2020-21 Undergraduate Catalog

Nov 23, 2024

2020-21 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

History [HIS]

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In addition to the required 100-level history courses in Western Civilization and/or World History and the 200-level American history survey courses, all students must take HIS 280: Introduction to Public History, HIS 290: Historical Methods, HIS 490: Seminar (a research seminar), at least three credit hours of experiential learning (for adolescence education students, student teaching will count toward experiential learning) and at least 18 credit hours of 300-level or above history classes with a minimum of three credit hours in each of the four categories — United States, Europe, Africa/Asia/Latin America/Middle East, Global/Transnational (and an additional six credit hours distributed across two of the four categories).

For more information, contact the History Department .

Note: The bachelor of arts degree requires intermediate level (202) proficiency in a foreign language.

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this program, students will be able to:

Source and closely read primary sources and explain their significance for an historical problem.
Identify historical themes and develop relevant questions in order to carry out inquiry about an historical problem.
Find and select appropriate primary and secondary sources to address an historical problem.
Develop an evidence-based argument based on one's own original research in primary sources.

Program Standard Grade Point Average Requirement

The major GPA is calculated by all courses identified in the college catalog as required for the major. In addition, this program has an established program standard GPA which may be used to determine progress in the program.

Program Standard GPA
- Minimum GPA of 2.0 in any HIS course
History Major Requirements
- 42 credits in any HIS course

Career Potential

Public history (museum, archives)
Social work
Government and nonprofit agencies and organizations
Public school teacher
Business
Law

Major Requirements: 42 credit hours

A. Introductory Courses: 12 credit hours

100-level history courses in Western Civilization and/or World History and the 200-level American history survey courses are required.

HIS 100 - The World to 1500 (3 cr. hr.) or
HIS 110 - Western Civilization to 1500 (3 cr. hr.) and
HIS 101 - The World Since 1500 (3 cr. hr.) or
HIS 111 - Western Civilization since 1500 (3 cr. hr.) and
HIS 200 - The United States to 1877 (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 201 - The United States Since 1877 (3 cr. hr.)

B. Research and Methods: 9 credit hours

HIS 280 - Introduction to Public History (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 290 - Historical Methods (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 490 - Seminar (3 cr. hr.)

C. Upper-Division Courses: 18 credit hours

Eighteen credit hours of 300-level or above history classes with a minimum of three credit hours in each of the four categories:

Europe
Africa/Asia/Latin America/Middle East
United States,
Global/Transnational

and an additional six credit hours distributed across two of the four categories.

1. Europe, including Russia, 300 level or above: 3-6 credit hours

Take at least three credit hours.

HIS 318 - The History of Women in Modern Europe (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 333 - Russia, 850-1894 (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 334 - Russia Since 1894 (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 341 - Gender and Power in Medieval Europe (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 342 - Ancient Greece (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 343 - Roman History (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 344 - Medieval Europe: 300-1050 (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 345 - Medieval Europe: 1050-1300 (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 346 - Renaissance and Reformation (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 347 - Modern Europe: The French Revolution to World War I (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 348 - Europe Since 1914 (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 349 - Central Europe 1789-1918 (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 361 - Jews in the Ancient World (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 440 - Britain to 1688 (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 441 - Britain since 1688 (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 442 - Tudor-Stuart England, 1485-1714 (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 444 - France, 1715-1799: The Old Regime and French Revolution (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 445 - France 1800-1945 (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 447 - Germany since 1815 (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 448 - Rise and Fall of Nazi Germany (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 452 - War and Diplomacy: World War I (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 453 - War and Diplomacy: World War II (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 460 - The Holocaust (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 465 - The Soviet Union, 1917-1953 (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 532 - Issues in European History Since 1500 (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 538 - Teaching About Nazi Germany and the Holocaust (3 cr. hr.)

2. Asia/Africa/Latin America/Middle East, 300 level or above: 3-6 credit hours

Take at least three credit hours.

HIS 321 - Africa, Human Origins to 1800 (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 322 - Modern Africa, 1800-Present (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 324 - Gender, Race, and Class in Latin American History (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 325 - Colonial Latin America (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 326 - Modern Latin America (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 327 - Latin American Revolutions in the 20th Century (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 383 - Chinese Civilization (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 384 - Modern China (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 385 - History of Japan (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 386 - Modern East Asia (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 431 - South Africa (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 461 - Modern Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 531 - Issues in African History (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 533 - Issues in Asian History (3 cr. hr.)

3. United States, 300 level or above: 3-6 credit hours

Take at least three credit hours.

HIS 300 - Colonial America, 1450-1750 (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 302 - Revolutionary America, 1750-1789 (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 303 - The American Republic, 1789-1840 (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 304 - The American Republic: 1840-1877 (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 306 - The United States: 1877-1920 (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 307 - The United States 1920-Present (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 309 - New York State (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 310 - American Intellectual and Cultural History to 1865 (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 311 - American intellectual and Cultural History Since 1865 (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 312 - African-American History to 1865 (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 313 - African-American History Since 1865 (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 314 - Native-American History (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 315 - History of the American West (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 317 - Women in the United States (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 415 - History of American Education (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 416 - History of Children and Youth in America (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 419 - U.S. Radicalism (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 420 - U.S. Labor and Film (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 421 - U.S. Labor and Working-Class History (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 428 - The Civil Rights Movement in America (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 430 - The Vietnam War (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 509 - Issues in New York State History (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 523 - History of the American West (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 525 - Issues in the U.S. Civil War (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 528 - Issues in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 530 - Issues in African-American History (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 545 - Issues in Women's History (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 550 - Issues in Early-American History (3 cr. hr.)

