2018-2019 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Department of History
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James R. Goff, Jr., Chair
Sheila R. Phipps, Assistant Chair
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The study of history is an essential part of a liberal arts education and provides valuable skills for careers in a wide range of professions, including law, journalism, public service, and business. Embracing a range of topics as broad as the human experience (economics, politics, culture, society, business, war, race and gender), history examines change over time through a series of investigative, analytical and expository techniques that comprise the historical method. The teaching of history focuses on research in sources, analysis and synthesis of evidence, problem solving, critical thinking, and understanding social processes. Accordingly, the skills embodied in historical method have wide application in the world of professional work.
The History Department teaches general education, undergraduate, and graduate courses offering a broad curriculum in local, national, regional, and world history. It has particular strengths in American, European, Asian, Latin American, and public history. The diversity of offerings discourages parochialism and encourages history majors to develop a sophisticated, comparative approach to human problems. Specialization within the major promotes an appreciation of the depth and complexity of human history. Finally, the discipline of history provides an intellectual challenge as well as a stimulus to the imagination and to analytical thinking.
Undergraduate Advisement
Information about history department programs can be obtained from one of the Undergraduate Advising Coordinators. Please contact the Department of History to find out when the Coordinators are available to assist students with academic scheduling, explain departmental and University requirements, and provide descriptions of new and existing courses and information on career development.
All BS programs are to be planned in consultation with an undergraduate advisor in the Department of History and are subject to the advisor’s approval. Students are urged to plan their programs as early as possible in their academic careers, but not later than three semesters before anticipated graduation.
Honors Program in History
The Department of History offers honors courses by honors contract which are open to students who have distinguished themselves. Honors courses carry full credit toward the major or, for non-majors, full elective credit. Subject to the recommendation of the departmental honors committee, a student will be considered for graduation with “honors in history” upon successful completion of one three hour 3000 or 4000 level honors course or HIS 3510 , the senior honors research course (HIS 4509 ), the senior honors thesis (HIS 4510 ), and a defense of the honor thesis. The three thesis hours can be substituted for HIS 4100 - Senior Seminar (3) . A grade of “B” or better is required to receive honors credit in any honors course.
ProgramsBachelor of ScienceBachelor of ArtsMinorCoursesHistory- HIS 1101 - World Civilization I (3)
- HIS 1102 - World Civilization II (3)
- HIS 1110 - History and Culture (3)
- HIS 1120 - Society and History (3)
- HIS 1130 - Themes in Global History (3)
- HIS 1200 - American History (3)
- HIS 1400 - World Empires (3)
- HIS 1501 - Revolution and Social Change in World History (3)
- HIS 1510 - Freshman Honors World Civilization I (3)
- HIS 1515 - Freshman Honors World Civilization II (3)
- HIS 1520 - Honors: Patterns of Global History (3)
- HIS 1525 - Honors: Problems in Global History (3)
- HIS 1700 - The Making of Europe (3)
- HIS 2101 - The World since 1945 (3)
- HIS 2150 - Animals, People, and History (3)
- HIS 2201 - Survey of American Civilization to 1876 (3)
- HIS 2204 - Survey of American Civilization since 1876 (3)
- HIS 2300 - Introduction to Holocaust and Judaic Studies (3)
