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English The field of English encompasses the study of literature, composition, creative writing, and the English language itself. Newman’s curriculum is designed to prepare students to write well and read deeply so that they may communicate effectively, act nobly, and enrich the world through language and universal ideas.
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ENGL 1003 - College Writing 1:Introduction to College Writing
Credits: 3
Introduction to college-level critical reading and writing processes, including invention, revision, and editing. As students explore and practice strategies for a range of writing experiences, they will work closely with instructors. They will also receive substantial feedback to make purposeful revisions that lead to appropriate examples of written inquiry.
Prerequisites: ENGL 0053 or placement exam.
Offering: As Needed
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ENGL 1013 - College Writing 2:Introduction to College Writing and Research
Credits: 3
Builds on ENGL 1003 and includes extensive, sustained research writing. Provides experiences with methods and genres of researched writing. Students will initiate research projects, gather information from a range of appropriate sources, and demonstrate they can summarize, synthesize, document, and argue effectively using that information.
Prerequisites: ENGL 1003 .
Offering: As Needed
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ENGL 2003 - Introduction to Literature and Criticism
Credits: 3
An introduction to the novel, short story, poetry and drama genres of literature with emphasis on analysis and critical approaches leading to appreciation and enrichment.
Prerequisites: ENGL 1013 .
Offering: As Needed
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ENGL 2063 - Introduction to Film
Credits: 3
In addition to fostering a greater appreciation for film as art and a communication medium, this course stresses movie history and an understanding of basic cinematic techniques such as editing, lighting, sound and lens selection. In-class viewings familiarize students with the work of innovative directors such as Eisenstein, Ford, Wells, Resnais, Coppola, Griffith and Truffaut.
Prerequisites: ENGL 1013 .
Offering: As Needed
Notes: Also as COMM.
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ENGL 2073 - Literature for Children and Adolescents
Credits: 3
Introduction to children’s literature including the study of authors and illustrators, criteria for selection and evaluation according to the needs, abilities and interests of children from pre-school through middle school. Special attention will be given to literature of different cultural and ethnic groups.
Prerequisites: ENGL 1013 .
Offering: As Needed.
Notes: Also as EDUC.
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ENGL 2083 - African American Literature
Credits: 3
Although the African American literary tradition is over two centuries old, it underwent a “magnificent flowering” in the 1990s, and continues to flourish globally and across racial boundaries in the 21st century. Just observe the number of books sold by and Nobels/Pulitzers awarded to African American authors during the past thirty years. Consider too that the formal African American literary tradition (black authors highlighting black experience) has finally and rightfully become a central study in U. S. literature curriculums. What is the black voice? What accounts for the “African element” in African American literature? What is the relationship of the formal African American literary tradition to traditional vernacular literatures like the blues, gospel, the sermon, and jazz, and more recently the globalized vernacular of hip hop and the “Spoken Word” movement? And what is its relationship to the American tradition? These are a few of the questions we will explore as we read and discuss literatures drawn from the more than two centuries of imaginative writings in English by persons of African descent in the U. S. Won’t you join us in exploring one of the world’s great and flourishing literatures?
Offering: As Needed
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ENGL 2103 - Intermediate Writing
Credits: 3
This course builds on skills developed in College Writing 1 and 2 and gives students practice in refining their skills for multiple genres and audiences, both disciplinary and professional. Through the process of revision and under the guidance of instructors who offer substantial feedback, students will make purposeful revisions that lead to skillful examples of written inquiry. Style and oral communication are emphasized.
Prerequisites: ENGL 1013 .
Offering: As Needed.
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ENGL 2883 - Selected Topics: English
Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
Offering: As Needed
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ENGL 2991 - Workshop: English
Credits: 1
May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
Offering: As Needed
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ENGL 3001 - Literary Publications
Credits: 1
A course which culminates in the publication of a literary magazine. Students participate at all levels of the process from selections to final layout and editing.
