Loyola Marymount University Bulletin 2021-2022 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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HIST 1010 Premodern World History
4 semester hours
A course in global history from roughly 3500/3000 BCE to the “age of exploration” in the fifteenth century, focusing on dynamics of cultural contact in the ancient and medieval periods.
HIST Concentration: Global Economies, Encounters, and Exchange.
University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.
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HIST 1050 Modern World History
4 semester hours
A course in global history from the “age of exploration” in the fifteenth century to the present, with a variety of encounters and exchanges, which transformed the cultures and societies of all those involved.
HIST Concentration: Global Economies, Encounters, and Exchange.
University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.
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HIST 1060 Modern Global Environmental History
4 semester hours
A course in global history with a particular focus on environmental history, exploring how humans, animals, natural forces, and science and technology have shaped the environment; the ways in which historical developments such as migration, empire, trade, industrialization, and urbanization have affected humans’ relationships with nature; and how the environment has affected historical developments.
HIST Concentrations: Global Economies, Encounters, and Exchange; Environment, Science, and Technology.
University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.
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HIST 1120 Heirs of Rome: Europe, Byzantium, and Islam in the Early Middle Ages
4 semester hours
Considers the emergence of three distinct civilizations–the West, Byzantium, and Islam-out of the Roman Empire; their expansion, divergence, and mutual interactions in the Early Middle Ages; and their clash in the Crusades of the twelfth and thirteenth century.
HIST Concentration: Global Economies, Encounters, and Exchange.
University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.
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HIST 1130 Crisis and Expansion: Europe and the World, 1200-1648
4 semester hours
This lower division Core course will survey the major developments in European history over four pivotal centuries. From the Black Death and other crises that wracked Europe during the later Middle Ages, this course will move into the early modern period, examining movements of religious reform, religious wars, and European overseas expansion.
HIST Concentration: Global Economies, Encounters, and Exchange.
University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.
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HIST 1200 European Empires, Exploration, and Exchange since 1500
4 semester hours
A study of the ways in which Europeans interacted with the rest of the world, in terms of exploration, trade, exchange, and imperialism. Students will study the development of overseas empires from the early Portuguese and Spanish exploration of Africa, and Americas, and the Indian Ocean to the late-19th-century “Scramble for Africa” and the establishment of global dominance in the years before the world wars of the 20th century.
HIST Concentrations: Global Economies, Encounters, and Exchange; Environment, Science, and Technology.
University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.
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HIST 1201 Power, Privilege, and Agency in Modern Europe
4 semester hours
A study of the political, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural developments in Europe from 1500 to the present, by looking at the related dynamics of power, privilege, agency, and experience. Students will use selected case studies about power, privilege, and agency as a means to interrogate how various categories of difference came to define power relations in both local and global encounters.
HIST Concentration: Race, Gender, and Culture.
University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.
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HIST 1204 Revolutions in the Making of Modern Europe
4 semester hours
This course uses the notion of “revolution” as a prism through which to examine the political, economic, social, and cultural transformations in “the West” since 1500. Special emphasis will be on the question of change and continuity, as a means to examine “turning points” in European history.
HIST Concentration: Global Economies, Encounters, and Exchange.
University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.
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HIST 1250 Black Europe
4 semester hours
Black Europe focuses on the historical experiences of Africans and people of African descent in Europe from antiquity to the present. The courses used the analytical categories of race and Blackness to rethink European history, as well as to consider Europe in a broader global context. ,
HIST Concentrations: Race, Gender, and Culture; Global Economies, Encounters, and Exchange; Public and Applied History
University Core fulfilled: Historical Analysis and Perspectives
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HIST 1300 Becoming America
4 semester hours
This course is an introductory survey of American history from the pre-Columbian period to the eve of the Civil War. It focuses on the interaction of Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans from first contact to circa 1850, focusing on the experiences of individuals and groups and examines their relationships to the broader structures of American society.
HIST Concentrations: Law, Politics, and Society; Race, Gender, and Culture.
University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.
