1998-1999 - The University of Scranton

HIST 225 Staff
Imperial Russia 3 credits
From the crystallization of political forms in the
ninth century through the Kievan State, Mongolian
Invasion, rise of Muscovy to the Eurasian Empire
from the seventeenth to the end of the nineteenth
century.
HIST 226 Staff
Russian Revolution and Aftermath 3 credits
A study of the development of radical thought in
nineteenth and twentieth century Russia. Analysis
of various factors and forces at work in revolutionary
Russia. Lenin, War Communism, NEP, Stalin.
HIST 228-229 Dr. Shaffern
Ancient History 6 credits
A survey of ancient civilizations of the Near East
and Mediterranean worlds. The culture, society and
science of Mesopotamia and Persia; Egypt – the Gift
of the Nile; the ancient Israelites; heroic, archaic,
classical and Helenistic Greece; republican and
imperial Rome; the origins of Christianity.
HIST 230-231 Dr. Shaffern
Medieval History 6 credits
The civilization of medieval Christendom from the
fall of the Roman Empire to the beginning of the
fourteenth century; its religious, social, economic,
cultural and political aspects; the relationship
between church and society, belief and life style,
ideal and reality; the interaction between Western
Christendom, Byzantium and Islam.
HIST 232 Dr. DeMichele
England, 1485 to 1714 3 credits
The end of the Wars of the Roses; Tudor
Absolutism, Henry VIII and Reformation;
Elizabeth I; Renaissance and Elizabethan music
and literature; the Stuarts; Colonialism;
Commonwealth; Restoration; the Revolution of
1688; Reign of Anne.
HIST 233 Dr. DeMichele
England, 1714 to Present 3 credits
Parliamentary rule; Cabinet government; Political
parties; Industrial Revolution; nineteenth Century
reforms; building of a British Empire; World War
I; problems of readjustment; World War II; Britain
and the world today.
HIST 234-235 Staff
Latin America History 6 credits
(Prerequisite: for HIST 234, HIST 120; for HIST
235, 234) Pre-Colombian America; the Spanish
and Portuguese Colonial area, developments to the
early nineteenth century. The Latin American
Republics, Castroism, The Alliance for Progress,
with special stress on inter-American problems.
HIST 236 Dr. Homer
Modern Germany: 3 credits
Unification & Empire
The 1815 Confederation; 1848 and the failure of
liberalism; the Age of Bismarck; Wilhelm II and
the “New Course,” World War I and the Collapse
of the Empire.
HIST 237 Dr. Homer
Modern Germany: 3 credits
The twentieth Century
The troubled birth of the Weimar Republic: the
Ruhr Crisis; the Stresemann Era; economic collapse
and the rise of Nazism; the Third Reich, and
World War II; the two Germanies and the "economic
miracle.”
HIST 238 Dr. Poulson
(D)History of American Women: 3 credits
From Colonization to Mid-nineteenth Century
A study of American women from the colonial era
to the mid-nineteenth century. Changes in the family,
the workforce, women's participation in politics
and reform movements, and Native-American
and African-American women.
HIST 239 Dr. Poulson
(D)History of American Women: 3 credits
From Mid-nineteenth Century to the Present
A study of American women since the mid-nineteenth
century. The effects of industrialization on
the family, women's participation in the workforce,
the Depression and the family, women and
war, the feminist movement, and the conservative
response.
HIST 240 Dr. Domenico
(D)Modern Italy 3 credits
This course will examine major developments in
Italian history from the Napoleonic invasion until
current crises of the Republic. Important themes for
discussion will be the unification movement, the
liberal state, Fascism and anti-Fascist resistance, the
postwar Republic, cultural and social change, and
economic development.
HIST 241 Dr. Shaffern
Law in the Western Tradition 3 credits
A survey of ideas about law in Western civilization
from antiquity until the Civil War. Emphasis on the
legal systems, such as the Hebrew, the Athenian,
the Roman, the German, and the Catholic, that
influenced the modern ideas about the law.
HIST 295 Dr. DeMichele
Britain: Past and Present 3 credits
Combines with travel experience in Great Britain
to introduce the student to the major historical,
cultural, political, economic and social events in
Britain’s past and present.
HIST 310 Dr. Champagne
Colonial America, 1607-1763 3 credits
The European background of the Age of
Discovery; the founding of the British-American
colonies; their political, economic and cultural
development; British colonial policy and administration;
the development of an American civilization.
HIST 311 Dr. Champagne
American Revolution, 3 credits
1763-1789
Background to the War for Independence; British
imperial policy; the development of economic and
ideological conflicts; the military contest; British
ministerial policy and the parliamentary opposition;
the Confederation; the formation of the
Constitution.
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