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HISTORY COURSE LIST &
DESCRIPTIONS
HST 1101 Foundations in Western Civilization from Ancient Times
to the Enlightenment
HST 1102 Foundations in Western Civilization since the
Enlightenment
HST1103 Topics in Western Civilization
HST 1104 War in the West from Rome to the Present
HST 1105 The Marketplace in Historical Change
HST 1201 American Beginnings [to 1800]
HST 1202 American Expansions [1800-1918]
HST 1203 American Aspirations [1914 to present]
HST 1401 Foundations of African History
HST1501 Introduction to East Asian Civilization
HST 1601 Foundations of Latin American Civilization
HST1701 Foundations of Middle Eastern History
HST1xxx Special Topics
HST 2103 The Second World War: A Global History
HST2111 Britain, Pre-Roman to 1660
HST2112 Britain, 1660-1990
HST2201 American Identities
HST2202 American Moments.
HST2205 North Carolina: Perspectives on a State’s History.
HST2212 Native Americans and Europeans: Encounters in Early
America.
HST2215 Comparative Slavery and Bound Labor Systems.
HST2217 Slavery and Freedom in America.
HST2220 Revolutionary America.
HST2223 American Legal History.
HST2227 The Struggle for Control: A History of American Business
and Labor.
HST2230 Civil War and Reconstruction.
HST2235 U.S. in the World: American Foreign Relations.
HST2242 Men/Women, War/Peace: American Gender History, 1840-1990
HST 2247 Race Relations: America’s Long Civil Rights Movement
HST 2251 Hollywood and American History
HST2301 The Canadian Experiment.
HST2511 Chinese History
HST2521 Japanese History
HST 2601 Colonial Latin America
HST 2602 Modern Latin America
HST2701 The Modern Middle East.
HST2901 Historiography
HST 2xxx Special Topics
HST3104 Renaissance and Reformation.
HST 3105 Empires, Soldier Kings and Philosophers (formerly 348)
HST 3106 The French Revolution and Napoleon
HST 3107 The Age of Revolutions and the Birth of Modern Europe,
1815-1914
HST 3108 Europe in Crisis, 1914 to 1945
HST 3121. Modern Russia.
HST3191 European Economic History.
HST 3211 Case Studies in American Legal History
HST 3212 American Thought and Culture
HST 3214 Place and Space in American History
HST 3218 Asian America
HST 3221 The Atlantic World in Transition
HST 3222 Enlightenment and Revelation: Rational and Irrational
in America
HST 3231 Creating the American Consumer, 1850-1929
HST 3241 Sex and the City: American Women and the Urban
Landscape
HST 3243 Cuba Libre: American & Cuban Culture under Castro
HST3245 Bombs and Ballet: the Cultural Cold War
HST 3262 America Consumed: Mall Rats & Made in the U.S.A.:
Postwar Consumption at Home & Abroad
HST3501 United States and East Asia
HST3511 Revolutionary China
HST3521 Rise of Modern Japan
HST 3601 Pre-Columbian Civilizations
HST 3602 Native Peoples of Latin America
HST 3603 Consumption and Material Culture in Latin America
HST 3611 History of Mexico
HST 3621 History of Brazil
HST3701/PSC3701 The United States and the Middle East since 1945
HST3702 The Arab-Israeli Conflict.
HST 3901 History Detectives
HST 3902 A Lens on History
HST 3903 Public History
HST 3904 Oral History
HST3905 Student Intern Program
HST 3908 History on the Road
HST 3909 Collaborative Research
HST 3xxx Special Topics
HST4001 Senior Seminar.
HST 1101 Foundations in Western
Civilization from Ancient Times to the Enlightenment
This course is a survey of Western civilization from its
foundations to the eighteenth century, including the evolution
of Western society, politics, culture and ideas will be
examined.
HST 1102 Foundations in Western Civilization since the
Enlightenment
This course is a survey of Western civilization since the
eighteenth century including the emergence of modern thought,
politics, economy, society and empire.
HST1103 Topics in Western Civilization
This course explores special topics in Western Civilization.