Prerequisites: ENGL 1013 , ENGL 2003 and computer literacy
Offering: As Needed
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ENGL 3003 - Creative NonFiction
Credits: 3
Students will write literary nonfiction based on actual events, characters, and places. The course will help students to discover engaging subjects and experiences to write about, as well as practice techniques associated with vivid literary nonfiction (dialogue, description, sensory writing, scene, voice, figurative language, apt word choice, and well sculpted sentences).
Offering: As Needed
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ENGL 3023 - Creative Writing
Credits: 3
Students will be guided toward an understanding of their own hearts, which is to say, their drive, their humanness, their desire to communicate what may be essentially incommunicable. They will write, rewrite, and share in the tradition of symbol and pattern making. To this end, they will immerse themselves in the word of worlds.
Prerequisites: ENGL 1013
Offering: As Needed
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ENGL 3043 - Short Story
Credits: 3
The history and development of the short story noting plot, character, tone, theme, imagery, and point of view as they operate in a variety of short fictional works from a variety of cultures.
Prerequisites: ENGL 1013 , ENGL 2003 .
Offering: As Needed
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ENGL 3053 - Poetry
Credits: 3
A study of poetry from diverse cultural context and historical periods. Students will learn forms and techniques and practice them in their own writing.
Offering: As Needed
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ENGL 3073 - Elements of Language
Credits: 3
Students will examine the building blocks of language, from the micro level of the morphene through larger structures of the word, phrase, clause, and sentence as a way to understand how language functions as a system into more deeply develop flexible command of a variety of oral and written styles.
Prerequisites: ENGL 1013 .
Offering: As Needed
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ENGL 3083 - Writing with Community Partners
Credits: 3
This course involves community service, sustained fieldwork, research, writing, and design. Students will practice writing as a tool for public awareness and expression as well as community building between higher education and local communities.
Offering: As Needed
Notes: Jr Standing
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ENGL 3093 - Business and Professional Writing
Credits: 3
This course will reinforce skills learned in the two required college writing classes, while heightening writing skills as utilized in individual professions or disciplines. It focuses on the writing and editing of documents, reports, inter- and intra-group communication, appropriate writing conventions and research techniques. Whenever possible, class exercises and assignments will derive from the discipline, major, profession, field or work environment of the students. Special emphasis will be placed on expressing ideas with accuracy, clarity and purpose.
Prerequisites: ENGL 1013 , COMM 1013 or COMM 1033
Offering: As Needed
Notes: Also as COMM
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ENGL 3113 - Seminar in World Literature
Credits: 3
An exploration of significant World literature and literary periods. Special attention is given to the contributions of women and minority figures, and to the culturally distinctive yet universal aspects of global literature. Areas of focus may include ancient or modern literatures from Asia to Africa, from the Middle East to Latin America, from Europe to Polynesia to Australia. Specific focus will vary by semester and instructor.
Offering: As needed
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ENGL 3123 - Seminar in British Literature
Credits: 3
An exploration of literary periods from across about a millennium-and-a-half of writing in English. Areas of focus may include the Old English period, with works such as Beowulf; the Middle English period, with works such as The Canterbury Tales and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; the Early Modern period, with works by Shakespeare such as A Midsummer Night’s Dream, or Milton such as Paradise Lost; Gothic & Romantic, Modernist, Postmodernist periods, etc. Specific focus will vary by semester and instructor.
Offering: As needed
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ENGL 3133 - Seminar in American Literature
Credits: 3
An exploration of significant American writers and literary periods. Special attention is given to contributions of women and minority writers in the development of a culturally diverse, distinctively American literature. Areas of focus may include African American, Native American, Vietnamese American, foundational and modern literature. Specific focus will vary by semester and instructor.
Offering: As needed
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ENGL 3143 - Seminar in Mythology & Folklore
Credits: 3
An exploration of the deep wellspring of myth and folklore that underpins human creativity and culture. Special attention is given to contributions of women and minority figures in the development of a culturally diverse, distinctively universal aspect of all literature. Areas of focus may include ancient or modern mythologies including everything from amphitheater to anime, from Mesopotamia to Mesoamerica, from Saxon to Superhero. Specific focus will vary by semester and instructor.
Offering: As needed
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ENGL 3203 - Dramatic Literature
Credits: 3
See THTR 3203 .
