2024-25 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
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2024-25 Undergraduate Catalog

History Department

Kevin Sheets, chair
TBD, coordinator of adolescence education: social studies (7-12)
Laura Gathagan, graduate coordinator
Old Main, Room 212
607-753-2723
Fax: 607-753-5598
Email: history.department@cortland.edu
cortland.edu/history

School of Arts and Sciences

History Class

Faculty

Girish Bhat, Evan Faulkenbury, Laura Gathagan, Scott Moranda, Anisha Saxena, Kevin Sheets, Randi Storch, Bekeh Ukelina

Adjunct Faculty

For a listing of adjunct faculty see the Faculty and Administration  section.

Degrees and Minors

Bachelor of Arts in History
Bachelor of Arts in Adolescence Education: Social Studies and History (7-12)
Minor in History

Description

The History Department offers two majors, one in history and one in history combined with preparation for teaching social studies to students in grades 7-12. Both require 42 hours of history, including advanced level course work in U.S., Europe, Asia/Latin America/Africa/Middle East and Global/Transnational history. History majors are encouraged to deepen their experience by exploring options for minors, internships, public history projects and study abroad programs.

Special Features

  • Teacher certification
  • History Club
  • Study abroad programs
  • Public history internships
  • History Honors Society
  • Individualized research projects
  • Field experience at Raquette Lake in the Adirondacks

Requirements

  1. Degree Requirements  listed in this catalog apply to the majors offered by this department.
  2. Liberal Arts Requirements: 90 credit hours

Programs

Major

Dual Major

Minor

Courses

  • AED 300 - Teaching Secondary Social Studies

    Examination of social studies teaching on the secondary level. Includes pre-student teaching field experience of 35 hours. Open only to junior SST majors meeting all departmental requirements. Prerequisite: AED 315. Corequisite: SPE 275. HIS 399 is also a corequisite for SST-HIS majors only. (1 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code S = offered in spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Demonstrate commitment to the professional expectations for social studies educators.
    2. Develop age-appropriate and engaging instruction designed for diverse learners and promoting the NYSED curriculum.
    3. Evaluate various strategies for promoting a positive and safe learning environment.

  • AED 301 - Pre-Practice Teaching Seminar

    Integrated study of: a) introduction to methods of teaching secondary social studies; b) introduction to contemporary issues in the teaching of secondary social studies; c) preparation for specific practice teaching assignment; d) 40 hours of field experience. Open only to senior SST majors meeting all departmental requirements. Prerequisites: AED 300 and 315. Fulfills: PRES, GECP; WI. (6 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code F = offered in fall

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Plan an instructional unit that supports learners' use of social studies facts, concepts, and thinking skills.
    2. Apply scholarship and knowledge of learners to inform instructional planning.
    3. Demonstrate proficiency at instructional delivery.

  • AED 310 - Writing in Social Studies

    Engagement in the various stages of the writing process while determining the appropriate role of writing in the social studies curriculum through readings and practice. Prerequisite: CPN 101 or 103; Corequisite: AED 315. Fulfills: LASR; WI. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code F = offered in fall

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Articulate the relationship among literacy processes and practices, including reading, writing, and discussion.
    2. Demonstrate proficiency with disciplinary writing conventions.
    3. Plan social studies lessons that support learners' development of disciplinary literacy.

  • AED 315 - Foundations of Secondary Social Studies

    Introduces the teaching of secondary social studies within state and national frameworks, including: 1) expectations and concerns for educators, with attention to the contexts and impacts of public education; and 2) strategies specific to the social studies, to foster students' content understanding, social studies skills, and preparation for civic life. Includes a community action project and 25 hours of pre-student teaching field work in area schools. Corequisite: AED 310. Fulfills: LASR; WI. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code F - offered in fall

  • AED 400 - Student Teaching I: Adolescence Education Social Studies

    Full-time supervised adolescence education: social studies teaching experience in the public schools for eight weeks. This experience will be one of two school placements, at either the middle school/junior or high school level; the second experience must be at the other level.  Prerequisites: AED 300, 301, 310, and 315; and successful completion of CARR, SAVE and DASA workshops. Corequisites: AED 401 and 402 must be taken in the same semester. Open only to senior SST majors meeting all departmental requirements. Grading: S, U grades are assigned. (6 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code S = offered in spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Maintain a positive learning environment and culturally responsive instruction that draws upon diverse learners' varied backgrounds, needs, and development.
    2. Effectively guide students to develop disciplinary skills and content understandings that include central concepts and relevance to students' lives.
    3. Implement effective instruction based on cycles of planning, assessment, and reflection that supports diverse learners in achieving standards-based learning goals.
    4. Demonstrate professionalism through ethical conduct, regard for student well-being and school and college policies, and pursuit of opportunities for professional growth.

  • AED 401 - Student Teaching II: Adolescence Education Social Studies

    Full-time supervised adolescence education: social studies teaching experience in the public schools for seven weeks. This experience will be one of two school placements, at either the middle school/junior high or high school level; the second experience must be at the other level.  Prerequisites: AED 300, 301, 310 and 315. Corequisites: AED 400 and 402 must be taken in the same semester. Open only to senior SST majors meeting all department requirements.  Grading: S, U grades are assigned. (6 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code S = offered in spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Maintain a positive learning environment and culturally responsive instruction that draws upon diverse learners' varied backgrounds, needs, and development.
    2. Effectively guide students to develop disciplinary skills and content understandings that include central concepts and relevance to students' lives.
    3. Implement effective instruction based on cycles of planning, assessment, and reflection that supports diverse learners in achieving standards-based learning goals.
    4. Demonstrate professionalism through ethical conduct, regard for student well-being and school and college policies, and pursuit of opportunities for professional growth.

