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GES 779 - Spatial Regression and Advanced Statistics [3]
Regression techniques are used in every social and physical science discipline, to which these disciplines often attempt to measure spatial relationships with geographic data. As such, this course introduces the regression framework in the statistical analysis of data to accounts for geography and measures spatial relationships. The course first presents the basics of regression, followed by the coverage of three regression techniques used in geographical analysis. The regression techniques covered are (i) spatial lag and error, (ii) geographically weighted, and (iii) multi-level (hierarchical) regression. The theoretical, conceptual, and practical foundations for each of these techniques are presented, providing students with the knowledge and skills necessary to conduct robust analyses. The concepts of spatial dependence and spatial heterogeneity are specifically covered in how they underpin the measurement of spatial effects in the regression framework. The course material is presented from a methodological approach that incorporates and extends the material covered in GES 679: Statistics for Geographers. Students are introduced to the GeoDa and R Studio programs to conduct their analyses.
Course ID: 103034
Components: Lecture
Grading Method: Regular
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GES 780 - GIS Project Capstone [3]
This capstone course demonstrates a student’s ability to apply the knowledge and skills attained during their tenure in GIS program. This is a semi-independent course that has students working with actual clients and undergoing the entire process of developing a real-world solution to meet that client’s needs. These solutions can be in the form of applied research or technological development. The project will be done in conjunction with an industry, government, or academic partner who will be responsible for providing the requirements, data, and system access needed to develop a functional and stable GIS solution in their production environment. Students will produce documentation that demonstrates the design of the GIS, the method for its construction, and instructions for its operation. Guidance from the instructor will interplay with feedback from the client to ensure the student’s success. As an M.P.S. student, the resulting project will also make a substantial contribution to student’s professional work, leading to a formal public presentation at an appropriate professional conference or submission of a written manuscript for publication in advisor-approved professional publication.
Course ID: 103033
Components: Lecture
Grading Method: Regular
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GES 799 - Master’s Thesis Research [2-9]
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GES 898 - Pre-candidacy Doctoral Research [3-9]
This research course is designated for Ph.D., students who need to enroll in research credits but who have not yet advanced formally to candidacy.
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GES 899 - Doctoral Dissertation Research [9]
Research on doctoral dissertation is conducted under direction of faculty advisor.
Prerequisite: Admission to Doctoral Candidacy Required
Note: A minimum of 18 credit hours are required. This course is repeatable.
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Gerontology |
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GERO 608 - Applied Regression Analysis for the Social Sciences 3
This course focuses applied statistical programming techniques used in interdisciplinary social science research. Statistical concepts and methods related to multivariate analysis, generalized linear models and regression analysis will be covered.
Course ID: 056843
Prerequisite: SOCY 604 or equivalent
Linked with/Also listed as SOCY 608
Components: Lecture
Grading Method: Regular
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GERO 672 - Issues in Aging Policy [3]
This is an upper-level undergraduate or introuductory graduate course on issues in aging policy. It provides an overview of the salient issues in aging policy and provides the student with a context for understanding the public policy process. The course will provide basic information and knowledge that will be useful to the student in more advanced policy-related studies in aging and health.
Note: Also listed as SOCY 672 .
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GERO 681 - Epidemiology of Aging [3]
This core course covers applications of the principle and methods of epidemiology and preventive medicine to the study of aging. There is a review of health assessment techniques that are potentially useful for conducting epidemiological studies of older people; the epidemiology of selected diseases common to old age; primary, secondary and tertiary prevention, as applied to older people, focusing on psycho-social and environmental aspects of health; and differing ideas of long-term care and its role in the prevention, intervention and treatment of illness in older people. Students learn how to evaluate and present research in a specific area of gerontological epidemiology with faculty supervision.
Note: Also listed as PREV 681.
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GERO 700 - Sociocultural Gerontology [3]
A required advanced interdisciplinary seminar addressing the fundamental concepts, theories and interests of social scientific inquiry on aging and the aged. Topics include: social demographic aspects of aging in the United States and elsewhere; the cultural contexts of age as a basis for social status, stratification and social organization; societal change and aging; the history and development of social scientific theory and methodology in gerontology.
