123 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.
Examines the changing role of youth in European society over time, the gendering of youth as male until the 20th century, and the shifting culture of this group from arbiters of social control to revolutionaries.
Selected topics courses are regularly scheduled courses that focus on a particular topic of interest. Descriptions are printed in the Schedule of Classes each semester. Selected topics courses may be used as elective credit and may be repeated for credit, provided that the topic of the course changes.
Restrictions: Must not be enrolled in the following field(s) of study (major, minor or concentration): Adolescence Ed: Social Studies (445) History (532)
Analysis of the major cultures of ancient Europe, Asia, and Africa. Each culture is considered first in its own context, and then with reference to how, when, and with what consequences ancient cultures and/or states affected one another.
History of ancient Greece to the end of the Hellenistic period.
Rise of Christianity to the invention of the printing press. The synthesis of Roman and Germanic cultures, social organization, and interaction between Christianity and non-Christian cultures.
An analysis of European political, social, and economic development, as well as interactions with the rest of the world, from the Reformation to the present.
Chinese history and culture from earliest times through the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), including aspects of politics, economics, social structure, religion, philosophy, folk culture, and literature.
Chinese history and culture from the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) through contemporary times.
Beginning with colonial roots, traces the growth of the American Republic from its birth in the War for Independence to its testing under forces of sectionalism in the Civil War.
From the aftermath of the Civil War to the 21st century, this course explores the social, political, and cultural changes of the period; the interactions of race, class, and gender in U.S. history; and the roles of U.S. influence and power around the world.
The history of the Middle East to the invasion of Egypt by Napoleon in 1798, concentrating on the emergence of Islam and the development of Muslim culture and societies.
The history of the Middle East from the invasion of Egypt by Napoleon in 1798 to the present, concentrating on the effects of increased interaction between Middle Eastern countries and the West.
Development of Latin America by the Spaniards and Portuguese to the end of the movement for independence (1830). Political, economic, and cultural phases of colonial development.
Development of Latin America from the end of the struggle for independence to the present. Political, social, economic, and diplomatic aspects. Case studies of specific problems of the nations.
Examines the history of American Studies as an interdisciplinary approach to studying American culture. Presents a wide variety of scholarly methods for investigating the many pasts of the United States.
Selected topics courses are regularly scheduled courses that focus on a particular topic of interest. Descriptions are printed in the Schedule of Classes each semester. Selected topics courses may be used as elective credit and may be repeated for credit, provided that the topic of the course changes.
May be repeated for credit
May not be repeated for credit
An introduction to the techniques, conventions, practices, and methodologies of history as an academic discipline. Students will learn how historians create meaning from the past and gain an understanding of how to conduct historical research.
Examines the causes and impacts of immigration to the U.S., especially the roles of race, gender, and labor on individual and group experiences. The course stretches from the 18th century to the 21st century, with emphasis on political, legal, and social forces.
Surveys New York State's growth from beginning to present emphasizing the changing character of its people, society, economy and government.
Women in European history from the Middle Ages to the present, concentrating on women and work, love and sexuality, courtship and marriage, legal issues, women and reform, and the growth of feminist consciousness.
Study of selected social, cultural, and political themes in American history during the Progressive Era (c. 1890-1932) and their conflicting interpretations.
History of women in the United States with attention to racial, economic, and geographic distinctions and with an emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries.
A history of the Native Americans of New York state from contact to the present. Special attention will be given to the Iroquois, Delaware, Mohican and Long Island Indian experiences.
History of Native American nations and peoples before colonization through the present in the territory that will become the United States and with an emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries.
Evolution of Germany since the French Revolution, the establishment of the German empire, the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime, and the post-World War II division of Germany.
Survey of the life and career of Alexander the Great, as well as the unique Hellenistic world that came about as a result of his conquests; also cover scholarly debates about Alexander.
An exploration of the world of Mesopotamia and its environs through the lens of religion and power structures. Covers the Bronze and Iron ages (appx. 3000-350 BCE), including Akkadians, Hittites, Assyrians, Babylonians, Jews and Persians.
A study of the formation, maintenance, and operation of the Roman Empire, with a particular focus on the end of the late Republic to the reign of Constantine (c. 70 BCE-325 CE).
Explores the social, religious, and political function of gender and sex in ancient Greece and Rome by examining the roles of men, women, and sex through daily life, art, and literature.
Survey of military, political, social and cultural history of World War II from the viewpoint of world history.
An exploration of contemporary European history from the end of World War II to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Themes include: the reconstruction of Europe, the Cold War, decolonization, European unification, and the fall of Communism.
