Courses
Below is a list of undergraduate courses offered through the History Department. While some courses are offered more or less frequently, please keep the following in mind when planning your course of study.
- 3000-level courses are typically offered every other semester.
- 4000-level courses are usually offered every 2-3 years.
- Hist 3000 (Introduction to Historical Studies) and Hist 4990 (Historical Research) are offered every semester.
- Hist 4990 requires authorization to register. Please contact Dr. Larry Youngs for authorizations.
HIST 1111 SURVEY OF WORLD HIST TO 1500 3.0
Survey of World History to 1500. A survey of world history to early modern times.
HIST 1112 SUR OF WORLD HIST SINCE 1500 3.0
Survey of World History since 1500. A survey of world history from early modern times to the present.
HIST 1140 INTRO AFR & AFRAMER HISTORY 3.0
Introduction to African and African-American History. (Same as AAS 1140.) African history and culture, the coming of Africans to the Americas, and the development of African-American culture.
HIST 2110 SURVEY OF U.S. HISTORY 3.0
Survey of United States History. A thematic survey of U.S. history to the present.
HIST 3000 INTRO TO HISTORICAL STUDIES 4.0
Introduction to Historical Studies. (History majors should take History 3000 as the first course among their upper-division selections.) The nature of historical knowledge and analysis, historical resources in Atlanta-area research libraries and archives, and exercises in historical writing and thinking.
HIST 3200 NORTH AMERICA BEFORE 1800 4.0
North America before 1800. Development of Native American cultures before European contact; cultural interactions among Native Americans, Africans, and Europeans during conquest and colonization; emergence of United States of America as dominant economic and political force in North America.
HIST 3210 U.S. IN THE 19TH CENTURY 4.0
United States in the Nineteenth Century. Major developments in United States history from 1800 to 1900, including the growth of political parties and the changing role of the presidency; sectionalism and the Civil War and Reconstruction; immigration, economic expansion, and the American response to industrialization; changes in American social classes and American life.
HIST 3220 U.S. IN THE 20TH CENTURY 4.0
United States in the Twentieth Century. Major developments in the United States from 1900 to the present.
HIST 3230 AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY 4.0
American Environmental History. History of interactions with the natural world from the 17th through the 20th century, focusing on the US and its global influence. Explores the history of nature’s effects on culture and economy, the history of people’s activities on their environments, conceptions of nature, and environmental politics. Topics include urban growth, pollution, colonialism, natural resource issues, the history of parks and wild lands, and global environmental problems.
HIST 3500 THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN 4.0
The Ancient Mediterranean. (Same as MES 3110.) Political, cultural, religious, economic, and social developments of the Ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome and their influence on Western Civilization.
HIST 3510 MEDIEVAL EUROPE TO 1500 4.0
Medieval Europe to 1500. Economic, social, cultural, institutional, intellectual, and artistic developments in Europe from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries.
HIST 3520 EARLY MODERN EUROPE, 1500-1789 4.0
Early Modern Europe, 1500-1789. Transition from medieval to modern Europe; special attention to the Northern Renaissance, the Protestant and Catholic Reformations; the emergence of a competitive state system; the evolution of nation states; gender roles and the preindustrial economy; and the conceptual revolution in science and philosophy.
HIST 3530 EUROPE SINCE 1789 4.0
Europe since 1789. Society and politics since the age of enlightenment; special attention to revolution, reaction and reform; class, gender and industrial capitalism; imperialism and nationalism; democracy, fascism, and communism; economic integration: citizenship, immigration, and new social movements.
HIST 3620 ATLANTIC WORLD 4.0
The Atlantic World: Encounters, Empires, Diasporas, Revolutions. The Atlantic World as a space of cross-cultural contact, empire and nation building, diasporas, and revolutions since the fifteenth century; transatlantic encounters in Africa, Europe, and the Americas; conquest, colonialism, and creolization; slavery, emancipation, and capitalism; indigenous survival, subaltern resistance, and popular religion; Atlantic world legacies in cultural and political identities.
HIST 3700 CHINA AND JAPAN TO 1600 4.0
China and Japan to 1600. Origins and development of two ancient civilizations, with emphasis upon traditional thought, cultures, institutions, and change.
