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2019-2020 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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GSCI 200 - Environmental Geology
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
A survey of important geologic concepts relevant to current environmental issues. Emphasis is placed on geologic principles underlying problems related to water resources, pollution, natural hazards, waste disposal, energy and mineral resources, and on the scientific bases for current strategies proposed to limit adverse consequences of our impact on environmental systems. The geologic information bases available from governmental agencies are used to characterize and demonstrate practical problems for classroom exercises. Although not required, a general survey course in geology, physical geography, or high school earth science would provide an appropriate background. Not to be taken as a normal elective for the Geological Sciences major except by special permission.
Offered: At least once a year
Restricted to: Non-GSCI Majors
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GSCI 201 - Geology of Alien Worlds
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
Comparative geology of the terrestrial planets and major moons as currently revealed and documented by recent and ongoing NASA missions. Comparison of planetary objects less evolved than the Earth provides the means to understand the evolution of the Earth from a lifeless, cratered object to its present dynamic state. Studies of other solar system bodies with different evolutionary histories emphasize the unique position of Earth in our solar system. Coverage will include data from the Apollo missions to the present with an emphasis on solid planetary bodies.
Prerequisite(s): 100-level lab science or earth science.
Offered: Not on a Regular Basis
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GSCI 210 - Mineralogy
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 2
Non-Lecture: 2
A systematic study of the important minerals with emphasis on their crystallography, descriptive mineralogy, crystal chemistry, phase relationships and associations. Lectures emphasize theoretical aspects of mineral studies, while the laboratory portion is devoted to the descriptive and practical.
Prerequisite(s): GSCI 160 & GSCI 161 or permission of instructor.
Offered: Every fall
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GSCI 220 - Petrology
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 2
Non-Lecture: 2
The study of the natural history of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks, including their mineralogy, fabric, alteration and origin. Lectures emphasize theoretical aspects such as processes that affect the development of rocks and theories as to their origin. Laboratories emphasize the classification and identification of rocks in both hand sample and thin section.
Prerequisite(s): A C- or higher in GSCI 210 .
Offered: Every spring
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GSCI 263 - Dinosaurs
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
Dinosaurs are a major component of the diverse Mesozoic faunas and floras. This course provides an introduction to the principles, processes, techniques, and interpretations in the study of Mesozoic life and geology. Upon completion, students will be able to describe, classify, and interpret dinosaur and other fossil remains, as well as have an understanding of significant changes in earth history. A required eight day field trip will result in the observation and description of dinosaur fossils and track ways in museums and the field.
Prerequisite(s): Two 100-level classes in Biology and/or Geology, as well as permission of the instructor(s).
Offered: Spring, odd years
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GSCI 281 - Writing and Knowing the Land Abroad in: [subtitle]
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This Study Abroad course explores how the geology of the landscape can be described and interpreted through field-based experiences and reading/writing. The students will develop a research proposal on site that relates to topics of interest and/or data gathered in the field and will work alongside creative writers to help them integrate principles of the geological sciences into their creative writing. This course focuses on topics including geomorphology, petrology, volcanology, tectonics, sedimentology/stratigraphy, glacial geology, and comparative planetary geology.
Prerequisite(s): GSCI 220
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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GSCI 310 - Scientific and Technical Writing in the Geosciences
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 2
Non-Lecture: 2
An overview of current conventions and practices used in scientific and technical writing in the geosciences. The focus of the course will be on reading, writing, and critiquing various forms of scientific and technical writing for the purpose of assisting students in preparation for professional papers. In addition to appropriate aspects of language use and style, principles of preparing figures and tables will be discussed. The course is designed to help students develop the knowledge and skills to: 1) write in an accurate, precise, clear, concise, and effective style appropriate for their intended audience; and 2) recognize and rectify writing problems in their own work and in that of others.
Prerequisite(s): GSCI 220 .
Offered: Not on a Regular Basis
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GSCI 315 - Principles of Geochemistry
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
The application of the basic principles of chemistry to the study of geologic processes. Topics include the origin and distribution of the chemical elements, the fundamentals of crystal chemistry, the important chemical reactions occurring in low-temperature aqueous solutions, and the construction and interpretation of mineral-stability diagrams.
Prerequisite(s): GSCI 220 , CHEM 119 , and (CHEM 118 or CHEM 204 ) or permission of instructor.
Offered: Spring Semester - Even Years
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GSCI 320 - Isotope Geology
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
The study of the variations in the abundances of naturally occurring isotopes and their applications to problems in the geological sciences. Both stable and unstable isotopes are considered.
Prerequisite(s): GSCI 220 , CHEM 119 , and (CHEM 118 or CHEM 204 ) or permission of instructor.
Offered: Spring Semester - Odd Years
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GSCI 331 - Geomorphology
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 2
Non-Lecture: 2
The description and interpretation of land forms. Consideration is given to the effects of rock structure, natural processes, and temporal changes in the evolution of the surface features of the Earth. (Field trips are sometimes conducted outside class hours.)
Prerequisite(s): GSCI 170 .
Corequisite(s): GSCI 220 .
Offered: Every spring
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GSCI 332 - Glacial Geology
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 2
Non-Lecture: 2
The origin, characteristics, processes and geologic effects of glaciers are considered. Worldwide evidence for glaciation from the geology of the continents and the ocean basins is examined with emphasis on the Pleistocene Epoch of North America. Aerial photographs and topographic maps, geologic maps and GIS software are used extensively in laboratory exercises. Field trips to glacial terrains in western New York are sometimes conducted during and outside of class hours.
Prerequisite(s): GSCI 170 .
Corequisite(s): GSCI 220 .
