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Total: 39 credits Note: These requirements add five additional credits to the content area of the American studies major. As early as possible, students should consult with an education advisor to set up a program leading to certification. It is strongly re B.S. Inclusive Adolescence Education Major with a Social Studies Concentration (AMST) Students pursuing teaching certification in inclusive adolescence education (social studies) may choose to complete a concentration in American studies instead of a major, resulting in a Bachelor of Science degree. In addition to meeting a Choose ONE:

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Choose ONE Non-Western course:

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This course surveys the interactions of political and economic events since World War II. Attributes: HPES YLIB

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2025-2026

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This course focuses on the theory and academic use of historical wargames to teach selected strategic and historical topics in European and American History. Over the semester, students utilize individually as well as in teams, different historical wargames and simulations to facilitate active learning. Attributes: LC YLIB

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This Learning Community course focuses on the Spiritualist Movement in western New York in the mid-19th century. Attributes: LC YLIB

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Attributes: LC YLIB

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The twentieth century has already witnessed the rapid rise of China as an economic, political, and military power. Will this trajectory continue, making the People’s Republic of China the world’s new superpower? Or will the tremendous challenges facing China derail this astonishing express train to international dominance? We examine the historical roots of China’s return to great power status, the different types of global power it is pursuing, and individual stories of success and failure in order to highlight the human dimensi Attributes: LC YLIB

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2025-2026

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This course will examine the history of race in Rochester and the impact on education, housing, economic development, and social justice. Students will explore the concept of “history mapping” as well and will contextualize and integrate this into their study. Attributes: LC YLIB

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2025-2026

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This course will introduce students to the concept of the “deep map” by following the course and history of the Genesee River which transects the city of Rochester. Along with the stories of residents, businesses, and general history along the banks, students will map the changes along the River and explore connections to enhance their understanding of the relationships between environment and history. Typically offered:

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In 1961, a prominent commission declared that “Rochester equals Equality.” Yet just three years later, the city erupted in three days of rebellion as many Black Rochesterians directed their anger at property and police, protesting a lack of sanitary, affordable housing and limited economic opportunities. Why did this uprising happen in a city famous for being the hometown of abolitionist Frederick Douglass? How did a seemingly progressive northern city lacking the daily indignities of southern Jim Crow racism explode into three d Typically offered:

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2025-2026

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This section of your learning community will focus on using history to engage with a multitude of lived societies. Spanning centuries our effort will look to discover some of the key social, political, and economic attributes from historical cases drawing comparisons and particularities between various societies. This will be done through the active use of primary sources that will encourage a reaction from you about past societies through inquiry and engagement. The interaction with a plurality of historical societies will allow Typically offered:

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This course will explore the origins and development of public health as well as the emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases and public health ethical issues. We will examine the historical experience of health and illness from a population perspective. The course seeks to reveal how the organization of societies facilitates or mitigates the production and transmission of disease. It also asks how populations and groups of individuals go about securing their health. Attributes: HSCS YLIB

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2025-2026

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2025-2026

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An analysis of the causes, campaigns, and consequences of America’s most violent military experience. Attributes: HISM YLIB

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2025-2026

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Students study and practice skills central to academic and professional research through the development of independent, inquiry-based projects. In their projects, students assert, support, and integrate their own positions into scholarly conversation based in research. Students develop competency in the location, evaluation, and analysis and documentation of sources that represent a range of different perspectives on important issues. Typically offered:

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This course examines warfare in ancient Europe and Asia, spanning the emergence of city-states in the Fertile Crescent and the fall of Rome in 476 C.E. Topics covered include the causes of war, strategy, technology, tactics, war and society, women and war, and leadership. Typically offered: Spring - Even Years Attributes: HISM P3 YLIB

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2025-2026

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2025-2026

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An analysis and discussion of perhaps the most significant conflict in Western history. The origins, course, and effects of the war are examined, and conflicting interpretations discussed. Attributes: HISM YLIB

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2025-2026

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catalog.sjf.edu

This course examines the salient political and social developments that characterized the conflict in Europe between 1939 and 1945. Topics covered include the Battle of the Atlantic; the Battle of Britain; North Africa; the Soviet-German war; the combined bomber offensive; diplomacy; the Italian campaign of 1943-45; and the campaign in northwest Europe of 1944-45. Attributes: HISM YLIB

