|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
3.00 - 4.00 Credits
These seminars explore in depth a major academic theme or problem. Honors Seminars are highly interactive courses, intensive in both writing and discussion, in which students engage in intellectual inquiry from multiple perspectives. Subject matter varies by semester, and may be either interdisciplinary or grounded in a single discipline. Recent examples include Perspectives on Literacy; Belief Systems and the Nature of Reality; Religion and Spirituality, and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Time. May be repeated for credit with different topics and used to fulfill UMM Core Curriculum requirements in any appropriate area. Prerequisite: 3.00 GPA. 3-4 Cr
-
1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Activities are designed to enable students to further expand upon skills they began to develop through their participation in the initial Soliya Connect program. Participating students will only be working on one of the following projects at a time. They will be able to participate again in another project if chosen. Each program will involve a small number of US and Middle Eastern students communicating regularly through the videoconferencing application used for the Connect program. Currently the advanced projects include facilitation training, collaborative video project, and student leadership/developing cooperative actions, each led by highly skilled educators within each field. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing, GPA of 3.0 or better, C or better in HON 220, or permission of instructor. 1-3 Cr
-
3.00 Credits
The first half of the world history sequence covers the time from the first emergence of Homo Sapiens to the establishment of regular, ongoing, contact between the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia. This lengthy period saw the biological development and worldwide dispersal of human beings, the emergence of agriculture, cities, writing, organized religions, complex social organization and political institutions, and the creation of distinct cultural traditions. The course features cultural interactions and comparisons. 3 Cr
-
3.00 Credits
This two-semester sequence provides a brief panorama of the human story and helps students develop historical skills. Students learn how to ask meaningful questions and how to go about finding the answers. They collect evidence by analyzing primary sources and artifacts and interpret the evidence they collect. They evaluate the interpretations of others, and will come to recognize the significance of the past in contemporary life.
-
3.00 Credits
This course is a broad survey of American history from the colonial era through the Civil War. Native-American encounters with Europeans, Southern slavery, religious revivals, reform efforts, and the course of democracy are all featured in this course. 3 Cr
-
3.00 Credits
This semester covers developments in United States history from the end of the Civil War to current times. Immigrant experiences, industrialism, reform efforts, wars, economic turmoil, civil rights, and current issues are explored in this half of the survey. 3 Cr
-
3.00 Credits
This course seeks to explore the historical roots of contemporary challenges in one of the most volatile places in the world: the Middle East. Topics that may be discussed include the rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire, the Arab/Israeli conflict, the impact of oil production on the region, Arab nationalism, the evolution of political Islam, the rise and fall of Baathist Iraq, and gender roles in the 20th century Middle East. Prerequisite: HTY 116 or permission of instructor. 3 Cr
-
3.00 Credits
The topic of this course varies in response to student interest and faculty availability and expertise. 3 Cr HTY 223 Introduction to Historical StudiesThe simplest and most complex of the humanities or social sciences, history is grounded In the human urge to make sense of the present by telling stories about the past. Students tend to share the general public's notion that history presents a series of established facts, which may be entertaining or enlightening. This course seeks to correct that view by exploring the diverse repertoire of assumptions, goals, approaches, and interpretations among historians past and present. While introducing the history of history and theoretical issues surrounding its practice, the course is also a practical introduction to reading, writing, and research within the discipline. Prerequisite: Successful completion of or concurrent enrollment in ENG 101. 3 Cr
-
3.00 Credits
A survey of European society, culture, economy and politics from the end of the Middle Ages to the French Revolution. This extraordinary period saw the development of the modern state, upheaval in religious and scientific ideas and institutions, and the transformation of the economy and social structure through exploration, the growth of commerce, population, and cities. Prerequisite: HTY 115 and 116, or permission of instructor. 3 Cr
-
2.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course continues the survey of European history through the political and economic transformations of the French and Industrial Revolutions and the subsequent growth of modern ideologies and institutions. The course explores these changes in relation to the lives of ordinary people, examining the impact of technological change, urbanization, the growth of public opinion, social and ideological conflict. Beyond that we will consider World War One, the Bolshevik Revolution, the decline of liberalism, the rise of Fascism and Nazism, and World War Two. Prerequisite: HTY 115 and 116, or permission of instructor. 3 Cr
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2025 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|