Courses

Surveys African American history. Studies, interprets, and analyzes major problems, issues, and trends affecting African Americans from about 1600 to the present. Same as ETHN 2432. History majors are restricted from taking this course. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity or United States context. Prerequisites: History majors are restricted from taking this course.

May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prereq., WRTG 3020 or an acceptable alternative upper-division writing course (min grade C-) and a History GPA of 2.0 or higher. Restricted to HIST majors. Prerequisites: Restricted to History Majors only.

May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prereq., WRTG 3020 or an acceptable alternative upper-division writing course (min grade C-) and a History GPA of 2.0 or higher. Restricted to HIST majors. Prerequisites: Restricted to History Majors only.

Explores cultural, social, and political interaction in the American West during the 19th century. Themes include environmental change; conflict and syncretism across race, class, and gender lines; and mythic images, and their relationship to the "Real" West. Prereq., HIST 1015 or 1025 or 1035 or 1045.

Explores cultural, social, and political interaction in the American West during the 20th century. Themes include popular culture, state-federal relationships, environmental change, urbanization, immigration, and cultural formation. Prereq., HIST 1015 or 1025 or 1035 or 1045. Restricted to sophomores/juniors/seniors.

Examines how people of North America, from precolonial times to the present, organized their lives within the ecological systems of the area, how they conceived of their natural world, and how they reshaped their environment according to their human needs. Prereqs., HIST 1015 or 1025 or 1035 or 1045. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomore, Junior or Senior) only.

Examines Mexican-origins people in the United States from the 19th century through the present. Focuses on Mexican-American history as both an integral part of American history and as a unique subject of historical investigation. Using primary and secondary sources, students will examine how Mexicans and Mexican-Americans have negotiated, influenced, and responded to political, social, cultural, and economic circumstances in the U.S. Prereq., HIST 1025. Recommended prereq., HIST 1015. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomore, Junior or Senior) only.

Explores the establishment and development of human societies in North America prior to 1492; the varied experiences of contact; the crises, opportunities, and transformations that attended colonialism; Indians and the inter-imperial contests of the eighteenth century; and the struggles of native peoples confronting the newly-independent United States. Prereq., HIST 1015 or 1035. Restricted to sophomores/juniors/seniors.

Explores the longevity and continuity of human history in North America by discussing pre-European social and cultural developments. By examining ways in which Indian societies west of the Mississippi River responded to Euro-Americans, the Indians' role inwestern North American history is demonstrated. Restricted to sophomores/juniors/seniors.

Explores the experience of Jews in the United States from the 1880's when the great migration of Jews from Eastern Europe began, through the twentieth century. Students will explore the changing ways in which Jews adapted to life in the U.S., constructed American Jewish identities, and helped to participate in the construction of the United States as a nation. Recommended prereqs., HIST 1025 or HIST/JWST 1108 or HEBR/JWST 2350. JWST 4827 and HIST 4827 are the same course.

Prereq., graduate standing.

Offers historical perspective on the complex and interdependent relationship between human social and cultural institutions and the natural world. Considers interdisciplinary methodologies incorporating history, biology, geography, law, and other disciplines. Same as EPOB 6410.

Introduces classic and recent scholarship, and critical issues in African American history, from slavery to the present. Prereq., graduate standing.

Prereq., graduate standing. Prerequisites: Restricted to History graduate students only.