Courses: History (HIST)College: Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Any TCCN equivalents are indicated in square brackets [ ].

HIST 1376: The United States to 1877
Cr. 3. (2-1). Credit in both HIST 1376 and 1377 cannot be applied toward a degree. Taught in large lecture and small discussion group format. Satisfies half of the state requirement in American history. The social, economic, and political history of the United States to 1877. 

HIST 1377: The United States to 1877
[TCCN—HIST 1301]
Cr. 3. (3-0). Credit in both HIST 1376 and 1377 cannot be applied toward a degree. The social, economic, and political history of the United States to 1877.

HIST 1378: The United States Since 1877
[TCCN—HIST 1302]
Cr. 3. (3-0). Credit in both HIST 1378 and HIST 1379 cannot be applied toward a degree. The social, economic, and political history of the United States since 1877.

HIST 1379: The United States Since 1877
Cr. 3. (2-1). Taught in large lecture and small discussion group format. Satisfies half of the state requirement in American history. The social, economic, and political history of the United States to 1877. Credit in both HIST 1378 and 1379 cannot be applied toward a degree.

HIST 1380: American History Through Sight and Sound to 1877
Cr. 3. (3-0). American history thought art, film, photography, and music to 1877.

HIST 1381: American History Through Sight and Sound From 1877
Cr. 3. (3-0). American history through art, film, photography, and music since 1877.

HIST 2341: Texas to 1865
Cr. 3. (3-0). The social, economic, and political history of Texas to 1865.

HIST 2343: Texas Since 1865
Cr. 3. (3-0). The social, economic, and political history of Texas since 1865.

HIST 2351: Western Civilization to 1450 (formerly 1301)
[TCCN—HIST 2311]
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304. Ancient and medieval history to 1450.

HIST 2353: Western Civilization From 1450 (formerly 1302)
[TCCN—HIST 2312]
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304. Europe and European expansion since 1450.

HIST 2361: Early Civilizations (formerly 1303)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304. Fundamentals of historical inquiry through an intensive study of a major world civilization or theme in world history prior to the Renaissance.

HIST 2363: Modern Civilizations (formerly 1304)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304. Fundamentals of historical inquiry through an intensive study of a major world civilization or theme in world history from the Renaissance forward.

HIST 2371: Latin America 1492-1820
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304. Colonial history of Latin America. Iberian cultural heritage and reasons for overseas expansion, nature of New World societies, colonial administrative structures, development of a complex racial hierarchy and the rise of Independence movements.

HIST 2372: Latin America Since 1820
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304. History of Latin America in the national period. Struggles for independence, formation of nation states, the emergence of modern social systems, and problems of underdevelopment.

HIST 3300: History of Private Life
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304. Shifts in behavior and value systems over the past 500 years in England and America as manifest in changing family relations, gender roles, sexuality, and humans' relations with the natural world.

HIST 3301: Provincial America 1607-1763
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Credit in both HIST 3301 and 4302:4303 cannot be applied toward a degree. Political, social, and economic development in colonial America prior to the revolutionary era.

HIST 3302: Sex and Society in American History
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Changes in sexual mores, the family, and the roles of men and women from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries.

HIST 3303: Disease, Health, and Medicine in American History
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. The history of health care delivery in America, and how disease patterns are related to changes in society. The rise of modern medicine from the seventeenth century to the present; the relationship between the medical profession and society, and ethical issues in medicine.

HIST 3305: The Old South
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. The development of the American South as a distinctive section from colonial times to the end of the Civil War.

HIST 3306: The South Since the Civil War
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Political, social, and economic development of the South since 1865.

HIST 3307: The American West to 1848
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. The American West through 1848: contact between indigenous people and Europeans with emphasis on conquest, colonization, and diversity of peoples and resources.

HIST 3308: The American West Since 1848
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. The American West after 1848. Emphasis on region's diversity, extractive economy, environmental change, and mythical importance.

HIST 3309: History through Fiction: Cultural History of the United States, 1900 to Present
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Through sampling process and content analysis, major works of fiction will be examined as sources for historical understanding.

