Apr 24, 2024

2019-2020 UMaine Undergraduate Catalog

2019-2020 UMaine Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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German
	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: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Prerequisites: GER 101 or equivalent. Course Typically Offered: Spring Credits: 4
	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: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Prerequisites: GER 102 or GER 121 or equivalent. Course Typically Offered: Fall Credits: 3
	GER 204 - Intermediate German II A continuation of GER 203. Designed to strengthen reading, writing, speaking and comprehension skills. General Education Requirements: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Prerequisites: GER 203 or equivalent. Course Typically Offered: Spring Credits: 3 - 4
Hebrew
	HBR 101 - Beginning Modern Hebrew A systematic study of the basics of the Hebrew language. Equal emphasis is placed on developing reading, listening comprehension, speaking and writing skills. For students with minimal or no previous knowledge of Modern Hebrew. General Education Requirements: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Course Typically Offered: Fall Credits: 3
	HBR 102 - Beginning Modern Hebrew II Continued study of the basics of the Hebrew language, with equal emphasis on developing reading, listening comprehension, speaking and writing skills. Continued discussion of Hebrew as an expression of Jewish culture in Israel and the United States. For students with one semester study of Hebrew or the equivalent as determined through consultation with the instructor. General Education Requirements: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Prerequisites: HBR 101 or equivalent Course Typically Offered: Spring Credits: 3
History
	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: Western Cultural Tradition and Social Contexts and Institutions Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer Credits: 3
	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: Western Cultural Tradition and Social Contexts and Institutions Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer Credits: 3
	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: Western Cultural Tradition and Social Contexts and Institutions Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer Credits: 3
	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: Western Cultural Tradition and Social Contexts and Institutions Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer Credits: 3
	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: Social Contexts and Institutions and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Course Typically Offered: Fall Credits: 3
	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: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and Social Contexts and Institutions Course Typically Offered: Spring Credits: 3
	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: Western Cultural Tradition and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Course Typically Offered: Variable Credits: 3
	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: Social Contexts and Institutions and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Credits: 3
	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
	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
	HTY 202 - Medieval Civilization What were the Middle Ages in the middle of? How did “medieval” become synonymous with “ignorant” and “barbaric”? These questions will be on our minds as we survey European history from the late Roman Empire through the fifteenth century, examining developments in political, religious, and cultural fields. Even as we aspire to cover huge swaths of geography and history, we will also pause to investigate individual case studies and telling details. Eschewing caricature and conventional wisdom, we will explore the many varieties of medieval civilization, emphasizing the complex lessons and legacies that this period offers for the modern world. General Education Requirements: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and Western Cultural Tradition Course Typically Offered: Spring Credits: 3
	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: Western Cultural Tradition and Social Contexts and Institutions Prerequisites: No-first-year students. Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring Credits: 3
	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: Western Cultural Tradition Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring Credits: 3
	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: Population and the Environment Course Typically Offered: Variable Credits: 3
	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: Western Cultural Traditions and Population and Environment Course Typically Offered: Alternate years Credits: 3
	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: Western Cultural Tradition and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Course Typically Offered: Variable Credits: 3
	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: Social Contexts and Institutions and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Course Typically Offered: Spring Credits: 3
	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: Western Cultural Traditions Course Typically Offered: Alternating Credits: 3
	HTY 222 - Maine Indian History in the Twentieth Century Too often Native people are relegated to the distant past, leading society to have misunderstandings about indigenous communities today. This course introduces students Wabanaki history of Maine and eastern Canada in the twentieth century. The term “Wabanaki” is an all-inclusive term that refers primarily to Mi’kmaqs, Maliseets, Passamaquoddies, and Penobscots, along with other Abenaki groups. The tribal homeland encompasses present-day northern New England, the Maritime Provinces, and southern Quebec. We will explore the variety of ways Wabanaki experiences deviated from the national narrative on American Indians and examine when Native challenges were in lockstep with western tribes in the twentieth century. This course considers the interplay between cultural traditions and modernity. The regional scope highlights local developments. We will investigate prominent themes of resistance, accommodation, activism, sovereignty, and cultural survival. Wabanaki people were positive actors in their own affairs, not passive pawns subdued by forces beyond their control. This course will provide context to contemporary challenges Wabanaki people confront. As one tribal historian astutely noted, “I can never give up hope, as my ancestors never gave up hope.” HTY 222 and NAS 230 are identical courses. General Education Requirements: Population and Environment and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Course Typically Offered: Fall Credits: 3
