Apr 28, 2024

2013-14 Undergraduate Catalog

2013-14 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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History (United States)
	HIST 3020 - Topics in American History 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 , HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 . A detailed analysis of a topic pertinent to U.S. history. Topics vary from year to year. May be taken more than once for credit with different topic. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 3030 - Topics in African American History 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 , HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 . A seminar course exploring selected topics and problems in the African-American experience since 1619. Possible topics include the Great Migration, the life and work of Malcolm X, Pan-Africanism, Caribbean enslavement, the African American church, the African American woman, African American education, and the Harlem Renaissance. May repeat for up to six credit hours. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 3040 - Topics in American Cultural History 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, or HIST 2030 Literature, arts, social sciences, and popular culture examined with regard to a particular topic (such as the history of morality or the history of cultural rebellion) in order to understand how Americans have reacted to conflicting values in society. May be taken more than once for credit with different topic (up to six credit hours). Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 3050 - Topics in Southern Studies 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 , HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 . Detailed examination of a particular topic important to the region’s society, life, and development. May be taken more than once for credit with different topic. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 3060 - Topics in Tennessee History 3 credit hours Prerequisites: HIST 2010 and HIST 2020 . Detailed examination of a pertinent topic in Tennessee history; topics will vary. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 3115 - Geography of Tennessee 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 , HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 .(Same as GEOG 3120 .) Focuses on the diverse physical and human landscapes of the state. Topics include weather and climate, landforms, vegetation and soils, population patterns and trends, economic activities (including agricultural and geographical perspectives on social and environmental issues). Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 3120 - Military History of the United States 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 , HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 . Particular emphasis on land warfare; examines battles, campaigns, and wars and the military’s relationship to American governmental, societal, technological, and managerial patterns. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 3170 - History of the American South in Film 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 , HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 . Explores the South’s image in major motion pictures during the twentieth century. Examines the links between the portrait of the South on screen and the particular social, political, cultural, and economic concerns of the historical period in which the films were made. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4010 - Colonial America 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 , HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 . Exploration and colonization of North America, relations between Native Americans, Europeans, Africans, and colonial societies in the context of the Atlantic world from 1492 to 1760. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4020 - The American Revolution 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 , HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 . Examines the period from the Seven Years’ War through the War of 1812, while emphasizing political, social, intellectual, and economic developments in the new United States. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4030 - Jacksonian America, 1815-1850 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 , HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 . Major political, social, and economic developments in the awakening of American nationalism, Jacksonian democracy, expansionism, and the Mexican War. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4040 - Civil War and Reconstruction 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 , HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 . Examines various causes of the war, the military and political history of the war years, and the legacy of the war in Reconstruction, the Lost Cause, and American social and economic developments through World War I. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4045 - The Great Depression 3 credit hours Prerequisite: HIST 2020 . Examines the roots, causes, and outcomes of the American Great Depression, 1929-1941. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4050 - Modern America, 1877-1914 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 , HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 . The nature and consequences of the shift of the United States from an agrarian to an urban and industrialized society between Reconstruction and World War I. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4060 - Modern America, 1914-1945 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 , HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 .The increasing involvement of the United States in world affairs from World War I through World War II and the social and political consequences of economic complexity which resulted in prosperity, depression, and the New Deal. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4070 - Modern America, Post-1945 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, or HIST 2030. The major social, political, economic, and diplomatic developments in the history of the United States from 1945 to the present with particular emphasis on the role of government. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4130 - The Sunbelt 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, or HIST 2030. An overview of the economic, political, and cultural evolution of the Southern tier of states in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4140 - The United States West 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 , HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 . Emphasis on the area west of the Mississippi River from pre-contact to the twenty-first century. Explores major social, political, economic, and environmental issues with particular attention to race, class, gender, and the original inhabitants. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4150 - The American South 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 , HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 . Major themes that have created and recreated Southern culture from the Colonial period to the present. Explores the major social, political, and economic factors that made and remade the region through time. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4341 - Historical Geography 3 credit hours (Same as GEOG 4340.) Prerequisite: GEOG 2000 or permission of instructor. The changing human geography of the United States during four centuries of settlement and development. Emphasis on changing population patterns as well as patterns of urban and rural settlement. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4540 - Geography of Native Americans 3 credit hours (Same as GEOG 4540 .) Prerequisite: GEOG 2000 or permission of instructor. Lecture and field exercise format viewing America’s native population from a geographic perspective. Native Americans will be examined geoarcheologically using geo-techniques to explore their past, present, and future; cultural ecologically–their symbiotic relationship with their surroundings; and through their economic and resource development–how they utilize natural and cultural resources that are presently on tribal lands. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4620 - American Medical History 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 , HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 . History of health and sickness in the United States from 1607 to the present and the increasing influence of science and public policy on the delivery of health care and the practice of medicine. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4640 - Environmental History 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 , HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 . Traces environmental change in America from European contact to the present and from wilderness to suburbia. Explains impact of growth, settlement, and resource exploitation on our national landscape and institutions. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4650 - Religious Experience in America 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 , HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 . Explores the nature of religion as experienced in American history focusing on the questions “How has religion affected America?” and “How has America affected religion?” Emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and on the contact of and exchanges among traditions such as Protestant/Catholic Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Eastern religions, and Animism. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4660 - American Architectural History 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 , HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 . An analysis of the historical development of American architecture and of architecture as evidence of America’s cultural, social, economic, and technological growth from 1607 to the present. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4665 - American Urban History 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 , HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 . Development and growth of cities and suburbs from the colonial period to the present with particular emphasis on urban institutions, problems, politics, culture, and society. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4680 - History of Sport in America 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 , HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 . The role of sport in American society from the colonial era to the present, with emphasis on how sporting activities reflect political, cultural, and economic characteristics of various time periods. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4690 - Native American History 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 , HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 . United States American Indian history from before European contact to the present with emphasis on issues important to native peoples and their active participation in a constantly changing world. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4710 - American Biography 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 , HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 . Lives and achievements of men and women most prominent in American history. Selected biographies and autobiographies will be read and analyzed. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4720 - Boone’s and Crockett’s America 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 , HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 .The mass movement of farm families into the interior of North America before 1860. Emphasis on Native American life, frontier politics, society, and culture, as well as the subsequent development of a “frontier myth” celebrating this folk migration. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4730 - American Social History 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 , HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 . Examines class, ethnicity, family life, and community in America from the colonial period to the present. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4740 - American Cultural and Intellectual History 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 , HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 . Explores the major issues in American cultural and intellectual history through an examination of American literature, philosophy, social sciences, fine arts, and popular culture. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4750 - African American Social and Intellectual History 3 credit hours (Same as AAS 4750 .) Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 , HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 . The changing ideology of race and the socioeconomic status of African Americans in the American experience; contributions to the culture and institutions of the United States. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4755 - Race and Place: The Struggle for Fair Housing Since 1900 3 credit hours (Same as AAS 4755.) Examines the rise of various twentieth-century federal housing policies that made homeownership affordable for most Americans for the first time in the country’s history. Particular emphasis placed on the exclusionary nature of these policies, their generational implications, and the activism that ultimately contributed to their demise. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4760 - America Divided: Race, Class, and Gender 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 , HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 . Interaction of race, class, and gender in the lives of Americans within historical frameworks and how such interactions have shaped American social and political institutions. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4770 - Women in America to 1890 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 , HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 . Examines women’s roles in the United States from colonial times to 1890, emphasizing experiences of different classes, races, and ethnic groups; work, family, and politics. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4780 - Women in America Since 1890 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 , HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 . Examines women’s roles in the United States since 1890, emphasizing experiences of different classes, races, and ethnic groups; work, family, and politics. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4820 - American Diplomatic History to 1900 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 , HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 . Examines United States foreign relations to 1900. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4830 - American Diplomatic History Since 1900 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 , HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 . Examines United States foreign relations since 1900. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
History (European)
