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2016-2017 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2016-2017 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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(HIEU) History – Europe

  
  • HIEU 247 - Honors: Development of Western Civilization

    3 Credit Hours
    Honors survey of Western history, ancient world to 1715. Writing-emphasis course.

    Satisfies General Education Requirement: (CC)
  
  • HIEU 248 - Honors: Development of Western Civilization

    3 Credit Hours
    Honors survey of Western history, 1715 to present. Writing-emphasis course.

    Satisfies General Education Requirement: (CC)
  
  • HIEU 302 - History of Classical Greece

    3 Credit Hours
    (See Classics 302.)
  
  • HIEU 303 - History of the Roman Republic

    3 Credit Hours
    Surveys Roman history from the archaic (royal) period to the Augustan age. Writing-emphasis course.

    (Same as Classics 309.)
  
  • HIEU 304 - History of the Early Roman Empire

    3 Credit Hours
    Roman history from the death of Caesar to the emperor Constantine. Writing-emphasis course.

    (Same as Classics 304.)
  
  • HIEU 305 - History of the Later Roman Empire

    3 Credit Hours
    Roman history in late antiquity from Diocletian to the rise of Islam. Writing-emphasis course.

    (Same as Classics 305.)
  
  • HIEU 306 - History of Hellenistic Greece

    3 Credit Hours
    (See Classics 306.)
  
  • HIEU 311 - Early Middle Ages

    3 Credit Hours
    Formation of medieval society, culture and institutions, 500-1000. Writing-emphasis course.

    (Same as Medieval and Renaissance Studies 309.)
  
  • HIEU 312 - High Middle Ages

    3 Credit Hours
    Height of medieval civilization – chivalry, monarchy, universities, Gothic cathedrals, 1000-1300 Writing-emphasis course.

    (Same as Medieval and Renaissance Studies 312.)
  
  • HIEU 313 - Later Middle Ages

    3 Credit Hours
    Explores the transformation of medieval society, 1300-1400. Writing-emphasis course.

    (Same as Medieval and Renaissance Studies 311.)
  
  • HIEU 314 - Renaissance Europe

    3 Credit Hours
    Traditionally seen as transition from Middle Ages to modern era. Cultural, social, economic, political, and intellectual developments. Writing-emphasis course.

    (Same as Medieval and Renaissance Studies 314.)
  
  • HIEU 315 - Reformation Europe

    3 Credit Hours
    Era from 1500-1650. Religious disunity, economic dislocation, political centralization, intellectual skepticism. Writing-emphasis course.

    (Same as Religious Studies 315.)
  
  • HIEU 316 - Early Modern Europe

    3 Credit Hours
    Era from 1650-1800. Age of revolutions including scientific; intellectual flowering known as the Enlightenment. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • HIEU 319 - Modern Europe

    3 Credit Hours
    Era from 1750-1914. Political, social, cultural and intellectual transformations. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • HIEU 320 - Contemporary Europe

    3 Credit Hours
    Era from World War I to present. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • HIEU 321 - New Testament and Early Christian Origins

    3 Credit Hours
    (See Religious Studies 321.)
  
  • HIEU 322 - Christianity in Late Antiquity

    3 Credit Hours
    (See Religious Studies 322.)
  
  • HIEU 323 - Deviance and Persecution in the Christian West

    3 Credit Hours
    Popular perceptions and ecclesiastical and civil policies and institutions designed to uncover and combat heretics, homosexuals, Jews, and witches. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • HIEU 332 - Europe in the Age of Total War, 1900-2000

    3 Credit Hours
    Role of industrial “total war” in fundamentally reshaping Europe in the 20th century. Imperialist tensions, World War I, troubled interwar diplomacy, World War II, and the Cold War. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • HIEU 333 - History of the Cold War

    3 Credit Hours
    Global history of the Cold War from 1945 to 1991. Tensions between superpowers and their respective allies; ideological, military, political, social, cultural, and economic dimensions; reasons for Cold War’s end. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • HIEU 334 - Early Modern Germany

    3 Credit Hours
    To ca. 1815. Developments in German lands, from the medieval empire to its disintegration; dynastic and religious realignments; end of the old order in the Age of Napoleon. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • HIEU 335 - Modern Germany

