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GEE 486 - Advanced Project Management
Course covers a wide range of project management topics including project planning, controlling, scheduling, and risk analysis. Through lecture and case studies, students will be prepared to become project management professionals and will learn to bring projects to successful completion. The course also emphasizes the human-relations aspects of project management such as team theory and personnel conflict resolution. Lec 3.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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GEE 490 - Interdisciplinary Capstone Exploration
Offers engineering juniors an opportunity to meet with faculty and other students to explore the development of a capstone project involving more than one engineering major. Project ideas will be examined with a focus on establishing teams, project objectives, and authorization to proceed as a capstone project. (Pass/Fail Grade Only.)
Prerequisites: Junior or Senior standing.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 1
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GEO 100 - World Geography
Introduces students to the major world cultural regions and their characteristics, development and interaction. It focuses particularly on the relationship between cultural groups and the environment within and between each region. Students will be challenged to acquire factual knowledge of cultural regions necessary for geographic literacy and to critically evaluate explanations of these patterns.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and Population and the Environment Requirements.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Summer
Credits: 3
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GEO 212 - Geography of Maine
This course provides a geographical perspective on the historical development of Maine over the last 500 years. The course begins with European contact in the early 1500s, and then examines the evolution of Maine as a borderland during the colonial period, the American settlement of Maine in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the growth of industrial manufacturing and tourism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the de-industrialization and development of a service economy in Maine today. The course pays particular attention to environmental, cultural, and cross-border issues. (GEO 212 and HTY 212 are identical courses.)
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Population and the Environment Requirement.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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GEO 275 - Geography of Globalization
Examines changing demographic, economic, political, and cultural connections across the globe over the past 500 years; their representation through maps; and our current awareness of the globe and the Earth’s environment. (GEO 275 and HTY 275 are identical courses.)
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and Population and the Environment Requirements.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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GEO 311 - Geography of Climate Change
Introduces students to theories of environmental sustainability transitions and resource use in the context of climate change.
Prerequisites: Any ANT or GEO course or permisson
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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GEO 349 - Early Modern North America in Atlantic Perspective
Reflecting the increasing globalization of modern society, this course employs an Atlantic perspective to understand the international history of early modern North America. Focuses on the geography of the European empires that shaped North America, beginning with the Spanish and the French, and then focusing on the British and the revolt of the American colonies. (GEO 349 and HTY 349 are identical courses.)
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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GER 101 - Elementary German I
The basics of the German language. Emphasis on developing reading, comprehension, speaking and writing skills. For students with no previous study of German or fewer than two years in high school.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirement.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3 - 4
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GER 102 - Elementary German II
Continued study of the basics of the German Language. Emphasis on developing reading, comprehension, speaking and writing skills. For students with no previous study of German or fewer than two years in high school.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirement.
Prerequisites: GER 101 or equivalent.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 4
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GER 121 - Elementary German (Schnelldeutsch)
A beginning course in the German language for students with no previous study of German or fewer than two years in high school. A full year’s work covered in one semester.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspective Requirement.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 6
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GER 203 - Intermediate German I
An integrated approach. Reading texts as well as various audiovisual materials will be employed to strengthen reading, writing and especially speaking and comprehension skills. Includes a systematic but gradual review of the essentials of German grammar.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirement.
Prerequisites: GER 102 or GER 121 or equivalent.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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GER 204 - Intermediate German II
A continuation of GER 203. Designed to strengthen reading, writing, speaking and comprehension skills.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirement.
Prerequisites: GER 203 or equivalent.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3 - 4
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GER 223 - Intermediate German (Schnelldeutsch)
An integrated approach employing various materials to strengthen reading, writing, speaking and comprehension skills. Includes a systematic but gradual review of the essentials of German grammar. A full year’s work covered in one semester.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirement.
Prerequisites: GER 102 or GER 121 or equivalent.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 6
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GER 305 - Practical German
Conversational and composition language course designed to further develop students’ comprehension, speaking and writing skills for everyday use. All classes are conducted in German.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites: GER 204 or equivalent.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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GER 306 - Readings in German Literature I
An introduction to German literature and culture. Accessible but significant
texts from 18th to 20th century.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirement.