Offering: As Needed.
Notes: Also as THTR.
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ENGL 3991 - Workshop: English
Credits: 1
May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
Offering: As Needed
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ENGL 4063 - Shakespeare
Credits: 3
An intensive study of selected works of Shakespeare including tragedies, comedies and history plays together with some consideration of major Shakespeare critics and scholars.
Prerequisites: ENGL 1003 , ENGL 1013 , ENGL 2003 and junior standing.
Offering: As Needed
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ENGL 4701 - English Senior Seminar
Credits: 1
This capstone class for the English major provides the opportunity for students to evaluate the program and their performance in it. To this end, students will attend semester meetings with the English faculty. Based on notes from these meetings, they will write a reflective paper on their program of study. In addition, they will select representative projects created for each of the required English courses and discuss each, in writing, in terms of how the paper or project contributed to the student’s development in the discipline. Students will bind these papers and projects (or project descriptions) along with the analysis of each and present the manuscript to their faculty advisor at the time they apply for graduation.
Offering: As Needed
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ENGL 4881 - Selected Topics: English
Credits: 1
May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
Offering: As Needed
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ENGL 4882 - Selected Topics: English
Credits: 2
May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
Offering: As Needed
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ENGL 4883 - Selected Topics: English
Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
Offering: As Needed
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ENGL 4952 - Cooperative Education: English
Credits: 2
A course in which students work in a position related to their major, thereby giving them the opportunity to integrate theory with practical experience. In addition to the work experience, course requirements include attending workshops and completing projects assigned by the faculty coordinator. Individualized programs must be formulated in consultation with and approved by the faculty coordinator and the appropriate Cooperative Education coordinator. May be repeated for credit with change of agency or topic.
Offering: As Needed
Notes: Jr Standing & Consent
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ENGL 4953 - Cooperative Education: English
Credits: 3
A course in which students work in a position related to their major, thereby giving them the opportunity to integrate theory with practical experience. In addition to the work experience, course requirements include attending workshops and completing projects assigned by the faculty coordinator. Individualized programs must be formulated in consultation with and approved by the faculty coordinator and the appropriate Cooperative Education coordinator. May be repeated for credit with change of agency or topic.
Offering: As Needed
Notes: Jr Standing & Consent
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ENGL 4991 - Independent Study: English
Credits: 1
Offering: As Needed
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ENGL 4992 - Independent Study: English
Credits: 2
Offering: As Needed
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ENGL 4993 - Independent Study: English
Credits: 3
Offering: As Needed
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FAR 2881 - Selected Topics in Fine Arts
Credits: 1
May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
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FAR 2883 - Selected Topics in Fine Arts
Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
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FAR 2991 - Workshop/Seminar in Fine Arts
Credits: 1
May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
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FAR 3063 - Arts of the Renaissance
Credits: 3
Interdepartmental course presenting an aesthetic analysis of three arts of the Renaissance. The course emphasizes style in three arts such as music, drama, dance, art, architecture or poetry.
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FAR 3991 - Workshop/Seminar in Fine Arts
Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
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FAR 4881 - Selected Topics in Fine Arts
Credits: 1
May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
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FAR 4883 - Selected Topics in Fine Arts
Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
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FAR 4993 - Independent Study in Fine Arts
Credits: 3
Offering: As Needed
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General Studies These practical resource courses are designed to encourage personal growth through innovative teaching and creative approaches to learning and decision-making.
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GNST 0001 - Essentials of Arithmetic
Credits: 1
This course is offered for students who need a structured review of essential math skills of fractions, decimals, ratios, percents, and order of operations. The objective of this course is to prepare students to continue with the next course, Essentials of Pre-Algebra. It will be graded on a Pass/Fail basis and will not count for graduation.
Prerequisites: Math placement exam
Offering: As Needed
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GNST 0011 - Essentials of Pre-Algebra
Credits: 1
This course begins with a quick review of fractions and decimals. The course continues with a structured study of exponents, signed numbers, perimeter and area, and introductory algebra techniques involving the distributive property, evaluating algebraic expressions and solving basic linear equations. The objective of this course is to prepare students to take the math placement retest exam in order to enter Basic Algebra. It will be graded on a Pass/Fail basis only and will not count for graduation.
