The University of Montana - Missoula
2002-2003 Course Catalog
 

Department of History


Harry W. Fritz, Chair

For the student in search of a broad education rather than in training for a particular occupation, the History Department offers an exciting program of instruction. It is designed to provide a knowledge and understanding of the background and ramifications of present local, national, and world affairs. The program emphasizes understanding rather than the memorization of names and dates. Students are taught how to read critically, analyze thoughtfully, conduct research carefully, and write intelligently.

Toward this end, the department offers a wide variety of courses ranging in time, location, and subject. For those students interested in local history there are courses on Montana, the West and unique aspects of the frontier. Other classes stress the nature of early American society, the American Revolution, family and gender in America, the Civil War, and diplomacy in the Cold War. Still others emphasize European social, cultural, and intellectual history, European exploration, the French Revolution, Islamic civilization, Asian history, Russian history, and African history. Topical courses concentrate upon the European peasantry, documentary analysis, diplomacy, war and peace, terrorism, and environmental history.

The History Department helps to prepare men and women for many different kinds of occupations. Graduates are employed in federal, state or local government positions ranging from domestic to foreign service, from senators to research analysts. Many teach history in Montana or in other states while others pursue their educations at advanced graduate schools earning master or doctoral degrees. Several have been awarded Rhodes or Marshall scholarships. Lawyers, journalists and businessmen also are trained by the department; many combine history with political science, journalism, or business. History provides not only a basis for the pursuit of their chosen profession but also furnishes knowledge and perspective for intelligent leadership of citizens in community affairs.

Special Degree Requirements

Refer to graduation requirements listed previously in the catalog. See index.

Requirements for a History Major

Students selecting a major in history must complete the following requirements:

I. Courses and credits

A. A minimum of 40 credits in history, maximum of 60. Of the 40 credit total, 13 credits must be in European history, 13 in American history, and 6 in world history (Asian, Islamic, African, or Latin American) History majors must complete at least 20 upper division credits.
B. History majors must complete Hist 300, The Historian's Craft or a 400-level writing course.

II. Languages

The Department requires competency in English and a proficiency in one foreign language. These requirements include:

A. ENEX 101 or its equivalent.
B. Foreign language requirements may be satisfied by completing anyone of the following options:

1. The 101 102 active skills sequence in any foreign language.
2. The 111-112 reading skills sequence in any foreign language.
3. Any single course at or above the 102 or 112 level in any foreign language.
4. An equivalency test for (3) offered by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.

The Department of History does not allow credit for foreign languages taken in high school but students with high school backgrounds in a foreign language may wish to pursue options (3) or (4) above. Options (1), (2), and (3) may be taken on a pass/not pass basis.

III. Upper-Division Writing Expectation

The Upper-division Writing Expectation must be met by successfully completing an upper-division writing course from the approved list in the Academic Policies and Procedures section of this catalog. See index.

Teacher Preparation in History back to top

Major Teaching Field of History Option in History Education: This option is designed for the student seeking an endorsement in the major teaching field of history. A student must select one course (4 cr.) from HIST 104H 105H and complete HIST 151H 152H, HIST 269, a non western course in history, and HIST 300. Six (6) credits of upper division courses in United States history, six (6) credits of upper division courses in European history and six (6) elective credits in history courses are required. Students also must take C&I 428, gain admission to Teacher Education and Student Teaching and meet the requirements for certification as a secondary teacher (see the School of Education section of this catalog).

Minor Teaching Field of History: For an endorsement in the minor teaching field of History, a student must select one course (4 cr.) from HIST 104H 105H, and complete HIST 151H 152H, HIST 269, a non western course in history, and HIST 300. A three (3) credit upper division courses in United States history, a three (3) credit upper division course in European history and a three (3) credit elective upper division course in history are required. Students also must take C&I 428, gain admission to Teacher Education and Student Teaching and meet the requirements for certification as a secondary teacher (see the School of Education section of this catalog).

