History Education

Individuals interested in teaching in K-12 schools must complete a degree in the content area they want to teach plus the teacher preparation program through the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. Individuals must complete the teaching major/teaching track within that degree program, which may contain different course requirements than the academic major since the sequence of courses is designed to meet state standards. Upon completion of the degree program with the teaching track and the secondary licensure program, one will be eligible for a standard Montana teaching license in this content area.

Students may earn a teaching major in history by completing the requirements for the BA in history, to include the following:  HSTA 101 or 102; HSTR 101 or 102; HSTR 200; HSTA 255; 9 credits in world history; 6 upper-division credits in American history; 6 upper-division credits in European history; 6 additional credits upper-division history electives; one HSTA/HSTR 400-level approved writing course; and EDU 497 (C&I 428).   All requirements for the history major apply.  Students with a teaching major in history must also complete a teaching major or minor in a second field.  For the history teaching major, students must be formally admitted to the Teacher Education Program and complete all of the professional education licensure requirements.  Students may also earn a teaching minor in history.  See the Department of Curriculum & Instruction for more information.

Bachelor of Arts - History; History Education Option

College Humanities & Sciences

Catalog Year: 2016-2017

Degree Specific Credits: 45

Required Cumulative GPA: 2.0

Note: A maximum of 60 credits in History are allowed. Penalties will apply for more than 60 credits. Students must be formally admitted to the Teacher Education Program and complete all of the professional education licensure requirements. See the Department of Curriculum & Instruction in the College of Education and Human Sciences for more information. A major GPA of 2.75 is required to be eligible for student teaching. Students who choose to complete a teaching major in history must also complete a teaching major or minor in a second field.


Lower Division Core Courses

Rule: Must complete the following subcategories

Minimum Required Grade: C-
12 Total Credits Required

American History Introductory Course

Rule: Must complete 1 of the following courses

Note: AP Policy: Those students scoring a "5" on the American History AP exam can be excused from the survey course requirement. Another American history course must then be taken in place of the survey course. Please consult with the Humanities Advisor with questions.

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Show Description HSTA 101H - American History I
(AM) Offered autumn.  A comprehensive introductory history of Colonial, Revolutionary and 19th century America, to 1877. Lecture-discussion. Credit not allowed for both 101H and 103H.
4 Credits
Show Description HSTA 102H - American History II
(AM) Offered spring. A comprehensive introductory history of the U.S. since 1877. Lecture-discussion. Credit not allowed for both HSTA 102H and 104H.
4 Credits
Show Description HSTA 103H - Honors American History I
(AM) Offered autumn.  Enrollment by consent of instructor. A comprehensive introductory history of Colonial, Revolutionary, and 19th century America, to 1877. Lecture-honors discussion. Credit not allowed for both 103H and 101H.
4 Credits
Show Description HSTA 104H - Honors American History II
(AM) Offered spring. Enrollment by consent of instructor. A comprehensive introductory history of the U. S. since 1877. Lecture-honors discussion. Credit not allowed for both HSTA 102H and 104H.
4 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C- 4 Total Credits Required

European History Introductory Course

Rule: Must complete 1 of the following courses

Note: AP Policy: Those students scoring a "5" on the European History AP exam can be excused from the survey course requirement. Another European history course must then be taken in place of the survey course. Please consult with the Humanities Advisor with questions.

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Show Description HSTA 103H - Honors American History I
(AM) Offered autumn.  Enrollment by consent of instructor. A comprehensive introductory history of Colonial, Revolutionary, and 19th century America, to 1877. Lecture-honors discussion. Credit not allowed for both 103H and 101H.
4 Credits
Show Description HSTA 104H - Honors American History II
(AM) Offered spring. Enrollment by consent of instructor. A comprehensive introductory history of the U. S. since 1877. Lecture-honors discussion. Credit not allowed for both HSTA 102H and 104H.
4 Credits
Show Description HSTR 101H - Western Civilization I
(EU) Offered autumn.  A comprehensive, introductory history of western civilization from classical antiquity to 1648. Lecture-discussion. Credit not allowed for both 101H and 103H.
4 Credits
Show Description HSTR 102H - Western Civilization II
(EU) Offered spring. A comprehensive, introductory history of western civilization from 1648 to the present. Lecture-discussion. Credit not allowed for both HSTR 102H and 104H.
4 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C- 4 Total Credits Required

Montana History

Rule: Complete the following course.

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Show Description HSTA 255 - Montana History
(AM) Offered autumn.  An introductory and interpretive history from Lewis and Clark to 2000.
3 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C- 3 Total Credits Required

Historical Methods Course

Rule: Complete the following course.

