63 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.
HIST 1100European History I3
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This course examines the political, social (including gender roles), and intellectual history of Western society from the urban revolution in Mesopotamia to the later Middle Ages. Special emphasis is placed on the reading and analysis of primary historical sources. (Fall, Spring) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This is an introductory survey course in the history of Western society. This course acquaints students with some of the general interpretations of European and world history from the Age of Absolutism to the collapse of the Soviet Union. (As Needed) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This survey examines the political, social, cultural, economic, religious, scientific, and intellectual influences on the development of world civilizations to 1500 C.E. The emphasis is global, comparative, and multicultural. (Fall, Spring, Summer) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This survey examines the political, social, cultural, economic, religious, scientific, and intellectual influences on the development of Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe from 1500 to the present. The emphasis is global, comparative, and multicultural. (Fall, Spring, Summer) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee The fundamentals of American history including political, economic, and social development of American institutions and ideas. Successful completion of this course meets the American Institutions requirement established by the state legislature. (Fall, Spring, Summer) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This course traces the development and role of sport and athletics in ancient Greek and roman societies. Students will encounter and interpret ancient literary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence for ancient sport, as well as modern scholarship. In many respects, the study of athletics provides an important tool for understanding the norms, values, and ideals to which these cultures aspired. Therefore, in addition to the mechanics of the ancient festival programs and competitive events, this course will examine the relationships between athletics and society, focusing on various topics such as religion, myth, gender, violence, Athenian democracy, Spartan education, and Roman Imperial politics. (Fall) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee A political, social, and economic survey of the period, emphasizing the forces for American Independence, the development of the Constitution, the emergence of Jacksonian democracy, and the causes and aftermath of the Civil War. This is a designated Service-Learning course. (Fall, Summer) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee A continuation of HIST 2700 with emphasis on the emergence of modern corporate enterprise and the growth of the U.S. as a world power and the growing impulse to domestic reform in the 20th century. This is a designated Service-Learning course. (Spring, Summer) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $6 Fee This course is an interdisciplinary investigation of a different foreign country, global region, international culture, or diversity topic each year. Specific emphasis will be placed on history, culture, and contemporary relevance. This is the lower-division version of International History Month. This course cannot be taken simultaneously with HIST 3921 . (Spring) [Pass/Fail] Repeatable for Add’l Credit? Yes
Credit(s) | $6 Fee This course is an investigation of African American people. Its focus is their history, culture, and contributions to American society. This is the lower-division version of Black History Month. This course cannot be taken simultaneously with HIST 3922 . (Spring) [Pass/Fail] Repeatable for Add’l Credit? Yes
Credit(s) | $6 Fee This course is an investigation of Native American people. Its focus is their history, culture, and contributions to American society. This is the lower-division version of Native American History Month. This course cannot be taken simultaneously with HIST 3923 . (Fall - Odd Years) [Pass/Fail] Repeatable for Add’l Credit? Yes
Credit(s) | $6 Fee This course explores the diversity of Hispanic heritage through films, guest lectures, and special events. The focus is on their history, geography, culture, and contributions to American society. This is the lower-division version of Hispanic Heritage History Month. This course cannot be taken simultaneously with HIST 3924 . (Fall - Even Years) [Pass/Fail] Repeatable for Add’l Credit? Yes
Credit(s) | $18 Fee American setting before the discovery of the New World, the attitudes of various European governments toward Native Americans, United States policies governing Indian issues, and removal of Indian and reservation policies. (Summer) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee An examination of history through literature and an interdisciplinary humanities approach. The literature examined will concentrate on historiography and biography. Biographies will include major and minor historical and political figures. (Fall, Spring) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This course is designed for students who want to study history in deeper and more engaged ways. As a foundational upper-level class, HIST 3100 is a requirement for history majors, and it is a pre-requisite for the senior-level capstone class,