HST 1104 War in the West from Rome to the Present
This course is an exploration of war and society in Western
Civilization from Rome to the present. The course will examine
the nature of war and warfare, in addition to the social and
cultural dynamic of conflict in the west.
HST 1105 The Marketplace in Historical Change
This course is an analysis of economic factors and commercial
activity in Western Civilization from the Ancient World to the
present. These factors will be used as the prism through which
the class will study the transformation of societies in Western
Civilization.
HST 1201 American Beginnings [to 1800]
This course is a survey of Native American contact with
Europeans, cultural interactions in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries, and the Revolution that created the United
States.
HST 1202 American Expansions [1800-1918]
This course is a survey ranging from the presidency of Thomas
Jefferson through World War I. This class will explore a variety
of expansions that occurred in the United States over this
period, including territorial increase and its consequences, the
extension of markets, transportation and industry across the
continent, the enlargement of the voting public and its access
to the political system, and the shift in individual and
community perspectives as the nation grew from a collection of
relatively isolated rural communities into a mobile and
increasingly connected national populace.
HST 1203 American Aspirations [1914 to present]
This course is a survey covering World War I through the present
day. This course will investigate America’s rise to a world
power during the 20th century, paying particular attention to
moments when popular, groundswell movements either bolstered
America’s strength or shook its very structures. Topics covered
will include: the state and social reform; structural expansion
(physical and economic/domestic and international); (re)division
of racial and gender roles; communist containment; the liberal
arc and the reinvigorated right; and America’s global role at
the dawn of a new century.
HST 1401 Foundations of African History
This course addresses the major themes in African history from
earliest times through African independence. The course examines
traditional African social, economic, religious, and political
institutions, the African slave trade and the Continent’s
encounter with the West, the conquest of Africa, colonial rule,
and decolonization and self-rule of African states.
HST1501 Introduction to East Asian Civilization
This survey aims to introduce students to the cultural
foundations of East Asia. In a chronological order, it will
illustrate and discuss the origins and evolution of East Asian
traditions such as Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, Shinto
religion and their role in shaping institutions such as the
state and family.
HST 1601 Foundations of Latin American Civilization
This course is a general introduction to the history and society
of the region. Major topics to examine are the development of
the pre-Columbian civilizations, the Spanish and Portuguese
colonialism, the modern societies, and the current challenges of
globalization.
HST1701 Foundations of Middle Eastern History
This course examines the history of the Middle East from the
time of Muhammad and the establishment of Islam in the early
seventh century, through the Arab conquest and the time of the
Arab caliphates, the time of the Ottoman Empire, the age of
European imperialism, and into the modern era.
HST1xxx Special Topics
Variable credit. May be repeated.
HST 2103 The Second World War: A Global History
This course will explore the military history of the Second
World War in the Mediterranean, European and the Pacific
Theaters. It will examine the origins and course of the war,
strategy, operations, occupation policy and the Holocaust.
HST2111 Britain, Pre-Roman to 1660
This course is a survey of Britain from the earliest times until
the Restoration in 1660. Featured will be studies of
constitutional development, the role of religion, and interplay
with the continent of Europe.
HST2112 Britain, 1660-1990
This course is a survey of Britain and its empire from Charles
II to the end of Mrs. Thatcher’s term as prime minister.
Featured will be studies of growth of parliament, the economic
transformation of Britain, the creation and end of empire, and
Britain as a world power.
HST2201 American Identities
This course will explore the factors that have helped Americans
to shape their own biographical identities and how those factors
have changed over time. Students will examine a variety of
biographical and autobiographical projects as a vehicle for
exploring the disparate methods for constructing an American
identity.
HST2202 American Moments.
A course focused on particular years or decades in American
history, studying decisive events, people, and changes in the
context of broader themes in the United States. The course will
focus on the chronological moment and its legacy in historical
and popular memory. [Selection of chronological moments will
vary with the assigned instructors for the sections of the
course.]
HST2205 North Carolina: Perspectives on a State’s History.
This course addresses selected topics in the history of the
state of North Carolina, its people, and its role in national
and international contexts.