  • AED 402 - Student Teaching Seminar

    Problem approach drawing upon experience of students during practice teaching. Designed to focus on contemporary educational issues, beginning the job search and application process, teaching and learning at the middle and high school level, and exploring the history and philosophy of teaching. Prerequisites: AED 300, 301, 310 and 315. Corequisites: AED 400 and 401 must be taken in the same semester. Open only to senior SST majors meeting all departmental requirements. Grading: S, U grades are assigned. (1 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code S = offered in spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Maintain a positive learning environment and culturally responsive instruction that draws upon diverse learners' varied backgrounds, needs, and development.
    2. Effectively guide students to develop disciplinary skills and content understandings that include central concepts and relevance to students' lives.
    3. Implement effective instruction based on cycles of planning, assessment, and reflection that supports diverse learners in achieving standards-based learning goals.
    4. Demonstrate professionalism through ethical conduct, regard for student well-being and school and college policies, and pursuit of opportunities for professional growth.

  • HIS 100 - The World to 1500

    Explores the history of humankind from the emergence of Homo sapiens and earliest forms of societies to the 16th century. Emphasis on the broad lines of development and interaction among world societies. Examines the connections between individuals and groups across geographic and national boundaries. Fulfills: GE 6, GEWH, and GE 7, GEHU; LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code A = offered every semester

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Identify major historical figures, institutions and developments in world history from the emergence of Homo sapiens and earliest forms of societies to the 16th century.
    2. Analyze relationships over time between various historical factors (for example individuals, social groups, cultural and intellectual trends, economic developments and political structures).

  • HIS 101 - The World Since 1500

    Explores expanding connections between peoples, cultures and political communities in the world from the 16th century to present. Focuses on rise and development of new economic systems, political institutions, cultures and ideologies, and interactions of people across geographic and national boundaries. Seeks to understand globalization and tensions between local and global events. Fulfills: GE 6, GEWH and GE 7, GEHU; LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code A = offered every semester

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Identify major historical figures, institutions and developments in world history from the 16th century to the present.
    2. Analyze relationships over time between various historical factors (for example individuals, social groups, cultural and intellectual trends, economic developments and political structures).

  • HIS 110 - Western Civilization to 1500

    Origins and development of Western civilization from ancient Greece to 1500. Important themes across civilizations include social structure, the body politic, technology, gender roles and family, war, religion and cultural expressions. Fulfills: GE 5 and GE 7, GEHU; LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code A = offered every semester

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Identify major historical figures, institutions and developments in western civilization from ancient Greece to 1500.
    2. Analyze relationships over time between various historical factors (for example individuals, social groups, cultural and intellectual trends, economic developments and political structures).

  • HIS 111 - Western Civilization since 1500

    Major political, social, economic, religious and intellectual developments in Europe and European-settled regions from 1500 to present, with attention to connections to the non-western world and to growing global inequalities. Fulfills: GE 5 and GE 7, GEHU; LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code A = offered every semester

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Identify major historical figures, institutions and developments in Europe and European-settled regions from 1500 to present.
    2. Analyze relationships over time between various historical factors (for example individuals, social groups, cultural and intellectual trends, economic developments and political structures).
    3. Explain the origins and impact of global inequalities between the western world and non-western peoples and regions.

  • HIS 129 - Special Topics in History

    Selected topics. May be taken more than once as subtitle changes. Prerequisites: Designated by department as appropriate for content and academic level of credit. (1-4 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of the special topic under consideration.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Interpret evidence to make claims about the past.

  • HIS 180 - Why Global History Matters

    Introduction to selected themes, questions, and problems of global history, and its relevance to contemporary social, cultural and political problems. Fulfills: GE 6, GEWH and GE 7, GEHU; LASR. (3 cr. hr).
    Frequency code A = offered every semester

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Identify the major historical figures and institutions relevant to the selected themes, questions, and problems in global history.
    2. Explain how historical narratives about global history influence contemporary society.
    3. Evaluate the discipline of history's usefulness to the understanding of contemporary issues.

  • HIS 190 - Why U.S. History Matters

    Introduction to selected themes, questions, and problems of United States history from the Native American world pre-1500 to the present, and its relevance to contemporary social, cultural and political problems.  Fulfills: GE 4, GEUS; LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code B = offered at least once per year

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Identify the major historical figures and institutions relevant to the selected themes, questions and problems in United States history.
    2. Explain how historical narratives about American history influence contemporary society.
    3. Evaluate the discipline of history's usefulness to the understanding of contemporary issues.

  • HIS 200 - The United States to 1877

    Explores the history of peoples and institutions from the Native American world before 1500 through the events of the Civil War and Reconstruction; analyzes the interplay and influences of different historical actors, social groups, cultural and intellectual trends, economic developments, and political structures; and examines America's expanding connections and changing relationship in the Atlantic World and beyond. Fulfills: GE 4, GEUS; LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code A = offered every semester

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Identify major historical figures, institutions and developments from the Native American world before 1500 through the events of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
    2. Analyze relationships over time between various historical factors (for example; individuals, social groups, cultural and intellectual trends, economic developments and political structures).
    3. Explain the historical significance of America's relationships in the Atlantic World and beyond.

  • HIS 201 - The United States Since 1877

    Survey of American history from Reconstruction to the present, with emphasis on major events impacting social groups, individuals, and public and private institutions. Particular attention paid to continuity and change within and among social groupings and institutions, and the factors (social, economic, political, cultural, global) shaping their interactions and development. Fulfills: GE 4, GEUS; LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code A = offered every semester

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Identify major historical figures, institutions and developments from Reconstruction to the present.
    2. Analyze relationships over time between various historical factors (for example, individuals, social groups, cultural and intellectual trends, economic developments and political structures).
    3. Explain the historical significance of America's global relationships.

  • HIS 229 - Special Topics in History

    Selected topics. May be taken more than once as subtitle changes. Prerequisites: Designated by department as appropriate for content and academic level of credit. (1-4 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of the special topic under consideration.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Interpret evidence to make claims about the past.

