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History of Music

  • HOM 364 - The London Classical Musical Scene

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Varieties of classical music. Styles of performance and social traditions of music unique to and currently represented in London’s musical life. Includes some required attendance at musical events. Offered only in London.
  • HOM 371 - Topics in American Music

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Studies of the social, cultural, and musical forces at work in both serious and popular music in America. Specific areas of study announced each semester.
    Repeatable 1 time(s), 6 credits maximum
  • HOM 372 - Music in Multicultural America

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Issues, concepts, and processes that have shaped ethnic musical subcultures in the U.S., with case studies such as the pow-wow, gospel blues, conjunto, klezmer, and South Asian bhangra musics.
  • HOM 373 - History of Musical Theater

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Musical theater within a larger cultural context. European roots of musical theater before turning to an analysis of Anglo-American musical theater in the 20th and 21st centuries.
  • HOM 374 - The Beatles and British Culture

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Only during the summer
    The Beatles as musicians and songwriters; their influence on current artists and filmmakers; their ongoing impact on online fan culture; and the British cultural milieu of the 1950s and 60s.
  • HOM 375 - American Music

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8
    Celebrates the rich history of music in the United States from the earliest times to the present. Cultivated, vernacular, and folk traditions as reflections of the American musical landscape.
  • HOM 377 - History of Jazz

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8
    The roots, development, and diffusion of jazz music.
    PREREQ: ANY HOM OR MHL COURSE 100-499
  • HOM 378 - Rock Music

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5
    The roots, development, and diffusion of rock music.
    PREREQ: ANY HOM 100-499 LEVEL OR MHL 100-499 LEVEL
  • HOM 380 - International Course

    College of Arts and Sciences
    1-12 credit(s) Irregularly
    Offered through SUAbroad by educational institution outside the United States. Student registers for the course at the foreign institution and is graded according to that institution’s practice. SUAbroad works with the S.U. academic department to assign the appropriate course level, title, and grade for the student’s transcript.
    Repeatable 90 time(s)
  • HOM 381 - Topics in Ethnomusicology

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Selected topics in the study of the performing arts in their cultural and social contexts, focusing on, e.g., geographic areas, genres, instruments, or cross-cultural topics.
    Repeatable 1 time(s), 6 credits maximum
  • HOM 384 - Music and Dance of India

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8
    Crosslisted with: SAS 385 
    Selected music and dance traditions of India in their cultural, historical, and performative contexts, representing classical, devotional, folk, tribal, and popular arts. Performance as a window into Indian culture, society, and modernization.
  • HOM 385 - Structure and Meaning in World Music

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Advanced topics in world music focusing on music cultures of Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Sound structure, style, transmission, cultural context, and meaning.
    PREREQ: HOM 195  OR HOM 285  OR MHL 185 
  • HOM 386 - Sounds of the Silk Road

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: MES 386, SAS 386
    The soundscapes of the overland Silk Road as a window into history, commerce, migration, social life, values, faith, tolerance and conflict. Case studies from Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Central Asia, and Southwest Asia musics.
  • HOM 393 - Music and Sports

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    A consideration of the strong relationships between music and sports in culture and society.
    Repeatable
  • HOM 396 - Junior Seminar: Writing about Music

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Students learn to research and write about music for a variety of written genres and a wide range of audiences, both academic and public.
  • HOM 400 - Selected Topics

    College of Arts and Sciences
    1-6 credit(s) Irregularly
    Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
    Repeatable
  • HOM 415 - History of Recorded Sound

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Double Numbered with: HOM 615
    The history of sound recording technology from its origins to the present day. Additional work required of graduate students.
  • HOM 419 - Music and Media

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8
    A critical studyof contemporary music and media in a variety of contexts, including radio, recordings, television, film and cyberspace.
  • HOM 453 - Dance in American Culture

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8
    Varieties of dance in the United States today; issues of racial, regional, gender, national and other identities in the practice of American dance.
  • HOM 470 - Experience Credit

    College of Arts and Sciences
    1-6 credit(s) Irregularly
    Participation in a discipline or subject related experience. Student must be evaluated by written or oral reports or an examination. Permission in advance with the consent of the department chairperson, instructor, and dean. Limited to those in good academic standing.
    Repeatable 90 time(s)
  • HOM 473 - Women, Rap and Hip-Hop Feminism

