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Lehman College of the City University of New York

Department of History

Type of Change: Change in requirements for the M.A. Degree in History

2. From: The general requirements for the M.A. Degree in History consist of course work, [a choice of comprehensive written or oral examination, and a master’s thesis]. Each student must first successfully complete [the courses in his or her chosen specialization. Next, each student must pass a written or oral examination in that specialization]. Candidates for the M.A. degree must then present a master’s thesis, prepared under the direction of [a member of the Department of History]. [SPECIALIZATION I: MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY (36 CREDITS)

Modern European History Courses: Students choosing Specialization I are required to complete 15 credits in history courses with at least a B average. These shall be chosen from those 3-credit courses with odd numbers, HIS 701 through 765 inclusive, listed below.

Cognate Courses: In consultation with the department chair, students choosing Specialization I shall complete 6 credits in allied fields. These course may be selected from outside the History Department or from within the History Department but excluding those in Specialization I.

Historical Research Courses: Students choosing Specialization I shall complete 15 credits in research courses with at least a B average. These shall include the following 3-credit courses: HIS 780, 795 (may be repeated with permission of the chair), and 797 (6 credits). SPECIALIZATION II: AMERICAN URBAN SOCIETY (36 CREDITS)

American History Courses: Students choosing Specialization II are required to complete 15 credits in history courses with at least a B average. These shall be chosen from those 3 credit courses with even numbers, HIS 702 through 768 inclusive, listed below.

Cognate Courses: In consultation with the department char, students choosing Specialization II shall complete 6 credits in allied fields. These courses may be selected from outside the History Department or from within the History Department but excluding those in Specialization II.

Historical Research Courses: Students choosing Specialization II shall complete 15 credits in research courses with at least a B average. These shall include the following 3 credit courses: HIS 780, 795 (may be repeated with permission of the chair), and 797 (6 credits).

SPECIALIZATION III: INDIVIDUALIZED M.A. PROGRAM IN HISTORY (36 CREDITS) Students who wish a 36-credit specialization in history other than Specialization I or Specialization II are invited to consult the department chair to plan individual programs. The 36 credits for specialization III shall be completed as follows:

• Fifteen (15) credits in history courses, to be completed with at least a B average. These may be selected from courses numbered HIS 701 through HIS 769 inclusive, listed below.

• Six (6) credits in cognate courses, as in Specialization I and II. • Fifteen (15) credits in historical research courses, as required in Specialization I

and II. ] To: The general requirements for the M.A. Degree in History consist of 36 credits of coursework:

• HIS 780 and 781 in the first year (6 credits) • Other coursework at the 700-level (24 credits) • HIS 797 (Master’s Thesis) (6 credits) Each student must first successfully complete 30 credits of coursework with a 3.0 average. Next, each student must pass a comprehensive oral examination in two fields. Candidates for the M.A. degree must then present a master’s thesis, prepared under the direction of a thesis supervisor from the Department of History and an approved second reader, and accepted by the thesis supervisor.

4. Rationale The requirement of an oral examination, as opposed to a choice between a written and an oral examination, gives examiners the flexibility to target specific topics within a general field of history, which is more difficult to do in written questions and answers. It also enhances the exam’s status as a “capstone” experience for the student, whereas a comprehensive written exam is often very similar to a longer version of a final exam in a regular course. The requirement that the exam be in two fields clarifies what has been the practice of the department in recent years, and “chosen specialization” has been eliminated since the department has long since ceased to offer these three tracks to entering students. The addition of a second reader to the thesis requirement also clarifies recent department practice. The addition of HIS 780 (Seminar in History) and 781 (Advanced Tutorial Project in History) as required courses during the student’s first year is necessary to provide students with the research skills and methodological understanding that they will need to succeed in their coursework and on their master’s thesis.

The elimination of the three specializations reflects the fact that the History Department has long ceased to offer the first two specializations (Modern European History and American Urban Society), owing to lack of sufficient faculty and waning student interest in these areas. The default “specialization” for all students has therefore been “Individualized M.A. Program in History,” the requirements for which closely correspond with the new requirements as spelled out above.

5. Effect outside department: none

6. Date of departmental approval: September 27, 2006

Lehman College of the

City University of New York

Department of History Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: New Course 2. Course Description: HIA 706: History of Religions in the Ancient World. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIA 306). A survey of religious beliefs and practices of the Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean worlds. Religious customs of the ancient Mesopotamian cultures; Mycenaean, Minoan and Classical Greek myth and ritual; Hellenistic religions and mystery religious cults; private household worship in the Roman Republic; and public religious faith in the Roman Empire. 3, Rationale: This course will complement other courses offered in the history of the ancient world presently offered at Lehman, including those on classical mythology and on ancient Greece and Rome. 4. Academic Objectives and Justification for this Course: This course will provide a survey of various religious customs, rituals and festivals of ancient civilizations. Students will be asked to compare different cultures using the lens of their religious beliefs and practices. 5. Sample Syllabus/Texts:

Religions of Ancient Mesopotamia Religion of Egypt Hittite religion Canaanite religion Israelite religion Religions of Iran Religions of the Aegean Greek religion Roman religion Gnosticism Mystery religions Manichaeism Mithraism R. M. Seltzer, Religions of Antiquity Erik Hornung, ,Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt O.R. Gurney, Some Aspects of Hittite Religion Georg Fohrer, History of Israelite Religion Mary Boyce, A History of Zoroastrianism

Walter Burkert, Greek Religion Warde Fowler, Religious Experience of the Roman People Kurt Rudolph, Gnosis

6. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: none

7. Faculty: The course will be taught by faculty members currently in the department.

8. Estimated Enrollment and Frequency: One section every four semesters; 10- 15 students per section. The average number of students enrolled this semester in 700-level courses offered by the History Department is 12. 9. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change

1, Type of Change: New Course 2. Course Description: HIA 714: Classical Myth and Society. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIA 314). A comparison of the origins and development of classical mythology and heroic legend as religious beliefs, their relation to other mythologies, and their adaptation in literature and art from Hesiod and Homer through the present. A comparative analysis of Near Eastern and Nordic myth will be provided. 3, Rationale: This course will complement other courses offered in the history of the ancient world presently offered at Lehman, and is a special area of expertise of our tenured historian of ancient Greece and Rome. 4. Academic Objectives and Justification for this Course: This course will introduce students to the historical, cyclical, heroic, and divine significance of various myths, and also will provide students with the interpretive skills they need to see how these myths represent the political, religious, and psychological circumstances of their original appearance and subsequent reception. 5. Sample Syllabus/Texts:

Mythology and mythical thinking Creation myths Wars of generations Poseidon and Hermes Apollo and Dionysos Orphism and the Eleusinian mysteries Bellerophon and the Amazons The Theban cycle The Mycenaean cycle Odysseus’s journey Near Eastern myths Nordic myths M.P.O. Morford and R.J. Lenardon, Classical Mythology Aristophanes, The Clouds Homer, The Odyssey


7. Faculty: The course will be taught by faculty members currently in the

department.

