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2014-2015 University Catalog 
    
2014-2015 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


The University Catalog lists all courses that pertain to the West Lafayette campus. In order to view courses that are available at a given time, and the details of such courses, please visit the myPurdue Schedule of Classes.

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History

  
  • HIST 32800 - History Of Women In Renaissance Europe


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course studies the history of women in early modern Europe (1500-1800), examining their roles, images, and experiences as wives, mothers, nuns, artisans, peasants, prostitutes, scholars, and sovereigns in the eras of Renaissance, Reformation, and Revolution. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 32900 - History Of Women In Modern Europe


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course examines women’s experiences and constructions of femininity in Europe from 1789 to the present, including women in revolutions, state intervention in the family, changing ideas of sexuality, women’s movements, women in socialism and fascism, and women in war. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 32902 - History Of Women In Modern Europe: Writing Intensive


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course examines women’s experiences and constructions of femininity in Europe from 1789 to the present, including women in revolutions, state intervention in the family, changing ideas of sexuality, women’s movements, women in socialism and fascism, and women in war. This is the writing intensive version of HIST 32900 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 33000 - History Of The British Empire And Commonwealth, 1783 To 1960


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of the expansion and decline of British power overseas from the American war of independence to the mid-twentieth century. Emphasizing economic and military power, it focuses on British rule in Canada, Africa, India, Australia, and the West Indies. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 33100 - Great Figures In History


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A series of autobiographical and biographical sketches of figures distinguished as well as lesser-known in all fields of activity. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 33300 - Science And Technology In Western Civilization I


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of some of the main features of the historical development of science and technology, primarily in the Western world, from the dawn of civilization up to Isaac Newton. Emphasis is placed upon the interaction between science, technology, and the societies that encourage or abridge them. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 33400 - Science And Technology In Western Civilization II


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of some of the main features of the historical development of science and technology in the Western world from Newton to the present. Emphasis is placed upon the relation between the achievements of individual investigators and the major aspects of the society and culture in which they lived. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 33505 - Nationalism And Socialism In East Central Europe


    Credit Hours: 3.0. This course examines how the peoples of East Central Europe engaged and coped with the most influential ideologies of the 20th century; with special attention to the weaknesses of the interwar and postwar regimes, strategies of modernization, survival, and dissent. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 33700 - Europe In The Age Of The Cold War


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Examines the power vacuum created in western and central Europe by the defeat of Nazi Germany and explores the influence of the superpowers’ policy on the political, cultural, and economic development of European countries within their respective spheres of influence. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 33900 - Traditional China


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Chinese civilization from its origins to the end of the Ming Dynasty. Attention is divided equally between political and cultural history, giving emphasis to the development of traditional institutions in Chinese society as well as to art, literature, religion, and philosophy. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • HIST 34000 - Modern China


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Chinese history from the Qing Dynasty (1644) to the present, with emphasis on the period since 1800. Attention given to internal developments and China’s response to Western thought and material accomplishments. Nationalism and communism in the twentieth century are examined. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • HIST 34100 - History Of Africa South Of The Sahara


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An introductory survey of major movements and problems in the development of the people of sub-Saharan Africa from the dawn of history to the mid-twentieth century. Attention is directed to the response of Africans to their environment and to various external challenges - Islam, European colonization, and the industrial revolution. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 34200 - Africa And The West


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The study of Africa’s relations with Europe and the Americas, emphasizing economic and cultural crosscurrents from the period of the Atlantic slave trade to the rise of modern nationalism. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 34300 - Traditional Japan


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The course considers Japanese civilization from its origins to the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogun (1603). Divided between political and cultural history, it will emphasize the development of traditional institutions in Japanese society, religion, philosophy, art, and literature. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • HIST 34302 - Traditional Japan: Writing Intensive


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The course considers Japanese civilization from its origins to the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogun (1603). Divided between political and cultural history, it will emphasize the development of traditional institutions in Japanese society, religion, philosophy, art, and literature. This is the writing intensive version of HIST 34300 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 34400 - History Of Modern Japan


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of Japanese history from the nineteenth century to the present, including Japan’s response to Western expansionism, the formation of the modern state, political parties, industrialization, the Pacific War, the American Occupation, the postwar “economic miracle,” and Japan today. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • HIST 34402 - History Of Modern Japan: Writing Intensive


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of Japanese history from the nineteenth century to the present, including Japan’s response to Western expansionism, the formation of the modern state, political parties, industrialization, the Pacific War, the American Occupation, the postwar “economic miracle,” and Japan today. This is the writing intensive version of HIST 34400 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 34901 - The First World War


