Undergraduate Courses
The History Department offers numerous courses each semester that cover a broad range of topical areas. Please visit this site often as the contents are updated for each semesters course offerings.
Please visit the Undergraduate Course Catalog for more information on all of our course offerings.
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See below for Summer & Fall 2024 Course Offerings
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General History Survey
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History 1310 | History of the United States to 1877
Group | General History Survey
Term | Summer 1, 2 & Fall 2024A general survey of the history of the United States from its settlement to the end of Reconstruction.
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History 1320 | History of the United States, 1877 to Date
Group | General History Survey
Term | Summer 1, 2 & Fall 2024A general survey of the history of the United States from Reconstruction to present.
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History 2310 | Western Civilization to 1715
Group | General History Survey
Term | Summer 1 & Fall 2024A general survey of western civilization from earliest times to the end of the 17th century.
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History 2311 | History of World Civilization to the 17th Century
Group | General History Survey
Term | Summer 2 & Fall 2024A general survey of world civilization from the earliest times to the 17th Century.
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History 2312 | History of World Civilization from the 17th Century
Group | General History Survey
Term | Summer 2 & Fall 2024A general survey of world civilization from the 17th Century to the present.
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History 2320 | Western Civilization, 1715 to Date
Group | General History Survey
Term | Summer 1 & Fall 2024A general survey of western civilization from the Treaty of Utrecht to the present.
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History 2327 | History of Mexican America to 1865
Group | General History Survey
Term | Fall 2024This course is a survey of the economic, social, political, intellectual, and cultural history of Mexican Americans/Chicanx to 1865. Topics the course addresses include: conquest and mestizaje; the rise and fall of native and African slavery, colonial Mexico’s relationship to other global economies, the development of New Spain’s/Mexico’s northern frontier, how gender and power shaped the emergence of Mexican identities, independence movements, mission secularization, Texas independence, the U.S.–Mexico wars, and U.S. expansion and civil war.
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History 2381 | African American History to 1877
Group | General History Survey
Term | Fall 2024This course is a survey of the social, political, economic, cultural and intellectual history of people of African descent in the formation and development of the United States to the Civil War/Reconstruction period. African American History to 1877 includes the study of African origins and legacy, trans-Atlantic slave trade and the experiences of African Americans during the Colonial, Revolutionary, Early National, Antebellum, and the Civil War/Reconstruction Era. This course presents African American history as an integral part of U.S. History.
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History 3315 | History of England to 1603
Group | Group B: European History
Term | Fall 2024The development of the English nation from prehistoric times to the end of the Tudor Dynasty in 1603.
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History 3316 | History of England Since 1603
Group | Group B: European History
Term | Summer 1, 2024The English nation and the British Empire from 1603 through the modern era.
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History 3322 | Colonial History of Latin America to 1828
Group | Group A: World History
Term | Fall 2024A study of the colonial period of Latin America from the early Spanish and Portuguese colonization to the beginning of the period of independence.
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History 3322 | History of Early Modern Spain from 1492 to 1808
Group | Group B: European History
Term | Summer 2, 2024This course traces the history of Spain and its transoceanic empire from the reign of the Catholic Monarchs, Isabel I of Castile and Fernando II of Aragon, in the late fifteenth century to the Peninsular War against Napoleon’s invading forces in the early nineteenth century.
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History 3325G | Modern Revolutions in Latin American History
Group | Group A: World History
Term | Fall 2024This course will focus on the historical antecedents and events surrounding the Mexican, Guatemalan, Cuban, Chilean, and Nicaraguan revolutions. The purpose is to analyze these five revolutions and to come to an understanding of the current problems facing Latin America.
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History 3328 | Militarism in Latin America
Group | Group A: World History
Term | Fall 2024This course provides an in-depth survey of militarism and the causes and processes of transition to democracy in Latin America. Students examine the major characteristics of different types of military regimes in Latin America with particular attention to the military regimes in Argentina, Chile, Brazil, and Uruguay, and their relinquishing of power for democratic transitions.
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History 3335 | Spain of the Three Religions
Group B | European History
Term | Fall 20224For 700+ years, the Iberian Peninsula saw Muslims, Jews, and Christians living in close proximity, and for that reason it was dubbed “Spain of the three religions.”
In this class, you will study a range of social dynamics from violence to collaboration between these three religions, and we will cover the Spanish Inquisition, the so-called ‘Reconquista’, art and architecture, and so much more!
