2.- History (HIST) Courses

2.- History (HIST) Courses

1. Lower-Division Courses
   
2. Upper-Division Courses
   
   1. FIELD I: THE UNITED STATES
      
   2. FIELD II: AFRICA, ASIA, AND RUSSIA
      
   3. FIELD III: LATIN AMERICA
      
   4. FIELD IV: EUROPE, EXCEPT RUSSIA
      
3. Other Courses
   

Lower-Division Courses 3101 History of the United States to 1865 (3-0) (Common Course Number HIST 1301)

Survey of American history through the Civil War, emphasizing the European background, the colonial contribution, the American Revolution, the republican government, growth of democracy, and the background and course of the Civil War. With 3102, fulfills the statutory requirement for American History.

Reconstruction, rise of big business, clash of economic interests, struggle for reform, imperialism, and world power status. Progressivism, World War I, the Twenties, the New Deal, World War II, post-war America. With 3101, fulfills the statutory requirement for American History.

An analysis of the development of civilizations in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas from the ancient period to the seventeenth century, with an emphasis on cultural change and contact among cultures.

An analysis of the development of civilizations in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas from the seventeenth century through the age of imperialism to the global conflicts of the twentieth century.

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Upper-Division Courses General Prerequisites: Appropriate class standing.

1. FIELD I: THE UNITED STATES

   3301 Colonial America to 1763 (3-0)

   Background of European exploration and colonization, settlement and development of the English colonies, British imperial policy, and the Anglo-French conflict in North America.
   3302 The American Revolution and the New Nation, 1763-1815 (3-0)
   The breakdown of the Anglo-American political system, the development of American political principles, the War for Independence and social readjustment, the creation of new governments, the rise of political parties, the Federalist and Jeffersonian administrations, the War of 1812, and the emergence of national character.
   3304 The Age of Jackson, Clay, and Webster, 1815-1860 (3-0)
   Political, economic, social, and sectional aspects of the Jacksonian era. The Old South and slavery, the North and reform, Manifest Destiny, nativism, and the disruption of the political party system.
   3305 The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1860-1877 (3-0)
   The Civil War and Reconstruction: Election of Lincoln, outbreak of war, Union and Confederacy, military problems, nations at war, Reconstruction conflicts, triumph of Radicalism, and Compromise of 1876.
   3306 From Plutocracy to Progressivism, 1877-1917 (3-0)
   Focuses on the incorporation and urbanization of the United States, the end of the frontier, immigration to the United States, the rise of organized labor and populism, attempts at protest and reform, the pursuit of a colonial empire, and World War I and its consequences.
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   3307 The Interwar Years, 1918-1941 (3-0)

   The domestic history of the United States between the two world wars. Emphasis on postwar reaction, Republican politics, cultural conflict during the 1920s, the Great Depression, the impact of the New Deal, and the rise of organized labor.
   3308 The United States since 1941 (3-0)
   The domestic history of the United States since 1941. Major topics include the home front during World War II, the Red Scare, the expansion of the welfare state, the civil rights movement, the impact of the Vietnam War, and the Reagan revolution.
   3309 Mexican American History (3-0)
   A survey of Mexican Americans in the southwestern U.S. since the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, with emphasis on interactions between Mexican- and Anglo-American cultures.
   3310 American Legal History (3-0)
   Study of the growth of American law from colonial times to the present. Particular emphasis on the operation of the law in a broad social context. Strongly recommended for Pre-Law students.
   3311 History of American Foreign Relations to 1914 (3-0)
   Analysis of the diplomacy of the American Revolution and of the new nation; diplomatic aspects of the War with Mexico and continental expansion, and the rise of the United States to world power in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with emphasis on imperial expansion overseas.
   3312 History of American Foreign Relations since 1914 (3-0)
   Analysis of 20th century American diplomacy, including the diplomatic aspects of the two world wars, the origins and development of the Cold War with the Soviet Union, and the American response to Third World nationalism including the war in Vietnam.
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   3313 American Military History (3-0)