HIST 3310: History of Religions of America to 1865 (formerly HIST 3325)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Credit for both HIST 3310 and HIST 3325 cannot apply toward a degree. Survey of the development of religious institutions, ideas, and values, and of their role in American culture from the colonial period to 1865.

HIST 3311: History of Religions of America Since 1865 (formerly part of HIST 3325 - see HIST 3310)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Credit for HIST 3311 and HIST 3325 cannot apply toward a degree. Survey of the development of religious institutions, ideas, and values, and of their role in American culture since 1865.

HIST 3312: Diplomatic History of the United States to 1898
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. United States diplomatic history from American Independence to Spanish-American War.

HIST 3313: Diplomatic History of the United States Since 1898
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Diplomatic history of the United States from Spanish-American War to the present.

HIST 3314: Liberals vs. Conservatives: US Politics from FDR to Present
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Surveys U.S. political history from FDR to Obama. Special attention to the impact of ideology on public policy and the varieties of liberal and conservative reforms.

HIST 3315: Introduction to Public History
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Introduction to the multifaceted work of public historians ranging from museums to archives and editing to policy analysis. Includes both "hands-on" and traditional assignments.

HIST 3316: Race and Racism in American Science and Medicine
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Examines the construction of "race" and the consequences of racism in scientific and medical research and practice in the United States.

HIST 3317: Making of Ethnic America
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGL 1304; junior standing or consent of instructor. History from a multicultural perspective of the ethnic communities and their contributions to American culture.

HIST 3318: The History of American Health Care Policy
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Origins of U.S. health care policy, the rise of third party payment for health care care, and the political economy of past and present policy reforms.

HIST 3319: Plagues and Pestilence: Epidemics in World History
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Social, political, and economic dimensions of epidemics from the Black Death to smallpox to HIV/AIDS.

HIST 3320: U.S. Women's History Since 1840
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. The impact of industrialization, immigration, and war on women of various classes, races, and ethnicities; women's movements of the 19th and 20th centuries, with emphasis on how attention to gender transforms our interpretations of modern U.S. history.

HIST 3321: U.S. Foreign Policy 1900 to the Present
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. The history of U.S. foreign relations from 1900 to the present, focusing on the motives, main events, and consequences of U.S. behavior in the world.

HIST 3322: The Vietnam War
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Prominent developments in twentieth-century Vietnam and U.S. intervention in its civil war.

HIST 3323: U.S. Military History to 1898 (formerly HIST 3323 and HIST 3324)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Evolution of the American military establishment and its relationship to American society and foreign policy. Origins and development of land, naval, and air organization strategy and tactics in peace and war.

HIST 3324: U.S. Military History Since 1898
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Transformation of the United States military establishment from its second-rate status at the turn of the nineteenth century into one capable of decisive contributions in two world wars. Emphasis on United States military participation in World War I and World War II.

HIST 3325: The Mexican American Civil Rights Movement in 20th Century
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Examines the rise and development of the Mexican American civil rights movement from the early 1900s to the present.

HIST 3326: African American Women in Slavery and Freedom
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. African American women from the colonial period to the present.

HIST 3327: Houston Since 1836
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. When used to satisfy the history core curriculum requirement, this course is in the category of Texas history. Growth and change in the emergence of a modern sunbelt city from its founding in 1836.

HIST 3328: Colonial North America, 1450-1765
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or permission of instructor. Course examines European colonization of North America and the interactions of various European colonists with Native Americans, the natural environment, and enslaved Africans.

HIST 3329: Native North America, Origins - 1840
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or permission of instructor. Course examines the history of Native American peoples prior to European contact through the era of Indian Removal east of the Mississippi River (c. 1840).

HIST 3330: African American History to 1865
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Analysis of the experiences of Blacks in the formation and development of America to 1865: slavery, race relations, urbanization, war, politics, economics, and civil rights.

HIST 3331: African American History Since 1865
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Analysis of the experiences of Blacks in the formation and development of America since 1865: slavery, race relations, urbanization, war, politics, economics, and civil rights.

