Course Descriptions

The Course Descriptions catalog describes all undergraduate and graduate courses offered by Michigan State University. The searches below only return course versions Fall 2000 and forward. Please refer to the Archived Course Descriptions for additional information.

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HST 110 Historical Approaches to Contemporary Issues

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Origins, contexts, and meaning of a current issue. Use of historical methods to understand an important problem or issue.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 140 World History to 1500

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 4   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:4
Description:
Similarities and distinctive qualities of civilizations in the pre-modern era. Social, cultural, and economic influences and interactions.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 150 World History since 1500

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 4   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:4
Description:
The making of the modern world with focus on international relations. Major changes in culture and human understanding of the world.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 160 Introduction to Asian History and Culture

Semester:
Fall of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 4   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:4
Description:
History and culture of East, South and Southeast Asia in the early modern and modern periods.
Effective Dates:
FS15 - Open

HST 201 Historical Methods and Skills

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year, Summer of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Not open to students with credit in:
HST 201H
Description:
The nature and discipline of history. Introduction to analytical and interpretive reading and writing, historical research, and historical methodologies.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 201H Historical Methods and Skills for Honors Students

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Restrictions:
Open to students in the Honors College.
Not open to students with credit in:
HST 201
Description:
The nature and discipline of history. Introduction to analytical and interpretive reading and writing, historical research, and historical methodologies.
Effective Dates:
FS24 - Open

HST 202 U.S. History to 1876

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 4   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:4
Description:
Major topics and themes in U.S. history from the colonial and revolutionary periods through the Civil War and reconstruction.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 203 U.S. History since 1876

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 4   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:4
Description:
Major topics and themes in U.S. history from 1876 to the present including such topics as political development, social change, women's history, race and ethnicity.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 205 The Ancient Mediterranean and the Medieval World

Semester:
Fall of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 4   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:4
Not open to students with credit in:
HST 205A, HST 205B
Description:
Major political, cultural, social and economic developments and themes from the ancient civilizations to the late Middle Ages. Mesopotamia and Egypt. Greece and Rome. Charlemagne and the Franks. Normans and Crusaders. Popes and feudal monarchs. Bubonic plagues. The early Renaissance.
Effective Dates:
FS16 - Open

HST 206 European History since 1500

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 4   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:4
Description:
Major topics in European history from 1500 to present including Reformation, Renaissance, Enlightenment, the French Revolution, social, political changes in nineteenth century, nature of twentieth century.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 208 Introduction to African History, Culture and Society

Semester:
Summer of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 4   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:4
Description:
General survey of the history, culture and society of Africa, from around 1500 to the present. Interplay between internal and external socio-economic, political, cultural and religious forces in African societies.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 210 Modern East Asia

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 4   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:4
Description:
Major trends in the history, government, religion, philosophy, society and cultures of China, Japan and Korea. Evolving East-West contacts.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 212 National Latin America

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 4   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:4
Not open to students with credit in:
HST 381
Description:
Political, economic and social history of Latin America from the 1820s to the present, including relations between Latin America and the United States.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 213 U.S. Business and Economic History

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Evolution of American economy from colonial period to the present. Relationship between government and business. The relationship of labor to industry and government. Political culture and the world of business.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 220 History of Food and Alcohol

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
How food and alcohol have shaped world history. Relationship to politics, nationalism, religion, economics and culture. Consumption, trade, migration, slavery, globalization, environmental impacts.
Interdepartmental With:
Human Nutrition and Foods
Administered By:
History
Effective Dates:
SS17 - Open

HST 225 Law, History and Society in the United States

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Legal history of the United States. How law shapes and is shaped by culture and society. Framing the Constitution. Religious freedom. Gender and the law. Race and the law.
Effective Dates:
FS17 - Open

HST 250 History and Technology of the Digital Age

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year, Summer of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Recommended Background:
Experience with interactive entertainment.
Description:
Historical foundations of modern computing technology.  Technological and functional underpinnings of computers and computer systems.  Social dimensions of computing and computing technology, information technology, and communication technology.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 251 Doing Digital History

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Historical data mining. New technologies for historical data analysis. Web-based presentations of historical material.
Effective Dates:
FS15 - Open

HST 254 Migrations in History

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Introduction to human mobility in historical perspective. Settlement, diaspora, refugees, urbanization, integration. Considerations of ethnicity, gender and race.
Effective Dates:
SS22 - Open

