Intensive first-year seminar focused on specific themes and/or disciplinary perspectives. Emphasis on developing critical reading and writing skills, substantive revision, information literacy, and analytical thinking. First-year seminars are frequently organized to meet one of the disciplinary Catamount Core requirements. Topics vary by offering; periodic offering at intervals that may exceed four years.
Intensive course in a broad disciplinary area (humanities, social sciences, arts, or natural sciences). Part of an integrated first-year experience in which students take 2-4 classes exploring aesthetic, humanistic, social, linguistic, environmental, or scientific issues. May repeat for credit with different content. Topics vary by offering; periodic offering at intervals that may exceed four years. Co-requisite: Enrollment in the appropriate Liberal Arts Scholars Program.
The development and cross-fertilization of civilizations in Eurasia, Africa, and the Americas from about 3500 BCE to AD 1500.
An introductory survey of the history of Chinese and Japanese civilizations from their Neolithic origins until the twentieth century.
Comparative survey concentrating on Latin America from the independence movements to the present with emphasis on cultural, political, and economic development and US intervention.
Surveys Native North American history across regions of the continent that became Canada and the United States from pre- contact to the present, with emphasis on Indian-European interaction.
Survey of US history from the Civil War era.
Topics examining the history of Europe. Representative topic: Twentieth-century European History in Film. May repeat be repeated for credit with different content. Topics vary by offering; periodic offering at intervals that may exceed four years.
Topics examining Ancient history. May repeat for credit with different content. Topics vary by offering; periodic offering at intervals that may exceed four years.
Survey of European history, 500-1648.
Investigation of the theory and practice of history through critique of historians' methods, analysis of primary sources, and development of the research and writing skills necessary for constructing historical arguments. Prerequisites: History major; three hours in History; Sophomore standing recommended.
Topics examining historical themes and questions on a global scale. May repeat for credit with different content. Topics vary by offering; periodic offering at intervals that may exceed four years. Prerequisite: Three hours of History.
Offers an historical understanding of social and political change in the Middle East during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Prerequisite: Three hours of History.
Transition from tradition to modernity in Japan from the Meiji Restoration, 1868 to the present. Prerequisite: Three hours of History.
Examination of the history of drugs and drug trafficking in Latin America from the colonial era to the present. Above all, this is a course about the impact of drugs and drug trafficking on people: thus, this course is also about violence, racism, inequality, poverty, migration, discrimination, criminalization, incarceration, and human rights. Prerequisite: Three hours of History.
Topics examining the experiences of women in the United States and/or its colonial antecedents. May be repeated for credit with different content. Topics vary by offering; periodic offering at intervals that may exceed four years. Prerequisite: Three hours of History or Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies minor.
Topics examining the experiences of Black people in the United States and/or its colonial antecedents. Representative topics: African-American History to 1865; African-American History since 1865. May be repeated for credit with different content. Topics vary by offering; periodic offering at intervals that may exceed four years. Prerequisite: Three hours of History.
Topics examining the diplomatic history of the United States and/or its colonial antecedents, usually with an emphasis on law. Representative topics: Treaties and International Law; US Civil War in Global Context. May be repeated for credit with different content. Topics vary by offering; periodic offering at intervals that may exceed four years. Prerequisite: Three hours of History.
Topics examining Ancient history. May repeat for credit with different content. Topics vary by offering; periodic offering at intervals that may exceed four years. Prerequisite: Three hours in History or Classics.
Exploration of the explosion of new religious ideas that characterized the period from 1100 to 1500 and the Church's response to these challenges. Prerequisite: Three hours of History.
Political, cultural, and social history of Germany from unification in 1871 through the Wilhemine empire, Weimar Republic, Nazi era, and postwar period. Prerequisite: Three hours of History.
Study of the background, events, and aftermath of the Holocaust in Nazi Germany and Europe under German control. Prerequisite: Three hours of History.
Undergraduate student work on individual or small research projects under the supervision of a faculty member, for which credit is awarded. Offered at department discretion. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
History of slavery from a comparative perspective, including Classical Antiquity, Islam and the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and the Southern United States. Credit not awarded for both HST 4210 and HST 5300. Prerequisites: Twelve hours of History; minimum Junior standing.
Topics examining themes in Global history. May be repeated for credit with different content. Topics vary by offering; periodic offering at intervals that may exceed four years. Prerequisite: Twelve hours of History; minimum Junior standing.
Topics examining historical themes and questions in the history of the Americas, with a particular emphasis on places beyond the United States. May repeat for credit with different content. Topics vary by offering; periodic offering at intervals that may exceed four years. Prerequisites: Twelve hours of History; minimum Junior standing.
Topics examining themes in Holocaust Studies and Modern European history. Representative topics: The Holocaust & Memory; Auschwitz; The Holocaust in Poland. May be repeated for credit with different content. Topics vary by offering; periodic offering at intervals that may exceed four years. Credit not awarded for both HST 4790 and HST 5700. Prerequisites: Twelve hours of History; minimum Junior standing.
Undergraduate student service as a teaching assistant, usually in an introductory-level course in the discipline, for which credit is awarded. Offered at department discretion.
College honors thesis or other department/program honors, under the supervision of a faculty member. Offered at department discretion.
Historical methods, philosophy of history, and the history of history writing. Prerequisite: Graduate student.
Exploration of topics in global history. May repeat for credit with different content. Topics vary by offering; periodic offering at intervals that may exceed four years. Credit not awarded for both HST 5300 and HST 4210 to HST 4447. Prerequisite: Graduate student.
Exploration of topics in the history of the Americas. May repeat for credit with different content. Topics vary by offering; periodic offering at intervals that may exceed four years. Credit not awarded for both HST 5500 and HST 4470 to HST 4690. Prerequisite: Graduate student.
Exploration of topics in European history. May repeat for credit with different content. Topics vary by offering; periodic offering at intervals that may exceed four years. Credit not awarded for both HST 5700 and HST 4690 to HST 4790. Prerequisite: Graduate student.
Required of all candidates for the M.A. who are writing a thesis. Normally arranged for two semesters at three hours each.
On-site supervised work experience combined with a structured academic learning plan directed by a faculty member or a faculty-staff team in which a faculty member the instructor of record, for which academic credit is awarded. Offered at department discretion. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
A course which is tailored to fit the interests of a specific student, which occurs outside the traditional classroom/laboratory setting under the supervision of a faculty member, for which credit is awarded. Offered at department discretion. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Directed individual study of areas not appropriately covered by existing courses. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.