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COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
HISTORY
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1043 United States History: Pre-Columbus to Civil War Era
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
From a variety of perspectives, this course will analyze topics covering the geography of North America; Pre-Columbian societies; European colonial societies and their transition into the national period; the development of modern economic structures and political traditions; westward expansion; class, race, ethnicity, and gender; cultural diversity and national unity; the relations of the United States to other nations and cultures; and the impact of these trends and issues on the development of the nation. [TCCN: HIST 1301.]

1053 United States History: Civil War Era to Present
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
From a variety of perspectives, this course will analyze topics covering the development of the United States as an urban industrial nation; the rising importance of the business cycle, corporations, and immigration; political traditions; class, race, ethnicity, and gender; cultural diversity and national unity; the relationship between the United States and other nations and cultures; and the impact of these trends on the development of the nation. [TCCN: HIST 1302.]

2003 Historical Methods
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: WRC 1013.
An introduction to the study of history in which students will consider examples and approaches to the problems of research and writing in the field. This course is designed for students completing requirements for a major or minor in history.

2053 Texas History
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
An overview of the development of Texas from the era of Spanish exploration and colonization to the modern period, with emphasis on major events in the 19th and 20th centuries. Topics may vary, but generally will include cultural geography, contributions of ethnic minorities and women, the Republic of Texas, statehood, secession, Reconstruction, conservatism, reform, oil exploration, urbanization, and political, economic, and social change in the post-World War II era. [TCCN: HIST 2301.]

2073 World History in the Cinema
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
An analysis of several classic films to introduce for closer critical study important events and issues in world history which have intrigued film makers and their audiences as well as historians. Exploration of the similarities and differences between artistic and historical imagination.

2123 Introduction to World Civilization to the Fifteenth Century
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
A general introduction to World History from the Late Neolithic to the Columbian Encounter in the late 15th century CE. Broad overview of the pattern of development of major civilizations and their interactions with closer attention given to those events, institutions, beliefs, and practices that involved and affected large numbers of people and had lasting significance for later generations. (Same as IDS 2203. Credit cannot be earned for both HIS 2123 and IDS 2203) [TCCN: HIST 2321.]

2133 Introduction to World Civilization since the Fifteenth Century
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
A general introduction to World History since the late 15th century CE. Broad overview of the pattern of development of major civilizations and their interactions with closer attention to those events, institutions, beliefs, and practices that involved and affected large numbers of people and laid foundations of the modern world. (Same as IDS 2213. Credit cannot be earned for both HIS 2133 and IDS 2213.) [TCCN: HIST 2322.]

2203 Historical Background to Contemporary Problems
(3-0) hours credit.
The purpose of this course is to acquaint students with the historical background for some major issues of the day. Topics will highlight current concerns and give insights into how the historian looks at the past, seeking to understand the forces that lead to current “hot spots.” Topics may include modern ideologies and political systems; relationship of the West and non-West; nationalism and internationalism; and environment and world resources.

2533 Introduction to Latin American Civilization
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
An introduction to Latin America examining the broader topics that shaped its history. These topics may include Native American societies; the encounter between Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans; the post-Independence era; the different paths toward nation-building; the nature of authoritarian regimes; the impact ofrevolutions; and the cultural development of Latin America and its historiography.

2543 Introduction to Islamic Civilization
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
An introduction to the role of Islam in world history from the Prophet and the founding of the Umayyad Caliphate to the breakup of the Ottoman Empire. Primary focus will be on the Ottoman Empire, its institutions and culture, and its interaction with Western civilization.

2553 Introduction to East Asian Civilization
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
An introduction to East Asian history and culture from antiquity down to the beginning of the modern period around the 17th and 18th centuries. The course will cover China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, with particular attention to the development of culture, society, and the state in the traditional era prior to the arrival of the West in East Asia. [TCCN: HIST 2323.]

2563 Introduction to European Civilization
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
An introduction to the major historical and historiographical problems in the experience of Europe from the earliest times to the present. The course will expose students to a variety of intellectual approaches and to the diversity of European history.

2573 Introduction to African Civilization
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
An introduction to the major historical and historiographical problems in the experience of Africa from the earliest times to the present. The course will expose students to a variety of intellectual approaches and to the diversity of African history.