   A study of American military history from colonial times to the present. The course begins with a consideration of the origins of the American military system in seventeenth-century England and concludes with a discussion of issues of contemporary military affairs. Both the problems faced by the American military and the relationships of the military to the rest of American society are examined.
   3314 Main Currents in American Thought to 1865 (3-0)
   A survey of the beliefs and modern impact of key thinkers and movements upon American culture from the Puritans to the Civil War. Will include treatment of the thought of such early Americans as Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and John C. Calhoun and such pre-Civil War movements as Puritanism, the Enlightenment, and Transcendentalism.
   3315 Main Currents in American Thought since 1865 (3-0)
   A survey of the beliefs and modern impact of key thinkers and movements upon American culture from the Civil War to the present. Will include treatment of such American thinkers as William Graham Sumner, Thorstein Veblen, William James, Henry Adams, and Frederick Jackson Turner and such post-Civil War movements as Social Darwinism, Progressivism, and Naturalism.
   3316 Southwest Frontier (3-0)
   A study of the nineteenth-century American Southwest, the arid frontier, and the area of the international boundary. Note: History majors may count this course in either Field I or Field III.
   3317 History of Texas since 1821 (3-0)
   Spanish and Mexican Texas, Anglo-American colonization, the Texas Revolution, the Republic, statehood, Civil War and Reconstruction, railroad and industrial growth, political, social, and economic trends in the twentieth century, and ethnic and racial change. Note: History majors may count this course in either Field I or Field III.
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   3318 American Environmental History (3-0)

   A history of American attitudes and actions toward the environment, with particular emphasis on land and natural resources. The course will focus on two conflicting themes: (1) exploitation and development and (2) preservation of nature.
   3321 19th Century American West (3-0)
   Focuses on the frontier and the American character, the westward movement to the Pacific Slope, conflict with the American Indian and other ethnic and minority groups, women and the West, and exploitation of the natural resources. The course will center on the Trans-Mississippi frontier with emphasis on the arid West.
   3322 20th Century American West (3-0)
   Examines the new West in terms of conservation policies, natural resource issues, urbanization, tourism, economic development, immigration, and cultural conflict. Regions covered include the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountain states, the arid West, and the Pacific Slope.
   3323 American Indian History (3-0)
   A survey of the history of North American Indians from the Pre-Columbian period to the present. Examines inter-tribal relations as well as Indian-European and Indian-Anglo American interactions. Emphasis on trans-Mississippi West tribes and events.
   3324 The United States in Vietnam and Southeast Asia (3-0)
   American relations with Southeast Asia in the twentieth century, focusing on the American acquisition and governance of the Philippines, the American response to Asian nationalism during and after World War II, and the war in Vietnam.
   3325 History of Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States (3-0)
   Explores the social, political, cultural, and religious lives of the diverse peoples who immigrated to the United States, as well as their impact on the political and cultural life of the United States as a whole. Primary focus on second-wave immigrants, including Southern and Eastern Europeans, and on Asians and Mexicans.
   3326 Life and Labor in the United States in the 19th and 20th Centuries (3-0)
   Examines why so few American workers are in unions today, and why the United States is virtually the only Western industrialized nation without a labor party. Explores the history of the cultural and political life of the American working class covering topics ranging from the impact of slavery and immigration to the historic relationship between unions and the Democratic Party to recent organizing efforts by university clerical workers.
   3327 Racial Thought in U.S. History
   An historical and comparative analysis of the role of racial thinking in American history, with special focus upon the American Indians, African-Americans, Mexican-Americans, Jews, and Asian-Americans. Will include analysis of major racial theories and stereotypes directed toward these groups.
   3328 History of Hispanic Peoples in the United States (3-0)
   Traces the historical experiences of the Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, and other Hispanic migrants to the United States; investigates the causes of their migrations, the communities they formed in the United States, their problems of adjustment, the cultural changes they have undergone, and the similarities and differences among their cultures.