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: WGS 473 
    Links between feminism, rap music and hip-hop culture. We explore the work of actual women in hip-hop, images of women, and feminist critiques of the music and the culture. Additional work required of graduate students.
  • HOM 480 - International Course

    College of Arts and Sciences
    1-12 credit(s) Irregularly
    Offered through SUAbroad by educational institution outside the United States. Student registers for the course at the foreign institution and is graded according to that institution’s practice. SUAbroad works with the S.U. academic department to assign the appropriate course level, title, and grade for the student’s transcript.
    Repeatable
  • HOM 482 - The Roots of Global Pop

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5
    The development of world popular music throughout the 20th century in the contexts of colonization, modernization, resistance, nationalism, and globalization. The sounds and production values of global fusions and issues of authenticity, identity, and appropriation.
    PREREQ: ANY HOM 100 -699 LEVEL OR ANY MHL 100-699 LEVEL
  • HOM 485 - Contemporary Indigenous Soundscapes

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Double Numbered with: HOM 685
    An interdisciplinary course about music and dance cultures of the world’s indigenous peoples in the context of contemporary social, cultural, and political issues: religion, identity, representation, globalization, tourism, political movements. Additional work required of graduate students.
  • HOM 490 - Independent Study

    College of Arts and Sciences
    1-6 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    In-depth exploration of a problem or problems. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor or instructors and the department.
    Repeatable
  • HOM 492 - Music and the Sacred

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8
    Crosslisted with: REL 392 
    Intersection of music and the sacred in a variety of cultural traditions and historical periods.
  • HOM 493 - Music and Identity

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    A critical study of the intersections of music and various types of identites in the world today, such as individual, ethnic, gender, religious, national, and commercial.
  • HOM 494 - Music and Gender

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5
    Crosslisted with: WGS 494 
    The impact of gender ideology and behavior on the performing arts and the role of performance in maintaining and subverting gender identities and relations.
  • HOM 496 - Distinction Project in Music History and Cultures

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Supervised independent research culminating in a large-scale project demonstrating fluency with musical research and writing to fulfill partial requirements for Distinction in the Music and History Cultures Program. Candidates for distinction in the Music History and Cultures major only.
  • HOM 497 - Music and Politics

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Western art music, popular music, and world music as political/ cultural forces. Music as a political discourse. Music and meaning.
  • HOM 498 - Intersections in Popular and Classical Music

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    An in-depth look into the intersections of popular and classical musics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Particular attention is paid to moments that exhibit tensions and slippage between the two categories.
  • HOM 499 - Honors Capstone Project

    College of Arts and Sciences
    1-6 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Completion of an Honors Capstone Project under the supervision of a faculty member.
    Repeatable
  • HOM 500 - Selected Topics

    College of Arts and Sciences
    1-6 credit(s) Irregularly
    Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
    Repeatable
  • HOM 512 - World Music and Film

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    The global flows of music explored through commercial, ethnographic, documentary, and animated films. How music and musicians outside the Euro-American mainstream have been represented, creatively adopted and recontextualized, and used to construct meaning.
    PREREQ: ANY HOM 100 -699 LEVEL OR ANY MHL 100-699 LEVEL
  • HOM 561 - Music and Shakespeare

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3-4 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: DRA 561 
    A discussion-based course investigating the place of music in Shakespeare’s plays. Also considers the role of music in early modern English culture as well as later musical adaptations of Shakespeare.
  • HOM 562 - Bach and Handel

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Explores the careers and compositional output of Bach and Handel. Considers issues of genre, style, theology and religion, nationhood, and patronage.
    PREREQ: ANY HOM 100 -699 LEVEL OR ANY MHL 100-699 LEVEL
  • HOM 563 - The Operas of Wagner

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Odd academic yr e.g. 2007-8
    The historical analysis, interpretation, and reception history of Wagner’s musical and dramatic work.
    PREREQ: HOM 165  OR HOM 166  OR HOM 266  OR HOM 267 /MHL 267  OR MHL 168  
  • HOM 568 - Music of Beethoven

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Life and works of Beethoven in their social context. Beethoven as cultural symbol and in the development of style. Intensive focus on specific works.
    PREREQ: MTC 146 
    Repeatable 1 time(s), 6 credits maximum
  • HOM 571 - Popular Music Studies

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    A research seminar in the study of popular music with emphasis on methodologies from a variety of disciplines ranging from musicology and music theory to sociology and cultural studies.
    PREREQ: ANY HOM 100 -699 LEVEL OR ANY MHL 100-699 LEVEL
  • HOM 573 - History of American Song

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    The American art song, emphasizing the 20th-century composers. Musical style of works, placed in their social and cultural contexts.
    PREREQ: MTC 146 
  • HOM 592 - Music, Space and Place

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    An exploration of the relationships between music, space and place, considered from a variety of musical practices and scholarly methodologies.

