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  • HIS 110: Introduction to African-American History

    3.00 Credits
    Luzerne County Community College

    This course will examine the history, leadership, trials and triumphs of African-Americans. It begins with the earliest Africans brought to America as slaves, and studies the main themes affecting the lives of African-Americans, emphasizing economic and social trends and patterns as well as the various class structures and gender differences. Special consideration will be given to the rise and growth of slavery and segregation, the Civil Rights Movement and on some of the primary African-Americans in history.
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  • HIS 190: Research Methods

    3.00 Credits
    Luzerne County Community College

    This course provides an introduction to research methods for students enrolled in the history concentration or social studies education program. Students will learn how to identify and evaluate primary sources, distinguish the differences between primary and secondary sources, formulate a thesis with a historical context, understand historiography, properly cite sources used and present their findings in a classroom environment. Special emphasis will be placed on a range of primary and secondary sources, including written documents, photographs, quantitative data and material culture. Class sessions will include powerpoint lectures, visits to special collections and research libraries, workshops on research and writing, and student presentation of their research findings.
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  • HIS 201: American History to 1865

    3.00 Credits
    Luzerne County Community College

    The development of the United States from the period of discovery and colonization to the end of the Civil War, with attention to the most important political, economic, social, and cultural forces.
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  • HIS 202: American History Since 1865

    3.00 Credits
    Luzerne County Community College

    The development of the United States from the Reconstruction Era to the present; emphasis is given to late nineteenth and twentieth century industrialization, the expansion of government, the emergence of the industrial-urban society and America's status as a world power.
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  • HIS 205: American Civil War

    3.00 Credits
    Luzerne County Community College

    In this course, attention will be concentrated on the period before, during, and after the American Civil War. It is designed to do justice to all the important aspects of this particular period . . . political, economic, constitutional, diplomatic, social, religious, artistic, and intellectual.
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  • HIS 210: Pennsylvania History

    3.00 Credits
    Luzerne County Community College

    The course provides an in-depth exploration of the history of Pennsylvania and its particular role in the political, economic and social development of the United States. Topics will include William Penn's establishment of the colony, the French-Indian War, and the central role Pennsylvania played in such national events as the American Revolution, the Early Republic, Antebellum reform and the Industrial Revolution. Special emphasis will be placed on conflict and cooperation between different cultures; continuity and change over time; and cause-and-effect relationships between economic, political and social events.
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  • HIS 231: Luzerne County History

    3.00 Credits
    Luzerne County Community College

    This course deals with the history of Luzerne County in the lower northeastern section of Pennsylvania. The course begins with a consideration of important definitions, themes, and methods of "Local History" as a field of study. It continues with an overview of various geographic and geologic characteristics of the County and their influence on the County's historic development. Most of the course is an examination and analysis of major events, persons, ideas, institutions, and trends which produced the foundations of the modern Luzerne County community. Chronologically the course covers the period from the 17th century to the late 20th century. Some major topics considered are: the early settlement patterns and the formation of the new county in 1786 and the evolution of the current county boundaries in the 19th century; the Revolutionary War era and the County's role in the war; early political, economic, and social characteristics; the 19th century transformation and growth; the rise and decline of the anthracite coal industry; ethnic diversity; cultural development; the political kaleidoscope of the 19th and 20th centuries; economic depression; the trials and tribulations of economic diversification; and the recent metamorphosis of the County.
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  • HIS 238: World War II

    3.00 Credits
    Luzerne County Community College

    This course intends to provide an insight into the causes of World War II, principle events and key individuals that were the focus of the Conflict and the results upon an entire generation of Americans who either participated, supported or were part of America's involvement. We will examine images of what has been called "Total War" that was brought home in stark reality to Americans the true meaning of Terror, Fascism, and Mass Murder on a scale hitherto, unimaginable. You will examine the results that have had a lingering effect on America's perspective of its economic, political, and military involvement in various parts of the World as a result of this global conflict and its lingering effects on the rest of the century.
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  • HIS 240: The Holocaust

    3.00 Credits
    Luzerne County Community College

    An examination of one of the most overwhelming events in human history; the systematic murder by the Nazis of six million European Jews, murdered solely because of their ethnic identity.
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  • HIS 245: The French Revolution & Ancien Regime

    3.00 Credits
    Luzerne County Community College

    This course is an analysis of the events leading up the French Revolution, a study of the events and philosophy of the Revolution itself, and the aftermath of the Napoleonic era. It emphasizes the concepts, forces, ideas, events and people that shaped France in the 18th Century, as well as the Napoleonic era of the early 19th Century. It also explores the philosophical questions that arise from one of the most violent events of early modern Europe.
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