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2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses

 

History
  

  • HIST 3337:Greek and Roman History

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 1111   or HIST 1112  
    A history of Greece and Rome from the rise of the Greek city-state to the collapse of the western Roman Empire, with emphasis on their political, cultural, and intellectual contributions to the development of Western society.
  

  • HIST 3340:U.S. Military Experience

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 2111   or HIST 2112  
    A survey of the development of the American military and its role in U.S. and world history. The course will emphasize the political, economic, and social importance of the military and its role in integrating U.S. society as well as the evolution of strategy, operations and tactics and their use in warfare.
  

  • HIST 3341:Women in U.S. History and Culture

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 2111  orHIST 2112  
    Focuses on the social, economic, political, cultural, and religious experiences of American women of various racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds from the Colonial period to the present.
  

  • HIST 3350:England to 1688

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 1111  or HIST 1112  
    A survey of English history from the earliest time to 1688. The course emphasizes political, cultural, and social developments between the Norman conquest and the transformation of England into a constitutional monarchy by the Glorious Revolution.
  

  • HIST 3351:Modern England

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 1111   or HIST 1112  
    English history from 1689. The course emphasizes the rise of parliamentary government, the importance of the British Empire, and the social, cultural, and economic ideas that have made England and much of the English-speaking world what they are today.
  

  • HIST 3357:Africans in Asia

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 1111   or HIST 1112  
    A survey of the history of people of African descent in Asia from the African beginnings to the present. The course evaluates the historical significance of the African presence in the Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, and China. It emphasizes the historical contacts and connection between Africa and Asia, the forced migration of Africans in the age of Islamic expansion and imperialism, the comparative experiences of Africans in bondage and freedom, and their integration into the host societies.
  

  • HIST 3358:Africans in Latin America and the Caribbean

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 1111   or HIST 1112  
    A history of the people of African descent in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States, from the African beginnings to 1888. The course will examine the forced migration of Africans; their roles in the conquest and settlement of Spanish America, Brazil, and the West Indies; and their comparative experiences under plantation slavery. It will emphasize their resistance and emancipation, and their contributions to the development of the multiracial character of Latin American and Caribbean societies.
  

  • HIST 3360:Russian Empire to 1917

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 1111   or HIST 1112  
    The history of the Russian Empire from its early beginnings to the Revolution of 1917. The course emphasizes the importance of Greco-Roman and Asian influences, the impact of the Russian Empire on eastern Europe and eastern Asia, and the political, social, cultural, and revolutionary ideas that have created modern Russia.
  

  • HIST 3361:Themes in Slavic and Eastern European Studies

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 1111   or HIST 1112  
    This course is an introduction to the history, politics, arts, and culture of Slavic and Eastern Europe with a concentration on the last two centuries and contemporary events. After a brief historical survey, students examine prominent themes such as nationalism, ethnicity, state-building, and imperialism. Many themes are analyzed using examples from the arts, popular culture, music, and literature.
  

  • HIST 3366:History of Mexico and Central America

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 1111  or HIST 1112  
    Examines the Mesoamerican pre-classic civilizations, the Aztec Empire and the Maya kingdoms, the Spanish conquest and establishment of New Spain, and the independent nation-states of Mexico and Central America. Themes include Spanish colonialism, the Indian struggle for justice, modern nation-state building, and relations with the United States.
  

  • HIST 3367:History of Brazil

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 1111   or HIST 1112  
    A study of Brazil, to include the Native American period, Portuguese colonialism, the Empire of Brazil, and Brazil in the 20th century. Major themes are sugar and slavery, boom and bust economic cycles, the formation of the Brazilian social identity, Brazil and the Amazon, and Brazil’s place in the contemporary global world.
  

  • HIST 3371:Modern Europe

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 1110, HIST 1111, or HIST 1112
    This course surveys European history from 1789 to the present. The course focuses on forces that have shaped modern Europe such as liberal ideologies, industrialization, and the development of mass society. It examines the causes and consequences of the French Revolution, the era of national unification, imperialism, the two World Wars, the impact of the post-WWII era, the collapse of Euro-communism, the evolution and impact of NATO and the European Union, and current challenges.
  

  • HIST 3372:Ancient to Pre-Modern China

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 1111 or HIST 1112.
    This course introduces the main themes in Chinese history from the Neolithic to 1600; discusses how traditional cultures and outside influences have interacted to produce traditional China; explores the great diversity and impressive continuities of traditional Chinese civilization; and assesses the significance of the institutions of state, family, and women in Chinese history.
  