Offered: Not on a Regular Basis
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GSCI 333 - Geologic Applications of Remote Sensing Imagery
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 2
Non-Lecture: 2
Photogrammetric and digital analysis of aerial and satellite imagery as applied to the solution of geologic problems. Emphasis is on interpretation of the geomorphology and geologic structure of the Earth’s surface from film and digital images incorporating GIS (geographic information system) software such as ArcView 8 and GPS (geographic positioning system) instrumentation. The creation of GIS-based geologic maps by combining field data and georegistered imagery on standard base maps is included.
Prerequisite(s): GSCI 331 or permission of instructor.
Offered: Fall, odd years
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GSCI 334 - Planetary Geology
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 2
Non-Lecture: 2
An analysis of the geological characteristics of the planets in our solar system, including asteroids, dwarf planets, and outer satellites. This course combines the fundamentals of our understanding of planetary formation, planetary evolution, and modern surface processes with technical training in the use of planetary datasets and industry software. Comparisons to terrestrial geology will be emphasized throughout, leaning on fundamental processes that are consistent across all planetary bodies (e.g. impact cratering and volcanism) as well as those processes that are truly unique to these alien worlds.
Prerequisite(s): GSCI 220 .
Offered: Fall, even years
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GSCI 335 - Paleoclimatology
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 2
Non-Lecture: 2
The study of fundamental concepts of global-scale environmental and climatic changes in the context of Earth-surface processes and Earth history. The course focuses on physical, chemical and biological signatures of past environments preserved in the geologic record; causes and effects of major climate-changes over various timescales in Earth history; and geologic responses to Pleistocene, Holocene and historical climate change. Laboratory exercises involve characterizing surface processes, data-rich studies of climate- change records and discussions of climate science literature.
Prerequisite(s): GSCI 170 .
Offered: Not on a Regular Basis
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GSCI 341 - Principles of Structural Geology
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 2
Non-Lecture: 2
The study of rock deformations, including the description, classification, and origin of structures such as folds, faults, joints, and cleavage. Attention is given to the influence of rock structures on economic problems and on geomorphic features. Aspects of geotectonics are considered. (Field trips are sometimes conducted outside class hours.)
Prerequisite(s): GSCI 170 .
Offered: Every fall
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GSCI 343 - Applied Geophysics
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 2
Non-Lecture: 3
The study of geophysical techniques widely used in the Earth Sciences. Emphasis is placed on analytical methods of interpretation and the theory on which such methods are based.
Prerequisite(s): GSCI 220 and GSCI 341 ; MATH 222 ; (PHYS 113 /PHYS 114 ) or (PHYS 123 /PHYS 114 )
Offered: Spring, even years
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GSCI 345 - Tectonics
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
The study of the evolution of the crust and upper mantle of the Earth, and the largescale deformational features and patterns of motion which occur there. The relationships between internal earth processes and energy sources, and the evolution of the crust and upper mantle, are emphasized.
Prerequisite(s): GSCI 220 and GSCI 341 .
Offered: Spring, odd years
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GSCI 347 - Groundwater Hydrology
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
The study of the origin and occurrence of groundwater and of those principles of fluid flow in porous media which govern the flow of groundwater. The hydraulic properties of groundwater systems and water wells, the relationships between groundwater and other geological processes, the development of groundwater resources, water quality, recharge of groundwater, and solute transport are emphasized.
Prerequisite(s): 15 credits of Geological Sciences and MATH 221 .
Offered: Every fall
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GSCI 351 - Stratigraphy
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 2
Non-Lecture: 2
Description of sedimentary rocks, introduction to stratigraphic concepts, and interpretation of sedimentary facies and sequence relationships. Topics include the use of facies analysis, lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy, and chronostratigraphy in the interpretation of sedimentary basin history. (Required field trips conducted outside of class hours.)
Prerequisite(s): GSCI 170 or permission of instructor.
Offered: Every Fall Semester
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GSCI 352 - Sedimentation
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 2
Non-Lecture: 3
The analysis and characterization of clastic sediments with application to the origin, evolution, and properties of sedimentary rocks. Standard analytical techniques will be learned from laboratory experiments. The theory and results relating to the experimental measurements and observations will be outlined and discussed during one-hour weekly meetings. (Some lengthy experiments may require measurements to be recorded at intervals spanning several days.)
Prerequisite(s): GSCI 170 and GSCI 220 .
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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GSCI 353 - Sedimentary Petrology
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 2
Non-Lecture: 2
The study of the deposition, lithification, and diagenesis of sedimentary rocks, including their origin, mineralogy, fabric, and alteration. Lectures emphasize theoretical aspects such as depositional settings, descriptive and analytical techniques, as well as economic aspects. Laboratories emphasize preparation, methodology of the classification, identification, and analysis of sediments and sedimentary rocks in both hand sample, thin section, and instrumentation.
Prerequisite(s): GSCI 220 .
Offered: Spring Semester, Even Years
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GSCI 355 - Basin Analysis
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
An in-depth investigation of the dynamic processes that lead to basin formation, burial, deformation, and hydrocarbon production. Observational and quantitative forward datasets and techniques will be used to extract and constrain basin history. The mechanics and play of petroleum and coal exploration of basins will be an integral theme of the course. (Field trips can include exploring local basins and active drill sites.)
Prerequisite(s): GSCI 220
Offered: Fall Semester - Odd Years
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GSCI 361 - Invertebrate Paleontology
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 2
Non-Lecture: 2
Taxonomy and morphology of major groups of invertebrate fossils. Topics include fossil invertebrate classification, evolution, taphonomy, biostratigraphy, paleoecology, and paleobiogeography. (Required field trips conducted outside of class hours.)
Prerequisite(s): A C- or higher in GSCI 170 or permission of instructor.