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course is designed to explore the origins, course, meaning, and lasting legacy of World War I. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 35000 - Science And Technology In The Twentieth Century World


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An introductory survey, emphasizing cultural contexts, relationships with other institutions, and occasional forays into the biographies of major figures. Covering selected major achievements as well as the problems these generate. Neither science nor engineering background is required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 35100 - The Second World War


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of the diplomacy, economic mobilization, and military operations of World War II, 1939-1945. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 35400 - Women In America To 1870


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of the history of women in America from the colonial period to 1870. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 35500 - History Of American Military Affairs


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Surveys American military policy from the colonial militia to the atomic age. Covers major wars and limited wars. The course also investigates the peacetime military functions, i.e., the Navy’s role in diplomacy and the Army’s involvement in Indian affairs. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 35600 - America In Vietnam


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Course examines the economic, political, ideological, and military aspects of America’s involvement in Vietnam, between 1945 and 1975. Course will include lectures, film, and discussions. Each student will be assigned to a discussion section after the first day of class. . Typically offered Spring.
  
  • HIST 35700 - History Of Southern Africa Since 1400


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Course explores the diversity and resilience of the peoples of southern Africa in the face of internal and external challenges, including migrations, state-building, European colonization, industrialization, and apartheid. African liberation movements and the independence revolution are focal points of attention. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 35900 - Gender In East Asian History


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Examination of the construction of tradition and modernity in East Asia through the lens of gender. Topics include the influence of “Confucian” ethics; gender and imperialism, nationalism and revolution; and social change in the aftermath of war and decolonization. Typically offered Fall Summer Spring.
  
  • HIST 35902 - Gender In East Asian History: Writing Intensive


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Examination of the construction of tradition and modernity in East Asia through the lens of gender. Topics include the influence of “Confucian” ethics; gender and imperialism, nationalism and revolution; and social change in the aftermath of war and decolonization. This is the writing intensive version of HIST 35900 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 36000 - Gender In Middle East History


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Examines the gendered history, politics, and culture of the Middle East and North Africa, the relationship between Islam and patriarchy, representations of women in medieval texts, and late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century struggles for women’s rights in the region. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 36101 - Violence, War, And Militarism In Modern Africa


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Why do African countries always seem to be at war? Is this because Africans are inherently more violent than the rest of the world? Or might there be another set of explanations? This course seeks answers to these troubling questions by examining some of the myths and realities about violence, war, and militarism in Africa. Although these issues are not in any way ¿new¿ or ¿modern¿, our historical gaze will be focused primarily on the last 125 years. Studies can expect to engage with a variety of primary sources including films, novels, memoirs, music, and speeches as well as an array of scholarly literature from various academic disciplines. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 36500 - Women In America


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of the history of women in America from Colonial times to the present. Emphasis is on the changing status of women, social and cultural influences, movements for women’s rights, and women’s contributions to American society. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 36600 - Hispanic Heritage Of The United States


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Despite their numerical prominence, Hispanics have received relatively little attention in traditional U.S. history. Focusing primarily on Mexican-Americans, Cuban-Americans, and Puerto Ricans, this course offers a historical perspective on the Hispanic experience from colonial times to the present. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • HIST 37100 - Society, Culture, And Rock And Roll


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Surveys American society and culture through the prism of rock and roll music. Looks at politics, gender, race, and class in the postwar era to examine and explain the social, economic, and technological forces that shaped rock and roll. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 37200 - History Of The American West


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of the American frontier. Characteristics and problems of pioneer life; causes and effects of the westward movement of our people. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 37500 - Women In America Since 1870


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of the history of women in the United States from 1870 to the present. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 37600 - History Of Indiana


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Economic, political, and social history of Indiana from the state’s earliest beginnings as a part of the old Northwest Territory to the present. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 37700 - History And Culture Of Native America


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course explores the societies of Native North America in a historical context, from pre-historic times to the present, examining Native world views and belief systems to understand their historical relations with each other, and with Europeans and their descendents. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 37900 - Gandhi: Myth Reality And Perspective


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The course charts Gandhi’s career against the back-ground of events in London, South Africa and India. It examines the evolution and practical application of his ideas and techniques of non-violent resistance, and his attitudes toward the economy, society and state. . Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 38001 - History Of United States Agriculture


    Credit Hours: 3.0. This course surveys the main development in North American agricultural history, emphasizing the continental United States. Topics include early American agriculture, the plantation system, land policy, scientific and technological change, agrarian politics, water rights, migrant labor, and agricultural policy. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 38200 - American Constitutional History


