in everything from political life to family life. Students will investigate th far-reaching impact of the Reformation by analyzing the circumstances that led to it, the revolutionary ideas that characterized it, the agency of theologians, political leaders and ordinary people in its creation and establishment, and the changes it created in social life, marriage, gender, and the family, in Europe and in the “New World.” This course is suitable for students of any major, including those who have not taken a previous history course. THEO 111) and (HONR 101 or HONR 110 or HONR 202A or INTG 100 or INTG 200 or INTG 205 or INTG XXXF) Equivalent courses: THEO 319E Attributes: Theological Integration (TI), Writing Requirement (WR) CSBSJU Undergraduate Academic Catalog 2026-2027 341

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2026-2027-undergraduate

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catalog.csbsju.edu

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(HONR 240A or HONR 240B or INTG XXXG or THEO 100 or

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HIST

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2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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This course examines the history of Germany in the modern era by asking the fundamental questions: “Who is German?” and “What is Germany?” These questions, and the changing answers over time, will help us understand not only “Germany” but also more broadly common experiences of modernization. Our study begins with an overview of “Germany” in the 18th and 19th centuries and proceeds to in-depth readings on the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, the post-1945 divided Germanies, and the reunified Berlin Republic. The course includes consideration of current events in historical context. The course materials and our discussions will illuminate the diversity of experiences in German history by examining issues of political allegiance, ideology, social class, race and ethnicity, gender, religious confession, and regional identities. The course emphasizes intensive reading and discussion of historical literature. This course is suitable for students of any major, including those who have not taken a previous history course. and Cultural and Social Difference: Identity (CI). Attributes: CSD: Systems (CS)

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Learning Foundations (LF), Theological Encounter (TE),

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This course examines the history of Russia from the 19th century to the present, that is, the imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet eras. Throughout this period of intense social, political, and economic transition, fundamental questions have persisted: Is Russia part of or separate from the West? Will Russia be governed by traditional forms or power, or is reform possible? What role have resistance and revolution played in the evolving Russian experience? Topics of study include the Romanov Empire, the Bolshevik Revolution, Stalinism, World War II, post-Soviet Russia, and Russia under Putin. The course includes consideration of current events in historical context. This course is suitable for students of any major, including those who have not taken a previous history course. Identity (CI). CI course may be taken prior to or concurrently with Focus Course. Attributes: Human Experience (HE), Thematic Focus - Truth

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This course will explore the history of Early North America from the earliest sustained contact between Europeans and Native Americans during the fifteenth century until the mid- to late eighteenth century. We will attempt to understand Early America on its own terms, rather than as a prelude to the United States. We will examine the dynamic and heterogeneous nature of Early America by investigating the experiences of Africans, Europeans, and Native Americans. We will focus on themes of power (intersections of race, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality), religion, enslavement, and violence to analyze how various people met, clashed, cooperated, and remade themselves and their worlds. This course is suitable for students of any major, including those who have not taken a previous history course. e Prerequisites: None Attributes: Human Experience (HE), Thematic Encounter3 - Movement

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This course will explore the causes of the American Civil War, the experiences of war for Union and Confederate soldiers, free and enslaved African Americans, and women at home, and the varied meanings and results of Reconstruction. This course will help explain many of the ongoing challenges in American society, including battles over race, gender, state and individual rights, region, and memory. Using primary sources, scholarly articles, films, novels, and images, we will consider why the Civil War continues to evoke an emotional response today. Although topics will include some military history, the course will focus primarily on the cultural, social, and political ramifications of events. This course i suitable for students of any major, including those who have not taken a previous history course. and Cultural and Social Difference: identity (CI). Attributes: CSD: Systems (CS)