HST 255 American Cinema and the American Century

Semester:
Fall of every year, Summer of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
History, evolution and transformation of the film industry in the extended twentieth century. From penny arcades and nickelodeons to the leading section of the global entertainment industry. Social and economic circumstances shaping developments in the film industry. Representations of race, gender and class in motion pictures. Production, distribution, consumption and reception of motion pictures in specific historical periods.
Effective Dates:
SS26 - Open

HST 281 Atlantic Slavery

Semester:
Spring of even years
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Slavery and human trafficking in western Europe, Africa and the Americas from the fifteenth century to the present.
Effective Dates:
FS19 - Open

HST 293 Witches, Demons and the Occult in Pre-Modern Europe

Semester:
Fall of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Witch hunts in Europe in their religious and social contexts. European beliefs about magic, demonology and the occult from the late Middle Ages to c. 1700.
Effective Dates:
FS18 - Open

HST 294 History of Catholicism, Late Antiquity to the Present

Semester:
Spring of odd years
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Roman Catholicism. Changing structures of administration, instruments of repression, and responses to and impact on social, cultural and political transformations. Missionary movements, orders and councils.
Interdepartmental With:
Religious Studies
Administered By:
History
Effective Dates:
FS16 - Open

HST 295 The Nazis

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Genesis of National Socialism and its trajectory as a political movement and dictatorship. Life in the Third Reich. Regime's military and genocidal aims. Role of Adolf Hitler.
Effective Dates:
FS17 - Open

HST 301 Indigenous-European Encounters in North America

Semester:
Fall of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
European-Indigenous encounters and long-term perspectives on Indigenous and European contact: expectations, stereotypes and mythologies about the Indigenous peoples of North America and Africa within expanding slave systems. Indigenous roles in settler colonial societies in the Caribbean, New France, New England and the Colonial South.
Effective Dates:
US18 - Open

HST 302 Revolutionary America

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
The American Revolutionary era in an international context, 1763-1826. Liberty and equality in a world of empires, republics and slavery. Role of gender, race and class in defining the meaning of the revolution. The U.S. Constitution. Early American diplomacy in transition from colony to nation.
Effective Dates:
FS17 - Open

HST 303 The Young American Republic

Semester:
Fall of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Rise of political democracy in the United States, 1820-1850. Emergence of a market economy and industrialization. Movements by laborers, women, African Americans, immigrants and Native Americans to expand rights. Religious and cultural change. Sectional conflict between North and South. Westward expansion, Oregon Trail, Gold Rush.
Effective Dates:
US18 - Open

HST 304 The Civil War Era

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year, Summer of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Political, constitutional, social, economic and military conflict between the North and the South, 1848-1876. Political realignment and birth of the Republican Party. States rights and secession. U.S. and C.S.A governments at war. Military campaigns, strategies, leadership. Slavery, emancipation, equal rights. Reconstruction.
Effective Dates:
US18 - Open

HST 305 The Making of the Modern United States

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Social, economic, and political transformations, 1877-1929. Rise of the modern United States. Gilded Age, robber barons, high finance. Industrialization. Science, technology and innovation. Populism, Jim Crow, woman suffrage, labor unrest, immigration, ethnicity. Imperialism. Progressive reform. Popular culture, amusements, media.
Effective Dates:
FS17 - Open

HST 306 Modern United States

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
United States history from 1920 to the present. Transformations in political, economic, and social institutions and Americans' responses to these changes. Development of the welfare-warfare state. The transformation to a post-industrial economy. Political and cultural responses to these changes.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 307 Labor History of the United States to 1863: Making a North American Working Class

Semester:
Fall of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Lives, agency, organization and activism of the diverse population of working people.
Effective Dates:
FS22 - Open

HST 308 Labor History of the United States since 1863: Modern Labor and Working-Class History

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Lives, agency, organization and activism of the diverse population of working-class people in the United States from the start of the modern industrial age to the present.
Effective Dates:
SS23 - Open

HST 309 American Indian History: Precontact to the Present

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Not open to students with credit in:
HST 378, HST 379
Description:
Gendered overview of indigenous history in the Americas. Precontact, encounter, intrusion and resistance to settler colonialism, forced removal, reservations, boarding schools, allotment, indigenous sovereignty.
Effective Dates:
SS19 - Open

HST 310 African American History to 1876

Semester:
Fall of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
American slavery in the mainland colonies. Establishment and nature of free black communities. The impact of emancipation.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 311 African American History since 1876