HIST 3710 CHINA AND JAPAN SINCE 1600 4.0
China and Japan since 1600. East Asia in modern transformation from 1600 to the present, emphasizing pre-nineteenth century prosperity, nineteenth century crises, and twentieth century change.
HIST 3720 COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA 4.0
Colonial Latin America. Spain’s and Portugal’s conquests and settlements in the Western hemisphere; the organization and collapse of their colonial systems.
HIST 3730 LATIN AMERICA SINCE 1810 4.0
Latin America since 1810. Political, economic, and social developments of the major countries, such as Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and Chile.
HIST 3780 THE MIDDLE EAST, 600 TO 1800 4.0
Middle East 600-1800. (Same as MES 4110.) Political, cultural, social, and economic developments in the lands from Spain to Central Asia since the rise of Islam.
HIST 3790 THE MIDDLE EAST SINCE 1800 4.0
The Middle East since 1800. (Same as MES 4120.) Political, cultural, social, and economic developments from Morocco to Iran, including imperialism, nationalism, independence, and religious revival.
HIST 3800 SOUTH ASIA TO 1757 4.0
South Asia to 1757. Political, cultural, social, and economic developments in the Indian subcontinent from prehistoric times to the era of British hegemony.
HIST 3810 SOUTH ASIA SINCE 1757 4.0
South Asia since 1757. Political, cultural, social, and economic developments; special attention to British imperialism, nationalism, Hindu-Muslim relations, independence and partition, and post-independence.
HIST 4200 U.S. CULTURAL HISTORY 4.0
United States Cultural History. Ways of life and patterns of thought among diverse groups as evidenced in imaginative literature, published discourse, and the performing and visual arts.
HIST 4215 AMERICAN BUILDINGS 4.0
American Buildings. Explores the history, design, and meaning of ordinary buildings in the U.S. from houses and resorts to skyscrapers and factories. Topics include theories of high culture and low, definitions of house and home, the cultural significance of real estate, and how to assign value to mass-produced landscapes. Students will learn to use buildings as evidence of larger social, economic, and political trends in the 19th and 20th century, and to interpret buildings through methodologies and theories from urban and architectural history, cultural geography, anthropology, and sociology.
HIST 4220 THE AMERICAN CITY 4.0
The American City. Origins and growth of American cities from the colonial period to the present; economic, political, and cultural developments; the process of urbanization; and the influence of urbanism on the American experience.
HIST 4225 IMMIGRATION IN US HISTORY 4.0
Immigration and Ethnicity in U. S. History. The history of immigration and the creation of “ethnic” identity in the
United States from European contact to the present. The course will explore the relationship between the changing economic, social, legal, cultural, and political conditions of immigration in different historical periods and will examine the ways in which immigrant and nativeborn Americans have continuously renegotiated and evolved notions of ethnicity, race, and American citizenship.
HIST 4228 ASIAN AMERICAN HISTORY 4.0
Asian American History. Explores the Asian immigrant experience in the U.S. from the nineteenth century through the present.
HIST 4230 FOREIGN RELATIONS OF US 4.0
Foreign Relations of the United States. Legacy of the colonial era, problems of a new nation, expansion and evolution of America as a great power, New Deal diplomacy, the United States in World War II, the “Cold War,” and the “American Empire.”
HIST 4235 HISTORIES OF THE PACIFIC 4.0
Histories of the Pacific. Histories of the Pacific peoples and cultures from their early navigations and settlements to the colonial and postcolonial eras of the 19th and 20th centuries. We will develop an understanding of major themes in the historical analysis of Pacific History: migration and navigation of island peoples, cross-cultural contacts, social organizations, ethnic diasporas, ecological and biological crises, integration into Western colonial and global capitalist economies, nation-building, struggles for sovereignty and identity, legacies of colonialism and tourism.
HIST 4240 AMERICAN LABOR & WORKING CLASS 4.0
American Labor and Working Class. Includes an examination of working class culture, labor and politics, trade union leadership, government and philosophy, and contemporary labor problems.
