History Courses [143-705]

[001-115] [116-142] [143-705]

HIST 143. Introduction to the History of Latin America Since 1825. 3 crs. Divisional Studies C.

HIST 147. African American Women in U.S. History. 3 crs. Survey of the social, intellectual, economic, political, and cultural history of women in the U.S. from the colonial era to the present.

HIST 148. African American Women in the United States. 3 crs. Analysis of the participation of women of African descent in American institutional and cultural life.

HIST 149. District of Columbia History. 3 crs. Introduction to the major metropolitan questions, past and present, analyzing social and economic forces to physical changes. Selections from texts developed by scholarly and community-based literature.

HIST 150. Modern Europe: 165-1848. 3 crs. Concentrated study of the political, social, and economic development of the European states. Recommended for area majors or comparative history majors.

HIST 151. Modern Europe: 1848 to the Present. 3 crs. Continuation of HIST 150.

HIST 152. Russia to 1917. 3 crs. Emphasizes social, political, economic, and intellectual trends within Russia against both a European and world context.

HIST 153. Russia Since 1917. 3 crs. Continuation of HIST 152 with emphasis on the Soviet Union.

HIST 164. African Economic History. 3 crs. Explores various factors influencing African economic behavior and development from earliest times to the present.

HIST 165. Geography of North America. 3 crs. Examines the physical base and human occupancy of major geographic regions of the United States and Canada.

HIST 168. Geography of Europe. 3 crs. Discusses the principal regions of Europe and the geographic aspects of current national and international questions.

HIST 169. Geography of Asia. 3 crs. Natural regions, their present economic development and potentialities.

HIST 171. Human Geography of Africa. 3 crs. Natural regions, physical and human resources of Africa south of the Sahara, economic development and political potentialities.

HIST 176. AFRO American History to the Civil War. 3 crs. Brief survey of the African background and the social, cultural, economic, and political activity of the black people in the United States.

HIST 177. AFRO American History Since the Civil War. 3 crs. Continuation of HIST 176.

HIST 184. Early Modern Europe I. 3 crs. Covers the transition from medieval to modern Europe; the Italian Renaissance; development of the arts and sciences; exploration and discovery; the rise of Protestantism and the Catholic reaction; and the religious wars to 1648.

HIST 185. Early Modern Europe II. 3 crs. Continuation of HIST 184.

HIST 189. Public History. 3 crs. A survey of the rich variety of interrelated research activities which constitute the practice of public history. Particular attention given to African Americans’ influence on the field.  

*HIST 190. Modern Revolutions and Liberation Movements I. 3 crs. Study, analysis, and comparison of selected revolutionary and liberation movements.

*HIST 191. Modern Revolutions and Liberation Movements II. 3 crs. Continuation of HIST 190.

HIST 192. Islam in Africa. 3 crs. Emphasizes the diffusion of Islam in Africa and significance of Islam in African societies.

HIST 193. History of Pan-Africanism. 3 crs. Analyses of the origin and significance of Pan-Africanism in the United States, the Caribbean and Latin America.

HIST 195. Ideology and Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean. 3 crs. Introduction to the broad conception of nationalism, politics and revolution in Latin America and the Caribbean.

HIST 196. Geography of Trade and Transportation. 3 crs. Geographic determinants of international trade; commercial land, water, and air transportation of world export and import commodities.

HIST 700. Introduction to the Black Diaspora II, Writing. 3 crs. A writing intensive course surveying the African Diaspora from the late nineteenth century to the present.

HIST 702. Russia Since 1917, Writing. 3 crs. A writing intensive course emphasizing the Soviet Union. This course also examines the break up of the Soviet empire.

HIST 704. African American History Since 1877, Writing. 3 crs. A writing intensive course surveying African American social, cultural, economic and political activity.

HIST 705. United States History Since 1877, Writing. 3 crs. A writing intensive course presenting the principal political, economic, social, and cultural developments in the United States from the end of Reconstruction to the present.