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History
  

  • HIST 3380 Europe Since 1914

    Major political, economic, social and intellectual developments in Europe since 1914. The internal and diplomatic history of the Great Powers, the economic and political transformation of Europe under the impact of American-Soviet rivalry, and the intellectual record of the age are discussed. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010  or HIST 1020  or HIST 1030  or HIST 1040  or HIST 1050 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3390 Russian Revolutionary Movement

    Examines a century of revolution (1825-1925), focusing on the social, political, and intellectual characteristics of such groups as the Decembrists, Nihilists, Populists, Marxists, and Anarchists. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010  or HIST 1020  or HIST 1030  or HIST 1040  or HIST 1050 .
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3400 Germany: Bismark-Hitler

    Covers Germany’s history from 1848 to 1945 with an emphasis on Germany’s involvement in the wars from the Franco-Prussian War to World War II. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010  or HIST 1020  or HIST 1030  or HIST 1040  or HIST 1050 .
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3410 Hitler and Nazi Germany

    This course probes several topics related to Nazi Germany and Hitler. Emphasis is given to following topics-Weimar democracy and its difficulties, the rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party, the consolidation of Hitler’s power (1933-38), reasons for Nazi party popularity, pre-war aggression and World War II, the use of terror and the Holocaust, and the everyday experiences of women and the youth. This course extensively uses both primary and secondary texts in examining these issues in detail. This is a writing intensive course. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010  OR HIST 1020  OR HIST 1030  OR HIST 1040  OR HIST 1050 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3440 Society At War: United States in World War II

    Studies the impact of World War II on American society and evaluates the concept that modern war is an instrument of social change. Emphasis is placed on Roosevelt’s wartime leadership; economic mobilization for war; civil liberties; the condition of women, African-Americans and other minorities; demographic change; and youth and popular culture. The recruitment of science for military purposes, particularly in the development of the atomic bomb and the use of atomic bombs against Japan, is also studied. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010  or HIST 1020  or HIST 1030  or HIST 1040  or HIST 1050 .
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3450 Social History of Russia Through Literature

    This course traces the social history of Russia through its literature and associated art, from the primary chronicles of Kievan Rus through the “golden age” of late-Imperial Russia, the revolutions of 1917, and the Soviet period up to the post-Soviet present. Concentrating mainly on the modern era, it explores the complicated relationship between the Russian/Soviet State and its various subjects as expressed in excerpted novels, short stories, plays, poems, essays, and/or memoirs (in translation) along with graphic art, operatic, and cinematic adaptations. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010  OR HIST 1020  OR HIST 1030  OR HIST 1040  OR HIST 1050 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3460 Modern European Women’s History

    This course examines the social, cultural, and political history of European women from the Enlightenment to the present. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010  OR HIST 1020  OR HIST 1030  OR HIST 1040  OR HIST 1050  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3470 Irish History

    A survey course of Irish history from 1600 to the present. The course pays special attention to the Irish struggle for independence from British rule and the defining characteristics of Irish as opposed to English culture. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010  OR HIST 1020  OR HIST 1030  OR HIST 1040  OR HIST 1050 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3480 British Empire

    Survey of the history of the British Empire. Major course themes include the politics of imperialism and the economic and cultural significance of empire. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010  or HIST 1020  or HIST 1030  or HIST 1040  or HIST 1050 .
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3490 The Holocaust

    This course deals with several topics related to the Nazi Germany Holocaust. Emphasis is given to the following topics: anti-Semitism in the historical context, the killers and the victims, and the West and the Holocaust. The course also examines family life and gender differences in the camps, as well as civilian reaction to the Holocaust. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010  OR HIST 1020  OR HIST 1030  OR HIST 1040  OR HIST 1050 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3510 Public History

    This course introduces students to the non-teaching professional uses of history. Students will examine the theories, methods, varieties, and problems associated with what is called applied or public history. Because the history if every community is embedded in the life stories and experiences of its members, learning units will focus on the use of oral history in interpreting a community’s past, enabling students to understand history from the bottom up. This is a Writing Intensive (WI) course.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3520 Medieval and Early Modern European Women’s History

    This course examines women’s changing historical roles in Europe from the eighth to the eighteenth century. This course focuses on women’s economic, religious, social, and cultural roles and highlights the fascinating daily lives of ordinary women and their families. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010  OR HIST 1020  OR HIST 1030  OR HIST 1040  OR HIST 1050  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3530 Race and Slavery in Americas

    This course examines the institution of slavery. It focuses especially on the trade of African men and women to the Americas and within the Spanish, Portuguese, and English empires. It also examines the “race relations” that developed out of these various segments of the New World. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010  or HIST 1020  or HIST 1030  or HIST 1040  or HIST 1050 .
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3550 US Urban History

    An urban history of the United States from the colonial era to the present, exploring the urban experience from the pre-transit walking city through urban decay and rebirth, through the emergence of the Sunbelt cities and the Pacific Northwest, and finally to the current reality of urban sprawl and suburban Edge Cities.