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2. FIELD II: AFRICA, ASIA, AND RUSSIA

   3330 East Asia (3-0)

   A brief survey of traditional China, Korea, and Japan, westernization and modernization, and East Asia in the twentieth century. Special emphasis on the uniqueness of East Asian societies and on the differences among these countries.
   3331 The History of Religion in the East (3-0)
   The history of the Hindu, Buddhist, Confucian, and Taoist communities from their beginnings to the modern era, with emphasis on the development of their ideas, the interaction between communities, and parallels in movements and teachings. The historical development of each religion is stressed.
   3332 Russia (3-0)
   A history of Russia from its medieval origins in the ninth century to the rise of the Russian empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries emphasizing the development of the Russian political condition, culture, and society before the 1917 revolutions.
   3333 The Soviet Union (3-0)
   A history of the USSR including the Russian revolutions of 1917, revolutionary experimentation in the 1920s, collectivization, industrialization, and the purges in the 1930s, World War II, and an overview of Soviet life in the 1970s and 1980s.
   3336 Pre-Modern Africa (3-0)
   The history of Africa from the emergence of the kingdom of Ghana in the eighth century to the advent of colonialism in the nineteenth. Emphasis on the spread of Islam, the growth and impact of the slave trade, the political and economic crisis of the 1800s, and the rise of European imperialism. Primary focus is on Africa south of the Sahara.
   3337 Modern Africa (3-0)
   Examination of Africa from the imperial conquest of the late nineteenth century to the present day. Emphasis on the social, economic, and cultural impact of colonialism, religious change, African nationalism, decolonization and independence, the struggle for development, and racial conflict in South Africa. Primary focus is on Africa south of the Sahara.
   3339 Pyramids and Prophets: Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Palestine (3-0)
   Examines the distinct series of circumstances which led to the development of civilization in the Ancient Near East. Emphasis is upon the government, society, religion, art, and manners that evolved through the eras of Stone Age nomads, Bronze Age temple-states, and Iron Age kingdoms.
   3340 The Middle East and Islam (3-0)
   The rise and expansion of Islam, the golden age of Arab culture, the Ottoman Empire, the impact of European imperialism, the economics of oil, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and present-day Muslim revitalization.

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3. FIELD III: LATIN AMERICA

   3342 The Spanish Borderlands (3-0)

   A study of the Spanish northern frontier in North America from California to Florida with particular emphasis on the Spanish impact on the American Southwest from the sixteenth-century explorations to 1821. Note: History majors and minors may count this course in either Field I or Field III.
   3343 The U.S.-Mexican Border (3-0)
   History of the border region, with an emphasis on the twentieth century. Themes include the delimitation and maintenance of the boundary, international relations, ethnic relations, the Mexican Revolution, economic development, migration, and culture.
   3346 Central America and the Caribbean (3-0)
   Social, economic and political patterns in Central America and in the Spanish-, English-, French-, Dutch-, and Creole-speaking Caribbean, emphasizing the twentieth century. Topics include race relations, ideological struggle, nationalism, popular culture, and U.S. involvement.
   3347 Argentina, Brazil, and Chile since 1810 (3-0)
   The politics, economy, culture, and international relations of the ABC powers, with emphasis on the twentieth century.
   3349 History of Mexico to 1900 (3-0)
   The Pre-Columbian civilizations, the conquest, Spanish institutions and culture, the Mexican movement for independence, the era of Santa Ana, Juarez and the Reform, and the Diaz regime.
   3350 The Mexican Revolution (3-0)
   The background of the Revolution; political, social, economic, and military developments of the Mexican Revolution; and Mexico since the Revolution.

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4. FIELD IV: EUROPE, EXCEPT RUSSIA

