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2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

Courses

 

Global and International Studies
  

  • GLS 305 - Topics in Global and International Studies

    This course examines varying topics in global and international studies, depending on faculty and student interest.

    Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing; or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis.
    Credit: 3
  

  • GLS 316 - Impact and Infulence of Fermentation Science in a Global Society

    An investigation of the impact and influence of fermentation science on a global society. The course will address the production of alcohol, bread, cheese, and other fermented products and the role in global societies for fuel, subsistence, pleasure, and commerce. This course will meet as a quarter course and involves a mandatory international trip to learn how other cultures and societies make use of this science.

    Prerequisite: CHE 101 OR CHE 111 and either BIO 101 OR BIO 120.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • GLS 394 - T: Intl Study in Sustainability

    Examination of a sustainability-related topic, including travel abroad to provide relevant hands-on experience in the field or lab.  A program fee for travel is responsibility of the student. 

     

    Note: May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credits.
    Prerequisite: Sophomore standing
    Offered: Not on a regular basis.
    Credit: 3
  

  • GLS 400 - Seminar in Global Studies

    In this seminar students will critically examine, analyze, and interpret concepts and theories of the academic field of global and international studies.

    Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
    Offered: Spring
    Credit: 3
  

  • GLS 402 - Practicum in International Development

    Students will engage in research projects overseas addressing issues such as human rights, health, women’s rights, poverty, economic development, and the environment. Students enrolled in this course study the cultural context of the project’s country while contributing to a community defined project.

    Prerequisite: GLS 200 or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: –3 to 6–

Health Science
  

  • HSC 101 - Introduction to Health Promotion and Wellness

    An introduction to health promotion and wellness as a profession and career. Topics include competencies for health professionals (CHES), history of health promotion and wellness, health determinants, philosophical bases of health, theories of behavioral/organizational change, resources and professional organizations. Particular emphasis on the process and practice of health promotion in society, the organization, and the individual.

    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 3
  

  • HSC 120 - Human Body Systems

    The interrelationship of the physiological processes and anatomy of the human body with respect to wellness, movement and exercise.

    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 3
  

  • HSC 198 - Be Well at Oswego

    B. Well at OSWEGO is a behavior change course specifically geared at addressing a student’s well-being as they transition from high school to college. Particular focus will be on learning daily coping skills necessary to thrive in the area of emotional, social and intellectual well-being.  Special attention will be given to how the use of daily goal- setting, mindfulness, positive  sychology, healthy eating, physical activity and stress management can enhance resilience in college.

    Offered: Fall
    Credit: 3
  

  • HSC 230 - Health and Technology

    Students will use multidisciplinary learning and application methods to explore the development and use of technology to motivate, monitor, and measure healthy behaviors and life outcomes. This includes universal exploration of digital citizenship and disparities.

     

    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 3
  

  • HSC 232 - Introduction to Personal Training

    This course is designed to give students the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to prepare for the American Council of Exercise (ACE) Personal Trainer Certification Exam (or other related certifications) and become effective personal trainers.

    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 3
  

  • HSC 234 - Personal Training Practicum

    This course is designed to give students practical experience in the field of personal training. Students will work one-on-one with actual clients in the campus fitness centers under the supervision and guidance of the Fitness Centers Manager.

    Prerequisite: HSC 232 and instructor approval.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis.
    Credit: 2
  

  • HSC 241 - Critical Health Issues

    The course confronts the vital health issues of our time—drug use and abuse, human sexuality, mental health, pollution problems, consumer health and common health problems of students.

    Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
    Credit: 3
  

  • HSC 250 - Concepts of Peer Health Education

    This course provides an opportunity to explore the history of peer influence on health promotion planning and programming. It will examine the methods and means of applying peer to peer outreach on health related issues and trends from the elementary to post-secondary student populations. Particular emphasis will investigate various relationships between health behavior choices and practices which are shaped by values, norms and society.

    Offered: Spring
    Credit: 3
  

  • HSC 300 - Emergency Medical Technician-Basic

    This course is a study of the methods and techniques involved in emergency assessment, care and transport of the sick and injured. Topics include assessment techniques and principles of treatment for medical and traumatic emergencies. In addition to lecture and lab sessions, internships in both clinical and field settings are required. Successful completion of this course results in certification as an Emergency Medical Technician by the New York State Department of Health.
    Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing.

