26 courses with the subject HIST, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
3-WSP Survey of Western civilization from ancient Greece to the present. Examination of texts and historiography with attention to primary sources. Students engage in reading, writing, and discussion about the course material. Taught at participating high schools to selected, qualified students. Liberal Arts.
3-WSP Overview of American history from the Colonial period to the present. Taught at participating high schools to selected, qualified students. Liberal Arts. HIST 191, 192, 291, 292, 391, 392, 491, 492
3-WSP Overview of American history to the present. Liberal Arts.
3-WSP A survey of European history and culture beginning with the transition from Roman civilization and ending with the cultural changes that resulted in the Reformation. Particular emphasis on the themes of Western cultural formation, ecclesiastical development, monastic and lay spirituality, and the birth of fundamental Western institutions. Primarily a 271
3-WSP Survey of 20th- and 21st-century European history beginning with the rapidly shifting political and intellectual landscape of Europe at the turn of the century and concluding with the refugee crisis in contemporary Europe. Special focus on the connection between violence and ideology. Topics of study include WWI, the rise of fascism and communism, WWII, the Holocaust, the Cold War, decolonization, cultural wars of the 1960s, collapse of communism, and rise of the European Union. Liberal Arts.
European Politics and Culture 3-WSP General introduction to Switzerland, covering history, politics, literature, and culture. Topics include Switzerland as a multinational, multilingual, and multi-confessional country; Swiss neutrality, federalism, and direct democracy; the country’s relation to the European Union; and its experience with immigration. Special attention to similarities and differences between Switzerland and the United States. Fulfills part of General Education Global Competence requirement. Liberal Arts.
3-WSP Sub-Saharan Africa from earliest times. Medieval empires of western Sudan, colonial rule, emergence of national states. Liberal Arts.
3-WSP Survey of world history beginning with the plague and the discovery of the “New World.” Traces the growing interconnectedness of the world and the problems and opportunities that result from it. Regions of study include West Africa, South America, East Asia, and South Asia. Liberal Arts. HIST 295, 395, 495 Special Topics 3-WSP Group study of selected topics; open only by permission. Liberal Arts.
1-WSP Introduces skills necessary for research and writing within the humanities and humanistic social science. Students learn to identify scholarly arguments in the literature, recognize historiographic arguments, analyze primary sources, construct their own arguments, distinguish between primary and secondary sources, and assess appropriate methodologies. At the end, students present their own well-researched argument and criticize those of fellow students. Ideally taken in the sophomore year; students must either have previously taken or be simultaneously enrolled in a 200-level or higher major course. Liberal Arts.
3-WSP History of the United States policy toward Native American tribes from the founding of the country to the present. Special attention to how the legal system has dealt with the claims of Native Americans. Focus on changing conceptions of Indian nationhood and sovereignty in relation to the United States. Liberal Arts.
3-WSP Survey of European history beginning with the French Revolution and concluding with the rise of aggressive nationalism. Topics of study include the French Revolution, Napoleonic wars, the Industrial Revolution, the rise of nation states, the introduction of radical ideologies and mass politics, and the Scramble for Africa. Liberal Arts.
3-WSP Survey of Russian history from Peter the Great to Nicolas II. Particular attention to the question of what an empire is; how it functions; and how it shapes social, cultural, and political life. Topics include the Romanovs and life at court, the Napoleonic Wars, serfdom, the Russian intelligentsia, and the connection and tension between religion and empire. Liberal Arts. 72
and Creativity 3-WSP Studies the late 19th-century crisis of faith and reason in turn-of-the-century Vienna, where the Habsburg Empire was crumbling under the pressure of ethnic and national rivalries and competing political ideologies. Across cultural realms – political, literary, philosophical, artistic, musical, architectural, scientific – a remarkable outburst of creativity by a group of first-rate writers, artists, and thinkers reveals the surface refinement and elegance as well as the subterranean turmoil and decay that mark the fin de siècle period. Liberal Arts.
3-WSP A seminar-style course focused on the cultural, religious, and intellectual sources of American identity. Details the foundations of this identity in the Puritan, Planter, Quaker, African, and Backcountry migrations to British America. Major themes include the migrants’ competing concepts of liberty, power, and community; colonial conflicts with the indigenous population; and the creation of an American culture as the colonists sought to assert their status as Britons against rising imperial power. Liberal Arts.
3-WSP A seminar-style exploration of the American Revolution and Early National period, organized around several broad questions: Why was the American Revolution fought? How did it fundamentally shape the American character? What did the Constitution accomplish? How did revivalism, slavery, democracy, industrialization, and westward expansion shape the new republic? Careful examination of key monographs and primary sources. Liberal Arts.
3-WSP Studies the social and political thought of Martin Luther in the context of the history and theology of the German Reformation. Topics include the doctrine of the Two Kingdoms, the relationship between church and state, the duties of a citizen, social reform (marriage, education, poor relief), and political revolution (the Peasants’ War), all situated within Luther’s life and times. Liberal Arts.
3-WSP Examines Evangelicalism from its roots in the 17th-century Reformation to the present, especially in Britain and America, where most of the movements originated and developed. Themes include the Great Awakenings, the 273
3-WSP History of historical writings and methods; theories of history. Liberal Arts.
HUM/HIST/POLS 247 Switzerland: European Politics and Culture 3 HUM/HIST/POLS 348 Vienna 1900: Politico-Cultural Crisis and Creativity 3
3-WSP Survey of United States constitutional history from its origins to the present. Emphasis on the constitutional system as a whole rather than constitutional law as developed by the Supreme Court. Examines the origins and general principles of constitutional thought, their elaboration in the Founding, and their development through crises over state rights and union in the 19th century, the Civil War amendments, liberty of contract, New Deal intervention, the developing doctrine of civil rights and civil liberties, and the growth of the administrative state. Liberal Arts.
3-WSP Liberal Arts.
Source: Houghton University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