2583 Introduction to South Asian Civilization
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
This course explores the history, cultures, religions, and civilization of the Indian subcontinent from earliest times to the present. It begins with prehistory and the Indus civilization, the migration and settlement of the Aryans, the ancient empires of the Maurya and Gupta, and the Islamic conquest. The rise and fall of various Muslim kingdoms of the Mughal Empire, British colonial rule, the nationalist movements and independence of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh are also discussed.

3003 Colonial America and the Formation of American Society
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
An examination of the development and transformation of colonial societies in the 17th and 18th centuries, with special emphasis on family and community studies as measures of social change.

3013 Nonviolence: Gandhi, Mandela, King
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
This course examines how Gandhi's ideas of nonviolence have been used in India and in other places in the modern world. The course will first look at the sources of Gandhi's thinking, such as the writings of Tolstoy and Thoreau, then examine how Gandhi used nonviolence in his struggle against the British government in India. It will then examine nonviolence movements in world history, including those led in America by Martin Luther King, Jr. and in South Africa by Nelson Mandela.

3023 American Independence and National Unity, 1760-1820
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
Topics may include origins of the American Revolution, the Revolutionary War, the struggle for unity, and the early years of nationhood.

3043 History of Women in the United States: Pre-Columbus to 1890
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
An examination of how women have been affected by economic, social, cultural, and political structures, with emphasis on the role of class, race, ethnicity, region, and age. Topics may include Native American societies, colonial life, the impact of the American Revolution, the early national period, slavery, the Civil War, westward expansion, and the “cult of domesticity.” (Formerly HIS 3473. Credit cannot be earned for both HIS 3043 and HIS 3473.)

3053 History of Women in the United States: Since 1890
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
This course will offer an analysis of women's lives in U. S. history since 1890 and may examine women's role in the Progressive Era; World Wars; the Civil Rights Movement; and the Feminist Movement. It will consider the effects of economic, social, cultural, and political structures on women since 1890, with particular attention to the role of class, race, ethnicity, region, and age. (Formerly HIS 3473. Credit cannot be earned for HIS 3053 and HIS 3473.)

3063 The Spanish Borderlands, 1521-1821
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
An overview and analysis of Spanish exploration and colonization in the northern frontier of colonial Mexico, including the introduction of Hispanic institutions, customs, and traditions in the development of a frontier society in the region adjacent to the international boundary.

3073 The Mexican Borderlands/The American Southwest
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
American westward movement into the Southwest, the settlement and development of the area, and its political history are considered in relation to national trends. Attention is given to the area as a meeting place of various European, American, and Asian ethnic groups and to their cultural institutions and expressions as reflections of the development of the area within U.S. history.

3083 History of the American West
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
An examination of the American westward movement in the 19th and 20th centuries. Topics may include the conquest and settlement of the territory, the relationship of the new territory to the nation, patterns of economic development, community building, population diversity, and the symbolism of the frontier.

3093 United States Constitutional History
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
Constitutional developments from the formation of the state and federal constitutions to Watergate. Particular attention is paid to the context of judicial decision-making at the Supreme Court level and the impact of those decisions on American life. Complements POL 3323 Constitutional Law.

3113 The American Indian
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
A history of the American Indian from European contact to the present. Attention is given to the internal cultural, economic, and political developments of the different Indian groups as well as to the European and American developments and policies affecting the Indian.

3123 Colonial Texas under Spanish and Mexican Rule to 1836
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
An overview of Texas history beginning with 16th-century and 17th-century Spanish exploration, with emphasis on 18th-century colonization, and culminating in 19th-century Anglo American immigration and the sociopolitical changes that resulted in Texas independence.

3133 Themes in the Social History of the United States
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
A survey of social history focusing on the American experience. The course explores changes in the family, work, gender roles, mobility, migration, urbanization, and industrialization, with special attention to class, race, ethnicity, and gender.

3143 History and Anthropology
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
The course will examine the method by which historians and anthropologists have made sense of each other's work in different times and places, and how the two disciplines have borrowed and lent each other concepts, such as culture, time, and space. This course examines the dialogue possibilities and potential pitfalls of interdisciplinary research in history and anthropology.