	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: Western Cultural Traditions and Social Context and Institutions Credits: 3
	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 and International Perspectives and Social Context and Institutions. Course Typically Offered: Fall Even Years Credits: 3
	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: Social Contexts and Institutions and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Course Typically Offered: Spring Credits: 3
	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: Western Cultural Tradition Social Context and Institutions Credits: 3
	HTY 261 - New England and Eastern Canada Since 1815: A Transnational Region This course examines the historical development of the geographical areas now referred to as New England and Eastern Canada from 1815, the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812, the last major Anglo-American conflict, to the present. An emphasis will be placed on exploring New England and Eastern Canada as a transnational region in the making, where there have been more historical similarities than differences in spite of the gradual hardening of borders between countries, states, and provinces. The course will follow a rough chronology, and cover topics such as building borders, political institutions, and identities, economic pursuits like agriculture, forestry, and fishing, sporting cultures, women’s suffrage, civil rights, environmental movements, and indigenous resurgences. General Education Requirements: Population and Environment and Social Context and Institutions Course Typically Offered: Alternating Credits: 3
	HTY 265 - The Power of Maps Humans have been making maps for thousands of years, but never before were maps as present in everyday life as they are today. Just think of the GPS in cars and the locator apps on our phones. It is more important than ever that we understand maps, how they are made, and how they have shaped society, from guiding imperial expansion to influencing urban development, land use, tourism, and surveillance. This course teaches students the history of maps and map-making from the first rock carvings of ancient cities to Google Earth and smart bombs. Major topics will include how maps have been essential tools for government, warfare, territorial control, social and economic planning, and artistic expression. We will explore how map-making technology has changed over time, the drive for increasing accuracy, and how the design of maps reflects the cultures that produce them. Students will also learn how to make their own maps to tell a spatial historical narrative. Most broadly, this course will teach students how to read maps as rich documents that are fascinating windows on the past. If this course was taken under as a topics course in HTY 398, it cannot be repeated for credit. General Education Requirements: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and Artistic and Creative Expressions Course Typically Offered: Fall Credits: 3
	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: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and Population and the Environment Course Typically Offered: Variable Credits: 3
	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: Western Cultural Tradition and Social Contexts and Institutions Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered Credits: 3
	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: Western Cultural Tradition Course Typically Offered: Fall, Even Years Credits: 3
	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: Writing Intensive Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission of instructor. Course Typically Offered: Every Year Credits: 3
	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 and International Perspectives. Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission of instructor. Course Typically Offered: Fall Credits: 3
	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: Western Cultural Tradition Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission of instructor. Course Typically Offered: Variable Credits: 3
	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: Western Cultural Tradition and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission of instructor. Course Typically Offered: Fall Credits: 3
	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: Western Cultural Tradition and Social Contexts and Institutions Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission of instructor. Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered Credits: 3
	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: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and Social Contexts and Institutions Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission of instructor. Course Typically Offered: Variable Credits: 3
	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: Western Cultural Tradition and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission of instructor. Course Typically Offered: Variable Credits: 3
	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
	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: Writing Intensive and Population & Environment Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission of instructor. Credits: 3
	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. Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission. Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer Credits: 3
	HTY 402 - Roman History The rise of ancient Rome from a small Italian town to mistress of the Mediterranean. Problems of excessive greatness including failure of a city-state republic to rule a vast empire and triumph of Caesarism. Covers the establishment of the “Roman Peace” under the emperors, “Christianization” and problem of the “Decline of Rome”. Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission of instructor. Course Typically Offered: Spring Credits: 3
	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: Western Cultural Tradition and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission. Course Typically Offered: Variable Credits: 3
	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: Western Cultural Tradition and Population and the Environment Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission. Course Typically Offered: Variable Credits: 3
	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 homogeneous 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: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives, Western Cultural Tradition and Writing Intensive Prerequisites: Three Credits of History or permission. Course Typically Offered: Variable Credits: 3
