66 courses with the subject HIS, 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.
HIS 101Themes in World History
This course offers a comprehensive exploration of global history through an examination of particular theme. It stresses regional and global s interconnectedness, cross-cultural interactions, and comparative analyses. Additionally, the course will emphasize the modern legacy of historical change and global awareness. Through a thematic focus on one of the following themes: power, religion, gender, or class, students will gain insights into the broader narrative of world history, and understand how that theme illuminates lived experiences while also analyzing the understanding of the structures, systems and interrelationships among civilizations along with the impact on wellbeing and sustainability. Through analysis of primary sources, the course fosters critical thinking and information literacy skills. Credits: Credits:3 (3,0)
This course explores pivotal moments that shaped US history through a sustained examination of one of four dynamic lenses: civil rights movements, technological breakthroughs, environmental transformations, or cultural revolutions. This class moves beyond traditional narratives to analyze how diverse individuals and communities have shaped our nation's growth. Students will investigate historical evidence, assess the impact of civic participation, and draw connections between past transformations and contemporary US society. Credits: Credits:3 (3,0)
Religion is the foundational element of human culture. In this course, we explore spiritual practices across time and space, from Indigenous and place-based beliefs like Òrì#à, Daoism, and Shinto, to the Dharmic faiths of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism, to the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Other systems of belief, including New Religious Movements (e.g., Bahá'í, Scientology, and Wicca), as well as syncretic traditions like Voudoun, are also explored alongside key cultural practices that influence and reinforce understandings of law, ethics, morality, and what lies beyond the material world. Credit(s): 3 Credits: (3,0)
A brief survey from ancient Greece and Rome up to 1789, followed by extensive treatment of the ascendancy of early modern Western civilization, together with its social, economic, and political revolutions, from 1500 through the Napoleonic era. NOTE: Students completing HIS 114 and HIS 115 or HIS 115D may not receive credit for HIS 126. Course Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer Credits: (3,0) 2027 College Catalog • Page 229
Traces the spread of Western civilization and the development of the modern world by examining the impact of the forces of romanticism, nationalism, industrialism, and intellectual creativity. Note: Students completing HIS 114 and HIS 115 may not receive credit for HIS 126. NOTE: Students cannot earn credit for HIS 115 and HIS 115*D HIS 115*D can be used to fulfill the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice requiremen Course Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer Credits: (3,0)
A survey of major non-Western civilizations and their interaction with one another, as well as with the European West from antiquity through the Early Modern Period. The course will explore ancient polytheistic traditions, the foundations of major world religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam), and the rise of Christianity as a global faith. It will also address non-Western social political, and economic systems in East Asia, South Asia, the Muslim World, Sub-Saharan Africa, and pre-Columbian America. Note: Students completing HIS 117 and HIS 118 may not receive credit for HIS 126. NOTE: Students cannot earn credit for HIS 117 and HIS 117*D HIS 117*D can be used to fulfill the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice requirement. Course Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer Credits: (3,0)
A survey of the developing world and its interaction with the West since 1700, the course will explore the chaotic effects of the non-Western world's interaction with European imperial powers, the United States, and Soviet Union, focusing on social, economic, cultural, and political change in East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America. The major themes of the course will center on imperialism, nationalism, modernization, the World Wars, and the Cold War. Note: Students completing HIS 117 and HIS 118 may not receive credit for HIS 126. Course Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer Credits: (3,0)
A discussion of the development of the United States from its English origins through Reconstruction, this course shows how a new civilization arose out of revolution, independence, new governmental institutions, and equalitarianism, and illustrating the results of the westward movement, and the causes and consequences of the Civil War. Note: Students completing this course may not receive credit for HIS 125. Course Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer Credits: Credits:3 (3,0)
A historical evaluation of American society, assessing Reconstruction, immigration, the nature of imperialism, progressivism, World War I and II, the Cold War, and contemporary American life. Note: Students completing this course may not receive credit for HIS 125. NOTE: Students cannot earn credit for HIS 122 and HIS 122*D HIS 122*D can be used to fulfill the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice requirement. Course Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer Credits: Credits:3 (3,0)