3153 Development of American Urban Society
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
This course investigates the impact of urbanization on American society, economy, and culture. Topics may vary, but consideration will be given to urban social and spatial organization, migration, urban systems, technology, communication, and forms of individual and family adaptation.

3173 Modern America, 1914-1945
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
An examination of the many developments which fundamentally transformed American society between 1914 and 1945. The course examines how these developments reverberated throughout society, affecting all aspects of American life from habits of leisure to patterns of race relations, from the role of women to the style of presidential leadership.

3183 Law and American Development
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
The impact of law from colonial times to the present. Particular attention will be paid to the impact of law on social change, economic growth, and political development.

3193 The South in American History
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
Topics may include development of southern identity, slavery, Civil War and Reconstruction, Jim Crowism, the black experience, and the civil rights movement, with emphasis on the period since 1815.

3213 France since 1750
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
Introduction to the culture, politics, and life of France. Intensive examination of a central event in European history: the French Revolution and its role in the formation of modern France.

3243 Europe in the Nineteenth Century
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
The course offers a survey of European history from the Congress of Vienna until World War I. Topics may include an examination of the changing scope of international relations, industrial growth and acceleration, the conditions among social groups, and various social and political initiatives among European nations.

3253 The United States Since 1945
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
An examination of the social, political, economic, and cultural developments which have shaped life in the United States since World War II. Students will explore the causes and consequences of the country's evolution into a pluralistic, suburban, postindustrial super power during the last half of the 20th century.

3263 Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Europe
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
A survey of European history under the Ancient Regime to 1789. Examination of the development of and the limits to absolutism, the “crisis” of the 17th century and the Baroque, the rise of science, and the culture of the Enlightenment.

3273 The Early Middle Ages
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
This course will examine culture and society in the West (in what was to be Europe) from Late Antiquity to about 1000 A.D. It will focus on the transformation and survival of old social, political, and cultural forms at the end of the Roman Empire and the emergence of new ones in the successor states of Italy, Gaul, Germany, and Britain.

3283 Twentieth-Century Europe
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
Economic, social, political, and cultural change in Europe since World War I. Topics may include the formation of new political movements (such as social democracy, communism, fascism) between the wars, World War II and its effects, the postwar transformation of Europe, and the Cold War in Europe.

3293 Imperial Spain
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
Iberian history from the evolution of the northern kingdoms to the early 19th century. Topics may include the growth and development of Castile and Aragon, Hapsburg imperialism, the Bourbon reformers, and the collapse of the monarchy and the rise of the Carlist movement.

3303 History of Mexico
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
An overview of Mexican history from the Pre-Columbian indigenous civilizations to the present. The course will cover the peopling of Mexico, the conquest, the formation of colonial society, independence, the Mexican American War, the liberal reforms, the Porfiriato, and the Mexican Revolution.

3313 History of U.S. Relations with Latin America
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
A survey of U.S. relations with Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to the present. General topics may include the Monroe Doctrine, Manifest Destiny, gunboat diplomacy, the Good Neighbor Policy, the Cold War, and the Alliance for Progress. Specific themes include U.S. reactions to revolutions, authoritarian regimes, and reformist governments.

3343 Modern Central America and the Caribbean
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
The course will emphasize the 19th and 20th centuries and may include the breakdown of colonialism; the problems of independence; the rise and decline of slavery; the impact of foreign capital and imperialism; and the importance of nationalism, socialism, fascism, communism, and revolution in the contemporary era.

3353 Latin America since Independence
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
The course will emphasize the 19th and 20th centuries and may include the following topics: the breakdown of colonialism; the problems of independence; neocolonial development; the impact of the Depression; industrialization and urbanization; and the importance of nationalism, socialism, fascism, communism, and revolution in the contemporary era.

3373 Revolution in Latin America
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
An analysis of the role colonial legacies played in 19th- and-20th century social and political violence. Case studies may include Mexico, Bolivia, Cuba, Chile, and Nicaragua.

3403 Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Latin America
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
An analysis of the Pre-Columbian Indian civilizations, the Spanish conquest, and the Spanish and Portuguese colonial societies of the New World.

