African History
AFH 2000 Africa in World History
Credits: 3
A one-semester introduction to African history for undergraduates. By focusing upon major historical themes, this course will enable students to link the history of African societies with other world civilizations. (H, N)
AFH 3100 Africa to 1800
Credits: 3
Ancient Africa, the expansion of Islam, savannah kingdoms, East African trading cities, maritime contacts with Europe, the slave trade. (H, N)
AFH 3200 Africa Since 1800
Credits: 3
The end of the slave trade and the growth of "legitimate" commerce; Islamic renewal and revolution; the European partition and the colonial era; the growth of nationalism and the reemergence of independent Africa. (H, N)
AFH 3342 History of West Africa
Credits: 3
History of West Africa from the Ghana empire to the contemporary period. (H, N)
AFH 4250 Modern Africa
Credits: 3
Selected topics in 19th and 20th century African development; pre-colonial conditions, colonial rule, nationalist movements and the problem of independence. (H, N)
AFH 4253 African women in the Twentieth-Century
Credits: 3
This course explores themes of politics, social structure, and cultural change by examining the historical experience of African women.
AFH 4293 Politics and Violence in Africa Since 1800
Credits: 3
This course puts violence, one of contemporary Africa's most pressing issues, into historical perspective by focusing on the interrelated themes of ethnicity, youth, riot, rebellion and revolt.
AFH 4450 Southern Africa
Credits: 3
The history of southern Africa from the pre-European era to the present. (H, N)
AFH 4930 History Research Seminar: Africa
Credits: 3; Prereq:4 LS history major
The History Research Seminar, though rotating in content, has two distinct goals. The course will introduce students to the historiography of a specific topic. It is also dedicated to the production of a substantial research paper based on primary source evidence.
Asian History
ASH 2033 Themes in Asian History, 1800-Present
Credits: 3
Surveys major themes in South and East Asian history, covering India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, China, Japan, Indonesia and Malaysia. Examines the processes of imperialism, colonialism and nationalism and their social, political, economic and cultural ramifications. Focus on women's lives and construction of gender roles. (H, N)
ASH 3305 History, Memory and Nation in East Asia
Credits: 3
Study of the politics of memory and the political uses of the past in modern Japan, China, and Korea. These are particularly sensitive topics in this area, given the legacy of Japanese colonialism. Major themes will include historiography, commercialization of the past, oral testimony, revisionism, national mythology and ethnic descent.
ASH 3323 Introduction to Modern South Asian History, 1700-1947
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history
Traces the establishment and collapse of British power in South Asia from the 18th century to India's Independence and Partition in 1947. Uses films and primary literary sources for a deeper understanding of the history and culture of the subcontinent.
ASH 3381 Women in Modern South Asian History, 1800-Present
Credits: 3
Examines women's roles in colonial South Asia with special attention to impact of colonialism on women's lives, construction of gender roles and ideology, women's movements and the instrumentality of women in the nationalist struggle. Uses live videos, films literature and other primary sources.
ASH 3400 Chinese History
Credits: 3
The history of China from its beginnings to the present, tracing the poiltical, social and cultural forces that shaped the emergence of China as an identifiable entity. A central theme is the key question of the definition of China and Chineseness.
ASH 3442 Modern Japan
Credits: 3; Prereq:3 hours of history
Survey of the social, political and economic transformation of modern Japanese society from 1800. (H, N)
ASH 3443 Japan to 1600
Credits: 3
Examination of the nature and development of traditional Japanese society with a broad emphasis on social, political, economic and cultural factors.
ASH 3931 Special Topics in Asian History
Credits: 3 to 3, variable; Prereq: 3 hours of history
Selected, variable topics in the history and culture of Asia.
ASH 4930 History Research Seminar: Asia
Credits: 3
The History Research Seminar, though rotating in content, has two distinct goals. The course will introduce students to the historiography of a specific topic. It is also dedicated to the production of a substantial research paper based on primary source evidence.
