USF DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

USF Department

of History

A GUIDE

Descriptions are in onedocument, loaded in the orderin which they appear in theOASIS search schedule

AMH comes first, followed byEUH and LAH

Descriptions present a moreinformative general summaryof the kind of material you arelikely to encounter in theseclasses and the main events ofthe time period you will study

If a course meets an FKLrequirement, this is noted onthe description

Specific course content maychange with the individualinstructor, so if you’re lookingfor particular material that is orisn’t listed here, please emailthe instructor listed in theschedule for more informationabout the specific materials inhis or her courses

You should also email theinstructor if you want a list ofreadings or a guideline to howthe course will be graded

Not all lower level classes areoffered every semester

Above: USF History Alumni speak with interested students at a forum about what they’ve done with their history degrees since leaving USF.

Below: USF history professors with President Genshaft and Provost Wilcox at 2015 Commencement.

Need more information about the History Department or a specific class? Need a permit? Contact HistoryAdvise@usf.edu

USF History Department

2000-level course

descriptions

USF HISTORY STUDENTS VISIT THE SMITHSONIAN NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM

NO PREREQUISITES!

AMH 2010 US HISTORY I

AMH 2010US HISTORY I

CHILD MILL WORKER, LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS, AROUND 1830

Europeans came here insearch of freedom – whatdid “freedom” mean todifferent people orgroups in this period?

European arrival in theAmericas (Hispaniola, StAugustine, Jamestown,Plymouth Rock)

Settlement history ofNorth American colonies

Revolutionary War

Ideas of framers of theU.S. Constitution

Voluntary migration bydifferent populationgroups through Irishimmigration of 1840s

Enslavement of Africans

European – Nativeinteractions from 1492 tothe Trail of Tears (1838/9)

Economic developmentand industrialization –railroads and the textileeconomy

Settlement of the US tothe Mississippi River andbeyond

Civil War (1861-65)

Reconstruction (1877)

UNITED STATES HISTORY TO

1877

COVERS FKL HUMANITIES

REQUIRED FOR B.S. IN SOCIAL STUDIES EDUCATION / FLORIDA

SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHER CERTIFICATION

Above: John Trumbull, The Declaration of Independence (1817/19). Below, sketch of a Richmond slave auction, from the Illustrated News of London, 1856.

AMH 2020 US HISTORY II

AMH 2020 US HISTORY II

Formation of Americanidentity – how did werespond to the mostrapid transformations inhuman history?

Reconstruction and theJim Crow South

Gilded Age railroad andsteel barons

Factory work and daily life

American empire

Women’s suffrage

Progressivism

Prohibition

Wars! Spanish-AmericanWar, WWI, WWII, Korea,Vietnam, Iraq andAfghanistan

Great Depression and theNew Deal

Postwar consumer societyand the baby boomers

Important jurisprudence:Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v.Board of Education, Roe v.Wade, Citizens United

Cold War and “Red Scare”

Space race

Civil rights movement

Great Society and originsof Medicare / Medicaid

Civil Rights and VotingRights Acts, Patriot Act,Affordable Care Act

Reagan Revolution

9/11 and consequences

Above left: U.S. pole vaulter Jenn Suhr (2012 Olympics) personifies changes in female roles over the twentieth century. Above right: Protests

for repeal of the 18th Amendment. Below: The Apollo 11 moon landing, July 1969.

FKL Social / Behavioral Sciences

Required for BS in Social Studiesed / FL teacher certification

Recommended for pre-law

Some small, discussion-intensesessions for FYS and sophomores

UNITED STATES HISTORY 1877 to present

COVERS GENERAL

CORE

STUDENT CIVIL RIGHTS PROTESTORS, SELMA, ALABAMA (1965)

EUH 2011 ANCIENT HISTORY I

EUH 2011 ANCIENT

HISTORY I

THE PYRAMIDS AT GIZA (EGYPT), ONE OF THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD

How did early civilizationsemerge and develop?

What led to the formation ofthe first cities, states andempires?

How did environment andeconomic resources affectreligious beliefs andpromote complex socialsystems?

What led to the invention ofwriting?

What do monuments – thepyramids and the Parthenon– or statues and luxurygoods for gods and rulers tell us about power, prosperity and propaganda?

Ancient “world” empires

Evolution of Mesopotamia

Heroic tales, royalproclamations, laws, battleaccounts and biographies

Archaeological evidence

Absolute and divine powerof Egyptian pharaohs

Minoa and Mycenae

Homer, Herodotus, Plato,Thucydides, Aristotle,Euripides, Aristophanes

First democracy in Athens

Persian invasion of Greece

Athens and Sparta at war

Conquests of Alexanderthe Great

Above: The Parthenon, or Temple to Athena (447-438 BCE), the most important surviving building of Classical Greece. Below: Alexander the Great, Battle of Issus, detail from the Alexander Mosaic, a work of Roman art (ca. 100 BCE)

Covers FKL Humanities

Recommended for anthropology, classics, interdisciplinary classical civilization, humanities, education, literature majors

Ancient Near East, Egypt,

Greece – 5,000 years!

EUH 2012 ANCIENT HISTORY II

EUH 2012 ANCIENT

HISTORY II

TOURISTS VISIT THE COLOSSEUM (72-80 CE), AN ICONIC BUILDING OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

Traces the growth ofRome from a village toa mighty empire, oneof the largest theworld has ever known

Roman entertainment-- gladiatorial games,horse races, theatricalperformances

Great statesmen andgenerals -- Caesar,Cicero, Pompey andthe like

Emperors and theircourts

Outsiders in Romansociety such as slaves,barbarians, andprostitutes

Wars: with barbarians,with Egypt, withCarthage

The Aeneid

The “mad” emperors

Roman religion,official cults, mysterycults

Constantine andChristianity

Decline and Fall

Above: The First Triumvirate -- Julius Caesar, Crassus, Pompey the Great – who ended the Roman Republic and set the stage for the Empire

Below: Prostitute with her client, from a wall mural in the brothel at Pompeii

Covers FKL Humanities

Recommended for anthropology, classics, interdisciplinary classical civilization, humanities, education, literature majors

No prerequisites

Ancient Rome Learn the history behind the Rome you see on film!