	HTY 407 - The Age of Monarchs and Revolution: Europe, 1648-1815 Covers the later part of Early Modern European history and the early years of modern Europe: 1648-1815. Discusses the concepts and significant social and political events and issues, such as absolutist monarchies, feudalism, nobility, the Church, peasantry, the Enlightenment, nationalism, liberalism, the French Revolution, and the Napoleonic Empire. General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission. Course Typically Offered: Fall Credits: 3
	HTY 409 - European Society and Culture in the Age of Total War Europe in the age of the two world wars, focusing on the causes and consequences of the wars themselves, concurrent political and social problems, and the intellectual and cultural contexts. General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission of instructor. Course Typically Offered: Fall Credits: 3
	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: Western Cultural Tradition and the Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Prerequisites: Three Credits of History or permission. Credits: 3
	HTY 412 - European Imperial 1870-1714 A comparative examination of the “New Imperialism.” Explores the theory and practice of European territorial and economic expansion in the late-19th Century. General Education Requirements: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and Western Cultural Traditional Prerequisites: Three credits in History or instructor permission. Course Typically Offered: Variable Credits: 3
	HTY 415 - African-American History Examines the African-American experience both thematically and chronologically, from slavery to emancipation, and the lives of African-Americans in the twentieth century. Includes African survivals and slave culture; the impact of racism, religion, and family on African-American lives; efforts by blacks to improve their lives; and the meaning of their history for contemporary African-Americans. Prerequisites: Three credits in History or instructor permission. Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered Credits: 3
	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: Western Cultural Tradition Prerequisites: Three Credits of History or permission. Course Typically Offered: Variable Credits: 3
	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: Western Cultural Traditions and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives. Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission. Credits: 3
	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
	HTY 433 - Greek and Roman Mythology The study of classical myths as the poetic expression of the Greek and Roman spirit, as the depiction of everything considered sacred, and as the embodiment of the basic patterns of the human psyche. Discusses the major theories of myth. Uses modern psychology and anthropology to show how the myths reveal secrets of our emotional, intellectual, and spiritual lives. Prerequisites: Three credits in History or instructor permission. Course Typically Offered: Variable Credits: 3
	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: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and Social Contexts and Institutions Requirements. Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission. Course Typically Offered: Variable Credits: 3
	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: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and Social Contexts and Institutions Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission. Course Typically Offered: Fall Credits: 3
	HTY 446 - History of Modern Middle East, 1800-Present The economic, social, and political transformations experienced by the Middle East in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Focus on the rise of Arab nationalism and the Israeli-Arab conflict. General Education Requirements: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission. Course Typically Offered: Fall and Summer Credits: 3
	HTY 449 - History of South Africa Examines the political, economic, and social history of South Africa from 1652 to the present. Emphasis on race relations from the establishment of the Cape Colony to the fall of Apartheid. Explores European colonization, the formation of the Zulu Empire, the South African War, and the birth of the New South Africa. General Education Requirements: Social Contexts and Institutions and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission. Course Typically Offered: Alternate Years Credits: 3
	HTY 450 - History of the British Empire Examines the history of the British Empire from the late 15th century to the end of the 20th century. Emphasis on the 19th century, especially the period of rapid growth c. 1875-1914, in Africa and Asia. General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission. Course Typically Offered: Alternate Years Credits: 3
	HTY 456 - History of Modern Britain The political, socio-economic, and constitutional aspects of British history from 1700 to the present, emphasizing economic growth and the development of democracy. General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission. Course Typically Offered: Alternate Years Credits: 3
	HTY 459 - Colonial Canada Canada’s history from New France to 1850, emphasizing political, social, and economic developments and relations with the American people. (This course is identical to FAS 459.) Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission. Course Typically Offered: Fall Credits: 3
	HTY 460 - Modern Canada Canada’s history from Confederation to the present, emphasizing political, social, and economic developments and Canada’s relations with the United States. General Education Requirements: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and Ethics Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission. Course Typically Offered: Variable Credits: 3
	HTY 461 - Colonial British America to 1763 Examines the founding and development of English-speaking colonies in the New World. Themes include the trans-Atlantic context of colonization, Native Americans, the growth of slavery, and religious and regional variation in colonial America. General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition and Writing Intensive Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission. Course Typically Offered: Variable Credits: 3
	HTY 462 - The American Revolution Explores the pivotal era that created the United States as an independent nation in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In addition to a traditional focus on the Revolutionary War and the Federal Constitution, the course also considers conflict within patriot ranks as well as the experience of people who did not necessarily benefit from the Revolution. General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition and Social Contexts and Institutions Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission. Course Typically Offered: Variable Credits: 3