    Note: Lecture and lab.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 6
  

  • HSC 310 - Disease: Lifestyle and Environment

    Principles of environmental health and safety, and disease prevention and control will be examined. Topics include epidemiology, occupational health and safety, and disease prevention. The role of society, the work-place, and the individual in relationship to disease prevention will be explored.

    Prerequisite: BIO 101 OR 120 OR 203.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 3
  

  • HSC 315 - Nutrition Concepts

    This course focuses on current nutritional concepts and controversies related to human health and nutritional requirements. The material provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to maintain and adopt healthy nutritional behaviors, as well as the ability to determine their own dietary needs now and in the future.

    Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 3
  

  • HSC 332 - Essentials of Exercise Physiology

    Exercise physiology examines the physiological responses and adaptations of the human organism to physical activity.

    Prerequisite: BIO 101 or BIO 203 or BIO 120
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 3
  

  • HSC 333 - Human Response to Stress

    This course focuses on the variables and issues that affect how humans respond to stress on the personal, behavioral, social, and organizational levels; provides practical and theoretical aids for coping with and managing the stress response; and, provides students with the opportunity to assess their own responses to stress, and to apply management techniques to moderate these responses.

    Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 3
  

  • HSC 334 - Applied Kinesiology

    An introduction to biomechanical principles applied to human movement exercise sport, rehabilitation and physical activity.

    Prerequisite: HSC 120 or ZOO 305
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 3
  

  • HSC 340 - Global Health Promotion

    The course provides interdisciplinary perspectives on key challenges to global health issues that impact health and well-being and the principles of global health to improve population health at all levels. Topics will include the principles of global health, major global health concerns and interventions, determinants and risk factors of health and illnesses, the theoretical concepts of global health promotion, and critical analysis of evidence-based global health promotion programs.

    Prerequisite: HSC 101 or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis.
    Credit: 3
  

  • HSC 343 - Drug Use and Abuse in Society

    The course explores the social, psychological, pharmacological and legal aspects of the use by humans of chemical agents, i.e., drugs and narcotics, alcohol and tobacco, which affect their behavior. The role of education will be stressed.

    Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing.
    Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
    Credit: 3
  

  • HSC 353 - Wellness and Aging

    An overview of healthy aging and wellness promotion for the older adult. Topics include healthy aging, health perspectives and aging, eight dimensions of wellness, and age-associated diseases and prevention strategies.

    Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing
     
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • HSC 358 - Be Well Now and Beyond

    Be Well NOW and BEYOND will help students develop behavior change techniques that address the eight dimensions of wellness.  Specifically, students will focus on changing behaviors associated with emotional, social, intellectual, financial, spiritual, occupational, environmental, and physical wellbeing. The class will use positive psychology, weekly goal setting, journal writing, and other methods to enhance behaviors aimed at improving overall wellbeing, free from diseases.

     

    Offered: Not on a regular basis.
    Credit: 3
  

  • HSC 361 - Financial Wellness

    Analyze thoughts, behaviors, and knowledge that maximize personal financial wellness and its impact on health. Explore goal setting, planning budgets, savings and emergency cash; debt management, good credit; and growing and protecting savings for the future.

     

    Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis.
    Credit: 3
  

  • HSC 363 - Emotional Wellness

    This course will be an examination of emotional, spiritual, social and mental wellness.  This course will emphasize primary and secondary prevention strategies.  Topics include: Self-Esteem, Self-Efficacy, Empowerment, Happiness, Anger and Anger Management, Relationships, Life Goals, and Self-Actualization.

    Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • HSC 373 - Sexual Wellness

    This course allows students to explore complex issues related to sexuality, the college culture, the ways we communicate about sex, and the impact they have on our health and wellness. The course will explore historical perspectives, societal and media messages related to a cultural understanding of gender and sexuality.

    Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore class standing.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis.
    Credit: 3
  

  • HSC 386 - Wellness for Contemporary Living

    This course emphasizes wellness as a positive approach to health through improving oneself beyond the absence of disease. The course is designed to develop awareness, self responsibility, strategies and techniques of managing one’s own health. It will explore such topics as caring for the physical self, using the mind constructively, channeling stress energies positively, expressing emotions effectively, becoming creatively involved with others, and staying in touch with the environment.

    Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 3
  

  • HSC 387 - Refugee Wellness

     Explore how the multidimensional individual and group identities of refugees and the resettlement experience impact their wellness.

    Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis.
    Credit: 3
  

  • HSC 390 - Special Topics: Health/Wellness or Sport

    Exploration of key concepts, skills and dispositions in specified areas related to health, wellness, or sport. Varies from semester to semester.

    Note: Variable credit one to six, may be repeated for a total of 12 credits with different topics.
    Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis.
  

  • HSC 395 - Wellness Coach Practicum

    An upper-level, practical experience for students to implement knowledge, skills, and dispositions associated with health and wellness coaching.  Students will assist a professor/clinician in helping a client reach their health goals in an authentic/professional setting.

    Note: Course has variable credit, one to three, and may be repeated for a total of six credits.
    Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
    Offered: Not on a regular basis.
    Credit: 1-3
  

  • HSC 396 - Teaching Assistant in Health Promotion and Wellness Department

    Provides opportunities for students to enrich their educational experience while supporting faculty and providing greater individualized support of enrolled students. Teaching assistants develop an understanding of the learning process within a discipline and an ability to explain the importance and value of course content to a novice audience.

    Prerequisite: Upper division standing and a minimum grade point average of 2.5 and instructor approval. 
    Offered: Not on a regular basis.
  

  • HSC 397 - Exploratory Practicum in Wellness Management

    This course provides students an experiential learning opportunity through fieldwork in real-life health promotion/wellness settings. Students observe and participate in day-to-day work assignments under the supervision of one or more practicing professionals.

    Note: Students may receive one to three credit hours of academic credit. Forty hours of professional contact hours are required for each credit earned. Students must apply for admission to the course during the semester preceding their practicum.
    Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
  

  • HSC 399 - Independent Study

    Individual study in the field of health science under the direct supervision of a department faculty member.

    Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing and instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 1 to 3
  

  • HSC 425 - Sports Nutrition

    Explore the role nutrients play in physical activity, exercise/recovery and human performance. Integrate nutrition and sports with the physiology of exercise and sport training. An emphasis on macronutrient, micronutrients and water as related to wellness, physical fitness and sports performance.  Explore sport specific improvement trends and ergogenic aids.

     

    Prerequisite: HSC 315
    Offered: Spring
    Credit: 3
  

  • HSC 430 - Health Disparities

    As a result of taking this course students will be able to correlate the associations of socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity and gender to health status. Moreover, the course will provide current data and discussions of the social justice and economic impacts of health disparities in the United States. Students will explore the profound effects of inequality on
    child development, behavioral choices, and adult health status through lecture, discussion, reflection activities and a student selected semester project on a specific health disparity and target population.

    Prerequisite: (HDV 301 and Department Permission) or HSC 101.
    Offered: Fall
    Credit: 3
  

  • HSC 435 - The Science of Nutrition

    The purpose of this course is to introduce upper-level students to the science of nutrition with an emphasis on incorporating optimal nutrition values into their day-to-day life. This upper-level nutrition course covers such topics as the basics of nutrition, nutrition and disease prevention, weight management, nutrition throughout the life cycle, and more.

    Prerequisite: HSC 315
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 3
  

  • HSC 448 - Health Promotion Program Planning

    This course will focus on the development of the knowledge and skills necessary to plan and implement Health Promotion/Wellness Programs in a variety of settings. Issues of interest to health professionals such as: health care cost containment, goal setting, assessing organizational needs, program evaluation, and marketing program interventions are addressed. Students will learn how to plan and implement different health promotion programs to effectively meet the health care needs of an organization.

    Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 3
  

  • HSC 460 - Exercise Prescription and Leadership

    Exercise theory, programming, and prescription will be the focus of this course. Experiential learning activities will focus on the principles and practices of assessing, screening, and conducting health related adult physical fitness programs. Injury prevention, emergency procedures, and legal issues for the exercise leader will be addressed. Ideal for those considering national certification as personal trainers or aerobic instructors.