    This course is Writing Intensive. This course fulfills UCC Area 5:Community and Civic Engagement. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010  OR HIST 1020  OR HIST 1030  OR HIST 1040  OR HIST 1050  
    Credits: 3.0

  

  • HIST 3560 Women and Gender in Modern South Asia

    This course examines the history of women and gender in modern South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka) during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It both analyzes the historical processes that transformed women’s lives, and consider how women themselves negotiated or subverted these processes in their own interest. Major themes and topics include: the transformation of gender through colonialism and nationalism, the emergence of women’s movements, women’s labor and globalization, and gender in the South Asian diaspora. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010  OR HIST 1020  OR HIST 1030  OR HIST 1040  OR HIST 1050  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3570 Late Antiquity and the Byzantine Empire

    This course begins with an examination of the Roman Empire between the reigns of Diocletian and Justinian, including late Roman history and culture, the rise of Christianity, and the disintegration of the Empire in the west. The remainder of the course follows the tumultuous history of the Byzantine Empire from Justinian’s death to the fall of Constantinople; in addition to the evolution of Byzantine state, society, culture, and religion, emphasis is placed upon interaction between the Byzantine Empire and neighboring peoples. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010  OR HIST 1020  OR HIST 1030  OR HIST 1040  OR HIST 1050  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3575 History of the Caucasus To 1750 CE

    This course gives the student a broad knowledge of the pre-modern history of the Caucasus to 1750 CE. On the hinge between Europe and Asia, the Caucasian highlands (encompassing all, or parts of, the modern nations of Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Iran and Russia) have long been a socially, politically and religiously complex region, and remain of vital geopolitical importance today. The diverse peoples of the ancient and medieval Caucasus lived at the intersection between the cultures of the Mediterranean, the Near East, Eastern Europe and the steppes of Central Eurasia. The dynamic history of the region and its peoples reflects Caucasia’s place as a vital center of exchange and conflict, and as a place of remarkable local cultural innovation.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3580 Russia in Asia

    This course surveys Russia’s conquest and incorporation of greater Siberia (including Pacific-rim territories) from 1550 to the present. For nearly half a millennium Russia has been attempting to extend itself eastward into northeast Asia - by force, especially at first, but also by more subtle means. However, the results defy easy categorization. Thus, Siberia is ideally suited to the study of contested frontiers, and to exploring the impact of expansion into Asia on the society and political-economic system behind them. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010  or HIST 1020  or HIST 1030  or HIST 1040  or HIST 1050  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3590 Gender and Islam

    This course examines the gendered histories and cultural politics of Islamic societies particularly in the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia. Beginning with an overview of the historical debates/events that shaped the lives of the people in Islamic societies, the course will interrogate our categories of analysis (gender, race, sexuality, poverty, religion, nation) and discuss the complexity of gender relations in production and reproduction, representations of femininities, masculinities and queerness, ideologies of secular and Islamic feminisms, the development of social and Islamist movements, and the impact of culture and politics on everyday life of people in these societies. This class is writing intensive.

      Cross Listed Course(s): WGS 3590  
    Credits: 3.0

  

  • HIST 3600 Traditional Japan

    This course treats the emergence of a distinctly Japanese cultural tradition, the development of a highly refined imperial court world, and the usurpation of political power by the warrior class known as the samurai, whose rule culminated in the Tokugawa Peace, 1600-1868. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010  or HIST 1020  or HIST 1030  or HIST 1040  or HIST 1050 .
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3610 Modern Japan

    This course examines Japan’s spectacular rise to world power and a position of economic prominence and significance in today’s global society. The social, economic, cultural and political consequences of industrialization and “Westernization” receive special attention since they link Japan to similar processes in play in Asia, Europe, and the Americas over the past two centuries. Japan’s experience with continental empire, war, defeat, and recovery will be treated from many perspectives, including the role played by memory in shaping Japan’s international posture in the postwar era. Literature, cultural artifacts, and films will be key resources used to explore the worldviews of Japanese people and the popularized images of Japanese culture in other regions of the world including America.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3620 Making Japanese Popular Culture

    This course examines contemporary Japanese popular culture from historical and theoretical perspectives. Learning how Japan was both impacted by and contributed to worldwide trends in culturaltransformation over the past several centuries requires critical analysis of the very notion of “globalization.” We analyze recent cultural materials to view Japanese culture as it is now, while examining classic examples of cultural adoption and adaptation from earlier periods of cultural creation in Japan with global impact. The objects and practices studied are wide-ranging, including wood-block prints, political and national symbols, architecture, advertising, visual and print media, literature, theatre,cinema, animé, manga, fashion, music, food, and art. The course centers on active student engagement with and manipulation of these cultural forms through active testing and calibration of cultural theory enhanced by technology. Prerequisite(s): One 1000-level History course.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3640 Japanese History Through Cinema

