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2021-2022 Greensburg Campus Catalog
University of Pittsburgh Greensburg
   
2021-2022 Greensburg Campus Catalog 
    
 
  May 02, 2024
 
2021-2022 Greensburg Campus Catalog [Archived Catalog]

Course Information


Special Courses

Pitt-Greensburg offers a variety of special courses that students may use to enhance their educational experience. The special courses include independent studies, internships, excellence courses, study abroad courses, and capstone courses. Most of the special courses are optional, but for some majors (e.g. criminal justice) an internship is required, and the capstone course is required of all majors.

An independent study allows a student to explore a topic for which no course is available at Pitt-Greensburg or extend the exploration of a topic begun in a regular course. To arrange for an independent study, a student must find a faculty sponsor and work with the sponsor to develop a course plan. Independent study courses are available in every department. See an advisor for more details.

Internships allow students to earn credits toward graduation while gaining on-the-job experience in their majors. An internship is required in some majors (e.g. criminal justice and the journalism track in English writing), but it is available as an elective in most majors. Students are expected to find their own internship opportunities, but faculty advisors and the Office of Career Services may be aware of employers looking for interns and can provide suggestions about seeking an internship. Some departments ask students to complete an internship application. See a faculty advisor for more information.

Pitt-Greensburg students have an opportunity to study abroad in a country/region of their choice. Academic credits are earned while abroad and will transfer directly back into the student’s academic degree requirements. See the study abroad coordinator for more information.

As part of the new Pitt-Greensburg curriculum that took effect in fall 1999, every Pitt-Greensburg student must complete a senior seminar or a senior project as a capstone to the work in the major program. The faculty views the capstone course as a significant enhancement to the UPG degree program because it provides students with the opportunity to bring together the themes and skills of the major. Capstone work typically involves research and both written and oral reports.

Departmental Course Listings

Please note, when searching courses by Catalog Number, an asterisk (*) can be used to return mass results. For instance a Catalog Number search of ” 1* ” can be entered, returning all 1000-level courses.

 

French

  
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    FR 1902 - DIRECTED STUDY


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course enables the student who has completed, or nearly completed, the French major to do research under the direction of a faculty member, on a topics of mutual interest.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Directed Studies
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Attributes: West European Studies

Freshman Studies

  
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    FS 0002 - FRESHMAN SEMINAR


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 1
    This course will acquaint freshmen with the many policies and procedures of college life.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    FS 0008 - TRANSFER SEMINAR


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 1
    This course will acquaint transfer students with the many policies and procedures of college life.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    FS 0014 - ACADEMIC VILLAGE CORNERSTONE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This seminar is for freshmen who are residing in the academic villages.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    FS 0016 - HEALTH SCIENCE SEMINAR


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 1
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    FS 0017 - SCIENCE CORNERSTONE 1


    Minimum Credits: 2
    Maximum Credits: 2
    Intended for students enrolled in both biology and chemistry, this section of first-year seminar is part of a two-semester science learning community experience. The goals for the fall seminar are to aid students in their academic and social transitions to college, to provide students with academic skills needed for the study of science and to foster a better appreciation for career opportunities in science and the scientific approach to problems.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    FS 0024 - CORNERSTONE


    Minimum Credits: 2
    Maximum Credits: 2
    This course will set the foundation for academic and social success. Students will gain knowledge and practical skills to improve their academic performance and facilitate their integration into campus life
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    FS 0026 - SCIENCE CORNERSTONE 1


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 1
    Intended for students enrolled in both biology and chemistry, this section of first-year seminar is part of a two-semester science learning community experience. The goals for the fall seminar are to aid students in their academic and social transitions to college, to provide students with academic skills needed for the study of science and to foster a better appreciation for career opportunities in science and the scientific approach to problems.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    FS 0027 - SCIENCE CORNERSTONE 2


    Minimum Credits: 2
    Maximum Credits: 2
    This course is the second part of a two-semester science learning community experience designed for first-year biology and chemistry students. The second semester course will continue the themes of the first semester emphasizing continued development of good study habits, further exploration of career options and mastery of skills in scientific thinking.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: FS 0026 or FS 0017
  
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    FS 1950 - DIRECTED STUDY


