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HIST 46902 - Black Civil Rights Movement: Writing Intensive
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. This is the writing intensive version of HIST 46900 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
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HIST 47100 - History Of The Great Plains Indians
Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of the tribal history, culture, and social institutions of the Plains Indians. Relations with Euro-Americans, warfare, trade, major ceremonials, and lifestyles before, during, and after the reservation period will be studied. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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HIST 47102 - History Of Great Plains Indians: Writing Intensive
Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of the tribal history, culture, and social institutions of the Plains Indians. Relations with Euro-Americans, warfare, trade, major ceremonials, and lifestyles before, during, and after the reservation period will be studied. This is the writing intensive version of HIST 47100 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
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HIST 47200 - History Of Mexico
Credit Hours: 3.00. A history of the Mexican people from the pre-Columbian period to present. Special emphasis is placed on the successful social revolutions that led to the development of today’s dynamic nation. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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HIST 47202 - History Of Mexico: Writing Intensive
Credit Hours: 3.00. A history of the Mexican people from the pre-Columbian period to present. Special emphasis is placed on the successful social revolutions that led to the development of today’s dynamic nation. This is the writing intensive version of HIST 47200 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
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HIST 47300 - History Of The South
Credit Hours: 3.00. Geographic, economic, cultural, social, and political aspects of the South. The significance of such figures as Jefferson, Jackson, Calhoun, Jefferson Davis, and Woodrow Wilson. The emphasis is on the evolution of the intellectual climate. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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HIST 47302 - History Of The South: Writing Intensive
Credit Hours: 3.00. Geographic, economic, cultural, social, and political aspects of the South. The significance of such figures as Jefferson, Jackson, Calhoun, Jefferson Davis, and Woodrow Wilson. The emphasis is on the evolution of the intellectual climate. This is the writing intensive version of HIST 47300 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
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HIST 47500 - Spanish Frontier In North America
Credit Hours: 3.00. Examines both the chronological history and institutions of the expansion of Spain in the colonial period in northern Mexico, the southwestern United States, and Florida and the Southeast. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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HIST 47502 - Spanish Frontier In North America: Writing Intensive
Credit Hours: 3.00. Examines both the chronological history and institutions of the expansion of Spain in the colonial period in northern Mexico, the southwestern United States, and Florida and the Southeast. This is the writing intensive version of HIST 47500 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
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HIST 47600 - The Civil War In Myth And Memory
Credit Hours: 3.00. This seminar will explore how the Civil War has been celebrated and/or remembered from 1865-present. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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HIST 47700 - Native American Women’s History
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course studies the history of indigenous women in North America from pre-contact to the present era, examining their roles through the experience of colonization and decolonization underscoring issues of sovereignty, identity, activism, kinship, public images, and stereotypes. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
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HIST 47702 - Native American Women’s History: Writing Intensive
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course thematically explores the history of Native American women in North America. The course is grounded in the particular theoretical and methodological concerns of indigenous history and is a reading and writing intensive course. During the semester, students are required to write two book reviews, two cultural event essays, and a research paper that includes the following components: research proposal, preliminary annotated bibliography, detailed outline and complete annotated bibliography, first draft, final submitted essay (10-15 pages in length). Typically offered Fall Spring.