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Show Description HSTR 200 - Intro: Historical Methods
Offered autumn and spring. Enrollment limited to history majors or by consent of the instructor. This course introduces students to the practice of history and prepares them for upper-division courses in the field. Students will learn to critically read secondary sources, research in primary sources, analyze documents, and write clear and convincing historical essays. This course is required for recently declared history majors and minors. Students should take it before taking upper-division history courses.
1 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C- 1 Total Credits Required

American History Upper Division Electives

Rule: Choose at least 6 credits from the following courses

Note: null

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Show Description HSTA 311 - Early America
(AM) 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.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 315 - Early American Republic
(AM) Democracy, nationalism and sectionalism, the War of 1812, the second party system, social order and disorder, the capitalist revolution.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 316 - American Civil War Era
(AM) Civil War and Reconstruction; the triumph of the industrialist and capitalist ethic.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 320 - Birth of Modern US
(AM) The history of the U.S. from 1877 to 1920 is largely the story of Americans responding to profound social, cultural and economic change.  In an effort to bring order to their changing world, Americans created new institutions, retooled their ideologies, and improved the nation's infrastructure.  The order they created is, in modified form, still with us today.  Students will explore the myriad changes that transformed the United States during this period and study the social, political, and cultural struggles that shaped the emergence of Modern America.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 321 - America in Crisis
(AM) This era in U.S. history was marked by a series of crises: the contested transition to modernity during the 1920s, the Great Depression, and World War II and its aftermath. This course will explore how Americans responded to these crises, why they responded to them the way they did, and how their responses altered the society in which they lived.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 322 - American History: WWII to Pres
(AM) The Cold War and its consequences, the civil rights revolution, affluence and anxiety, counter-culture, political radicalism, feminism, the Nixon years, Watergate and after.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 323 - U.S. in the 1950s
(AM) Examines the political, social, cultural, intellectual developments of America in the 1950s.  Particular emphasis is placed on cultural history. 
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 324 - U.S. in the 1960s
(AM) Examines the political, social, cultural, intellectual developments of America in the 1960s. Topics include the Great Society, political radicalism, the counter culture, black radicalism, and Vietnam. 
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 333 - Key Events in American Militar
(R-6) (AM) The French and Indian Wars to Vietnam and beyond; chronological and topical accounts.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 335 - Movie America
(AM) This course examines major topics and themes in United States history from the early twentieth century to the present using movies as primary sources.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 342H - Afr Amer Hist to 1865
(AM) Offered intermittently. Same as AAS 342H. 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.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 343H - Afr Amer Hist Since 1865
(AM) Same as AAS 343H.  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.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 347 - Voodoo, Muslim, Church
(AM) The African American religious experience encompasses Islam, Christianity, Santeria, voodoo, and many others. In this course, students will examine the history of religious expression within the African-American community from the colonial era through the twentieth century. Central to the course question, "How did religion shape the experience of the African-American community?" Students will also examine the ways in which religious practice influenced social, political, and cultural changes in American history.  Same as AAS 347.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 354X - Ind MT Since Reserv Era
(AM) Offered autumn odd-numbered years.  Same as ANTH 324X and NAS 324X.  Examination of the history of Montana Indians since the establishment of the reservations, contemporary conditions, and issues among both reservation and non-reservation Indian communities in the state.  Special attention given to social and economic conditions, treaty rights, tribal sovereignty, and legal issues.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 361 - The American South
(AM) Social history of the American South with particular attention to race, class, and gender.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 370H - Wmn Amer Colonial to Civil War
Offered autumn.  Interpretive overview of major themes and events in U.S. womens history to 1865. Same as WGS 370H.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 371H - Wmn Amer Civil War to Present
Offered spring. Interpretive overview of major themes and events in U.S. women’s history from 1865 to the present. Same as WGS 371.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 372 - The American Revolution
(AM) Delving into the history of the early modern Atlantic world, this course examines the transnational ramifications of the American Revolution. Specifically, it examines the Revolution’s economic and ideological origins, European involvement in the Revolutionary War, as well as the Revolution’s impact on African American slavery and the slave trade. We will also consider its implications for Haitian and Latin American independence. And finally, we will discuss the creation of the U.S. Constitution, America’s struggle for political sovereignty, and the Revolution’s impact on Native Americans, women and families, and conceptions of American identity during the Early National period.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 380 - AmericanConstitutional History
(AM) An examination of major issues in the American constitutional past. Topics include the creation of the U.S. Constitution and the problem of ?original intent,? courts and judicial review, slavery and anti-slavery, the bill o frights, industrial capitalism and the welfare state, and majority rule and minority rights in American democracy.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 382H - History of American Law
(AM) Issues in the social history of law from the colonial period to the present.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 385 - Families & Children in America
(AM) Historical overview of families and children in the United States from the colonial era to the present. Topics include changing patterns of family life, the evolution of attitudes toward children and youth, the relationship between the American family and the nation-state, and debates over "family values" from the nation's founding to the present.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 391 - Special Topics
(R-12) Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one-time offerings of current topics.
1 To 12 Credits
Show Description HSTA 491 - Special topics
(R-12) Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one time offerings of current topics.
1 To 12 Credits
Show Description HSTA 494 - Seminar
(R-6) Consent of instructor.
1 To 6 Credits
Show Description HSTR 364 - Environmental History
(AM) Prereq., lower-division course in Perspective 5 or consent of instr. A history of the human-nature interaction in the United States.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 367 - 19th Cent Amer West
(AM) Euro-American movement and conflict in the nineteenth century trans-Mississippi west.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 369 - 20th Cent Amer West
(AM) The contemporary trans-Mississippi West.
3 Credits
Show Description NASX 464 - Hist Amer Indian Affrs to 1776
Offered Autumn. Same as HIST 464. A study of American Indian relations with Europeans and the United States from first contact to 1776.
3 Credits
Show Description NASX 465 - Hist Amer Indian Affrs 10 Cent
Offered Spring. Same as HIST 465. A study of tribal encounters and adjustments to the American nations in the nineteenth century.
3 Credits
Show Description NASX 466 - Hist of Indian Affrs from 1890
Offered Autumn. Same as HIST 466. A study of tribal encounters and adjustments to the American nation from 1890.
3 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C- 6 Total Credits Required

