Courses Offered in History

This course will introduce students to the experience of academic exploration that is at the heart of a liberal arts education. Through study of one or more compelling questions or topics in a small seminar setting, students will practice creative and critical thinking and will learn to express themselves effectively and appropriately in a college setting. They will develop relationships and practices that allow them to effectively utilize college resources and become members of a community of learners. The specific topic of the seminar will be developed by individual faculty and will be announced in advance. First year seminars are required for first-year students and transfer students with fewer than 15 credits. Not open to students who have received credit for IDS 189 or another first year seminar course.

3.00 credits

This course fulfills these general education curriculum requirements: First Year Seminar

Why study genocide? The course will consider this question through an introduction to Comparative Genocide Studies. Using a transdisciplinary approach, students study root causes of global cases of genocide to better understand how hateful rhetoric and the politicization of ethnicities, combined with authoritarian leadership, may lead to massive human rights abuses. Prevention, deterrence and the role of the media may also considered. Three lecture hours per week.

3.00 credits

This course explores how norms about gender shape war and conflict and how they in turn shape gender roles and behavior. Students will consider how culturally and historically specific understandings of gender influence individuals’ actions and choices in times of mass violence and genocide. Topics include the role of gender in conflict resolution and the pursuit of justice as well as the impact of gender on memory and memorialization. Case studies from a variety of twentieth century genocides, such as the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, and the Rwandan Genocide, will be explored in a comparative approach.

3.00 credits

This course will examine the international refugee crisis. The course will cover the international and domestic laws and policies that pertain to refugee rights and state obligations, including the asylum system in the United States. We will explore the causes of the dramatic increase in refugee populations around the world, and we
will assess the proposed reforms, humanitarian efforts, and preventive measures of the United Nations, NGOs, the United States, and other state actors. Three lecture hours per week.

3.00 credits

This course is an introduction to the discipline of history, to the unique resources available to those who study history in Salem, and to the people of Salem State's History Department, library, and archives.  The course will give students the opportunity to attend history-related talks, to visit historic sites and museums with their colleagues and professors, and to start thinking about how the skills developed in a history major (or minor) can lead to a variety of academic and career paths. 1.5 lecture hours per week.

1.50 credits

A systematic study of the major patterns of global history from its origins through the early modern period. Analyzes the distinguishing characteristics of the world's major pre-modern civilizations and the relationships and points of cultural exchange among them. Examines the historical roots of many of the world's diverse cultural traditions. This course develops critical thinking, writing and analytical skills. Three lecture hours per week. Not open to students who have received credit for HIS101.

3.00 credits

This course fulfills these general education curriculum requirements: The Human Past, World Cultures

A systematic study of the major patterns of global history in the modern period. Analyzes the distinguishing characteristics of the world's major civilizations, and the gradual integration of the diverse cultures of the world into an interconnected system. This course develops critical thinking, writing, and analytical skills. Three lecture hours per week.

3.00 credits

This course fulfills these general education curriculum requirements: The Human Past, World Cultures

This course examines the interconnected history of the Atlantic World that took place on the ocean and on four continents from the age of exploration in the fifteenth century to the abolition of slavery in the nineteenth century. The collision of old worlds produced conflict but in the process it would ultimately create an interconnected community of diverse peoples and cultures, the beginnings of globalization. The course will consider a wide range of topics including exploration, colonization, commerce, migration, slavery, creole societies, revolution and piracy. Three lecture hours per week.

3.00 credits

This course fulfills these general education curriculum requirements: The Human Past, World Cultures

Through film, fiction, history, and reporting, this course will look at how colonialism shaped the divided world we live in today. We will discuss political economic, cultural, and environmental impacts of colonialism and the development of underdevelopment. Three lecture hours per week.

3.00 credits

This course fulfills these general education curriculum requirements: The Human Past, World Cultures

This course is an introduction to world history since 1900. Students will examine topics and themes in modern history and explore the diverse cultural, social, political and economic transformations leading to our increasingly globalized world. Topics may include capitalism, colonialism, anti-colonialism, race, democracy, world war, nationalism, ethnicity, genocide, the Cold War, human rights, technological development and globalization. Three lecture hours per week.

