 | | Course ID: | AFAM(HIST) 2000. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Introduction to African American Studies | Course
Description: | Cultural, social, and historical movements among Americans of African descent. | | Athena Title: | Intro African American Studies | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall and spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST(AFST) 2052. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Multiculturalism in Modern America | Course
Description: | United States history since 1865 from a multicultural and multiethnic perspective. The course will emphasize social, cultural, and political dimensions of the American experience, paying particular attention to issues of race and ethnicity. Highlights the contributions of the many different peoples who make up America. | | Athena Title: | MULTICULTUR MOD AM | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 2301. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | History of Western Society to 1500 | Course
Description: | An introduction to the premodern West, from the start of the
written record up to the Age of Exploration. Explores the
practices and priorities of a succession of different societies,
highlighting how these behaviors and ideas manifested themselves
in art, economy, ethnic identity, gender, government,
philosophy, play, religion, and technology. | | Athena Title: | WEST SOC TO 1500 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 2302. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | History of Western Society Since 1500 | Course
Description: | Western society from the Renaissance to the present day, emphasizing ideas, culture, and social change. | | Athena Title: | WEST SOC SINCE 1500 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST(AFST) 2501. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Introduction to African History to 1800 | Course
Description: | History of Africa to 1800. Origins of agriculture, rise and
growth of complex societies and states, spread and importance of
Islam, trans-Saharan and Indian Ocean trade, rise of the
Atlantic slave trade, and diaspora issues. | | Athena Title: | AFRICA TO 1800 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST(AFST) 2502. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Survey of African History Since 1800 | Course
Description: | History of Africa from 1800. The European conquest and
colonization of Africa and the development of colonial economies,
African collaboration and resistance, development of ethnic and
African political identities, anti-colonial wars, independence,
and post-colonial politics. | | Athena Title: | AFRICA SINCE 1800 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 2600. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | East Asia in the World | Course
Description: | To provide students who have no previous background in the subject
with a fundamental acquaintance with the historical, religious,
political, economic, and social traditions of East Asia, a
foundation upon which they can build in future studies. | | Athena Title: | East Asia in the World | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 2600H | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 2600H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | East Asia in the World (Honors) | Course
Description: | To provide students who have no previous background in the subject
with a fundamental acquaintance with the historical, religious,
political, economic, and social traditions of East Asia, a
foundation upon which they can build in future studies. | | Athena Title: | East Asia in the World Honors | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 2600 | | Prerequisite: | Permission of Honors | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 2701H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | World Civilizations I (Honors) | Course
Description: | The human community from ancient times to A.D. 1500, focusing on
the interrelations of societies and cultures and comparing the
experiences of peoples and civilizations with one another. | | Athena Title: | WORLD CIV I HONORS | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 2701 | | Prerequisite: | Permission of Honors | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 2701. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | World Civilizations I | Course
Description: | The human community from ancient times to A.D. 1500, focusing on the interrelations of societies and cultures and comparing the experiences of peoples and civilizations with one another. | | Athena Title: | WORLD CIV I | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 2702. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | World Civilizations II | Course
Description: | The human community from A.D. 1500 to the present, focusing on the interrelations of societies and cultures and comparing the experiences of peoples and civilizations with one another. | | Athena Title: | WORLD CIV II | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 2702H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | World Civilizations II (Honors) | Course
Description: | The human community from A.D. 1500 to the present, focusing on the interrelations of societies and cultures and comparing the experiences of peoples and civilizations with one another. | | Athena Title: | WORLD CIV II HON | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 2702 | | Prerequisite: | Permission of Honors | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 2705. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Refugees, Immigrants, and Deportable Workers: The Global History of International Migration | Course
Description: | Human migration is often described as a crisis or problem, but it
has been around for millennia. Only the barriers to movement are
new. This course considers the rise of restrictions and how
various nations deal with issues such as rights, citizenship, and
integration. | | Athena Title: | Global Migration | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 2710. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Disease and Human History | Course
Description: | Beginning in the Paleolithic, this course will explore how
disease and mortality changed with the invention of agriculture,
contact between the Americas and the Old World, and the
Industrial Revolution. It also explores the history and impact
of diseases such as smallpox, malaria, the Black Death,
tuberculosis, and AIDS. | | Athena Title: | Disease and Human History | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 3740, HIST 3740H | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 2720. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Introduction to Women’s and Gender History | Course
Description: | This introduction to women’s history offers an overview of the
methods, themes, and questions of interest to historians of
women’s and gender history. It also provides a brief survey of
the history of women. | | Athena Title: | Intro Women and Gender History | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3010. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | United States Immigration History | Course
Description: | An introduction to the history of immigration in the United
States. It will touch on many issues, including citizenship and
immigrant rights, immigration policy, refugees, race, ethnicity
and acculturation, U.S. borders, immigrant labor, and more. | | Athena Title: | U.S. Immigration History | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 3010H | | Pre or Corequisite: | HIST 2111 or HIST 2112 or HIST 2720 or HIST 2701 or HIST 2702 or HIST 2311H or HIST 2312H or HIST 2301 or HIST 2302 or HIST 2701H or HIST 2702H or POLS 1101 or any INTL course | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3010H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | United States Immigration History (Honors) | Course
Description: | An introduction to the history of immigration in the United
States. It will touch on many issues, including citizenship and
immigrant rights, immigration policy, refugees, race, ethnicity
and acculturation, U.S. borders, immigrant labor, and more. | | Athena Title: | U.S. Immigration History Hon | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 3010 | | Prerequisite: | Permission of Honors | | Pre or Corequisite: | HIST 2111 or HIST 2112 or HIST 2720 or HIST 2701 or HIST 2702 or HIST 2311H or HIST 2312H or HIST 2301 or HIST 2302 or HIST 2701H or HIST 2702H or POLS 1101 or any INTL course | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3020. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | United States Foreign Relations Since 1914 | Course
Description: | A survey of American foreign relations since 1914. | | Athena Title: | US Foreign Relation Since 1914 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3030. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | History of Canada | Course
Description: | The history of Canada from European settlement to the present day. Special attention will be given to political, constitutional, and economic developments. | | Athena Title: | HISTORY OF CANADA | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3050. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | American Indian History to 1840 | Course
Description: | Explores the impact of colonization on Native Americans to 1840. The course will focus on the creative adaptations of Indians to the great changes unleashed by the meeting of the new and old worlds. | | Athena Title: | AM INDIANS TO 1840 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3051. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | American Indian History Since 1840 | Course
Description: | Government policy towards Indians, but more importantly, exploration of how Native Americans themselves constructed their lives over the past 150 years. The readings give voice to Indians while at the same time providing a structured historical background. | | Athena Title: | Modern American Indians | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 3051H | | Pre or Corequisite: | HIST 3000-level or above | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3051H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | American Indian History Since 1840 (Honors) | Course
Description: | Government policy towards Indians, but more importantly,
exploration of how Native Americans themselves constructed their
lives over the past 150 years. The readings give voice to Indians
while at the same time providing a structured historical
background. | | Athena Title: | Modern American Indians Honors | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 3051 | | Prerequisite: | Permission of Honors | | Pre or Corequisite: | HIST 3000-level or above | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3055H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Natives and Newcomers: Encounters in Early America 1500-1800 (Honors) | Course
Description: | Exploration of the history of North America between 1500 and
1800, paying particular attention to the West, Native
Americans, and the settlement and development of Spanish,
French, and Russian colonies. | | Athena Title: | EARLY AMERICA | | Prerequisite: | Permission of Honors | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3056H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Multicultural America (Honors) | Course
Description: | United States history from a multiracial perspective. Examines
the roles American peoples of color and European Americans have
played in the making of America. The course focuses on colonial
times through the early twentieth century. | | Athena Title: | MULTICULTURAL AMER | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 2050H or HIST 2051 or HIST 2052 or HIST(AFST) 2052 | | Prerequisite: | Permission of Honors | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3057. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | American West since 1850 | Course
Description: | Explores the American West from 1850-present. Topics include
the building of the trans-continental railroad, the American
plains, Indian policy and wars, mining and agriculture, the
purchase of Alaska, tourism in the 20th century, and the
effects of World War II and the Cold War on the West. | | Athena Title: | AMER WEST SNC 1850 | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3060. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Colonial and Revolutionary America | Course
Description: | Native American, African, and European interactions; warfare, labor systems, cultures, and societies; empire building and colonial political structures; the American Revolution and the formation of the United States. | | Athena Title: | COLONIAL REV AMER | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3071. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Origins of Modern America | Course
Description: | Economic, social, diplomatic, and political trends in the United States, 1877-1917. | | Athena Title: | THE US 1877-1917 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3072. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The United States Between the Wars, 1914-1945 | Course
Description: | The shifting patterns of political, economic, cultural, and social development in the United States as the nation confronted prosperity, depression, and war. | | Athena Title: | U S 1914-1945 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3073. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Modern America, 1945 to Present | Course
Description: | Social, economic, diplomatic, and political trends in the United States during the post-World War II era. | | Athena Title: | AMER 1945-PRESENT | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3080H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | America and the World (Honors) | Course
Description: | Selected aspects of United States relations with the world in the twentieth century. | | Athena Title: | AMERICA AND WORLD | | Prerequisite: | Permission of Honors | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3085. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | United States Women's History to 1865 | Course
Description: | Women's experiences in the United States from the arrival of
Europeans on the North American continent to the Civil War.
