75 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.
This seminar course puts history into practice and focuses on experiential explorations of historical topics. Approaches and subjects will vary by instructor and semester, but might include role-playing immersion scenarios, walking tours, service learning, museum work, and archival research. Formal writing is required.
This course surveys the major political, social, and cultural events, movements, and ideas of the American past.
An intensive and critical examination of selected historical texts and developments from the medieval period to the present that contribute to an understanding of the modern world.
An intensive and critical examination of selected historical texts and developments from the medieval period to the present that contribute to an understanding of the modern world.
A survey of the history of Medieval Europe. Major topics include the transformation of Rome; development of the church, rise of the papacy and monastic reform; Germanic migrations; consolidation of the medieval monarchy; the Commercial Revolution; scholasticism and the universities; pilgrimage and saints; the Crusades; heresy; and the family.
This course examines the development, spread, and transformation of empires in the Mediterranean world during antiquity. Special emphasis will be on the poleis of Greece, the Hellenistic World, and the Roman Republic and Empire.
The United States, from its origins through the Civil War and Reconstruction, with an emphasis on the main political, economic, and social developments. Major wars and cultural trends will also be addressed, as well as the lives of important and representative individuals.
The United States since the end of Reconstruction, with an emphasis on the major political, economic, and social developments. Major wars and cultural trends will also be addressed, as well as the lives of important and representative individuals.
An examination of selected critical issues and events in the history of the United States.
This course surveys the history of civilization before the seventeenth century. Focus will be on the developments of world cultures in Europe, South and East Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, as well as encounters between these regions. Topics will include the growth of cities, court culture, and the agricultural economies that supported them; global trade networks; spread of disease; religious movements, and military conflicts.
This course surveys the history of the world from the European encounter with the non-Western world to the present day. It will explore the major trends which have shaped the modern world, including the rise of modern states; the revolutionary era; the ideologies of socialism, liberalism, and nationalism; European imperialism, and the shifting balance of power in the postcolonial world.
Survey of race and gender in Medieval Europe, and the ways in which Medieval Europe remains a contested period for these concepts. Focus is on medieval primary sources. Topics include relationships between Christians, Jews, and Muslims, anti-Semitism, LGBTQ people and histories, monsters and the monstrous, and concepts of gender and race.
An introduction to the history of the Spanish-speaking regions of the Western hemisphere beginning with the pre-Columbian period. Special attention will be given to the era since independence.
This course on the rise of American economy from the colonial period to the present will go beyond economic history to examine issues of politics, philosophy, and legal theory and their impact on economic developments. Special emphasis will be given to advancements in science and technology, the creation of educational systems, and the links between global economic conditions and the economy of the nation-state. The course will highlight themes of continuity and change that have characterized American economic history.
Survey from before Columbus until the present, focusing on what is now the United States, including origins and growth of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, racial discrimination, resistance, the American Civil War, emancipation, Reconstruction, struggles against Jim Crow, black life under segregation, the civil rights struggles, and post-civil rights developments.
This course examines the development of the pre-modern societies, governments, and cultures across East Asia, mostly what we today call China, the Koreas, and Japan. We will examine how they developed, spread, changed, and interacted. We will be reading a variety of both primary and secondary sources, which will help to inform our discussions.
This course explores how the distinct cultures of China, Korea and Japan developed within a broadly shared civilization over the last 4000 years, but with an emphasis on early-modern and modern times. The focus is on socio-political, religious and cultural developments.
This course is an introduction to the history of African peoples. A general survey of the continent and case studies illustrate the differing regional experiences and diversity of African communities and political formations.
This course is an introduction to how and why history is presented in public and the audience, funding, motivation, and ethics of this work. Course will include discussion of family and neighborhood history projects, monuments, history in museums and archives, and history on the Internet.
An introduction to a theme, problem, movement, or era in history.
This course introduces students to the discipline of history. An overview of historical methodologies contributes to an understanding of how the craft of history is practiced and has evolved. Class assignments will develop and strengthen techniques of historical research, information literacy, and writing skills. Required for History majors, Adolescent Education majors, and International Studies majors concentrating in social studies (open to others with permission of the instructor). This course is intended to be taken during the first or second semester of major course work.