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HIST 47900 - American Representations Of The Middle East And North Africa
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course explores Arab-American relations over the past 300 years, using American writings on the Middle East and North Africa as a prism for viewing evolving conceptions of national identity and global power in the United States. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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HIST 47902 - American Representations Of Mid East Writing Intensive
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course explores Arab-American relations, using American writings on the Middle East and North Africa as a prism for viewing evolving conceptions of national identity and global power in the United States. Students produce three polished pieces of writing that address specific themes in the readings for this course. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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HIST 48500 - Topics In American Political History
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course deals with broad thematic and chronologically defined topics in American political history from the Revolutionary Era to the late twentieth century. Content will vary with the faculty member teaching the class. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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HIST 48502 - Topics In American Political History: Writing Intensive
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course deals with broad thematic and chronologically defined topics in American political history from the Revolutionary Era to the late twentieth century. Content will vary with the faculty member teaching the class. This is the writing intensive version of HIST 48500 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
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HIST 48800 - History Of Sexual Regulation In The United States
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course will illuminate broad themes in the historical regulation of sexual violence, consensual sex, and homosexuality. Student will understand and analyze how cultural, social, religious, and moral ideologies have influenced conceptions of deviant and normative sexuality in the United States. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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HIST 49200 - Seminar In Historical Topics
Credit Hours: 3.00. Course description will vary according to specific topic proposed to study. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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HIST 49202 - Seminar In Historical Topics: Writing Intensive
Credit Hours: 3.00. Course description will vary according to specific topic proposed to study. This is the writing intensive version of HIST 49200 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
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HIST 49300 - Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Seminar
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. An undergraduate seminar devoted to an interdisciplinary examination of social, economic, political, and intellectual movements, using the faculty resources of the participating departments. Subject matter will vary. Each offering of the seminar will be approved by a committee of department heads from the sponsoring departments. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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HIST 49400 - Science And Technology In American Civilization
Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey chiefly of technological developments, with particular attention paid to the reasons underlying the American tradition of using natural resources lavishly. The technological theme features mass production, while pure science themes include such items as the natural history tradition. Typically offered Spring.
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HIST 49402 - Science And Technology In America: Writing Intensive
Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey chiefly of technological developments, with particular attention paid to the reasons underlying the American tradition of using natural resources lavishly. The technological theme features mass production, while pure science themes include such items as the natural history tradition. This is the writing intensive version of HIST 49400 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
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HIST 49500 - Research Seminar In Historical Topics
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course is designed to train history majors in the fundamentals of historical research and writing. Course descriptions vary according to specific topics proposed for study by instructors. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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HIST 49900 - History Internship
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. This course allows students to earn credit for internships. Examples of qualified internships would include work with museums, historical societies, and various units of government. Credit and course requirements arranged with the instructor. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
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HIST 50000 - Studies In Medieval History
Credit Hours: 3.00. The first semester concentrates on selected major developments in the early Middle Ages (A.D. 400-1050). The second semester does the same for the High and Late Middle Ages (A.D. 1050-1500). Topics of interest and broad significance. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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HIST 50500 - Haunted Pasts: Ghosts, Ghouls And Monsters In Global Culture
Credit Hours: 3.00. This reading and writing intensive course will be a survey of ghost-lore across cultures. It will study ghost-stories and theologies about the after-life, along with practices such as funerals, in order to understand the changing nature of fear in society. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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HIST 51100 - England Under The Tudors
Credit Hours: 3.00. Examines English society from 1485 to 1603, examing the evolution of English kingship; changing religious climate; growth of parliament; and England’s entry into the era of European expansionism. It is also concerned with family life, marriage, children, Renaissance and folk culture. Permission of Instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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HIST 51200 - England Under The Stuarts
Credit Hours: 3.00. This intensive study of seventeenth-century England focuses on the political, religious, and economic tensions under the early Stuarts; the Civil War; Cromwell’s Protectorate; and The Glorious Revolution. Topics discussed include parliament, puritanism, radicalism, the Restoration, and the Whig Oligarchy. Typically offered Spring.
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HIST 51400 - A History Of Western Thought I
Credit Hours: 3.00. Intellectual and cultural development of the western world to the end of the Middle Ages. Typically offered Fall.
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HIST 51500 - A History Of Western Thought II
Credit Hours: 3.00. Intellectual and cultural development of the western world from the Renaissance to the present. Typically offered Spring.
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HIST 52500 - Hitler And Twentieth-Century Germany
Credit Hours: 3.00. A reading and discussion course concentrating on four major periods of German history: pre-1914, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, and the post-1945 period. Emphasis is placed on the transformations occurring in German society as a result of these upheavals. Typically offered Spring.