Women's life experiences within the context of larger historical
changes in the United States. Women's history as an integral
part of American social history and as a unique subject of
historical investigation. | | Athena Title: | U.S. WOMEN TO 1865 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3086. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | United States Women's History from 1865 to the Present | Course
Description: | Women's experiences in the United States since the Civil War.
Women's live experiences within the context of larger historical
changes in the United States. Women's history as an integral
part of American social history and as a unique subject of
historical investigation. | | Athena Title: | US WOMEN 1865-PRES | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 4080/6080 | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3090. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The American South | Course
Description: | Major themes and issues in southern history from Jamestown through the l980s. Topics will include colonial settlement, frontier expansion, slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction, Populism, Jim Crow, the New South, the civil rights movement, and Sunbelt development. | | Athena Title: | THE AMERICAN SOUTH | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3095. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | History of Southern Food | Course
Description: | Provide students a soul-nourishing meal: a deep knowledge of the history of Southern foodways from the first mixtures of Indigenous, African, and European modes of growing, cooking, and eating in the 16th century to the deliciously fragmenting iterations of Southern food (Black, Latinx, Vietnamese, Jewish, vegan, and more) in the 21st century. Examination of the intersections of food with economics, labor, gender, religion, and family life, as well as the worldwide influence of the cuisine of our region. Joyful eating will be mandatory. | | Athena Title: | History of Southern Food | | Pre or Corequisite: | Any HIST or ADSC or AESC or ECOL or ECON or FACS or NAMS or AFAM or AFST or SOWK or POLS course | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every odd-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL(HIST) 3100. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Introduction to British and Irish Culture I | Course
Description: | This course considers the British Isles from a variety of
perspectives: artistic, historical, political, environmental,
and social, equipping students to pursue more sophisticated
studies in British and Irish history, literature, and culture. | | Athena Title: | Intro to Brit Irish Culture I | | Nontraditional Format: | You can expect to read a considerable number of short
pieces of writing, to look at many images, to listen to much
music, and to become familiar with maps and dates and poems,
with sheep and castles and trades unions, with loughs and
lochs and Locke. The texts covered – from the fields of history,
literature, religion, and culture – will range from the Roman
occupation of Britain (c. 55 B.C.) to the present day. English
3100 also serves as the gateway course for the certificate in
British and Irish Studies. | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1102S or ENGL 1103 or ENGL 1050H or ENGL 1060H | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST(AFAM) 3101. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The Early African American Experience | Course
Description: | The African background of African Americans, the institution of slavery, the development of the African American community institutions, and African American participation in and impact on the Civil War and Reconstruction. | | Athena Title: | EARLY AFR AME EXPER | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST(AFAM) 3102. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Modern African American Experience | Course
Description: | The twentieth-century struggle for civil rights, black identity, and self-determination. The response to industrialism and urbanization. The role of black institutions and political organizations. The philosophy and tactics of accommodation, integration, and separatism. | | Athena Title: | MOD AFR AMER EXPER | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every even-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST(AFAM)(WMST) 3103. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | African American Women’s History | Course
Description: | An examination of the history of African American women from the colonial period through to the present. Topics covered include enslavement, the relationship between Black and white women from the antebellum period through second-wave feminism, and Black women in the civil rights and Black Power movements. | | Athena Title: | African American Women's Hist | | Pre or Corequisite: | Any HIST or AFAM or WMST or AFST or POLS or INTL or RELI or ENGL course | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3120. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The History of American Business | Course
Description: | Examination of the history of American business and
entrepreneurship in the United States from the colonial era to
the present. Topics covered include the history of the
corporation, the evolution of managerial practices, business
relations with government and labor, business and technology, as
well as business and the law. | | Athena Title: | History of American Business | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST(LACS) 3140H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The Other Americans: U.S. Hispanic/Latinx History from 1565 to the Present (Honors) | Course
Description: | A survey of the history of the Hispanic/Latinx people of the
United States from the Spanish conquest to the present, examining
the U.S. occupation of the Southwest and the successive waves of
Hispanic immigration through issues of segregation, integration,
gender equality, and identity formation. | | Athena Title: | U.S. Hispanic/Latinx History H | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 3140, LACS 3140 | | Prerequisite: | Permission of Honors | | Pre or Corequisite: | Any HIST or LACS course or POLS 1101 or POLS 1101E or POLS 1101S or POLS 1105H or [(ENGL 1101 or ENGL 1101E or ENGL 1101S) and (ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E)] | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST(LACS) 3140. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The Other Americans: U.S. Hispanic/Latinx History from 1565 to the Present | Course
Description: | A survey of the history of the Hispanic/Latinx people of the
United States from the Spanish conquest to the present, examining
the U.S. occupation of the Southwest and the successive waves of
Hispanic immigration through issues of segregation, integration,
gender equality, and identity formation. | | Athena Title: | U.S. Hispanic/Latinx History | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 3140H, LACS 3140H | | Pre or Corequisite: | Any HIST or LACS course or POLS 1101 or POLS 1101E or POLS 1101S or POLS 1105H or [(ENGL 1101 or ENGL 1101E or ENGL 1101S) and (ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E)] | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | RELI(HIST) 3150E. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Religion in the United States | Course
Description: | The significant developments in American religious history and thought from Puritanism to the present with attention to the social and cultural contexts in which various religious movements arose. | | Athena Title: | Religion in the United States | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in RELI 3150, HIST 3150, RELI 4107, RELI 6107 | | Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | RELI(HIST) 3150. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Religion in the United States | Course
Description: | The significant developments in American religious history and thought from Puritanism to the present with attention to the social and cultural contexts in which various religious movements arose. | | Athena Title: | Religion in the United States | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in RELI 3150E, HIST 3150E, RELI 4107, RELI 6107 | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3160. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | American Environmental History | Course
Description: | The historical interactions between Americans and the natural environment from before European exploration and settlement until the present. The course particularly focuses on how nature has shaped human history, how humans have transformed the natural world, and how ideas about nature have changed over time. | | Athena Title: | AMER ENVIRON HIST | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3160H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | American Environmental History (Honors) | Course
Description: | The history of Americans' interaction with the environment,
from the Ice Age to the present day. Topics include native and
colonial American land use, the rise of industrial capitalism,
nature and the Civil War, Progressive conservation, and the
postwar environmental movement. | | Athena Title: | AMER ENVIRON HIST | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 3160 | | Nontraditional Format: | This course differs from the non-Honors version by requiring
more intense reading (full-length, graduate-level books), more
writing (longer reading analyses and a longer final paper), and
more discussion (20 per cent of the final grade is based on
discussion). | | Prerequisite: | Permission of Honors | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3170. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | History of American Cities | Course
Description: | A history of the planning, development, and growth of American
cities. In addition to studying the built environment, this
course will examine American attitudes and perceptions of urban
spaces from the colonial period to the present. The impact of
transportation, technology, and immigration on American cities
will also be considered. | | Athena Title: | HIST AMER CITIES | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST(LACS) 3210. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Race and Slavery in the Americas | Course
Description: | Examination of the history of race and slavery in the Americas
from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. We analyze the
enslaved experience, with an emphasis on outlining similarities
and differences among slavery in North American, Caribbean, and
Latin American societies, and how slavery influenced post-
abolition racial inequalities. | | Athena Title: | Race and Slavery in Americas | | Pre or Corequisite: | Any course in HIST or INTL or POLS or LACS | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST(LACS) 3220H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | History of Mexico (Honors) | Course
Description: | Mexican history from pre-Aztec times to the modern era. Pre- Columbian Mexico, the era of Spain's colonial rule (1519-1810), the struggle for independence, and the turbulent years of post- independence chaos will be covered. Also, the Juárez years (1855-1872), the long reign of Porfírio Díaz, and the epic Mexican Revolution, its effects and aftermath leading up to the present day. | | Athena Title: | HISTORY OF MEXICO | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 3220 | | Prerequisite: | Permission of Honors | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST(LACS) 3220. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | History of Mexico | Course
Description: | Mexican history and culture from pre-Columbian times to the present. | | Athena Title: | HISTORY OF MEXICO | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST(LACS) 3230. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | History of Brazil | Course
Description: | Brazilian history and culture from pre-Columbian times to the present. | | Athena Title: | History of Brazil | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 3230I, LACS 3230I | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST(LACS) 3230I. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | History of Brazil | Course
Description: | Brazilian history and culture from pre-Columbian times to the
present. How Brazil and its people have been shaped by
colonialism, economic cycles of boom and bust, slavery, regional
cleavages, shifts from monarchical to republican to dictatorial
to democratic forms of government, and incomplete attempts to
expand access to prosperity and political power. | | Athena Title: | History of Brazil | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 3230, LACS 3230 | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3240. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The Caribbean Area | Course
Description: | The islands and Caribbean periphery from pre-Columbian times to the present. European intrusion and settlement, plantation societies and economies, slavery and slave rebellion, nineteenth- and twentieth-century political and economic developments, and United States policy. Approximately one-third of the course will focus on the period after World War II. | | Athena Title: | THE CARIBBEAN AREA | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3270. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | History of Argentina and Chile in the 20th Century | Course