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Survey of the fundamental principles of American constitutionalism and dominant trends in judicial interpretation, from the creation of the Constitution to the period of the New Deal. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 38300 - Recent American Constitutional History


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Intensive study of constitutional questions and Supreme Court answers from the period of the Warren Court to present. Particularly emphasized are the areas of segregation, civil rights, and civil liberties and guarantees for personal rights. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 38400 - History Of Aviation


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A comparative history of human flight and air power (in Europe, the Americas, and Asia) from its origin in the early inventors and pilots, through its reflection in the popular media, to the global development of civil and military aviation. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 38600 - History Of American Foreign Relations


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The history of American foreign relations from the late colonial period to the present. The development of traditional policies, territorial expansion, and reaction to great-power status and the Cold War are some of the topics discussed. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 38700 - History Of The Space Age


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The historical interaction between human values and space exploration in the contemporary age, focusing on issues of global interdependence. Topics include the international competition in rocketry, the Cold War in space, the moon missions, space disasters, and satellite technology. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 39001 - Jews In The Modern World: A Survey Of Modern Jewish Society, Culture, And Politics


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This survey of modern Jewish society, culture, and politics from the expulsion from Spain in 1492 until the collapse of the Interwar state system in 1938 examines Jewish responses to modernity with special attention to the Jewish relationship to the state and with the surrounding non-Jewish cultures, and the diversity of the modern Jewish experience. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 39100 - History Of Russian Popular Entertainment


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The history of modern mass entertainment and revolutionary experimentation in popular film, the public arts, and daily life in Russia and the Soviet Union (including Central Asia and Siberia) from 1900 to the present. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 39200 - Caribbean History And Culture


    Credit Hours: 3.00. (AAS 39200 ) This survey of Caribbean history highlights the British, Danish, Dutch, French, and Spanish islands. It addresses slavery, colonialism, independence, nationalism and gender relations. It will attract students interested in Latin America, African Diaspora studies, immigration, and cultural studies. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 39400 - Environmental History Of The United States


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This is a mid-level survey designed to provide students of environmental science with historical background and students of history with the unique perspective of environmental history. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 39500 - Junior Research Seminar


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Variable title seminar for history majors in their junior year intended to teach historical skills, including research in primary sources, analytical skills, and forming historical arguments. It is a writing intensive course and counts as one of the major requirements. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 39600 - The Afro-American To 1865


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The history of Afro-Americans in America from their African origins to 1865. Emphasis is focused upon early African society, American slavery, and the development of black institutions and culture in the United States. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 39800 - The Afro-American Since 1865


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The history of Afro-Americans from 1865 to the present. Their struggles to overcome social, economic, and political oppression and to win basic civil and human rights while making valuable contributions to American society are emphasized. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 40202 - Europe In The Renaissance: Writing Intensive


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Primarily a survey of Renaissance Italy, 1300 to 1530. Attention is focused on Italian humanism as an intellectual and social movement, on the struggle of republicanism against despotism in Italian city life, and finally on the impact of humanism north of the Alps in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. This is the writing intensive version of HIST 40200. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 40300 - Europe In The Reformation


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of decay and renewal in European society, 1300 to 1650. Concentrates on the Protestant and Catholic Reformation and religious wars, but also covers the Northern Renaissance, the New Monarchies, and the discovery and exploration of the New World. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 40302 - Europe In The Reformation: Writing Intensive


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of decay and renewal in European society, 1300 to 1650. Concentrates on the Protestant and Catholic Reformation and religious wars, but also covers the Northern Renaissance, the New Monarchies, and the discovery and exploration of the New World. This is the writing intensive version of HIST 40300 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 40400 - Kings And Philosophers: Europe 1618-1789


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Study of great European monarchies and transformation of modern thought by the scientific revolution and Enlightenment. Emphasis on key rulers (Louis XIV, Peter and Catherine the Great, Frederick the Great) and great thinkers (Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau). Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 40402 - Kings And Philosophers: Writing Intensive


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Study of great European monarchies and transformation of modern thought by the scientific revolution and Enlightenment. Emphasis on key rulers (Louis XIV, Peter and Catherine the Great, Frederick the Great) and great thinkers (Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau). This is the writing intensive version of HIST 40400 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 40500 - The French Revolution And Napoleon