This course examines the rise and evolution of sports through an analysis of the narrative of American history from its origins to the present. It provides an exploration of sports history through the historical periodization of American history surveys—from the indigenous Native American tribes of colonial America, to the formation of the Revolutionary and early National eras, to industrialization and reform of the late 19th century, to the emergence of modern and postmodern America, and to the globalizing 21st century. This course gives students a broad understanding of the interplay of race, class, gender, ethnicity and religion in the American experience and of American sports through the use of secondary and primary sources, both written and visual, including documentary and fictive representational texts. NOTE: Students cannot earn credit for HIS 127 and HIS 127*D HIS 127*D can be used to fulfill the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justi requirement. Course Offered: Fall, Spring Credits: Credits:3 (3,0) Page 230 • Course Index • 2026-20
This course examines the history of African Americans in the United States from their African origins to the Civil War and emancipation through primary and secondary readings and visual and aural texts. It focuses on the ways that African Americans established their own cultures and worlds as they resisted and opposed various forms of oppression, including slavery, t. segregation, dispossession and disfranchisement. It provides students with an understanding of their key struggles for freedom, equality, community, power, and identity, including those related to gender and class, and of their integrative and alternative political, economic and social visions and institutions. NOTE: Students cannot earn credit for HIS 130 and HIS 130*D
1920-1945 saw an exponential and unexpected change in American history and helped to redefine the American government and its policies. Within these 25 years, America experienced a paradox of the great wealth and prosperity, and prohibition of the roaring 20s to the stock market crash and the Great Depression of the 1930s, to the recovery of the New Deaf programs and redefining governmental oversight by creating the new welfare state to the onset of the Greatest Generation stemming from World War Il, rebounding to great prosperity. This course will also focus on minorities, the KKK, closing the doors to immigration, and the effect of the time period on women and African Americans in particular. This course looks at the causes, effects, policies, and intended and unintended consequences of this 25-year time period, how it affected both the American people as a whole and the American government, how it affected American culture, and how it redefined the American Dream. NOTE: Students cannot earn credit for HIS 132 and HIS 132*D HIS 132*D can be used to fulfill the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice requirement. Credits: Credits:3 (3,0)
HIS 160Exploitation and Sexploitation in World History3
This class examines the historical connections between economic, political and socially marginalized groups and the sexual exploitation that these groups encountered within the wider framework of modern world history. Specifically, it will examine, connect and compare the slave trade, colonialism and the Holocaust and work to highlight the agency of peoples to contest their oppression. It also will investigate how women were sexually abused, raped or otherwise targeted and the significance of interracial intimate relations. Student(s) will also study and analyze the similarities, differences, and contradictions that characterize histories of economic, social and sexual exploitation as they have unfolded in different contexts; time periods; geographical locations; and racial and gendered configurations. Students will gain a deeper understanding of how race, sexuality, gender, and class intersected in ways that significantly shaped the history of the modern world. NOTE: Students cannot earn credit for HIS 160 and HIS 160*D HIS 160*D can be used to fulfill the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice requirement. Credits: (3,0)
ce The purpose of this course is to provide an introduction to historical methods, including how to research historical events, evaluate sources, properly use citations, produce bibliographies, and write about history. The course also focuses on the teaching of history, including effective pedagogical methodologies, the debate over "political correctness," the use of primary sources, employing technology and visual media in the classroom, and how to address issues such as plagiarism. The course may also include an optional historiography component (at the discretion of 27 College Catalog
This course explores African experiences in a historical perspective and focus on the periods before, during, and after European colonization of the continent. The class will highlight the varied and constructive ways that African people interacted with the rest of the world, starting with the slave trade and continuing through the present day. It will also demonstrate how Africans have created viable political systems, shaped new forms of democracy and popular participation, developed new forms of environmental preservation and resolved tragic conflicts-thus not focusing on the continent only as a place of crisis, starvation and atrocities but demonstrate the resiliency and determination of African people. NOTE: Students cannot earn credit for HIS 201 and HIS 201*D HIS 201*D can be used to fulfill the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice requiremen Credits: Credits:3 (3,0)
This course examines the changing role of the United States in global affairs and its consequences for American society from 1860 to the present. During this period, the US went from an isolated nation to a world power. This class explores such topics as late 19th-century imperialism, American involvement in World War I and II, isolationism and global depression, national security policy and strategy during the Cold War and post-Cold War eras, nuclear proliferation, the War on Terrorism and the balance of power in the 21st century. In addition, this course focuses on world historical themes such as industrialization, population growth, suburbanization and urbanization, and the exploitation of natural resources, and in the process, interrogates within a national and international context the idea of American exceptionalism, the origins and impact of US hegemony, and the use of national histories and ideologies. Prerequisite(s): Any 100 level or higher HIS course. Course Offered: Spring Credits: (3,0)
