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2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 Courses numbered from 101–299 are lower-division courses, primarily for freshmen and sophomores; those numbered from 300–499 are upper-division courses, primarily for juniors and seniors. The numbers 296, 396, 496, and 596 designate individual study courses and are available for registration by prior arrangement with the course instructor and approval of the department chair.

The number in parentheses following the course title indicates the amount of credit each course carries. Variable credit courses include the minimum and maximum number of the credits within parentheses.

Not all of the courses are offered every quarter. Final confirmation of courses to be offered, information on new courses and programs, as well as a list of hours, instructor, titles of courses and places of class meetings, is available online in My CWU which can be accessed through the the CWU home page, and go to www.cwu.edu/registrar/course-information

 

Health and Physical Education (HPE)

  
  • HPE 498 - Special Topics


    Description:
    May be repeated if subject is different.

    Credits: (1-6)

  
  • HPE 499 - Seminar


    Description:
    May be repeated if subject is different.

    Credits: (1-5)


History (HIST)

  
  • HIST 101 - World History to 1500


    Description:
    Origins and development of the major world civilizations to the 15th century. A comparative study of their political, social, and economic institutions, and their religious and intellectual backgrounds. Course will be offered every year (Fall, Winter, Spring). SB-Perspectives on World Cultures (W).

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Identify key events, persons, movements, and concepts in the world from pre-history to 1500
    • Develop ability to identify, analyze, and evaluate the relationship between past and present with respect to global, national, and local issues from prehistory to 1500
    • Demonstrate an understanding of how diversity, inequality or privilege interact with social, economic, cultural, technological, and political powers in world history to 1500
    • Demonstrate an understanding of how world history to 1500 informs strategic decision making, global citizenship and economic productivity
    • Effectively address significant historical issues and articulate impacts on global issues by  clearly and coherently presenting ideas in writing and speaking
    • Apply historical knowledge and critical thinking skills in analyzing sources concerning world history to 1500 and address complex global problems
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    11/16/17

  
  • HIST 102 - World History: 1500-1815


    Description:
    A comparative survey of political, social, economic, and cultural developments in world history from 1500-1815. Course will be offered every year (Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer). SB-Perspectives on World Cultures (W).

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:

    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Read and respond in oral and written form to primary sources from different parts of the world, understanding the importance of author and audience to the production and reception of those sources.
    • Identify and synthesize patterns in world history that are reflected in our current world, making connections between past and present.
    • Recognize and analyze the significance of power dynamics and experiences to interpretations of human experience.
    • Identify and challenge preconceived notions in the context of alternative perspectives and experiences.
    • Analyze the ways in which historically distinct cultural contexts shaped individuals’ lives, beliefs, and experiences, and how these are different from our own.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    11/17/17

  
  • HIST 103 - World History Since 1815


    Description:
    A comparative survey of political, social, economic, and cultural developments in world history since 1815. Course will be offered every year (Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer). SB-Perspectives on World Cultures (W).

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Develop ability to identify, analyze and evaluate the relationship between past and present with respect to global, national and local issues from 1815 to present

    • Recognize and evaluate global diversity and inequality in the context of social, economic and political power across time and space
    • Demonstrate an understanding of how world history informs strategic decision making, global citizenship and economic productivity

    • Develop an ability to articulate the global dimensions of significant issues in the past and present, whether social, cultural, economic, historic, or political

    • Apply critical thinking skills to historical sources to analyze global issues from multiple perspectives and conceptual models, including cultural, economic, social and political
    • Assemble, evaluate and analyze relevant historical evidence in order to craft well-supported arguments orally and in writing
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    11/17/17

  
  • HIST 143 - United States History to 1865


    Description:
    Survey of U.S. history from before contact to Civil War. Themes include pre-Columbian societies; colonization; epidemics and environmental change; slavery; the American Revolution and Constitution; the market revolution; Manifest Destiny; and the Civil War. Course will be offered every year (Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer). SB-Perspectives on Cultures and Experiences of U.S. (W).

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Identify and evaluate the historical origins and interplay of class, gender, and race in the U.S. to 1865
    • Identify and evaluate the historical origins and impact of nationalism and expansionism in the United States to 1865
    • Demonstrate understanding of how the American past (to 1865) has shaped the present
    • Demonstrate understanding of key elements of the U.S. Constitution, as well as the evolution and impact of key American reform movements, court decisions, legislation, and wars prior to 1866
    • Demonstrate understanding of how and why Americans resolved–or failed to resolve–common problems prior to 1866.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    12/21/17
  
  • HIST 144 - United States History Since 1865


    Description:
    U.S. history from Reconstruction to the present. Themes include Imperialism, Progressivism, World War I, Great Depression, World War II, the Civil Rights and Women’s Movements, the Vietnam War, recent U.S. foreign policy and political movements. Course will be offered every year (Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer).  SB-Perspectives on Cultures and Experiences of U.S. (W).

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Identify and evaluate the origins and interplay of class, gender, and race in the United States since 1865
    • Identify and evaluate the origins and impact of nationalism and/or imperialism in the United States since 1865
    • Demonstrate understanding of how the American past (since the Civil War) has shaped the present
    • Demonstrate understanding of key elements of the U.S. Constitution, as well as the evolution and impact of key American reform movements, court decisions, legislation, and wars since 1865
    • Demonstrate understanding of how and why Americans have resolved–or failed to resolve–common problems since 1865.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    12/21/17
  
  • HIST 298 - Special Topics


    Credits: (1-6)

  
  • HIST 299 - Seminar


    Description:
    May be repeated if subject is different.

    Credits: (1-5)

  
  • HIST 301 - Pacific Northwest History


    Description:
    Exploration and settlement; subsequent political, economic, and social history with particular emphasis on Washington. Course will be offered every year (Fall, Winter, Spring).

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Identify and explain the origins and consequences of the key events and transformations that occurred in the Pacific Northwest from the earliest recorded history to the present.
    • Read and respond in oral and written form to primary and secondary sources-including traditional historical documents, oral traditions, art, and literature-from the many cultures of the Pacific Northwest.
    • Identify and synthesize patterns over time in how regional inhabitants have understood, assigned meaning, utilized, and shaped the environment around them. 

    • Identify and assess the ways in which the history of the Pacific Northwest follows, contributes to, or departs from the larger contours of the American and global experience and, in so doing, confront and question their own presuppositions.
    • Assemble, evaluate and analyze relevant historical evidence in order to craft well-supported arguments in both oral and written form.
    • Recognize the nature of history as an interpretive process, rather than merely as a body of facts.  Armed with that recognition, and utilizing both primary and secondary sources, the student will be able to evaluate existing interpretations and to articulate their own interpretations.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    11/16/17
  
  • HIST 302 - Historical Methods


    Description:
    Exercises in historical research, critical analysis, and interpretation. Students must earn a minimum grade of C as a major requirement. Course will be offered every year (Fall, Winter, Spring).