European History
EUH 2000 Western Civilization: From Early Times to the Middle Ages
Credits: 3
An introduction to western civilization. Treats the early cultures in Mesopotamia and Egypt, the Minoan-Mycenaean society, Greece, the Hellenistic period and the Roman Empire to the Barbarian invasions. (H, N)
EUH 2001 Western Civilization: From the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century
Credits: 3
Treats feudal, manorial, urban and religious institutions in medieval society, Renaissance and Reformation, the Thirty Years' War, the Age of Louis XIV, and the Age of Reason. (H,N) (WR)
EUH 2002 Western Civilization: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present
Credits: 3
Treats the eighteenth century revolutions, Napoleon, romanticism and reaction, national unifications and imperialism, competing ideologies, the world wars, and Europe in the postwar era. (H, N) (WR)
EUH 3033 History of the Holocaust
Credits: 3
A survey of the origins of anti-Semitism in central Europe, and the execution of the Holocaust by Nazi Germany. Examines not only the ideology of the Nazi leaders, but the role of the SS, Army, Police and ordinary citizens in perpetrating genocide. (H, N) (WR)
EUH 3090 Intellectual History of Europe, Ancient to Medieval
Credits: 3
Examines intellectual developments from the ancient to the medieval period that form the foundations of West views of human nature, society, the natural world and God.
EUH 3091 Intellectual History of Europe, Renaissance to Modern
Credits: 3
Examines intellectual developments that have shaped modern views of human nature, society, the natural world and God.
EUH 3121 The Early Middle Ages
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history
A study of the formation of the Medieval West from the dissolution of the Roman Empire to the year 1000 A.D. The course will particularly examine the ways in which Roman, Christian and Germanic traditions fused to form a new civilization. (H, N) (WR)
EUH 3122 The High Middle Ages
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history.
A topical examination of European civilization from the eleventh through the fourteenth centuries. The course will contrast the urban and rural, northern and southern forms of economic and social, cultural and political phenomina. (H, N) (WR)
EUH 3140 Renaissance
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history
Interpretations of the Renaissance. Italy: political, literary and artistic developments. The northern Renaissance and Christian Humanism. (H, N) (WR)
EUH 3144 The Reformation
Credits: 3
An overview of critical religious changes in Europe from the 15th to 17th centuries. Particular attention is paid to the broad ranging impact of religion on the social, cultural and political developments of the period. (H, N)
EUH 3182 Medieval Archaeology
Credits: 3
Methods and Theroy of Archaeology with particular empahsis on the medieval period. Attention is also given to the relation between the written and the archaeological evidence.
EUH 3202 Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700
Credits: 3
Development of Europe as it emerged from Middle Ages. Focusing on growth of modern state and critical changes in politics, science, economics and religion. (H, N)
EUH 3204 Eighteenth-Century Europe
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history
Study of European politics, economics, society, ideas and institutions in eighteenth century including early modern forms of governance, the Enlightenment and the Age of the Revolution. (H, N) (WR)
EUH 3205 Nineteenth-Century Europe
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history
Study of European politics, society, ideas and institutions, including the French Revolution, emergence of modern politics, upheavals of 1848 and 1871, rise of nationalism, urbanization and socialism. (H, N) (WR)
EUH 3205 Twenthtieth-Century Europe
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history
Study of European politics, society, ideas and institutions, including the French Revolution, emergence of modern politics, upheavals of 1848 and 1871, rise of nationalism, urbanization and socialism. (H, N) (WR)
EUH 3300 Byzantine History
Credits: 3
Survey of Byzantine history topics. Emphasis on political, economic and religious institutions and on the role of Byzantium in medieval Europe.
EUH 3323 Medieval Eastern Europe
Credits: 3
Eastern Europe from late Antiquity to the fifteenth century. Examines the major problems of medieval history, with special emphasis on the role of the region in the history of the continent.
EUH 3330 Late Modern Central and Eastern Europe
Credits: 3
A cultural, social and political survey of the Hapsburg Monarchy, Poland, and the Balkans from 1700 to 1918. Topics include absolutism, revolutionary nationalism, modernization, cultural flowering , ethnic violence, socialism and WWI.
EUH 3383 Pagans, Christians, Barbarians: The World of Late Antiquity
Credits: 3
This course surveys the history of the Mediterranean region from the second to the seventh century with a particular focus on religious and cultural developments that marked the rise of a Christian Roman Empire.
EUH 3411 Rome and the Mediterranean
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hrs of history
Charts the development of Rome from a small town to the center of an empire. Emphasis placed on the social, economic and political transformations which occurred across the Mediterranean in response to the growth of this empire. (H, N) (WR)
EUH 3432 Early Medieval Italy
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history
A survey of economic, social and political developments in the Italian peninsula between 800 and 1100.