8. Estimated Enrollment and Frequency: One section every two semesters; 10- 15 students per section. 9. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: New Course 2. Course Description: HIA 720: History of Ancient Greece. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIA 320). The Ancient Greeks from prehistoric times through the development of the City-State to the death of Alexander the Great. The political, economic, social and cultural achievement during the Bronze and the Dark Ages, the Archaic and the Classical Period and the Hellenistic Era. 3, Rationale: This course has long been taught as a topics course at the graduate level, and has been taught as a regular course (HIA 320) at the undergraduate level. 4. Academic Objectives and Justification for this Course: This course provides a survey of the political, cultural, and economic achievements of ancient Greece, many of which provided crucial contributions to the rise of western civilization. 5. Sample Syllabus/Texts:

Archaic Greece Sparta The Growth of Athens and Athenian Democracy The Peloponnesian War Alexander the Great Alexander’s successors and the Cosmopolis Pomeroy, Burstein, Donlan, and Roberts, Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History Marie Marianetti, Aristophanes: The Clouds. An Annotated Translation Michael Grant, Ancient History Atlas



8. Estimated Enrollment and Frequency: One section every four semesters; 10- 15 students per section. 9. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: New Course 2. Course Description: HIA 721: History of Rome. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIA 321). Foundation and development of the Roman state including the rise and decline of the Roman Republic and the establishment and the fall of the Empire, with emphasis on its political, economic, social and cultural achievements. 3, Rationale: This course has long been taught as a topics course at the graduate level, and has been taught as a regular course (HIA 321) at the undergraduate level. 4. Academic Objectives and Justification for this Course: This course provides a survey of the political, cultural, and economic achievements of ancient Rome, many of which provided crucial contributions to the rise of western civilization. 5. Sample Syllabus/Texts:

Italy, the Etruscans, and early Rome Roman Unification of Italy Carthage and the Punic Wars The Roman political system The Roman emperors Imperial art and architecture Dissolution of empire Constantine the Great and Christianity Michael Grant, History of Rome Michael Grant, Ancient History Atlas






Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: New Course 2. Course Description: HIE 715: The Enlightenment. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIE 315). Travel literature and the early Enlightenment, the spread of Enlightenment ideas, such as natural laws, natural rights, and market forces. 3, Rationale: The ideas covered in this course are foundational for Western science, politics, and law. 4. Academic Objectives and Justification for this Course: This course will provide students with a basic literacy in foundational legal and political thought, and a deeper understanding of their historical context. It will emphasize reading comprehension and critical thinking. 5. Sample Syllabus/Texts:

Framing the Enlightenment Materialism Confronting foreign cultures Confronting civilization Confronting commercial society The social contract and radical republicanism Education: Locke, Rousseau, and Wollstonecraft Natural rights and religion Enlightenment and revolution Dorinda Outram, The Enlightenment Voltaire, Candide Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract Thomas Paine, Common Sense Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Women John Locke, Letter on Toleration Alexis de Tocqueville, The Old Regime and the French Revolution



department.

8. Estimated Enrollment and Frequency: One section every four Semesters, 10-15 students per section. 9. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: New Course 2. Course Description: HIE 736: Early Russian History. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIW 309 or HIE 336). Origins of Russian history, Kievan, Muscovite, and early Imperial Russia to 1855. 3, Rationale: This course has long been taught as a topics course at the graduate level, and has been taught as a regular course (formerly HIW 309, now HIE 336) at the undergraduate level. 4. Academic Objectives and Justification for this Course: This course provides an overview of the transformation of Russia from a small fiefdom to a major empire. It gves students the background they need to make sense of Russia’s (and the Soviet Union’s) status as a world power in the twentieth century. 5. Sample Syllabus/Texts:

Formation of Kiev and the rise of Moscow Ivan III Ivan IV and the Time of Troubles The Early Romanovs Peter I and Catherine II Alexander I and Nicholas I D. Mackenzie and M. Curran, A History of Russia, the Soviet Union, and Beyond Nikolai Gogol, Plays and Petersburg Tales Alexander Pushkin, Queen of Spades and Other Stories







1. Type of Change: New Course 2. Course Description: HIS 727: World Revolutions, 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIS 327). The nature, causes, and results of revolutionary change, including the French, the American, the Haitian, the Russian, and the Chinese revolutions, and the depiction of revolutionary change in art, theater, and literature. 3, Rationale: This course has long been taught as a topics course at the graduate level. A new number and description accurately reflect our offerings in this field. 4. Academic Objectives and Justification for this Course: To provide students with an opportunity to compare different national histories at the point in time when national identity was being reinvented.

5. Sample Syllabus/Texts:

The French Revolution The Russian Revolution The Maoist Revolution The Haitian Revolution Jeremy Popkin, A Short History of the French Revolution Sheila Fitzpatrick, The Russian Revolution Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Jack Greene, “The American Revolution and Modern Revolutions” David Geggus, “The Haitian Revolution” John Thornton, “African Political Ideology and the Haitian Revolution”



8. Estimated Enrollment and Frequency: One section every four semesters, 10- 15 students per section. 9. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006




1. Type of Change: New Course 2. Course Description: HIS 734: The Irish Diaspora. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIS 334). A survey of the circumstances and consequences of Irish immigration from the 18th century to the present, including the patterns of settlement and assimilation of Irish immigrants in the West Indies, the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, Wales, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. 3, Rationale: This course has long been taught as a topics course at the graduate level. A new number and description accurately reflect our offerings in this field. 4. Academic Objectives and Justification for this Course: To develop a thorough familiarity with central questions in the scholarship on the Irish Diaspora; and improving analytic and interpretive skills in the social sciences.


Irish migration to North America Irishness and ethnic identity Irish migrants in America and Britain Irish women and the Catholic Church The Irish in Scotland and Northern Ireland Second-generation Irish in Britain Irish diaspora politics Irish migration to Argentina, India, and South Africa The Irish in Australia and New Zealand Donald Skenson, If the Irish Ran the World: Montserrat, 1630-1730 Andy Bielenberg, The Irish Diaspora Hasia Diner, Erin’s Daughters in America Kevin Kenny, The American Irish: A History Donald MacRaild, The Great Famine and Beyond David Fitzpatrick, Oceans of Consolation: Irish Migration to Australia



department.



Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: New Course 2. Course Description: HIS 750: Topics in Comparative History. 3 hours, 3 credits (May be repeated as often as the topic changes). Various sections in topics in comparative history. (For specific topics and sections each semester, consult the department). 3, Rationale: All other subdivisions in history (ancient, European, non-western, and American) presently have graduate-level “topics” courses (see, e.g., our proposals to confer new course numbers to HIS 762, 765, 766, and 768). This course will confer the same status on comparative history. 4. Academic Objectives and Justification for this Course: This course will introduce students to a comparative approach to interpreting historical events, and will be useful in enabling them to make connections among other courses they are taking.

5. Sample Syllabus/Texts: N/A






Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: New Course 2. Course Description: HIS 781: Advanced Tutorial Project in History. 3 hours, 3 credits. Advanced individual reading and research paper on a specific topic in history, under faculty direction. PREREQ: Satisfactory completion of HIS 780 3, Rationale: This course will provide students with the opportunity to apply the research and methodological skill they learn in HIS 780 to an individualized research project, and will enable them to have one-on-one contact with a fulltime faculty member. 4. Academic Objectives and Justification for this Course: This course will complement HIS 780, which introduces students to historical research and methodology. Students will have access to a full-time faculty member who is a specialist in the field in which the research is conducted. As part of the course, students will also meet as a group in a weekly writing workshop to be led by a Chancellor’s Fellow. This course will enable students to hone the skills they learn in HIS 780 and will prepare them for writing both their master’s thesis and research papers in other courses.

5. Sample Syllabus/Texts: This course builds on HIS 780, at the end of which students will have completed a detailed bibliography and prospectus. Students will perform additional research toward the completion of a 20-25 page research paper, will meet weekly to critique other students’ work, and will consult weekly with a faculty advisor.



