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HIS 208 - Modern Asia
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Emphasis on Communist China, Japan, India and Southeast Asia.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 209 - Traditional Asia and Its Legacy
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
A comparison of traditional civilizations in China and India. Topics include religious systems, formation of empires, expansion of commerce, development of social institutions and foundations of Modern Asia.
Offered: Spring
Credit: 3
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HIS 212 - Women in History
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
A study of the position and role of women in different civilizations with emphasis on women and work.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 215 - Introduction to Latin American Civilizations
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course will provide a general introduction to the culture, history, and societies of the immense geographic area collectively known as Latin America. A thematic approach focusing on gender, social upheavals, economic and political crises will serve to facilitate the inclusion of the many countries in the region. The chronology of the course extends from the pre-contact period to the twentieth-century.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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HIS 216 - Modern Latin America
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
The course is an introduction to the history of Latin American from the early nineteenth century into the present. Students are expected to become familiar with the significant political, cultural, social, and economic developments that continue to produce conflict, but also change and continuity in the region’s history.
Note: Course is repeatable once for a total of six credits.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3
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HIS 230 - The Western Heritage I
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Survey of the basic ideas in Western Civilization from the earliest times to the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 231 - The Western Heritage II
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Survey of the basic ideas in Western Civilization from the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century to the present.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 244 - Introduction to Global Sport History
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
The course serves as an introductory survey of the history of global sport from the 18th century to the present. The course focuses on the origins of sport, the diffusion of sport around the globe in soccer, baseball, and the Olympics, and the role of sport in discussions of race, gender, class and ethnicity in global history.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3
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HIS 248 - Women in American History to 1865
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course will survey the history of women in the United States from the colonial era through the Civil War. Particular attention will be given to the diversity of American women’s experience.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credit: 3
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HIS 249 - Women in American History, 1865 to Present
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course will survey the history of women in the United States from the end of the Civil War through the present. Particular attention will be given to the diversity of American women’s experience and women’s participation in movements for equality.
Offered: Fall
Credit: 3
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HIS 298 - Historical Methods
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course is an introduction to research methods and critical inquiry for major and minor students in history. It focuses on the nature of historical thinking and the historian’s craft such as how to form a valid research question, to conduct research, and to write/present findings in an original manner.<br>Prerequisite: Sophomore standing; a minimum of 27 credits.<br>
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing; a minimum of 27 credits.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 300 - European Intellectual History in the 19th Century
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Romanticism, conservatism; German idealism; liberalism, Utopian socialism; Marxism; evolutionary socialism, nationalism; positivism anarchism; impact of Darwin; collapse of absolutes.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 301 - European Intellectual History in the 20th Century
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Collapse of absolutes; pessimism and optimism; dystopias; Nazism; Fascism; Communism; existentialism; emergent evolution; new liberalism; crisis theology; post-industrial society.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 307 - World War I
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
A survey of the causes, course and results of World War I.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 308 - Jews, Christians, and Muslims to 1500
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
In this course we will compare the development of the three great religions of western Asia: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. We will examine the evolution of ideas about God, tenets of belief, expressions of faith, and other aspects of religious life, and analyze how the three faith communities influenced each other. We will explore how communities with related but distinct religious beliefs developed in Asia, lived together in Europe, encountered each other, and tolerated or confronted one another during the ancient and medieval periods.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 311 - Europe in an Age of Revolution, 1789 - 1848
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course is an upper-division survey of the revolutionary era in European history from 1789-1848. Students will explore the major developments of the age through an examination of political, cultural and economic history. Upon completion, students will be able to demonstrate a greater understanding of the myriad forces that contributed to the emergence of the modern world.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3
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HIS 312 - Early Middle Ages
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
From the decline of the Roman Empire to the First Crusade; Analysis of religious, social, economic, and technological factors, influencing the development of medieval European Civilization.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 313 - High and Late Middle Ages
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
The flowering and decline of the Middle Ages; Emphasis on cultural developments with analysis of social, political, religious, and economic factors affecting medieval European Civilization.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 315 - Ancient Rome
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
From Prehistoric Italy to 565 A.D.; analysis of Rome’s rise and decline.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 317 - Renaissance Europe
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Cultural, social, and economic life of fourteenth and fifteenth century Western Europe with particular emphasis on cultural life in Italy.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 319 - History of England, 1914 - 1950
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course is an upper-division survey of the history of England from 1914-1950. Students will explore domestic developments, with an emphasis on political, social and economic history. Upon completion, students will be able to demonstrate a greater understanding of the history of England and its role within the larger scope of European history during this crucial era.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3
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HIS 323 - Europe Between the World Wars, 1917-1939
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
A comprehensive survey of European history from the Russian Revolution to the outbreak of the Second World War with emphasis on ideological movements (Communism, Fascism and Democracy).
