Examines the ancient Greeks and Romans, the rise and development of Christianity, the medieval period, and the Renaissance. This course, which focuses on the significant political, economic, social, cultural, and religious developments, is a survey of Western Civilization from its foundation through 1500.
Examines the Reformation, Absolutism, the Enlightenment, the political revolutions of the eighteenth century, the Industrial Revolution, imperialism, nationalism, fascism, the World Wars, the Cold War, and globalization. This course, which focuses on the significant political, economic, social, cultural, and religious developments, is a survey of Western Civilization from 1500 through the present.
Examines the rise and development of agriculture, the development of primary states, secondary states and empires, and the origins and spread of monotheistic culture. This course is a survey of World History from its foundation through 1500.
Examines global interactions during the post-Bubonic Plague world, origins and development of modernity, and contemporary history after World War II. This course is a survey of world history from 1450 to present.
Examines colonial America, the American Revolution, the Constitution, the federal period, sectional conflict, and the Civil War. This period lays the foundation of the American experiment and includes the study of political, constitutional, economic, social, and cultural trends from the founding to 1865.
Examines industrialization, progressivism, World War I, the Twenties, the Depression, the New Deal, World War II, the Cold War, and post-war America. This course emphasizes America's rise to a world power and includes the study of political, constitutional, economic, social, and cultural trends from 1865 to the present.
Examines the causes of the Civil War, the constitutional crisis confronting the Union, the conduct of the war by both the Union and Confederacy, the economic and social conditions of the homefront, the status and condition of African Americans and the wartime origins of Reconstruction.
Explores the history of the South from the colonial period to the present. Examines the Golden Age of the Chesapeake, antebellum society, the institution of slavery, development of a regional identity, the War for Southern Independence, Reconstruction, readjustment of racial patterns, and the rise of the New South and the Sun Belt.
Explores the history of the Civil Rights movement in twentieth-century America. It begins with an overview of segregation, examines in detail the efforts of the movement to overcome Jim Crow discrimination, and concludes with an assessment of the movement's legacy.
Examines the Constitution and its impact within the context of the government, law, and politics. Topics covered include the origins of the Constitution, the development of judicial nationalism, the impact of slavery, the conflict leading up to the Civil War, reconstruction, the 1890s, the creation of the modern state, the New Deal era, the 1960s, and the movement toward a conservative constitutionalism.
Surveys African-American history from the arrival of the first Africans in 1619 to the present. Includes the major economic, political, and social forces that have helped shape the role of the African American in the history of America.
Surveys the major military and social developments of WWII through films and selected readings. Multicultural and multinational perspectives are included.
Examines one of America's most turbulent decades: the 1960s. This course explores the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, the Anti-War Movement, and changing cultural and social mores. Emphasis will include an examination of the history, politics, literature, and music of the era.