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Course content to be decided between the professor and the student.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Directed Studies
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis

Geography

  
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    GEOG 0101 - WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    A systematic treatment of the physical, historical, cultural and economic processes that have shaped global landscapes. Contemporary regional problems and prospects will be emphasized.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    GEOG 0810 - EARTH AND PEOPLE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Introduces the student to the nature and scope of the field of geography and demonstrates the methodology which geographers use to examine people and land relationships. A number of world regions will be analyzed in this class.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis

Geology

  
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    GEOL 0860 - ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course takes an integrated earth systems approach to understanding our planet and its resources. We will investigate geologic processes and hazards (e.g., earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, and weather hazards), geologic resources (water, soil, minerals, energy) and the local and global ramifications of human interaction with the earth (e.g., air, soil and water pollution, ozone depletion, and climate change). This course also serves as an introductory course for three majors in the department of geology and planetary science.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Attributes: DSAS Natural Science General Ed. Requirement, Global Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Science NonSeq.GE. Req.

German

  
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    GER 0001 - ELEMENTARY GERMAN 1


    Minimum Credits: 5
    Maximum Credits: 5
    This is an elementary language acquisition course and aims to teach students how to carry out various functions likely to be necessary in dealing with others in the target language. The course aims to develop all four language skills—speaking, listening, reading, and writing, and deals with culture as an integral part of each skill. The language acquisition exercises are supplemented by an integrated and systematic presentation of grammar.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    GER 0002 - ELEMENTARY GERMAN 2


    Minimum Credits: 5
    Maximum Credits: 5
    This course completes the introduction of the basic structures of German begun in German 0001. It emphasizes all four language skills—speaking, listening, reading, and writing and deals with culture as an integral part of each skill. The language acquisition exercises are supplemented by an integrated and systematic presentation of grammar.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: GER 0001or 0111
  
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    GER 0004 - INTERMEDIATE GERMAN 2


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Conducted entirely in German, this course enables students to describe in past, present, and future time, and to initiate and sustain a conversation. They discuss contemporary texts and topics, participate in small group activities, and strengthen their writing skills through journal writing.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: GER 0003 or 0211
  
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    GER 0021 - GERMAN READING 1


    Minimum Credits: 4
    Maximum Credits: 4
    The objective of this course is to develop a basic reading knowledge of German. It is a beginning course which introduces all the structures of German grammar. German 0021 is designed for students who wish to acquire basic reading skills in the shortest possible time.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    GER 0022 - GERMAN READING 2


    Minimum Credits: 4
    Maximum Credits: 4
    This course is designed to help students obtain an intermediate reading knowledge of German. Students read unedited texts from general fields and from their own areas of specialization. The course includes a systematic review of grammar.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    GER 0041 - ELEMENTARY GERMAN 1


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    First of three courses designed to develop skills in speaking, listening, reading and writing in German. A systematic presentation of grammar will accompany language instruction. Understanding of German culture is emphasized as part of language skill.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    GER 0042 - ELEMENTARY GERMAN 2


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Second of three courses designed to develop skills in speaking, listening, reading and writing in German. A systematic presentation of grammar will accompany language instruction. Understanding of German culture is emphasized as part of language skill.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    GER 0043 - ELEMENTARY GERMAN 3


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Third of three courses designed to develop skills in speaking, listening, reading and writing in German. A systematic presentation of grammar will accompany language instruction. Understanding of German culture is emphasized as part of language skill.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: GER 0042 with grade of C or better
  
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    GER 1901 - INDEPENDENT STUDY


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 5
    A course designed for students who wish to work independently on individually designed projects.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Independent Study
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    GER 1902 - DIRECTED STUDY


    Minimum Credits: 0
    Maximum Credits: 15
    A course for students who wish to work on individually designed projects under the supervision of a faculty member.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Directed Studies
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis

Healthcare Management

  
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    HCM 0100 - INTRODUCTION TO HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course offers an overview of the evolution of the health care industry’s components and describes the technical, economic, political, and social forces that shaped their development.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    HCM 0200 - HEALTHCARE ISSUES AND CONCEPTS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course will provide a current and comprehensive overview of the basic structures and operations of the U.S. Health System. It will explore the historical developments that have shaped the U.S. health care delivery system including the concepts of health and disease and the role of health promotion and disease prevention leading to new trends in how care is delivered and the prospects of the new health care reform efforts. This course will also explore the evolution of healthcare financing and its impact on managed care development, healthcare professional shortages, medical technology and the delivery of inpatient, outpatient and long-term care services. This course will also explore how Health Policy impacts the health and wellness of all populations and the future of healthcare delivery in America.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    HCM 0210 - HEALTHCARE COMMUNICATIONS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit
  
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    HCM 0220 - HEALTHCARE QUALITY MANAGEMENT


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course will cover a broad focus of both the philosophy and process of Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) and the challenges of implementation and institutionalization will be addressed using examples from a variety of health care organizations including primary care, public health departments, and academic health centers. This course will also cover the subjects of operations management, organizational behavior, and health service delivery with a focus on practical application and exploring significant contributions from leading health care quality professionals. This course covers current issues for the health care manager and will include discussions on Implementation Science, Lean Six Sigma, and understanding Variation, Tools and Data Sources for CQI in Health Care. Course Discussions will also include the Quadruple Aim of heath care and the impact of CQI; how public health has institutionalized CQI to ensure quality health in our communities, and how CQI has been more broadly adopted to improve care for those most vulnerable populations in the U.S. as well as in low and middle income countries. This text used for this course will allow a greater focus on practical applications and the opportunity to incorporate many contributions from leading health care quality. This course will include extensive citations and detailed examples to help students understand the rationale and the most research and practical evidence available that provides the underpinning of the new techniques described.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    HCM 0230 - HEALTHCARE INFORMATION SYSTEMS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit
  
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    HCM 0240 - GERIATRIC AND LONG-TERM CARE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course will provide updated knowledge and skills to prepare the next generation of Long-Term (LTC) Administrators. This course will explore how to adapt an existing facility to the growing demands of culture change; details the organization and delivery of services; and furnishes the essential skills necessary to manage all aspects of LTC Administration.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    HCM 1100 - MANAGEMENT, DESIGN, AND OPTIMIZATION OF HEALTHCARE PROCESSES


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The course will provide students with knowledge of operations management in health care and the background on flow process improvement in healthcare, health provider productivity and benchmarking overview, project management, and lean management, and six sigma tools for healthcare organizations.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
    Course Requirements: LVL: Junior
  
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    HCM 1110 - HEALTHCARE POLICY, LAW AND ETHICS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course provides the student with an understanding of how the law and ethics intertwine as related to healthcare dilemmas.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    HCM 1120 - MANAGED CARE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course provides the student with a broad and sufficiently detailed overview of the key elements of health insurance and managed health care.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    HCM 1130 - FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT OF HEALTHCARE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course provides the student with an overview of the rules, regulations, policies and procedures that reflect the current healthcare financial field. Information is provided in the format of a common financial reporting period, a year.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    HCM 1950 - SENIOR PROJECT


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 3
    To be a successful healthcare management professional, one needs to practice. This course encompasses an analytical review of healthcare management concepts and application of these into a semester long project. The student will demonstrate and apply understandings of the context of the concepts and apply them in the creation of a practical and applied research project.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    HCM 1960 - HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT INTERNSHIP


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 6
    The Healthcare Management Internship is an opportunity for students to engage in practical and applied training in the field by working with a community partner organization. Students will be trained in practical operations and skills in the field as well as providing an empirical context for their academic and program studies.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Internship
    Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit

History

  
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    HIST 0100 - WESTERN CIVILIZATION 1


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The study of others leads back to ourselves. We learn about men and women from the past in order to compare their experience to our own, hoping that the comparison will make us more aware of the opportunities and limitations of present-day life. As an introduction to history, this course tries to suggest the excitement and uncertainties of studying the past. We begin at the time of the crusades, and continue through Renaissance and Reformation to the eve of Industrial Revolution.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    HIST 0101 - WESTERN CIVILIZATION 2


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    A history of the West from the Industrial Revolution to the late Twentieth Century, the period when Europe and its overseas extensions dominated world history.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    HIST 0125 - RELIGIONS OF THE WEST