  • HIS 280 - Introduction to Public History

    Introduction to the methods and theories of public history with a focus on the particularities of communicating history to a broader public audience outside the traditional classroom, whether through museums, archives, historic preservation, heritage tourism, media, oral history or cultural resource management. Prerequisite: HIS 100 or 101 or 110 or 111 or 200 or 201. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code A = offered every semester

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Demonstrate the significance of history to a wider public beyond academia.
    2. Describe the challenges of collaboration with community partners working on a public history project. 
    3. Identify potential career options that draw on the history major.

  • HIS 290 - Historical Methods

    Introduction to historical profession and processes of historical research, interpretation and writing. Prerequisite: HIS 100 or 101 or 110 or 111 or 200 or 201. Must be a sophomore-level history or adolescence education: social studies and history major. Fulfills: LASR; PRES, GECP; WI. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code A = offered every semester

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Distinguish between primary and secondary sources.
    2. Develop a research plan for a historical writing project.
    3. Demonstrate their understanding of primary and secondary source databases for historical research.

  • HIS 300 - Colonial America, 1450-1750

    Critical study of the American colonial era. Main themes emerge from historiographical focus on colonization, European-Indian interaction, race and gender issues, and relations with the Atlantic world. Prerequisite: HIS 200 or 201. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of colonial America, 1450-1750.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Interpret evidence to make claims about the past.

  • HIS 302 - Revolutionary America, 1750-1789

    Critical examination of the origins and consequences of the Revolution with emphasis on the historiography concerning social and political changes that accompanied independence. Prerequisite: HIS 200 or 201. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of Revolutionary America, 1750-1789.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Interpret evidence to make claims about the past.

  • HIS 303 - The American Republic, 1789-1840

    Critical examination of the development of the Early Republic through Jacksonian America. Focus on the historiographical treatment of democratic culture, transformations in the home and marketplace and territorial expansion. Prerequisite: HIS 200 or 201. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events and people relevant to the history of the United States between 1789 and 1840.
    2. Interpret evidence to make claims about the past.

  • HIS 304 - The American Republic: 1840-1877

    Critical examination of United States development, 1840-1877 with special attention to historiographical debates over Manifest Destiny, sectional development and conflict, Civil War and Reconstruction. Prerequisite: HIS 200 or 201. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of the American Republic, 1840-1877.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Interpret evidence to make claims about the past.

  • HIS 305 - Civil War: Then and Now

    Critical examination of the origins, scope, and legacy of the American Civil War. Historiographical debates and primary source analysis, and ongoing political and cultural debates into the twenty-first century. Prerequisite: HIS 190, 200, or 201. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of the American Civil War and its enduring legacies.
    2. Interpret evidence to make claims about the past.

  • HIS 306 - The United States: 1877-1920

    Critical examination of United States development, 1877-1920. Focus on the historiographical treatment of the period including the themes of industrialization, urbanization, immigration, reform and war. Prerequisite: HIS 200 or 201. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of the United States during the period from 1877 to 1920. 
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Interpret primary source evidence to make claims about the past.
    4. Establish a primary source's historical context through sourcing techniques.

  • HIS 307 - The United States 1920-Present

    Critical examination of United States development, 1920-present. Main themes emerge from historiographical debates surrounding the twenties, Depression era, World War II, Cold War era and New World Order. Prerequisite: HIS 200 or 201. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events and people relevant to the history of the United States, 1920 to the present.
    2. Interpret evidence to make claims about the past.

  • HIS 308 - Raquette Lake Field Experience

    Analysis and historical interpretation of Camp Huntington and the surrounding Adirondack Park. Discussion of public history and other career paths. Grading: S, U grades assigned. (1 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code B = offered at least once per year

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Demonstrate the significance of history to a wider public beyond academia.
    2. Identify potential career options that draw on the history major.
    3. Demonstrate their understanding of how to use material artifacts and architecture to make historical arguments.

  • HIS 309 - New York State

    Critical examination of New York State society and politics, with emphasis on historiographical treatment of ethnic interaction, conflict and accommodation from 1600 to 1900. Prerequisite: HIS 200 or 201. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of New York State.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Interpret evidence to make claims about the past.

  • HIS 310 - American Intellectual and Cultural History to 1865

    Critical examination of the history of American thought and culture from Puritan settlement to the era of the American Civil War, with attention to historiographical questions. Prerequisite: HIS 200 or 201. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events and people relevant to the history of American intellectual and cultural history to 1865.
    2. Interpret evidence to make claims about the past.
    3. Establish a source's historical context through sourcing techniques (for example, by identifying its author, date and place of production, form and intended audience).

  • HIS 311 - American intellectual and Cultural History Since 1865

    Critical examination of the history of American thought and culture from the American Civil War to the present, with attention to historiographical questions. Prerequisite: HIS 200 or 201. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events and people relevant to the history of American intellectual and cultural history since 1865.
    2. Interpret evidence to make claims about the past.
    3. Establish a source's historical context through sourcing techniques (for example, by identifying its author, date and place of production, form and intended audience).

  • HIS 312 - African-American History to 1865

    Advanced course on the history of African Americans from the 18th century to 1865 with a focus on historiographical issues relating to slavery, African-American culture, the industrial revolution, abolition and the larger narrative of American history. Prerequisite: HIS 200 or 201 or AAS 100. Also listed as AAS 312. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code F = offered in fall

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events and people relevant to African American history to 1865.
    2. Interpret evidence to make claims about the past.

  • HIS 313 - African-American History Since 1865

    Advanced course on the history of African Americans from 1865 to recent times with a focus on historiographical issues relating to reconstruction and freedom, race and industrialization, migration and Jim Crow, protest traditions, black politics, African-American culture, the Civil Rights movement, and the relationship between class and race in the American tradition. Prerequisite: HIS 200 or 201 or AAS 100. Also listed as AAS 313. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events and people relevant to African American history since 1865.
    2. Interpret evidence to make claims about the past.

