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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Capstone course for majors that focus upon refining and assessing skills in the discipline. Will examine current issues in the study of history. Students should have senior status before enrolling and must have completed HIS 301 with a grade of C or higher. This course is only offered in the Spring semester.
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4.00 Credits
This interdisciplinary course examines Alexander the Great’s life, career, and legacy through primary and secondary sources. It places him in his historical context and discusses the political, religious, socio-economic, and cultural changes that transformed the Mediterranean world during his reign and beyond.
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4.00 Credits
This course will explore Cleopatra’s reign, multi-cultural society, politics, representatives, and the ever-changing meanings with which she was invested from her lifetime through our days. Images and texts manipulated and shaped historical knowledge. Subsequent generations assigned different signifiers to the culturally charged icon of Cleopatra as a woman in power.
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4.00 Credits
This interdisciplinary course offers an overview of Roman history from the founding of Rome (8th century BCE) to the collapse of the Roman Republic (30 BCE). We will survey how a city-state conquered the Italian peninsula, historical circumstances defined its role as a major political player, and Rome swallowed up the Hellenistic world.
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4.00 Credits
This ECCE course seeks to examine the multifaceted connections between politics and religion in the United States, although with a global perspective. Our goal will be to establish a dialogue on the issues that increasingly confront us about the proper role of religion in our public life. Course Information: Same as ECO 427, LES 422, and PSC 422. This course fulfills an Engaged Citizenship Common Experience requirement at UIS in the areas of U.S. Communities or ECCE Elective.
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on the history and sojourn of the African-American from the creation and demise of the last three West African empires, through the enslavement and shipment of Africans to North America and their struggle for human and civil rights in present-day America. Topics are the Middle Passage, religion of the slaves, slave resistance, Abolitionism, the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Great Migration, Harlem Renaissance, the Civil Rights movement, Black Power movement, urban unrest, affirmative action, and the new reparations movement. Course Information:
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4.00 Credits
Survey of the establishment and development of England's North American colonies between 1585 and 1763. Emphasis primarily on land use, economic development, religions, and social history.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the social trends, economic rivalries, and political disputes that together created the American Revolution. Course begins with the Stamp Act Crisis of 1765 and follows the developments and conflicts through the presidential election of 1792.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the first decades of the new republic, including early industrialization, settlement of the frontier, Manifest Destiny, the War of 1812, the cotton economy, and Jacksonianism.
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4.00 Credits
Examines antebellum U.S. plus the Civil War and Reconstruction. Also explores cultural and social history, including Victorianism and the women's movement.
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