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2025-2026

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2025-2026

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2025-2026

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2025-2026

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The following questions are addressed as we examine America’s most controversial war: Why did the U.S. expend so much blood and treasure in Southeast Asia? What goals were Americans fighting for? Why did so many oppose the war? Why didn’t the U.S. win? What are the lessons to be learned? Typically offered:

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2025-2026

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This course will analyze how each president since William McKinley has approached this critical issues of the global role of the United States. Some of the critical questions we will address are: why did the US intervene in WWI? Why did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor? Who was responsible for the Cold War? Why did the US fight in Vietnam? How did the issues of race and racism have an impact on US foreign affairs during the 20th Century? Who won the Cold War? Are there parallels/lessons from the Cold War that are applicable to th Typically offered:

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2025-2026

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2025-2026

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This course examines the historical development of sports in American society from its earliest colonial form to the current multi-billion dollar industry we see today. This course analyzes the external and internal events, and specific individuals, which have helped shape and define the sport industry. Cross-listed with SPST 203. Attributes: HINA HSCS SPHR YLIB

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2025-2026

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catalog.sjf.edu

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SPST 203

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2025-2026

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catalog.sjf.edu

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2025-2026

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Through this course students will explore activism in Rochester by engaging the history of the abolitionist movement, the suffrage movement, and the Black power movement. Students will develop an understanding of the issues these historical actors confronted, the tactics and strategies they utilized, and they will evaluate the success of individuals and groups within these social movements through group projects. After evaluating these actors and groups within their historical context, students will apply their understanding of h Typically offered:

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2025-2026

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catalog.sjf.edu

This course considers the experiential differences of two of the nation’s wars drawn from the last hundred years that have informed a diverse understanding of duty, patriotism, loyalty and service. Students also participate in a series of discussion leadership training events, culminating in a variety of public discussions led by students. The students facilitate dialogues focused on the experience of war, engaging veteran clients of the WNY Heroes, Inc. and veterans in residence or day care at a group of senior living communitie Attributes: CCE HISM YLIB ZCIV

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3

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2025-2026

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catalog.sjf.edu

From the Rhine to the Genesee will examine the growth and experience of German immigrants in Rochester through analysis of newspapers, public health records, and other primary sources available from the Rochester Historical Society, Rochester Public Library, Rochester Museum and Science Center, and the University of Rochester library St. John Fisher College-Rochester: Mapping Place, Space, and Identity, page 10 and archives. Students will review census data, read translations of select articles from three German-language newspape Attributes: YLIB ZCIV

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2025-2026

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catalog.sjf.edu

In Citizenship and Civic Engagement courses, students will gain the knowledge, skills, and perspectives they need to become contributing citizens in a diverse and complex society. These experiences help ensure a commitment to collaboratively working across and within community contexts and structures to achieve civic aims in a democracy. Beginning with text and movie interpretation, students will explore the after experience of service providers and veterans of previous wars, specifically WWI, Iran, and Afghanistan. Veterans and support-service personnel (SIVs) and SJF students will be trained in best practices in discussion leadership, emphasizing the study of humanities sources about war and its aftermath, grounding in ethical frameworks, and discussions of cultural interactions. The course culminates with student and student veterans leading small-group public Attributes: CCE YLIB ZCIV

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2025-2026

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catalog.sjf.edu

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2025-2026

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catalog.sjf.edu

This course introduces students to the history of the modern Middle East, a vast region stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the border of Afghanistan, and from the Anatolian Plateau to the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf, comprised of such countries as Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia. Our exploration begins in the sixteenth century, the era of the Ottoman and Safavid empires, and concludes in the early twenty-first century. We survey not only the region’s history but also consider its distinct ethnolinguistic g Attributes: HIES HSCS YLIB

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2025-2026

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catalog.sjf.edu

In the year 2000, a British court dismissed a libel charge filed by David Irving against Jewish Studies professor Deborah Lipstadt, who had described the former as a Holocaust denier. This course uses the libel trial in order to analyze the historicity of the Holocaust. Student draw on the trial transcript, additional primary sources and secondary print and digital sources, and the film medium in order to examine how Lipstadt proved that the Holocaust had, in fact, occurred, and that the libel charge against her was therefore bas Attributes: CIA HSCS YLIB