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GERO 703 - Policy Analysis of Aging Issues [3]
This required core course will help students understand how and why aging policies reflect the political system in which they are enacted and implemented. Further, students will learn how research can inform and possibly transform the policy process.
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GERO 711 - Biology of Aging [3]
This course provides opportunities to learn about several aspects of biological aging. They include what it is; how it happens; what effects it has on the structure and operations of the human body; how it affects social, psychological and other aspects of life; how it is related to diseases; and what can be done about it.
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GERO 742 - Economics of Aging [3]
The main objective of this course is to provide students with the basic tools necessary to understand, critique and evaluate alternatives to issues in aging that have economic implications. The course is divided into four main sections. The first part of the course familiarizes students with tools used in microeconomic analysis. This section will also provide students with necessary computer related activities to obtain and process data for economic/policy analysis. The second part of the course will focus on understanding issues at the macro level. Accordingly, this part will address the nature and magnitude of the current issues, implications of these issues for the future and issues that need to be addressed to increase income and health security in old age. The third part of the course will examine the circumstances under which current programs such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other related welfare programs that address economic and health security in old age were implemented, their performance under current circumstances and issues related to their continuation. The final part of the course is designed to view issues discussed in prior units through an aging or life-course perspective that emphasizes the impact of events and issues in younger ages on income and health security in old age.
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GERO 750 - Gerontology Theory/Methods Seminar I [3]
The first of a two-semester sequence integrating theory and methods in gerontology. The course provides students with the information and skills to think like a gerontologist, using both theory and methods unique to the field and understanding the language and techniques used by a wide range of gerontological researchers. Students completing this sequence will be able to approach problems from an interdisciplinary perspective, “speak the language” of gerontology across disciplinary barriers of jargon, employ the work of contributing disciplines in their own research and work as part of an interdisciplinary research team.
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GERO 751 - Gerontology Theory/Methods Seminar II [3]
The second of a two-semester sequence integrating theory and methods in gerontology. The course provides students with the information and skills to think like a gerontologist. Key to these understandings is reading, evaluating and understanding the connections between research questions, theory and appropriate methods of research. Application of critical thinking skills and being able to bridge both linguistic and methodological variations in an interdisciplinary field are emphasized. Students completing this sequence will be able to employ the work of contributing disciplines in their own research, produce a “real world” proposal for research and work as part of an interdisciplinary research team.
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GERO 786 - Psychological Aspects of Aging [3]
A core course that examines psychological and biological changes associated with aging. The topics of the course include theories of aging, research methods of aging, learning, memory, intelligence and problemsolving, personality, stress and coping with illness. Emphasis is placed on the contribution of longitudinal studies to understanding the individual aging process.
Note: Also listed as PSYC 786 .
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GERO 798 - Special Topics in Gerontology [1-3]
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GERO 801 - Independent Study [1-3]
The student selects a topic of professional interest and studies with a graduate faculty member who is competent in that field. Students will investigate issues related to the elderly in-depth.
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GERO 898 - Pre-Candidacy Doctoral Research [3-9]
Research on doctoral dissertation conducted under the direction of a faculty advisor before candidacy.
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GERO 899 - Doctoral Dissertation Research [9]
Research on doctoral dissertation is conducted under direction of faculty advisor.
Prerequisite: Admission to Doctoral Candidacy Required
Note: A minimum of 18 credit hours are required. This course is repeatable.
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HIT 658 - Health Informatics - I [3]
This course is a graduate-level course which will touch upon areas of healthcare including, but not limited to healthcare informatics, health information technology (commonly referred to as Health IT or HIT) and healthcare. The expectation is for students to become familiar, if not already, with these areas and how they intersect with the broader establishments of healthcare, research and business. The course is the first of a two part series of courses (Healthcare Informatics ¿ II) focused on scoping the interdisciplinary nature of health informatics. The course will touch upon how people, organizations, healthcare and the use of technology are coming together to create this fairly new field and its impact on our drastically changing healthcare system.