An exploration of the world-wide phenomenon of "Americanization" as it manifested itself in Europe throughout the twentieth century. Topic considered include: democratization, the development of consumer societies, popular culture, and America's influence on national and other collective identities.
Social, political, and cultural development of early American communities (1607-1763).
Treats the Revolution as a bridge between the colonial inheritance and an independent republic. Focuses on the causes of the Revolution, the war, and the nation's character under the 1787 Constitution.
Examines American history during Andrew Jackson's lifetime; topics include the birth of new political parties, the death of Davy Crockett at the Alamo, the dawn of a new nation, and the fall of national unity.
Social, economic, cultural and political context within which Civil War came about. Analysis of slavery, racial attitudes, capitalism, ideology, nationalism and power, violence and change.
A narrative history of New York City from contact between Native Americans and European explorers through the present. Political and economic history will provide the background for New York's social and cultural history.
Investigates the historical development of the region which came to be the United States South through the rise and demise of Populism. Other topics include what it has meant to be 'Southern' slavery 'Indian' removal.
Inquiry into the character of American society and culture. Focus on cultural interaction; gender relations; developments in religion, slavery, industrialization, and descriptions of the growing United States.
American values as expressed in institutions, politics, literature and social behavior. Impact of industrialization, urbanization, and immigration on the American people.
Domestic and international developments resulting from the rise of the United States to global power. Emphasis on the origins and development of the Cold War, McCarthyism, and Vietnam. Analyzes the effects of American affluence on occupational and class structure, education, religion, political and social behavior. The emergence in the 1960's of the Civil Rights Movement, the New Left, and the counterculture and recent developments placed in historical perspective.
Examines the development of ideas about national culture and identity in modern China through the history of changing forms and practices in theater, entertainment, and politics.
Traces the history of film in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, with attention to key thematic concerns such as individualism and collectivism, tradition and modernity, imperialism and nationalism, war and revolution, and the representation of history in film.
Cultural, political, economic, and social changes in the U.S. since 1974, including electoral and grassroots politics, the cultural and economic impact of globalization, the role of the U.S. in world affairs, and the everyday lives of Americans.
Political, economic, and cultural history of South Asia in 1857-1947; focusing on the life and thought of M.K. Gandhi, and influential and controversial social reformer/politician in British India.
Chronological account of Japanese history and culture from the seventeenth century to modern times, including geography, language, religion, social structure, government, politics, economy, trade, foreign policy, and defense.
A comparative study of the histories of Buddhism and other religions of eastern and southern Asia. Topics include religious beliefs and their impact on the societies and cultures of, especially, China, India, and Japan.
Provide a comprehensive survey of the history of the Indian subcontinent until 1200 CR with particular focus on historical continuity/disjuncture in the history of religious practices and ideas and the emergence of political forms in pre-colonial India.
Explores political, economic, and cultural history of South Asia between ca. 1500-1947 with special focus on the British colonization of India and the movement to independence.
Explore the economic and cultural history of the Indian Ocean Worlds (Arabia, Gulf India, S.E. Asis and S. China) from the prehistoric period to ca. 1850 CE by examining textual, epigraphic and archaeological sources.
Investigates the historical development of Iran from the rise of the Persian Empire to the present. Topics include state formation, empire building, state-society relations, foreign invasions, Islam, the impact of modern imperialism, modernism v. traditionalism, patriarchal institutions, and women's rights.
Surveys the history of the Arab Middle East from the formation of the Islamic Empire; topics include the life of Arab Muslim societies, the Ottoman Age, impact of European Empires, legacy of colonialism, politics of nationalism, oil, and the challenge of political Islam.
An introduction to the history of the Middle East from the time of Muhammad to the end of the Ottoman Empire, concentrating on the Muslim religion, and the emergence and development of Muslim culture and societies.
An introduction to the diverse history, societies and peoples of the Middle East since World War I, and the impact of imperialism and nationalism on Muslim societies and culture.
The initial fourteenth-century outbreak of the bubonic plague killed one third of the European population. Its reappearance kept the population low and had a profound impact on economic, social, cultural, and religious development.
Changes in the social organization of Medieval Europe. How peasants, nobles, townspeople, and monks and nuns lived and died.
The Renaissance, its relation to the Reformation, and causes and effects of both movements.
Examination of pre-industrial, agrarian European society, family structures, demography, towns, rise of national bureaucracies, and the European overseas expansion of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Students will seek to understand the European Enlightenment through intensive writing assignments focusing on the ideas and methods of the eighteenth century intellectual movement.
Seventeenth-century Europeans relied on three interconnected but competing ways of thinking to understand nature, man and society: Science, Magic, and Religion. The tumultuous 1600’s in Europe saw conflict and cooperation between the three epistemologies through major events like the scientific revolution, witch hunts, and the late Reformation.
