Department of History

Return to: The Henry Kendall College of Arts and Sciences

For more information about degree offerings by the faculty of history, visit the Department of History webpage.

The history major exposes students to a range of historical issues and problems, and develops the fundamental skills necessary to the practice of the historian’s craft. It allows a level of specialization that promotes an appreciation of the complexity of human affairs and the difficulties involved in their interpretation. The history major challenges the intellect, inspires the imagination, and stimulates analytical thinking. Historical knowledge provides a valuable background for students considering careers in law, journalism, library and museum work, education, business, and local, state, national, and international public service. Students of history contribute anywhere that a knowledge of domestic and foreign affairs is required, and, of course, to the profession of historical research and teaching.

Learning Outcomes

1. Historical Comprehension
   a. Analyze the literal and contextual significance of a historical passage.
   b. Identify the central questions in historical narratives.
   c. Articulate historical perspectives.
2. Historical Analysis and Interpretation
   a. Compare and contrast opposed and/or multiple sets of ideas, interpretations, values, personalities, behaviors and/or institutions.
   b. Assess competing historical narratives.
   c. Hypothesize the impacts and significance of past events.
3. Historical Research Capabilities
   a. Articulate historical questions.
   b. Acquire and evaluate historical data.
   c. Compose a sound historical interpretation and argument.
4.  Historical Issues Analysis and Decision-making
   a. Recognize issues and problems in the past.
   b. Assemble evidence of antecedent circumstances and contemporary factors contributing to the issues and promulgate alternative courses of action.
   c. Evaluate the implementation of a decision.

Programs

• History, B.A.

• History Minor

• History, Accelerated Master’s

Courses

• HIST 2053 European Women’s History
• HIST 2133 Images of the American West
• HIST 2213 Latin America
• HIST 2243 Social Revolutions in Latin America
• HIST 2283 History of Ancient America
• HIST 2313 Ancient World
• HIST 2363 Medieval World
• HIST 2383 American Environmental History
• HIST 2403 Modern Europe
• HIST 2413 Pirates and Piracy in the Atlantic World
• HIST 2453 Music and Society in the Americas through Film
• HIST 2473 American Social Movements
• HIST 2503 American Republic
• HIST 2523 History of Oklahoma
• HIST 2543 Africans in the Americas from Slavery to Freedom
• HIST 2553 War and American Society
• HIST 2573 Indians in American History
• HIST 2583 Africans in America: From Reconstruction to the Civil Rights Movement
• HIST 2603 Russia and the West
• HIST 2613 China and Japan from Antiquity to 1800
• HIST 2623 China and Japan since 1800
• HIST 2663 Russia Today
• HIST 2703 The History of US-China Relations
• HIST 2713 Capitalism and Socialism
• HIST 2733 Colonialism and Imperialism
• HIST 3003 History of Canada
• HIST 3023 Modern America and American Indians
• HIST 3103 The Cold War as History
• HIST 3233 Chinese History through Film
• HIST 3273 History of Women in the United States to 1900
• HIST 3283 History of Women in the United States since 1900
• HIST 3303 History of Early Chinese Philosophy
• HIST 3323 Politics and History in Soviet Film
• HIST 3363 History of Latin America through Film
• HIST 3403 Crime and Punishment in American History
• HIST 3423 Christianity in Later Imperial China
• HIST 3463 19th-Century Europe
• HIST 3473 20th-Century Europe
• HIST 3503 The Middle Ages on Film
• HIST 3513 Colonial America
• HIST 3523 Revolutionary America, 1750-1800
• HIST 3543 The Civil War
• HIST 3553 Rise of Industrial America, 1865-1901
• HIST 3573 Recent American History, 1960 to Present
• HIST 3643 Italian Renaissance Art: 1300-1480
• HIST 3653 History and Literature
• HIST 3663 Reform and Revolution in Modern China
• HIST 3683 Modern Japan, 1800 to Present
• HIST 3703 Special Topics
• HIST 3733 History of Popular Culture in the Americas
• HIST 3783 Greece and Rome in Film
• HIST 3813 The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
• HIST 3843 Seeing through Clothes
• HIST 3903 History Colloquium
• HIST 3973 Undergraduate Seminar
• HIST 4033 Seminar in the History of Political Thought
• HIST 4203 Ancient Ethnography
• HIST 4263 Men and Women at War: A History of Europe in the 20th Century
• HIST 4273 Archaeology and History of the African
• HIST 4283 American Indian Ethnohistory
• HIST 4293 Ancient Ethnography
• HIST 4293 History of the North American West
• HIST 4413 Emergence of Modern Russia
• HIST 4423 Russia: Reform and Revolution
• HIST 4443 Soviet Russia
• HIST 4453 Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche
• HIST 4573 American Diplomatic History since 1914
• HIST 4683 Money and Politics in the United States
• HIST 4713 America at War in the 20th Century
• HIST 4803 Topics in Greek History
• HIST 4813 Topics in Roman History
• HIST 4833 Topics in Latin American History
• HIST 4843 Topics in European History
• HIST 4853 Topics in American History
• HIST 4863 Topics in East Asian History
• HIST 4873 Topics in Medieval History
• HIST 4973 Undergraduate Seminar
• HIST 4991-3 Independent Study
• HIST 5313 Readings in the History of the Ancient World and Europe to 1700
• HIST 5323 Research in the History of the Ancient World and Europe to 1700
• HIST 5413 Readings in the History of Europe since 1700
• HIST 5423 Research in the History of Europe since 1700
• HIST 5513 Readings in the History of the United States
• HIST 5523 Research in the History of the United States
• HIST 5713 Readings in Comparative Social and Cultural History
• HIST 5723 Research in Comparative Social and Cultural History

Return to: The Henry Kendall College of Arts and Sciences