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Students are introduced to and practice the methods of historical writing which include proper citation, thesis development, library/archival research skills, the use of primary and secondary historical sources, numeracy/statistics interpretive skills, and improved writing skills. Students will be introduced to schools of historical interpretation. This is a requirement for history majors.

A survey of the region's indigenous cultures, the Spanish colonial period, independence movements and development in the 20th century is presented.

IAI: S2 920N

Students study the land, people, and state from before the coming of the Europeans to the present.

This course takes a historical approach to evaluate the words of the US Constitution that asserted the values of political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people to analyze whether this nation has lived up to these values.

This course provides a survey of African history, early civilizations, kingdoms and empires, the Atlantic slave trade, colonialism, independence and current issues.

IAI: S2 920N

This course surveys the political, social, and cultural history of the Indian subcontinent/South Asia, including its early civilizations, colonial period, independence, and current issues. Emphasis is placed on the arrival of Islam in India, British rule, and the Independence movement. The rivalry between India and Pakistan as well as India’s relationship with Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Bangladesh will be discussed.

This course considers broad historical developments in Sub-Saharan Africa from early pre-colonial civilizations through the colonial era to the present. An emphasis will be placed on understanding the historical legacy of interaction between Sub-Saharan Africa and the West in trade including the slave trade, ideas, and culture, the period of European partition and conquest, African resistance to colonialism, decolonization struggles, challenges to early independent governance, and current developmental and social policy issues facing African societies in the global arena, particularly Africa’s emerging relationship with the United States and China.

This course examines the political, legal, economic, religious, philosophic, racial, and social/cultural dimensions of the female experience in the prehistoric and historic era. The creation of patriarchy and female subordination is central to this investigation. Patriarchal belief systems themselves influenced historians to overlook the female experience. The course aims to rectify this omission and aims to uncover female agency in shaping and responding to historic events. The course concludes with an assessment of women in contemporary society.

This course examines the history of genocide in the modern world. It comparatively examines the psychological, socio-economic, as well as political origins and consequences of various historical instances of genocide across the globe before World War II, e.g. in colonial Africa, in Armenia, etc.

This course will cover global topics with interdisciplinary perspectives. Examples are World War II in a Global Context, World History of Women, and Global Environmental History.