History
HIST 1010 - Survey Western Civilization I
3 credit hours
A survey of Western humanity from the earliest cultures to 1715. May be used to satisfy one part of the General Education Humanities and/or Fine Arts requirement. HIST 1010 is NOT a prerequisite for HIST 1020.
HIST 1015 - Themes in Western Civilization
3 credit hours
Explores a specific theme or topic in the history of Western Civilization. Subject will vary.
HIST 1020 - Survey Western Civilization II
3 credit hours
A survey of Western humanity since 1715. May be used to satisfy one part of the General Education Humanities and/or Fine Arts requirement.
HIST 1110 - Survey World Civilization I
3 credit hours
A global approach to history, with cultural interchange as a major thematic focus; reasons for the rise and decline of civilizations. May be used to satisfy one part of the General Education Humanities and/or Fine Arts requirement. HIST 1110 is NOT a prerequisite for HIST 1120.
HIST 1115 - Themes in World Civilization
3 credit hours
Explores a specific theme or topic in the history of World Civilization. Subject will vary.
HIST 1120 - Survey World Civilization II
3 credit hours
The impact of Western expansion upon the indigenous civilizations of Asia, Africa, and the Americas; their mutual interchange in the creation of the modern world. May be used to satisfy one part of the General Education Humanities and/or Fine Arts requirement.
HIST 2010 - Survey of United States History I
3 credit hours
Survey of the political, economic, social, cultural, and diplomatic phases of American life in its regional, national, and international aspects. Discusses the era from the beginning to 1877. May be used to satisfy one part of the General Education History requirement. HIST 2010 is NOT a prerequisite for HIST 2020. TBR Common Course: HIST 2010
HIST 2015 - Themes in Early United States History
3 credit hours
Explores a specific theme or topic in Early American history. Subject will vary.
HIST 2020 - Survey of United States History II
3 credit hours
Survey of the political, economic, social, cultural, and diplomatic phases of American life in its regional, national, and international aspects. Discusses the era from 1877 to the present. May be used to satisfy one part of the the General Education History requirement. HIST 2010 is NOT a prerequisite for HIST 2020. TBR Common Course: HIST 2020
HIST 2025 - Themes in Modern United States History
3 credit hours
Explores a specific theme or topic in Modern American history. Subject will vary.
HIST 2030 - Tennessee History
3 credit hours
The role of the state in the development of the nation. May be used to satisfy one part of the General Education History requirement. TBR Common Course: HIST 2030
HIST 2035 - Themes in Tennessee History
3 credit hours
Explores a specific theme or topic in Tennessee history. Subject will vary.
HIST 2040 - Survey African American History I
3 credit hours
The role of African Americans in establishing and shaping the American nation. Covers their historical development and contributions to American art, music, literature, and religion. May be used to satisfy one part of the General Education History requirement.
NOTE: HIST 2040 is not a prerequisite for HIST 2050.
HIST 2045 - Themes in African American History
3 credit hours
Explores a specific theme or topic in African American history. Subject will vary.
HIST 2050 - Survey African American History II
3 credit hours
The role of African Americans in shaping the American nation and creating a twentieth-century racial identity. Covers their historical development and examines their contributions to American art, music, literature, and religion. May be used to satisfy one part of the General Education History requirement.
HIST 3010 - The Historian's Craft
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, HIST 2030, HIST 2040, or HIST 2050. Investigates the full range of activities of professional historians, teaches skills of research and writing history, and prepares students to enter the professional job market or to seek further education. Either HIST 3010 or HIST 3011 fulfills the History major requirement . Grade of C- or above is required.
HIST 3011 - Teaching Historical Thinking
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, HIST 2030, HIST 2040, or HIST 2050. Offers preparation for learning to think historically and developing that skill in middle and high school students and to people in public settings including planning, developing, and implementing lesson plans and assessing their results. Either HIST 3010 or HIST 3011 fulfills the History major requirement . Grade of C- or above is required.