This course will explore the economic, social, and cultural history of Europe from the fifth through the fifteenth centuries. Major topics will include the transformation of the Roman Empire into Christendom; the development of the church with the rise of the papacy and monastic reform; Germanic migrations; consolidation of the medieval monarchy; the Commercial Revolution; scholasticism and the universities; pilgrimage and the cult of the saints; the crusades, heretical movements, and the medieval family.
This course traces the transformation of Europe between the Renaissance and the French Revolution. Special emphasis will be placed on the wars of religion, the revolution in European military practice, the emergence of national states, the structure and function of the absolutist monarchies and, especially, the wide-ranging impact of the Enlightenment.
This course is an introduction to the history of the modern Middle East with an emphasis on the twentieth century. The first four weeks of the course will briefly cover the Ottoman history of the Middle East from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, and the remaining weeks will introduce important topics relating to twentieth-century Middle Eastern history, such as the creation of nation-states, the Israel-Palestine conflict, authoritarian regimes, Islamist movements, and the Arab Uprisings.
This course investigates the emergence of modern racism and its expression as genocide. In-depth examinations of the events in Armenia, Rwanda, Bosnia, East Timor, Cambodia, and Darfur complement an exploration of the German attempt to annihilate certain groups like the Jews during World War II. Recommended for Education majors to satisfy state education laws in New York and New Jersey that require the teaching of the Holocaust in all schools.
This course examines the history of women and gender in premodern Europe. Emphasis is on women's lives and experiences as well as representations of women constructed during the period. Topics include women's roles in religious communities, the family, the workforce, politics, and gendered representations of women in literary, legal, medical, and religious discussions. Special emphasis is on women's perceptions of their social and cultural lives, described in their own words.
The modern transformation of China, its values and institutions, resulting from the impact of the West and revolution.
Political, social, economic change, and the kaleidoscope of outside intervention in modern Southeast Asia since the founding of Singapore in 1819.
This course introduces the multiple histories, diverse cultures and complicated geography of modern Africa. Three areas: modern-day Algeria; Ghana; and South Africa will serve as case studies in order to place continent-wide trends in their local contexts and to explore key historical events and developments from a consistent perspective that will illustrate change over time. This course will also emphasize the dynamic role of Africans in the events and processes that have shaped modern Africa.
Political, economic, and cultural developments of the region, including the history of relations with the U.S.
The course examines the crusading energy of the High Middle Ages. Focus will be on the medieval imagination of the Latin West as Christendom and attacks on threats to that identity. Topics will include the strengthening of the papacy; the growth of chivalry; the history of Jerusalem and its crucial holy sites; relations between Christendom and the Byzantine Empire; the Islamic world; the Reconquista; the Albigensian Crusade; the rise of anti-Semitism; and the military orders.
This course examines the history of Rome from the city's foundation through the decline of its empire. Emphasis will be on the major political, social, military, and cultural developments of Rome's history.
An extensive study of a theme, problem, movement, or era in history.
An extensive study of a theme, problem, movement, or era in history.
The political, social, and cultural history of the Eastern Roman Empire from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries and its relations with Islam, the Latin West, and the Slavs.
The international relations among the European states from the Congress of Vienna through the era of Imperialism and the origins of the First World War.
This course investigates Cold War diplomacy and international relations in the Asian context. Focus is not only on the politics and economics of international relations, but also on their interplay with societies, cultures and individuals. Topics include the Soviet-China split, the Korean War, the Vietnam wars, Nixonian diplomacy, and Japan's role as an aircraft carrier for American military bases.
This course explores the diplomatic history of the Vietnam Wars, approximately from 1945 to 1975. It treats these wars not as an American conflict, but as an international conflict between a multitude of actors, especially the Vietnamese themselves.
An overview of the history of the British Isles from antiquity to the Glorious Revolution. The creation of England as a unified kingdom with a centralized monarchy and its influence over Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Emphasis will be on the power and personalities of the monarch and the nobility as well as on the lives of ordinary people. Roman Britain, the Anglo-Saxon period, Norman conquest, Plantagenet Empire, Hundred Years War, Tudor and Stuart dynasties, Anglican Reformation, civil war, plague, constitutionalism, monasticism, and the universities.