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of revolutionary France from the fall of the ancien regime to the Congress of Vienna. Divided in emphasis between the period of the revolution and the era of Napoleon, the course stresses social, political, ideological, and institutional developments. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 40502 - French Revolution And Napoleon: Writing Intensive


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of revolutionary France from the fall of the ancien regime to the Congress of Vienna. Divided in emphasis between the period of the revolution and the era of Napoleon, the course stresses social, political, ideological, and institutional developments. This is the writing intensive version of HIST 40500 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 40600 - Rebels And Romantics: Europe 1815-1870


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Examines the dramatic social, cultural, and political developments in Europe following the defeat of Napolean through various rebellious and romantic personalities, as well as figures who supported conservative or reformist solutions to the upheavals of industrialization, revolution, and nationalism. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 40602 - Rebels And Romantics: Writing Intensive


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Examines the dramatic social, cultural, and political developments in Europe following the defeat of Napolean through various rebellious and romantic personalities, as well as figures who supported conservative or reformist solutions to the upheavals of industrialization, revolution, and nationalism. This is the writing intensive version of HIST 40600 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 40700 - Road To World War I: Europe 1870-1919


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Studies the increase in Europe’s wealth and power through conquest, industrialization, and nation-state rivalries, along with the social stress and cultural anxiety that culminated in World War I; examines the war from the perspectives of both combatants and civilians. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 40702 - Road To World War I: Writing Intensive


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Studies the increase in Europe’s wealth and power through conquest, industrialization, and nation-state rivalries, along with the social stress and cultural anxiety that culminated in World War I; examines the war from the perspectives of both combatants and civilians. This is the writing intensive version of HIST 40700 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 40800 - Dictatorship And Democracy: Europe 1919-1945


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course examines the fleeting triumph of democracy across Europe. Followed by the rise of fascism, communism, and Nazism. Emphasis will be placed on broad economic, social, and cultural transformations as well as individual choices to resist or conform. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 40802 - Dictatorship And Democracy: Writing Intensive


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course examines the fleeting triumph of democracy across Europe. Followed by the rise of fascism, communism, and Nazism. Emphasis will be placed on broad economic, social, and cultural transformations as well as individual choices to resist or conform. This is the writing intensive version of HIST 40800 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 41100 - The Four Horsemen Ride: Crisis And Change In Europe 1300-1648


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Upper-division history course on the history of various crises in late medieval and early modern Europe and the changes those crises wrought upon society. Topics include: famine, The Black Death and demographic upheavals, the Hundred Years’ War, religious schism, prophecy and divination, apocalyptic expectations, the fracturing of Christendom, new technologies and social change, conflict between Catholics and Protestants, The Thirty Year’s War. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 41102 - The Four Horsemen Ride: Crisis And Change In Europe: 1300-1648: Writing Intensive


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Upper-division history course on the history of various crises in late medieval and early modern Europe and the changes those crises wrought upon society. Topics include: famine, The Black Death and demographic upheavals, the Hundred Years’ War, religious schism, prophecy and divination, apocalyptic expectations, the fracturing of Christendom, new technologies and social change, conflict between Catholics and Protestants, The Thirty Year’s War. This is the writing intensive version of HIST 41100 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 41200 - The Cultural History Of The Middle Ages


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The development of new patterns of thought and their manifestation in literature (religious and secular), education, and art from the decline of the ancient world to the fourteenth century inclusive. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 41202 - Cultural History Of Middle Ages: Writing Intensive


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The development of new patterns of thought and their manifestation in literature (religious and secular), education, and art from the decline of the ancient world to the fourteenth century inclusive. This is the writing intensive version of HIST 41200 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 41300 - Europe In The Age Of Empires


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This upper-level course will examine the history of modern European imperialism, beginning with the transformation and expansion of empires in the 19th century and ending with the collapse of these systems in more recent years. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 41302 - Europe In The Age Of Empires: Writing Intensive


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This upper-level course will examine the history of modern European imperialism, beginning with the transformation and expansion of empires in the 19th century and ending with the collapse of these systems in more recent years. Students in this writing-intensive course will be expected to write a series of short response papers, including a book review and a primary source analysis. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 41800 - European Society And Culture 1450-1800


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course will examine European society and culture from 1450-1800. We will explore marriage and the family, sexuality, social status and civility, gender relations, witchcraft, poverty, violence, work and the everyday economy, and resistance and accommodation to political authority. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 42100 - Honors Historical Methods


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Designed as a prequel to Honors Thesis; this course introduces the Honors students to various advanced interpretative approaches to history and methods of historical research. Students also choose their topic for their Honors Thesis and begin research. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 42200 - Honors Thesis In Historical Research


