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(SS) Social and Administrative SciencesHIS – History (continued)HIS 220History of the American WestInvestigates the Western United States fromthe early 16th century to the present. Themesembraced are: Euro-American interactions withNative Americans; extension and escalationof the federal government into the West;exploitation of natural resources; formation ofborders and national identities; race, class andgender relations; impact of immigration andemigration; aggression and criminality; andcontinuing perseverance of Frederick JacksonTurner’s “frontier” myth in American culture.The survey shall comprise an inquiry of periodliterature. [United States Concentration] 3:0:3Offered as required.HIS 250Nazi GermanyThis seminar studies the Nazi movement inGermany and Europe, from the post-WorldWar I era to the outbreak of World War II.Topics include: race and racism, religion, andgender; experiences of men and women inGermany; the role of the church and business;Fascism; occupation, persecution, collaborationand resistance. The seminar shall comprise aninquiry of period literature. [European/ClassicalConcentration] 3:0:3 Offered as required.HIS 251The French RevolutionThis seminar studies the French Revolutionand its implications for Europe and the world.It considers the social, political and ideologicalcauses of the Revolution in 1789 and thenexamines the successive stages of revolutionfrom the experiment with constitutionalmonarchy to the radical republic and theTerror to Napoleon’s popular dictatorship. Theseminar shall comprise an inquiry of periodliterature. [European/Classical Concentration]3:0:3 Offered as required.HIS 260The Civil Rights EraExamines the years between 1954 and 1975which has been portrayed as a “SecondReconstruction” and the “Fulfillment ofthe promise of the American Revolution.”The seminar will impart a concentratedinvestigation through marked examination ofprimary and secondary sources, documentariesand films. The seminar shall comprise aninquiry of period literature. [United StatesConcentration] 3:0:3 Offered as required.HIS 261The Making of the American Republic,1754-1820Examines the formation of a novus ordosaeclorum by assessing the experiences after1763 as the colonizers in the thirteen Britishcolonies rebelled against the authority of theBritish Crown and created a new republic.The seminar will investigate the political andideological foundations of the rupture fromBritain, the military and social course of theWar of Independence, the postwar strainto attain a constitutional order that wouldsustain republican liberties, the creation of theConstitution to the Missouri Compromiseof 1820, emphasizing economic growth,territorial expansion and social change. Theseminar shall comprise an inquiry of periodliterature. [United States Concentration] 3:0:3Offered as required.HIS 262The Great DepressionExamines the economic collapse of the 1920sand 1930s, which fixed social, cultural andpolitical changes in motion that altered thenature of American life. Consideration will beon the methods contemporaries encounteredand contributed in those changes, as well ason the historiography that elucidates the GreatDepression. The seminar shall comprise aninquiry of period literature. [United StatesConcentration] 3:0:3 Offered as required.HIS 319Russia in the 20th CenturyBegins with the failure of the democraticrevolution of 1905, emphasizing the Revolutionof 1917 and Russia under Lenin. The riseof Stalin, collectivization of agriculture andindustrialization, World War II and the ColdWar. New democratic stirrings and the collapseof the Soviet system. 3:0:3295