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HIST 220: World War Two

3.00 Credits

Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

Explores the Second World War, 1939-1945, as a global conflict. This course explains the background, causes, and course of the war, in both the European and Pacific theaters. It also focuses on the occupation policies of the Axis powers, especially the Nazi Holocaust and Japanese "Rape of Nanking." The last part of the course emphasizes American involvement in the war.

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HIST 228: African American HST

3.00 Credits

Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

Examines the nature and meaning of the African-American experience in the United States from its African beginnings to the present. Reviews black creative expressions in the visual arts, music, literature, philosophic thought and social history. Addresses how free African Americans and slaves shaped the American colonies and affected American Revolution, the dependency of the South on slavery before the Civil War, the Reconstruction Era, segregation and discrimination, and the Civil Rights movement.

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HIST 252: Women in World History

3.00 Credits

Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

Introduces students to women's and gender history throughout the premodern world (approximately 10,000 B.C.E. to 1450 C.E.) beginning with prehistory and the Neolithic Revolution and concluding with the global Middle Ages. The course covers social, economic, political, cultural, and religious history that centers women's experiences in a global, comparative context.

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HIST 260: Hist of Sports in US

3.00 Credits

Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

Examines one aspect of the social and cultural history of the United States that has often been overlooked in traditional history courses. The rise of spectator sports and participation in sports has reflected many of the themes in modern America, including social upheaval, labor/management strife, racial unrest, gender relations, urban development, migration patterns, and the commercialization of leisure activity.

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HIST 270: Hollywood & History

3.00 Credits

Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

Examines and analyzes how the past is portrayed on the screen. Through comparative analysis of films and/or documentaries with historical source materials, scholarly research, and/or popular publications, students will examine how film, as a medium, structures the presentation of the past, and how these medium shapes public memories of historical events and individuals. The themes in films and documentaries will be determined by the faculty member teaching the course.

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HIST 290: Historical Methods

3.00 Credits

Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

Surveys how historians approach, analyze, and write about the past while developing habits of historical thinking. In this introductory seminar, students study and practice how to interpret the past with a critical perspective and independent thought. Classes address methods and techniques of historical research and writing, including the development of historical questions and skeptical analysis of historical sources. The course will also summarize the professionalization of the discipline and major interpretations of history.

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HIST 300: Intro to Public Hist

3.00 Credits

Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

Surveys the field of public history giving special attention to the background, specializations, and methodologies of applied history. A key theme of the course is the professional ethics and responsibilities of historians in preserving and interpreting the past through historical agencies, archives, museums, and sites of local history.

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HIST 304: Medieval Europe

3.00 Credits

Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

Surveys European history during the Middle Ages (ca. 500-1500 CE), from the collapse of the Roman Empire to the dawn of the Early Modern era. The course covers the major social, political, religious, intellectual, and artistic developments of the period. No Prerequisite.

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HIST 305: Ren and Reform Europe

3.00 Credits

Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

Surveys the cultural and intellectual achievements of the Italian and Northern Renaissances and the religious changes of the Protestant Reformation. It emphasizes ecularism, humanism, and individualism during the era of the Italian and Northern Renaissances and the movements of the Protestant Reformation including Lutheranism, the Swiss reform movements, Anglicanism, the Counter-Reformation, and religious wars. The course also highlights European contacts with the wider world and outside influences on European intellectual and artistic movements. No Prerequisite.

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HIST 309: Total War Europe

3.00 Credits

Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

Explores and analyzes Europe's Total War era from 1914-1945. This includes examination of the origins of World War I and II and their impact on diplomatic events, the rise of fascist and authoritarian regimes, genocide, and how Europeans lived and died in this devastating era.

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