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2025-2026

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catalog.sjf.edu

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2025-2026

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In Contemporary Issues, we analyze clashing interpretations of the recent past and present in order to understand how we have gotten to where we are today in the United States. Attributes: CIA HPES YLIB

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2025-2026

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This course will serve to introduce students to the history of Iran, its people and culture, as well as many of the issues confronting the country today. Much maligned in Western media at present, Iran is in fact a unique country with a rich and diverse cultural heritage and long, complex history. Therefore, over the course of the semester students will go beyond the image of Iran offered in Western media, explore the enigma that is Iran and its history, and acquire an understanding of this often misrepresented and misunderstood nation and its people. Typically offered: Spring - Even Years Attributes: CIA YLIB

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2025-2026

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2025-2026

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Investigates the significant socioeconomic, political, and ideological developments in Italian history from the end of the Napoleonic era to the contemporary period. Primary emphasis is on economic and political modernization during the first half of the 20th century. May not be taken by students who have credit for HIST 225C. Attributes: HIES HSCS P5 YLIB

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3

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3

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2025-2026

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catalog.sjf.edu

This course uses popular historically themed digital and print simulations to explore selected topics in European history. Students play and analyze various historically based games and then compare this experiential knowledge with associated primary and secondary sources to analyze critically those areas of European history. Attributes: HIES HLAS YLIB

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HIST

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3

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3

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2025-2026

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catalog.sjf.edu

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HIST

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3

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3

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2025-2026

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catalog.sjf.edu

This course examines the history, development, and significance of hunting in North America and Europe. Students consider the types of hunting (sustainment, aristocratic, public or private land, guided or unguided, canned or wild, sport, trophy, market, big game, small game, waterfowl, bow, gun, and primitive), the respective type of hunters, and the historic and systemic barriers to entry to hunting (socio-economic, racial, ethnic, and gender). Attributes: DEI HSCS YLIB

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HIST

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3

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3

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2025-2026

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catalog.sjf.edu

This course introduces students to the history of the modern Middle East, a vast region stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the border of Afghanistan, and from the Anatolian Plateau to the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf, comprised of such countries as Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia and so on. Our exploration begins in the sixteenth century, the era of the Ottoman and Safavid empires, and concludes in the early twenty-first century. We survey not only the region’s history, but also consider its distinct ethnolingu Typically offered: Spring - Odd Years Attributes: DEI HSCS ISRS YLIB HIST-2440 jus post bellum&Civil Wars (3) This course examines the quality of the peace established following modern European civil wars through the framework of jus post bellum (just Peace). The civil wars we study affected multiple levels of society from intense intrapersonal violence to systematic collapse. Understanding the historical causes of the wars and how they ended, helps students to distinguish, apply, and justify a holistic peace settlement which is more than simply the absence of violence, but one that establishes positive norms in addressing broader issues Attributes: ER YLIB

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2025-2026

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catalog.sjf.edu

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2025-2026

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2025-2026

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2025-2026

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catalog.sjf.edu

This course explores the relationship between women and war in history. The effects of war and militarism on women’s lives and on the gendered concepts of masculinity and femininity are examined along with women’s roles as actors within the military complex as munitions makers, wives, mothers, nurses, and soldiers. Feminist theories of gender, sexuality, and patriarchal culture are employed to explore the relationship between public and private violence. The treatment of war in films in the 20th century is studied to reveal how d Attributes: HISM WGST YLIB

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2025-2026

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catalog.sjf.edu

The history of Russia from its involvement in the Napoleonic Wars until the present. The course focuses on socioeconomic and political developments, Russia’s relationship with the West, and the rise, consolidation, and collapse of the Soviet Union. Attributes: CC HIES HPES YLIB

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HIST

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3

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2025-2026

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catalog.sjf.edu

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HIST

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2025-2026

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catalog.sjf.edu

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HIST

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2025-2026

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catalog.sjf.edu

Traces the major political, socioeconomic, and cultural development of the British Isles from the origins of Britannia in the Roman period; the emergence of feudalism after the Norman conquest; the weakening of centralized authority during and after the Hundred Years War; the effects of the Protestant Reformation; the development of the Plantagenet, Tudor and Stuart dynasties; and the establishment in England and Wales of constitutional government in 1688 with the Glorious Revolution. Attributes: CC HIES HSCS YLIB

