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. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity or United States context. Prerequisites: History (HIST) majors are restricted from taking this course.
    May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prereq., HIST 3020 (min grade C-) and a History GPA of 2.0 or higher. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 87-180 credits (Senior, Fifth Year Senior) History (HIST) majors (excludes minors).
    May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prereq., HIST 3020 (min grade C-) and a History GPA of 2.0 or higher. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 87-180 credits (Senior, Fifth Year Senior) History (HIST) majors (excludes minors).
    Presents the story of the people, society, culture, and environment of Colorado from the earliest Native Americans, through the Spanish influx, the fur traders and mountain men, the gold rush, railroad builders, the cattlemen and farmers, the silver boom, the twentieth-century tourists, city-dwellers, workers and activists. Highlights the historical origins of twenty-first century institutions, problems, challenges, and opportunities. Recommended prereqs., HIST 1015 or 1025. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) 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, 1025, or 3020. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
    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 1025 or 3020. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
    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. Prereq., HIST 1015, 1025, or 3020 or ENVS 1000. Formerly HIST 4417. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) 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 or 3020. Recommended prereq. HIST 1015. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) 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 3020. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
    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. Prereq., HIST 1015, 1025, or 3020. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.

    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 prereq., HIST 1025, HIST/JWST 1818 or 1828, or HEBR/JWST 2350. JWST 4827 and HIST 4827 are the same course.

    Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

    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. Formerly HIST 6417.

    Introduces classic and recent scholarship, and critical issues in African American history, from slavery to the present. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Prerequisites: Restricted to History (HIST) graduate students only.