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HIST 54800 - Conflict In East Asia: Twentieth Century
Credit Hours: 3.00. An examination of the participation of China, Japan, and Korea in the shifting alliances and the diplomatic and military crises of the twentieth century. The policies of these countries are considered in the light of the major international problems that confronted them. Particular attention is given to the Communist challenge in East Asia. Typically offered Fall.
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HIST 57600 - Problems In Latin American History
Credit Hours: 3.00. A detailed examination of specific topics in Latin American history. Topics offered vary between colonial and national periods. Typically offered Spring Fall.
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HIST 57700 - Contemporary Latin America
Credit Hours: 3.00. A topical and regional approach to recent political, social, and economic movements in Latin America. Typically offered Spring Fall.
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HIST 58500 - American Labor History
Credit Hours: 3.00. A chronological survey of American working class society, the growth of worker organizations and the movement toward massive labor organization as a distinctive national development. Changing philosophies are examined, and the resulting pattern of relationships between management, the federal government, and the labor movement is emphasized. Typically offered Spring Fall.
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HIST 58600 - United States Foreign Affairs To World War I
Credit Hours: 3.00. An examination of the economic, political, and ideological factors which shaped American foreign policy from the colonial era until WWI. Course emphasizes the drive for territorial and commercial expansion which propelled the United States to a position of world power. Typically offered Fall.
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HIST 58700 - United States Foreign Affairs: World War I To Present
Credit Hours: 3.00. An examination of the economic, political, and ideological factors which shaped American foreign policy from WWI until present. Course emphasizes the intimate relation between domestic conditions and the growing involvement of the United States in world affairs. Typically offered Spring.
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HIST 58900 - History Of Religion In America
Credit Hours: 3.00. A historical examination, from colonial beginnings to the present, of American religions and their role in the social, political, and economic life of the nation, including a survey of the speculative theories, the institutional forms, and the artistic and emotional expressions of religion which have developed in the United States. Typically offered Spring Fall.
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HIST 59000 - Directed Reading In History
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. A reading course directed by the instructor in whose field of specialization the content of the reading falls. Approval of each reading project must be secured from the department. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Spring Fall.
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HIST 59200 - Early American Intellectual History
Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of American political, economic, philosophical, and religious thought beginning with the European backgrounds of American puritanism and concluding with the rise of Darwinian naturalism. Typically offered Fall.
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HIST 59300 - Twentieth-Century American Intellectual History
Credit Hours: 3.00. Origins and developments of modern American thought. Early American religious and philosophical traditions; Darwinian evolution and evolutionary naturalism; pragmatism, and the main currents of the 1920s and 1930s. Typically offered Spring.
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HIST 59400 - Afro-American Thought And Ideology
Credit Hours: 3.00. Survey of ideas, programs, strategies of nineteenth and twentieth century black leaders and activists. Course concentrates on Pan-Africanism, as-similationism, black nationalism (territorial and cultural), racial awareness as developed against background of slavery, urban migration, economic oppression, and black political powerlessness. Typically offered Spring.
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HIST 59500 - The Holocaust And Genocide
Credit Hours: 3.00. (POL 59500) History and analysis of the Nazi attempt to destroy the European Jews, with comparisons to other instances of genocide. Typically offered Spring Fall.
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HIST 59600 - The American City
Credit Hours: 3.00. A survey of urban development in the United States from the early colonial towns to the twentieth-century megalopolis. Emphasis is placed on the city as a particular geographic, economic, political, social, and cultural entity, and on its expanding role in American life. Typically offered Fall.
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HIST 60100 - Reading Seminar In European History
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Bibliography and historiography of selected fields of topics in European history; may vary in subject matter from semester to semester. Prerequisite: Master’s student standing. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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HIST 60200 - Seminar In European History
Credit Hours: 3.00. Individual and group study of topics in European history from the medieval period to the modern era. Topics reflect the research, teaching, or historiographical specialties of the faculty offering the course. Subtitles indicate the focus of the research seminar. Prerequisite: Master’s student standing. Typically offered Spring Fall.
