24 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.
United States history from Pre-Columbian America to the age of modern industry: the colonial heritage, American Revolution, the emergence of a new nation, westward expansion, Civil War and postwar Reconstruction.
The emergence of modern United States; its achievements and its problems; prosperity and depression, war and social unrest, Reconstructon through the Vietnam era and beyond.
This course examines the process and interplay of the major world cultures in their evolution. Civilizations include Indian, Muslem, East Asian (China, Korea, Japan), Slavic, Western European, Latin American, and African.
This course examines significant factors influencing change in the world’s major cultural areas; industrialization and urban conflict, the democratic revolution, and the rise of charasmatic leaders.
This course examines the history of Pennsylvania from colonial times to the present. The changes involved in social, economic, and political life are treated from internal and external points of view.
This course acquaints students who are considering history as a major or minor field of study with basic historiography and historical methodology. Students receive a hands-on introduction to historical research and writing, and learn about various schools of history to prepare them for upper level history courses.
This class will explore United States history from a variety of perspectives each semester. The focus of the class will vary between different historical time periods and topics to give students a broad-based overview while focusing on specific historical events. The topic varies by semester and the course is repeatable.
The course explores the history of African Americans from their western African origins until Reconstruction in the United States. It begins with various African civilizations and trade relationships with Europeans, then surveys the middle passage and complexity of US slavery. The last portion of the course examines the Black quest for freedom.
This course focuses on African Americans since 1877. It begins with Reconstruction then consistently examines African Americans’ fight for civil and human rights. It explores ‘agency’ and contributions of African Americans to the world. The course uses frameworks to examine the Black experience such as gender, region, age, and political expression.
This course is reading intensive and examines the key scholarship within AAAS and throughout the Black experience. It examines the evolution of the discipline, key scholars, themes, ideas, debates, theoretical/methodological frameworks used by scholars of AAAS. Students will acquire the skills to critically engage on interdisciplinary scholarship.
This class examines the history of national crisis of civil war and evaluates how it shaped the nation by ending chattel slavery; shaping and changing both North and South in the process of forging a united government and society and redressing historic wrongs.
This course aims to discuss and understand the social, political, cultural, and economic developments in American Society from the end of the Civil War (1865) through the First World War, ending in 1920. Commonly called the Gilded Age, Reconstruction, the Progressive era, and more we will consolidate it as the “Age of Reform.”
This course aims to discuss and understand the social, political, cultural, and economic developments in American Society from the 1920s through the 1960s. This era could be thought of as the peak of the “American Century,” and we will explore all the ways in which America and the world was transformed in this time frame.
This course traces the political and social history of U.S. foreign affairs from the Spanish-Cuban-American war to the modern War on Terrorism. Readings consist of a mixture of primary and secondary readings. The course traces the evolution of US foreign policy and attempts to analyze the causes of this evolution.
The origins and development of the American constitutional system, with special emphasis on those aspects of constitutional growth that relate closely to the fundamental rights, the structure of American government, and social order or conflicts.
This class will explore Global history from a variety of perspectives each semester. The focus of the class will vary between different historical time periods and topics to give students a broad-based overview while focusing on specific historical events. The topic varies by semester and the course is repeatable.
This course offers the history of sport in America as a legitimate subject for scholarly study. It presents sport as a pervasive facet of our popular culture, as a social institution, as an arena of human activity, as drama, even spectacle. The course emphasizes the history of sport as a study of cultural values and value conflict.
This class will explore United States history from a variety of perspectives each semester. The focus of the class will vary between different historical time periods and topics to give students a broad-based overview while focusing on specific historical events. The topic varies by semester and the course is repeatable.
This course is an overview of the methods and arenas of public history. Ethical issues of historical power and representation are the focus of the course. Hands-on work with archives, preservation, etc allow students to understand the challenges and rewards of practicing history in a public setting.
The significance and lasting influence of the 1930-1945 period of United States history from the onset of the Great Depression through the close of World War II, with a focus on major changes to American society, culture, politics, economy, and law.
This course examines the history of American working men and women from the colonial period to the present. It also explores the growth of the trade union movement and its socio-political and economic impact, and the nature of the work performed by labor and the way laboring people have lived.
This class will explore Global history from a variety of perspectives each semester. The focus of the class will vary between different historical time periods and topics to give students a broad-based overview while focusing on specific historical events. The topic varies by semester and the course is repeatable.
This course is a study of historians and their writings; changing interpretations of major topics in history; and historical research and writing. This course is a writing-intensive course.
0 TO 12 Application of historical methodologies to various professional environments, under faculty supervision.
Source: Pennsylvania Western University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
