Updated 1/21/2010

 

History Major Graduation Checklist

 

Each semester you must be enrolled in a minimum of 15 credit hours and not more than 23 hours without permission from Dean Fred Davis

 

Take one each of the following:

___HH262 (historical methods, usually taken 3/C year)

 

___HH462 (required senior seminar, 1/C year)

 

___Free Elective (any course 200 level and above--including a history elective)

 

___3/C History majors should take SM223 in the fall semester

 

___Humanities/Social Science Elective #1: any non-history humanities/social science course at the 200 level and

      above or foreign language course 300 level and above.  (FE220 (Accounting) will not satisfy this requirement.)

 

___Humanities/Social Science Elective #2: any non-history humanities course including

      foreign language, philosophy or psychology at the 300 level and above.

 

 

Take at least one offering from four of the five distribution areas:

 

 

Interdisciplinary and Thematic

      Regional courses

__HH330  Imperial Encounters

__HH367  Topics in Regional History

__HH331  Art and Ideas in Modern Europe

       __HH367 Ottoman Empire (Fall 06)

      __HH367 Hist. and Culture of Iran (Spring 08)

 

__HH366  Comparative World Cultures

__HH371  History of Film, 1895-1968 (Spr. 10)

       __HH367A Islam in Africa (Fall 06, Fall 07)

       __HH367A  War, Conflict and Insurgency in

                             Africa (Fall 09)

      __HH367A  History of Modern Brazil (Spr. 10)

__HH377  Topics in Thematic History

      __HH377  Amer. Business History (Fall 07)

      __HH377  Power, People and Places (Fall 08)

      __HH367B History of Modern China (Fall 07)

      __HH 367B Mil. Hist. of Com. China (Fall 06)

 

     

 

     __ HH377A Golden Age of Piracy (Spr. 07, Spr. 09, Spr. 10)

     __ HH377B  Golden Age of Piracy (Fall 07)

     __HH377B  Hist. of Engineering (Spr. 07, Spr. 09)

     __HH377B Global Energy Crisis (Spr. 09)

     __HH377B  Fatherlands (Spr. 10)

     __HH377C  Readings in Grand Strategy (Spr. 10)

     __HH377D Religion and Violence (Spr. 09)

     __HH377D  Imagining War in 20th C (Spr. 10)

       __HH367B War and Violence in Africa (Fall 08)

       __HH367B  U.S. in Africa since 1700(Spr. 10)

       __HH367B  The Samurai (Fall 09)

 

       __HH367C Terrorism:  Peru (Fall 08)

       __HH367C  Malvinas (Falklands) War (Spr. 08)

 

      __HH367C  Guerrilla Warfare in SE Asia (Fall 09)

 

__HH380  History of Science and Tech (Spr. 10)   

__HH379 IT Revolutions

      __HH367D Japan at War (Fall 08)

      __HH367D  Culture, War &  Soc. In Trad. China

           (Fall 09)                

 

      __HH367E SE Asia in modern era (Fall 08)

      __HH367F War/Society in Trad. China (Fall 08)

 

 

       European

 

__HH312 Imperial Rome

 

__HH315 Age of Chivalry and Faith

             American 

__HH316 Age of Religious Wars

__HH345 Colonial America

__HH321 Revolutionary Russia

__HH346 Revolutionary America

__HH322 Soviet Communism

__HH347 Civil War and Reconstruction

__HH326 Ireland and the Irish

__HH349 Emergence of Modern America   

__HH327 Germany and Nazi Exp.

__HH350 United States since World War II 

__HH329 Modern France

__HH352 Film and American Society

__HH337 Topics in European History

 

__HH353 American Social History

             Naval/Military:

__HH354 America in World Affairs

__HH311 Athens: Military democracy

__HH355 Art and Ideas in American Society

__HH357 Topics in U.S. History

         ___African-American. Hist. (Fall 09)

__HH318 War and Society-- Modern Europe

__HH360 US Sectional History: The South

__HH381 War in the Middle Ages

 

__HH382 Warfare in the Age of Sail (1500-1815)

 