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HIST 61000 - History: Theory And Methods
Credit Hours: 3.00. This is the first part of an introductory two-course sequence for new graduate students intended to acquaint them with some important issues regarding the modern professional practice of history. This semester concentrates on historiography, theoretical questions, and methodological debates that today’s working historians inevitably encounter. Students read about the practice of historical scholarship and read several important example texts representing different approaches to the discipline over the past 200 years. Students write several short book reviews, position papers, and a mock grant proposal during this semester. The course is required of incoming graduate students in history. It usually will be followed by HIST 61100 , Research Practicum. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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HIST 61100 - History: Research Practicum
Credit Hours: 3.00. The second half of a two-semester sequence for new graduate students intended to acquaint them with important issues regarding the modern practice of historical scholarship. This course is a research seminar in which students shape and execute their own research projects resulting in original article-length historical essays. In addition, matters relating to ethical conduct of research and problems of historical writing and argumentation are discussed. Prerequisites: HIST 61000 or 59800. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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HIST 64100 - Reading Seminar In Global History
Credit Hours: 3.00. Individual and group study of topics in global history. Topics reflect the research, teaching, or historiographic specialties of the faculty offering the course. Subtitles indicate the focus of the research seminar. Prerequisite: Master’s student standing. Typically offered Spring Fall.
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HIST 64200 - Seminar In Global History
Credit Hours: 3.00. Individual and group study of topics in global history. Topics reflect the research, teaching, or historiographic specialties of the faculty offering the course. Subtitles indicate the focus of the research seminar. Prerequisite: Master’s student standing. Typically offered Spring Fall.
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HIST 65000 - Teaching The History Survey Course
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course provides an introduction to the literature on teaching history at the college level, especially the literature on pedagogy, theory, and conceptualization needed for the undergraduate survey course. Students will become familiar with the professional literature, develop their own syllabus for the survey course, and produce an extensive historiographical essay supporting and justifying the contents of the syllabus. Class discussions will expose students to a number of teaching strategies, concepts, and exercises. Prerequisite: Master’s student standing. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
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HIST 65100 - Reading Seminar In American History
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Bibliography and historiography of selected fields or topics in American history; may vary in subject matter from semester to semester. Prerequisite: Master’s student standing. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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HIST 65200 - Seminar In American History
Credit Hours: 3.00. Individual and group study of topics in American history from the colonial period to the present. Topics reflect the research, teaching, or historiographical specialties of the faculty offering the course. Subtitles indicate the focus of the research seminar. Prerequisite: Master’s student standing. Typically offered Spring Fall.
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HIST 66500 - Seminar On American Indian History
Credit Hours: 3.00. Individual research and group study of selected topics dealing with American Indian history from the pre-Columbian period to the present. Typically offered Spring Fall.
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HIST 67000 - Seminar In Latin American History
Credit Hours: 3.00. Research or reading seminar in Latin American History on a selected topic in colonial or national period of Latin American History. Topics vary. It may be repeated once with change of topic. Students must have been admitted into M.A. or Ph.D. history programs or any other graduate program at Purdue. Also adequate knowledge of languages pertinent to research topic is expected. No prior knowledge of Latin American History is required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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HIST 69800 - Research MA Thesis
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 18.00. Research MA Thesis. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Spring Fall Summer.
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HIST 69900 - Research PhD Thesis
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 18.00. Research PhD Thesis. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Spring Fall Summer.