EUH 3455 The History of Modern Paris
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history
The history of Paris since its transformation under Napoleon III. Some attention is given to "money and politics," but the main emphasis is on intellectual life, culture, art and science. (H, N) (WR)
EUH 3473 Medieval Germany
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history
A survey of economic, social, and political developments in Central Europe during the Middle Ages (500-1350).
EUH 3500 Medieval England. F
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history
The creation of a national society and culture in the time of England's constitutional development (to the sixteenth century). (H, N) (WR)
EUH 3501 Early Modern England. S
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history
The development of a revolutionary tradition and of a parliamentary monarch in the period of England's cultural flowering (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries). (H, N) (WR)
EUH 3502 Modern Britain. F
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history
Social, political, and economic developments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. (H, N) (WR)
EUH 3530 Colonies to Commonwealth: The History of the British Empire
Credits: 3
This course surveys the history of the British Empire from its origins in Ireland to the decolonization movements of the 20th century. It examines not only the ways in which the British established and extended the empire through the political, military, economic and cultural spheres , but also resistance to empire.
EUH 3533 Ireland in the British Empire
Credits: 3
This course examines the place of Ireland in the British Empire and the imperial experiences of the Irish People. It covers the main themes of Irish history from the Tudor conquest to the establishment of the Irish Republic, all the while being attuned to the broader imperial context.
EUH 3564 Central Europe and Eastern Europe in the 20th Century
Credits: 3
Covers the collapse of Austro-Hungary, its sucessor states in the inter-war period, World War II, the Holocaust, the rise and fall of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe.
EUH 3575 Imperial Russia, 1700-1914
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history
Emphasis is on the major institutional, political, social and economic issues confronting the Russian state. The course draws on source materials and on Russian literature to illustrate these issues. (H, N)
EUH 3576 Twentieth-Century Russia to 1953
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history
Emphasis is on internal political, economic, and social history; the impact of modernization; the rise of radical ideologies; the Bolshevik revolution; and the evolution of the Soviet Union. (H, N) (WR)
EUH 3605 Science, History and Change
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history
Examines the historical and cultural relations of ideas about science and history as they converge on notions of nature, reason, time, causality, change, evolution, progress, continuity, and revolution, from antiquity to Einstein. (H)
EUH 3672 Modern European Jewish History
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history
Major events and themes of the Jews in Europe from 1650-1945.
EUH 3673 Modern East European Jewry
Credits: 3
The course covers the history of European Jewry by focusing on the stetl world in Poland, the urban cultures of Austria-Hungary, interwar hypernationalism, the Holocaust, and Communism.
EUH 3683 The History of Consumption
Credits: 3
This Course, which combines economic, social, and political history, studies the rise of consumer culture from the eighteenth century to the present. Primarily focused on Europe, it expands to include the United States in the twentieth century.
EUH 3931 Special Topics in European History
Credits: 3 to 12; Prereq: 3 hours of history
Selected, variable topics in the history and culture of Europe
EUH 4120 Feudalism and Medieval Society
Credits: 3; Prereq: 6 hours in history
Addresses fundamental and controversial issues in the social history of feudalism.
EUH 4145 Human Nature and Gender, 1350-1650
Credits: 3; Prereq: EUH 3140
This course investigates attitudes toward human nature and gender in the medieval and early modern periods of European history.
EUH 4185 The Viking Experience
Credits: 3; Prereq: 6 hours of history.
Scandinavian medieval history, including an examination of the profound changes brought by Christianization and the rise of the medieval states.
EUH 4186 Medieval Archelolgy Field Practicum
Credits: 3
An introduction to medieval archaeology as a historical discipline and an inquiry into various approaches to the interpretation of material culture.
EUH 4280 History of the Second World War
Credits: 3; Prereq: 6 hours of history
An analysis of the Second World War covering especially the origins, politics, resistance movements, grand strategy and consequences. (H) (WR)
EUH 4282 History of Cold War Europe
Credits: 3; Prereq: 6 hours of history
Cold War era in Europe, 1945- 1991, with special emphasis on its origins, its social, economic and political aspects and historical consequences on Europe.