    Prerequisites:
    Prerequisites: sophomore or junior standing and admission to either the history large, small or social studies teaching major.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Analyze cause and effect relationships, bearing in mind multiple causation
    • Isolate and articulate patterns of historical continuity and change
    • Analyze and critique a historical argument, evaluating its rhetorical effectiveness and identifying its underlying assumptions
    • Isolate and evaluate the validity of the central question(s) and perspective(s) of different kinds of historical sources
    • Identify appropriate finding aids, primary, secondary, and tertiary materials in the library and online
    • Organize and synthesize evidence to support an original argument
    • Develop a focused historical assertion (thesis) and argument, addressing divergent stances on the topic
    • Write clearly and coherently, using different rhetorical strategies in a scholarly style to enhance meaning
    • Cite and document sources precisely and effectively according to Turabian guidelines
    • Give and receive constructive criticism
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    11/16/17
  
  • HIST 309 - American History through Film (Put on reserve 9/16/18)


    Description:
    Explores American history through the prism of film, how film represents the past, how filmmakers, historians, and the general public understand cinematic history, and how film can be viewed as both primary and secondary sources. (Put on reserve 9/16/18, will go inactive 8/24/21)

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Identify and analyze the various ways that film expresses historical content and meaning.
    • Utilize historical film as both primary and secondary historical sources.
    • Communicate historical ideas, in written and oral form, with precision and coherence.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    11/21/2013
  
  • HIST 313 - History of Rome 500 B.C. to 500 A. D.


    Description:
    Beginning, city-state, republican period; world empire; decline.

    Credits: (5)

  
  • HIST 314 - Military History of the United States


    Description:
    A comprehensive and systematic survey and analysis of the American military experience from Colonial times through the Vietnam War. HIST 314 and MSL 314 are cross-listed courses; students may not receive credit for both.

    Credits: (5)

  
  • HIST 315 - Muslim Middle East (Put on Reserve 9/16/16.)


    Description:
    The origins and spread of Islamic civilization and its interaction with Graeco-Roman, Persian, and Indian civilizations. Crusades and the rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire.  (Put on Reserve 9/16/16. Last taught in 2012. Will go inactive 8/24/19.)

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Identify key events, persons, and places in the history of this area.
    • Isolate and analyze significant issues in the history of this area.
    • Critically analyze primary and secondary sources.
    • Compare opposing interpretations and opinions.
    • Organize and present ideas clearly, orally and in writing.
    • Revise written work effectively.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    5/3/2012
  
  • HIST 320 - Narcotics in World History


    Description:
    Explores the use of narcotics in ancient and modern world history and their relationship to warfare, commerce, public policy, human health, taxation, race, religion, gender and power. Course will not have an established scheduling pattern.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Recognize major types of narcotics as well as their use in ancient and modern history.
    • Analyze the role that narcotics play in ancient and modern history.
    • Create a schema that reflects the intersection and relational mechanics of narcotics with historical forces such as finance, health, warfare, social issues and governance.
    • Argue the role that public policy should take based on historical analysis of the ancient and modern world.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    10/19/17
  
  • HIST 321 - Latin America Through Film, Art, and Music


    Description:
    Analyzes the role of film, art, and music in understanding the social, cultural, and political history of Latin America in the colonial and modern eras.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Understand resistance movements, state formation projects, and historical memory and identity formation as portrayed in film, art, and music.
    • Develop an understanding of Latin American cultural historiography.
    • Understand continuity and change over time.
    • Places major films, works of art, and musical styles in historical context and positions them in relation to major events in Latin American history.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    2/2/2012
  
  • HIST 322 - World Prehistory


    Description:

    Old- and New-world prehistory from late Pliocene to the early historic period, including the ecology and development of hunting-gathering, agriculture, and state-level societies. HIST 322 and ANTH 322 are cross-listed courses; students may not receive credit for both.

    Credits: (4)

  
  • HIST 323 - Food and Drink in Global History


    Description:
    Examination of cultural, political, and economic roles food and drink have played in global history, 1400 to present. Themes: cultural exchange and globalization; national, ethnic and gender identities; empire and slavery; war; industrialization; politics of food.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Demonstrate knowledge of how foodways of different nations and social groups have shaped and been shaped by historical events.
    • Critically analyze similarities and differences in foodways across nations and social groups throughout the world, and over time from 1400 to the present.
    • Relate and compare their own foodways to those of other cultural groups, past and present.
    • Critically analyze and evaluate individually and in groups the cultural, political and ethical implications of foodways past and present, and thus better understand what’s been and is at stake in deciding what to eat and drink.
    • Apply critical thinking skills to historical sources in order to craft well-supported arguments in written and oral presentations.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    3/5/2015
  
  • HIST 325 - Renaissance and Reformation


    Description:
    Survey of European political, social, cultural, and economic revolutions from the 14th to16th centuries; including medieval dissolution, humanism, overseas exploration, Protestantism, and popular culture. Course will not have an established scheduling pattern.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Identify key events, persons, and places in Renaissance/Reformation  history.
    • Isolate and analyze significant issues In Renaissance/Reformation  history.
    • Critically analyze primary and secondary sources.
    • Compare opposing interpretations and opinions.
    • Organize and present ideas clearly.
    • Choose a Renaissance/Reformation topic and develop a thesis-driver research paper based on primary sources.
    • Give examples of the relationship between the past and contemporary events and problems.
    • Conceptualize the rich diversity of human experience in other times and places.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    3/5/2007
  
  • HIST 328 - Modern Latin America


    Description:
    Analyzes the history of Latin America in the past two centuries, from the Wars of Independence to the present day.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    Identify the key events of modem Latin American history, and analyze their principal causes and consequences.

    Recognize the historians’ craft of empathy and analyze primary documents from this perspective.

    Compare and contrast opposing historical interpretations, and come to your own perspective through a careful consideration of all relevant materials.

    Organize, present, and communicate your own opinions in a thoughtful, coherent fashion.Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    2/6/2003

  
  • HIST 329 - The Tropics and the Modern World


    Description:
    Analyzes the history of the modern world through the history of tropical commodities.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Identify the key events of modern history, and analyze their principal causes and consequences.
    • Demonstrate an understanding of your connections to peoples around the globe.
    • Recognize the historians’ craft of empathy and analyze primary documents from this perspective.
    • Compare and contrast opposing historical interpretations, and come to your own perspective through a careful consideration of all relevant materials.
    • Organize, present, and communicate your own opinions in a thoughtful, coherent fashion.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    2/6/2003
  
  • HIST 330 - Africa to 1800


    Description:
    This course is designed to explore Africa’s earliest civilizations; internal processes of change; external influences; state formation; complex societies; connections to the world economy.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Identify key events, persons, and places in the history of this area.
    • Isolate and analyze significant issues in the history of this area.
    • Critically analyze primary and secondary sources.
    • Compare opposing interpretations and opinions.
    • Organize and present ideas clearly, orally and in writing.
    • Revise written work effectively.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    10/18/2012
  
  • HIST 331 - Colonial Africa


    Description:
    Africa on the eve of colonial conquest; causes of imperialism; colonial rule and African reactions and initiatives; independence and colonial legacy.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Identify key events, persons, and places in the history of this area.
    • Isolate and analyze significant issues in the history of this area.
    • Critically analyze primary and secondary sources.
    • Compare opposing interpretations and opinions.
    • Organize and present ideas clearly, orally and in writing.
    • Revise written work effectively.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    5/3/2012
  
  • HIST 332 - History of the Black Diaspora


    Description:
    This course focuses on the black diaspora. It looks at the movement and impact of black people from Africa to other parts of the world. It examines their contribution to world civilizations and identities.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Identify significant contributions of Africa and the Black diaspora to world civilization and cultures.
    • Describe the implications of race, class, identity and gender in the history of Black people.
    • Analyze and synthesize primary and secondary sources on Black People and put forward a well-supported argument on their own.
    • Identify differing explanations of the history of people of African descent across the world and through this, be able to make connections between cause and effect in the discipline of history.
    • Make a clearly-written and clearly presented argument, including a thesis and sufficient and well-used supporting detail of relevant material.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    5/31/2007
  
  • HIST 333 - Visual Cultures of Africa


    Description:
    Using painting, sculpture, performance, photography, and film, this course examines historical meaning and representations through visual media created in and about Africa, and how these media are presented in the West. 

