HIST 1100 Western Civilization I (3)
This course examines the political, social (including gender roles) and intellectual history of Western society from the urban revolution in Mesopotamia to the later Middle Ages. Special emphasis is placed on the reading and analysis of primary historical sources.
HIST 1110 Western Civilization II (3)
History 1110 is an introductory survey course in the history of Western Civilization. The purpose of this course is to aquaint students with some of the general interpretations of European and world history from the Age of Absolutism to the collapse of the Soviet Union .
HIST 1500 World History to 1500 C.E. (3)
This survey examines the political, social, cultural, economic, religious, scientific, and intellectual influences on the development of world civilizations to 1500 C.E. The emphasis is global, comparative, and multicultural.
HIST 1510 World History from 1500 C.E. to Present (S) (3)
This survey examines the political, social, cultural, economic, religious, scientific, and intellectual influences on the development of Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe from 1500 to the present. The emphasis is global, comparative, and multicultural.
HIST 1700 American Civilization (3)
The fundamentals of American history including political, economic, and social development of American institutions and ideas.
*Successful completion of this course meets the American Institutions requirement established by the state legislature.
HIST 2700 United States 1607-1877 (3)
A political, social and economic survey of the period, emphasizing the forces for American Independence, the development of the Constitution, the emergence of Jacksonian democracy, the causes and aftermath of the Civil War.
HIST 2710 United States 1877-Present (3)
A continuation of History 2700 with emphasis on the emergence of modern corporate enterprise and the growth of the U.S. as a world power and the growing impulse to domestic reform in the 20 th century.
HIST 3000 U.S. Indians Through 1868 (3)
American setting before the discovery of the New World; the attitudes of various European governments toward native Americans; United States policies governing Indian issues; and removal of Indian and reservation policies.
HIST 3010 U.S. Indians Since 1868 (3)
The continuing development of the reservation system, the end of the treaty period, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the effects of the Allotment Act, and the Indian Reorganization Act. Other major topics include the Indian Claims Commission, termination policy and self-determination.
HIST 3090 History Seminar (3)
An examination of history through literature and an interdisciplinary humanities approach. The literature examined will concentrate on historiography and biography. Biographies will include major and minor historical and political figures.
HIST 3200 Sports in American Cultural History (3)
The development of sports in America from folk games during the colonial period to the age of television. Topics will include the rise of organized sports in the 19th century, the popularization of professional and college sports in the first half of the twentieth century, and the television age. The modern period will focus on sports as business, political, race, gender and social issues.
HIST 3620 Afro-American History From Colonialism to 1877 (3)
A survey of the changing roles, experiences and contributions of Afro-Americans to American history from the 17th century to Reconstruction. Designed to introduce the student to some of the major issues in Afro-American history and to understand how changes in Afro-American lives are related to other changes in American history.
HIST 3630 Afro-American History From 1877 to the Present (3)
A survey of the changing roles, experiences and contributions of Afro-Americans to American history from 1877 to the present. Designed to introduce the student to some of the major issues in Afro-American history and to understand how changes in Afro- American lives are related to other changes in American history.
HIST 3810 Westward Movement (3)
A history of the American frontier from European exploration to the American trans-Mississippian frontier to the present. Topics include exploration, geography, exploitation, folk migrations, and the political, social, and economic history of the American West.
HIST 3870 History of Utah (3)
Geography and native peoples; early explorations; political, social and economic developments to the present.
HIST 3880 History of the Southwest (3)
This course covers the American Southwest from prehistoric times to the present and reviews Native American, Spanish, Mexican, and American history. Major themes include the multi-cultural interaction in the area and economic development since the 17th century including land and water use.
HIST 4410 Ancient Greece (3)
A history of the Greeks from earliest times through the Classical period to Roman conquest of Greece.
HIST 4420 Ancient Rome (3)
A history of the Romans from the founding of Rome to the disintegration of the Western Empire.
HIST 4430 The Middle Ages 300-1300 A.D. (3)
In this course the emergence and development of medieval European civilization from the collapse of the Western Roman Empire to the opening of the Renaissance Era are examined.