HIST 3332: Chicano History to 1910
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. The role of the Chicano in American history from the colonial period to 1910.

HIST 3333: Chicano History Since 1910
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Examines the historical development of the Mexican origin community within the context of U.S. history from 1910 to the present.

HIST 3334: Chicana History
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Analysis of the experiences of Mexican-origin women in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and their contributions to social, cultural, and economic life of the U.S.

HIST 3335: Barbarians and the Birth of Europe to 1050 A.D.
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. An assessment of the successive waves of "barbarians" - early Christians, Germans, Saracens, Vikings - who overthrew the Roman Empire and created the First Europe - the world of castles, knights, and monasteries.

HIST 3336: Europe in the Age of Chivalry: The High Middle Ages 1050-1350
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. The romantic ideals of knights and ladies, kings and courts, reverent spirituality, coexisting with the harsh realities of brutal warfare, power politics, religious debates. The significant achievements in the arts, technology, and commerce.

HIST 3337: Texas-Mexican Music in 20th Century
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Explores and explains the rise of Mexican music in Texas and the ways in which American and Latin American music influenced its development in the 20th century.

HIST 3338: Native American History
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: HIST 1377 and 1378 or consent of instructor. Native American history from European colonization to the present.

HIST 3339: Ancient Greece
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: HIST 2351 and junior standing, or consent of instructor. Ancient Mediterranean world through the age of classical Greece.

HIST 3340: Ancient Rome
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: HIST 2351 or HIST 2361 and junior standing or consent of instructor. The Roman world from the origins of the state to the barbarian invasions.

HIST 3341: Latino Struggles for Educational Equality
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Provides a comparative history of Latino struggles for equality and pluralism in American education during the 20th century.

HIST 3342: Texas-Mexican History
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Historical experience of people of Mexican descent in Texas, 1836-present.

HIST 3343: Latinos and American Education in 20th Century
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. History of Latino education in the U.S. since 1900.

HIST 3344: History of U.S. Working Class Since 1877
Cr. 3 (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. The formation and development of the American working class since 1877.

HIST 3345: Age of Jefferson
Cr. 3 (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. A survey of American cultural, economic, diplomatic, military, and political history from the Constitution to the end of the War of 1812.

HIST 3346: Atomic Power in American History
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. The course focuses on the military and peaceful uses of atomic power to explore the scientific, environmental, diplomatic, institutional, social, and cultural history of the U.S. after 1939.

HIST 3347: Comparative European Revolutions - English, French, and Russian
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: HIST 2353 or consent of instructor. A comparative analysis of the seventeenth century English Revolution, the French Revolution of 1789, and the Russian Revolution of 1905-1917.

HIST 3348: Crime and Punishment in Modern England
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Development of the criminal justice system stressing the period 1700 to the present. Topics covered include the jury, police, prison reform, prostitution, criminal motivation, changing attitudes toward crime. Comparisons with conditions in America emphasized.

HIST 3351: Work and Family Life in Modern Europe
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: junior standing; HIST 2353 or HIST 3380. Major economic changes in Europe from the eighteenth century on and their impact on consciousness, development of a bourgeois domestic ideology, modern feminism, impact of twentieth century, total war, and rise of the welfare state.

HIST 3352: Modern France Since 1870
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Politics, economic development, society, family life, and cultural movements in modern France from the foundation of the Third Republic to the present day.

HIST 3353: England to 1689
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: HIST 2351 and HIST 2353. Political, constitutional, social, and economic history of Britain until the Revolutionary Settlement of 1689. Emphasis given to Britain's constitutional development and to its position as a world power.

HIST 3354: England Since 1689
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: HIST 2351 and HIST 2353. Political, constitutional, social, and economic history of Britain since the Revolutionary Settlement of 1689. Emphasis given to Britain's constitutional development and to its position as a world power.

HIST 3355: British Empire Since 1500
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Expansion and contraction of the empire, relationship between empire and British life, place of the empire in the European and global context, impact of the empire upon colonial regions.

