Subject Code: HIST • Section 9.8
Undergraduate courses offered by the faculty in History, supporting major curricula, academic minors, and the Alkimi Core.
Catalog Documentation
Courses in History are designed around rigorous empirical, theoretical, and applied principles. Coursework builds systematically from 100-level introductory surveys through 400-level advanced capstones and research seminars.
Prerequisites must be completed with a grade of C- or higher (unless specified otherwise by the academic department). Students who have not satisfied course prerequisites may only enroll with explicit written permission of the instructor and department chair.
Catalog Citation
Official descriptions, credit distributions, and prerequisites authorized by the Faculty Senate.
Subject Summary
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Survey of North American colonization, the American Revolution, constitutional formation, the expansion of chattel slavery, westward expansion, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.
Global history from the Enlightenment through European imperialism, the Industrial Revolution, world wars, totalitarianism, decolonization, and globalization.
Introduction to historical research methodologies, primary source evaluation, archival analysis, historical interpretation controversies, and bibliographic conventions.
Work, workers, and labor movements in the United States from industrialization to the present, with emphasis on primary sources.
Socioeconomic origins of the sectional conflict, military campaigns, emancipation policies, political battles of Reconstruction, and the memory of the Civil War.
In-depth analysis of British Atlantic imperialism, Native American interactions, colonial economic development, ideological origins of rebellion, and the American Revolution.
19th- and 20th-century European imperial expansion in Africa and Asia, anti-colonial resistance movements, the politics of partition, and post-colonial global legacies.
Culminating research seminar requiring primary archival discovery, historiographical framing, and the completion and oral defense of an extensive senior research thesis.
