Course Descriptions

HPE 398 - Special Topics

HPE 399 - Seminar

HPE 443 - Sex, Drugs and Going Pro: Issues in Professional Sports

• Research and define contemporary issues in professional sports.
• Identify historical issues that led to, or may have led to, contemporary problems in professional sports.
• Synthesize the historical and contemporary data about problems in professional sports and relate it to modern problems in interscholastic and intercollegiate sports.
• Identify specific professional sport programs or policies that lead to problems and scandals.
• Identify and recognize professional governing organizations and their programs for dealing with negative sports and personnel issues. Explore marketing trends to boost positive images.
• Forecast future trends for professional sports that will be positive and negative for athletes who are “going pro” in the years to come.

HPE 444 - The Promise and Pitfalls in Interscholastic Athletic Programs

• Define the general promises and pitfalls of interscholastic athletics.
• Identify contemporary issues in interscholastic athletics at the local level.
• Identify contemporary issues in interscholastic athletics at the state level.
• Identify contemporary issues in interscholastic athletics at the national level.
• Recognize local, state, and national organizations’ attempts at corrective actions for contemporary interscholastic athletic pitfalls.
• Define, explore, and forecast the most critical issues in Interscholastic athletics and appraise contemporary solutions on a case-by-case focus.

HPE 445 - The Good, Bad and Ugly of Intercollegiate Sports

• Research and define the current positive aspects of intercollegiate athletics.
• Research and define the current negative aspects of intercollegiate athletics.
• Demonstrate knowledge of general positive and negative aspects of intercollegiate athletics as looked at through local, state, and national purview.
• Identify specific cases of positive and negative issues with intercollegiate athletics at the local level.
• Identify specific policy in intercollegiate athletics at the state and national levels that will maintain positive trends.
• Consider local, state, and nation trends with intercollegiate athletics and forecast how to head-off, or plan for, future negative impacts they will have on intercollegiate athletics.

HPE 496 - Individual Study

HPE 497 - Honors

HPE 498 - Special Topics

HPE 499 - Seminar

HIST 101 - World History to 1500

• 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

HIST 102 - World History: 1500-1815

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.

HIST 103 - World History Since 1815

• 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

HIST 143 - United States History to 1865

• 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.

HIST 144 - United States History Since 1865

• 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.

HIST 298 - Special Topics

HIST 299 - Seminar

HIST 301 - Pacific Northwest History

• 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.

HIST 302 - Historical Methods

• 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

HIST 309 - American History through Film (Put on reserve 9/16/18)

• 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.

HIST 313 - History of Rome 500 B.C. to 500 A. D.

HIST 314 - Military History of the United States

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

• 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.

HIST 320 - Narcotics in World History

• 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.

HIST 321 - Latin America Through Film, Art, and Music

• 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.

HIST 322 - World Prehistory

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)

Anticipated Course Offering Terms and Locations:

HIST 323 - Food and Drink in Global History

• 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.

HIST 325 - Renaissance and Reformation

• 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.

HIST 328 - Modern Latin America

• Identify the key events of modern Latin American history, and analyze their principal causes and consequences.
• Recognize the historians’ craft of empathy and analyze primary documents from this perspective.
• Analyze primary and secondary materials from and about Latin America to support and synthesize an evaluation of historical evidence.
• Organize, present, and communicate your own opinions in a thoughtful, coherent fashion.

HIST 329 - The Tropics and the Modern World

• 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.

HIST 330 - Africa to 1800

• 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.

HIST 331 - Colonial Africa

• 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.

HIST 332 - History of the Black Diaspora

• 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.

HIST 333 - Visual Cultures of Africa

• 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.

HIST 334 - History of Gender and Sexuality in Africa from Pre-colonial Times to the Present

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.

HIST 339 - Colonial British America

• 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.

HIST 341 - The Constitution and the New Republic, 1783-1800

• 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’.

