HY 501 - DAILY LIFE IN ANCIENT ROME
Semester Hours: 3
This course will re-create the daily lives of the ancient Romans using secondary readings, ancient literature, archaeology, and film. It focuses on the lives of ordinary people, with an eye to their struggles, everyday practices, beliefs, values and mentalities.
HY 510 - SPECIAL TOPICS PUBLIC HISTORY
Semester Hours: 3
Intensive examination of a particular problem, aspect, or methodology in public history.
HY 513 - THE OLD SOUTH
Semester Hours: 3
Southern society, economics, politics and culture concentrating on the nineteenth century South through Reconstruction.
HY 514 - THE NEW SOUTH
Semester Hours: 3
The post-Reconstruction South emphasizing the economic, social, and political readjustments made during the twentieth century.
HY 524 - THE ATLANTIC WORLD
Semester Hours: 3
Examines interactions across the Atlantic Ocean among Africans, Americans, and Europeans. This course meets the requirements for either American or non-American credit.
HY 526 - COLONIAL AMERICA
Semester Hours: 3
Explores the founding of New World colonies, including political, social, economic, and religious developments during the colonial period.
HY 527 - AGE OF AMERICAN REVOLUTI
Semester Hours: 3
Explores the multinational connections and conflicts that led some English colonists to revolt. Considers the political, social, and economic aspect of the time period.
HY 528 - EARLY AMERICAN REPUBLIC
Semester Hours: 3
Political, social and economic changes between the American Revolution and the nineteenth century that laid the foundation for the United States.
HY 529 - CIVIL WAR & RECONSTRUCTION
Semester Hours: 3
This course will examine the major historical events and modern historiographical interpretations of the Civil War and Reconstruction period in American history. Special focus will be given to the following themes: social, economic, military, political, constitutional, and intellectual.
HY 537 - THE RISE OF MODERN AMER
Semester Hours: 3
Economic and social changes, imperialism, and the growth of government in the United States from 1877 to the 1920s.
HY 538 - MODERN AMERICA
Semester Hours: 3
American society, politics, economics, and foreign affairs from the end of World War I to the origins of the Cold War.
HY 539 - RECENT AMERICAN HISTORY
Semester Hours: 3
Contemporary America from the 1950s to the present analyzing both domestic and foreign affairs.
HY 540 - FOREIGN REL U.S. SINCE 1920
Semester Hours: 3
The United States as a world power. American involvement in World War II, the Cold War, and in Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.
HY 545 - COMPTVE MILITARY PLCY & STRAT
Semester Hours: 3
A comparative analysis of the military policy and strategy of states and empires in World History.
HY 572 - US MILITARY HISTORY SINCE 1920
Semester Hours: 3
The United States armed forces from 1920 to the present. The class will enhance understanding of the development and evolution of American strategy, doctrine, and operational issues.
HY 573 - US-LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS
Semester Hours: 3
This class focuses on the history of political, economic, and cultural interactions between Latin America and the United States from 1800 to the present. Topics include military intervention, trade, cultural exchanges, the Cold War, the drug war, and immigration.
HY 574 - RENAISSANCE & REFORMATION
Semester Hours: 3
Selected topics in the Italian Renaissance and European Reformation.
HY 575 - SECTARIANISM ISLAMIC WORLD
Semester Hours: 3
This course focuses on sectarianism, the practice and rhetoric surrounding marginalization of certain social-religious groups in the Islamic world. It explores the historical foundations of sectarianism (from early 7th century to today) both within the Islamic world and across the globe.
HY 576 - BEING YOUNG MODERN MIDDLE EAST
Semester Hours: 3
This course focuses on the lives of young men and women of the Modern Middle East. It explores how children and youth experienced historical phenomena in the region, the ways in which these experiences affected the foundations of their adulthood, and how their actions shaped historical events.
HY 580 - ROMANS&BARBARIANS LATE ANTIQTY
Semester Hours: 3
This course explores the dynamic world of Late Antiquity including political developments, social and religious transformation, and exchange patterns in the Mediterranean. It is a history of cultural interaction, continuity, and change during a formative period in western civilization.
HY 581 - EMPIRES AND NATIONS
Semester Hours: 3
Thematic focus on empires and nations as political and cultural constructs in European and world history. Students may take HY581 more than once for credit ONLY IF 1) a different instructor teaches each offering, and 2) the temporal and/or geographic focus is distinct each time.
HY 582 - COMPARTVE SLAVERY & ABOLITION
Semester Hours: 3
Explore slavery around the world over time. Topics in the ancient world, Indian Ocean, Africa, the United States, and other locations from ancient times to the present.