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Analyze visual artifacts within their cultural contexts, recognizing that meanings and significance of art, images, and objects are bounded and created.
    • Analyze and synthesize different types of primary and secondary sources, taking into account the relative insights different sources can offer historians, in order to craft well-support arguments.
    • Express original arguments in written form based on evidence.
    • Identify and explain complex historical dynamics informing the creation and exchange of visual media and circulation of ideas about ritual, performance, entertainment, and decoration.
    • Express knowledge about African art and design clearly in oral form.
    • Describe and explain how African art and design are represented and and presented in the United States and Europe, particularly in museums.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    1/31/19
  
  • HIST 334 - History of Gender and Sexuality in Africa from Pre-colonial Times to the Present


    Description:

    This course examines the histories and changing aspects of gender and sexuality in different African contexts from the pre-colonial to the post-colonial eras. Topics will include marriage, politics, prestige, wealth, social cohesion, Christianity, AIDs, etc.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Identify key events, themes, and concepts in the history of gender in Africa.
    • Isolate and analyze significant issues in the history of gender in Africa.
    • Critically analyze primary and secondary sources.
    • Compare opposing interpretations and opinions.
    • Organize and present ideas clearly, orally and in writing.
    • Revise written work effectively.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    2/21/2013
  
  • HIST 339 - Colonial British America


    Description:
    Social, cultural, political, and economic life in the British colonies of North America to 1763. Course will not have an established scheduling pattern.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Conceptualize an American history outside the framework of a national political narrative.
    • Develop a capacity for empathy towards and engagement with the diverse peoples of early America.
    • Engage with people unlike themselves (such as Native Americans and African Americans) on their own terms - rather than as passive victims or “savages” (noble or otherwise).
    • Identify, author, and read several genres of historical writing.
    • Formulate historical questions, identify relevant evidence, and create convincing interpretations that answer those questions.
    • Reconstruct patterns of historical developments, and apply them to fundamentally historical questions about continuity, change, and historical causation.
    • Identify and characterize the global forces at work in particular, highly localized colonial societies.
    • Apply basic concepts drawn from disciplines such as economics, literary criticism, anthropology and sociology to the study of early American history.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    1/8/1998
  
  • HIST 341 - The Constitution and the New Republic, 1783-1800


    Description:
    Explores the origins of American government, society and culture by examining the Articles of Confederation, the crisis of the 1780s, the Constitutional convention, ratification, the Federalists and Anti-Federalists, the creation of the first two-party system, Republican Motherhood, slavery, and the formation of American identity.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Distinguish primary sources from secondary literature.
    • Develop and defend a thesis.
    • Differentiate between short-term and long-term historical forces and move beyond fact and date memorization to interpretation.
    • Deliver concise, cogent oral arguments on a given historical question.
    • Identify the role cultural understandings of race, class and gender play in history and how they affect the experience of individuals and groups in different historical contexts.
    • Identify the historical context that produced the U.S. Constitution and other milestones in the formation of American government and identity, as distinct from presentist interpretations of the Constitution and ‘Founding Era’.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    10/18/2012
  
  • HIST 344 - American Manhood in Historical Perspective


    Description:
    This course examines the cultural construction of masculinity in America from the colonial period to the present. Important topics include the interplay between gender and politics, sexuality, race, courtship, religion, honor, and violence.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Demonstrate research and writing skills including effective organization, grammar, and style.
    • Work cooperatively with others preparing a formal presentation.
    • Analyze and historicize gender constructions and connect them with larger social, cultural, and economic themes.
    • Critically analyze historical documents and writings for gender bias.
    • Understand trends in the study of gender and sexuality through an overview of representative literature.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    1/22/2015
  
  • HIST 346 - Women in American History


    Description:
    A survey of the role of women, their treatment, and response in American society from colonial times to the present.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Identify key events, persons, and themes in US women’s history.
    • Analyze the impact of economic, political and social forces on women’s public and private lives.
    • Compare and evaluate opposing interpretations of historical issues by scholars, historical figures, film-makers, novelists, and journalists.
    • Recognize and appreciate diversity and interdependence.
    • Understand the relationship between past and contemporary actions and strategies.
    • Familiarize with history sources in the university library.
    • Apply critical thinking and objectivity to evaluation of primary and secondary sources.
    • Collect, organize, write, document and revise research materials and interpretations clearly, in writing and speaking.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    5/31/2002
  
  • HIST 352 - The History of the American Family (Put on reserve 9/16/17)


    Description:
    American family patterns from early settlement to the present; demography, gender roles, courtship, marriage, child raising, aging, ethnicity, and alternative lifestyles. (Put on reserve 9/16/17. Will go inactive 8/24/2020.)

    Credits: (3)

  
  • HIST 370 - Medieval European History


    Description:
    Survey of Western European history from late antiquity to the 16th century; political, economic, social, and religious thought and institutions.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Identify key events, persons, and places in medieval history on examinations and in research papers.
    • Isolate and analyze significant issues in medieval history on examinations and in research papers.
    • Critically analyze primary and secondary sources in research papers.
    • Compare opposing interpretations and opinions, in class discussions and in research papers.
    • Organize and present ideas clearly in written research papers and oral class discussions.
    • Choose a medieval topic and develop a thesis-driven research paper based on primary sources.
    • Give examples of the relationship between the past and contemporary events and problems in discussion.
    • Conceptualize the rich diversity of human experience in other times and places.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    12/5/2002
  
  • HIST 380 - Modern East Asia


    Description:
    A survey of the modern histories of China, Japan, and Korea from 1600 to the present. Imperialism, nationalism, and the rise of communism are covered.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Understand the nature of history as a discipline, including the need to think chronologically and to understand different historical and cultural perspectives.
    • Analyze important trends in the history of China, Japan, and Korea since the start of the 17th century and explain the causes and effects of those trends.
    • Learn to perceive, create, and/or use criteria to assess the reasonableness, acceptability, or quality of historical sources and arguments.
    • Learn to write concise and coherent historical essays.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    12/5/2002
  
  • HIST 383 - East Asian Civilization


    Description:
    A general survey of the development of civilization in China, Japan, and Korea to about 1600.

    Credits: (5)

  
  • HIST 385 - Aztec, Inca, Maya: Empire and City in the New World


    Description:
    Introduces students to three key urban civilizations: the Mexica (Aztecs), Mayans, and Inca. the course focuses on political and social history as well as the “conquest” of those groups by the Spanish empire.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Explain the foundation and maintenance of city civilization among the Mexica (Aztecs), Inca, and Maya.
    • Explain key examples of the interaction between humans and the environmental landscape as well as the consequences of those actions.
    • Compare and contrast imperial strategies for conquest/ expansion and governance of the Mexica (Aztecs), Inca, and Maya.
    • Identify and explain foundational aspects of Mexica (Aztec), Inca, and Maya identity, including but not limited to music, architecture, science, literature, and religion.
    • Identify and explain the major events of the Spanish conquest of the Mexica (Aztec), Inca, and Maya civilizations.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    10/17/2013
  
  • HIST 386 - The Latin American Colonies


    Description:
    Analyzes the history of Latin America and the Caribbean from pre-Columbian times to the Wars of Independence.