Great for ROTC

EUH 2021 BYZANTINE EMPIRE

EUH 2021 Byzantine

Empire

BYZANTINE SHIPS USE GREEK FIRE AGAINST ARABS (MADRID SKYLITZES, 12TH CENTURY)

Was the Byzantinegovernment “Byzantine”?What does the wordmean?

Constantine, the RomanEmpire, and Christianity

Christians and barbarians

Eastern Orthodox Churchand Greek culture

Birth and spread of Islamto Egypt, Syria, NorthAfrica and the Holy Land

Black plague

Silk Road and luxurygoods

Legacy of Greekphilosophy and medicine

Arab and Persian scienceand astronomy

Naval battles and Greekfire

War with Persia, Russia,Arab territories, Bulgaria

Christian / Muslimrelations

The Crusades

Iconoclasm

Hybrid architecture ofEast and West

Emergence and spreadof the Ottoman Turks

Early Renaissance

Fall of Constantinople(1453) and end of theByzantine Empire

Above: Hagia Sophia, built in the sixth century by Emperor Justinian as an Eastern Orthodox Church, became a mosque after 1453 and is now a museum; Below: a map of the Empire ca. 650.

Byzantium (Istanbul) Crossroads of East and West

Recommended for humanities, art history, political science / international relations, literature, philosophy, religion majors

Great for ROTC

If you like films and tv about the Roman Empire, you should enjoy this class

EUH 2022 MEDIEVAL WEST

EUH 2022 MEDIEVAL

WEST

VICTIMS OF BUBONIC PLAGUE (TOGGENBURG BIBLE, 1411)

Fall of Rome

“Barbarian” empires:Goths, Vandals, Huns

Birth, rise, and spread ofIslam

Charlemagne’s new“Roman” empire

Christianization of Europe

Vikings and Normans –challengers from thenorth

Battle of Hastings andConquest of England

Weapons: stirrup,crossbow, armor,gunpowder

Monasticism and culture

Romanesque and Gothicarchitecture

Rise of the papacy

Magna Carta and roots ofwestern law

Medieval chivalry –romance and reality

Church/state conflict

Crusades

Heretics: Cathars,Albigensians and more

Black Plague, disease,and medicine

Everyday life: beer,bread, and the peasantswho made them

Above: Interior of Sainte-Chapelle, Paris with medieval stained glass (1200s); Below: The death of Harold, king of England, at the Battle of Hastings, 1066 (from Bayeux Tapestry, 1070s).

Covers FKL Humanities

Recommended for literature, political science, humanities, art history, education, health sciences, religion, or classics majors

Europe’s world, 476-1500

Great class if you love Game of Thrones, Lord ofthe Rings / Tolkien, or Monty Python!

EUH 2030 MODERN EUROPE I

EUH 2030 Modern

Europe I

EXECUTION OF FRENCH KING LOUIS XVI (1793), FROM AN 18TH-CENTURY ENGRAVING

Flat world? Explorationbefore 1492

Everyday life, diet, anddisease: bread and beer

Renaissance andRenaissance art

Guns, germs, and steel –European conquest andits aftermath

Printing press and literacy

The Reformation and theCatholic Church

The Inquisition

Witch-burning

The Thirty Years’ War andthe Military Revolution

The modern state system The revolutionary potato

Copernicus, Galileo, andmodern science

Consumer revolution: tea,coffee, tobacco, cotton

Atlantic slavery

Triangular “trade”

Roots of capitalism

Citizen rights in England:The Bill of Rights (1689)and Glorious Revolution

American (1776) andFrench Revolutions (1789)

Emergence of populardemocracies and popularvoting

Above: Hernan Cortes accepts gifts from the messengers of Montezuma in 1519, from the Codex Duran (1571). Below: Face of Michelangelo’s David [1501-4].)

What is modern? 1450-1789

Covers FKL HUMANITIESRecommended for English, humanities, religion, philosophy, Latin American Studies, World Languages, international studies, art history, education students

EUH 2031 MODERN EUROPE II

EUH 2031 Modern

Europe II

THE COLD WAR TOPPLES THE BELRIN WALL: BRANDENBURG GATE, NOVEMBER 9, 1989

French Revolution (1789)and Napoleon

Industrial Revolution andworker politics

An ideological age

Nation-state identities

Romanticism

Science, technology,chemistry, physics

Germ theory and modernmedicine

Art and culture

European colonialism

The Race for Empire

Constitutional revolutionsand popular democracies

Expanding rights to vote

Women’s emancipation

The Russian Revolution(1917)

World War I

Interwar Years andhyperinflation inGermany

World War II

Economic transformation

The Cold War

NATO

The European Union

The Fall of the Wall

Crumbling of Yugoslavia

The Euro

The West in aninternational world

Above: Benito Mussolini salutes the population of Rome (propaganda photo). Below: Congolese slaves on a 19th-century Belgian rubber plantation

Europe in the world, 1789 to present

WHAT MAKES US MODERN?

NO PREREQUISITE

Recommended for English, humanities, religion, philosophy, political science, World Languages, international studies, art history, education students

Covers FKL HUMANITIESGreat for ROTC