HST2212 Native Americans and Europeans: Encounters in Early
America.
A study of exploration, exchange, and settlement as Native
Americans and newcomers negotiated over territories and land
usage, and a newly created United States developed continental
ambitions. Students will explore the geography of expansion and
land use, cultural clashes and exchanges, debates and
negotiations over control, and many intermediary contested
grounds
HST2215 Comparative Slavery and Bound Labor Systems.
This course is a comparative exploration of several slave
systems in the world (African/Southwest Asian/American) with
consideration of slavery’s development and evolution over time.
Students would have readings on all topic areas, discussions,
and both topically specific AND comparative paper assignments
based on scholarly secondary sources.
HST2217 Slavery and Freedom in America.
This course explores systems of labor, exploitation, and racism,
which developed in the American colonies and early United
States. We will also study African American cultures and
anti-slavery movements emerging in America during the
enlightenment and revolutionary age.
HST2220 Revolutionary America.
This course will trace the origins, experience, and legacies of
the independence movement of the American colonists from
England. We will explore the tensions leading to the break, the
many participants and their quests, and the contests over the
meaning and memory of the revolution and creation of the
American republic.
HST2223 American Legal History.
This course will provide an introduction to the history of
American law and its relationship to other aspects of American
society. We will explore topics such as the origins of American
law, the legal aspects of revolution and building a new federal
nation, the impact of law on the territorial and economic
expansions of the nineteenth century, and the rise to prominence
of issues of civil rights and civil liberties during the
twentieth century. In addition, students will learn introductory
components of legal research, reading and writing.
HST2227 The Struggle for Control: A History of American
Business and Labor.
This course examines the rise of American industry across the
19th and early 20th century, the development of monopoly
capitalism, and the managerial middle class and the consequent
creation of a working-class consciousness and the labor union
movement. Coverage would include both agricultural and
industrial labor from the late colonial period through the 20th
century; the importance of technology; the labor union movement
and labor struggles; women’s labor; and the impact of
globalization. Students would, of course, have readings in all
areas and written papers; but would also have possibilities of
individual or group projects, including oral histories of
farmers/industrial workers/skilled craftspeople/union or
anti-union supporters, etc., taken in the general High
Point/Central Carolina area and used for class reports/papers.
HST2230 Civil War and Reconstruction.
This course will explore sectional discord and secession, the
war and its impact on the soldiers and the home front, the
efforts to reconstruct the nation in the decade after the war,
and the contests over the meaning and memory of war.
HST2235 U.S. in the World: American Foreign Relations.
This course will serve as an introduction to America’s
relationship with the broader world, with a specialized
sub-focus on policy developments in one of four regions: Asia;
Latin America; the Middle East; and Europe. Special attention
will be paid to the concept of the nation-state and discussion
surrounding empire, imperialism, colonialism (Orientalism,
colonial and postcolonial theory), containment, dependency
theory, and globalization.
HST2242 Men/Women, War/Peace: American Gender History,
1840-1990
This course will allow students to evaluate the role gender has
played in shaping American society, with particular attention
paid to how moments of stability (peace) or instability (war)
prompted either the revision or affirmation of standard gender
roles. Topics covered will include: Seneca Falls Women’s
Convention, the Civil War’s impact on femininity, the emergence
of the Dandy and the Fop, Progressivism and birth control,
Depression-era manhood, Rosie the Riveter, the Feminine
Mystique, NOW, Roe v. Wade and the ERA.
HST 2247 Race Relations: America’s Long Civil Rights Movement
Popular conceptions of the civil rights movement center around
the 1950s and 60s: Brown v. Board of Education, Greensboro’s
Woolworth sit-in, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr., SNCC
and CORE. But equal rights agitation did not appear whole cloth
postwar. This course will introduce students to the long civil
rights movement. Students will chart, from the
turn-of-the-century forward, the ways the movement started and
stalled, changed players and paths, and finally birthed the
action of the 1960s and beyond. Particular attention will be
paid to local individuals and locations for case studies and
sources.