3.00 credits

This course fulfills these general education curriculum requirements: The Human Past, World Cultures

This course explores the transnational history of the United States in the modern global era. Students will examine the roots of globalization, from the earliest migrations across the Bering Straits, the origins and development of colonization and imperialism, up through the foundations for the modern "American empire." They will explore the dominant historical themes that trace the origins and development of the hemisphere's encounters, connections, and relationships with the peoples and environments of Asia, Africa, and Europe.Three lecture hours per week.

3.00 credits

This course fulfills these general education curriculum requirements: The Human Past, World Cultures

This course explores war from antiquity to the present as a cultural, social and political phenomenon. The course emphasizes the influence of ideological and religious factors on attitudes towards war, the relationship between war and social change, the interaction and exchange between cultures that is often produced by war, the links binding war and technology with political power and economics, and the historic and seminal influence of war on the creative and expressive realms of art, cinema and literature. Three lecture hours per week.

3.00 credits

This course fulfills these general education curriculum requirements: The Human Past, World Cultures

This course examines themes in world history focusing on patterns of interaction, comparative developments, the diffusion of ideologies and technologies, and the formation of a global community. Course themes will vary with instructor, but be placed in a global context continuously. Readings, discussions, and source analysis will aid in the assessment of historical phenomena from varied perspectives. Three lecture hours per week.

3.00 credits

This course fulfills these general education curriculum requirements: The Human Past

This course will introduce students to how lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, trans people, queers, and other sexual and gender minorities are understood and have been understood historically in various times and places across the globe. The class will consider the changing nature of same-sex desires, sexual acts, and relationships; societal definitions of and responses to same-sex love and sexuality; the societal conditions that facilitated the emergence of subcultures, identities, and movements based on same-sex sexuality; and gender differences in the history of same-sex love and sexuality in different parts of the world. Students will engage in historical practices such as interpreting primary sources from ancient times to the present and analyzing secondary sources.

3.00 credits

This course fulfills these general education curriculum requirements: The Human Past

The course introduces students to the methods and skills that are essential to being an historian.  These skills include primary and secondary source analysis, identifying and explaining an author’s thesis, note-taking, formatting citations, querying databases, and posing appropriate questions.  Students will also learn about historiography, with consideration given to interpretive trends and conflicting schools of historical writing.  Required of all History majors. Three lecture hours per week. Additional meetings with professor are required. Not open to students who have received credit for HIS402 or who have taken HIS290.
Prerequisite: Level I Written Communication (W-I) course.

4.00 credits

This course fulfills these general education curriculum requirements: Written Communication-Level II

This course traces the development of the United States from the colonial period to the end of the Civil War, surveying the economic, political, social and cultural aspects of this development. Constitutional development at the national and state levels will be explored, with particular emphasis on the Massachusetts experience. This course provides the matrix for courses in American Literature, Education, Economics, Government and Sociology. Three lecture hours per week. Fulfills Massachusetts's teacher certification American Government requirement. Not open to students who have received credit for HIS204.

3.00 credits

This course fulfills these general education curriculum requirements: The Human Past

Traces the development of the United States from 1865 to its present status as a world power, analyzing the economic, political, social and cultural factors. The functioning of American federal and state constitutions is analyzed. Provides the knowledge and understanding needed by teachers and by professionals who may interact with the public sector. Three lecture hours per week. Not open to students who have received credit for HIS205.

3.00 credits

This course fulfills these general education curriculum requirements: The Human Past

A one-semester course examining the historical development of the fundamental concepts of Anglo-American law. These concepts include subject areas covered in the first year law school curricula: real and personal property, torts, contracts, criminal law, courts and procedural rules. The substantive and procedural aspects of the common law are traced and the significance of the developments in statutory law is explained. The historical background of modern landlord-tenant statutes and of consumer law remedies is also covered. Not open to students who have received credit for HIS210.