Combined History Political Science Teaching Major

The B.A. degree with a major in History Political Science is designed for students seeking an endorsement to teach comprehensive (broadfield) Social Science. Students complete a broad range of courses in history and political science (48 credits) and from 9 to 13 credits from two additional social science disciplines. Students must complete three courses from HIST 104H 105H, 151H 152H, HIST 300 and 9 credits in upper division history courses, including a selection from American and other than American history. In political science, students must complete PSC 100S, PSC 120S, PSC 130E and 15 elective credits in upper division political science courses. No more than 60 credits in History and Political Science may be counted toward the degree. Only 12 credits of lower division political science courses and 12 credits of 100 level courses in history may be counted toward the degree. In addition, students must complete ECON 100S, 111S, 112S; GEOG 101N, one regional geography course, and six additional credits in geography; PSYC 100S and a course emphasizing Native Americans in Montana and North America.

Students also must complete C&I 428, gain admission to Teacher Education and Student Teaching and meet the requirements for certification as a secondary teacher (see the School of Education section of this catalog). Comprehensive Social Science qualifies for a single teaching field endorsement. Students must have an advisor from the School of Education for teacher certification. This program qualifies students to teach government history, economics and geography for grades 5-12.

Suggested Course of Study back to top

First Year
A
S
History 104H-105H European Civilization or 151H-152H The Americans
4
4
ENEX 101 Composition
3
-
Foreign language
5
5
Electives and General Education
3
6
Total
15
15
Second Year
HIST 201H, East Asia, 208H, Africa, HIST 269 Montana, or HIST 283H, 284H Islamic or HIST 285H, 286H, 287H Latin America
6
6
Electives and General Education
9
9
Total
15
15
Third Year
HIST 300 The Historian's Craft
(3)
(3)
HIST 300-level history courses
3-6
3-6
Electives and General Education
9
9
Total
15
15
Fourth Year
HIST 300- and 400-level history
6
3
Electives, General Education, Broadfield Social Sciences and C&I courses (if applicable)
9
12
Total
15
15


Requirements for a Minor


To earn a minor in history the student must complete the following: (1) a minimum of 20 credits in history of which 6 credits must be in American history and 6 must be in European history, and 3 in world history (Asian, Islamic or Latin American); (2) of the 20 credits at least 9 must be upper-division credits; and (3) ENEX 101 or its equivalent.

Courses back to top

U = for undergraduate credit only, UG = for undergraduate or graduate credit, G = for graduate credit. R after the credit indicates the course may be repeated for credit to the maximum indicated after the R.