HST 2251 Hollywood and American History
In this course, students will examine a variety of events,
issues, and eras of American history as seen through the lens of
Hollywood studios. Students will be introduced to the field of
history and memory as we watch one film each week, compare the
film treatment to other interpretations of the same subject, and
discuss how our collective memories of our past are constructed
and revised.
HST2301 The Canadian Experiment.
This course examines Canadian history from the perspective of
the peculiar arrangement of its population. Approximately eighty
percent of Canada’s population resides in a ribbon about one
hundred miles deep and about three thousand miles wide. This
pattern underpins the study of Canadian history and its
institutions.
HST2511 Chinese History
This course surveys the origins and evolution of the Chinese
nation from ancient times to the early 20th century. It will
discuss and explain the emergence of the Chinese nation, the
development of Chinese culture in the pre-modern period and the
revolutionary transformation of Chinese culture in modern times.
HST2521 Japanese History
This course surveys the origins and evolution of the Japanese
nation from ancient to modern times. It will illustrate and
explain topics such as the beginnings of the Japanese nation,
the rise of the Yamato state, Japanese adoption of Chinese
culture in medieval times, the Meiji Revolution and Japan’s
self-destruction in the 20th century.
HST 2601 Colonial Latin America
This survey explores the history of the region after the
‘discovery’ of the New World. This course explores the
interactions between Amerindians, Europeans, and Africans. The
experiences of Spaniards and Portuguese are contrasted and
compared as well as the vibrant and creative responses of the
native populations.
HST 2602 Modern Latin America
The independence of Latin American countries marks a turning
point in the history of the region. This course examines the
significant changes occurred from the 1820s to the present
times. Changes in terms of economy, politics, ideas, and society
are some of the major issues discussed in this course.
HST2701 The Modern Middle East.
This course examines political, economic, intellectual and
religious, and cultural developments that have occurred in the
Middle East from the late seventeenth century through recent
times. The course emphasizes the challenges that political and
economic modernity as well as imperialism have made to
indigenous institutions and the responses that arose to such
challenges.
HST2901 Historiography
This course is required for all history majors, and will
initiate the student to the method and orientation of historical
research. Prerequisites: History majors with sophomore or
advanced standing; or permission of instructor.
HST 2xxx Special Topics
Variable credit. May be repeated.
HST3104 Renaissance and Reformation.
This course attempts to integrate the Renaissance and Protestant
Reformation through a focus on humanism and its role in the
creation and spread of the Reformation. Prerequisite: HST1101
or permission of instructor.
HST 3105 Empires, Soldier Kings and Philosophers (formerly
348)
The course will explore the history of Early Modern Europe from
1603-1789. It was an age of profound change that included the
Military Revolution, absolutism, Enlightenment, state-building,
cultural and social developments, and the emergence of
commercial economies.
Prerequisite: HST 1100 level or permission of instructor.
HST 3106 The French Revolution and Napoleon
This course will explore the political, diplomatic, military,
social and intellectual impact of the French Revolution and
Napoleonic Era upon France and Europe. Themes will include the
origins and course of the Revolution, the Reign of Terror,
Europe’s response to the Revolution, and the rise and fall of
Napoleon’s empire.
Prerequisite HST 1100 level or permission of instructor.
HST 3107 The Age of Revolutions and the Birth of Modern
Europe, 1815-1914
The course will examine the political, diplomatic, economic,
social, military and intellectual development of Europe from the
Congress of Vienna to the First World War. The industrial
revolution, the revolutionary movements, unification of Italy
and Germany, and the age of imperialism are all topics to be
explored.
Prerequisite HST 1100 level or permission of instructor.
HST 3108 Europe in Crisis, 1914 to 1945
This course will explore the political, diplomatic, military,
social and economic developments in Europe from World War I
through World War II. Themes will include the changing nature of
European politics and society, the rise of Communism, Fascism
and Nazism and the impact of the World Wars upon Europe.
Prerequisite HST 1100 level or permission of instructor.
HST 3121. Modern Russia.
This course is a study of political, economic, social, and
intellectual developments that occurred in Russia and the former
Soviet Union during the last two centuries. Prerequisite HST
1100 level or permission of instructor.