HIST 4245 UNITED STATES IN THE 1960s 4.0
The United States in the 1960s. A social and cultural history of the U.S. in the 1960s, with special attention to the civil rights, peace, and women’s movements; the counterculture; race, gender, and electoral politics; the New Left and radical politics; the lasting influence of the 1960s on late 20thcentury U.S. politics and culture.
HIST 4250 WOMEN IN AMERICA 4.0
Women in America. (Same as WSt 4440.) Issues involving American women from the seventeenth century to the present. Topics include women’s changing economic role, the family, religion, race and ethnicity, and the struggle for legal and political equality.
HIST 4255 U.S. CIVIL WAR & RECONSTRUCTION 4.0
U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction. Survey of the American Civil War era, including causes of the war, the war itself, Reconstruction, and the war’s commemoration from the 1860s to the present.
HIST 4260 AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN 4.0
African-American Women. (Same as AAS 4660 and WSt 4450.) Examination of the varied history of African-American women. Centered in the tradition of race and gender protest; how women have generationally developed agendas and forums around social justice reform; exploration of themes, individuals, and collective action, revealing the impact of race, class, and gender on the lives of African-American women.
HIST 4270 AFRICAN-AMERICAN PEOPLE 4.0
African-American People. (Same as AAS 4640.) Major topics and themes in African-American history, including slavery, development of American racism, urbanization, civil rights, and black contributions to American culture.
HIST 4280 ENSLAVEMENT/RESIST: NORTH AMER 3.0
Enslavement and Resistance in North America. (Same as AAS 4600.) Examines the character of chattel slavery and racial oppression in Colonial America and in the United States and insurgent responses to it by the captive and “free” population of African descent in North America.
HIST 4290 ENSLAVEMENT IN THE AMERICAS 3.0
Enslavement in the Americas. (Same as AAS 4620.) Comparative examination of systems of captivity and forced labor in the western hemisphere and the social development and popular responses of captive Africans to these systems. Emphasis on the continuities of African culture and the unique adaptation of culture and social organization in each country. The nature of resistance and the process of eliminating the system of captivity.
HIST 4300 THE AMERICAN SOUTH 4.0
The American South. History of the South from the early nineteenth century to the present, emphasizing the changes in the region and important issues such as the growth of southern sectionalism in the 1820s and the impact of urbanization and civil rights in the twentieth century.
HIST 4310 GEORGIA 4.0
Georgia. History of Georgia from pre-colonial times to the present, including Native American cultures and strategies; colonization; Georgia Course in the new republic; slavery and antebellum development; Civil War and Reconstruction; the New South era; the civil rights movement; the emergence of modern Georgia. Of particular significance to teachers and prospective teachers in elementary and secondary education.
HIST 4320 METROPOLITAN ATLANTA 3.0
Metropolitan Atlanta. (Same as Geog 4768 and Soci 4279.) Interdisciplinary perspective focusing on social, historical, and geographic processes which have shaped the Atlanta region.
HIST 4325 PUBLIC HISTORY & HIST PRESERV 3.0 to 4.0
Introduction to Public History and Historic Preservation. This course is designed to provide the student with an understanding of the theory and practice of Public History and Historic Preservation. The course will cover a variety of topics including museum studies, material culture, the application of National Register criteria, historic interpretation, oral history, local history and preservation at the local, state and federal levels. The class will include field trips to areas sites, local museums and historic neighborhoods.
HIST 4330 ORAL HISTORY 4.0
Oral History. Comprehensive introduction to oral history, its evolution, methodological and theoretical concerns, interviewing techniques, and applications.
HIST 4340 ADMN/USE OF HISTOR ARCHIVES 3.0
Administration and Use of Historical Archives. Creation, preservation, and use of historical records which includes the study of archival principles and techniques; practical experience in the university and local, federal, and state archival depositories.
HIST 4345 CASE STUDY INTERNATION PRESERV 4.0
Case Study in International Preservation. Study of preservation and conservation programs in foreign countries through lectures, readings and site visits. Comparison of preservation as it is practiced in foreign programs with the approach taken in the United States. Field trips abroad required.
HIST 4350 FILM AND HISTORY 3.0
Film and History. (Same as Film 4350.) Explores multiple interactions between cinema and the past, how film produces history, and how history can be examined through film.