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HIT 663 - Health IT Policy and Administration [3]
This course provides a comprehensive overview on the policy and administration of health information technology. Students will develop an understanding of the management principles in the American health care delivery system, including the roles of patients, third party insurance payers, health care professionals, and governmental entities. Central to this course will be an examination of key health care policy in the US, specifically those related to health IT, which have impacted and shaped health care management and health informatics. The course will focus on the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act and associate initiatives and regulations, HIPAA, Stark, and others. These policies will be discussed in the context of broader health reform efforts. The course will begin with a brief overview of the health care delivery systems and key players in order to provide context for course discussion. Through a group project, students will learn policy analysis and development principles and make a final presentation of a health IT policy solution.
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HIT 664 - Health IT Law and Ethics [3]
This course provides an overview of the United States legal construct and system, including an emphasis on important legal procedures and principles affecting health information technology and management. The course also covers the ethical issues involved in health information technology and management. The student will learn how to think through legal problems consistent with ethical norms, and how to analyze business risks in light of operative legal constructs. Students will study ethical and legal considerations related to health information technology from several, varying perspectives, including those of consumers, providers, payers, and researchers. Students will work in groups during certain exercises, role play in real and hypothetical case studies, and make a final presentation of a comprehensive legal and ethical health IT problem as their course project.
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HIT 674 - Process and Quality Improvement with Health IT [3]
This course provides an overview of quality measurement and process improvement as they relate specifically to the health care industry. The course will focus on the tools, techniques, and resources available to health care professionals through effective use of health IT. Students will learn how to create quality benchmarks, gather data, and analyze results. They will learn how to design specific processes that directly address analytic findings and have the potential to improve outcomes. Students will understand a variety of implementation strategies for new processes, and be able to use health IT and other tools to measure the overall effectiveness. They will also learn how to prioritize improvement efforts across complicated business and practice systems. Students will work in groups during certain exercises, explore real and hypothetical case studies, and make a final presentation of an improvement process and implementation which utilizes health IT as their course project.
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HIT 723 - Public Health Informatics [3]
This course will provide an overview of the field of public health informatics, including concepts, methods, and current issues related to the use of health information technology to improve public health. Topics will include secondary use of electronic health record data, public health syndromic disease surveillance, data analysis and outbreak detection, US Federal Government Adverse Event Reporting systems and strengths and weaknesses of existing public health databases.
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HIT 750 - Data Analytics [3]
HIT 750 is an overview course introducing students to the essential concepts in data analytics. Rather than the details of the mathematical concepts, the course focuses on explaining the fundamental principles and ideas behind analyzing data and building predictive models. In addition, the course builds strength in application of the concepts by including many examples, classroom exercises, and assignments in R which has become the gold standard statistical environment in many scholarly and scientific communities. Furthermore, the course also achieves depth by engaging students in a semester-long project which involves a particular topic selected by students.
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HIT 751 - Introduction to Healthcare Databases [3]
This graduate level course provides an introduction to the theoretical and practical aspects of creating and maintaining databases within a healthcare setting. This is a beginner’s course and no previous programming or technical experience is required. Topics include: relational databases, normalization, data integrity, database design, data querying, and data forms/reports. The class includes applied lab and project components to provide hands-on experience with creating and maintaining databases; using Access and SQLite as our database systems. This course is intended for students interested in databases within the context of healthcare informatics, health information technology, and healthcare.
Course ID: 102527
Components: Lecture
Grading Method: R
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HIT 759 - Healthcare Informatics-II [3]
This course is a graduate-level course which will touch upon areas of healthcare including, but not limited to healthcare informatics, health information technology (commonly referred to as Health IT or HIT) and healthcare. The expectation is for students to become familiar, if not already, with these areas and how they intersect with the broader establishments of healthcare, research and business. The course is the second of a two part series of courses, focused on scoping the interdisciplinary nature of health informatics. The course will touch upon how people, organizations, healthcare and the use of technology are coming together to create this fairly new field and its impact on our drastically changing healthcare system.
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HIT 760 - Health Informatics Capstone [3]
The Capstone project provides an opportunity for students to carry out an individual piece of supervised research or a project activity on a specified topic in the Health Informatics domain. The
final project should make an original contribution to the body of knowledge in the profession or otherwise demonstrate core competencies in Health IT and Informatics.