HST3191 European Economic History.
This course will be an examination of the role economic activity
played in the rise of Europe in world affairs. The course will
review the “early Renaissance” of the 11th and 12th centuries
along with a critique of medieval commerce prior to a more
thorough examination of how the “commercial revolution” and
banking changes of the early Renaissance era began the
integration of the European economy. The course will end with
the creation of the integrated European community, post WWII.
Featured in the length of the course will be studies of the
industrial revolutions, technological changes, modern banking,
alteration of government laws to facilitate trade, and the role
of empire in economic strength. Prerequisite: HST1102 or
permission of instructor.
HST 3211 Case Studies in American Legal History
This course will focus on a single topic in American legal
history; possibilities include constitution writing, the history
of family law, or interpretations of the 14th Amendment. Through
this more focused process, students will gain more insight into
the factors that cause interpretations of law to change over
time.
Prerequisite: American Legal History (HST2223) or permission of
the instructor.
HST 3212 American Thought and Culture
This class will introduce students to the ideas that have shaped
American cultures. Students will explore writings, paintings,
films, and other forms of expression in an effort to understand
how the ideas of both elites and less reputable members of
society become absorbed into the mainstreams of American
society.
Prerequisite: One 1000 or 2000 level history course or
permission of the instructor.
HST 3214 Place and Space in American History
A study of American historical geography and the importance of
place and space in American history. Topics will include the
study of rural, urban, and suburban regions, their development,
and their relationships, regionalism and regional identities,
and the role of expansion in American history. Prerequisite:
One 1000 or 2000 level history course or permission of the
instructor.
HST 3218 Asian America
This seminar will introduce students to the experiences of Asian
Americans. In an interdisciplinary approach, it will combine
history with literary texts to demonstrate and explain the
trials and triumphs of Asian immigrants and their descendants in
the United States.
Prerequisite: One 1000 or 2000 level history course or
permission of the instructor.
HST 3221 The Atlantic World in Transition
This is a reading/discussion/writing course---with a heavy
emphasis on cultural development and gaining a better
understanding of America’s connections to the world. The
Atlantic World in Transition is an examination of European,
Native American and West African cultures from the immediate
“pre-exploration” period of the early 15th century, through
first contact situations and the transitional period of cultural
exchange from the 17th through 18th centuries. Concentration is
given to 1) Western European societies
(Spain/Portugal/England/France/The Low Countries) from the eve
of exploration through early colonization efforts, including the
developing rivalries over territory in the Americas; 2) Meso-American
and Eastern Woodland civilizations in the pre-contact period,
the effects of early contact and how relationships evolved with
various European arrivals; 3) West African societies and the
changes wrought in them by increased European contact, both at
home and in the transition of enslaved populations to the
Americas. The final portion of the course covers the development
of creolized societies in the Caribbean and the early
settlements of North, South and Central America as the various
cultures cross, intertwine and blend.
Prerequisite: One 1000 or 2000 level history course or
permission of the instructor.
HST 3222 Enlightenment and Revelation: Rational and
Irrational in America
Cases studies in the intermingling of rational and traditional
perspectives as science and enlightenment are developed and
unevenly applied in an era of discovery. The case studies will
focus on science, discovery, and exploration; popular
traditions; the emergence of religious freedom; and clashes and
alliances of reason and revelation.
Prerequisite: One 1000 or 2000 level history course or
permission of the instructor.
HST 3231 Creating the American Consumer, 1850-1929
This class will explore the growth of consumer culture in the
United States. Topics addressed will include corporate efforts
to nurture consumption, shifting ideas about the propriety of
consuming and about the intersection of consumption and gender,
and conflicting interpretations of the positive and negative
impacts of consumerism on American society during this period.
Prerequisite: One 1000 or 2000 level history course or
permission of the instructor.
HST 3241 Sex and the City: American Women and the Urban
Landscape
In this seminar students will examine the relationship between
the urban environment and women’s history. Special attention
will be paid to changes in work—working conditions, types of
employment offered, the shifting nature of domestic labor—and
leisure. Sample class activities include film viewings and
analysis of physical structures (such as multiple readings of
New York’s Central Park—a place for genteel gender performance
in the early 20th century or a dangerous urban wilderness in the
1980s?) Prerequisite: One 1000 or 2000 level history course
or permission of the instructor.
