HIST 102 WESTERN CIVILIZATION II: SINCE 1648
A survey of the rise of capitalism, colonial expansion, evolution of modern
science, and the
Enlightenment, followed by a study of the French Revolution, and the
Industrial Revolution,
including urbanization, liberalism, socialism, nationalism, and the new
imperialism, World War I,
fascism, World War II, and the Cold War. Analysis of major trends since 1945
concludes the
course. Credit for HIST 102 and HIST 106 is not permissible.
3 s.h.
HIST 105 WORLD CIVILIZATION I
An introductory survey of world history to 1500. The course focuses on the
rise of the world's
major civilizations and religions. The emphasis is on the social and
political history of Europe, Asia,
Africa, and the Americas. Credit for HIST 101 and HIST 105 is not
permissible.
3 s.h.
HIST 106 WORLD CIVILIZATION II
A survey of world history from 1500 to the present. Major themes explored
include the rise to
dominance of Western society, colonialism, industrialism, decline of
colonial empires and the rise
of new states in the Third World. Credit for HIST 102 and HIST 106 is not
permissible.
3 s.h.
HIST 111 UNITED STATES HISTORY TO 1877
An introduction to U.S. history with special emphasis on the colonial
period, the American
Revolution, the New Nation, Westward Expansion, the Civil War, and
Reconstruction.
3 s.h.
HIST 112 UNITED STATES HISTORY, 1878 TO THE PRESENT
A survey of U.S. history with special emphasis on economic revolution, U.S.
involvement in World
War I, the Great Depression, the New Deal, World War II, the Cold War, and
contemporary America.
3 s.h.
HIST 120 PREHISTORY: ORIGINS OF HUMANKIND AND SOCIETY
An introduction to the biological and cultural origins of the human race and
human society. Major
topics include physical evolution, hunting and gathering societies, the
development of
agriculture, and the rise of complex societies.
3 s.h.
HIST 190 SPECIAL TOPICS IN HISTORY
Topics in history which are not carried in the catalogue on a regular basis.
The course may be
repeated for credit if the topic varies.
1-3 s.h.
HIST 210 MEN'S WORK/WOMEN'S WORK: EVERYDAY LIFE IN PRE- INDUSTRIAL EUROPE
A comparative survey of daily life in classical Athens, Augustan Rome, a
medieval village/castle
community, and Renaissance Florence. The course focuses on the forces that
shaped the daily
lives of ordinary men and women, including work, family, social life, and
religious belief.
3 s.h.
HIST 218 U.S. SOCIAL HISTORY, 1607-1877
An examination of significant themes in American social history with special
emphasis on work,
family life, education, culture, religion, social order, social mobility and
diverse population groups
including native Americans, African-Americans, and immigrants.
3 s.h.
HIST 219 U.S. SOCIAL HISTORY, 1877 TO THE PRESENT
A continuing examination of American social history with special emphasis on
family, class,
ethnicity, immigration, internal migration, urbanization, and the mass
media.
3 s.h.
HIST 230 MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE ENGLAND, C.400-1688
An exploration of the various forces - political, economic, cultural,
religious - which acted to
change England from a world of knights and kings to one of merchants,
land-owners, and
parliamentary government.
3 s.h.
HIST 231 EVOLUTION OF MODERN ENGLAND, 1688 TO THE PRESENT
A tracing of England's rise and fall as the world's first industrialized
nation in order to study the
origins, patterns, and possibilities of modern society.
3 s.h.
HIST 290 SPECIAL TOPICS IN HISTORY
Topics in history which are not carried in the catalogue on a regular basis.
The course may be
repeated for credit if the topic varies.
1-3 s.h.
HIST 307 ROMANS AND BARBARIANS: 31BC-800AD
Prerequisite: sophomore standing. A survey of culture and society from the
Golden Age of Rome
through the Germanic invasions to the Carolingian Renaissance, with an
emphasis on the
interpretation of surviving evidence (archeology, literature, laws, etc.)
3 s.h.
HIST 309 KNIGHTS, MONKS, AND PEASANTS: AD 800-1350
Prerequisite: sophomore standing. A survey of medieval culture and society
in which students
examine a wide variety of surviving evidence (poetry, architecture, memoirs,
etc.) with the goal of
better understanding how medieval people lived, worked and thought.
3 s.h.
HIST 312 RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION, 1350-1650
Prerequisite: sophomore standing. An examination of the Italian Renaissance
and the German
Reformation in their broad European context. The focus is on art,
literature, and music within the
political, social, and religious environment which laid the foundation for
the humanist values
imbedded in Western culture.
3 s.h.