3.00 credits

Analysis of the period from Reconstruction to the present. Special emphasis will be put on the role of charismatic Black leaders and theoreticians of the 1920's and their impact on the development of the ideologies of the 1960's. Three lecture hours per week. Not open to students who have received credit for HIS327.

3.00 credits

U.S. Women's History presents women's history both as an integral part of United States history and as a distinct subject of historical inquiry. Using a variety of sources, this course will explore the public and private lives of U.S. women of different class, racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds from the colonial period to the present. The course will also introduce students to the methodology of women's history. Three lecture hours per week. Not open to students who have received credit for HIS363 or HIS363A.

3.00 credits

This lecture/discussion class will explore the history of disability as a lived-experience told by the disabled themselves, their caregivers, their doctors, and others. The voices will range from the keepers of asylums, reformers, “freaks” in side shows, doctors diagnoses, veterans of wars, immigrants, supporters of eugenics, politicians, and disability rights advocates. This class will stress historical empathy, which means students will put themselves in someone else’s shoes to better understand persons with disabilities and their treatment by “normal” Americans. Three lecture hours per week.

3.00 credits

This course fulfills these general education curriculum requirements: Pers Growth & Responsibility

Surveys the early cultures of East Asia, religious beliefs and social customs. Concentrates upon China and Japan, the emergence of the United States and Russia as Asian powers, World War II and the wars in Korea and Vietnam. Three lecture hours per week. Not open to students who have received credit for HIS302.

3.00 credits

This course fulfills these general education curriculum requirements: The Human Past, World Cultures

This course provides a general historical coverage of Japan. It discusses Japanese political changes, economic development, and cultural transformation. The course searches for answers to the fundamental questions regarding the essence of the Japanese society. In a time when the roads are filled with Japanese cars, it is also necessary to understand the people who contribute to making Japan an important country in both Asia and the world. Three lecture hours per week. Not open to students who have received credit for HIS385.

3.00 credits

This course fulfills these general education curriculum requirements: The Human Past, World Cultures

This course is concerned with modern African history with emphasis on the rise and fall of the European colonial empires, and the emergence of the new African states. Three lecture hours per week. Not open to students who have received credit for HIS331.

3.00 credits

This course is an introduction to the British Empire since 1783. It traces the history of the "Second British Empire", a period marked by unprecedented expansion and a transition from the older colonies of the Atlantic world to the new domains in Asia and Africa. Through lecture, discussion and writing-intensive assignments, this course offers an introduction to the political, economic, social and cultural history of the empire's expansion in Asia and Africa throughout the nineteenth century and its eventual dissolution in the twentieth century. Three lecture hours per week. Prerequisite: WI course.

3.00 credits

This course fulfills these general education curriculum requirements: Written Communication-Level II

The course introduces students to the European experience by examining broad historical themes. Emphasis will be placed on how historians have organized and interpreted major developments throughout various periods in European history. Three lecture hours per week. Not open to students who have received credit for HIS220.

3.00 credits

This course fulfills these general education curriculum requirements: The Human Past

This course covers the history of Europe from the time of the fall of the Roman Empire to the invading Germanic, Slavic, and Hunnic tribes, to the time of the Renaissance with its major contributions to civilization. Three lecture hours per week. Offered in alternate years. Not open to students who have received credit for HIS306.

3.00 credits

This course fulfills these general education curriculum requirements: The Human Past

Studies the changes in European culture, religion, economics, and politics from the 15th through the 17th centuries. The art, literature, and economic evolution of the Renaissance, as well as the theological and political differences of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations will be stressed. Three lecture hours per week. Not open to students who have received credit for HIS307.

3.00 credits

This course fulfills these general education curriculum requirements: Creative Expression & Apprec, The Human Past

Covers the political and economic as well as social developments from 1763 to the present. Beginning with the era of the French Revolution, the course will introduce students to the events which have shaped contemporary France. Three lecture hours per week. Not open to students who have received credit for HIS333.

3.00 credits

This course fulfills these general education curriculum requirements: The Human Past, Written Communication-Level II

A survey of Irish culture and history from the pre-Christian to the modern period. Three lecture hours per week. Students who have received credit for HIS340, HIS341, or HIS342 may not receive credit for HIS275.