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Blacks in America from Reconstruction to the present. Grass roots and cultural revitalization. The Civil Rights movement and black power.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 312 African American Women

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Black women in American history. Slavery, the work place, politics, and the Civil Rights movement.
Interdepartmental With:
Women's Studies
Administered By:
History
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 313 Women in the United States to 1869

Semester:
Fall of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
United States history through the experiences of women. Gender, family, work, and political activism.
Interdepartmental With:
Women's Studies
Administered By:
History
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 314 Women in the United States since 1869

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
United States history through the experiences of women. Gender, family, work, and political activism.
Interdepartmental With:
Women's Studies
Administered By:
History
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 316 United States Intellectual History since 1860

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Development and influence of major ideas from 1860 to present. Topics include Social Darwinism, imperialism, religion, and women's rights.
Effective Dates:
FS21 - US26

HST 317 American Jewish History

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
American Jewish history from colonial period to present. Jewish immigration to the United States, patterns of religious and cultural adjustment, social relations and anti-Semitism, Jewish politics, the construction of Jewish identities.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 319 Asian American History

Semester:
Fall of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 4   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Restrictions:
Not open to freshmen or sophomores.
Description:
Survey of Asian American history from mid-nineteenth century to present. Analysis of shared and different experiences of the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, Vietnamese, Hmong, and East Indian peoples who have come to the United States.
Interdepartmental With:
James Madison College
Administered By:
James Madison College
Effective Dates:
FS20 - Open

HST 320 History of Michigan

Semester:
Fall of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Political, social, and economic development from colonial beginnings to the present.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 324 History of Sport in America

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Social and cultural ramifications of colonial sport. Rise of modern sport in the nineteenth century. Social significance of sport in modern America with special attention to economics, gender, race, and politics.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 325 United States Foreign Relations to 1914

Semester:
Fall of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Foreign policy of the United States from Benjamin Franklin and the origins of the nation to 1914. Topics include Jeffersonian foreign policy, the War of 1812, the Monroe Doctrine, and the rise to world power.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 326 United States Foreign Relations since 1914

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Foreign policy of the United States from the outbreak of World War I to the present. Topics include Wilson's foreign policy, the policy of isolation, World War II, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, and current developments.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 327 History of Mexican Americans in the United States

Semester:
Fall of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Mexican American history from 1492 to present. Cultural, social, economic, and political activities of Mexican Americans. Relationship of Mexican Americans to other groups.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 328 Military History of the United States 1900-Present

Semester:
Fall of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Military history of the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. American involvement in major conflicts: World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Cold War, the Vietnam War and the Iraqi wars.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 329 College Sports in the United States

Semester:
Fall of every year, Summer of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Origins of sports in higher education. Effects of industrialization and television. Civil rights movement in sports: incorporation of women and members of minorities. Title IX era. History of individual sports.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 330 Ancient Greek History to 200 BCE

Semester:
Fall of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Major social, cultural and political themes in the history of ancient Greece from the Bronze Age to Alexander the Great. Minoan and Mycenaean civilization, rise of the polis, Athenian democracy, Persian and Peloponnesian Wars, Alexander's empire. Consideration of art, architecture, literature, religion, women, and gender.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 331 Ancient Roman History 200 BCE to 500 CE

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Social, economic, and political history of Rome from its origins until the collapse of the Mediterranean empire.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 332 Medieval Europe

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Not open to students with credit in:
HST 332A, HST 332B, HST 333
Description:
Europe in the Middle Ages. End of the Western Roman Empire. Germanic kingdoms. Islam and the Mediterranean. The Christian church in the early Middle Ages. Carolingian empire and renaissance. The Vikings. Medieval learning. Chivalry. Formation of states. Feudal tenure. Economic revival and growth of towns. Hundred Years War. The Black Death. Popular Rebellion. Religion and Spirituality.
Effective Dates:
SS17 - Open

HST 335 Europe in the Age of Revolution, 1700-1870

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
European political, social, economic, and cultural developments from the Old Regime to German unification. Topics include the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution and the Revolutions of 1848.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 336 Europe from Bismarck to Brexit

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Politics, society, economy, and culture of Europe and Europe's relations with the wider world, from 1870 to the present, focusing on histories of violence and conflict and struggles for community, including world wars, revolutions, colonialism, decolonization, and European integration.
Effective Dates:
US19 - Open