HIST 4400 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN WEST 4.0
The History of the American West. History of the American west from the 17th through the 20th century, from the establishment of the French and Algonquin fur trade empire in the Great Lakes region through the US conquest and settlement of the trans-Mississippi west. Particular attention will be paid to the meeting of different peoples on the frontier borderlands, and the economic, social, and environmental consequences of their interaction.
HIST 4460 BILLS OF RIGHTS 4.0
Bills of Rights. The Bill of Rights is central to the American constitutional experience. This course examines the historical origins of rights claims in Anglo-American law and the intellectual problem of how best to balance authority and liberty that accompanied revolutionary thinking. It also appraises the development of rights consciousness and the Bill of Rights throughout American history, from the antislavery movement to the Civil Rights struggle to the War on Terror.
HIST 4470 LEGAL & CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY 4.0
United States Legal and Constitutional History. History of United States law from its English origins through modern times. Examines the colonial reception of English law, the genesis of a written constitution, the impact of slavery on the American legal system, and the development of both public and private law during periods of rapid economic, social, and cultural change.
HIST 4480 SPEC TOPIC HISTORY/NORTHUMBRIA 3.0 to 4.0
Special Topics in History, Northumbria. Advanced studies in history at University of Northumbria in Newcastle; topics vary according to instructor. May be repeated if topic differs. Restricted to students in the GSU-Northumbria Exchange Program in British and American Cultural Studies.
HIST 4490 TOPICS IN AMERICAN HISTORY 3.0 to 4.0
Topics in American History. Advanced studies in American history; topics vary according to instructor. May be repeated if topic differs.
HIST 4510 ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN SOCIETIES 4.0
Origins and Collapse Ancient Near Eastern Societies. (Same as MES 4140.) History of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Iran, the Levant, Anatolia and Central Asia from 3500 BCE to 323 BCE. Areas of exploration will include the origins of the state; the development of Egyptian and Mesopotamian kingship; the collapses of the Early and late Bronze Age; human environment interactions; nomads and settled societies; Mesopotamian literature; women’s legal status; the Hittite Empire; daily life in an Egyptian village; the invention of the alphabet; Assyrian imperial terrorism; the rise of monotheism; the Persian empire.
HIST 4520 ANCIENT PERSIA, GREECE, & ROME 4.0
Ancient Persia, Greece, and Rome. (Same as MES 4150.) History of Persia, Greece, and Rome from 1800 BCE to 500 CE. Areas of exploration will include Bronze Age Greece in Near Eastern context; the 12th century BCE “Catastrophe”; Archaic Greek religion; the polis; Greek drinking parties and politics; the Persian conquest; the rise of Zoroastrianism; Hellenic syncretism; Parthia and Rome as the heirs of Hellenism; the metropolitan Roman empire; disease and demography in Late Antiquity; and the rise of Christianity.
HIST 4525 WORLDS OF EASTERN CHRISTIANITY 4.0
Worlds of Eastern Christianity (to 1300). (Same as MES 4130.) Transformation of the Jesus Movement from a Jewish sect into a separate Christian religion within the Near East, Africa, and entire Mediterranean world; contested views of spiritual authority; development of a network of bishops; idea of orthodoxy and heresy; gradual division of Eastern Christianity and Catholicism; the central role of the multi cultural Byzantine Commonwealth; implications of royal conversions and “church-state” relations; unity and disunity within Eastern Christianity; encounters with Islam; and proliferation of “national churches,” including those of the Greeks, Syrians, Armenians, Georgians, Copts, Ethiopians, and Slavic peoples.
HIST 4530 REL & SOC IN EARLY MOD EUROPE 4.0
Religion and Society in Early Modern Europe. Political, intellectual, cultural, scientific, religious, economic, and military developments in Europe from ca. 1300 to ca. 1650. The development of humanistic studies, of print culture, of religious revolt, of the “nation-state,” and the importance of the “global discovery” revolution.
HIST 4532 CRIME & LAW, EARLY MOD EUROPE 4.0
Crime, Law and Society in Early Modern Europe. Social and cultural history of crime in early modern Europe. Topics include witchcraft and heresy, the criminalization of sexuality and sexual taboos, poverty and vagrancy, the construction and subversion of social and gender norms, political rebellion, court procedures, torture and methods of punishment.