3.00 credits

The development of Russia from Pre-Kievan and Kievan time to the establishment of Soviet Russia. The student is encouraged to build an understanding of modern Russia by pursuing appropriate readings. Three lecture hours per week. Not open to students who have received credit for HIS310.

3.00 credits

This course examines the history of Greece from the Mycenaean kingdoms to he Hellenistic age and all the triumphs and tragedies that lay between. Three lecture hours per week.

3.00 credits

This course fulfills these general education curriculum requirements: The Human Past

Using COVID-19 as a leading case study, this course reviews major pandemics and famines in China, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. It examines human behaviors and social institutions in times of crises of both past and present. It highlights how East Asians respond to outbreaks of pandemics and famines as well as how their societies transform as a result. The course will lead students into strong evidence-based understandings of the origins, developments, and consequences of pandemics and famines to establish clear patterns of change and continuity in human crisis behaviors and social institutional management of the crises. Using critical thinking as a tool in examining primary and secondary sources, students will become systematically familiar with important evidence and prevailing theories so that they can formulate well-organized and well-supported interpretations of their own. By participating in class discussions and completing writing assignments, students will receive the necessary training to present their viewpoints in coherent and convincing manners. Three lecture hours per week.

3.00 credits

This course fulfills these general education curriculum requirements: Contemporary Society, The Human Past

The course provides an overview of the important Asian-Pacific crises and flashpoint involving North Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the South China Sea. Focusing on human behaviors and social relations, the course will lead students into strong evidence-based understandings of the origins, developments, and consequences of these social and political upheavals to establish clear patterns of change and continuity. Using critical thinking as a tool in examining primary and secondary sources, students will become systematically familiar with important evidence and prevailing theories so that they can formulate well-organized and well-supported interpretations of their own. By participating in class discussions and completing writing assignments, students will receive necessary necessary training to present their view points in coherent and convincing manners. Three lecture hours per week.

3.00 credits

This course fulfills these general education curriculum requirements: Contemporary Society, The Human Past

The course covers the history of Chinese and Japanese Americans from early immigration to later integration into the American society. It discusses their experiences of surviving in the new land and their adaption to an unfamiliar social environment. It examines the development of Chinese and Japanese American communities such as Chinatowns and Japantowns to see how they provide the new immigrants with a sense of safety and social-cultural support. It also demonstrates the processes through which Chinese and Japanese immigrants become an important part of the growing Asian American population in the United States. The course encourages students to compare and contrast their own life experiences with those of Chinese and Japanese Americans in order to develop understanding of living in a multicultural society and identify actionable plans to promote integrated diversity. Three lecture hours per week.

3.00 credits

This course fulfills these general education curriculum requirements: Diversity, Power Dyn, Soc Just, The Human Past

This course will closely examine Tibet and the Dalai Lama, Kung Fu, Sumo wrestling, and Fengshui as a gateway to understanding the diverse worldviews found in East Asia’s most prominent religions: Buddhism, Confucianism, Shintoism, and Taoism. Students will learn that these religions provide followers with spiritual inspiration and intellectual interpretations for understanding the relationship between humans and the universe. As they compare and contrast East Asian religions to other world religions and their religious beliefs and practices, students will analyze the role of religion in creating ethical values, fostering emotional maturity, and influencing personal behavior. The research methods used in this course will guide students to discover, interpret, and share information responsibly.

3.00 credits

This course fulfills these general education curriculum requirements: Pers Growth & Responsibility, World Cultures

This course provides an opportunity for students to be exposed to diverse worldviews of the best-known Chinese and Japanese historical movies and novels. Based upon historical knowledge, the course leads the students to experience critical studies of the most popular Chinese and Japanese historical movies and novels in order to appreciate their artistic creativity and cultural aestheticism. The students also compare East Asian historical movies and novels with those of their own cultures in order to find similarities and differences. Using fictional writing and movie making as mediums, the course guides the students to acquire necessary strategies and skills as well as applying them to writing short historical fictions or making short historical movie clips as their final assignments for the course. The student are given chances to present their works on or off campus. Three lecture hours per week.

