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HIST 1100 - Western Civilization I
Fulfills a General Education Social & Behavioral Sciences requirement. Explores the intellectual, social, ethical, religious, and aesthetic processes, institutions and ideas of Western Civilization from pre-history to 1715. Emphasizes reading, discussing, and writing about important texts and art forms of various periods. Successful completers will have developed an understanding of the general intellectual trends and historical contexts of western civilization through the Age of Reason. FA, SP
Credit hours: 3.000
Lecture hours: 3.000
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture
Division: School of Arts & Letters
Department: Humanities & Social Sciences
HIST 1110 - Western Civilization II
Fulfills a General Education Social & Behavioral Sciences requirement. Explores the intellectual, social, ethical, religious, and aesthetic processes, institutions and ideas of Western Civilization from 1715 to the present. Emphasizes reading, discussing, and writing about important texts and art forms of various periods. Successful completers will have developed an understanding of the general intellectual trends and historical contexts of western civilization after the Age of Reason. FA, SP
Credit hours: 3.000
Lecture hours: 3.000
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture
Division: School of Arts & Letters
Department: Humanities & Social Sciences
HIST 1500 - World History to 1500
Spans human origins and early civilizations to the emergence of European Empires and the early explorations of the Americas up to 1500 C.E. SP
Credit hours: 3.000
Lecture hours: 3.000
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture
Division: School of Arts & Letters
Department: Humanities & Social Sciences
HIST 1510 - World History Since 1500
Themes in the historical development of the world's peoples and cultures since 1500, tracing the decline of Asiatic Empires and the rise of European Empires. Students will study the diversity of global experiences and the emergence of the modern globalized economy. FA
Credit hours: 3.000
Lecture hours: 3.000
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture
Division: School of Arts & Letters
Department: Humanities & Social Sciences
HIST 1700 - American Civilization
Fulfills the General Education American Institutions (Utah State Code R470) requirement. Surveys the historical, constitutional, and economic growth of the United States from colonial times to the present. Employs lectures, discussion, audio-visual materials, and various other instructional methods. Successful students will demonstrate a reasonable understanding of the history, principles, form of government, and economic system of the United States, as well as an appreciation of the American heritage and the responsibilities of American citizens. Prerequisite: Reading placement score 17 or higher, or ENGL 1470. FA, SP, SU
Credit hours: 3.000
Lecture hours: 3.000
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Individualized Instruction, Lecture, Lecture - Success Acad Concurr, Lecture - High School Concurr
Division:
School of Arts & Letters
Department: Humanities & Social Sciences
HIST 2700 - U.S. History to 1877
If both HIST 2700 and HIST 2710 are successfully completed, fulfills the General Education American Institutions (Utah State Code R470) requirement. Chronological survey of the first half of the American experience, beginning with the Paleo-Indian cultures and emphasizing American Independence, development of the Constitution, the emergence of Jacksonian democracy, and the causes of the Civil War, through post-Civil War Reconstruction. Includes social, political, economic, cultural, and diplomatic developments throughout this period. Prerequisite: Reading placement score 17 or higher, or ENGL 1470. FA
Credit hours: 3.000
Lecture hours: 3.000
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture
Division: School of Arts & Letters
Department: Humanities & Social Sciences
HIST 2710 - U.S. History since 1877
If both HIST 2700 and HIST 2710 are successfully completed, fulfills the General Education American Institutions (Utah State Code R470) requirement. Chronological survey of the second half of the American experience, beginning with the collapse of post-Civil War Reconstruction and emphasizing the growth of the U.S., emergence as a world power, and domestic reform of the twentieth century, through contemporary issues. Includes the social, political, economic, cultural, and diplomatic developments throughout this period. Prerequisite: Reading placement score 17 or higher, or ENGL 1470. SP
Credit hours: 3.000
Lecture hours: 3.000
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture
Division: School of Arts & Letters
Department: Humanities & Social Sciences
HIST 3180 - Nineteenth Century Europe
Analyzes transformations in political, economic, and social ideologies of Europe from 1815 to 1914, using primary documents on a variety of ideologies. Includes active class participation and discussion, and much writing in areas agreed upon between instructor and student. Prerequisites: ENGL 1010 AND (HIST 1700 or HIST 2700 or HIST 2710). Offered based on sufficient student need.
Credit hours: 3.000
Lecture hours: 3.000
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture
Division: School of Arts & Letters
Department: Humanities & Social Sciences
HIST 3190 - Twentieth Century Europe
Surveys major forces, events and experiences that shaped Europe from 1914 to 2000 and defined its place in the contemporary world. Examines industrialization, nationalism, colonial empires, world wars, Cold War polarization, and the European Union. Prerequisites: ENGL 1010 AND (HIST 1700 or HIST 2700 or HIST 2710). Offered based on sufficient student need.
