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.
Introduces the social and cultural construction of femininity and masculinity in America from 1500 to the present. Explores gender as a status acquired and performed through tasks, clothing, adornment and bodily movement. Examines gender ideals, expression and practices such as gender crossing, gender bending and gender plan. 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 the emergence of intellectual traditions and cultural trends in their social and political contexts from the early republic to the beginning of the modern era. Addresses developing arguments about democracy, religion, transcendentalism, gender, race, union/disunion, the Darwinian revolution, utopia/dystopia realism and naturalism in literature and the arts. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Examines the emergence of intellectual traditions and cultural trends in their social and political contexts from the beginning of the modern era through the onset of the postmodern. Addresses developing arguments about democracy, science, race, gender, faith, American identity, radicalism and conservatism, modernist thinking and artistic expression, and the role of intellectuals in society. 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.
Examines how people of North America, from precolonial times to the present, interact with, altered, and thought about the natural world. Key themes include Native American land uses; colonization and ecological imperialism; environmental impacts of food and agriculture; industrialization, urbanization and pollution; energy transitions; cultures of environmental appreciation; the growth of the conversation and environmental movements. 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.
In the 21st century we see a widely divided U.S. society, with a privileged "one percent" on one end, and a striking pattern of poverty on the other. How did the U.S. get this way? This course shows students how to explore social change through the people of the 20th century, their experiences, and the words they left behind. 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 the social history and cultural construction of genders and sexualities in America to 1870, exploring how discourses of race, religion, nationalism, medicine and criminality have shaped erotic encounters, informed gender and sexual identities a served as sites of political conflict. Same as HIST 5616 and WMST 4616. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Examines the social history and cultural construction of genders and sexualities in America from 1870, exploring how discourses of race, religion, nationalism, medicine and criminality have shaped erotic encounters, informed gender and sexual identities and served as sites of political conflict. Same as WMST 4626. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
