Apr 25, 2024  
Loyola Marymount University Bulletin 2017-2018 
    
Loyola Marymount University Bulletin 2017-2018 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

History (HIST)

  
  • 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.

    University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.


  
  • 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.

    University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.


  
  • 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.

    University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.


  
  • HIST 1110 Founders of the West


    4 semester hours

    Examines the origins of Mediterranean societies and cultures, exploring shared contacts and links, from the end of the Bronze Age to the end of Antiquity, 1000 BC-AD 600.

    University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.


  
  • 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.

    University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.


  
  • 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.

    University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.


  
  • 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.

    University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.


  
  • 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.

    University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.


  
  • HIST 1202 The Individual, the State, and Civil Society in Modern Europe


    4 semester hours

    A study of the history of Europe from the Renaissance to the present in terms of the changing ways in which European cultures have defined a good society and imagined the possibilities for individual action in the world.

    University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.


  
  • HIST 1203 Religion, Society, and the Search for Meaning in Modern Europe


    4 semester hours

    A study of the history of Europe in a global context and in terms of the impact of the changing religious belief, practice, and institutional structures in the period from 1500 to the present. Students will consider religion as a social practice and historical artifact.

    University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.


  
  • 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.

    University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.


  
  • 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.

    University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.


  
  • 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.

    University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.


  
  • HIST 1302 Becoming African American


    4 semester hours

    This course examines African American history from its origins in the slave trade to the emancipation of slaves in the U.S. in the nineteenth century, including the role of economics in slavery, comparisons of U.S. chattel slavery with other slave societies, the roots of African American culture in slave societies, the contribution of abolitionism to international discussions of human rights, and the contribution of slavery to ideas about and the legacy of race in the U.S.

    University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.


  
  • 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.

    University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.


  
  • 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.

    University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.


  
  • HIST 1402 African Americans in the World since Slavery


    4 semester hours

    This course examines the historical relationship between African Americans and the African Diaspora. Topics include African American perspectives on slavery and equality and African Americans’ interactions with world motions of race, emancipation, imperialism, legal and human rights, and post-modernity.

    University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.


  
  • 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.

    University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspective.


  
  • 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.

    University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.


  
  • 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.

    University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.


  
  • 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.

    University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.


  
  • HIST 1700 Early 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.

    University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.


  
  • 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.

    University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.


  
  • 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.

    University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.


  
  • HIST 1900 Science, Nature, and Society in the West


    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.

    University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Historical Analysis and Perspectives.


  
  • HIST 1998 Special Studies


    1 TO 4 semester hours

  
  • HIST 1999 Independent Studies


    1 TO 4 semester hours

  
  • HIST 2000 What Is History?


    4 semester hours

    An introduction to history as an intellectual discipline, focusing on the study and writing of history, including historiography and historical methods. Organized around the study of a particular historical issue or episode, this is an intensive course on how historians approach problems.

    University Core fulfilled: Flags: Information Literacy, Writing.


  
  • 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.

    University Core fulfilled: Foundations: Studies in American Diversity.


  
  • HIST 2400 Picturing Race and Gender


    4 semester hours

    This course explores the manner in which various peoples, including African Americans, Asian Pacific Americans, Latina/o Americans, Native Americans, and white Americans, have been portrayed and, in turn, have portrayed themselves through historical time space. It uses a wide variety of cultural productions, including artworks, political cartoons, museum exhibits, television and film, photographs, and advertisements, from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries to critically analyzing questions concerning cultural hybridity, biculturalism, evolving definitions of Amerianness, the creation of gender-role expectations, inter-ethnic exchanges, and the establishment of socioeconomic conventions.

    University Core fulfilled: Foundations: Studies in American Diversity.


  
  • 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.

    University Core fulfilled: Foundations: Studies in American Diversity.


  
  • HIST 2420 American Indian History


    4 semester hours

    This course surveys American Indian history from the fifteen 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.

    University Core fulfilled: Foundations: Studies in American Diversity.


  
  • HIST 2430 Introduction to African American History


    4 semester hours

    An introductory survey of African American history beginning with African American slaves’ relationship with Africa to contemporary African American issues, focusing on both the individual and group experiences of African Americans and their dialectical relationships with the other peoples of the United States and the broader world.

    University Core fulfilled: Foundations: Studies in American Diversity.


  
  • HIST 2900 Internship


    1 TO 4 semester hours

    A course for those students who wish to earn academic credit for an unpaid internship.


  
  • HIST 2998 Special Studies


    1 TO 4 semester hours

  
  • HIST 2999 Independent Studies


    1 TO 4 semester hours

  
  • HIST 3050 The First World War


    4 semester hours

    This course explores the history of the Great War in the Middle, Western Europe, the United States, Russia, and Australia/New Zealand, with a focus on the impact of the war of society, art, and culture.

    University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Interdisciplinary Connections; Flag: Writing.


