Graduate Course Offerings
HIS 500- Sec. 800 - Historiography - 3sh
Instructor: C. Mack Prerequisites: Graduate Standing
W 05:30-08:10
This course focuses on historical methodology and historiography, i.e., how historians deal with particular problems involved with reporting and interpreting events of the past. Goals include providing students with a working knowledge of major historiographical trends and issues (i.e., the history of historiography); developing research skills and experience in researching a topic, organizing information, and communicating results effectively both orally and in writing; and providing an awareness of how historians apply their knowledge of content, methods, and skills.
HIS 507 - Sec 800 - World War I
Instructor: G. Parsons Prerequisites: Graduate Standing
TR 2:20-3:40
This course provides an introduction to the cultural, social, and political history of Europe during the First World War from 1914 to 1918. We will begin by examining the origins of the war and move on to consider the nature of the conflict and its impact on the major belligerent nations. Issues for discussion will include some of the major battles of the war, political developments, and the war on the home front, literary representations of the war, and the significance and impact of the Peace of Versailles. A brief consideration of the immediate postwar years will provide an opportunity to assess the historical continuities and the enormous upheavals that have marked the Great War as a great divide. Readings, discussions, and exams are designed to acquaint the student with the course subject matter and give practice in historical interpretation.
HIS 512 - Sec 800 - Early Middle Ages - 3sh
Instructor: K. Nicholas Prerequisites: Graduate Standing
MWF 01:50-02:45
This course will analyze the political, social, and cultural developments of Europe from the decline of the Roman Empire in the West to the First Crusade (1095-1099). Discussion will focus on Germanic invasions and settlements, the Byzantine Empire, Islamic expansion, Charlemagne, lordship and feudalism, the Vikings, technological development, religious revival, and the struggle between the German monarchy and papacy. There will be two midterms, one short paper, and a final exam.
HIS 514 - Sec 800 - Ancient Greece - 3sh
Instructor: K. Nicholas Prerequisites: Graduate Standing
MWF 11:30-12:25
This course will survey Greek civilization from its earliest history to the coming of the Romans. Discussion will emphasize early Aegean civilization, the Homeric Age, the development of Athenian democracy, the Persian War, the Athenian Empire, the Peloponnesian War, the conquests of Alexander, and the Hellenistic World. The course will examine not only political and social development but also Greek cultural achievements in art, literature, philosophy, mathematics, and science. There will be two midterms, one short paper, and a final examination.
HIS 524 - Sec 800 - Seminar: Modern European History 20th Century Totalitarianism - 3sh
Instructor: G. Parsons Prerequisites: Graduate Standing
MW 6:00-8:40
This research seminar will explore some of the major challenges to the liberal-democratic order during the twentieth century. We will begin be exploring the classic ideas of liberal democracy as they developed in the nineteenth century and move on to a consideration of some of the major challenges to that order - especially fascism and communism - in the twentieth. We will conclude with a brief look at the question, recently explored in Paul Berman's controversial book Terror and Liberalism, of whether modern Islamic radicalism is yet another, related, challenge to liberal democracy. Although ranging widely in its themes, this course will offer students an opportunity to explore a topic of interest more deeply in a research paper. The primary objectives of the course are to enhance student understanding of the subject matter, to give practice in historical interpretation and reasoned argument, and to develop student understanding of the basics of historical research and writing
HIS 524 - Sec 810 - Seminar: Europe Since 1945 - 3sh
Instructor: Staff Prerequisites: Graduate Standint
MW 4:10-5:30
History 537 - Sec 800 - Social & Cultural History of Sports - 3sh
Instructor: C. Mack Prerequisite: Graduate Standing
TR 2:20-3:40
This course examines the appearance of modern sport in the nineteenth century, and its diffusion around the globe. To understand the intricate relationships that exist between sport, society, and culture, we will consider several themes. Among the relationships to be discussed will be the following: sport and health, sport and class, sport and ethnicity, sport and imperialism, and sport and gender. Sources for the examination of sport will be drawn from literature, film, popular culture, and theoretical treatments of sport and its socio-cultural imprint.