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course is a historical introduction to the religious traditions that developed in ancient Near East and the Mediterranean. Our major emphasis is on the history of the religious traditions that emerged in late antiquity in this area and which continue to be major world religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. We will also touch on Zoroastrianism. We focus on key concepts, historical developments, and contemporary issues. Throughout the course, we also examine interactions among these religious traditions. In the last part of the course we examine the issue of globalization and the spread of these religions around the world as well as the presence of “non-Western” religion in the “West.” The course also serves as an introduction to the academic study of religion and provides a foundation for further coursework in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. No prior knowledge of any of the religions studied is expected or assumed.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    HIST 0180 - 19TH CENTURY EUROPE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Through textbook and lecture, the students will become familiar with the major political developments that took place in Europe between the French Revolution and World War I. Original source material will be used to acquaint the students with social roles and attitudes during the period.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
  
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    HIST 0187 - WORLD WAR II-EUROPE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The causes of WW II are surveyed, including World War I, the Russian Revolution, the Great Depression, and the rise of fascist regimes. The determinants of German expansionism will be discussed and related to the outbreak of war in 1939. The military struggle receives attention, but such topics as economic mobilization, propaganda, occupation policies, resistance movements and the Holocaust are also discussed. The course concludes with an analysis of war time diplomacy, the Postwar settlement, and the onset of the Cold War.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    HIST 0302 - SOVIET RUSSIA


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course examines the history of the USSR from 1917 to the present. Particular attention is paid to the revolutionary transformation of society, the construction of the Soviet state and Soviet society, and to the ways in which state and society relate.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    HIST 0500 - COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course explores the material history of Latin America during the period of Spanish and Portuguese Colonial Rule, from 1500 to 1825. In it, we will examine the interplay between material conditions (climate, natural resources, flora and fauna, and geographic features) and material culture (built space, technology, commodities, agriculture, as well as cultural products), asking how they shaped human action. Weekly case studies-ranging from pre-contact indigenous agriculture, through the role of technology in the success of Spanish conquistadors, to the impact horses on the Spanish frontier-prompt students to engage with the lived experience of a broad range of people living in pre-independence Latin America.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Attributes: DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, Global Studies, Latin American Studies, SCI Diversity General Ed. Requirements, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
  
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    HIST 0501 - MODERN LATIN AMERICA


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    History of the Latin American republics from independence, in 1825, to the present.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Attributes: DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, Latin American Studies, SCI Diversity General Ed. Requirements, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
  
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    HIST 0575 - HISTORY OF MODERN CENTRAL AMERICA


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course will cover the history of Central America from conquest to the present day. Emphasis will be on the social and economic development of indigenous peoples, national identity and human rights in the 19th and 20th centuries. The course will also study the history of the influence of the US on the region; with stress on the history of social movements, revolution, tenuous peace agreements, globalization and the continuation of social unrest still present in Central America today.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
  
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    HIST 0600 - UNITED STATES TO 1877


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This is an introductory, lower division, course that develops the history of United States from the 1400s through the 1880s.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Attributes: DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, SCI Diversity General Ed. Requirements, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
  
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    HIST 0601 - UNITED STATES 1865-PRESENT


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    An introduction to American history from the Civil War to the present which emphasizes selected topics on changes in American society and politics as an earlier agrarian society became an industrial-urban one and as the nation took up an ever larger role in world affairs.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Attributes: DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, SCI Diversity General Ed. Requirements, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
  
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    HIST 0640 - AMERICAN MILITARY HISTORY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    A survey of the American military experience from the early colonial period to the most recent experiences in the Gulf War and Afghanistan. The course explores the impact of warfare and military forces in the development of the United States. Emphasis is placed on the context of American warfare and how it has influenced our history and way of life.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    HIST 0675 - WITCHES TO WALDEN POND


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    A survey of American religious history from the colonial period through the civil war.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    HIST 0700 - WORLD HISTORY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course is an introductory survey of world history, by which is meant an overview of major processes and interactions in the development of human society since the development of agriculture some 10,000 years ago. It is a selective overview, emphasizing large-scale patterns and connections in political, social, cultural, technological, and environmental history, yet it also provides balance among regions of the world. It encourages students to apply historical techniques to issues of their own interest.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    HIST 0710 - WORLD HISTORY TO 1500