HIST 3356: France and Europe, 1750-1815: Enlightenment, Revolution, and Napoleon
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: HIST 2353 or consent of instructor. An analysis of the intellectual, socioeconomic, and constitutional transformation of France and its European repercussions between 1750 and 1815.

HIST 3357: Modern Germany, 1815-1918
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: HIST 2353. Political, social, economic, and intellectual currents in German history from the Germanic confederation of 1815 through World War I.

HIST 3358: Modern Germany Since 1918
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: HIST 2353. Political, social, economic, and intellectual currents in German history from the end of World War I to the present.

HIST 3363: Pirates and Smugglers in the Modern World
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Explores piracy and smuggling from the early modern world to the present. Topics include Caribbean and Indian Oceans and pirates, social history, and piracy and smuggling in the age of globalization.

HIST 3367: Japan Since 1600
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing. History of modern Japan from the Tokugawa period to the present with emphasis on the political, social, and economic transformations.

HIST 3368: World Environmental History to 1800
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Human interactions with the environment from the rise of complex societies to 1800. Comparative themes: inventions of agriculture; human, plant, and animal migrations; global commodity trades; religion and nature.

HIST 3369: Colonial Mexico (formerly HIST 4368)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. The evolution of Mexican society from the Spanish conquest in 1521 until the Independence Revolution of 1810.

HIST 3370: Twentieth Century Revolutions in Latin America (formerly 4374)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. An analysis of the social, economic, and political conflicts that led to revolutionary upheavals in Cuba, Chile, Nicaragua, and Bolivia.

HIST 3371: The U.S. and Latin America
Cr.3 (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of the instructor. Political and economic relations from the Monroe Doctrine to the present. Themes include Manifest Destiny, Gunboat diplomacy, the Good Neighbor Policy, and the Cold War.

HIST 3372: The Americas 1492-1776
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Comparative history of the English colonies in North America and the Spanish and Portuguese colonial possessions in the Western Hemisphere. Comparative topics include Amerindian civilizations, methods of European colonization, colonial societies, and economic systems.

HIST 3373: The U.S. in Mexico Since 1865
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor. U.S. expansion into Mexico from the American Civil War to the present, examining settlers, investors and the means of economic and political control.

HIST 3374: History of Brazil
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Political, social, and economic history of Brazil from the colonial period to the present, examined through film, lectures, and readings.

HIST 3375: The CIA in the Third World
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. The Central Intelligence Agency as an instrument of United States policy toward Third World nations. The history of American intelligence institutions, the contemporary history of selected developing nations, U.S. relations with these countries, and specific cases of CIA involvement.

HIST 3376: Caribbean History
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. A survey of important events that have shaped the lives of the people of the Caribbean from pre-Columbian times to the present.

HIST 3377: The Middle East from 1300 to the Present
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. The Ottoman and Safavid empires and the peak of Muslim power, the rise of Europe and its impact on Middle East social, economic, and political life, the formation of modern nation states.

HIST 3378: Modern Middle East
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Disintegration of the Ottoman empire; imperialism and decolonization; the new nation states; Zionism and Arab nationalism; Arabs and Israelis; oil.

HIST 3379: World Civilizations to c.e. 1500
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor and ENGL 1304. A comparative survey of six major geographical and cultural areas (West Asia, South Asia, East Asia, Africa, Europe, and Meso-America) from 4000 B.C. to c.e. 1500.

HIST 3380: World Civilization Since c.e. 1500
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor and ENGL 1304. An overview of the interactions among seven major cultural traditions (Judeo-Christian, Graeco-Roman, Indian, Chinese, African, Islamic, American Indian) from c.e. 1500.

HIST 3381: African Civilization to 1750
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Presents the history of Africa from the time of earliest humans (c. 10,000 BCE) to the Atlantic Trade era. Focus is on African contributions to world cultures, the Early Iron Age and the rise of states and empires, international and continental trade systems, the introduction of Islam and Christianity, and cultural heritage of modern-day Africans on the continent and in the diaspora.