Description: | A comparative study of contemporary Argentina and Chile, this
course surveys the process of state formation and the issues of
labor, gender, human rights, and popular culture in those two
countries. Special emphasis will be put on the 1970s and 80s
dictatorships and the development of Human Rights movements. | | Athena Title: | HIST ARGENTIN/CHILE | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3300. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The Medieval Globe: The World in the Year 1000 | Course
Description: | An exploration of the world in the year 1000, focusing on the emergence of long-distance trade networks and cultural connections. Topics include the Viking trans-Atlantic voyages, Chinese traders crossing the Indian Ocean, Mayan expansion in Mesoamerica, flows of gold from West Africa, and Islam on the Silk Road. | | Athena Title: | The Medieval Globe | | Pre or Corequisite: | One course in HIST or SOCI or POLS or INTL or RELI or FYOS or GEOG or CHNS or INDO or AFST | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3330. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The Middle Ages | Course
Description: | A history of the political, economic, intellectual, and
environmental changes across Europe and the Mediterranean, from
the expansion and contraction of the Roman Empire to the
tragedies and transformation of the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries. | | Athena Title: | MIDDLE AGES | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3340. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The Age of Renaissance and Reformation | Course
Description: | The two great intellectual movements of early modern Europe: the Renaissance and the Reformation. The religious and social context in which the developments associated with these movements took place, as well as their impact on European society. | | Athena Title: | AGE RENAISS & REFOR | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3350. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The Age of Absolutism: Rulers, Subjects, Citizens | Course
Description: | The rise of the modern European state and its impact on society and culture from 1600 to 1789. Themes include kingship and state formation, popular revolt, aristocratic culture, Enlightenment social thought, and the collapse of the Old Regime. | | Athena Title: | AGE OF ABSOLUTISM | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3390. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Germany Since 1789 | Course
Description: | Germany from 1789 through the Revolutions of 1848, German unification, the Wilhelminian Reich, World War I, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, World War II, division, and reunification. | | Athena Title: | Germany Since 1789 | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 3390H | | Pre or Corequisite: | Any HIST or HONS or GRMN or POLS or INTL course | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3390H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Germany Since 1789 (Honors) | Course
Description: | Germany from 1789 through the Revolutions of 1848, German
unification, the Wilhelminian Reich, World War I, the Weimar
Republic, the Third Reich, World War II, division, and
reunification. | | Athena Title: | Germany Since 1789 Honors | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 3390 | | Prerequisite: | Permission of Honors | | Pre or Corequisite: | Any HIST or HONS or GRMN or POLS or INTL course | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3400H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Modern Italy (Honors) | Course
Description: | The history of Italy from the eighteenth century to the
present. Topics include the Italian Enlightenment, the impact
of the French Revolution and Napoleon on Italy, the
Risorgimento and Italian unification, Liberal Italy, Italian
Fascism, postwar Italian politics, society, economy, and
culture. | | Athena Title: | MOD ITALY | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 3400 | | Prerequisite: | Permission of Honors | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3400. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Modern Italy | Course
Description: | The eighteenth-century beginnings of the movement for unification to the present, with particular emphasis on the distinctiveness of the Italian experience in culture, society, and politics. | | Athena Title: | MODERN ITALY | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3430. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | History of Architecture and Engineering | Course
Description: | The history of architecture from antiquity to the present focuses on the evolution of building techniques and materials over the centuries. Focuses in particular on developments over the past two hundred years, particularly the role of engineers and engineering in the rise of modern architecture. | | Athena Title: | History of Architecture | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3490. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | European Encounter with Islam | Course
Description: | Examines the contested encounter between Europe and the Islamic
World, from the medieval period until the present day. Topics
will include the origins of Christianity and Islam; conquest
and reconquest in the medieval era; the Habsburg-Ottoman
rivalry; Orientalism; and the Christian-Muslim frontier in the
modern period. | | Athena Title: | EURO ENCOUNTR ISLAM | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST(AFST) 3500. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Seventeenth Through Nineteenth-Century Southern Africa | Course
Description: | Social, political, and economic changes in southern African societies (South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Botswana, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique) as they assimilated non-African peoples, their ideas, and material culture. Independent, viable and adaptable, Africans engaged Portuguese, British, Boers, and Germans as they competed for land, cattle, and trade. | | Athena Title: | SO AFRICA 1600-1902 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST(AFST) 3520. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Decolonization in Africa | Course
Description: | Examines decolonization in Africa, particularly the dissolution
of the European Empires. Beginning with the post-WWII movement,
it explores multiple factors, such as nationalism, the role of
the U.N. and the U.S., and postcolonial states, to understand
the transition from a world of empire to one of nation-states. | | Athena Title: | Decolonization in Africa | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 3520H, AFST 3520H | | Pre or Corequisite: | Any AFST or HIST or HONS or AFAM or INTL or POLS course | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST(AFST) 3520H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Decolonization in Africa (Honors) | Course
Description: | Examines decolonization in Africa, particularly the dissolution of
the European Empires. Beginning with the post-WWII movement, it
explores multiple factors, such as nationalism, the role of the
U.N. and the U.S., and postcolonial states, to understand the
transition from a world of empire to one of nation-states. | | Athena Title: | Decolonization in Africa Hon | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 3520, AFST 3520 | | Prerequisite: | Permission of Honors | | Pre or Corequisite: | Any AFST or HIST or HONS or AFAM or INTL or POLS course | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST(AFST) 3530. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Women in Sub-Saharan Africa | Course
Description: | Women's social, economic, spiritual, and political contributions to African history from precolonial to contemporary times. Emphasizing African women, it also addresses European and Asian women immigration. Women's interpretations of their identities, social worlds, and experiences, recognizing their essential role in African societies. | | Athena Title: | WOM IN SUB-SAH AFRI | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST(AFST) 3540. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Africa in the World Wars | Course
Description: | The history and historiography of the African participation in
the first and second World Wars. Africans participated in the
European, Asian, and African theaters of the wars. Examination
of themes such as European imperialism, racism, and
African anti-colonial resistance. | | Athena Title: | AFR IN WORLD WARS | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3550. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | South Asia, 1500 to the Present | Course
Description: | Exploration of the social, economic, and political life in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka from a historical perspective. Showcases the diversity of the region labeled “South Asia” and explores challenges to its regional identity. | | Athena Title: | South Asia 1500 to Present | | Pre or Corequisite: | One course in HIST or SOCI or POLS or INTL or RELI or FYOS or GEOG or CHNS or INDO or AFST | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3570H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Religion, Nationalism, and Revolution in the Middle East, 1900 to the Present (Honors) | Course
Description: | Evolution of religious, nationalist, and cultural identities in the region of the Modern Middle East and their contribution to political revolutions throughout the twentieth century. | | Athena Title: | REL NAT REV M EAST | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 3560 | | Prerequisite: | Permission of Honors | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3580. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Egypt: Mother of Civilization | Course
Description: | Political and cultural history of Egypt from the medieval era up to the present. Examining the history of education in Egypt, Egyptian women, the growth of feminism, and Cairo as an international metropolis, with a look at Egypt's experiences with colonialism and relationship with the rest of Africa, particularly Sudan. | | Athena Title: | EGYPT MOTHER OF CIV | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3601. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Premodern Japan: Foundations of Culture and State | Course
Description: | Ancient and medieval Japan, focusing on the institutional and cultural foundations of the Japanese state. | | Athena Title: | PREMODERN JAPAN | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3602. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Modern Japan: From Shogun to Superpower | Course
Description: | Early modern and modern Japan: the transformation of Japan from an isolationist, agrarian country to a military giant, to a broken and defeated nation, to an economic superpower. | | Athena Title: | MODERN JAPAN | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3610. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Imperialism in East Asia | Course
Description: | Examination of imperialism in East Asia in the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. Focus on the ideologies and structures of
the Japanese empire compared to those of Western empires. | | Athena Title: | Imperialism in East Asia | | Prerequisite: | Any 2000-level HIST course | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3670H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Introduction to Chinese Civilization (Honors) | Course
Description: | Major sources, ideas, and institutions of Chinese tradition. | | Athena Title: | INTRO CHINESE CIV | | Prerequisite: | Permission of Honors | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3690. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | East Asian Cities: Urban Life in Premodern and Modern China and Japan | Course
Description: | A survey of the history of urbanism in East Asia through five
cities: Han and Tang Chang’an, Song Kaifeng, Ming-Qing Beijing,
and Tokugawa-era Edo, and their transformation into contemporary
megacities. Readings will focus on the lives of everyday people,
exploring the urban experience through visual and material
culture. | | Athena Title: | East Asian Cities | | Prerequisite: | Any 2000-level HIST course | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3700. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Global History of Communism | Course
Description: | The extraordinary proliferation of communist states in the twentieth century has few historical parallels, and few people anywhere remained indifferent to communism’s utopian idea. What was communism? How did it move untold millions worldwide? Crucially, what relationship does the communist utopia bear to the horrendous violence done in its name? | | Athena Title: | Global History of Communism | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3710. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The Atlantic World, 1450-1750: Exchange, Conquest, and Empire | Course
Description: | Examination of the shared history of Europe, Africa, and the
Americas during the period of colonization and globalization.