Offered: Every spring
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GSCI 363 - Dinosaurs with Research
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
Dinosaurs are a major component of the diverse Mesozoic faunas and floras. This course provides an introduction to the principles, processes, techniques, interpretations, and research in the study of Mesozoic life and geology. Upon completion, students will be able to describe, classify, and interpret dinosaur and other fossil remains, as well as have an understanding of significant changes in earth history. A research project and paper, as well as a required eight day field trip will result in the observation and description of dinosaur fossils and track ways in museums and the field.
Prerequisite(s): Two 100-level classes in Biology and/or Geology, as well as permission of the instructor(s).
Offered: Spring, odd years
Crosslisted with: BIOL 363
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GSCI 370 - Advanced Mineralogy and Petrology
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 2
Non-Lecture: 3
The theory and use of the petrographic microscope and analytical data as applied to the study of mineralogy and petrology. The behavior of polarized light through minerals in thin sections is emphasized in order to understand techniques commonly used in geologic research. When integrated together, microscopy and data present a more holistic approach to mineralogical and petrologic studies.
Prerequisite(s): GSCI 220 .
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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GSCI 380 - Undergraduate Research
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 1
Non-Lecture: 6
Under the supervision of a faculty member in Geological Sciences, students will undertake a research project in some area of Geological Sciences. The topic and methodology will be established by mutual consent of the student and faculty member and presented in a research proposal. Students will meet together with the involved faculty once a week to discuss the background, methods, and results of their projects. Students will be required to complete a formal research paper describing the nature of the project undertaken, problems encountered, methodology employed, and conclusions from the project. A maximum of 3 credits may be applied toward the major in Geological Sciences.
Prerequisite(s): GSCI 220 and permission of instructor.
Repeatable: May be repeated for credit
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GSCI 391 - Geological Sciences Capstone Seminar I
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 1
Lecture: 1
Non-Lecture: 0
A seminar that focuses on selected topics in the Geological Sciences. As part of this course, students will delve into the literature regarding a selected topic and present their findings in a professional talk and as an extended written abstract. Presentations by faculty and invited speakers as well as discussions will also play a part in this seminar.
Prerequisite(s): GSCI 220 .
Offered: Every Fall Semester
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GSCI 392 - Geological Sciences Capstone Seminar II
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 1
Lecture: 1
Non-Lecture: 0
This course is a continuation of GSCI 391 . In this portion of the capstone seminar, students will pursue research and present their findings as a professional talk to their peers and as a conference poster. This seminar also includes discussions and presentations by faculty and invited speakers.
Prerequisite(s): GSCI 391 .
Offered: Every Spring Semester
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GSCI 393 - Honors Thesis
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 0
Non-Lecture: 6
Individual research under the direction of faculty of the Department of Geological Sciences. Results of this research will culminate in a formal written report and an oral presentation in an appropriate public forum. Requirements for eligibility are: completion of 75 credits with a minimum 3.0 cumulative grade point average plus 20 credits in Geological Sciences with a minimum 3.30 GPA. Enrollment by invitation of the Department. Note: This course may not be counted as part of the credits required for graduation in Geological Sciences.
Offered: By individual arrangement
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GSCI 394 - Geology Capstone Field Experience
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 1
Lecture: 0
Non-Lecture: 2
Intersession field experience for junior and senior students involving a multi-week study of the geologic record of a particular region. Led by multiple faculty members from the Geological Sciences department. Students must enroll in GSCI 391 during the fall semester immediately prior to the intersession.
Prerequisite(s): a C- or higher in GSCI 220 , GSCI 391 , and permission of instructor.
Offered: Intersession, odd years
Restricted to: Geological Science, Geophysics and Geochemistry majors.
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GSCI 399 - Directed Study
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 1-3
Investigation, under faculty supervision, of a problem that leads to a written report.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of Department Chairperson.
Offered: By individual arrangement
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HIST 101 - Introduction to the History Major
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 1
Lecture: 1
Non-Lecture: 0
This is an introductory course for first semester college students considering a major in history. The course will introduce students to the discipline of history and career paths for history majors, will provide enhanced advisement and planning for the undergraduate degree, will provide problem solving assistance to students as they navigate the first semester of college, will expose students to the range of academic and co-curricular opportunities available to history majors at Geneseo, and will provide opportunities for students to interact with members of the faculty and more advanced undergraduates. This class is open to any first year student at the college interested in majoring in history. Grades are determined based on attendance and participation in course activities.
Offered: Every fall
Graded: S/U
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HIST 105 - S/Western Civilization Until 1600
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): Social Sciences
This course, the first part of a two-semester survey of European history, focuses on the political, socio-economic, intellectual, and religious history of the Ancient Near East, Greece, Rome, the Medieval World, the Renaissance, and the Reformation which provide the roots for the contemporary Western civilization. Proper analysis of primary sources is stressed, and student participation is encouraged.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 106 - S/Europe Since 1600
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): Social Sciences
This course, the second part of a two-semester survey of Western Civilization, introduces students to the shaping of twentieth-century Europe by examining the period after 1600 with emphasis on political, cultural, and socio-economic history. The course stresses evaluation of both primary and secondary historical materials and encourages student participation in the process of historical analysis.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 108 - The Bible
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This course will study significant selections from the Old Testament and most of the New Testament. Emphasis will be on the study of institutional and theological development of the Hebrews and early Christians.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 112 - S/History Matters: (subtitle)
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): Social Sciences
This course will introduce students to the field of global history through focus on historians’ approaches to broad themes, problems, or questions. Specific topics will be selected by the instructor, but generally engage with historians’ approaches to “real world” problems and issues with particular attention to regional and global interconnections, cross-cultural encounters, and/or comparative perspectives. All courses will include seminar style discussion, a mix of primary and secondary source readings, short analytical papers, and essay exams.