HIST 3382: African Civilization Since 1750
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Africa since 1750: the Slave Trade Era (c.1450-1850); Africans' experiences under colonial rule; the rise of nationalism in the 1960's; and the struggle for independence.

HIST 3383: World Revolutions
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Causes and effects of modern revolutions from the English Civil War of the 17th century to the Iranian Revolution at the end of the 20th century.

HIST 3387: Freud and Psychoanalysis
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. The life and times of Sigmund Freud; the place of psychoanalysis in nineteenth and twentieth century medicine; the reception of psychoanalysis; the place of psychoanalysis in western thought.

HIST 3388: China: Early Civilization to 1600 (formerly HIST 3386)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. China from the origins of its civilization through its growth during the imperial age. Emphasizes the formation of political systems and social institutions; religious, moral and social beliefs; economic development.

HIST 3389: China Since 1600 (formerly HIST 3385)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. General history of modern China, focusing on the major political, social, and cultural transformations of China from the 17th and 18th centuries through the internal and external crises of the 19th century, the rise of nationalism and communism in the 20th century and contemporary dilemmas of social and economic reform.

HIST 3390: Middle East: Pictures & Words
Cr. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Analytical examination of the historical role of the visual and literary arts in contemporary Muslim and Arab societies using regional films, novels, and non-fiction works.

HIST 3391: Africa and the Indian Ocean World
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. East Africa c. 200 - 1900 C. E.; Islamic trade in Indian Ocean; African contributions to Indian Ocean culture.

HIST 3392: Central Africans and the Atlantic Diaspora
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Development of complex societies in central Africa, tracing social, political, and religious systems; contact with Portugal and the Atlantic slave trade; African contributions to societies in Brazil, Haiti, and southern U.S.

HIST 3393: Selected Topics in Middle Eastern History
Cr. 3 per semester. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

HIST 3394: Selected Topics in United States History
Cr. 3 per semester. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

HIST 3395: Selected Topics in European History
Cr. 3 per semester. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

HIST 3396: Selected Topics in Latin American History
Cr. 3 per semester. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

HIST 3397: Selected Topics in African History
Cr. 3 per semester. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

HIST 3398: Independent Study
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor.

HIST 3399: Senior Honors Thesis
Cr. 3 per semester. Prerequisite: approval of department chair. HIST 3399 and 4399 must be satisfied in order for any to apply to a degree.

HIST 4198: Independent Study
Cr. 1 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisite: approval of department chair.

HIST 4298: Independent Study
Cr. 2 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisite: approval of department chair.

HIST 4302: U.S. Constitutional History 1776-1940
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or permission of professor. Federalism and popular sovereignty in the U.S. from the Revolution and state constitutions to the New Deal, including governmental powers, individual rights, and social issues.

HIST 4303: Women in the Civil Rights Movement
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. This course examines the lives of the women that participated in the freedom struggle, and their role in the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement.

HIST 4304: The American Revolution
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Background, military, political, and diplomatic developments, 1763-1783.

HIST 4305: Seminar in Texas Slavery
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Seminar: primary source research into slavery in Texas, 1528-1865 and life for former slaves.

HIST 4309: The United States, 1870-1900
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: HIST 377 and 1378. Political, economic, and social change in the United States and its foreign relations, 1870-1900.

HIST 4310: The United States, 1900-1929
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Political, social, and economic changes in the United States, 1900-1929.

HIST 4311: The Age of Roosevelt, 1929-1945
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. The Great Depression and World War II, with emphasis on Franklin D. Roosevelt's leadership through these periods.

HIST 4312: The United States, 1945-1960
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Political, diplomatic, social, and economic developments with emphasis on the Cold War, McCarthyism, domestic reform, and the civil rights movement.

HIST 4313: The United States, 1961-1976
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Political, diplomatic, social, economic, and cultural developments with emphasis on presidencies of Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon; Soviet-American confrontations; war in Vietnam; civil rights and counterculture movements; liberal reform; resurgence of conservativism; and Watergate.

HIST 4314: American History Through Film
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Film as a source in the study of twentieth century United States social and cultural history.