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course is an introduction to the global history of humanity from its beginnings to about the year 1500, emphasizing common trends across regions and cultures.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    HIST 0711 - WORLD HISTORY 1500 TO THE PRESENT


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course is an introduction to the last five centuries of human history: the rise of the Western powers, continuity and change elsewhere in the world, and the emergence of modernity.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    HIST 0712 - A GLOBAL HISTORY OF TERRORISM


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course will acquaint students with the remarkably long, diverse and widespread use of strategies of terror to advance political, economic, religious and social agendas. Our analysis will focus upon terror from below that is terror by non-state actors; will range from ancient Greece to the present; and will touch upon every inhabited continent. Using examples from many societies, we will discover that the human motivations for terrorist acts have changed little, but that their expression has changed a great deal, from the days of the Spartacus slave revolt, to the calculated terror of the Algerian revolution, to the media-centered “madmen strategy” of Al-Qaeda and Isis. Our organization will be roughly chronological, and will be combined with a typology of different kinds of terrorism. This inherently comparative approach will enable us to make this a true world history course, moving with ease from place to place, movement to movement, while still having a solid temporal and analytical framework to keep the material coherent.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    HIST 0756 - INTRODUCTION TO ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course aims to introduce students to Islamic and Middle Eastern History from the time of the Prophet (ca. 600 C.E.) to the Iranian Revolution in 1979. We will proceed chronologically, focusing mainly on political events. However, a special emphasis will be given to the formation of the Islamic tradition, its evolution across different regions and cultures in time, and its interaction with other traditions. In the modern era, we will particularly explore the Islamic societies’ political, cultural, and military encounter with the rising power of the West in the Middle East. In addition to the several historical processes and developments such as modernization, nation-building, Islamic fundamentalism and globalization, which have shaped the history of the Middle East in the last two centuries, our class discussions will also touch on the main theoretical perspectives that have stamped the studies of Islam and the Middle East. Here, concepts such as orientalism, defensive development, and modernity will constitute our main focus.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    HIST 0810 - ENGLAND SINCE 1689


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Surveys the development of English social, political, economic and cultural history to the present.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    HIST 1005 - SPECIAL TOPICS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course entails the exploration of a special topic chosen by the instructor.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Directed Studies
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
    Course Attributes: SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req.
  
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    HIST 1007 - SPECIAL TOPICS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course entails the exploration of a special topic chosen by the instructor.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Directed Studies
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    HIST 1010 - HISTORICAL INQUIRY AND METHODS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course introduces students to the historian’s craft. Students will learn the nature of historical knowledge, how to locate, document, and interpret a diverse array of historical evidence, and how to produce a research proposal using primary and secondary sources. It emphasizes that history is both a social science and an interpretive art. Accordingly, it will expose students to recent interdisciplinary trends in historical methodology and historical schools of thought and debate. The primary aim of this course is to instruct prospective and actual history majors in what it means to think, write, and verbally communicate like a historian.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: LVL; Junior or Seniors only
  
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    HIST 1031 - A HISTORY OF CURRENT EVENTS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course is designed to open students’ eyes to the often misunderstood fact that we do not study history for history’s sake, but to better understand the present. The course will be offered with varying themes, each time zooming in on one important present-day issue. Students will have the opportunity to explore topics that have been making the national and international headlines by engaging with the oftentimes complex historical developments that led to the current situation. They will leave the course with a better understanding of both the past and the present.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
  
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    HIST 1035 - 20TH-CENTURY WORLD


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    A history of the world between the years 1900 and 2000. Takes a broad, global approach to the political, social, and cultural developments that characterize the twentieth century. The course covers developments in Asia, Europe, and elsewhere, and emphasizes the ideological systems that motivated many of the great conflicts of the century.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
  
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    HIST 1075 - SLAVERY IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Examines slavery in the Americas from the Atlantic perspective (including Africa and Europe) from the fifteenth century through the present, with special emphasis on slave trades, the plantation systems, daily life, slavery and race, resistance, and abolition.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: LVL; Junior
  