Offered: Every fall
Repeatable: May be repeated once for credit with different subtitles
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HIST 120 - Military History of the U.S.A
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
A survey of the military history of the USA from the colonial period to the present, covering strategy, tactics, logistics, the impact of warfare on society, the role of the military services as social institutions, and the evolution of the military services to the present.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 150 - S/U/History of the United States I
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): Social Sciences, American History
The first part of a two-semester survey of American history (from pre-Columbian days to the present, with the dividing point at 1877). Emphasis is placed upon the relations of environment and cultural heritage to the economic, scientific, and political forces of American life.
Offered: Every year
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HIST 151 - S/U/History of the United States II
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): Social Sciences, American History
The second part of a two-semester survey of American history (from 1877 to the present). A constructive and critical analysis of our institutions, customs, and traditions is presented in connection with the many unsolved problems which challenge democratic government.
Offered: Every year
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HIST 155 - S/U/Politics and Power in United States History
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): Social Sciences, American History
This course is a broad general survey of U.S. history that focuses on particular aspects of politics, power, and democracy as they influenced the people and institutions of the country over time.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 161 - S/U/Issues in American History: (subtitle)
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): Social Sciences, American History
This course will develop students’ reasoning capacities and awareness of historical debates through an examination of selected issues, events, and problems in American history. It will take a chronological approach, addressing any time period in U.S. history.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Repeatable: May be repeated once for credit with different subtitles
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HIST 162 - S/U/History Matters, U.S.: (subtitle)
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): Social Sciences, American History
This course will introduce students to the field of U.S. history through focus on historians’ approaches to broad themes, problems, or questions. Specific topics will be selected by the instructor, but generally engage with historians’ approaches to “real world” problems and issues. How does understanding history help us understand contemporary issues? All courses will include seminar style discussion, a mix of primary and secondary source readings, short analytical papers, and essay exams.
Offered: Every fall
Repeatable: May be repeated once for credit with different subtitles
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HIST 163 - S/U/African American History to 1877
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): Social Sciences, American History
This course will explore major events, people, and issues pertaining to African-American history to 1877, including the Atlantic slave trade, the African-American experience in slavery and in freedom from the colonial period through the Civil War and Reconstruction, and the impact of slaves and free blacks on colonial, early national, and antebellum history.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 164 - S/U/African American History from 1877
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): Social Sciences, American History
This course will examine the African American experience from emancipation to the present day. Some major themes to be covered include: Reconstruction, segregation; disfranchisement; lynchings; urban and northern migrations; the Harlem Renaissance; the impact of war on race and citizenship; the black freedom struggle; and black nationalism.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 204 - S/U/U.S. Since 1945
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): Social Sciences, American History
This course will examine the transformation of the United States since World War II, focusing on the Civil Rights struggle, the impact of the rights revolution, that emerged in the 1960’s. The rise and fall of the Cold War as a force in American life, and the changing role of government in society.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 205 - The World Since 1945
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
A survey of global revolutionary changes which followed the end of the Second World War–in their ideological, political, economic, and military aspects.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 206 - Ancient Greek Civilization
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
A study of the institutions, literature, art, and philosophy of ancient Greece. Topics include the nature and development of the polis, the Greek mind, and the spread of Greek civilization. Extensive use of primary material.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 207 - Ancient Roman Civilization
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
A study of the institutions, literature, religions, art, and philosophy of ancient Rome. Topics include the rise, development, and collapse of the Republic; the winning and governing of an empire; the Hellenization of Rome; the beginning of Christianity; the Pax Romana; the barbarians; the fall of the Empire.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 209 - Christian Thought
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This course will survey Christian Literature from the New Testament to the present. The emphasis will be on the interpretation of primary texts from all eras of Christian history including early Christianity, the Middle Ages, the Reformation, and modern times. Although the focus of the course is Christian theology, some consideration will be given to the development of Christian institutions.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 211 - The Early Middle Ages
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
A study of the transition from ancient to medieval times, the barbarian tribes in the West, the triumph of Christianity, Byzantium and the rise of Islam, the rise of the Franks, feudal society, and the decline and subsequent revival of monasticism and papacy. Deals with social, economic, and political development, and with cultural and intellectual matters. Readings are in primary sources.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 212 - The High Middle Ages
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
A study of the 12th-century renaissance, the development of both monastic and scholastic cultures, the rise of nation states, the conflicts of church and state, the rise and decline of the papacy, the impact of the new religious orders, the social and economic developments of Europe from the rise of cities to the great era of international trade. Readings are in primary sources.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 213 - Medieval and Renaissance City - States in Italy
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This course will be offered in Siena, Italy. After a brief examination of the Etruscan and Roman origins of Italian cities, the course will focus on the rebirth of Italian cities in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries and their history until the middle of the 16th century when for all practical purposes the era of the independent city-states had ended. Students will examine the political, social, economic, religious, and cultural history of Italian city-states, particularly those in Tuscany with a special emphasis on Siena.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 214 - British Isles: Four Nations in Contact and Conflict
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This will be a three week course taught in the British Isles. Historically, the term “British Isles” - a term which suggests both unity and harmony - is problematic. Although England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland have been at various times politically tied to one another, their relations have often been fraught with tension and conflict. Ireland’s contentious relationship to England is, of course, well-known. Less obvious, but no less significant, are the tensions that exist amongst the Welsh, the Scots, the Cornish, and subjects from around Britain’s former world empire, over what it means to be British. This course seeks to provide students with an understanding of the complexities inherent in the relationships between the nations and peoples that inhabit the British Isles.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 220 - Interpretations in History: (subtitle)
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 4
Lecture: 4
Non-Lecture: 0
Students in HIST 220 will get an intensive introduction to the practice and study of history in a seminar setting. Students will read and discuss many works of scholarship which take different approaches to the same set of historical issues and/or events. Through detailed and sustained class discussion and individual analysis of several historical works dealing with the same general field, students will gain better analytic skills and an understanding of the variety of historical interpretations possible for a given topic.