Analyzes the impact of technology on the major political movements and governmental systems of the modern world since 1900. The course will examine the effects of technology on war, culture, ideology and the future. Fulfills world history and global awareness general education. Course Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer Credits: (3,0)
This course examines modern East Asian history and culture as well as the multifaceted interactions between the region and the world in the global age. Focusing on the historical transformation of China, Japan, and Korea since 1200, this course investigates different aspects of political, economic, social, cultural, and intellectual revolution and transformation. The main topics include the following: cultural encounters between the East and West, imperialism (within the region and imposed from abroad), modernity and political transformations, Japanese territorial aggression and the Pacific War, postwar societal and economic change, the growth of the metropolis, Asian diasporas, and the unique qualities of East Asian modernities. Prerequisite(s): EGL 101 Course Offered: Spring Credits: Credits:3 (3,0)
HIS 217From Constantine to Columbus: Western Civilization in3
the Middle Ages This course will examine the development of the major cultural, social, and political movements and institutions of Western Civilization in the period before Columbus. Through both lecture and discussion formats, students will examine the preservation of Greek and Roman learning; Christian civilization and its relation with Islamic culture; the rise of cities, international trade and national capitalism; European learning and the emergence of the university; the rise of the nation-state and the origins of secularism. By the end of the course, students will be able to identify the roots and explain the development of cultural, social, and political institutions that are unique to the Western world. Course Offered: Spring t. Credits: (3,0)
A treatment of diverse topics, chosen by the Department of History, Economics, and Politics for their long-term impact and current historical importance. Course Offered: Fall, Spring Credits: (3,0)
In what ways is the history of America a gendered history? Emphasizing the diversity of American women, the course situates the ways women have both shaped and been shaped by American society within the broader context of US history since 1865. Topics for investigation include the way different groups of women have experienced American sectionalism, the industrial revolution, urbanization, immigration, war, economic depression, cultural transformations and political change. We will be looking at both unity and diversity in American society, including the conflicts between women and a society based on patriarchy. Course Offered: Spring Credits: (3,0)
HIS 243Science and the West: From Newton to Present3
This course traces the development of western society from the 16th century to present, focusing specifically on how scientific and technological developments have shaped modern western society and culture. The course proceeds chronologically from the scientific revolution of the 16th century to the present atomic age. Course Offered: Spring, Summer Credits: (3,0)
This course will analyze the social, political and economic issues that fueled the development of drug trafficking in Latin America and the United States. The course will begin with an overview of the uses of plants such as coca and ayahuasca by indigenous communities in sacred and/or medicinal contexts. The class will also cover the beginning of the "prohibition period" (1910s-1970) when nation-states throughout the western hemisphere banned the consumption, cultivation, sale and distribution of coca, marijuana and poppy (opium). Finally, the class concludes with the War on Drugs in the US and successive policies adopted in Latin America like Plan Colombia (1990s) and Plan Merida (2000s), reconsidering how we are still living with the legacies of these programs. Prerequisite(s): EGL 101 with a grade of C or higher Credits: (3,0)
This course explores the Caribbean Basin and places it in the historical context of the larger Atlantic World. The course begins with the arrival of Columbus in the Caribbean Islands and the conquest of the region by Spain. Subsequently, the course will explore the development of the sugar industry, the introduction of African slaves, and the arrival of other European powers in the region, including the French, English and Dutch. Additionally, this course will trace the development of Caribbean nations during the 19th century and their subsequent struggles for economic and political survival. The primary focus of the course will be on the larger islands of Cuba, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), Jamaica, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, with a brief overview of the Lesser Antilles. NOTE: Students cannot earn credit for HIS 280 and HIS 280*D HIS 280*D can be used to fulfill the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice requiremen Prerequisite(s): EGL 101 Course Offered: Fall Credits: (3,0)