HIST 3020 - Topics in American History
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, HIST 2030, HIST 2040, or HIST 2050. A detailed analysis of a topic pertinent to U.S. history. Topics vary from year to year. May be taken more than once for credit with different topic.
HIST 3030 - Topics in African American History
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, HIST 2030, HIST 2040, or HIST 2050. A seminar course exploring selected topics and problems in the African-American experience since 1619. Possible topics include the Great Migration, the life and work of Malcolm X, Pan-Africanism, Caribbean enslavement, the African American church, the African American woman, African American education, and the Harlem Renaissance. May repeat for up to six credit hours.
HIST 3040 - Topics in American Cultural History
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, HIST 2030, HIST 2040, or HIST 2050. Literature, arts, social sciences, and popular culture examined with regard to a particular topic (such as the history of morality or the history of cultural rebellion) in order to understand how Americans have reacted to conflicting values in society. May be taken more than once for credit with different topic (up to six credit hours).
HIST 3050 - Topics in Southern Studies
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, HIST 2030, HIST 2040, or HIST 2050. Detailed examination of a particular topic important to the region's society, life, and development. May be taken more than once for credit with different topic.
HIST 3070 - Topics in World History
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. A detailed examination of a topic pertinent to world history. Topics vary. May be taken more than once for credit with different topic.
HIST 3075 - History Abroad
3 to 6 credit hours
(Same as AST 3075.) Examines historical issues while participating in an educational abroad program. Experiential learning experience utilizes resources such as historical sites, museums, archaeological sites, and archives while abroad. Course is repeatable. Three to six credits may be applied to the History major as an elective. Three credits may be applied to the History minor as an elective.
HIST 3080 - Topics in Modern Middle East History
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. A major problem or political or social development in the contemporary Middle East. May be taken more than once for credit with different topic (up to six credit hours).
HIST 3090 - Topics in European History
1 to 3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. A detailed examination of a topic pertinent to European history. May be taken more than once for credit with different topic.
HIST 3110 - Explorations in Public History
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, HIST 2030, HIST 2040, or HIST 2050. Historical artifacts with special emphasis on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American architecture and furnishings. Related work in techniques of genealogical research. Readings, discussions, reports, and field trips.
HIST 3110 - Explorations in Public History
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, HIST 2030, HIST 2040, or HIST 2050. Historical artifacts with special emphasis on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American architecture and furnishings. Related work in techniques of genealogical research. Readings, discussions, reports, and field trips.
HIST 3125 - First World War
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Explores the causes of the war; the conflict's vast geographic extent; the dramatic changes in combat brought by such weapons as improved field artillery, poison gas, airplanes, and submarines; the war's reworking of the values and structures of western civilization; the war's long-lasting ripple effects in the Middle East, the former Russian Empire, Africa, the Pacific, and the newly powerful United States.
HIST 3125 - First World War
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Explores the causes of the war; the conflict's vast geographic extent; the dramatic changes in combat brought by such weapons as improved field artillery, poison gas, airplanes, and submarines; the war's reworking of the values and structures of western civilization; the war's long-lasting ripple effects in the Middle East, the former Russian Empire, Africa, the Pacific, and the newly powerful United States.
HIST 3130 - The Vietnam War
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Examines military, diplomatic, political, and cultural aspects of the Vietnam War. Causes of the war; interplay between military, diplomatic, and domestic policy; historical memory of the conflict through analysis of texts, oral histories, films, and material culture.
HIST 3150 - Twentieth Century Global History
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. An integrated examination of major themes and selected area studies of the twentieth century. Themes include the world system, colonialism, the Great Depression, both world wars, the cold war, emergence of independent countries, economic globalization and dependency, religious stirrings, urbanization, massive migrations, social revolution, and the postindustrial world.
HIST 3190 - The History of the Holocaust
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Examines the genocide of European Jews during the Second World War. Explores the history of antisemitism in Europe, the Nazi Party's rise to power, and themes related to collaboration, resistance, and rescue.