    Japan’s cinema tradition is one of the world’s strongest, including many of the best directors, actors, and themes in cinema history. The course examines what Japanese motion pictures can teach us about the making of Japan itself. Samurai, geisha, Emperor’s soldiers, yakuza, “military comfort women,” Godzilla, and the cinema of the everyday and tomorrow’s “Akira” and “Neo-Tokyo” will be examined through the use of films as historical documents and guides as to how the Japanese have grappled with Japanese tradition and the changing contemporary world.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3650 The Pacific War

    The course examines the Japanese experience during the 1931-1945 era and postwar occupation to better understand the political, economic, and social toll of the war and its impact on the development of Japanese society. The course makes extensive use of rare film materials to bring the experience closer. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010 or HIST 1020  or HIST 1030  or HIST 1040  or HIST 1050 .
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3660 The U.S. and The Pacific

    This course explores the cultural, political, and human intercourse between North America and East Asia across the broad highway of the Pacific. The Pacific Ocean has been, since the days of the New England whalers and clipper ships, both a frontier and an opportunity, attracting Americans. Examines American interests in the Far East, how the U.S. acquired territories as diverse as Hawaii and the Philippines, and emerging American ideas about worlds beyond the West Coast. Also considers how America’s interests have been reciprocated in Asia, Commodore Perry’s role in the opening of Japan, and why people from Japan, China, and the Philippines, the Pacific, and Southeast Asia have looked to America as a land of opportunity, a threat, a place of succor and a source of exploitation. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010 or HIST 1020  or HIST 1030  or HIST 1040  or HIST 1050  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3680 Women and War

    This course looks at how war and preparation for war have affected the lives, hopes, and images of women in the United States and around the world, examining the roles of women in war, military service, and militarism on societal development in world history since the eighteenth century. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010 or HIST 1020  or HIST 1030  or HIST 1040  or HIST 1050 .
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3690 Imagining War

    This course will develop students’ appreciation and understanding of the literary and historical context of war and challenge them to explore a variety of issues (gender, social class, pacifism, nationalism, the Home Front) through reading, writing, and discussion of literary and historical texts. These texts may vary by genre, historical period, or country of origin, and may include primary sources, memoir, poetry, fiction, film, media, and the visual arts. The goal of the course is to explore a single war from the 20th or 21st century. This is a writing intensive course. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010 or HIST 1020  or HIST 1030  or HIST 1040  or HIST 1050 ,
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3700 Traditional China

    This course examines Chinese history and its broad, global implications from their earliest times to approximately 1800.  Focal points include the origins and evolution of China’s centralized bureaucratic system; the evolution of Confucianism, Taoism and Chinese Buddhism; interaction with foreign and minority cultures; political-economic relations including trade with distant partners; and cultural achievements. Throughout the course, developments in China proper are examined comparatively in global context. Area Six: Global Awareness Prerequisite(s): HIST 1030  OR HIST 1040  OR HIST 1050   Cross Listed Course(s): ASN 3700  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3710 Modern China

    China’s response to the impact of the West with particular attention to the difficulties with which China adjusts itself to a modern, fast-changing world, and the developments that led to communism. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010 or HIST 1020  or HIST 1030  or HIST 1040  or HIST 1050  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3720 Medieval and Early Modern France

    This course will provide students with an understanding of the major political, social, cultural and economic events that shaped France between 987 and 1789. The class will focus on the expansion and contraction of royal power at different historical moments, the place of the Church in French society, social relations between men and women of different strata, and artistic and cultural developments including the Gothic and Enlightenment movements. This is a Writing Intensive course. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010 OR HIST 1020  OR HIST 1030  OR HIST 1040  OR HIST 1050 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3730 Germany After 1945

    This course explores key historiographical debates concerning post-1945 Germany. First, it looks at main events in the postwar period, such as the German defeat, the Allied occupation, and the division of Germany. It also examines diverging social and political developments in West and East Germany. Secondly, it analyzes the fall of the Berlin Wall, the German reunification, and the Berlin Republic in the context of Europe and the world. A major underlying question of the course is the extent of continuity or discontinuity in German history before and after 1945. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010 or HIST 1020  or HIST 1030  or HIST 1040  or HIST 1050  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3750 Chinese Communism

    This course examines the birth, evolution, and decline of Chinese communism. The foci of the course are as follows. First, it explores the origins of the Chinese communist movement in the early twentieth century. Second, it discusses the factors contributing to communist taking power in China in the wake of World War II. Third, it analyzes the decline of Chinese communism and the transformation of the communist state to a more plural society in the last three decades of the twentieth century. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010 or HIST 1020  or HIST 1030  or HIST 1040  or HIST 1050  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3760 Korean History

    Surveys Korean history from the earliest times through the twentieth century. For the traditional periods, the foci are the evolution of Korean polity, social and economic structure, cultural life, and Korea’s relationship with its neighbors in East Asia. For the modern era, the course examines the opening of the country in the nineteenth cetury, Japan’s colonization, the nationalist movement, the Korean War, and the political and economic development in both South Korea and North Korea in the latter part of the twentieth century. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010 OR HIST 1020  OR HIST 1030  OR HIST 1040  OR HIST 1050  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3780 Mughal India