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 324 - Europe Since 1945
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
A survey of the major events and issues of European history since 1945.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 326 - World War II
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
A survey of the major events and issues of World War II. Comparisons will be drawn between the European and Asian war theatres.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 329 - The Cold War
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
The course offers an in-depth look at the Cold War, probably the single most important foreign relations factor influencing the US and the Soviet Union during the period 1946-1991.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 330 - History of Russia to 1917
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course will deal with the origins and development of Russian history up to 1917.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 331 - Twentieth Century Russia
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Political, social, economic development from the reign of Nicholas II to the present with particular emphasis on the Russian Revolution and formation of Stalin’s totalitarian regime.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 333 - History of Sexuality in the U.S. and Ireland
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course will examine the history of sexuality in the United States and Ireland with particular attention paid to the interaction between religious institutions and the government. Topics to be discussed include the institution of marriage, birth control and abortion, LGBTQ rights, and sexual assault and abuse.
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing or Instructor Permission
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3
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HIS 335 - History & Civilizations in South Asia
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course is an exploration of South Asia’s pre-modern past, from 50,000 BCE through the Mughal Empire, 1650 CE, prior to British rule in India. It examines the dynamic and complex histories of dynasties, kingdoms, and empires that emerged from one of the world’s earliest civilizations, the Indus Valley Civilization.
Prerequisite: Upper Division Standing
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3
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HIS 336 - South Asian Sacred Spaces
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course is an exploration of pre-modern South Asia through a series of case studies focused on the analysis of South Asian sites of religious and historical significance. This course incorporates mapping softwares, such as Geographic Information Systems, and a range of theoretical approaches for analyzing space.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3
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HIS 337 - Social and Cultural History of Sport
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
The course focuses on the development of modern sport in England in the 18th century and its diffusion across the globe through the lenses of class, race, ethnicity, and gender. Upon completion, students will understand how social and cultural beliefs, behaviors, and practices influenced the development of sport and in turn the dynamic impacts of sport on social, cultural, and political practices.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing; or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall.
Credit: 3
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HIS 338 - History of Yoga
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course examines the deep history and development of yoga within the South Asian world through readings of primary literature in translation and through academic secondary sources. The historical study examines evidence of yoga from the Indus Civilization through to contemporary yoga traditions in our modern, Western world.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3
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HIS 341 - America’s Vietnam War
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course will deal with the origins, development, and outcome of America’s involvement in Vietnam, 1945—1973
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 343 - Colonial America
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
HIS 343 is an upper division course surveying the history of Colonial North America from ca. 1450 to ca. 1765 (i.e. from the Columbian voyages to the eve of the American Revolution).
Prerequisite: Upper division standing or intructor permission.