3.00 credits

This course fulfills these general education curriculum requirements: Creative Expression & Apprec, World Cultures

An introduction to the theory, methods, and goals of archaeology in the Old and New Worlds. Topics include the history of the discipline, excavation and the interpretation of archaeological remains, the uses of documents, dating techniques, and the examination of several Old and New World cultures. Three lecture hours per week. Offered annually. Not open to students who have received credit for HIS376.

3.00 credits

This course features intensive examination of a specialized topic in public history. It emphasizes readings that reflect fresh trends in research strategies or interpretive directions. The professor will determine selection of the course topic. There may be field trips associated with this course. Three lecture hours per week. This course can be repeated for credit.

3.00 credits

An historical investigation of Massachusetts' North Shore during the most critical periods of national history. Particular interest is focused on the unique experiences of the various towns and cities. Three lecture hours per week. Not open to students who have received credit for HIS320.

3.00 credits

An introduction to the methodology of oral history and its relationship to contemporary historical investigation. Students will develop technical mastery through classroom presentation and by conducting interviews with individuals who are knowledgeable about the topic under investigation. Interviews will be deposited in an appropriate historical archive. Three lecture hours per week. Not open to students who have received credit for HIS360.

3.00 credits

This course covers the identification, classification, and interpretation of the artifacts and decorative arts of America. Particular attention will be paid to artifacts produced before 1860, and to how these objects are interpreted by archaeologists, historians and museum professionals. Three lecture hours per week. Not open to students who have received credit for HIS378.

3.00 credits

The course offers a survey of African American music from the late nineteenth century through the twentieth century with an emphasis on understanding texts/details of musical performance and how music interacts with its social and political context. Examined genres include spirituals, blues, jazz, rhythm and blues, soul, and hip-hop. No previous musical background is necessary.

3.00 credits

The course features intensive examination of a specialized topic in American History. It emphasizes readings that reflect fresh trends in research strategies or interpretive directions. The professor will determine selection of the course topic. Three lecture hours per week. This course may be repeated for additional credits.

3.00 credits

This course explores South Africa's history from early man to the post-apartheid period. Its focus is the origins and development of the ideology and practice of segregation and the internal and external factors contributing to feelings of racial superiority and exclusiveness. Three lecture hours per week. Not open to students who have received credit for HIS368.

3.00 credits

This course examines the history of Central America from the conquest through the twenty-first century. Topics include indigenous populations, conquest, colonization, independence, race, ethnicity and national identity in the nineteenth century, the history of U.S. influence in the region, the history of social movements, protest, revolution and migration; the tenuous peace, globalization and continuing social unrest in the twenty-first century. Focus on El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua. Three lecture hours per week. Not open to students who have received credit for HIS379A.

3.00 credits

Probably no other event in post-World War II American life divided Americans more than the Vietnam War. This course will examine the political, military, and diplomatic aspects of the war, while also studying those that questioned its wisdom and protested American actions. Since the 1960s, politicians across the political spectrum have used the “lessons” of Vietnam to defend vastly different policy objectives and actions. Artists, novelists, and filmmakers have tried to form and reflect American memory about the war and its aftermath. It is impossible to understand modern America without coming to grips with the Vietnam War and its legacy in American culture and foreign affairs. Three lecture hours.

3.00 credits

This course examines the diplomatic, military, political, social and cultural dimensions of World War II in Europe. It analyzes the origins, events and outcomes of the war in Europe and explores how this central twentieth century event transformed Europe's diverse peoples, its identity and its place in the world. Not open to students who have received credit for HIS352.

3.00 credits

This course examines the origins, characteristics, and end of the "witch craze" of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe. The course will set the witch craze in its widest historical context by examining the religious, social, intellectual, economic, demographic, and political trends of the period, as well as the general roles played by magic and superstition in early modern society. Particular emphasis will be placed on the role of the Reformation in intensifying the witch craze and the Scientific Revolution in bringing about the "decline of magic". Three lecture hours per week. Not open to students who have received credit for HIS361.