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This course introduces students to Atlantic History, one of the most exciting fields of recent historical scholarship. When historians speak of an Atlantic World, they refer to the convergence of people, commodities, ideas and cultures from Europe, Africa, and the Americas in the three centuries after Christopher Columbus’s initial 1492 voyage to the Americas. We will begin by exploring the methods of Atlantic historians and conclude by reflecting on the use of the “Atlantic World” as a historical concept. In between, we will study the meetings and migrations of Europeans, Americans, and Africans; transatlantic exchanges of commodities and cultures; how slave traders attempted to transform captured Africans into commodities; how enslaved people asserted their humanity; and revolutionary upheavals. While encountering the histories of the Atlantic World, students will have opportunities to strengthen their analytical reading, historical thinking, argumentative writing, and public speaking. This course is suitable for students of any major, including those who have not taken a previous history course. and Cultural and Social Difference: Identity (CI). Equivalent courses: HIST 300A Attributes: CSD: Systems (CS), Quantitative Reasoning (QR) HIST 357 Great War to Superpower: US 1915-1960 (4 Credits) The period between 1920 and 1960 was marked by fundamental shifts in almost every aspect of American life. Technologically it spanned the gaps between horses and superhighways, telegraphs and computer networks, zeppelins and rocket ships, TNT and hydrogen bombs. Economically it ran from the unregulated boom of the 1920s, through the depths of the Great Depression, and into one of the longest periods of sustained economic growth in our nation's history. Politically it saw the end of the American socialist and Communist parties as significant players and the rise of new post-war coalitions and regional coalitions that reshaped political s landscapes. International conflicts of this era, including WWII and the Cold War, continue to influence diplomatic, cultural, and economic relationships well into the 21st century. Cultural shifts—including expanded civil rights for minorities and women as well as emerging generational divisions—yielded striking changes in communities across the nation, all during a period in which the US population grew by 75%. This class will explore the key events of these four tumultuous decades, including the economy of the "Roaring 20s," the political and cultural responses to the Great Depression, life in wartime America of the 1940s, and the post-war economic and social changes that gave rise to the Baby Boom and greater economic opportunity for more Americans than ever before. We will examine primary and secondary sources ranging from novels to scholarly articles, popular films to newspaper advertisements, all with the goals of developing your sense of what happened during these decades, why those events happened, and what the longer-term consequences were for the American people. This course is suitable for students of any major, including those who have not taken a previous history course. Attributes: Human Experience (HE), Thematic Encounter3 - Justice

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Learning Foundations (LF), Theological Encounter (TE), None

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This course explores political, economic and social change in recent America. A central theme will be the way that the social/political changes of the 1960s, and the reaction against them, has divided our nation and shaped our recent history. Specific topics include the struggle for equal rights for minorities, the changing roles of men and women, the domestic consequences of our foreign wars from Vietnam through Afghanistan, the growth of political power among cultural conservatives, the causes and impact of growing income inequality amid expanding affluence, and arguments over the power of the presidency and the primacy of the federal government from the administrations of John F. Kennedy through Donald Trump. This course is suitable for students of any major, including those who have not taken a previous history course. and Cultural and Social Difference: Identity (CI). Attributes: CSD: Systems (CS)

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An examination of the U.S. role in world affairs since 1929. Topics include isolationism, World War II, the Cold War, Vietnam and post-war adjustments, Reagan’s efforts to restore primacy, involvement in the Middle East, the search for a post-Cold War role, and the roots of the war on terrorism. This course is suitable for students of any major, including those who have not taken a previous history course.

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None

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HIST 3@@ 4 Integrations Requirement or Elective 4 Integrations Requirement or Elective 4

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HIST 370SA World War II and Central Europe (3 Credits) The causes, course and consequences of World War II. How the conflict and its aftermath affected Central Europe in general and Austria in particular. Eyewitnesses are invited to class meetings to discuss their experiences with students. Attributes: Human Experience (HE)

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XXXX 61

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Supervised reading or research at the upper-division level. Permission of department chair and completion and/or concurrent registration of 12 credits within the department required. Consult department for applicability towards major requirements. Not available to first-year students.

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An examination of the history of the Roman empire, beginning with Julius Caesar and Augustus, who introduced rule by Roman emperor in the late first century B.C.E., and ending with Constantine, who legalized Christianity in the fourth century C.E. Our point of departure is the vastness of this empire. It stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Euphrates River, from the North Sea to the Sahara Desert. As such, it encompassed and encountered numerous peoples and cultures, many subject to the power Rome. With this in mind, we will try to achieve a more balanced view of life in the Roman empire by investigating it from the perspective of the rulers and the ruled. To this end, we will (1) study the Roman emperors and their policies, (2) grapple with the struggles of an example subject people, the Jews, under Roman empire, and (3) support students in their pursuit of research projects that will underscore the rich diversity of experience within the Roman world. Throughout we will focus especially on the potential of ancient evidence to answer the following questions. What were the priorities of the Romans, and especially the emperor, in the maintenance of the Roman empire? What was the response of subject peoples like the ancient Jews to that empire? What strategies did they develop for political, cultural (especially religious), social, and economic survival? As we pursue these questions, students will have the opportunity to take part in many well-informed class discussions and to engage more deeply with particular issues through thoughtful papers and collaborative workgroup sessions. This course is suitable for students of any major, including those who have not taken a previous history course. Identity (CI). CI course may be taken prior to or concurrently with Focus Course. Equivalent courses: HIST 332 Attributes: Human Experience (HE), Thematic Focus - Justice