  • HIS 314 - Native-American History

    Critical examination of Native-American history from pre-Columbian societies to the present, with a focus on analysis of historiographical questions framing diversity of indigenous cultures, the changing place of native peoples in American life and contemporary issues. Prerequisites: HIS 200 or 201 or equivalent. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to Native American history.
    2. ​​​​​​​Interpret evidence to make claims about the past.

  • HIS 315 - History of the American West

     

    Advanced course on conquest and settlement of the American West, with a focus on critical inquiry into historiographical questions framing the trans-Mississippi west. Prerequisite: HIS 200 or 201. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of the American West.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Interpret primary source evidence to make claims about the past.
    4. Establish a primary source's historical context through sourcing techniques.

  • HIS 316 - Tourism and Environment in the Adirondacks

    Examination of tourism's historical evolution in the Adirondacks. Considers the changing economic, environmental, and sociocultural implications of tourism over time through analysis of historical documents and a critical review of relevant historiography. This is a hybrid course that combines an online component with an on-site field experience at Raquette Lake. Prerequisite: HIS 200 or 201. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code M = offered in summer
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Identify the origins of the tourism economy in the Adirondacks.
    2. Explain tourism's social, economic, cultural, environmental implications for the Adirondacks at different points in time.
    3. Establish a primary source's historical context through sourcing techniques.
    4. Compare and contrast claims about the past by two or more historians.

  • HIS 317 - Women in the United States

    Critical examination of the history of women in United States with a focus on the historiographical issues and debates from the colonial period to present, including historians' understanding of gender as an analytical tool. Prerequisite: HIS 200 or 201. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of women in the United States.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Interpret primary source evidence to make claims about the past.
    4. Establish a primary source's historical context through sourcing techniques.

  • HIS 318 - The History of Women in Modern Europe

    Critical examination of European women's history since the early 18th century. Special topics consider scholarship and historiographical debates in the field that focus on changes in marriage and family life, the Enlightenment's contradictory legacy, women and the French Revolution, industrialism and domesticity, war and feminism, and the impact of modernization. Prerequisite: HIS 100, 101, 110, 111, or 150. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of women in Modern Europe.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Interpret evidence to make claims about the past.

  • HIS 321 - Africa, Human Origins to 1800

    Critical examination of African History from earliest times to 1800. Main themes emerge from historiographical emphases on origins, grouping of peoples of Africa, evolution of political, social and economic institutions, global connections through trans-Siberian and Indian Ocean trades, spread of Islam, slavery and growth of states and empires. Prerequisite: HIS 100, 101, 110, 111, 150, AAS 100, IST 200 or 210. Also listed as AAS 321. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events and people relevant to the history of Africa from human origins to 1800. 
    2. Interpret primary source evidence to make claims about the past. 
    3. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past. 
    4. Establish a primary source's historical context through sourcing techniques (for example, by identifying its author, date and place of production, form and intended audience). 

  • HIS 322 - Modern Africa, 1800-Present

    Critical examination of African History since 1800. Main themes emerge from historiographical emphases on indigenous African and European influences, imperialism, colonial rule, independence, apartheid, problems of independent Africa. Prerequisite: HIS 100, 101, 110, 111, 150, AAS 100, IST 200, or 210. Also listed as AAS 322. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events and people relevant to the history of Africa since 1800. 
    2. Interpret primary source evidence to make claims about the past. 
    3. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past. 
    4. Establish a primary source's historical context through sourcing techniques (including, for example, by identifying its author, date and place of production, form and intended audience). 

  • HIS 323 - History of African Development

    Examine the history, ideologies, and practice of development in Africa, south of the Sahara. Study and analyze specific development projects/ plans taking into consideration their history, politics, and the role that institutions play. Explore economic development goals of structural change and social welfare, as well as outcomes of development projects and look at the evolution of development practices and how these shape the societies.  Prerequisites: HIS 100 or 101 or 110 or 111 Also listed as AAS 323 (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to Africa's development history.
    2. Interpret primary source evidence to make claims about the past. 
    3. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past. 
    4. Establish a primary source's historical context through sourcing techniques (including, for example, by identifying its author, date and place of production, form, and intended audience). 

  • HIS 324 - Gender, Race, and Class in Latin American History

    Critical examination of gender, race and class issues in the development of Latin American societies (1820-2000) and exploration of historical events through the lens of race, class and gender. Prerequisite: HIS 100 or 101 or 110 or 111 or IST 200 or 210. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code B = offered at least once per year

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of gender, race and class issues in the development of Latin American societies from 1820-2000.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Interpret evidence to make claims about the past.

  • HIS 325 - Colonial Latin America

    Critical examination of historical trends that shape Latin America's colonial development. Analyzes various historiographical approaches to colonialism.  Prerequisite: HIS 100, 101, 110, 111, 200, 201, AAS 100, IST 200 or 210. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code B = offered at least once per year

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of colonial Latin America.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Interpret evidence to make claims about the past.

  • HIS 326 - Modern Latin America

     

    Critical examination of historical trends that shape Latin America's development during post-Independence period. Analyzes various historiographical approaches to historical trends.  Prerequisite: HIS 100, 101, 110, 111, 200, 201, AAS 100, IST 200 or 210. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code B = offered at least once per year

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of modern Latin America.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Interpret evidence to make claims about the past.

  • HIS 327 - Latin American Revolutions in the 20th Century

    Explores major themes in 20th century Latin American history: revolutions, revolutionary movements, reactions. Addresses historical and global factors shaping these developments. Analyzes key case studies, including Mexico and Cuba. Prerequisite: HIS 100 or 101 or 110 or 111 or 200 or 201; or AAS 100; or IST 200 or 210. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of 20th century Latin American revolutions.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Interpret evidence to make claims about the past.

