All undergraduate courses offered by the university are listed. Not all of the courses listed are offered within a single academic year. A listing of the courses offered during a given semester is available online before preregistration each semester.
Trial Courses
Academic departments may offer special trial courses on a one-time basis without adding them to their regular departmental offerings. A second trial offering, if additional data are necessary, must be within two calendar years of the first, unless the course is submitted for formal approval to the appropriate curriculum committees. Numbers designating these special courses are 292 and 492. Descriptive information on trial courses does not appear in the catalogue but is on file in the Office of the Registrar.
Sequenced Courses
A hyphen connecting courses (e.g., 201-202) indicates that the first course in the sequence must be satisfactorily completed prior to registration in the second course of the sequence. When course numbers are separated by a comma (e.g., 201, 202), the first course is not necessarily prerequisite to those following.
Online Courses
The university currently offers a variety of online courses, and two degree programs, the RN to B.S. option in nursing and Bachelor of Science in clinical research (CLR), are delivered totally online. Such courses are so designated in the Class Schedule and are open to both on- and off-campus students. Students interested in these programs should consult the online courses Web site http://www.uncw.edu/online.
Credits and Class Meetings
Unless specifically indicated at the end of the course description, the number of hours a class meets each week is the same as the credit hour value of the course. The semester hours credit for each course is indicated in parentheses immediately below the title of the course. For example, if three hours of credit may be earned, the credit is indicated as follows: (3). In variable credit courses, the minimum and maximum hours are shown as follows: (1-3).
Course Prefixes
The prefixes used to designate courses are abbreviations of the names of departments or fields of study within departments, as shown below:
Health
HEA 498 - Internship in Community Health Education
Supervised internship placement in the community. Applies theory to practical application in Community Health Education. Requires a minimum of 300 hours of supervised fieldwork. Majors / Concentrations only or permission of instructor.
Credit Hours: 5
Prerequisite Courses:HEA 497 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Senior standing. University Studies: Explorations Beyond the Classroom/Certified Internship Program Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 5
An overview of Western Civilization from its origins in the Ancient Near East. Provides comparative study of the development of Mesopotamia and Egypt, Greek civilization and Roman Empire, the Middle Ages, and Early Modern Europe, explaining how each of these contributed to the ‘rise’ of a distinctly western civilization.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Historical and Philosophical Approaches, Approaches and Perspectives/Living in a Global Society Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Overview from the seventeenth to twentieth century. Examines Europe’s transformations and global interactions through the discussion of significant events, groups, and individuals that contributed to developments such as the French Revolution and the rise of democracy, the Industrial Revolution and the modern economy, world wars and dictatorships.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Historical and Philosophical Approaches, Approaches and Perspectives/Living in a Global Society Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
HST 103 - Introduction to Global History 1500-1848
The political, economic, cultural, religious, and environmental processes that transformed the world between 1500 and 1848. Examines the Columbian (biological) Exchange, formation of colonial empires, expansion of global religions, and emergence of global trade and slave trade.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Historical and Philosophical Approaches, Approaches and Perspectives/Living in a Global Society Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
HST 104 - Introduction to Global History Since 1848
Historical events, peoples, and places as well as the transformation of global systems. Examines the effects of industrialization, imperialism, nationalism, world wars, the Cold War, communism, and globalization on contemporary societies.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Historical and Philosophical Approaches, Approaches and Perspectives/Living in a Global Society Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
American history from the pre-colonial period to the beginning of Reconstruction. Examines the impact of the country’s cultural diversity through the study of the arts, law, politics, war, religion, technology, immigration, and the emergence of regional economic systems.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Historical and Philosophical Approaches, Approaches and Perspectives/Living in Our Diverse Nation Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
The history of the United States since the Civil War. Examines the development of American political, social, and cultural systems, foreign policy, and the emergence of the United States as a world power.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Historical and Philosophical Approaches, Approaches and Perspectives/Living in Our Diverse Nation Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
HST 190 - History Unlimited: A Short History of Nearly Everything
Multi-disciplinary course designed to cover the history of the universe from the big bang until today. Draws on perspectives and methods of both anthropology and history. Topics include the physical structure and composition of the the earth, how it was formed, the emergence of life with particular focus on the evolution of humans, the organiztion and development of human societies, analysis of important historical periods such as agricultural, scientific and industrial revolutions. This course does not fulfill requirements towards either the history or the anthropology majors.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Living in a Global Society, Explorations Beyond the Classroom Crosslisting:ANT 190 Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Survey of the female experience from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Focus on three areas that affect the lives of modern women: work, politics, and sexuality. Differences between the first and second women’s movements, the sexual revolutions of the 1920s and 1960s, and the changing nature of women’s work in modern and post-modern society are explored in a comparative context.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Historical and Philosophical Approaches, Approaches and Perspectives/Living in Our Diverse Nation Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