Between the era of exploration and the age of revolutions, these
civilizations interacted through conquest, trade, emigration,
and cultural exchange, giving rise to a distinctly Atlantic
world. | | Athena Title: | The Atlantic World I | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 4710, HIST 6710 | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3720H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Seminar in Comparative History (Honors) | Course
Description: | An undergraduate research seminar focusing on topics from a comparative perspective. | | Athena Title: | SEM COMP HIS | | Prerequisite: | Permission of Honors | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every odd-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3730. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The 20th Century: A Global History | Course
Description: | An investigation of the spectacular and often traumatic historical processes of the twentieth century, including imperialism, the world wars, Communist and fascist revolutions, decolonization, and the Cold War from a global perspective. Students will become conversant in the grand movements of the twentieth century and better oriented in the twenty-first. | | Athena Title: | 20th Century Global History | | Pre or Corequisite: | One course in HIST or POLS or INTL or GLOB | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3740H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Disease and Human History (Honors) | Course
Description: | An exploration of the juncture between disease and society. The
course emphasizes major demographic events: the epidemiological
shifts of the Neolithic and Industrial ages, the “Columbian
Exchange” of diseases, and the Black Death. It also explores the
history and impact of diseases such as smallpox, malaria,
tuberculosis, and AIDS. | | Athena Title: | Disease and Human History Hon | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 3740, HIST 2710 | | Prerequisite: | Permission of Honors | | Pre or Corequisite: | Any course in HIST or ECOL or BIOL or CBIO or CHEM or BHSI or BCMB or EHSC or DMAN or GLOB or HONS or IDIS or PBHL | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3740. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Disease and Human History | Course
Description: | An exploration of the juncture between disease and society. The
course emphasizes major demographic events: the epidemiological
shifts of the Neolithic and Industrial ages, the “Columbian
Exchange” of diseases, and the Black Death. It also explores the
history and impact of diseases such as smallpox, malaria,
tuberculosis, and AIDS. | | Athena Title: | Disease and Human History | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 3740H, HIST 2710 | | Pre or Corequisite: | Any course in HIST or ECOL or BIOL or CBIO or CHEM or BHSI or BCMB or EHSC or DMAN or GLOB or HONS or IDIS or PBHL | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3750. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The History of Science Fiction | Course
Description: | Imagining the future is one of the most consequential things we do as human beings, affecting both how we understand the past and how we act in the present. This course focuses on how science fiction has both reflected and facilitated the historical change from the early modern to the present. | | Athena Title: | History of Sci-Fi | | Pre or Corequisite: | One course in HIST or ENGL or CMLT or BIOL or ASTR or PHYS or INTL | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3760. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The History of Racism | Course
Description: | A history of racism exploring the ideology’s association with
slavery and other forms of oppression. Examination of ethnic and
racial representations in ancient Greek, Roman, and Judaic
texts, then the medieval and modern periods, ending with
nineteenth-century pseudo-scientific racism and the Nazi
Holocaust. | | Athena Title: | History of Racism | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST(GLOB)(LACS) 3770. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Pandemic! Infectious Disease in Global History | Course
Description: | Centers the lived experiences of different individuals and cultures during infectious disease epidemics in modern global history, particularly in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Based on the history of medicine, the course emphasizes both historical context and anthropological, epidemiological, sociological, and cultural issues surrounding infectious disease both past and present. | | Athena Title: | Pandemic History | | Pre or Corequisite: | Any course in HIST, LACS, AFST, AFAM, HIST, ECOL, BIOL, CBIO, BHSI, BCMB, EHSC, DMAN, GLOB, HONS, IDIS, or PBHL | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3800. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Spatial History I | Course
Description: | History happens in place as well as time. Experiential,
collaborative research projects will allow students to map
history, deploying concepts and techniques for thinking
spatially about the nature of political, social, economic, and
cultural change over time. | | Athena Title: | Spatial History I | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 3910H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | What is History? (Honors) | Course
Description: | A colloquium-style, readings and discussion course exploring the
nature and objectives of History as a field and the various
approaches historians bring to their crafts. | | Athena Title: | WHAT IS HISTORY | | Prerequisite: | Permission of Honors | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4000/6000. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Studies in American History | Course
Description: | A special subject not otherwise offered in the history
curriculum. Topics, methodology, and instructors vary from
semester to semester. Representative topics include "Women in
the American South," "Religion in America's Public
Schools," "Food and Power," "Women, Private Property, & the
State," "Marx and Marxist History," and "Slave Religions." | | Athena Title: | Studies in American History | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4020/6020. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Food and Power in American History | Course
Description: | The social, political, and environmental history of food
production and consumption in America since the colonial era.
Topics include the "beef trust," class/gender/race in rural
landscapes, hunters and poachers, the "chicken of tomorrow,"
convenience and fast foods, the Green Revolution, and genetically
modified foods. | | Athena Title: | FOOD & POWER | | Prerequisite: | HIST 2111 or HIST 2112 | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4022/6022. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Picturing America | Course
Description: | Exploration of the role of visual culture in American history. How Americans' understanding of historical events has been influenced by visual culture and how images have helped to shape national identity. Both fine art and more popular imagery will be considered. | | Athena Title: | Picturing America | | Pre or Corequisite: | Any 2000-level HIST course | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4024/6024. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Topics in Museum Studies | Course
Description: | Special topics in museum studies and the history of collections. Focusing on special topics in museum studies, this course counts as an elective for the museum studies certificate. This class may be taught on campus or as part of a field study or study abroad program. | | Athena Title: | Topics in Museum Studies | | Pre or Corequisite: | Any 2000-level HIST course | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4025/6025. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | American Material Culture, 1650-1950 | Course
Description: | American material culture from 1650 to 1950. Explores manmade
objects and their relationship to United States history. Topics
include architecture, gardens, decorative arts, textiles,
metalwork, cemeteries, jewelry, painting, sculpture,
photographs, and prints. | | Athena Title: | AMER MAT CULT URE | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4026/6026. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Introduction to Public History in Washington, D.C. | Course
Description: | An examination of the history and practices of public history in
the nation’s capital. Students will study the history of major
cultural institutions in Washington, D.C., and interact with
public history professionals to review contemporary issues in
the field. Course meets in Washington, D.C., as part of a summer
program. | | Athena Title: | Public History Washington D.C. | | Prerequisite: | Any 2000-level HIST course | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4027/6027. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | American Museums, Parks, and Monuments | Course
Description: | An examination of the history and practices of museums, parks,
and public monuments in the United States. Making use of the
campus and its collections, students will investigate the
presentation of history at UGA. Students will also create a
temporary exhibition using on-campus collections. | | Athena Title: | History of American Museums | | Prerequisite: | Any 2000-level HIST course | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4028. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | History of Capitalism in Early America | Course
Description: | Survey of the cultural and social history of capitalism
from initial settlement through Reconstruction. Topics include
class formation, religion and capitalism, politics and
development, capitalists and con men and women, economic
development, money and rise of the financial system, and free
labor systems and slavery. | | Athena Title: | US Capitalism to 1877 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4029/6029. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | History of Capitalism in Modern America | Course
Description: | Survey of the economic, social, and cultural history of
capitalism from 1877 to the present. Topics include class
formation, industrialization, the currency debates, railroads,
mass production, labor unrest and unions, the Great Depression,
New Deal, World War II, deindustrialization, and the growing
importance of the financial sector. | | Athena Title: | CAPITALISM SNC 1877 | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4030H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The American Dream in an Age of Global Capital, 1865-2020 (Honors) | Course
Description: | Exploration of the struggles and achievements of the workers,
managers, consumers, politicians, intellectuals, and social
activists who have defined and redefined the American Dream.