Prerequisites: Math placement exam
Offering: As Needed
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GNST 0023 - Essentials of Reading and Writing
Credits: 3
Provides a foundation for college-level reading and writing with emphasis on building vocabulary and reading comprehension, developing a process for composing focused paragraphs and thesis-driven essays, and enhancing skills for self-editing. Does not count for graduation.
Prerequisites: Writing placement exam
Offering: As Needed
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GNST 1002 - Achieving College Success
Credits: 2
This course is designed to increase students’ success in college by assisting them in obtaining the skills necessary to reach their educational and personal goals. Topics include time management, test-taking, and study and communication skills as well as an examination of the meaning of a liberal arts education.
Offering: As Needed
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GNST 1043 - Advanced English for Academic Purposes: Reading and Writing
Credits: 3
This course helps non-native speakers of English prepare for college success by refining English language skills in reading and writing, with special attention to the use of these skills in the American academic setting.
Prerequisites: TOEFL and/or English language placement test
Offering: As Needed
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GNST 1053 - Advanced English for Academic Purposes: Listening and Speaking
Credits: 3
This course helps non-native speakers of English prepare for college success by refining English language skills in listening, speaking, and pronunciation, with special attention to the use of these skills in the American academic setting.
Prerequisites: TOEFL and/or English language placement test.
Offering: As Needed
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GNST 2001 - College Research Literacy
Credits: 1
This course provides an introduction to research literacy that will provide a strong foundation for all students. Students will focus on the ability to critically assess and use information, learning to access, evaluate, and use printed and electronic resources found in libraries and on the internet. Students will be introduced to techniques that will enable them to develop research strategies, to evaluate and use information resources in an appropriate manner, and to properly cite sources.
Offering: As Needed
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GNST 2881 - Selected Topics: General Studies
Credits: 1
May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
Offering: As Needed
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GNST 2882 - Selected Topics: General Studies
Credits: 2
May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
Offering: As Needed
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GNST 2883 - Selected Topics: General Studies
Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
Offering: As Needed
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GNST 2991 - Workshop: General Studies
Credits: 1
May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
Offering: As Needed
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GNST 3991 - Workshop: General Studies
Credits: 1
May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
Offering: As Needed
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GNST 4881 - Selected Topics: General Studies
Credits: 1
May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
Offering: As Needed
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Health Science Before enrolling in a course which has a prerequisite course listed, the student must have earned a grade of “C” or better in the prerequisite course.
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HLSC 2881 - Selected Topics: Health Science
Credits: 1
Offering: As Needed
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HLSC 2882 - Selected Topics: Health Science
Credits: 2
Offering: As Needed
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HLSC 2883 - Selected Topics: Health Science
Credits: 3
Offering: As Needed
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HLSC 3103 - Current Issues in the Healthcare Environment
Credits: 3
This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of current issues impacting today’s health care environments. These include legal, ethical, consumerism, regulatory compliance, safety initiatives, managed care, and technological/informatics growth.
Offering: As Needed
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HLSC 3991 - Workshop: Health Science
Credits: 1
May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
Offering: As Needed
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HLSC 4705 - Practicum in Healthcare Science
Credits: 5
This course provides advanced clinical experience within the student’s area of expertise. The student will complete a project as one requirement for the practicum utilizing the selected area of concentration.
Prerequisites: HLSC 3103 & completion of area of concentration.
Offering: As Needed
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HLSC 4882 - Selected Topics:Health Science
Credits: 2
May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
Offering: As Needed
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HLSC 4883 - Selected Topics: Health Science
Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
Offering: As Needed
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HLSC 4991 - Independent Study: Health Science
Credits: 1
Offering: As Needed
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HLSC 4992 - Independent Study: Health Science
Credits: 2
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Credits: 3
Offering: As Needed
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History History, the humanistic interpretative study of past human society, has as its purpose providing students with a course of study designed to assist them in integrating the past of human society with the present in the hope of influencing a more favorable future. History is seen as a synthesizing core preparing for numerous career options such as law, civil service, museum work, ministry, communications, teaching, research work for corporations and organizations.