This course covers the history of Latin America from the early 1800s until the early 2000s, beginning with the immediate causes and antecedents of the Independence Wars. Subsequent topics include: political and social conflicts in the post-independence period; the rise of the United States as an important economic and political player in the 19th century; industrialization and modernization of Latin America including participation of the region in the war effort during World War II. The course concludes with the political repercussions of the Cold War in the region, and its connection to the neoliberal economic policies established in the 1990s and early 2000s. Special attention will be paid to gender, class, race, and ethnicity, and their influence in the sociopolitical developments of Latin America. NOTE: Students cannot earn credit for HIS 281 and HIS 281*D HIS 281*D can be used to fulfill the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justi requirement. Prerequisite(s): EGL 101 Course Offered: Fall, Summer Credits: Credits:3 (3,0)
This course examines the primary themes of the Civil War and Reconstruction era through secondary and primary texts within a discussion format. Students are introduced to the origins of the sectional conflict during the antebellum period, the relevance of slavery to the conflict, the formation of southern nationalism and secession, the social, political and economic dimensions of the war effort, emancipation, Reconstruction and Redemption, and the legacy of the war. Prerequisite(s): HIS 121. Course Offered: Fall, Summer Credits: (3,0)
This course is a multidisciplinary examination of the ways in which technology affected everyday life during the Industrial Revolution in England. Covering the years 1750 to 1880, it examines the changes taking place in technology during the period; how these changes ultimately affected the workplace, the home, and the community and how novelists of the period felt about these changes. Note: Students completing this course may not receive credit for HUM 305 or SOC 305. Prerequisite(s): Any HIS course at 100 Level or higher Course Offered: Fall, Summer Credits: (3,0)
A detailed study of the technological, economic, social, political, ideological and cultural transition of America from a rural, agrarian republic to a complex, industrialized, urban nation in the period from 1820 - 1920. This Page 232 • Course Index • 2026-20 interdisciplinary course uses primary and secondary material to examine the effect of technology and urbanization on American life. A multi-cultural and cross-gender perspective will provide focus. Prerequisite(s): Any HIS course at 100 Level or higher Course Offered: Spring, Summer Credits: Credits:3 (3,0)
Examines the scientific, technological, political, and cultural development of modern Germany since the Industrial Revolution. Special emphasis to be placed on the interaction of technological developments and their impact on culture, society, and politics from 1815 to the present. Prerequisite(s): Any 100-level or higher HIS course. Course Offered: Fall, Summer Credits: (3,0)
This class will examine the conflict of 1914-1954 from a global perspective, including the long and short term causes of the war. It will highlight such issues as the global ramifications of World War One, the impact of the Great Depression, the rise of fascist leaders throughout the world and the globalized aspect of the fighting throughout this period-including the role of and contributions from the Global South. It seeks to decenter the conflict from specifically European or American perspectives to highlight such topics as comfort women, local resistance fighters and the important role the USSR and China played in the conflict. It will conclude through an examination of the legacy of the conflict and a global analysis of the rise of the Cold War. Prerequisite(s): Any 100 level or higher history class t. Credits: (3,0)
This course examines the connections between industrialization, culture, society, and politics in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia. Topics of discussion include the development of Russian communism, collectivization, the Cold War, ethnicity and religion, and post-Soviet politics and culture. Prerequisite(s): Any 100-level or higher HIS course. Course Offered: Fall Credits: Credits:3 (3,0)
This course is a survey of the major political, social, intellectual, and cultural developments in China from the First Opium War to the present. Using primary texts (historical documents) and other scholarly resources, this course investigates different aspects of China’s various “revolutions” (political, social, cultural, and intellectual). The main topics ce include the encounter between East and West, the transition from an empire to a nation-state, the New Culture Movement, as well as the making of a new vernacular language, the growth of the metropolis, and the various facets of Chinese modernity. Prerequisite(s): Any 100-level or higher HIS course Course Offered: Fall Credits: Credits:3 (3,0)
HIS 312Latin American Popular Culture in the 20th Century
This course will explore mass mediated popular culture developed in Latin America within the last century. Cultural industries (i.e. music, television, etc.) are a significant export to the international market from countries like Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina. The class will discuss the different definitions of popular culture and analyze the impact of mass media on such definitions. The class will also examine a variety of cultural productions, including music (i.e. tango, salsa, and reggaeton), cinema, comic books, and telenovelas (Latin American soap operas). Prerequisite(s): Any 100-level or higher HIS course. Course Offered: Spring Credits: Credits:3 (3,0)
This course will examine Mexican history from the Porfiriato period (1876-1910) until the 2000 electoral defeat of the PRI (Partido Revolucionario Institucional). We will begin by studying how the aggressive modernization campaign of dictator Porfirio Diaz created the deep inequality that eventually led to the Mexican Revolution of 1910. The Revolution was (and is) a crucial moment in Mexican history. This course will analyze its main players and the social, political, and ideological legacies of the conflict. Students will investigate the post-revolutionary period and the one party authoritarian state that dominated the political and social life of 27 College Catalog