Course ID: 102396
Prerequisite: HIT 658, HIT 758, and a total of 21 credits in the program or permission of instructor
Components: Lecture
Grading Method: R
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History |
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HIST 529 - Writing American History [3]
Taught periodically. The purpose of HIST 529 is to provide professional development for practicing teachers of American history in elementary and secondary schools. The focus of the teachers’ work will be on the development and writing of research project, the complex process and conventions of historical writing, and the fundamentals of the historical method for source notation, quotation, paraphrasing, and avoidance of plagiarism.
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HIST 601 - History of the Old South [3]
Study of the old South from Colonial times to 1860.
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HIST 602 - History of the New South [3]
Study of the former Confederate states from the Civil War to the present, with special emphasis upon race relations, constitutional interpretation and social and political transformations.
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HIST 603 - The American Colonies [3]
A history of the American colonies from their founding to 1774, comparing the social and economic development of the West Indies, New England, mainland South and middle colonies. Topics include patterns of settlement, racial and ethnic interaction, labor, religion, family and sex roles, and cultural achievements.
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HIST 605 - Comparative Slavery: Africa and the New World [3]
A historical analysis of slavery as an institution, comparing various types of servitude in Africa and the Americas. Examples also will be drawn from European, Middle Eastern and Asian systems of servitude. Traditional anthropological and socioeconomic approaches are complemented by recent studies using quantitative methods.
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HIST 607 - The Founding of the American Nation, 1774-1815 [3]
The origins of American democratic institutions will be analyzed in their historical contexts. Such topics as the American Revolution and Confederation period, the age of Federalism, Jeffersonian America and the War of 1812 will be surveyed.
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HIST 608 - Women & Crime in US Memory 3
This advanced seminar explores how gender norms have influenced popular media and historical scholarship on women criminals and victims of crime in American historical memory. We will deconstruct select “crimes of the century” and determine how definations of “victims” and “perpetrators” are altered through the lens of gender, class, and racial analysis. Potential themes include motherhood and 1950s adoption ring cases and multiculturalism and 1990s police brutality trails. The end product will be an extensive research project.
Components: Lecture
Grading Method: R, P/F, A
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HIST 613 - American Revolution [3]
HIST 613 is a history/public history course designed to create primary source document collections for a website on the American Revolution aimed at teachers and students. Those collections will focus on the aspirations and experiences of ordinary people in the American Revolution. Students will locate documents, research to better understand them, and write “context narratives” to assist online users. The end product will be small collections accompanied by introductory essays that place the documents in historical context and aid in their interpretation.
In terms of content, the course works in conjunction with its undergraduate counterpart, HIST 413 (a lecture-based course on the American Revolution). Students will attend the lectures to familiarize themselves with the Revolution and to get a sense of historical events and issues around which they might center a document collection. Content will also come from the work of academic historians that students will consult as they build the introductions to their document collections.
The class also gives students hands-on experience presenting history to different public audiences. Much of that experience will be web-based, as students design their own individual projects to be hosted on the larger site. We will analyze other sites that present primary source documents on the Revolution and explore the possibilities for different kinds of presentation formats. Students will learn best practices for creating an online archive and document sets for high school/college students. The end result will be something students can put on a resume to show potential employers.
Course ID: 102311
Components: Lecture
Grading Method: R
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HIST 614 - Historic Preservation in the United States [3]
Historic preservation is the practice of protecting and preserving historic places. It strengthens local economies, fosters civic beauty, and enhances the appreciation of local and national history. But who decides what should be preserved? This course provides an introduction to the field, examining its history and practice in the United States. Students will gain an essential set of tools for critically observing historic sites, interpreting their historic context, evaluating their significance, and developing preservation plans.
Course ID: 102314
Components: Lecture
Grading Method: R
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HIST 618 - The American House: Everyday Architecture in America 3
Our homes are a central part of the American dream. This course explores the relationship between the ideal house and family and the reality of the American domestic life from colonial settlement to the mid-twentieth century. Topics include the development of domestic architecture; evolving standards of living; the “consumer revolution” and household consumption; household labor and production; class formation and identity; residential space and domestic artifacts; industrialization and home life; and evolving domestic technologies.