	HTY 463 - The Early Republic, 1789-1840 Explores the shaping of American society by people and events between the years 1789-1840. While paying due attention to political and economic changes during this period, the focus will be on the lives and experiences of ordinary people: their families, work, homelife, communities, attitudes and expectations. General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition, Social Contexts/Institutions and Cultural Diversity/International Perspectives Requirements. Prerequisites: Three credits in History or instructor permission. Course Typically Offered: Fall Credits: 3
	HTY 464 - America at the Crossroads: The Era of Civil War Reconstruction 1840-1876 Problems and processes involved in territorial expansion, economic growth, the slavery issue, civil war, and the reconstruction of American society. General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission. Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered Credits: 3
	HTY 465 - American Landscapes, 1600-1850 Investigates the shaping of American landscapes and interpretation of those landscapes in history, fiction and art. In particular, the course explores the ways in which Americans used idealizations of the physical environment to define certain cultural attributes and to explain social transformations. General Education Requirements: Population and Environment Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission. Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered Credits: 3
	HTY 467 - Early 20th Century America, 1914-1945 Changes in American politics, economics, society, and culture including the Wilson era of reform and intervention in World War I, the age of business, depression and the New Deal of FDR, World War II and American global power. General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission. Course Typically Offered: Fall Credits: 3
	HTY 468 - America Since 1945 Changes in American politics, economics, society, and culture including the Cold War and McCarthyism, protest movements of the 1960s, Watergate, the energy crisis and economic recession, affluence and poverty in the 1980s. General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission. Course Typically Offered: Spring Credits: 3
	HTY 473 - History of U.S. Foreign Relations I U.S. foreign relations from the Revolution to World War I. Explores the role of government and private individuals and groups (pioneers, businesspeople, missionaries) in shaping U.S. interactions with other societies and nations as it expanded across the North American continent and evolved into a world power. Includes critical examinations of U.S. foreign relations by Indian, Latin American, Asian and European nations, and by internal dissenters. General Education Requirements: Social Contexts and Institutions and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission. Course Typically Offered: Fall Credits: 3
	HTY 474 - History of U.S. Foreign Relations II Explores the role of the U.S. in international affairs from 1914 to the present. Considers formal U.S. diplomacy and military activities and role of private individuals and groups such as businesspeople, labor and peace activists, and peddlers of American cultural products (movies, jeans, etc.) in shaping U.S. interactions with other nations. Includes critical examinations of U.S. foreign relations by other nations and by internal dissenters. General Education Requirements: Social Contexts and Institutions and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission. Course Typically Offered: Variable Credits: 3
	HTY 477 - The American Worker Examines changes in the world of work during successive phases of capitalist development since the Revolutionary War. Focus on skilled and unskilled labor; the evolving factory system; public policies and effects of technological change; ethnicity, race, and gender on worker responses. Assesses contemporary workplace issues from an historical perspective. General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition, Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission. Course Typically Offered: Variable Credits: 3
	HTY 479 - U.S. Environmental History The attitudes, policies, and behavior of Americans and their government toward the environment. Current issues evolving out of past attitudes and policies. General Education Requirements: Ethics and Population and the Environment Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission. Course Typically Offered: Fall Credits: 3
	HTY 480 - Global Environmental History Environmental history is the study of past interactions between humans and nature, and this course examines environmental historical processes on the global scale by comparing and contrasting on the local, regional, and national scales over time. While it is impossible to cover the environmental history of the whole globe, in-depth explorations of seven major themes, including agriculture and settlement, biological exchanges, and urbanization and industrialization, will thoroughly introduce students to the subfield of global environmental history. Students will also have the opportunity to analyze at length specific environmental historical subject matter and improve their digital literacy through group website projects. General Education Requirements: Population and Environment and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Prerequisites: Three credits in History or instructor permission. Course Typically Offered: Alternating Credits: 3
	HTY 483 - Violence in North American History Focuses on collective or group violence in the United States and Canada from the colonial era to the present. Familiarizes students with violent episodes that have shaped the histories of both countries and uses these examples as a theoretical device for comparing and contrasting nationalistic ideals and myths in the United States and Canada. General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission. Course Typically Offered: Alternate Years Credits: 3
	HTY 487 - The First World War The course examines the history of World War I (1914-1918). It investigates a struggle that tore Europe apart, helped to re-order world politics, and accounted for the death of millions. Students will gain a fundamental understanding of the reasons for the war’s outbreak; explore different dimensions of the experience of war (including both combat and the home front); examine civil-military relations and the development of the welfare state; and, analyze the peace treaties as well as the efforts of survivors of the war to remember the dead and come to terms with their losses. General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Traditions and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission. Course Typically Offered: Variable Credits: 3