8. Estimated Enrollment and Frequency: 10-15 students every spring semester. 9. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006




1. Type of Change: New Course 2. Course Description: HIU 701: Colonial British America, 1586-1763, 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIU 301). The British colonies in North America from the “lost” English settlement at Roanoke to the treaty ending the French and Indian War. The collision of Europeans and Native Americans, conflicts between the European colonial powers, the establishment of slavery in North America, and political, social and religious development. 3, Rationale: This course fills a major gap in American history that has long existed in our course offerings. We now have adequate expertise among our full-time instructional staff to offer it on a regular basis. 4. Academic Objectives and Justification for this Course: An understanding of the history of colonial America is vital for grasping such major themes in American history as slavery, industry and trade, the American Revolution, and diplomatic relations with Europe. 5. Sample Syllabus/Texts:

Native America The Spanish and French Empires New England settlement: Puritan culture Chesapeake settlement: tobacco culture New Netherlands settlement: Dutch colonial culture Pennsylvania settlement: Quaker culture Carolina settlement: Lower south culture Glorious revolutions Slavery and racism The Great Awakening Karen Kupperman, Major Problems in American Colonial History Richard White, The Middle Ground John Demos, The Unredeemed Captive Jill Lepore, The Name of War Leslie Harris, In the Shadow of Slavery: New York, 1626-1863 David Hackett Fischer, Albion’s Seed



8. Estimated Enrollment and Frequency: One section every four semesters, 10-15 students per section. 9. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: New Course 2. Course Description: HIU 704: The Era of the American Revolution, 1763- 1789. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIU 304). American development from the mid-eighteenth century through the framing of the Constitution, with emphasis upon the American Revolution, the interrelation of European and American affairs, and the growth of American institutions and ideals. 3, Rationale: This course has long been taught as a topics course at the graduate level. 4. Academic Objectives and Justification for this Course: An understanding of the era of the American Revolution is vital for grasping such major themes in American history as the Constitution and Bill of Rights, federalism, religion, and foreign policy. 5. Sample Syllabus/Texts:

The Great Awakening The French and Indian War Parliamentary taxation Colonial resistance The Revolutionary War The Constitution R. Brown, Major Problems of the American Revolution G. Wood, Radicalism of the American Revolution P. Maier, American Scripture B. Schecter, The Battle for New York D.H. Fischer, Washington’s Crossing






Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: New Course 2. Course Description: HIU 705: The Early Republic, 1789-1824. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIU 305). The founding and development of a republican form of government: the evolution of political parties, the economic growth of the nation and its impact on politics, and the transition from a republic to a democracy engendered by economic growth and the search for political power. 3, Rationale: This course has long been taught as a topics course at the graduate level. 4. Academic Objectives and Justification for this Course: An understanding of this period in American history is vital for grasping such major themes as the party system in politics, industrialization, and judicial review. 5. Sample Syllabus/Texts:

Hamilton’s economics Foreign Policy Alien and Sedition Acts The election of 1800 Marbury v. Madison The Louisiana Purchase Embargo and the War of 1812 The Age of Jackson S. Wilentz, Major Problems of the Early Republic J. Appleby, Inheriting the Revolution D. Waldstreicher, In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes N. Isenberg, Sex and Citizenship R.S. Newman, The Transformation of Abolitionism J.L. Pasley et al. (eds.), Beyond the Founders



8. Estimated Enrollment and Frequency: One section every four semesters; 10- 15 students per section.

9. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: New Course 2. Course Description: HIU 708: Democracy, Sectionalism and Slavery in the U.S., 1810-1861. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIU 308). The age of the “common man” in politics, increasing sectional tensions and the prominence of the slavery issue in American life. Abolitionism, Workingmen’s agitation, women’s rights, westward expansion, states’ rights, the defense of slavery and the coming of the Civil War. 3, Rationale: This course has long been taught as a topics course at the graduate level. 4. Academic Objectives and Justification for this Course: An understanding of this era in American history is vital for grasping such major themes as abolitionism, the American frontier, labor relations, immigration, and the origins of the Civil War. 5. Sample Syllabus/Texts:

Jacksonian economics The Panic of 1837 The Log Cabin campaign Education and temperance Women’s rights Abolitionism The Mexican War The Know-Nothings Dred Scott The Lincoln-Douglas debates Secession R.G. Walters, The Antislavery Appeal S. Northrup, Twelve Years a Slave N.A. Hewitt, Women’s Activism and Social Change N. Ignatieff, How the Irish Became White D.M. Potter, The Impending Crisis A. Robertson, The Lanmguage of Democracy



department.




Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: New Course 2. Course Description: HIU 709: The Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIU 309). Key events of the Civil War and its aftermath, including emancipation and the status and role of newly freed Black Americans. 3, Rationale: This course provides a more contextualized approach to a course on the Civil War that we offer (along with other topics courses) as HIS 768 (henceforth HIU 750), and fits into the new sequence of HIU courses (701-715) covering American history from the colonial period to the present. 4. Academic Objectives and Justification for this Course: To connect the events of the Civil War with that war’s economic, political and social consequences. 5. Sample Syllabus/Texts:

The Secession Crisis, 1860-1861 Strategies and tactics The Battle of Antietam The Battle of Fredericksburg The Coastal War, 1861-1865 The War for Emancipation Constitutional and financial issues of the Civil War The Desolate South and Presidential reconstruction, 1865-1866 Congressional reconstruction, 1866-1868 Carpetbaggers, Scalawags, and Clansmen The Gilded North Up from slavery: The “new South” James McPherson, Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction Michael Perman, (ed.), Major Problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction All for the Union: The Civil War Diary of Elisha Hunt An Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman

Thomas Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment Sam R. Watkins, Co. Aytch: A Sideshow of the Big Show John William DeForest, A Union Officer in the Reconstruction



8. Estimated Enrollment and Frequency: One section every three to four semesters, 10-15 students per section 9. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: New Course 2. Course Description: HIU 710: The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, 1877-1914. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIU 310). Industrialization and the rise of the corporation, the importance of the transcontinental railroads, immigration, urbanization, black disenfranchisement, “Jim Crow” and the emergence of the “New South,” Populism, the integration of the Far West, Progressivism and “trust busting.” 3, Rationale: This course has long been taught as a topics course at the graduate level. 4. Academic Objectives and Justification for this Course: An understanding of this era in American history is vital for grasping such major themes as American race relations, imperialism, populism, and progressivism. 5. Sample Syllabus/Texts:

Reconstruction and Radical Republicanism The strange career of Jim Crow Capitalism and industrialization The Wild West and the suburbs Populism Immigration and urban growth Progressivism and Imperialism Eric Foner, Reconstruction Leon Fink, Major Problems in Gilded Age and Progressive Era Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward Allen Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America

6. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: none 7. Faculty: The course will be taught by faculty members currently in the department. 8. Estimated Enrollment and Frequency: One section every four semesters; 10- 15 students per section. 9. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006




1. Type of Change: New Course 2. Course Description: HIU 719: The United States and the Vietnam War. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIU 319). The reasons why the United States became involved in the Vietnam War, the methods employed, and the consequences of U.S. involvement. 3, Rationale: This course (along with other topics courses) has regularly been taught for many years as HIS 768 (henceforth HIU 750). A new number and description accurately reflect our offerings in this field. 4. Academic Objectives and Justification for this Course: To make connections between the Vietnam War and American political, social, and diplomatic history. 5. Sample Syllabus/Texts:

Vietnamese history and French colonialism Ho Chi Minh and the Vietminh The Truman Administration, France, and Vietnam Diem: America’s Mandarin JFK, LBJ, and the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Escalation and the TET Offensive The war at home Legacies of the Vietnam War Robert Schulzinger, A Time for War: The United States and Vietnam William Appleman Williams, America in Vietnam: A Documentary History Andrew Rotter, Light at the End of the Tunnel Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War



8. Estimated Enrollment and Frequency: One section every four semesters, 10-15 students per section. 9. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: New Course 2. Course Description: HIU 720: Early American Cultural and Intellectual History. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIU 320). The major ideas, institutions and individuals in American cultural and intellectual life from the mid-17th through the late-19th centuries. Puritanism; the Enlightenment in America; republicanism and romanticism; and the professionalization of letters and learning. 3, Rationale: This course (along with other topics courses) has regularly been taught for many years as HIS 768 (henceforth HIU 750). A new number and description accurately reflect our offerings in this field. 4. Academic Objectives and Justification for this Course: The objectives of the course include: developing a thorough familiarity with a number of the main sources of, and issues in, American cultural history; increasing analytic and interpretive skills; and improving writing and speaking abilities. These goals will be achieved through lectures, discussions, readings and examinations 5. Sample Syllabus/Texts:

Discovery narratives Puritans and Native Americans The Great Awakening Benjamin Franklin and self-help Jeffersonianism Emerson and Thoreau Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods Robert Crunden, A Brief History of American Culture E. B. Holifield, Era of Persuasion: American Thought and Culture, 1521-1680 Robert Shalhope, The Roots of Democracy: Jean Matthews, Towards a New Society Ann Rose, Voices of the Marketplace: American Thought and Culture, 1830-1860