Readings investigate the interconnections of American society
with global labor migration, corporate expansion and
transnational commerce, and the perils and promises of free
enterprise. | | Athena Title: | AMERICAN DREAM | | Prerequisite: | Permission of Honors | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST(AFAM) 4032/6032. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Black Skin, White Walls: African Americans and the Museum | Course
Description: | Examination of the history of African Americans’ relationship to both art and natural history museums. Topics will include protest, institution building, and art collecting. Through a combination of museum sociology, art history, and Black history, students will gain a clearer understanding of the politics of art. | | Athena Title: | African Americans & the Museum | | Pre or Corequisite: | Any AFAM or ARHI or ARTS or HIPR or HIST or CMLT or CLAS or POLS or SOCI or PSYC or COMM course | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4035/6035. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Race, Gender, and Empire | Course
Description: | Analyzes racial and gender ideologies in American expansion,
1607-1989: race-based slavery; narratives of captivity among
American Indian tribes; literature of the frontier;
turn-of-the-century segregation and imperial conquest; Cold War
sex panic; understandings of Asia from 1941 through the Vietnam
era; United States interests in the Middle East. | | Athena Title: | RACE GENDER EMPIRE | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4040/6040. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Working Class America | Course
Description: | Using fiction and film as well as traditional texts, the history of working-class women and men in the United States. The emphasis will be on the everyday lives of the laborers--what they did at work and at home, in the union hall, and on the picket line. | | Athena Title: | WORKING CLASS AMER | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4050/6050. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | American Lives | Course
Description: | Biographies and autobiographies to explore a variety of themes and issues in American history. Emphases will differ depending on instructor: focus may be nineteenth century, twentieth century, women, race, southern autobiography, etc. | | Athena Title: | AMERICAN LIVES | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST(AFAM) 4055/6055. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Historical Survey of African American Thought | Course
Description: | This course examines representative works of such nineteenth- and twentieth-century social, cultural, and political thinkers as Frederick Douglass, Cornel West, Anna J. Cooper, and Angela Davis among other outstanding women and men who have contributed significantly to the intellectual life of the African American community. | | Athena Title: | African American Thought | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 4055H | | Pre or Corequisite: | Any HIST or AFAM or PHIL or HONS course | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4055H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Historical Survey of African American Thought (Honors) | Course
Description: | An examination of representative works of such nineteenth- and
twentieth-century social, cultural, and political thinkers as
Frederick Douglass, Cornel West, Anna J. Cooper, and Angela Davis,
among other outstanding women and men who have contributed
significantly to the intellectual life of the African American
community. | | Athena Title: | African American Thought Hon | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 4055, AFAM 4055 | | Prerequisite: | Permission of Honors | | Pre or Corequisite: | Any HIST or AFAM or PHIL or HONS course | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4060/6060. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | American Legal History | Course
Description: | American legal thought, institutions, and education, focusing on the impact of social, political, and economic forces on the legal system. The English background, colonial period, legal foundations of the new nation, and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. | | Athena Title: | AMER LEGAL HISTORY | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every odd-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4065/6065. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | History of American Medicine to 1865 | Course
Description: | Medicine in America from the late 1400s to the end of the Civil War. Topics include the exchange of diseases between the Old and New Worlds, medical theories and therapies, medical education and institutions, epidemics and public health, women as patients and practitioners, and medicine on the plantation and battlefield. | | Athena Title: | HIST AM MED TO 1865 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4066/6066. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | History of American Medicine, 1865 to the present | Course
Description: | Major transformation in American medicine from the late nineteenth century to the present. Topics include the role of psychiatry in criminal trials, public reactions to epidemic diseases, medical experimentation on human subjects, alternative medical approaches, the economics of health care. | | Athena Title: | AM MED SNC 1865 | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4066H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | History of American Medicine, 1865 to the Present (Honors) | Course
Description: | Major transformation in American medicine from the late
nineteenth century to the present. Topics may include public
reactions to epidemic diseases, medical experimentation on human
subjects, alternative medical approaches, the economics of health
care, technology in medicine, and the experiences of health care
providers. | | Athena Title: | AM MED SNC 1865 | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 4066/6066 | | Prerequisite: | Permission of Honors | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4067/6067. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Technology in American Culture | Course
Description: | Social and cultural histories of technology in the United States
from the pre-colonial era to the present. Topics include mass
communications and entertainment, industrialization, modernism,
food production and consumption, national identity, and the
environment. | | Athena Title: | TECH & AMER CULTURE | | Prerequisite: | HIST 2111 or HIST 2112 | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4068/6068. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The American Revolution | Course
Description: | Analysis of the political, military, social, and economic history of British North America and the United States between 1765 and 1815. Emphasis on the origins of the Revolution, the destructive civil war that ensued, and the controversies over the Confederation and the Constitution. | | Athena Title: | AMERICAN REVOLUTION | | Prerequisite: | 2000-level HIST course | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4070/6070. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Jeffersonian and Jacksonian America | Course
Description: | History of the U.S. from the early republic through the antebellum period, with emphasis on territorial expansion, industrialization, the first and second political systems, and the emergence of the sectional crisis. | | Athena Title: | JEFFERSONIAN AMER. | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4071/6071. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Antebellum South | Course
Description: | A chronological and thematic history of the South from Spanish exploration and Jamestown's settlement through the secession crisis of l860-1861, with an emphasis on the social, cultural, economic, and political aspects of southern life in the colonial and antebellum periods. | | Athena Title: | ANTEBELLUM SOUTH | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4072/6072. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The Civil War Period of American History | Course
Description: | The origin, conduct, and legacy of the war and the impact of the conflict upon peoples and institutions. | | Athena Title: | U S CIVIL WAR | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4073/6073. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 | Course
Description: | The process of reunion, especially in the American South, with emphasis upon the experience of African Americans. | | Athena Title: | RECONSTRUCTION ERA | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4074/6074. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The South Since Reconstruction | Course
Description: | Economic, social, cultural, and political developments in the South since Reconstruction. | | Athena Title: | SOUTH SINCE 1877 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4076/6076. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Understanding Southern Culture | Course
Description: | The historical, racial, economic, political, musical, and
literary dots that constitute the matrix of southern cultural
identity. There will be substantial emphasis on readings, and
in addition to more traditional historical content, assignments
and classroom discussions will also incorporate music,
literature, and folk culture. | | Athena Title: | SOUTHERN CULTURE | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4080/6080. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Politics of Gender in United States History | Course
Description: | Representations of women's power historically, evaluated critically in terms of gender, race, and class. | | Athena Title: | POLITICS OF GENDER | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4082. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Popular Music and Civic Identity in American History | Course
Description: | American popular music from the 1830s through the late
twentieth century, focusing on popular music as an arena for
debate about civic identity, involving an extraordinary range
of Americans. Course topics and sub-themes include African-
American, Euro-American, and Latin-American influences, the
business of popular music, gender, and countercultures. | | Athena Title: | POP MUSIC AMER HIST | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4085/6085. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | American Intellectual and Cultural History to 1865 | Course
Description: | Survey of the intellectual and cultural history of America from
its colonial origins to 1865. | | Athena Title: | AM INTELLEC TO 1865 | | Prerequisite: | Junior student standing | | Pre or Corequisite: | HIST 2111 or 2111H or HIST 2112 or HIST 2112H | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4086/6086. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | American Intellectual and Cultural History II, 1865-1945 | Course
Description: | American intellectual and cultural history from 1865-1945.
Explores ideas and culture in America in the period following
the Civil War through the end of World War II. | | Athena Title: | AM INTELL 1865-1945 | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4091/6091. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Problems in American Foreign Policy, 1776-Present | Course
Description: | Selected problems related to United States foreign policy. | | Athena Title: | PROB FOREIGN PLCY | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4092/6092. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The United States in the Era of the Cold War | Course
Description: | The political, diplomatic, military, and social history of the United States during the era of the Cold War (1946-1992). | | Athena Title: | COLD WAR U S | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4094/6094. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The Vietnam War | Course
Description: | The political, military, and diplomatic aspects of the Vietnam War, from the French involvement in the 1940s and 1950s to the United States departure in 1973 and the fall of Saigon in 1975. | | Athena Title: | THE VIETNAM WAR | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4100/6100. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | History of Georgia | Course
Description: | Course covers Georgia's past from pre-history to the present, emphasizing themes of race, class, and modernization. The course gives special emphasis to the lives of everyday Georgians and coverage of the Georgia Constitution, making constant reference to U.S. history to show how Georgia was like or unlike other places. | | Athena Title: | History of Georgia | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4110H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Multicultural Georgia (Honors) | Course
Description: | This course is designed to introduce students to the racial, ethnic, cultural, and regional diversity of Georgia. We will use both chronological and thematic approaches to explore Native Americans, Spanish explorers, the multi-ethnic origins of Savannah (Moravian, Salzburger, Jewish); black-white relations from slavery through civil rights; Appalachian culture; the urban Jewish experience, recent Latino immigration, etc. | | Athena Title: | MULTICULTURAL GA | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 4110/6110 | | Prerequisite: | Permission of Honors | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every odd-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4110/6110. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Multicultural Georgia | Course
Description: | The history of the state, with an emphasis on its racial, ethnic, religious, gender, and regional diversity, to be examined through historical documents, novels, short stories, folklore, memoirs, music, and film. | | Athena Title: | MULTICULT GEORGIA | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4120/6120. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The Civil Rights Movement | Course
Description: | Examination of the history of the African-American civil rights
movement in the United States during the middle of the
twentieth century by focusing on the lives and struggles of
ordinary people, black and white, who fought to overcome the
legacy of racial and social inequality. | | Athena Title: | The Civil Rights Movement | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 4120H | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4120H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The Civil Rights Movement (Honors) | Course
Description: | An examination of the history of the African-American civil rights
movement in the United States during the middle of the twentieth
century by focusing on the lives and struggles of ordinary people,
black and white, who fought to overcome the legacy of racial and
social inequality. | | Athena Title: | The Civil Rights Movement Hon | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 4120, HIST 6120 | | Prerequisite: | Permission of Honors | | Pre or Corequisite: | Any course in HIST or AFAM or INTL or POLS 1101 or POLS 1101E or POLS 1101S or POLS 1105H | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4130H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | American Slavery in Fact, Fiction, and Film (Honors) | Course
Description: | Exploration of the ways in which American slavery has been
conveyed in American popular culture through the juxtaposition
of scholarly work, novels and short stories, and film, ranging
from the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Faulkner, and
Toni Morrison to that of Alex Haley and Steven Spielberg. | | Athena Title: | SLAV FACT FICT FILM | | Prerequisite: | Permission of Honors | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIPR(HIST) 4160/6160. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Public History and Technology | Course
Description: | From early film to twenty-first century gaming, innovators have
turned to history for inspiration even as historians have
looked to harness new media for their interpretive power. This
course explores the interplay between spaces of the past and
technologies used to present them. | | Athena Title: | Public History and Technology | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST(LACS) 4200/6200. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Studies in Latin American History | Course
Description: | Special issues or topics in Latin American history not covered in a regular history course. Topics, methodology, and instructor vary from semester to semester. Representative topics include the Latin American revolutionary tradition, the wars of independence in the Americas, and Latin American wars. | | Athena Title: | STUDIES LAT AMER | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4220/6220. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The United States and Latin America | Course