    South Asia under Mughal dominance from c. 1500 to the late eighteenth century: the course will examine the social, cultural, economic, and political history of early modern India as well as the significance of European expansion. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010 OR HIST 1020  OR HIST 1030  OR HIST 1040  OR HIST 1050  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3790 History of Suburbia in US

    This course will examine the history of the development of suburbia in the United States. We will study the geographic, political, economic, and cultural ramifications of suburbanization and its relationship to the American dream, political ideologies, environmental and housing policies, and everyday life. Topics include (but are not limited to) the first commuter suburbs; the early twentieth-century streetcar and the post-World War II automobile suburbs; the growth of Edge Cities and sprawl in multi-nucleated metropolitan regions; the suburban ideal of the “bourgeois utopia”; and the evolving relationship of suburbs with rural and urban America. The course ends with an examination of the development of post-suburbia in the context of a new global spatial order. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010 or HIST 1020  or HIST 1030  or HIST 1040  or HIST 1050  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3800 Colonial Latin America

    A review of the Ibero-Indian-African background of Latin America. Also deals with the discovery and conquest of the area; Spain’s and Portugal’s imperial policies; political, economic, and social developments of the colonial society, and the wars for independence. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010 OR HIST 1020  OR HIST 1030  OR HIST 1040  OR HIST 1050  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3810 Modern Latin America

    Such topics as problems of early nationhood; caudillismo versus modern dictatorships and quest for democracy; difficulties in moving from a colonial to a national economy; and the social tensions of a society in transition are explored with consideration given to Latin America’s role in world affairs and relationships with the United States.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3820 The Spanish Caribbean

    A survey of Caribbean history from Columbus to Castro, stressing the important changes that occurred in the 1950s when the Caribbean became a focal point of the struggle between different world interests and ideologies. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010 or HIST 1020  or HIST 1030  or HIST 1040  or HIST 1050  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3830 Modern Brazil

    This course is designed to introduce students to the making of modern Brazil. The course examines Brazil’s history from the the arrival of the Portuguese crown in 1808 until the present day. Along with the political and economic history of Brazil, it focuses on social history and popular culture. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010 OR HIST 1020  OR HIST 1030  OR HIST 1040  OR HIST 1050  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3840 Mexican Revolution

    This course is an in-depth study of the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1917. The course begins with Mexican independence from Spain in 1810 and traces the roots of the Mexican Revolution through the pre-Revolutionary Porfiriato (1867-1910). It also focuses on the socioeconomic and political impact in the post-Revolutionary period from 1920 to 1940. In short, the Mexican Revolution is a vehicle for studying the emergence of the modern Mexican nation. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010 or HIST 1020  or HIST 1030  or HIST 1040  or HIST 1050 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3850 Nineteenth Century Latin America: 1810-1910

    This course examines the economic, social, political, and cultural processes and attempts to offer an interpretative synthesis of the intricate struggles around the definition of nationhood within the countries of the region. For this reason, most of the course focuses on the development of a sense of belonging to a nation among the conglomerate of peoples which made up the different countries in the nineteenth century. Particular attention is paid to the human dimension of these large social, economic, and political processes. We examine the history of conflict,accommodation, and resistance among the various ethnic and social groups that made up nineteenth-century society. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010  or HIST 1020  or HIST 1030  or HIST 1040  or HIST 1050  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3860 Colonial Brazil

    The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the foundational period of contemporary Brazil. It examines the peculiar pattern of Portuguese colonial expansion in the Americas and its social, political, economic, and cultural impact on the Tupinamba and Aimore indigenous population of coastal Brazil. The course also analyzes the rise of African slavery in Brazil as a direct consequence of native labor shortages in the production of sugar. Most of the course, however, focuses on the interactions, exchanges, and transformations of Brazil’s diverse populations and social groups from the sixteenth century to 1822. Particular attention is paid to the way in which the Portuguese colonial heritage impacted Brazil’s emergence as a modern nation-state after independence in 1822. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010  OR HIST 1020  OR HIST 1030  OR HIST 1040  OR HIST 1050 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3870 Ancient American Civilizations: The Aztec, Maya, and Inca

    The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the imperial indigenous civilizations of the American continent prior to European contact in 1492. The course focuses on the development of imperial civiliazations in Mexico and Central and South America. It analyzes the political system, economic, organization, religion, and social groups of Aztec, Maya, and Incan societies. Particular attention is paid to the transition these civilizations underwent from imperial status to colonial rule under Spain. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010   or HIST 1020  or HIST 1030  or HIST 1040  or HIST 1050 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3880 Latino History to 1898