  • HIST 3373:Modern India and South Asia

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 1100  , orHIST 1111  , or HIST 1112  
    This course emphasizes how Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, and other traditional cultures combined with British colonial rule and other modernizing influences to produce the India of today. Some attention is also given to peripheral areas, particularly Pakistan and Bangladesh.
  

  • HIST 3374:Modern China

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 1100   or HIST 1111   or HIST 1112  
    This course provides a basic survey of the major political, economic, social, cultural and intellectual developments of China since 1600. The course emphasizes how traditional cultures, outside influences, and modernizing forces have interacted to produce the China of today.
  

  • HIST 3375:Silk Road

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 1111 or HIST 1112.
    The Silk Road was the world’s first great superhighway, linking China and Japan to the Mediterranean World across Central Asia from ancient times. The peoples along the way traded luxury goods as well as ideas, religions, art, culinary and musical traditions. Through lectures, reading, and films, we explore the cultural interactions between East and West. Primary sources help us understand the great ideas in Buddhism, Islam, the Indian royal epics, Christian crusading and Mongol expansion.
  

  • HIST 3376:Historiographical Debates

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 1111 or HIST 1112.
    Investigates the major limits and problems inherent in historical understanding and introduces the student to philosophies of history that have sought to address those problems. Case studies of major historical controversies help students recognize the important ways those limits and problems influence even the greatest scholar’s efforts at historical analysis.
  

  • HIST 3377:History of Science

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 1111   or HIST 1112  
    History of scientific ideas and methods from ancient times to the present, with special emphasis on intellectual trends that contributed to the modern world’s scientific outlook.
  

  • HIST 3378:History of Technology

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 1111   or HIST 1112  
    This course examines technology as a factor in historical change, emphasizing the role of tools, machines, and systems in revolutions, culture, politics, and economics. Students engage historiographical debates and readings on the role of technology in the recent and distant past. More broadly, students develop a critical understanding of the role of humanistic inquiry in technological knowledge through biographies, case studies, and primary source documents.
  

  • HIST 3379:Central Asia in World History

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 1111   or HIST 1112  
    This course provides an advanced introduction to the history of Central Asia from a global perspective. It covers a large territory including Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kirgizstan, and Tajikistan. This course focuses on the changes and continuities in the cultures and societies that flourished in this region during the times of major transformations with global significance, such as the expansion of the Mongolian Empire, spread of Islam, encounters with modernity, and emergence of the nation states.
  

  • HIST 3380:Premodern Japan

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 1100  , HIST 1111  , or HIST 1112  
    This course provides a basic survey of the major political, economic, social, cultural and intellectual developments of the Japanese archipelago from the earliest times to 1600. The course emphasizes Japan’s interactions with outside world and how the indigenous and foreign elements were combined to create the basis of Japanese society.
  

  • HIST 3381:Modern Japan

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 1100  , HIST 1111  , or HIST 1112  
    This course provides a basic survey of the major political, economic, social, cultural and intellectual developments of the Japanese archipelago from 1500 to the present. The course emphasizes Japan’s interactions with the outside world and how indigenous and foreign elements were combined to create the basis of modern Japanese society.
  

  • HIST 3382:North Africa and Middle East in Modern Times

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 1100  , orHIST 1111   or HIST 1112  
    This course analyzes the history of North Africa and the Middle East since the emergence of Islam. Its major themes include the rise of Berber-Arab/Islamic civilization, the historical ties between North Africa and the Middle East, and the impact of Ottoman rule. Consideration of the 20th century includes European imperialism, the advent of military rule, the establishment of Israel, Arab-Israeli wars and the search for peace, pan-Arabism and the independence movement in Maghrib, petroleum and international politics, the rise of Muslim fundamentalism, and the problems of economic development and modernization are all important themes in the course.
  

  • HIST 3391:History of West Africa

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 1111   or HIST 1112  
    A history of West Africa from the earliest times to the present. The course emphasizes cultural continuities and changes, trade and cultural ties with North Africa, and contemporary challenges of economic development and nation building in the region. It examines important themes like village, urban, and community life; the formation of mini and mega states such as Ghana, Mali, and Songhai empires; the creation of trans-Saharan and trans-Atlantic trade networks; traditional religion, Islam, and Christianity; European colonialism and African resistances; and decolonization.
  