Description: | The political, economic, and cultural relations between the United States and Latin America from 1776 to the present. Spanish-American revolutions, the Monroe doctrine, United States expansionism, the Pan American system, United States intervention, the Good Neighbor policy, Latin America in the Cold War, and United States and Latin American revolutions. | | Athena Title: | U.S. AND LATIN AMER | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST(LACS) 4230/6230. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Supernatural Latin America: Readings on Witchcraft, Shamanism, and Popular Religion | Course
Description: | Exploration of the history of popular religions in Latin America
since Pre-Columbian times. Readings include issues such as
religion in the Andes, witchcraft and cult of the saints, African
religions in Brazil, and shamanism in the Amazon. Analysis of the
social, political, and gender dimensions of the religious experience. | | Athena Title: | SUPERNATL LAT AMERI | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST(LACS) 4240/6240. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Citizenship and Social Movements in Latin America and the Caribbean | Course
Description: | Examination of struggles surrounding assertions of citizenship
rights in Latin America and the Caribbean since the eighteenth
century. The readings trace moments in which women, migrants,
and indigenous and colonized peoples transformed dominant
understandings of the nation-state and political agency. | | Athena Title: | Citizenship in Latin America | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST(LACS) 4250/6250. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Race, Nation, and Popular Culture in Latin America | Course
Description: | Exploration of how Latin Americans see themselves through the
lens of popular culture. Studying festivals, dances, theater,
and a variety of forms of public performance serves the purpose
of reflecting on the specific way Latin Americans have
constructed race, gender, class, and nation. In addition, the
course pursues the goal of introducing the students to
different concepts and methodologies developed in the
humanities and social sciences and applying them to specific
Latin American cases. | | Athena Title: | POP CULT IN LAT AM | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4300/6300. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Studies in European History | Course
Description: | Topical studies that vary by year and instructor. Topics might
include "Art and Society in the Age of the Reformation," "War and
Gender in Twentieth-Century Europe," "Society and Culture in the
Medieval European City," and "Imperialism and Anti-imperialism in
Modern Europe." | | Athena Title: | STUDIES IN EUR HIS | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4301/6301. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 12 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Studies in Middle Eastern History Pre-1600 | Course
Description: | A special issue or topic not otherwise offered in the history
curriculum. Topics, methodology, and instructors will vary from
semester to semester. Representative topics include: "Tribes
and States in the Pre-Modern Middle East" and "Marriage and the
Family in Medieval Islam." | | Athena Title: | PREMOD MID EAST | | Prerequisite: | HIST 2701 or HIST 2702 or HIST 3330 or HIST 3561 or HIST 3562 or HIST 3564 or HIST 3580 | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST(CLAS) 4320/6320. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Law and Society in the Greco-Roman World | Course
Description: | Law and its functions in ancient society from archaic Greece through the fifth century A.D. Includes discussion of Greek, Roman, and Christian legal codes, legal procedure, and the theory of law; also of law as a source for social history, especially issues of gender, class, crime, and the ancient economy. | | Athena Title: | ANCIENT LAW | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4330/6330. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Institutions of the Medieval West | Course
Description: | Topical studies of the social structures that shaped medieval
European life and thought, and how those structures changed. The
focal point changes yearly. | | Athena Title: | MEDIEV WEST INSTNS | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4340/6340. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Rebirth and Reinvention in Early Modern Europe | Course
Description: | European society in the context of pivotal social, political, and intellectual moments, from the growth of the Humanist movement to the military revolution. The goal is a better understanding of "turning points" in history, and their creation and definition. | | Athena Title: | REBIRTH IN MOD EUR | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4350/6350. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Material Culture and Consumer Society in Early Modern Europe | Course
Description: | Examines the origins of modern consumerism by looking at production and consumption in pre-industrial Europe. Treats the circulation, possession, and meaning of goods such as clothes, food, books, and objects of art. Themes include consumption as a sign of social status, popular and learned attitudes toward markets, and luxury. | | Athena Title: | MAT CULT & CONS SOC | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4360/6360. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | European Popular Culture | Course
Description: | The symbols, expressions, and entertainments that all Europeans drew upon from the wealthiest and best educated to the poorest and illiterate. Themes may include material culture, gender identities, folktales, reading practices, religion and worship, music and theatre. Taught as a seminar with extensive readings in primary and secondary sources. | | Athena Title: | EURO POPULAR CULTUR | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST(ENGL) 4380. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | London in the Age of Shakespeare | Course
Description: | In England, attitudes to political authority and social identity
were challenged and transformed during the early modern period,
as is evident, if somewhat nebulously, in Shakespeare's works.
This course examines the city of London, 1590-1610, where such
works were shaped and performed, as a crucial context for
understanding these developments. | | Athena Title: | City of London, 1590-1610 | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4400/6400. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The Age of World Wars I and II | Course
Description: | The origins, course, nature, and consequences of World Wars I and II in Europe, 1870-1950. | | Athena Title: | The Age of World Wars I and II | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4402/6402. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | World War II in History and Memory | Course
Description: | Examination of how the public memory of World War II changed in
different countries in Asia, Europe, and North America from the
immediate aftermath of the war to the present. | | Athena Title: | WWII in History and Memory | | Prerequisite: | Any 2000-level HIST course | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4420/6420. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Holocausts in History | Course
Description: | The Jewish Holocaust 1933-1945, emphasizing historical precedents and consequences. Traditional religious anti-Semitism, biologically-based racism, and extreme nationalism will be investigated as sources of modern genocidal behavior. | | Athena Title: | HOLOCAUSTS | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4430/6430. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | History of Science and Religion in Western Society | Course
Description: | The historical interaction of science and religion in Western
Society from antiquity to the present. Key historical episodes
include the rise of Greek natural philosophy, science in
medieval Christendom and Islam, the Galileo affair, religion in
the Enlightenment, the Darwinian challenge, and religious
implicatons of modern physics. | | Athena Title: | HIST SCI & REL | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4440/6440. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The Nuclear Age: Science, Bombs, and the World Order in the Twentieth Century | Course
Description: | An exploration of the role of nuclear energy and weapons in the history of the twentieth century, from the humble origins of the science of radioactivity and atomic nucleus, through the drama of World War II's race for the atomic bomb, to the nuclear-centered world politics and diplomacy of the Cold War. | | Athena Title: | HISTORY NUCLEAR AGE | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4450/6450. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Democracy in Modern Europe | Course
Description: | An exploration of the role of nuclear energy and weapons in the history of the twentieth century, from the humble origins of the science of radioactivity and atomic nucleus, through the drama of World War II's race for the atomic bomb, to the nuclear-centered world politics and diplomacy of the Cold War. | | Athena Title: | DEMOCRACY MOD EUR | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ANTH(HIST)(NAMS) 4470/6470. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The Rise and Fall of the Southeastern Chiefdoms | Course
Description: | Development of the native societies of the southeastern United States, the exploration of the area by Spain in the sixteenth century, and the consequences of the meeting of the two peoples. | | Athena Title: | S E CHIEFDOMS | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ANTH(HIST) 4470/6470 | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST(AFST) 4500/6500. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Studies in African History | Course
Description: | Topics in modern and ancient African history. Non-traditional
methodologies and sources are combined to introduce students to
emerging issues in African history. | | Athena Title: | STUDIES AFRICAN HIS | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4520/6520. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | History of Islam in Africa | Course
Description: | Examination of the history of Muslim Africa. The rise and
spread of Islam as well as the European conquest and
occupation. Examines issues of race, gender, and slavery and
requires students to analyze primary sources and historical
debates in formal essays. | | Athena Title: | ISLAM IN AFRICA | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4530/6530. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The History of Orientalism | Course
Description: | Images and symbolism used by Europeans and Americans to define the Islamic Middle East. The history of the Middle East through representation--stereotypes, myths, fairy tales, novels, films, and news coverage--particularly the ramifications of these images on Western foreign policy towards the Islamic Middle East. | | Athena Title: | HIS OF ORIENTALISM | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST(AFST) 4540/6540. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Conflict in Twentieth-Century Southern Africa | Course
Description: | South Africa's economic, political and military might has shaped other southern African societies (Namibia, Lesotho, Botswana, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique) in the twentieth century. Reform and revolution which Africans and Europeans employed to regain and maintain African independence in the region. | | Athena Title: | AFR CONFLICT 20TH C | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST(AFST) 4550/6550. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Christianity and Colonialism in Africa | Course
Description: | Christianity was both ally and adversary to colonialism, threatening African "tradition" and aiding a vocal westernized elite which shaped independent African nations. African initiatives in Christian conversion, colonial Christianity, Africans in mission communities, mission education and westernized elites, independent African religious movements, and Christianity and African nationalism. | | Athena Title: | CHRISTIA/COL IN AFR | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4560/6560. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 12 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Studies in Middle Eastern History since 1600 | Course
Description: | A special issue or topic not otherwise offered in the history
curriculum. Topics, methodology, and instructors will vary from
semester to semester. Representative topics include: "Modern
Shi'ism," "War and Society in the Modern Middle East," and "The
Ottomans and Europe." | | Athena Title: | MID EAST SNC 1600 | | Prerequisite: | HIST 2701 or HIST 2702 or HIST 3561 or HIST 3562 or HIST 3564 or HIST 3580 | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4580/6580. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The Arab-Israeli Conflict | Course
Description: | Exploration of the origins and development of the struggle for
land between Jews and Palestinians, and how that struggle spread
throughout the Arab Middle East. We will begin by exploring the
growth of Zionism among Russian and European Jews in the
nineteenth century as well as the beginnings of nationalism among
Arabs in Palestine under the Ottoman Empire. From there we will
continue with issues of statehood, nationalism, colonialism and
the continuation of the conflict to today. | | Athena Title: | ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLI | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 4535/6535 | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4600/6600. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Studies in Asian History | Course
Description: | A special issue or topic not otherwise offered in the history curriculum. Topics, methodology, and instructors will vary from semester to semester. Representative topics include "Japan and the Samurai," "Women, Gender and Family in Traditional Japan," and "Court and Countryside in Japan's Golden Age." | | Athena Title: | STUDIES ASIAN HIS | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4610/6610. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The World of the Samurai | Course
Description: | The evolution of Japan's warrior tradition from earliest times
to the late nineteenth century. The role of warriors in
society, the ethics and values of the samurai, and the nature
of warfare as these developed and changed during the millennium
that has become known as the Age of the Samurai. | | Athena Title: | WRLD OF THE SAMURAI | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4620/6620. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The Chinese Industrial Revolution | Course
Description: | Chinese economic history in world perspective, from the medieval
commercial revolutions to the 19th-century crisis. The rise of
European-dominated industrial capitalism was a reversal of
long-term trends of a China-centered world system. A comparative
approach will explain how the Chinese and European economic
trajectories diverged between labor intensive commercialization
and land-intensive capitalism. | | Athena Title: | Chinese Industrial Revolution | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every odd-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4630/6630. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Japan: The Golden Age of the Imperial Court | Course
Description: | The world of Japan's late classical age, focusing on the
culture, the social structure, and the political evolution of
the imperial court. | | Athena Title: | JPN: IMPERIAL COURT | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4640/6640. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Warriors and Warlords in Medieval Japan | Course
Description: | Japan's medieval world, focusing on the evolving political,
social, and cultural make-up of the country from the 13th
through the 16th centuries. | | Athena Title: | MEDIEVAL JAPAN | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4700/6700. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Themes in Comparative History | Course
Description: | A special subject not otherwise offered in the history curriculum. Topics, methodology, and instructors vary from semester to semester. | | Athena Title: | THEMES IN COMP HIS | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall and spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4730H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Marx and Marxist History (Honors) | Course
Description: | This course on Marx covers five issues: revolutions, the
transition from feudalism to capitalism, industrial and monopoly
capitalism, women and capitalism, and contemporary capitalism.