Prerequisites: GER 204 or GER 223 or equivalent.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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GER 307 - German for the Professions
Students of International Relations, Business, Engineering or related fields
with moderate proficiency will gain familiarity with specialized language and conventions in professional situations. Authentic, up-to-date information will
require the regular use of the Internet as a source of reading. Audio-visual material
will be integrated with cultural awareness training. Multiple types of writing
assignments will help students improve written structure. All classes are conducted
in German.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Social Contexts and Institutions, Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites: GER 204 or GER 223 or equivalent.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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GER 390 - Topics in German
May include the study of literature, culture, cinema, the arts and media as expressed in German-speaking countries. Topics vary. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisites: GER 204.
Credits: 1-3
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GER 401 - Major Cultural Periods
Survey course designed to introduce students to major developments in the cultural history of German-speaking countries through maps, historical information, art, music as well as representative literary and expository texts from the Middle Ages to the Age of Enlightenment (ca. 750 AD to 1785).
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements.
Prerequisites: GER 204 or GER 223 or equivalent.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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GER 402 - Contemporary Germany
A study of modern German civilization and Landeskunde; the political, social
and intellectual development of Germany from 1945 to present.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirement.
Prerequisites: GER 204 or equivalent.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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GER 404 - Translation: Theory and Practice
Thought and theory behind the process of translation with ample opportunity for analysis and practice. (German-English, English-German.)
Prerequisites: GER 204 or equivalent.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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GER 413 - German Literature and Culture, 1900 to 1945
Examines modernist intellectual, artistic, musical and literary traditions during
the waning years of the German and Austro-Hungarian empires, World War I, the
Weimar Republic and the Nazi-Era. Also determines their relationship to the time
period’s socio-political developments.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition and Artistic and Creative Expression Requirements.
Prerequisites: GER 306 or permission of instructor.
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered
Credits: 3
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GER 420 - German Film
Examines development of German film from its beginnings. Student analyzes various film genres as artistic expression of specific time periods. Critical readings of gender representation and minority perspectives clarify the Nazi legacy and other issues facing multi-cultural post-war Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Film theory and issues of script writing and story board development will be as much part of class discussion as the connections between German exiles in Hollywood and the Central European film industry. Class conducted entirely in German.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition and Artistic and Creative Expression Requirements.
Prerequisites: Any 300-level German course or permission of instructor.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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GER 490 - Topics in German
Specific topics vary from semester to semester. May be repeated for credit.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirement.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 1-3
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GER 495 - Senior Project in German
Capstone Experience in which majors in German and in International Affairs with a concentration in German apply language skills and knowledge gained from all prior language study. Students work closely with faculty advisor on approved project. Students give public presentation of the project in German. The coursework will reflect the work of three credit hours, irregardless of number of credits taken.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives, Western Cultural Tradition and Capstone Experience Requirements.
Prerequisites: Senior standing and permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 1-3
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GER 497 - Projects in German I
Independent study on topics selected by student and instructor.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirement.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 1-3
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GRE 101 - Elementary Greek I
Fundamentals of the Greek language for students who have had little or no preparation in ancient Greek.
Prerequisites: Intermediate language skill in another language or permission of instructor.
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered
Credits: 4
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GRE 102 - Elementary Greek II
Fundamentals of the Greek language for students who have had little or no preparation in ancient Greek.
Prerequisites: GRE 101 or equivalent and intermediate language skill in another language or permission of instructor .
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered
Credits: 4
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HBR 101 - Beginning Modern Hebrew
This course is for students with minimal or no previous knowledge of Modern Hebrew. Student will learn the fundamentals of Hebrew grammar, build a working vocabulary, and learn how to read, write, and engage in basic conversations.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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HBR 102 - Beginning Modern Hebrew II
This course covers more advanced grammar and the reading of selected texts such as short stories and simple news articles. The emphasis will be on reading and listening comprehension, vocabulary enrichment and oral expression.