  • HIST 3392:History of Southern, Eastern and Central Africa

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 1111   or HIST 1112  
    A history of Southern, Eastern, and Central Africa from the earliest times to the present. The course emphasizes continuities and changes in African culture, African participation in Indian Ocean and Middle Eastern trade networks, and the impact of European colonization. It examines important themes like Bantu migration and state formation in Central Africa; the emergence of the Ethiopian kingdom; the impact of the Zulu Mfecane; Swahili culture and Omani rule in East Africa; Dutch settlement and the development of apartheid; and the achievement of Black majority rule in South Africa.
  

  • HIST 3396:Cooperative Study

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Approval of the co-op coordinator.
    A supervised work experience program for a minimum of two academic semesters at a site in business, industry, or government. For sophomore, junior, or senior level students who wish to obtain successive on the job experience in conjunction with their academic training.
  

  • HIST 3398:Internship

    1-9 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: 60 Credit Hours and Approval of the internship coordinator.
    A supervised, credit-earning work experience of one academic semester with a previously approved business firm, or private or government agency.

    Notes: Credit is allowed in elective areas.
  

  • HIST 4163:The United States between the World Wars

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 2111   or HIST 2112  
    This course provides an overview of the economic, political, legal, social, and cultural developments that occurred in the United States during the period between World War I and World War II
  

  • HIST 4204:The History of the American West

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 2111   or HIST 2112  
    This course surveys the history of the American West with special emphasis on the development of the Trans-Mississippi West from the early 19th century to recent years. The crucial influences of the environment, the interaction of Native Americans, Hispanics, Euro-Americans and other cultural groups, and the unique relationship of the region with the Federal government are explored.
  

  • HIST 4245:Business & Economic History of United States

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 2111   or HIST 2112  
    This course surveys American business and economic development from colonial times to the present. Its major themes include the history of small business and family business; the shifting position of the U.S. within the world economy; the regional economy of Georgia and the South; labor-management relations; the labor movement; and the changing social, political, and cultural context within which business and economic institutions have developed.
  

  • HIST 4251:U.S. Social and Cultural History

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 2111   or HIST 2112  
    This course explores the cultural history of the United States since inception. It considers the themes of nationality, immigration, ethnicity (Asian-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, and Middle Eastern-Americans), the elderly, popular culture, and the environment.
  

  • HIST 4255:Diplomatic History of the United States

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: (HIST 1100  , HIST 1111  , or HIST 1112  ) and (HIST 2111   or HIST 2112  )
    This course examines major trends in U.S. diplomacy from 1890 to the present, emphasizing U.S. rise to world power, World Wars I and II, the Cold War and its end, and U.S. relations with developing world areas.
  

  • HIST 4391:Emerging Themes in African History

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 1100  , HIST 1111  , or HIST 1112  
    This course is a survey of major themes in African cultural history from the earliest times to the beginning of European colonialism. The course introduces students to the peoples, societies, and cultures of the continent and emphasizes dominant themes such as cultural unity and diversity, empire and civilization, kinship and family, ethnic and nation building, Islam and traditional religions, indigenous institutions, slavery, and sociopolitical transformations before European colonialism.
  

  • HIST 4400:Directed Study

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: (HIST 1111   or HIST 1112  ) and (HIST 2111   or HIST 2112  )
    Covers special topics and seminars external to regular course offerings.
  

  • HIST 4410:Colonial America to 1763

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 2111   or HIST 2112  
    Starting in the pre-Columbian period, this course covers the American experience until 1763. It looks at Native American life, colonization and settlement by the Spanish, French and English, interaction with the Atlantic world, and the wars for imperial dominance fought in North America until 1763. Issues explored include class structure and family life, religion, politics, intellectual movements, society and culture, slavery, and treatment of minorities.
  

  • HIST 4411:The American Revolution

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 2111   or HIST 2112  
    Examines the American Revolution from the start of the colonists’ disputes with Britain through the ratification of the Constitution. Issues covered include the development of tensions between Britain and the colonies during the Seven Years’ War and decade-long dispute over taxation, the decision to declare independence and the Revolutionary War, the postwar Confederation government, and the creation of the Constitution. The roles of women, Native Americans, African Americans, and loyalists are also examined.
  

  • HIST 4412:The Early Republic

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 2111   or HIST 2112  
    This course will explore the history of the United States from 1787-1824. Topics and issues covered will include the creation of the Constitution, the formation of the first party system, the growth and development of the federal government, the young republic’s foreign policy, the War of 1812, the Market Revolution, the Era of Good Feelings, and the development of a uniquely American culture. Social, economic, political, and military aspects of the American experience will be addressed.
  

