1997-1998 - The University of Scranton

H/PS 227 Staff
Soviet Foreign Policy 3 credits
See description under Political Science.)
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; 19th 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 20th 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.”
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HIST. 238 Dr. Poulson
History of American Women: 3 credits
From Colonization to Mid-19th 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.
H/PS 238 Staff
The Third World 3 credits
A study of the developing nations with the developed
industrial nations in the contemporary world.
HIST. 239 Dr. Poulson
History of American Women: 3 credits
From Mid-19th 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.
H/PS 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.
HIST. 312 Dr. Champagne
The Early National Period of 3 credits
American History, 1789-1824
Beginning of the New Government; Politics and
diplomacy in the Federalist Era; Jeffersonian
Democracy; the War of 1812; Nationalism and
Sectionalism, Marshall and the rise of the Supreme
Court.
HIST. 313 Dr. Champagne
The Age of Andrew Jackson, 3 credits
1824-1850
Politics and Society in the Jacksonian Era, Slavery
and the Antislavery Crusade, American Expansion
in the 1840’s; the Mexican War; the Emergence of
the Slavery Issue.