3 credit hoursPrerequisites: 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: 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.
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.
3 credit hours(Same as GEOG 4540.) Prerequisite: junior standing. Historical and current examination of indigenous peoples from a geographic perspective including their locations(s), history, diffusion and migration, human/land relationships, cultural traits, and cultural landscapes.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: 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.
HIST 4740 - American Cultural and Intellectual History
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: 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.
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.
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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: Six hours of HIST 2010, HIST 2020, or HIST 2030. Explores the distinctive histories of women across the breadth of American history. Instructors will choose specific events, issues, or themes to reveal the forces that shaped women’s experiences and actions.
1 to 3 credit hoursPrerequisite: 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Major European countries and European themes from 1945 to the present.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. Russian history from its beginnings to the end of the nineteenth century.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Three hours of HIST 1010, HIST 1020, HIST 1110, or HIST 1120. A continuation of 4330 emphasizing the Revolution and the Soviet era.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: 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).
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: 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.
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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: 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.
HIST 4445 - The History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: 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.
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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: 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.
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.
3 credit hoursExamines 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: 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.
3 credit hoursExamines various aspects of the military, diplomatic, social, economic, and cultural changes caused by the global cataclysm of World War II.
HIST 4850 - Material Culture Resources in World History
3 credit hoursThe 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: 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.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: 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.
HIST 3012 - University and Community History Project
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: 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.
3 to 6 credit hoursExamines historical issues while participating in an educational abroad program. Experiential learning experience utilizes resources such as historical sites, museums, archaeological sites, and archives while abroad. Course is repeatable. Three to six credits may be applied to the History major as an elective. Three credits may be applied to the History minor as an elective.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: 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.
. 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.
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.
HIST 3730 - Research Methods in Historical Archaeology
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: HIST 2010, HIST 2020, HIST 2030, or instructor permission. Explores historic artifact and historic landscape analysis and interpretation through practical experience within an ongoing research project. Lab intensive.
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.
HIST 4471 - Rural Settlement and Agricultural Landscapes
3 credit hours(Same as GEOG 4470.) Prerequisite: junior standing. A geographical analysis of rural settlements and landscapes of agriculture. Emphasis on settlement patterns, field patterns, and house and farm land types using global, regional, and local examples.
. 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.
3 credit hours(Same as ANTH 4860.) Prerequisites: HIST 1010 or HIST 1110 and HIST 1020 or HIST 1120. Disciplines of historical archaeology, including examination of archaeological evidence, historical documentation, and interpretation of evidence.
HIST 4870 - Field Course in Historical Archaeology
3 to 6 credit hours(Same as GEOG 4772.) Prerequisites: HIST 4860; ANTH 3210; or permission of instructor. Archaeological resources and procedures and the interpretation of historical evidence undertaken at a field archaeological site.
3 credit hoursFor students of advanced standing and superior academic ability. Admission only by permission of the Department Honors Committee and approval by the University Honors Subcommittee.
3 credit hoursStudent works in a public or private agency or organization under the guidance of a professional mentor in a public history field related to career goals. Pass/Fail grading.
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Permission of department and professor. For advanced History majors. Research project under the careful guidance of a faculty member; substantive research product in history completed. May be taken only once for History major credit.
3 credit hoursPrerequisites: HIST 3010/HIST 3011 and a minimum of 12 upper-division hours in history or permission of the undergraduate director. Capstone course for History majors. Students will conduct original research and produce a research paper, a pedagogical project, or a research-based creative project. Requires a formal oral presentation for completion of the course. May be taken for credit once.
1 credit hourDevelopment and scope of Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences as a profession; its wide variety of career opportunities with analysis of interests, aptitudes, proficiency, and education related to success in these areas.
3 credit hoursPrinciples and techniques of effective presentations and demonstrations. Opportunities for experience in presenting demonstrations to the public through mass media. Three hours per week.
3 credit hoursEvaluation of housing in terms of family needs, economics, building codes, legislation, and technological developments. Housing alternatives presented and analyzed with emphasis on future trends in the field. Offered spring only.
1 credit hourPrerequisites: HSC 1010 and junior standing. Examines Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences professions from a global perspective. Identifies skills for success in developing and managing a career. Includes resume and cover letters, leadership, networking, life/work planning, and ethics and professionalism in Human Sciences fields.
3 credit hoursPermission of department. Individual research and/or analysis of contemporary problems and issues in a concentrated area of study. For advanced students.
HSC 4041 - Seminar in Human Sciences: Child Development and Family Studies
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Permission of department. Individual research and/or analysis of contemporary problems and issues in a concentrated area of study. For advanced students. Can be repeated for up to 9 hours.
HSC 4042 - Seminar in Human Sciences: Nutrition and Food Science
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Permission of department. Individual research and/or analysis of contemporary problems and issues in a concentrated area of study. For advanced students. Can be repeated for up to 9 hours.
HSC 4043 - Seminar in Human Sciences: Textiles, Merchandising, and Design
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Permission of department. Individual research and/or analysis of contemporary problems and issues in a concentrated area of study. For advanced students. Can be repeated for up to 9 hours.
HSC 4044 - Seminar in Human Sciences: Interior Design
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Permission of department. Individual research and/or analysis of contemporary problems and issues in a concentrated area of study. For advanced students. Can be repeated for up to 9 hours.
3 credit hoursPermission of department. Provides an opportunity for advanced students to do independent study or conduct research in their areas of emphasis.
HSC 4051 - Advanced Problems in Human Sciences: Child Development and Family Studies
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Permission of department. Opportunity for advanced students to do independent study or conduct research in their areas of emphasis. Topic of study or research to be determined by student and professor prior to registration. Can be repeated for up to 9 hours.
HSC 4052 - Advanced Problems in Human Sciences: Nutrition and Food Science
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Permission of department. Opportunity for advanced students to do independent study or conduct research in their areas of emphasis. Topic of study or research to be determined by student and professor prior to registration. Can be repeated for up to 9 hours.
HSC 4053 - Advanced Problems in Human Sciences: Textiles, Merchandising, and Design
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Permission of department. Opportunity for advanced students to do independent study or conduct research in their areas of emphasis. Topic of study or research to be determined by student and professor prior to registration. Can be repeated for up to 9 hours.
HSC 4054 - Advanced Problems in Human Sciences: Interior Design
3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Permission of department. Opportunity for advanced students to do independent study or conduct research in their areas of emphasis. Topic of study or research to be determined by student and professor prior to registration. Can be repeated for up to 9 hours.
1 to 3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Permission of department. Selected readings in current trends, developments, and research in human sciences. Topic of independent study to be determined prior to registration.
1 to 3 credit hoursPrerequisite: Permission of department. Selected readings of current trends, developments, and research in human sciences of interest to teachers and students through independent study.
6 credit hoursPrerequisites: Departmental approval and minimum 2.25 GPA. Directed and supervised experience designed to acclimate seniors in day-to-day demands, skills, and personal relationships in their major fields. Provides students with professional experiences. Includes a minimum of 300 hours at the worksite plus scheduled seminars.