  
  • HIST 3124 Pagans and Saints: Christian Missionaries to 1650


    4 semester hours

    Studies the interactions between Christian missionaries and non-Christian peoples from the Roman period to the seventeenth century. Topics include the spread of Christianity to Ireland, Germanic Europe, and the Mongols, as well as missionary encounters with China, Japan, and the New World. A principal focus will be on the methods used by preachers to spread their message and the ways native cultures helped shape Christianity.


  
  • HIST 3200 European Reformations


    4 semester hours

    This course traces the religious transformation that took place in the early modern Christian world from the Great Western Schism in the fourteenth century to the Peace of Westphalia that ended the Thirty Years War. The focus will be on (1) the Protestant reformations, (2) the Catholic reform, and (3) the process of European confessionalization leading to the wars of religion in the seventeenth century.

    University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Faith and Reason.


  
  • 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.

    University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Interdisciplinary Connections.


  
  • 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.

    University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Interdisciplinary Connections; Flags: Oral Skills, Writing.


  
  • HIST 3430 Religion and U.S. Political History


    4 semester hours

    This course surveys the history of the intersection of religion (including religious social and political life) and politics in modern America, from the post-Civil War period until the present day.


  
  • 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 environments–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.

    University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Interdisciplinary Connections.


  
  • HIST 3600 Conflict and Genocide in Africa


    4 semester hours

    This course will cover the causes, dynamics, and consequences of conflict in Africa. It will examine some of the conflicts that have become genocidal, debate the characteristics of war that make one conflict a genocide and another a just war. The course delves into conflict analysis and resolution debates; the international humanitarian, legal, and diplomatic responses, including a reflection on the emergence of the term “genocide”; the global politics and commerce that fanned conflicts in Africa; the search for peace and stability in post-cold war Africa; and the place of Africa in the global “war on terrorism.”


  
  • HIST 3702 Latin America: Women, Gender, and Sexuality


    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.

    University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Interdisciplinary Connections; Flag: Writing.


  
  • HIST 3704 Latin American Revolutions in Film


    4 semester hours

    Film and the history of two of Latin America’s most infamous revolutionary movements: The Mexican Revolution of 1910 and the Cuban Revolution of 1959. This course examines these movements in the context of 19th- through 20th-century Latin America, specifically in conversation with the region’s struggles with independence, political stability, economic development, migrations, and urbanization. The course also examines the legacies of revolution in the contemporary Latin American landscape, specifically analyzing ongoing struggles with economic development, democratic stability, migrations, uprisings, and drug wars.


  
  • HIST 3708 Race in 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.


  
  • HIST 3860 Popular Culture in East Asia


    4 semester hours

    An examination of the history of modern East Asia through the prism of its popular cultures with a focus on audio, visual, and literary representations from that region in relation to decolonization, nation-building, democracy, identity-formation, and globalization.

    University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Interdisciplinary Connections.


  
  • HIST 3998 Special Studies


    1 TO 4 semester hours

  
  • HIST 3999 Independent Studies


    1 TO 4 semester hours

  
  • HIST 4010 Pirates and Piracy


    4 semester hours

    The history of maritime piracy from its ancient maritime roots to present. The course will include coverage of ocean basin histories, maritime labor, society and culture, especially in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans, with a special focus on the “Golden Age” in the Atlantic/Caribbean during the 17th and 18th centuries.


  
  • HIST 4020 Mediterranean Cities


    4 semester hours

    This course approaches the history of the medieval and early modern Mediterranean Sea (ca. 700-1700) through an examination of its cities and, to a lesser extent, its islands.


  
  • 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.


  
  • 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.


  
  • 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.


  
  • 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.


  
  • HIST 4120 History of the Byzantine Empire


    4 semester hours

    A study of the eastern Roman Empire to its fall in 1453. Topics include the Byzantine recovery, the Slavic and Moslem invasions, and the Crusades.


  
  • 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.


  
  • HIST 4126 Medieval Spain: Land of Three Faiths


    4 semester hours

    This upper division course will cover eight centuries of Spanish history, from the founding of Muslim al-Andalus (711 CE) to the Christian conquest of Granada (1492 CE). A dominant theme of this course will be the shifting dynamics of power and interconfessional relations of Spain’s Jewish, Muslim, and Christian inhabitants.


  
  • 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 4134 The Crusades


    4 semester hours

    A study of the Crusades (ca. 1050 to 1300), including the roots of Christian and Islamic ideas of Holy War, the preaching and conduct of the Crusades, the creation and fall of the Crusader States, interfaith relations in the time of the Crusades, the use of Holy War in Spain and the Baltic, and the long-term significance of the Crusades.


  
  • 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.


  
  • 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.


  
  • 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.

    University Core fulfilled: Flags: Information Literacy, Writing.


  
  • 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.


  
  • 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.

    University Core fulfilled: Flags: Information Literacy, Writing.


  
  • HIST 4225 Gender in European History


    4 semester hours

    A study of European history using gender as the primary category of analysis. The course examines how ideas about gender, the roles that men and women play in society, and notions about femininity and masculinity have structured European societies and the effects of that gendering.


  
  • HIST 4230 The City in European History


    4 semester hours

    From the Renaissance city-state to burgeoning industrial cities of the nineteenth century to socialist urban agglomerations of the twentieth century, this course explores the political, economic, and social fabric of European cities.


