0001 INTRODUCTION TO HISTORICAL INQUIRY 3 cr. This course explores ways in which historians go about investigating the past.
0120 WESTERN CIVILIZATION 1 3 cr. This course explores the origins
of the western traditions and the changes which occur in the political,
social, economic, intellectual, artistic and other aspects, over time,
and with shift in geographical focus. The course begins with the bronze
age and ends with the reformation and age of exploration. Writing skills
are emphasized.
REIST, SEDLAR
0130 WESTERN CIVILIZATION 2 3 cr. This course explores the changes which occur in Europe from the age of absolutism to the late twentieth century. Writing skills are emphasized. REIST, SEDLAR
0303 RUSSIA TO 1860 3 cr. This course examines the social, political, economic and intellectual developments of Russia from the Great Reforms of Peter to the emancipation of the serfs in 1861. SEDLAR
0310 RUSSIA SINCE 1860 3 cr. Pre-revolutionary Russia, its social structure, political tensions, beginnings of industrialization, 1905 revolution, Bolshevik revolution and establishment of the Soviet State, civil war, the Stalin period, World War II and the post war "thaw". SEDLAR
0424 CLASSICAL EAST ASIA 3 cr. This course traces the civilization of East Asia--China, Japan, and Korea--from early records to the eighteenth century. Political, social, economic, philosophical and religious ideas and the changes which occur over time form the framework for this exploration. REIST
0425 MODERN EAST ASIA 3 cr. Presents the history of China, Korea, and Japan in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Traces the Western impact on East Asia and the responses of these nations. REIST
0504 COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA 3 cr. History of Latin America during the period of Spanish and Portuguese colonial rule from 1500 to 1825.
0602 RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD 3 cr. This is an introductory course that examines the history and character of non-western religions and their peoples, such as Islam, Hindu, and Buddhism. MATSON
"0610 UNITED STATES TO 1877" 3 cr. This is an introductory, lower division, course that develops the history of United States from the 1400's through the Civil War and Reconstruction. MATSON, NEWMAN
"0620 UNITED STATES 1877-PRESENT" 3 cr. An introduction to American history from 1877 to the present which emphasizes selected topics on changes in American society and politics as an earlier agrarian society became an industrial-urban one and as the nation took up an ever larger role in world affairs. MATSON, NEWMAN
0684 AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS 3 cr. The course emphasizes three significant periods of development: (A) the period of origins, 1775-1825; (B) the period of hesitant entry on to the international scene, 1890-1941; and (c) the period of full participation in international affairs, 1941-present. In the process the course endeavors to demonstrate the changing role of such concepts as security, neutrality, isolationism, expansionism, and intervention in the evolution of the nation's conduct in foreign affairs. MATSON
0753 ORIGINS OF CHRISTIANITY 3 cr. An examination of the diverse strands of Christianity as developed both in the Christian bible and outside of it. MATSON
0800 ENGLAND TO 1689 3 cr. Surveys the development of English social, political, economic and cultural history through the "Glorious Revolution." MATSON
0810 ENGLAND SINCE 1689 3 cr. Surveys the development of English social, political, economic and cultural history to the present. MATSON
1002 WRITING SEMINAR FOR MAJORS 3 cr. This course will reinforce the proper techniques of historical resarch in the development of a major research project.