Includes extensive readings from Marx and Engels along with
selections from later Marxists. | | Athena Title: | MARX & MARXISM | | Nontraditional Format: | Course will be discussion intensive; there will not be formal
lectures. | | Prerequisite: | Permission of Honors | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every even-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4750/6750. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | History and Film | Course
Description: | We are living in a post-literate age. Most people now get their history from films instead of books. How film, using a different vocabulary than that of books, recreates the past. | | Athena Title: | HISTORY AND FILM | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST(DIGI) 4760/6760. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Hands-on Public History | Course
Description: | This experiential introductory course offers students
opportunities to research and develop public history projects
using primary and secondary sources. Students may create or
contribute to digital projects, documentaries, exhibitions,
walking tours and present their work in a public forum open to
both the university and Athens communities. | | Athena Title: | Hands-on Public History | | Prerequisite: | Any 2000-level HIST course | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4800/6800. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | History Internship | Course
Description: | This course is for the history major who is accepted into an
internship program to gain experience in an institution or
organization and who wants to earn academic credit for history-
related research work in conjunction with the internship. A
scholarly research paper is required. Enrollment is subject to
approval of the course application. | | Athena Title: | History Internship | | Nontraditional Format: | This course does not meet formally during the internship. The
internship must be at least 240 hours during the semester to
earn academic credit. Generally, students are expected to work
30-40 hours (full-time) during a semester internship. The
student is expected to meet with the faculty instructor prior
to the start of the internship and after the internship ends,
and to communicate regularly with the faculty instructor. | | Prerequisite: | Permission of major | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | EDHI(HIST) 4900/6900. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | History of American College and University | Course
Description: | History of American colleges and universities from 1619 to the present. Major topics include student life, European antecedents, the nature of the university, the impact of religion, the rise of athletics, the culture of collegiate life, and the influence of society. | | Athena Title: | HIST AMER COL & UN | | Prerequisite: | HIST 2111 and HIST 2112 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4960/6960. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Directed Readings in History | Course
Description: | Individual study, reading, or projects under the direction of a project director. | | Athena Title: | Directed Readings in History | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 4960R | | Nontraditional Format: | Directed study. | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4960R. 1-6 hours. Repeatable for maximum 16 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Faculty-Mentored Undergraduate Research I | Course
Description: | Faculty-supervised independent or collaborative inquiry into
fundamental and applied problems within a discipline that requires
students to gather, analyze, and synthesize and interpret data and
to present results in writing and other relevant communication
formats. | | Athena Title: | Undergraduate Research I | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 4960, HIST 6960 | | Nontraditional Format: | This course belongs to a progressive research course sequence to
promote a student's increasing skill development and depth of
inquiry, as well as growing independent research capability.
This course requires the close supervision of a faculty member
as the student undertakes a systematic and in-depth inquiry into
unknown, fundamental, and applied problems. In some cases, the
student will work collaboratively as part of a research team.
The student will have to apply understanding of the discipline
to identify or shape research questions and apply skills and
techniques learned to the research project. Students will gather
data, synthesize relevant literature, analyze, and interpret
data. The student will present results in writing or through
participation in research-group or program meetings and meetings
with their faculty mentor. The student will receive feedback
from the faculty mentor on their research progress and written
or oral presentation of results. A minimum of 45 hours of work
per credit hour per semester is required. | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4970R. 1-6 hours. Repeatable for maximum 8 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Faculty-Mentored Undergraduate Research II | Course
Description: | Faculty-supervised independent or collaborative inquiry into
fundamental and applied problems within a discipline that requires
students to gather, analyze, and synthesize and interpret data and
to present results in writing and other relevant communication
formats. | | Athena Title: | Undergraduate Research II | | Nontraditional Format: | These courses belong to a progressive research course sequence
to promote a student's increasing skill development and depth of
inquiry, as well as growing independent research capability. The
courses require the close supervision of a faculty member as the
student undertakes a systematic and in-depth inquiry into
unknown, fundamental, and applied problems. In some cases, the
student will work collaboratively as part of a research team.
The student will have to apply understanding of the discipline
to identify or shape research questions and apply skills and
techniques learned to the research project. Students will gather
data, synthesize relevant literature, analyze, and interpret
data. The student will present results in writing or through
participation in research-group or program meetings and meetings
with their faculty mentor. The student will receive feedback
from the faculty mentor on their research progress and written
or oral presentation of results. A minimum of 45 hours of work
per credit hour per semester is required. | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4980R. 1-6 hours. Repeatable for maximum 8 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Faculty-Mentored Undergraduate Research III | Course
Description: | Faculty-supervised independent or collaborative inquiry into
fundamental and applied problems within a discipline that requires
students to gather, analyze, and synthesize and interpret data and
to present results in writing and other relevant communication
formats. | | Athena Title: | Undergraduate Research III | | Nontraditional Format: | These courses belong to a progressive research course sequence
to promote a student's increasing skill development and depth of
inquiry, as well as growing independent research capability. The
courses require the close supervision of a faculty member as the
student undertakes a systematic and in-depth inquiry into
unknown, fundamental, and applied problems. In some cases, the
student will work collaboratively as part of a research team.
The student will have to apply understanding of the discipline
to identify or shape research questions and apply skills and
techniques learned to the research project. Students will gather
data, synthesize relevant literature, analyze, and interpret
data. The student will present results in writing or through
participation in research-group or program meetings and meetings
with their faculty mentor. The student will receive feedback
from the faculty mentor on their research progress and written
or oral presentation of results. A minimum of 45 hours of work
per credit hour per semester is required. | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4990R. 1-6 hours. Repeatable for maximum 8 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Undergraduate Research Thesis (or Final Project) | Course
Description: | Faculty-supervised independent or collaborative inquiry into
fundamental and applied problems within a discipline that requires
students to gather, analyze, and synthesize and interpret data.
Students will write or produce a thesis or other professional
capstone product, such as a report or portfolio that describes
their systematic and in-depth inquiry. | | Athena Title: | Undergraduate Thesis | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 4990 | | Nontraditional Format: | This is a capstone course under the direct supervision of a
faculty member. This course may be the culmination of the 4960R-
4980R sequence. Students will write a thesis or other
professional capstone product, such as a report or portfolio,
that describes their systematic and in-depth inquiry into an
unknown, fundamental, or applied problem. The thesis or capstone
product is written in close collaboration with the faculty
member and must be approved by that faculty member and/or the
department. The student will apply understanding of the
discipline to identify or shape the research question and apply
skills and techniques learned to complete the research project.