    Credits: (5)

  
  • HIST 395 - Research in Local History


    Description:
    Comparative local history with emphasis on research techniques and the utilization of sources. May be repeated for credit.

    Credits: (1-6)

  
  • HIST 396 - Individual Study


    Description:
    May be repeated if subject is different.

    Credits: (1-6)

  
  • HIST 397 - Honors


    Prerequisites:
    Prerequisite: admission to department honors program.

    Credits: (1-12)

  
  • HIST 398 - Special Topics


    Credits: (1-6)

  
  • HIST 399 - Seminar


    Description:
    May be repeated if subject is different.

    Credits: (1-5)

  
  • HIST 402 - Reading in European History (Put on Reserve 9/16/16.)


    Description:
    Readings seminar on European history. May be repeated for up to 15 credits. (Put on Reserve 9/16/16. Last taught in 2013. Will go inactive 8/24/19.)

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Demonstrate knowledge that history is not simply the recitation of names and dates, but instead is a fluid subject where interpretations are constantly changing as a result of different methodologies and patterns of analysis.
    • Analyze and synthesize secondary sources in order to put forward a well-supported argument.
    • Identify differing explanations of historical change and the connections between cause and effect in the discipline of history.
    • Analyze significant issues, trends and developments in the practice of history.
    • Identify continuities and discontinuities between the various methodologies that have dominated the discipline.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    1/28/2010
  
  • HIST 403 - Readings in African, Asian, Middle Eastern, Latin American History (Put on reserve 9/16/17)


    Description:
    Readings seminar on African, Asian, Middle Eastern, or Latin American history. May be repeated for up to 15 credits. (Put on reserve 9/16/17. Will go inactive 8/24/2020.)

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Demonstrate knowledge that history is not simply the recitation of names and dates, but instead is a fluid subject where interpretations are constantly changing as a result of different methodologies and patterns of analysis.
    • Analyze and synthesize secondary sources in order to put forward a well-supported argument.
    • Identify differing explanations of historical change and the connections between cause and effect in the discipline of history.
    • Analyze significant issues, trends and developments in the practice of history.
    • Identify continuities and discontinuities between the various methodologies that have dominated the discipline.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    1/28/2010
  
  • HIST 421 - Methods and Materials in the Social Studies, Secondary


    Prerequisites:
    Prerequisite: admission to the Teacher Certification Program. EDCS 311 is a recommended prerequisite.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Apply knowledge of government, law, and politics to produce pedagogically effective curriculum and instruction.
    • Apply knowledge of economic concepts and systems to produce pedagogically effective curriculum and instruction.
    • Apply knowledge of how geographic features and human cultures shape and impact environments to produce pedagogically effective curriculum and instruction.
    • Apply knowledge of historical eras, turning points, major ideas, individuals, and themes of local, Washington state, tribal, United States, and world history to produce pedagogically effective curriculum and instruction.
    • Identify and explain the major issue and philosophies shaping history and socials studies education today.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    3/11/2009
  
  • HIST 422 - Roman and Medieval Britain


    Description:
    The British Isles from Roman times to the beginnings of the Tudor dynasty. Course will cover the rise of the English monarchy, the creation of parliament, and the colonization of the British Isles. HIST 422 and HIST 522 are layered courses; students may not receive credit for both.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Analyze significant issues, trends and developments in early British history.
    • Demonstrate knowledge that history is not simply the recitation of names and dates, but instead is a fluid subject where interpretations are constantly changing as a result of different methodologies and patterns of analysis.
    • Analyze and synthesize primary and secondary sources in order to put forward a well-supported argument of their own.
    • Make a clearly-written and clearly-presented argument, including a thesis and sufficient and well-used supporting detail.
    • Identify differing explanations of historical change and the connections between cause and effect in the discipline of history.
    • Analyze the relationship between different regions in the British isles.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    3/19/2015
  
  • HIST 423 - The Irish Revolution


    Description:
    History and historiography of the Irish revolution. Topics include the constitutional and revolutionary antecedents, the course of the revolution, and the foundation of the Irish Free State. HIST 423 and HIST 523 are layered courses; students may not receive credit for both.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Analyze significant issues, trends and developments in the history and historiography of the Irish Revolution.
    • Demonstrate knowledge that history is not imply the recitation of names and dates, but instead is a fluid subject where interpretations are constantly changing as a result of different methodologies and patterns of analysis.
    • Analyze and synthesize primary and secondary sources in order to put forward a well-supported argument of their own.
    • Make a clearly-written and clearly-presented argument, including a thesis and sufficient and well-used supporting detail.
    • Identify differing explanations of historical change and the connections between cause and effect in the discipline of history.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    2/15/2007
  
  • HIST 424 - Modern Ireland: 1798-present


    Description:
    The history of Ireland from the revolt of 1798 through the present. Focus will be on the varieties of Irish nationalism, the process of state-building, and the ongoing troubles in the north. HIST 424 and HIST 524 are layered courses; students may not receive credit for both.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    Analyze significant issues, trends and developments in Irish history, particularly those that revolve around the role of religion the shifting definitions of Irish identity, and the varieties of Irish nationalism.

    Demonstrate knowledge that history is not simply the recitation of names and dates, but is a fluid subject where interpretations are constantly changing as a result of different methods or patterns of analysis.

    Analyze and synthesize primary and secondary sources in order to put forward well-supported arguments.

    Make a clearly-written and clearly-presented argument, including a thesis and sufficient and well-used supporting evidence.

    Compare the ways in which artists and fiction writers use history and historical events with the ways in which historians use history and historical events.Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    2/16/2006

  
  • HIST 426 - France 1789-1945


    Description:
    French history through the lens of revolution. Discussions of the variety of French revolutions (1789, 1792, 1830, 1848, 1870) and concluding with the National Revolution of Vichy France. HIST 426 and HIST 526 are layered courses; students may not receive credit for both.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Analyze significant issues, trends and developments in French history.
    • Demonstrate knowledge that history is not simply the recitation of names and dates, but is a fluid subject where interpretations are constant) changing as a result of different methods or patterns of analysis.
    • Analyze and synthesize primary and secondary sources in order to put forward well-supported arguments.
    • Make a clearly-written and clearly-presented argument, including a thesis and sufficient and well-used supporting evidence.
    • Identify differing explanations of historical change and the connections between cause and effect in the discipline of history.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    11/17/2005
  
  • HIST 427 - Modern Britain and the Empire since 1763


    Description:
    History of Britain and the Empire since the Seven Years’ War. Topics include growth of empire, industrialization, political reform, world wars, decolonization, and post-war social changes. HIST 427 and HIST 527 are layered courses; students may not receive credit for both. Course will not have an established scheduling pattern.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Analyze significant issues, trends and developments in Modern British history.
    • Demonstrate knowledge that history is not simply the recitation of names and dates, but is a fluid subject where interpretations are constantly changing as a result of different methods or patterns of analysis.
    • Analyze and synthesize primary and secondary sources in order to put forward well-supported arguments.
    • Make a clearly-written and clearly-presented argument, including a thesis and sufficient and well-used supporting evidence.
    • Identify differing explanations of historical change and the connections between cause and effect in the discipline of history.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    4/18/2003
  