U 104H European Civilization: The Birth of Modern Europe 4 cr. Offered autumn. A comprehensive, introductory history of western civilization from classical antiquity to 1715. Lecture-discussion. Credit not allowed for both 104H and 107H.
U 105H European Civilization: Modern Europe 4 cr. Offered spring. A comprehensive, introductory history of western civilization from 1715 to the present. Lecture-discussion. Credit not allowed for both 105H and 108H.
U 107H Honors Course in European Civilization: The Birth of Modern Europe 4 cr. Offered autumn. Limited enrollment by consent of instr. only. A comprehensive, introductory history of western civilization from classical antiquity to 1715. Lecture-honors discussion. Credit not allowed for both 107H and 104H.
U 108H Honors Course in European Civilization: Modern Europe 4 cr. Offered spring. Limited enrollment by consent of instr. only. A comprehensive introductory history of western civilization from 1715 to the present. Lectur- honors discussion. Credit not allowed for both 108H and 105H.
U 109 Central Asia: From Cyrus to Gorbachev 3 cr. Offered autumn. Introduction to Central Asia's history, culture and ways of thinking. Focus on the political and social organization of Central Asia and cultural changes as expressed in art and interactions with China, India, and Middle East.
U 151H The Americans: Conquest to Capitalism 4 cr. Offered autumn. A comprehensive introductory history of Colonial, Revolutionary and 19th century America, to 1896. Lecture discussion. Credit not allowed for both 151H and 154H.
U 152H The Americans: The Twentieth Century 4 cr. Offered spring. A comprehensive introductory history of the U.S. since 1896. Lecture discussion. Credit not allowed for both 152H and 155H.
U 154H Honors Course in the Americans: Conquest to Capitalism 4 cr. Offered autumn. Limited enrollment by consent of instr. only. A comprehensive introductory history of Colonial, Revolutionary, and 19th century America, to 1896. Lecture honors discussion. Credit not allowed for both 154H and 151H.
U 155H Honors Course in the Americans: The Twentieth Century 4 cr. Offered spring. Limited enrollment by consent of instr. only. A comprehensive introductory history of the U.S.since 1896. Lecture honors discussion. Credit not allowed for both 155H and 152H.
U 195 Special Topics Variable cr. (R 6) Offered intermittently. Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one time offerings of current topics.
U 198 Cooperative Education Experience Variable cr. (R 15) Offered intermittently. Prereq., consent of department. Extended classroom experience which provides practical application of classroom learning during placements off campus. Prior approval must be obtained from the faculty supervisor and the Center for Work-Based Learning.
U 201H East Asian Civilizations 3 cr. Offered autumn. Same as AS 201H. An interdisciplinary, pluralist, and exploratory introduction to civilizations of East Asia. Primary focus on China, Japan, and Korea, the relations among them and their patterns of interaction with the outside world in pre-modern and modern periods.
U 208H Discovering Africa 3 cr. Offered intermittently. Same as AAS 208H. Interdisciplinary study of the history of pre-colonial Africa, focusing on social, economic, political and cultural institutions and traditions including the wealth, diversity and complexity of ancient and classical African civilizations and cultures.
U 214S Central Asian Culture and Civilization 3 cr. Offered autumn. Same as AS, GEOG, LS 214S. Introduction to Central Asia's history, culture and ways of thinking. Focus on the political and social organization of Central Asia and cultural changes as expressed in art and interactions with China, India and the Middle East.
U 249 The Irish and Irish-Americans 3 cr. Offered autumn odd-numbered years. Ireland, the Irish people, and the Irish diaspora, from first settlement to contemporary troubles.
U 269 Montana 3 cr. Offered autumn. An introductory and interpretive history from Lewis and Clark to 2000.
U 283H Islamic Civilization: The Classical Age 3 cr. Offered autumn. A concise history of the Islamic world from the 6th century to the fall of the Abbasid Empire in the 13th century, focusing primarily on the teachings of Islam and the causes for the rapid expansion of the Islamic empire.
U 284H Islamic Civilization: The Modern Era 3 cr. Offered spring. History of the Islamic world and particularly the Persian, Arabic, and Turkish speaking lands between 1453 and 1952.
U 285H Latin America, 1492 1750 3 cr. Offered autumn even-numbered years. Latin America from European contact until the mid-eighteenth century. Emphasis on social and economic development, the role of indigenous peoples, gender issues, and a unique cultural identity.
U 286H Latin America, 1750-1880 3 cr. Offered autumn. Bourbon reforms, social movements in the late colonial period, independence, neo-colonialism, slavery and Emancipation.
U 287H Latin America, 1880 1990s 3 cr. Offered spring. The rise of organized groups of women, workers, and peasants in the Mexican and Cuban revolutions. "Populist" leaders in Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina. Urbanization and new social identities. Neo-liberalism and its critics.
U 295 Special Topics Variable cr. (R-12) Offered intermittently. Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one-time offerings of current topics.

Although the department has no official prerequisites for 300 level courses, they generally rest on a modicum of survey knowledge or ability. back to top