	HTY 491 - Technology and Society Until 1800 Examines the development of technology from earliest times through the English Industrial Revolution, both ‘internally’, as tools and machines, and ‘externally’, as related to the societies that have produced them and upon which they in turn have had impact. General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission. Course Typically Offered: Alternate Years Credits: 3
	HTY 492 - Technology and Society Since 1800 Examines the development of technology, with emphasis on America, since the English Industrial Revolution, both ‘internally’–as tools and machines–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: Western Cultural Tradition Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission. Course Typically Offered: Alternate Years Credits: 3
	HTY 494 - Women, History and American Society: Selected Topics Examines the changing experiences of American women via several intensive, topical, interdisciplinary explorations. Emphasis on women’s historical relationship with different institutions or bodies of knowledge. Possible topics include: history of women, family, and the law; women and technology; women and work; or women and racism. May be repeated once for credit. General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition, Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and Writing Intensive Prerequisites: Three credits of History or permission. Course Typically Offered: Spring Credits: 3
	HTY 498 - Senior Seminar in History Intensive reading, research, and writing under the close supervision of an instructor on a selected problem in American or European history. Required of History majors. General Education Requirements: Writing Intensive and Capstone Prerequisites: Restricted to history majors with senior standing. Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring Credits: 3
Honors
	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
	HON 112 - Civilizations: Past, Present and Future II The second course in the Honors Civilizations sequence. (Offered in the Spring 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: Spring Credits: 4
	HON 150 - Phage Genome Discovery I This inquiry-driven research course provides a hands-on laboratory experience in which students isolate a novel bacteriophage from the environment and characterized the bacteriophage through experimentation. Topics covered include phage biology and bacteriology, gene structure and expression, DNA isolation, restriction digest analysis, agarose gel electrophoresis, and electron microscopy. In this writing intensive course, students will learn effective scientific writing skills through instruction and writing activities and will write a final manuscript to report their research findings. Students also carry out activities and reflective writing assignments that simultaneously teach students both scientific content as well as personal, interpersonal, and critical-thinking skills essential to the practice of science. (HON 150 and BMB 150 are identical courses.) General Education Requirements: Writing Intensive Prerequisites: Permission Course Typically Offered: Fall Credits: 4
	HON 155 - Genome Discovery II: From DNA to Genes Provides laboratory experience working on DNA sequence from a bacteriophage isolated during the previous semester. Topics include bioinformatics, genome annotation, open reading frame and RNA identification, BLAST analysis, phylogenetics and submission to a genomic database. In addition students will gain skills in designing and running computational experiments, reading the scientific literature, writing scientific papers, and making oral presentations. (HON 155 and BMB 155 are identical courses) Prerequisites: HON 150 Course Typically Offered: Spring Credits: 3
	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: Social Contexts and Institutions Prerequisites: Enrollment in the Honors College or permission. Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring Credits: 1
	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: Artistic and Creative Expression Prerequisites: Enrollment in the Honors College or permission. Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring Credits: 1
	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
	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
	HON 211 - Civilizations: Past, Present and Future III The third course in the Honors Civilizations sequence. (Offered in the Fall semester.) General Education Requirements: Writing Intensive Course Typically Offered: Fall Credits: 4
	HON 212 - Civilizations: Past, Present and Future IV The fourth course in the Honors Civilizations sequence. (Offered in the Spring semester.) General Education Requirements: Writing Intensive Course Typically Offered: Spring Credits: 4
	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
	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: Ethics Prerequisites: Junior standing in Honors College with three first- or second-year Honors courses and permission. Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered Credits: 3
	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. General Education Requirements: Artistic and Creative Expression Prerequisites: Sophomore or Junior standing in Honors College with three first- or second-year Honors courses and permission. Course Typically Offered: Fall Credits: 3
	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
	HON 349 - Tutorial Alternative Portfolio Presentation of materials documenting a pre-approved and completed Tutorial Alternative. Supervised by an Honors College associate and the Dean of the Honors College. (Pass/Fail Grade Only.) Prerequisites: Permission. Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring Credits: 0
	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
	HON 391 - Introduction to Thesis Research A series of weekly meetings designed to provide prospective Honors thesis writers with the background, resources and understanding necessary to produce quality independent work. Will engage students in investigating previous theses written in The Honors College, discussions with students currently writing theses and faculty advising theses, identifying a thesis advisor, developing an individual thesis topic, increasing information literacy and research skills and producing an annotated bibliography or literature review. (Pass/Fail Grade Only.) Prerequisites: Junior standing in Honors College. Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring Credits: 1
	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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GER 102 - Elementary German II