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HIST 1003 - Reacting to the Past
Credits: 3
Examination of history through extended role-playing games. Students will engage great texts or great issues in history through deep immersion in specific historical moments. Course will utilize games from or modeled on the Reacting to the Past series. Games vary depending on semester.
Offering: As Needed
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HIST 1013 - World Civilization 1
Credits: 3
A survey of world civilizations from the earliest hominids to 1600 focusing on the development of political, social, cultural, religious, economic, and military life in a global and comparative context.
Offering: As Needed
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HIST 1023 - World Civilization 2
Credits: 3
A survey of world civilizations from 1600 to the present focusing on the development of political, social, cultural, religious, economic, and military life in a global and comparative context.
Offering: As Needed
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HIST 1033 - American History 1
Credits: 3
A study of American civilization from its origin through the Civil War approached from an intellectual, artistic, political, economic, and social standpoint within a world setting.
Offering: As Needed
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HIST 1043 - American History 2
Credits: 3
A study of American civilization from the Civil War to the present approached from an intellectual, artistic, political, economic, and social standpoint within a world setting.
Offering: As Needed
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HIST 2883 - Selected Topics: History
Credits: 3
May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
Offering: As Needed
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HIST 2991 - Workshop: History
Credits: 1
May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
Offering: As Needed
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HIST 3023 - Colonial and Revolutionary America
Credits: 3
Advanced study of the origins of America, the motivations for both the exploration and the settlement of the British North American colonies, and the reasons behind the ultimate break with Britain. The class will focus extensively on the interplay of ethnic groups (i. e. Native American, African, English, Scot-Irish, etc.), the social, economic, religious, political, and military history of the various colonies, the colonial growth away from Great Britain, the Revolution and the setting up of the new method of government.
Offering: As Needed
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HIST 3033 - Civil War and Reconstruction
Credits: 3
Advanced study of the causes, course, and consequences of the American Civil War (1861-1865). The course begins with the opening of the question of slavery in the territories at the conclusion of the Mexican War (1848), covers the military, political, and social aspects of the war, and ends with the conclusion of Reconstruction in 1877. 131 HISTORY (HIST)
Offering: As Needed
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HIST 3043 - Turn of the Century America
Credits: 3
Advanced study of the United States from the end of the Civil War until America’s entry into World War I (1865-1917). Topics will include the age of industrialization and the rise of labor unions, immigration and urbanization, the Progressivism of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, and America’s resistance to entering World War I.
Offering: As Needed
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HIST 3053 - World Wars and Depression
Credits: 3
Advanced study of American history from the beginning of World War I (1914) until the end of World War II (1945). In many ways World War II was just a continuation of World War I. This class will study the motives behind America’s entry into the First World War, President Wilson’s efforts to a lasting peace, the failures of Versailles, and the ultimate necessity to fight a second world war. In the midst of these wars the class will examine the prosperity and problems of the 1920s, the economic crash of 1929, and the Great Depression.
Offering: As Needed
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HIST 3073 - Kansas and Great Plains History
Credits: 3
The social, economic, and political history of the Great Plains from before European exploration until present times. Topics will include the Native American societies on the plains before European exploration and the effect of white settlement upon them, lifestyles of the early plains settlers, Kansas’ role in bringing about the Civil War, farm and cattle society on the plains following the war, the Populist movement and the boom and bust farm economy of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the dust bowl, and the war-time and post-war economic diversification of the region.
Offering: As Needed
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HIST 3083 - History of Political Thought
Credits: 3
The development of political thought from Plato to the present.
Offering: As Needed
Notes: Also as PSN, SOC
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HIST 3103 - Ancient World: Heroes and Legends
Credits: 3
Heroes and Legends deals with ancient civilizations of Africa and Asia. This course aims to explore the historical context of common themes in ancient societies regarding the nature of civilization, sources of political power, religion and philosophy and interaction between Eastern and Western antiquity. We will read those texts associated with such individuals and heroes as Gilgamesh, Akhenaton, Joseph and Moses, as well as Manu of India and Sun Tzu of China. We will compare various texts related to stories of creation, floods, great battles and great dynasties. Students will conduct independent research, employing both primary and secondary resources.