  • HIS 328 - Global History of the Spanish Civil War

    Examination of the transnational development of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and its international consequences in three separate regions. Prerequisite: HIS 100 or 101 or 110 or 111 or IST 200 or 201. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code B = offered at least once per year

  • HIS 329 - Special Topics in History

    Selected topics. May be taken more than once as subtitle changes. Prerequisites: Designated by department as appropriate for content and academic level of credit. Fulfills: LASR. (1-4 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of the special topic under consideration.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Interpret evidence to make claims about the past.

  • HIS 334 - Russia Since 1894

    Critical examination of revolutionary, Soviet and post-Soviet Russian history. Special attention paid to historiographical debates on causes of the Russian Revolution, the lasting impact of the Civil War, the distinctiveness of Soviet socialism, the legacy of World War II, and the gradual decline and collapse of the USSR. Prerequisite: HIS 100, 101, 110 or 111. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code B = offered at least once per year

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of Russian since 1894.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Interpret evidence to make claims about the past.

  • HIS 341 - Gender and Power in Medieval Europe

    Advanced analysis of medieval biological views of physical sex difference, marriage and the family, ecclesiastical life and monasticism, politics and court culture, social ties and kinship. Prerequisite: HIS 100 or 110. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code B = offered at least once per year

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes and developments relevant to the history of medieval gender.
    2. Compare and contrast claims about gender in the medieval period by two or more historians.

  • HIS 342 - Ancient Greece

    A critical examination of the history and historiography of Greece from the Bronze Age to Alexander the Great. Prerequisite: HIS 100, 101, 110 or 111. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of ancient Greece, from the Bronze Age through Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Period.
    2. Assess historian's interpretation of the Greek past, as well as ancient Greek, Roman, Persian, and Egyptian sources of Greek history and culture.
    3. Analyze and interpret primary source evidence to make claims about the past.
    4. Organize and present their own historical arguments verbally and in writing, based on their own analysis of primary sources.

  • HIS 343 - Roman History

     

    An advanced course on the history of Rome to establishment of Christian Empire, emphasizing historiographical debates about constitutional developments of republic and early empire, change to autocracy. Prerequisite: HIS 100, 101, 110 or 111. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of ancient Rome, from its foundation as a monarchy, through the Republic and Principate periods to the establishment of a Christian empire.
    2. Assess historian's interpretation of the Roman past, as well as ancient Greek and Roman sources of Roman history and culture.
    3. Analyze and interpret primary source evidence to make claims about the past.
    4. Organize and present their own historical arguments verbally and in writing, based on their own analysis of primary sources.

  • HIS 344 - Medieval Europe: 300-1050

    Critical examination of the shift from the late Ancient world to the Middle Ages. Main focus on scholarly debates on the social structure and political transformation of the Roman Empire, Christian Church, monasticism, Byzantine Empire, nascent medieval kingdoms of the West to the 11th century. Prerequisite: HIS 100, 101, 110 or 111. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes and developments in the social structure and political transformation of the Roman Empire and nascent medieval kingdoms of the West.
    2. Compare and contrast claims about the early medieval period by two or more historians.

  • HIS 345 - Medieval Europe: 1050-1300

    Critical examination of medieval civilization in the 11th-13th centuries. Focus on historiography relating to political culture, the rise of the philosophy of the individual, intellectualism, and the beginning of the early modern period in the 14th century in the West. Major themes include politics, religious beliefs and saints, art architecture, social ties and kinship and power. Prerequisite: HIS 100, 101, 110 or 111. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes and developments in medieval civilization from the 11th-13th centuries.
    2. Compare and contrast claims about the medieval period from the 11th-13th centuries by two or more historians.

  • HIS 346 - Renaissance and Reformation

    A critical examination of the history and historiography of European civilization from the Renaissance to 1648. Prerequisite: HIS 100, 101, 110 or 111. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to European history from the Renaissance to 1648.
    2. Interpret evidence to make claims about the past.
    3. Establish a primary source's historical context through sourcing techniques (including, for example, by identifying its author, date and place of production, form and intended audience).

  • HIS 348 - Europe Since 1914

     

    A critical examination of the history of Europe from World War I to the present. Compare historiographical interpretations of democratic, fascist and communist regimes and their responses to cultural modernity, ethnic difference, and the socio-economic and ecological disruptions of industrial economies. Explore the implications of decolonization, immigration and consumer society for postwar Europe. Prerequisite: HIS 100, 101, 110, 111, IST 200 or 210. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of Europe from World War 1 to the present.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Interpret evidence to make claims about the past.

  • HIS 349 - Central Europe 1789-1918

    A critical examination of historical change in central and eastern Europe from the age of enlightened absolutism through World War I. Exploration of the theoretical and historiographical debates over the meaning of liberalism, socialism and nationalism for ethnic relations within multinational empires and emerging nation-states. Special attention given to the implications for Jewish communities. Prerequisite: HIS 100, 101, 110 or 111. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of Central Europe, 1789-1918. 
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Establish a primary source's historical context through sourcing techniques.

  • HIS 352 - Introduction to Oral History

    Critical study of the methods, practice and theory of oral history. Oral history involves interviewing, listening, recording, transcribing, preserving, archiving, interpreting and sharing life stories of people and communities. Prerequisite: HIS 280. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Articulate the ethical considerations involved in undertaking oral history interviews.
    2. Interpret evidence from oral history interviews to make claims about the past.

  • HIS 361 - Jews in the Ancient World

    Intellectual and political history of the Jewish people to the compilation of the Talmud in the third century. Prerequisite: HIS 100, 101, 110, 111, 150 or JST 140. Also listed as JST 361. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of Jewish people, culture, and religion, as well as their reception in the ancient Mediterranean world.
    2. Assess historian's interpretation of Jews in the ancient world, as well as ancient Greek, Roman, Persian, Jewish, and Egyptian sources of Jewish history and culture.
    3. Analyze and interpret primary source evidence to make claims about the past.
    4. Organize and present their own historical arguments verbally and in writing, based on their own analysis of primary sources.