Credit hours: 3.000
Lecture hours: 3.000
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture
Division: School of Arts & Letters
Department: Humanities & Social Sciences
HIST 3670 - Slavery & the American Republic
Partially fulfills General Education Global & Cultural Perspectives requirement. Explores the creation of slavery in North America from European settlement until 1865, and emphasizes the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the creation of hereditary chattel slavery in America, the government and legal mechanisms that allowed this, slave life and culture, and the efforts to abolish the institution before the Civil War. Prerequisites: ENGL 1010; and HIST 1700. FA
Credit hours: 3.000
Lecture hours: 3.000
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture
Division: School of Arts & Letters
Department: Humanities & Social Sciences
HIST 3720 - Colonial America
An in-depth exploration of the economic, political, social, and military growth and development of British North America from its founding in 1607 until the Revolutionary War experience of the 1770s. Prerequisites: ENGL 1010; AND HIST 1700. Offered upon sufficient student need.
Credit hours: 3.000
Lecture hours: 3.000
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture
Division: School of Arts & Letters
Department: Humanities & Social Sciences
HIST 3730 - The Americal Civil War and Reconstruction
Examines America's greatest crisis from the Mexican War (1846-48) through the abandonment of Reconstruction in 1877, exploring the political, social, economic, and military aspects of the nation's march to war, the conflagration that preserved the Union and ended slavery, and the efforts to reconstruct a shattered South. The course also investigates how Americans remember the Civil War and Reconstruction. Prerequisites: ENGL 1010; and HIST 1700. Offered based on sufficient student need.
Credit hours: 3.000
Lecture hours: 3.000
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture
Division: School of Arts & Letters
Department: Humanities & Social Sciences
HIST 3740 - Emergence of Modern America
A concentrated survey that explores U.S. history from the Gilded Age in the late nineteenth century through the Progressive Era of reform, WWI, the 1920s, the Great Depression and the New Deal, ending with the onset of WWII. Prerequisites: ENGL 1010; and HIST 1700. Offered based on sufficient student need.
Credit hours: 3.000
Lecture hours: 3.000
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture
Division: School of Arts & Letters
Department: Humanities & Social Sciences
HIST 3750 - Contemporary America, 1945-Present
Covers recent United States history, including domestic and foreign policy since World War II. Emphasizes Cold War, Civil Rights, and the political and social developments of contemporary American. Prerequisite: ENGL 1010 AND (HIST 1700 or HIST 2710). Offered based on sufficient student need.
Credit hours: 3.000
Lecture hours: 3.000
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture
Division: School of Arts & Letters
Department: Humanities & Social Sciences
HIST 3870 - History of Utah
Examines the history of Utah from the earliest human inhabitants, through the settlement by European/Americans in the so-called pioneer period, and on to Statehood. The relationship of Utah's Dixie to Utah's history is a subtopic throughout the course. Offered in rotation; consult class schedule.
Credit hours: 3.000
Lecture hours: 3.000
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture
Division: School of Arts & Letters
Department: Humanities & Social Sciences
HIST 4400 - Introduction to Islam
Introduces students to the history, politics, and culture of Islam in order to increase the understanding of the contemporary dimension of this world religion. Dual listed with POLS 4400 (students may take only one course for credit). Offered upon sufficient student need.
Credit hours: 3.000
Lecture hours: 3.000
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture
Division: School of Arts & Letters
Department: Humanities & Social Sciences
HIST 4490 - Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
Examines the events and ideas in Germany and elsewhere that produced the Nazi state, the Second World War, and the Holocaust. Special attention will be given to the political, cultural and economic events that led to the rise of Hitler and to the reasons for racism, bigotry and intolerance, including the controversial issues of Nazi terror, the “blame” for these years of murder and war, and the link between the WWII and the Holocaust. Prerequisite: ENGL 1010 AND (HIST 1700 or HIST 2700 or HIST 2710). Offered based on sufficient student need.
Credit hours: 3.000
Lecture hours: 3.000
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture
Division: School of Arts & Letters
Department: Humanities & Social Sciences
HIST 4730 - Society and Culture in the United States, 1780-1860
A topical examination of American cultural and social history between the Revolution and the Civil War, focusing on the growth and development of the nation's market economy, slavery and abolition, changes in family life, evolving understandings of democracy and republicanism, and the rise of popular literature, amusements, and religion. Prerequisites: ENGL 1010; and HIST 1700. Offered upon sufficient student need.
Credit hours: 3.000
Lecture hours: 3.000
Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture
Division: School of Arts & Letters
Department: Humanities & Social Sciences
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