World History Electives

Rule: Choose at least 9 credits from the following courses

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Show Description ANTY 141H - The Silk Road
Offered autumn and spring. Introduction to the study of the human communities, cultures, and economies in Central and Southwest Asia along the ancient four thousand mile-long Silk Road.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 191 - Special Topics
(R-6) Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one-time offerings of current topics.
1 To 6 Credits
Show Description HSTR 230H - Colonial Latin America
(WRLD) Offered autumn. Latin America from conquest by Spain and Portugal to wars for independence. Focus on social relations, imperial and local politics, hegemony, resistance, and change.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 231H - Modern Latin America
(WRLD) Offered spring. Latin America from wars of independence to the present. Focus on social relations, development models, politics, and popular movements.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 240 - East Asian Civilizations
(WRLD) 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.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 241H - Central Asian Cult & Civ
(WRLD) Same as ANTY 241H. 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.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 262H - Islamic Civil: Classical Age
(WRLD) 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.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 264 - Islamic Civ: Modrn Era
(WRLD) History of the Islamic world and particularly the Persian, Arabic, and Turkish speaking lands between 1453 and 1952.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 272E - Terrorism:Viol Mod Wrld
(WRLD) The rise and spread of terrorism in the modern world, from the French Revolution to the present.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 291 - Special Topics
(R-12) Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one-time offerings of current topics.
1 To 12 Credits
Show Description HSTR 334 - Latin America: Reform and Revo
(WRLD) Different ideologies and projects in Latin America aimed at gradual or radical transformation of political systems and/or socio-economic relations. From the Haitian Revolution to the Bolivarian vision of Hugo Chavez.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 335 - Lat Am Workers & Labor
(WRLD) Study of the experiences and agency of diverse working people in Latin America. Influence of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, and generation on working class identity and movements. Labor organizations and politics in historic context.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 345H - Modern China
(WRLD) Offered autumn. China since 180, emphasizing internal weaknesses of the Manchu dynasty, confrontation with the west, and the emergence of Nationalist and Communist regimes.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 391 - Special Topics
(R-12) Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one-time offerings of current topics.
1 To 12 Credits
Show Description HSTR 392 - Independent Study
(R-12)
1 To 12 Credits
Show Description HSTR 435 - Lat Am Human Rgts & Memory
(WRLD) The legacy of state violence and ongoing struggles for truth and justice in select Latin American case studies. Different uses of memory and narration in bearing witness to social and political conflict and human rights violations. 
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 459 - Artistic Trad Cent & SW Asia
(WRLD) Analysis of the study of human artistic creativity and scientific innovations of various cultures in Central and Southwest Asia since ancient times.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 491 - Special Topics
(R-12) Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one time offerings of current topics.
1 To 12 Credits
Show Description HSTR 492 - Independent Study
(R-12) Prereq., consent of instr.
1 To 12 Credits
Show Description PSCI 420 - Exp Offering: Comp Politics
(R-9) Offered intermittently. Experimental or one-time offerings in the subfield of comparative politics.
1 To 9 Credits
Show Description PSCI 422 - Revolution & Reform in China
Offered autumn. A history of the rise and fall of the Maoist regime and the complicated impact of the epochal post Mao reform movement.
3 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C- 9 Total Credits Required

