Courses

• CAS HI 300: American Popular Culture
  Examines Americans' beliefs and the cultural forms used to convey their experiences since the late nineteenth century. Includes challenges to the Victorian order, growth of commercial entertainments, new rules and reactions to modern life, and changing understandings of the self. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 379.
• CAS HI 301: A History of Women in the United States
  Examines the ideas and experiences of women in the United States from the 1600s through the late twentieth century. Considers the common factors that shaped women's lives as well as women's diverse class, ethnic, and regional experiences. Also offered as CAS AM 375. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 375.
• CAS HI 302: Science and American Culture
  From the colonial period to the present. Such topics as the American reception of Copernicus and Newton, scientific exploration, the interaction of science and religion, the impact of science on social theory, the rise of "big science," and contemporary "science wars." This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 368.
• CAS HI 304: Science and Christianity
  Examines the relationship between science and the Christian tradition in Europe and North America since 1500. Considers the epistemological and metaphysical foundations of both science and Christian thought as they have evolved over time. Also offered as CAS RN 369. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 369.
• CAS HI 305: American Thought and Culture, 1776-1900
  Major thinkers and movements in intellectual and cultural history from the Revolution to 1900. Topics include Revolutionary republicanism, evangelical theology and democratic theory, Transcendentalism and Romantic culture, antislavery and nationality, Victorian realism, liberal Protestantism and Darwinism, and evolutionary social science. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 373.
• CAS HI 306: American Thought and Culture, 1900 to the Present
  Major thinkers and movements in intellectual and cultural history since 1900. Topics include pragmatism and progressivism; ethnic and cultural pluralism; Marxism and liberalism; Cold War ideology and neoconservatism; artistic modernism; psychoanalysis and modernization theory; the New Left, multiculturalism, and postmodernism. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 374.
• CAS HI 307: Education in American History
  Interaction between education and society during the past two centuries. Emphasis on "mass schooling" and quality of education. Relevance of the past as a key to evaluating contemporary education. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 352.
• CAS HI 308: Religious Thought in America
  Surveys many of the strategies that American religious thinkers have adopted for interpreting the cosmos, the social order, and human experience and the interaction of those strategies with broader currents of American culture. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 354.
• CAS HI 309: Americans in the World: United States History in Transitional Perspective
  Examines how political, cultural, and social movements in the United States have connected with people and developments around the world. Topics include views of American society by outside observers, Americans' activities abroad, and their part in shaping global integration. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 367.
• CAS HI 310: The Peopling of America
  The history of the diverse ethnic and racial composition of the American nation: the intersection of individual lives with the public policies of governments; the creation of a pluralistic society, including immigrants and the native-born, free and unfree populations. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 261.
• CAS HI 311: The South in History and Literature
  Explores the experience and culture of the U.S. South by focusing on its history and literature to understand how and why the South continues to be seen as a unique component of the larger American experience. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 660.
• CAS HI 321: The American Revolution, 1750-1800
  The political, economic, and ideological causes of the American War for Independence; the construction of a new political system amid the passions of a revolutionary upheaval; and the gradual emergence of a new economic and cultural order in the United States. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 356.
• CAS HI 328: The Civil War Era
  Social, economic, and political consequences of slavery; Southern secession and the Civil War; political reconstruction; the New South; and the betrayal of black rights. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 361.
• CAS HI 329: The Gilded Age, 1877–1914
  Known as a period of obscene ostentation, this period also reveals considerable tension between a society seething with social conflict and a culture creeping toward nationalization. Emphasis on social conflict, regional differences, and new cultural pursuits. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 362.
• CAS HI 337: The United States, 1900-1945
  Industrialization; Progressivism; science; religion; expansion and World War I; immigration; the women's movement; Jim Crow; the Great Depression and New Deal; World War II; politics, culture, and diplomacy. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 363.
• CAS HI 338: The United States, 1945-68
  Origins and development of Cold War; McCarthyism, Eisenhower era; civil rights; Great Society; Vietnam; new left and counterculture; feminism; rise of conservatism; religion, culture, and politics. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 364.
• CAS HI 339: The United States since 1968
  Recent political, economic, social, and cultural history. Includes Nixon, Carter, and Reagan presidencies; stagflation; Watergate; "Me Decade"; end of the Cold War. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 365.
• CAS HI 341: Political and Cultural Revolution
  Comparative historical analysis of modern and contemporary revolutionary upheavals and cultural change in Europe, the Americas, East Asia, Africa, Middle East, and the former Soviet republics. Examines the challenges posed by modernization, crisis of legitimacy, nationalism, imperial decline, and globalization. Carries social science divisional credit in the College of Arts & Sciences. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 215.
• CAS HI 342: Imperialism and Independence
  Examines nineteenth- and twentieth-century imperialist and independence movements, focusing on the colonial projects in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Analyzes imperialist ideologies and the roles nationalism, liberalism, communism, and socialism played in independence movements.
• CAS HI 347: Reconstructing the African Past
  Discusses the uses of archaeological evidence and oral tradition, as well as primary and secondary documentation, in the study of precolonial African history: early states and empires, kinship, cosmology and social order, slavery and the slave trade, and origins of racial conflict in southern Africa. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 291. Carries social science divisional credit in CAS.