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    HIST 1087 - WORLD WAR 2


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Examines the Second World War as a global phenomenon, including the Eastern and Western fronts in Europe, the Sino-Japanese War, and the Pacific War. Covers the origins of conflict in the various theaters, the course of the war, and its consequences. While some attention is given to military strategy, emphasis is also placed on the social and political dimensions of the conflict.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: SOPHOMORE
  
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    HIST 1090 - HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Provides an overview of the social history of medicine from prehistory to the present. Focuses on the emergence of medical institutions, education, theories, practices and the Orthodox and irregular medical sects. Describes the growth of the separate health disciplines of nursing, pharmacy and public health. Examines the impact of socioeconomic factors, religions and war on the evolution of medical science. Discusses the changing roles of government in the development of the American health care system.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Attributes: DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, Global Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req., West European Studies
  
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    HIST 1104 - THE CRUSADES


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    An examination of the crusades from both Christian and Muslim perspectives. Emphasizes crusading in and around the holy land, but also gives some attention to crusades within Europe. Considers political, social, and religious contexts in both Latin Europe and the Islamic Middle East.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: Sophomore
  
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    HIST 1123 - MODERN BRITAIN


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Political, economic and social change in Britain from the early 18th century to the present are examined in depth. Topics include the pre-industrial social structure, the origins of political stability, the making of the Industrial Revolution, popular protest and political reform, Britain’s supremacy during the Victorian era, imperialism and the rise of labor, the impact of total war, and the emergence of the welfare state. A discussion of Britain’s future prospects concludes the course.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    HIST 1140 - HISTORY AND CULTURE OF SPAIN


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course will survey the history and culture of Spain from medieval times to the present. Emphasis will be placed on Spanish geography, the interaction between the different cultures that lived in Spain, as well as Spanish art, architecture, and literature. The highlights of the course include the rise and fall of the Spanish Empire, the Spanish Civil War, Spain under Franco, Redemocratization and Modern Spain in the 21st century.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
  
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    HIST 1197 - BLACK DEATH: PLAGUE AND HISTORY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The Black Death, the great epidemic of 1347-1350’s was the most profound epidemiological-ecological crisis Europe had ever experienced. Between 30 and 70% of the population of the western world vanished. In the wake of this demographic disaster economic, psychological, social, literary and even artistic processes were profoundly altered. This epidemic can be traced through extensive primary sources ranging from literature to art history - from population statistics through village desertions. This course will introduce these data and examine the consequences of the Black Death.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: LVL: SOPHOMORE
  
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    HIST 1222 - NARCOS AND JUSTICE: THE FAILED DRUG WARS IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE UNITED STATES


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course explores the history of narco trafficking and the justice systems in both Latin America and the United States from the 1960s to the present. The course emphasizes how different Latin American countries and the United States responded and continue to respond to the proliferation of the illicit drug trade and its consequences, including the increase in violence and criminal activity, and the social repercussions of these actions on local communities.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
  
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    HIST 1313 - HISTORY OF RUSSIAN REVOLUTION


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course examines the origins, contours, and dynamics of the Russian Revolution of 1917, as well, as the period 1918-1921 during which the new Soviet State fought for its survival.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    HIST 1314 - USSR 1918-1932


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course examines the first 15 years of Soviet rule during which the fate of the Revolution of 1917 was determined. The Civil War, new economic policy, collectivization of agriculture, five-year plan, and cultural revolution receive concentrated attention.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    HIST 1315 - STALIN


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course examines the USSR during Stalin’s reign, 1929-53. Each facet of his reign—industrial development, collectivization, class war, and repression—receive detailed attention as does WWII and the Cold War.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    HIST 1367 - 20TH CENTURY EUROPE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Explores the most significant and dramatic episodes of contemporary history, both political and intellectual, including World Wars I and II, Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, inflation, depression, and the explosion of cultural modernism.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
  
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    HIST 1400 - COLONIAL AMERICA


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This is an upper division course that develops the history of the North American English colonies from around 1400 through the early 1760s.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    HIST 1423 - MODERN CHINA


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    China’s abandonment of its traditional political culture and its emergence in the Twentieth Century as a modern nation-state ruled by the Chinese communist party is the primary theme of this course, which will include lectures, readings, films, and classroom discussion.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
    Course Attributes: DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
  