- HIS 2301 - History of Colonial Latin America (3)
- HIS 2302 - History of Modern Latin America (3)
- HIS 2312 - Introduction to the Ancient Mediterranean World (3)
- HIS 2313 - The Middle Ages (3)
- HIS 2314 - European History 1348 to 1799 (3)
- HIS 2315 - European History 1789 to present (3)
- HIS 2320 - East Asian History: To 1600 (3)
- HIS 2322 - History of Traditional China (3)
- HIS 2340 - Modern East Asia (3)
- HIS 2421 - History of Africa to 1850 (3)
- HIS 2422 - History of Africa since 1850 (3)
- HIS 2500 - Independent Study (1-3)
- HIS 2510 - Sophomore Honors Topics in American Civilization to 1876 (3)
- HIS 2515 - Sophomore Honors Topics in American Civilization Since 1876 (3)
- HIS 2525 - The Americans: A Cultural History (3)
- HIS 2800 - Writing History (3)
- HIS 3122 - Ancient Greece (3)
- HIS 3124 - Roman Republic (3)
- HIS 3125 - Roman Empire (3)
- HIS 3136 - Spain from 1469 to present (3)
- HIS 3137 - Gender, Sex, and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe (3)
- HIS 3141 - Britain to 1688 (3)
- HIS 3142 - Britain Since 1688 (3)
- HIS 3143 - Medieval Ireland (3)
- HIS 3144 - The Vikings (3)
- HIS 3148 - The Making of British Democracy: Party and Politics, 1865-1951 (3)
- HIS 3149 - Britain’s “REEL” History: Monarchy and People on Film (3)
- HIS 3151 - Comparative Genocide in the Twentieth Century (3)
- HIS 3152 - Nazi Germany: History and Posthistory (3)
- HIS 3153 - The Road to Hitler (3)
- HIS 3154 - The Holocaust: Interpretation, Memory, and Representation (3)
- HIS 3155 - Russia: 16th to 20th Century (3)
- HIS 3156 - History of International Terrorism (3)
- HIS 3158 - Ethnic Conflict: East Versus West (3)
- HIS 3210 - Poverty: Theory and Practice (3)
- HIS 3222 - Colonial America (3)
- HIS 3223 - Revolutionary America (3)
- HIS 3224 - Antebellum America (3)
- HIS 3226 - The U.S. Civil War (3)
- HIS 3227 - History of U.S. Reconstruction (1863-1877) (3)
- HIS 3228 - The Gilded Age and Progressive Era (3)
- HIS 3229 - World War II (3)
- HIS 3230 - Recent United States History (3)
- HIS 3232 - Contemporary U.S. Political History (3)
- HIS 3233 - History of the American West (3)
- HIS 3235 - Mexican American History (3)
- HIS 3237 - Nature, Wilderness, and American Life (3)
- HIS 3238 - America’s National Parks (3)
- HIS 3239 - Country Music and American Culture (3)
- HIS 3240 - Race, Rock & Rebellion (3)
- HIS 3242 - The American Civil Rights Movement (3)
- HIS 3243 - History of American Popular Culture (3)
- HIS 3301 - History of the Southern Cone (3)
- HIS 3303 - History of Mexico (3)
- HIS 3304 - The Mexican Revolution (3)
- HIS 3305 - Comparative Revolutions (3)
- HIS 3306 - Indigenous Resistance in Modern Latin America (3)
- HIS 3308 - U.S.-Latin American Relations (3)
- HIS 3310 - Sports and the Making of the Americas (3)
- HIS 3322 - History of Modern China (3)
- HIS 3324 - History of Modern Japan (3)
- HIS 3330 - Introduction to Africana Studies (3)
- HIS 3332 - History of Modern India (3)
- HIS 3335 - History of the Middle East from Muhammad to the Present (3)
- HIS 3336 - The Revolutionary Middle East (3)
- HIS 3337 - History of Women and Gender in the Middle East (3)
- HIS 3338 - African Environmental History from Antiquity to 1500 (3)
- HIS 3339 - African Environmental History since 1500 (3)
- HIS 3340 - Afro-Atlantic Material Culture (3)
- HIS 3345 - Modern African History (3)
- HIS 3350 - African American History (3)
- HIS 3420 - History of Western Medicine and Public Health (3)
- HIS 3421 - History of Modern France (3)
- HIS 3422 - Women in European History (3)
- HIS 3423 - Women in American History (3)
- HIS 3424 - History of Women and the Law (3)
- HIS 3500 - Independent Study (1-3)
- HIS 3510 - Advanced Honors Seminar (3)
- HIS 3520 - Instructional Assistance (1)
- HIS 3522 - Pirates and Their Atlantic World (3)
- HIS 3524 - World Economic History (3)
- HIS 3526 - Business History (3)
- HIS 3528 - Comparative Labor History (3)
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