HIST 4315: The Chicano Brown Power Movement
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Historical origins, development, and legacy of the Chicano and Chicana Brown Power Movement of the 1060s and 1970s.

HIST 4318:Africa and the Oil Industry
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. History of the oil industry in Africa. Role of Africa in international oil history, analyzes the "Oil Curse," impact of local communities, role of national and international oil companies in political and development policies, from 1960 to the present.

HIST 4322: Environment in U.S. History
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Changing human relations with their physical environments and implications for society from colonization through industrialization to modern environmentalism.

HIST 4323: Witchcraft in the Old & New World
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. History of witchcraft in Western Europe and North America from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century.

HIST 4327: Europe 1930-1945
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Seminar-style discussion class, using both primary and secondary materials, covering many of the major events of these crisis years - the Great Depression, the Spanish Civil War, the rise of fascism, Stalinism, World War II, and the Holocaust.

HIST 4328: The Vikings
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: HIST 2351 or HIST 3379 or consent of instructor. History, culture, and religion of Vikings from their Indo-European roots and migration to Scandinavia through their invasions of Europe, excursions to North America, and trade with the Byzantine and Muslim worlds: state-building and impact on world history.

HIST 4329: The Viking and Norman Worlds
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Viking origins, culture, and invasions. Viking impact on England, and transformation to Normans in France. Organization under William the Conqueror to conquer England, settle an Italian-Norman state. The Norman Empire and its impact on Europe.

HIST 4330: The Flowering of the Middle Ages
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304. Aspects of the Middle Ages from the perspectives of different disciplines such as history, English, French, Spanish, philosophy, music, art history, engineering, architecture, and law.

HIST 4331: The Normans
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: HIST 2351 or HIST 3379 or consent of instructor. Normans from their Viking origins through their conquests in northern Europe, the Mediterranean, North Africa, and the Middle East: state-building in these regions, cultural achievements, the role of women, and impact on world history.

HIST 4332: The Crusades
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Origins, development, and results of the crusades from the eleventh through the thirteenth centuries.

HIST 4333: Europe in the Renaissance
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Development of the Renaissance (1300-1480).

HIST 4334: The Reformation in Europe (formerly 3337)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Social, economic, and religious changes leading to the protests of Martin Luther. The doctrines of the Protestants and the roles of technology and commerce in their spread. The transformation of religious issues into political and social issues and its impact.

HIST 4335: Greek and Roman Historians
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 and junior standing, or consent of instructor. Reading the works of the Greek and Roman founders of the historical discipline to explore the writing of history as a philosophical and literary enterprise.

HIST 4336: A History of Histories: Capstone Course on Historiography
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or permission of professor. Survey of the schools and purposes of history-writing.

HIST 4338: Enlightenment Stories: The Thought and Literature of the Enlightenment
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or permission of professor. Survey of the thought, writings and interpretations of the Enlightenment, with particular emphasis on France and Scotland.

HIST 4339: Modern European Intellectual History
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 and HIST 2353 or 3380, or consent of instructor. Fundamental texts in the history of European ideas, from the Enlightenment into the 20th century. Explores major currents of modern thought in their historical contexts.

HIST 4346: Tudor England, 1485-1603
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: HIST 2351. Britain under the Tudor monarchy - Henry VII to Elizabeth I, the Age of Thomas Moore and William Shakespeare.

HIST 4347: Stuart England, 1603-1714
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: HIST 2353. The Stuart Century of Revolution and its impact on America and Europe.

HIST 4348: Social History of Early Modern England
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: HIST 2351. Society, economy, and culture in England during the age of More, Shakespeare, and Milton. Topics include the nature of a pre-modern economy, high culture vs. popular culture, and the lives of common women and men in this period.

HIST 4349: British Empire-Capstone
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or permission from instructor. Historiography of the British Empire from 1500 to 1965 using secondary readings and primary historical sources. Student will write an original essay drawing on secondary and primary sources.