    Prerequisite: HSC 332
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • HSC 470 - HP Program Implementation

    The course will provide students with the necessary skills for the development and implementation of evidence-based health promotion programs for various priority populations. Special emphasis will be placed on health behavior change initiatives, using social media, technology, and effective marketing strategies.

    Prerequisite: HSC 448.
    Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
    Credit: 3
  

  • HSC 488 - Evaluation and Research in Health Promotion

    This course covers various evaluation and measurement concepts in wellness and fitness programs. Provides students the opportunity to evaluate the effectiveness of health promotion programs in the work place. Emphasis is on computerized health information retrieval systems, selection of evaluation instruments, reading, writing, and interpreting research literature. Basic statistics are studied and applied with attention given to the administration, scoring, statistical analysis, and interpretation of results.

    Prerequisite: HSC 448.
    Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
    Credit: 3
  

  • HSC 498 - Internship in Wellness Management

    An upper division course designed for students who wish to take part in a semester long internship designed to provide a pre-professional experiential learning opportunity related to the academic major or minor or an area of career interest. Students will work full-time or part-time in a position which will provide opportunities to apply classroom learning and to analyze and synthesize that knowledge in an approved internship setting.

    Note: Variable credit one to three, may be repeated for a total of 12 credits.
    Prerequisite: Upper division standing, HSC 448 and a minimum GPA of 2.5.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
  

  • HSC 499 - Independent Study

    Individual study in the field of health science under the direct supervision of a department faculty member.

    Prerequisite: Upper division standing and instructor permission.
    Offered: Spring
    Credit: 1 to 3

History
  

  • HIS 100 - The West and the World to 1500

    This course will explore the origins and development of Western Civilization to 1500, analyze the relationship of the emerging cultures in the West to the cultures of Asia and Africa, and introduce students to history as a discipline. Students will analyze several approaches to historical research and various types of historical writing, and will use primary and secondary sources in studying history.

    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 101 - The West and the World, 1500-1900

    This course will deal with the historical development of modern Western civilization and the interrelationship between the West and the world during the period 1500—1900.

    Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 102 - World History in the Twentieth Century

    This course introduces students to the major events, movements, and personalities of the twentieth century. The objective of the course will be to critically examine the events, ideas, conflicts, movements, and inventions which have shaped human civilization in the 20th century.

    Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 202 - History of the United States to 1865

    This course explores the making of American society and culture the product of cooperation and conflict among peoples from three continents (Europe, Africa, and North America)’from the 1500’s to the end of the Civil War. The focus is on economics, religion, values, community, politics, gender, and race.

    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 203 - History of the United States Since 1865

    Introductory survey of the history of the United States since the Civil War.

    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 204 - African Americans to 1877

    Course introduces critical issues and developments in African American history from roughly 1613 to 1877, from the origins of slavery in America to the end of Reconstruction. This course addresses the main changes/continuities affecting African and African-descended peoples during this most important period in US history

    Offered: Not on a regular basis.
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 206 - Africa to 1800

    This course surveys the history of selected regions of Africa from about the eighth to the early nineteenth century. Students are introduced to some of the most important sub- Saharan states and their cultures through the three basic sources for sub-Saharan African history before European influence: Oral tradition, archaeology, and Arabic chronicles. We explore the environmental and economic circumstances that account for the rise of these states, we proceed to acquaintance with their people, accomplishments and contributions, and we encounter the main factors involved in means of understanding major historical events.

    Offered: Fall
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 207 - Africa since 1800

    A survey of the history of selected regions of Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this course deals with the events and processes leading to the European colonization of Africa and subsequent changes in African societies under colonial rule. This is a course about Africans and how they responded to the challenges and opportunities presented by foreign influences such as those accompanying colonialism. It is basically concerned with African initiatives in a rapidly changing political, economic and social context.

    Offered: Spring
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 208 - Modern Asia

    Emphasis on Communist China, Japan, India and Southeast Asia.