Prerequisite(s): 9 credits of college-level history, at least 3 credits of which must be at Geneseo; or junior standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 221 - Research in History: (subtitle)
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 4
Lecture: 4
Non-Lecture: 0
Students will get an intensive introduction to the process of historical research and writing in a seminar setting. This course will acquaint students with research methods, train them to interpret primary sources and lead them through the conceptualization, research, drafting, and rewriting of an historical study.
Prerequisite(s): 9 credits of college-level history, at least 3 credits of which must be at Geneseo; or junior standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 230 - Modern Ireland, 1550 to the Present
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This course covers the history of Ireland from the 16th-century Tudor conquest through the present. Course content will include the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, conquest and plantation politics under the Tudors and Stuarts, the emergence of the Protestant ascendancy, protest and reform movements during the late 18th and 19th centuries, the famine and migration, the emergence of Gaelic nationalism, and the crisis in Northern Ireland.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 232 - Early Modern Europe Expansion
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
From the middle of the 15th century through the end of the 18th, European explorers, adventurers, traders, and settlers swarmed into virtually all corners of the globe. This mass migration of Europeans wrought immense changes, the repercussions of which continue to haunt us today. This course proceeds roughly chronologically, focusing on characteristic moments of contact, exchange, conflict, and transformation. Topics that we will explore include: the motives for European exploration and expansion; attempts (both successful and failed) at cross-cultural communication; the effects of European conquest and colonization on native populations; the legacies of the age of exploration in terms of human and biological ecology, social structures, and culture; the impacts of contact and settlement on European political systems and mentalities; and the significance of early manifestations of the modern global economy and culture of consumerism.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 240 - S/Studies in European History: (subtitle)
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): Social Sciences
A study of a particular topic in European history. Topics could be defined either by time or space: the history of Spain, the scientific revolution, liberation movements, and the Baltic states are possible areas that might be offered.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Repeatable: May be repeated once for credit with different subtitles
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HIST 242 - History of Pre-Modern Russia, 862-1725
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This course will survey Russian history from the Kiev period through the reign of Peter the Great. Topics studied will include: the issue of nationality, the development and impact of Russian Orthodoxy, the Mongol period, the rise of Muscovy, the institutions of serfdom and autocracy, the question of Westernization, and other social, economic, and political issues. A main focus of the course will be the reading of primary sources.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 249 - S/U/Studies in American History: (subtitle)
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): Social Sciences, American History
A study of a particular topic in American history. Topics could be defined either by time or space: the history of New York, the antebellum era, the Borderlands, and Latino History are possible areas that might be offered.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Repeatable: May be repeated once for credit with different subtitles
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HIST 250 - S/U/Work and Workers in Modern America
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): Social Sciences, American History
This course will explore the history of work, workers, and workers’ movements in America from the era of the Civil War to the present, with special attention to the unique aspects of race, ethnicity, and gender that shaped the American working class.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 258 - S/U/The American Presidency: A Survey
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): Social Sciences, American History
A review and criticism. Consideration of the office as a microcosm of American values. A chronological examination of the Presidency and its response to major social and political alternatives. Selected presidential themes are analyzed, including institutional structure, exercise and abuse of power, leadership roles, personality styles, constituency relationships, and political ideologies.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 260 - S/U/Issues in the History of American Women
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): Social Sciences, American History
A chronological survey of American women’s history from European contact to the present, with particular attention to the evolving and interrelated issues of race, class, work, public power, family, and sexuality.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 261 - M/U/Native American History
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): Other World Civilizations, American History
This course is a survey of the history of Native Americans in the region that ultimately became the United States. It will trace the effects and consequences of European settlement, and native response, resistance, and accommodation to colonization; explore Indian response to the American Revolution and the westward expansion of white settlement in the decades following; and examine the historical context of the problems, issues, and challenges facing Native Americans in contemporary American society.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 262 - S/M/American Indian Law and Public Policy
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): Social Sciences, Other World Civilizations
Surveys the constitutional status of Indians in the American federal system and the issues and controversies affecting Native American communities and individuals today.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Crosslisted with: AMST 262.