HST 338 European Power, Culture and Thought: The Modern Era

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Restrictions:
Open to undergraduate students.
Description:
Ideas in historical context, 1750-1980. Enlightenment, revolution, conservatism, romanticism. Liberalism, socialism, Marx. Science, realism; anti-positivism, Nietzsche, Freud. Modernism in art and social theory. Feminism. World Wars, Fascism, Communism. Existentialism, structuralism, post-modernism.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 340 England and Its Culture to 1688

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Political, social, economic, religious, and intellectual developments from the Anglo-Saxons to the revolution of 1688.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 342 Modern Eastern Europe

Semester:
Fall of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Roots of national and social conflict in the lands between Germany and Russia, from the Baltic to the Balkans, in the 19th and 20th centuries. Formation of independent states, the rise and collapse of Communism, and ethnic tensions in former Yugoslavia.
Effective Dates:
SS25 - Open

HST 344 Russia in the Twentieth Century

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
End of Imperial Russia. Soviet Union from the 1917 Revolution to 1991. Post-Soviet Russia and other successor states. Bolshevism, Stalinism, social transformation and identities.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 347 Modern France

Semester:
Fall of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Politics and society from the French Revolution to the present. Impact industrialization. Changing political culture. Role of gender in society.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 348 Modern Germany

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Enlightenment, industrial and political revolutions, and national unification. Jewish emancipation and antisemitism, Catholicism and Protestantism. Nationalism and militarism. World War I, Weimar, Nazism, Holocaust. Postwar developments, reunification and aftermath.
Effective Dates:
SS26 - Open

HST 355 Spain and the Muslim World

Semester:
Fall of odd years
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Spain and Portugal within and in relation to the Muslim world, especially North Africa, from the thirteenth century to approximately 1700. Muslim Iberia. Convivencia and Reconquista. Jewish communities. Expulsions and forced conversions. Moriscos and Conversos. Renegades and mercenaries. Captivity and ransom. Trade, diplomacy and warfare.
Effective Dates:
FS19 - Open

HST 363 East Africa in the Twentieth Century

Semester:
Fall of even years
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Restrictions:
Not open to freshmen
Description:
Background up to 1500. European invasions, colonialism, nationalism, and independence.
Effective Dates:
FS16 - Open

HST 364 South Africa: From Shaka Zulu to Mandela

Semester:
Fall of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Social, political, and economic history. Rise of the Zulu State. European conquest and colonization. The mineral revolution. Segregation and apartheid. The liberation struggle. Democracy after 1994.
Effective Dates:
FS15 - Open

HST 365 The Vietnam War

Semester:
Fall of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
French colonial rule and the rise of Vietnamese nationalism. Communism and the Vietnamese revolution. The Cold War and American intervention. Reunification and economic renovation.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 366 Modern Southeast Asia

Semester:
Spring of even years
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Southeast Asia from 1500 to the present. Foundations of southeast Asian cultures. Religious revolutions and the rise of absolutist states. Trade and early contacts with the West. Indigenous and European empires. Forms of and responses to colonialism. Nationalist movements and independence.
Effective Dates:
FS24 - Open

HST 367 Imperial China

Semester:
Fall of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Traditional China from the earliest period to the end of the Qing dynasty. Dynastic and state structure. Confucian, Taoist, and Buddhist traditions. Everyday lives of women and men. Social practices. Economic influences.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 368 China since 1900

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Political, social, economic, and cultural developments. The nationalist and communist revolutions. China under communism, 1940s to present.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 369 Japan in the Age of the Samurai

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Japan before 1800. Exploration of political, religious, and literary developments including Buddhism and Shinto, foreign relations and state formation, poetry and theater. Evolution of women’s roles, samurai and warfare, and early modern popular culture.
Effective Dates:
FS19 - Open

HST 370 Modern Japan: History, Culture, and Society

Semester:
Fall of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Japan since 1800. Transformation of Japan's political structure, society, and economy from a feudalist country to a modern and militant empire, then from a war-torn and destitute nation to an economic giant with a flourishing culture in the contemporary world.
Effective Dates:
FS19 - Open

HST 371 Women and Gender in Asia

Semester:
Fall of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Women in Asian societies, including political and religious leaders, merchants and traders, authors and artists, as well as ordinary women. Family structures, patriarchy and gendered social roles.
Effective Dates:
FS18 - Open