The study of Irish history with a view toward understanding the development of the Irish nation focused upon matters political, legal, religious, and military in nature. Prerequisite(s): Any 100-level or higher HIS course. Course Offered: Spring Credits: (3,0)
A treatment of diverse topics, chose by the department for their current historical import. The course will require extensive reading and writing. Depending on the topic, travel students should check with the department before registering for this course. Prerequisite(s): Any 100 level or higher HIS course. Course Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer Credits: Credits:3 (3,0)
This course examines European history from the period of the Industrial Revolution to the present. Special focus will be placed on how scientific and technological developments impacted politics, society, and culture in Europe and the West more generally. The histories of individual European nation- states will be discussed, as well as major revolutions, periods of intense social change, and the two world wars. Prerequisite(s): Any 100-level or higher HIS course. Course Offered: Fall, Summer Credits: Credits:3 (3,0)
This history course explores the relationship between historical interpretation and representation through feature films and historical writing. Students analyze key themes, myths, and issues in the American experience by analyzing and contrasting cinematic constructions with written historical texts. The themes studied in this class include the frontier West and rugged individualism, the immigrant experience, the American Dream and assimilation cultural conflict and conquest, war and democratic freedom technological progress and morality, youth and rebellion, power and personality, race and equality, and social change, class and intolerance. Prerequisite(s): HIS 121 or HIS 122 or HIS 125 or Approval of department Chair. Course Offered: Fall, Summer Course Index • 2026 Credits: (3,0)
Depicts America's responses to the Cold War, violence, and military aggression, the emergence of Third World countries, the economic and political impact of rising expectations, the problems of the city and the suburbs, and the quest for social justice. Prerequisite(s): Any 100-level or higher HIS course. Course Offered: Fall, Summer Credits: (3,0)
An examination of American involvement in the Vietnam conflict from its origins in the Cold War to its legacies today. It will adopt a multidisciplinary approach and use a variety of mediums, integrating history, literature, and film and utilizing lectures, guest speakers, and discussions. Particular attention will be given to cultural origins and effects of the War. Prerequisite(s): Any 100-level or higher course in HIS Course Offered: Fall, Summer Credits: (3,0)
This course will examine the political and social responses to pandemics and disasters throughout history, eventually focusing on the 20th and 21st Centuries. Students will investigate how people, communities, interest groups, even nations defend themselves from pandemics and disasters and address the economic and political dislocations associated with such emergencies. Students will examine the responses to these types of emergencies from a historical perspective, with comparisons to contemporary events. By the end of this class students will be able to explain the connections between pandemics and disasters, and their political, social, cultural, and economic effects in history. Prerequisite(s): Any 100 level HIS, POL, GEO class or junior status Credits: (3,0)
What happens to our memories after we are gone? Oral history is one way to preserve memories. Oral histories are one of the most important tools in the historian’s trade. Sometimes an oral history is the only record we have of an event or an entire people, which means the oral historian has a special responsibility. This is a hands-on course, which requires that students successfully complete an online Human Research Participants Training program and learn about theories of memory as they prepare for, conduct, and preserve an oral interview. Prerequisite(s): Any HIS course at 100 Level or higher Course Offered: Fall Credits: (3,0)
This course will examine the development of New York State from its Native American, Dutch, and British colonial origins until today. The course provides an overview and in- depth discussion of the state's history and evolution as part of the United States, its founding ideas and institutions, and how it emerged as the Empire State we know today. In particular, the course will examine the following themes: political parties, ideology, and conflict; race, ethnicity and immigration; the economy, labor, and entrepreneurship; war and society. Prerequisite(s): HIS 121 or HIS 122 or HIS 125 Course Offered: Fall, Summer Credits: (3,0)
American Military History is a multidimensional survey of the evolution of American Military organization, traditions methods from the colonial era to the onset of asymmetrical warfare in the Middle East. The course will present and analyze the key military events, leaders and strategists, including their influence on, and influence by, political considerations, global interests, public opinion as well as technological and economic factors. Prerequisite(s): HIS 121 or HIS 122 or HIS 125 Course Offered: Fall, Spring Credits: Credits:3 (3,0)
This course examines the people, events and issues of the era through a thematic approach within a larger chronological framework and focuses on domestic social, cultural and political developments. Because the 1960s contained so many seemingly disparate topics and issues, the class will -2027 College Catalog • Page 233