Prerequisites: HBR 101
Credits: 3
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HON 111 - Civilizations: Past, Present and Future I
The four courses constituting Civilizations: Past, Present and Future follow a chronological trajectory from earliest recorded times through the present, examining philosophy, history, literature, the arts and natural, physical and social sciences. In particular, by incorporating primary sources, small group discussions and multiple perspectives, these courses explore the way in which civilizations and cultures have been developed and have interacted with others. (Offered in the Fall semester.)
General Education Requirements: Completion of any of these courses (HON 111, 112, 211 or 212) satisfies either the General Education Western Cultural Tradition or the Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives requirement. Completion of any two satisfies the Western Cultural Tradition, Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives, and Ethics requirements. Completion of three satisfies the Western Cultural Tradition, Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives, Social Context and Institutions, and Ethics requirements. Completion of all four satisfies the Ethics requirement and all areas of the Human Values and Social Context requirements for 16 of the total 18 credits required in those areas. In addition, HON 211 and HON 212 each are designated Writing Intensive. Successful completion of HON 111 and HON 112 with a grade of C or better in each, satisfies the University’s basic composition requirement (ENG 101.)
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 4
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HON 112 - Civilizations: Past, Present and Future II
The second course in the Honors Civilizations sequence. (Offered in the Spring
semester.)
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 4
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HON 150 - Genome Discovery I: From Dirt to DNA
Provides laboratory experience working on a bacteriophage genomics research project. Students will study novel bacteriophage they isolate from the environment. Topics covered include phage biology, bacteria and phage culturing and amplification, DNA isolation, restriction digest analysis, agarose gel electrophorosis, and electron microscopy. (HON 150 and BMB 150 are identical courses.)
Prerequisites: Permission
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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HON 170 - Currents and Context
An opportunity for students to develop and enhance their awareness and understanding of events throughout the region, the country, and the world as well as to improve dialogue about these. In doing so, students will employ up-to-date information sources to explore issues including, but not limited to cultural conflicts; the roles of intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations (IGOs and NGOs); the three branches of American government; the economy; the environment; and political debates of global, regional, and local concern. May be repeated once for credit.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Social Contexts and Institutions Requirement.
Prerequisites: Enrollment in the Honors College or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 1
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HON 180 - A Cultural Odyssey
An opportunity for students to extend their cultural education in the context of opportunities available at the University of Maine and in the surrounding area. Various arts events including dance, music, theatre, poetry, and visual art will be explored and analyzed. May be repeated once for credit. Required for all students in the Honors College.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Artistic and Creative Expression Requirement.
Prerequisites: Enrollment in the Honors College or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 1
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HON 188 - Cultural Connections
An opportunity for students to explore cultural opportunities available at the University of Maine and in the surrounding area. Students will attend and react to arts events including dance, music, theatre, poetry, and visual art. Required for all students in the Honors College who do not complete HON 180.
Credits: 0
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HON 190 - Honors Summer Readings: Basic
An individually arranged program of readings during the summer. For students wanting to supplement their work in HON 111 and HON 112.
Prerequisites: permission.
Course Typically Offered: Summer
Credits: 1
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HON 211 - Civilizations: Past, Present and Future III
The third course in the Honors Civilizations sequence. (Offered in the Fall
semester.)
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 4
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HON 212 - Civilizations: Past, Present and Future IV
The fourth course in the Honors Civilizations sequence. (Offered in the Spring
semester.)
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 4
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HON 290 - Honors Summer Readings: Intermediate
Guided summer readings and reports, individually adapted to the student’s program of study. For students wanting to supplement their readings in HON 211 and HON 212.
Prerequisites: permission.
Course Typically Offered: Summer
Credits: 1
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HON 308 - Visiting Scholar in Ethics Tutorial
An opportunity for students, through careful reading, thorough research, and measured discussion to determine the John M. Rezendes Visiting Scholar in Ethics to be brought to campus for the following year. Students in the tutorial will develop and refine criteria for the decision, analyze evidence presented about the candidates, deliberate using those criteria, and correspond and negotiate with viable candidates to determine availability and suitability.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Ethics Requirement.