UG 300 The Historians' Craft 3 cr. Offered autumn and spring. The location and use of historical sources; footnotes, bibliography, and style; previous historical interpretations; an explicit writing component.
UG 301H Classical Greece 3 cr. Offered autumn even-numbered years. Same as FLLG 301H. Greek history from the earliest times through the Macedonian ascendancy, based on the writings of the Greek historians.
UG 302H Classical Greece II: Individual, Family, and Civic Life in Ancient Greece 3 cr. Offered spring odd-numbered years. Same as FLLG 302H. Various aspects of personal, social, and political life of classical times in Greece. Primary readings in various ancient authors supplemented by some audio-visual or other informational presentations.
UG 303H Classical Rome 3 cr. Offered spring even-numbered years. Same as FLLG 303H. Roman history from the time of the Kings through the early Empire. Based on the wriitngs of the Roman historians.
UG 306 The Medieval World: The Barbarian West, 400-1200 3 cr. Offered autumn. The collapse of Roman authority, the establishment of the Germanic kingdoms, Christianity and the Roman church.
UG 307 The Medieval World: The High Middle Ages, 1150-1450 3 cr. Offered spring. The Christian world in the West to the decline of the papacy, a hundred years of war, the Black Death.
UG 310 The Reformation 3 cr. Offered intermittently. The Reformation and its impact on European society, politics, economic theory and religious thought from 1500 to 1600; the Counter Reformation.
UG 311H Europe in Renaissance and Reform, 1348 1648 3 cr. Offered intermittently. The political, economic, intellectual and social development of Europe from 1348 to 1648.
UG 312H The Age of Absolutism, 1648 1789 3 cr. Offered intermittently. The political, economic, intellectual, and social development of Europe 1648 1789.
UG 314 France in Revolution, 1789-1848 3 cr. Offered autumn. Political, economic, and social upheaval and development.
UG 315 Modern France, 1848-Present 3 cr. Offered intermittently. The political, economic and social development.
UG 319H Contemporary Europe 3 cr. Offered autumn odd-numbered years. European politics, culture, and society since 1945.
UG 321 Germany: Augsburg to Bismarck, 1555-1866 3 cr. Offered intermittently. Political, economic and social development of the states of the Holy Roman Empire from 1555 1866.
UG 324 Italy: 1300-1800 3 cr. Offered autumn odd-numbered years. The emergence of the Italian states with an emphasis on cultural achievements in the late Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and Neoclassical periods.
UG 325 Italy: 1800-Present 3 cr. Offered spring even-numbered years. The emergence of a united Italy, the triumph of fascism and contemporary Italian society.
UG 326E Terrorism: Political Violence in the Modern World 3 cr. Offered autumn. Prereq., lower division course in Perspective 5 or consent of instr. The rise and spread of terrorism in the modern world, from the French Revolution to the present.
UG 330H European International Relations: Origins of the State System to 1870 3 cr. Offered intermittently. The nature, evolution, and functions of the European diplomatic system from the Ancient World to 1870.
UG 331H Foreign Relations of the Great Powers, 1870-Present 3 cr. Offered autumn. The Bismarckian alliances, causes and results of the First World War and the rise of Hitler, the Japanese and Nazi new order, the Second World War, American's emergence as a Great Power, the division of Europe and the world by the Cold War, and the continual search for stability in a revolutionary world.
UG 332H The Global Diplomacy of the Cold War 3 cr. Offered spring. Confrontations of international relations from the Second World War to the present including the Cuban Missile Crisis and Vietnam War, regional perspectives on Soviet-American rivalries, changes since Gorbachev, and current developments.
UG 334E War, Peace, and Society 3 cr. Offered intermittently. Prereq., lower division course in Perspective 5 or consent of instr. A thematic and interdisciplinary approach to warfare and peace, sociopolitical structures and military organization, power among states, technological change, the role of the individual in organized violence, and moral views of war and peace.
UG 335E Human Rights 3 cr. Offered intermittently. A treatment of the powerful global influence of visions of human rights upon the historical and contemporary world in which movements such as abolitionism, women's rights, humanitarian law, racial equality, decolonization and democratization, and the impact of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