	HIST 3090 - Topics in European History 1 to 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010 , HIST 1020 , HIST 1110 , or HIST 1120 . A detailed examination of a topic pertinent to European history. May be taken more than once for credit with different topic. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 3125 - First World War 3 credit hours Prerequisite: HIST 1020 or HIST 1120 . Explores the causes of the war; the conflict’s vast geographic extent; the dramatic changes in combat brought by such weapons as improved field artillery, poison gas, airplanes, and submarines; the war’s reworking of the values and structures of western civilization; the war’s long-lasting ripple effects in the Middle East, the former Russian Empire, Africa, the Pacific, and the newly powerful United States. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4210 - Middle Ages 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010 , HIST 1020 , HIST 1110 , or HIST 1120 .The progress of medieval civilization with emphasis on the period from 1100 to 1300. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4212 - Intellectual and Cultural History of Early Modern Europe 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010 , HIST 1020 , HIST 1110 , or HIST 1120 . Examines major trends and movements in artistic, literary, social, economic, political, scientific, and religious thought in cultural context and diffusion in society, and how these trends and movements have changed European concepts since the Enlightenment. Begins about 1200 to establish a background and then focuses on 1400 to 1789. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4213 - Intellectual and Cultural History of Modern Europe 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010 , HIST 1020 , HIST 1110 , or HIST 1120 . Examines major trends and movements in artistic, literary, social, economic, political, scientific, and religious thought in cultural context and diffusion in society, and how these trends and movements have changed European concepts since the Enlightenment. Begins about 1650 then focuses on 1789 to the present. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4220 - Renaissance Europe 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Examines the political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural developments of Italy, France, England, Germany, and the Low Countries during the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4230 - Reformation Europe 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010 , HIST 1020 , HIST 1110 , or HIST 1120 . Examines the political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural developments of Italy, France, England, Germany, and the Low Countries during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4240 - Europe: Absolutism and Enlightenment 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010 , HIST 1020 , HIST 1110 , or HIST 1120 . European history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, covering social, economic, intellectual, and political developments. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4250 - Europe: The French Revolution and Napoleon 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010 , HIST 1020 , HIST 1110 , or HIST 1120 . The social, political, and economic aspects of the Old Regime the French Revolution, and the Napoleonic period in European history. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4260 - France Since 1870 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010 , HIST 1020 , HIST 1110 , or HIST 1120 .The social, political, intellectual, cultural, and economic history of France from the origins of the Third Republic to the present. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4270 - Europe 1815-1900 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010 , HIST 1020 , HIST 1110 , or HIST 1120 . Nineteenth-century Europe. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4280 - Europe 1900-1945 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Europe in the early twentieth century with emphasis on the expansion of democracy, continued industrialization, total war, and totalitarian ideologies. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4290 - Europe Since 1945 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010 , HIST 1020 , HIST 1110 , or HIST 1120 . Major European countries and European themes from 1945 to the present. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4310 - Germany to 1870 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010 , HIST 1020 , HIST 1110 , or HIST 1120 . The evolution of the German states from their Indo-European origins to their unification in a single German nation in 1871 with particular emphasis on the history of German men and women since the Middle Ages. The history of Austria and its possessions also included. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4320 - Germany Since 1870 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. History of Germany from national unification in 1871 through its reunification in the contemporary world. Emphasis on the major social, cultural, political, intellectual, and economic developments of the period as they relate to both German men and women. The history of the Austro-Hungarian empire (1867-1918) and the modern Austrian state also included. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4330 - Russia to the Twentieth Century 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010 , HIST 1020 , HIST 1110 , or HIST 1120 . Russian history from its beginnings to the end of the nineteenth century. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4340 - Russia in the Twentieth Century 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010 , HIST 1020 , HIST 1110 , or HIST 1120 . A continuation of 4330 emphasizing the Revolution and the Soviet era. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4350 - England to 1783 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010 , HIST 1020 , HIST 1110 , or HIST 1120 . English history from earliest times to the end of the American Revolution with emphasis on major political, cultural, economic, and social developments. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4360 - Britain in the Nineteenth Century 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010 , HIST 1020 , HIST 1110 , or HIST 1120 . Political, economic, diplomatic, military, and cultural developments from the end of the Napoleonic era to Gladstone’s retirement in 1894. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4370 - Britain in the Twentieth Century 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Political, military, imperial, economic, and social history of a changing Britain in its century of total war, imperial decline, and economic readjustment. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4380 - History of Ireland 3 credit hours Prerequisite: 3 hours from HIST 1010 , HIST 1020 , HIST 1110 , or HIST 1120 . Examines the major social, cultural, economic, and political developments in Irish history, focusing especially on the complex relationship between Ireland and England from the seventeenth century to the present. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4420 - The Medieval Mediterranean World 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010 , HIST 1020 , HIST 1110 , or HIST 1120 . Examines the political, economic, social and intellectual, and cultural development of the countries bordering the Mediterranean. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4610 - History of Medicine 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, or HIST 2030. Medical developments and the relationship between medicine and society. Examines two medical traditions: the West and China. Focus not only on major developments in medicine but also on the systems of healing in these cultures; compares roles medicine played within these societies. Also investigates impact of Western scientific medicine on various systems of traditional medicine. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4790 - Women in Europe Since 1700 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 , HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 . A comparison of the social, intellectual, cultural, political, and economic history of women’s lives in Great Britain, France, Germany, and Russia/USSR in the modern era. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