Offered: Fall
Credit: 3
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HIS 344 - American Immigration and Ethnic History
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course examines the history of migration to colonial North America and the United States. The course addresses differences in the voluntary immigration experience, forced migration, and “migration” through conquest. The development of ethnic and racial identities in the United States are linked to these immigration/migration patterns and to legal constructions conceived in immigration and naturalization law. Other themes include internal migration, the history of nativism up to present debates regarding “illegal immigration,” and the development of racial/ethnic communities.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 345 - The Early Republic: US 1789-1848
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course covers one of the most complex periods in U.S. history, a time marked by democratic ferment, territorial expansion, increased national- ism and growing sectionalism. Through lectures, group discussions, various readings, papers and essay exams, students will learn about the people, ideas, institutions and events that shaped the new nation.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 348 - Women in Twentieth Century United States
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course examines the role women have played in the United States in the twentieth century. Migration and immigration, politics, labor (in and outside the home), economics, and race will be discussed, with particular attention paid to the construction of gender roles and its effect on the behavior and expectations of both men and women, as well as children. The transformation of the meaning of “feminism” over the course of the twentieth century will frame much of the course.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 350 - Slavery In America to 1865
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
A historical analysis of the development of black communities from colonization to the end of Reconstruction. The major theme will be the mutual impact that blacks and whites have had upon each other.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 352 - The Gilded Ages and Progressive Era
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course examines the period between the end of Reconstruction (1877) and 1920. Migration and immigration, politics, labor, social movements, economics, gender and race will be discussed. The transformation of the country from agricultural to industrialized, inhabited from coast to coast, comes at large social, educational and reform costs.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing. Â
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 353 - The Black Power Movement
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course explores and analyzes the origins, development, and legacy of the watershed Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s. The course examines how Black Power represented a critical turning point in black-white relations in the United States, as well as in how African Americans viewed themselves.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 354 - Native American History
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
The epic conflict of Indians and non-Indians and its impact on more widely known American white history.
Note: Slide lectures.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Fall
Credit: 3
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HIS 356 - Civil War and Reconstruction
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
An in-depth study of the factors that caused the American Civil War, and the efforts to restore the Confederate States, with an emphasis on the varying historical interpretations.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 358 - American Urban History
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course examines the growth of cities from the late eighteenth century to the present. It will examine the roles that cities have played in the United States’ economic, social, cultural, environmental, and political history. The course will pay particular attention to urban areas as contested spaces and incubators of ideas and movements that have shaped the nation.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing; or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 363 - The American Revolution
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Causes, dramatic events, and consequences of the American Revolution from the Salem witch trials through the Constitution.
Note: Slide lectures.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 367 - Global Disease
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course will examine global health crises, examining the same disease across temporal and spatial dimensions. The objective of this course are to critically examine the events , ideas, movements and understandings of science, health and illness that have shaped how society responds to disease.
Prerequisites: Upper division standing
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 369 - The United States Since 1945
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Intermediate level study of the history of the United States since 1945. Focuses on political, diplomatic, economic, social and cultural change.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 370 - Topics in History
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Topics in history.
Note: Variable credit one to three repeatable for a total of 15 credits.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Fall, Spring
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HIS 372 - History of Blaxploitation Cinema
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course explores the origins, development, impact and legacy of “blaxploitation” films of f the 1970s. These black action films represented a complete reversal of how Hollywood films portrayed African Americans as servants, cowards, and brutes. Through these films, the course explores critical issues of race, culture, gender, and historical memory.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing, or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3
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HIS 373 - History of Mexico
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Beginning with a brief introduction to the country’s great pre-Hispanic civilizations, the course moves toward the creation of new societies and cultures characteristic of the colonial period. The 19th and 20th centuries will serve to discuss the political struggles over the definition of nation and citizen.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 379 - History in Video Games
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
The course is an interdisciplinary approach to the relationship that exists between history and computer games. It is a connection increasingly becoming all the more relevant as computer game developers seek or claim historical accuracy for their creative endeavors. In as far as computer games can deepen our understanding of the past, this course aims to provide a foundation for thinking critically about why and how history is used in computer games. A second objective involves the study of business and cultural trends in the computer game industry.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3
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HIS 381 - History of Human Trafficking
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Economic globalization has resulted in increased migration of labor and a new form of slavery called Trafficking. Trafficking is often discussed as a new problem without reference to slavery and other forms of bondage. This course focuses on the history of human Trafficking from ancient times to the present.