HST 372 The Middle East: Islam and Empires

Semester:
Fall of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Survey of North Africa and the Arab, Persian, and Turkic lands of Southwest Asia from the rise of Islam to the early nineteenth century.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 373 The Modern Middle East: From Empires to Nation States

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Survey of the Middle East from Napoleon's invasion of Egypt (1798) to the present. Reforms and revolutions in the Safawid and Ottoman Empires. European colonialism. World War I. Rise of nation states. World War II. Islamic revolution in Iran. Modern movements. Political, cultural, social, and economic developments.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 374 South Asia before Colonialism

Semester:
Fall of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Developments between 3000BCE and 1750CE in the areas which now comprise India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
Effective Dates:
FS24 - Open

HST 375 Modern South Asia

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
South Asia from colonialism to independence and after. Focus on the diverse histories and struggles of marginalized groups and the similarities and differences among the experiences of people in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and other South Asian countries.
Effective Dates:
FS24 - Open

HST 382 Modern Brazil

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Political, economic, and social history from independence to the present. The state and the economy, social changes, and political developments.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 383 The Caribbean

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Political, economic, and social history. Sugar and slavery, nationalism, and relations with the United States.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 384 Modern Mexico

Semester:
Fall of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Political, economic, and social history, including United States-Mexican relations.
Effective Dates:
FS24 - Open

HST 387 The First World War

Semester:
Fall of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Not open to students with credit in:
HST 415
Description:
Causes of World War I, conduct of the war, and its consequences. Political, diplomatic, economic and social factors. Technological and cultural aspects.
Effective Dates:
FS19 - Open

HST 388 World War II: Causes, Conduct and Consequences

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Not open to students with credit in:
HST 414
Description:
Causes of World War II, conduct of the war and its consequences. Political, diplomatic, economic and social factors as well as technological and artistic aspects.
Effective Dates:
FS19 - Open

HST 390 History of International Relations

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Evolution of the nation state system. Its spread from Europe throughout the world and the consequences of that spread.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 391 Environmental History of North America

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Interaction of peoples of North America and their natural environments.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 392 History of the Holocaust

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Nazi persecution and genocide in Europe, 1933-1945. Jewish experience within broader context. Perpetrators, victims, bystanders, and resistors. Post-Holocaust memory, film, literature, and philosophical implications.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 394 The Space Age

Semester:
Summer of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
The exploration and science of aeronautics and space from the age of Galileo to the present. International relations as a driving force in technological advances. Cultural understandings and imaginings of space and space travel.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 396 The City and its Discontents: Perspectives Past and Present

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Prerequisite:
Completion of Tier I Writing Requirement
Restrictions:
Not open to freshmen.
Description:
Historical transformations in modern urban social relations and their relationship to contemporary urban problems and governance.
Effective Dates:
SS16 - Open

HST 397 Global Soccer

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Soccer’s evolution from British sport to global cultural phenomenon. The World Cup, nationalism, fans, playing styles, migration, women’s game, media, business.
Interdepartmental With:
Kinesiology
Administered By:
History
Effective Dates:
FS21 - Open

HST 411 European Jewish History

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
European Jewry since medieval era. Napoleonic emancipation, Jewish liberalism, assimilation, Zionism, anti-Semitism, and recent issues.
Effective Dates:
FS16 - Open

HST 418 History and Art through Technology (W)

Semester:
Fall of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Prerequisite:
Completion of Tier I Writing Requirement
Restrictions:
Not open to freshmen.
Description:
Approaches in History and Art History to visual, material, textual, and other historical sources using digital technologies to explore a particular region, time period, or thematic topic.
Interdepartmental With:
History of Art
Administered By:
History
Effective Dates:
FS24 - Open

HST 420 History of Sexuality since the 18th Century

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Restrictions:
Not open to freshmen.
Description:
Changing gender roles, sex in the Victorian era, prostitution, pornography, birth control, emergence of homo- and heterosexuality, sex under fascism, the sexual revolution, contemporary conflicts.
Interdepartmental With:
Women's Studies
Administered By:
History
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 425 American and European Health Care since 1800

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 4   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:4
Prerequisite:
Completion of Tier I writing requirement.
Restrictions:
Not open to freshmen.
Description:
Social and cultural transformation in health care delivery since 1800, primarily in North America and western Europe. Therapeutic revolutions. Medical education and professionalization. Social and alternative medicine. Managed care.
Interdepartmental With:
Lyman Briggs
Administered By:
History
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 450 Special Topics in African History