HY 583 - GENDER & SEXUALITY IN LATIN AMERICA
Semester Hours: 3
Studies in history of women, gender and sexuality in Latin America from the colonial period to the present.
HY 584 - LATIN AMERICAN HY THROUGH FILM
Semester Hours: 3
HY 585 - NAZI GERMANY AND THE HOLOCAUST
Semester Hours: 3
Seminar course on the historiography of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.
HY 586 - COMMUNISM &LEGACY IN RUS/E-EUR
Semester Hours: 3
Overview and analysis of communist states and post-communist legacies in Russia and Eastern Europe.
HY 590 - RESEARCH SEMINAR IN HY
Semester Hours: 3
Students will conduct primary source research, consult relevant secondary sources, and consider the historiography of their topic, and write a research paper. Students will present their research in class. MA students are required to complete HY590 or a thesis.
HY 592 - PUBLIC MEMORY & INTERP
Semester Hours: 3
Examines how public memory is created by looking at the social, political, and economic forces that shape public history and considers how historical knowledge is conveyed to the public.
HY 593 - FUNDAMENTALS OF ARCHIVES
Semester Hours: 3
Survey of basic archival theory and practice, with emphasis on the role of the archivist in contemporary society.
HY 594 - DEVELOPING DIGITAL ARCHIVES
Semester Hours: 3
Survey of the theory and practice of developing digital access tools in archives, libraries, and museums.
HY 595 - PUBLIC HISTORY INTERNSHIP
Semester Hours: 3
Students will participate in a semester-long public history internship and be responsible for completing a significant project using historical skills in a professional setting. Students must complete a minimum of 125 hours of work during their internship.
HY 598 - STUDIES IN HISTORY
Semester Hours: 1-3
A readings or research class on a particular problem, period or topic in history. This course may be repeated for credit.
HY 599 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
Semester Hours: 3
In exceptional circumstances, a student and professor may work together on a specialized topic.
HY 605 - RECENT INTERPRETA MOD HY
Semester Hours: 3
Development of the ability to appraise critical historical issues through study and discussion of recent interpretations of key historical problems in modern western history. Required for history graduate students. Fall only.
HY 614 - STUDIES IN SOUTHERN HY
Semester Hours: 3
Research, writing, and critical examination of selected topics in nineteenth- and twentieth-century southern history.
HY 618 - STUDIES EARLY AMER HY
Semester Hours: 3
Research, writing, and critical examination of selected topics in early American history from 1607-1800.
HY 619 - STUDIES 19TH CENT AM HY
Semester Hours: 3
Research, writing, and critical examination of selected topics in nineteenth-century American history.
HY 620 - STUDIES 20TH CENT AM HY
Semester Hours: 3
Research, writing, and critical examination of selected topics in twentieth-century American history.
HY 645 - READINGS AMERICAN MILITARY HY
Semester Hours: 3
Thematic course that will use readings and discussions to examine key historiographical issues in American military history from the colonial period to the present.
HY 650 - RESEARCH METHODS IN HY
Semester Hours: 3
Exploration of contemporary research methods such as archival research, paleography, quantitative methods, and state/local research techniques.
HY 680 - STUDIES/EARLY MOD EUROPE
Semester Hours: 3
Research, writing, and critical examination of selected topics in the field of early modern European history.
HY 685 - HISTORY OF SCIENCE
Semester Hours: 3
Research, writing and critical examination of selected topics in the history of science.
HY 686 - READING ANCIENT ROME HY
Semester Hours: 3
This seminar introduces the main historiographical debates in the study of ancient Rome, from the Republic to Late Antiquity. It covers the following topics: Roman institutions, politics, and strategy; Society and daily life; religious revolution and the integration of barbarians.
HY 687 - STUDIES MIDDLE EAST HISTORY
Semester Hours: 3
Research, writing, and critical examination of selected topics in modern Middle East history (late 1800s-present).
HY 690 - STUDIES IN MODERN EUROPE
Semester Hours: 3
Research, writing, and critical examination of selected topics in the field of modern European history.
HY 695 - STUDIES IN WORLD HISTORY
Semester Hours: 3
Research, writing and critical examination of selected topics in the study and teaching of world history.
HY 696 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN HISTORY
Semester Hours: 3
A readings or research class on a particular problem, period, region or topic in history. This course may be repeated for credit.
HY 698 - INDEPENDENT RESEARCH PROJECT
Semester Hours: 3
Supervised individual research project.
HY 699 - MASTER'S THESIS
Semester Hours: 1-3
Required each semester a student is working and receiving direction on a master's thesis. A minimum of two terms is required but no more than six hours credit is allowed for the thesis.