History (Global)
	HIST 3070 - Topics in World History 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010 , HIST 1020 , HIST 1110 , or HIST 1120 . A detailed examination of a topic pertinent to world history. Topics vary. May be taken more than once for credit with different topic. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 3080 - Topics in Modern Middle East History 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010 , HIST 1020 , HIST 1110 , or HIST 1120 . A major problem or political or social development in the contemporary Middle East. May be taken more than once for credit with different topic (up to six credit hours). Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 3125 - First World War 3 credit hours Prerequisite: HIST 1020 or HIST 1120 . Explores the causes of the war; the conflict’s vast geographic extent; the dramatic changes in combat brought by such weapons as improved field artillery, poison gas, airplanes, and submarines; the war’s reworking of the values and structures of western civilization; the war’s long-lasting ripple effects in the Middle East, the former Russian Empire, Africa, the Pacific, and the newly powerful United States. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 3130 - The Vietnam War 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010 , HIST 1020 , HIST 1110 , or HIST 1120 . Examines military, diplomatic, political, and cultural aspects of the Vietnam War. Causes of the war; interplay between military, diplomatic, and domestic policy; historical memory of the conflict through analysis of texts, oral histories, films, and material culture. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 3140 - Latin American History 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010 , HIST 1020 , HIST 1110 , HIST 1120 . Examines the chronological and basic periods, themes, and topics of Latin America’s economic, social, political, and cultural histories from pre-Colombian times to the present. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 3150 - Twentieth Century Global History 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010 , HIST 1020 , HIST 1110 , or HIST 1120 . An integrated examination of major themes and selected area studies of the twentieth century. Themes include the world system, colonialism, the Great Depression, both world wars, the cold war, emergence of independent countries, economic globalization and dependency, religious stirrings, urbanization, massive migrations, social revolution, and the postindustrial world. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 3160 - Study Abroad in Africa 6 credit hours Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010 , HIST 1020 , HIST 1110 , or HIST 1120 .Theoretical as well as first-hand experience on the history and cultures of Africa. Course may not be repeated for additional history hours. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4410 - Classical History 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Ancient Greece and Rome, from about 2,000 B.C. to A.D. 476, emphasizing the classical historians, Greek and Roman culture. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4420 - The Medieval Mediterranean World 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010 , HIST 1020 , HIST 1110 , or HIST 1120 . Examines the political, economic, social and intellectual, and cultural development of the countries bordering the Mediterranean. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4430 - Sub-Saharan Africa 3 credit hours (Same as AAS 4430 .) Prerequisite: HIST 2040 , HIST 2050 , HIST 1010 , HIST 1020 , HIST 1110 , or HIST 1120 or AAS 2040 or AAS 2050 . Survey of the history of Africa from prehistoric times to the present. Emphasis on the early African kingdoms, European imperialism and colonialism, and the role of Africa as a contemporary world force. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4440 - The Middle East 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010 , HIST 1020 , HIST 1110 , or HIST 1120 .The rise and spread of Islam, the Ottoman Empire, European imperialism in the Middle East, and contemporary developments. Emphasis on cultural contributions of the Middle East to Western civilization. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4445 - The History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 3 credit hours Prerequisite: 3 hours from HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Examines the history, causes, evolution, and main issues of the Arab-Israeli Conflict from the nineteenth century until the present. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4450 - Japan 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010 , HIST 1020 , HIST 1110 , or HIST 1120 . Japanese history from the formation of the first Japanese political state to the country’s emergence as a post-World War II economic superpower, focusing on the interconnection between cultural, economic, and political developments. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4460 - China 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010 , HIST 1020 , HIST 1110 , or HIST 1120 . Chinese history from antiquity to the present People’s Republic, stressing social history and the unique cultural features defining China’s civilization. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4470 - Canada 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010 , HIST 1020 , HIST 1110 , or HIST 1120 . Canadian history from the colonial era to the present with emphasis on European competition and major internal economic, religious, and cultural developments. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4480 - South America 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010 , HIST 1020 , HIST 1110 , or HIST 1120 . Cultural, economic, and political traditions since 1492. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4490 - Mexico and the Caribbean 3 credit hours (Same as AAS 4490 .) Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010 , HIST 1020 , HIST 1110 , or HIST 1120 . The development of cultural, economic, and political traditions since 1492. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4510 - Colonial Latin America 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010 , HIST 1020 , HIST 1110 , or HIST 1120 . Examines the indigenous societies present before European colonization and the first encounters in Mexico, the Caribbean, and South America. Analyzes political structures imposed by the Spanish as well as the social and cultural implications of colonialism and miscegenation. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4520 - Modern Latin America 3 credit hours Prerequisite: HIST 1010 , HIST 1020 , HIST 1110 , HIST 2040 , HIST 2050 . Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America. Examines colonial background, then focuses on the post-Independence period. Explores economic, political, social, and cultural developments since Independence. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4530 - Latin American-United States Relations 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 , HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 . Relations between the United States and Latin America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with emphasis on the effect of cultural differences on inter-American diplomacy. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4550 - Women in Modern Africa 3 credit hours Prerequisite: HIST 1110 or HIST 1120 . Examines African women’s social, political, and economic experiences from the rise of colonial rule in the late nineteenth century to the present. Topics include the rise of colonial rule and varied women’s responses to European overrule; changing understandings of marriage, inheritance, and women’s health issues in colonial and post-colonial Africa; the political role of women in decolonization and post-colonial Africa; and African women’s efforts for social and economic development since the end of formal colonial rule. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4560 - Ancient Egypt 3 credit hours Prerequisite: 3 hours from HIST 1010 , HIST 1020 , HIST 1110 , or HIST 1120 . Examines the political, social, and cultural developments reflected in Egyptian artistic, literary, and architectural works within the context of the 3000-year history of this ancient state from the Predynastic Period through the Ptolemaic Dynasty (3200-32 BCE). Counts as an elective in the global category in History major. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4610 - History of Medicine 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, or HIST 2030. Medical developments and the relationship between medicine and society. Examines two medical traditions: the West and China. Focus not only on major developments in medicine but also on the systems of healing in these cultures; compares roles medicine played within these societies. Also investigates impact of Western scientific medicine on various systems of traditional medicine. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4810 - History of Women in the Third World 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010 , HIST 1020 , HIST 1110 , or HIST 1120 . Connections between modern colonialism and development of third-world feminisms. Focuses first on conquest and colonialism and the consequences for third-world women. Focus moves to post-colonial societies and expands to include women’s political, economic, and social roles in the three regions of Africa, China, and Latin America. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4840 - World War II 3 credit hours Examines various aspects of the military, diplomatic, social, economic, and cultural changes caused by the global cataclysm of World War II. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4850 - Material Culture Resources in World History 3 credit hours The material culture resources (architecture, furniture, tools, utensils, weapons, ceremonial objects, etc.) of the world’s major civilizations. Provides a basis for studying how various cultural styles have influenced the development of our own material culture resources. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
History (General Courses)
	HIST 3010 - The Historian’s Craft 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 , HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 . Investigates the full range of activities of professional historians, teaches skills of research and writing history, and prepares students to enter the professional job market or to seek further education. Required for all History majors. Grade of C- or above is required. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 3011 - Teaching Historical Thinking 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 , HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 . Offers preparation for learning to think historically and developing that skill in middle and high school students and to people in public settings including planning, developing, and implementing lesson plans and assessing their results. Either HIST 3010 or HIST 3011 fulfills the History major requirement . Grade of C- or above is required. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 3012 - University and Community History Project 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 , HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 . In-depth field study of some aspect of MTSU or local community history through the use of oral history methods and historical research. Interview skills and public presentation of findings emphasized. Topics vary. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 3110 - Explorations in Public History 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010 , HIST 2020 , or HIST 2030 . Historical artifacts with special emphasis on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American architecture and furnishings. Related work in techniques of genealogical research. Readings, discussions, reports, and field trips. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 3180 - History of Modern War in Film 3 credit hours Modern war as presented in major motion pictures. Analyzes the cultural responses to war in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries through movies made about war. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 3720 - Cultural Ecology 3 credit hours (Same as ANTH 3720 ; GEOG 3720 .) Prerequisite: 3 hours anthropology or geography. Comparison of ecological systems utilized by tribal, peasant, and industrialized peoples of the world. Special attention paid to the theoretical approaches examining the interface of the environment and culture, the evolution of modes of subsistence, and contemporary development and indigenous people. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 3870 - Doing Digital History 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, or HIST 2030. Students research primary and secondary sources on local, family, or Middle Tennessee State University history or historical topic for which primary sources readily available. Cameras, laptop computers, and audio equipment provided; students work in iMovie or more advanced filmmaking technology. Oral history methodology discussed. NOTE: Students must have a basic competence with current computer hardware and software. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4361 - Cultural Geography 3 credit hours (Same as GEOG 4360 .) Prerequisite: GEOG 2000 or permission of instructor. Description and explanation of spatial patterns and ecological relationships in human culture. Emphasis on “reading” the cultural landscapes. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4471 - Rural Settlement 3 credit hours (Same as GEOG 4470 .) Prerequisite: GEOG 2000 or permission of instructor. A geographical analysis of forms, structures, and distribution of rural settlements in distinctive parts of the earth based upon their origin, function, and development. Special emphasis in analyzing rural settlements of middle Tennessee. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4630 - Quantitative History 3 credit hours Examines quantitative reasoning in historical research. Covers historiographical questions and practical research skills. Includes historical causality, historical change over time, data preparation, sampling, and the interpretation of quantitative data. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	HIST 4860 - Historical Archaeology 3 credit hours (Same as ANTH 4860 .) Disciplines of historical archaeology, including examination of archaeological evidence, historical documentation, and interpretation of evidence. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes

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HIST 3020 - Topics in American History

HIST 3030 - Topics in African American History

HIST 3040 - Topics in American Cultural History

HIST 3050 - Topics in Southern Studies

HIST 3060 - Topics in Tennessee History

HIST 3115 - Geography of Tennessee

HIST 3120 - Military History of the United States

HIST 3170 - History of the American South in Film

HIST 4010 - Colonial America

HIST 4020 - The American Revolution

HIST 4030 - Jacksonian America, 1815-1850

HIST 4040 - Civil War and Reconstruction

HIST 4045 - The Great Depression

HIST 4050 - Modern America, 1877-1914

HIST 4060 - Modern America, 1914-1945

HIST 4070 - Modern America, Post-1945

HIST 4130 - The Sunbelt

HIST 4140 - The United States West

HIST 4150 - The American South

HIST 4341 - Historical Geography

HIST 4540 - Geography of Native Americans

HIST 4620 - American Medical History

HIST 4640 - Environmental History

HIST 4650 - Religious Experience in America

HIST 4660 - American Architectural History

HIST 4665 - American Urban History

HIST 4680 - History of Sport in America

HIST 4690 - Native American History

HIST 4710 - American Biography

HIST 4720 - Boone’s and Crockett’s America

HIST 4730 - American Social History

HIST 4740 - American Cultural and Intellectual History

HIST 4750 - African American Social and Intellectual History

HIST 4755 - Race and Place: The Struggle for Fair Housing Since 1900

HIST 4760 - America Divided: Race, Class, and Gender

HIST 4770 - Women in America to 1890

HIST 4780 - Women in America Since 1890

HIST 4820 - American Diplomatic History to 1900

HIST 4830 - American Diplomatic History Since 1900

HIST 3090 - Topics in European History

HIST 3125 - First World War

HIST 4210 - Middle Ages

HIST 4212 - Intellectual and Cultural History of Early Modern Europe

HIST 4213 - Intellectual and Cultural History of Modern Europe

HIST 4220 - Renaissance Europe

HIST 4230 - Reformation Europe

HIST 4240 - Europe: Absolutism and Enlightenment

HIST 4250 - Europe: The French Revolution and Napoleon

HIST 4260 - France Since 1870

HIST 4270 - Europe 1815-1900

HIST 4280 - Europe 1900-1945

HIST 4290 - Europe Since 1945

HIST 4310 - Germany to 1870

HIST 4320 - Germany Since 1870

HIST 4330 - Russia to the Twentieth Century

HIST 4340 - Russia in the Twentieth Century

HIST 4350 - England to 1783

HIST 4360 - Britain in the Nineteenth Century

HIST 4370 - Britain in the Twentieth Century

HIST 4380 - History of Ireland

HIST 4420 - The Medieval Mediterranean World

HIST 4610 - History of Medicine

HIST 4790 - Women in Europe Since 1700

HIST 3070 - Topics in World History

HIST 3080 - Topics in Modern Middle East History

HIST 3125 - First World War

HIST 3130 - The Vietnam War

HIST 3140 - Latin American History

HIST 3150 - Twentieth Century Global History

HIST 3160 - Study Abroad in Africa

HIST 4410 - Classical History

HIST 4420 - The Medieval Mediterranean World

HIST 4430 - Sub-Saharan Africa

HIST 4440 - The Middle East

HIST 4445 - The History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

HIST 4450 - Japan

HIST 4460 - China

HIST 4470 - Canada

HIST 4480 - South America