3433 The Emergence of Modern America, 1877- 1914
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
An examination of social and political responses to the industrial revolution in the United States.

3443 Latinos in the United States
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
A study of Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, and other Latinos in the United States. Special attention will be given to ethnic institutions and traditions, as well as to interethnic relations and theories of assimilation and acculturation.

3463 History of Religion in the United States
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
Religious behavior, ideas, and institutions in American society from colonial times to the present, with special emphasis on periods of religious change, including the First and Second Great Awakening, the Social Gospel, and the New Religious Consciousness.

3493 History of San Antonio
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
Topics may include the cultural origins of colonial San Antonio; political, economic, and social development; and the effects of urbanization on local ethnic communities.

3503 The Expansion of Europe, 1415-1800
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
A survey of European exploration, cultural and economic expansion, colonization, and imperialism.

3523 European Cultural History
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
Introduction to various aspects of the European cultural heritage focusing on the interaction between society and culture. Topics may include popular culture, the arts, philosophy, science, social theory, ideology, and mass media.

3533 The Urban History of Western Civilization
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
This course examines the role of cities in the development of Western civilization and focuses on the ways cities contributed to the rise of states, the emergence of organized economic life, and the creation of a distinctive culture.

3543 History of Modern Warfare
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
Survey of the major developments in the history of war since the Napoleonic era. Analyses of the social, economic, and political context in which wars have occurred. Topics may include emergence of new forms of weaponry, strategy, logistics, and tactics.

3553 Civil War America
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
This course explores the Civil War era in American history, beginning by tracing the causes of the Civil War, including the role that the economics of slavery played in the conflict. It studies the war itself, examining the social, cultural, and military aspects of the war. The course concludes with an examination of the attempts to reconstruct the Union in the years after the Confederate surrender.

3563 African American History to the Civil War
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
A survey of the social, economic, political, and cultural history of African Americans from the time of contact with European slave traders until the Civil War. The course will examine the process by which millions of Africans were taken from their homelands, enslaved, and transported to America, where they were gradually, and often violently, transformed into Americans. While the course will focus on the United States, it will also consider how the experiences of Blacks in America relate to the history of the peoples of the African diaspora.

3573 African American History since the Civil War
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
This course surveys the African American experience from emancipation to the present, focusing on political, economic, cultural, and social developments. The course will utilize both traditional historical methodology, with its emphasis on chronology and the examination of documents and alternative interdisciplinary methodologies, which analyze nontraditional sources such as film, music, and oral interviews.

3593 Race, History, and the Making of the American South
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
This class will examine the racial histories of Americans living in the South from colonial contact to the civil rights movement. The interlocking lives of American Indians, Blacks, Hispanics, and Anglo-Americans will be examined. This class will also study how historians have portrayed each group over time. Different “frontiers” in interracial histories, such as economic, religious, domestic, and sexual, will be considered.

3603 Africa in Colonial and Post-Colonial Contexts
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
This course focuses on political and social change in Africa after 1800, a particularly tumultuous and often violent period in African history. Working from an African perspective, students will explore events and historical processes that were often triggered by external forces. The course examines the ways in which historical themes–conquest, resistance, revolution, nationalism, identity politics–play out in an African context.

3613 African Polities, States, and Empires
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
Examination of political and social organization in African societies. The emphasis is on Africa prior to colonization. Topics will include regional trading networks, slavery, the range of political/governmental structures, cultural variation (including categories of gender and generation), and African relations with other parts of the world.

3623 History of the Civil Rights Movement
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
An examination of the struggle for civil rights in the United States from the conclusion of the Civil War to the present. While particular attention will be paid to the movement by Black southerners for equal rights, the course will also consider the struggle for civil rights conducted by other racial minorities in the United States.

3633 Early Modern England, 1485-1760
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
English history in the Tudor, Stuart, and early Hanoverian eras emphasizing the growth of the national state, the overseas expansion of England, and preindustrial social and economic change.

3643 Modern Spain
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
A study of 19th- and 20th-century Spain beginning with the origins of the Carlist movement, continuing with the rise and fall of the two Spanish Republics, the Civil War, and the advent of the Franco regime and concluding with the restoration of the monarchy.