Study of Europe since 1890: imperialism, the world wars, fascism, communism, genocide, the European Economic Community, and the communist regimes in eastern Europe.
The economic, religious, and political origins of cities in Europe, the development of court and trade centers, and the social and cultural history of cities as they grew through the early modern era.
The medieval foundations of modern urban dynamics. Topics include: Rome's legacy; Post year-1000 markets, governmental structures, regulation, universities; Physical space, cathedral building and other structures; High medieval maturation, guilds, and urban vendettas; late medieval morphology.
The rise of the Tudor monarchy, the Anglican revolt, the struggle for constitutional government, the first overseas empire, and the economic evolution of England to the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
Examines the history of Britain from the reign of George III (1760-1820) to the dissolution of the second British Empire at the end of World War II, focusing on the century between the defeat of Napoleon and the beginning of the "Great War' in 1914.
Social, political, cultural history of Spain since the Napoleonic invasion. Topics include the Second Spanish Republic, the Civil War, the Franco era, the transition to democracy, and Spain's place in contemporary Europe.
Explore the complexities of life in medieval lberia: Romans and Visigoths; Muslim, Christian, and Jewish encounters; castle-building and vengeance-taking;Ferdinand, Isabella, and Columbus; a nation state emerging from disparate kingdoms and counties.
Belief; practice; enemies; circumstance - which makes a "depraved heretic"? Black Legend; witchcraft; killer-inquisitors - which is real and which fantasy? What do inquisitions tell us about our present? (Think Abu Ghraib, but much else.)
Were the medieval crusades an exemplary Christian project or a series of conquest failures? We investigate religious zeal (jihad and holy war) and the political ambition that activated both Muslim and Christian sides of the fighting.
Study of the formation of American business institutions emphasizing social and political values from the merchant capitalists to the multinational corporation.
Ancient Israel from the Patriarchal period (ca. 1800 B.C.E.) to the first Roman-Jewish War (66-73 C.E.). Information from the archaeological research, readings in the Bible, and analysis of evidence from contemporary extra-Biblical sources, e.g. Canaanite, Moabite, Assyrian, Babylonian, Roman.
What is the Bible and how did it come to be written? May it be used as a source for history? What is the relationship between mythology and history? We will analyze a number of early biblical stories with these questions in mind.
The Jews from the Roman Period to the Renaissance, including life under Christianity and Islam, the continuing diaspora of the medieval Jewish community, and the beginnings of modern Jewish life.
Brief survey of the status and condition of European Jewry before World War II and analysis of the antisemitic movements with particular attention to the theory and practice of the Nazis. Detailed study of the stages in the destruction of European Jewry with comparisons of the course of the Holocaust in various countries and the different reactions of different Jewish and non-Jewish communities.
The history of the relationship between human society and the natural world in Latin America, from the Ice Age hunters to present. Topics include the biological impact of European conquest, deforestation, climate change, and environmental justice.
Introduction to the history of the nation of Mexico from its Native American origins through European contact and the introduction of African peoples and cultures through the present day. The narrative will be chronological with concentration on themes, institution, and people which have been the most significant in the making of the story.
Introduction of emigrant groups from Latin America (Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South America) and the impact of each group of U.S. culture and institutions, as well as the U.S. impact on their cultures.
The impact and consequences of changing ideologies and practices of US foreign policy from the Spanish American War to the present.
Describes and analyzes the history of American military policy since the colonial period to the present, including the role military affairs in national security strategy, the conduct of war in a democracy, the evolution of military professionalism, and the influence of American society upon the armed forces as social institutions.
History of prisons as institutions of reform and repression from the early 19th century onward, with major shifts coinciding with and responding to structural shifts in the meanings of race and racism, changes in the national and global economy, and other factors.
A historical survey of the role of religion in American life and thought, with emphasis upon the quest for liberty of conscience and worship, utopianism, and the relation between religion and modern secular culture.
Examines the ways different peoples from outside the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant stereotype imagined themselves as Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in order to understand the development of American identity then and now.
This course examines momentous cultural and social changes in the U.S. from 1865 to 1900. Topics include the "new woman," the rise of the corporation, debates over the nature of Americal national and racial identity.
Explores the U.S. South since the Civil War both as a unique regional society and as the "region" of American culture most concerned with racial and national identity. Emphasizes music, film, and the uses of history.
Surveys critical developments in Americans’ creation and use of social categories and practices of race, class, and gender. Examines how different groups of Americans have used these concepts to create political divisions and cultural commonalities.
Selected topics courses are regularly scheduled courses that focus on a particular topic of interest. Descriptions are printed in the Schedule of Classes each semester. Selected topics courses may be used as elective credit and may be repeated for credit, provided that the topic of the course changes.