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HIST 263 - S/U/Civil War and Reconstruction: The United States 1848-1877
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): Social Sciences, American History
A study of the causes and course of the American Civil War and subsequent Reconstruction with an emphasis on the political and cultural aspects and implications. Topics include slavery and abolition, sectionalism, the breakdown of the party system, the war itself as experienced by both soldiers and civilians, political and military leadership, the course of Reconstruction, the conflicts generated by Reconstruction, and the ambiguous legacy of the entire period for American culture.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 264 - S/U/United States Immigration History
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): Social Sciences, American History
Within the context of the basic narrative of American history, this course will explore the history of immigrants in America from the 1830s to the present, with special attention to the issues of assimilation, acculturation, Americanization, ethnicization, naturalization, nativism, and immigration restriction. Immigration history is an excellent lens for exploring the nation’s common institutions and ideals and America’s evolving relation with the world.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 266 - S/U/Civil Rights Movement in America
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): Social Sciences, American History
Through the Civil Rights Movement, African Americans and their white allies initiated and maintained a massive social movement which assaulted centuries of discrimination, segregation, and racism in the United States. We will examine, not only familiar images from the movement, but also the larger forces that made the movement possible. We will identify the social, political, and economic changes that contributed to the making of the Movement, paying particular attention to the African-American tradition of struggle and protest. Within the movement, we will consider such topics as the role of public leaders and grass roots activists; the role of the media; the extent and nature of nonviolence and self-defense; and the relationship between national events, leaders, laws, and organizations and local movements and local realities; and the Black Power movement of the late 1960s.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 267 - S/U/Women and U.S. Social Movements
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): Social Sciences, American History
This course will explore the role of women in selected social movements with particular attention to how women’s involvements often leads to subsequent movements for women’s rights. Possible areas of emphasis include the connections between the 19th century abolitionist movement and the subsequent women’s rights/woman suffrage movement or the connections between the modern Civil Rights Movement and the women’s liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 270 - S/M/History of Latin America to 1825
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): Social Sciences, Other World Civilizations
A survey of Latin American history from its pre-conquest indigenous and Iberian origins to the collapse of the Spanish Empire and the emergence of national states. Primary emphasis is placed upon the Spanish doctrines of conquest and colonization, the development and influence of the colonial system, and the independence movements.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 271 - S/M/History of Latin America since 1825
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): Social Sciences, Other World Civilizations
A survey of Latin American history from the emergence of the national states to the present. Primary emphasis is placed upon the political, social, economic, and cultural development of the major states and problems of mutual interest to the United States and the Latin American nations.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 272 - Pacific Worlds, 1500 to Present
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 4
Lecture: 4
Non-Lecture: 0
This course offers students a broad survey of the histories of peoples, cultures, nations, and circuits around, within, and across the Pacific Ocean from 1500 to present. Topics include the development of the “Spanish Lake” and European exploration of the ocean; silver cycles and symbiosis between Spain, Mexico, and China in the Great Divergence; Polynesian histories and societies; interactions between Latin America and Asia; the Cold War and the nuclear Pacific; cultural exchanges ranging from baseball to Godzilla and Japanese manga; food cultures from sweet potatoes and adobe to the global appeal of sushi and tacos; immigration and migration; and more.
Offered: Not offered on a regular basis
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HIST 275 - Global History of Sexual Science
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 4
Lecture: 4
Non-Lecture: 0
This course provides students with a rich exploration of the history of sexual science (sexology) on a global scale from the late 19th century through the mid-20th century. Scientific approaches to sex, gender, and sexuality varied in their methods and subjects overtime, and thus we will read a range of materials, including historical, medical, psychiatric, anthropological, journalistic, philosophical, and literary texts, among others. Sexology was the modern discipline, and from Bombay to Berlin, Mexico City to Buenos Aires, Tokyo to Shanghai, it was a defining force in the modern world.
Offered: Not offered on a regular basis
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HIST 281 - M/Traditional East Asian History to 1840
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): Other World Civilizations
A survey of traditional East Asian history, focusing on the rise of Chinese and Japanese civilizations, the formation and development of the Chinese empire, the cultural exchanges among East Asian countries and between East Asia and other parts of the world, and the position of East Asian civilization in the ancient and medieval world.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 282 - M/East Asian History since 1840
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): Other World Civilizations
A survey of modern East Asian history, focusing on the collapse of the traditional order in China and Japan following Western invasion in the mid-19th century, China’s and Japan’s efforts to pursue modernization while maintaining their national identities, and the contemporary importance of East Asia in our changing world.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 284 - S/M/Studies in LACAANA History: (subtitle)
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): Social Sciences, Other World Civilizations
A study of a particular topic in Latin America/ Caribbean/Asia/Africa/Native American history. Topics could be defined either by time or space: the history of Iran, the Islamic revival, liberation movements, and the history of the Pacific World are possible areas that might be offered.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Repeatable: May be repeated once for credit with different subtitles
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HIST 291 - M/The Islamic World: 600-1800
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): Other World Civilizations
A survey of Islamic history, focusing on the rise of Islam, the formation of classical Islamic civilization, the Muslim reaction to invasions from East and West, the second expansion of Islam, and the great empires of the 16th-18th centuries.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 292 - M/The Modern Islamic World: 1800 to the Present
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): Other World Civilizations
A study of the Western conquest of the Muslim world in the 19th century and the social, political, and religious responses to this conquest. Special attention is given to such topics as women and Islam, U.S. attitudes to Islam, and the contemporary Islamist movement.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 301 - Interpretations in History: (subtitle)
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 4
Lecture: 4
Non-Lecture: 0
This is one of two required skills-based seminars in the History major and is focused on critical reading and analysis. This class introduces students to the concept of historiography, which includes the critical assessment of the methods and sources that historians use in fashioning an argument, the contexts that inform historians’ approaches to understanding the past, and comparisons of different historians’ conclusions about similar topics. All sections will focus on a specific set of historical issues and/or events chosen by the instructor and class content emphasizes critical reflection on the variety of historical interpretations that are possible within a given topic. The class is reading and writing intensive. Majors may take HIST 301 and HIST 302 in any sequence, and should plan to complete both HIST 301 and HIST 302 during the sophomore or junior year.
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing or higher.
Offered: Every fall and spring semester
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HIST 302 - Research in History: (subtitle)
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 4
Lecture: 4
Non-Lecture: 0
This is one of two required skills-based seminars in the History major that form prerequisites for upper level classes. This course is focused on critical analysis of historical evidence and instruction in historical research methods and writing. Students read, evaluate, and critique a range of different types of primary source evidence, practice locating and retrieving reliable primary and secondary sources, and use these skills to support the crafting of historical arguments in both short papers and longer research projects. All sections will focus on a specific set of historical issues and/or events chosen by the instructor and class content emphasizes work with primary sources specific to the seminar topic. The class is reading and writing intensive. Majors may take HIST 301 and 302 in any sequence, and should plan to complete both HIST 301 and 302 during the sophomore or junior year.
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing or higher.