The student will have gathered data, synthesized relevant
literature and materials, analyzed, and interpreted data. The
student will demonstrate in writing the contribution of their
work to the discovery and interpretation of knowledge
significant to their field of study. The student will have
presented results in the form of a properly formatted,
professionally rigorous thesis document or other appropriate
professional capstone product and through the formal
presentation of the thesis or product to faculty and peers
during an approved event. The student will receive feedback from
the faculty member on the overall execution of their thesis
project, the written thesis, and their presentation. | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 4990. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Senior Thesis in History | Course
Description: | Students research and write an original and substantial thesis
under faculty mentorship. Students formulate their own research
questions, identify and analyze primary sources, synthesize
historiography, present and discuss their work as part of the
research process, and explain the significance of their findings
for understanding the past and present. | | Athena Title: | Senior Thesis in History | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 4990R | | Nontraditional Format: | This is a faculty-mentored, independent research course in which
students gain the experience of a practicing historian by
producing an original and in-depth thesis in the framework of a
specific time period or theme about which department faculty
members hold recognized expertise (e.g., Race in the Twentieth-
Century U.S., The Early Middle Ages, or Nuclear Culture). | | Prerequisite: | One 3000- or 4000-level HIST course | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall and spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ESOC(HIST) 5020/7020. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Teaching History | Course
Description: | Examination of ways in which historical scholarship can be
incorporated into social studies teaching. Evaluation of
materials and methods used to teach history in secondary and
middle schools. | | Athena Title: | Teaching History | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ESOC 5020E or ESOC 7020E | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 7000. 1-9 hours. Repeatable for maximum 12 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Master's Research | Course
Description: | Research while enrolled for a master's degree under the direction of faculty members. | | Athena Title: | MASTER'S RESEARCH | | Nontraditional Format: | Independent research under the direction of a faculty member. | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 7005. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 45 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Graduate Student Seminar | Course
Description: | Advanced supervised experience in an applied setting. This
course may not be used to satisfy a student's approved program of
study. | | Athena Title: | GRAD STUDENT SEM | | Nontraditional Format: | Seminar. | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 7200. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Area Colloquium | Course
Description: | Readings and discussions on major themes in the history and historiography of a geographical area. Time period and area will vary with the instructor. | | Athena Title: | AREA COLLOQUIUM | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall and spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 7300. 1-9 hours. Repeatable for maximum 18 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Master's Thesis | Course
Description: | Thesis writing under the direction of the major professor. | | Athena Title: | MASTER'S THESIS | | Nontraditional Format: | Independent research and thesis preparation. | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 7400. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Professional Development for Historians | Course
Description: | This professionalization seminar offers graduate students
hands-on preparation for launching careers as historians in the
academy and other settings. The course covers the trajectory of
career development from conference paper submissions to job
application dossiers. | | Athena Title: | Professional Development | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 7500. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | History, Mapping, and Spatial Analysis | Course
Description: | GIS is a technology that allows users to store and analyze
information spatially. Exploration of its usefulness to
historians and how to employ it in our own work. Over the length
of the semester, students will work on a mapping project related
to their own interests and research. | | Athena Title: | History and GIS | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 7900. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Theory and Practice of History | Course
Description: | Methods of research and fundamental theoretical issues pertaining to practicing the science of history, with emphasis on the development of writing skills. | | Athena Title: | THEORY & PRACT HIS | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 7920. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Independent Reading Colloquium | Course
Description: | Readings on major themes in the history and historiography of a geographical area or topic. Time period, area, and topic will vary with the instructor. Offered on request. | | Athena Title: | IND READING COL | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | EDHI(HIST) 8000. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | History of U.S. Higher Education | Course
Description: | Development and scope of American higher education. | | Athena Title: | History of U.S. Higher Ed | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 8001. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Teaching History in Colleges and Universities | Course
Description: | The variety of methods appropriate to instruction in college-level survey history courses. Students will develop syllabi and course materials in preparation for teaching their own surveys. | | Athena Title: | TEACHING HIST | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 7910 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST(AFAM) 8005. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Colloquium in African American History | Course
Description: | Exploration of the rich and varied scholarship constituting the
field of African American History. Examination of both the
historical content of the assigned books and articles and the
historiography. Possible topics include the Civil Rights
Movement, United States Slavery, Black Feminism, Historical
Memory, and Black Women in Nineteenth-Century America. | | Athena Title: | COLLOQ IN AFAM HIST | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST(AFAM) 7010 | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 8010. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Seminar in Early American History | Course
Description: | A research seminar in early American history. Native Americans, Spanish and French borderlands, British settlement, elaboration of colonial institutions, colonial wars, the American Revolution, and the rise of the new nation. | | Athena Title: | SEM EARLY AMER HIS | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 8020. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Seminar in Middle Period United States History | Course
Description: | A research seminar in which students should produce a potentially publishable paper upon some topic relating to the American South, the American Civil War, or Reconstruction. | | Athena Title: | SEM US 19TH CENT | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 8027. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | United States Women, Politics, and History | Course
Description: | This interdisciplinary course investigates reform and the
changing meaning of gender from the Colonial to Post Modern
period. An emphasis upon real rather than ideological politics
is the focus of discussions of change and continuity. Other
major themes include the meaning of politics and the evolution
of women's politics. | | Athena Title: | US WOMEN POL HIS | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every even-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 8030. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Seminar in Recent United States History | Course
Description: | Social, intellectual, cultural, and political developments in United States history since 1900. | | Athena Title: | SEM RECENT US HIS | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 8040. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Colloquium in Southern History | Course
Description: | Focuses on historiographical analyses of key events and
circumstances in southern history from slavery to the Sunbelt.
Heavy emphasis on critical reading of secondary texts and
historiographical writing. | | Athena Title: | COLLOQ IN SOHIST | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 8050. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | State and Society in Modern America | Course
Description: | Major themes, historiographical debates, and methods in United
States sociopolitical history since 1865. | | Athena Title: | US STATE & SOCIETY | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 8060. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Colloquium in United States Cultural History | Course
Description: | Offers an in-depth examination of the major themes and debates
in, as well as theories and methods of, American cultural
history of the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. | | Athena Title: | COLLOQ US CULTURE | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 8100. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The Early American Continent | Course
Description: | We have for generations conflated the British colonies with all
of early America. This course instead explores the entire
continent, from Sitka to St. Augustine, and all the people
living there, including native peoples, Russians, Spanish,
French, and British. Students will emerge with a clearer sense
of the continuities and discontinuities in early American
history and with a broad synthetic and comparative framework. | | Athena Title: | EARLY AM CONTINENT | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 8220. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Colloquium in Latin American and Caribbean History | Course
Description: | Major themes and historiography in Latin American and Caribbean history from pre-Columbian times to the present. | | Athena Title: | COLL LAT AMER HIST | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 7220 | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 8310. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Seminar in Early Modern Europe | Course
Description: | Research seminar that will allow graduate students to work
extensively on a particular theme in early modern European
history, 1350-1815. | | Athena Title: | EUR SEM 1350-1815 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 8320. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Seminar in Nineteenth-Century European History | Course
Description: | Selected research topics in nineteenth-century European diplomatic, political, social, economic, and intellectual history. Topics vary. | | Athena Title: | SEM 19TH CENT EUR | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 8330. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Seminar in Twentieth-Century Europe | Course
Description: | Research in twentieth-century European history. Topics will vary according to the interests of the students and instructors. | | Athena Title: | SEM 20TH CEN EUROPE | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 8600. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Colloquium in Asian History | Course
Description: | Readings on and discussion of major issues in the history and historiography of Asia. Countries and periods of focus will vary from semester to semester. | | Athena Title: | COLL ASIAN HIST | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 7600 | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 8700. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Colloquium in Comparative History | Course
Description: | Readings and discussion of major topics in the theory and practice of comparative history. | | Athena Title: | COL LOQ IN COMP HIS | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 7700 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 8705. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Colloquium in World History | Course
Description: | Methods, traditions, concepts, and literature of world history. | | Athena Title: | COLL WORLD HISTORY | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 7705 or HIST 8700 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 8710. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Colloquium on Gender in History | Course
Description: | Recent scholarship on gender in a geographic area. The time period of the subject matter will vary with the instructor. | | Athena Title: | COLLOQ GENDR IN HIS | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 7710 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 8720. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Colloquium in Warfare in History | Course
Description: | The history of warfare in the context of the warring societies from ancient to modern times. Topics depend on interest of the instructor. | | Athena Title: | COLLOQ IN WAR HIS | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 7720 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 8750. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Colloquium in Environmental History | Course
Description: | Introduction to the discipline of environmental history. Readings will seek to expose students to the variety of methodological approaches employed by environmental historians. Though much of the reading will focus on the United States environmental history, there will also be a significant world component to the course. | | Athena Title: | COLL ENV HIST | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 7750 | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 8760. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Colloquium on Science and Society | Course
Description: | Introduction to the Social and Cultural History of Science.
Study of the role and practice of science in ancient
and modern societies, interaction with religion, politics, and
culture, and social consequences of the development of
scientific knowledge. Readings reflect the variety of
methodological approaches pursued by historians of science. | | Athena Title: | COLL SCI & SOCIETY | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 7760 | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 8770. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Colloquium in Public History | Course
Description: | Examination of the role of public history in the historical
profession. In addition to exploring the historiography of the
field of public history, the course introduces students to methods
used in the discipline. Students will examine major issues of
past decades that have shaped the field in the 21st century. | | Athena Title: | Colloquium in Public History | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 8860. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 18 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Seminar in History | Course
Description: | Seminar in historical or historiographical subjects for masters and doctoral students. | | Athena Title: | Seminar in History | | Prerequisite: | HIST 7900 or permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 9000. 1-9 hours. Repeatable for maximum 99 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Doctoral Research | Course
Description: | Research while enrolled for a doctoral degree under the direction of faculty members. | | Athena Title: | Doctoral Research | | Nontraditional Format: | Independent research under the direction of a faculty member. | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 9005. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 45 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Doctoral Graduate Student Seminar | Course
Description: | Advanced supervised experience in an applied setting. This
course may not be used to satisfy a student's approved program of
study. | | Athena Title: | DOC GRAD STU SEM | | Nontraditional Format: | Seminar. | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 9010. 1-24 hours. Repeatable for maximum 24 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Advanced Doctoral Studies in History | Course
Description: | Intensive readings and discussions for students who are
preparing for written and oral comprehensive examinations. Under
the direction of the graduate coordinator. | | Athena Title: | ADV DOC STUDY HIST | | Nontraditional Format: | This course, designed for doctoral students preparing for their
oral and written comprehensive examinations once they have
completed all other required course work, involves a combination
of class meetings, intensive readings, and meetings with members
of the students' exam committees. | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST 9300. 1-9 hours. Repeatable for maximum 99 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Doctoral Dissertation | Course
Description: | Dissertation writing under the direction of the major professor. | | Athena Title: | Doctoral Dissertation | | Nontraditional Format: | Independent research and preparation of the doctoral dissertation. | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
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