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HONR 19500 - University Honors Program Freshman Independent Research
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Honors research. Individual research projects undertaken with faculty supervision. Admission to University Honors Program. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
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HONR 19900 - Interdisciplinary Honors - Special Topics Seminar
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 6.00. For first and second-year honors eligible students only, with priority given to University Honors Program (UHP) students. These interdisciplinary topic seminars are designed to open intellectual horizons and allow opportunities for learning by inquiry in a collaborative environment. Courses are limited to 20 participants or less, may be team taught, and emphasize close interaction between the professor(s) and the students. Students will participate in active learning exercises that may include field trips, creative research experiences, community collaboration, and/or service learning. Seminar topics will vary from semester to semester depending upon demand and/or instructor’s availability. Previous seminar titles include: The Vampire in Folklore, Fiction, & Film; Should the History of Science be X-Rated; The City; and The Modern Corporation in Society. Requires SAT >= 1200 or ACT >= 26. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
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HONR 19901 - The Evolution Of Ideas
Credit Hours: 1.00. This course is the first half of the required introductory series taken by all students entering the Honors College. It has no prerequisites and is restricted to students accepted into the Honors College. Typically offered Fall.
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HONR 19902 - The Evolution Of Ideas II
Credit Hours: 1.00. This course is the second half of the required course sequence taken by all students entering the Honors College. It has no prerequisites and is restricted to students accepted by the Honors College. Typically offered Spring.
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HONR 19903 - Interdisciplinary Approaches In Writing
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course is a writing-intensive course in which students learn how to find, evaluate, and use credible information, how to express themselves well in a variety of different written genres, and how to write for different audiences. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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HONR 29500 - University Honors Program Sophomore Independent Research
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Honors research. Individual research projects undertaken with faculty supervision. Admission to University Honors Program. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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HONR 29900 - Interdisciplinary Honors - Special Topics Seminar
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 6.00. For second-year honors eligible students and above; with priority given to University Honors Program (UHP) students. These interdisciplinary topics seminars are designed to open intellectual horizons and allow opportunities for learning by inquiry in a collaborative environment. Courses are limited to 20 participates or less, may be team taught, and emphasize close interaction between the professor(s) and the students. Students will participate in active learning exercises that may include field trips, creative research experiences, community collaboration, and/or service learning. Seminar topics will vary from semester to semester depending upon demand and/or instructor’s availability. . Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
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HONR 39500 - University Honors Program Junior Independent Research
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Honors research. Individual research projects undertaken with faculty supervision. Admission to University Honors Program. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
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HONR 39900 - Interdisciplinary Honors - Special Topics Seminar
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 6.00. HONR 39900 is designated for a wide range of honors courses offered by various schools/departments as part of their respective curricula and by the University Honors Program. Permission of department required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
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HONR 49900 - Interdisciplinary Honors - Special Topics Seminar
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 6.00. HONR 49900 is designated for a wide range of honors courses offered by various schools/departments as part of their respective curricula and by the University Honors Program. Permission of department required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
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HORT 10100 - Fundamentals Of Horticulture
Credit Hours: 3.00. Biology and technology involved in the production, storage, processing, and marketing of horticultural plants and products. Laboratories include experiments demonstrating both the theoretical and practical aspects of horticultural plant growth and development. Requires class trips. Students will pay individual lodging or meal expenses when necessary. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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HORT 11000 - Survey Of Horticulture
Credit Hours: 1.00. A survey of the field of horticulture, with emphasis on horticultural information and career opportunities. This course will utilize a lecture format with a combination of presentations by the instructor and guest speakers with expertise and experience in specialized areas of horticulture. Typically offered Spring.
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HORT 20100 - Plant Propagation
Credit Hours: 3.00. Theoretical and applied aspects of controlled plant reproduction by sexual and asexual techniques, including seeds, grafting and budding, layering, cuttings, micropropagation (in vitro culture), and specialized structures. Lectures emphasize morphological changes and physiological processes involved in plant propagation. Laboratory exercises illustrate the practical applications of propagation techniques. Typically offered Spring.
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HORT 21700 - Woody Landscape Plants
Credit Hours: 4.00. Recognition and identification of woody landscape plants; plant characteristics in terms of landscape function. Typically offered Fall.
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HORT 21800 - Herbaceous Landscape Plants
Credit Hours: 3.00. Covers important herbaceous ornamentals, with emphasis on annuals, perennials, bulbs, and ground covers; recognition; cultural requirements; and use in landscape plantings. Requires class trips. Students will pay individual lodging or meal expenses when necessary. Typically offered Fall.