    3 Credit Hours
    Nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Topics include nationhood, revolution, industrialization, social transformation, imperialism, war, fascism, genocide. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • HIEU 336 - Modern France

    3 Credit Hours
    Topics include the French Revolution, imperialism, Dreyfus Affair, Vichy Regime, student protests of May 1968. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • HIEU 340 - Revolution in Modern European History: France and Russia

    3 Credit Hours
    Focus on most important revolutions in modern European history: French Revolution of 1789 and Russian Revolution of 1917. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • HIEU 341 - History of Modern Russia

    3 Credit Hours
    Era from Peter the Great to present.

  
  • HIEU 383 - Studies in Premodern European History

    3 Credit Hours
    Aspects of premodern European history. Content varies. Writing-emphasis course.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
  
  • HIEU 384 - Studies in Modern European History

    3 Credit Hours
    Aspects of modern European history. Content varies. Writing-emphasis course.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
  
  • HIEU 395 - The Crusades and Medieval Christian-Muslim Relations

    3 Credit Hours
    Major wars of European Christian armies against Muslim societies, 1050 to 1500; political, military, cultural, religious, intellectual, and diplomatic perspectives. Writing-emphasis course.

    (Same as Judaic Studies 395.)
  
  • HIEU 426 - Dark Age Empire

    3 Credit Hours
    Era of Charlemagne and Carolingian dynasty (ca. 700-ca. 900), a period of empire-building and religious transformation known to many of its contemporaries as a “Dark Age.” Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • HIEU 429 - Medieval Intellectual History

    3 Credit Hours
    Evolution of thought in Europe from late antiquity to the advent of Humanism; emphasizes connections between major thinkers and their social, economic, and professional contexts. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • HIEU 431 - European Cultural and Intellectual History

    3 Credit Hours
    Romanticism to Relativism ― 1750-present. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • HIEU 433 - European Diplomatic History

    3 Credit Hours
    Diplomatic history of modern Europe, including rise of Great Powers and “balance of power system”; challenges to state system by Napoleon, German empire, and Hitler; creation of overseas empires; decline of European world power. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • HIEU 434 - Modern European Imperialism

    3 Credit Hours
    Topics include slave trade, scramble for Africa, liberal imperialism, theories of empire, gender, migration, and decolonization. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • HIEU 435 - Science, Religion and Magic in Early Modern Europe

    3 Credit Hours
    Course examines the role of alchemy, natural magic, and the natural sciences in early modern Europe (1400-1700); special attention to social, religious, economic, and political developments shaping intellectual traditions. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • HIEU 436 - History of Nazi Germany

    3 Credit Hours
    The coming to power of the Nazi party in Germany, origins of ideology, and the rise and fall of the Third Reich. Topics include foreign policy, social policy, World War II, Hitler’s brutal rule and racial programs, culminating in mass murder and genocide against the Jews of Europe. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • HIEU 482 - Studies in Ancient History

    3 Credit Hours
    Aspects of ancient Near East and Mediterranean history. Content varies. Writing-emphasis course.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
  
  • HIEU 483 - Studies in Medieval and Early Modern European History

    3 Credit Hours
    Aspects of medieval and early modern Europe. Content varies. Writing-emphasis course.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
  
  • HIEU 484 - Studies in Modern European History

    3 Credit Hours
    Themes and issues in modern European history, eighteenth century to present. Content varies. Writing-emphasis course.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.

(HILA) History – Latin America

  
  • HILA 255 - Early Latin American and Caribbean History

    3 Credit Hours
    Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean from pre-colonial period through independence era. Writing-emphasis course.

    (Same as Latin American and Caribbean Studies 251.)
    Satisfies General Education Requirement: (CC)
  
  • HILA 256 - Modern Latin American and Caribbean History

    3 Credit Hours
    Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean from independence to present. Writing-emphasis course.

    (Same as Latin American and Caribbean Studies 252.)
    Satisfies General Education Requirement: (CC)
  
  • HILA 343 - History of Mexico

    3 Credit Hours
    Mexican history from pre-colonial period to present. Writing-emphasis course.

    (Same as Latin American and Caribbean Studies 343.)
  