European Upper Division History Electives

Rule: Choose at least 6 credits from the following courses

Note: null

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Show Description HSTR 302 - Ancient Greece
(EU) Offered intermittently. Same as MCLG 301H. Greek history from the earliest times through the Macedonian ascendancy, based on the writings of the Greek historians. Cannot receive credit for both HSTR 302 and MCLG 301H.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 312 - Age of Absolut 1648-1789
(EU) The political, economic, intellectual, and social development of Europe 1648-1789.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 320 - Europ Social & Intellect Hist
(EU) The influence of the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical Ages, and the Enlightenment on early modern history.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 323 - Europ Social & Intellect Hist:
(EU) Romanticism, Realism, and the Avant-Garde against the historical background of the Industrial Revolution and urbanization.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 348 - Britain 1485-1688
(EU) Social, political, religious, and intellectual history of the British peoples during the tumultuous period of reformation, exploration, constitutional crisis, and civil war.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 349 - Britain from Rev - Reform 1688
(EU) The social, political, cultural, and intellectual consequences of British expansion, financial and industrial revolutions, and revolutionary movements.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 352 - France Revol 1789-1848
(EU) Political, economic, and social upheaval and development.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 353 - Modern France
(EU) Political, economic and social development.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 354 - Italy: 1300-1800
(EU) The emergence of the Italian states with an emphasis on cultural achievements in the late Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and Neoclassical periods.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 355 - Italy: 1800-Present
(EU) The emergence of a united Italy, the triumph of fascism and contemporary Italian society.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 357 - Russia to 1881
(EU) Emphasis on the autocratic political tradition, Westernization, and territorial expansion.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 358 - Russia Since 1881
(EU) Emphasis on modernization and the revolutionary movement; the Bolshevik Revolution and Stalinist era; the decline of Soviet system.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 361 - Germ:Augsburg-Bismarck
(EU) Political, economic and social development of the states of the Holy Roman Empire from 1555-1866.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 363 - Eastern Europe
(EU) 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.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 391 - Special Topics
(R-12) Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one-time offerings of current topics.
1 To 12 Credits
Show Description HSTR 491 - Special Topics
(R-12) Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one time offerings of current topics.
1 To 12 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C- 6 Total Credits Required

Upper Division History Electives

Rule: Complete two additional upper division history courses

Note: Courses can be selected from HSTA or HSTR 300-level and above.

Minimum Required Grade: C-
6 Total Credits Required

Teaching Methods Requirement

Rule: Complete the following course.

Note: The EDU 497 course number is used for multiple courses. Students should register for EDU 497 Methods: 5-12 Social Studies.

