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• HIST 2020: Local History

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course in an introduction to the location, evaluation and significance of local history using an information literacy approach. It focuses on the methods of local history rather than the history of a particular local area. Specific topics are analyzed in order to get to know how to identify, locate, evaluate and analyze a variety of sources.
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• HIST 2040: Western Society to 1500

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course examines the history of Western society from its origins in the Near East to the Renaissance.
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• HIST 2045: Western Society since 1500

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course examines the history of Western society from the Enlightenment to the present.
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• HIST 2060: Colonial Latin American Hist.

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  Explores the consequences of contact between the "old" world and the Americas. Course will emphasize the strategies and motives of the colonizer and the colonized, and the quest for identity in the Latin American context as well as the construction of truths, myths and legends in the context of European expansionism in the Americas.
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• HIST 2065: Modern Latin America

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  The emergence of modern Latin America from the Aztecs to Castro; economic and social development of the region in the twentieth century; struggle for social justice among diverse cultures; conflicts within Latin American political life; military dictatorships; parliamentary democracy; guerrilla warfare and counter terrorism.
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• HIST 2990: Historical Methods

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course acquaints students who are considering history as a major or minor field of study with basic historiography and historical methodology. Students receive a hands-on introduction to historical research and writing, and learn about various schools of history to prepare them for upper level history courses.
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• HIST 3000: Topics in US History

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This class will explore United States history from a variety of perspectives each semester. The focus of the class will vary between different historical time periods and topics to give students a broad-based overview while focusing on specific historical events. The topic varies by semester and the course is repeatable.
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• HIST 3010: African Amer History to 1877

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  The course explores the history of African Americans from their western African origins until Reconstruction in the United States. It begins with various African civilizations and trade relationships with Europeans, then surveys the middle passage and complexity of US slavery. The last portion of the course examines the Black quest for freedom.
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• HIST 3015: African Amer Hist Since 1877

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course focuses on African Americans since 1877. It begins with Reconstruction then consistently examines African Americans' fight for civil and human rights. It explores 'agency' and contributions of African Americans to the world. The course uses frameworks to examine the Black experience such as gender, region, age, and political expression.
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• HIST 3019: Readings in AAAS

  3.00 Credits

  Pennsylvania Western University

  
  This course is reading intensive and examines the key scholarship within AAAS and throughout the Black experience. It examines the evolution of the discipline, key scholars, themes, ideas, debates, theoretical/methodological frameworks used by scholars of AAAS. Students will acquire the skills to critically engage on interdisciplinary scholarship.
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