EUH 4314 Spain and Portugal
Credits: 3; Prereq: 6 hours of history
Spain and Portugal from the Middle Ages to the present. Emphasis on early modern period and twentieth century, and on creation of colonial empires in Latin America. (H, N) (WR)
EUH 4332 The Modern Balkans
Credits: 3; Prereq: 6 hours of history
Second of a two-semester sequence on the history of Southeastern Europe (the Balkans). Examines the main themes of the history of Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, and the countries of the former Yugoslavia during the 19th and 20th centuries. (H, N)
EUH 4442 History of France
Credits: 3; Prereq: 6 hours of history
France from the seventeenth century to the present: the absolute monarchy and its fall, the rise of a revolutionary tradition, the "civilizing" model of empire, and the crises of national identity after 1870 and 1944. (H, N) (WR)
EUH 4463 Nineteenth-Century Germany
Credits: 3; Prereq: 6 hours of history. Offered alternate years
Germany's political development towards nationhood in the nineteenth century, and the imperial policies of Bismarck and Wilhelm II. The social history of specific groups in German society. Germany's role in the outbreak of WW I. (H, N) (WR)
EUH 4464 Twentieth-Century Germany
Credits: 3; Prereq: 6 hours of history. Offered alternate years
Collapse of the monarchy and tribulations of the Weimar Republic. A detailed examination of Hitler's seizure of power, and of social, political, and ideological aspects of the Third Reich. The two Germanies to the fall of the Berlin Wall. (H, N) (WR)
EUH 4511 Elizabethan England, 1509-1660. F
Credits: 3; Prereq: 6 hours of history. Offered alternate years
Cultural, social and constitutional developments in the time of the emergence of political and religious consciousness. (H, N) (WR)
EUH 4563 Habsburg Monarchy
Credits: 3; Prereq: 6 hours of history
A study of the multiethnic dynastic state from its formation through its revitalization under Maria Theresa, conservative retrenchment under Metternich, and the challenge of nationalism from its peoples, to Austro-Hungary's collapse in World War I.
EUH 4586 Soviet History through Soviet and post-Soviet Film
Credits: 4; Prereq: 3 hours history (upper level)
A study of selected themes and topics of Soviet history explored through film, including the relationship between revolution and state-building, the complex place of terror in it, efforts to rewrite the social structure of the new state, WWII as a new cultural revolution, the Brezhnev stagnation and the crisis of socialist values and Gorbachev's new revolution.
EUH 4602 Renaissance to the Scientific Revolution: Intellectual and Cultural History of Europe
Credits: 3; Prereq: 6 hours of history
An examination of fundamental European intellectual, cultural, and social developments from the early Renaissance to the Scientific Revolution. Includes interdisciplinary study of key ideas in religion, philosophy, art and literature. (H, N) (WR)
EUH 4610 Society and the Sexes in Modern Europe, 18C to the Present
Credits: 3; Prereq: 6 hours of history
Gendered analysis of great historical events, political movements and ideologies. Other topics of social and cultural history are discussed. (H, N)
EUH 4617 "Cops and Robbers": Crime and Policing in Europe, 1700-1914
Credits: 3; Prereq: 6 hours of history
This course investigates, using primary and secondary sources, the social history of crime, criminal justice, and policing in Europe between approximately 1700 and 1900.
EUH 4664 Modern European Revolutions: 1789-1989
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history
History of key European revolutions that occurred between 1789-1989. Special emphasis is given to the economic, cultural and political conditions that gave rise to and accompanied the development of these watershed events.
EUH 4930 History Research Seminar: Europe
Credits: 3; Prereq:4 LS history major
The History Research Seminar, though rotating in content, has two distinct goals. The course will introduce students to the historiography of a specific topic. It is also dedicated to the production of a substantial research paper based on primary source evidence.
History of Science
HIS 3460 History of Science and Religion
Credits: 3
A survey of the interaction between the religious and scientific communities in the West from the time of the early church to the present.