HST 205 - History of Science I: Antiquity to the Scientific Revolution
The history of science from antiquity (ancient Babylon and Greece) to the 17th century. Topics include the rise of natural philosophy in Greece, medieval universities, Copernicus and the 16th century revolution in astronomy, Renaissance medicine and anatomy, and Isaac Newton’s mathematical study of gravitation.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Historical and Philosophical Approaches Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
The growth and development of modern science. Topics include Darwin’s theory of evolution, Einstein’s special and general relativity, quantum mechanics, wartime science, the discovery of DNA, and the impact of science and technology on modern society.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Historical and Philosophical Approaches Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Survey of Jewish history from antiquity to 1492, with particular attention to the Jewish encounter with the Roman, Islamic, and European civilizations.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Historical and Philosophical Approaches, Approaches and Perspectives/Living in a Global Society Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Survey of Jewish history from the expulsion of the Jews from Spain to the modern era. Examination of how the different Jewish communities worldwide have met the challenges of a modernizing world. Topics include emancipation, religious reform and secularization, mass migrations, anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, and the founding of modern Israel.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Historical and Philosophical Approaches, Approaches and Perspectives/Living in a Global Society Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
A concise survey of the major themes and events in the history of African-Americans from the colonial period to the present.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Historical and Philosophical Approaches, Approaches and Perspectives/Living in Our Diverse Nation Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Survey of the history of medicine that covers the major intellectual, social, and cultural contexts foundational for our modern understanding of health and health care.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Historical and Philosophical Approaches Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
North Carolina Indian history from pre-Columbian times to present day. Topics include identity of North Carolina Indians; social, religious, political, and economic life; gender roles; European and American interaction; development of state and federal policy and Indian response; status of Indians in contemporary North Carolina and United States.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Living in Our Diverse Nation Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Selected themes and events in international or global history, with particular attention to cultural, intellectual, and/or economic exchanges between the ‘West’ and the wider world. Topics include: Society and the Supernatural, International Slave Trade. May be repeated under different subtitles.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Living in a Global Society, Approaches and Perspectives/Historical and Philosophical Approaches Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 12
Historical periods or selected themes of special interest in U.S. history from the 17th century to present. Topics include the Civil War, Vietnam War, film and history, slave trade and slavery, and environmental history.
Credit Hours: 3
University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Living in Our Diverse Nation Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 12
An exploration of the nature of historical inquiry and of the techniques and methods essential to the study and writing of history.
Credit Hours: 4
University Studies: Building Competencies/Writing Intensive/Information Literacy, Explorations Beyond the Classroom Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 4
Directed historical research in collaboration with a faculty member, including examination and discussion of the historiographical context of historical research projects, research projects, research question framing, and finding, cataloging, and analyzing historical sources. Includes a paper related to the research experience.
Credit Hours: 1 To 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: History majors only, sophomore, junior, or senior standing, and consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 12
Examination of the role of war in the development of the United States from the colonial period to the present. Includes the development of an identifiably American understanding of war and the relationship of the military to society.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
The formation and implementation of American foreign policy, including the relationship between foreign policy and American political culture, and the impact of foreign perspectives on U. S. foreign policy.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Examination of the interpretation of American, European, and global history in film, including both dramatic films and documentaries.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
An intensive political and cultural study of ancient Babylonian, Egyptian, and other Near Eastern civilizations.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
A study of the civilization of ancient Greece and Rome with special emphasis on the Greek classical period and the Pax Romana.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
The history of England from the arrival of the Celtic tribes to the assumption of power by the Tudors in 1485. Emphasis on the political, social, and religious developments of the High Middle Ages.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
The history of England from the assumption of power by the Tudors in 1485 to the victory over Napoleon in 1815. Emphasis on the theme of continuity and change in political, social, and economic life.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
The history of England from Waterloo to the present. Emphasis on the impact of industrialization and urbanization, the gradual democratization of British politics, the expansion and contraction of the British Empire, the impact of world war, the rise of the welfare state, and post-industrial society.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
A survey of the history of Ireland from the end of the Elizabethan wars and the establishment of the Ulster plantation through the divergent twentieth-century experience of the Republic and Northern Ireland.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Politics and society in Northern Ireland from Home Rule through partition, the troubles, and the peach process of the 1990’s and beyond. Examination of primary sources, film, and the work of a broad range of academic specialists in the region to explore the historical development of this deeply divided society.