HST 3243 Cuba Libre: American & Cuban Culture under Castro
Ernest Hemingway once said, “in terms of beauty, only Venice and
Paris surpass Havana.” Indeed, from the 1930s to late-1950s,
Havana, Cuba was the destination of choice for Americans of
means. Frank Sinatra, Ava Gardner, Gary Cooper, and Marlene
Dietrich made it their retreat while gangsters like Meyer Lansky
and Lucky Luciano ran the hotels’ gambling scenes. All of this
changed with the Revolution of 1959. This course will chart the
cultural relationship between Cuba, Russia, and the United
States over the past fifty years as well as evaluate the ways
minor isolation may have nurtured a particular brand of Cuban
cultural development. Specific attention will be paid to the
relationship between the state and the arts under Castro.
Prerequisite: One 1000 or 2000 level history course or
permission of the instructor.
HST3245 Bombs and Ballet: the Cultural Cold War
How does a nation win a war without military action? As
“containment” came to dominate post-war American foreign policy,
it became clear both to American politicians and the public that
perception and propaganda would play an important, if not the
most important, role in fending off the Soviets and protecting
the American Way of Life. This course will introduce students to
major battles of the Cultural Cold War; amongst them the
activities of Voice of America, Texan pianist Van Cliburn, the
exchange of the New York City Ballet and the Bolshoi, and the
international tours of artists Martha Graham, Dizzy Gillespie,
and the musical Porgy and Bess. Particular attention will be
paid to issues of cultural hierarchy, government support of the
arts, conceptions of the “American” or “Soviet,” the role of
consumer culture, and the relationship between the Cold War and
civil rights.
Prerequisite: One 1000 or 2000 level history course or
permission of the instructor.
HST 3262 America Consumed: Mall Rats & Made in the U.S.A.:
Postwar Consumption at Home & Abroad
Students will be introduced in this course to the study of
postwar U.S. history through the lens of consumption: what we
buy, where we buy it, how we pay for it, and why purchasing
power is important personally and politically. Special attention
will be paid to the emergence of credit, the development of
overseas markets, the landscape of consumption, and contemporary
advertising.
Prerequisite: One 1000 or 2000 level history course or
permission of the instructor.
HST3501 United States and East Asia
This seminar explores the origins and development of the
relationship between the United States and East Asia. Major
topics dealt with in this seminar include the development of
trade between the U.S. and China, the opening of Japan, the
United States and the Chinese Revolution, world wars in the
Pacific world, Korean War, Vietnam War, and the Cold War in East
Asia.
Prerequisite: HST1501 or permission of the instructor.
HST3511 Revolutionary China
This seminar explores the origins, evolution, and decline of the
Chinese revolution in the 20th century. Major topics dealt with
in this course include the Chinese republican revolution, the
early Chinese republic, the rise of the Chinese communist
movement, the Chinese civil war, the early People’s Republic,
and the Great Cultural Revolution. Prerequisite: HST1501 or
permission of the instructor.
HST3521 Rise of Modern Japan
This seminar explores the experiences of the Japanese in modern
times. In an interdisciplinary approach, it will explain the
foundations of modern Japan, the Meiji Revolution, Japan’s
continental expansion to its defeat in World War II and its
transformation in the post-WWII period.
Prerequisite: HST1501 or permission of the instructor.
HST 3601 Pre-Columbian Civilizations
This course studies four of the major civilizations of the
pre-Columbian world: Mayas, Aztecs, Chibchas, and Incas. This
course explores their ideology, economic organization, religion,
social structure, and government. Finally, this course also
discusses the legacy of these four civilizations.
Prerequisites: HST1601 or permission of instructor.
HST 3602 Native Peoples of Latin America
This course focuses on the enduring legacy and complexity of the
native societies from the colonial to the contemporary scenario.