HIS 3463 Introduction, History of Science: Origins to Newton. F
Credits: 3
An introduction to the emergence of scientific thought from its mythopoeic beginnings to the time of Newton. The course will focus on the interrelationships among science, philosophy and religion in Greece, Islam and the Latin West. Special emphasis is given to Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Descartes and Newton. (H, N)
HIS 3464 Introduction, History of Science: Renaissance to the Present. S
Credits: 3
A general survey of the major issues in physical and biological science from the time of Galileo to the present. Emphasis will be placed on the impact of scientific development on society, culture and thought. (H, N) (WR)
HIS 3465 The Scientific Revolution
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history
The emergence of modern science from Copernicus to Newton exploring the notions of empiricism, experiment, mechanism, materialism, and the historical concepts of continuity, change, revolution, and progress. (H) (WR)
HIS 3466 Newton, Darwin, Freud
Credits: 3
This course focuses upon what has been called "the emergence of the modern mind" from the perspective of three symbolic heroes of western science and culture. Beginning biographically, the course raises issues regarding notions of the Great Man, Great Books, Great Ideas, as well as theories of identity, genius, rationality, creativity, change, and the relations between science and the humanities, biography and history.
HIS 3467 Science, Sex, Race
Credits: 3
In this course we focus on issues from the history and philosophy of science involving theories of sex and race in modern Western culture. Topics include: Classification, Taxonomy, Disease, Measurement, Eugenics.
HIS 3470 History of Technology 1. F
Credits: 3
The development of technology and engineering from antiquity to approximately 1750 with emphasis on the relationship of this development to the growth of western civilization. (H, N) (WR)
HIS 3471 History of Technology 2. S
Credits: 3
The development of technology and engineering from approximately 1750 to WW I with emphasis on the relationship of this development to the changing patterns of life in western civilization. (H) (WR)
HIS 3481 Magic and the Occult in the Age of Reason
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history
Explores the historical roots of astrology, alchemy, witchcraft and hermeticism in a cultural climate increasingly dominated by rationalism and science (1450-1700). Draws on theory and methods of intellectual and cultural history, anthropology, sociology and literary theory. (H)
HIS 3483 The Nuclear Age
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history
History of the changing perception of the political and social significance of science since the discovery of nuclear fission.
HIS 3490 History of Western Medicine
Credits: 3
Beginning with primitive societies, the course will trace the development of ideas of medical treatment, concepts of disease, and the growth of medical knowledge over the centuries. Students will also have the opportunity to perform research on an aspect of medical history of interest to them. (H) (WR)
HIS 3495 Evolution of Infectious Diseases
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history
This course places the emergence of new infectious diseases in a historical and cultural context. The course emphasizes the history of well-documented infectious diseases such as leprosy, bubonic plague, cholera, smallpox, yellow fever, tuberculosis, influenza, polio, venereal disease and AIDS, as well as the more recent Ebola viral-type outbreaks. (S)
HIS 3501 The History of Modern Biological Thought
Credits: 3
This course will examine selected areas of modern biological thought after 1800. Topics include Darwin, genetics, the Evolutionary Synthesis, molecular biology and sociobiology. (H) (WR)
HIS 3503 Readings in History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Credits: 3to 6
Readings on special topics in history of science, technology or medicine.
HIS 3504 Clio Electric: History of Research in Science and History
Credits: 3
History and historiography of scholarly and scientific research using electronic primary texts to emhasize transformation in oral, manuscript, print and electronic culture.
HIS 3506 Science, Evidence, Law
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history
This course traces the emergence of modern concepts of truth and justice by focusing on the historical use of evidence in both science and law. Beginning with 16th-century witchcraft (concepts of fact, theory, observation, interpretation) the course concludes with cases involving DNA, child testimony, expert witnesses, and false memory. Themes include identity and possession, competence and expertise.
HIS 3931 Special Topics
Credits: 3. (H) (WR)
HIS 3942 History Practicum
Credits: 2; Prereq: History major: 1LS, 2LS, or transfer student.
Helps the student learn the elements of the professional study of history: the critical reading of sources (primary and secondary); research skills; and a variety of historical methodologies.
HIS 4306 Alcohol and History
Credits: 3; Prereq: 6 hours of history.
Alcohol is the western world's most widely used drug. The course explores the historical role it has played in society, politics, and the economy in a number of countries. (H, N) (WR)
HIS 4472 History of Evolutionary Thought from the Enlightenment to the Present
Credits: 3; Prereq: some background in evolutionary science or history of science is desirable
This is an advanced history of science course that examines the history of evolutionary thought from the Enlightenment to the present. Emphasis is on the specific development of Darwinian evolutionary theory, and the lives of key theorists such as Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. Sociopolitical and national contexts will be considered.