3703 The Literature of the Civil War and Sectional Reconciliation
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
An examination of the meaning and memory of the Civil War in American literature from 1865 to the present. Students will study how different authors interpreted and imagined America's bloodiest conflict and came to terms with the issues of citizenship, nationalism, and race. Different forms of literature, including autobiographies, fiction, fables, science fiction, and poetry will be read.

3723 The High Middle Ages and the Early Renaissance
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
This course will examine the cultural, political, and social achievements of High Medieval Europe, with particular reference to France, Germany, and Italy. It will then focus on the great crisis of the 14th century and the emergence of a new, antimedieval culture in Early Renaissance Italy, to about 1450.

3733 Europe in the High Renaissance and Reformation
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
This course will study the cultural, social, and political developments of Italy and Northern Europe in the time of the High Renaissance and the Reformation (c.a. 1450-1550).

3743 Imperial Russia
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
The development of Russia from the accession of Peter the Great to the outbreak of the Russian Revolution.

3753 The Soviet Union and After
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
The evolution of Russia from the revolution of 1917 to the present. A critical analysis of the construction and decline of a socialist society in the Soviet Union and the relationship of 20th-century Russia to the outside world.

3763 Russia before Peter the Great
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
An examination of the Russian state-building process in the period from the Mongol Yoke to the formation of the Russian Empire, focusing on the development of autocracy, serfdom, and the state service system and examining Russia's relations with Europe and Asia.

3773 The Age of the Baroque
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
This course will examine the formation of a Post-Renaissance culture in Europe, with the emergence of Mannerism and the Baroque, and the rise of science. It will also study the struggles for religious and political mastery on the continent from roughly the Peace of Augsburg (1555) to the end of the Thirty Years' War (1648), in the context of economic, social, and political change.

3783 The Age of the Enlightenment
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
This course will examine the culture of Europe from the late 17th to the late 18th centuries, focusing on the Enlightenment in its historical context.

3813 American Political History
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
A study of American political history from the 18th century to the present. Deals with presidents and major national developments and may consider such topics as federalism, state politics, voting behavior, party systems, and political realignment.

3823 History of American Foreign Relations
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
An examination of the emergence of the United States as a world power and its subsequent activities in world affairs. The course places particular emphasis on the domestic roots of U.S. activity and on the factors shaping American perceptions of international affairs.

3843 Migration and History
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
What has caused people to migrate as individuals and as groups? To what extent has geographical mobility been a function of economic mobilization, political transformation, social upheaval, and/or technological revolution? How has the migratory process, in turn, affected the migrants themselves, both in their place of origin, and in the host society? Specific theme, regional focus, and time period may vary according to the instructor's choice of examples drawn from a variety of historical situations.

3853 Public Life and Private Affairs
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
The development of social distinctions between public and private has been one of the most important developments of capitalism and modernity. This course will examine how culture mediates between the public and the private, by bringing matters of the private into public view, as well as translating demands of the public for private understanding. It will consider these and other related issues on public and private affairs. The specific theme, regional focus, and time period may vary according to the instructor's choice of examples drawn from a variety of historical situations.

3903 Modern Japan
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
An overview of Japanese history since the end of the 16th century. Topics may include the Tokugawa period of early modern history, the Meiji transformation of state and society, the rise of Japanese militarism leading up to the Pacific War, the American occupation, and the subsequent rebirth of Japan into a global economic giant.

3913 Late Imperial China
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
Chinese history from the late Ming (ca. 1550) to the end of the Qing dynasty in the 1911 Revolution. The course will address the nature of imperial institutions, state-society interaction, economic developments, social and cultural changes, and China's relationship with the outside world.

3923 China in Revolution
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
A study of 20th-century China. The course will analyze and characterize the different phases of revolutionary changes in China and examine the sources of its revolutionary impulse.

3933 Discovery of India
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
This course introduces the earliest civilizations of the Indian subcontinent, including looking at major religious traditions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Jainism in historical perspective. A significant focus will be on the politics of knowledge, including examining how ancient India was “discovered” by Orientalist scholars, the importance of the past in the nationalist struggle, and the contemporary significance of ancient and medieval India for understanding modern politics in the regions.