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This course examines World War II from the perspectives of historical events, the memory of those events, and postwar trials for war crimes. Although we often use the terms "history" and "memory" interchangeably, they are different and provide different approaches to understanding and dealing with the past. Our understanding of the past is further complicated when it becomes the subject of legal proceedings and the justice system. In addition to selected aspects of the war, the course will examine the ways the war has been remembered (for example, historical interpretations and commemorative efforts) and adjudicated in court (such as the Nuremburg Trial and the Eichmann Trial). The course will also examine recent efforts to apply legal restrictions to interpretations of the past (for example, Poland's Holocaust law). Identity (CI). CI course may be taken prior to or concurrently with Focus Course. Attributes: Human Experience (HE), Thematic Focus - Justice

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Study abroad courses with health focus (approved by GH advisor) Targeted Elective (1 additional course from above or 1 Targeted 4

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HIST 3@@ 4 Hours Integrations Requirement or Elective 4 Integrations Requirement or Elective 4 4 Spring 4 HIST 399 Senior Thesis 4 4 INTG 300 Learning Integrations 4 4 Integrations Requirement or Elective 4 1 Integrations Requirement or Elective 4 17 Hours 16 Total Hours 129 Integrations Curriculum Requirements The standard requirements for the History major will fulfill the following integrations requirements: CI, CS, HE, QR, TI, WR, BN, EX. Depending 16 on elective course selection, it can also fulfill Themes and other requirements. Please see below for a list of integrations requirements you will need to satisfy via elective courses.

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2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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4

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4

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2026-2027

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2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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catalog.csbsju.edu

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4

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4

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2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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4

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4

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2026-2027

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2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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4

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4

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Historiography was created to help History majors better understand how historians think and work while exploring the historiography of a particular topic in depth. While each section of the course focuses on a specific topic, they share the common goals of exposing students to the study of history itself as a field of inquiry, exploring various research methods, and considering how various types of evidence might be used in constructing historical arguments. This seminar will examine the history of the American West, covering such topics as the impact of U.S. expansion on the environment and native peoples of the West, the realities of violence in “frontier” towns, the political and economic relationships between Eastern cities and their Western counterparts, and the evolution of the 20th century West into an overwhelmingly urban society in the midst of a sparsely populated hinterland. Special attention will be paid to historical debates over the “meaning of the West,” the introduction of race, class, gender, and environment as themes in these debates, and the varying types of evidence historians have used to interpret the region’s past. Attributes: Benedictine Raven (BN), Human Experience (HE) CSBSJU Undergraduate Academic Catalog 2026-2027 349

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HIST

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4

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2026-2027-undergraduate

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None

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HIST

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4

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4

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2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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catalog.csbsju.edu

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HIST

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4

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4

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Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

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catalog.csbsju.edu

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HIST

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4

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4

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2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Catalog

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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catalog.csbsju.edu

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HIST

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4

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4

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2026-2027

Catalog

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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HIST

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4

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4

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course

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2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Catalog

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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catalog.csbsju.edu

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HIST

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4

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4

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course

Edition

2026-2027

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2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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HIST

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4

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4

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Supervised career exploration which promotes the integration of theory with practice. An opportunity to apply skills under direct supervision in an approved setting. Prerequisites: approval of the department chair and a faculty moderator; completion of the pre-internship seminar. Attributes: Experiential Engagement (EX)

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HIST

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1

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8

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course

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2026-2027-undergraduate

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None

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HIST

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1

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8

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No more than 2 electives courses (8 credits) at the 100 level. At least 4 elective courses (16 credits) must be at the 300 level. See below for non-HIST courses that can be used as electives.

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HIST

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4

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4

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course

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2026-2027-undergraduate

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Subject

HIST

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4

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4

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course

Edition

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

Catalog

2026-2027 Edition Academic Catalog

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