Prerequisites: Junior standing in Honors College with three first- or second-year Honors courses and permission.
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered
Credits: 3
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HON 309 - The Honors Read Tutorial
An opportunity through careful reading, analytic and synthetic writing and extensive discussion, to select, from among eight texts nominated by the University community, the “Honors Read” for incoming students in the Honors College a year hence. The tutorial will include developing and refining criteria for the decision, analysis and reaction to the texts incorporating those criteria and preparing a summative letter of transmittal to be included with the texts delivered to the incoming students. (Offered in the Spring semester.)
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Artistic and Creative Expression Requirement.
Prerequisites: Sophomore or junior standing in Honors College with three first- or second-year Honors courses and permission.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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HON 310 - Honors Tutorial
Small group discussions, under tutorial direction, of important readings in a specific topic or theme. May be repeated for credit with the permission of the dean of The Honors College. (Offered in both Fall and Spring semesters and occasionally in the Summer Session.)
General Education Requirements: May satisfy several General Education categories; contact The Honors College for details.
Prerequisites: Junior standing in Honors College and at least three of HON 111, HON 112, HON 211 or HON 212.
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered
Credits: 3
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HON 350 - Honors Seminar
Topics in such subject areas as the arts, philosophy, history of science, the study of society, etc. Specific topics vary.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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HON 396 - Honors Independent Study
A tutorially conducted study of a topic outside the student’s major field. May be repeated once for credit, with permission.
Prerequisites: permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 1-3
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HON 397 - Honors Specialized Study
A tutorially conducted study in the student’s major field, usually resulting
in the choice of a thesis topic or initiation of thesis research. May be repeated
once for credit, with permission.
Prerequisites: permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 1-3
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HON 398 - Honors Independent Research
Tutorially conducted independent research. May be repeated once for credit, with permission.
Prerequisites: permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 1-3
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HON 450 - Honors Distinguished Lecture Series
A series of lectures by a distinguished lecturer or lecturers, involving collateral reading and group discussions.
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered
Credits: 1-3
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HON 498 - Honors Directed Study
Tutorially directed research for the senior thesis or project. Required of all four-year students graduating with a degree with Honors. (Offered in both Fall and Spring semesters and occasionally in the Summer Session.)
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
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HON 499 - Honors Thesis
The completion of the senior project begun in HON 498. Required of all four-year students graduating with a degree with Honors. (Offered in both Fall and Spring semesters and occasionally in the Summer Session.)
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
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HTY 103 - Creating America to 1877
Examines interactions of the many peoples who created the United States. Topics include Native Americans, the American Revolution, and Civil War, and how colonization, immigration, gender, race, politics, class, and geography shaped the nation.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition and Social Contexts and Institutions Requirements.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
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HTY 104 - United States History Since 1877
A survey of main themes of U.S history from 1877 to the present. The course may include an emphasis on political, social, economic, intellectual, and technological aspects of the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, WWI, the interwar era, WWII, the Cold War, and post-Cold War era.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition and Social Contexts and Institutions Requirements.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
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HTY 105 - History of Ancient and Medieval Europe
This survey explores the political, economic, social and intellectual developments in Europe from antiquity to 1715, emphasizing those features which help to explain our present-day civilization.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition and Social Contexts and Institutions Requirements.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
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HTY 106 - History of Modern Europe
This class surveys the intellectual, social, economic, and political changes that shaped the development of Europe from 1715 to the present. Topics may include the French and the Industrial Revolutions; nationalism and the emergence of nation states; the rise of Marxism; high imperialism; the two world wars; totalitarian governments of the 20th century; comparative histories of everyday life; and European integration.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition and Social Contexts and Institutions Requirements.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
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HTY 107 - East Asian Civilization