Prerequisite: Upper Division Standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 383 - Modern China
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
A brief sketch of traditional society followed by analysis of China’s reaction to the Western assault, revolution, the role of the Japanese, the Communist Era, and China’s position in the 1970’s.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 384 - Contemporary Chinese History Through Film: 1900 to Present
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course uses visual materials as historical sources to introduce themes in contemporary Chinese history from ca. 1900 to present. The course investigates the following subjects: the injustice of the “feudal” society, imperialism and nationalism, the CCP Revolution, Mao’s Socialist China, Post-reform life in China.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 385 - Modern Japan
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course surveys the culture and history of modern Japan from 1850 to present. The theme of this course is modernity and tradition/identity. The discussion will focus on how Japan insisted on its tradition in the course of seeking modernity and whether modernity undermines or strengthens the tradition.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 389 - History of the Middle East
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
An examination of the development of Islam and history of the Islamic peoples from Muhammed to World War I, with emphasis on the nature of the religion, its spread and its impact on institutions.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 390 - Harems, Bathhouses, and Brothels: Society, Gender, and Sexuality in the Early Modern Islamic World
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This interdisciplinary course focuses on histories and conceptualizations of gender and sexuality in early modern Muslim societies from a comparative, thematic, and innovative perspective.
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3
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HIS 391 - Modernization and Development in Africa
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course is a survey of the various theories of Development and Modernization designed to bring about social change in Africa and the history of their application since the end of the Atlantic Slave trade. Prerequisites: Upper division standing
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 392 - History of Islam in Africa
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course focuses on the history of Islam in Africa and African influences on Islamic institutions and practices in and outside Africa. Islam is a major world religion practiced by a quarter of Africa’s population. Islam contributed immensely and still contributes to shaping Africa’s history.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 393 - Women and War in the Twentieth Century
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course will examine women’s experiences in war during the twentieth century on both the battlefront and the homefront. The course will focus predominantly on women in the United States, Europe and Asia. The periods to be covered include World War I and the Russian Revolution, World War II and the Holocaust, the Vietnam War, and the Yugoslav Civil War.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 394 - History of the Ottoman Empire
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course is a survey of the Ottoman Empire from its 13th-century origins to its demise at the end of WWI. Treating the Ottoman Empire as a case study of a diverse, multi-ethnic, and multi-religious fiscal-military empire, this course aims to address issues of cultural interaction and diversity, as well as encounters between peoples and the ways they co-existed under an imperial rule.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 451 - Topics in American History
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Students examine methodologically and historiographically significant works in the history of the United States from the colonial period through the twentieth century. Students will develop research projects grounded in primary source material on a related topic of their choosing to be completed in HIS 453.
Note: Enrollment restricted to senior history majors, minors, and Social Science concentrates.
Prerequisite: Senior standing; or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3
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HIS 461 - Topics in European History
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Students examine methodologically and historiographically significant works in European History from its foundation in the ancient world through the post-Cold War world. Students will develop research projects grounded in primary source material on a related topic of their choosing to be completed in HIS 463.
Prerequisite: Senior standing; or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3
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HIS 463 - Research Seminar in European History
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Students concentrate on writing a major research paper or digital project on a topic of their choice, under the direction of the seminar instructor, but with the advice of members of the department who possess expertise in the area of a student’s interest. Oral presentations and discussion of projects are required.
Prerequisite: HIS 461; or permission of instructor.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3
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HIS 470 - Reading Seminar in History
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This undergraduate seminar will emphasize readings in secondary sources (scholarly monographs and articles) selected to deepen students’ knowledge of the content and historiography of certain topics and geographical areas. The students will read and criticize the works of others to explore, in particular, how specific perspectives and methods of inquiry help shape our understandings of the past.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 473 - Research Seminar in World and Transnational History
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Students concentrate on writing a major research paper or digital project on a topic of their choice, under the direction of the seminar instructor, but with the advice of members of the department who possess expertise in the area of a student’s interest. Oral presentations and discussion of projects are required.
Prerequisite: HIS 471; or permission of instructor.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3
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HIS 491 - History Honors II (Research)
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Research.
Note: May be repeated up to six hours.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing and permission of History Chair.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HIS 496 - Peer Educator in College History
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course is designed to provide advanced undergraduate students with training in teaching college history.