3.00 credits

This course examines the Holocaust in the context of modern European history. It examines the roots of anti-Semitism in Europe, the racialism of Nazi ideology and the social, political, and cultural factors leading to the genocide of millions of Jews and other groups during the Third Reich and World War II. The course explores the historical, human and ethical dimensions of this event and engages students on issues such as ethnic diversity and oppression in a specific historical context. Three lecture hours per week

3.00 credits

An individualized program for History majors and minors. An in-depth study of an aspect of history which falls within the expertise of one or more members of the History Department. The form of the program is developed cooperatively between the student and a consenting faculty member. The student may earn up to 6 credit hours by enrolling for 2 semesters. Students from other academic departments may take the course with permission of the History Department Chairperson. Not open to students who have received 6 credits for HIS500.
Prerequisite: Permission of Department Chairperson.

3.00 credits

Designed as a one or two semester research program, up to 6 credit hours may be earned. The student is required to conduct research on an aspect of history which falls within the expertise of one or more members of the History Department. While expected to work with a minimum of direction, the student is required to meet with the research director on a regular basis. The specific nature of the research program is developed cooperatively between the student and the director. Not open to students who have received 6 credits for HIS600.
Prerequisites: An overall average of 3.0; a 3.5 average in History, and permission of Department Chairperson.

3.00 credits

A field experience conducted cooperatively by the Department and public/private institutions. While interning, students engage in professional activities relevant to their history studies. The experience provides training and knowledge leading to professional growth. Open to History majors and those minoring in history who have completed 12 History credit hours beyond the World Civilization core requirement. Potential interns need the permission of a qualified Department faculty supervisor and Department Chairperson. Not open to students who have received credit for HIS401.

3.00 credits

A study/travel course that incorporates a 1-2 week on-site research trip to an international location appropriate to the topic of the course. Topic varies. May be repeated for credit with permission of Department Chairperson. Lab fee. Three lecture hours per week. Not open to students who have received credit for HIS 403.

3.00 credits

This course fulfills these general education curriculum requirements: World Cultures

The seminar will involve examination and analysis of primary and secondary sources that deal with the process of research and writing a formal history paper and creating a public presentation based on the student's original research. Faculty and peer discussion will also consider analytical and methodological points as the students produce a significant research project. Required of all History majors. Three lecture hours per week. Students are required to meet frequently with professor outside of class hours during the semester. Not open to students who have received credits for HIS405 or HIS405A. Prerequisite: HST200 (W-II).

4.00 credits

This course fulfills these general education curriculum requirements: Written Commun-Level III

The course includes an examination of the mechanics employed in the study, research, and writing of history. The philosophies, techniques, styles, emphases, and interpretations employed by prominent historians through the ages are studied. Lectures, discussions, oral reports, and written papers will be utilized. Not open to students who have received credit for HIS 700.
Prerequisite: Permission of the MA History program coordinator.

3.00 credits

This course promotes familiarity with the concepts of oral history and applies its techniques to specific historical situations. Students will have the opportunity, utilizing what they have learned, to pursue investigations within the framework of the class project theme which reflect their own scholarly interests. Not open to students who have received credit for HIS 703.

3.00 credits

The Institute will provide teachers, historical society and museum staff members, librarians, volunteers and interested lay-persons with the instruction and practical knowledge which will allow them to approach their undertaking with a professional attitude. Participants will be expected to complete a research project. Not open to students who have received credit for HIS 709.

3.00 credits

Utilizing the rich resources of New England, this course introduces archaeological methodology, focusing on documents, artifacts, and other data from the period 1600 to 1850. Topics include material culture and architecture, and crafts and industries, as related to the colonial and early national periods. Not open to students who have received credits for HIS 789N.

3.00 credits

The course offers opportunities for intensive examination of highly specialized areas of historiographical importance in Early American history. May be repeated for credit with permission of the Department Chairperson. Not open to students who have received credits for HIS 912.