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This course follows the development of sports in America from folk games during the colonial period to the age of television. Topics will include the rise of organized sports, the popularization of professional and college sports, and the television age. (Spring) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This course introduces undergraduates to the history and challenges of studying rock and roll as a social cultural force. Students will learn about the various ways in which rock and roll influenced American society including issues of race, sexuality, language, fashion, and conflicts between generations. Students will also explore the relationship between rock and roll and the social and political climate in which it was created. The course emphasizes the unprecedented challenges this musical style faced during the early years and the way it provided relevance to an ever-more-diverse society. (Summer) [Graded Letter]
HIST 3350Leadership, Citizenship, and the American Founding3
Credit(s) | $18 Fee Through lectures, readings, discussions, and debates, this course offers students the opportunity to learn about the contested meanings of leadership and citizenship in America’s Founding Era. Students will also practice good citizenship by putting the principles of the American Founding into action on-campus and/or in their local community through an independent, project-based community engagement activity. (As Needed) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This course introduces students to the field of public history, teaches skills in historical interpretation and archival research, and explores the challenges of presenting the past to a variety of audiences and contexts. This course will balance lecture, media experiences, primary document analysis, interpretive tours, and group projects in an effort to expose students to the diversity of historical contexts and the difficulty in interpreting the past for public consumption: in museums, archives, television, podcasts, libraries, and digital spaces. (As Needed) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee History 3620 explores major issues and the historical experiences of African Americans from the colonial era to the end of Reconstruction. Significant topics include the development and consequences of racial slavery, the slave trade, the evolution of African American culture, and persistent efforts by African American men and women to promote freedom, equality, and full citizenship. (Fall [As Needed], Spring [As Needed], Summer [As Needed]) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee History 3630 explores major issues and the historical experiences of African Americans since 1877. Significant topics include the impact of Jim Crow segregation, leaders such as Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Barack Obama, the “Great Migration,” and ongoing efforts by African American men and women to sustain the modern civil rights movement. (As Needed) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This course surveys the history of Latin America from the pre-Columbian era to the present. Topics covered include Aztec and their indigenous empires, Spanish and Portuguese imperialism, slavery, Catholicism, Wars of Independence, nation-building, economic development, Liberal reforms, industrialization, Mexican and other revolutions, the World Wars, postwar modernization, and Neo-Liberalism. (Fall, Summer - Odd Years) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee Explores the causes, course, conduct, consequences, and legacies of the American Civil War, from the 1840s to 1877. Broad political, social, military, and economic aspects of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras will be covered. (As Needed) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee A history of the American frontier from European exploration to the American trans-Mississippian frontier to the present. Topics include exploration, geography, exploitation, folk migrations, and the political, social, and economic history of the American West. (Summer) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This course introduces undergraduates to the history and challenges of creating and maintaining the places and programs that make up the U.S. national park system. Students will learn about the variety of resources, values, viewpoints, and ideas that are represented in the more than 400 units of the national park system, which stretches from Guam to Maine and Alaska to the Virgin Islands. The role of the federal agency in charge of the parks, the National Park Service (NPS), will be explored, including its work in community recreation and historic preservation. The course emphasizes the unprecedented challenges the national parks faced during the early years, the role of tourism, and the need to make the parks relevant to an ever-more-diverse society. (As Needed) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee Geography and native peoples; early explorations; political, social, and economic developments to the present. (Fall, Spring, Summer) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This course covers the American Southwest from prehistoric times to the present and reviews Native American, Spanish, Mexican, and American history. Major themes include the multi-cultural interaction in the area and economic development since the 17th century, including land and water use. (Summer - Odd Years) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $6 Fee This course is an interdisciplinary investigation of a different foreign country, global region, international culture, or diversity topic each year. Specific emphasis will be placed on history, culture, and contemporary relevance. This is an upper-division course that requires more reading and writing than the lower-division version. This course cannot be taken simultaneously with HIST 2921 . (Spring) [Pass/Fail] Repeatable for Add’l Credit? Yes
Credit(s) | $6 Fee This course is an investigation of African American people. Its focus is their history, culture, and contributions to American society. This is an upper-division course that requires more reading and writing than the lower-division version. This course cannot be taken simultaneously with HIST 2922 . (Spring) [Pass/Fail] Repeatable for Add’l Credit? Yes