Components: Lecture
Grading Method: R
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HIST 619 - The Jacksonian Era [3]
An analysis of the rise of democracy, capitalism and sectionalism in the United States from the War of 1812 to the Mexican War.
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HIST 620 - Introduction to Assistive Technology and Accessibility Research [3]
This is a graduate level course that will serve as an introduction to the field of assistive technology. Assistive Technologies empower many individuals to achieve things that they might not have been able to otherwise. This class will serve as an introduction to the design, development and evaluation of a range of assistive technologies. Students will interact with the material through reading relevant literature, participating in group discussions, creating relevant presentations, working on an individual project, and listening to guest speakers. Students will apply their knowledge in a research project where they will design, implement, and/or evaluate an assistive technology.
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HIST 621 - The American Civil War [3]
A history of the Civil War, including an analysis of the sectional conflict, the events of the war and the period of Reconstruction.
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HIST 622 - Documenting America, 1877-1945 [3]
Between 1877 and 1945, photographers, collectors, filmmakers and others sought to define, document, and interpret American culture. The photographed, films, museum collections, and other material they produced and protected shaped Americans’ collective identity and they continue to impact ideas about the nation’s shared past and common values. This seminar class will examine these trends, training students to use cultural theory as a tool for understanding the historical significance of various forms of cultural production.
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HIST 625 - Making a Buck: The History of American Capitalism 3
The word “capitalism” immediately calls to mind foundational works of modern eonomics, particularly Adam Smith and Karl Marx. So in this course you will read some of the most important philosophers and ecomomists of capitalism. We will supplement this intellectual framework with the work of historians who discuss the political and economic developments that have shaped Americal capitalism. Topics to be discussed include slavery, risk-taking, the rise of corporations, income inequality, and modern finance.
Course ID: 102395
Components: Lecture
Grading Method: R, P/NP, A
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HIST 626 - Objects in History/Objects as History: Material Culture and Museum Studies for Historians 3
This course will introduce you to the theories and methods that historians use to analyze and interpret material culture. In the seminar style course, we will read and discuss the history of American museums and their collections. We will also analyze material culture scholarship. We will work collaboratively to build our own approach to material culture study, and students will test that approach by producing a material culture case study.
Course ID: 102559
Components: Lecture
Grading Method: R
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HIST 627 - Digital Public History: Using Digital Tools to Interpret Difficult Pasts 3
This public history, service-learning course asks students to engage the entrpreneurial aspects of public history practice by developing a creative response to a persistent problem in our profession. In the Digital Public History course students learn to use digital tools for engaging the public, and think about how digital environments can help public historians transform what many consider to be “difficult pasts” into meaningful and relevant history.
Course ID: 102560
Components: Lecture
Grading Method: R
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HIST 629 - History of Baltimore [3]
An examination of the growth of Baltimore from the 18th century to the present. Major themes are the evolution of urban government and politics, the development of the urban economy from a commercial port to an industrial center and then to the postindustrial era, the growth of the urban physical plant and its expansion into the metropolitan region in the 20th century and the changing relationships of Baltimore’s socio-economic groups.
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HIST 635 - 20th-Century American Foreign Policy [3]
A history of America’s relations with other countries since 1919.
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HIST 636 - The Rise of China and the United States’ Response [3]
The relationship between the United States and China is one of the most critical for peace and stability in world affairs. The long history of cooperation and competition between the two
powers dates to the 18th century, long before either emerged as a superpower, but continues today. This course helps students analyze developments in this diplomatic relationship on all
levels, from the presidential to the personal, while keeping an eye on the future.
Course ID: 102308
Components: Lecture
Grading Method: R
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HIST 641 - Origins of Modern America, 1877-1920 [3]
An analysis of political, economic, social and intellectual changes from the 1870s through the Wilson administration.
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HIST 642 - The United States, 1917-1945 [3]
An analysis of political, economic, social and cultural history of the United States from 1917 to 1945.
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HIST 643 - The United States Since 1945 [3]
An analysis of political, economic, social and cultural history of the United States from the 1940s to the present.