HIS 4473 History of Scientific Exploration in the Age of Empire
Credits: 3; Prereq: HIS 2464 or HIS 3501 or permission of instructor
This is an advanced history of science course that explores the connections between science, exploration and national interests in the age of empire. The ultimate goal is to understand science as cultural activity.
HIS 4502 The History of Genetics and Molecular Biology
Credits: 3; Prereq: 6 hours of history and knowledge of the history of science and biology desirable
This is an advance history of science course that explores the history of genetics and molecular biology.
HIS 4905 Individual Study
Credits: 1 to 3; maximum of 6 credits; Prereq: 6 hours
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HIS 4930 History Research Seminar: History of Science
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HIS 4944 Internship in the Practice of History
Credits: 1 to 3; Prereq: History major and approval of the undergraduate coordinator.
Gives history majors practical experience in history-related institutions and organizations, such as archives, historical societies, museums and university presses.
HIS 4956 Overseas Studies in History
Credits: 1 to 18; Prereq: Approval of Undergraduate Coordinator; May be repeated with change of topic up to a maximum of 18 credit hours per semester.Prereq: Permission of undergraduate adviser.
This revolving topics course provides a mechanism by which course work taken abroad as part of an approved student program can be recorded on the transcript and counted toward UF graduation.
HIS 4970 Senior Thesis
Credits: 1 to 3; maximum of 4 credits; Prereq: Senior standing and department permission
Requirement for candidates for high or highest honors. Directed research leading to the submission of an interpretive and analytical, rather than merely narrative, essay of approximately 40 pages in length. The paper may either be based on research into a particular topic for which there are accessible source materials, or it may involve a thorough critical assessment of a significant historical controversy or historiographical issue. Students must obtain the consent of an appropriate supervisor prior to registration, and topics must be approved by the Departmental Honors Coordinator. Registration for two semesters' work is required in order to allow adequate attention to the project. (WR)
Latin American History
LAH 2020 Introduction to Latin American History
Credits: 3
An introduction to Latin American civilization, from the Conquest to the present, emphasizing select topics in social, political and cultural history. (H, N)
LAH 3100 Emergence of Latin American Nations
Credits: 3
The last phase of the colonial regime, movement for independence, and problems of nation-building to the end of the 19th century. (H, N) (WR)
LAH 3130 Colonial Latin America
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history
A survey of the formation of Spanish and Portuguese imperial systems and colonial societies in America in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. (H, N) (WR)
LAH 3300 Contemporary Latin America
Credits: 3
Contemporary challenges to traditional structures; revolution and evolution. (H, N) (WR)
LAH 3470 Introduction to Caribbean History
Credits: 3
The main issues and debates in Caribbean History from the time of Columbus to the mid-twentieth century.
LAH 3741 Revolution in the Americas
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history
Historical analysis of the armed and unarmed revolutionary movements of Twentieth-Century Latin America, from Mexico to Chile.
LAH 49314 Special Topics in Latin American History
Credits: 3 to 12; Prereq: 3 hours of history
Selected, variable topics in the history and culture of Latin America
LAH 4433 Modern Mexico
Credits: 3; Prereq: 6 hours of history
Aftermath of independence and war with U.S., the Reform and Maximillian, Porfiriato, Mexican Revolution and contemporary trends.(H, N) (WR)
LAH 4471 Caribbean History to 1800
Credits: 3; Prereq: 6 hours of history
Social, economic and political history of the West Indies and the Circum-Caribbean region to 1800, with particular emphasis on slave society. (H, N) (WR)
LAH 4472 The Caribbean, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Credits: 3; Prereq: 6 hours of history
A mainly social history of the modern Caribbean: slave emancipation and decolonization; race relations and black consciousness; labor, culture, and economic change. (H, N) (WR)
LAH 4473 France in the Caribbean
Credits: 3
This course explores the making of the modern Francophone Caribbean. It will introduce students to a range of political, economic and cultural phenomena from buccaneering and voodoo to tourism and transnational identity. Particular attention is paid to slave plantation society, the Haitian Revolution and the black consciousness movements of the twentieth century.
