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  • HS 3700: The United States Since 1945

    3.00 Credits
    Rockhurst University

    The course is a study of the development of America's social, cultural, and political history since World War II, beginning with Harry Truman's presidency to the administration of Ronald Reagan and the politics of the 1980s. Topics explored are the United States as a post-war power, McCarthyism, Cold War politics, the civil rights movements (ethnic, racial, and gender), the Great Society, Vietnam, counterculture, Watergate, and the New Right. (HSII)
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  • HS 3750: The United States and Vietnam,1950-1975

    3.00 Credits
    Rockhurst University

    A survey of the United States' presence in Vietnam and what became America's longest war. The course provides a brief background of France in Southeast Asia, then it examines America's earliest involvement in the region and the resultant war between South and North Vietnam and the United States' participation in the conflict. (HSI
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  • HS 3800: The Immigrants' Experiences in America

    3.00 Credits
    Rockhurst University

    A survey of the history of immigration to the United States. The course examines the impact of immigration on American society and culture. Several groups are studied in some detail as the topics of family, the workplace, urban politics, nativism, religion, and assimilation are explored. Kansas City's immigrant groups are used as a laboratory. (HSII)
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  • HS 3810: History of Women in America

    3.00 Credits
    Rockhurst University

    This course introduces and examines the various conditions and factors affecting the female experience in North America from pre-Columbian Native societies to the modern setting. Important issues of this history from a gender perspective include ideology, gender economics, the legal status of women compared to that of men, involvement of women in institutions such as churches and schools. Other variables which are considered are ethnicity, class, and geographic differences. (HSII)
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  • HS 3820: Urban America

    3.00 Credits
    Rockhurst University

    This course explores the significance of the city to the people and the nation. Some topics studied are urban growth, the neighborhood, urban reform, politics, the workplace, racial composition, and the Sunbelt phenomenon. (HSII)
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  • HS 3892: The History of African Americans since the Civil War

    3.00 Credits
    Rockhurst University

    A survey of the history of African Americans since the Civil War, this course examines the social, economic, and political patterns of the lives of African American women and men as they sought to shape their presence in the United States following the war between the North and the South. Some of the topics to be discussed are the Great Migration, the church in the African American experience, migration to the urban north, the Harlem Renaissance, the industrial age, and the civil rights movement. (HSII)
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  • HS 3895: History of Latin America

    3.00 Credits
    Rockhurst University

    This course deals with the development of contemporary Latin America by exploring the region's complex history from the colonial era to the present. Topics will include: European expansion and the treatment of Native Americans; Colonial economy and society; Race in colonial Latin America; the Church in colonial Latin America; the Caribbean; Portuguese Brazil; the Bourbon Reforms; Independence from Europe; the Rise of the Caudillos; U.S.-Mexican War; Neocolonialism; 19th century society and culture; the Mexican Revolution; Economy and society in modern Latin America; Peron's Argentina; Castro and Cuba; Religion in modern Latin America; 20th century Military Dictatorships; the U.S. and Latin America; Latin America in the 21st century. (HSII)
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  • HS 3900: Modern China and Japan

    3.00 Credits
    Rockhurst University

    A survey of Chinese and Japanese development from the Manchu and Tokugawa periods of the 15th century to the present, stressing traditional domestic policies, confrontation with the West, participation in World War I and II, revolution and the current status of both Asian countries.
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  • HS 3912: History of Modern Middle East

    3.00 Credits
    Rockhurst University

    This course is an introduction to the history and civilization of the modern Middle East since ca. 1600. Considerable attention is devoted to the region since 1945 and to the problems and prospects of the present day. Topics covered include a brief survey of the early history of the region, the origins of Islam, the renaissance of Middle Eastern culture in the 18th and 19th centuries, the move toward independent states in the 19th and 20th centuries, and resurgent "Islamist" and "Pan-Arabist" ideologies of this century. (HSI
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  • HS 3920: Modern South Asia

    3.00 Credits
    Rockhurst University

    This course will survey the history of the nations of modern South Asia - that is, the history of the contemporary nations of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, and Myanmar (Burma) - in the years since 1600. While much of the course will focus on pre-1947 India, attention will also be given to the post-independence period and to other nations. The thematic emphases will be on the collapse of the pre-European Mughal Empire, the establishment of British imperial rule in the Indian subcontinent, the growing opposition to that rule which culminated in independence in 1947, and the establishment and maintenance of the modern nation-states of the subcontinent. (HSII)
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