  • HIST 428 - Early Modern Britain 1485-1763


    Description:
    History of the Britain and the Empire during the Tudor-Stuart and early Hanoverian periods. Topics covered include the origins of the British Empire, the development of the British state, the Civil War and the Glorious Revolution. HIST 428 and HIST 528 are layered courses; students may not receive credit for both. Course will not have an established scheduling pattern.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Analyze significant issues, trends and developments in early modern British history.
    • Demonstrate knowledge that history is not simply the recitation of names and dates, but is a fluid subject where interpretations are constantly changing as a result of different methods or patterns of analysis.
    • Analyze and synthesize primary and secondary sources in order to put forward well-supported arguments.
    • Make a clearly-written and clearly-presented argument, including a thesis and sufficient and well-used supporting evidence.
    • Identify differing explanations of historical change and the connections between cause and effect in the discipline of history.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    1/17/2013
  
  • HIST 429 - Ireland and Empire


    Description:
    Study of the interactions between Ireland and various world empires. The major emphasis will be Irish interaction with the British Empire, but there will also be discussion of Ireland’s interaction with other global empires.  HIST 429 and HIST 529 are layered courses; students may not receive credit for both.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:\

    • Analyze significant issues, trends and developments in the study of Ireland’s relationship with various world empires and in the study of the role of empires and imperialism in Irish history
    • Demonstrate knowledge that history is not simply the recitation of names and dates, but instead is a fluid subject where interpretations are constantly changing as a result of different methodologies and patterns of analysis
    • Analyze and synthesize primary and secondary sources in order to put forward a well-supported argument of their own
    • Make a clearly-written and clearly-presented argument, including a thesis and sufficient and well-used supporting detail
    • Identify differing explanations of historical change and the connections between cause and effect in the discipline of history
    • Analyze the relationship between Ireland, the Irish people, and the British Empire
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    1/21/2016
  
  • HIST 434 - American Indian History to 1795


    Description:
    Discussion and lecture course on Native North American history from 1492 to the founding of the American Republic, and an introduction to the discipline and practice of ethnohistory, which combines traditional historical analysis with ethnographic concepts and research methodologies. HIST 434 and HIST 534 are layered courses, students may not receive credit for both.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Develop analytical thinking and writing skills.
    • Understand and appreciate cultural differences in American history, and the variety of Native American experiences.
    • Understand the dynamics of cultural interaction between Native and Europeans/Euro-Americans; and to grasp the myriad strategies for survival adopted by Native peoples in the face of the gradually encroaching Euro-American political hegemony.
    • Overcome stereotypes of Indians as impediments to “civilization” or “progress,” and learn to view Native Americans as active participants in American history rather than passive observers or victims while Europeans and Americans “made” history.
    • Comprehend basic principles of ethnohistorical approach and research: cultural change and/or continuity over time; syncretism; multiple causation with respect to historical events; and seeing culture as adaptive and responsive rather than static.
    • Map historiographic treatment of Native Americans and integrate American Indian history into the mainstream American historical narrative.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    1/17/2013
  
  • HIST 438 - American Indian History since 1795


    Description:
    Examines American Indian history since the Treaty of Greenville, wherein the U.S. recognized tribal sovereignty. Themes include resistance, assimilation, cultural revitalization, federal Indian policy, sovereignty, and reservation economics. HIST 438 and HIST 538 are layered courses; students may not receive credit for both.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Identify and explain key provisions in treaties between the U.S. and Indian peoples between 1795 and 1871, when the U.S. ceased to ·negotiate treaties with tribes.
    • Explain the effectiveness–and effects of–American Indian attempts to resist conquest and assimilation. Also explain how resistance has changed over time.
    • Explain the meaning of American Indian sovereignty and discuss its limitations. Discuss how the nature of sovereignty has changed between 1795 and the present.
    • Identify major changes in federal Indian policy since 1795 and explain how those changes affected Indian peoples.
    • Differentiate and explain the twentieth-century economic strategies of American Indian peoples, including wage labor, resource extraction, tourism, and gambling. Explain the impact of those strategies and assess their success.
    • Trace and explain historiographical trends in American Indian history.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    4/18/2013
  
  • HIST 440 - The American Revolution


    Description:
    Causes and consequences of the American Revolution, 1688-1789. HIST 440 and HIST 540 are layered  courses; students may receive credit for both.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Distinguish primary from secondary literature.
    • Develop and defend a thesis.
    • Differentiate short-term from long-term historical forces.
    • Interpret rather than memorize history.
    • Understand humans as both products and agents of history.
    • Understand how the past shapes the present.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    2/21/2002
  
  • HIST 442 - Jefferson, Jackson, and American Growth, 1800-1848


    Description:
    Election of Jefferson to ratification of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Examines growth of political parties; development of a “working” and a “middle” class; changing gender relations; Manifest Destiny; Indian Removal; expansion of slavery; and revolutions in transportation, communication, and markets. HIST 442 and 542 are layered courses; students may not receive credit for both.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Identify the causes and implications of revolutions in transportation (esp. railroads, steamboats, canals), communication (telegraph and steam presses), and market capitalism, and explain how state and federal planning either did or did not promote those revolutions.
    • Explain similarities of and differences between the first party system and the second party system.
    • Explain why slavery expanded and what political, economic, and social consequences ensued.
    • Explain why “Manifest Destiny” occurred and what political, economic, and social consequences ensued.
    • Differentiate the “working class” from the “middle class”, and explain how and why each developed in the nineteenth century.
    • Explain and provide a chronology on historiography (the history of historical interpretation) of either slavery, Manifest Destiny, class development, gender evolution, or the market revolution OR produce an analytical paper (based on primary resources).
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    1/17/2013
  
  • HIST 443 - The West in American History


    Description:
    Exploration, territorial acquisition, patterns of settlement, economic development, and the influence of the frontier on American institutions. HIST 443 and HIST 543 are layered courses; students may not receive credit for both.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Identify key events, persons, and places in the history of this area.
    • Isolate and analyze significant issues in the history of this area.
    • Critically analyze primary and secondary sources.
    • Compare opposing interpretations and opinions.
    • Organize and present ideas clearly, orally and in writing.
    • Revise written work effectively.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    5/3/2012
  
  • HIST 444 - Sectionalism, Civil War, and Reconstruction


    Description:

    Slavery, the Old South, sectionalism, the breakdown of the Union, and secession. A military, political, and social history of North and South during the Civil War, and the aftermath of the war. HIST 444 and HIST 544 are layered courses; students may not receive credit for both.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Identify key events, persons, and places in the history of this area.
    • Isolate and analyze significant issues in the history of this area.
    • Critically analyze primary and secondary sources.
    • Compare opposing interpretations and opinions.
    • Organize and present ideas clearly, orally and in writing.
    • Revise written work effectively.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    5/3/2012
  
  • HIST 445 - Introduction to Public History


    Description:
    This course examines the venues through which the general public learns American history, with visits and analysis of exhibits and their interpretation.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Demonstrate researching and writing skills including effective organization, grammar, and style.
    • Critique interpretations of history in museums and other historical sites.
    • Compare scholarly analyses of specific historical events with views conveyed at regional public history sites such as museums, cemeteries, historic houses, battlefields and forts.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    12/29/2010
  
  • HIST 450 - Exploring U.S. Cultural History


    Description:

    Thematic approach to 19th century cultural transformations in U.S. Selected topics; mesmerism, utopias, true womanhood, women’s rights, slave spirituals, confidence men, and gold rushes. HIST 450 and HIST 550 are layered courses; students may not receive credit for both.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Comprehend the relationship between political, social, and cultural history.
    • Comprehend discourse as a force that shapes history.
    • Comprehend the difference between power and discourse.
    • Comprehend the variety of cultural forms and experiences that shape history.
    • Identify the relationship between historical fact and historical interpretation.
    • Analyze cause and effect relationships.
    • Present original historical analysis orally and in writing.
    • Plan and write a research paper.
    • Locate finding aids, primary sources, and secondary literature in the library.
    • Learn correct citation formats.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    1/17/2002
  
  • HIST 451 - 20th Century U.S.: 1896-1919 (Put on reserve 9/16/17)


    Description:
    Imperialism, progressivism, and World War I. HIST 451 and HIST 551 are layered courses; students may not receive credit for both. (Put on reserve 9/16/17. Will go inactive 8/24/2020.)