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Designed as a sequel to HIST 42100  (Honors Historical Methods); this course is intended as the culminating academic experience for students in the Department of History Honors Program. It will require the completion of an undergraduate thesis in history. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 42300 - Advanced Topics In Modern Germany


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course offers a reading-intensive study of a specific period or theme in modern German history. Semester-long topics might include Imperial Germany; Weimar Germany; Divided Germany (1945-1990); or thematic studies on culture, religion, or military affairs. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 42700 - History Of Spain And Portugal


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of the evolving social and institutional history of the Iberian peoples, from the Roman colony to the twentieth century. Some emphasis is placed upon the transfer of institutions to the lands of the Spanish and Portuguese empires. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 42702 - History Of Spain And Portugal: Writing Intensive


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of the evolving social and institutional history of the Iberian peoples, from the Roman colony to the twentieth century. Some emphasis is placed upon the transfer of institutions to the lands of the Spanish and Portuguese empires. This is the writing intensive version of HIST 42700 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 43000 - Women In African History


    Credit Hours: 3.00. (WGSS 43000 ) African women’s history is rich and deeply layered. In this course, we will examine the social, political, economic, religious, and cultural experiences of women living in Africa. Although we look at women in the pre-colonial and slave trade eras, the focus will be on women during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Much of our reading and discussion will consider not only women, but also gender as we think about women’s interactions with men and children. This course is concerned with the historical forces shaping African women’s lives, as well as with ways in which women have been active agents in the making of their own histories. Students can expect to engage with a number of different types of texts (e.g. firms, novels, scholarly analyses, and primary sources.) Typically offered Fall, Spring.
  
  • HIST 43002 - Women In Africa History: Writing Intensive


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This writing-intensive seminar examines the social, political, economic, religious, and cultural experiences of women living in Africa. Although we will look at women in the pre-colonial and slave trade eras, the focus will be on women during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Much of our reading and discussion will consider not only women, but also gender as we think about women’s interactions with men and children. Topics include sexuality, power, politics, violence, and resistance, among others. Students can expect to engage with a number of different types of texts (e.g. films, novels, scholarly analyses, and primary sources). Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 43800 - History Of Russia From Medieval Times To 1861


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course explores the main characteristics of early Russian society, culture and politics. Topics include: the Kievan principalities, Orthodox Christianity, the Mongols, the rise of Moscow, the Petrine reforms, peasant and national rebellions, revolutionary movements, and the Tsarist empire to the Crimean War. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • HIST 43802 - History Of Russia From Medieval Times to 1861: Writing Intensive


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course explores the main characteristics of early Russian society, culture and politics. Topics include: the Kievan principalities, Orthodox Christianity, the Mongols, the rise of Moscow, the Petrine reforms, peasant and national rebellions, revolutionary movements, and the Tsarist empire to the Crimean War. This is the writing intensive version of HIST 43800 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 43900 - Communist China


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The evolution of the Communist movement (1921-1949) and the development of the Communist government (since 1949) in China. Attention is given to political, economic, social, and cultural changes. Typically offered Spring.
  
  • HIST 43902 - Communist China: Writing Intensive


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The evolution of the Communist movement (1921-1949) and the development of the Communist government (since 1949) in China. Attention is given to political, economic, social, and cultural changes. This is the writing intensive version of HIST 43900 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 44000 - History Of Russia From 1861 To The Present


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course surveys the paths of the Russian empire through economic modernization, social transformation, and World War I; the revolutionary regimes of Bolshevism, Leninism, and Stalinism; World War II and the Cold War; the collapse of the USSR; and the new Eurasian states. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
  
  • HIST 44002 - History Of Russia From 1861-Present: Writing Intensive


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course surveys the paths of the Russian empire through economic modernization, social transformation, and World War I; the revolutionary regimes of Bolshevism, Leninism, and Stalinism; World War II and the Cold War; the collapse of the USSR; and the new Eurasian states. This is the writing intensive version of HIST 44000 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 44100 - Africa In The Twentieth Century


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A problem-oriented course in the modern history of Africa from 1880 to 1975. It analyzes origins of African nationalism, European colonialism, racial conflict, and war leading to the independence revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 44102 - Africa In The Twentieth Century: Writing Intensive


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A problem-oriented course in the modern history of Africa from 1880 to 1975. It analyzes origins of African nationalism, European colonialism, racial conflict, and war leading to the independence revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. This is the writing intensive version of HIST 44100 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 45000 - The English Landscape:Integrating History, Horticulture & Landscape Architect


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Intensive four-weeks in residence in Corsham,UK with visits to significant sites to examine the intersections between human culture and the natural environment that results in the developed landscape. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer.
  