GER 203 - Intermediate German I

GER 204 - Intermediate German II

HBR 101 - Beginning Modern Hebrew

HBR 102 - Beginning Modern Hebrew II

HTY 103 - Creating America to 1877

HTY 104 - United States History Since 1877

HTY 105 - History of Ancient and Medieval Europe

HTY 106 - History of Modern Europe

HTY 107 - East Asian Civilization

HTY 108 - India: Identities and Changes

HTY 110 - Introduction to Modern Latin America

HTY 112 - Introduction to Africa

HTY 130 - Craft of Historical Detection

HTY 199 - Problems in History

HTY 202 - Medieval Civilization

HTY 210 - History of Maine

HTY 211 - Maine and the Sea

HTY 212 - Geography of Maine

HTY 213 - History of the Maine Woods

HTY 218 - History of Film

HTY 220 - North American Indian History

HTY 221 - History and Comics

HTY 222 - Maine Indian History in the Twentieth Century

HTY 235 - Heresy, Witchcraft, and Reform

HTY 240 - Creation of the Atlantic World, 1450-1888

HTY 241 - History of Globalization, 1900-Present

HTY 251 - Technology and Society from Ancient Times till the Present

HTY 261 - New England and Eastern Canada Since 1815: A Transnational Region

HTY 265 - The Power of Maps

HTY 275 - Geography of Globalization

HTY 278 - American Military History

HTY 279 - European Military History

HTY 311 - Research Seminar

HTY 312 - Furs, Frontiers, and Fame: North American Exploration

HTY 330 - Robber Barons, Reformers and Radicals 1877-1914

HTY 332 - Womanhood in America

HTY 338 - Everyday Life in America, 1600-1850

HTY 341 - The Making of Modern China

HTY 349 - Early Modern North America in Atlantic Perspective

HTY 351 - The Napoleonic Empire (1799-1815)

HTY 365 - The American Immigrant Experience

HTY 398 - Historical Issues

HTY 402 - Roman History

HTY 403 - Early Middle Ages

HTY 404 - Late Middle Ages

HTY 405 - Early Modern Europe: Renaissance, Reformation and the Foundation of the Modern World-System

HTY 407 - The Age of Monarchs and Revolution: Europe, 1648-1815

HTY 409 - European Society and Culture in the Age of Total War

HTY 411 - The Holocaust

HTY 412 - European Imperial 1870-1714

HTY 415 - African-American History

HTY 420 - Science and Society Since 1800

HTY 427 - Vikings!

HTY 432 - History of Modern Ideas

HTY 433 - Greek and Roman Mythology

HTY 437 - History of Modern Japan

HTY 442 - The United States and Vietnam: A History

HTY 446 - History of Modern Middle East, 1800-Present

HTY 449 - History of South Africa

HTY 450 - History of the British Empire

HTY 456 - History of Modern Britain

HTY 459 - Colonial Canada

HTY 460 - Modern Canada

HTY 461 - Colonial British America to 1763

HTY 462 - The American Revolution

HTY 463 - The Early Republic, 1789-1840

HTY 464 - America at the Crossroads: The Era of Civil War Reconstruction 1840-1876

HTY 465 - American Landscapes, 1600-1850

HTY 467 - Early 20th Century America, 1914-1945

HTY 468 - America Since 1945

HTY 473 - History of U.S. Foreign Relations I

HTY 474 - History of U.S. Foreign Relations II

HTY 477 - The American Worker

HTY 479 - U.S. Environmental History

HTY 480 - Global Environmental History

HTY 483 - Violence in North American History

HTY 487 - The First World War

HTY 491 - Technology and Society Until 1800