Undergraduate Courses

Group | General History Survey

A general survey of the history of the United States from its settlement to the end of Reconstruction.

Group | General History Survey

A general survey of the history of the United States from Reconstruction to present.

Group | General History Survey

A general survey of western civilization from earliest times to the end of the 17th century.

Group | General History Survey

A general survey of world civilization from the earliest times to the 17th Century.

Group | General History Survey

A general survey of world civilization from the 17th Century to the present.

Group | General History Survey

A general survey of western civilization from the Treaty of Utrecht to the present.

Group | General History Survey

This course is a survey of the economic, social, political, intellectual, and cultural history of Mexican Americans/Chicanx since 1865. Topics the course addresses include: the making of borders and borderlands, the impact of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and uses gender to explain migration and citizenship and expulsion, nineteenth-century activism and displacement, industrialization and the making of a transnational Mexican working class, the Mexican Revolution, urbanization, WWII and organized advocacy, the Chicano Movement, changing identifications, globalization, and immigration restriction.

Group | General History Survey

This course is a survey of the social, political, economic, cultural, and intellectual history of people of African descent in the United States from the end of the Reconstruction period to the present. African American History since 1877 examines segregation, disenfranchisement, civil rights, migrations, industrialization, world wars, the Harlem Renaissance, and the conditions of African Americans in the Great Depression, Cold War, and post-Cold War eras. This course enables students to understand African American history as an integral part of US history.

Group | Group B: European History

The English nation and the British Empire from 1603 through the modern era.

Group | Group C: U.S. History

This course surveys the diversity of women's experiences in the United States from 1877 to the present. The social, economic, political, and intellectual realms of women's worlds, both public and private, are explored.

Group | Group A: World History

The development of the Portuguese society in South America from the sixteenth century until 1822.

Group | Group A: World History

This course examines the history of Latin America from independence to present. Explores the challenges of formation and consolidation of the new states; of economic policy and development; the rise of Populism and the age of reforms; revolutions and revolutionary movements; and present challenges.

Group | Group A: World History

A survey of the history of the Spanish frontier in North America and its hinterlands from the earliest explorations to the end of Spanish rule in 1821.

Group | Group C: U.S. History

A general examination of the region including Texas, California, and the states dominated geographically by the Great Basin, the Southern Rockies, and the Sonoran Desert, from the earliest European contacts to the present.

Group | Group C: U.S. History

History of the early national era, 1788-1828, with emphasis on development of the first party system in American politics, the social and economic issues, the expansion of southern slavery, and the western frontier.

Group | Group C: U.S. History

This course examines the history of specific expressive, popular, and symbolic forms of US culture in shaping American intellectual life, aesthetics, and material culture during the post- Civil War – mid 20th century period.

Group | Group C: U.S. History

This course will  explore the historical roots and development of some of the most pressing questions that dominate our current political climate and policy debates.   Students will seek to put the past in the present, looking at how American history shapes the debates of today.  We will cover topics such as the history of pandemics and our government response, the history of mass incarceration and police brutality, the rise of the conservative movement and neoliberal capitalism, and other immigration policy debates

Group | Group C: U.S. History

A one-semester survey of Texas History which will emphasize political, economic and social development from prehistory to the twentieth century.

Group | Group C: U.S. History

This course surveys rural women in the United States from the founding of the nation to the present. Topics include women’s work in the agricultural economy, female influence in community and agrarian organizations, and the relations ship between rural and government services from regional, national, and global perspectives.

Group | Group B: European History

A survey of Roman History from the Republican period to the fall of the Western Empire with emphasis on its Mediterranean milieu.

Group | Group A: World History

This course covers the historical development of the category of the teenager across the globe, exploring the similarities and differences of the teenage experience across a variety of regional contexts.

Group | Group A: World History

This course is an introduction to the history of India from ancient times to the creation of the modern nation-state of India.

Group | Group B: European History

An activity based on greed, and sometimes survival, piracy has existed since humans took to the seas. This course investigates the global history of piracy beginning with the Vikings. The history of piracy in the Caribbean, Asia, and the Mediterranean will be covered and compared to the piracy of today.

Group | Group B: European History

A survey of the history of the former Soviet Union and post-Soviet society from 1917 to the present.

Group | Group B: European History

Survey of German history and the Nazi movement. Topics covered will include the Weimar Republic, Hitler's rise to power, everyday life in Nazi Germany and in peace and war and the Holocaust.

Group A | Word History

The course presents a chronological narrative of Africa from the beginning of the nineteenth century until the present day. Students engage with the continent’s social, cultural, and intellectual history through topics and themes that include the spread of Islam and Christianity, the Atlantic and Indian Ocean trade worlds, twentieth-century colonialism, and anti-colonial nationalism.

Group | Group A: World History

A survey of the political, social, economic, and intellectual history of China from 1600 to the present. Emphasis on the issues of domestic troubles and external aggression, and on the revolutionary changes in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Group | A World History

This course explores Japan’s development from the 1940s through the 1970s. The emphasis is on the continuities and discontinuities from the wartime to the postwar regime, American influence on policies and discourses on post-occupation society, the legacies of the war in culture and society, and the repercussions of economic affluence.

Group | Group A: World History

This course is a survey of the political, social, economic, and intellectual history of Hong Kong from 1842 to the present. Focus is on British colonial rule, the Handover in 1997, and the current status of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.

Group | Group A: World History

The course features an intensive study of the history of modern India. Course coverage includes the Mughal Empire, British Colonialism, Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian Independence Movement, and the establishment of the nations of India and Pakistan.

Group | Group A: World History

Of 255 million people in 22 predominantly-Arab countries in North Africa and the Middle East, over the past 150 years, most have worked at some kind of job or another. In this course we will consider how labor politics introduce state regulations to gender, national and sexual identities.

Group | Group C: U.S. History

A study of the interplay of economic, social, political, and cultural forces that shaped American society from the end of World War II to the presidential election of 1968.

Group | Group D: Capstone and Teacher Certification Preparation

This course is required for students seeking teacher certification in History. This course is an introductory methods course designed to familiarize students with general historical practice and its application in secondary teaching.

Departmental Approval Required

Group | Group D: Capstone and Teacher Certification Preparation

This course is required for History majors not seeking teaching certification. In this course students refine skills and techniques essential to the historical profession. Students analyze primary and secondary sources, apply methods, and write a term paper. Prerequisite: 24 semester credit hours in History with a grade point average of at least 2.25 in those hours.

Departmental Approval Required

Group | Honors Course

This course focuses on British musician Harry Styles and popular European culture since World War II to understand the cultural and political development of the modern celebrity as related to questions of gender and sexuality, race, class, nation and globalism, media, fashion, fan culture, internet culture, and consumerism.