  • HIST 4415:Jacksonian America

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 2111   or HIST 2112  
    This course will explore the history of the United States from 1815-1848. Topics and issues covered will include the War of 1812, the Market Revolution, the Era of Good Feelings, the rise of Andrew Jackson, Indian Removal, the formation of the second party system, the rise of the reformist impulse, sectional disruptions caused by territorial expansion and slavery, the annexation of Texas, the Mexican War, and the continued development of a uniquely American culture. Social, economic, political, and military aspects of the American experience will be studied.
  

  • HIST 4424:Museum Education

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 2112  and HIST 3100  
    This course exposes students to both the theory and practice of education in museums, historic sites, and other public history and cultural institutions. An emphasis is placed on the way that museum educators combine theory with practice when implementing educational programming. Major trends in the field of museum education are explored including K-12 education, museum-community partnerships, online learning, and audience engagement.
  

  • HIST 4425:Oral History

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 2111   or HIST 2112  
    Focuses on the methods of taking, processing, and utilizing oral histories. Additional emphasis is placed on the study of planning, development, and operation of oral history projects for libraries, museums, corporations, and public history agencies.
  

  • HIST 4426:Documentation and Interpretation of Historic Sites

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 2111   or HIST 2112  
    Explores the methods of documenting historic properties, especially as related to the National Register of Historic Places. Special emphasis is placed on completing a nomination for the National Register of Historic Places. Includes interpretation of historic sites for public exhibit.
  

  • HIST 4428:The Third Reich

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 1111   and HIST 1112  
    This course draws a wide range of texts to place the Third Reich (1933-1945) in a broad historical context to understand its rise, causes, consequences, and legacies.
  

  • HIST 4430:Museum Studies

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 2111   or HIST 2112  
    Provides a broad introduction to the museum world and the functions of museums in American society. Emphasis will be placed on historical museums. Subjects covered will include museum management, collections management, education, interpretation, exhibit design, ethics, and scholarly criticism of museums.
  

  • HIST 4435:History and Memory

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 2111   or HIST 2112  
    This seminar experience examines the literature of public history and memory. Through readings and discussion the class will examine what we know about the past and how we know it, the changing interpretation of historical events over time, the shape and influence of historical memory, the politics of historical interpretation, and the public presentation of history.
  

  • HIST 4440:Medieval Europe

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 1100  , orHIST 1111  , or HIST 1112  
    This course is a survey of the origins of European culture, this course focuses on the period between the fourth and the fourteenth centuries, during which time Europe achieved its own form of cultural unity distinct from that of its Mediterranean neighbors.
  

  • HIST 4442:History of Religious Tolerance

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 1111   or HIST 1112  
    This course traces the origins of the concept of tolerance of the religious “other,” with a focus of content on medieval and Early Modern Europe. Besides the historical exploration of the topic and an examination of the emergence and development of the idea of religious toleration against a background of persecution and wars of religion, students also examine and discuss philosophical and practical aspects of religious tolerance today.
  

  • HIST 4444:Renaissance and Reformation Europe

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 1111   or HIST 1112  
    A survey of the changing patterns of thought that radically altered European society between the 14th and 17th centuries. The renaissance of art, the triumph of individualism, the rise of Protestantism, and the reformation of the Church will be studied in their social, political, and intellectual contexts.
  

  • HIST 4445:Age of Enlightenment

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 1111   or HIST 1112  
    A contextualized discussion of major developments in European thought during the eighteenth century. Topics include rationalism and the notion of the social applicability of science, the idea of progress, the critique of established religion, economic theories such as those of the Physiocrats, and epistemological interests as expressed in the Encyclopedie of Diderot and d’Alembert, as well as the increased cosmopolitanism and the importance of extra-European models (especially the Chinese Confucian model).
  

  • HIST 4451:Civil War and Reconstruction

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 2111  or HIST 2112  
    Causes and development of the U.S. Civil War from 1830. Includes an analysis of the political, social, and economic aspects of the Reconstruction Era.
  

  • HIST 4453:World War I

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 1111  or HIST 1112  
    This course provides an overview of the major issues and events surrounding the First World War, exposing students to its opposing governments, leaders, military forces, and major battles, aspects that shaped the conduct and outcome of this momentous international confrontation. It affords students an understanding of the political, military, and social histories of the war and the long-range political and social implications and consequences of the treaty that came at its conclusion.
  