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Show Description EDU 497 - Teaching and Assessing
(R-15) Offered autumn and/or spring. Prerequisite: Admission to the Teacher Education Program. This course number is used for multiple elementary and secondary methods courses. Check the class schedule or with your advisor regarding appropriate sections. 5-8 Mathematics: 3 cr. Offered autumn and spring. This class must be taken concurrently with Level 3 courses and is restricted to students who have completed coursework in Levels 1 & 2. Methods of teaching, assessing, and evaluating mathematics in the 5-8 middle grades including number and operations, rational numbers, ratio and proportion, measurement, algebra, expressions and equations, geometry, probability, statistics, and functions. K-8 Social Studies: 3 cr. Offered autumn and spring. This class must be taken concurrently with Level 3 courses and is restricted to students who have completed coursework in Levels 1 & 2. Emphasis on developing teaching and assessing social studies teaching/learning opportunities that incorporate literature, primary sources and other developmentally appropriate activities. Overarching themes address diversity, integration across the curriculum and understanding state and national curriculum standards. K-8 Science: 3 cr. Offered autumn and spring. This class must be taken concurrently with Level 3 courses and is restricted to students who have completed coursework in Levels 1 & 2. Emphasis on developing, teaching, and assessing science teaching/learning opportunities that are inquiry-based, developmentally appropriate, integrated across the curriculum, and aligned with state and national curriculum standards. 4-8 Reading: 3 cr. Offered autumn and spring. This class must be taken concurrently with Level 3 courses and is restricted to students who have completed coursework in Levels 1 & 2. Preparation for teaching reading in a 4-8 setting so that all students are successful. Emphasis on reading to learn. Focus on using assessment to guide instruction, learning from trade books, textbooks, and electronic texts, activating prior knowledge, studying texts, and developing student enthusiasm for reading. 5-12 Science: 3 cr. Offered autumn. Methods of teaching science in the middle and secondary school. This course emphasizes the use of inquiry, problem-solving, appropriate use of technology, and assessment techniques that align with state and national curriculum standards. 5-12 Social Studies: 3 cr. Offered autumn. Foundations and purpose of the middle and secondary social studies curriculum. Elements of curricular design, including instructional methods, materials and assessment. 5-12 Mathematics: 4 cr. Offered autumn. Methods for teaching mathematics in grades 5-12 focusing on presentation of mathematics concepts and procedures through models, problem solving, and technology. Development of instructional strategies and classroom organizational models, discourse in the classroom, and multiple means for assessing student progress. 5-12 Business Subjects: 4 cr. Offered autumn. Methods for teaching business subjects in grades 5-12 focusing on content-specific topics in business, marketing, and information technology to include: instructional planning; effective teaching strategies (F2F & online); multiple means for assessing student progress; classroom management; and the relationship of the content area to standards-based curricula.
0 To 4 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C- 3 Total Credits Required

History Advanced Writing Courses

Rule: Must choose one of the following courses:

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Show Description HSTA 415 - The Black Radical Tradition
Offered intermittently. Same as HSTA 415. Prereq., HSTR 200 and only open to majors and minors in history or consent of instructor. From slave revolts through to the Move rebellion in Philadelphia, this course examines how the African-American community has engaged in radical efforts to change the status quo in the name of seeking justice.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 417 - Prayer & Civil Rights
(AM) Same as HSTA 417. HSTR 200 and only open to majors and minors in history or consent of instructor. This course explores the meaning of public prayer in the Civil Rights Movement. Built around the question, "Does religion help or hinder the pursuit of social change?" this class combines historical and religious studies inquiry to trace changes in civil rights activists' efforts to make use of religion. By focusing on a particular religious practice - in this case prayer - in a specific, but limited period of time, this course challenges students to consider how meaning is formed through historical action and study the social significance of religious practice. This formed through historical action and study the social significance of religious practice. This course complicates prevailing ideas about the normalcy of African-American religious practitioners' prayer, invites students to examine their assumptions about the nature of prayer, and traces how religion spilled out of sanctuaries into the streets during the civil rights era.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 422 - U.S. After WWII: Research Sem
(AM) Prereq. HSTR 200. Enrollment for history majors and minors , graduate students in history, or by consent of the instructor. This course offers students an opportunity to do original research and produce an article-length research paper on a topic in post-war American history. It meets the department’s requirement of an upper-level research seminar as well as the upper-division writing expectation in the major.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 461 - Research in Montana History
(AM) Prereq. HSTR 200. Enrollment for history majors and minors, graduate students in history, or by consent of the instructor. This course is a research and writing seminar in Montana history. Students will learn advanced research methodology in history and will be exposed to a variety of databases and source collections in Montana history that are available locally and online. Students will research and write a primary-source based paper on a topic in Montana history. This course fulfills the upper-division writing requirement for the history department and the university.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 471 - Writing Women's Lives
(AM) Prereq. HSTR 200. Enrollment for history majors and minors, graduate students in history, or by consent of the instructor. Consent of instructor required. Upper-division writing-intensive seminar in women’s history. Students will write an original research paper based on primary source materials.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 400 - Historical Research Seminar
Prereq., HSTR 200. Enrollment for history majors and minors, graduate students in history, or by consent of the instructor. Topics vary according to the instructor. The goal of this course is for students to propose and execute a substantial research project. Upper division writing course for the history major.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 418 - Britain 1500 - 1800
(EU) Prereq., HSTR 200. Recommended HSTR 348 or 349. Enrollment for history majors and minors, graduate students in history, or by consent of the instructor. Students will discuss specific issues in the historiography of the early modern period in British history (c1500-1800) and produce research papers grounded in primary sources.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 437 - US-Latin America Relations
(WRLD) Prereq., HSTR 200. Enrollment for history majors and minors, graduate students in history, or by consent of the instructor. Research and writing seminar on U.S.-Latin American relations from the late 18th century through the 20th century.
3 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C- 3 Total Credits Required