HIS 542 - Sec 800 -US Diplomacy in the 20th Century- 3sh
Instructor: M. Kulikowski Prerequisites: Graduate Standing
MW 04:35-05:55
This course will survey the origins and development of American Foreign Policy in the 20th Century. It will focus on the main figures and events that influenced foreign relations.
HIS 544 - Sec 800 - History of American Immigration - 3sh
Instructor: M. McCune Prerequisites: Graduate Standing
MWF 1:50-2:45
The course is an overview of the history of immigration in United States' society from the second half of the nineteenth century to the present. The focus of the course is to explore why different groups have adopted the American "melting pot" ideal while others have had a difficulty with the term itself. To undertake this, we will examine the historical and cultural background of the many waves of immigrants arriving in the United States. Finally, we will look at the anti-immigrant debate that periodically preoccupies the American public.
HIS 545 - Sec 800 - The Early Republic: U.S. 1789-1848 - 3sh
Instructor: F. Byrne Prerequisites: Graduate Standing
TR 11:10-12:30
This course covers one of the most complex periods in U.S. history, a time marked by democratic ferment, territorial expansion, increased population, commercial development, religious zeal, impassioned reform, sanguine nationalism and growing sectionalism. Through lectures, group discussions, various readings, papers and essay exams, we will explore the people, ideas, institutions and events that shaped the new nation.
HIS 548 - Sec 800 Slavery in America to 1865 - 3sh
Instructor: K. Marshall Prerequisites: Upper Division Standing
W 4:30-7:10
HIS 550 - Sec 800 - Seminar: Before and After Silent Spring: US Environmental History - 3sh
Instructor: G. Kay Prerequisites: Upper Division Standing
M 5:30-8:10
Before and After Silent Spring: US Environmental History -- This course will look at geographic, political, scientific, industrial and other constraints or decisions that have impacted our environment. Using William Cronon's theory that the land was never in a "natural" state once humans started using it, we will move forward chronologically into the 21st century examining the impact humans have had on the environment (and vice versa)
HIS 552- DIS - Seminar in Local and Social History - 3sh
Instructor: J. Wellman Prerequisites: Graduate Standing
SLN WEB
This is a research seminar focusing on finding, analyzing, and using major types of historical sources (printed materials, manuscripts, census reports, and other quantitative sources, oral history, and architecture) with emphasis on community and social history in local areas. Readings, hands on workshops/discussions/short papers/one major paper. A total of 40-50 pages of writing are required.
HIS 563 - Sec 800 - The American Revolution: 1689-1789 - 3sh
Instructor: D. Deal Prerequisites: Gradate Standing
TR 11:10-12:30
HIS 569 Sec 800 - United States Since 1945 - 3sh
Instructor: R. Salisbury Prerequisites: Upper Division Standing
T 6:00-8:40
HIS 577 - Sec 800 - Topics in African History: Islam in Africa - 3sh
Instructor: U. Usuanlele Prerequisite: Upper Division Standing
M 5:00-7:40
HIS 582 - Sec 800 - Seminar: Ethnicity and Cultural Identity in Latin America - 3sh
Instructor: L. Hernandez Prerequisites: Graduate Standing
M 06:00-08:40
This seminar explores both successful and failed revolutions in Latin America. The object is to understand the social, political and economic processes that resulted in tremendous social and political upheaval. The course focuses on a number of countries: Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, Peru, El Salvador, Nicaragua. The seminar requires a research paper based on a topic chosen by the student. The format of the seminar will include a combination of discussion of texts and a brief oral -presentation of your research paper.
HIS 624 - Sec 800 - Seminar: Colonial Encounters & Cultural Change - 3sh
Instructor: D. Deal Prerequisites: Graduate Standing
W 4:00-6:45
HIS 650 - Sec 800 - Seminar: Colonial Encounters & Cultural Change - 3sh
Instructor: D. Deal Prerequisites: Graduate Standing
W 4:00-6:45
HIS 682 - Sec 800 - Seminar: 20th Century Terrorism - 3 sh
Instructor: G. Forbes Prerequisites: Graduate Standing
W 5:30-8:10