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History 3337 | History of U.S. Foreign Policy Making in the Muslim World
Group | Group C: U.S. History
Term | Fall 2024This course examines the history of U.S. foreign policy-making in the Muslim Middle East in the twentieth century by exploring selected incidents in the history of U.S. foreign policy towards the Middle East.
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History 3340 | History of the United States, 1877-1914
Group | Group C: U.S. History
Term | Fall 2024A survey of American history from the end of Reconstruction to the outbreak of World War I with an emphasis on the pertinent historical literature.
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History 3353 | The U.S. - Mexico Border and its Communities: A History
Group | Group C: U.S. History
Term | Fall 2024This course is a thematic examination of the region including Texas, California and the states that include the Great Basin, the Southern Rockies, and the Sonoran Desert from Mexican Independence in 1821 to the present.
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History 3359 | African American History
Group | Group C: U.S. History
Term | Fall 2024A survey of African-American history, 1619 to the present. Emphases include African and European backgrounds, hemispheric slavery, slavery in early America, the antislavery movement, the Civil War and Reconstruction, post-Reconstruction culture and society, and Civil Rights movement.
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History 3366 | Introduction to Public History
Group | Group C: U.S. History
Term | Fall 2024A topic addressing the definition, evolution, and philosophy of public history.
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History 3368U | U.S. - Cuban Relations
Group | Group C: U.S. History
Term | Fall 2024This course will provide students with an overview of relations between the United States and Cuba from 1865 to 2006. Themes include economic, political, military, and cultural inter-development through Cuban independence movements, U.S. military occupation, shared cultural and economic movements, and the growing animosity from Castro's Revolution to recent years.
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History 3368Z | A Global History of Pandemics
Group | Group A: World History
Term | Fall 2024This class will investigate the history of pandemics. This course includes the Justinian plague of the 6th century, the Black Death of 1347-52, the smallpox pandemic caused by the Spanish Empire, the Spanish influenza outbreak of 1918, the polio pandemic, the influenza pandemic of 1957, the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
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History 3371A | Conflict and Creativity in U.S. Urban and Suburban History
Group | Group C: U.S. History
Term | Fall 2024This course surveys the changing functions, scale, and quality of urban society in the United States. Special emphasis will be placed upon urban politics, or how changing demographics, physical environments, public and private institutions, and economies both grew out of and gave rise to political tensions between Americans.
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History 3372 | Texas History: A Survey
Group | Group C: U.S. History
Term | Summer 2 & Fall 2024A one-semester survey of Texas History which will emphasize political, economic and social development from prehistory to the twentieth century.
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History 3373C | The History of Rural Women
Group | Group C: U.S. History
Term | Fall 2024This course surveys rural women in the United States from the founding of the nation to the present. Topics include women’s work in the agricultural economy, female influence in community and agrarian organizations, and the relations ship between rural and government services from regional, national, and global perspectives.
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History 3373D | History of American Feminisms, 1960-2020
Group | Group C: U.S. History
Term | Fall 2024This course covers the history of feminist activism from 1960 to 2020 in the United States.
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History 3375E | History of Women's Health in the United States
Group | Group C: U.S. History
Term | Fall 2024This course examines the history of women’s health in the United States from Colonial America to present day debates over female bodily autonomy. We will identify and trace the ways race, class, sexuality, ethnicity, and religion determined the type, access, and quality of medical care women received throughout US History and today.
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History 3376 | American Religious History
Group | Group C: U.S. History
Term | Fall 2024This course in religious history explores the theological, social, and political evolution of religions and the development of the leading trends in religious beliefs and practices in the United States from pre-European encounters to the present.
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History 3377 | History of Country Music
Group | Group C: U.S. History
Term | Fall 2024This course examines the evolution of country music and how it reflects larger social, cultural, historical economic, political, ethnic, and demographic changes taking place within American society.
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History 4304 | Ancient Rome and the Mediterranean 500 B.C. to 500 A.D.
Group | Group B: European History
Term | Fall 2024A survey of Roman History from the Republican period to the fall of the Western Empire with emphasis on its Mediterranean milieu.
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History 4317 | Tudor-Stuart England, 1485-1689
Group | Group B: European History
Term | Fall 2024A study of the constitutional, social, political, and religious developments in England during the Tudor-Stuart dynasties.
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History 4318N | Immigration in European History
Group | Group B: European History
Term | Fall 2024While we typically think of Europe as a fixed, finite continent, its borders are more porous than we often realize. This class examines the movement of people from Europe and to Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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History 4323 | France and the Modern World
Group | Group B: European History
Term | Fall 2024This course surveys important phenomena in nineteenth and twentieth-century French history that have had an impact on the development of the modern world.