Offering: As Needed
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HIST 3133 - Medieval Europe
Credits: 3
This course challenges students to deal with the emergence and development of Europe as a civilization from the 5th to the 14th centuries A. D. We will thus deal with the decline of Rome as a world empire, while examining the rise of Christianity and Islam as major world religions. By studying both primary and secondary texts, students will examine the rise of monasticism and the Gothic Cathedral, the beginnings of capitalism and the university, the course of the Crusades. Finally, students will read from among the earliest of European Literary historical texts including Beowulf, Einhard, Dante and Chaucer.
Offering: As Needed
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HIST 3143 - Renaissance and Reformation
Credits: 3
A study of the major religious, cultural, and political developments in Europe from 1300 to 1648. Raphael, Machiavelli, Charles V, Luther, and the Medici’s are some of the figures examined during this era which featured great intellectual accomplishments as well as challenges to the existing order.
Offering: As Needed
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HIST 3153 - Absolutism and Enlightenment
Credits: 3
An examination of Europe’s political, social, intellectual, and economic development from 1648 to 1789. Events such as the Glorious Revolution and the Seven Years’ War are studied in addition to figures such as Frederick the Great, Louis XIV, and Maria Theresa.
Offering: As Needed
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HIST 3203 - Latin America Since 1750
Credits: 3
A survey of the major Latin American states from their struggle for independence to the present. Attention is paid to the difficulties of state-building, dependency, and economic inequity. Figures such as Juarez, Peron, and Bolivar are examined.
Offering: As Needed
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HIST 3243 - History of East Asia - 1600-Present
Credits: 3
A comparative survey of Japan and China from the 1600s to the present. This course will concentrate on political, economic and social developments in China and Japan. Attention will be given to the interactions between these countries and their relationship with the “west”.
Offering: As Needed
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HIST 3283 - The Historical Method: A Study of History as a Discipline
Credits: 3
This course introduces students to the various methods of history and historical research, including biography as history, national history, universal history, oral history and public history, among others. Students will be introduced to the philosophy of history and historiography. Students will conduct independent research, engaging in a variety of research methods including the uses and abuses of electronic searches.
Offering: As Needed
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HIST 3473 - Europe’s Cold War and After
Credits: 3
A detailed study of Europe’s resurgence from it’s nadir in 1945 to present focusing on both Eastern and Western Europe and the challenges of a bi-polar world. Major themes include the establishment of the Soviet bloc, economic recovery, secularism, technology, European unity and disunity, de-colonization, and the challenges of the post-Cold War world.
Offering: As Needed
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HIST 3623 - Jeffersonian and Jacksonian America
Credits: 3
Advanced study of the early years of America as an independent country. The course will begin at the end of Washington’s first term and study the development of a two-party system, the westward expansion of America, the effect of the frontier on American life, foreign policy (particularly Europe but ultimately wars with both Britain and Mexico), the beginnings of the industrial revolution, America’s push towards reform in the early 19th century, Native American policy and relations, and slavery and the country’s drift towards civil war. The class covers the years 1796 to 1848.
Offering: As Needed
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HIST 3653 - America Since World War II
Credits: 3
Advanced study of America between the dropping of the atom bomb (1945) and the defeat of Iraq in the Gulf War (1991). Topics will include the rise and fall of the Cold War, the baby boom, the Civil Rights movement (and all of the spin-off rights movements including women’s, handicapped, students, etc.), Vietnam and the sixties counter-culture, Watergate, and America’s retreat from world domination.
Offering: As Needed
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HIST 3991 - Workshop: History
Credits: 1
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HIST 4033 - American Foreign Relations
Credits: 3
A history of America’s diplomatic relations with other nations, emphasizing such policies as neutrality, arbitration, Monroe Doctrine, political isolation, Open Door, intervention, Pan-Americanism, and the Cold War.