Note: May be repeated for a total of six credits.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing and instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3
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HIS 498 - Internship in History
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
A course designed for students who wish to take part in a job placement and work experience that is related to their academic program. Students will work in a part-time or full-time position in industry, business, government or an agency setting for the purpose of testing academic learning in a work situation.
Note: This course may be taken in conjunction with an internship arranged by the EXCEL Program on campus or it may be taken as an internship arranged by the History Department. In either case up to six hours may be accepted as history credit. Variable credit one to six, may be repeated three times for a total of 12 credits.
Prerequisite: Acceptance in the EXCEL Program, upper division standing, minimum 2.5 GPA, and permission of faculty sponsor.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIS 499 - Independent Study
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Individual study in the field of history under the direct supervision of a department faculty member.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing and instructor permission.
Offered: Spring
Credit: 1 to 3
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HON 140 - Western Intellectual Heritage
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course will provide students with a basic knowledge of the dominant intellectual, social, economic, and institutional forces that have shaped Western civilization from its earliest roots in the ancient Near East to the start of the Industrial Revolution in the 17th century to the present. It will examine the development of Judaism, the Greek and Roman worlds, the rise of Christianity, medieval society, the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, industrialization, European colonialism, the two World Wars, and post-World War II society. Special attention will be paid to the impact of these movements, as well as of non-Western influences, on our modern experience.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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HON 141 - American Intellectual Heritage
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Using a topic or theme selected by the instructor, this course provides students with an overview of intellectual currents in American history. Students will be asked to consider—and reconsider—some of the conventional and dominant narratives of American culture.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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HON 150 - Introduction to Honors
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
HON 150 is a freshman seminar that introduces Honors Program students to interdisciplinary thinking, to critical thinking, to different ways of knowing, and to the Honors Program itself.
Offered: Fall
Credit: 1
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HON 200 - Introduction to the Social Sciences
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Beginning with some questions common to all the social sciences, such as the nature of social facts, objectivity vs. neutrality, and the criteria of science, students will explore the Western and non-Western origins of social inquiry, the emergence of the individual social sciences anthropology, economics, history, political science, psychology, and sociology, and the fundamental concepts, methods, assumptions, applications, and perspectives of these fields.
Prerequisite: HON 140 and HON 141; or HON 140 and HON 204; or HON 141 and HON 204 or Honors Program Director permission.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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HON 201 - Interpreting the Arts
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course examines the purposes and development of art, music, film, theater dance, and writing within their historical and cultural contexts. Students will consider how the fine and performing arts evoke a sense of, or respond to, the cultures and experiences that give rise to them.
Note: The course may be organized around a unifying topic.
Prerequisite: HON 140 and HON 141; or HON 140 and HON 204, or HON 141 and HON 204 or Honors Program Director permission.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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HON 204 - Honors Writing about Literature
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This is an Honors course in critical reading of a variety of genres (fiction, non-fiction, drama, poetry, film) with an emphasis in writing analytical, interpretive responses to selected texts.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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HON 250 - Weaving the Tapestry of Honors
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course will engage second year students in the Honors program through selected pieces of literature. The course will expand the student’s abilities in argumentative reasoning and build a foundation to begin thinking about the honors thesis.
Prerequisite: HON 150; or Honors Director permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 1
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HON 300 - Natural Science in the Human Context
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Although we tend to think of the natural sciences—which include astronomy, biology, chemistry, geology, and physics—as having an immutable existence of their own, all emerged in response to human needs. Students will consider such issues as how and why science develops, how and why the different scientific disciplines emerged, how they differ from each other, how they are the same, what their common questions are, why the scientific method became a cornerstone of the disciplines and of Western thought, and the role of science in today’s society.
Prerequisite: HON 140 and HON 141; or HON 140 and HON 141; or HON 141 and HON 204 or Honors Program Director permission.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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HON 301 - In Search of Meaning
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Students will consider the nature of knowledge, interpretation, belief, and meaning. They will consider questions such as: Is knowledge discovered or constructed: How do we know what we know? Why do we believe what we believe? How are knowledge and belief related? How do they differ? How do we give meaning or significance to the things in our lives? Students will learn to apply concepts related to knowledge, belief, and meaning to their everyday lives.