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HIST 1301 America and the Atlantic World 1450-1850
4 semester hours
The trans-Atlantic world of Europe, Africa, and the Americas as a single unit of study in the wake of the voyages of Columbus, including the North American colonies and early United States, the slave trade and plantation complex, the Columbian exchange, revolutions, and abolition.
HIST Concentrations: Global Economies, Encounters, and Exchange; Race, Gender, and Culture.
University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.
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HIST 1400 The United States and the World
4 semester hours
This course serves as an introductory survey of United States history from the nineteenth century to the present. It focuses on the experiences of groups and individuals and their relationships to the broader structures of United States society by examining changes to American society over time, exploring their causes, and analyzing their consequences within a transnational context.
HIST Concentration: Race, Gender, and Culture.
University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.
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HIST 1401 The United States and the Pacific World
4 semester hours
This class surveys the ways in which U.S. interchanges with Asia and the Pacific Islands have transformed cultural, political, ideological, and socioeconomic developments on both sides of the Pacific from the earliest contact to the twenty-first century within global and comparative frameworks.
HIST Concentrations: Global Economies, Encounters, and Exchange; Race, Gender, and Culture.
University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.
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HIST 1500 State, Society, and the Citizen in the Modern Middle East
4 semester hours
This course explores the history of the Middle East from 1453 to the present through an examination of the evolving relationship between the state and the subject/citizen and the question of identity.
HIST Concentrations: Global Economies, Encounters, and Exchange; Law, Politics, and Society.
University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.
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HIST 1510 Minorities and Women in the Modern Middle East
4 semester hours
This course explores the history of the Middle East from 1453 to the present through an examination of the twin impact of Islam and the West on the lives of minorities (ethnic and religious) as well as the status of women.
HIST Concentration: Race, Gender, and Culture.
University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.
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HIST 1520 The Social Lives of Commodities in the Modern Middle East
4 semester hours
This course explores the history of the Middle East from 1453 to the present by focusing on a number of commodities (such as tulips, silk, and oil) to chart regional and global socio-economic and cultural connections as well as change over time.
HIST Concentration: Global Economies, Encounters, and Exchange.
University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.
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HIST 1600 African States and Societies since 1800
4 semester hours
This course addresses the political, social, and cultural history of Africa since 1800. Among the questions it explores are changing systems of governance, shifting borders and identities, and dynamics of colonialism, the diversity of African societies and cultures, and their resilience in the face of historical changes.
HIST Concentration: Global Economics, Encounters, and Exchange.
University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.
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HIST 1700 Colonial Latin America
4 semester hours
An introduction to indigenous, African, and Iberian backgrounds. Examines colonial societies through social, economic, and political institutions with attention to the contributions of Indians, Africans, and Europeans to the creation of Latin America’s diverse societies.
HIST Concentration: Race, Gender, and Culture.
University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.
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HIST 1750 Modern Latin America
4 semester hours
Surveys the nations of Latin America from their independence until the present. Emphasizes the process of nation-building, governance, socioeconomic integration, and coping with modernization.
HIST Concentration: Race, Gender, and Culture.
University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.
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HIST 1800 Modern Asia: China, Japan, and Korea since 1600
4 semester hours
This course introduces the history of East Asia from 1600 to the present. It explores the political, socio-economic, and cultural history of China, Japan, and Korea and focuses on empire-building, economic expansion, nationalism, socialism, decolonization, and popular culture.
History Concentration: Global Economies, Encounters, and Exchange.
University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.
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HIST 1850 East Asia: Origins to 1600
4 semester hours
This course explores the origins and development of East Asian states and cultures from the earliest times to the early modern era. Topics include the emergence and development of such essential heritages of East Asia as Confucianism, Sinicized Buddhism, bureaucratic institutions, legal culture, social order, diplomatic relations, and trading networks.
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HIST 1900 Science, Nature, and Society
4 semester hours
This course examines the history of the West, defined as European and North American societies and cultures, through the lens of science and nature from the sixteenth century to the present, tracing the history of ideas about science and nature in relation to broader social, economic, and political changes and demonstrating the inseparability of science and social context.
HIST Concentration: Environment, Science, and Technology.
University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.