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 6 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Restrictions:
Not open to freshmen.
Description:
Experimental courses and courses taught by visiting faculty.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 451 Special Topics in Asian History

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 6 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Restrictions:
Not open to freshmen.
Description:
Experimental courses and courses taught by visiting faculty
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 452 Special Topics in European History

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 6 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Restrictions:
Not open to freshmen.
Description:
Experimental courses and courses taught by visiting faculty
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 453 Special Topics in Latin American History

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 6 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Restrictions:
Not open to freshmen.
Description:
Experimental courses and courses taught by visiting faculty
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 454 Special Topics in American History

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 6 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Restrictions:
Not open to freshmen.
Description:
Experimental courses and courses taught by visiting faculty
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 455 Special Topics in Modern History

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 6 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Restrictions:
Not open to freshmen.
Description:
Experimental courses and courses taught by visiting faculty
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 456 Special Topics in the History of Sexuality

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 6 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Restrictions:
Not open to freshmen.
Description:
Experimental courses and courses taught by visiting faculty.
Effective Dates:
SS17 - Open

HST 475 History of the Book: From Manuscripts to Comics

Semester:
Fall of even years
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Prerequisite:
(HST 201 or ENG 210 or approval of department) and Completion of Tier I Writing Requirement
Restrictions:
Not open to freshmen.
Description:
History of the book from medieval manuscripts to modern forms. Publishing, illustration, censorship, manuscript and print culture.
Interdepartmental With:
English
Administered By:
History
Effective Dates:
SS25 - US26

HST 480 Seminar in American History (W)

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 12 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Prerequisite:
(HST 201 or HST 201H) and completion of Tier I writing requirement
Description:
Exploration of particular topics in cultural, intellectual, or political history, seventeenth century to the present.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 481 Seminar in Ancient History (W)

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 12 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Prerequisite:
(HST 201 or HST 201H) and completion of Tier I writing requirement
Description:
A specific problem or theme in the history of Greece and Rome.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 482 Seminar in Medieval History (W)

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 12 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Prerequisite:
(HST 201 or HST 201H) and completion of Tier I writing requirement
Description:
A specific problem or theme in medieval social, cultural, intellectual, legal, and political history, 500-1300.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 483 Seminar in Modern European History (W)

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 12 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Prerequisite:
(HST 201 or HST 201H) and completion of Tier I writing requirement
Description:
A specific problem or theme in European social, political, cultural, or economic history since 1300.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 484 Seminar in African History (W)

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 12 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Prerequisite:
(HST 201 or HST 201H) and completion of Tier I writing requirement
Description:
Issues in African social, political, cultural, and environmental history.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 485 Seminar in Asian History (W)

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 12 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Prerequisite:
(HST 201 or HST 201H) and completion of Tier I writing requirement
Description:
Intensive study of a specific problem or theme in the social, political, economic, or cultural history of Asia.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 486 Seminar in Latin American History (W)

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 12 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Prerequisite:
(HST 201 or HST 201H) and completion of Tier I writing requirement
Description:
A specific problem or theme in the social, cultural, economic, and political history of Latin America.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 487 Seminar in Comparative History (W)

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of even years
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 12 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Prerequisite:
(HST 201 or HST 201H) and completion of Tier I writing requirement
Description:
Analysis of themes or problems from different cultures and countries.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 488 Seminar in International Relations (W)

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 12 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Prerequisite:
(HST 201 or HST 201H) and completion of Tier I writing requirement
Description:
A specific problem or theme in the history of international relations.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 489 Seminar in Digital History (W)

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 12 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Prerequisite:
Completion of Tier I Writing Requirement
Restrictions:
Not open to freshmen.
Description:
A specific problem or theme in history approached through digital research to create digital work product.
Effective Dates:
FS15 - Open

HST 490 Independent Study

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Variable from 1 to 4
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 8 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Restrictions:
Approval of department.
Description:
Special projects arranged by an individual student and a faculty member in areas supplementing regular course offerings.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 493 History Internship

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year, Summer of every year
Credits:
Variable from 1 to 4
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 8 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Restrictions:
Open to juniors or seniors. Approval of department.
Description:
Domestic and international history and history education placements with educational institutions, museums, libraries, archives, historic sites, digital history programs, public agencies, legal firms and departments, non-profit agencies, and private businesses.
Effective Dates:
FS16 - Open