__HH383 The Age of Total War

             Regional

__HH384 Recent Military and Naval History

__HH361 History of East Asia       

__HH385 The U.S. Marine Corps

__HH362 History of the Middle East

__HH386  Topics in Naval/Military History

       __HH386 History of U.S. Air Power (Fall 06)

__HH363 Modern Latin America  

       __HH386A  Vietnam War (Fall 06)

__HH364 History of Africa

__HH365 Pre-Columbian and Iberian Empires

       __HH386A Amer. Soc. /Cultural Mil. (Spr.   08, Spr. 10)

       __HH386A  Marine Corps in the Cold War (Fall 09)

       __HH386A Hist. of Airpower (Fall 08)

       __HH386B Hist. of Airpower (Spr. 08, Spr. 09, Spr. 10

 

      __ HH386B Modern Royal Navy

 

     

      __HH386C Hist. of Mod. Counterinsurgency (Fall 08, Spr. 09, Fall 09 Spr. 10)

 

      __HH386D  American Way of War:  Colonial to Afghanistan (Spr. 10)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Experimental or Readings Courses (HH485/HH486) offered according to distribution requirement:

 

Interdisciplinary/Thematic History:

____HH486D   Hist. Soc. Of Empires:  The Ottoman Case (Spring 2008)

____HH486H   Food in Historical Societies (Spring 2008)

____HH486M   Islamic Ritual and Legal Texts (Spring 2008)

____HH486B   History of Christianity (Spring 2009)

____HH486D   Maritime Exploration of the Americas (Spring 2009)

____HH485      Rise of the Machines:  Technology in Peace and War (Fall 2009)

____HH486A   History of Christianity (Fall 2009)

____HH486C   Maritime Explorations of the Americas (Fall 2009)

____HH485      Late Antiquity (Spring 2010)

 

American History:

____HH485C    American Time Poverty (Fall 2005)

____HH486      History of American Film (Spring 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2007)

____HH486A   History of American Film (Fall 2008)

____HH486I    20th C. American Financial Markets (Spring 2008)

____HH486E   History of U.S. Scouting Movement (Spring 2009)

____HH486G   American Foreign Policy in Africa (Spring 2009)

____HH486J    Early American Warfare (Spring 2009)

____HH486K   Alaskan Fishing Industry (Spring 2009)

____HH486E (Independent Study) Class in the Urban South (Spring 2010)

 

Regional History:

____HH486E   Recruiting and Sendero Luminoso (Spring 2008)

____HH486F   Civil-Mil. Relations in Communist China (Spring 2009)

____HH486I    History of Korea (Spring 2009)

____HH486B (Independent Study) Oil Resources in Africa (Spring 2010)

____HH486C (Independent Study) Private Mil. Organizations in Africa (Spring 2010)

____HH486D (Independent Study) Hist. of Afghanistan (Spring 2010)

 

European History:

____HH485A   Modern Italy (Fall 2006)

____HH485A   Late Antiquity (Fall 2007)

____HH485B   Film in Russian/Soviet History (Fall 2006)

____HH485B   Russian Identities (Spring 2005)

____HH486A   Collaboration in Vichy France (Spring 2008)

____HH486B   Liberty, Equality, Fraternity-the French Revolution (Spring 2008)

____HH486F   History of Old Regime France (Spring 2008)

____HH486G   European Cultures and Ideas (Spring 2008)

____HH486J   Readings in Modern European History (Spring 2008)

____HH486B  Russian Society and History in Film (Fall 2008, Fall 2009)

____HH486A  Seminar on Winston Churchill (Spring 2009)

____HH486C  France and Her Colonies (Spring 2009)

____HH486L  Crusading Warfare (Spring 2009)

 

Naval/Military History:

____HH486C   Discipline in the Roman Military (Spring 2008)

____HH486K   Emergent Naval Warfare (Spring 2008)

____HH486L   Asia:  World War II and After (Spring 2008)

____HH486H Roman Counterinsurgency (Spring 2009)

____HH486D  The U.S. and the Wars in Vietnam (Fall 2009)

____HH486C History of the Tamil Insurgency (Fall 2009)

____HH486A World War II in East Asia and the Pacific (Spring 2010)

 

Two credit classes (do not count toward the history distribution requirement):

HH484, World Cinema of the Sound Era:  An Introduction (Spring 2009)

HH483, Coin and the Irish War for Independence (Fall 2009)