Professors: Max Geier, Kimberly Jensen, Narasingha Sil, John Rector
Associate professors: Bau Hwa Hsieh, Ben Lowe
Assistant professor : David Doellinger
Mission
Promote a community of scholars dedicated to excellence in teaching, research, professional and community service. This community connects students with the past through a global and comparative perspective and provides them with the tools for critical thinking and analysis that are the foundation of the liberal arts education.
Learning Outcomes
Preparation for professional careers as well as graduate study in History, education and other disciplines.
Acquire a broad range of historical knowledge and methodologies.
Develop tools for critical thinking and analysis; research methods; analysis of primary and secondary sources; written and oral presentation.
History major (72 credits)
HST 101, 102, 103 History of Western Civilization (12) –or–
HST 104, 105, 106 World History (12)
HST 201, 202, 203 History of the United States (4 each) (choose 2 of the 3 courses) –or–
HST 211 and HST 212 American History Survey (8)
HST 420 Philosophies of History (4)
HST 499 Senior Seminar (4)
Select at least two courses each from four of the five areas below (44)
Consult a history department adviser in developing your plan. This may include History 407 seminars on topical/regional areas offered on a periodic basis. With prior approval from their History Department adviser, students may plan a program that includes up to 9 hours of social science electives relevant to their concentration areas in history to complete the 44-hour sequence.
Europe/Russia (4)
HST 304, 305, 306 English History
HST 315 Ancient Near East and Egypt
HST 316 Ancient Greece
HST 317 Ancient Rome
HST 318 Women in the Greco-Roman World
HST 319 Aristophanes’ Athens
HST 320 Cicero and the Politics of the Late Republic
HST 321 Biography and Empire
HST 322 Cities of Vesuvius: Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae
HST 325 Archaeology of the Biblical World
HST 330 Early Middle Ages
HST 331 High Middle Ages
HST 332 Late Middle Ages
HST 333 Women and Family in the Middle Ages
HST 334 The Byzantine Empire
HST 335 The Crusades
HST 423 The Renaissance
HST 424 The Reformation
HST 425 Early Modern Europe
HST 431 England Under the Tudors and Stuarts
HST 437, 438, 439 History of Modern Germany
HST 440 Modern France: Revolution and Napoleon
HST 441 Modern France: The 19th Century
HST 442 Modern France: The 20th Century
HST 443 Nineteenth Century Europe
HST 444 Twentieth Century Europe: The Two World Wars
HST 445 Twentieth Century Europe: PostwarPeriod
HST 447, 448, 449 History of Russia/Eastern Europe
HST 452, 453 History of Spain and Portugal
HST 454 History of Modern Italy
HST 485 British Constitutional History
North American Studies (4)
HST 351 Mexico and the Caribbean
HST 436 Mexico Since Independence
HST 455 Colonial America
HST 457 Jacksonian America
HST 458 Civil War and Reconstruction
HST 459 Business America and Progressivism
HST 460, 461 Multicultural America in Historical Perspective
HST 462 American Voices: Autobiography, Biography and Memoir in AmericanHistory
HST 463 America and the World Wars
HST 464 Cold War America
HST 465 Health, Medicine and Gender in Historical Perspective
HST 468 Canada: to Confederation (1867)
HST 469 Canada: Since Confederation
HST 470 Environmental History
HST 476 U.S. West to 1900
HST 477 U.S. West in the Twentieth Century
HST 478 Pacific Northwest History
HST 486 North American Constitutional History
Comparative/Methods (4)
HST 318 Women in the Greco-Roman World
HST 319 Aristophanes’ Athens
HST 320 Cicero and the Politics of the Late Republic
HST 321 Biography and Empire
HST 322 Cities of Vesuvius: Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae
HST 325 Archaeology of the Biblical World
HST 333 Women and Family in the MiddleAges
HST 334 The Byzantine Empire
HST 335 The Crusades
HST 401 History and the Internet
HST 410/411 Gender Issues in History
HST 416 Archival Science
HST 417 Oral History
HST 418 Historical Editing
HST 419 Introduction to Public History
HST 460/461 Multicultural America in Historical Perspective
HST 462 American Voices: Autobiography, Biography and Memoir in American History
HST 465 Health, Medicine and Gender in Historical Perspective
HST 470 Environmental History
HST 478 Pacific Northwest History
HST 485 British Constitutional History
HST 486 North American Constitutional History
HST 491 History of Inter-American Relations
HST 492 World Problems
Africa/Latin America
HST 350 Precolumbian and Colonial Latin America (4)
HST 351 Mexico and Caribbean Since Independence (4)
HST 352 South America Since Independence (3)
HST 426 West Africa: Democracy and Dictatorships (4)
HST 427 East Africa: Democracy and Dictatorships (4)
HST 436 Mexico Since Independence (4)
HST 490/590 20th Century Latin America (4)
East and West Asia (4)
HST 391, 392, 393 History of East Asia
HST 394 South East Asia: Imperialism to Independence
HST 395 South East Asia: Second World War to Cold War
HST 396 South East Asia: Cold War to Present
HST 446 Arab World in Transition
History minor (28 credits)
Choose an elective in United States History (4)
Choose an elective in Western European History (4)
Choose an elective in World History (4)
Choose a method or topics elective (4)
Three additional electives in any two areas above (12)
Note: 16 hours of the minor must be upper-division. World history includes any course on Asia, Latin America, Canada, Africa, or Eastern Europe. Methods and topics courses include HST 318, 321, 333, 335, 407, 410, 411, 417, 419, 420, 451, 452, 462, 465, 470, 491, 492, 496, 497, 498 and other courses approved by History Department adviser.
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