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3403 IU SOUTH BEND COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
GER-G 465 STRUCTURE OF GERMAN (3 cr.)
P: GER-G 314 or consent of instructor.
Designed to develop speaking skills through
content-based conversation with emphasis
on developing fluency and accuracy.
GER-G 495 Individual Readings in GermanIC
lITERATURE (1-3 cr.)
P: Consent of department. May be repeated.
Not more than 3 credit hours may be
applied toward requirements of the major.
HIST: History
HIST-A 300
HIST-A 301
HIST-A 302
HIST-A 303
HIST-A 304
HIST-A 305
issues in united states history (3 cr.)
Study and analysis of selected historical
issues and problems of limited scope. Topics
vary but usually cut across fields, regions,
and periods. May be repeated with a different
topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
American Colonial History (3 cr.)
Settlement and growth of English colonies
in North America, and development
of American colonial society to 1763;
comparison with French and Spanish
colonies, and English colonies in the West
Indies.
Revolutionary america (3 cr.)
Close study of the period from 1763 to
1789, growth of opposition to the empire,
rebellion, the War of Independence, and
the development of American political
institutions at state and federal levels;
adoption of the Constitution.
United States, 1789-1865 I (3 cr.)
Political, economic, and social
development of the young republic from
1789 through the War of 1812, with
particular attention to the first American
party system and the expansion of the
frontier.
United States, 1789-1865 II (3 cr.)
A study of the rapid economic, social, and
political changes that the United States
experienced in this period of disruptive
growth.
United States, 1865-1900 (3 cr.)
Political, social, economic, and intellectual
history of United States from the Civil War
to the turn of the century.
HIST-A 313 origin of modern america, 1865-1917
(3 cr.)
America’s emergence to a position of
economic maturity, urban society, and
world responsibility. Progressivism, World
War I, the Twenties, the Great Depression,
HIST-A 314
HIST-A 315
HIST-A 340
HIST-A 346
HIST-A 348
HIST-A 351
HIST-A 352
with interpretive readings in politics,
diplomacy, economics, society, thought,
and literature of the period.
United States 1917-1945 (3 cr.)
The Great Depression, Franklin
Roosevelt’s New Deal, the American
involvement in World War II at home as
well as on the battlefront.
The United States since world war
II (3 cr.)
The problems of postwar America, the
Cold War, Korea, Harry Truman’s Fair
Deal, Dwight Eisenhower’s Modern
Republicanism, John Kennedy’s New
Frontier, Lyndon Johnson’s Great
Society, the civil rights revolution,
Vietnam, the turbulent 1960s, Nixon,
Kissinger and Watergate, the Ford and
Carter administrations, Reagan, Bush.
History of the South 2 (3 cr.)
Political, social, economic, and cultural
aspects of the history of the South.
Reconstruction; race, class, and gender
relations; economic change; and the role
of the South in the nation.
American Diplomatic History 2 (3 cr.)
The rise of the United States as a world
power, World War I, the isolationism of
the 1920s and the 1930s, World War II,
the Cold War, Korea, Vietnam, Kissinger
and détente, the uncertain 1970s and
1980s.
Civil War and Reconstruction (3 cr.)
The era of the Civil War and its aftermath.
Military, political, economic, and social
aspects of the coming of the war, the
war years, and the reconstruction era
following the conflict.
The United States in World War II (3 cr.)
Examination of United States
participation in World War II and the
effects of the war on American society.
Major topics: the diplomatic road to Pearl
Harbor, strategies of the major land and
sea campaigns, the wartime relationships
of Roosevelt with Churchill and Stalin,
development of the atomic bomb, and the
origins of the Cold War.
HISTORY OF LATINOS IN THE UNITED
STATES (3-5 cr.)
Latino experience in the United States
from 1848. Economic and social factors
of the Latino role in a non-Latin nation.
Credit given for only one of HIST-A 352
and LATS-L 210.
P = Prerequisite, R = Recommended, C = Concomitant, VT = Variable Title
I = fall semester, II = spring semester, S = summer session(s)