Secondary - History

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take HIST-299; Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: A writing-intensive senior seminar in which History majors conduct significant independent research. The course is designed to give students an in-depth experience of reading critically both primary and secondary sources and of developing and defending a position as an historian does.

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take 3 credits; From Department HIST; From Level 100. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Examines the political, economic, social, and cultural transformation in the United States from 1815 until 1860. Major topics include the rise of democracy, states’ rights, the political party system, the onset of industrial capitalism, the Second Great […]

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take 3 credits; From Department HIST; From Level 100. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Survey of the African continent from human origins to the present. Major topics include the emergence and development of agriculture, varieties of African political organization, the spread of Christianity and Islam, colonization and resistance, the African Diaspora, […]

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take 3 credits; From Department HIST; From Level 100. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Study of military institutions and the military experience in American history from the Revolution to the present. Topics include causes, conduct, and consequences of war; impact of politics, diplomacy, and technology upon the armed forces in peace […]

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take 3 credits; From Department HIST; From Level 100. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: This course explores American history through novels, based on the idea that fiction offers a superb “window” through which to view the past, especially to understand the texture of American society. The main themes will be race, […]

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take 3 credits; From Department HIST; From Level 100. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Examination of the nature and legacy of change in American society, and values during the boom of the 1920s, the Great Depression, and the approach of war. One 100-level history course or permission of department is prerequisite […]

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take 3 credits; From Department HIST; From Level 100. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Study of the origins and development of the Constitution from the early 1600s until 1900. Topics that will be covered will be the foundations of constitutional law, the issue of sovereignty, the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual […]

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take 3 credits; From Department HIST; From Level 100. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Transition of the Old South into the New South: the Reconstruction period and the South in the 20th century. One 100-level history course or permission of department is prerequisite to all history courses above the 299 level.

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take 3 credits; From Department HIST; From Level 100. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: This course will examine the Civil War era in its broad cultural and social context beginning with a study of the divergent paths of the American people in the early 19th century and culminating in an examination […]

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take 3 credits; From Department HIST; From Level 100. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Analyzes the conduct of the United States in the sequence of events that led to the outbreak of World War II in Asia and Europe. Evaluates American military participation in the Allied war effort against the Axis. […]

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take 3 credits; From Department HIST; From Level 100. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Considers the history of Medieval Europe from the fall of Rome through the Hundred Years’ War. Special emphasis on the barbarian invasions, the medieval church, manorialism and feudalism, the Carolingian Empire, aspects of medieval economic history, the […]

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take 3 credits; From Department HIST; From Level 100. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: This course surveys the transition from the Old Regime to the Modern Age in Europe and Europe’s colonies from 1789 to 1815. The focus of the course will be the culture of politics, including the practices of […]