A survey of China’s and Japan’s social, economic, cultural and political life from prehistoric times to the present. Whenever applicable, Korea and Vietnam will be discussed. Emphasis on key periods in each country, especially changes in the 19th and 20th centuries.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Social Contexts and Institutions and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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HTY 108 - India: Identities and Changes
A survey of the social, economic, cultural and political life of India from prehistoric times to the present. Key periods, especially since the later half of the 19th century, and main themes will be emphasized.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and Social Contexts and Institutions Requirements.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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HTY 109 - Introduction to Early Latin America
Explores the creation of dynamic Latin American societies as an unequal combination of Iberian, Indian, and African traditions. Begins with Native American civilizations before the arrival of Europeans and concludes with the national independence movements of the 19th century. The development of the modern world in a non-Anglo tradition is a central course theme.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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HTY 110 - Introduction to Modern Latin America
Second of a two-part survey that introduces students to the major developments in Latin American history. Begins with the struggle for independence in the early nineteenth century and ends with the shift to neoliberalism that occurred in the late twentieth century. Thematically, the course will pay particular attention to the issues liberalism and modernization, and how these ideological currents shaped race, class, and gender relations in Latin America.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 112 - Introduction to Africa
A survey of Africa’s social, economic and political history from 1800 to the present. Emphasis on African and European interaction, pan-Africanist currents, and the national histories of Nigeria, South Africa, Congo and Ghana.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General education Social Contexts and Institutions and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements.
Credits: 3
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HTY 130 - Craft of Historical Detection
This course introduces students to the “detective work” involved in historical inquiry using a single case study or historical controversy. (Case study or controversy will vary depending on the instructor). The course is also a “first-year success course” designed to help students develop effective study and academic skills. It can be used by history majors or potential history majors to meet the one credit LAS 150 requirement and also fulfills a history requirement.
Credits: 3
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HTY 199 - Problems in History
An analysis of a selected controversial or contemporary historical problem. In some cases the specific topic and methodology may be chosen jointly by interested students and an instructor.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 202 - Medieval Civilization
Investigation of the cultural development of Europe during the Middle Ages, from late Roman times through the 15th century. Develops a broad overview of the distinctively European civilization that emerged during the period.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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HTY 210 - History of Maine
A survey of Maine’s social, economic, and political life, from primitive times to the present. After a brief study of Native American life preceding white settlement, the periods of colonial, provincial, and state history are covered.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition and Social Contexts and Institutions Requirements.
Prerequisites: No-first-year students.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 3
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HTY 211 - Maine and the Sea
An overview of Maine maritime history from aboriginal uses through the current state of maritime Maine. Emphasis on the coast’s history, inland Maine’s relationship with the sea, Maine’s maritime relationship to the world, and current historical and archaeological research.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition Requirement.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 3
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HTY 212 - Geography of Maine
This course provides a geographical perspective on the historical development of Maine over the last 500 years. The course begins with European contact in the early 1500s, and then examines the evolution of Maine as a borderland during the colonial period, the American settlement of Maine in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the growth of industrial manufacturing and tourism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the de-industrialization and development of a service economy in Maine today. The course pays particular attention to environmental, cultural, and cross-border issues. (GEO 212 and HTY 212 are identical courses.)
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Population and the Environment Requirement.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 213 - History of the Maine Woods
This course will survey the history of the Maine woods from postglacial times to the present. Topics include alterations in the forest ecology, Native American and colonial settlement, and changing economic, industrial, and recreational uses of the woods. The course will also explore the varieties of spiritual and literary interpretations ascribed to the forest environment.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the Western Cultural Traditions and the Population and Environmental General Education Requirements.