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HIST 645 - History of Science to 1700 [3]
The story of the birth of science. Topics include science in traditional cultures, Babylonian astronomy, the advances of the ancient Greeks, medieval European science, the Copernican revolution, conflicts between science and religion, and the Scientific Revolution.
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HIST 646 - History of Science Since 1700 [3]
A survey of the history of Western science since the 17th century.
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HIST 647 - History of Civil Rights Since the Civil War [3]
A history of civil rights from the first Reconstruction through the second. Topics to be covered include the Civil War amendments and supportive legislation; the rise and demise of Jim Crow; policy evolution toward race, ethnicity and gender; the civil rights movement since World War II and recent conflict between group and individual rights.
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HIST 648 - American Political History [3]
An examination of the historical origins and development of the American political system, emphasizing the institutional aspects of political parties, the electoral system, Congress and the presidency.
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HIST 649 - From Black Power to Black Lives Matter: The Black Freedom Struggle in the Post-Civil Rights Period [3]
This course explores the myriad and changing ways that African Americans struggled for equality in the fifty years after the civil rights reforms of the mid-1960’s. It pays particular attention to issues of political economy and structural shifts in U.S. politics in order to situate black activists activism in context.
Course ID: 102365
Faculty: George Derek Musgrove
Components: Lecture
Grading Method: Regular
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HIST 650 - Social History of American Medicine [3]
The history of American health care, hospitals and ambulatory care facilities; the role of government; public health programs and social issues such as smoking and abortion.
Note: Also listed as SOCY 657 .
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HIST 653 - Ancient Greece [3]
Greece from the earliest times to the death of Alexander. Topics include the Aegean Bronze Age, Greek colonization and the tyrants, Sparta, Athens, the Persian Wars, the Classical Age, the Peloponnesian War, the rise of Macedonia and Alexander the Great and his impact.
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HIST 655 - The Roman Republic [3]
Ancient Rome from the earliest times to 31 B.C. Topics include Roman imperialism in Italy and the Mediterranean, the conflict of the orders, the Punic Wars and the collapse of the republic.
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HIST 656 - The Roman Empire [3]
Ancient Rome from Augustus to the disintegration of the empire in the West. Topics include the Pax Romana, the military monarchy and anarchy, the reorganization of the empire by Diocletian and Constantine, the rise of Christianity and the final collapse of the empire.
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HIST 657 - Byzantine Civilization [3]
Historical survey of the Byzantine state, with particular attention to the art, institutions and ideals that shaped its long history.
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HIST 658 - Japan to 1800 [3]
The history of Japan from the origins of the Japanese people through the height of Tokugawa rule. Areas of focus will include an examination through archaeological sources of Japan’s beginnings, the transition of Japanese society from courtier to warrior rule during the 11th through 14th centuries and the process of political unification of the 16th century.
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HIST 659 - Japan Since 1800 [3]
Beginning with Japan’s early modern past and its forced emergence from isolation, this course will explore Japan’s rise as a modern state, its plunge into militarism and war and its subsequent rapid emergence as one of the world’s leading nations.
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HIST 662 - Medieval Europe [3]
Survey of the history of medieval Europe between 1000 and 1300, with emphasis on the intellectual renaissance, the rise of representative government, the development of the feudal monarchies, the medieval papacy and the growth of towns and commerce.
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HIST 663 - Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Middle Ages [3]
An examination of how members of these three monotheistic faiths viewed and interacted with each other in medieval Europe.
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HIST 665 - The Renaissance [3]
A history of Europe from 1300 to 1500, with emphasis on the economy, institutions and culture of the Italian city-state; the movement toward capitalism and the national state; the erosion of the medieval synthesis and the growth of religious heterodoxy.
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HIST 666 - The Reformation [3]
The economic and political conditions, the popular movements and the theological controversies that led to the overthrow of the Catholic Church’s monopoly of religious loyalties, thereby turning Europeans against one another on a national-religious basis. Attention will focus on the lives and ideas of the leading reformers.
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HIST 668 - The Age of Enlightenment [3]
A study of the major works of the Enlightenment in Western Europe. The literature and philosophy of the Enlightenment will be examined within the political and social history of the 18th century. Readings include Hume, Kant, Rousseau and Voltaire.