  • HIST 45500 - Modern Iraq


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course focuses on Iraq’s formation as a modern state, and it addresses the following periods: Ottoman Mesopotomia (1908-1920), Colonial Iraq (1915-1932), the Monarchy (1932-1958), Revolutionary Iraq (1958-1968), and Baathist Iraq (1968-2003), the Iraq War (2003-2008). Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 45502 - Modern Iraq: Writing Intensive


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course focuses on Iraq’s formation as a state from Ottoman times until the present day. In doing so, it historicizes the Iraq War, encouraging students to draw their own conclusions about it. This class requires that students engage primary sources and write a research paper of twenty-five pages. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 46000 - American Colonial History


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An investigation of the foundation of the American colonies, their place in the British imperial structure, and the eventual conflict of imperial exigencies with colonial self-interest and national feeling. Typically offered Fall.
  
  • HIST 46002 - American Colonial History: Writing Intensive


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An investigation of the foundation of the American colonies, their place in the British imperial structure, and the eventual conflict of imperial exigencies with colonial self-interest and national feeling. This is the writing intensive version of HIST 46000 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 46100 - The Revolutionary Era, 1763 To 1800


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An analysis of the origins, nature, and consequences of the American Revolution; of the achievements and difficulties of the new nation under the Articles of Confederation; of the drafting and adoption of the Constitution; and of the initial political, economic, and social progress of the United States under the Federalists. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 46102 - Revolutionary Era 1763-1800: Writing Intensive


    Credit Hours: 3.00. An analysis of the origins, nature, and consequences of the American Revolution; of the achievements and difficulties of the new nation under the Articles of Confederation; of the drafting and adoption of the Constitution; and of the initial political, economic, and social progress of the United States under the Federalists. This is the writing intensive version of HIST 46100 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 46300 - Creation Of American Legal Culture


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The “Founding Fathers” wrote a Constitution riddled with compromise language, maddeningly brief, and often imprecise. How did early Americans erect a working civil society, with courts and policemen, laws and procedures, on the foundation of that constitutional framework?. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 46302 - Creation Of American Legal Culture: Writing Intensive


    Credit Hours: 3.00. The “Founding Fathers” wrote a Constitution riddled with compromise language, maddeningly brief, and often imprecise. How did early Americans erect a working civil society, with courts and policemen, laws and procedures, on the foundation of that constitutional framework?. This is the writing intensive version of HIST 46300 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 46500 - The Civil War And Reconstruction, 1850 To 1877


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of the American Civil War and Reconstruction, covering the intense sectional conflict of the 1850s; the military, social, economic, and political aspects of the war; and the political and economic reconstruction that followed. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 46502 - Civil War And Reconstruction 1850-1877: Writing Intensive


    Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of the American Civil War and Reconstruction, covering the intense sectional conflict of the 1850s; the military, social, economic, and political aspects of the war; and the political and economic reconstruction that followed. This is the writing intensive version of HIST 46500 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 46700 - The Emergence Of Modern America


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Examines the changes in American society between 1877 and 1932. The course covers such issues as the rise of industry, the growth of consumerism, the shift to a multi-ethnic society, imperialism, Populism, Progressivism, World War I, and the 1920s. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 46702 - Emergence Of Modern America: Writing Intensive


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Examines the changes in American society between 1877 and 1932. The course covers such issues as the rise of industry, the growth of consumerism, the shift to a multi-ethnic society, imperialism, Populism, Progressivism, World War I, and the 1920s. This is the writing intensive version of HIST 46700 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 46800 - Recent American History


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Examines the issues that shaped American society, politics, foreign policy, and culture from 1932 to the present. Covers the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War as well as the social, cultural, and economic impact of those events. Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 46802 - Recent American History: Writing Intensive


    Credit Hours: 3.00. Examines the issues that shaped American society, politics, foreign policy, and culture from 1932 to the present. Covers the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War as well as the social, cultural, and economic impact of those events. This is the writing intensive version of HIST 46800 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
  
  • HIST 46900 - Black Civil Rights Movement


    Credit Hours: 3.00. This course will examine the origins, dynamics, and consequences of the modern black civil rights movement by exploring how struggles for racial equality and full citizenship worked to dismantle entrenched systems of segregation, repression, and discrimination within American society and culture. Typically offered Fall Spring.
 

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