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HIST

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3

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3

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2025-2026

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catalog.sjf.edu

The course analyzes Britain’s internal developments both socially and politically as well as its rise and decline as a Great Power after 1688. Among the areas of focus are the Empire, the Industrial Revolution, the Victorian period, Britain in the world wars, and the challenges of British decline since 1945. Attributes: CC HIES HSCS YLIB

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3

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2025-2026

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catalog.sjf.edu

The course will examine the political, socioeconomic, and military history of Ireland from pre-history to the present, focusing on the 16th through 20th Centuries. It will pay particular attention to Ireland’s relations with Britain and with Europe. Attributes: HIES HSCS P5 YLIB

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2025-2026

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catalog.sjf.edu

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2025-2026

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2025-2026

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2025-2026

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catalog.sjf.edu

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HIST

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2025-2026

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catalog.sjf.edu

This course shall examine the salient social and political developments that characterized the emergence, evolution, and ultimate collapse of National Socialist Germany between 1933 and 1945. Topics covered will include the life of Adolf Hitler, geostrategic developments, women, the economy, political persecution, the Holocaust, and World War II. Formerly titled: Modern Germany Attributes: HIES HPES YLIB

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2025-2026

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2025-2026

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2025-2026

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2025-2026

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Electives - 18 credits See the general major and departmental concentrations below. Major elective courses must be chosen from the departmental concentrations and at least two of the six elective courses must be at or above the 300 Total: 33 credits Major and Concentration Options

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2025-2026

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This course explores the sociohistorical context of Irish immigration to the United States through the microcosm of their experience in New York State. Beginning with the earliest settlers, and continuing through the famine and post-famine years, through the Civil War, and into the twentieth century, this course examines the interaction of ethnicity, language, and religion in the creation of a stable group identity and a secure place in a foreign society. While the focus is on communities throughout New York, there is comparative Attributes: HINA HSCS YLIB

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HIST

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3

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3

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2025-2026

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catalog.sjf.edu

Surveys the development of Rochester from an early-19th-century boomtown to a contemporary technology center and how those changes are a microcosm of larger trends in urban history. The rise of an urban middle class, the influence of the Erie Canal, Rochester as the crucible of activism, the significance of the agricultural hinterland, the impact of immigration, and the socioeconomic transformations wrought by war are all discussed. The course weaves the history of leading industrialists with that of ordinary citizens of various Attributes: AMUS HINA HLAS MUST YLIB

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3

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3

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2025-2026

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catalog.sjf.edu

A history of the Empire State from colonial times to the present. This class is particularly useful for students pursuing Childhood or Adolescence Education certification and who plan to teach in New York State. Attributes: AMUS HINA HPES MUST YLIB

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3

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2025-2026

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catalog.sjf.edu

Examines and analyzes the major socioeconomic, political, and ideological developments in 20th-century Europe and explores how these affected global history. A major theme of the class is the confrontation between liberal democracy and totalitarian systems. Typically offered:

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2025-2026

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2025-2026

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catalog.sjf.edu

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HIST

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2025-2026

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HIST

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2025-2026

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HIST

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2025-2026

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2025-2026

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HIST

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2025-2026

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catalog.sjf.edu

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HIST

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3

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3

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2025-2026

Source

catalog.sjf.edu

Four million slaves celebrated freedom at the close of the Civil War, only to find it invaded and eroded over the ensuing decade and a half. Reconstruction marked a time of great hope and success for African Americans while Redemption, as it was known in the South, focused on ending all racial progress and the re-affirmation of long-standing prejudices and practices. Students will explore these significant years and their lasting impact on our society considering the question, how did we get to where we are today? Typically offered: Spring - Even Years Attributes: YLIB

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.sjf.edu

This upper-division course will examine facets of American history and society. The broad panoply of topics covered can include women, historically underrepresented groups, forces of social change, economic developments, strategic/military/diplomatic history, and the historical and social implications of advances in STEM. Analyzing primary and secondary sources, students generate original research. Attributes: YLIB

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.sjf.edu

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.sjf.edu

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.sjf.edu

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.sjf.edu

Subject

HIST

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.sjf.edu

Using both primary and scholarly secondary sources, this course focuses on important social, cultural, and political shifts in the United States during the last half of the twentieth-century and into the twenty-first century in order to help students better understand how American society has become increasingly liberal in some respects and increasingly conservative in other respects. Attributes: YLIB