Offered: Every fall and spring semester
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HIST 303 - Digital Tools in History: (subtitle)
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 4
Lecture: 4
Non-Lecture: 0
This class is a broad introductory course which allows students to immerse themselves in a semester-long digital project. It supports students in researching and creating digital sites and/or tools. Possible projects include digital archives, exhibitions, publications, mapping tools – all with a focus on fostering public engagement with historical topics, themes, and scholarship. This class uses a lab format that allows for both directed work time (individual and group) and discussion.
Offered: Once Every Other Year
Class Restriction: Sophomore, Junior, Senior
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HIST 304 - Teaching in History: (subtitle)
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 4
Lecture: 4
Non-Lecture: 0
This is a skills-based course for History/Adolescent Education students. In the course, students and faculty will engage in critical discussions regarding grand historical narratives and overviews with the intention of decentering the traditional, simplified “arc” of history that leaves too many crucial issues either unexamined or hidden. In addition to reading secondary source historical works that will help students to think about ways to reframe conventional historical narrative, the course will devote significant time to identifying, locating and analyzing relevant primary sources that they will then be able to incorporate in their future classrooms. Students will work collectively by participating in thoughtful discussions and debates, sharing secondary sources and primary materials, and giving formal presentations. Finally, students will be expected to reflect critically on the value of historical thinking and knowledge in the context of secondary education. This course may be focused on U.S. or global history.
Offered: Once Every Other Year
Class Restriction: Junior, Senior
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HIST 405 - The English Atlantic World to 1763
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This course is a history of the settlement, expansion, and development of the American Colonies, from the time of the first English settlements to the eve of the American Revolution in the middle of the eighteenth century. The central theme of the course is the expansion of English society across the Atlantic. We will examine the interaction of Englishmen and women with their environment, with native peoples, and with a variety of groups that were imported or that freely migrated into the colonies We will examine the relations between these peoples, and through their conflicts, their cooperation, and their incomplete assimilation into an Anglo-American colonial society, arrive at a fuller understanding of American colonial development. Events in the American colonies, furthermore, will be viewed in their transatlantic, imperial context. As such, we will focus on developments on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, and on both sides of the “frontier.”
Prerequisite(s): HIST 302 (HIST 301 also recommended).
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 406 - The Age of the American Revolution
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This course explores the structures of American society in the second half of the eighteenth century, British colonial policies and American opposition to those policies, the growth of revolutionary movements, and the cultural, political, military, and ideological contexts of the period. The course will also examine the impact of the war on African Americans, Native Americans, women, and ordinary citizens. Students will engage with the social consequences of the Revolution, post-war economics, post-war politics, post-war society, and the arguments for and against the establishment of a strong central government culminating in the Philadelphia Convention and the ratification of the Constitution of 1787.
Prerequisite(s): HIST 302 (HIST 301 also recommended).
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 407 - Slave Rebellions and Resistance in the Atlantic World
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This course examines slave rebellions and resistance in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in a wide variety of locales, including the United States, the Caribbean, and South America. Our goals will be to examine what constitutes a slave rebellion how resistance differed from rebellion, how revolts were organized, how they impacted local communities as well as nationstates, and how various forms of resistance altered slaveholder power. This course will give you a sense of what slavery was like in the New World, and how historical events, such as the French and Haitian revolutions, altered slave regimes, and how slave rebels shaped the abolitionist movement. In addition, we will explore how historians have interpreted the fragmentary evidence on revolts and conspiracies.
Prerequisite(s): HIST 302 (HIST 301 also recommended).
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 410 - Making of Industrial America, 1877-1918
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This course will examine the emergence of American industrialism, the consolidation of a strong national state, the development of an expansionist foreign policy, and the ways in which the processes of immigration, urbanization, and is proletarianization laid the foundations for modern America in the period between Reconstruction and the First World War.
Prerequisite(s): HIST 302 (HIST 301 also recommended).
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 411 - Making of Industrial America, 1918-1945
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This course will examine the ways modern American politics, economy, and culture were shaped by the period bounded by the two World Wars and marked by the Great Depression and the efforts of the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations to resolve it. Emphasis is on the domestic, social, political, and economic history of the period.
Prerequisite(s): HIST 302 (HIST 301 also recommended).
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 412 - African-Americans in the Age of Jim Crow
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This course will explore African-American history from the period following Reconstruction (when racially-based segregation became both the law and practice throughout the United States) until 1954 (when the Brown decision ended the legal and Constitutional basis for racial segregation). The course will examine work, culture, gender, class, activism, and leadership as African Americans struggled against the strictures of Jim Crow. The course will also examine major events and movements, including the Great Migration, the Great Depression, Garveyism, the Harlem Renaissance, and World War II.
Prerequisite(s): HIST 302 (HIST 301 also recommended).
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 413 - Black Power and Structural Inequality in Post-1945
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This course will focus on the post-World War II African-American experience, with particular attention to relevant national , state, and local policies and to northern and western urban centers. We will examine the basis for structural inequality, along with Black activism and alternative visions for Black communities and the country. Traditional narratives of the post-World War II era have focused on the southern Civil Rights Movement through the middle sixties, before moving North with a narrative that shifts to Black Power, white backlash, and urban de-industrialization and decline. In the past decade, historians have collectively challenged that framework and emphasis, illustrating, for example, that governmental policies which privileged whites and reinforced segregation pre-dated the southern movement and did not simply emerge in response to the angry and violent rhetoric of Black Power. Moreover, through northern-based local studies, historians have effectively illustrated that the dichotomies of South versus North and Civil Rights versus Black Power are far too simplistic, obscuring both long-term Black activism outside the South and the common roots and bases for Civil Rights and Black Power. We will explore these and other issues related to the post- World War II Black Freedom Struggle in the North and West and the interrelated themes of structural inequality and white privilege through our reading.