HST 499H Senior Honors Thesis

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 6 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Restrictions:
Approval of department.
Description:
Individual research projects, supervised by a faculty member.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 800 Historiography of the United States to 1865

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Overview of American history through the Civil War. Writings of historians on issues in social, cultural, intellectual, and/or political history.
Effective Dates:
US05 - Open

HST 801 Historiography of the United States Since 1865

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Americanist historiography since the Civil War. Historical writings about issues in social, cultural, intellectual, or political history.
Effective Dates:
US05 - Open

HST 803 Seminar in Methodology of Historical Research

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Historical research techniques and methodologies.
Effective Dates:
US05 - Open

HST 804 Advanced Research and Professional Development Seminar

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Prerequisite:
HST 803
Description:
Historical research techniques, methodologies, and professional development.
Effective Dates:
SS24 - Open

HST 805 Readings in the Historical Roots of Epidemiological Thought

Semester:
Fall of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Prerequisite:
EPI 810 or approval of department
Restrictions:
Open to graduate students in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics or approval of department.
Description:
Historical evolution of models of disease causation and population perspectives on disease.
Interdepartmental With:
Epidemiology
Administered By:
Epidemiology
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open

HST 807 Readings in Early American and U.S. History

Semester:
Fall of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 9 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Description:
Exploration of historical literature on a particular time period, region, or topic in Early American and U.S. History.
Effective Dates:
FS05 - Open

HST 808 Research in Early American and U.S. History

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 9 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Description:
Research process, methods, and sources on a particular time period, region, or topic in Early American and U.S. History.
Effective Dates:
FS05 - Open

HST 810 Anthrohistory: Exploring the Crossroads of Anthropology and History

Semester:
Fall of even years
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Recommended Background:
Advanced course work in either anthropology or history.
Restrictions:
Open to doctoral students or approval of department.
Description:
Recent trends in work between anthropology and history. Emphasis on themes of representation, methodology and epistemology.
Interdepartmental With:
Anthropology
Administered By:
History
Effective Dates:
FS12 - Open

HST 812 History in the Digital Age

Semester:
Fall of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Historical data mining. New technologies for historical data analysis. Methods for digitizing historical materials. Web-based presentations of historical material.
Effective Dates:
FS15 - Open

HST 814 Historiography and Social Theory

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Description:
Social theory and historical research. Topics will vary. Potential themes include: capitalism, consumption, institutions, public spheres, power/resistance, identity, culture.
Effective Dates:
SS15 - Open

HST 822 Seminar in Early Modern European History

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 15 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Description:
Political, social, and economic history of Europe from 1500-1800. Major interpretations and research methods. Topics vary.
Effective Dates:
US05 - Open

HST 823 Seminar in Modern European History

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 15 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Description:
Political, social, and economic history of Europe after 1800. Major interpretations and research methods. Topics vary.
Effective Dates:
US05 - Open

HST 824 Seminar in Russian History

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 15 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Description:
Political, social, and economic history of Russia. Major interpretations and research methods. Periods and topics vary.
Effective Dates:
US05 - Open

HST 830 Seminar in African History

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 15 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Description:
Political, social, and economic history of Africa. Major interpretations and research methods. Periods and topics vary.
Effective Dates:
US05 - Open

HST 831 Seminar in Latin American History

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 15 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Description:
Political, social, and economic history of Latin America. Major interpretations and research methods. Periods and topics vary.
Effective Dates:
US05 - Open

HST 832 Seminar in Japanese History

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 15 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Description:
Political, social, and economic history of Japan. Major interpretations and research methods. Periods and topics vary.
Effective Dates:
US05 - Open

HST 833 Seminar in Chinese History

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 15 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Description:
Political, social, and economic history of China. Major interpretations and research methods. Periods and topics vary.
Effective Dates:
US05 - Open

HST 850 Seminar in Comparative History

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 12 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Description:
Comparative themes or problems from different cultures and countries. Major interpretations and research methods.
Effective Dates:
US05 - Open

HST 855 Interdisciplinary Topics in Film Studies

Semester:
Spring of even years
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3   Lab Hours: 2
Description:
Topics in film studies that engage other disciplines and fields through historical, cultural, and formal content.
Interdepartmental With:
Film Studies, French
Administered By:
Film Studies
Effective Dates:
FS19 - Open

HST 860 Seminar in Women's History

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 15 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Description:
Political, social, and economic history of women. Major interpretations and research findings. Topics vary.
Interdepartmental With:
Women's Studies
Administered By:
History
Effective Dates:
US10 - Open