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    HIST 1470 - EURASIAN CURRENTS/ SILK ROADS OF THE COMMON ERA


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course investigates the transmission and adaptation of three categories of human culture (material technology, ideas, and images) across the great landmass of Eurasia from approximately 3,000 BC to the present century.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore or greater
    Course Attributes: Asian Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
  
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    HIST 1522 - BRAZIL


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The course begins with an overview of Brazilian culture and of the country’s enormous resource base. Cultural change is traced through the pre-Columbian, colonial, imperial, and republican periods. A major theme throughout is the evolution of a Portuguese heritage into today’s distinctive Brazilian national culture. The country is then divided into five regions as a means of understanding its internal diversity. Popular American ideas about subjects like carnival, the Amazon Rainforest, coffee, Copacabana Beach, and the huge foreign debt are also dealt with.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
    Course Attributes: DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
  
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    HIST 1525 - MEXICO, AZTECS TO THE PRESENT


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Mexican history from the Aztecs to the present. We will discuss the conquest, the Colonial Era, the struggle for independence, nineteenth-century liberalism, the porfirian dictatorship, the Twentieth-Century Revolution, the formation of a single party state, the temptations of socialism, the oil boom, the debt crisis, and the “crisis of the system” now being experienced by Mexico.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
    Course Attributes: SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
  
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    HIST 1560 - WOMEN IN LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    A course tracing the history of women in Latin America from the conquest to the modern day.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore or above
    Course Attributes: DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, Gender, Sexuality & Women’s St, SCI Diversity General Ed. Requirements, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
  
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    HIST 1580 - 19TH CENTURY LATIN AMERICA


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course discusses the major political, economic, social and ideological developments of the Latin American world from the Independence Wars (1810-1825) to the first decade of the Twentieth Century. Emphasis will be placed on the similarities and differences among the newly emerging nations as they sought to find individual and recognizable status in the industrialized Western world.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
  
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    HIST 1583 - 20THC LATIN AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    A comparative examination of instances of social and political revolution in 20th Century Latin American history. Cases considered include the Mexican Revolution (1910-1917), the Bolivian Revolution (1952), the Cuban Revolution (1959), and the Nicaraguan Revolution (1979).
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
  
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    HIST 1585 - US-LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    A survey of US-Latin American from 1800 to the present.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
  
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    HIST 1586 - LATIN AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    A comparative examination of instances of social and political revolution in Latin American history. Cases considered include the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), the Mexican Revolution (1910-1917), the Bolivian Revolution (1952), the Cuban Revolution (1959).
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    HIST 1610 - UNITED STATES COLONIAL


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This is an upper division course that develops the history of the North American English colonies from around 1400 through the early 1760s.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
    Course Attributes: DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
  
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    HIST 1611 - AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1763-1791


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This is an upper division course that considers the history of Revolutionary America between the 1750s and the 1790s.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
    Course Attributes: DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
  
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    HIST 1612 - UNITED STATES 1789-1840


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    A history of ideas — social, literary, scientific, political — that expressed and shaped the culture.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    HIST 1614 - CIVIL WAR HISTORY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This is an upper division course that considers the impact of the Civil War upon the development of the United States.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Attributes: DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
  
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    HIST 1615 - THE UNITED STATES DURING THE GILDED AGE & PROGRESSIVE ERA (1875-1920)


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course will cover the technological, demographic, and ideological sources and character of economic growth during the gilded age (1875-1900) as well as the social and economic problems that American society experienced during the period. In addition, the course will focus on the attempts of reformers to rectify the nation’s social and economic problems during the progressive era (1900-1920).
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
  
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    HIST 1616 - ANTEBELLUM AMERICA: FROM THE 1790S TO THE WAR WITH MEXICO


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This is a course in the history of the United States from the late 1780s through the late 1840s. It will focus on the processes involved in the evolution of the United States from a pre-industrial, relatively traditional society into a more modern, industrializing nation. We will consider topics involving commercial, manufacturing, agricultural and demographic development, changes in gender, social-economic and racial relationships, the creation of partisan politics and an analysis of American expansion.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
  
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    HIST 1619 - UNITED STATES SINCE 1945


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Social, economic, and political changes in American society since World War II. Topics include the post-industrial economy, urbanization, women, minorities, education, political movements, government, parties, and political participation. Emphasis is on the massive changes during those years and the impact on people, institutions and government.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Attributes: DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
  