Prerequisite: HON 200 and HON 201; or HON 200 and HON 300; or HON 201 and HON 300 or Honors Program Director permission.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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HON 350 - Beginning the Honors Thesis
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
The purpose of this course is to consider the nature of research or creativity in the student’s field of study and to help student begin a quality honors thesis. Students will meet regularly with the Director or Associate Director of the Honors Program to discuss thesis requirements, problems, and possible solutions.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall
Credit: 1
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HDV 101 - Introduction to Human Development
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course provides an introduction to types of human development (e.g., biological, cognitive, moral) across the lifespan, from prenatal development to old age, from a variety of theoretical perspectives (e.g., cognitive, sociocultural, epigenetic). Students will also develop their critical thinking skills while learning to “think like a social scientist.”
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HDV 120 - Fundamentals of Gerontology
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course is designed to introduce the student to the biological, physical, psychological, sociological, political, demographic, and economic aspects of aging. It explores aging from a variety of cultural and subcultural perspectives, and looks at both theoretical and applied research in the area of gerontology.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credit: 3
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HDV 232 - Human Canine Interaction
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Overview and review of basic principles of learning with an emphasis on the application. The importance of human-canine relationships and the quality of life for both species will be examined. Application of the basic principles of learning will be aimed at improving socialization as well as improving training.
Prerequisite: HDV 101 or PSY 100 or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall, Spring.
Credit: 3
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HDV 242 - Siblings and Close Relatives
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Siblings and close relatives directly influence individual development. This course applies the Attachment, Family Systems, and Bioecological frameworks to examine how siblings and extended family members shape individuals’ behaviors, life trajectories, and life choices. It also compares and contrasts the celebration of the bond from a multidisciplinary and global perspective.
Prerequisite: HDV 101 or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3
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HDV 301 - Research Methods in Human Development I
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
HDV 301 is an intensive reading & writing course. The primary goal of the course is to develop and apply critical and scientific thinking to study issues in human development. Students will learn and apply their knowledge and understanding of statistical concepts and research methods to issues of the real world in an ethical manner.
Note: Course contains a laboratory session.
Prerequisite: HDV 101, Upper Division Standing and/or 18 Social Behavioral Sciences; or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 4
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HDV 302 - Methods in Human Development II
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
HDV 302 provides students with an overview of critical thinking, statistical and scientific methodological concepts discussed in HDV 301 in the study of human development. Students will engage in an IRB approved research project, apply theoretical framework(s), collect data, conduct analysis, interpret findings and write a research paper adhering to APA format.
Note: Course contains a laboratory session.
Prerequisite: HDV 301, Upper Division Standing and/or 18 Social and Behavioral Sciences; or instructor permission.
Offered: Spring
Credit: 4
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HDV 303 - Applied Field Experience and Analysis in HDV
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
HDV 303 combines student field experiences required by the Human Development Major with opportunities to share experiences in a clinical context, to interact with social service leaders in the community, to reflect on placements and career issues with their peers, who also face similar issues and concerns in the real world of human services.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing and HDV GPA of 2.0.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HDV 305 - Brain, Development, and Behavior
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Review of the genetic, biological, and developmental correlates of behavior. Topics include an overview of the biological factors in development and behavior, basics of neuroscience, and how the brain changes throughout the lifespan. As the course progresses through higher neurological functioning, content will shift to the effects of aging, brain damage, stress and trauma, and other experiences on human behavior. In every topic, application of this information to intervention, treatment, and other human services will be reviewed.
Prerequisite: HDV 101.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3
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HDV 313 - Human Sexual Development
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course explores all aspects of human sexuality from biological, social and cultural perspectives within a developmental framework. Topics include sexual differentiation, anatomy, hormones and sexual behavior, lifespan sexual development, reproductive cycles, pregnancy, contraception, childbirth and parenting, gender differences, cultural sexual practices, sexually transmitted diseases, aging, and sexual dysfunction.