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Identify key events, persons, and places in the history of this area.
    • Isolate and analyze significant issues in the history of this area.
    • Critically analyze primary and secondary sources.
    • Compare opposing interpretations and opinions.
    • Organize and present ideas clearly, orally and in writing.
    • Revise written work effectively.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    5/3/2012
  
  • HIST 452 - 20th Century U.S.: 1919-1945


    Description:
    Prosperity and depression; the New Deal and its implications; World War II, origins and conclusion. HIST 452 and HIST 552 are layered courses; students may not receive credit for both.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Identify key events, persons, and places in the history of this area.
    • Isolate and analyze significant issues in the history of this area.
    • Critically analyze primary and secondary sources.
    • Compare opposing interpretations and opinions.
    • Organize and present ideas clearly, orally and in writing.
    • Revise written work effectively.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    5/3/2012
  
  • HIST 453 - 20th Century U.S.: 1945 to the Present (Put on reserve 9/16/17)


    Description:
    Cold War, sedentary 50s, rebellious 60s, the Watergate era. HIST 453 and HIST 553 are layered courses; students may not receive credit for both. (Put on reserve 9/16/17. Will go inactive 8/24/2020.)

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Identify key events, persons, and places in the history of this area.
    • Isolate and analyze significant issues in the history of this area.
    • Critically analyze primary and secondary sources.
    • Compare opposing interpretations and opinions.
    • Organize and present ideas clearly, orally and in writing.
    • Revise written work effectively.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    5/3/2012
  
  • HIST 454 - American Environmental History


    Description:
    Environmental values and practices of the diverse populations of America. HIST 454 and HIST 554 are layered courses; students may not receive credit for both.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Reconstruct the historic meaning of events by identifying who was involved, what happened, where it happened, what events led to these developments, and what consequences followed.
    • Reconstruct patterns of historical continuity and change.
    • Analyze cause and effect relationships bearing in mind multiple causation.
    • Differentiate between historical facts and historical interpretations, but acknowledge that the two are related.
    • Perform research in primary and secondary sources.
    • Identify the central questions and perspectives in primary documents.
    • Bring sound and relevant historical analysis to the service of informed decision making on current environmental issues.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    2/21/2002
  
  • HIST 455 - The 1950s: An American Cultural History


    Description:
    Survey of cultural and social trends found in the United States between 1945 and 1960; suburban and commercial development, the economic prosperity, changing gender roles, race, development of television, new musical genres and teenage culture. Course will not have an established scheduling pattern.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Define the cultural changes of the 1945-1960 era
    • Recognize and reconstruct the chronology of and significance of important events and people in U.S. cultural history between 1945 and 1960.
    • Interpret historical documents in the perspective of their time and place.
    • Identify how the cultural change is dependent on space, new technology and ideology.
    • Recognize patterns of change and understand  how fact selection influences interpretations of events
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    4/19/18
  
  • HIST 456 - The 1960s: An American Cultural History The 1960s: An American Cultural History


    Description:
    Survey of United States cultural and social trends between 1960 and 1975; environmental movements, civil rights, economy, gender and race, radical politics, new musical genres and teenagers. Course will not have an established scheduling pattern.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Critique the cultural changes of the 1960-1975 era
    • Appraise the chronology of and significance of important events and people in U.S. cultural history between 1960 and 1975.
    • Interpret and compare historical documents in the perspective of their time and place.
    • Determine how the cultural changes are dependent on space, new technology and ideology.
    • Assess patterns of change and recognize  how fact selection influences interpretations of events
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    10/4/18
  
  • HIST 460 - Religion in Latin America


    Description:
    Analyzes the relationship between individuals, religious movements, and the state from the pre-Columbian era to the present. HIST 460 and HIST 560 are layered courses; students may not receive credit for both.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Understand relationships between individuals, the state, and religion in Latin America.
    • Develop and defend a thesis statement (an historical assertion argued with facts and logic).
    • Understand continuity and change over time.
    • Understand basic ideas, beliefs, and concepts of various religious groups in Latin America.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    1/17/2013
  
  • HIST 461 - History of Health and Healing in Africa


    Description:
    This course explores different African societies’ approaches to the ideas of personal and social health, healing, and medicine, and how these have changed over time. HIST 461 and HIST 561 are layered courses; students may not receive credit for both.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Define different categories of health and healing and connect these to distinct political, social, and medical practices
    • Analyze primary and secondary sources about the past, linking them to the individuals/schools of thought that produced them and their implications for our understanding of the past
    • Explain connections between different approaches to health and healing in both oral and written form
    • Identify why and how historical modes of evaluating health and healing have changed over time
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    3/3/2016
  
  • HIST 462 - History of American Foreign Relations: 1900-1941


    Description:
    From the Spanish-American War to Pearl Harbor. HIST 462 and HIST 562 are layered courses; students may not receive credit for both.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Identify key events, persons, and places in the history of this area.
    • Isolate and analyze significant issues in the history of this area.
    • Critically analyze primary and secondary sources.
    • Compare opposing interpretations and opinions.
    • Organize and present ideas clearly, orally and in writing.
    • Revise written work effectively.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    5/3/2012
  
  • HIST 463 - History of American Foreign Relations Since 1941 (Put on reserve 9/16/17)


    Description:
    From Pearl Harbor to the present. HIST 463 and HIST 563 are layered course; students may not receive credit for both. (Put on reserve 9/16/17. Will go inactive 8/24/2020.)

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Identify key events, persons, and places in the history of this area.
    • Isolate and analyze significant issues in the history of this area.
    • Critically analyze primary and secondary sources.
    • Compare opposing interpretations and opinions.
    • Organize and present ideas clearly, orally and in writing.
    • Revise written work effectively.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    5/3/2012
  
  • HIST 464 - Latin American Revolutions (Put on Reserve 9/16/16.)


    Description:
    Analyzes revolutions and peasant revolts in Latin America and the Caribbean from 1750 to the present. HIST 464 and HIST 564 are layered courses, students may not receive credit for both. (Put on Reserve 9/16/16. Last taught in 2013. Will go inactive 8/24/19.)

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Demonstrate a knowledge of underlying theoretical reasons for peasant revolt.
    • Develop and defend a thesis statement (an historical assertion argued with facts and logic).
    • Understand continuity and change over time.
    • Demonstrate an understanding of major themes in both the causes and effects of revolution and revolt.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    2/2/2012
  
  • HIST 465 - History of the People’s Republic of China (Put on Reserve 9/16/16.)