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HIST 669 - Femininity and Masculinity in the Middle Ages [3]
The central theme of this course will be the importance of gender as a category of cultural difference. We will consider the ways in which medieval society defined femininity and masculinity, appropriate male and female behavior, and men’s and women’s bodies. What did it mean to be masculine/feminine within medieval culture? Who created these definitions? How were the definitions challenged? What role does sexual behavior play in these definitions? How do other categories, like economic class, religion, and ethnicity complicate ideas about gender? To address these questions, each week we will read some combination of primary sources, monographs and scholarly articles that center around a particular theme.
There are four main goals in this course. The first is to learn how ideas about masculinity and femininity shaped the lives of men and women in medieval Europe. The second is to master the historiography of sex and gender in recent medieval histories. The third is to develop your own research project. The final goal is to improve your presentation skills. To that end, each of you will be responsible for leading one class and, at the end of the semester, you will each present your independent research to the course as a whole.
Linked with/Also listed as Cross-Listed: GWST 669
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HIST 670 - Tudor and Stuart England [3]
An examination of the history of Tudor and Stuart England, with a focus on the social, political and religious consequences of the rise of the Tudor state in the 16th century, the causes of the civil war in the next century and the nature of the Restoration settlement. Particular attention will be paid to the rich historiographical debate regarding the 17th-century conflict.
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HIST 671 - Industrial Britain [3]
An examination of the impact of the Industrial Revolution on British society, with particular reference to the themes of social and economic change, the rise of social classes and class consciousness, early feminism and gender relations and the rise of modern political ideologies.
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HIST 672 - Victorian Britain [3]
An examination of the main political, social and economic trends in Victorian Britain, with particular reference to the themes of parliamentary reform and the genesis of modern party politics, the Irish problems and new imperialism, the discovery of poverty, the revival of socialism and the struggle for women’s suffrage.
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HIST 673 - 20th-Century Britain: The Age of Decline [3]
An examination of the causes and consequences of Britain’s descent from its position as the world’s preeminent economic and imperial power in the 19th century to its present-day status as the Sick Woman of Europe. Particular attention will be paid to the contemporary debates around the various dimensions of this decline, the succession of counter-strategies adopted or canvassed to halt or reverse the process, the impact of the two world wars and the evolution of domestic social and economic policy.
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HIST 677 - History of China to 1644 [3]
Chinese history from ancient times to the middle of the 17th century, with special attention to the development of society, thought, economy and political institutions.
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HIST 678 - History of China, 1644-1912 [3]
Chinese history from the beginning of the Ching dynasty to the founding of the republic in 1912. A study of the disintegration of traditional China and the intrusion of the West. Special emphasis will be placed on the reevaluation of the nature of Western imperialism in China, the rise of Chinese nationalism and communist Chinese interpretations of China’s encounter with the West.
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HIST 679 - History of China, 1912-1949 [3]
Chinese history from the beginning of the republic to the founding of the communist regime in 1949, the growth of modern Chinese nationalism and anti-imperialism, the struggle for power between the nationalists and communists, the social and economic revolution, the war with Japan and the American failure in China.
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HIST 680 - Contemporary China, 1949 to the Present [3]
Chinese history from the founding of a communist regime in 1949 to the present: ideology and organization of the new regime, the role of the Communist Party and the People’s Liberation Army, social changes and thought reform, arts and culture, the Cultural Revolution and the Gang of Four, the Four Modernizations and China’s foreign policy.
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HIST 681 - History of Modern France, 1789-1989 [3]
A survey and an analysis of French society and political institutions from the era of the great revolution to its bicentennial anniversary, covering the impact of Napoleon and 19th-century conservatism, as well as the formation of republican regimes in the 20th century.
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HIST 683 - German History, 1789-1914 [3]
History of the German states from the French Revolution to national unification, the Bismarckian era and the Wilhelminian era until the outbreak of World War I. Emphasis is on the struggles between nationalism, conservatism, liberalism and social democracy in the new German empire. Includes a cultural, social and political approach.