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HORT 22200 - DynaSCAPE Applications In Horticulture
Credit Hours: 1.00. This course will teach students how to use DynaSCAPE software for horticultural landscape design applications. Offered during weeks 6-10. Typically offered Spring.
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HORT 22300 - AutoCAD Applications In Horticulture
Credit Hours: 1.00. This course will teach students how to use AutoCada software for horticultural landscape design and construction applications. Offered during weeks 11-15. Typically offered Spring.
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HORT 22400 - Photoshop Applications In Horticulture
Credit Hours: 1.00. This course will teach students how to use Adobe Photoshop software for horticultural applications. Offered during weeks 1-5. Typically offered Spring.
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HORT 27500 - Honors Course - Lower Division
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Utilized to offer a new honors course for a maximum of three years. Variable title, credit, and instructional type. Course may be repeated for credit if content and titles are different. Offered primarily to first- and second-year students. Courses offered must be approved by departmental or program faculty and College of Agriculture Honors Committee. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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HORT 30100 - Plant Physiology
Credit Hours: 4.00. Basic physiological processes of higher plants, particularly as related to the influence of environmental factors on growth, metabolism, and reproduction. Laboratory experiments involve hands-on experience with numerous aspects of plant physiology, including water relations, photosynthesis, growth, dormancy, hormones, and flowering. Typically offered Fall.
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HORT 30600 - History Of Horticulture
Credit Hours: 3.00. The origins and development of agriculture, with specific emphasis on horticulture from prehistory to the present in relation to civilization and modern culture. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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HORT 31000 - Planting Design Basics
Credit Hours: 1.00. An introduction to the principles and methods of design and graphic communication as applied to the arrangement of plants in the landscape. The focus will be on small scale, ornamental and educational display plantings. Both herbaceous and woody planting design examples for public gardens, golf courses and other public sites will be presented. Offered during weeks 6-10. Typically offered Fall.
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HORT 31500 - Landscape Design
Credit Hours: 3.00. An introduction to the landscape design process. The focus will be on smaller sites, constructed site systems and planting design. Graphic skills will emphasize techniques for drawing site plans and other illustrations. Typically offered Fall.
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HORT 31600 - Landscape Construction
Credit Hours: 3.00. An introduction to the primary elements and systems of the constructed landscape, including landform, edging, paving, retaining wall, decking, low-voltage lighting, irrigation, drainage and ornamental water systems. Typically offered Spring.
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HORT 31700 - Landscape Contracting And Management
Credit Hours: 3.00. Principles and practices applicable to the installation and management of landscape plants. Topics include site and project assessment, site modification and plant installation, the business practices of estimating and bidding, and plant management. Requires class trips. Students will pay individual lodging or meal expenses when necessary. Typically offered Fall.
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HORT 36000 - Flower Arrangement And Indoor Plant Management
Credit Hours: 3.00. Principles of flower arrangements and displays. Identification, culture, propagation, and use of plants for indoor plantings. Laboratory materials fee required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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HORT 37000 - Professional Floral Design
Credit Hours: 3.00. Principles and techniques of commercial-scale floral design for weddings, funerals, hospitals, personal, and parties. Design construction for fresh, dried, and silk materials. Survey of retail florist management. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall.
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HORT 39000 - Cooperative Program In Horticulture
Credit Hours: 0.00. Supervised work experience in horticultural industry. Programs must be preplanned and conducted under the direction of the departmental coordinator with the cooperation of an employer. Students must submit a summary report. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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HORT 40000 - Horticulture Study Abroad
Credit Hours: 0.00 to 8.00. Utilized to record credits earned through participation in Purdue study abroad programs with cooperating foreign universities. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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HORT 40300 - Tropical Horticulture
Credit Hours: 3.00. An introduction to the agriculture of the tropics and subtropics, emphasizing horticultural crops. Offered in even-numbered years. Typically offered Fall.