This course examines the cases of Mesoamerica, Brazil, the
Caribbean, and the Andes. Topics to be discussed are the
colonial conquest, native responses, and the ways in which the
Amerindian societies have participated into politics during the
modern period.
Prerequisites: HST1601 or permission of instructor.
HST 3603 Consumption and Material Culture in Latin America
This course examines the relevance of consumption and the study
of ‘objects’ (material cultural) to understand the Latin
American past. History is not only the study of ‘written’
documents. Topics such as environmental management, garbage,
architecture, urban planning, consumerism, cuisine, clothes,
fashion, and visual arts are important ingredients of this
course.
Prerequisites: HST1601 or permission of instructor.
HST 3611 History of Mexico
A survey of the Mexican history since the pre-Conquest period.
This course examines the most significant events of Mexican
past. This course also examines the rise of the idea of
‘Mexicanness’ and shows the complexity, diversity, and vibrant
elements of the Mexican culture.
Prerequisites: HST1601 or permission of instructor.
HST 3621 History of Brazil
The largest country in Latin America (and the third one in the
Americas) has a complex and rich history. This survey explores
the history of the ‘Terra de Santa Cruz’ from the pre-Columbian
nomadic civilizations to the modern period. Major topics include
the Africanization of Brazil, the Portuguese, Spanish, and Dutch
rules, the Empire, the question of the Amazonia, race relations
and the concept of ‘racial democracy.’ Popular culture is also
an important issue of this course.
Prerequisites: HST1601 or permission of instructor.
HST3701/PSC3701 The United States and the Middle East since
1945. This course is a diplomatic, political, and economic
history of American involvement in the Middle East and Europe
since World War II. The course presents different
interpretations of the role the United States has played in the
region.
Prerequisite: HST1701, HST2701, or permission of instructor.
HST3702 The Arab-Israeli Conflict.
This course is an examination of the dispute that arose
between Arabs and Jews from the time of Zionist colonization
during the late nineteenth century and the developments that
have occurred in this controversy through recent times.
Prerequisite: HST1701, HST2701, or permission of instructor.
HST 3901 History Detectives
In this course, students will gain hands-on experience of how
historians pursue their craft. Students and the professor will
spend the semester working collaboratively to research,
interpret, and present their findings on a single historical
problem selected by the professor.
Prerequisite: One 1000 or 2000 level history course or
permission of the instructor.
HST 3902 A Lens on History
This course will introduce students to the production of history
using analytical categories such as race, class, or gender.
Students will investigate how the method emerged, its basic
theories, and most importantly—how the category changes the type
of questions history can ask and the evidence used to answer.
Prerequisite: One 1000 or 2000 level history course or
permission of the instructor.
HST 3903 Public History
This course is an introduction to the theory and practices of
public history, including applications in museum work,
historical sites, and archives and public records.
Prerequisite: One 1000 or 2000 level history course or
permission of the instructor.
HST 3904 Oral History
This class will introduce students to the research technique of
oral history. Students will study the benefits and pitfalls of
oral history as a source of historical evidence, take a seminar
that trains them to conduct oral history interviews, and
interview local community members on a topic collaboratively
constructed by the student and professor. Prerequisite: One
1000 or 2000 level history course or permission of the
instructor.
HST3905 Student Intern Program
Four to twelve hours credit. (See program description.)
HST 3908 History on the Road
A course that will combine an intensive classroom experience
with an experiential learning trip to historical sites.
Prerequisite: One 1000 or 2000 level history course or
permission of the instructor.
HST 3909 Collaborative Research
This course emphasizes active student involvement in the
research and writing process with a student working individually
with a member of the department faculty. Prerequisites: One
1000 or 2000 level history course, a 3.45 minimum GPA, and
permission of both the instructor and the department chair.
HST 3xxx Special Topics
Variable credit. May be repeated.
HST4001 Senior Seminar.
This course is required of all history majors. It is a reading
and discussion course that covers a specific topic in history.
The course emphasizes historiography and considers various
interpretations. The student’s work in the course will culminate
in a substantial research paper done with the close
collaboration with a faculty member from the department.
Prerequisite: History majors with senior standing or permission
of instructor.
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