    Description:
    Evaluates the historical record of the Chinese Communists in power since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. HIST 465 and HIST 565 are layered courses; students may not receive credit for both.  (Put on Reserve 9/16/16. Last taught in 2013. Will go inactive 8/24/19.)

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Understand the nature of history as a discipline, including the need to think chronologically and to understand different historical and cultural perspectives.
    • Analyze important trends in P.R.C. history and explain the causes and effects of those events.
    • Learn to perceive, create, and/or use criteria to assess the reasonableness, acceptability, or quality of historical sources and arguments.
    • Learn to write concise and coherent historical essays.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    1/20/2000
  
  • HIST 468 - Modern Japanese History: Tradition and Change


    Description:
    This course explores Japanese history and culture from 1600 to contemporary times.  Utilizing lectures, discussions, readings and projects, the focus will be on the modernization process with its concomitant political, social, economic, and intellectual changes. HIST 468 and HIST 568 are layered courses; students may not receive credit for both. Course will be offered on odd numbered years (Winter).

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Articulate how Japanese history was shaped by geography, events, cultural, social, and religious changes.
    • Identify and analyze key historical events, people and trends, in the primary military events, including the internal wars and the development of the Shogunate, the Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, and World War II fought by Japan.
    • Describe issues of international encounters including adaptation to foreign encounters, reform, and aggressive colonialism to other Asians. Post-WWII development of new adaptations and political trends will be explored.
    • Demonstrate critical and creative thinking and organizational skills in writing projects, and cognitively mapped preparations for small group discussions.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    10/4/18
  
  • HIST 473 - Russia to 1881


    Description:
    The political, social, economic, and cultural development of Russia from ancient times to the assassination of Alexander II. HIST 473 and HIST 573 are layered courses; students may not receive credit for both.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Identify key events, persons, and places in the history of this area.
    • Isolate and analyze significant issues in the history of this area,
    • Critically analyze primary and secondary sources.
    • Compare opposing interpretations and opinions.
    • Organize and present ideas clearly, orally and in writing.
    • Revise written work effectively.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    5/3/2012
  
  • HIST 474 - Russia Since 1881


    Description:
    The political, economic, social and cultural history of Russia and the Soviet Union since 1881. HIST 474 and HIST 574 are layered courses; students may not receive credit for both.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Identify key events, persons, and places in the history of this area.
    • Isolate and analyze significant issues in the history of this area.
    • Critically analyze primary and secondary sources.
    • Compare opposing interpretations and opinions.
    • Organize and present ideas clearly, orally and in writing.
    • Revise written work effectively.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    5/3/2012
  
  • HIST 476 - History of Modern East Europe (Put on Reserve 9/16/16.)


    Description:
    Poland, Czech, Slovak Republics, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, Albania, with special attention to multi-ethnicity, economic underdevelopment and modernization, political dependence, and nationalism. HIST 476 and HIST 576 are layered courses; students may not receive credit for both.  (Put on Reserve 9/16/16. Last taught in 2013. Will go inactive 8/24/19.)

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Identify key political and physical features of East European geography on map quizzes.
    • Identify and describe the historical significance of key terms in East European history on exams.
    • Reconstruct patterns of historical continuity and change in East Europe in papers, presentations, and exams.
    • Prepare and present historical analysis orally (presentations, discussions) and in writing (papers and exams).
    • Plan and write a seminar-length research paper based on a literary source, other primary evidence (HIST576) and secondary evidence.
    • Identify the relationship between historical fact and historical interpretations, on exams and papers.
    • Analyze cause and effect relationships, bearing in mind multiple causation, on exams and papers.
    • Bring sound and relevant historical analysis to the service of informed decision making, in discussion.
    • Research, organize, and present a research-in-progress lecture (HIST 576).
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    3/5/2007
  
  • HIST 478 - Russian Far East


    Description:
    Russian Far East history from 16th century Cossack exploration to 21st century democracy. Topics include the imperial “urge to the sea,” the Trans-Siberian Railway, the Soviet gulag system, and Pacific Rim relations. HIST 478 and HIST 578 are cross-listed courses; student may not receive credit for both. Department reactivated for Fall 2016.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Identify key events, persons, and places in Russian Asian history.
    • Isolate and analyze significant issues in Russian Asian history.
    • Critically analyze primary and secondary sources.
    • Compare opposing interpretations and opinions.
    • Organize and present ideas clearly.
    • Give examples of the relationship between the past and contemporary events and problems.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    10/15/2015
  
  • HIST 481 - Senior Thesis


    Description:
    Analysis of the nature of history, of the way historians reason, and of the search for meaning in history. Students must earn a minimum grade of C as a major requirement. Course will be offered every year (Fall, Winter, Spring).

    Prerequisites:
    Prerequisites: HIST 302 with a grade of C or higher and senior standing.

    Credits: (4)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Locate finding aids, primary, secondary, and tertiary materials in the library, archives, and online
    • Analyze and draw reasoned conclusions from primary and secondary sources
    • Isolate and compare the central question(s) and perspective(s) of different kinds of historical narrative
    • Reconstruct patterns of historical continuity and change in the historical period of study
    • Analyze cause and effect relationships, bearing in mind multiple causation
    • Identify the relationship between historical fact and historical interpretations, and situate analysis within a larger historiography
    • Plan and write a substantial research paper on a topic of your choice, based on preparatory steps
    • Present coherent, persuasive, and original historical analysis orally and in writing
    • Demonstrate proper use of formal source citation and avoid plagiarism
    • Share ideas and critique historical works as part of a collegial community of scholars
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    11/16/17
  
  • HIST 483 - Modern China


    Description:
    The history of China in the 19th and 20th centuries, including the nature of China’s response to the West and the Chinese Revolution of the 20th century. Emphasis on internal social and economic change. HIST 483 and HIST 583 are layered courses; students may not receive credit for both.

    Credits: (5)

  
  • HIST 488 - Mexico in the Modern Era


    Description:
    Analyzes the modern history of Mexico, from independence to the present day. HIST 488 and HIST 588 are layered courses; students may not receive credit for both.

    Credits: (5)

  
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    HIST 490 - Cooperative Education


    Description:
    An individualized, contracted field experience with business, industry, government, or social service agencies. This contractual arrangement involves a student-learning plan, cooperating employer supervision, and faculty coordination. HIST 490 and HIST 590 are layered courses; students may not receive credit for both. Department consent. May be repeated for credit. Grade will either be S or U.

    Credits: (1-8)

  
  
  • HIST 497 - Honors Individual Study


    Description:
    Open to students accepted into the departmental honors program. This course may be repeated once, but no more than an over-all total of 6 credits per quarter is permitted.

    Credits: (1-6)

  
  • HIST 498 - Special Topics


    Credits: (1-6)

  
  • HIST 499 - Seminar


    Description:
    May be repeated if subject is different.

    Credits: (1-5)


Human Resource Management (HRM)

  
  • HRM 298 - Special Topics


    Description:
    May be repeated if subject is different.

    Credits: (1-6)

  
  • HRM 299 - Seminar


    Description:
    May be repeated if subject is different.

