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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Surveys United States history thematically and focuses upon social, cultural, economic, and political movements. Includes topics such as the New Republic, slavery, westward expansion, sectionalism, the Civil War and its aftermath, immigration, reform, and the development of modern culture.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Surveys social, cultural, political, and economic movements and turning points in the U.S. from Progressivism through the 21st century. Builds an inclusive, multicultural narrative for various topics including reform and radical movements, wartime crucibles, the U.S. and the world, inclusion and exclusion in U.S. history, and the construction of a present-day U.S.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Examines origins, progress, and consequences of the American Revolution. Focuses on social effects of the War for Independence, creation of republican governments, and the U.S. Constitution. Addresses the search for stability at home and security abroad, and the development of a national identity.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Describes forces at work in the antebellum period that led to sectionalism and eventually to civil war. Examines military, political, social, economic, and racial issues before, during, and after the war. Analyzes the Reconstruction Era and its historiography.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): HIST 3010 or instructor approval; University Advanced Standing. Examines human modification of the American landscape. Surveys the physical geography of the United States, landscape change during Native American to European transition, and causes of agricultural and industrial pollution. Topics include land ethics, processes of environmental degradation, technological remedies, history of federal laws and protection agencies. May include field experiences.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Examines major themes, events, processes, and people including migration, social, cultural, and political change, military conflict, trade, geography, and other pertinent historic variables and events which characterized life for many of the indigenous communities in North America, specifically the region now recognized as the United States through 1890. Introduces students to ethnohistory, primary and secondary sources, and analysis of historical events and sources.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Examines major themes, processes, events, and people from the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 to the present. Provides an examination of how American Indians shifted the emphasis of resistance to social, political, and cultural assimilation from armed conflict to the employment of legal and political strategies for achieving self-determination.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Analyzes the rise of modern anti-semitism in the late 19th and early 20th century and the factors that contributed to the mass destruction of Jews. Explores how the same racial ideas that furthered anti-semitism were used against Gypsies, Slavs, and other minority groups.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): HIST 3010 or instructor approval; University Advanced Standing. Explores and analyzes the major genocides of the twentieth century: the Armenian Massacre, the Holocaust, the Killing Fields of Cambodia, the Balkan genocides, and the Rwandan genocide. Promotes a greater understanding of why and how genocides occurred in the twentieth century. Teaches and improves critical thinking, writing, and comprehension skills and develops additional skills in using comparative history, historiography, and primary and secondary sources.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Examines the origins, development, and impact of Renaissance culture in Italy from 1300 to 1600. Focuses on the social and urban background that gave rise to such Renaissance achievements as humanism, modern individualism, secularism, and artistic innovation. Analyzes the legacy and influence of Italian Renaissance culture on the modern world.
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