  • HIS 370 - Eurasia: West-East Perspectives, 800-1500

    Advanced study of historical and cultural notions of a "West" (Europe) and "East" (Asia), and their interaction from the 9th through the 15th centuries. Special topics include: the world of the early Slavs through Arab eyes, the Crusades in an Islamic context, Christian encounters with Asia.  Prerequisite: HIS 100 or HIS 101 or HIS 110 or HIS 111. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of Eurasia.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Interpret primary source evidence to make claims about the past.
    4. Establish a primary source's historical context through sourcing techniques.

  • HIS 381 - The World of the Silk Road, 800-1500

    Advanced study of the interaction of peoples and societies along the Silk Road in Central Asia from 800-1500. Special topics include: Patterns of commerce, formation of ethnic identity, development of Islamic civilization, forms of statehood. Prerequisite: Either HIS 100, 101, 110 or 111. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of the Silk Road.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Interpret primary source evidence to make claims about the past.
    4. Establish a primary source's historical context through sourcing techniques.

  • HIS 383 - Chinese Civilization

    Critical examination of Chinese history from the earliest times to the 20th century. Main focus on historiographical themes relating to political and economic developments, changing social structure and social relations, cultural and intellectual traditions, and interactions with other areas of the world. Prerequisite: HIS 100, 101, 110, 111, AST 200, IST 200 or 210. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to Chinese Civilization. 
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Establish a primary source's historical context through sourcing techniques.

  • HIS 384 - Modern China

    Analytical study of Chinese history since 1800 in a global context. Main focus on historiographical themes of Western imperialism, rise of nationalism and communism, interplay between politics, society and ideas in shaping reforms and revolutions, and China's changing position in the modern world. Prerequisite: HIS 100, 101, 110, 111, AST 200, IST 200 or 210. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code B = offered at least once per year

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of Modern China. 
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Establish a primary source's historical context through sourcing techniques.

  • HIS 385 - History of Japan

    Critical examination of Japanese history from the earliest times to the present. Main focus on historiographical themes of political and economic developments, changing social conditions, cultural and religious traditions, and interactions with other areas of the world. Prerequisite: HIS 100, 101, 110, 111, AST 200, IST 200 or 210. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of Japan. 
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Establish a primary source's historical context through sourcing techniques.

  • HIS 386 - Modern East Asia

    Analytical study of East and Southeast Asia since 1800 in global context. Main focus on historiographical themes of colonialism and nationalism; military clashes and economic conflicts; rapid developments and resulting social tensions; the persistence of diverse cultural traditions; and the experience of the United States in East Asia. Prerequisite: HIS 100, 101, 110, 111, AST 200, IST 200 or 210. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of Modern East Asia. 
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Establish a primary source's historical context through sourcing techniques.

  • HIS 398 - Internship in Public History

    A project-oriented internship with a public history institution (such as a museum, a state park or a digital history creator), a community organization, a government agency or a campus office. Supervised application of historical methods, public history skills or digital history tools to help partner institutions tell their histories. Prerequisites: HIS 280 and 290 or consent of department. (0.5-15 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code A = offered every semester

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Develop historical skills (e.g. research, communication, etc.) through service to a public-facing organization.
    2. Create professional materials (i.e. resume and sample cover letter) for future job applications.

  • HIS 399 - Teaching and Learning of History

    Examination of the scholarship of teaching and learning of history and its application in the classroom. Prerequisite: Permission of department. (2 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code S = offered in spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain recent research on teaching and learning history.
    2. Apply knowledge from the scholarship of teaching and learning history to personal learning and instructional planning.

  • HIS 402 - History of Latin American-U.S. Relations

    Critical analysis of historical developments and how they have shaped current issues in the relations between the United States and the diverse countries of Latin America. Emphases include changing and competing historiographical approaches; and extra-official channels of relations, including grassroots connections, migrations and cultural ideas and interactions. Prerequisite: HIS 100, 101, 110, 111, 200 or 201. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events and people relevant to the history of Latin American-U.S. Relations.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Interpret primary source evidence to make claims about the past.

  • HIS 415 - History of American Education

    Analytical study of the formal and informal ways and means that Americans pursued knowledge from the colonial period through the 20th century with a focus on historiographical debates and methodology. Prerequisite: HIS 200 or 201. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of American education.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Interpret evidence to make claims about the past.

  • HIS 416 - History of Children and Youth in America

    Advanced analysis of the history of children and youth in America from 1500 to the present. Prerequisite: HIS 200 or 201. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of children and youth in America from 1500 to the present.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Interpret evidence to make claims about the past.

  • HIS 419 - U.S. Radicalism

    History of U.S. radical movements and ideas in the 20th century. Discussion of social conditions; each movement's internal dynamics with a focus on class, race and gender dynamics; each movement's impact, the relationship between radicalism and reform; and each movement's ideas about and relation to the state. Prerequisite: HIS 200 or HIS 201. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of US radicalism.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Interpret primary source evidence to make claims about the past.
    4. Establish a primary source's historical context through sourcing techniques.

  • HIS 420 - U.S. Labor and Film

    Critical examination of films as historical sources and/or statements of historical work in order to examine major historiographic themes in U.S. Labor history. Prerequisite: HIS 200 or HIS 201. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code W = offered in winter

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of US labor and film.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' and film makers' claims about the past.
    3. Interpret primary source evidence to make claims about the past.
    4. Establish a primary source's historical context through sourcing techniques.

  • HIS 421 - U.S. Labor and Working-Class History

    Critical examination of the history of U.S. workers from the period of the American Revolution to the present. Focus will be on historiographical developments and debates relating to major social, economic, political and cultural changes in working class life in this period and on the ways in which workers created and responded to these changes. Prerequisite: HIS 200 or 201. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of US workers.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Interpret primary source evidence to make claims about the past.
    4. Establish a primary source's historical context through sourcing techniques.