UG 338H European Social and Intellectual History: 1450-1789 3 cr. Offered autumn. The influence of the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical Ages, and the Enlightenment on early modern history.
UG 339H European Social and Intellectual History: The 19th Century 3 cr. Offered autumn. Romanticism, Realism, and the Avant Garde against the historical background of the Industrial Revolution and urbanization.
UG 340H European Social and Intellectual History: The 20th Century 3 cr. Offered spring. The triumph of the Avant Garde and the decline of traditional culture: 1914-1945.
UG 341 Britain from Reformation to Revolution, 1509-1688 3 cr. Offered autumn. Social, political, religious, and intellectual history of the British peoples during the tumultous period of reformation, exploration, constitutional crisis, and civil war.
UG342 Britain from Revolution to Reform, 1688-1832 3 cr. Offered spring. The social, political, cultural, and intellectual consequences of British expansion, financial and industrial revolutions, and revolutionary movements.
UG 343 Britain from 1832 to Present: Reform, Rise, Retreat 3 cr. Offered autumn odd-numbered years. Social, political, intellectual and cultural history of the United Kingdom from an age of industry, empire, and political reform to one of economic decline and international retreat.
UG 344 Russia to 1801 3 cr. Offered autumn. Emphasis on the autocratic political tradition, Westernization, and territorial expansion.
UG 345 Russia Since 1801 3 cr. Offered spring. Emphasis on modernization and the revolutionary movement; the Bolshevik Revolution and Stalinist era; the decline of Soviet system.
UG 348 Eastern Europe 3 cr. Offered spring. Main currents in the history of Eastern Europe from earliest times to the present. Focus on the lands of Poland, Bohemia, Hungary, and the Balkan region.
UG 350 Historical Backgrounds to Current Crises 3 cr. (R 6) Offered intermittently. Social, intellectual, political, and constitutional backgrounds of unresolved crises in Europe, Asia, Middle East, and America.
UG 351 Colonial America 3 cr. Offered even-numbered years. Emphasis changes from year to year. Can touch upon the political economy of Puritanism, through gender and family to the preconditions for the American revolution.
UG 352 The American Revolutionary Era, 1763-1801 3 cr. Offered odd-numbered years. Dissent within the revolutionary movement; the different revolutionary traditions.
UG 353 Jefferson and Jackson: The United States, 1801-1848 3 cr. Offered spring odd-numbered years. Democracy, nationalism and sectionalism, the War of 1812, the second party system, social order and disorder, the capitalist revolution.
UG 355 The Age of the Civil War 3 cr. Offered autumn odd-numbered years. Civil War and Reconstruction; the triumph of the industrialist and capitalist ethic.
UG 356 Industrial America 3 cr. Offered spring odd-numbered years. From Reconstruction to the New Deal. The final triumph of industrial capitalism.
UG 357 The Age of Reform: The United States, 1919-1952 3 cr. Offered autumn. Roaring twenties, the Great Depression, the New Deal, World War II, the Cold War, and social and intellectual developments.
UG 358 America in Our Time: The United States, 1952 to the Present 3 cr. Offered spring. The Cold War and its consequences, the civil rights revolution, affluence and anxiety, counter culture, political radicalism, feminism, the Nixon years, Watergate and after.
U 359 Topics in 20th Century U.S. History 3 cr. (R-9) Offered intermittently. Selected topics in 20th century American history.
UG 360 Origins of Rural Radicalism in America, 1750-1900 3 cr. Offered autumn even-numbered years. Addresses the origins of rural radicalism in America from the colonial era to the early twentieth century.
UG 361H The American South: From Slavery to Civil Rights 3 cr. Offered autumn odd-numbered years. Social history of the American South with particular attention to race, class, and gender.
UG 362 Afro-American Struggle for Equality 3 cr. Offered intermittently. A survey of the various efforts by African Americans to achieve racial equality in the United States from the late 19th century through the 1960s.
UG 363H History of American Law 3 cr. Offered intermittently. Issues in the social history of law from the colonial period to the present.
UG 364 Environmental History 3 cr. Offered spring odd-numbered years. Prereq., lower division course in Perspective 5 or consent of instr. A history of the human nature interaction in the United States.