LAH 4520 Andean Nations. S
Credits: 3; Prereq: 6 hours of history
Anthropological and political history of the postcolonial Andean region, including the republics of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. (H, N) (WR)
LAH 4602 History of Amazonia
Credits: 3
Historical analysis of the Amazon. Need no previous knowledge of Latin American history; for students interested in the issues confronting the region today. (H, N)
LAH 4630 Brazil after 1750
Credits: 3; Prereq: 6 hours of history
Late and colonial reform; independence and origins and achievements of Brazilian monarchy; "modernization" and neo-colonialism; slavery, the military, and emergence of oligarchical republic; legacy of dictatorship and populism. (H, I)
LAH 4930 History Research Seminar: Latin America
Credits: 3; Prereq:4 LS history major
The History Research Seminar, though rotating in content, has two distinct goals. The course will introduce students to the historiography of a specific topic. It is also dedicated to the production of a substantial research paper based on primary source evidence.
United States History
AMH 2010 United States to 1877
Credits: 3
A survey of the development of the U.S. from its colonial origins to the end of Reconstruction. (H)
AMH 2020 United States Since 1877
Credits: 3
A survey of the emergence of modern America as an industrial and world power; the Progressive Era; WWI; Great Depression and New Deal; WW II; and the Cold War Era. (H)
AMH 3223 The Gilded Age
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history
This course covers the changes that occured in America between 1877 and the advent of WWII, emphasizing the meaning of Americanism, conflicts between labor and capital, and the relations between historical events and race, gender and politics.
AMH 3273 America in the Sixties
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history.
Course examines the social and political movements of the turbulent era of the 1960s in America, covering primarily civil rights, feminist and anti-war movements.
AMH 3340 History of Disability in America
Credits: 3
This course examines how disabilities have been labeled, identified and treated over time and in light of broad social trends.
AMH 3357 History of the American Presidency
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history
A survey of the presidency from the Constitutional Convention of 1787 to the present. Emphasis is placed on the men and the times and their impact on the evolution of the office. (H) (WR)
AMH 3421 Florida to 1845
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history
Exploration and settlement, colonial history of Spanish and British Florida, U.S. territorial days to statehood. (H)
AMH 3423 Florida Since 1845
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history
Statehood and secession, Civil War, Reconstruction, reform and reaction, Progressive Era, boom and bust, diversification and growth of Florida since World War II. (H) (WR)
AMH 3444 The Far West
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history
A history of the nineteenth-century trans-Mississippi West with special attention to the exploration, acquisition and settlement of the Great Plains. Emphasis on the Mexican War, Manifest Destiny, cowboys, violence and the impact of whites on Indian cultures. (H) (WR)
AMH 3460 U.S. Urban History
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history
Analysis of the growth and development of urban civilization in the U.S. Emphasis on how cities began and their impact on politics, economics and culture. (H, S) (WR)
AMH 3500 U.S. Labor History
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history
Emphasizes the history of America's working class people, and addresses such issues as working class consciousness, theories of organized labor, methods of organization, and class relationships. (H, D) (WR)
AMH 3511 American Foreign Relations and Expansion, Since 1914
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history
Focus is on the origin, conduct, and consequences of American diplomacy during an era of global conflict and revolutionary upheaval. (H) (WR)
AMH 3531 The American Jewish Experience 1880-2000
Credits: 3
Introduces students to the major events and issues in American Jewish history, and offers a sense of why jews felt "at home in America." Focus will be on immigration, assimilation, and collective survival.
AMH 3544 America in Vietnam
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history
Examination of the origins, course and impact of America's involvement in Vietnam, concentrating on the period from 1941 to 1975. (H)
AMH 3551 Constitutional History of the United States to 1877
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history
Analysis of the development of constitutionalism from English colonial origins to the end of Reconstruction, emphasizing the inherent tension between concepts of power and liberty. (H) (WR)
AMH 3552 Constitutional History of the United States Since 1877
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history
Continuation of AMH 3551, giving special attention to the way in which constitutionalism has been adapted to the growth of an urban and industrial society, extension of civil liberties and civil rights, and the growth of executive authority. (H) (WR)
AMH 3558 United States Legal History
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history
A nontechnical survey of American legal development from its English common law origins to the present. (H) (WR)
AMH 3560 Women and Diversity in U.S. History
Credits: 3; Prereq: 3 hours of history.
This course explores the history of women in the United States from 1500 to the present by focusing on such social differences as ethnicity, class, race, age and sexual orientation.
AMH 3562 Women in Modern U.S.