   3354 England to 1603 (3-0)

   Focusing on the medieval and Tudor periods, this course emphasizes mentalities and institutions peculiar to England, while relating them to continental European developments.
   3355 England since 1603 (3-0)
   A survey of major developments in English history since 1603 including the English Civil War, the Glorious Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, Victorian Britain, the age of Imperialism, the two World Wars, and postwar Britain.
   3359 The History of Religion in the West (3-0)
   The history of the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic communities from their beginnings to the modern era, with emphasis on the development of their ideas, the interaction between communities, and parallels in movements and teachings. The historical development of each religion is stressed.
   3360 Ancient Greece (3-0)
   Surveys the development of Greek society and government from the Bronze Age palace cultures of Crete and Mycenae to the aftermath of the Peloponnesian War. Special emphasis on the evolution of the polis system with consideration of Greek art and literature.
   3361 Hellenism and the Coming of Rome (3-0)
   Examines how the attitudes and institutions of the Roman city-state energized the conquest of the Mediterranean Basin and then disintegrated into civil war. Special emphasis upon the importance of Alexander the Great and Hellenistic culture in Roman development.
   3362 The Medieval World (3-0)
   A survey of the period in Western Europe from about 500 to about 1300, focusing especially on the nature and accomplishments of the revolutionary new society which emerged in the three centuries following the invasions of the ninth and tenth centuries.
   3363 The Roman Empire (3-0)
   Examines the culture that evolved from the chaos of the Roman Republic into the religious, administrative, economic, and legal apparatus that formed the theoretical basis of the first European state systems. Attention shall focus on the development of Christianity and the expressions of Roman ideals in art and literature.
   3364 The Age of Renaissance (3-0)
   A survey of Western Europe in the fourteenth, fifteenth, and early sixteenth centuries, focusing especially on the great age of the Renaissance in Italy and including an analysis of some of the most famous art and artists of the period seen in their historical context.
   3365 The Age of the Reformation (3-0)
   A survey of Western Europe in the sixteenth and first half of the seventeenth centuries, focusing on the Reformation and its consequences and including an analysis of the social, economic, political, and intellectual changes that accompanied that split and that ushered in the modern world.
   3366 The Age of Absolutism and Enlightenment (3-0)
   A survey of Western and Central Europe in the second half of the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries (until 1789), focusing on the development of absolutism and its alternatives, the scientific revolution, the Enlightenment and the growth of modern rationalism, popular culture and the growing social and institutional crisis in France before the French Revolution.
   3369 Twentieth Century Europe, 1900 to the Present (3-0)
   The collapse of the European dynastic monarchies, World War I, the Versailles Treaty, totalitarian dictatorships in Italy, Germany, and Russia, World War II, the Cold War, and the Common Market era.
   3370 The Holocaust in Europe, 1933-1945 (3-0)
   An analysis of the background, causes, events, and aftermath of the destruction of European Jewry in the era of the Second World War; the fate of Gypsies and other victims of Nazi racial policies; and the role of individuals of various nations as perpetrators, bystanders, resisters, and rescuers during that era.
   3374 Modern Germany since 1866 (3-0)
   The emergence of a unified German national state, relations with neighboring powers, World War I, the revolution of 1918, the Weimar Republic, rise and fall of the Third Reich, and divided Germany.
   3381 The History of Spain and Portugal (3-0)
   A survey of the Iberian Peninsula from the earliest times to the regimes of Franco and Salazar, with particular emphasis on the rise, development, and decline of the Spanish and Portuguese empires. Note: History majors may count this course in either Field III or Field IV.
   3382 Spain in the Age of Expansion, Eighth - Sixteenth Centuries (3-0)
   Analysis of the success, then the downfall, of the Muslims; the simultaneous rise of the Christian kingdoms which became Castile, Portugal, and Aragon-Catalonia; the unification of Spain and the conquest of empire; and the character of the societies and intellectual, religious, and artistic currents they produced.

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Other Courses

3390 History, Special Topics (3-0)

An examination of a currently relevant subject from a historical perspective. Topics will vary and will be drawn from such fields as minority groups, women's history, local history, ecology, historical methodology, and the relationship of history to other social sciences. History majors and minors should count the course in the appropriate field.

An examination of the values, roles, and contributions of women in various historical contexts. May be repeated once for credit when topic changes. History majors and minors should count the course in the appropriate field.

A survey of the development of Western historical thought and writing from antiquity to the present. Emphasis will be placed on such key figures as Herodotus, St. Augustine, Machiavelli, Voltaire, Vico, Marx, and Freud. Will include analysis of such issues as causation, subjectivity, and moral judgments in history.

Readings and discussion on a major issue in history, and individual research into a related topic. The course theme will change from semester to semester. Junior or senior standing required. Required of all History majors; open to History minors and others by permission.

Individual directed study on approved topic; to be taught at the consent of the professor and with the approval of the department chairperson. History majors and minors should count the course in the appropriate field.

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