Undergraduate Courses

Group | General History Survey

A general survey of the history of the United States from its settlement to the end of Reconstruction.

Group | General History Survey

A general survey of the history of the United States from Reconstruction to present.

Group | General History Survey

A general survey of western civilization from earliest times to the end of the 17th century.

Group | General History Survey

A general survey of world civilization from the earliest times to the 17th Century.

Group | General History Survey

A general survey of world civilization from the 17th Century to the present.

Group | General History Survey

A general survey of western civilization from the Treaty of Utrecht to the present.

Group | General History Survey

This course is a survey of the economic, social, political, intellectual, and cultural history of Mexican Americans/Chicanx since 1865. Topics the course addresses include: the making of borders and borderlands, the impact of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and uses gender to explain migration and citizenship and expulsion, nineteenth-century activism and displacement, industrialization and the making of a transnational Mexican working class, the Mexican Revolution, urbanization, WWII and organized advocacy, the Chicano Movement, changing identifications, globalization, and immigration restriction.

Group | Group B: European History

The English nation and the British Empire from 1603 through the modern era.

Group | Group A: World History

The development of the Portuguese society in South America from the sixteenth century until 1822. 

Group | Group A: World History

This course examines the history of Latin America from independence to present. Explores the challenges of formation and consolidation of the new states; of economic policy and development; the rise of Populism and the age of reforms; revolutions and revolutionary movements; and present challenges. 

Group | Group C: U.S. History

The history of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 through the election of 1876.

Group | Group C: U.S. History

This course is a thematic examination of the region including Texas, California and the states that include the Great Basin, the Southern Rockies, and the Sonoran Desert from Mexican Independence in 1821 to the present. 

Group | Group C: U.S. History

This course will allow students the opportunity to explore the historical roots and development of some of the most pressing questions that dominate our current political climate and policy debates. Students will seek to put the past in the present, looking at how American history shapes the debates of today. We will cover topics such as the history of pandemics and our government response, the history of mass incarceration and police brutality, the rise of the conservative movement and neoliberal capitalism, and other immigration policy debates.

Group | Group C: U.S. History

A one-semester survey of Texas History which will emphasize political, economic and social development from prehistory to the twentieth century.

Group | Group C: U.S. History

Examines topics in US working class history with emphasis on the experiences of organized and unorganized workers in the context of their social, cultural, political, and workplace environments and the role of the working class in shaping US society.

Group | Group C: U.S. History

This course examines the evolution of the blues and other forms of African-American music throughout American history, with an emphasis on how blues music reflects the rich and complex traditions of the African-American community and helped give birth to rock & roll.

Group | Group C: U.S. History

This course traces the various ethnic, social, cultural, political, economic, and demographic forces in American society that helped shape rock and roll music.

Group | Group C: U.S. History

This course provides an overview of the relationship (and tension) between democracy and education in the U.S. between 1865 and 1930, when emancipation, westward expansion, rural poverty, and growing immigrant and working-class populations motivated reassessment and reform of public education in an attempt to meet individual and societal needs.

Group | Group B: European History

This course is a study in British history from the arrival of the Romans in Britain to 1603. This course integrates classroom discussions, readings, virtual excursions and discussions of the major events and features of Roman and Medieval history in Britain. Students are introduced to issues, personalities, movements and developments, encompassing political, governmental, constitutional, social, religious, economic and cultural topics.

Group | Group B: European History

This course will teach students how a constellation of physical, cultural, and religious characteristics became encoded with racializing meanings before the 17th c. In the diverse Mediterranean, people justified violence, privilege, exclusion, and belonging by constructing notions of sameness and difference. Medieval race-thinking appears in Christian and Islamic literature, religious texts on curses, blood purity statutes, human diversity in art, laws about women’s chastity, and geographies of so-called ‘monstrous races.’ Delving into such sources, students will pursue research that investigates how the history of race and racecraft is deeply related to medieval definitions of power, morality, community, and identity.

Group | Group B: European History

This class will investigate the history of Scotland from the 13th century (the Wars of Independence from England) to the present day. It will focus on major personalities and important events both within and without Scotland as well as the culture and society of this proud and ancient nation.

Group | Group B: European History

In this course students will work collaboratively to create history podcasts on topics related to race, gender, class, nationality, and sexuality for public audiences. Students will learn relevant software and cultural history research methods, as well as how to script and record podcasts.

Group | Group A: World History

This course emphasizes economic social and intellectual developments in the Arab Middle East and North Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries. Some attention will be paid to Iran in the period after World War II. 

Group | Group A: World History

This course is an introduction to the history of India from ancient times to the creation of the modern nation-state of India.

Group | Group B: European History

An activity based on greed, and sometimes survival, piracy has existed since humans took to the seas. This course investigates the global history of piracy beginning with the Vikings. The history of piracy in the Caribbean, Asia, and the Mediterranean will be covered and compared to the piracy of today.

Group | Group B: European History

The political, social, economic, and cultural development of Germany since Napoleonic times. Includes the Confederation period, unification under Bismarck, the Second Empire, National Socialism, and the post-war period.

Group | Group A: World History

A survey of the political, social, economic, and intellectual history of China from 1600 to the present. Emphasis on the issues of domestic troubles and external aggression, and on the revolutionary changes in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Group | Group A: World History

This course explores Japan’s development from the 1940s through the 1970s. The emphasis is on the continuities and discontinuities from the wartime to the postwar regime, American influence on policies and discourses on post-occupation society, the legacies of the war in culture and society, and the repercussions of economic affluence. 

Group | Group A: World History

This course is a survey of the political, social, economic, and intellectual history of Hong Kong from 1842 to the present. Focus is on British colonial rule, the Handover in 1997, and the current status of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. 

Group | Group C: U.S. History

This course traces the participation of Black women in every stage of Black protest in America from slavery and Reconstruction thru the Civil Rights and Black nationalist movements to present day. 

Group | Group C: U.S. History

A study of the interplay of economic, social, political, and cultural forces that shaped American society from the end of World War II to the presidential election of 1968.

Group | Group C: U.S. History

This course explores the origins, development, and impact of peace and nonviolence movements globally. It examines the roles that religion, class, gender, race, ethnicity, and nationalism have played in shaping social and political perceptions of injustice and public attitudes toward movement goals.

Group | Group C: U.S. History

A specialized study of the military problems of the United States since 1789 and their impact upon non-military problems.

Group | Group D: Capstone and Teacher Certification Preparation

This course is required for History majors not seeking teaching certification. In this course students refine skills and techniques essential to the historical profession. Students analyze primary and secondary sources, apply methods, and write a term paper. Prerequisite: 24 semester credit hours in History with a grade point average of at least 2.25 in those hours.

Departmental Approval Required