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HIST History( Arts and Humanities) HIST110 The Ancient World; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Humanities (HO) Course. USP Distributive Studies Area A: Cultural and Historical Course.Interpretation of select literature and art of the ancient Mediterranean world with a view to illuminating the antecedents of modern culture; religion and myth in the ancient near East; Greek philosophical, scientific, and literary invention; and the Roman tradition in politics and administration. HIST156 History of the United States to 1865; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Social or Political History (SH) Course. USP Distributive Studies Area A: Cultural and Historical Course. The United States from colonial times to the end of the Civil War. Establishment and development of American institutions. HIST157 History of the United States Since 1865; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Social or Political History (SH) Course. USP Distributive Studies Area D: Social and Behavioral Sciences Course. The United States from the end of the Civil War to the present. Economic, social, intellectual, and political developments. Rise of industry and emergence of the United States as a world power. HIST307 The Holocaust of European Jewry; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Also offered as JWST345. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: HIST307 or JWST345. Roots of Nazi Jewish policy in the l930's and during World War II: the process of destruction and the implementation of the "final solution of the Jewish problem" in Europe, and the responses made by the Jews to their concentration and annihilation. HIST319A Special Topics in History: Radical Regimes in the Arab World; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. HIST319B Special Topics in History: History of Women in the US, 1941-Present; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. HIST319D Special Topics in History: America in the Movies: Major Themes in 20th Century; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. HIST319E Special Topics in History: History of the Arab Israeli Conflict; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. HIST319F Special Topics in History: Latinos and Cities in the Americas, 1940-1990; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. HIST319G Special Topics in History: Genocide in the 20th Century: From the Holocaust to Rwanda; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. HIST319I Special Topics in History: Latinos in American Film, 1950-1980; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. HIST319Q Special Topics in History: Comparative 20th Century Race Relations; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. HIST319T Special Topics in History: Culture and Politics in Depression & Prosperity, 1929-1960; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. HIST319V Special Topics in History: America in the 1960s; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. HIST324 Classical Greece; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. The ancient Greeks from Homer to Socrates, 800-400 B.C. Society and religion of the city-state, the art and literature of Periclean Athens, the Peloponnesian War, and the intellectual circle of Socrates. HIST352 America in the Colonial Era, 1600-1763; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: HIST156, HIST210, HIST213, or HIST254; or permission of instructor. The founding of the English colonies in America and their European backgrounds, the reasons for the instability of colonial society to 1689 and the emergence of stable societies after 1689; the development of colonial regionalism, political institutions, social divisions, the economy, religion, education, urban and frontier problems in the eighteenth century. HIST353 America in the Revolutionary Era, 1763-1815; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: HIST156, HIST210, HIST213, HIST254, or HIST275; or permission of instructor. The background and course of the American Revolution and early nationhood through the War of 1812. Emphasis on how the Revolution shaped American political and social development, the creation of a new government under the Constitution, and the challenges facing the new nation. HIST356 Emergence of Modern America, 1900-1945; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: HIST157, HIST211, HIST213, HIST222, HIST255, HIST265, or HIST275; or permission of instructor. The emergence of modern institutions and identities, 1900-1945. These institutions may include corporate enterprises and the welfare state; identities include homosexuality, the New Woman and the New Negro. HIST357 Recent America: 1945-Present; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: HIST157, HIST211, HIST213, HIST222, HIST255, HIST265, or HIST275; or permission of instructor. American history from the inauguration of Harry S. Truman to the present with emphasis upon politics and foreign relations, but with consideration of special topics such as radicalism, conservatism, and labor. HIST386 Experiential Learning; (3-6 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. Prerequisite: permission of department. Junior standing. The History Department's Internship program. Pre-professional experience in historical research, analysis and writing in a variety of work settings. HIST419N Special Topics in History: History through Cinema: USA 1930-1970; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. The economics of the Hollywood studio system. The rise of james Cagney and the rise (and fall) of Mae West. Oscar Micheaux and "race film." A merican intellectuals go to Hollywood. WWII and American cinema. Commu nism, Hollywood, and witch-hunts. James Dean, Sidney Poitier, and the r e-imagining of American youth. Celluloid, Napalm, and the Business of V ietnam. HIST436 French Revolution and Napoleon; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. The causes and course of the French Revolution with emphasis on the struggle among elites, popular intervention, the spread of counterrevolution, the Terror as repression and popular government, the near collapse of the Republic, and the establishment and defeat of dictatorship. HIST499 Independent Study; (1-3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. HIST619B Special Topics in History: Independent Study; (1-3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. HIST708 Directed Independent Reading for Comprehensive Examinations I; (1-4 credits) Grade Method: S-F. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. HIST709 Directed Independent Reading for Comprehensive Examinations II; (1-4 credits) Grade Method: S-F. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. HIST799 (PermReq) Master's Thesis Research; (1-6 credits) Grade Method: REG. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. HIST819 Special Topics in History: Independent Research; (1-3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. HIST899 (PermReq) Doctoral Dissertation Research; (1-8 credits) Grade Method: REG. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number.
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