HIST 3190 - The History of the Holocaust
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Examines the genocide of European Jews during the Second World War. Explores the history of antisemitism in Europe, the Nazi Party's rise to power, and themes related to collaboration, resistance, and rescue.
HIST 3240 - Religion and Politics in US History
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, HIST 2030, HIST 2040, or HIST 2050. Explores the complicated relationship between religion and politics in U.S. history with an emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Subjects involve legal, social, and cultural implications for Americans today.
HIST 3730 - Research Methods in Historical Archaeology
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, HIST 2030, HIST 2040, or HIST 2050 or instructor permission. Explores historic artifact and historic landscape analysis and interpretation through practical experience within an ongoing research project. Lab intensive.
HIST 3870 - Digital Public History
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, HIST 2030, HIST 2040, or HIST 2050. A project-based, experiential-learning course. The entire class works together on a public history project that utilizes digital tools for mapping, data visualization, and/or web publishing. Specific project changes each semester and includes components of local history, in-depth primary and secondary research, field visits, and an overview of the fields of digital and public history. Students practice cultural heritage marketing to present original historical content through a wide range of media. No prior computer skills necessary.
HIST 4010 - Colonial America
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, HIST 2030, HIST 2040, or HIST 2050. Exploration and colonization of North America, relations between Native Americans, Europeans, Africans, and colonial societies in the context of the Atlantic world from 1492 to 1760.
HIST 4020 - The American Revolution
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, HIST 2030, HIST 2040, or HIST 2050. Examines the period from the Seven Years' War through the War of 1812, while emphasizing political, social, intellectual, and economic developments in the new United States.
HIST 4030 - Jacksonian America, 1815-1850
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, HIST 2030, HIST 2040, or HIST 2050. Major political, social, and economic developments in the awakening of American nationalism, Jacksonian democracy, expansionism, and the Mexican War.
HIST 4040 - Civil War and Reconstruction
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, HIST 2030, HIST 2040, or HIST 2050. Examines various causes of the war, the military and political history of the war years, and the legacy of the war in Reconstruction, the Lost Cause, and American social and economic developments through World War I.
HIST 4045 - The Great Depression
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, HIST 2030, HIST 2040, or HIST 2050. Examines the roots, causes, and outcomes of the American Great Depression, 1929-1941.
HIST 4050 - Modern America, 1877-1914
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, HIST 2030, HIST 2040, or HIST 2050. The nature and consequences of the shift of the United States from an agrarian to an urban and industrialized society between Reconstruction and World War I.
HIST 4060 - Modern America, 1914-1945
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, HIST 2030, HIST 2040, or HIST 2050. The increasing involvement of the United States in world affairs from World War I through World War II and the social and political consequences of economic complexity which resulted in prosperity, depression, and the New Deal.
HIST 4070 - Modern America, Post-1945
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, HIST 2030, HIST 2040, or HIST 2050. The major social, political, economic, and diplomatic developments in the history of the United States from 1945 to the present with particular emphasis on the role of government.
HIST 4140 - The United States West
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, HIST 2030, HIST 2040, or HIST 2050. Emphasis on the area west of the Mississippi River from pre-contact to the twenty-first century. Explores major social, political, economic, and environmental issues with particular attention to race, class, gender, and the original inhabitants.
HIST 4150 - The American South
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, HIST 2030, HIST 2040, or HIST 2050. Major themes that have created and recreated Southern culture from the Colonial period to the present. Explores the major social, political, and economic factors that made and remade the region through time.
HIST 4160 - Black Religious History
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, HIST 2030, HIST 2040, or HIST 2050. Explores a wide variety of data related principally to the history of black denominational bodies from the period of enslavement to the present. Designed to unearth key historical events, persons, and moments in American religious life.
HIST 4175 - Nineteenth-Century America in Film
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, HIST 2030, HIST 2040, or HIST 2050. Nineteenth-century American history as presented in major motion pictures. Analyzes the cultural responses to major historical events in the nineteenth century through movies.