  • HIST 4454:Twentieth Century Europe

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 1111   or HIST 1112  
    A survey of European history from 1914 to the present. The course focuses on the main forces that have shaped Europe such as the Second Industrial Revolution and the development of mass society. It examines women’s issues; the rise of Fascism; the impact of existentialism on philosophy, literature, and art; the collapse of Euro-communism; and progress toward European Union.
  

  • HIST 4455:Twentieth Century Russia

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 1111   or HIST 1112  
    A study of Russia in the 20th century that examines in detail the birth, life, international influence, death, and aftermath of the Soviet Union and relates these events to Russian and world history.
  

  • HIST 4456:World War II

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 1111   or HIST 1112  
    A survey of the causes, events, and results of World War II. The course emphasizes military history and the global nature of the conflict but also examines the economic, political, and diplomatic aspects of the war.
  

  • HIST 4461:Gilded Age & Progressive Era

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 2111   or HIST 2112  
    An examination of the expansion, industrialization, and urbanization of the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and of the era’s cultural, political, economic, intellectual, and social issues.
  

  • HIST 4471:Recent United States History

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 2111   or HIST 2112  
    Recent United States History, 1939-present. Considers domestic political history, an overview of foreign policy, economic growth and change, and social and cultural reform movements.
  

  • HIST 4475:War and Revolution in Southeast Asia

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: (HIST 1111   or HIST 1112 ) and (HIST 2111   or HIST 2112 )
    Studies the responses of the traditional cultures of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia to outside influences and modernizing forces in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; considers both world wars and the Indochina Wars in the context of the Cold War and their impact on Europe and the United States.
  

  • HIST 4488:Approaches to World History

    3 Class Hours 1 Laboratory Hours 4 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the History Education Program; HIST 3271  
    The course examines approaches to world history as a field of study, including important debates and controversies in the tradition, along with best practices in teaching world history. The course includes a consideration of recent developments on topics such as modernization and globalization and their significance in world history, philosophical perspectives on the importance of world history in today’s secondary classrooms, world history lesson planning and teaching, and a 20 hour middle school field component.
  

  • HIST 4490:Special Topics in History

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: (HIST 1100   or HIST 1111   or HIST 1112  ) and (HIST 2111    or HIST 2112  )
    The course treats topics of interest to both students and faculty.
  

  • HIST 4495:Research Seminar in US History

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 3100  ; Departmental Approval.
    This seminar introduces students to the historiography of a particular topic or theme in US History. It requires students to develop an original research paper on the topic or theme using primary and secondary sources and reflecting standard practices within the discipline. 

    Notes: This course should not be taken before the second semester of the junior year and may be repeated once for credit.
  

  • HIST 4496:Research Seminar in European History

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 3100  ; Departmental Approval.
    This seminar introduces students to the historiography of a particular topic or theme in European History. It requires students to develop an original research paper on the topic or theme using primary and secondary sources and reflecting standard practices within the discipline. 

    Notes: This course should not be taken before the second semester of the junior year and may be repeated once for credit.
  

  • HIST 4497:Research Seminar in non-Western History

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 3100  ; Departmental Approval.
    This seminar introduces students to the historiography of a particular topic or theme of a particular region in the non-Western world. It requires students to develop an original research paper on the topic or theme using primary and secondary sources and reflecting standard practices within the discipline. 

    Notes: This course should not be taken before the second semester of the junior year and may be repeated once for credit.
  

  • HIST 4498:Research Seminar in World History

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 3100  ; Departmental Approval.
    This seminar introduces students to the historiography of a particular topic or theme in World History, using the approaches of cross-cultural, transnational, or transregional history. It requires students to develop an original research paper on the topic or theme using primary and secondary sources and reflecting standard practices within the discipline. 

    Notes: This course should not be taken before the second semester of the junior year and may be repeated once for credit.
  

  • HIST 4499:Senior Thesis in History

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 3100  and (HIST 4495   or HIST 4496   or HIST 4497   or HIST 4498 )
    A combined tutorial and seminar in which students research and write a senior thesis in addition to making a computer based presentation in class. 
  

  • HIST 4558:The Holocaust

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 1100  , or HIST 1111  , or HIST 1112  
    This course puts the Holocaust into historical perspective and reflects on what it reveals about genocide in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The course examines the roots of anti-Semitism, the rise of fascism in Europe as it relates to the ideology of the Nazi Party, and the implementation of the Final Solution. The structure and purpose of the ghettos and death camps is studied, as well as efforts to resist. The course concludes by looking at what contemporary representations of the Holocaust mean for a post-Shoah generation.
  