    A history of the formation of Mexican, Cuban, and Puerto Rican communities and cultures in U.S. society from the Spanish Conquest in the fifteenth century through the late nineteenth century. It covers the U.S. conquest of Mexican territories in the Southwest; land loss and occupational mobility; community and cultural formation; and cultural interaction. It also examines relations among Latina/os and European immigrants, and considers the effects of U.S. intervention and imperialism in Latin America on U.S. Latino communities. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010   or HIST 1020  or HIST 1030  or HIST 1040  or HIST 1050  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3890 Latino History Since 1898

    A twentieth-century history of people of Latin American descent (Latinos/as) living in the United States. The course focuses on the four largest Latina/o groups (Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, and Dominicans), and covers migration patterns, cultural interactions, community and cultural formation, and racial formations. It also examines relations among Latina/os and European immigrants, and considers the effects of U.S. intervention and imperialism in Latin America on U.S. Latino communities. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010   or HIST 1020  or HIST 1030  or HIST 1040  or HIST 1050 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3900 Early Islamic History and Civil

    History of Islamic civilization from the Prophet Muhammad to the Mongol Invasion and destruction of the Classical Caliphate in A.D. 1258. The subjects of concentration are (1) the expansion of Islam as a political movement, (2) the formulation of the prophetic message into the religion and law that became the spiritual nucleus of the new civilization, (3) the absorption of the subject peoples (Jews, Christians, Iranians, Turks, Berbers) into the civilization and the role they played in its development and broadening visions and (4) the intellectual achievements of the High Caliphate in law, theology, mysticism, science, philosophy.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3910 Islamic/Middle Eastern History and Civilization II

    This is a continuation of Islamic/Middle Eastern History and Civilization I. The course covers a seven-century span, from the Mongol Conquest and destruction of Baghdad and the Classical Abassid Caliphate in 1258 to modern times in the Islamic Middle East. In addition to the political history of the Islamic World, the course surveys the institutional, administrative, religious, and intellectual changes that were intended to meet the successive challenges facing Muslim society, from the murder of the last Abassid Caliph by the Mongols to the rise of a resurgent Western Europe and Russia that ultimately, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, came to dominate the once powerful heartland of Islam, from Morocco to Central Asia. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010   or HIST 1020  or HIST 1030  or HIST 1040  or HIST 1050 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3920 Contemporary Middle East

    This course is a survey of Middle Eastern history from World War II to the present, with an emphasis on political, social, and economic development, nationalism and militarism, and contemporary problems threatening the uneasy peace in the region.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3940 Modern India

    An introduction to the history of South Asia under British rule and the postcolonial nation states that arose by the second half of the twentieth century–India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010  OR HIST 1020  OR HIST 1030  OR HIST 1040  OR HIST 1050 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3960 History and Literature of Medieval Spain

    A historical, literary, and intellectual survey of the three principal religious communities of Medieval Spain (Christians, Jews, and Muslims) from approximately 500 to 1500 A.D. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010  or HIST 1020  or HIST 1030  or HIST 1040  or HIST 1050 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3970 History Pop Culture

    A history of popular culture and mass media in the world. From the beginnings in the Protestant Reformation, the Gutenberg Bible, and Renaissance painting, popular culture and mass media are now global phenomena. In the United States, the idea of democracy has been intimately tied in with the culture of the people and the conflicts between various groups and visions of what it means to be American. As the United States grew into a global power, these questions expanded globally, hand-in-hand with American cultural and corporate power. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010  OR HIST 1020  OR HIST 1030  OR HIST 1040  OR HIST 1050 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 3990 Selected Topics

    A subject not covered by an existing course will be offered as recommended by the department and approved by the dean. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010  OR HIST 1020  OR HIST 1030  OR HIST 1040  OR HIST 1050 
    Credits: 1.0 - 6.0
  

  • HIST 4000 Internship in History

    This course is offered to qualified history majors to provide on-the-job training as interns at one of the following museums or institutions: Botto House Museum, New Jersey Historical Society, Passaic County Historical Society located in Lambert Castle, etc. Internships offer training in museum work, archival work, and as tour guides. Prerequisite(s): HIST 2600 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 4030 Interpreting US History

    Primarily for students with a special interest in American history. Provides an opportunity to critically examine areas in which important reinterpretations have been made or in which controversy exists among scholars. Prerequisite(s): HIST 2600  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 4040 Creation of American Republic

    This course will provide an in-depth exploration of the creation of the early American Republic (circa 1763-1825). The course will focus on the events and issues central to the process of nation building, including: the origin, nature, and consequences of the American Revolution; the early years of government under the Articles of Confederation; the adoption of the United States Constitution; the place of slavery in the new nation; and the cultural, social, economic, and political development of the new nation. The seminar is Writing Intensive and requires a minimum of 20 pages of formal writing, including a research paper. Prerequisite(s): HIST 2600 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 4080 Social Darwinism to the Bell Curve