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    HIST 1620 - THE VIETNAM WAR


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course is designed to acquaint the student with American involvement in Southeast Asia, in particular with the second Indochina War. Some attempt will be made to provide a background of Vietnamese historical and cultural perspective. The major portion of the course will focus on American policy, at home and abroad, and the manner in which five American presidents tried to deal with the “Indochina problem”.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
  
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    HIST 1625 - HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN FRONTIER


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course explores the settlement and development of frontier regions across the continent, emphasizing 19th century experiences. Diverse and distinctive frontier societies emerged from the processes associated with land acquisition, exploration, Indian relations, Westward migration, economic development, social organization, governance, and urbanization. The different and conflicting interpretations of the frontier experience raise important questions and perspectives about the character of American society.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    HIST 1645 - AMERICAN ECONOMIC HISTORY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The course presents a survey of the strategic factors in the economic development of the United States from colonial times to the great depression. The topics covered include the record of economic growth, the process industrialization and its major phases, British mercantilism, the role of technological change, demographic history, the slave economy, distribution of income, urbanization, and the financial sector.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Attributes: DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
  
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    HIST 1655 - AMERICAN WORKERS 19TH CENTURY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course examines American working class formation, development, and recomposition during the nineteenth century, and workers’ impact on American economic, political, and cultural development.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    HIST 1656 - AMERICAN WORKERS 20TH CENTURY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course examines the experiences of American workers during the second Industrial Revolution of the early Twentieth Century, the emergence of a government-sponsored national system of labor relations in the 1930s and 1940s, the structural changes in the economy and labor force since 1950, and the subsequent breakdown of the new deal formula for class relations.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Attributes: DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req., Urban Studies
  
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    HIST 1660 - GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN THE US TO 1865


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This upper-level course is part of a two-course sequence which surveys the history of women in the United States. Part 1 focuses on women’s experiences from the 1600s to the 1880s with special attention to class, ethnic, and geographic differences among women.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    HIST 1661 - GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN THE US SINCE 1865


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This upper-level course is part of a two-course sequence which surveys the history of women in the United States. Part 2 focuses on women’s experiences from 1865 to the present with special attention to class, ethnic, and geographic differences among women.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    HIST 1668 - HISTORY OF PITTSBURGH


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course explores the development of Pittsburgh’s life and landscape from its frontier origins in the 18th century to its Renaissance of the mid-20th century. The city and its region are addressed as a case study in American social history and urbanization. Pittsburgh offers the opportunity to examine the transformation from a commercial city to an industrial metropolis with the attendant social, political, labor, and redevelopment issues which characterize American urban life.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    HIST 1715 - EMPIRES IN THE MODERN WORLD


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Through lecture and discussion, this course reviews empires in world historical context. Themes of governance, economy, war, culture, social organization, and colonies and decolonization are explored in three segments: empires 1400-1800, 1800-2000, and the future of empire.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    HIST 1730 - THE MONGOLS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Explores the political and social histories of the Mongol Empire and its successor states across Eurasia during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and considers their larger world historical context.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: Sophomore
  
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    HIST 1733 - RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    What is the best way to accommodate religious and cultural diversity within a nation-state and in civil society? How should individual rights to practice religion be balanced with communal needs? Should freedom from religion be protected as much or more than freedom of religion? These are pressing contemporary issues in many countries, including the United States, but issues of religious diversity and questions of whether and how to tolerate religious minorities have a long history. In this course, we will examine the toleration of minority religions in particular historical settings, and the issues and problems (both doctrinal and social/political) that societies grappled with as they confronted diverse religious landscapes. We will also use these historical precedents as a lens to examine contemporary examples of religious pluralism, diversity, and conflict. Case studies will mainly be drawn from pre-modern Europe and modern Europe and North America, but we will also look at Mughal and modern India and discuss religion in pre-modern China.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Attributes: DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Global Issues General Ed. Requirement, SCI Diversity General Ed. Requirements, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req.
  
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    HIST 1745 - SPECIAL TOPICS - STUDY ABROAD


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The study of special topics related to a study abroad experience.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Directed Studies
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
 

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