Restrictions: Must have the following level: Undergraduate Must not be enrolled in the following class: Freshman
Examines the work and careers of key writers of the period, such as Marx, Nietzsche, Hegel, Mill, and Darwin, and the impact of their thinking.
An exploration of modern European intellectual thought, from modernism at the end of nineteenth century to postmodernism at the end of the twentieth century. Possible readings include: Kafka, Eliot, Freud, Woolf, Sartre, and Foucault.
Selected topics in the history of the trans-Mississippi West. The American West as symbol and myth. The significance of continental expansion of American nationality, political, economic, and social development.
Introduction to the Hudson Valley as a cultural milieu in the colonial, revolutionary, and early national periods of American history. An examination of the lives, thought, and works of Hudson Valley figures and their contributions to American thought and culture.
The origins, nature and consequences of America's involvement in Vietnam.
This course tracks the "discovery" by Europeans of other parts of the globe, 1415-1780. Intellectual, economic, social, and political consequences of the increasingly intense interaction between Europeans, particularly the English and the Spanish, and peoples of other regions. The course concentrates on the Atlantic World, but includes the eastern hemisphere.
Analyzing the meaning of "woman" in China from late Ming to the present, this course sharpens critical skills in thinking about gender differences and deepens understanding of modern China's culture and society.
This seminar-style course considers the practice of public history and questions of how public historical sites, museums, etc. present the past to the general community. Must be taken with HIS494.
Training in historical research methods through the critical reading of historical materials, primary research on selected topics, and the presentation of reports. Repeatable.
Selected topics courses are regularly scheduled courses that focus on a particular topic of interest. Descriptions are printed in the Schedule of Classes each semester. Selected topics courses may be used as elective credit and may be repeated for credit, provided that the topic of the course changes.
Students will hold an internship at a local historical site or organization and will work on individual projects, in consultation with the course instructor and the site supervisor. Can register for 2-3 credits; must also be registered for HIS491.
Restrictions: Must not be enrolled in the following class: Freshman
Independent study and writing of a thesis under the supervision of faculty. Successful completion of HIS496 and HIS497 with a minimum grade of B+ in each semester enables students to graduate with Honors in History, a distinction that appears on the College transcript.
Independent study and writing of a thesis under the supervision of faculty. Successful completion of HIS496 and HIS497 with a minimum grade of B+ in each semester enables students to graduate with Honors in History, a distinction that appears on the College transcript.
Medieval life and institutions, especially in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
Selected problems in American history studied as reflections of different historical interpretations; emphasis on the most recent scholarly developments. Of special interest to teachers of American history.
Topics in the history of colonial America.
Selected problems in the Revolutionary period; special attention to causes and nature of the American Revolution.
Selected problems in United States history from 1890 to the present. Topics selected from a broad range of possible areas of concentration, including social, intellectual, diplomatic, economic, and political issues.
Selected topics in the history of American society from 1880 to present, emphasis on newer methodologies of social history. Themes: urbanization, industrialization, immigration, ideas in their social context, and changing cultural values as expressed in literature, education, religion and the fine and performing arts.
Examines the social lives and experiences of Europeans from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Traces the dramatic change from the rural, agricultural societies of the early modern period to the urban, industrialized nations of the nineteenth century and the effect of this shift on ordinary men and women.
A study of the history, and historiography, of the political, economic and cultural contacts and interactions between societies of the Middle East and the West from the 18th century to the present.
Surveys the war from 1939 to 1945 as a phase of global history. Emphasis on relating diplomatic and military history to world-wide social, economic, scientific and political changes.
The origins, nature and consequences of America's involvement in Vietnam, the most important and traumatic episode in recent U.S. foreign policy.
An advanced introduction to the study of the interconnections among major civilizations of the world, beginning with pre-history; focuses on global history since 1500.
A historical overview of Buddhism and other religions of eastern, southeastern, and southern Asia. Topics include religious beliefs and their impact on the societies and cultures.
Histories of selected Native American nations in the territories that will become the United States.
An analysis of patterns of American immigration from the colonial era to the present. Traces old-world sources and examines similarities and differences in ethnic group behavior.
Selected topics courses are regularly scheduled courses that focus on a particular topic of interest. Descriptions are printed in the Schedule of Classes each semester. Selected topics courses may be used as elective credit and may be repeated for credit, provided that the topic of the course changes.
Restrictions: Must have the following level: Graduate
Restrictions: Must have the following level: Graduate
Restrictions: Must have the following level: Graduate
Restrictions: Must have the following level: Graduate
Source: State University of New York at New Paltz's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