    This seminar explores the history of ideas and practices generated from a biocentric or biology-centered worldview. In particular, the course is primarily concerned with the use of this worldview as an explanation for socio-human phenomena. These phenomena include social Darwinism, the eugenics movement, race, the search for crime genes, hereditarian theories of IQ, and controversies over the human genome project and cloning. The course primarily focuses on the history of these intellectual and social practicies within the United States, but insights from other Western contexts are also explored when deemed appropriate. Prerequisite(s): HIST 2600  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 4090 US Labor History Since 1865

    This course examines the history of workers - men and women, paid and unpaid, of different racial and ethnic groups in different regions of the United States - from 1865 to the present. Close attention is paid to the way issues of race, gender, and ethnicity affected historical developments. Prerequisite(s): HIST 2600  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 4100 Europe: The Industrial Revolution

    The so-called “Industrial Revolution” is acknowledged as one of the watersheds of modern history. Focusing on Great Britain from 1730-1870, this course will probe the origins, nature and consequences of that Revolution. It will survey the economic and technical changes that swept England as well as continental Europe, and will examine the social and cultural transformations created by industrialization. Prerequisite(s): HIST 2600 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 4170 War and Society

    The history of war and the interrelationship of conflict and conflict resolution in the development of human societies is treated in a comparative framework. Military institutions, science and technology, and the cultural treatment of war are among the topics included. Prerequisite(s): HIST 2600 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 4180 Rock ‘N’ Roll in American Society

    This course will explore various aspects of American culture and society since World War II through a close examination of the emergence, development and transformation of rock ‘n’ roll. Specifically, we will study the history of rock ‘n’ roll as a cultural form and social movement that provides a window into the nature of American art,politics, and everyday life in the latter half of te twentieth century. Crucial social questions regarding race, gender, class, ethnicity and sexuality willbe examined within the context of the variety of methods scholars use to study popular culture. Prerequisite(s): HIST 2600 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 4200 Politics and Social Movements

    This senior-level History seminar focuses on politics and social movements in diverse societies during the Cold War. It begins with a historical survey of World War II to identify the roots of the Cold War and the emergence of the Three-World Order that came to characterize the post-1945 period. Thereafter, it examines critical social movements in the First, Second, and Third World during the Cold War with special emphasis on the 1960s and 1980s. The course integrates multi-disciplinary approaches and materials to analyze how the Cold War impacted social movements and how Cold War politics in turn were influenced by social movements. The course requires a research paper combining a variety of approaches and documentation pertaining to the history of social movements at the end of the Cold War, plus other ongoing formal writing assignments throughout the course. This course fulfills the UCC Writing Intensive and Area 5 Civic Engagement requirements. Prerequisite(s): HIST 2600 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 4270 Peasant Russia

    The course examines the Russian peasantry from the Emancipation of 1861 to forced collectivization in the 1930s. Prerequisite(s): HIST 2600 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 4280 Stalin and His Times

    An examination of Stalin’s rise within the leadership of the communist party and Soviet state, Stalin’s impact on Soviet domestic policy and international affairs, and the process of de- Stalinization since the 1950s through the present. Prerequisite(s): HIST 2600 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 4290 The Russian Revolution 1917-1932

    This course examines the causes and impact of the revolutions of 1917, the major political parties and figures, and the social dynamics within the revolutionary movement. The course then focuses on the first fifteen years of Soviet power, delving into the type of society created, the conflicts within the leadership, and the rise of Stalin. Prerequisite(s): HIST 2600 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 4300 The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era

    Examines crucial periods such as the revolution of 1789, the revolutionary Year II, the revolutionary dictatorship and the Terror, and the Napoleonic era. While political history is stressed, great emphasis is placed on social history. This course is writing intensive and requires a minimum of 25 pages of writing. Prerequisite(s): HIST 2600  
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 4320 Intellectual History of Ancient and Medieval Civilizations

    An examination of the social history of the “intellectual classes” of the Mediterranean world in classical antiquity and the early Middle Ages (ca. 600 BCE-800 CE). Prerequisite(s): HIST 2600 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 4330 Comparative Revolutions

    A comparative study of revolution as a historical phenomenon, starting with a thorough examination of the concept and its application to events that have occurred in varoius parts of the world in the modern era. An anlysis of various theoretical models of revolutionary change will provide the tools to compare revolutions in varoius historical and cultural settings. The seminar is Writing Intensive and requires a minimum of 20 pages of formal writing, including a research paper. Prerequisite(s): HIST 2600 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 4430 Trans-Atlantic Colonies

    This course will explore the formation and development of the trans-Atlantic world from the Age of Exploration and Discovery through the Age of Revolution (circa 1492-1800). We will examine the exchanges of people, products, ideas, and technologies that took place in the trans-Atlantic world. Special attention will be given to cross-cultural patterns of contact and interaction between peoples from Europe, Africa, and the Americas. We will focus on several areas of historical inquiry, including social economic, political, and intellectual developments. Prerequisite(s): HIST 1010  AND HIST 2600 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 4440 Saints, Witches, and Ordinary Folks: European Religion 1500-1700