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HORT 42000 - Ornamental Plant Production
Credit Hours: 3.00. An intensive study of specific production technologies used to commercially grow landscape and floriculture crops, including greenhouse and nursery management. The course will have an emphasis on the growth and development of major floral and nursery crops as influenced by the environment and cultural techniques. Students will pay individual lodging or meal expenses when necessary. Typically offered Fall.
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HORT 42100 - Fruit Production
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course will teach the science and practice of temperate fruit production with emphasis on pome fruit (apples, pears), stone fruit (peaches, plums, cherries), berry crops (strawberries, brambles, blueberries) and grapes. Principles and concepts will be an important part of the class integrating knowledge of plant physiology, biochemistry and post-harvest physiology. The course will emphasize sustainable production practices and prepare students to think critically to solve fruit production problems. Typically offered Fall.
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HORT 42200 - Vegetable And Herb Production
Credit Hours: 3.00. Sustainable principles, practices, establishment, projection, maintenance and harvesting of vegetable crops. Typically offered Spring.
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HORT 42500 - Landscape Horticulture Capstone Project
Credit Hours: 3.00. Individuals or teams of students will work with local governments, community service agencies or not-for-profit organizations on projects in which students address problems of landscape planting design, landscape installation, and/or landscape management. The supervising faculty advisory committee will identify projects. Under the mentorship of the advisory committee, students will work closely with the sponsoring client entity to define the problem and participate in creating and/or implementing solutions. At project completion, oral presentations will be made to clients to supplement a written project report. Open only to graduation candidates majoring in Landscape Hortculture and Design. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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HORT 43500 - Principles Of Marketing And Management For Horticultural Businesses
Credit Hours: 4.00. Principles of marketing and business management in the horticultural industries; market organization, performance, and planning; financial planning, pricing, promotion, cost control, and legal aspects of retailing. Case studies in direct farm, floral, and garden center management. Typically offered Fall.
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HORT 44000 - Public Garden Management
Credit Hours: 1.00. Based on an approved internship at a public garden, arboretum, or other public horticulture-related institution, students will explore management strategies used by the host institution and then submit a comprehensive report. A computer-aided oral presentation based on specific aspects of the internship program will also be required. An approved internship is required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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HORT 44200 - Sustainability In The Managed Landscape
Credit Hours: 1.00. Presents recent advances in the science and technology of sustainable practices for managed landscapes. This course will utilize a lecture format with the combination of presentations by the instructor, expert guest speakers, and students. Offered in even-numbered years. Course enrollment is capped at 14. Typically offered Spring.
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HORT 44500 - Strategic Analysis Of Horticultural Production And Marketing
Credit Hours: 1.00. Based on an approved work experience at a commercial horticultural enterprise, students will explore the management, operational and horticultural setting and strategies used by that enterprise and then submit a comprehensive Enterprise Analysis. A computer-aided oral presentation based on specific aspects of the enterprise and the student’s work experience is also required. Typically offered Spring.
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HORT 45000 - In The English Landscape:Integrating History, Horticulture, and Landscape Architecture
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. Offered in even-numbered years. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer.
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HORT 47500 - Honors Course - Upper Division
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Utilized to offer a new honors course for a maximum of three years. Variable title, credit, and instructional type. Course may be repeated for credit if content and titles are different. Offered primarily to third- and fourth-year students. Courses offered must be approved by departmental or program faculty and College of Agriculture Honors Committee. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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HORT 49100 - Special Assignments In Horticulture
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Training in research techniques, statistical methods, and record procedures. Assigned research problems. A written report of work accomplished is required. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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HORT 49200 - Horticultural Science Capstone Seminar
Credit Hours: 1.00. A seminar class combining career development activities with analysis and presentations centered around relevant problems in horticultural science. Students will draw on a variety of their experience such as undergraduate research (HORT 49100 ), internships, study abroad programs, and other pre-professional activities. Typically offered Fall.
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HORT 49900 - Thesis Research
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 6.00. For students doing individualized research on horticultural problems; report required. Arrange with academic advisor and honors research advisor before registering. Admission to the honors program. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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