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HIST 1998 Special Studies
1 TO 4 semester hours
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HIST 1999 Independent Studies
1 TO 4 semester hours
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HIST 2300 Red, White, and Black: Race in Colonial America
4 semester hours
A social and cultural history of North America from the pre-Columbian period to the American Revolution with a focus on the roots of American race relations. The course will address the impact of competing cultures as they developed and collided during 200 years of conflict.
HIST Concentration: Race, Gender, and Culture.
University Core fulfilled: Foundations: Studies in American Diversity.
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HIST 2400 Picturing Race and Gender
4 semester hours
Using interdisciplinary approaches and cross-cultural perspectives, this class delves into the ways in which visual imageries have been used to create and shape notions of race and gender, both reflecting and influencing socioeconomic relations, cultural expectations, and political norms in the United States.
HIST Concentration: Race, Gender, and Culture.
University Core fulfilled: Foundations: Studies in American Diversity.
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HIST 2405 Civil Rights Activism: 1880-Present
4 semester hours
This course examines the history of U.S. civil rights activism and advocacy from the late-nineteenth century to the present, tracing the efforts by several groups to achieve and expand the full rights of United States citizenship, including African Americans, Native Americans, immigrants, LGBT, and women. It also draws connections between activism movements in the United States and throughout the world.
HIST Concentration: Race, Gender, and Culture.
University Core fulfilled: Foundations: Studies in American Diversity.
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HIST 2410 Race and Ethnicity in America
4 semester hours
This course surveys the history of race and ethnicity in the lands that became the United States from the fifteenth century to the present, focusing on three, overlapping themes: (1) the efforts by European nations and the United States to colonize the lands of North America, in part through the subjugation of particular groups such as American Indians, African Americans, and immigrants from Europe, Asia, and Latin America; (2) the ways that these groups have negotiated such oppression and claimed places within U.S. culture and society; and (3) the intersection of race and ethnicity with other categories of difference, such as gender, class, religion, and sexuality.
HIST Concentration: Race, Gender, and Culture.
University Core fulfilled: Foundations: Studies in American Diversity.
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HIST 2420 American Indian History
4 semester hours
This course surveys American Indian history from the fifteenth century to the present, beginning with the arrival of Europeans on North American shores and ending with the various and complex issues facing Native peoples in contemporary U.S. society. It focuses on three themes: (1) the efforts by European nations and the United States to colonize the lands of North America and establish dominion over its Native populations; (2) the struggles by Indian peoples to negotiate the tremendous changes ushered in by European and American presence in North America; and (3) the ways that Native peoples have claimed places within U.S. culture and society, at the same time that they have redefined their identities as indigenous peoples in both national and international contexts.
HIST Concentration: Race, Gender, and Culture.
University Core fulfilled: Foundations: Studies in American Diversity.
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HIST 2910 Telling History in Public
4 semester hours
An introduction to the study of history, including historical method, the writing of history, and historical interpretation, with a particular focus on public history-that is, those aspects of historical work that engage the public with the past, including both the study of public narratives about the past and the practice of public history.
History majors and minors only.
HIST Concentration: Public and Applied History.
University Core fulfilled: Flags: Engaged Learning
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HIST 2998 Special Studies
1 TO 4 semester hours
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HIST 2999 Independent Studies
1 TO 4 semester hours
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HIST 3252 Crime Stories: Morality, Deviance, and Popular Culture in Modern Britain
4 semester hours
This course examines the history of the 1860s, the 1930s, and the 1960s through British detective fiction. Considering how and why such radical transformation took place, students examine how fictional narratives relate to contemporary ideas about morality and deviance, helping to undermine, reimagine, or reinforce existing power structures.
HIST Concentration: Race, Gender, and Culture.
University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Interdisciplinary Connections
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HIST 3272 Culture and Politics of Weimar Germany
4 semester hours
This course explores the history of interwar Germany and the paradoxes of Weimar “modernity” from an interdisciplinary perspective, integrating an analysis of cultural developments with an analysis of political and social developments.
HIST Concentration: Race, Gender, and Culture.