Credit(s) | $6 Fee This course is an investigation of Native American people. Its focus is their history, culture, and contributions to American society. This is an upper-division course that requires more reading and writing than the lower-division version. This course cannot be taken simultaneously with HIST 2923 . (Fall - Odd Years) [Pass/Fail] Repeatable for Add’l Credit? Yes
Credit(s) | $6 Fee This course explores the diversity of Hispanic heritage through films, guest lectures, and special events. The focus is on their history, geography, culture, and contributions to American society. This is an upper-division course that requires more reading and writing than the lower-division version. This course cannot be taken simultaneously with HIST 2924 . (Fall - Even Years) [Pass/Fail] Repeatable for Add’l Credit? Yes
Credit(s) | $18 Fee A history of the Greek world from earliest times, through the Bronze Age, the Dark and Archaic Periods, and Classical Greece down to the end of the Peloponnesian War. (Spring) [Graded Letter]
HIST 4415Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic World3
Credit(s) | $18 Fee A history of the Greek world from the end of the Peloponnesian War, through the conquests of Alexander the Great, the disintegration of his empire, and the loss of Greek independence with the coming of Rome. (Spring, As Needed) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee In this course the emergence and development of medieval European civilization from the collapse of the Western Roman Empire to the opening of the Renaissance Era are examined. (As Needed) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee Begins with the history of early Christianity and surveys the growth of Medieval Christianity, the history of the papacy, interactions with secular authorities, the Crusades, dissenting and reform movements, and the variety of medieval spirituality and practice. (As Needed) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee Europe between 1300 and 1515 with special attention to the Renaissance in Italy. Topics include the Black Death, the late medieval Church, its structure and spirituality, Renaissance humanism and art, the rise of nation-states, and European exploration. (As Needed) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee Europe in the sixteenth century with special emphasis on the various “reformation” movements and their religious, social, political, and cultural agendas and outcomes, including the witch-hunts. (As Needed) [Graded Letter]
HIST 4460Europe in the Age of Revolution: 1789-18483
Credit(s) | $18 Fee HIST 4460 will introduce students to the intellectual legacy of the 19th century. Our approach will be critical and stress trans-national perspectives that include the United States. We will challenge students to understand and analyze the ideas and movements that have shaped the early 19th century: nationalism, romanticism, liberalism, and conservatism. (Spring) [Graded Letter]
HIST 4461Europe in the Age of Nation-States: 1848-19143
Credit(s) | $18 Fee History 4461 will introduce students to the legacy of the 19th century in the context of European and global politics. Our approach will be critical and stress global perspectives that include the United States in the international context. We will challenge students to understand and analyze the ideas and movements that have shaped the modern world: nationalism, Imperialism, and feminism. (Spring) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee In this course, recent and formative scholarship, as well as primary sources, on selected topics relevant to medieval and early modern Europe are examined. A different major theme such as “popular” and “official” cultures, the growth of law and legal systems, medicine and science, and peasants’ urban work and lifestyles. The topics examined will be changed every two (2) years. (As Needed) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee In this lecture and reading course, we will examine recent scholarship on significant topics in modern European history only touched upon in survey courses. Topics will be changed every two years. (Spring) [Graded Letter] Repeatable for Add’l Credit? Yes
HIST 4480Europe in the 20th Century: The Age of Conflict and Revolution3
Credit(s) | $18 Fee Europe since World War I and the rise and character of international organizations and World War II, including postwar international problems and domestic development since 1945. (As Needed) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee The Nazi dictatorship amounted to the collapse of civilization. Why Hitler? Why the Holocaust? This course is designed to help students come to terms with such questions as we examine the origins, course, and fate of the Third Reich. (Fall) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This is a one-semester lecture course in European and American military history. The course begins with the classical warfare of the 18th century and traces social and technical developments that have influenced the conduct of war. Begins with Frederick the Great and works forward to the Arab-Israeli conflict of 1973. (Fall) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee English history from the Roman conquest to the dawn of the early modern era, including discussion of key events in Scotland and Ireland. This course gives special attention to institutions and ideas that created a national society and formed England’s constitutional development (first to sixteenth centuries). (Fall) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee A study of England, Scotland, and Ireland in the era in which the Reformation unfolded, a civil war was fought, and a monarchial and parliamentary revolution was achieved, in the midst of England’s cultural flowering (ca. 1485 to 1689). (Spring, Summer) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee An examination of the European witch-hunts from ca. 1100-1700. Secondary scholarship and primary sources will be read and discussed in order to understand the pre-conditions and circumstances surrounding the witch trials. Special emphasis is given as to why women represented overwhelmingly the majority of defendants in trials. (Spring) [Graded Letter]
