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
Major Teaching Field of History Option in History Education:
Students seeking licensure to teach history in a middle or secondary
school must complete the requirements for the B.A. degree with
a major in history, to include the following: one course (4 cr.)
from HIST 104H 105H; HIST 151H 152H; HIST 269; a non western course
in history; HIST 300; six (6) upper division elective credits
in United States history; six (6) upper division elective credits
in European history; six (6) additional upper-division elective
credits in history courses; and C&I 428. Students must complete
a teaching minor in another curriculum area taught in grades 5-12.
Students must gain admission to the Teacher Education Program
and meet the professional studies requirements for all middle
and secondary teachers, as indicated in the School of Education
section of this catalog. Students are encouraged to seek licensure
advising from the Department of Curriculum & Instruction.
Minor Teaching Field of History: Students seeking
a teaching minor if history complete the following requirements:
one course (4 cr.) from HIST 104H 105H; HIST 151H 152H; HIST 269;
one non western course in history; and HIST 300; three (3) upper
division elective credits in United States history; three (3)
upper division elective credits in European history; and C&I
428. Students must gain admission to the Teacher Education Program
and meet the professional studies requirements for all middle
and secondary teachers, as indicated in the School of Education
section of this catalog. Students are encouraged to seek licensure
advising form the Department of Curriculum & Instruction.
Combined History Political Science Major and Comprehensive Social
Science Teaching Major
The B.A. degree with a major in History-Political Science is
designed for students seeking licensure to teach history and the
social sciences in middle and secondary schools, grades 5-12.
The history-political science major qualifies as a single-field
endorsement and does not require a teaching minor. Students complete
at least 48 (maximum 60) credits in political science and history,
9 credits in economics, and 12 credits in geography. Specific
requirements for the degree in history-political science and the
comprehensive social studies license include the following: PSC
100S, PSC 120S, PSC 130E; 15 upper division elective credits in
political science; at least three of the following four courses
HIST 104H, 105H, 151H, 152H; Hist 300; 9 upper division elective
credits in history; ECON 111S; ECON 112S; 3 upper-division elective
credits in economics; GEOG 101; one regional geography course;
6 lower- or upper-division elective credits in geography; and
C&I 428. Students also must gain admission to the Teacher
Education Program and meet the professional studies requirements
for all middle and secondary teachers, as indicated int eh School
of education section of this catalog. Students are encouraged
to seek licensure advising from the Department of Curriculum &
Instruction (see the School of Education section of this catalog).
Suggested Course of Study
First Year |
|
|
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 286H, 287H Latin America |
6 |
6 |
Electives and General Education |
9 |
9 |
Total |
15 |
15 |
Third Year |
|
|
HIST 300 The Historian’s Craft |
|
|
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
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.
History (HIST)
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. Lecture 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 226E 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.
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 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.
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 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.
UG 342 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.
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.
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 540 European Cultural and Intellectual History 3 cr.
Intensive reading.
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 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
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