University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Interdisciplinary Connections
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HIST 3452 US Environmental History
4 semester hours
This course presents essential concepts, concerns, and methods of environmental history–the study of the relationships between humans and their physical environment–in the context of United States history. Topics include American Indians and the environment, European colonization and settlement, urbanization and industrialization, conservation and environmentalism, environmental racism and social justice, and contemporary environmental issues in historical perspective.
HIST Concentration: Environment, Science, and Technology.
University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Interdisciplinary Connections.
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HIST 3702 Women in Colonial Latin America
4 semester hours
A historical exploration of the place of women and men within the social systems of pre-Columbian, early, and modern Latin America. The course explores the gendered dimensions of the economy, politics, and culture in indigenous, Spanish, and contemporary societies.
HIST Concentration: Race, Gender, and Culture.
University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Interdisciplinary Connections
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HIST 3708 Race in Colonial Latin America
4 semester hours
This course examines the complicated history of race in Latin America, including how Latin Americans used race to organize society and how this social construct shaped the experiences of men and women of different ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. Topics include: race mixture, racial classification, and cultural hybridity; slavery and emancipation; immigration; nationalism and citizenship; and the intersections of race, gender, and class.
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HIST 3820 Environment and Economy in China
4 semester hours
This course investigates the interactions between human activities and their environment in Chinese history. Topics include visions of the relationship between nature and humanity in Chinese philosophy, climate change, demographic trends, food security, interventions of the imperial state, and ecological transformations on China’s frontiers.
HIST Concentration: Environment, Science, and Technology.
University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Interdisciplinary Connections
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HIST 3998 Special Studies
1 TO 4 semester hours
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HIST 3999 Independent Studies
1 TO 4 semester hours
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HIST 4050 Global History of Food
4 semester hours
Using interdisciplinary methodologies, this course explores the ways in which food has the power to both define and reflect cultural, socioeconomic, religious, and political realities within a transnational context.
HIST Concentrations: Global Economies, Encounters, and Exchange; Race, Gender, and Culture.
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HIST 4101 Ancient Greece
4 semester hours
Explores the origins of the Greeks from Homeric times to the death of Philip of Macedon. Topics include the developments of political forms, including democracy, and most notably, drama and philosophy against the background of war and conflict.
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HIST 4102 Alexander and the Hellenistic World
4 semester hours
Examines the career and impact of Alexander the Great, particularly as seen in the expansion of Greek culture across the Mediterranean world and to the East as far as India. Topics include the Hellenization on non-Greeks, Jews, and Romans in particular, and the further development of philosophy and learning.
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HIST 4105 Ancient Rome
4 semester hours
Studies the origins of the city of Rome with the Etruscans and its transformation into that of Romans, and how the Romans expanded through Italy and conquered the Mediterranean world, ca. 800 BC-AD 44. Topics include the issue of Romanization, political development, the idea of empire, and the assimilation of Greek culture.
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HIST 4106 Imperial Rome
4 semester hours
Explores the world of Imperial Rome from Britain to Mesopotamia, from the reign of Augustus to the end of classical antiquity, ca. 27 BC-AD 600. Topics include Romanization and the imperial system, the origins, survival, and victory of Christianity, and Rome’s struggles with Persians and Germans.
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HIST 4122 The Rise of Medieval Europe
4 semester hours
Traces the emergence of a coherent European civilization from the collapse of Roman power in the fifth century to the rise of new forms of Latin Christian unity in the eighth through eleventh centuries.
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HIST 4132 The Viking World
4 semester hours
Explores Viking society from the late eighth to the early eleventh century, including the reasons for the Scandinavian invasions of early-medieval Europe, the course and consequences of Viking activity in the British Isles and France, the wider settlement of the Norse from Russian to Greenland and North America, and the Christianization of the Viking world.
HIST Concentrations: Global Economies, Encounters, and Exchange; Law, Politics, and Society.
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HIST 4142 The Transformation of Medieval Europe
4 semester hours
Examines the fragmentation of the medieval forms of European unity from the twelfth through sixteenth centuries. Topics include political and social change, questions of authority, and religious strife.