7. Faculty: The course will be taught by faculty members currently in the department. 8. Estimated Enrollment and Frequency: One section every four semesters; 10- 15 students per section. 9. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: New Course 2. Course Description: HIU 736: American Religious History. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIU 336). Religious belief and behaviors of Americans from the seventeenth century to the present. Encounters among European, African and Indigenous religions; Christianization, evangelicalism and revivalism; church and state relations; and religiously based movements for social reform. 3, Rationale: This course (along with other topics courses) has regularly been taught for many years as HIS 768 (henceforth HIU 750). A new number and description accurately reflect our offerings in this field. 4. Academic Objectives and Justification for this Course: To develop a thorough familiarity with a number of central questions in, and original sources of, American religious history; and increasing analytic and interpretive skills. 5. Sample Syllabus/Texts:

European colonization and religion Puritans in New England William Penn and Quakerism The separation of church and state Christianity and slavery The Great Awakening Women and religion Immigrants and religion Christian pluralism American fundamentalism Judaism, Catholicism, and religious bigotry Religion and politics Patrick Allitt (ed.), Major Problems in American Religious History Jon Butler (ed.), Religion in American History: A Reader Mark A. Noll, The Old Religion in a New World Charles H. Lippy, Being Religious, American Style Robert R. Matisen (ed.), Critical Issues in American Religious History






1. Type of Change: New Course 2. Course Description: HIU 746: History of the American Presidency. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIU 346). America’s presidents and how the presidency has developed from George Washington to the present. 3, Rationale: This course (along with other topics courses) has regularly been taught for many years as HIS 768 (henceforth HIU 750). A new number and description accurately reflect our offerings in this field. 4. Academic Objectives and Justification for this Course: to gain a greater familiarity with and critical perspective on the men who have run our country and with the evolution of one of the three branches of American government. 5. Sample Syllabus/Texts:

The Virginia dynasty Jacksonians Lincoln The Gilded Age presidency Progressive presidents The New Deal Truman and Eisenhower The New Frontier and the Great Society Imperial, post-imperial, and neo-imperial presidents A, Brinkley and D. Dyer (eds.), Reader’s Companion to the American Presidency Stephen Skowronek, The Politics Presidents Make Richard Neustadt, Presidential Power and Modern Presidents







1. Type of Change: New Course 2. Course Description: HIW 701: Ottoman History. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIW 301). Political, socio-economic, and cultural history of the Ottoman Empire from its fourteenth-century beginnings to its demise at the end of World War I. 3, Rationale: This area represents a major area within Middle Eastern history and is important for helping students understand present-day world events. 4. Academic Objectives and Justification for this Course: Readings will expose students to a variety of primary sources and to some of the major findings and interpretations of recent Ottoman scholarship. 5. Sample Syllabus/Texts:

Origins of the Ottoman State: the Ghazi thesis Emirate to Islamic and world empire The Age of Suleyman Political institutions: sultanate, palace, and the Ghulam system Provincial administration, land holding, and taxation Peasants, pastoralists, and rural life Cities, trade, and urban life Law and justice Women in Ottoman society Religion and culture Post-Suleymanic crisis and change Eighteenth-century realities Nineteenth-century transformations and reforms Pan-Islamism and the origins of nationalism

Ottoman legacies in the modern Middle East Halil Inalcık. The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age, 1300-1600. Norman Itzkowitz. Ottoman Empire and Islamic Tradition Paul Wittek. The Rise of the Ottoman Empire. M. Kunt. The Sultan’s Servants: The Transformation of Ottoman Provincial Government M. E. Yapp. The Making of the Modern Near East, 1792-1923



Estimated Enrollment and Frequency: One section every four semesters; 10- 15

students per section. 9. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006




1. Type of Change: New Course 2. Course Description: HIW 702: Modern Middle Eastern History. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIW 302). Societies and politics of the Middle East in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Islamic and Ottoman legacies, reforms and reforming elites, changing roles of religion, nationalist ideologies, Great Power intervention, regional politics, and the Arab-Israeli conflict. 3, Rationale: This area represents a major area within Middle Eastern history and is important for helping students understand present-day world events. 4. Academic Objectives and Justification for this Course: This course seeks to help students gain an understanding of Middle Eastern culture, politics and society through the critical assessment of historical scholarship on that part of the world. 5. Sample Syllabus/Texts:

Islamic Legacies From the Ottoman to the Modern Middle East Nineteenth-century social and economic transformations Pan-Islamism and the Origins of Nationalism World War I and the Political Redrawing of the Middle East Authoritarian Reform in Turkey and Iran The Constitutional Experiment in Egypt The Palestine Mandate and the Emergence of the Arab-Israeli Conflict Nationalism and the Age of Nasser The Arabian Peninsula: Oil, Development, and Islamic Conservatism Syria and Iraq under Ba‘th Regimes The Lebanese Confessional State: Civil War and Its Roots The Iranian Revolution and the Islamic Republic Islamic Radicalism in the Sunni Arab World Global “War on Terrorism” and the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars

W. L. Cleveland, A History of the Modern Middle A. Hourani, P.S. Khoury, and M. C. Wilson, The Modern Middle East: A Reader D. Singerman. Avenues of Participation: Family, Politics and Networks in Cairo Glles Kepel. The Prophet and Pharaoh: Muslim Extremism in Egypt



8. Estimated Enrollment and Frequency: One section every four semesters; 10-15 students per section. 9. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: New Course 2. Course Description: HIW 703: Contemporary Islamic Movements. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIW 303). Contemporary movements of Islamic resurgence and activism in the Middle East, North Africa, Central and South Asia, and beyond. 3, Rationale: This area represents a major area within Middle Eastern history and is important for helping students understand present-day world events. 4. Academic Objectives and Justification for this Course: This course seeks to help students gain an understanding of the relationship between Islamic religious movements and political/socio-economic discontent in the Middle East, and to help students gain a critical perspective on such movements.


Pre-modern legacies The radicalization of the Muslim brotherhood Islamism in Sadat’s Egypt Roots of the Iranian Revolution Mobilizing the Shi’a of Lebanon Palestinian Islamic politics Algeria: from the rise of the FIS to Civil War Afghanistan’s jihad, Al-Qa’ida, and the globalization of radical Islam The sociology of Islam Political Islam vs. Islamization from below Islamism, civil society, and democracy Gilles Kepel, Muslim Extremism in Egypt: The Prophet and the Pharaoh Emmanuel Sivan, Radical Islam: Medieval Theology and Modern Politics Fouad Ajami, The Vanished Imam: Musa Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon Geneive Abdo, No God but God: Egypt and the Triumph of Islam Gilles Kepel, Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam Olivier Roy, Globalized Islam:The Search for a New Ummah

6.Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: none

7.Faculty: The course will be taught by faculty members currently in the department.



Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: New Course 2. Course Description: HIW 705: The Arab-Israeli Conflict. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIW 305). The Arab-Israeli conflict from the late-nineteenth century to the present; political, military, diplomatic, economic, cultural, and psychological dimensions. 3, Rationale: This course (along with other topics courses) has regularly been taught for many years as HIS 766 (henceforth HIW 750). A new number and description accurately reflect our offerings in this field. 4. Academic Objectives and Justification for this Course: This area represents a major area within Middle Eastern history and is important for helping students understand present-day world events. 5. Sample Syllabus/Texts:

Nineteenth-century Palestine: political economy, society, and communal identities Zionism and the beginning of Zionist settlement in Palestine World War I and the Balfour Decalration Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate The 1936-39 Palestinian Revolt and its suppression World War II, the Holocaust, and the road to partition

1948: Israeli War of Independence, Palestinian “Nakba” To Suez and after: Israel and its Arab neighbors, 1949-1956 The Palestinian diaspora and the “Camp Society” War, the reemergence of nationalism, and the new PLO The West Bank and Gaza under occupation The Intifada The Gulf War and the Oslo Accords I. Bickerton and C. Klausner, A Concise History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Baruch Kimmerling and Joel S. Migdal, The Palestinian People: A History Rashid Khalidi, Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness Yael Zerubavel, Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition



Department of History and

Dept. of Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: New Course 2. Course Description: HIW 737: Latin America and the United States from 1823 to the present. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIW 337 or LAC 337). Relations between the United States and Latin American countries since their creation as independent republics. 3, Rationale: This course (along with other topics courses) is presently being taught as HIS 767 (henceforth HIW 750). A new number and description accurately reflect our offerings in this field. 4. Academic Objectives and Justification for this Course: This area represents a major area within Latin American history and is important for helping students understand present-day world events. 5. Syllabus/Sample Texts:

Establishing empire Anti-Americanism and anti-imperialism Dollar diplomacy and the Good Neighbor The Cold War in Latin America: Combating Communism Guatemala, 1954 Cuba, 1959-1962 Dominican Republic, 1965 Chile, 1973 El Salvador Texts: Lars Schoultz, Beneath the United States: A History of US Policy toward Latin America Mark Danner, The Massacre of El Mozote Nick Cullather, Secret History: The CIA’s Classified Account of its Operations in Guatemala Abraham F. Lowenthal, The Dominican Intervention

6. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Departments: none


8. Estimated Enrollment and Frequency: One section every four semesters; 10-15 students per section. 9. Date of History Departmental approval: September 27, 2006

Date of LAPRS Departmental approval: January 25, 2006



Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: Alpha Code, Course Number, and Title 2. From: HIS 762: Topics in Ancient History. 3 hours, 3 credits (May be repeated as often as the topic changes). Various sections in topics in Ancient History. (For specific topics and sections each semester, consult the department). 3. To: HIA 750: Topics in Ancient and Medieval History. 3 hours, 3 credits (May be repeated as often as the topic changes). Various sections in topics in Ancient History. (For specific topics and sections each semester, consult the department). 4. Rationale: The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None 6. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: Alpha Code and Course Number 2. From: HIS 747: The Age of the Reformation. 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIE 303). Conditions of life, society, and politics on the eve of the Reformation; abuses in the early sixteenth- century Roman Catholics church and Catholic reform before Luther; Luther’s personality and theology; the problems of when; and why, Luther broke from Rome; religious radicalism and peasant revolt as unintended results of Lutheran reform. 3. To: HIE 702: The Age of the Reformation. 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIE 302). Conditions of life, society, and politics on the eve of the Reformation; abuses in the early sixteenth- century Roman Catholics church and Catholic reform before Luther; Luther’s personality and theology; the problems of when; and why, Luther broke from Rome; religious radicalism and peasant revolt as unintended results of Lutheran reform. 4. Rationale: The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. “Not open to students who have taken HIE 303” was a typographical error, and has been corrected. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None 6. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: Alpha Code and Course Number 2. From: HIS 749: The Age of the Counter-Reformation: 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIE 303). Religious persecution, ideological warfare, and political rebellion in the context of sixteenth-century Counter-Reformation Catholicism and Calvinisim . Topics studied include the Spanish Inquisition, the Netherlands’ revolt against Spain; the St. Batholomew’s Massacre, the French religious wars; and the Armada. 3. To: HIE 703: The Age of the Counter-Reformation: 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIE 303). Religious persecution, ideological warfare, and political rebellion in the context of sixteenth-century Counter-Reformation Catholicism and Calvinisim . Topics studied include the Spanish Inquisition, the Netherlands’ revolt against Spain; the St. Batholomew’s Massacre, the French religious wars; and the Armada. 4. Rationale: The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None 6. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: Alpha Code, Course Number, and Description 2. From: HIS 709: Europe Under The Old Regime: 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIE 307). The golden age of French culture in the seventeenth century; the administrative achievements of Louis XIV; the socioeconomic condition of the peasantry; the rise of the middle class in the eighteenth century; demographic change; the Enlightenment; the background of the French Revolution. 3. To: HIE 707: Europe Under the Old Regime. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIE 307). Society, politics, and economy in Europe from 1600 to 1789. Enlightened absolutism in France and Prussia; the English Civil War and the “Glorious Revolution”; changes in the rural economy; the rise of religious enthusiasm; foreign trade and colonial expansion; the rise of the middle classes; the Enlightenment and the origins of the French Revolution. 4. Rationale: The new course description more accurately represents how the course has been taught in recent years. The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None 6. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006




1. Type of Change: Alpha Code, Course Number, and Description 2. From: HIS 711: The French Revolution and Napoleon: 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIE 308). Preconditions of discontent in late eighteenth-century France; the origins and unfolding of the French Revolution; the Thermidorean Reaction; the rise of Napoleon and his influence in Europe; and the French Revolution as a model for subsequent movements of national liberation. 3. To: HIE 708: The French Revolution and Napoleon. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIE 308). Preconditions of discontent in late 18th century France, the origin and unfolding of the French Revolution, the Thermidorean Reaction, the rise of Napoleon and his influence in Europe. 4. Rationale: The new course description more accurately represents how the course has been taught in recent years. The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None 6. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006




1. Type of Change Alpha Code, Course Number, and Description

2. From: HIS 713: Europe, 1815-1914: 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIE 309). Dominant ideas and political, social, and economic developments from the Congress of Vienna to World War I. 3. To: HIE 709: Europe, 1815-1914. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIE 309). Political, economic, social and intellectual ideas and developments from the Congress of Vienna to World War I. 4. Rationale: The new course description more accurately represents how the course has been taught in recent years. The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None 6. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change Alpha Code and Course Number 2. From: HIS 715: History of European Diplomacy. 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIE 310). Survey of European diplomacy, with special emphasis on nineteenth-and twentieth-century developments. 3. To: HIE 710: History of European Diplomacy. 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIE 310). Survey of European diplomacy, with special emphasis on nineteenth-and twentieth-century developments. 4. Rationale: The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None 6. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: Alpha Code, Course Number, Title and Description 2. From: HIS 703: Europe in the Twentieth Century—Imperialism, Revolution, Fascism and Total War. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIE 314). World War I, the revolt of colonial peoples against European imperialism in thought and culture, the totalitarian challenge to parliamentary democracy; the Great Depression, World War II, and the revival of a liberal political and social order after 1945. 3. To: HIE 714: Europe in the 20th Century. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIE 314). World War I, the rise and fall of Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe, fascism, World War II, postwar prosperity, European union, and the impact of immigration. 4. Rationale: The new course description and title more accurately represent how the course has been taught in recent years. The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None 6. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006




1. Type of Change: Alpha Code, Course Number, and Description 2. From: HIS 705: The History of Ideas and Ideologies in Nineteenth-Century Europe. 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIE 316.). The historical influence of the ideas and ideologies that have shaped our ideological conflicts and changed the course of modern history: liberalism, conservatism, nationalism, socialism, and anarchism. Attention given to the ways in which ideas gain support from groups or classes, and hence power to influence political and social change. Included will be the ideas and impact of men like Rousseau, Burke, Hegel, Mazzini, Smith, Marx, Bakunin, and others. 3. To: HIE 716: The History of Ideas and Ideologies in Nineteenth-Century Europe. 3 hours, 3 credits credits (Not open to students who have taken HIE 316). The social and intellectual formation of liberalism, conservatism, nationalism, socialism, and anarchism, and their impact on political and social change in modern Europe. 4. Rationale: The course has evolved since it was originally created. The new course description more accurately represents how the course has been taught in recent years. The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None 6. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006




1. Type of Change: Alpha Code, Course Number, Title and Description 2. From: HIS 707: The History of Ideas and ideologies in Twentieth-Century Europe. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIE 317). The men, movements, and ideas that have created our modern consciousness and shaped our ideologies; confrontations during the era of communism, fascism, revolution, and total war. There are many possible topics. Students will be encouraged to study those in which they are interested: Marxist socialism, fascist ideology, the neoliberalism of the welfare state; existentialism, postimpressionism, the intellectual impact of the new physics, and Nietzsche, Freud, Kierkegaard, Croce, Sartre, Sorel, Spengler, and others. 3. To: HIE 717: The History of Ideas and Ideologies in Twentieth-Century Europe. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIE 317). The social movements and ideas that have shaped our modern consciousness, including communism, fascism, existentialism, feminism, revolution, and total war. 4. Rationale: The course has evolved since it was originally created. The new course description and title more accurately represent how the course has been taught in recent years. The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None 6. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006