HIST 344 - American Manhood in Historical Perspective (Put on reserve 9/16/19)

• 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.

HIST 346 - Women in American History (Put on reserve 9/16/19)

• 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.

HIST 370 - Medieval European History

• 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.

HIST 375 - The European Enlightenment 1688-1815

• Analyze significant issues, trends and developments in early modern European 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.

HIST 380 - Modern East Asia

• 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 17^th 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.

HIST 381 - Life Hacks for Transfer Student Success

• Identify common transfer issues and propose strategies for success at CWU.
• Generate connections with faculty and peers in the discipline.
• Plan an efficient pathway to graduation.
• Identify CWU and community resources available for different types of support.
• Demonstrate knowledge and use of discipline specific practices using CWU academic resources.
• Design an individualized plan for engagement in the discipline

HIST 383 - East Asian Civilization

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

• 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.

HIST 386 - The Latin American Colonies

HIST 395 - Research in Local History

HIST 396 - Individual Study

HIST 397 - Honors

HIST 398 - Special Topics

HIST 399 - Seminar

HIST 421 - Methods and Materials in the Social Studies, Secondary

• 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.

HIST 422 - Roman and Medieval Britain

• 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.

HIST 423 - The Irish Revolution

• 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.

HIST 424 - Modern Ireland: 1798-present

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

Anticipated Course Offering Terms and Locations:

HIST 426 - France 1789-1945

• 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.

HIST 427 - Modern Britain and the Empire since 1763

• 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.

HIST 428 - Early Modern Britain 1485-1763

• 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.

HIST 429 - Ireland and Empire

• 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

HIST 432 - The Era of World War I

• Critique the cultural changes of the 1900-1930 era in Europe;
• Appraise the chronology of and significance of important events and people in European cultural history between 1900 and 1930;
• 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.

HIST 434 - American Indian History to 1795 (Put on reserve 9/16/19)

• 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.

HIST 438 - American Indian History since 1795

• 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.

HIST 440 - The American Revolution

• 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.

HIST 442 - Jefferson, Jackson, and American Growth, 1800-1848

• 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).

HIST 443 - The West in American History

• 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.

HIST 444 - Sectionalism, Civil War, and Reconstruction

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.

HIST 445 - Introduction to Public History (Put on Reserve 9/1/2020)

• 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.

HIST 450 - Exploring U.S. Cultural History

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.

HIST 452 - 20th Century U.S.: 1919-1945

• 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.

HIST 454 - American Environmental History (Put on reserve 9/16/19)

• 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.

HIST 455 - The 1950s: An American Cultural History

• 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

HIST 456 - The 1960s: An American Cultural History

• 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

HIST 457 - Rock and Roll as Art and History

• Recognize the historical and cultural significance of rock and roll and be able to explain why Rock and Roll developed and how it has been transformed in recent times.  A particular focus is to discuss the intertwining of music, meaning and generational issues over the last five decades of the 20^th century.
• Develop oral and written skills to synthesize and communicate the relationship between historical causality and developments in popular culture.
• To reflect on the music in non-cognitive ways that allows for ways of knowing that include empathic and aesthetic responsiveness.

HIST 460 - Religion in Latin America

• 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.

HIST 461 - History of Health and Healing in Africa (Put on Reserve 9/1/2020)

• 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

HIST 462 - History of American Foreign Relations: 1900-1941

• 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.

HIST 468 - Modern Japanese History: Tradition and Change

• 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.

HIST 469 - History of Russian and Soviet Women

• Correctly identify and describe the significance of key events, persons, and places in Russian women’s history
• Isolate and analyze significant issues in Russian women’s history
• Critically analyze primary and secondary sources
• Organize and present ideas clearly, orally and in writing
• Give examples of the relationship between the past and contemporary events and problems
• Compose thesis-driven research papers using primary and secondary sources
• Plan and lead an in-class discussion on assigned source material
• Formally compare opposing historical arguments and opinions (HIST 569)
• Plan, prepare, and deliver a 20-minute lecture on a significant theme in Russian women’s history (HIST 569)
• Compose an original thesis-driven research paper using multiple primary and secondary sources (HIST 569)

HIST 472 - German History since 1815

• 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.
• Compare opposing interpretations and opinions about this area.
• Research, organize, and present an academic lecture on the history of this area.
• Compare opposing primary documents on the history of this area.

