| HISTORY 100: World Civilization Since 1500 (3) | |
| Why: | To live in our modern world, we need to understand the traditions, beliefs, and historical development of other societies and cultures. This course provides an introduction to the world in the last 500 years and helps the student better understand current international events. |
| Content: | Colonialism, Westernization, industrialization, revolution, nationalism. |
| Format: | Lecture/discussion. |
| Evaluation: | Objective and essay exams, short papers. |
| Recommended for: | Students interested in world events and history. |
| What Next? | Further Studies courses. |
| HISTORY 101: Western Civilization to 1648 (3) | |
| Why: | This course provides an introduction to the cultural and historical tradition of the Western world, which for most students is their own. |
| Content: | Ancient Near East, Greece and Rome, the Middle Ages, early modern Europe. |
| Format: | Lecture/discussion. |
| Evaluation: | Objective and essay exams, short papers. |
| Recommended for: | Art History majors and students interested in European society/culture, Western ideas/values, history and thought/ideas. |
| What Next? | History 102, or Further Studies courses. |
| HISTORY 102: Western Civilization Since 1648 (3) | |
| Why: | Western civilization has come to dominate the world in the last 300 years, economically, intellectually, militarily, socially. This course helps the student understand how this has happened and what it means for the future. |
| Content: | Colonialism, industrialization, nationalism, revolutions. |
| Evaluation: | Objective and essay exams, short papers, book reports. |
| Recommended for: | Art History and Economics majors and students interested in European society/culture, Western ideas/values, history of thought/ideas. |
| What Next? | Further Studies courses. |
| HISTORY 131: History of United States to 1865 (3) | |
| Why: | This course provides an understanding of the basic American institutions by examining both personalities and social processes. The emphasis is on the foundational developments of a society dedicated to the ideals of representative democracy. |
| Content: | Age of exploration, colonization, Revolution and the Constitution, Jacksonian democracy, manifest destiny, abolition, the Civil War. |
| Format: | Lecture/discussion. |
| Evaluation: | Objective and short answer essay exams. |
| Required for: | Fulfills American Institutions requirement in LAS. |
| Recommended for: | Students interested in American society/culture, basic knowledge in the social sciences, history of thought/ideas. |
| What Next? | History 132, or Further Studies courses. |
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| HISTORY 132: History of United States 1865-Present (3) | |
| Why? | This course provides an understanding of our current post-industrial society through an examination of the causes and effects of the major influences shaping American history since the Civil War. |
| Content: | Reconstruction, the West, reform politics from populism to progressivism to the New Deal, the rise to world power, the World Wars and Cold War, industrialization and urbanization. |
| Format: | Lecture/discussion. |
| Evaluation: | Objective and essay exams. |
| Required for: | Fulfills American Institutions requirement in LAS. |
| Recommended for: | Economics majors, and students interested in American society/culture and humanities methodologies. |
| What Next? | Further Studies courses. |