1. Type of Change Alpha Code and Course Number 2. From: HIS 717: Tudor-Stuart England. 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIE 321). The advent of the Tudor dynasty, Henry VIII, the divorce, and the church; Queen Elizabeth’s government and the church; and Elizabethan society; poverty and vagrancy in the Tudor state; the divine right of kings and mass political attitudes in early Stuart England; the origins of the civil war; the execution of Charles I; Oliver Cromwell and the saints; restoration England; and the glorious revolution. 3. To: HIE 721: Tudor-Stuart England. 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIE 321). The advent of the Tudor dynasty, Henry VIII, the divorce, and the church; Queen Elizabeth’s government and the church; and Elizabethan society; poverty and vagrancy in the Tudor state; the divine right of kings and mass political attitudes in early Stuart England; the origins of the civil war; the execution of Charles I; Oliver Cromwell and the saints; restoration England; and the glorious revolution. 4. Rationale: The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None 6. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: Alpha Code, Course Number, Title and Description 2. From: HIS 719: England in the Age of Industrialization and Democracy. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to who have taken HIE 322). The evolution of modern England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Topics include the impact of the industrial revolution on English society; the American Revolution; the democratization of politics and the advent of a new political culture; rise of the welfare state; depression, imperialism, and the new liberalism; the Irish question in English politics, the breakdown of Victorian standards and behavior. 3. To: HIE 722: Britain in the Age of Industrialization and Empire. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to who have taken HIE 322). Modern Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The impact of the industrial revolution on British society; the American Revolution; democratization; depression, imperialism, and the new liberalism; and the Irish question in British politics. 4. Rationale: The new course description and title more accurately represent how the course has been taught in recent years. The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None 6. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006




1. Type of Change: Alpha Code, Course Number, and Description 2. From: HIS 721: Britain in the Twentieth Century. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIE 323). The Liberals and social reform before 1914; the revolt of the Peers and the Irish question; the road to World War I; Lloyd George’s coalition and the advent of the postwar Government; the crisis of 1931 and the formation of the National Government; depression, abdication of Edward VIII, and the policy of appeasement; Churchill’s war leadership and World War II; nationalization and the welfare state after 1945; the withdrawal from empire; and Britain in the 1970’s. 3. To: HIE 723: Britain in the Twentieth Century. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIE 323). World War I and its effects on politics and society; the economic crisis of 1931 and the National Government; depression; Churchill and the war effort; the Labour Party, nationalization and the welfare state after 1945; decolonization; economy and society under Thatcher; the rise of New Labour. 4. Rationale: The new course description more accurately represents how the course has been taught in recent years. The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None 6. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change Alpha Code and Course Number 2. From: *HIS 723. Italy from Napoleon through Mussolini. 3 hours, 3 credits. 3. To: *HIE 725. Italy from Napoleon through Mussolini. 3 hours, 3 credits. 4. Rationale: The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None 6. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: Alpha Code, Course Number, and Description 2. From: HIS 725: History of Modern France: 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIE 330). Study of the development of France since the Bourbon Restoration, with special emphasis on social changes and the transformation of France since World War II. 3. To: HIE 730: History of Modern France. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIE 330). French politics, society, economy and culture from the fall of Napoleon to the crisis of 1968. The revolutions of the nineteenth century, colonial policy and decolonization, World Wars and recovery after 1950. 4. Rationale: The new course description more accurately represents how the course has been taught in recent years. The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None 6. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: Alpha Code, Course Number, Title and Description 2. From: HIS 727: Ireland in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIE 333). The study of contemporary Ireland. Topics include the Act of Union; O’Connell and Catholic Emancipation; Young Ireland; the Roman Catholic Church; the Parnellite leadership; the Easter Rebellion and Sinn Fein; the treaty of 1921; the election of de Valera; and continuing issues in Irish life. 3. To: HIE 733: Modern Ireland. 3 hours, 3 credits credits (Not open to students who have taken HIE 333). The political, economic, social and cultural history of Ireland from the late 18th century to the present. 4. Rationale: The new course description and title more accurately represent how the course has been taught in recent years. The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None 6. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change Alpha Code and Course Number 2. From: *HIS 729: History of Spain. 3 hours, 3 credits. 3. To: *HIE 735: History of Spain. 3 hours, 3 credits. 4. Rationale: The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None 6. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: Alpha Code, Course Number, and Description 2. From: HIS 739: Modern Russian History. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIW 310). The modernization of Russia in the late Imperial and Soviet eras, viewed from political, economic, social, and cultural development. 3. To: HIE 737: Modern Russian History. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIW 310 or HIE 337). Russia from 1855 to the present, including the late Imperial and Soviet eras. 4. Rationale: The new description more accurately represents how the course has been taught in recent years. The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: none 6. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change Alpha Code and Course Number 2. From: HIS 731: Germany from Bismarck through Hitler. 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIE 341). Study of Germany from Bismarck and the unification through Hitler, the Nazi regime, and the Second World War, with brief survey of postwar development. 3. To: HIE 741: Germany from Bismarck through Hitler. 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIE 341). Study of Germany from Bismarck and the unification through Hitler, the Nazi regime, and the Second World War, with brief survey of postwar development. 4. Rationale: The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None 6. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change Alpha Code and Course Number 2. From: HIS 733: The Holocaust. 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIE (HCU) 343). Study of the destruction of Jews of Europe during World War II. Political anti-Semitism in modern Europe; the rise of Hitler and Nazism. The interwar period in Europe and the spread of anti-Semitism. World War II, ghetto, deportation, and liquidation. Problems of rescue and resistance. Selected readings from the literature of the Holocaust. 3. To: HIE 743: The Holocaust. 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIE (HCU) 343). Study of the destruction of Jews of Europe during World War II. Political anti-Semitism in modern Europe; the rise of Hitler and Nazism. The interwar period in Europe and the spread of anti-Semitism. World War II, ghetto, deportation, and liquidation. Problems of rescue and resistance. Selected readings from the literature of the Holocaust. 4. Rationale: The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None 6. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006




1. Type of Change: Alpha Code and Course Number 2. From: HIS 765: Topics in European History. 3 hours, 3 credits (May be repeated as often as the topic changes). Various sections in topics in European history. (For specific topics and sections each semester, consult the department). 3. To: HIE 750: Topics in European History. 3 hours, 3 credits (May be repeated as often as the topic changes). Various sections in topics in European history. (For specific topics and sections each semester, consult the department). 4. Rationale: The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None 6. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: Course Number and Description 2. From: HIS 743: Science and Society. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIS 302). Social aspects of the growth of modern science: the interaction of science and society and the emergence of science as a social institution; seventeenth-century science to the present. Science in the industrial revolution of the eighteenth century, and the revolution in applied science in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Science and War, and the current critique of the social role of science. Comparison with the development and place of science in the United States, the U.S.S.R.. and China. 3. To: HIS 702: Science and Society. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIS 302). Social aspects of the growth of modern science from the 17th century to the present. Religion and science in Galileo’s Italy, science and technology during the industrial revolution, scientific institutions during the French Enlightenment, Darwin and Social Darwinism, eugenics and racial hygiene, “big science,” and the human genome project. 4. Rationale: The new course description more accurately represents how the course has been taught in recent years. The new course number indicates more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None 6. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006