HIST 320 THE TWENTIETH CENTURY WORLD
Prerequisite: sophomore standing. An in-depth survey of the forces and
conditions that led to
two world wars, the devastation of those wars, and the changes they wrought.
The focus is on
issues and problems and their world-wide impact. A consideration of the
potential for a third world
war and the global peace movement conclude the course.
3 s.h.
HIST 326 SUGAR, SLAVES, AND CLOTH: THE RISE OF THE ATLANTIC SOCIETY: 1500-1900
Prerequisites: sophomore standing. An exploration of the rise of the
plantation complex in the
Americas. The course discusses the growing social, economic, and political
connections between
Africa, the Americas, and Europe.
3 s.h.
HIST 332 THE HISTORY OF RUSSIA
Prerequisite: sophomore standing. Brief reviews of the earliest
Indo-European settlements
followed by study through the Kievan state to the emancipation of the serfs.
The course covers
the achievements and problems of late Czarist Russia, the Revolutions of 1917, the history of
Soviet Russia, and the present.
3 s.h.
HIST 333-334 INDEPENDENT STUDY IN HISTORY
See "Independent Study" on page 29.
1-3 s.h.
HIST 341 HISTORY OF MODERN GERMANY: 1848 TO THE PRESENT
Prerequisite: sophomore standing. A systematic examination of
constitutional, economic, social,
cultural and political issues at work as Germany moved from a collection of
monarchies to empire,
to republic, to dictatorship, and back to republic again. German
contributions to music, literature,
art, and philosophy are examined in their social and political contexts.
3 s.h.
HIST 345 WORLD WAR II
Prerequisites: sophomore standing. An approach to this world conflict from
the perspective of
total war and its impact on modern history. Topics include the politics and
diplomacy leading to the
war, the military conflict, and the human and material costs.
3 s.h.
HIST 354 CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION
Prerequisite: sophomore standing. An examination of the Peculiar
Institution, the anti- slavery
movement, the intensification of sectionalism, the secession crisis, why and
how war came, the
course and conduct of the war, and the reconstruction of the nation.
3 s.h.
HIST 359 THE UNITED STATES IN VIETNAM
Prerequisite: sophomore standing. An examination of U.S. policy in Vietnam
within the context of
Vietnamese history and culture with special emphasis on Vietnamese
nationalism, the French
colonial period, both Indochina Wars, and the evolution of U.S. policy from
the Truman presidency
through the Nixon administration.
3 s.h.
HIST 360 THE HISTORY OF PRE-COLONIAL AFRICA
Prerequisite: sophomore standing. A thematic survey of the history of Africa
up to the late 1890s
with special emphasis on the Neolithic revolution, the rise of African
states, the Transatlantic slave
trade, and the prelude to colonialism.
3 s.h.
HIST 361 AFRICA IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Prerequisite: sophomore standing. An examination of the origins of
colonialism and the conquest
in Africa. The development of the colonial society and economy is explored
on a regional basis.
The course ends with the rise of new independent African states.
3 s.h.
HIST 371 THE HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA
Prerequisite: sophomore standing. A brief survey of pre-Columbian American
cultures and
colonial Latin America, followed by study of the Wars of Independence and
the creation of the
independent countries of Latin America. The social, economic and political
dynamics of these
societies in the 19th and 20th centuries is discussed.
3 s.h.
HIST 380 THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN MEDICINE
Prerequisite: sophomore standing. A tracing from the late 18th century to
the present of three
inter-related themes: the intellectual history of our current system of
medicine, the social history of
the medical profession, and changing patterns of health and disease.
3 s.h.
HIST 390-94 SPECIAL TOPICS IN HISTORY
Prerequisite: sophomore standing. Topics of this course vary from year to
year depending on
faculty time and faculty and student interests. This course may be repeated
if topic differs.
3 s.h.
HIST 480-81 INTERNSHIP IN HISTORY
See "Internships," page 30.
HIST 490 SEMINAR IN HISTORY
Prerequisites: nine semester hours of history and junior standing or
permission of instructor. A
study of past and present methods of historiography and writing combines
with an in-depth
examination of a particular phase of history in which the student undertakes
research on a topic of
choice. This course may be repeated if the topic differs. All junior history
majors must register for
this class.
3 s.h.
HIST 495-96 SENIOR THESIS
Prerequisites: fifteen semester hours of history, senior standing, and
permission of instructor.
This two course sequence represents the capstone course of the history
major. Senior students
select a topic and in the first semester carry out supervised research. In
the second semester, the
students write up their projects under a faculty member's direction and
defend the final project
before the history faculty.
2 s.h. each.