  • HILA 344 - History of Brazil

    3 Credit Hours
    Brazilian history from pre-colonial period to present. Writing-emphasis course.

    (Same as Latin American and Caribbean Studies 344.)
  
  • HILA 360 - History of Early Latin America

    3 Credit Hours
    Native cultures of pre-Conquest times. Conquest and colonial settlement of Iberian America. Economic, social, cultural developments, concentrating on central areas of European presence and interactions among European, indigenous, and African populations. Writing-emphasis course.

    (Same as Latin American and Caribbean Studies 360.)
  
  • HILA 361 - History of Modern Latin America

    3 Credit Hours
    Independence to modern times. Explores political and economic themes of nationhood as well as socio-economic and political dimensions of race, class, ethnicity, gender. Writing-emphasis course.

    (Same as Latin American and Caribbean Studies 361.)
  
  • HILA 383 - Studies in Latin American and Caribbean History

    3 Credit Hours
    Particular aspects of Latin American and/or Caribbean history. Content varies. Writing-emphasis course.

    (Same as Latin American and Caribbean Studies 383.)
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
  
  • HILA 450 - Slavery in the Early Americas

    3 Credit Hours
    Examines the rise and fall of slavery in the Americas, ca. 1450-1888. Focus on the Caribbean, South and North America. Writing emphasis course.

    (Same as Latin American and Caribbean Studies 450.)
  
  • HILA 464 - The Spanish Conquest

    3 Credit Hours
    History of Iberian and Native American societies leading up to the Spanish Conquest of the Americas, the Conquest, and its aftermath. Spanish and indigenous primary accounts of the process of conquest; cultural, religious, gender, epidemiological, and political impact on Spanish and native societies. Writing-emphasis course.

    (Same as Latin American and Caribbean Studies 464.)
  
  • HILA 465 - Gender and Sexuality in Early Latin America

    3 Credit Hours
    Gender and sexuality in social systems of pre-Colombian and colonial Latin America; consideration of indigenous and Spanish societies. Writing-emphasis course.

    (Same as Latin American and Caribbean Studies 466.)
  
  • HILA 484 - Studies in Latin American and Caribbean History

    3 Credit Hours
    Aspects of Latin American and Caribbean history. Content varies Writing-emphasis course.

    (Same as Latin American and Caribbean Studies 484.)
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.

(HIME) History – Middle East

  
  • HIME 350 - Early Muslim-Christian Relations in the Middle East

    3 Credit Hours
    History of Muslim-Christian relations from the rise of Islam to c. 1500. Writing emphasis course.

  
  • HIME 366 - History of the Middle East and the Islamic World, 600 – 1050

    3 Credit Hours
    History of the Middle East, c.600 to c.1050. Islamic world from Central Asia to North Africa; focus on religious, ethnic, and political diversity. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • HIME 369 - History of the Middle East and the Islamic World, ca. 1050 – 1500

    3 Credit Hours
    Religious, ethnic, and political diversity of the Islamic world from Central Asia to North Africa, c. 1050 to 1500. Writing-emphasis course.

    (Same as Judaic Studies 369.)
  
  • HIME 370 - Modern Middle East

    3 Credit Hours
    History of the Middle East from the 16th century to the present. Writing-emphasis course.

    (Same as Judaic Studies 370.)
  
  • HIME 382 - Archaeology of the Biblical World

    3 Credit Hours
    Archaeology and material culture of ancient Israel and the biblical world, from the Epi-Paleolithic Period (10,000 – 8,500 BCE) to the end of the Iron Age in the 6th century BCE. Writing-emphasis course.

    (Same as Judaic Studies 382.)
  
  • HIME 383 - Early Jewish History

    3 Credit Hours
    Biblical-Talmudic periods (1200 BCE – 600 CE). Origins of the Israelites, development of independent Israelite and Jewish states in the ancient Near East, rise of Jewish Diaspora communities, cultural convergences with Hellenism and early Christianity, and the development of Rabbinic Judaism. Writing-emphasis course.

    (Same as Judaic Studies 383.)
  
