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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
A study of recent American history, with emphasis on the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement, social turbulence and change, the growth of the state, the Vietnam conflict, Watergate, the Reagan Era, and beyond. Themes include competing efforts to define the core values of American society, the role of the state in American life, the interaction of changing technology and economic organization with American culture and society, and the relationship of foreign and domestic affairs.
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4.00 Credits
Studies California and the Pacific coast. Topics include the Mexican period; the coming of Americans and the Mexican War; social, economic, political, and the region's literary development as part of the United States. Meets California state requirement for teaching credential.
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4.00 Credits
A study of the geographical advance of the frontier to the Pacific Ocean, movement of population, expansion of boundaries, and reverberations of the West in national and international affairs. A critical examination of the frontier experience in American development.
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4.00 Credits
Topics in the history of American thought and culture, such as the development and consumption of scientific, political, religious, economic, and/or social theories and themes in intellectual and popular culture. May be repeated when topics vary.
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4.00 Credits
A study of American foreign relations with emphasis on the period after 1890, including the rise of the United States to global leadership and resulting international relations. Themes include the policymaking process, the impact of U.S. policies on other nations, the interplay between domestic factors and foreign policy, the role of culture and ideology in shaping U.S. public and private relations with other nations, the rise of presidential power and the national security state, and the course and consequences of globalization.
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4.00 Credits
A study of developments, social institutions, and daily living from the colonial period to the present. This course will examine the major historical and historiographical trends in the history of the United States from the perspective of women, labor movements, African Americans, Native Americans, and other similar groups from 1800 to the present.
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4.00 Credits
History of Mexico from the perspective(s) of the peoples of its frontiers/borderlands. After a brief overview of Amerindian and colonial beginnings, the emphasis of the course is on the national era. Examines the course and social, political, and economic consequences of the Mexican-American War, La Reforma and the Civil War, the Porfiriato, the Mexican Revolution, Depression, World War II, and industrialization and considers the development of complex local, regional, national, and transnational identities, cultures, economies, and institutions.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines women's experiences as women (shaped by changing conceptions of gender) in the United States. It also considers the impact of such factors as race and class in understanding both the shared and diverse experiences of women. Focus and selection of themes will vary from term to term. May be repeated when topics vary.
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4.00 Credits
A study of American religion in the context of history and culture from the Puritans to the present. Topics include Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism, sectarian movements, native American and black religions, as well as new religious movements. (Same as REL 538.) (WI)
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4.00 Credits
Explores the history of Africa from 1800 to contemporary times. Attending to both thematic diversity and regional particularism, it addresses such topics as the slave trade in Western and Central Africa, the Zulu and Asante empires, Christian missions, colonization and human rights abuses in the Congo and German Southwest Africa, apartheid in South Africa, and indigenous resistance to, and ultimately victory over, European systems of exploitation and control. The course also investigates the endemic social and political crises of the post-independence era.
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