Credit Hours: 3
Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Survey of Spanish history with particular attention to Early Modern and Modern Periods. The course will cover the Alfonsine era and Reconquista through the Golden Age, decline, Fascism and democracy.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated.
History of France from the French Revolution and Napoleon through the political, economic and social developments of the nineteenth century to the World Wars of the twentieth century.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
The emergence of modern Germany from the end of the Thirty Years’ War through the Bismarckian empire. Topics include the rise of Prussian absolutism, the Enlightenment in Germany, the impact of the French Revolution, Romanticism, the revolutions of 1848, unification, and constitutional problems of the empire.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Germany from the end of Bismarck’s chancellorship to the present. Topics include World War I, German Expressionism, the failure of Weimar democracy, the rise of the Nazis, defeat and division, rebuilding in East and West, the collapse of communism, and reunification.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
HST 324 - Jewish Humor and History: From the Shtetl to Seinfeld
Explores Jewish humor, tracing its evolution from the Yiddish culture of the 19th century to that of modern America. We examine schlemiels, schlimazels, and schnorrers, and investigate why they still have resonance today.
Credit Hours: 3
Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
History of Russia from its origins to 1881. Topics include the Mongol Conquest, state building, foreign policy, popular and intellectual opposition to serfdom.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
History of Russia from 1881 to the present. Topics include the impact of emancipation, growth of revolutionary movement, revolutions of 1917, the Stalin years, post-Stalin reforms, end of Soviet Union.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
HST 329 - History of Science and Technology in the Modern World
Examination of themes in the history of science and technology since the Scientific Revolution, such as controversies in science and technology, history of technology/biotechnology, history of American Science, and science and technology since 1900. Course may be repeated for credit under different subtitles.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 9
The significance of the environment in American history from the colonial period to the present. Emphasis on the relationship between the natural environment of North America and the development of American culture and society, as well as changing attitudes toward the natural environment.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
The impact of social change on American life from colonial times to the present. An examination of changing concepts of ethnicity and racial identification, the growth of religious movements, the effect of industrialization on family life, the impact of urbanization on crime and violence, and the influences of movies and television on mass behavior.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
A study of the ways in which historians practice outside of the academy. Topics include historic preservation, museum interpretation, cultural resource management, media, and archives. Class may include guest speakers and field trips.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
A study of motion picture entertainment produced by Hollywood in the context of major social, political, and economic changes in the United States.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
North American Indian cultures and history from the pre-Columbian era to the end of the nineteenth century. Topics include Indian social, political, and economic life, religion and worldview, and gender roles; European and American interaction; development of federal Indian policy and the Indian response; status of Indians in contemporary America.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
North American Indian history from 1885 to the present. Topics include Indian life on, off, and after the reservations; various late 19th and 20th century federal Indian policies and the Indians’ response; and how Indians have survived into the modern era.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of the instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
An historical study of American agriculture, labor, industry, transportation, and banking with emphasis on the relation of the government to the economy.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Examines the shifting meanings of citizenship in the U.S. from 1790 to the present, with particular emphasis on the political and legal history of citizenship. Includes study of reform movements challenging hierarchical concepts of civic membership and the role of naturalization and immigration policies in regulating access to citizenship.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Political, economic and social development of North Carolina from the colonial and federal period to the Constitution of 1835.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Political, economic and social development of North Carolina in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
The city of Wilmington, North Carolina, and its environs from geological beginnings through approximately 1970. Wilmington is used as an example of major historical trends with emphasis on the twentieth century.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
The South from the colonial period to the Civil War with emphasis on political, economic, and social institutions distinctive to the South.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Aftermath of Reconstruction, rise of the New South, effects of industrialism, continuation and decline of sectionalism.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Examination of the role and significance of religion in early American culture and society. Topics include contact between Native American and Euro-American religious traditions, Puritanism, First Great Awakening, religion in the revolutionary era, separation of church and state.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses:PAR 242 Crosslisting:PAR 351 Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Formation and growth of American colonies to the conclusion of the French and Indian War (1763).
