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HIS 245 Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
Overview of the American Civil War. Includes a survey of conditions that led to the American Civil War; an examination of
the major political, military, social and economic events of the Civil War; and a treatment of the impact of the Civil War on
the United States and the impact of the Civil War on the United States and the Confederate States of America. Also
includes an emphasis on the political career of Abraham Lincoln and the destruction of slavery.
Offered: Fall, Spring.
HIS 253 History of Women in the United States: Early America
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
Survey of American women’s history from Colonization to the turn of the twentieth century. Includes history and politics of
the region and country, women of the new republic, transformation of a nation, nineteenth century social and economic
development of women, and Civil War, reconstruction, progressivism, and suffrage.
Offered: May not be offered this year, check class schedule.
HIS 254 History of Women in the United States: The 20th Century
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
Survey of American women’s history from 1900 to the present. Includes early 20th century gender, race/ethnicity, class
formation, women and war, civil rights, feminist, and other social movements, and feminism’s change since the 1970’s.
Offered: Spring.
HIS 274 The Holocaust
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
Examines the causes, events and legacies of the Nazi assault on humanity. Includes the history of hate against the Jews in
Europe, historical antecedents and preconditions of the Holocaust, the Third Reich and the creation of a racial state, the
“Final Solution” and the aftermath.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
HIS 276 Tudor and Stuart England
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
Examination of Tudor England politics, economics, culture, and military. Includes the Battle of Bosworth Field, the reigns of
Henry VIII and Edward VI, through the Anglican Reformation to Mary the first Queen Regnant of England to the Golden
Age of Elizabeth I that fueled New World exploration and high sea adventures. Also includes James I who unified England
and Scotland, Charles I, the English Civil War, Charles II, and James II, who fell in the Glorious Revolution.
Offered: Fall.
HIS 277 History of the Middle East: From the Rise of Islam to 1453
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
Survey of the history, religion, and culture of Muslim societies. Includes the Middle East in the Sixth Century CE,
Muhammad and Qur’an, Islam and the Islamic State, Fatamids, Seljuks, and the Crusades, Mongols, Mamlue Egypt, and
the Ottoman Turks.
Offered: Spring.
HIS 278 History of the Middle East: From 1453 to the Present Age
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
Survey of the history, religion and culture of the Islamic world from the fifteenth century through the modern period.
Includes the Ottoman Empire, Safavid Empire, European imperialism and the early modern Middle East, world wars and
the Middle East, and the modern Middle East.
Offered: Fall.
HIS 280 History of the World Wars
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
Survey of the two world wars of the twentieth century. Includes prelude to war, outbreak of the Great War, war of two
fronts, inter-war years, World War II, and post war world. Also includes changes created in society, government, and
international relations as a result of the two wars.
Offered: Fall, Spring.
HIS 281 Vietnam, Soviet Confrontations, and the Cold War
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
Causes and effects of US-Soviet confrontations from WW II to 1994. Includes origins of the Cold War from WW II, initial
Soviet probes, challenges in the Far East, probes and rhetoric, Soviet globalism, Vietnam, period of detente, end of
detente, new challenge to Soviet Expansionism, and new vision and new world order.
Information:
This is a follow-up course to HIS 280 History of the World Wars, however HIS 280 is not a prerequisite.
This course will require a college level reading ability.
Offered: Fall.
HISTORY
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