  
  • HIST 4250 Modern Britain and the British Empire


    4 semester hours

    A study of how Britain became the world’s first industrial nation, came to rule over a quarter of the world’s population, became a democracy, lost an empire, and joined the European Union.


  
  • HIST 4251 Victorians to Moderns


    4 semester hours

    Covers the enormous changes in society and technology, art and science, gender and religion from Victoria’s reign through the First World War and the Great Depression in Britain and the British Empire.


  
  • 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.


  
  • 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.


  
  • 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.


  
  • 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.


  
  • 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.

    University Core fulfilled: Flags: Engaged Learning, Information Literacy.


  
  • 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.


  
  • HIST 4281 Modern Russia, 1825-1991


    4 semester hours

    Traces the revolutionary challenges to the Romanov dynasty, attempts to modernize the multi-national empire, the revolution and civil war, and the interplay between communism and nationalism in the history of the Soviet Union.

    University Core fulfilled: Flag: Writing.


  
  • 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.


  
  • HIST 4290 Modern Greece


    4 semester hours

    An examination of the crises and challenges that have shaped modern Greek society, the transformations that have taken place, and the culture and literature it produced.


  
  • HIST 4300 Colonial America


    4 semester hours

    A study of the origin and growth of the English colonies from 1607 with a focus on the development of colonial economic, social, and intellectual life.


  
  • HIST 4301 Revolutionary America


    4 semester hours

    An examination of the origins, course, and results of the American Revolution.


  
  • 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 4303 The Civil War


    4 semester hours

    A history of the Civil War era that covers the causes, fighting, and consequences of the war.


  
  • 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.


  
  • 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 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.


  
  • HIST 4401 Recent America


    4 semester hours

    The course examines U.S. history from the New Deal to the present and focuses on the dialectical relationship between the United States and the world. Themes include U.S. involvement in international economic, military, and ideological conflicts; the study of various modern racial, gender, and economic social movements; national political debates; and post-WWII consumer and popular cultures.


  
  • HIST 4402 The Politics and Culture of the Cold War, 1917-1989


    4 semester hours

    Beginning with the Russian Revolution of 1917 and ending with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the class will use a wide variety of sources to analyze the impact of the Cold War on American domestic policies and foreign relations, as well as cultural and social developments.


  
  • HIST 4403 Consensus and Conflict: America in the 1950s and 1960s


    4 semester hours

    This class focuses on two pivotal decades in twentieth-century American history by addressing topics such as changing gender and racial identities, the Counterculture, the Civil Rights Movement, and international politics.


  
  • HIST 4410 History of Los Angeles


    4 semester hours

    The history of Greater Los Angeles from the eighteenth century to the present, focusing on migration, economic development, race and ethnic relations, and the city’s relationship to the rest of the world.


  
  • HIST 4411 The American West


    4 semester hours

    The history of the American West from the seventeenth century to the present, focusing on settlement, Native American experience, economic development, environment, and the West in popular culture.

    University Core fulfilled: Flag: Writing.


  
  • HIST 4412 History of California


    4 semester hours

    The history of California from the eighteenth century to the present, focusing on migration, economic development, race and ethnic relations, and the relationship of the state to the rest of the world.

    University Core fulfilled: Flag: Writing.


  
  • HIST 4423 Asians in America: From the “Yellow Peril” to the “Model Minority”


    4 semester hours

    This class traces the many-faceted histories of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders from cross-cultural and transnational perspectives, beginning with the earliest immigration to the present era.


  
  • HIST 4425 Chicana/o History


    4 semester hours

    (See CLST 3360 .)


  
  • HIST 4427 Immigrant America


    4 semester hours

    The history of immigration to the United States from the colonial period to the present, focusing on immigrant experiences, transnational ties, immigration law, and citizenship, as well as the ways that race, class gender, religion, and sexuality shaped Immigrant America.


  
  • HIST 4430 Women in American History


    4 semester hours

    An exploration of women’s experience in American history from the colonial period to the present, with emphasis on such variables as class, race/ethnicity, and region, as well as the impact of changing gender roles on American society, culture, and politics.


  
  • HIST 4431 History of Childhood and the Family


    4 semester hours

    A history of childhood and the family from the colonial era to the present. Examines the diverse experiences of children and families in North America, with special attention to gender, race, class, and regional issues. Also explores how notions of childhood and the family changed over time.


  
  • HIST 4432 American Reform Movements


    4 semester hours

    An examination of the major movements for reform of American society, with emphasis on abolitionism, Women’s Rights, Progressivism, and Civil Rights.


  
  • HIST 4433 Health and Disease in American Culture


    4 semester hours

    The history of health, disease, and medicine in the American social and cultural context, from the colonial period to the present.

    University Core fulfilled: Flag: Information Literacy.


  
  • HIST 4440 Imagining Asian Pacific America


    4 semester hours

    Using interdisciplinary approaches and cross-cultural perspectives, the class explores the ways in which certain Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have been portrayed and, in turn, have portrayed themselves throughout historical time and space.


 

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