  • HIST 4640:Modern Ireland

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 1100  , orHIST 1111  , or HIST 1112  
    This course surveys Irish history from 1700 to the present. The primary emphasis is on the political history of Ireland, but the course also seeks to convey an understanding of Irish economic, social and cultural history, as well as of the influence of the Irish in America. Major topics include Irish nationalism, Ulster unionism, the Famine, Irish revolutions, the Irish Civil War, and the Troubles.
  

  • HIST 4905:History of the Atlantic World

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIST 1100  , or HIST 1111  , or HIST 1112  
    This course exposes students to the momentous socioeconomic transformations that occurred in the Atlantic basin in the wake of Christopher Columbus’s voyage of 1492. The changes were engendered by the convergence of diverse cultural groups and the complex social and economic networks that they established in the Atlantic basin. Students examine the complex interconnections, the consequences, and the resultant new social and economic institutions which significantly informed our contemporary world.
  

  • HIST 4911:Themes in American Environmental History

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: (HIST 1100  , HIST 1111   or HIST 1112 ) and (HIST 2111   or HIST 2112 )
    This course focuses on the interaction of the natural environment and human societies in North America from approximately 1500 to the present. Topics include colonial and imperial expansion, industrialization and the rise of modern technological systems, agricultural intensification, the development of contemporary environmental thinking, and the origins of the modern environmental movement. Selected themes present American environmental history within a global context.

History Education
  

  • HIED 4490:Special Topics in History Education

    1-6 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor and department chair.
    Selected special topics of interest to faculty and students.
  

  • HIED 4498:Internship in Teaching Social Studies (6-12)

    0 Class Hours 18 Laboratory Hours 12 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Provisional teaching license issued by State of Georgia, full-time employment teaching social studies (7-12).
    Student teaching experience in social studies for provisionally certified teachers. Supervision will be in collaboration with a mentor-teacher in a local school and a specialist in social studies education. Twelve (12) hours of this internship will automatically substitute for SSED 4475. Proof of professional liability insurance. Students are responsible for their own school placements.

     
  

  • HIED 4550:Methods of History Education

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Pre-Service Certificate; Admission to Yearlong Clinical Experience Corequisite: HIED 4650; INED 3305; INED 4435
    This course is an examination and application of curriculum issues, learning theories, teaching strategies, instructional materials, and assessment procedures for teaching secondary social sciences in the multicultural and diverse classrooms of today. Emphasis is on those practices suggested by research in secondary social science education and encouraged by our accrediting agencies.
  

  • HIED 4650:Yearlong Clinical Experience I

    0 Class Hours 24 Laboratory Hours 6 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to Teacher Education, Admission to Yearlong Clinical Experience, Issued Pre-service Certificate, HIST 3271   and HIST 4488   Corequisite: EDUC 4610, INED 3305, INED 4435, and HIED 4550
    This course is the first semester of an intensive and extensive co-teaching yearlong clinical experience in history education. Under the guidance of a collaborating teacher and university supervisor and working in a diverse environment that includes students with exceptionalities and English learners, candidates practice professional competencies that impact student achievement. This experience includes regularly scheduled professional seminars. Proof of liability is required.
  

  • HIED 4660:Yearlong Clinical Experience II

    0 Class Hours 24 Laboratory Hours 6 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HIED 4550  , HIED 4650   GACE eligibility and Educator Ethics Assessment 370. GPA of at least 3.0 in content course work and permission of the program coordinator. Corequisite: INED 3306, INED 4436, ITEC 3300.
    This course is the second semester of an intensive and extensive co-teaching yearlong clinical experience in history education. Under the guidance of a collaborating teacher and university supervisor and working in a diverse environment that includes students with exceptionalities and English learners, candidates practice professional competencies that impact student achievement. This experience includes regularly scheduled professional seminars and the completion of a content pedagogy assessment. Proof of liability insurance is required.

Honors
  

  • HON 1100:The First-Year Honors Colloquium: An Introduction to Honors Education

    1 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 1 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the Undergraduate Honors Program
    This course introduces students to the educational philosophy of the Honors College. Students explore and engage in various forms of academic inquiry, guided by a member of the Honors Faculty. In addition, they learn strategies for building strong academic credentials, finding good leadership and service opportunities, and preparing effective scholarship applications, both for internal (KSU) awards and for Rhodes, Marshall, Fulbright, or other major scholarships they may decide to pursue later in their academic career.
  

