MINOR: History
Course Descriptions:
HIST 113 | American History Before 1865 (3 credit hours)
This course provides a study of America from the European exploration of the New World
to the end of the Civil War.
General Studies Outcome: Methods of Inquiry & Explanatory Schema - Social Science
OR
HIST 114 | American History After 1865 (3 credit hours)
This course provides a study of the United States from Reconstruction to the present.
General Studies Outcome: Methods of Inquiry & Explanatory Schema - Social Science
HIST 201 | World Civilization Before 1500 (3 credit hours)
This course is a survey of the beginnings of civilizations in the great river valleys
and their diffusion to later civilizations in the Middle East and Europe. Particular
attention will be given to the cultural and political institutions of the West that
furnish our own cultural heritage.
General Studies Outcome: Methods of Inquiry & Explanatory Schema - Social Science
OR
HIST 202 | World Civilization After 1500 (3 credit hours)
In this course the rise and decline of European predominance will be analyzed with
emphasis upon the major social, political, and economic ideologies and institutions
that evolved.
General Studies Outcome: Methods of Inquiry & Explanatory Schema - Social Science
PSCI 201 | American National Government (3 credit hours)
This course is a thorough introduction to the U.S. political system, its institutions
and processes. Topics will include the Constitutional founding, federalism, political
culture, Congress, the Presidency, judiciary, bureaucracy, public opinion and the
media, the electoral process, and civil liberties.
General Studies Outcome: Methods of Inquiry & Explanatory Schema - Social Science
OR
ANTH 308 | Native American History and Culture (3 credit hours)
This course is a broad introductory survey of the cultures and historical experiences
of North American peoples from pre-contact to the present in ethno-historical perspective.
Course content reflects the diverse nature of indigenous experience across a spectrum
of culture groups that comprise the Native peoples of North America. Instruction focuses
on how the indigenous peoples of North America responded to the ever-shifting societal
stresses that accompanied rapid and often violent social, cultural, and environmental
transformations of the last four centuries and how they adapted and changed to meet
the challenges they confronted as they persisted in their efforts to preserve their
homelands, their cultures, their sovereignty, and their right to self-determination.
Cross-listed as HIST 308.
General Studies Outcome: Community, Regional & Global Studies/Methods of Inquiry & Explanatory Schema - Social
Science
Upper Division - History Electives | (12 credit hours)
(300 level or higher)