2024-2025 Course List

This course will explore the immediate causes and consequences of the Civil War as well as the rise of an industrial/urban United States. Major issues to be covered include: causes of the Civil War, the war itself, Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, and Populism.

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

Reform/domestic themes and U.S. foreign policies during the Progressive Era, the Roaring 20's, the Great Depression and the New Deal, and the two world wars.

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

Social, political and foreign affairs since World War II.

An examination of the major factors influencing U.S. diplomacy since 1900. Students will examine how influential policy makers defined their diplomatic goals, and how both domestic and external factors have contributed to America's reaction to wars and revolutions around the world.

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

This course will explore the context of and impact of Rock 'N' Roll music on American society from its emergence after the Second World War to the end of the 1980s. Students will review how events and issues in American society influenced music, and how Rock 'N' Roll music influenced both American and global culture and society. Students will also investigate how the controversies surrounding Rock 'N' Roll music often reflected (and aggravated) tensions related to broader political and cultural changes in American society.

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

Occupation of the area between the Mississippi and the Pacific from Spanish exploration to the late 19th century.

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

This course looks at the social, political, and economic developments that transformed the 20th Century American West.Fall

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

This course will discuss slavery and emancipation in the Atlantic World (Africa, Latin America, and the United States). Students will discover how slavery and emancipation differed in different regions and over time.

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

This course surveys African American history from slavery to the twenty-first century. We will explore the history of enslavement, black resistance, African American culture, freedom, migration patterns, and black political thought and participation as well as how historians have interpreted and re-interpreted this history.

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

This course will examine the Vietnam War. Students will discover how and why the U.S. became involved in Vietnam, examine the specific problems faced by American diplomats and military officials, and how the war affected American society.

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

This course will examine the U.S. civil rights movement in the 20th century. Students will study the African American freedom movement and other civil rights campaigns to understand the basis of both oppression and civil rights in the U.S. and will apply this historical context to contemporary civil rights struggles. The course will emphasize reading, research, and writing skills.

Topics in intellectual history or popular and traditional culture.

An examination of the history of labor and the emergence of social welfare within the context of the modernization of western society and the diversity of the United States.

A historical study of the immigration and ethnic experience in America. Includes an examination of political, social, and economic changes that resulted in population movements to the U.S. and of the development of immigration laws in response to the arrival of outsiders. Attention is given to the rise of anti-immigrant movements at various times in American history.

This course will examine the interaction between humans and the American environment from pre-Columbus to the present.

This course is designed to provide a survey and analysis of the historical experiences of women in the United States from earliest settlement by indigenous peoples to the present in order to aid students in understanding the contemporary situation of women in American society.

Discussion of disasters in US history from colonial times to the present. Contemporary descriptions of the events will be reviewed as will the changing response of both the public and the government to these events.

Specific titles to be announced in departmental course descriptions.

In this capstone course required for all history majors, students will study historical methods, professional standards, and ways to communicate history to diverse audiences. Students will actively engage in historical inquiry to complete a polished research project. Permission of the department and instructor is required.

Students will apply historical skills and knowledge through a practical work experience at a non-profit organization, governmental agency, for-profit business, or other institution. P/N only.

Advanced independent study and research. P/N only.

The history of Greece and Rome stressing political, social, and economic institutions and cultural and intellectual achievements.

A history of western monotheistic religions and their interactions with the secular world and each other from the beginnings of Judaism to the Crusades.

A history of the Middle Ages stressing political, social, and economic interactions and cultural achievements.

European history from the later Middle Ages to the end of the Thirty Years' War (c.1300-1648). Students will examine the intellectual, religious, and cultural developments in Western-Europe, with special attention given to social life and popular culture.