HIST 4535 SPAIN AND THE ATLANTIC WORLD 4.0
Spain and the Atlantic World, 1450 to 1700. Culture and society of Spain and Spanish America, late Middle Ages to end of Habsburg dynasty. Social, political, economic, and cultural contacts and exchanges between the peninsula and the American colonies. Topics include conquest and colonization, heresy and the inquisition, slavery, women, and the royal court.
HIST 4540 BRIT, IRE & BRIT ATL 1485-1689 4.0
Britain, Ireland, and the British Atlantic, 1485-1689. Transition from medieval to modern England; special attention to the medieval constitution; the Tudor system of governance; religious innovation and conflict; society, gender and the preindustrial economy; the political and conceptual revolutions of the seventeenth century.
HIST 4550 BRIT, IRE, & EMPIRE SINCE 1689 4.0
Britain, Ireland, and the British Empire since 1689. The intertwined histories of Britain, Ireland, and the British Empire and Commonwealth since the late seventeenth century; ascendancy of a British imperial state and spread of a global empire; emergence of metropolitan, colonial, and diasporan identities; interplay of gender, class, and race; impact of decolonization and globalization.
HIST 4570 FRANCE SINCE 1715 4.0
France since 1715. The crisis of the old regime; revolution, restoration, and the search for a republican order; class, gender, and bourgeois society; nationalism, imperialism, fascism, and the world wars; decolonization; European economic integration, new social movements, and immigration.
HIST 4575 GERMAN HISTORY TO 1900 4.0
German History to 1900. Considers major themes in German history to 1900. Topics include the Reformation, state formation, Baroque statecraft and the Thirty Years War, the mechanics of the Holy roman Empire, the German enlightenment of Romanticism, the consequences of the Napoleonic wars, the 1848 revolutions, national unification, industrialization, and
German imperialism.
HIST 4580 GERMAN HISTORY SINCE 1900 4.0
German History since 1900. Intellectual, social, economic, cultural, and political history of Germany since 1900. Special attention to nationalism, effects of WWI, the Weimar Republic, Nazism and WWII, the divided Germanies and reunification. Themes include consumerism, the mass media, and relationships between state, society, and the individual.
HIST 4590 RUSSIA TO 1861 4.0
Russia to 1861. Steppe nomads, Vikings, Kievans, Byzantines, and Mongols; the tribute collecting hierarchy; the Muscovite God and the Tsar; peasant society; emergence of Russia as a Eurasian power; “Westernization” and opposition to it; the Great Reforms.
HIST 4600 RUS & SOV UNION SINCE 1861 4.0
Russia and the Soviet Union since 1861. The challenge of the West and governmental and social reform; populism, socialism, and peasant tradition; the 1917 and “Stalin” Revolutions; emergence of the Soviet Union as a world power and the challenge to the West; de-Stalinization, “Stagnation,” and Perestroika; Post-Soviet society.
HIST 4610 MODERN EASTERN EUROPE 4.0
Modern Eastern Europe. East Central Europe and the Balkans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; peasant society and urban reformers; nationalism and wars of national hatred; imperialism within Europe; socialism, capitalism, and other myths.
HIST 4615 DEV OF MODERN WESTERN SCIENCE 4.0
The Development of Modern Western Science. Examination of the histories of different scientific disciplines and thought, integrating transformations in the sciences with broader historical changes. Topics include the histories of scientific perception and scientific revolutions; mechanical explanations of nature and the development of the natural sciences; the science of race and gender; the development of neuroscience; comparisons to nonwestern science; criticisms of scientific discourses.
HIST 4620 EUROPE: CULTURE AND IDEAS 4.0
Europe: Culture and Ideas. Selected themes in European cultural and intellectual history; themes vary according to instructor.
HIST 4630 EUR HIST I: MEDIEVAL TO MARX 4.0
European Intellectual History I: From Medieval to Marx. Considers major themes in European intellectual history from the late medieval to the mid19th century. Special focus on important thinkers, methods of intellectual history, and significant trends and movements.