1011 RELIGION AND THE EVOLUTION OF AMERICAN SOCIETY, 1491-1800 3 cr. This upper division course examines the role that various religious traditions, Western Christianity, Judaism, Native American, and African played in creating an American religious tradition from the age of Exploration through America's colonial history. NEWMAN
1013 RELIGION & REFORM IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA, 1800-1860 3cr. This upper division course examines the "Second Great Awakening" and its attendant Age of Reform during the first half of the nineteenth century. NEWMAN
1113 MEDIEVAL EUROPE: 1100-1500 3 cr. Role of nobility, peasantry, Church, development of towns, beginnings of national states, education, and culture. SEDLAR
1127 MODERN BRITAIN 3cr. This upper division seminar explores the political and social history of Great Britain since the Second World War. MATSON
1130 MODERN GERMANY 1866-1945 3 cr. German History from the foundation of the North German Federation to the present. In addition to the main political changes, considerable attention is given to the evolution of society, and to cultural and intellectual life. REIST
1170 RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION 3 cr. The revival of classical thought, literature and art in 14th and 15th-century Italy. Development of humanism with its secular tendencies and emphasis on the human personality, the northern renaissance of the 16th century, pre-reformation movements for reform in the church. Luther, Calvin and the Protestant Reformation; the spread of Protestantism. The Catholic Reformation (Counter-Reformation). SEDLAR
1171 THE WORLD SINCE 1945 3 cr. Analysis of the principal problems of world order in Eastern and Western Hemisphere: role of the superpowers' attempts at social engineering, problems of the newly-independent states, international wars and tensions. SEDLAR
1323 AMERICAN BETWEEN WARS 1917-1941 3 cr. An in-depth study of the United States in World War I and the inter-war period. Major topics include the diplomatic events preceding the World Wars, Ballyhoo and reality in the 1920's, causes and effects of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal. MATSON
1345 USSR & SOVIET SUCCESSOR STATES 3 cr. This course gives an overview of Soviet political history and the problems of the Soviet state; discusses the attempts to reform the communist political and economic system under Khrushchev, Gorbachev, and Yeltsin; and analyze the collapse of the USSR into independent states and the rejection of communism there and in the former Soviet bloc in East Central Europe. Particular attention is given to events as they occur. SEDLAR
1350 EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE 3 cr. A survey of the origins of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Albania. Emphasis on these relationships with those nations' powerful neighbors, Russia, Prussia and Austria. Developments since 1815 are stressed, with particular attention paid to World Wars I and II and their aftermath. SEDLAR
1381 EUROPE 1914-1945 3 cr. History of both Western and Eastern Europe from World War I through the end of World War II, with emphasis on national and ethnic tensions, the failure of democracy, depression, the growth of Fascism, international conflicts and war. SEDLAR
1385 EUROPE SINCE 1945 3 cr. History of Western and Eastern Europe: The postwar reconstruction, communism in Eastern Europe; Europe in the Cold War; economic, social and cultural changes; the Revolutions of 1989. SEDLAR
1400 COLONIAL AMERICA 3 cr. This is an upper division course that develops the history of the North American English Colonies from around 1400 through the early 1760s. NEWMAN
1405 AMERICAN SLAVERY 3 cr. This is an upper division course that explores the Atlantic Slave Trade, the origins, character, and demise of American Slavery, and the Abolitionist movement. NEWMAN
1409 THE EARLY REPUBLIC 3cr. This is an upper division course that explore the political and diplomatic development of the United States from the end of the Revolutionary War through the War of 1812. NEWMAN
1410 AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1763-1783 3 cr. This is an upper division course that considers the history of Revolutionary America from 1755-1783. NEWMAN
1411 ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1815-1848 3 cr. This course examines American history from the Early National Era through age of the Mexican War the lenses of political, diplomatic, military, social, gender, racial, and ethnic issues. NEWMAN
1412 WOMEN AND AMERICAN HISTORY, COLONIAL TIMES - PRESENT 3 cr. This three credit upper division seminar will explore the roles and experiences of women -- white and black, European and Native American, Anglo-Saxon and other ethnicities, wealthy and working class -- in the social and political development of America from the Colonial era to the present. NEWMAN
1413 AMERICAN LABOR HISTORY, COLONIAL TIMES - PRESENT 3 cr. This three credit upper division reading seminar will explore the development and implementation of labor systems and the roles and experiences of American workers within those systems from the Colonial era to the present. NEWMAN
1414 SUFFRAGE IN AMERICA 3 cr. This upper division seminar, offered in the fall of each presidential election year, will examine three major suffrage movements in American history: universal white manhood suffrage, woman's suffrage, and the Civil rights Movements from the 1860s to the 1960s. NEWMAN
1415 LEW & CLARK & THE EARLY REPUBLIC 3cr. This upper division course uses the famed Lewis & Clark expedition of 1803-1806 as a prism to inviestigate a myriad of issues facing the new nation and its future: of which Native Americans, politics, diplomacy, slavery, settlement and migration are only a few. NEWMAN
1430 CIVIL WAR HISTORY 3 cr. This is an upper division course that considers the impact of the Civil War upon the development of the United States. MATSON