U.S. immigration has become an increasingly controversial topic in the current political climate. This course will place these political, cultural, and economic discourses within a historical context . The course will begin with European settlers encounter with Native Americans, and the forced migration of African slaves. We will then trace the construction of U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada; the role of the Civil War in shaping our modern immigration system; Asian exclusion; the nativism that led to the passage of the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act; the complex legacy of the 1965 Hart-Cellar Act; refugee policies; and our current climate of immigration control which has been increasingly marked by mass detention, deportations, and border walls. We will think about how inequality informed by nationality, race, gender, sexuality, class, and disability have shaped policies and laws and drawn lines of inclusion and exclusion. We will also focus on the resiliency of immigrant communities and how they have overcome structural barriers and made important contributions to U.S. society, politics, labor force, and culture. In the course, we will draw upon the rich history of New York City to explore the immigrant experience by visiting Ellis Island and through conducting oral histories with professionals working in the field of immigration, or with friends and family members. This course will count towards the public history minor.
This important, contentious era in the United States will be examined from various angles, from the various protest movements to the conservative reaction, from music and cultural flowering to presidential politics. All of this will be analyzed in relation to the various historical interpretations of the era.
This course introduces the history of Japan from the late Tokugawa period to the present day. The political, economic, social, cultural, and national dimensions of historical change compose the course's central focus, but the concept of identity is also strongly emphasized.
The course explores European history from the Enlightenment to the fall of Napoleon. The origins, course, and aftermath of the French Revolution will receive particular attention. Other themes include the Enlightenment, early industrialization, and the Napoleonic Empire.
This course explores European history from the fall of Napoleon in 1815 to the start of World War I in 1914, with emphasis on the revolutions in 1830, 1848, and 1871, the acceleration of imperialism, nation-building, and the social transformations stemming from industrialization.
The influence exercised in German history of the medieval empire, Luther, the Thirty Years War, Frederick the Great, and the Age of Revolution. A chronological treatment from 1848 to the present.
The course deals with the background, revolution, and establishment of the Soviet Union, focusing on both domestic developments and the role of the Soviet Union in world affairs. Special attention is given to the problems of continuity and change in Soviet policy between 1917 and 1991.
A survey of the history of Eastern and Central Europe, the area between Germany and Russia, from the end of World War I to the present day. The countries of the region are examined both comparatively and individually to identify the economic, social, cultural, and national forces which have shaped their developments.
This course explores the rise of the Nazis to power, their governance of Germany, their conquests, and their defeat. Special emphasis will be placed on the Nazis' treatment of various minorities. Their ideology and practical issues shaping the decisions and actions of both leaders and ordinary Germans will be examined. The Holocaust will be situated throughout in its contemporary context and understood through the eyes of perpetrators, victims, and bystanders.
This course examines the economic transformation known as the Industrial Revolution (1750-1850) from its roots in Western Europe to its later spread to other parts of Europe and then across the Atlantic Ocean primarily from the perspective of laboring people.
This course will focus on the changing roles of women in American society from the 17th century to the present. Beginning with pre-industrial society and tracing women's experiences in agricultural, commercial, industrial, and post-industrial America, we will discover how women's roles have changed-and not changed-in the course of American history. In an historical context, the various experiences of women as housewives, mothers, consumers, workers, professionals, and citizens will be analyzed.
"The American Century." The rise of America to world power. Relations with other countries before, during, and between the world wars, in the Cold War, and in the post-Soviet era, including politics toward Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.
This course analyzes the patterns of the US labor force and labor movements in the industrial age. Structural factors such as race, class, gender, geography and technology are considered along with the business and political contexts. The questions of individual agency on the part of labor leaders is also addressed.
Beginning in the eighteenth century and continuing through the twenty-first century, this course will explore the formation of U.S. public health. It will examine how social, political, cultural, and economic factors have influenced responses to epidemic disease and the shaping of public health policies in the United States.
A survey of the region that has long captured people's imagination. Enduring themes such as cowboys and Indians as well as newer concerns such as the role of women and the rise of technology will be analyzed in light of historical evidence, both primary and secondary.