HIST 4600Women in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Europe3
Credit(s) | $18 Fee Examines the roles, status, treatment, and experiences of women, as well as cultural attitudes about gender, from antiquity through early modern Europe, including study of the witch-hunts. (Fall) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee Topical history of issues on the African continent including slave trade, its abolition, pre-colonial era, colonialism, independence movements, and the emergence of the modern African state. (As Needed) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee From time to time, faculty will offer a course pertaining to a special area of interest or a particularly timely topic under this course number. Course topics can address any time period or region of study. Both the class schedule and handouts in the department office will provide further information as to what is being offered under this special topics title. (Fall, Spring, Summer) [Graded Letter] Repeatable for Add’l Credit? Yes
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This course offers a detailed social, economic, and political examination of the colonial period of United States history from the earliest settlement to a study of Independence and the Constitutional convention. (Summer) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee A study of the New Nation, the War of 1812, and the Jacksonian Era, placing special emphasis on the increasing political, social, and economic democratization of the United States together with the difficulties created by change. (As Needed) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee A study of American expansion and its contributions to sectional rivalry leading to the Civil War. The Civil War and Reconstruction, the rise of corporate industry to a position of dominance in American life, and the emergence of the United States as a world power through industrial growth and imperial war are studied. (Spring) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee American participation in world conflict set against a domestic background of agrarian protest and urban progressivism and a political, economic, and social analysis of the dislocations of the 1920s, the Great Depression, the New Deal, and American participation in World War II. (Fall - Odd Years) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee A political, economic, and social analysis of the post-World War II years. The continuing issues of the post-war decades are examined in the light of growing American responsibilities. (Fall) [Graded Letter]
HIST 4760The History of Gender in Early America to 18653
Credit(s) | $18 Fee Students will explore how people in early America constructed notions of masculinity and femininity and how those ideas about gender shaped the lives of men and women from 1607 to 1865. (As Needed) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This course seeks to understand the historical origins of the modern, media-dominated culture of the United States. Topics covered include invention of the printing press, pamphlets of the American Revolution, Abolitionist newspapers, Yellow Journalism, political cartooning, muckrakers, war correspondents, the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, Watergate, and the Digital Revolution. (Spring) [Graded Letter]
HIST 4780The History of Gender in America Since 18653
Credit(s) | $18 Fee Students will explore how people in 19th and 20th century America constructed notions of masculinity and femininity and how those ideas about gender shaped the lives of men and women from 1865 to the present. (Fall [As Needed], Spring [As Needed]) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $6 per credit Fee A one-on-one directed readings class with a chosen professor on a topic of mutual interest not currently covered in the existing course offerings. Course Outcomes: to help students learn how to generate high quality research ideas, draft research proposals, conduct primary and secondary source research, write analytical research papers, and participate in seminar style discussions. (As Needed) [Pass/Fail] Repeatable for Add’l Credit? Yes
Credit(s) | $6 per credit Fee Practical experience in history. No more than six (6) credit hours will be applied to one’s major, three (3) to a minor; remaining credit hours will be counted as elective hours outside the major or minor. (As Needed) [Pass/Fail] Repeatable for Add’l Credit? Yes
Credit(s) | $18 Fee An examination of the theory and practice of research and writing history, including formulation of hypotheses, research proposal development, resources, bibliography, and completing a project of original, scholarly research with an emphasis on the Americas or Eurasia that is subjected to the evaluation of other members of the class. (Fall, Spring, Summer) [Graded Letter]
Minimum of 12 credits of upper-division HIST courses Registration Restriction(s): Senior standing required
HIST 6820History of the National Parks3
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This course introduces graduate students to the history and challenges of creating and maintaining the places and programs that make up the U.S. national park system. Students will learn about the variety of resources, values, viewpoints, and ideas that are represented in the more than 400 units of the national park system, which stretches from Guam to Maine and Alaska to the Virgin Islands. The role of the federal agency in charge of the parks, the National Park Service (NPS), will be explored, including its work in community recreation and historic preservation. The course emphasizes the unprecedented challenges the national parks faced during the early years, the role of tourism, and the need to make the parks relevant to an ever-more-diverse society. (Fall [As Needed]) [Graded Letter]