Prerequisite: PSY 100 or HDV 101 and upper division status.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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HDV 323 - Adolescent Development
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
The study of adolescent development in the context of psychological, sociological, biological, and cultural forces.
Prerequisite: 3 credits of social and behavioral sciences, or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credit: 3
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HDV 324 - Adult Development
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This multidisciplinary course examines human development across adulthood, focusing on theory and evidence from diverse fields (e.g., psychology, biology, history, sociology, anthropology). It explores life tasks, gains and losses, and continuity and change in biological, cognitive, and social domains of the adult life course and in various life contexts.
Prerequisite: Three credit hours of social and behavioral sciences.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HDV 325 - Family Dynamics Across the Lifespan
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
The course will trace individual development across the lifespan within the context of the family. Issues addressed within the course will include: attachment to caregivers (especially parents), adoption, sibling relationships, dating and mate selection, parenthood, divorce and step-families, single-parenthood, adult intergenerational relationships, grandparenthood, family care giving and bereavement.
Note: Advisement Prerequisite Recommendation: One developmental HDV/PSY course.
Prerequisite: PSY 100 or HDV 101, and one of the following PSY 320, HDV 120, HDV 322 or HDV 323
Offered: Spring
Credit: 3
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HDV 326 - Developmental Perspectives on Death and Dying
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
A comprehensive survey of theories, research, and practice related to issues of death and dying. The roles of developmental stages, culture, ethnicity, race, gender, and faith in understanding the impact of death will be explored. The experience of loss for survivors will be examined.
Prerequisite: HDV 101 or 120 or PSY 100 or SOC 100; and PSY 320 or 325 or HDV 322, 323, 324, 325 or 425.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HDV 357 - Development of Criminal Behavior
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course explores the development of criminal behavior from a multidisciplinary perspective. Individual, situational, family, and sociocultural influences on criminal behavior are examined and applied to a variety of forms of criminal behavior, including both personal (e.g., assault) and property (e.g., vandalism) crimes. Prevention methods are discussed and evaluated.
Prerequisites: Upper division standing and at least 3 credits of social or behavioral science, or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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HDV 364 - Motivation Across the Lifespan
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
The purpose of this course involves examination of the principles underlying why people initiate, choose, and persist in behaviors. The course provides a critical assessment of the theories and paradigms associated with human learning and motivation will support a deeper understanding and facilitate application of developmental processes necessary for personal success.
Prerequisite: HDV 101 or PSY 100
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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HDV 368 - Diversity and Social Justice
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course applies social construction and developmental frameworks such as bio-ecological theory to examine issues of diversity across the lifespan and in the practice of Human Development. The course includes, but is not limited to critical discourse on historical and current events, contributing factors at an individual, community, and institutional level, and impact on lived experiences of human beings and their responses. Overall, the course will equip students with knowledge that they can apply in their personal and professional lives as they navigate through an increasingly globalized society.
Prerequisite: Three credits of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Offered: Spring.
Credit: 3
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HDV 370 - Evolution and Human Behavior
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Review of the genetic, developmental, ecological, and adaptive correlates of behavior. Topics include the theory of natural selection, comparative brain evolution, learning and language, aggression and violence, conflict within families and other groups, sexual selection, attraction, mating and reproduction, altruism, cooperation and the foundations of culture with emphasis on animal behavior and evolution as a model for understanding human development and behavior
Prerequisite: PSY 100 or HDV 101.
Offered: Spring
Credit: 3
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HDV 380 - Topics in Global Human Development
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course examines human universals in contemporary cultural context from a developmental perspective; diverse environments and cultural forces shape developmental outcomes. Each semester highlights selected global themes in HDV, analyzing human variation and its dynamics (wealth disparity, industrialization, globalization, culture, history). Sample topics include Gender, Activism, Conflict, Sports & Play, Poverty.
Prerequisite: A minimum of 6 credits in social and behavioral sciences and upper division standing , or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 Course is repeatable for a maximum of 12 credits.
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