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Course Descriptionsindividual needs of students, research-based schoolhealth programs, life skills and positive behaviors,needs of special populations, and evaluation ofhealth web sites will be discussed.HED 620: Coordinated School Health ProgAn advanced health education course focusing oncoordinated school health, comprehensive schoolhealth programs, and how to plan, implement, coordinate,and evaluate a health education curriculumwithin a comprehensive school health system. Acomprehensive school health system includes healthand physical education, health services, nutritionservices, psychological and counseling services, asafe and healthy environment, and health promotionfor staff.HIS – HistoryHIS 220A: United States History I(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)Survey of American history from pre-colonial timesthrough Reconstruction. Explores economic, political,social and cultural factors that shaped the originsof the nation, including the Revolution, theConstitution and the Civil War. Special attention ispaid to issues of race, class, gender and ethnicity.Includes study of the Constitution.HIS 220B: United States History II(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)Survey of American history from Reconstruction tothe present. Explores economic, political, social, andcultural factors that shaped the development of thenation, including industrialization, America’s emergenceas a world power and the challenges of thelate 20th century. Pays special attention to issues ofrace, class, gender and ethnicity.HIS 233: World Civilizations I(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)Discusses how distinctive cultures, economies andsocieties of the world developed from prehistorictimes to the European conquest of the Americas (ca.1500 C.E.). Explores issues of gender, class, personalidentity, war, religion, urban life, and ecology pertainingto the history of civilizations in Asia, Africa,the Americas, and Europe.HIS 234: World Civilizations II(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)Discusses how the cultures, economies, and societiesof the world developed since 1500 C.E. Exploresissues of class and class conflict, personal and culturalidentity, race, work, industrial development, colonialism,ecology, and political and economic life pertainingto the history of civilizations in Asia, Africa,the Americas, and Europe.HIS 300: Roots of Western Civilization(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)Explores social, material, cultural, and intellectualbases of European civilization and relates them tomajor Afro-Eurasian civilizations. Examines hunting-gatheringand early agricultural societies;ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Judea; classicalGreece and Rome; rise of Christianity; nomadicinvasions of Europe; Byzantine and Islamic influences;and Europe’s “medieval synthesis.”HIS 320: Culture of Global Capitalism(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)Places contemporary cultural, economic and technologicalissues in a global and historical perspective.Examines the ways that capitalism, culture, andtechnology have interacted over the past 500 yearsto shape the places, peoples and societies that havecome into existence in the modern world.HIS 325: Modern World Migration(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)Human migration is the story of individual livesenmeshed in larger historical issues of identity, culture,work, social institutions and various forms ofcoercion. Explores how work and migration haveintersected in the last 500 years to shape the worldin which we live today.HIS 339: The Middle East, 600–1600 C.E.(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)Examines the Middle East from before the rise ofIslam to the Muslim conquest of Constantinople.Includes the life style of the desert nomad,Muhammad and founding of the Islamic state, itsexpansion through the Middle East and beyond, andthe various non-Arab dynasties and empires thattook over.HIS 341: History Through Theater(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)Explores history through the complex medium oftheater. Focuses on a variety of dramatic and theatricaltechniques, including readers’ theater, role-playingdebates, improvisation and formal dramatizations.Scripts historical literature into performance.Studies various plays in order to gain a broaderunderstanding of key historical issues in diverse cultures.HIS 342: History of Modern Middle East(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)Investigates roots of present-day events in ModernMiddle East since 1600 CE. Surveys history of theregion, pre-modern empires, European colonization,and renaissance of Middle East culture in the 18thand 19th century, movement toward independentstates, and emergence of Pan-Arabism and Islamistideologies of the 20th century.HIS 345: Latin American Studies(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)Introduction to Latin American history and culturefocusing on diversity of Latin American societiesand their multicultural heritage. Topics include colonialismand indigenous societies, growth of plantationand mining economies, enslavement ofAfricans, struggle for independence, distribution ofpolitical power, recurrence of popular rebellion, andartistic and cultural life.HIS 346: Chinese History and Culture I(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)A historical overview of Chinese civilization fromNeolithic origins to the Ming Dynasty (1368). Thefoundations of Chinese civilization and the core ofChinese culture will be elucidated through a focuson key aspects of governance, economy, foreign relations,literature and the arts, and their developmentover this period.HIS 348: Asian Studies(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)Overview of contemporary Asian history and culturefocusing on the diversity of Asian societies.Includes distribution of political power, ideologicaland structural stratification between East and West,impact of “Orientalism” in global context, impact ofimperialism, effects of sexual and religious stratification,and discussion of political and religious differences.HIS 349: African Studies(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)Survey of major themes, issues, and personalities inAfrican history since 1500. Topics include: kingdomsand empires, population movements, spread ofIslam, slave trade era, abolition of slave trade,European imperialism, impact of colonialism, religiousand cultural movements, nationalism and pan-Africanism, ethnicity and identity in modern Africa.HIS 350: Cultural Diversity +(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)Examines race, gender, ethnicity and class in 20thcentury American society. Introduces students tomethods for studying the changing nature of oursociety and explores ways in which our increasinglyurbanized and technological culture affects allaspects of professional and unskilled work. Mayinvolve work in oral history.HIS 355: Chinese History and Culture II(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)An overview from the Ming Dynasty to the foundingof the People’s Republic of China in 1949. Thesesix centuries witnessed challenges that radicallyaltered the nation. We will examine key componentsof this process and its influence on Chinese society,economy, culture, politics and foreign relations.HIS 360: American Colonial Experience(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101 and HIS 220A)Examines the various peoples and the economic,environmental, cultural, and political forces thatshaped American development from the periodbefore Europeans settled through the AmericanRevolution. It evaluates key ecological changes after1500 and the shaping of North American colonialsociety by mercantilism, merchant capitalism, andthe slave trade.HIS 361: Making and Sundering of Union(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101 and HIS 220A)Examines development of American society from theearly national period through the Civil War (1783-1865), including framing of Constitution, westwardexpansion, economic development, slavery, sectionalconflict, as well as an evaluation of the social, political,and military problems faced by the contendingsides in the Civil War.HIS 362: U.S. Between Wars, 1865-1917(Prerequisite: ENG 100/101 and HIS 220B)Examines transformation of America and expansionof American influence after the Civil War throughWorld War I. Includes reconstruction; demographicand economic expansion; industrialization and itsconsequences for labor and social relations; massimmigration; growth of American imperialism;socialist, populist, and progressive movements; andWorld War I and Wilsonianism.HIS 363: U.S. Since World War I(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101 and HIS 220B)Examines social, economic, cultural, and politicalcontours of modern America from 1920 to the present,including Great Depression, social dimensionsof World War II, affluence and anxieties of 1950s,political and social movements of 1960s, and challengesof structuring a new global political economyin the 1970s and after.HIS 370: History of the American Southwest(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)Examines what has attracted people to theSouthwest over the last thousand years and howpeople have changed and enriched the regionthrough diverse cultural, social and economic contributions.Places race relations, immigration, environmentalconcerns, resource use, cultural beliefs, genderroles, public order and working life into historicalperspective.HIS 375: Nevada Hist., Govt., Const.(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)Through an historical and literary approach, thiscourse examines the history of the state of Nevadafrom the Native peoples to the present. Includes acomponent on Nevada Constitution required forCourseDescriptions387