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  • 3.00 Credits

    Study of selected topics in history. Students may take the course for credit an unlimited number of times provided they are different topics.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Study of selected topics in history. Students may take the course for credit an unlimited number of times provided they are different topics.
  • 3.00 Credits

    The seminar will provide a general introduction to the nature and methods of history. Students will develop and improve their skills in historical research, communication, and methodology. The course is required of all B.A. history majors in their Junior year.
  • 1.00 - 3.00 Credits

    Independent Study affords any qualified student the opportunity to pursue a subject in history that either is not treated in sufficient depth to satisfy the student's academic interest or is not addressed in existing history courses. After securing approvals at the department and college levels for a program of study, the student works under the direction of a faculty member who will assign the grade. A student may take six semester hours of Independent Study but only three hours for three credits per semester. This course is restricted to students who have completed at least 24 credits.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Through reading, research, writing and discussion, students will systematically examine significant topics in the history of historical writing, the methodologies employed by historians in their craft and the nature of history as a field of study. They will focus attention, primarily, on various schools of thought and interpretation concerning specific historical problems. This course is a requirement for all Liberal Arts students majoring in History.
  • 3.00 - 15.00 Credits

    Internships are designed to give the student a supervised, work-study experience in the functions and day-to-day operations of public or private historical agencies, archives, museums, sites, or businesses. Internships are open to qualified students who have completed 24 credits and are majoring in history or other related fields. The number of semester hours will vary according to the program needs of the student and the requirements of the employing agency, from a minimum of 3 c.h. to a maximum of 15. Approval for an internship requires the completion of a History Department Internship Proposal form for review and approval by the department.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Honors Independent Study/Thesis.
  • 1.00 - 3.00 Credits

    Supplementary research conducted by an Honors student in an upper-division (or 300 or 400-level) course in which the student is enrolled. The research is related to a topic in the course, but in addition to the standard requirements of the course, the research should exhibit advanced inquiry or investigation into the topic. The Honors student earns 1, 2, or 3 credits in addition to the credits for the course itself. The number of additional credits depends on the amount and intensity of the supplementary research. Each department in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences has a specific course number which uses the departmental prefix, but all courses will use a common number (398). The course title will read "Honors Supplementary Research" and will have a variable credit value from 1 to 3 credits, e.g. ENG 398 Honors Supplementary Research.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course studies American migration from the Atlantic seaboard to the Mississippi Valley, together with Spanish and French penetrations in the West. The course also examines explorations, acquisition and settlement of the Trans-Mississippi West, and the American Southwest with evaluation of the influence of the frontier and its institutions on the total history of the United States.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course will deal with Indian-White relations from the first contacts in the late 10th century through the empire-building attempts of the Spanish, Dutch, English and French in North America. Of primary concern is the expansion of the European Frontier at the expense of Indian Tribal lands and culture, and the resulting intra-tribal warfare as the eastern Woodland tribes were removed west of the Mississippi River by the Government Removal Act and Allotment Policy of the 1830's.