UG 365 19th Century American West 3 cr. Offered autumn. Euro American movement and conflict in the nineteenth century trans Mississippi west.
UG 366 20th Century American West 3 cr. Offered spring. The contemporary trans Mississippi West
UG 368 American Military History 3 cr. (R 6) Offered spring. The French and Indian Wars to Vietnam and beyond; chronological and topical accounts.
UG 369 Images of the American West 3 cr. Offered even-numbered years. The roles that artists, artistic works and illustrations, and symbolic images have played in the history of the American West.
UG 370H Women in America: to the Civil War 3 cr. Offered autumn. Same as LS and WS 370H. Interpretive overview of women's experiences in America before the Civil War. Exploration of new definitions of womanhood and "women's sphere" emerging from women's varied experiences in the American colonies and the American Revolution; how immigrant, poor, slave, and western women transgressed the boundaries of their sphere; and how women from both inside and outside their assigned sphere reshaped their roles in American society.
UG 371H Women in America: from the Civil War to the Present 3 cr. Offered spring. Same as LS and WS 371H, Interpretive overview of women's experiences in America after the Civil War. Exploration of such topics as women's associations, the battle for suffrage, organized feminism and its opponents, the industrialization of housework, women in the workforce, reproductive rights, and welfare. Particular attention to women's experiences shaped by class and race as well as by gender.
UG 376H American Constitutional History to 1864 3 cr. Offered intermittently. The development of the American Constitution from its English and colonial background through the Taney Court.
UG 377H American Constitutional History Since 1864 3 cr. Offered intermittently. The development of the American Constitution from the Civil War to the present.
U 378H African American History to 1865 3 cr. Offered intermittently. Same as AAS 378H. Survey of the African American experience from the African background to the end of the Civil War. Focus on Black American quest for the American Dream, and how Blacks attempted to deal with the challenges of enslavement and racism.
U 379H African American History Since 1865 3 cr. Offered intermittently. Same as AAS 379H. Study of the African American experience since the Civil War. Change and continuity in the African American experience, the fight against Jim Crow, the struggle for civil rights, and post-civil rights economic, political, social and cultural developments and challenges.
UG 380H Modern China 3 cr. Offered autumn. China since 180, emphasizing internal weaknesses of the Manchu dynasty, confrontation with the west, and the emergence of Nationalist and Communist regimes.
UG 381H Modern Japan 3 cr. Offered spring. Japanese culture, politics, and economics since 1800: the Tokugawa period, the Meiji Restoration, militarization and the Great Pacific War, the American occupation, Japan as a model of modernization.
U 383H Modernity and Identity in Latin America 3 cr. Offered spring. The nature and consequences of capitalist development in modern Latin America. Exploration of interplay of religious culture, gender, and ethnicity that conditions worker, middle class, and peasant interactions with the larger capitalist market. Methodological problems; case studies.
UG 384 Work, Workers, and the Working Classes in America 3 cr. Offered intermittently. A history of unskilled, semi skilled, and skilled labor and the men and women slaves and free who performed it.
UG 385 Mexican History 3 cr. Offered autumn odd-numbered years. Social, political, religious, and intellectual history of Mexico from 1450 to the present. Religious revolts in the colonial period, the shift from colony to neo-colony, and the cause and implications of the great Mexican Revolution..
UG 386H Nationalism in Modern Middle East 3 cr. Offered autumn. The several intellectual traditions and philosophies some ephemeral and visionary, most eclectic and confused, and virtually all conflicting that are usually believed to underlie the varying concept of Iranian and Arab nationalism in the 20th century.
UG 387 Iran Between Two Revolutions 3 cr. Offered spring. The socioeconomic, political, and cultural causes which resulted in the transformation of the Iranian society from a traditional Islamic entity to a modern secular state and the factors which led o the downfall of the secular state and the establishment of an Islamic republic.