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
HST 353 - The American Revolution and Formation of the United States
Organization of the British Empire, events preceding the Revolution, the war for independence, Confederation era, drafting and ratification of the U. S. Constitution, politics of the new nation.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Study of U. S. history from the War of 1812 through the advent of the Civil War. Major topics include Jacksonian Democracy, reform movements, national expansion, immigration, sectionalism, and the political crisis of the 1850s.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Examination of the origins, conduct, and significance of the Civil War, and Reconstruction through 1877.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
HST 356 - Robber Barons and Reformers: the U.S. from 1877 to 1917
The rise of American industry and the Populist-Progressive responses to urbanization and industrialization.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
HST 357 - The United States from World War I through World War II
A study of the United States from 1917 to 1945 with emphasis on World War I, cultural change in the 1920s, the Great Depression, the New Deal, and World War II.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Developments in American politics, cultural life, civil rights, and foreign policy from the time of the Truman Administration to the present.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Religious thought and action concerning social change in modern America. Topics include urban revivalism, labor, civil rights, and peace movements. Emphasis on differing interpretations of scripture, church teachings, and religious identity.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses:PAR 242 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Prerequisite course or consent of instructor. Crosslisting:PAR 353 Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Survey of East Asian history from ancient times to the mid-nineteenth century, with emphasis on China and Japan and secondary attention to Korea and Vietnam. Course may be repeated for credit under different subtitles.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 9 Repeat Limit: 3
Survey of East Asian history from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, with emphasis on China and Japan and secondary attention to Korea and Vietnam. Course may be repeated for credit under different subtitles.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 9 Repeat Limit: 3
An examination of history of South Asian history from ancient times to the mid-nineteenth century. Course may be repeated for credit under different subtitles including Mughal India, history of Pakistan, and colonialism in India.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 9 Repeat Limit: 3
An examination of history of South Asian history from the nineteenth century till the present. Course may be repeated for credit under different subtitles including India and Pakistan since 1947, and Ghandi and Ghandism.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 9 Repeat Limit: 3
Survey of the conquest and colonization of Latin America from pre-Columbian civilizations through independence in the early nineteenth century, focusing on the creation of new societies shaped by the interaction of Europeans, Indians, and Africans.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
The development of South America, Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean from the time of independence in the early nineteenth century to the present.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
History of Africa from the earliest times to 1800 with emphasis on the social structures, cultures, economy, and political organizations of African peoples and their relationships with forces outside of Africa. This course can have a geographical or a thematic approach. Course may be repeated for credit under different subtitles.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 9 Repeat Limit: 3
Historical survey of African history from 1800 to the present with emphasis on the abolition of slavery and the slave trade; the scramble for Africa; establishment and operation of colonial rule; independence movements; and the post-colonial period.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Selected themes and events in international or transnational history. Examples of course topics include: The Second World War, Age of Napoleon. May be repeated under different subtitles.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 12
Exploration of themes in the political, social, economic, military, diplomatic, and cultural history of the Middle East and the impact of the West from 1700 to World War I. Course may be repeated for credit under different subtitles.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 9 Repeat Limit: 3
An examination of the major developments in the history of the Modern Middle East. The course may be repeated for credit under different subtitles including Women and Gender in the Middle East, the Middle East since 1914, and Palestine and Israel.
