Traces the historical development of modern U.S. politics and foreign relations. Analyzes subjects such as the Cold War, the Vietnam War, the War on Terror, and the relationship between foreign and domestic politics, and the developing meaning of political conservatism, liberalism, and radicalism in the U.S. Explains the impact of race, gender, class, and immigration. Topics vary in any given semester. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: United States context or contemporary societies. Requisites: History (HIST) majors are restricted from taking this course.
Traces the causes, course, and outcome of the wars in Vietnam from 1940 until 1975. Explains the successes of the revolutionaries and the failures of the French and Americans. Analyzes the development of Vietnamese nationalism, French colonialism, and U.S. intervention. Similar to HIST 4166. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: contemporary societies or United States context. Requisites: History (HIST) majors are restricted from taking this course.
Examines the origins, development, and impacts (social, political, cultural, economic, etc.) of significant issues and themes in the cultural,intellectual, and/or social history of the United States from independence to the present day. Explains the impact of race, gender, ethnicity, and class on these issues. Topics vary in any given semester.
Baseball could not have existed without America. Course explains how the game fit into the larger context of social, cultural, economic, and political history from the nineteenth century to the present. Studies the events and people who made baseball the national pastime. Similar to HIST 4556. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: United States context. Requisites: History (HIST) majors are restricted from taking this course.
Examines the history of women in United States culture and society over time. Particular emphasis on the roles of women in family, economy, society, and politics. Specific course focus may vary. Approved for GT-HI1. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity. Requisites: History (HIST) majors are restricted from taking this course.
Recommended restriction: History GPA of 2.0 or higher. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course HIST 3020 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to students with 87-180 credits (Senior, Fifth Year Senior) History (HIST) majors (excludes minors).
Recommended restriction: History GPA of 2.0 or higher. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course HIST 3020 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to students with 87-180 credits (Senior, Fifth Year Senior) History (HIST) majors (excludes minors).
Addresses the issues of reform, religion, and culture that emerged as a 19th century world view confronted a 20th century America. Recommended restriction: History GPA of 2.0 or higher. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course HIST 3020 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to students with 87-180 credits (Senior, Fifth Year Senior) History (HIST) majors (excludes minors).
Recommended restriction: History GPA of 2.0 or higher. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course HIST 3020 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to students with 87-180 credits (Senior, Fifth Year Senior) History (HIST) majors (excludes minors).
Traces the rise of the United States to world power. Explores the interactions of expansionist and isolationist impulses with politics, ideology, culture, and economics, with a focus on the Spanish American War and the acquisition of empire, World War I and the coming of World War II. Same as HIST 5116. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Traces the development of the United States as a superpower. Details American power and diplomacy in World War II and the rise of the national security state in the Cold War. Explores the Korean, Vietnam and Persian Gulf Wars, and the era of modern-day globalization. Same as HIST 5126. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Examines America's national defense and war efforts from the Spanish American War to the present, emphasizing causes and consequences of modern conflicts, and the impact of military activities on American society. Recommended prereq., HIST 1025. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Examines America's second-longest and most divisive war from the beginning of the U.S. involvement in the 1950s to the repercussions echoing into the 1980s. Considers the global context, motives, and evolution of U.S. involvement, support for and opposition to the war at home, the war's repercussions in international policy and domestic politics, and representations of the war in popular culture. Credit not granted for this course and HIST 2166. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Examines health care and disease patterns in the United States, from the devastating impact of European diseases on Native populations during the colonial period through the AIDS crisis of the 20th century. Topics include humoral medicine, biomedicine, alternative therapies, financing health care, epidemics and the emergence of epidemiology, germ theory and other changing ideas about and response to health and disease. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Examines developing intellectual traditions in their social and political contexts. Addresses democracy, religion, transcendentalism, women, race, union or disunion, the Darwinian revolution, and literary realism and naturalism. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Addresses the impacts of political, social, and economic developments on ideas about democracy, science, race, gender, faith, the supposed mission of America, and the role of intellectuals in society. Same as ETHN 4344. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Examines how U.S. public moralists, intellectuals, and artists from the end of the nineteenth century to World War II both celebrated and attacked the rise of two characteristic features of modernity: mass culture (amusement parks, popular music, radio, movies), and modernist literary and artistic expression. Addresses how Americans both constructed and violated the line between "popular" and "high" culture. Recommended prereq., HIST 1025. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Explores the history of Africans in America from the first arrivals to emancipation, and their role in the social, cultural, economic, and political evolution of the United States. Recommended prereq., HIST 1015. Formerly HIST 4016. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Concerned with the American family and community in the changing social environments of the 19th century. Examines families of different ethnic and class backgrounds, observing how they are changed by new economic conditions, reform, or new political institutions. Recommended prereq., HIST 1015 or HIST 1025. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Primarily concerned with family roles and community values, and how they are altered by economic, demographic, and intellectual changes during the 20th century. Some of the more important themes are acculturation, the idea of success, reform, and the changing structure of opportunity. Recommended prereq., HIST 1025. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Traces the history of cultural expression in the United States since the late nineteenth century. From art, fiction, and music to the movies, amusement parks, shopping, and sports, popular culture offers clues to decipher shifting patterns of consumption, globalization, race, gender, politics, technology, and media. Includes instruction and practice interpreting cultural materials in historical context. Recommended prereq., HIST 1025 or ATLS 2000. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Baseball serves as a window to view the American experience. Covers U.S. history since 1830, addressing the major topics that reflect on American society, such as professionalization, labor management conflict, race, gender, culture, politics, economics, and diplomacy. Recommended prereq., HIST 1015. Credit not granted for this course and HIST 2516. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of HIST 1025 (minImum grade D-). Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Examines female experience in the United States from 17th century European colonization to 19th century settlement of the frontier. Emphasizes comparison between classes, regions, and racial/ethnic groups. Women's writings provide the basis for discussions of private and public roles, definitions of femininity, interpersonal relationships, and struggles for survival and self-expression. HIST 4616 and 5616 are the same course. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Examines what it means to be female in 20th century United States, emphasizing comparison between classes and racial/ethnic groups. Women's writings serve as the basis for discussions of private and public roles, definitions of womanhood, interpersonal relationships, and struggles for autonomy and equality. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