History

  • HST 100 - Selected Topics

    College of Arts and Sciences
    1-6 credit(s) Irregularly
    Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
    Repeatable
  • HST 101 - American History to 1865

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Founding and development of institutions. The Revolution and the new nation. Problems of growth and sectionalism. Challenge to the union.
  • HST 102 - American History Since 1865

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Reconstruction. Industrialization and its effects. Emergence as a world power. Economic and social problems, reforms. Global war and global responsibilities.
  • HST 111 - Early Modern Europe, 1350-1815

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Major characteristics of European political, social, and cultural life from Middle Ages to advent of democratic revolutions.
  • HST 112 - Modern Europe: Napoleon to the Present

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    European lives and experiences in the age of industrialization, urbanization, and mass politics. World wars, fascism, the Russian Revolution, empires, Europe in the post-World War II era.
  • HST 121 - Global History to 1750

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    The development of global society up to 1750. Exchanges, connections and interactions between Africa, Asia and the Pacific, India, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East. The relations between these regions, the Americas and Europe.
  • HST 122 - Global History 1750 to Present

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    The development of global society since 1750. Exchanges, connections and interactions between Africa, Asia and the Pacific, India, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East. The relations between these regions, the Americas and Europe.
  • HST 145 - Introduction to Historical Archaeology

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: ANT 145 
    Role of history and archaeology in our understanding of 17th- to 19th-century Europe, Africa, and America. Historical archaeology as a mechanism to critique perceptions of the past. Firsthand record of ethnic groups and cultural settings not recorded in writing.
  • HST 180 - International Course

    College of Arts and Sciences
    1-6 credit(s)
    Offered through SUAbroad by educational institution outside the United States. Student registers for the course at the foreign institution and is graded according to that institution’s practice. SUAbroad works with the SU academic department to assign the appropriate course level, title, and grade for the student’s transcript.
    Repeatable
  • HST 200 - Selected Topics

    College of Arts and Sciences
    1-6 credit(s) Irregularly
    Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
    Repeatable
  • HST 201 - Research Seminar in History

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Introduction to the excitement and techniques of original research. Each seminar begins with introductory readings in a particular area of history; each student researches a question in original sources and presents the results in one or more essays.
  • HST 208 - Middle East Since the Rise of Islam

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: MES 208  
    An introductory survey of Middle East history beginning with the rise of Islam. Includes culture, social life, women and politics, early Arab Empires, the Ottomans and Safavids, intellectual renaissance. 
  • HST 209 - Modern Middle East

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: MES 209
    A survey of modern Middle East history from roughly the 20th century, covering the nation-states from Iran to Morocco. Includes culture, social life, colonialism and nationalism, feminism, and political change. 
  • HST 210 - The Ancient World

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    The Ancient Mediterranean emphasizing major political, cultural, religious, and social developments. The Near East, Classical Greece, Hellenistic Civilization, Roman Republic, Roman Empire up to the fourth century A.D. May not be repeated for credit.
  • HST 211 - Medieval and Renaissance Europe

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Survey of developments from the end of the Roman Empire to the beginnings of the Age of Discovery. Considers political and economic developments, as well as society, culture, and religion.
  • HST 213 - Africa: Ancient Times to 1800

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: AAS 213
    A survey of African history from ancient times to 1800. Focuses on political, social, economic, and environmental history of the continent. Themes: state formation, technology, production, trade, religion, migration, labor, slave trade, and biological exchanges. 
  • HST 214 - Modern Africa: 1800 - Present

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: AAS 214
    A survey of modern African history since 1800. Themes include nineteenth-century western images of Africa, pre-colonial changes, Western Imperialism, African anti-imperialism, colonial economic and social transformation, nationalism, cold war, decolonization, post colonial developments and changes.
  • HST 222 - History of American Sexuality