1505 FILM AND HISTORY 3 cr. A seminar on the moving visual image as historical artifact. Examines the impact of film and video on the historical profession. Seeks to provide expertise in the technologies of film-making required for scholarly use of visual resources. MATSON
1510 20TH CENTURY DIPLOMATIC 3 cr. This upper division course examines American diplomatic history from the Age of Empire to the present. MATSON
1520 WORLD WAR II 3 cr. A detailed study of the causes and course of the Second World War (the first of two sequential courses). Diplomacy, military strategy and tactics, the "home front" in the United States, and historical interpretations are examined. MATSON
1521 THE PACIFIC WAR 3 cr. An examination of the conflict between the United States (and its allies) and the empire of Japan, 1941-1945.REIST
1523 WORLD WAR II FILM SEMINAR 3 cr. World War II Film Seminar is an upper-level seminar designed to coordinate with History 1520, World War 2. It examines the films produced during the second World War which contian a war information message, illustrates visually the subjects studied in the World War 2 course, an dprovides a laboratory for the study of the visual image as historical artifact. MATSON
1530 THE U.S. AND THE COLD WAR 3 cr. The second of two sequential courses. Examines the deterioration of the wartime cooperation of the United Nations, "atomic diplomacy," the Berlin Crisis, the Korean War and the institutionalization of cold war diplomacy through the 1950s and 1960s. MATSON
1600 POSTWAR JAPAN 3 cr. An exploration of the social, political, economic and industrial elements which allowed the Japanese to create an economic superpower on a resource poor archipelago. Using an historical framework, the course will concentrate on the Post World War II era. REIST
1605 RECONSTRUCTION & REFORM, 1865-1916 3 cr. This course examines the long-range impact of northern victory in the Civil War; the restructuring of the economy of the United States, business expansion, the rise of finance capitalism and various reform movements. MATSON
1607 TOPICS U.S. HISTORY: 1877-1914 3 cr. Includes studies such as populism, expansion of the economy, imperialism, Darwinism, the development of Genteel culture. May be repeated for credit with different content. MATSON
1613 PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA 3 cr. This course traces the revolutionary process which brought the communist party of China to power. Changes which have occurred socially, politically, and economically are explored, as are the relations with the countries of Asia, the United States, and various international bodies. REIST
1615 TWENTIETH CENTURY U.S. HISTORY 3 cr. A range of studies to include subjects such as World War I, the depression and New Deal, recent political changes, and the civil rights movement. May be repeated for credit with different content. MATSON
1620 THE VIETNAM WAR 3 cr. This course is designed to acquaint the student with American involvement in Southeast Asia, in particular with the second Indochina War. Some attempt will be made to provide a background of Vietnamese historical and cultural perspective. The major portion of the course will focus on American policy at home and abroad, and the manner in which five American Presidents tried to deal with the "Indochina problem". REIST
1630 RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN AMERICA 3 cr. This interdisciplinary seminar explores the religious, historical, political, and legal foundations of the religious freedom guarantees of the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution. NEWMAN
1679 MEXICO 3 cr. Mexican history from the Aztecs to the present. We will discuss the conquest, the colonial era, the struggle for independence, nineteenth-century liberaism, the porfirian dictatorship, the twentieth-century revolution, the formation of a single party state, the temptations of socialism, the oil boom, the debt crisis, and the crisis of the system" now being experienced by Mexico. MATSON
1682 NATIVE AMERICANS & AMERICAN HISTORY 3 cr. This course examines the history of the contact of Native American and Western cultures from the Age of Exploration to the present day. NEWMAN
1730 REVOLUTIONS 3 cr. Discussion of major revolutions which have occurred in modern times: their causes, course of development, and results. The class will discuss in particular the American, French, Russian, and Chinese revolutions, and the European revolution of 1848. SEDLAR
1771 THE HOLOCAUST 3 cr. This upper division course examines the causes, character, and effects of the Holocaust. SEDLAR
1800 DIRECTED READINGS 1-6 cr. The student undertakes a specified course of study, comparable in content to a special topics course, under the direct supervision of a faculty member.
1810 SPECIAL TOPICS 3 cr. Detailed analysis of a particular topic not covered by regularly scheduled courses.
1820 DIRECTED RESEARCH 1-6 cr. The student undertakes a defined task of research on campus under the supervision of a faculty member of an appropriate department, and in which the fruits of the research are embodied in a thesis, extended paper, laboratory report, or other appropriate form.
1830 INDEPENDENT STUDY 1-6 cr. The student undertakes, under specific conditions, an independent program of study, research, or creative activity usually off-campus and with less immediate and frequent guidance from the sponsoring faculty member than is typically provided in directed reading and directed research courses.
1840 FIELD METHODS 1-3 cr. This course is designed to train students in basic fieldwork techniques in documentation and interpretation of historic sites.
1850 FIELD METHODS 2-3 cr. This course is designed to train students in basic fieldwork techniques in documentation and interpretation of historic sites.
SOCIAL SCIENCE 1910--INTERNSHIP 1-3 cr. This course is designed
to give the students directed experience in the field of public history
through a National or State Park, Museuems, or historic sites. See
NEWMAN.