  • HIS 422 - History of U.S. Latinos

    Critical examination of the major themes in U.S. Latino experiences, exploring the diversity among and within Latino groups and the intersections between Latino histories and domestic and foreign policy developments. Emphasizes the transnational dimensions of these histories and the implications for historiography and for popular understandings of the topics. Prerequisite: HIS 200 or 201. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of the U.S. Latino experience.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Interpret evidence to make claims about the past.

  • HIS 428 - The Civil Rights Movement in America

    Critical examination of the Civil Rights Movement in America. Focus will be on historiographical developments and debates relating to the development of the movement; organizing strategies and leadership styles; and regional, gender and class experiences. Prerequisite: HIS 200, 201, AAS 100 or permission of instructor. Also listed as AAS 428. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events and people relevant to the history of the civil rights movement in America.
    2. Interpret evidence to make claims about the past.

  • HIS 429 - Special Topics in History

    Selected topics. May be taken more than once as subtitle changes. Prerequisites: Designated by department as appropriate for content and academic level of credit. (1-4 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history addressed in this "Special Topics" course.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Interpret primary source evidence to make claims about the past.

  • HIS 431 - South Africa

    Critical examination of southern African history. Main themes emerge from historiographical emphases on the background to apartheid and its regional effects on neighboring countries. Prerequisite: HIS 100, 101, 110, 111, AAS 100, IST 200 or 210. Also listed as AAS 390. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of southern Africa.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Interpret primary source evidence to make claims about the past.
    4. Establish a primary source's historical context through sourcing techniques.

  • HIS 432 - World Environmental History

    Critical examination of environmental change from the 1500s to the present, with special attention to the socio-ecological consequences of western imperialism and economic expansion. Consideration of the historiographical implications of environmental history, which explores how ecological factors shape human events, how social groups use the land with varying effects, and how attitudes toward nature compare across cultures. Prerequisite: HIS 100, 101, 110 or 111. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of environmental change from the 1500s to the present.
    2. ​Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past. 
    3. Interpret primary source evidence to make claims about the past.
    4. Establish a primary source's historical context through sourcing techniques.

  • HIS 433 - Slavery in World History

    Advanced comparative analysis of systems of unfree and forced labor. Examines Atlantic World, Africa and Indian Ocean World from early times to emancipation and beyond in the early 20th century. Prerequisite: HIS 100 or 101 or 110 or 111 or 200 or 201. Also listed as AAS 433 (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events and people relevant to the global history of slavery.  
    2. Interpret primary source evidence to make claims about the past. 
    3. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past. 
    4. Establish a primary source's historical context through sourcing techniques (including, for example, by identifying its author, date and place of production, form and intended audience). 

  • HIS 436 - Medieval England: There and Back Again

    Examines defining moments in medieval English history and literature. Considers how these events were later translated and interpreted by historians, writers and thinkers in later centuries. Culminates in a two-week in-country experience in England. Prerequisite: Special permission. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Identify the major phases of English medieval history
    2. Analyze select literary and nonliterary medieval texts
    3. Evaluate the significance of "medievalism"
    4. Synthesize literary and historical texts with first-hand observation after an immersion experience in a medieval environment

  • HIS 441 - Britain since 1688

    Political development, economic trends, social issues and cultural factors will be emphasized in a critical examination of modern Britain beginning at the Glorious Revolution. Historiographical approaches to Anglo-Irish relations, gender and social history also will be explored. Prerequisite: HIS 100, 101, 110 or 111. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events and people relevant to the history of Britain since 1688.
    2. Interpret evidence to make claims about the past.
    3. Establish a source's historical context through sourcing techniques.

  • HIS 447 - Germany since 1815

    Critical examination of German history from 1815 to present, with historiographical discussion of the continuities and discontinuities of certain themes across different political regimes, including gender, race, transnational encounters, imperialism, migration, socialism, German-Jewish relations and consumer cultures. Prerequisite: HIS 100, 101, 110 or 111. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of Germany from 1815 to the present.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Interpret primary source evidence to make claims about the past.
    4. Establish a primary source's historical context through sourcing techniques.

  • HIS 448 - Rise and Fall of Nazi Germany

    Critical examination of the factors leading to rise and collapse of Nazi rule. Discussion of the historiographical debates within social and cultural history, such as the regime's relationship with the working class, the importance of racial ideology, and the attitudes of "ordinary Germans" toward the Nazi movement.

      Prerequisites: HIS 100, 101, 110 or 111. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of the rise and collapse of Nazi rule in Germany.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Interpret primary source evidence to make claims about the past.
    4. Establish a primary source's historical context through sourcing techniques.

  • HIS 450 - Tourism in World History

    Critical examination of tourism's significance in modern world history through guided reading of relevant historiography and historical documents. In addition to analyzing origins of modern tourism in European and North American contexts, examines tourism's prominent role in postcolonial economic development schemes in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.  Prerequisite: HIS 100, 101, 110, 111, 200, or 201.  Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Identify the origins of modern tourism.
    2. Compare tourism's social, economic, cultural, environmental significance in different global contexts.
    3. Establish a primary source's historical context through sourcing techniques (including, for example, identifying its author, date and place of production, form, and intended audience).
    4. Compare and contrast claims about the past by two or more historians.

  • HIS 460 - The Holocaust

    Historical analysis of the extermination of European Jews and millions of other European civilians during World War II. Discussion of historiographical debates about Nazi ideology, the machinery of destruction, collaboration inside and outside Germany, and the responses of victims and bystanders. Prerequisite: HIS 100, 101, 110, 111, JST 140, IST 200 or 210. Also listed as JST 460. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Identify the major causes of the Holocaust.
    2. Explain different factors that influenced the actions and choices of Holocaust perpetrators, collaborators, bystanders and victims.
    3. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    4. Interpret primary source evidence to make claims about the past.

  • HIS 461 - Modern Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

    History of Zionism (Jewish nationalism) and modern Israel from the 1860s to the present. Focus on the history of Zionism and the growth of a Jewish state in Palestine; and on the history of Arab-Israeli conflict. Prerequisite: HIS 100, 101, 110, 111, 150, IST 200, 210 or JST 140. Also listed as JST 461. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of Zionism and modern Israel from the 1860s to the present.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Interpret primary source evidence to make claims about the past.
    4. Establish a primary source's historical context through sourcing techniques.