HIST 473 - Russia to 1881

• 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.

HIST 474 - Russia Since 1881

• 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.

HIST 476 - History of Modern East Europe

• 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).

HIST 477 - Vietnam: Revolution in Full Circle

• Articulate how Vietnamese history was shaped by geography, events, cultural, social, and religious changes.
• Identify and analyze key historical events, people and trends in the primary military invasions of Vietnam.
• Synthesize course materials to recognize the nature of Vietnamese identity from antiquity to the current society.
• Describe issues of revolution, social justice, and colonialism.
• Apply critical thinking and organizational skills in writing projects, and cognitively mapped preparations for small group discussions.

HIST 478 - Russian Far East

• 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.

HIST 481 - Senior Thesis

• 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

HIST 483 - Modern China

HIST 485 - Trauma, History, and Memory in East Asia

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

• Critically analyze ideas and arguments concerning traumatic histories in Modern East Asia
• Analyze and synthesize various types of primary sources (oral history materials, contemporary official reports, fictional writings, and newspapers) and secondary sources (journal articles, monographs, and films) 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.
• Demonstrate knowledge that there has been complex relationship between national histories and collective memoires in modern East Asian societies.
• Demonstrate research and communication skills. 

HIST 488 - Mexico in the Modern Era

HIST 490 - Cooperative Education

HIST 496 - Individual Study

HIST 497 - Honors Individual Study

HIST 498 - Special Topics

HIST 499 - Seminar

HTE 201 - Introduction to Hospitality, Tourism, and Event Management

• Recognize the scope of the hospitality, travel, tourism and events industry.
• Apply professional practices of the profession.
• Explain historical, scientific, and philosophical foundations of hospitality, tourism and events.
• Describe the various sectors of hospitality, tourism and events and their interactions.

HTE 202 - Food and Beverage Operations

• Comprehend the history, present state, and predictions for the future of types of foodservice including those available to them as career pathways.
• Recognize the levels of supply chain management in food and beverage operations.
• Formulate a preventive maintenance plan for cleaning and maintaining primary facilities and equipment.
• Demonstrate an ability to set spaces professionally using various mis-en-place strategies depending on the type of food and beverage facility and the occasion.
• Identify best practices in managing front-of-house and back-of-house food and beverage operations.

HTE 230 - Program and Event Budgeting

• Define budget terminology
• Describe Revenue and Expenditure Formats.
• Prepare and present a basic program/event budget.

HTE 272 - Lodging Operations I

• Explain the organization of the lodging industry and foundations of lodging operations.
• Identify the ownership and management of lodging properties including Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT), management companies, brands, and independent ownership.
• Explain the Global Distribution System (ODS) including Social Media and Online Travel Agents used in the lodging industry.
• Describe the operation of the Property Management System including the interaction of the reservations, registration and in house accounting systems.
• Describe the processes involved in the foundations of lodging accounting (forecasting, revenue management, approving credit, posting to accounts and night audit).

HTE 273 - Airline Operations

• Demonstrate knowledge of airline procedures for passenger check-in at ticket counters and boarding gates, acceptance of luggage & tracing of mishandled baggage.
• Explain flight check-in procedures, ground operations procedures, and how airports manage the flight process using correct industry terminology.
• Explain the activities of airports from airside operations and landside to terminal operations.
• Identify historical attributes of the airline industry.

HTE 292 - Practicum

HTE 296 - Individual Study

HTE 298 - Special Topics