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.sjf.edu

Traces the origins, course, and consequences of the Italian Renaissance and its impact on Europe from the late Middle Ages to the Protestant Reformation. A major theme is the emergence and maturation of early modern political, socioeconomic, and cultural sensibilities. Attributes: HIES HSCS YLIB

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.sjf.edu

An analysis of the intellectual, political, and military origins, development, and consequences of European warfare and statecraft from the late Roman to contemporary periods. Topics include the Roman Imperial state and its collapse, the rise and transformation of the Carolingian and Germanic empires into the monarchies of the Middle Ages, the consolidation of the absolutist state of the Enlightenment, the emergence of the modern nation-state, and the subsequent proliferation of competing democratic and totalitarian alternatives. (Formerly titled: Sword and Robe Foundations) Attributes: HIES HISM YLIB

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.sjf.edu

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.sjf.edu

This course examines some of the challenges of historical work in museums, historical sites, archives, and other public history settings. Topics include a general overview of best practices in areas such as collections management, preservation, and archives, as well as administrative issues such as public relations, fundraising, and grantsmanship. Attributes: HINA HLAS MUST YLIB ZEXL

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.sjf.edu

Students develop and inquiry-based project by conducting in-depth research using discipline-specific practices that result in transferable research and writing. Students build on the critical thinking and writing competencies they have previously acquired to engage topics and ideas in the field. Students formulate important questions or problems, identify and examine appropriate sources, and use evidence in order to substantiate their own claims. They acknowledge and address alternative explanations in scholarly conversations and Typically offered:

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.sjf.edu

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.sjf.edu

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.sjf.edu

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.sjf.edu

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.sjf.edu

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.sjf.edu

This course examines the social, cultural, economic, and political development of the New England, Middle and Southern colonies. Those developments that contributed to the growth of an American consciousness and the ultimate outbreak of the American Revolution will also be discussed. Typically offered: Spring - Odd Years Attributes: HINA HPES YLIB

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.sjf.edu

Leadership/Applied History Studies Dr. Frederick H. Dotolo III, Director The leadership/applied history studies concentration provides students the opportunity to learn about innovative approaches to the study of history and community applications of history. Courses connect the ac Leadership/Applied Studies Course Offerings:

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.sjf.edu

Washington Experience semester is offered through The Washington Center. Permission of the advisor, department chair, and TWC liaison (Dr. Monica Cherry) is required to register. Attributes: YLIB

Subject

HIST

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.sjf.edu

Prerequisite

HIST-476 Y D-

Washington Experience semester is offered through The Washington Center. Permission of the advisor, department chair, and TWC liaison (Dr. Monica Cherry) is required to register. Attributes: YLIB

Subject

HIST

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.sjf.edu

Prerequisite

HIST-477 Y D-

Washington Experience semester is offered through The Washington Center. Permission of the advisor, department chair, and TWC liaison (Dr. Monica Cherry) is required to register. Attributes: YLIB

Subject

HIST

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.sjf.edu

This course will provide students with a summative review of topics covered in the New York State social studies teaching certification exams. Students who are planning to take the exam within the year will benefit most from participation in the course. Attributes: YLIB

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

1

Credits (max)

1

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.sjf.edu

Permission of the internship director is required. Graded S/U. Typically offered: Fall, Spring & Summer Attributes: YLIB ZEXL

Subject

HIST

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.sjf.edu

An in-depth analysis of a topic in History. After consulting an appropriate member of the History Department, the student composes a two-page proposal and bibliography that will need to be approved by the faculty supervisor of the project and the department chair. The student’s independent study will culminate in a paper of 25-30 pages and will utilize both appropriate primary and secondary sources. Completion of the Independent Study/Tutorial Authorization form is required. Typically offered: Fall, Spring & Summer Attributes: YLIB ZRES

Subject

HIST

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.sjf.edu

B.S. Inclusive Adolescence Education/History Dual Major Students pursuing teaching certification in inclusive adolescence education (social studies) may dual major in inclusive adolescence education and history and earn a Bachelor of Science degree. In addition to

Subject

HIST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.sjf.edu