HIST 4440 The Renaissance and Reformation Eras (3)
Beginning with the crises of the fourteenth century and ending with Europe ca. 1555, this course probes the cultural conditions and evolutions that led to a multitude of Renaissance and Reformation movements, including humanism, Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, confessionalism, and the witchhunts.
HIST 4460 Nineteenth Century Europe (3)
The end of the old regime and the French Revolution. The Napoleonic Wars, the reorganization of Europe, and continuing revolutionary currents (including the Industrial Revolution) through 1870. The growth of national states and the emergence of imperialism.
HIST 4470 European History Seminar (3)
In this course, recent and formative scholarship, as well as primary sources, on selected topics relevant to medieval and early modern Europe are examined. A different major theme such as ‘popular’ and ‘official’ cultures, the growth of law and legal systems, medicine and science, and peasants’ urban work and lifestyles. The topics examined will be changed every two years.
HIST 4475 Topics in Modern European History (3)
In this lecture and reading course, we will examine recent scholarship on significant topics in modern European history only touched upon in survey courses. Topics will be changed every two years. Current topic: The first World War.
HIST 4480 Europe in the 20th Century (3)
Europe since World War I and the rise and character of international organizations and World War II, including postwar international problems and domestic development since 1945.
HIST 4490 Hitler and Nazi Germany (3)
The Nazi dictatorship amounted to the collapse of civilization. Why Hitler? Why the Holocaust? This course is designed to help students come to terms with such questions as we examine the origins, course, and fate of the Third Reich.
HIST 4510 World Military History (3)
This is a one-semester lecture course in European and American military history. The course begins with the classical warfare of the 18th century and traces social and technical developments that have influenced the conduct of war. Begins with Frederick the Great and works forward to the Arab-Israeli conflict of 1973.
HIST 4540 Medieval England (3)
English history from the Roman conquest to the dawn of the early modern era, including discussion of key events in Scotland and Ireland. This course gives special attention to institutions and ideas that created a national society and formed England’s constitutional development (first to sixteenth centuries).
HIST 4550 Early Modern England (3)
A study of England, Scotland, and Ireland in the era in which the Reformation unfolded, a civil war was fought, and a monarchial and parliamentary revolution was achieved, in the midst of England’s cultural flowering (sixteenth to late seventeenth centuries).
HIST 4600 Women in Ancient, Medieval, Early Modern Europe (3)
Examines the roles, status, treatment and experiences of women, as well as cultural attitudes about gender, from antiquity through early modern Europe.
HIST 4610 Topics in African History (3)
Topical history of issues on the African continent including slave trade, its abolition, pre-colonial era, colonialism, independence movements and the emergence of the modern African state.
HIST 4710 United States 1607-1789 (3)
A detailed social, economic and political examination of the colonial period of United States history from the earliest settlement to a study of Independence and the Constitutional convention.
HIST 4720 United States 1789-1845 (3)
A study of the New Nation, the War of 1812, the Jacksonian Era, placing special emphasis on the increasing political, social and economic democratization of the United States together with the difficulties created by change.
HIST 4730 United States 1845-1898 (3)
A study of American expansion and its contributions to sectional rivalry leading to the Civil War. The Civil War and Reconstruction and the rise of corporate industry to a position of dominance in American life, and the emergence of the United States as a world power through industrial growth and imperial war are studied.
HIST 4740 United States 1898-1945 (3)
American participation in world conflict set against a domestic background of agrarian protest and urban progressivism and a political, economic and social analysis of the dislocations of the 1920s, the Great Depression, the New Deal, and American participation in World War II.
HIST 4750 United States Since 1945 (3)
A political, economic and social analysis of the post World War II years. The continuing issues of the post-war decades are examined in the light of growing American responsibilities.
HIST 4830 Readings and Conference (P/F) (1-3)
HIST 4990 Seminar in Historical Research (3)
An examination of the theory and practice of research and writing history including formulation of hypotheses, research proposal development, resources, bibliography, and completing a project of original, scholarly research that is subjected to the evaluation of other members of the class. Prerequisite: Senior status and a minimum of 12 upper division credit hours in history.
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