    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 209 - Traditional Asia and Its Legacy

    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: Fall
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 212 - Women in History

    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
  

  • HIS 215 - Introduction to Latin American Civilizations

    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
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 216 - Modern Latin America

    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
  

  • HIS 230 - The Western Heritage I

    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
  

  • HIS 231 - The Western Heritage II

    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
  

  • HIS 244 - Introduction to Global Sport History

    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
  

  • HIS 248 - Women in American History to 1865

    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
  

  • HIS 249 - Women in American History, 1865 to Present

    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
  

  • HIS 298 - Historical Methods

    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: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 300 - European Intellectual History in the 19th Century

    Romanticism, conservatism; German idealism; liberalism, Utopian socialism; Marxism; evolutionary socialism, nationalism; positivism anarchism; impact of Darwin; collapse of absolutes.

    Prerequisite: Upper division standing or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 301 - European Intellectual History in the 20th Century

    Collapse of absolutes; pessimism and optimism; dystopias; Nazism; Fascism; Communism; existentialism; emergent evolution; new liberalism; crisis theology; post-industrial society.

    Prerequisite: Upper division standing or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 307 - World War I

    A survey of the causes, course and results of World War I.

    Prerequisite: Upper division standing or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 308 - Jews, Christians, and Muslims to 1500

    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 or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 311 - Europe in an Age of Revolution, 1789 - 1848

    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 or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis.
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 312 - Early Middle Ages

    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 or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 313 - High and Late Middle Ages

    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 or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 315 - Ancient Rome

    From Prehistoric Italy to 565 A.D.; analysis of Rome’s rise and decline.

    Prerequisite: Upper division standing or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 317 - Renaissance Europe

    Cultural, social, and economic life of fourteenth and fifteenth century Western Europe with particular emphasis on cultural life in Italy.

    Prerequisite: Upper division standing or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 319 - History of England, 1914 - 1950

    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 or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis.
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 323 - Europe Between the World Wars, 1917-1939

    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 or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 324 - Europe Since 1945

    A survey of the major events and issues of European history since 1945.

    Prerequisite: Upper division standing or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 326 - World War II

    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 or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 329 - The Cold War

    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 or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 330 - History of Russia to 1917

    This course will deal with the origins and development of Russian history up to 1917.

    Prerequisite: Upper division standing or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 331 - Twentieth Century Russia

    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 or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 333 - History of Sexuality in the U.S. and Ireland

    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: Spring
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 334 - Death, Data, Local Cemeteries

    This is an upper-level and thematic course on death and burial focusing on student-driven data collection, interaction with local community, and the learning of new software for data analysis and communication.

    Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 335 - History & Civilizations in South Asia

    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 or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis.
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 336 - South Asian Sacred Spaces

    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 or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis.
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 337 - Social and Cultural History of Sport

    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
  

  • HIS 338 - History of Yoga

    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 or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis.
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 339 - History of Death and Plague

    This is an upper-level interdisciplinary and thematic course focusing on theoretical approaches to death and burial; the history of Western and American cemeteries and relationships with the dead; the world of the Black Plague; and world case studies of death and body disposal.

     

    Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis.
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 343 - Colonial America

    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
  

  • HIS 344 - American Immigration and Ethnic History

    This course examines the history of migration to colonial North America and the United States through World War II, focusing on differences between voluntary migration, forced migration, and “migration” through conquest. Other themes include the history of nativism, gender and immigration, immigration and naturalization law, and the development of racial/ethnic communities.

    Prerequisite: Upper division standing or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis.
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 345 - The Early Republic: US 1789-1848

    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 or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 348 - Women in Twentieth Century United States

    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 or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 350 - Slavery In America to 1865

    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 or instructor permission.
    Offered: Fall
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 352 - The Gilded Ages and Progressive Era

    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 or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 353 - The Black Power Movement

    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 or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 354 - Native American History

    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 or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 356 - Civil War and Reconstruction

    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 or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 358 - American Urban History

    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
  

  • HIS 363 - The American Revolution

    Causes, dramatic events, and consequences of the American Revolution from the Salem witch trials through the Constitution.

    Note: Slide lectures.
    Prerequisite: Upper division standing or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 367 - Global Disease

    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
     

    Prerequisite: Upper division standing or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 369 - The United States Since 1945

    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 or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 370 - Topics in History

    Topics in history.

    Note: Variable credit one to three repeatable for a total of 15 credits.
    Prerequisite: Upper division standing or instructor permission.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
  

  • HIS 372 - History of Blaxploitation Cinema

    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: Spring
    Credit: 3
  

  • HIS 373 - History of Mexico

    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 or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
 

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