U 388H Africa to 1880 3 cr. Offered intermittently. Same as AAS 388H. History of Africa from the earliest of times. Evolution of African societies and states, social, economic, political, and cultural developments; the dynamics, nature and consequences of Africa's interaction with Europe up to 1880.
U 389H Africa Since 1880 3 cr. Offered intermittently. Same as AAS 389H. Historical development in Africa since the imposition of colonial rule. Analysis of colonialism and emergence of nationalism.
U 393 Omnibus Variable cr. (R 9) Offered intermittently. University omnibus option for independent work. See index.
UG 394 Seminar Variable cr. (R-6) Offered intermittently.
U 395 Special Topics Variable cr. (R 12) Offered intermittently. Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one time offerings of current topics.
U 396 Independent Study Variable cr. (R 12) Offered intermittently.
U 398 Cooperative Education Experience Variable cr. (R 12) Offered intermittently. Prereq., consent of department. Extended classroom experience which provides practical application of classroom learning during placements off campus. Prior approval must be obtained from the faculty supervisor and the Center for Work-Based Learning.

Although the department has no official prerequisites for 400 level courses, they may require appropriate prior study. Interested students should inquire of the History Department before registering. back to top

UG 400 Historiography: History and Historians 3 cr. Offered intermittently. The history and philosophy of history.
UG 408 Africa and the Black Diaspora 3 cr. Offered intermittently. Same as AAS 408. History of Blacks in the diaspora. Focus on comparative examination of experiences in the United States, Latin America, South America, Africa and the Caribbean.
UG 409 History of Southern Africa 3 cr. Offered intermittently. Same as AAS 409. Historical survey of developments in southern Africa from the earliest of times to the present. Focus on the evolution and growth of societies and states; economic, social and political developments; external interventions and impacts on race relations.
UG 410 Personalities in History 3 cr. (R 6) Offered intermittently. Influential individuals in European, American, and Asian history.
UG 437 Dynamics of Diplomacy 3 cr. Offered intermittently. An interdisciplinary, global, and thematic approach to major issues in foreign affairs brought about by world wars, diplomatic expansion, the collapse of cultural homogeneity, technological developments, and the rise of public opinion.
UG 446 The Russian Revolution, 1900-1930 3 cr. Offered spring. The causes, course, character, and consequences of the Bolshevik Revolution.
UG 455 An Introduction to Public History 3 cr. Offered spring. Review of selected areas in which public historians work. Examination of how the public historian's role may differ from the academic historian. Focus on specific approaches, issues, and problems in a variety of areas of public history.
UG 460E Problems of Peace and National Security 3 cr. Offered intermittently. Prereq., lower division course in Perspective 5 or consent of instr. Contemporary and historical problems of civilian policy and military strategy, power and technology, intelligence operations in democratic societies, human rights and security issues, conscription, and ethics in statecraft.
UG 461 Regionalism and the Rocky Mountain West 3 cr. Offered spring odd-numbered years. Same as GEOG 461. Investigation of regionalism as a concept and its future in the Rocky Mountain West. Regionalism as a geographical, economic, political and cultural entity. An intensive writing class.
UG 465H History of Indian Affairs to 1865 3 cr. Offered autumn. Same as NAS 465H. A study of tribal encounters and adjustments to European and American powers to 1865.
UG 466H History of Indian Affairs from 1865 3 cr. Offered spring. Same as NAS 466H. A study of tribal encounters and adjustments to the American nation from 1865.
UG 467 Indian, Bison and Horse 3 cr. Offered autumn odd-numbered years. Historical interaction between Native American societies, horses and bison in North America. A writing intensive course.
UG 470 Women and Slavery 3 cr. Offered autumn odd-numbered years. Prereq., upper-division standing. Study of the connection between women's status and slavery in antebellum America, looking at slave women, slaveholding women, and antislavery women.
UG 471 Southern Women in Black and White 3 cr. Offered spring, even-numbered years. Examination of the connections between race, class, and gender in the South. Conflict and cooperation among black and white women in politics, reform, and work.
