This course will explore the political, social, cultural, and military aspects of the history of war movies, from the 1950s to the present, through consideration of numerous movies. Competency: Critical Thinking and Information Literacy. At their own expense, students will visit the Tenement Museum and participate in a multi-ethnic eating tour of New York City’s Lower East Side. Topics covered include family, neighborhood, work and the role food plays in building immigrant communities and the city of New York at large. This course will examine the experience of immigrants and ethnic populations in New York City from the seventeenth century to the present. Competency: Critical Thinking and Intercultural. It will conclude with the mercantile period in United States history through the revolutionary period to 1815. The course will begin with the earliest European settlements on the continent of North America, tracing the inception and expansion of the various mercantile empires with emphasis upon British colonialism.
The main themes will be the unity of the European experience and the dynamism and expansiveness of European civilization. Competency: Critical Thinking.Īn overview of European history and civilization from the Reformation to the present. HIS 186 Europe: Ancient and Medieval 3 SHĪ critical examination of the forces, movements and ideologies which established Western civilization as the dominant force of the modern world.
HIS 149 American History: Since 1877 3 SHĪn examination of American history since 1877, focusing on major social, political and economic trends and touching on such diverse subjects as the rise of industry, World War I and the civil rights movement. Competency: Intercultural.Īn examination of America’s history from the earliest explorers and colonial times through the Civil War and reconstruction. By examining primary sources and drawing from various media, students consider the nature of plantation economies, questions of identity and bondage, the importance of resistance, and how challenges to slavery shaped emerging ideas of freedom. Topics include slavery and abolition in North America, South America, and the Caribbean. This course examines the history of Slavery in the Americas between 15. HIS 147 History of Slavery in the Americas 3 SH HIS/NWC 115 Latin American and Caribbean Civilization Competency: Critical Thinking and First Year Navigation. Students must enroll in this course within one semester of declaring the History major. This course also includes a brief introduction to historiography.
all the fundamentals they will need to be majors. Students would learn: geography, writing, footnoting/citing, methodologies, technology, library skills, etc. This is a basic skills course that does not focus on any one geographical or chronological area.