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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A close survey of events in the history of late 18th and early 19th century France, this course examines the causes, course and consequences of the French Revolution and the career of Napoleon Bonaparte. Topics include the nature of ancien regime French society and politics, the events and personalities of the Revolution, the military and domestic reforms of the Napoleonic Empire, and the effects of these events on the subsequent course of western history. (HSII)
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3.00 Credits
A survey of French history since 1815, focusing on the problems confronting post-Revolutionary France in politics and government, society and the economy, thought and culture. Topics discussed include the Revolutions of 1830 and 1848, Louis Napoleon and the Second Empire, the Dreyfus Affair and the fortunes of the Third Republic, World Wars I and II, postwar France and developments in French thought and culture since 1815. (HSII)
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3.00 Credits
A survey of German history since 1648, concentrating on problems of political and cultural unity. Topics include the rise of Prussia, the rivalry of Prussia and Austria, Bismarck and German unification, World War I, the Weimar Republic, Hitler and the Nazi state, World War II, the Cold War and the East-West split, the recent East German revolution and the reunification of Germany. (HSII)
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3.00 Credits
From Catherine the Great to the present, stressing domestic affairs, with emphasis on peasants and peasant reforms, the Duma, religion, Russo-Polish relations, the Russian Revolution, World War I and II, the Cold War and the fall of the Soviet Union.
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3.00 Credits
The history of North America up to the 1770s, including an examination of pre-Columbian Native societies, the exploration and invasion of the continent by Europeans and the resulting different patterns among the Spanish, French, and English colonizers of their own colonial development and of their relations with Native peoples. Developing patterns of the the thirteen colonies which rebelled from Britain in the 1770s is another area of particular focus. Social, political, economic, constitutional, cultural, religious, gender, and geographic factors are considered. (HSII)
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3.00 Credits
The history of the United States from 1845 to 1877. It concentrates on the constitutional, political, economic and social factors of the sectional conflict between North and South, the War Years and the reshaping of Reconstruction. (HSII)
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3.00 Credits
This course traces the impact of the frontier experience on the development of American traditions and institutions. Some of the topics to be explored are cultural, economic, and political institutions; the Native American presence, life on the Kansas plains, the western town, Texas annexation, and the Oregon occupation.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the history and culture of indigenous peoples in North America both before and after contact with Europeans and Africans, to the modern era. The variations in cultures, pattern of development, and patterns of relations with the Spanish, French, English, and with the U.S. government, are major topics within the course. A major goal is to see history "from the other side"-from a Native perspective-to understand Indian people's actions, motivations, viewpoints, and reactions. (HS
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3.00 Credits
This course deals with the unique political, social, economic, and cultural characteristics of the American South, and the impact which this region has had on the development of the United States and American society. Topics will include: Native Peoples of the American South; Albion's Seed: English Virginia; Africans in America: Slavery and Southern Culture; the Colonial Economy: Tobacco, Rice and Sugar; Religion in the Colonial South; the American Revolution in the South; King Cotton and the Rise of Southern Nationalism; Sectionalism and Civil War; Reconstructionism and Redemption; the First "New South"; Jim Crow; Tenancy and Debt Peonage; WWII: the War that Drove Old Dixie Down ; the Civil Rights Movement; the "New" New South: The Sunbelt's Economic Miracle and Political Influence. (H
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3.00 Credits
Changing social and economic orders, World War I and aftermath, the postwar decade, the Depression, the New Deal, World War II, postwar domestic and diplomatic problems. (HSII)
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