  • HIME 384 - Studies in Middle East History

    3 Credit Hours
    Aspects of Middle East history. Content varies Writing-emphasis course.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
  
  • HIME 385 - Studies in Jewish History

    3 Credit Hours
    Aspects of Jewish history. Content varies. Writing-emphasis course.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
  
  • HIME 400 - History and Archaeology of Mesopotamia

    3 Credit Hours
    Mesopotamia (Assyria and Babylonia) from the 5th millennium to the Iron Age. Topics include development of village and state-level societies; emergence of social and political institutions; literacy, imperialism, and intersocietal interaction. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • HIME 484 - Studies in Middle East History

    3 Credit Hours
    Aspects of Middle Eastern history. Content varies. Writing-emphasis course.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
  
  • HIME 485 - Studies in Jewish History

    3 Credit Hours
    Aspects of Jewish civilization and culture. Content varies. Writing-emphasis course.

    (Same as Judaic Studies 484.)
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
  
  • HIME 486 - Studies in the Ancient Near East

    3 Credit Hours
    History and archaeology of Egypt, Anatolia (Turkey), Cyprus, and Persia (Iran). Rise of social complexity and social boundaries in antiquity. Content varies. Writing-emphasis course.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.

(HIST) History (462)

  
  • HIST 261 - A History of World Civilization

    3 Credit Hours
    Historical survey of world civilization – origins to 1500. Writing-emphasis course.

    Satisfies General Education Requirement: (CC)
  
  • HIST 262 - A History of World Civilization

    3 Credit Hours
    Historical survey of world civilization – 1500 to present. Writing-emphasis course.

    Satisfies General Education Requirement: (CC)
  
  • HIST 267 - Honors: A History of World Civilization

    3 Credit Hours
    Students will attend the appropriate 261 lectures and the designated honors discussion section. Writing-emphasis course.

    Satisfies General Education Requirement: (CC)
  
  • HIST 268 - Honors: A History of World Civilization

    3 Credit Hours
    Students will attend the appropriate 262 lectures and the designated honors discussion section. Writing-emphasis course.

    Satisfies General Education Requirement: (CC)
  
  • HIST 299 - Thinking Historically

    3 Credit Hours
    Fundamentals of the historian’s craft. Variable content. Required for all majors except history honors students.

    Registration Restriction(s): History majors only.
  
  • HIST 307 - Honors: Introduction/Historical Problems

    3 Credit Hours
    Historical analysis and philosophy of history. Principles and techniques of research emphasizing the roles of climates of opinion and frames of reference and the problems of evidence, interpretation, and objectivity. Required of students working for honors in history.

    Registration Permission: Consent of honors director.
  
  • HIST 373 - Historical Issues

    3 Credit Hours
    Variable content. Selected topics in history. Thematic focus, lecture-discussion format. Writing-emphasis course.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
  
  • HIST 385 - Studies in World History

    3 Credit Hours
    Variable content. Selected topics in world history involving analysis of two or more world cultures.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
  
  • HIST 407 - Honors: Senior Paper

    3 Credit Hours
    Bibliographic search, research, and conceptual clarification for the senior paper.

  
  • HIST 408 - Honors: Senior Paper

    3 Credit Hours
    Organization and writing of the senior honors thesis. Required of students working for honors in history.

    Satisfies General Education Requirement: (WC)
    Credit Restriction: Grade of A or B required for honors credit.
  
  • HIST 418 - Honors: Seminar in Non-U.S. History

    3 Credit Hours
    Variable content. Selected topics in non-U.S. history for honors students. Writing-emphasis course.

    Repeatability: May be repeated up to 9 hours.
  
  • HIST 483 - Historical Issues

    3 Credit Hours
    Content varies. Selected topics in history. Writing-emphasis course.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
  
  • HIST 485 - Studies in Cross Cultural History

    3 Credit Hours
    Comparative analysis of specific historical issues or specific facets of the relationships between two or more cultures. Variable content.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
  
  • HIST 490 - Internship in the Center for the Study of War and Society

    3 Credit Hours
    A structured field work experience in public history at a research center documenting modern U.S. military history, including special projects such as grant writing, interviewing, and archival processing. Writing-emphasis course.