  • HON 2001:Introduction to Honors Research

    1 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 1 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the Undergraduate Honors Program
    In this one-hour introduction to Honors research, students will learn how to find a wide array of credible sources for research in any discipline; how to construct a research question and a thesis/hypothesis; how to write a literature review; and how to document their sources correctly using the documentation manual specific to their disciplines.
  

  • HON 3000:Honors Colloquium

    1 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 1 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the Undergraduate Honors Program
    In this course, honors students explore different disciplinary perspectives on knowledge and its acquisition, fostering faculty-student interchange in an informal seminar setting.
  

  • HON 3002:Honors Research

    0-3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the Undergraduate Honors Program
    This courses enables Honors students to earn course credit and gain hands-on experience by assisting a professor with his or her research. Students work one-on-one within their major field or within a closely related field doing primary and/or secondary research for a research project conducted by the instructor. Both the student and the instructor are expected to present their findings to members of the campus community at the end of the semester.
  

  • HON 3100:Honors Research Methods

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the Undergraduate Honors Program
    Students learn about conducting various kinds of research. Topics include advantages and disadvantages of different research methods, designs of studies, methods of collecting and analyzing data, ethical issues, application of findings, and protocols for writing reports and proposals. As their final project, students choose a topic and write a sample research proposal for the Honors Senior Capstone Experience. The course is mandated for honors students whose majors do not require a discipline-based research methods course.
  

  • HON 3102:Honors Peer Mentoring

    0-3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the Undergraduate Honors Program
    This class is intended to help students develop mentoring and leadership skills within their major field, a field of interest, or a university service program (e.g., Student Affairs, Housing, the Odyssey Peer Mentoring Program, or the ATTIC). Students can work with a professor, a department chair, a program director, or an administrator to assist a student or a group of students, using a variety of teaching methods and study skills in which they will receive training.
  

  • HON 3203:Honors Teaching Assistance

    0-3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the Undergraduate Honors Program
    This class is intended to help students develop teaching and leadership skills within their major field or a field of interest. Students will assist a professor in teaching duties. The class teaches students how to disseminate ideas and how to assess learning. It teaches communication skills since teaching assistants will work one-on-one, in small groups, and full class with students taking the course.
  

  • HON 3301:Honors Interdisciplinary Seminar

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the Undergraduate Honors Program
    In this intensive reading and writing course, honors students will explore creative integrations of evidence from two or more disciplines, with emphasis on global learning. In addition to investigating the how and why of interdisciplinary thinking, they will examine the origins, consequences, and principles underlying their own assumptions about issues raised in class lectures and discussions.
  

  • HON 4400:Honors Directed Study

    1-3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 1-3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the University Honors Program
    This independent study course is designed to accommodate independent study through traditional or applied learning honors experiences that are exclusive of those offered in other Honors courses.
  

  • HON 4490:Honors Special Topics

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the Undergraduate Honors Program
    This course addresses special topics of interest to Honors students and faculty.
  

  • HON 4497:Honors Senior Capstone Proposal

    1 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 0-1 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to the Undergraduate Honors Program
    To complete their Honors requirements, students design and execute a senior project reflecting original research; an original synthesis of existing research; an application of existing research to a new context; original creative work, or the design and coordination of a major-related service learning project in the major. This first one-hour capstone course gives them credit for producing a substantive honors capstone proposal. This course is required of all students in the Undergraduate Honors Program.
  

  • HON 4499:Honors Senior Capstone Project Completion

    0-3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 0-3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of HON 4497   with a “Satisfactory” and approved Honors capstone proposal
    This final segment of the Honors Senior Capstone Experience requires an honors student to complete and submit the final capstone product(s): an honors thesis, an original creative work, or a capstone narrative, supported with appropriate documentation, describing the process and learning outcomes of a major service learning project. Required of all honors students.

Human Services
  

  • HS 2100:Overview of Human Services

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    This required course provides students with an overview of helping professions. Topics include: philosophy of human services; characteristics of human service workers; careers in human services; description of public, nonprofit and for-profit agencies; theory; and cultural diversity. Human service majors are required to take this course prior to applying for admission into the HS program. This course is also a prerequisite for other HS courses. Students must complete 20 hours of volunteer service as a requirement of this class.

     
  

  • HS 2200:Fundamentals of Nonprofits

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    This introductory course is designed to provide knowledge, theory, and skills in the administrative/management aspects of nonprofit organizations.

    Notes: This course is a required course for students seeking Nonprofit Leadership Alliance Certification.
  