HIST 4185 - Twentieth Century Europe
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110 , or HIST 1120. Explores the conflicts of twentieth century Europe that impacted and shaped the world. Themes include European Colonialism, Russian Revolution, World War I and World War II, Cold War, economic unity, postwar social changes, collapse of the Soviet Bloc, and emergence of post-communist nations.
HIST 4210 - Middle Ages
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120.The progress of medieval civilization with emphasis on the period from 1100 to 1300.
HIST 4214 - Science, Religion, and Magic in Early Modern Europe
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Analyzes the relationship between science, religion, and magic during the Scientific Revolution with a special focus on the trial of Galileo. Surveys popular beliefs such as magic as well as major intellectual developments with a focus on changing attitudes towards nature, truth, and authority.
HIST 4220 - Renaissance Europe
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Examines the political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural developments of Italy, France, England, Germany, and the Low Countries during the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries.
HIST 4230 - Reformation Europe
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Examines the political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural developments of Italy, France, England, Germany, and the Low Countries during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
HIST 4250 - French Revolution
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. The social, political, and economic aspects of the Old Regime, the French Revolution, and the Napoleonic period in European history
HIST 4260 - Modern France and its Empire
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Examines the social, political, cultural, and economic development of France and its empire from the Revolution to the present day.
HIST 4330 - The Russian Empire
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Russian history from its beginnings to the end of the nineteenth century.
HIST 4330 - The Russian Empire
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Russian history from its beginnings to the end of the nineteenth century.
HIST 4340 - The Soviet Experiment
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. A continuation of 4330 emphasizing the Revolution and the Soviet era.
HIST 4340 - The Soviet Experiment
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. A continuation of 4330 emphasizing the Revolution and the Soviet era.
HIST 4360 - Britain in the Nineteenth Century
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Political, economic, diplomatic, military, and cultural developments from the end of the Napoleonic era to Gladstone's retirement in 1894.
HIST 4370 - Britain in the Twentieth Century
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Political, military, imperial, economic, and social history of a changing Britain in its century of total war, imperial decline, and economic readjustment.
HIST 4380 - History of Ireland
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: 3 hours from HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Examines the major social, cultural, economic, and political developments in Irish history, focusing especially on the complex relationship between Ireland and England from the seventeenth century to the present.
HIST 4410 - Classical History
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Ancient Greece and Rome, from about 2,000 B.C. to A.D. 476, emphasizing the classical historians, Greek and Roman culture.
HIST 4420 - The Medieval Mediterranean World
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Examines the political, economic, social and intellectual, and cultural development of the countries bordering the Mediterranean.
HIST 4420 - The Medieval Mediterranean World
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010 , HIST 1020 , HIST 1110 , or HIST 1120 . Examines the political, economic, social and intellectual, and cultural development of the countries bordering the Mediterranean.
HIST 4425 - Nationalism and Decolonization in Africa
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Explores the various ways that African nations achieved sovereignty and the struggles they faced in creating a new state. Designed to show how the social and political movements took on different forms according to the types of colonial rule imposed upon these communities.
HIST 4430 - Sub-Saharan Africa
3 credit hours
(Same as AAS 4430 and AST 4430.) Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Survey of the history of Africa from prehistoric times to the present. Emphasis on the early African kingdoms, European imperialism and colonialism, and the role of Africa as a contemporary world force.
HIST 4435 - African Slave Trade
3 credit hours
(Same as AST 4435.) Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Focuses on the history of the African slave trade. Explores trans-Atlantic slave trade compared to other slaveries; historical significance and legacies of the slave trade; and the changing meaning of the term "slavery" and some modern forms of slavery that persist to this day.
HIST 4440 - The Middle East
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120.The rise and spread of Islam, the Ottoman Empire, European imperialism in the Middle East, and contemporary developments. Emphasis on cultural contributions of the Middle East to Western civilization.
HIST 4445 - The History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: 3 hours from HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Examines the history, causes, evolution, and main issues of the Arab-Israeli Conflict from the nineteenth century until the present.