HIST 4635 EUR HIST II: MARX TO POSTMOD 4.0
European Intellectual History II: From Marx to Postmodernism. Explores the socialcultural history of European thought from the late nineteenth century to the 1980s. Major topics/thinkers may include but are not limited to Marx and Marxism, Nietzsche, the turnofthecentury avantgarde, Freud and Psychoanalysis, Modernism, Existentialism, Fascism, Second Wave Feminism, the counter culture, and postmodernism.
HIST 4640 THE HOLOCAUST 3.0
The Holocaust. (Same as Soci 3228.) Historical and social analysis of the mass deprivation and murder of Jews and other people under the policies and auspices of National Socialist Germany, 1933-1945.
HIST 4650 WOMEN IN EUROPE SINCE 1500 4.0
Women in Europe since 1500. (Same as WSt 4650.) Methods and theories of women’s history; ideologies of gender and sexuality; women’s experiences in religion, work, the family, politics, war, and revolution.
HIST 4690 TOPICS IN EUROPEAN HISTORY 3.0 to 4.0
Topics in European History. Advanced studies in European history; topics vary according to instructor. May be repeated if the topic differs.
HIST 4740 LATIN AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS 4.0
Latin American Revolutions. Sociopolitical and economic revolutions in Latin America with comparisons to other twentieth century revolutions.
HIST 4745 MODERN CUBA 4.0
Modern Cuba: History, Politics and Society. This course introduces students to the major factors that shaped Modern Cuba. Moving chronologically from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century, the readings highlight the historical, political, cultural, and social transformations within the Cuban republic and the challenges of revolutionary society after 1959. Particular emphasis will be placed on political affairs, national identity, race and gender relations, and immigration. Daily reading, active class discussion, and written assignments, along with images and music, are designed to focus student inquiry and analysis of Cuba’s complex history.
HIST 4750 EAST AFRICA & HORN OF AFRICA 4.0
Eastern Africa and the Horn of Africa. (Same as AAS 4765.) Social, political, cultural, and economic history of the region from the origins of the human race to the present, including ancient civilizations; Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; international trade; European colonialism; and independence.
HIST 4760 CENTRAL & SOUTHERN AFRICA 4.0
Central and Southern Africa. (Same as AAS 4760.) Social, political, cultural, and economic history of the region from the earliest times to the present, including indigenous African civilizations, European colonialism, African nationalism, and independence.
HIST 4770 WESTERN AFRICA 4.0
Western Africa. (Same as AAS 4770.) Social, political, cultural, and economic history of Western Africa, dealing with the early civilizations, the coming of Islam, European colonialism, and independence.
HIST 4772 WOMEN IN AFRICA 3.0
Women in Africa. (Same as AAS 4772 and WSt 4772.) An examination of African women’s roles in domestic production, their relationship to the state, and the effect of social change on women from the pre-colonial period to the contemporary era.
HIST 4774 AFRICAN REBELLIONS 3.0
African Rebellions. (Same as AAS 4774.) An examination of African resistance in the colonial and postcolonial contexts.
HIST 4776 AFRICA AND HOLLYWOOD 4.0
Africa and Hollywood: Myth, Romance, and Savage Imagery. This course explores the image of Africa projected into American mass culture through the vehicle of commercial films produced about Africa.
HIST 4805 MIDDLE EAST AND THE AMERICAS 4.0
The Middle East and the Americas. Relationship between the Middle East and the Americas. Explores the use of literature and mass media as well as the impact of the Cold War on present US/Middle East relations. Explores also questions of race, migration to the Americas and political Islam.
HIST 4815 PALESTINE & MODERN MIDDLE EAST 4.0
Palestine and Modern Middle East. Social, economic, cultural and political history of Palestine and its relation to the larger Middle East. Starting from the expansion of European power in the nineteenth century at the expense of the Ottoman Empire, the course charts the developments in Palestine during the modern era. Explores history through the prism of violence, state formation, identity politics, nationalism and migration and its larger impact on the Middle East.
HIST 4820 CROSSCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS 4.0
Cross-cultural Encounters in World History. Contexts, impulses, and implications of encounters among cultures/civilizations in world history; testing of theoretical models of cross-cultural interplay with specific case studies (e.g., the diffusion of Buddhism along the Silk Roads, the Mongol integration of Eurasia, and the ecological dimension of European imperialism); emphasis on exchanges both before and after 1500 AD.