    Credits: (1-5)

  
  • HRM 381 - Management of Human Resources


    Description:
    Selection of personnel, methods of training and retraining workers, wage policy, utilization of human resources, job training, administration of labor contracts, and public relations. Course will be offered every year (Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer).

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Define the role and evolution of human resource management within organizations and how individuals have interfaced with roles, jobs, organized labor and organizations over time. 
    • Identify and explain theories psychological, sociology and social psychology underlying human capital selection, placement and management at both micro and macro levels. 
    • Demonstrate understanding of major employment laws and corresponding qualitative and quantitative analysis related to employee staffing, discrimination and compensation. 
    • Discuss the role of optimal and destructive implicit and explicit human behavior in major human resource functions including performance management, training and development and equal employment opportunity. 
    • Describe the role and value of cultural, gender, economic, knowledge and aptitude diversity within an organization.
    • Define the influence and role of work, compensation and individual career management on individual and community well-being.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    11/2/17
  
  • HRM 396 - Individual Study


    Description:
    May be repeated if subject is different.

    Credits: (1-6)

  
  • HRM 397 - Honors


    Prerequisites:
    Prerequisite: admission to department honors program.

    Credits: (1-12)

  
  • HRM 398 - Special Topics


    Description:
    May be repeated if subject is different.

    Credits: (1-6)

  
  • HRM 399 - Seminar


    Description:
    May be repeated if subject is different.

    Credits: (1-5)

  
  • HRM 442 - Training and Development


    Description:
    Application of training and development concepts and techniques used in assessing training requirements, planning and budgeting training programs, developing and facilitating training, and evaluating results.

    Prerequisites:
    Prerequisites: HRM 381 and admission to a College of Business major AND completion of the College of Business Foundation courses (ACCT 251 and ACCT 252 and BUS 221 and BUS 241 and MATH 153 or MATH 154 or MATH 170 or MATH 172 or MATH 173 and ECON 201) with a minimum C- grade in each course and a minimum collegiate GPA of 2.25 OR (HRM 381 and declaration of a Human Resource Management minor).

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Identify training needs and propose a training program to address them.
    • Demonstrate understanding of the training process, including needs analysis, training design, implementation of training, and evaluation of training.
    • Apply concepts from the class to current examples found in the news.
    • Demonstrate the ability to utilize a wide variety of training methods.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    2/5/2015
  
  • HRM 445 - Organizational Staffing


    Description:
    Applied and conceptual analysis of strategic personnel planning, recruiting, selecting, negotiating, socializing, career developing, retaining, and transitioning.

    Prerequisites:
    Prerequisites: HRM 381 and admission to a College of Business major AND completion of the College of Business Foundation courses (ACCT 251 and ACCT 252 and BUS 221 and BUS 241 and MATH 153 or MATH 154 or MATH 170 or MATH 172 or MATH 173 and ECON 201) with a minimum C- grade in each course and a minimum collegiate GPA of 2.25; OR (HRM 381 and declaration of a Human Resource Management minor).

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Enumerate the staffing process and steps.
    • Recognize the foundational importance of job analysis and understand how this is conducted.
    • Demonstrate the different selection philosophies that can be applied to workforce staffing.
    • Apply statistical techniques to the selection decision-making process.
    • Demonstrate understanding of staffing theory and concepts.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    2/5/2015
  
  • HRM 479 - Employee Relations


    Description:
    Statutory and case law governing labor relations. Contracts and negotiations. Impasse procedures. Arbitration cases and grievance procedures. Contemporary issues and cases.

    Prerequisites:
    Prerequisites: HRM 381 and admission to a College of Business major AND completion of the College of Business Foundation courses (ACCT 251 and ACCT 252 and BUS 221 and BUS 241 and MATH 153 or MATH 154 or MATH 170 or MATH 172 or MATH 173 and ECON 201) with a minimum C- grade in each course and a minimum collegiate GPA of 2.25; OR (HRM 381 and declaration of a Human Resource Management minor).

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Understand and participate in negotiations.
    • Create and provide accurate feedback to employees.
    • Understand the process of unionization and how management and unions interact.
    • Engage effective dispute resolution.
    • Develop employee involvement and retention programs.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    2/5/2015
  
  • HRM 486 - Problems in Human Resource Management


    Description:
    Analysis and research on selected topics involving contemporary issues in personnel management. This is the capstone course for the HRM specialization. Course will be offered every year (Fall, Winter, Spring).

    Prerequisites:
    Prerequisites: HRM 381 AND two (2) approved elective courses from the Human Resource Management specialization AND admission to a College of Business major AND completion of the College of Business Foundation courses (ACCT 251 and ACCT 252 and BUS 221 and BUS 241 and MATH 153 or MATH 154 or MATH 170 or MATH 172 or MATH 173 and ECON 201) with a minimum C- grade in each course and a minimum collegiate GPA of 2.25.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Understand and apply human resource management strategy to professional scenarios.
    • Demonstrate mastery knowledge on one topic of human resource management.
    • Demonstrate working professional knowledge of all professional HR concepts as tested by the society for human resource management.
    • Demonstrate ability to develop professional relationships within the regional human resource management community.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    4/5/18
  
  • HRM 488 - Compensation Policy and Administration


    Description:
    Employee compensation policy and administration is studied on a broad perspective encompassing direct financial payments, employer benefits, and non-financial rewards.

    Prerequisites:
    Prerequisites: HRM 381 AND admission to a college of business major AND completion of the college of business foundation courses (ACCT 251 and ACCT 252 and BUS 221 and BUS 241 and MATH 153 or MATH 154 or MATH 170 or MATH 172 or MATH 173 and ECON 201) with a minimum grade of C- in each course and a minimum collegiate GPA of 2.25.

    Credits: (5)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Understand the integration of compensation and employee motivation principles in both the public and private sector.
    • Demonstrate correct use of compensation principle vocabulary in discourse with peers.
    • Identify employment law issues with organizational compensation practices and provide sound solutions to said issues.
    • Explain how revisions and adjustments to compensation systems within organizations affect multiple domains of human resource management.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    2/5/2015
  
  • HRM 490 - Human Resources Management Internship


    Description:
    An individualized, contracted field experience with business, industry, government, or social service agencies focusing on human resources management related activities. This contractual arrangement involves a student learning plan, cooperating employer supervision, and faculty coordination. By department permission. May be repeated up to 20 credits. Grade will either be S or U. Course will not have an established scheduling pattern.

    Prerequisites:
    Prerequisite: 2.8 or higher CWU cumulative gpa.

    Credits: (1-12)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Apply learning in professional workplace environment
    • Demonstrate professional behavior in the workplace
    • Substantive discipline-based outcomes developed by individual students in consult with faculty advisor
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    11/2/17
  
  • HRM 493 - Human Resources Management Boot Camp


    Description:
    Supervised field experience seminar focused on human resources management related organizations and processes. On-location industry engagement. Education, training, and business skills application in industry setting. Grade will either be S or U. Permission of instructor. May be repeated up to 6 credits. Course will not have an established scheduling pattern.

    Credits: (1-6)

    Learner Outcomes:
    Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

    • Prepare a research brief on each organization participating in the boot camp
    • Exhibit professional behavior and appropriate business skills in industry setting.
    • Establish a professional network within the industry professionals
    • Illustrate an awareness of the organization(s) participating in the boot camp.
    Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
    2/1/18
  
  • HRM 496 - Individual Study


    Description:
    May be repeated if subject is different.

    Credits: (1-6)

 

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