HIST 4450 - Japan
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Japanese history from the formation of the first Japanese political state to the country's emergence as a post-World War II economic superpower, focusing on the interconnection between cultural, economic, and political developments.
HIST 4460 - China
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Chinese history from antiquity to the present People's Republic, stressing social history and the unique cultural features defining China's civilization.
HIST 4480 - South America
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Cultural, economic, and political traditions since 1492.
HIST 4490 - Mexico and the Caribbean
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. The development of cultural, economic, and political traditions since 1492.
HIST 4510 - Aztecs, Incas, and the Spanish Conquest
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Examines the indigenous societies present before European colonization and the first encounters in Mexico, the Caribbean, and South America. Analyzes political structures imposed by the Spanish as well as the social and cultural implications of colonialism and miscegenation.
HIST 4520 - Latin America: Development, Diaspora, and Drugs
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, HIST 1120. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America. Examines colonial background, then focuses on the post-Independence period. Explores economic, political, social, and cultural developments since Independence.
HIST 4550 - Women and Politics in Modern Africa
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Examines African women's social, political, and economic experiences from the rise of colonial rule in the late nineteenth century to the present. Topics include the rise of colonial rule and varied women's responses to European overrule; changing understandings of marriage, inheritance, and women's health issues in colonial and post-colonial Africa; the political role of women in decolonization and post-colonial Africa; and African women's efforts for social and economic development since the end of formal colonial rule.
HIST 4560 - Ancient Egypt
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Examines the political, social, and cultural developments reflected in Egyptian artistic, literary, and architectural works within the context of the 3000-year history of this ancient state from the Predynastic Period through the Ptolemaic Dynasty (3200-32 BCE). Counts as an elective in the global category in History major.
HIST 4610 - History of Medicine
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Medical developments and the relationship between medicine and society. Examines two medical traditions: the West and China. Focus not only on major developments in medicine but also on the systems of healing in these cultures; compares roles medicine played within these societies. Also investigates impact of Western scientific medicine on various systems of traditional medicine.
HIST 4610 - History of Medicine
3 credit hours
Prerequisites:HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Medical developments and the relationship between medicine and society. Examines two medical traditions: the West and China. Focus not only on major developments in medicine but also on the systems of healing in these cultures; compares roles medicine played within these societies. Also investigates impact of Western scientific medicine on various systems of traditional medicine.
HIST 4620 - American Medical History
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, HIST 2030, HIST 2040, or HIST 2050. History of health and sickness in the United States from 1607 to the present and the increasing influence of science and public policy on the delivery of health care and the practice of medicine.
HIST 4640 - Environmental History
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, HIST 2030, HIST 2040, or HIST 2050. Traces environmental change in America from European contact to the present and from wilderness to suburbia. Explains impact of growth, settlement, and resource exploitation on our national landscape and institutions.
HIST 4650 - Religious Experience in America
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, HIST 2030, HIST 2040, or HIST 2050. Explores the nature of religion as experienced in American history focusing on the questions "How has religion affected America?" and "How has America affected religion?" Emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and on the contact of and exchanges among traditions such as Protestant/Catholic Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Eastern religions, and Animism.
HIST 4660 - American Architectural History
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, HIST 2030, HIST 2040, or HIST 2050. An analysis of the historical development of American architecture and of architecture as evidence of America's cultural, social, economic, and technological growth from 1607 to the present.
HIST 4690 - Native American and Indigenous History
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, HIST 2030, HIST 2040, or HIST 2050. The history of Native American and Indigenous peoples of the Americans and beyond from ancient times to the present with emphasis on Native American and Indigenous contributions to world history.
HIST 4690 - Native American and Indigenous History
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, HIST 2030, HIST 2040, or HIST 2050. The history of Native American and Indigenous peoples of the Americans and beyond from ancient times to the present with emphasis on Native American and Indigenous contributions to world history.
HIST 4720 - Boone's and Crockett's America
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, HIST 2030, HIST 2040, or HIST 2050. The mass movement of farm families into the interior of North America before 1860. Emphasis on Native American life, frontier politics, society, and culture, as well as the subsequent development of a "frontier myth" celebrating this folk migration.