3.00 credits

Covers the identification, classification, and interpretation of the artifacts and decorative art of early America. Handcrafted and mass produced materials of both domestic and foreign manufacture will be considered. Focus is on the material culture of New England prior to 1860, and its interpretation by archaeologists, historians and museum professionals. Not open to students who have received credits for HIS 790.

3.00 credits

The course offers an examination of a specialized topic in American History. It emphasizes intensive analysis of primary sources as well investigation of readings that reflect fresh trends in research strategies or interpretive directions. The instructor will determine selection of the course topic. Three lecture hours per week. This course may be taken up to three times on different topics.

3.00 credits

Studies in depth in the significant political, economic, constitutional, and cultural changes in the United States since 1900. Individual research papers and reports are required. Not open to students who have received credits for HIS 913.

3.00 credits

This course will explore the French Revolution and Napoleonic Empire through the writing of selected major historians and primary source material. Examples of topics to be discussed include: the origins of the Revolution, the historical debates about the Revolution, the Great Terror, the Directory, the rise of Napoleon, and the French Revolution’s influence in Europe and the Atlantic World. Not open to students who have received credits for HIS 811.

3.00 credits

This course examines the intellectual, cultural, and social impact of World War One on Europe. It explores the prewar roots and causes of the war, the multiple experiences of combatants and noncombatants during the war, and the social, literary, and cultural movements and ideas emerging from these wartime experiences. Not open to students who have received credits for HIS 747.

3.00 credits

This course examines the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923. The course focuses on the ideological and political objectives of the Ottoman/Turkish state policy of genocide against the historic Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek populations of Asia
Minor, the physical annihilation of these peoples, aspects of the legacy of the Genocide, and the subsequent official Turkish campaign of genocide denial as a critical instrument in the construction of a modern Turkish national state and nationalist identity. Three lecture hours per week.

3.00 credits

An examination of specialized topics of European history. The emphasis will be on historiographical debates or issues within the topic area and will include advanced historical readings and research. May be repeated for credit with the permission of the Department Chairperson. Not open to students who have received credits for HIS 881.

3.00 credits

Indigenous peoples are those whose presence precedes the construction of today’s nation-states, who remain ethnically differentiated and marginalized by those states. Native histories are thus inherently intertwined with global questions of colonialism, migrations, trade, and race. The course emphasizes Native histories from the nineteenth century to the present in the territory now forming the United States, but with significant attention to comparisons and connections with Latin American and global indigenous histories.

3.00 credits

This course is an introduction to the British Empire since 1783. It focuses on what historians have called the "Second British Empire," a period after 1783 marked by unprecedented expansions and transition from the older empire of the Atlantic world to the new colonies in Asia and Africa. The course considers major themes and historical debates relevant to the empire's expansion in Asian and Africa throughout the nineteenth century and its eventual dissolution in the twentieth century. No prerequisites. Three lecture hours per week.

3.00 credits

This course examines literature, themes, theories, concepts and methods of world history, including comparisons of societies and cultural regions, processes of cross-cultural interaction, the development of civilizations, and large-scale patterns that influence historical development on a transregional or global scale. Topics may include colonialism, world system theories, trade, migration, race and ethnicity, gender and disease. May be repeated for credit with permission of the Department Chairperson. Not open to students who have received credits for HIS 880.

3.00 credits

Individual or group tutorial and supervised field experience in areas such as archival management, historical editing, archaeological preservation, museum exhibition, legal research in public and private repositories. Not open to students who have received credits for HIS 795.

3.00 credits

A study and travel course that incorporates a research trip to a location appropriate to the course. Topic varies. May be repeated for credit with the permission of the Department Chairperson. Not open to students who have received credits for HIS 796.

3.00 - 6.00 credits

An individualized in-depth research under the personal direction of a departmental specialist in an area of choice will be conducted. Not open to students who have received credits for HIS 875.

3.00 credits

This seminar is designed to develop the student's ability to conduct original research and write a formal historical paper, benefiting from both faculty and peer review of work in progress. Required for MA candidates in History.
Prerequisites: HIS700 and completion of 18 credit hours. Not open to students who have received credits for HIS 990.

3.00 credits