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Examines sexuality in America from the colonial period to the present, exploring how American views of sex and desire have changed over time.
  • HST 231 - English History

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Britain from the Roman occupation through the Revolution of 1688.
  • HST 232 - English History

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Continuation of HST 231 from 1688.
  • HST 270 - Experience Credit

    College of Arts and Sciences
    1-6 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Participation in a discipline or subject related experience. Student must be evaluated by written or oral reports or an examination. Permission in advance with the consent of the department chairperson, instructor, and dean. Limited to those in good academic standing.
    Repeatable
  • HST 280 - International Course

    College of Arts and Sciences
    1-12 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Offered through SUAbroad by educational institution outside the United States. Student registers for the course at the foreign institution and is graded according to that institution’s practice. SUAbroad works with the S.U. academic department to assign the appropriate course level, title, and grade for the student’s transcript.
    Repeatable
  • HST 290 - Independent Study

    College of Arts and Sciences
    1-6 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.
    Repeatable
  • HST 295 - The Development of Air Power: First 50 Years

    College of Arts and Sciences
    0-1 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: ASC 295 
    Factors contributing to change in the nature of military conflict, the development of air power from its earliest beginnings, and the way air-power doctrine has evolved.
  • HST 296 - The Development of Air Power: 1947 to the Present

    College of Arts and Sciences
    0-1 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: ASC 296 
    The development of air power from the end of World War II to the present. How air power is used in support of both military and nonmilitary national objectives.
  • HST 300 - Selected Topics

    College of Arts and Sciences
    1-6 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
    Repeatable
  • HST 301 - Practicum in the Study of History

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Introduces new History majors to the discipline. Students will learn about historical evidence and its analysis; how to ask and answer historical questions; to construct and critique historical arguments; to find primary and secondary sources.
  • HST 302 - Early American History

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    European invasion of America. Native American resistance. Institutions of conquest, colonization, and empire. Anglicization of the colonists and the acculturation of the Iroquois. Servitude, slavery, and the family.
  • HST 303 - The Age of the American Revolution

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Provincial America, its peoples, and their societies. Imperial war and administration. Anglo-American politics and dissent. The war of national liberation. Confederation; formation of the Constitution.
  • HST 304 - Age of Jefferson and Jackson

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Development of political parties and institutions from 1789 to 1850. Impact of major figures, such as Jefferson and Jackson. Social and economic factors.
  • HST 305 - America in Crisis: The Civil War and Reconstruction

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Coming of the Civil War, leading figures in the crises, and problems of reconstructing the divided nation.
  • HST 306 - The Long Civil Rights Era

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Explores the development of social and political protest for civil rights from World War I through the 1970’s.
  • HST 307 - The United States in the Modern Age, 1917-1963

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    World War I. Social/political development in the twenties. Impact of the Depression. Roosevelt and the New Deal. World War II. Cold War, McCarthyism, private culture of the fifties, emergence of the Civil Rights movement.
  • HST 308 - Recent History of the United States, 1963-Present

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    The Great Society. Domestic ferment in the sixties. Vietnam. Watergate. Economic defeats of the seventies and eighties. Ronald Reagan’s America. The politics of the nineties and the shaping of new prosperity.
  • HST 309 - Africa and Global Affairs 1870 - Present

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    A global approach to modern African history from the late 19th century to the present; places Africa in global context of themes such as western imperialism, colonial economies, global conflicts, decolonization, development, global security, environment, health and disease, among other topics.
  • HST 310 - The Early Middle Ages

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    History of Western Europe from c. 300 to c. 850. Political, religious, cultural, social, and economic developments. Special emphasis on reading and analyzing primary sources.
  • HST 311 - Medieval Civilization

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Political, economic, religious, cultural history of Europe 800-1200, including the fall and rise of royal authority, disagreements over the roles of church and king, economic change, developing ideas and technologies, the rise of cities.
  • HST 312 - Reformation of the 16th Century

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Protestant and Catholic Reformations. French Civil Wars, social foundations of modern religious denominations, and historical psychology of religious conversion experiences.
  • HST 313 - French Revolution: Sun King to Guillotine