UG 478 Martin, Malcolm and the Civil Rights Movement 3 cr. Offered intermittently. Same as AAS 478. Examination of two leading and dominant leaders of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Backgrounds, ideological orientations, idiosyncracies, and dynamics of change, continuity, conflict and consensus in their respective programs; lasting impacts and legacies.
UG 485 Piety and Power in Latin American and Imperial Spain 3 cr. Offered spring even-numbered years. Social and economic causes of religious change and the role of religion in the formation of local, national, class, ethnic, and gender identities. Topics include the Church's early evangelical efforts in Spanish American, millenarian revolts, and the role of liberation theology in recent social revolutions.
U 493 Omnibus Variable cr. (R 9) Offered intermittently. University omnibus option for independent work. See index.
UG 494 Seminar Variable cr. (R 6) Offered intermittently. Prereq., consent of instr.
UG 495 Special Topics Variable cr. (R 12) Offered intermittently. Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one time offerings of current topics.
UG 496 Independent Study Variable cr. (R 12) Offered intermittently. Prereq., consent of instr.
G 500 Teaching Discussion Sections in History 1 cr. (R 4) Supervised teaching and reading keyed to survey courses in American history and western civilization.
G 511 Early Modern Europe 3 cr. Offered alternate years. Intensive reading in 16th, 17th, and 18th century European history.
G 512 Age of Absolutism and Revolution, 1648-1789 3 cr. Offered autumn even numbered years. Intensive reading in 17th and 18th century European history.
G 514 Modern France 3 cr. Offered alternate years. Intensive reading, from the French Revolution to the present.
G 516 Modern Europe 3 cr. Offered alternate years. Intensive reading in 19th and 20th century European history.
G 531 International Relations 3 cr. Offered alternate years. Intensive reading in the history of international relations and diplomacy during the late 19th and 20th centuries.
G 541 Early Modern Britain 3 cr. Offered intermittently. Intensive reading in British history from 1500 to 1800.
G 544 Modern Russia 3 cr. Offered alternate years. Intensive reading in 19th and 20th century Russia.
G 550 Early America 3 cr. Intensive reading.
G 551 Early National America 3 cr. Intensive reading.
G 552 Industrial America, 1863-1932 3 cr. Intensive reading.
G 553 Modern America 3 cr. Intensive reading.
G 564 U.S. Environmental History 3 cr. Intensive reading.
G 566 The American West 3 cr. Intensive reading.
G 567 Native Americans 3 cr. Intensive reading.
G 584 Colonial Latin America 3 cr. Readings in colonial Latin America.
G 585 Latin America 3 cr. Offered alternate years. Intensive reading.
G 586 Modern Islamic Politics 3 cr. Offered alternate years. Intensive reading.
G 594 Seminar Variable cr. (R 12) Prereq., 27 credits in history. Directed research.
G 595 Special Topics Variable cr. (R 9) Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one time offerings of current topics.
G 596 Independent Study Variable cr. (R 12)
G 597 Research in History Variable cr. (R 9)
G 598 Cooperative Education Experience Variable cr. (R 8) Prereq., consent of department and Center for Work-Based Learning. Practical application of classroom learning in off campus placements.
G 599 Professional Paper Variable cr. (R 6)
G 699 Thesis/Dissertation Variable cr. (R 6)

Faculty back to top

Professors

Tunde Adeleke, Ph.D., University of Western Ontario, 1985
George M. Dennison, Ph.D., University of Washington, 1968 (President)
Richard R. Drake, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1976
David M. Emmons, Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1969
William E. Farr, Ph.D., University of Washington, 1971 (Chair)
Dan Flores, Ph.D., Texas A & M University, 1978 (A.B. Hammond Professor of Western History)
Linda S. Frey, Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1971
Harry W. Fritz, Ph.D., Washington University at St. Louis, 1971
Mehrdad Kia, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1986
Paul Gordon Lauren, Ph.D., Stanford University, 1973 (Regents Professor)
Kenneth A. Lockridge, Ph.D., Princeton University, 1965
Michael S. Mayer, Ph.D., Princeton University, 1984

Associate Professors

John A. Eglin, Ph.D., Yale University, 1996
Anya Jabour, Ph.D., Rice University, 1995
Frederick W. Skinner, Ph.D., Princeton University, 1973
Jeff Wiltse, Ph.D., Brandeis University, 2002

Assistant Professor

Pamela Voekel, Ph.D., University of Texas, 1997

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