Prerequisites: None
Course Typically Offered: Alternate years
Credits: 3
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HTY 218 - History of Film
Global history of film with emphasis on the cultural, technological, and philosophical sources of film in the 20th century.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 220 - North American Indian History
An introductory history of North American Indians, from before European contact to the present. Within a broad chronological framework, the course will look at critical themes in American Indian history; American Indians prior to contact; cultural contact; treaty making, treaty rights, sovereignty; impact of government policies on Native populations; and contemporary issues.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Social Contexts and Institutions and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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HTY 221 - History and Comics
This course provides a concise introduction to the field of comics studies, and then relies on the comics medium to acquaint students with some of the major topics and themes that are commonly encountered in the discipline of history. Comics are highly accessible and foster active engagement, making it a powerful medium through which to experience the discipline of history. In particular, we will be examining comics as historical documents, but also as a medium for historical analysis. Students will develop the intellectual tools, as they relate to the field of comics studies, required to interpret and criticize the content and meaning of a range of comics materials from the past and present. While it is impossible to cover the whole of the discipline of history, students will be introduced to a wide and varied selection of subject matter, including politics and political discourse, armed conflicts and mass atrocities, nature and the environment, race and ethnicity, Indigenous peoples, labor and the working class, and gender.
General Education Requirements: Fulfills the Western Cultural Traditions General Education requirement
Course Typically Offered: Alternating
Credits: 3
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HTY 235 - Heresy, Witchcraft, and Reform
This course will examine the definition and repression of heresy and witchcraft in Europe from late antiquity through the seventeenth century. Focusing on issues surrounding gender, belief, and otherness, we will spend time reading and thinking about the meanings of religious dissent and orthodoxy in premodern contexts. Our investigation will center on the ways in which efforts to reform the Church were closely connected to campaigns against its imagined internal enemies.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the Western Cultural Traditions or Social Context & Institutions General Education requirements
Credits: 3
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HTY 240 - Creation of the Atlantic World, 1450-1888
This entry-level course uses a comparative transnational perspective to understand the formation of an integrated early modern world in the region connected by the Atlantic Ocean. Selected topics given close attention include the Spanish conquest of the Mexica/Aztec Empire, Native American responses to the invasion of their homelands, religion as a key site of conflict and accommodation among varied cultural groups, the slave trade and the rise of modern plantation slavery, environmental exchanges across the Atlantic, the Age of Democratic Revolutions with an emphasis on Haiti, and the dismantling of slavery in the western hemisphere by 1888.
General Education Requirements: Cultural Diversity or International Perspectives and Social Context and Institutions.
Course Typically Offered: Fall Even Years
Credits: 3
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HTY 241 - History of Globalization, 1900-Present
An introductory history of globalization. Explores the major political, economic, cultural and technological features of the twentieth century that have helped to create today’s global society. Emphasizes global changes and their effects on everyday life.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Social Contexts and Institutions and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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HTY 251 - Technology and Society from Ancient Times till the Present
A survey of the history of Western technology and, to a lesser extent, non-Western technology from ancient times till the present. The course covers major developments both ‘internally” – as tools and machines” – and “externally” as related to the societies which have produced them and upon they in turn have had impact. Thus HTY 251 is not an old-fashioned and one-sided “nuts and bolts” course. Instead HTY 251 examines the complex relationship between (1) technological change and (2) social, cultural, economic, and political change as each has affected the other over. Old-fashioned “nuts and bolts” history of technology courses invariably assume that virtually all technological developments constitute “progress” and often make technological “progress” the measure of all things. By contrast, HTY 251 repeatedly asks if that traditional simplistic equation between technological advances and social, cultural, economic, and political advances is accurate or if it might be rethought in various instances over the course of history.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the Western Cultural Tradition Social Context and Institutions General Education Requirements.
Credits: 3
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HTY 275 - Geography of Globalization
Examines changing demographic, economic, political, and cultural connections across the globe over the past 500 years; their representation through maps; and our current awareness of the globe and the Earth’s environment. (GEO 275 and HTY 275 are identical courses.)
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and Population and the Environment Requirements.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 278 - American Military History
America’s experience with warfare, from the colonial period through the Vietnam era. How American wars have been fought, and the complex interrelationship between American society and the military, including economic, political and social factors.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition and Social Contexts and Institutions Requirements.
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered
Credits: 3
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HTY 279 - European Military History
A survey from the 18th Century to the present. Examines the causes and nature of war, the relationship of soldiers and civilians, and war’s impact on modern society.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition Requirement.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Even Years
Credits: 3
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HTY 311 - Research Seminar
A writing intensive seminar that introduces students to the historiography and methodology of important themes in history. Its topics vary. This is a required seminar for all History majors as preparation for the Senior Seminar. Utilizing secondary and selected primary sources students will consider how historians construct different interpretative narratives of past events.