Prerequisite Courses: Any history class. Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 9 Repeat Limit: 3
Examination of themes in the history, religion, and culture of the Jewish people from antiquity to the present, including the Jews in the modern world, Zionism and Israel, Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. Course may be repeated for credit under different subtitles.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 9 Repeat Limit: 3
An examination of medieval Europe from the fall of Rome to the fifteenth century. Emphasis on the development of feudalism, manorialism, and the universal authority of the Catholic Church.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Political, economic, and social changes during the Renaissance, with particular attention to the artistic and intellectual achievements of the age.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Causes and development of the Protestant and the Catholic Reformations with examination of the impact of these movements on the political, economic, and social institutions of early modern Europe.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
HST 394 - Europe in the Age of Absolutism and Enlightenment
Europe from the Thirty Years War to the French Revolution. Topics include mercantilism; social transformation; colonialism; English constitutional government; Scientific Revolution; enlightened despotism, and changing balance of power.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Focus on a close reading of current and classical historical scholarship around a chosen theme in a small-class environment. Students will discuss and critique course readings; close attention will be paid to developing discussion and writing skills as well as historiographical knowledge.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 6 Repeat Limit: 1
HST 396 - Europe from French Revolution to World War I
The French and Industrial Revolutions and their social and political impact; the rise of nationalism and empires; capitalism and its critics; the changing balance of powers and the First World War.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
HST 398 - Europe in the Age of War and Dictatorship
Europe from the First World War to 1945. Topics include both world wars, Great Depression, nationalisms, communisms and fascisms.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Europe from the end of the Second World War to the present. Topics include the welfare state, decolonization, the 1960s, consumer society, the origins and end of the Cold War, and European integration.
Credit Hours: 3
Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any HST course or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Research-oriented exploration of major themes and issues in the history of Medieval Europe (500-1500). May be repeated under a different subtitle.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses:HST 101 and HST 290 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Prerequisite courses or consent of instructor. University Studies: Building Competencies/Writing Intensive, Common Requirements/Critical Reasoning Crosslisting:HST 548 Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 12
HST 412 - Seminar: Renaissance and Reformation Europe
Research-oriented exploration of major themes and issues in the history of Renaissance and Reformation Europe (1350-1618). May be repeated under a different subtitle.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses: (HST 101 or HST 102) and HST 290 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Prerequisite courses or consent of instructor. University Studies: Building Competencies/Writing Intensive, Common Requirements/Critical Reasoning Crosslisting:HST 552 Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 12
Research-oriented exploration of major themes and issues in the history of Early Modern Europe (1618-1789). May be repeated under a different subtitle.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses: (HST 101 or HST 102) and HST 290 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Prerequisite courses or consent of instructor. University Studies: Building Competencies/Writing Intensive, Common Requirements/Critical Reasoning Crosslisting:HST 554 Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 12
Research-oriented exploration of major themes and issues in the history of Europe from the French Revolution to the First World War. May be repeated under a different subtitle.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses: (HST 101 or HST 102) and HST 290 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Prerequisite courses or consent of instructor. University Studies: Building Competencies/Writing Intensive, Common Requirements/Critical Reasoning Crosslisting:HST 556 Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 12
Research-oriented exploration of major themes and issues in the history of Europe since 1914. May be repeated under a different subtitle.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses: (HST 101 or HST 102) and HST 290 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Prerequisite courses or consent of instructor. University Studies: Building Competencies/Writing Intensive, Common Requirements/Critical Reasoning Crosslisting:HST 558 Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 12
Intensive study of selected topics in U.S. social history. Examples of topics: African-Americans, immigrants, social movements, education, work and leisure, sexuality. May be repeated under a different subtitle.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses: (HST 105 or HST 106) and HST 290 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Prerequisite courses or consent of instructor. University Studies: Building Competencies/Writing Intensive, Common Requirements/Critical Reasoning Crosslisting:HST 518 Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 6
Intensive study of significant themes or events in U. S. economic history from the colonial period to the present. Examples of topics: economy of Colonial America, 19th-century labor movements, economy of the Antebellum South, agricultural history. May be repeated under a different subtitle.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses: (HST 105 or HST 106) and HST 290 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Prerequisite courses or consent of instructor. University Studies: Building Competencies/Writing Intensive, Common Requirements/Critical Reasoning Crosslisting:HST 525 Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 6
