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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore how the idea and the rough-hewn reality of the frontier have served and continue to inform a positive exceptionalism in the formation of national character. Justice, honor, courage, temperance, fortitude, faith, perserverance - all these character traits will be examined within the context of persons driven to act and respond as they made history in service to God and country, family and church. This course will conclude with events leading up to the early 19th Century and the exploration of the Louisiana Purchase. Prerequisite: junior or senior standing or permission of instructor. (Fee $7)
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3.00 Credits
A continuation of Frontier America will continue the story of the frontier - of the life and ideals of the trapper, miner, farmer, cowboy, Indian, preacher, professor, teacher, shopkeep and others in our American saga. This course will conclude with a discussion of the Turner thesis and determine to what degree the mind and character of the Frontier lives on as an integral part of our American civilization. Prerequisite: junior or senior standing or permission of instructor. Credit three hours. (Fee $7)
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3.00 Credits
This two-semester series will meet twice a week to discuss, through shared inquiry, early representative masterpieces of Western and Christian thought. Significant attention will be given to determining the historical significance of these works and their authors. Readings in HI411 will range from selected passages of Homer's Odyssey to Augustine's City of God to Patrick' s Confession . Prerequisite: junior orsenior standing or permission of instructor. Credit three hours. (Fee $7)
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2.00 Credits
This second of a two-course sequence will follow the same format of HI411 by meeting twice a week to discuss, through shared inquiry, representative masterpieces of Western and Christian thought. Significant attention will be given to determining the historical significance of these works and their authors. The class will begin in the Dark Ages and continue to the present. Prerequisite: junior or senior standing or permission of instructor. Credit three ours. (Fee $7)
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3.00 Credits
An examination of Jeffersonian and Jacksonian America, the sectional crisis, and the second Great Awakening. The Industrial Revolution in the Northeast, plantation economy of the South, immigration, and intellectual achievements of antebellum America are also considered. Prerequisite: junior or senior standing or permission of instructor. Credit three hours. (Fee $7)
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3.00 Credits
This course will begin with Germany under a dictatorship in 1933, and end with the surrender of Japanese forces in August 1945. Strategy, tactics, logistics, weaponry, nationalism, tradition, and the character of peoples and individuals, great and small, will be discussed. Final topics and reading will include reconciling how loss of life on an unprecedented scale can mesh with a "Good War," a "Just War," in obedience the Prince of Peace. Prerequisite: junior or senior standing or permission of instructor Credit three hours. (Fee $7)
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3.00 Credits
This course covers the transformations that occurred in European governments, cultures, societies, and religion during the period before, during, and after the nineteenth-century. Specific emphasis will be placed on the political revolutions of the period, the social and technological changes wrought by the industrial revolution, the building of European colonial empires, and the rise of nationalistic sentiment. Prerequisite: junior or senior standing or permission of instructor Credit three hours. (Fee $7)
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3.00 Credits
TThis course entails a study of European politics, society, culture, and religion during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Specific emphasis will be placed on the two World Wars, the collapse of European colonial empires, the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, the formation of the European Union, and the changing composition of contemporary Europe's population. Prerequisite: junior or senior standing or permission of instructor Credit three hours. (Fee $7)
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3.00 Credits
A survey of Southern history from colonial times to the present. Topics include colonial plantations, slavery, southern identity, evangelical Christianity, impact of the Civil War, modernization, World Wars and civil rights. Prerequisite: junior or senior standing or permission of instructor. Credit three hours. (Fee $7)
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3.00 Credits
An intensive study of the campaigns of the Civil War. Attention will be given to the leadership of both sides, homefront and society during the conflict. Prerequisite: junior or senior standing or permission of instructor. Credit three hours. (Fee $7)
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