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HIST 4200 Early Modern Europe
4 semester hours
A study of the political, intellectual, social, economic, and cultural developments in Europe from the Renaissance through the Enlightenment.
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HIST 4205 Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century
4 semester hours
A study of the political, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural developments in Europe during the “long nineteenth century,” from the French Revolution to the Great War.
HIST Concentrations: Global Economies, Encounters, and Exchange; Race, Gender, and Culture.
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HIST 4206 20th-Century Europe
4 semester hours
A study of the political, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural developments in Europe from the Great War through the end of the twentieth century.
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HIST 4215 European Imperialism
4 semester hours
A study of the “new imperialism” in Africa and Asia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including the origins and dynamics of European imperialism, the structures of colonial rule, the effects on the colonized and their responses, and decolonization.
HIST Concentrations: Global Economies, Encounters, and Exchange; Race, Gender, and Culture.
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HIST 4250 Modern Britain and the British Empire
4 semester hours
A study of how Britain helped build the Atlantic slave-based economic system, used these resources to become the world’s first industrial nation, expanded its global empire, became a democracy, and has struggled with its identity since its colonies became independent and it joined (and then left) the European Union.
HIST Concentrations: Global Economies, Encounters, and Exchange; Race, Gender, and Culture.
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HIST 4255 Modern Ireland
4 semester hours
Covers key events of Ireland’s struggle for independence, incorporating debates about the uses of history and memory, the formation of national identity, and the politics of nostalgia.
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HIST 4260 The French Revolution
4 semester hours
An inquiry into the causes of the fall of the French monarchy, the creation of a civic order, a new political culture, and the impact of war and terror on French society.
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HIST 4271 Modern Germany
4 semester hours
A study of the history of Germany from the establishment of the German nation-state to the present, including the two world wars, the Weimar Republic, Nazism and the Holocaust, the two Germanies of the Cold War period, and German unification.
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HIST 4272 20th-Century Eastern Europe
4 semester hours
A study of the political, social, economic, and cultural developments in the states between Germany and Russia from the collapse of the Habsburg, German, and Ottoman Empires after World War I to the Balkan Wars at the end of the twentieth century.
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HIST 4273 Nazi Germany
4 semester hours
An examination of the history of Nazi Germany, including the National Socialism as an ideology, the Nazi seizure of power, the power structures of the Third Reich, German society and culture under Nazism, and the Holocaust.
HIST Concentrations: Public and Applied History; Race, Gender, and Culture.
University Core fulfilled: Flags: Engaged Learning
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HIST 4280 The Rise of Russia, 900-1825
4 semester hours
A study of the origins of the Russian Empire from the arrival of the Vikings to the emergence of Russia as a Great Power. Topics include autocracy, serfdom, religious revolts, imperial expansion, and competitive emulation of the West.
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HIST 4282 Ethnicity and Empire in Russia
4 semester hours
During the Cold War, scholars overlooked the ethnic diversity of the Soviet Union and focused simply on the Russians. This course takes the experience of multiple ethnic groups–Ukrainians, Jews, Tatars–into consideration and examines the history of Russia as the history of a multi-ethnic state.
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HIST 4301 Revolutionary America
4 semester hours
An examination of the origins, course, and results of the American Revolution.
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HIST 4302 Jacksonian America
4 semester hours
A study of the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century, focusing on the social, cultural, economic, and political developments of the era.
HIST Concentrations: Law, Politics, and Society; Race, Gender, and Culture.
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HIST 4304 Nineteenth-Century America
4 semester hours
A social and cultural history of nineteenth-century America. Covers such topics as industrialization, urbanization, religion, literature, westward migration, immigration, class formation, gender, and race.
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HIST 4305 Victorian America
4 semester hours
An examination of American culture and society in the second half of the nineteenth century, focusing on such diverse topics as family, sexuality, popular culture, urbanization, immigration, class conflict, race relations, and America’s place in the world.
HIST Concentrations: Law, Politics, and Society; Race, Gender, and Culture.
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HIST 4400 Rise of Modern America
4 semester hours
An examination of American culture and society in the early twentieth century, focusing on such topics as race, class, gender, consumerism, reform movements, and America’s place in the world.
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