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
    Registration Permission: Consent of Director of the Center for the Study of War and Society.
  
  • HIST 491 - Foreign Study

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
  
  • HIST 492 - Off-Campus Study

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
  
  • HIST 493 - Independent Study

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
  
  • HIST 499 - Senior Research Seminar

    3 Credit Hours
    Historical writing based on original research in primary sources. Variable content. Required for all majors except history honors students. Writing-emphasis course.

    Satisfies General Education Requirement: (WC)
    (RE) Prerequisite(s): 299.
    Registration Restriction(s): History majors only.

(HIUS) History – United States

  
  • HIUS 221 - History of the United States

    3 Credit Hours
    Settlement to 1877. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • HIUS 222 - History of the United States

    3 Credit Hours
    1877 to present. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • HIUS 227 - Honors: History of the United States

    3 Credit Hours
    Honors survey, settlement to 1877.

    Registration Permission: Consent of department.
  
  • HIUS 228 - Honors: History of the United States

    3 Credit Hours
    Honors survey, 1877 to present.

    Registration Permission: Consent of department.
  
  • HIUS 300 - The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the United States

    3 Credit Hours
    History of the rise and fall of racial slavery in the United States. Writing-emphasis course.

    (Same as Africana Studies 300; American Studies 300.)
  
  • HIUS 325 - Women in American History

    3 Credit Hours
    Experiences and perspectives of women in the US from the pre-Columbian era through the end of the 20th century. Writing-emphasis course.

    (Same as Women’s Studies 325.)
  
  • HIUS 326 - Gay American History

    3 Credit Hours
    History of same-sex desires, behaviors, relations, and politics from colonial America to the present. Writing-emphasis course.

    (Same as American Studies 326.)
  
  • HIUS 329 - Native American History

    3 Credit Hours
    Histories of Native Americans East and West of the Mississippi. Writing-emphasis course.

    (Same as American Studies 329.)
  
  • HIUS 346 - African American Religious History

    3 Credit Hours
    Focus on diverse religious histories of African Americans from the earliest years of the trans-Atlantic slave trade; transmission of African cultures to the New World to the present. Writing-emphasis course.

    (Same as Africana Studies 346.)
  
  • HIUS 349 - United States Military History

    3 Credit Hours
    Shifting strategy, tactics, and weaponry involved in US wars. Relationship between American society and its armed forces. Writing-emphasis course.

    (Same as Military Science and Leadership 349.)
  
  • HIUS 350 - Colonial America to 1763

    3 Credit Hours
    Social and cultural developments in the American colonies from first contact between Europeans and native peoples through the mid-18th century. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • HIUS 351 - The American Revolution

    3 Credit Hours
    Growing estrangement of the American colonies from the British Empire; War for Independence; creation of American republic. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • HIUS 352 - The Early American Republic

    3 Credit Hours
    Examines economic, political, and social developments in early 19th-century America. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • HIUS 353 - The Civil War and Reconstruction Eras

    3 Credit Hours
    Examines major political, economic, and social developments in the United States during Civil War and Reconstruction eras. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • HIUS 354 - United States, 1877-1933

    3 Credit Hours
    America’s political, economic, and social development from the Gilded Age through the Great Depression. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • HIUS 355 - United States 1933-Present

    3 Credit Hours
    American experience from New Deal to present. Emphasizes domestic history but includes military and foreign policy. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • HIUS 356 - The 1960s in America

    3 Credit Hours
    Politics, empowerment movements, and cultural rebellions of the 1960s Writing-emphasis course.

    (Same as American Studies 356.)
  
  • HIUS 359 - American Religious History

    3 Credit Hours
    (See Religious Studies 359.)
  
  • HIUS 362 - History of American Education

    3 Credit Hours
    Examines origins of education and rise of public schools in what is now the United States, from era before European colonization to present. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • HIUS 363 - U.S. Constitutional History to 1877

    3 Credit Hours
    Constitutional development of the United States through the end of Reconstruction. Writing-emphasis course.

  
  • HIUS 364 - U.S. Constitutional History 1877-Present

    3 Credit Hours
    Constitutional development of the United States from the end of Reconstruction to the present. Writing-emphasis course.

 

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