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HIST 684 - German History Since 1914 [3]
Germany through the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, the Allied occupation and the founding and development of the two Germanys, as well as the newly united German state. Emphasis is on the development of economic and military strength, political and social upheaval, cultural responses to war and the role of Nazism in modern German history.
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HIST 685 - Russia to 1900 [3]
A history of Russia from its origins to the end of the reign of Nicholas I. Topics to be covered include Kievan Russia, the rise of Muscovy, the reforms of Peter the Great, the evolution of society under Peter’s successors and the beginning of the revolutionary movement.
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HIST 686 - Soviet History on Trail [3]
The crisis of the old regime in the Russian empire, the revolutions of 1917 and the emergence of the Soviet Union, Stalinism and de-Stalinization, and the dissolution of the U.S.S.R.
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HIST 687 - Europe, 1815-1914 [3]
An examination of European history from the Congress of Vienna, which ended the Napoleonic Wars, until the eve of World War I. Emphasis will be placed on the impact of the Industrial Revolution on social classes, ideologies, nation and empire building, gender roles, cultural trends and international competition in the 20th century.
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HIST 688 - Europe, 1914 to the Present [3]
The history of Europe from the outbreak of World War I until the present. Emphasis on the origins and the social and political impact of the two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the rise of fascism in inter-war Europe and the decline and the division of Europe after 1945, as well as its developing unity.
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HIST 691 - European Intellectual History: the 19th Century [3]
Major currents in European intellectual history from Hegel to Nietzsche. Emphasis on the growth and decay of naturalistic humanism, the “religion of man” movement and the aspects of the European Romantic movement.
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HIST 692 - European Intellectual History: the 20th Century [3]
Major currents in European intellectual history from Freud to Sartre.
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HIST 701 - The Study of History [3]
Readings in representative texts, with particular attention to the principal methodologies, approaches and schools that have informed the study of history.
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HIST 702 - The Practice of History [3]
Students will learn the skills historians need to frame, explain, and develop their research agendas. This will include learning best practices for crafting a research question, conducting a literature review, formulating a methodology, and engaging in preliminary research.
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HIST 703 - Readings in European Historiography [3]
Examines a broad range of issues and debates in European historical writing.
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HIST 704 - Readings in Asian Historiography [3]
Examines a broad range of issues and debates in Asian historical writing.
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HIST 705 - Introduction to Public History [3]
Provides an introduction to the professional and intellectual field of public history, with particular attention to the history of the field, the role and expectations of the public, and the process of collaborative, reflexive interpretation.
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HIST 710 - Seminar in Political History [3]
Topics will vary from semester to semester.
Note: May be repeated for credit.
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HIST 711 - Public History Practices [3]
Research centered course designed to create an opportunity for students to build a professional work portfolio, develop marketable skills, and broaden their network of professional contacts.
Note: May be repeated for credit.
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HIST 712 - Seminar in Economic History [3]
Topics will vary from semester to semester.
Note: May be repeated for credit.
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HIST 713 - Seminar in Social History [3]
Topics will vary from semester to semester.
Note: May be repeated for credit.
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HIST 714 - Seminar in Intellectual History [3]
Topics will vary from semester to semester.
Note: May be repeated for credit.
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HIST 715 - Seminar in Cultural History [3]
Topics will vary from semester to semester.
Note: May be repeated for credit.
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HIST 716 - Seminar in Historiography [3]
Topics will vary from semester to semester.
Note: May be repeated for credit.
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HIST 717 - Seminar in the History of Science [3]
Topics will vary from semester to semester.
Note: May be repeated for credit.
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HIST 718 - Seminar in Gender and Women’s History [3]
This course will introduce students to the fields of women’s and gender history, as well as their methodologies and theories. It will investigate the historical construction of gender, histories of femininity and/or masculinity and gender as a category of historical analysis. Any course in women’s history will explore the contributions of women to the social, economic, political and intellectual spheres; their relative status in various time periods and cultures; and the obstacles women have faced in the past in terms of class, race, ethnicity, maritcal status, age and sexuality. Gender history courses will focus on how gender intersects with topics such as sexuality, empire or war, in any given time and place.
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