  • HS 2300:Cultural Competence in the Human Services

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    This foundation required course in human diversity enhances students’ abilities to understand, evaluate, and provide culturally sensitive and competent human services to members of diverse groups. This course gives students the opportunity to reflect upon their own cultural development and to be more sensitive to others
  

  • HS 2400:Interviewing Skills for the Helping Professions

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HS majors or HS Interest or Non-Majors with permission of Department.
    This required course introduces students to interviewing skills in non-crisis settings. Communication skills learned in the course include relation skills building techniques within a problem solving model. Additionally, students learn skills to identify client strengths and to work with resistant clients. Students are required to role-play, videotape, and critique skills learned in the course. The goal of this course is to expose the student to a variety of perspectives used by all human service workers.
  

  • HS 2900:Working with Support Groups

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HS 2400  and (HS Majors or Permission of Department)
    This course introduces students to basic theory, skills, methods and values necessary to lead support groups. Students will develop, facilitate/co-facilitate issue oriented groups for different ages, genders, etc.
  

  • HS 3000:Foundation Internship

    3 Class Hours 6 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HS 2200  , HS 2300  , HS 2400  , HS Majors only, Minimum 2.8 Institutional GPA
    This course provides students the opportunity to begin to explore the helping professions by completing service learning while applying theoretical knowledge, skills and human services value systems. Specifically, HS majors will be expected to demonstrate knowledge content from prerequisite courses. Students will be expected to demonstrate beginning competencies in micro and macro practice.
  

  • HS 3100:Poverty and Culture

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HS 2300   and (HS major or HS Interest or Non-major with permission of department)
    This required course will provide an overview of poverty in the US, its causes, efforts to alleviate it, and its reflection in and by culture. Students will examine theories of the causes of poverty, insights into personal experiences of poor people, and critical thinking activities relative to this social issue.
  

  • HS 3200:Social Welfare Policy

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HS 2200   and (HS major or HS Interest or Non-majors with permission of the department).
    This required course provides students with an overview of American social welfare policy and social problems that policies address. The value systems underpinning the social welfare policies are explored along with the relevance of the NOHS Code of Ethics in shaping American social welfare policies. Attention is also given to social welfare in a global context.
  

  • HS 3300:Human Socialization

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HS majors or HS Interest or Non-majors with permission of the department
    This required course provides students with an overview of human development within the social environment. This course focuses on the effect of the environment on personal and social functioning.
  

  • HS 3400:Community Intervention

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HS majors or Non-majors with permission of the department
    This required course focuses on macro-human service practice as a complement to preparation in micro-direct services. It is specifically designed to provide students with a working knowledge and basic skills required for helping communities and organizations address their needs and concerns. Students will learn various models of community and organizational intervention that can be used in diverse settings.
  

  • HS 3500:Research Methods for the Human Services

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: (STAT 1107   or MATH 2332  ) and (HS majors or Non-majors with permission of department)
    This required course introduces quantitative and qualitative social science research methods with an emphasis on specific methods necessary for human service research and evaluation. This course enables students to become informed producers and consumers of research products, particularly in the human service areas. The emphasis is on basic concepts and underlying assumptions of various social science research methodologies and their design implications. It also develops skills in designing research projects with a particular emphasis on survey research. This course content has critical application in HS 4900-Capstone course. Notes: Offered as an on-line course.
  

  • HS 3600:Program Development and Evaluation

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HS 2200  
    This course introduces students to the development and evaluation of human services programs. Students will discuss appropriate program evaluation techniques and design elements, including an evaluation plan.
  

  • HS 3650:Governance, Advocacy, and Leadership in Nonprofits

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HS 2200  
    This course introduces students to the theory and practice of governance, leadership and advocacy within non-profit organizations.

    Notes: This course is a required course for students seeking Nonprofit Leadership Alliance Certification and is offered as an online course.
  

  • HS 3700:Aging and the Family

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HS majors or Non-majors with permission of the department.
    This course introduces students to family systems theory and practice in relation to working with older adults and their families. Impact on nursing home placement, Alzheimer’s disease, death and dying, and depression as it relates to family function is stressed. Services and solutions to aging related problems will be included. 
  

  • HS 3750:Death, Dying and Bereavement

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HS majors or Non majors with permission of the department
    In this course, students will examine death, dying, and bereavement from historical, contemporary, and cultural points of view. Students will also study skills necessary for working with dying and bereaved populations
  

  • HS 3800:Social Entrepreneurship and Enterprise

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: HS 2200   or MGT 4001  
    This course introduces students to the theory and practice of social entrepreneurship and innovation.
 

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