This course examines the origins of New York City as a small Dutch settlement known as New Amsterdam through its incarnation as a mercantile British colony, its growth as a commercial and later industrial metropolis, its emergence as a center of capital and modernity, and its ascendancy along with its decline and subsequent resurgence as a center of global capitalism during the 20th and 21st centuries. The course focuses on the social history of New York City, though it explores cultural, political, technological and economic developments and issues that defined its evolution. As such, the course topics include the influences of ethnicity and race on the city, the definitions, contestations and uses of social spaces, the social lives and roles of upper, middle and lower classes, the lore and intrigue of the larger than life personalities and infamous incidents in shaping the City's history, and the legendary conflicts over urban planning, use and design. Prerequisite(s): Any 100-level or higher HIS or POL course. Course Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer Credits: (3,0)
HIS 340History of Public Health Care and Medicine3
The course compares how different societies conceptualize and manage the experiences of birth, illness, and death. Examining shifts in biomedical understandings of disease and transformations in public health practice over time will provide a deeper, historical perspective on current issues in American medicine. Prerequisite(s): Any HIS course at 100 Level or higher Course Offered: Spring, Summer Credits: (3,0)
Despite the recent emergence of new communication technologies, television arguably remains the most powerful and important form of communication today--a medium that influences and shapes our views of ourselves and our outlooks on the world. Television helps to bind us together through shared cultural distortions of our social experiences and relations and yet divides us over its short- and- long-term effects, both Page 234 • Course Index • 2026-202 national and global. This course explores American culture during the post World War II period through an analysis of the history of television from its origins in radio to its future in digital media. It examines television's role in both reflecting and constituting American society through a variety of analytical approaches. The course topics include the structure, economics and dynamics of the television industry, the role of television within American democracy, the variety of television genres, television as a site of gender and racial identity formation, television's role in everyday life, and the medium's technological and social impacts. Prerequisite(s): Any 100- level or higher HIS or POL course. Course Offered: Spring, Summer Credits: Credits:3 (3,0)
This course examines the rapid growth of the appeal and role of sports in American life since 1945, especially the ways the sports industry in the United States has shaped class, racial, gender, and national identities. Through the examination of a diversity of professional and college sports, this course explores the impact of corporate sponsorship and influence, drug use, the presence of women and African American players, new technologies and other effects as the function of larger changes in American society. Students will explore the role of sports in both encouraging good citizenship and morality and in condoning cheating, violent behavior and financial greed. Prerequisite(s): Any HIS course at 100
This course examines how humans have interacted with and impacted the planet from the advent of Homo sapiens to today, but especially since the confluence of the Industrial Revolution and the Age of Imperialism(1870-1914). The history of human-environmental interactions will focus on the mechanization of agriculture, deforestation/forestry management, advances in transportation, and the ways in which humans have decreased biodiversity via the introduction of new crops and animal species around the globe, as well as hunting, fishing, and other interactions with Earth's biota. Additional topics include fossil fuel exploitation, the nuclear age, the Green Revolution, mass urbanization, and current planetary crises including climate change, mass extinctions, rampant pollution, and ocean acidification. Prerequisite(s): Any 200-level or higher of HIS, POL, GEO or GIS course Credits: (3,0)
HIS 355Disney's Impact on History and American Culture
This course demonstrates how history impacted Disney and how Disney impacted history. It will recognize various historical keystones in his life such as the Great Depression, and World War Il, US Foreign Policy and the "Good Neighbor" Policy, the Cold War and conclude how Walt affected American culture and history during these time periods. Historical emphasis will be placed on topics such as Disney's influence and outcome on animation, 7 College Catalog
What is insanity? How do societies define pathology? How have categories such as gender, race, class, and sexuality shaped views of mental health? Answering these questions highlights why psychiatry is one of the most complex fields of medicine today. This course will explore the answers to these questions by examining the history of madness. By focusing on the evolving ways historians have written on the subject of madness, students will learn about issues of interpretation in the production of knowledge. Topics to be covered include madness in antiquity, the asylum movement, early efforts to identify mental illnesses as biochemical disorders, the origins of psychoanalysis, and the development of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). Prerequisite(s): Any 100-level or higher HIS course. Course Offered: Fall Credits: (3,0)
Why do so many Americans claim to hate history as a subject, yet spend their weekends visiting historic sites, watching historical films, performing genealogical research, or otherwise engaging with the past? This course will explore this question by introducing students to the field of public history. We will study the many ways that history is put to work in the world outside of the classroom. Topics to be covered include oral history, museum studies, walking tours, documentary films, websites, and social media. Prerequisite(s): Any 100- level or higher history course. Course Offered: Fall Credits: Credits:3 (3,0)