Students participate in an off-campus training experience closely related to their area of study. Frequent meetings with the internship advisor and a paper are required. Internships are arranged through the Center for Career Development and must be approved in advance by the chair and the Dean of the School of Arts.
This course explores major developments in both science and technology from the perspective of their social impact. Particular emphasis will be placed on industrialization and how science and technology affect society as a whole.
This course examines the development of modern sports around the world. It focuses on issues such as power, participation and exclusion, development, economics, politics, gender, race, nationality, and mass media.
An interdisciplinary course on the history of American sport from the colonial era to the present. Special emphasis will be given to the economic, sociological, political, and psychological aspects of twentieth-century American sport.
The political, economic, social, and cultural status of the British-American colonies in the mid-eighteenth century; the coming of the American Revolution; the problems of war and independence; the constitutional development of the new nation; the impact of the Revolution on all of the American people.
The causes of the Civil War: economic and political, legal and constitutional, ideological and moral. The great people, the great battles, and the great events. The results and the cost of the war, human and economic. Reconstruction, racism and segregation.
The nation's domestic, political, social, and economic issues from the Great Depression of the 1930s to terrorism in 2001. The New Deal and the Fair Deal, the Home Front in World War II, Civil Rights and the Great Society, consensus in the 1950s and conflicts in the 1960s, the domestic cost of Vietnam, Watergate, and Reaganomics, the Information Revolution and the Clinton Paradox.
Analysis of signal figures of both genders and of different racial/ethnic backgrounds from a variety of eras and fields, from business leaders and inventors to labor leaders and social reformers, from presidents to creative artists. Perennial questions that will be addressed include what constitutes a significant life and the relative roles in a life of one's personality and choices -- and of fate -- along with such structural factors as one's race, class, gender, geographic region and particular generation. Various biographical schools of thought will also be addressed, along with variations on biography, notably autobiography and memoir.
The colonial and Revolutionary city, urban imperialism, the city in the American mind, immigration, social mobility, the rise of the ghetto, the impact of the New Deal, suburbanization, the modern metropolis, recent trends.
This course surveys the role of women in European society in the modern period. Special emphasis will be given to the articulation and evolution of the "women's question" and the impact of industrialization, political revolution, and war on gender roles. Drawing on the contemporary documents as well as secondary analyses, the course will provide a historical context for debates on women and gender that continue to the present day.
This course will explore the role of gender and sexuality in modern Middle Eastern history. It will begin by examining gender and sexuality in Muslim societies under Ottoman rule and will then explore how gender and sexuality have been shaped by processes of colonialism, capitalism, nation-building, and middle-class formation. Special emphasis will be placed on how women in the Middle East have responded to these historical changes.
This course examines the major ideas and problems associated with terror and terrorism from the French Revolution to the present and considers the historical development and role of political violence both by and against the state in contemporary society.
This course will explore the process of decolonization with an emphasis on the end of European empires and the agency of the colonized.
This course will cover the origins, development and consequences of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Special emphasis will be placed on the effects that the conflict has had on people living in the region.
This course uses an intersectional lens to explore how and why feminist movements have emerged around the world in the modern era and how they have changed over time.
This course examines the diplomatic history of the Ottoman Empire from the late fifteenth century to its dissolution after World War I. The focus is on Ottoman relations with European and neighboring states.
Supervised participation in research design, source collection, analysis, and interpretation in conjunction with ongoing research projects in history. Permission of the faculty mentor, the department chair, and the Dean of the School of Liberal Arts are required at the time of registration.
Supervised participation in research design, source collection, analysis, and interpretation in conjunction with ongoing research projects in history. Permission of the faculty mentor, the department chair, and the Dean of the School of Liberal Arts are required at the time of registration.
Students participate in an off-campus training experience closely related to their area of study. Frequent meetings with the internship advisor and a paper are required. Internships are arranged through the Center for Career Development and must be approved in advance by the chair and the Dean of the School of Arts.
An exploration of a specific historical theme through class discussion and student papers, with an emphasis on proper research methodologies and presentation. Intended for advanced history and social studies majors, but open to others with the permission of the chair. Prerequisite: HIST 200.
Supervised reading and research. Permission of Department Chair required.
Source: Manhattan College's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