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History 4327 | The Problem of Palestine
Group | Group A: World History
Term | Fall 2024Examination of Arab Palestine. Ottoman records to 1914, Israel's creation in 1948, and Jordan's loss of control of the West Bank and Gaza in 1967 will be surveyed. The Palestinian Diaspora, Yasir Arafat's leadership, and the "Intifada," also will be examined.
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History 4331 | Piracy Through the Ages
Group | Group B: European History
Term | Fall 2024An activity based on greed, and sometimes survival, piracy has existed since humans took to the seas. This course investigates the global history of piracy beginning with the Vikings. The history of piracy in the Caribbean, Asia, and the Mediterranean will be covered and compared to the piracy of today.
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History 4335 | 20TH Century Eastern European History
Group | Group B: European History
Term | Fall 2024A survey of the history of Eastern Europe. May be repeated with a different emphasis.
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History 4342 | Modern Africa
Group | Group A: World History
Term | Fall 2024The course presents a chronological narrative of Africa from the beginning of the nineteenth century until the present day. Students engage with the continent’s social, cultural, and intellectual history through topics and themes that include the spread of Islam and Christianity, the Atlantic and Indian Ocean trade worlds, twentieth-century colonialism, and anti-colonial nationalism.
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History 4344 | Modern Japan, 1600-Present
Group | Group A: World History
Term | Fall 2024A survey of the political, social, economic, and intellectual history of Japan from 1600 to the present. Focus on the radical changes in the state, society, and economy in the 19th and 20th centuries and on the impact of these changes on Japan’s status in the world today.
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History 4346 | Modern Korea
Group | Group A: World History
Term | Fall 2024This course is a survey of the political, social, economic, and intellectual history of modern Korea, focusing on the external aggression and internal transformation between 1876 and 1910, the impact of the Japanese rule, the split into two Koreas in 1945, and the North/South developments and interactions since then.
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History 4350D | Empire and Identity in Central Asia
Group | Group A: World History
Term | Summer 2 & Fall 2024This course explores the historical development of local, ethnic, and national identity in Central Asia from the 13th-century Mongol conquest to the present. The course concludes with explorations of the transnational links within the region and the challenges and possibilities for the five Central Asian republics in the post-Soviet era.
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History 4350K | Gender & Militarization in the Arab World
Group | Group A: World History
Term | Summer 1 & Fall 2024For women and men in the modern Arab world, national identity and sovereignty – or civil war – influence how they live. This class takes advantage of cutting-edge scholarship on the twentieth-century Middle East to hone students’ skills in historical analysis.
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History 4365 | Age of Revolution in North America, 1763-1789
Group | Group C: U.S. History
Term | Fall 2024A history of the American people during the age of the American Revolution, from the beginning of the crisis with Britain to the adoption of the Constitution.
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History 4367 | US Antebellum Era, 1812-1861
Group | Group C: U.S. History
Term | Fall 2024A survey of conflicting American attitudes about the desirability of a strong central government, rapid economic growth, aggressive national expansion, and human slavery in a democratic society.
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History 4371 | Introduction to American Indian History
Group | Group C: U.S. History
Term | Fall 2024This course promotes understanding of the role played by the native peoples of North America in the history of the United States. Among the subjects to be covered through lectures and discussions: initial migrations and cultural development; impact of European conquest; adaptation; removal and reservation life; 20th century adjustments.
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History 4372 | Latina/o/x Histories
Group | Group C: U.S. History
Term | Fall 2024This course is a survey of the political, economic, and social-cultural role of Latinas/os in the United States.
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History 4374A | History of American Sexualities
Group | Group C: U.S. History
Term | Fall 2024This course examines the history of sexuality in the United States from the colonial period to the end of the twentieth century. The course emphasizes the diversity of sexual behaviors, the role of sexual regulation, and modes of thought in the past.
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History 4380 | Historical Resources and Practices
Group | Group D: Capstone and Teacher Certification Preparation
Term | Fall 2024This course is required for students seeking teacher certification in History. This course is an introductory methods course designed to familiarize students with general historical practice and its application in secondary teaching.
Departmental Approval Required
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History 4399 | Senior Seminiar
Group | Group D: Capstone and Teacher Certification Preparation
Term | Summer 1 & Fall 2024This course is required for History majors not seeking teaching certification. In this course students refine skills and techniques essential to the historical profession. Students analyze primary and secondary sources, apply methods, and write a term paper. Prerequisite: 24 semester credit hours in History with a grade point average of at least 2.25 in those hours.
Departmental Approval Required