3943 Modern India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
In discussing modern South Asia, this course will question the extent to which South Asia is an outcome of its traditional structure (religion, caste hierarchy, joint families, village communities), and how much it is a product of global historical forces including colonialism, capitalism, feminism, and globalization. It examines politics and cultures of South Asia, with emphasis on the freedom struggle, the rise of the Congress and the Muslim League, the two-nation theory, partition and independence, the untouchables, and other contemporary issues including globalization and diaspora.

3953 Cultures and Empires of the Silk Road, 700 BCE – 1480 CE
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
An examination of the political, military, economic, and cultural interaction of nomadic and sedentary peoples along the northern Silk Road running from Western China through Central Asia to the Black Sea Steppe. Topics may range from the formation of the first powerful nomadic tribal confederations (Scythians, Sarmatians, Huns) in the Iron Age and culminating with the rise of the great Gunpowder Empires of the Ottomans, Timurids, and Moscow tsars in the 14th and 15th centuries.

4113 American Intellectual History
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Completion of the Core Curriculum requirement in history and diversity.
Examines ideas of intellectuals and scholars as well as ordinary people. Topics may include definitions of America, individualism, community, consequences of the frontier, education and art in a democracy, industrialization, the culture of consumption, racial and ethnic conflicts, and women's roles in society.

4123 History of Science and Technology in America
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: HIS 2003 recommended.
History of American science and technology from the 18th century to the present, with particular attention to the effects of social change on scientific enterprise and the influence of science on American culture.

4133 History and the Public
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
Investigation of the status, uses, and value of history in schools and universities, and in other spheres of life. Special interests include public and private roles of scholars and intellectuals, forms of public history, literary and cinematic uses of history, public policy applications, history as social and cultural criticism, and alternative conceptions of history and historians' work.

4203 Families in American History
(3-0) 3 hours credit.
An introduction to the history of family, and the roles relating to it, through a comparative social historical perspective. This course considers change and continuity in family structure and women's social relations from the colonial era to the present.

4223 Environmental History of the United States
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: HIS 2003 recommended.
An introductory survey of the interaction of human beings and the environment in the United States from early Indian occupancy to the present. Topics may include problems of ecological change, climate, energy, population, conservation, and human ideas and uses of nature.

4403 Southern South America
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: HIS 2003 recommended.
A study of the nations of Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay, focusing on their legacies of exploration, conquest, colonization, and independence, with major emphases on the national period. Relationships between these nations and the United States will be examined.

4911,3 Independent Study
1 or 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Permission in writing (form available) from the instructor, the student's advisor, the Department Chair, and Dean of the College in which the course is offered.
Independent reading, research, discussion, and/or writing under the direction of a faculty member. May be repeated for credit, but not more than 6 semester credit hours of independent study, regardless of discipline, will apply to a bachelor's degree.

4923 Issues in History
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Upper-class standing or consent of instructor.
Coverage of topics of current interest in the field of history. May be repeated for credit when topics vary, but not more than 6 semester credit hours may be applied to a bachelor's degree.

4933 Internship in History
3 hours credit. Prerequisites: HIS 2003 and consent of Department Chair.
Supervised experience relevant to history within selected community organizations. A maximum of 6 semester credit hours may be earned through Internship in History. Must be taken on a credit/no-credit basis.

4953 Special Studies in History
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
An organized course offering the opportunity for specialized study not normally or not often available as part of the regular course offerings. Special Studies may be repeated for credit when topics vary, but not more than 6 semester credit hours, regardless of discipline, will apply to a bachelor's degree.

4973 Seminar in History
(3-0) 3 hours credit. Prerequisites: HIS 2003 and consent of instructor.
The opportunity for an intensive study of a selected topic. Primary emphasis on supervised research on various aspects of the topic. Enrollment limited to juniors and seniors majoring in history.

4993 Honors Thesis
3 hours credit. Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to candidates for Honors in History during their last two semesters; completion of honors examination and consent of the Honors College. Supervised research and preparation of an honors thesis. May be repeated once with advisor's approval.

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