General Education Requirements: Satisfied the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission of instructor.
Course Typically Offered: Every Year
Credits: 3
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HTY 312 - Furs, Frontiers, and Fame: North American Exploration
This course examines the identities, practices, and spaces of exploration in North America from the late fifteenth to the twentieth centuries. Different political, economic, scientific, and cultural motives for the exploration of Canada and the United States over time will be compared and contrasted. The experiences of Spanish, French, English, Russian, American, and Canadian explorers and expeditions will be situated in local, national, imperial, and global contexts. The course will broadly explore the themes of cross-cultural encounter, exploration and science, textual and visual representation, and the public commemoration of explorers and exploration.
General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Traditions and Cultural Diversity or International Perspectives.
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission of instructor.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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HTY 316 - Shipwreck Sites: Archaeological and Historical Investigations
The process of a complete shipwreck site investigation, from initial research through publication. (ANT 316 and HTY 316 are identical courses.)
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition requirement.
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permisson.
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Odd Years
Credits: 3
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HTY 330 - Robber Barons, Reformers and Radicals 1877-1914
Traces the transformation of the United States into a modern nation by exploring themes of industrialization, urbanization, immigration, politics, and imperial outreach. Particularly focuses on the contest of power between so-called “Robber Barons”, or industrial leaders, and the reformers and radicals who challenged their vision for the nation.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition Requirement.
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission of instructor.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 332 - Womanhood in America
Examines the changing experiences of American women from colonial times to the present. Emphasis on what women did and what they were told to do, the experiences of different groups of women, and the ways in which women worked to change their situation.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements.
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission of instructor.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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HTY 338 - Everyday Life in America, 1600-1850
Examines the experience of everyday life for ordinary Americans living during the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries. In order to explore this everyday world the class will analyze a wide variety of sources including architecture, clothing, decorative arts, folktales, diaries and family history.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition and Social Contexts and Institutions Requirements.
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission of instructor.
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered
Credits: 3
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HTY 341 - The Making of Modern China
A survey of social, economic, cultural and political development in China from 1600 to the present. Emphasis will be on the 20th century, especially on the Communist Revolution and the “market economy reform” period since 1978.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and Social Contexts and Institutions Requirements.
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission of instructor.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 349 - Early Modern North America in Atlantic Perspective
Reflecting the increasing globalization of modern society, this course employs an Atlantic perspective to understand the international history of early modern North America. Focuses on the geography of the European empires that shaped North America, beginning with the Spanish and the French, and then focusing on the British and the revolt of the American colonies. (GEO 349 and HTY 349 are identical courses.)
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements.
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission of instructor.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 350 - Nations in Latin America
Analysis of an individual Latin American nation. Focuses on issues of social stratification, economic development, and/or cultural production of that nation.
General Education Requirements: Satisifes the General Education Cultural Diversity Requirement
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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HTY 351 - The Napoleonic Empire (1799-1815)
Course discusses Napoleon’s rule in France and Europe (1799-1815), the formation of the Napoleonic empire, the changes he introduced throughout his empire, and the period’s legacy.
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission of instructor.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 365 - The American Immigrant Experience
Writing Intensive course that examines the many kinds of immigrant experiences in the American colonies and the United States from 1600 to the present day, drawing on first-person accounts and historians’ interpretations. Considers the influence of age, sex, legal status, race, religion, occupation, and class, as well as whether immigrants came voluntarily, as free persons, or by force, as slave labor.
General Education Requirements: Fulfills the Writing Intensive and Population & Environment General Education Requirements
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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HTY 398 - Historical Issues
An exploration of selected contemporary historical issues not covered in existing courses. In some cases the specific topic and methodology may be chosen jointly by interested students and an instructor.
General Education Requirements: Three credits of History or permission.