    Between 1400 and 1700, Europe went through the religious upheaval of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations. This seminar attempts to understand the impact of the Reformations on European society by reading outstanding books in the field. Prerequisite(s): HIST 2600 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 4600 Seminar in East Asian History

    This course examines the key critical methods of historical research and writing in the East Asian environment. Each semester will focus on a specific theme. Prerequisite(s): HIST 2600 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 4610 Colloquium

    This course is a seminar course in which a different topic is explored in depth each year. The Colloquium is an in-depth examination of a particular historical period, country, or theme that stresses engaged discussion of scholarship, student written work, and common problems in interpretation and exposition. This upper-level, writing-intensive course engages students in analytical reading and writing, and in the production of individual research projects. The colloquium requires a minimum of 25 pages of formal writing, including a research paper and a critical book review. Students will demonstrate and build on the skills and knowledge they have acquired in the History major and their other educational experiences. Topics will vary to reflect the instructor’s area of expertise.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 4680 Gandhi and Nonviolence

    The life and philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi in relation to the political and social development in South Africa and India and in comparison to non-violent movements in the United States. Prerequisite(s): HIST 2600 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 4700 Women and Revolution in China

    This course explores women’s participation and the role of women’s emancipation in the one hundred years of Chinese revolutionary activities from the late nineteenth century to the 1990s. It discusses the reconciliation of, and conflict between, women’s emancipation and general revolutionary objectives. It also traces the origins and evolution of the Chinese feminist movement, which paralleled the Chinese revolutionary experience. Prerequisite(s): HIST 2600 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 4800 History Seminar

    An in-depth examination of a particular historical period, country, or theme, this upper-level writing-intensive course engages students in analytical reading and writing, and in the production of individual research projects. The seminar requires a minimum of 20 pages of formal writing, including a research paper. Students will demonstrate and build on the skills and knowledge they have acquired in the History major, including in the required core courses and electives. Topics will vary to reflect the instructor’s area of expertise. Prerequisite(s): HIST 2600 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 4900 Race, Ethnicity and Changing City

    A history of immigrant neighborhoods and racial ghettos in American cities from the mid 1800s to the present. Explores how neighborhoods and their residents fare within the changing form of the city, by focusing on race and ethnic segregation, the suburban exodus, federal urban policies, and the urban crisis. Prerequisite(s): HIST 2600 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HIST 4990 Independent Study

    As approved and to be arranged. May not be used as a substitute for Capstone (400 level) Seminar.
    Credits: 1.0 - 6.0

Hindi
  

  • HNDI 1100 Basic Hindi I

    The first semester of a basic course in the Hindi language. Introduces students to the fundamentals of reading, writing, speaking, and understanding the third most spoken language in the world. Students can only receive a grade higher than a C- in this course.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HNDI 1110 Basic Hindi II

    The second semester of a basic course in the Hindi language. Continues to build on the fundamental skills of reading, writing, speaking, and understanding Hindi, the third most spoken language in the world. Students are also introduced to the rich and diverse culture of South Asia. Prerequisite(s): HNDI 1100 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HNDI 2100 Intermediate Hindi I

    An intermediate course that presumes novice-high proficiency in Hindi, focusing on all four areas of language skills - speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Reinforces competence development of grammar and vocabulary. Training to read literary and journalistic selections in Hindi, and to write short, grammatically and stylistically-correct Hindi compositions. Oral/aural practice through class discussions, presentations, and laboratory assignments. Enhancement of appreciation of the Hindi-Urdu-speaking world through cultural readings and films. Prerequisite(s): HNDI 1110 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HNDI 2110 Intermediate Hindi II

    An intermediate course that presumes intermediate-low proficiency in Hindi, focusing on all four areas of language skills - speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Reinforces competence and proficiency gained in Intermediate I with a thorough review and further development of grammar and vocabulary. Training to read literary and journalistic selections in Hindi, and to write short, grammatically and stylistically-correct Hindi compositions. Oral/aural practice through class discussions, presentations, and laboratory assignments. Enhancement of appreciation of the Hindi-Urdu-speaking world through cultural readings and films. Prerequisite(s): HNDI 2100
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HNDI 2210 Advanced Hindi: Spoken Language

    Advanced speaking course in conversational Hindi studied in the South Asian historical and cultural context as well as in the context of Diaspora communities outside South Asia. Prerequisite(s): HNDI 2110 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HNDI 2220 Advanced Hindi: Reading and Comprehension

    Advanced reading in Hindi. Examples will be taken from media, websites, and short literary and journalistic texts from South Asian and Diaspora communities. Prerequisite(s): HNDI 2110 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HNDI 2230 Advanced Hindi: Composition

    Advanced writing. Course reinforces grammar and vocabulary development through short, focused writing exercises. Prerequisite(s): HNDI 2110 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HNDI 3030 Literature of India in Translation