1. Type of Change Course Number 2. From: HIS 745: Science in the Twentieth Century. 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIS 304). A multidisciplinary survey of scientific and technological development in the twentieth century, emphasizing the ethical issues and social implications arising from them. Topic may include resent work in microbiology, DNA, and genetic “engineering”; theories of relativity, quantum physics, atomic weapons, and nuclear energy; technological innovations in synthetic materials, chemical warfare, and consumers concerns; anthropological discoveries and humans evolutions; Freudian psychology and psychoanalysis; man in space, medical science and portents for the future of civilization. Students need to have extensive background in the sciences. 3. To: HIS 704: Science in the Twentieth Century. 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIS 304). A multidisciplinary survey of scientific and technological development in the twentieth century, emphasizing the ethical issues and social implications arising from them. Topic may include resent work in microbiology, DNA, and genetic “engineering”; theories of relativity, quantum physics, atomic weapons, and nuclear energy; technological innovations in synthetic materials, chemical warfare, and consumers concerns; anthropological discoveries and humans evolutions; Freudian psychology and psychoanalysis; man in space, medical science and portents for the future of civilization. Students need to have extensive background in the sciences. 4. Rationale: The new course number indicates more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None 6. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change Course Number 2. From: HIS 737: Anti-Semitism from Early Christianity to Hitler. 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIS [HCU] 342). The origin of conflict between Christianity and Judaism, and the fate of Jews in Medieval Europe. The gradual liberation and assimilation of the Jews of Western Europe, 1789-1870. The rise of modern racism and Anti-Semitism in Europe, 1889-1939. Hitler, the Nazis, and the destruction of European Jewry during World War II. Anti-Semitism in the contemporary world . Social-psychological and cultural theories of anti-Semitism will be considered. 3. To: HIS 742: Anti-Semitism from Early Christianity to Hitler. 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIS [HCU] 342). The origin of conflict between Christianity and Judaism, and the fate of Jews in Medieval Europe. The gradual liberation and assimilation of the Jews of Western Europe, 1789-1870. The rise of modern racism and Anti-Semitism in Europe, 1889-1939. Hitler, the Nazis, and the destruction of European Jewry during World War II. Anti-Semitism in the contemporary world . Social-psychological and cultural theories of anti-Semitism will be considered. 4. Rationale: The new course number indicates more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None 6. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: Alpha Code, Course Number, Title and Description 2. From: HIS 702: The United States, 1900-1941. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIU 314.). Domestic development of the United States from the beginning of the twentieth century through the era of the Great Depression. 3. To: HIU 714: The United States from World War I through World War II, 1914-1945, 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIU 314.). Domestic and foreign affairs, including the two World Wars, the “Roaring Twenties,” the Great Depression, and Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal. 4. Rationale: The new course description and title identify World War I and World War II as the beginning and end points of the course. It newly includes World War II (and spends less time on pre-World War I topics) in order to leave more time for post-war topics in HIS 715 (renumbered from HIS 704). The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement.

5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None 6. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: Alpha Code, Course Number, Title and Description 2. From: HIS 704: Recent American History, 1941 to the present. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIU 315). Domestic development of the United States from the Great Depression to the present, Emphasis on the impact of depression, war, and post- World 11 global tensions upon domestic political and economic institutions and values. 3. To: HIU 715: Recent United States History, 1945 to the Present. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIU 315). Domestic and foreign affairs since the end of World War II. The Cold War and anti-Communism at home and abroad, and changes in American social, economic, and political values and institutions. 4. Rationale: The course has evolved since it was originally created. The course now begins after World War II to leave more time for the large number of historical events that have transpired since this course description was last changed. The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None 6. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: Alpha Code, Course Number, and Description 2. From: HIS 706: The American Constitution in Historical Perspective. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIU 316). A history of the American constitutional system from the American Revolution to the Watergate crisis. Concentration on the evolution of legal structures, the growth of rights and remedies, the changing content of justice, organization of government, and the balance of freedom and order in historical context. 3. To: HIU 716: The American Constitution in Historical Perspective. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIU 316). The American constitutional system from the American Revolution to the present. The evolution of legal structures, the growth of rights and remedies, the changing content of justice, organization of government, the balance of freedom and order. 4. Rationale: The new course description more accurately represents how the course has been taught in recent years. The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None 6. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: Alpha Code and Course Number 2. From: HIS 734: History of American Foreign Relations, 1750-1912. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIU 317). A history of American foreign relations from colonial times to the early twentieth century, with emphasis on the diplomacy of the American Revolution; foreign affairs and the Constitution; the War of 1812; the Monroe Doctrine; expansion, sectionalism, and the coming of the Civil War; and America’s emergence as a world power. 3. To: HIU 717: History of American Foreign Relations, 1750-1912. 3 hours. 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIU 317). A history of American foreign relations from colonial times to the early twentieth century, with emphasis on the diplomacy of the American Revolution; foreign affairs and the Constitution; the War of 1812; the Monroe Doctrine; expansion, sectionalism, and the coming of the Civil War; and America’s emergence as a world power. 4. Rationale: The new course description more accurately represents how the course has been taught in recent years. The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None 6. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: Alpha Code, Course Number, and Description 2. From: HIS 736: History of American Foreign Relations, 1912-Present. 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIU 318). A history of American foreign relations, from the early twentieth century to the present, with the emphasis on E.U., policy toward Latin America; World War I; isolation, neutrality, and the coming of World War II; Cold War and the policy of containment; the Korean War: the War in Vietnam; and the growth of presidential power in foreign affairs. 3. To: HIU 718: History of American Foreign Relations, 1912-Present. 3 hours. 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIU 318). American foreign relations from the early 20th century to the present. The US role in World Wars I and II; the Cold War; and the growth of presidential power in foreign affairs. 4. Rationale: The new course description more accurately represents how the course has been taught in recent years. The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None 6. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: Alpha Code and Course Number 2. From: HIS 730: History of Sexuality and Sex Roles in America. 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIU 329). The social history of sexual roles as they have developed and changed in America from colonial times to the present. 3. To: HIU 729: History of Sexuality and Sex Roles in America. 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIU 329). The social history of sexual roles as they have developed and changed in America from colonial times to the present. 4. Rationale: The new course description more accurately represents how the course has been taught in recent years. The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None 6. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: Alpha Code and Course Number 2. From: HIS 732: History of Women in America. 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIU 331). Historical study of women’s conditions, statuses, and roles in American society from colonial times to the present. 3. To: HIU 731: History of Women in America. 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIU 331). Historical study of women’s conditions, statuses, and roles in American society from colonial times to the present. 4. Rationale: The new course description more accurately represents how the course has been taught in recent years. The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None 6. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: Alpha Code and Course Number 2. From: HIS 726: History of Health Care in the United States. 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIU 332). Examination of health care in America from colonial times to the present. Topics include the development of the medical profession, the rise of the public health movement, the growth of hospitals, and popular attitudes toward health and disease. 3. To: HIU 732: History of Health Care in the United States. 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIU 332). Examination of health care in America from colonial times to the present. Topics include the development of the medical profession, the rise of the public health movement, the growth of hospitals, and popular attitudes toward health and disease. 4. Rationale: The new course description more accurately represents how the course has been taught in recent years. The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None 6. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: Alpha Code and Course Number 2. From: HIS 708: American Urban History. 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIU 333). The formation, growth, and transformation of American cities from the wilderness village to the megalopolis. Emphasis on the changing political and economic roles of cities, patterns of social stratification, power and mobility; and trends in recent urban social and cultural life. 3. To: HIU 733: American Urban History. 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIU 333). The formation, growth, and transformation of American cities from the wilderness village to the megalopolis. Emphasis on the changing political and economic roles of cities, patterns of social stratification, power and mobility; and trends in recent urban social and cultural life. 4. Rationale: The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None




Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: Alpha Code and Course Number 2. From: HIS 710: Immigration in America: 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIU 335). The motives and aspirations of immigrants, their contributions to the effects on American social structure, and the tensions between assimilation and ethnicity. 3. To: HIU 735: Immigration in America: 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIU 335). The motives and aspirations of immigrants, their contributions to the effects on American social structure, and the tensions between assimilation and ethnicity. 4. Rationale: The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 6. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None




Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: Alpha Code and Course Number 2. From: HIS 728: The Family in American History: 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIU 338). Historical study of the family in America, including its European roots, its relationship to the frontier, to slavery, to immigration, and to current development in industrialism, urbanization, and technology. 3. To: HIU 738: The Family in American History: 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIU 338). Historical study of the family in America, including its European roots, its relationship to the frontier, to slavery, to immigration, and to current development in industrialism, urbanization, and technology. 4. Rationale: The new course description more accurately represents how the course has been taught in recent years. The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None 6. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: Alpha Code and Course Number 2. From: HIS 718: The Industrial Revolution in America. 3 hours, 3 credits. 3. To: HIU 740: The Industrial Revolution in America. 3 hours, 3 credits. 4. Rationale: The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 7. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None




Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: Alpha Code and Course Number 2. From: HIS 720: American Business History. 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIU 341). The rise of business enterprise in America from its earliest commercial origins to giant corporations and conglomerates. Themes include the rise of early commerce; emergence of consolidated industry; prominent businessmen and business techniques; analysis of business philosophy and entrepreneurial attitudes; reactions to corporate power by labor and government; evolution of business forms and structures; and the impact of business enterprise on the political, legal, and cultural development of America. 3. To: HIU 741: American Business History. 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIU 341). The rise of business enterprise in America from its earliest commercial origins to giant corporations and conglomerates. Themes include the rise of early commerce; emergence of consolidated industry; prominent businessmen and business techniques; analysis of business philosophy and entrepreneurial attitudes; reactions to corporate power by labor and government; evolution of business forms and structures; and the impact of business enterprise on the political, legal, and cultural development of America. 4. Rationale: The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None




Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: Alpha Code and Course Number 2. From: HIS 722: History of American Labor. 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIU 342). The American worker from colonial times to the present, with emphasis on the period since the Civil War. Themes include the origins and character of the American labor movement; the impact of industrialization on the worker; slavery and wage labor; the growth and development of the major American labor unions; the impact of social reformers and radicals on the labor movements and the American worker; public employees and collectible bargaining; and the changing attitudes of the American worker. 3. To: HIU 742: History of American Labor. 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIU 342). The American worker from colonial times to the present, with emphasis on the period since the Civil War. Themes include the origins and character of the American labor movement; the impact of industrialization on the worker; slavery and wage labor; the growth and development of the major American labor unions; the impact of social reformers and radicals on the labor movements and the American worker; public employees and collectible bargaining; and the changing attitudes of the American worker. 4. Rationale: The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None




Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: Alpha Code and Course Number 2. From: HIS 712: American Economic History: 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIU 345). Studies in American economic development from the agricultural and commercial economy of the Colonies to contemporary U.S. preeminence as an industrial nation. Attention will be given to the economic institution and policy with regard to political and social developments. 3. To: HIU 745: American Economic History: 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIU 345). Studies in American economic development from the agricultural and commercial economy of the Colonies to contemporary U.S. preeminence as an industrial nation. Attention will be given to the economic institution and policy with regard to political and social developments. 4. Rationale: The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None




Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: Alpha Code and Course Number 2. From: HIS 714: The Mainland Borough: The Bronx as a City In History. 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIU 347). The urban history of the Bronx from the seventeenth century to the present. Mayor emphasis on 1874-1945, the period of the Borough’s most rapid growth and experience with modern urban problems. Topic s include ethnic in-migration and mobility; the effects of mass-transit development; Prohibition; and the ways various external events, such as wars and depression, have influence the Borough and its people. 3. To: HIU 747: The Mainland Borough: The Bronx as a City In History. 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIU 347). The urban history of the Bronx from the seventeenth century to the present. Mayor emphasis on 1874-1945, the period of the Borough’s most rapid growth and experience with modern urban problems. Topic s include ethnic in-migration and mobility; the effects of mass-transit development; Prohibition; and the ways various external events, such as wars and depression, have influence the Borough and its people. 4. Rationale: The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None




Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: Alpha Code and Course Number 2. From: HIS 716: History of New York—City and State. 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIU 348). Examination of the interaction between the urban center and the state from their respective origins as New Amsterdam and New Netherland to the twentieth century. Special emphasis is placed on the socioeconomic reasons for the cosmopolitan nature of the metropolis and its uniqueness as a major urban entity. 3. To: HIU 748: History of New York—City and State. 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIU 348). Examination of the interaction between the urban center and the state from their respective origins as New Amsterdam and New Netherland to the twentieth century. Special emphasis is placed on the socioeconomic reasons for the cosmopolitan nature of the metropolis and its uniqueness as a major urban entity. 4. Rationale: The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None




Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: Alpha Code and Course Number 2. From: HIS 768: Topics in American History. 3 hours, 3 credits (May be repeated as often as the topic changes). Various sections in topics in American history. (For specific topics and sections each semester, consult the department). 3. To: HIU 750: Topics in American History. 3 hours, 3 credits (May be repeated as often as the topic changes). Various sections in topics in American history. (For specific topics and sections each semester, consult the department). 4. Rationale: The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None 6. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: Alpha Code, Course Number, and Description 2. From: HIS 741: Europe and the Non-Western World in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. 3 hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIW 348). History of European contact with the non-Western world; international rivalries and control; colonialism and imperialism; and the rise of non-Western nationalism. 3. To: HIW 748: Europe and the Non-Western World in the 19th and 20th Centuries. 3hours, 3 credits (Not open to students who have taken HIW 348). Imperialism and colonialism in Africa and Asia, the growth of nationalism, decolonization, revolution, independence, and globalization. 4. Rationale: The new course description more accurately represents how the course has been taught in recent years. The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: none 6. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change

1. Type of Change: Alpha Code and Course Number 2. From: HIS 766: Topics in Non-Western History. 3 hours, 3 credits (May be repeated as often as the topic changes). Various sections in topics in non-Western history. (For specific topics and sections each semester, consult the department). 3. To: HIW 750: Topics in Non-Western History. 3 hours, 3 credits (May be repeated as often as the topic changes). Various sections in topics in non-Western history. (For specific topics and sections each semester, consult the department). 4. Rationale: The new alpha code and course number indicate more clearly the course’s subfield within history, which will aid in student advisement. 5. Effect on Curriculum Offerings Outside the Department: None 6. Date of Departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change 1. Type of Change: Withdrawal of course 2. From: HIS 724: American Urban Architecture. 3 hours, 3 credits. 3. Rationale: This course is no longer offered. 4. Date of departmental approval: September 27, 2006




1. Type of Change: Withdrawal of course 2. From: HIS 735: The Rise of Facism. 3 hours, 3 credits. 3. Rationale: This course is no longer offered. 4. Date of departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change 1. Type of Change: Withdrawal of course 2. From: HIS 751: Contemporary History: The Crises of Our Time. 3 hours, 3 credits. (Not open to students who have taken HIS 321). Since World War II, Western Civilization has generated a series of crises: the population explosion, the irreversible depletion of fossil energy resources, the revolution of rising expectations, the treat of nuclear holocaust. All of these challenge the economic, political, ideological, and moral foundations of our civilization. The origin and nature of these crises will be examined, and attempts will be made to examine the prospects for the western man and his civilization. 3. Rationale: This course is no longer offered. 4. Date of departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change 1. Type of Change: Withdrawal of course 2. From: HIS 763: Topics in East Asian History. 3 hours, 3 credits (May be repeated as often as the topic changes). Various sections in topics in East Asian history. (For specific topics and sections each semester, consult the department). 3. Rationale: This course will henceforth be combined with the newly-numbered HIW 750, Topics in Non-Western History. 4. Date of departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change 1. Type of Change: Withdrawal of course 2. From: HIS 764: Topics in Medieval History. 3 hours, 3 credits 3. Rationale: This course will henceforth be combined with the newly-numbered HIA 750, Topics in Ancient and Medieval History. 4. Date of departmental approval: September 27, 2006



Curriculum Change 1. Type of Change: Withdrawal of course 2. From: HIS 767: Topics in Latin American History. 3 hours, 3 credits (May be repeated as often as the topic changes). Various sections in topics in comparative history. (For specific topics and sections each semester, consult the department). 3. Rationale: This course will henceforth be combined with the newly-numbered HIW 750, Topics in Non-Western History. 4. Date of departmental approval: September 27, 2006

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