Prerequisites: first-year students require permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
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HTY 403 - Early Middle Ages
Europe from late antiquity to about 950, considering the social, economic, political, and intellectual developments during Merovingian and Carolingian times, emphasizing the early medieval agricultural revolution and reconstructing the factors affecting the lives of ordinary people.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements.
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 404 - Late Middle Ages
Social, economic, political, and intellectual history of Europe from 950 to the Renaissance, focusing on the medieval frontier period and the late medieval era of environmental crisis and economic contraction.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition and Population and the Environment Requirements.
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 405 - Early Modern Europe: Renaissance, Reformation and the Foundation of the Modern World-System
A survey of the cultural, religious, social, economic and political history of Europe from 1300 to the end of the period of religious wars. Emphasis on the cultural rebirth following upon the recovery of the art, literature and philosophy of cultural antiquity; on the Reformation and Counter-Reformation as marking the end of the “closed,” relatively homogenous world of Medieval Christendom and an entrance into a more open universe of spiritual and intellectual possibilities; and on the economic, social and technological transformations that made possible and were in turn accelerated by the expansion of European societies into Africa, Asia and the Americas.
General Education Requirements: Satisifies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives, Western Cultural Tradition and Writing Intensive Requirements
Prerequisites: Three Credits of History or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 411 - The Holocaust
The Nazi persecution and extermination of European Jews (1933-1945) including the exploration of modern anti-Semitism, Nazi ideology, the persecution of German Jews after 1933, and the extermination of six million European Jews in Nazi occupied Europe during the Second World War.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the Western Cultural Tradition and the Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives General Educaton Requirement.
Prerequisites: Three Credits of History or permission.
Credits: 3
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HTY 420 - Science and Society Since 1800
Examines the development of science, with emphasis on America, since the Scientific Revolution, both ‘internally’–as ideas and experiments–and ‘externally’–as related to America and other societies that have produced them and upon which they in turn have had impact.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition Requirement.
Prerequisites: Three Credits of History or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 427 - Vikings!
Marauding barbarians with a lust for blood and plunder, the Vikings retain their grip on the popular imagination. To what extent are our images of the medieval Norse grounded in historical reality? This course will begin by asking what archaeological finds, runestones, skaldic poetry, and foreign chroniclers can tell us about the people of Viking Age Scandinavia. We will then explore how different societies and cultural groups have shaped and reshaped images of the Vikings to suit different agendas. Our investigation will range from thirteenth-century Iceland, where medieval Christian writers composed vernacular sagas about pagan heroes, to contemporary America, where Viking imagery appears on everything from football helmets to comic books.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Requirements for Western Cultural Traditions and Cultural Diversity/International Perspectives.
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission.
Credits: 3
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HTY 432 - History of Modern Ideas
This is a survey of some of the major currents of modern intellectual history. In the nineteenth century, Europe was filled with presumptions of its own ascendancy and world-superiority. These ideas were largely justified through an interpretation of history. This course will begin by looking at the dominant place of history in the nineteenth century and, in particular, its relation to God, nature, and the nation. It then turns to some of the grave doubts that emerged over Europe and its modes of thought. The twentieth century can be interpreted as a disintegration of meaning and understanding, and this course will assess various attempts to describe this crisis, including endeavors to find a new basis for coherent meaning. Such endeavors continue to the present, where this course concludes. Attention to the history of are will supplement the discussion of texts.
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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HTY 437 - History of Modern Japan
Survey of social, economic, cultural and political development in Japan from the last period of feudalism to the present day. Social and political structures, value changes, the rise of militarism and fascism, the effects of the Pacific War, popular movements, modernization problems and progress, and relations with the United States and the rest of the world will be discussed.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and Social Contexts and Institutions Requirements.
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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HTY 442 - The United States and Vietnam: A History
Focuses on key periods in the historical development of the United States and Vietnam and trace the history of their relations since the beginning of World War II. The economic, social, political, ideological, and cultural origins of the conflict, the conduct of the war and the aftermath in Vietnam, East Asia, and the United States will be examined.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and Social Contexts and Institutions Requirements.
Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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