4. Global/Transnational, 300 level or above: 3-6 credit hours

Take at least three credit hours.

HIS 328 - Global History of the Spanish Civil War (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 370 - Eurasia: West-East Perspectives, 800-1500 (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 381 - The World of the Silk Road, 800-1500 (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 402 - History of Latin American-U.S. Relations (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 422 - History of U.S. Latinos (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 432 - World Environmental History (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 433 - Slavery in World History (3 cr. hr.)

D. Experiential Learning: 3 credit hours

Hands-on historical experience and an introduction to the work of professional historians in public history, teaching or research.

HIS 308 - Raquette Lake Field Experience (1 cr. hr.)
HIS 398 - Internship in Public History (0.5-15 cr. hr.)
HIS 499 - Research Experience in History (0.5-3 cr. hr.)
AED 400 - Student Teaching I: Adolescence Education Social Studies (6 cr. hr.)
AED 401 - Student Teaching II: Adolescence Education Social Studies (6 cr. hr.)

Foreign Language Requirement: 12 credit hours

Foreign language through the 202 level.

General Education Courses: 30 credit hours

Upper-Division Electives: 21 credit hours

Choose 21 credit hours in HIS or general electives at the 300 level or above. Those electives could include study abroad or build toward a minor or a second major in another department.

General Electives: 18 credit hours

Choose elective courses from the 100-500 levels.

Total Credit Hours Required for Graduation: 120

Example of the B.A. in History over four years

Link to General Education (GE); Link to Foreign Language

First Year Fall

HIS 100 - The World to 1500 (3 cr. hr.) or
HIS 110 - Western Civilization to 1500 (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 200 - The United States to 1877 (3 cr. hr.)
CPN 100 - Writing Studies I (3 cr. hr.)
COR 101 - The Cortland Experience: A First Year Seminar (1 cr. hr.)
Foreign language 101 (3 cr. hr.)

Total credit hours for semester: 13

First Year Spring

CPN 101 - Writing Studies II (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 101 - The World Since 1500 (3 cr. hr.) or
HIS 111 - Western Civilization since 1500 (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 201 - The United States Since 1877 (3 cr. hr.)
Foreign language 102 (3 cr. hr.)
GE course (3 cr. hr.)

Total credit hours for semester: 15

Second Year Fall

HIS 280 - Introduction to Public History (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 308 - Raquette Lake Field Experience (1 cr. hr.)
Foreign language 201 (3 cr. hr.)
GE course (3 cr. hr.)
GE course (4 cr. hr.)
Elective (3 cr. hr.)

Total credit hours for semester: 17

Second Year Spring

HIS 290 - Historical Methods (3 cr. hr.)
Foreign language 202 (3 cr. hr.)
GE course (3 cr. hr.)
GE course (3 cr. hr.)
Elective (3 cr. hr.)

Total credit hours for semester: 15

Third Year Fall

HIS 398 - Internship in Public History (0.5-15 cr. hr.)
HIS 300 or 400 level (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 300 or 400 level (3 cr. hr.)
GE course (3 cr. hr.)
Elective (3 cr. hr.)
Elective (3 cr. hr.)

Total credit hours for semester: 16

Third Year Spring

HIS 398 - Internship in Public History (0.5-15 cr. hr.)
HIS 300 or 400 level (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 300 or 400 level (3 cr. hr.)
GE course (3 cr. hr.)
Elective (3 cr. hr.)
Elective (3 cr. hr.)

Total credit hours for semester: 16

Fourth Year Fall

HIS 300 or 400 level (3 cr. hr.)
Elective (3 cr. hr.)
Elective (3 cr. hr.)
Elective (3 cr. hr.)
Elective (3 cr. hr.)

Total credit hours for semester: 15

Fourth Year Spring

HIS 490 - Seminar (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 300 or 400 level (3 cr. hr.)
Elective (3 cr. hr.)
Elective (3 cr. hr.)
Elective (1 cr. hr.)

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Student Learning Outcomes

Program Standard Grade Point Average Requirement

Career Potential

Major Requirements: 42 credit hours

A. Introductory Courses: 12 credit hours

B. Research and Methods: 9 credit hours

C. Upper-Division Courses: 18 credit hours

1. Europe, including Russia, 300 level or above: 3-6 credit hours

2. Asia/Africa/Latin America/Middle East, 300 level or above: 3-6 credit hours

3. United States, 300 level or above: 3-6 credit hours

4. Global/Transnational, 300 level or above: 3-6 credit hours

D. Experiential Learning: 3 credit hours

Foreign Language Requirement: 12 credit hours

General Education Courses: 30 credit hours

Upper-Division Electives: 21 credit hours

General Electives: 18 credit hours

Total Credit Hours Required for Graduation: 120

Example of the B.A. in History over four years

First Year Fall

Total credit hours for semester: 13

First Year Spring

Total credit hours for semester: 15

Second Year Fall

Total credit hours for semester: 17

Second Year Spring

Total credit hours for semester: 15

Third Year Fall

Total credit hours for semester: 16

Third Year Spring

Total credit hours for semester: 16

Fourth Year Fall

Total credit hours for semester: 15

Fourth Year Spring

Total credit hours for semester: 13