Intensive study of selected facets of political theory, behavior, movements, and institutions, and how political power has been used to influence the development of society. Examples of topics: New Deal politics, third-party movements, U. S. Constitution. May be repeated under a different subtitle.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses: (HST 105 or HST 106) and HST 290 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Prerequisite courses or consent of instructor. University Studies: Building Competencies/Writing Intensive, Common Requirements/Critical Reasoning Crosslisting:HST 526 Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 6
Intensive examination of fundamental principles, assumptions, and objectives in the conduct of U. S. foreign policy, and of how Americans have viewed their place in the international order at various moments in their history. Examples of topics: the diplomacy of World War II, the Cold War, arms control and disarmament. May be repeated under a different subtitle.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses: (HST 105 or HST 106) and HST 290 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Prerequisite courses or consent of instructor. University Studies: Building Competencies/Writing Intensive, Common Requirements/Critical Reasoning Crosslisting:HST 527 Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 6
Intensive examination of the role of ideas in American history. Examples of topics: radicalism, the Enlightenment, myth in American history, and ideas about democracy, ethnicity, equality, religion, gender. May be repeated under a different subtitle.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses: (HST 105 or HST 106) and HST 290 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Prerequisite courses or consent of instructor. University Studies: Building Competencies/Writing Intensive, Common Requirements/Critical Reasoning Crosslisting:HST 529 Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 6
Intensive examination of the economic, social, and political history of a specific region of the United States. May be repeated under a different subtitle.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses: (HST 105 or HST 106) and HST 290 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Prerequisite courses or consent of instructor. University Studies: Building Competencies/Writing Intensive, Common Requirements/Critical Reasoning Crosslisting:HST 531 Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 6
Selected topics in U.S. environmental history. Examples of topics: nature and culture, the cult of the wilderness, conservation and preservation, resources and regions, gender and nature, the environmental movement. May be repeated under a different subtitle.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses: (HST 105 or HST 106) and HST 290 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Prerequisite courses or consent of instructor. University Studies: Building Competencies/Writing Intensive, Common Requirements/Critical Reasoning Crosslisting:HST 533 Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 6
Provides an overview of the history, theory, and practices of historic preservation through applied research. Addresses the history of the built American environment and how scholars analyze buildings and landscapes as historical evidence. Students visit historic structures and conduct both fieldwork and archival research.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses: (HST 105 or HST 106) and HST 290 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Prerequisite courses or consent of instructor. University Studies: Building Competencies/Writing Intensive, Common Requirements/Critical Reasoning Crosslisting:HST 577 Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Research-oriented exploration of the theory, practice, and historiography of using material objects as sources for the study of society and culture.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses:HST 290 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any history survey (HST 101 - 249) and prerequisite course, or consent of instructor. University Studies: Building Competencies/Writing Intensive, Common Requirements/Critical Reasoning Crosslisting:HST 578 Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Intensive study of selected themes in public history. Examples of topics: business history, public policy analysis and interpretation of the landscape. May be repeated under a different subtitle.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses:HST 290 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Any history survey (HST 101-HST 249) and prerequisite course, or consent of instructor. University Studies: Building Competencies/Writing Intensive, Common Requirements/Critical Reasoning Crosslisting:HST 580 Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 6
Intensive study of a selected theme in African history. Examples of topics: slavery, the slave trade and its abolition, pre-colonial Africa, colonial and post-colonial Africa, oral history in Africa. May be repeated under a different subtitle.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses: (HST 103 or HST 104) and HST 290 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Prerequisite courses or consent of instructor. University Studies: Building Competencies/Writing Intensive, Common Requirements/Critical Reasoning Crosslisting:HST 581 Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 6
Intensive study of a selected theme in Middle Eastern history. Examples of topics: early Islamic conquests, the Ottoman Empire, the Arab-Israeli conflict. May be repeated under a different subtitle.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses: (HST 103 or HST 104) and HST 290 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Prerequisite courses or consent of instructor. University Studies: Building Competencies/Writing Intensive, Common Requirements/Critical Reasoning Crosslisting:HST 583 Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 6
Intensive study of a selected theme in Latin American history. Examples of topics: pre-Columbian civilizations, colonial rule under Spain and Portugal, nationalism, revolutionary movements. May be repeated under a different subtitle.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses: (HST 103 or HST 104) and HST 290 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Prerequisite courses or consent of instructor. University Studies: Building Competencies/Writing Intensive, Common Requirements/Critical Reasoning Crosslisting:HST 585 Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 6
Intensive study of a selected theme in global history. Examples of topics: colonialism, imperialism, industrialization, slavery, revolutionary movements. May be repeated under a different subtitle.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Courses: (HST 103 or HST 104) and HST 290 Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Prerequisite courses or consent of instructor. University Studies: Building Competencies/Writing Intensive, Common Requirements/Critical Reasoning Crosslisting:HST 587 Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 6