HIST 4840 GLOBAL URBANIZATION 4.0
History of Global Urbanization. Origins of urbanization, regional trends in urban change throughout the world, the construction of a worldwide system of trade after the thirteenth century, the expansion of European cities and colonialism, the rise of the American city, trends in modern urbanization and globalization.
HIST 4850 WRITING THE WORLD 4.0
Writing the World: 20th Century Approaches to Large Scale History. Genesis and evolution of the study of world history with an emphasis on the period from World War I to the present. Examination of various large-scale approaches and methodologies including civilizations, world systems, dependency analysis, migration, and cross-cultural interactions. Emphasis on the inter- and cross-disciplinary nature of the field.
HIST 4855 THE GLOBAL LEFT 4.0
The Global Left: Socialism, Feminism, Anticolonialism. Exploration of the global experience of the Left since the nineteenth century; emergence and interrelations of socialism, feminism, anticolonialism, and other popular movements; the Left in opposition and in power; cultures; identities, and traditions of the Left; legacies and prospects of antisystemic movements.
HIST 4860 EMPIRES 4.0
Empires. Exploration of the historical experience of empires; topics may include pre-modern and early modern empires in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas; economics and politics of modern imperialism; interactions between metropole and colonies; gender, race, culture, and empire: anticolonialism, decolonization, and imperial legacies in a postcolonial world. May be repeated if topics vary.
HIST 4870 HONORS THESIS: RESEARCH 3.0 to 4.0
Honors Thesis: Research. Prerequisites: consent of the instructor and Honors Program director. Readings or research preparatory to honors thesis or project.
HIST 4880 HONORS THESIS: WRITING 3.0 to 4.0
Honors Thesis: Writing. Prerequisites: Hist 4870, consent of the instructor and Honors Program director. Writing or production of honors thesis or project.
HIST 4890 TOPICS IN WORLD HISTORY 3.0 to 4.0
Topics in World History. Advanced studies in the history of Africa, Asia, Latin America, or the Middle East; topics vary according to instructor. May be repeated if the topic differs.
HIST 4900 WAR IN EUR & AMER SINCE 1500 4.0
War in Europe and America since 1500. Warfare and military institutions as they relate to social, economic, political, and technological developments.
HIST 4960 BRITISH AMERICAN CULTURE SEM I 3.0 to 4.0
British American Culture Seminar I. Prerequisite: British and American Cultures Program concentration, or permission of English or History program advisor. (Same as Engl 3265.) Analyzes literary and historical themes from the perspectives of American and British authors, historical figures, and literatures. Offered by the English and History departments.
HIST 4961 BRITISH AMERIC CULTURE SEM II 3.0 to 4.0
British American Cultural Seminar II. Prerequisite: British and American Cultures Program concentration, or permission of English or History program advisor. (Same as Engl 3266.) Analyzes literary and historical themes from the perspectives of American and British authors, historical figures, and literatures. Offered by the English and History departments.
HIST 4970 INDEPENDENT STUDY 4.0
Independent Study. Prerequisites: Hist 3000 with grade of C or higher and at least five upper-division history courses. Consent of the department is required for non majors. By invitation only. For history majors with a grade point average of 3.5 or better in major courses and all course work. No more than four credit hours may be applied toward the major. Satisfactory completion of the course entitles the student to graduate “with distinction in history.”
HIST 4980 INTERNSHIP 1.0 to 4.0
Internship. Prerequisite: consent of department. Through a prescribed field experience, students are given the opportunity to apply knowledge, theory, and understanding gained from courses.
HIST 4990 HISTORICAL RESEARCH 4.0
Historical Research. Prerequisites: Hist 3000 with grade of C or higher and at least five upper-division history courses. Varies in topic and theme. A specialist guides students in the design of individual research topics, the collection and analysis of evidence from primary sources, and composition of a coherent research paper with depth.
HIST 4995 DIRECTRED READINGS B.I.S. 3.0 to 4.0
Directed Readings B.I.S. Directed Readings designed for Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies students. This course may satisfy the junior and/or seniorlevel Critical Thinking Through Writing requirements.