HIST 4350: Alexander the Great
Cr. 3. (3-0) Prerequisites: HIST 2351 and HIST 2361 and junior standing or consent of instructor. The life and legacy of Alexander the Great of Macedonia, emphasizing historiography from ancient to modern times.

HIST 4360: Seminar on Globalization
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 or equivalent. Interdisciplinary reading and research seminar on economic, cultural, political, and technological processes that constitute "globalization." Includes general readings on globalization, specialized readings on specific topics and individual research project.

HIST 4364: Consumer Culture in Latin America
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Consumer and popular material culture in twentieth-century Latin America with an emphasis on the relation between consumer culture and gener, class, nationalism, racial and ethnic identities, and politics.

HIST 4365: Women in Latin America
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Latin American women's history from the prehispanic period to the present, emphasizing experiences of women of different classes, races, and ethnicities, from rural and urban areas, during ordinary and revolutionary times.

HIST 4366: Latin American History through the Novel
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 or equivalent. Factual events, places, and personages in order to dramatize the history of a particular period and place.

HIST 4368: Food, Drink, and Drugs of Latin America
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. History of the culinary traditions and psychoactive substances of Latin America. Indigenous, African and European contributions to the development of the region's rich cuisine and abundant pharmacopeia.

HIST 4369: Modern Mexico: 1810 to the Present
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Social history of modern Mexico.

HIST 4370: The U.S. and Mexico
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Social history of the interactions of the peoples of the U.S. and Mexico.

HIST 4371: Latin American History Through Film
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. History of Latin American thought through a variety of films made by Latin Americans and others, and the history of Latin America.

HIST 4372: African Experience in Latin America and the Caribbean
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Explores the origins, expansion, and abolition of African slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean; examines slavery's legacy on late nineteenth and early twentieth century race relations.

HIST 4373: Researching Mexican History
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 and junior standing or permission of the professor . Primary source research and writing skills in the context of Mexican history from the late prehispanic period to the present.

HIST 4375: Religions of Modern Latin America
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. History of the main religions of Latin America: Catholicism, Protestantism, and African-Latin groups. Focuses on the decline of religious monopoly and the development of religious pluralism.

HIST 4382: Traditional China
Cr. 3 per semester. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Traditional China to 1839.

HIST 4383: Modern China
Cr. 3 per semester. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Modern China since 1839.

HIST 4384: East Asian Women in Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or higher or consent of instructor. Senior undergraduate seminar which provides historical and cultural perspectives on East Asian women in Asia and the United States.

HIST 4386: Africa 1945 to the Present
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Contemporary situation in Africa through the analysis of the impact of W. W. II, the rise of nationalism, the independence struggles 1960-1980; failures and successes of new nation-states; debt, development and neo-colonialism; military states and civil wars since 1960; the abolition of apartheid in South Africa.

HIST 4387: Southern Africa to 1870
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Stone Age hunter-gatherers and pastoralists, Iron Age metal workers and cultivators in Southern Africa; rise of city states and kingdoms; European penetration and the African response to ca. 1870.

HIST 4388: Southern Africa Since 1870
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. Race, class, nationalism, and political economy of Southern Africa since ca. 1870.

HIST 4389: African American History and Culture in the 20th Century
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGL 1304. Analysis of African Americans in the twentieth century with a central focus on cultural developments.

HIST 4392: Selected Topics in Asian History
Cr. 3 (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

HIST 4393: Selected Topics in Middle East History
Cr. 3 (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

HIST 4394: Selected Topics in United States History
Cr. 3 per semester. (3-0). Prerequisites: HIST 1377 and HIST 1378. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

HIST 4395: Selected Topics in European History
Cr. 3 per semester. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

HIST 4396: Selected Topics in Latin American History
Cr. 3 per semester. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

HIST 4397: Selected Topics in African History
Cr. 3 per semester. (3-0). Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

HIST 4398: Independent Study
Cr. 3 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisite: approval of department chair.

HIST 4399: Senior Honors Thesis
Cr. 3 per semester. Prerequisites: HIST 3399 and approval of department chair. HIST 3399 and 4399 must be satisfied in order for any to apply to a degree.

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