  • HIS 465 - The Soviet Union, 1917-1953

    Critical inquiry into the development of the Russian Revolution under the Stalinist regime. Focus will be on historiographical debates on the building of the socialist economy, the emergence and articulation of Stalinist ideology, the function and lasting significance of the Terror and the Gulag, the workings of Stalinist society from the people's perspective, and the meaning of the Revolution in artistic life. Prerequisite: HIS 100, 101, 110 or 111. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of the Soviet Union from 1917-1953.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Interpret primary source evidence to make claims about the past.
    4. Establish a primary source's historical context through sourcing techniques.

  • HIS 490 - Seminar

    Individual historical research requiring the analysis of historical documents, the conceptualization of an original historical argument and the situating of research findings within the recent historiography on the chosen topic. Prerequisite: HIS 290. Fulfills: LASR; PRES, GECP; WI. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code A = offered every semester

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Formulate a historical argument based on primary source analysis.
    2. Assess the strengths and deficiencies of existing scholarship on a selected historical topic.
    3. Create a well-organized historical essay.

  • HIS 491 - Readings in History

    Individual study in selected areas of history. S, U grades assigned. Prerequisite: Consent of department. Fulfills: LASR. (1-3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code A = offered every semester

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Compare and contrast historians' interpretations of the same topic, person, event, or theme.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Identify a historian's argument or thesis.

  • HIS 492 - Senior Tutorial

    Guided reading for approved honors candidates in history in senior year. Normally followed by HIS 493. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Compare and contrast historians' interpretations on a common event, person, topic, or theme.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Identify a historian's thesis or argument.

  • HIS 499 - Research Experience in History

    Supervised research experience in history linked to a faculty research project. Grading: S, U grades. (0.5-3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code A = offered every semester

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Develop a research question suitable for historical investigation.
    2. Design a research project in the discipline of history.

  • HIS 509 - Issues in New York State History

    New York State history examined through themes of ethnicity, class and political development using historiography provided by a range of readings and discussion. Senior status for undergraduate history, adolescence education: social studies and childhood education majors; M.A. in history, M.S.Ed. in adolescence education: social studies and M.S.Ed. in childhood education. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Summarize major findings and arguments presented in secondary sources.
    2. Compare and contrast various historians' interpretations about topics in New York history.

  • HIS 523 - History of the American West

    History of the American West from approximately 1550-1900. Discovery, conquest and settlement by the Spanish, French, Americans and Native Americans in the development of the American West. Open only to students enrolled in M.A. in history, M.S.Ed. in adolescence education: social studies programs.   (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code O = offered occasionally

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of the American West.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Identify the implications of historiographical innovations and debates for narratives about the history of the American West.

  • HIS 524 - Issues in 19th Century U.S. History

    Historical study of major issues in 19th century American history with special attention to teaching materials and approaches. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to 19th century U.S. history.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Identify the implications of historiographical innovations and debates for narratives about 19th century U.S. history.

  • HIS 525 - Issues in the U.S. Civil War

    Issues in the history of the American Civil War from approximately 1844-1865. Open only to students enrolled in M.A. in history, M.S.Ed. in adolescence education: social studies programs. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to Civil War history.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Identify the implications of historiographical innovations and debates for narratives about Civil War history.

  • HIS 528 - Issues in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

    Origins, ideologies, activities, results and historiographical interpretations of movement to obtain civil and political rights for African Americans, 1945-1975. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of the U.S. Civil Rights movement.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Identify the implications of historiographical innovations and debates for narratives about the history of the U.S. Civil Rights movement.

  • HIS 529 - Special Topics in History

    Selected topics. May be taken more than once as subtitle changes. Designated by department as appropriate for content and academic level of credit. (1-4 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Identify the major historiographical debates within the selected historical topic.
    2. Critique historians' arguments related to the selected historical topic.

  • HIS 530 - Issues in African-American History

    Major historical arguments and historiographical issues in African American history from African origins to the present: origins and nature of slavery, rise of Jim Crow South, urban ghetto formation, civil rights movement. Special attention to teaching materials and methods. Prerequisites: 12 credit hours of undergraduate or graduate work in American history or permission of instructor. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to African-American history.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Identify the implications of historiographical innovations and debates for narratives about African-American history.

  • HIS 531 - Issues in African History

    Historical and historiographical survey of peoples of Africa — human origins, population movements, spread of Islam, slave trade, colonialism, independence and underdevelopment. Special attention to teaching methods and materials. Prerequisites: At least 12 credit hours of course work in social studies on the graduate or undergraduate level. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to African history.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Identify the implications of historiographical innovations and debates for narratives about African history.

  • HIS 532 - Issues in European History Since 1500

    Historical and historiographical study of major themes in Europe since 1500. Special attention given to teaching materials and methods. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of Europe since 1500.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Identify the implications of historiographical innovations and debates for narratives about the history of Europe since 1500.

  • HIS 533 - Issues in Asian History

    Historical and historiographical study of selected countries of Asia. Main themes include diversity in the past and present; continuity and change in Asian civilizations; Asia in world history; colonialism and nationalism; economic, political and social developments; and modernization and Asian identity. Special attention given to teaching materials and methods. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to Asian history.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Identify the implications of historiographical innovations and debates for narratives about Asian history.

  • HIS 538 - Teaching About Nazi Germany and the Holocaust

    In-depth study of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust with special attention to pedagogical strategies. Prerequisite: 12 credit hours of history and student teaching or permission of instructor. (3 cr. hr.)
    Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.
    2. Assess the persuasiveness of historians' claims about the past.
    3. Identify the implications of historiographical innovations and debates for narratives about the history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.
    4. Assess pedagogical approaches to the teaching of the Holocaust.
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