Prerequisite(s): HIST 302 (HIST 301 also recommended).
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 415 - Environmental Thought & Politics in Modern America
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This course traces the historical development of American environmental thought and politics from the late 19th century to the present. It will be particularly concerned with the clash between two distinct forms of environmental thought and action: one promoting the sustainable use of the natural environment and the other opposing human intervention into wilderness areas. The course will also explore the ways in which gender, race, class, religion, and globalization have intersected with environmental thought and politics.
Prerequisite(s): HIST 302 (HIST 301 also recommended).
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 430 - Advanced Studies in American History: (subtitle)
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This course focuses on an in-depth study of a particular topic in American history. Topics could be defined either by time or space: , and the Borderlands and Latino History are possible areas that might be offered.
Prerequisite(s): HIST 302 (HIST 301 also recommended).
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Repeatable: May be repeated once for credit with different subtitles
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HIST 440 - Advanced Studies in European History: (subtitle)
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This course focuses on an in-depth study of a particular topic in European history. Topics could be defined either by time or space: the history of Spain, the scientific revolution, liberation movements, and the Baltic states are possible areas that might be offered.
Prerequisite(s): HIST 302 (HIST 301 also recommended).
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Repeatable: May be repeated once for credit with different subtitles
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HIST 445 - The British Isles, 1485-1689
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
The reigns of the Tudor and Stuart monarchs saw sustained and deep-reaching changes in the four nations of the British Isles (England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales). Over just two centuries, this region witnessed divisive processes of religious transformation associated with the Protestant Reformation; the emergence of a centralized and bureaucratized nation state based in London; two separate political revolutions and a series of bitterly fought rebellions in Scotland and Ireland; the transformation of the British Isles from a weak collection of kingdoms on the margins of Europe into a global economic and military power; and the creation of significant contributions to literature, the arts, philosophy, and the sciences. Using primary and secondary source readings, this course will explore these transformations and will assess the impact of these changes in regional and global contexts.
Prerequisite(s): HIST 302 (HIST 301 also recommended.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 448 - Imperial and Revolutionary Russia
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
A survey of Russian history with special emphasis given to the political, economic, social, and cultural unrest which developed in the period of the later Romanovs and led to the rise of communist society.
Prerequisite(s): HIST 302 (HIST 301 also recommended).
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 452 - Nazi Germany
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This course covers the Nazi era in Germany, which began in 1914 with the First World War and ended with the 1949 division of the country into East and West Germany. Highlights include the experience of trench warfare, Hitler’s early career in politics, the despair created by the Great Depression, explanations of the Nazi victory in 1933, the racial culture of the Nazi years, the “total war” of 1939-1945, particularly the nightmare of the Eastern Front, the perpetration of the Holocaust, and Hitler’s immediate legacy in the chaotic postwar years. The analytical approach mixes political with socio-cultural issues to explore in particular the ordinary German’s experience of Nazism.
Prerequisite(s): HIST 302 (HIST 301 also recommended).
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 453 - The Holocaust in Historical Perspective
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This course considers the Holocaust as the culmination of many story: political, socioeconomic, cultural, theological, and ethical. Consequently, the readings extend back through Shakespeare to the Bible, and they include contemporaries’ accounts from the Nazi, the victims’, and the rescuers’ perspectives. The course will also assess the legacies of the Holocaust to the postwar world, including the founding of Israel. The approach is multicultural with emphasis on both Western and Eastern European experiences.
Prerequisite(s): HIST 302 (HIST 301 also recommended).
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 465 - History of the Iroquois: From Pre-Contact to Present
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This course covers the history of the native peoples who formed the Iroquois League and Confederacy, from the time of their first contact with Europeans through the present day controversies that seem to appear in newspapers nearly every day. We will look at the formation of the League, the emergence of the Confederacy, the consequences of Iroquois involvement in the European Wars of Empire, and then the rapid dispossession of the Iroquois in the decades that followed the American Revolution. We will look at the application of various government policies in the United States and Canada to the Iroquois, and how the Iroquois have reacted to and adapted to these changes. Throughout, we will keep in mind the different histories of the constituent Iroquois communities that occupy present-day New York.
Prerequisite(s): HIST 302 (HIST 301 also recommended).
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 470 - History of Modern Mexico
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This course covers Mexican history with particular attention to the modern period in larger historical, transnational, and temporal contexts. Topics include: pre-Columbian civilizations, colonial New Spain and the Spanish Empire, Independence and the First Empire, caudillismo and the Mexican American War, the French Intervention and the Second Empire, the Porfiriato and modernity, the Revolution, the socialist experiment and Maximato, Cardenas and nationalism, the consolidation of the Dictablanda, the demise of the PRI after 1968, and the turn towards democracy (?) by the end of the 20th century. Specific attention will be given to popular culture, art, film, and muralismo; women, gender, and sexuality; environmental history; race, ethnicity, and indigenismo; liberalism and its discontents; student activism and social movements; and Mexico in world history.
Prerequisite(s): HIST 302 (HIST 301 also recommended).
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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HIST 475 - Traditional China
2019-2020 Catalog Year
Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0
This course offers a study of the major historical eras in China, a country of long history and grand tradition. Special emphasis will be put on examining how schools of thought (e.g., Confucianism, Daoism, and Zen Buddhism) have shaped the social and political life of the Chinese people. Through reading selected classical texts and literary works, this course examines the important features of traditional Chinese society, including the structure of the extended family, the rule of the gentry in the village, the division of the inner (female) and outer (male) quarters, the civil service examination system, the constant dynamics between the local and central authorities.
Prerequisite(s): HIST 302 (HIST 301 also recommended).
Offered: Not on a regular basis
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