HST 870 Seminar in African-American History

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 15 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Description:
Social, political, economic, and cultural topics emphasizing the intersection of race, class, and gender. Periods and topics vary.
Effective Dates:
US05 - Open

HST 875 Seminar in International Labor and Working Class History

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 9 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Description:
History of labor, capital, and the working class in international perspective.
Effective Dates:
FS05 - Open

HST 880 Seminar In Comparative Black History

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 12 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Description:
Methods and concepts that inform comparative history. The slave trade as a definitive link between Africa and the two Americas and the Caribbean, creating the black diaspora. Rise and fall of the slave trade and of disparate slave systems. Periods andtopics vary.
Effective Dates:
US05 - Open

HST 885 Fundamentals of Museum Studies

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Restrictions:
Approval of college.
Not open to students with credit in:
MUSM 485
Description:
Introduction to the history of museums and current practices, standards, issues and ethics related to education, administration, visitor studies and the development, care and use of museum collections.
Interdepartmental With:
Anthropology, Community Sustainability, Museum Studies
Administered By:
Museum Studies
Effective Dates:
FS21 - Open

HST 887 The Digital Museum

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Prerequisite:
MUSM 885 or concurrently
Restrictions:
Open to graduate students in the College of Arts and Letters or approval of college.
Not open to students with credit in:
AL 887, MUSM 487
Description:
Exploration, application, and innovation of the most current uses of the digital in museums, the arts, and other cultural organizational settings.
Interdepartmental With:
Anthropology, Museum Studies
Administered By:
Museum Studies
Effective Dates:
US22 - Open

HST 890 Independent Study

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year, Summer of every year
Credits:
Variable from 1 to 3
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 6 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Restrictions:
Approval of department.
Description:
Special projects, directed reading, and research arranged by an individual graduate student and a faculty member in areas supplementing regular course offerings.
Effective Dates:
US05 - Open

HST 897 Practicum in Museum Studies

Semester:
On Demand
Credits:
Variable from 1 to 3
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 6 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Prerequisite:
MUSM 885 or concurrently
Restrictions:
Approval of college.
Not open to students with credit in:
AL 897
Description:
Practical experience in museum studies, which may involve project-oriented activities to fulfill the Plan B requirement.
Interdepartmental With:
Anthropology, Community Sustainability, Museum Studies
Administered By:
Museum Studies
Effective Dates:
US22 - Open

HST 898 Master's Research

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year, Summer of every year
Credits:
Variable from 1 to 3
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 3 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Restrictions:
Approval of department.
Description:
Directed research in support of Plan B master's degree requirements.
Effective Dates:
US05 - Open

HST 899 Master's Thesis Research

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year, Summer of every year
Credits:
Variable from 1 to 6
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 9 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Restrictions:
Open only to graduate students in the Department of History.
Description:
Directed research in partial fulfillment of Plan A master's degree requirements.
Effective Dates:
US05 - Open

HST 900 Research and Pedagogy in Digital History

Semester:
Spring of every year
Credits:
Variable from 1 to 4
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 4 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Prerequisite:
HST 812 or approval of department
Description:
Practical and theoretical issues related to digital research, scholarship, and teaching. Identifying and using digital research tools. Creating/presenting digital scholarship. Online teaching methods. Digital methods in the classroom and for public history.
Effective Dates:
US16 - Open

HST 901 Writing the Dissertation

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits:
Total Credits: Credits: 3   Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours:3
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 9 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Restrictions:
Open to graduate students in the College of Social Science or in the Department of History or in the History Major.
Description:
Practical and theoretical issues related to the completion of the dissertation thesis.
Effective Dates:
FS22 - US26

HST 990 Independent Study

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year, Summer of every year
Credits:
Variable from 1 to 4
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 12 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Restrictions:
Open only to doctoral students. Approval of department.
Description:
Special projects, directed reading, and research arranged by an individual doctoral student and a faculty member in areas supplementing the regular course offerings.
Effective Dates:
US05 - Open

HST 999 Doctoral Dissertation Research

Semester:
Fall of every year, Spring of every year, Summer of every year
Credits:
Variable from 1 to 24
Reenrollment Information:
A student may earn a maximum of 36 credits in all enrollments for this course.
Restrictions:
Open to doctoral students in the Department of History.
Description:
Doctoral dissertation research.
Effective Dates:
FS14 - Open