HIST 4730 - Everyday Life in America
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, HIST 2030, HIST 2040, or HIST 2050. Examines class, ethnicity, family life, and community in America from the colonial period to the present.
HIST 4740 - American Cultural and Intellectual History
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, HIST 2030, HIST 2040, or HIST 2050. Explores the major issues in American cultural and intellectual history through an examination of American literature, philosophy, social sciences, fine arts, and popular culture.
HIST 4750 - African American Social and Intellectual History
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, HIST 2030, HIST 2040, or HIST 2050. The changing ideology of race and the socioeconomic status of African Americans in the American experience; contributions to the culture and institutions of the United States.
HIST 4755 - Race and Place: The Struggle for Fair Housing Since 1900
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, HIST 2030, HIST 2040, or HIST 2050. Examines the rise of various twentieth-century federal housing policies that made homeownership affordable for most Americans for the first time in the country's history. Particular emphasis placed on the exclusionary nature of these policies, their generational implications, and the activism that ultimately contributed to their demise.
HIST 4775 - U.S. Women's History
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, HIST 2030, HIST 2040, or HIST 2050. Explores the distinctive histories of women across the breadth of American history. Instructors will choose specific events, issues, or themes to reveal the forces that shaped women's experiences and actions.
HIST 4790 - Women and Gender in Modern Europe
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Explores the ideas, politics, work, and everyday lives of European women from the late Enlightenment to the present. Shows how women of diverse backgrounds shaped and were shaped by societal constructions of gender and sexuality.
HIST 4840 - World War II
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Examines various aspects of the military, diplomatic, social, economic, and cultural changes caused by the global cataclysm of World War II.
HIST 4840 - World War II
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Examines various aspects of the military, diplomatic, social, economic, and cultural changes caused by the global cataclysm of World War II.
HIST 4850 - Material Culture Resources in World History
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. The material culture resources (architecture, furniture, tools, utensils, weapons, ceremonial objects, etc.) of the world's major civilizations. Provides a basis for studying how various cultural styles have influenced the development of our own material culture resources.
HIST 4860 - Historical Archaeology
3 credit hours
(Same as ANTH 4860.) Prerequisites: HIST 1010 or HIST 1110 and HIST 1020 or HIST 1120. Disciplines of historical archaeology, including examination of archaeological evidence, historical documentation, and interpretation of evidence.
HIST 4860 - Historical Archaeology
3 credit hours
(Same as ANTH 4860.) Prerequisites: HIST 1010 or HIST 1110 and HIST 1020 or HIST 1120. Disciplines of historical archaeology, including examination of archaeological evidence, historical documentation, and interpretation of evidence.
HIST 4870 - Field Course in Historical Archaeology
3 to 6 credit hours
(Same as GEOG 4772.) Prerequisites: HIST 4860; ANTH 3210; or permission of instructor. Archaeological resources and procedures and the interpretation of historical evidence undertaken at a field archaeological site.
HIST 4950 - Public History Internship
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, HIST 2030, HIST 2040, or HIST 2050. Student works in a public or private agency or organization under the guidance of a professional mentor in a public history field related to career goals. Pass/Fail grading.
HIST 4965 - History Internship
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, HIST 2030, HIST 2040, or HIST 2050. History internship in either a non-traditional job setting or as a teaching intern with a general education history class. Pass/Fail.
HIST 4970 - Senior Independent Research
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: Permission of department and professor. For advanced History majors. Research project under the careful guidance of a faculty member; substantive research product in history completed. May be taken only once for History major credit.
HIST 4985 - Senior Seminar
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: HIST 3010/HIST 3011 and a minimum of 12 upper-division hours in history or permission of the undergraduate director. Capstone course for History majors. Students will conduct original research and produce a research paper, a pedagogical project, or a research-based creative project. Requires a formal oral presentation for completion of the course. May be taken for credit once.