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    How the Europe of Bach, Mozart, Voltaire, and Frederick the Great became the Europe of Beethoven, Goethe, the French Revolution, and Napoleon.
  • HST 314 - Europe from Bismarck to the First World War

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Domestic development and foreign relations of major European states. Industrialization, urbanization, emergence of mass political parties, socialism and class conflict, social reform, growth of nationalist loyalties, imperialism, causes of World War I.
  • HST 315 - Europe in the Age of Hitler and Stalin

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    World War I as the great divide. Why fascism, crisis for democracies, Soviet dictatorship and its impact on Europeans, and World War II emerged one generation later.
  • HST 316 - Europe Since 1945

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    History of Europe from the fall of the Nazi-led ‘New Order’ to the present. Cold War in East/West Europe, economic growth/social change, decolonization, welfare state, fall of Communism, European Union, and contemporary Europe.
  • HST 317 - The Arab Revolutions

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: MES 317
    An exploration of the social, economic, and political histories of select Arab countries since independence to understand the contexts and reasons for the revolutions that began in 2011.
  • HST 319 - The Middle East in the 20th Century

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: MES 319
    Social and cultural history of the Middle East in the twentieth-century, including themes such as colonialism, anti-colonial nationalism, modernity, social movements, women and gender, and contemporary issues.
  • HST 320 - Traditional China

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Political, economic, social and cultural history before 1650. Emphasis on sources of change and stability. Main themes: Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism; invasion and rebellion: conquest and consolidation. May not be repeated for credit.
  • HST 321 - Modern China

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Political, economic, social and cultural history since 1650. Main themes: Social change in city and countryside, impact of Western nations, enduring legacies of traditional China.
  • HST 322 - Colonial Latin America

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: LAS 322 , SPA 325 
    Development of Amer-Indian civilization and the Spanish conquests. Evolution of the Spanish American economy and the unique American culture. Growth of the plantation economy of Brazil. The movements toward independence.
  • HST 323 - Modern Latin America

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: LAS 313 
    The turmoil of the postindependence period and the search for economic and political stability. Reasons for and consequences of export-led growth. The role of the United States in preserving the status quo in the Americas.
  • HST 324 - Recent Latin American History

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: LAS 324 
    Developments since World War I. Political, economic, and social change and growth of nationalism.
  • HST 327 - A History of Southern Africa

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Begins before arrival of Europeans in southern Africa. Economic, geographic, sociological, and political factors contributing to development of this unique, racially based modern state. Includes Afrikaaner diaspora, Euro-African conflict during the nineteenth century, Anglo-Boer War, from union to apartheid, and resistance to European domination.
  • HST 328 - Ancient and Medieval India

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: SAS 328 
    Formation of traditional Indian kinship, religion, philosophy, and culture. Vedic society and the rise of Buddhism. Medieval Hindu kingdoms. Expansion and the legacy of Islam. Rise and disintegration of the Mughal empire.
  • HST 329 - Making of Modern India

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: SAS 329 
    British colonial expansion in India. Emergence of nationalism and related movements of religious, social, and cultural reform. Gandhi and non-violence. Struggle for independence and the politics of gender, class, caste, and religious community.
  • HST 330 - The Iroquois

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    The People of the Longhouse, the Five (afterwards Six) Nations, their archaeology, tradition, and history, from 1100 to 1815. May not be repeated for credit.
  • HST 331 - Race & Sport in U.S. History

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Even Academic Yr e.g. 2004-5
    Explores American sport as a lens through which to view race relations from the era of slavery to the present day.
  • HST 332 - African American History: Through the 19th Century

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: AAS 332 
    Cultural, economic, political, and social developments shaping experiences of North Americans of African descent. Foundations of collective identity and diversity. African American historiography. Interpretive and methodological issues in historical practice.
  • HST 333 - African American History: After the 19th Century

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: AAS 333 
    Continuation of AAS/HST 332.
  • HST 334 - Social and Cultural History of the United States

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Social and cultural developments, 1607-1861. American population growth, rural and urban life, religion, education and learning, literature and the arts.
  • HST 335 - American Social and Cultural History

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: WGS 335 
    Nature of “American character” through the last century. Aspects of intellectual life, social mores, industry, and art that represent Americans’ definitions of themselves and their nation.
  • HST 336 - United States in World Politics to 1914

    College of Arts and Sciences
    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    American diplomacy to 1914.
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