Offering: As Needed.
Notes: Also as PSN, Jr Standing.
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HIST 4053 - Twentieth Century American Politics
Credits: 3
A study of the changes in political thought, issues, and campaigns from 1896 (the beginning of the modern age in American politics and political alignments) to 1996. After evaluating the basics of the American political system the class will trace the changes in the perceptions of liberalism and conservatism throughout the 20th century while at the same time focusing on specific issues dominating politics and the political agenda. Along with issues the class will also look at the changes in political power, nominating processes, strategies for winning elections, and electoral coalitions.
Offering: As Needed
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HIST 4103 - Ancient and Medieval Warfare
Credits: 3
This course examines the role of warfare in society from antiquity to 1415. Special emphasis will be placed on the problems of evidence, the role of technology and tactics in warfare as well as the political importance of warfare in empire building in Egypt, Assyria, Persia, Greece and Rome. Further, we will focus upon those political, economic and social processes influenced by warfare in society as demonstrated in literature, drama and art.
Offering: As Needed
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HIST 4133 - European Military History Since 1415
Credits: 3
An examination of European military history from Agincourt to present. Technological advancements such as the development of hand-held firearms, artillery, and aircraft as well as tactical and strategic innovations from Gustavus Adolphus, Frederick the Great, the Duke of Marleborough, Napoleon, Clausewitz, Hindenburg, and Montgomery form the course’s foundation. Likewise, the changing role and make-up of armies will receive careful study.
Offering: As Needed
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HIST 4163 - History of American Warfare
Credits: 3
A study of the methods and motivations behind the French-Indian War, Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Mexican War, Civil War, Indian Wars, Spanish-American War, WWI, WWII, Korean War, Vietnam War, and the Gulf War. In addition to studying the causes of the wars, the armaments and strategies of the war, and the conditions and mindset of the soldiers during the war, the class will also consider America’s long-standing love/hate relationship with the military and its warriors.
Offering: As Needed
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HIST 4213 - History and Culture of the Middle East
Credits: 3
A survey of the history and culture of the Middle East from the antiquity to the present. The course will examine Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Iran, Iraq and Syria, among other countries. The course will focus on identity as the unifying theme, especially as demonstrated in cultural expressions such as literature. Other themes include the importance of geography, the rise of monotheism, the development of territorial and imperial states, Zionism and the after effects of decolonization.
Offering: As Needed
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HIST 4413 - Europe in the Age of Revolutions: 1789-1848
Credits: 3
A study of the age of political, economic and cultural revolutions that shaped modern Europe. Primary attention will be paid to western and central Europe.
Offering: As Needed
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HIST 4433 - Europe in its Global Context
Credits: 3
A detailed study of the golden age of nationalism and empire building beginning with the Revolutions of 1848 and culminating with the Boer War. The course examines the political, social, cultural, diplomatic, and military ramifications of empires paying particular attention to the collision of cultures.
Offering: As Needed
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HIST 4453 - Age of the World Wars, 1898-1945
Credits: 3
A detailed examination of the causes, events, and results of the two world wars and the period between them using military, political, social, technological, and cultural perspectives. Germany’s emergence as a world power and the consequential destabilization of Europe which culminated with the continent’s suicide serves as the foundation for the course.
Offering: As Needed
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HIST 4463 - History of Modern Germany
Credits: 3
A survey of German history from 1815 to the present. Along with surveying the political, economic and social history of Germany, the class will pay particular attention to the question of what Germany is, who Germans were, and how Germans have understood their role in the world.
Offering: As Needed
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HIST 4483 - HIstory of Russia and the Soviet Union
Credits: 3
An examination of Russian history from 1815 to the present, with some attention to the Russia of Peter and Catherine the Great. Main themes include the reforms of Peter the Great, the nature of Tsarist society and the lived experience in that society. Additional topics include nineteenth-century reforms and radical movements, the revolutions of 1905 and 1917, the rise and decline of the Soviet Communist system, and the interactions between Russia/the Soviet Union and other countries and peoples.
Offering: As Needed
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