    A survey of the literature of South Asia, starting with selections from the Sanskrit epics and going on to romantic and devotional poetry and the rise of modern literary forms, with an emphasis on Hindi or another contemporary Indian language. The texts will be read in translation. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1500  Cross Listed Course(s): ASN 3030 
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HNDI 3070 Modern Indian Literature and Film

    An introduction to a selection of writings and cinema translated from various Indian languages into English. The course covers pre-independence texts as well as narratives of Partition and the voices of women. Students will examine contemporary texts and films to gain a broader understanding of how tradition and modernity are embedded in South Asian literature.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HNDI 3110 Advanced Hindi Conversation and Composition

    This course is a continuation of HNDI 3100 and is intended for students who are interested in developing knowledge of Hindi at an advanced level. It focuses on improving the learners’ Hindi language skills based on ACTFL (The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) Proficiency Guidelines - Advanced-Mid. Within this framework, instruction aims at integrating listening comprehension, speaking, reading comprehension, and writing skills in order to help the learners communicate meaningfully, effectively, and creatively in the Hindi language. Prerequisite(s): HNDI 3100
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HNDI 3990 Selected Topics

    As approved and to be arranged.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HNDI 4990 Independent Study

    As approved and to be arranged with instructor and by chairperson.
    Credits: 1.0 - 6.0

Honors
  

  • HON 1000 Honors First Year Research Seminar

    This seminar will introduce students to college-level research and to college level seminar style learning. Students will participate in a guided research experience on a historical or current question, theme or  concept. 

      Prerequisite(s): Permission by Honors College
    Credits: 1.0

  

  • HON 4990 Hon Indepedent Study

    This course will support and monitor a student’s completion of his/her Honors thesis project in the Honors Independent Track. This project is a substantial work, which will be presented to the campus community as a presentation of research or an artistic performance. The projects vary in nature and involve the student working with a faculty mentor who has expertise in the student’s topic. The course will cover such topics as: defining and outlining the project, determining research methods, overcoming obstacles along the way, completing a first draft, revising, and successfully bringing the project to a finished state.
    Credits: 1.0 - 6.0

Honors in Life Science Environmental Ethics
  

  • HSH 2000 Honors Inquiry and Ethics

    This course is the initial course in the Honors Programs in Nursing and Life Science Ethics. The course deals with the process of inquiry, its application to critical thinking and the development of knowledge in a discipline. Ethical implications which impinge upon decision making in this process will be explored from the viewpoint of various ethical paradigms.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HSH 3000 Science Ethics and the Law

    The relationship between Issues of Science and Ethics is to a great extent closely linked to state and federal statutes as well as the restrictions imposed by governmental regulatory agencies. In this course students will learn the importance of the legal aspects which complicate seemingly non-controversial ethical decisions.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HSH 4000 Ethics Internship

    This course is designed for undergraduate students in the Honors in Life and Science and Environmental Ethics program. Students will normally work a minimum of 8 hours a week under the supervision and guidance of an on-site supervisor in the community, as well as within certain corporate settings.
    Credits: 3.0

Humanities
  

  • HUM 2510 Humanities I: Cultural Roots and Continuities

    A study of the roots of Western and non-Western cultural expression in the context of historical periods or by thematic approach. Analysis of ideas and values from the classical world to the Renaissance.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HUM 2520 Humanities II: Cultural Roots and Continuities

    A study of the roots of Western and non-Western cultural expression in the context of historical periods or by thematic approach. Analysis of ideas and values from the Renaissance to the modern world.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HUM 3990 Selected Topics

    A topic not covered by an existing course is offered as recommended by the department and approved by the dean.
    Credits: 1.0 - 6.0
  

  • HUM 4990 Independent Study

    As approved and to be arranged.
    Credits: 1.0 - 6.0

Humanities Honors
  

  • HUMH 1990 Humanities Honors Seminar I

    Selected humanistic problems in the literature, history, and philosophy of the past and present. The semester is divided into two periods - classical and medieval, and Renaissance - with emphasis on representative authors, e.g., Plato, Sophocles, Chaucer. Readings, seminar discussions, guest lecturers, and educational films explore such perennial questions as the interplay of self and society, the value of intelligence, humankind’s place in nature, heroism, etc.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HUMH 2000 Humanities Honors Seminar II

    Selected humanistic problems in the literature, history, and philosophy of the past and present. The semester is divided into two periods - the age of revolutions and the twentieth century - with emphasis on representative authors, e.g., Shakespeare, Cervantes, Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot. Readings, seminar discussions, guest lecturers, and educational films explore such perennial questions as the interplay of self and society, the value of intelligence, humankind’s place in nature, heroism, etc.
    Credits: 3.0
  

  • HUMH 2010 Humanities Honors Seminar III

    An examination of human life and its problems in the twentieth century, specifically designed to interest the evening working student. Our technological culture has promised unlimited control and prosperity, but has also brought alienation and complexity. Possible solutions offered by politics, behavioral science, and philosophy are discussed. This course develops a perspective for understanding our human context and provides a focus for dealing with its problems.
    Credits: 3.0
 

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