Courses

• CAS HI 286: The American Military Experience
  Introduction to American military history from the colonial period to the role of military force in contemporary U.S. statecraft. Examines the character of the armed services, the American style of waging war, and the relationship between the military and society. Also offered as CAS IR 320. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 370.
• CAS HI 287: History of American Foreign Relations since 1898
  Analysis of the history of American foreign policy from the perspective of the changing world and regional international systems; emphasis on the effect of these systems and the impact of America on the creation and operation of international systems. Also offered as CAS PO 366. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 366.
• CAS HI 288: American Foreign Policy Since 1945
  America's tradition and heritage in foreign policy. American foreign policy during the Cold War. Conflicting approaches to the formulation of American foreign policy in the current international environment. Domestic and institutional actors in policy formulation: Congress, media, Presidency, CIA, military. Also offered as CAS IR 376. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 376.
• CAS HI 289: History of International Relations, 1900-45
  The causes and consequences of the First World War; the search for postwar reconstruction and stability during the twenties; economic collapse, revolutionary nationalism, and fascism during the 1930s; the Second World War and the advent of the bipolar world. Also offered as CAS IR 349. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 349.
• CAS HI 290: History of International Relations since 1945
  The causes and consequences of the Soviet-American Cold War from its origins in Europe to its extension to Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The rise of the multipolar international system, the emergence of the nonaligned blocs, and inter- and intra-alliance conflicts. Also offered as CAS IR 350. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 350.
• CAS HI 291: Politics of the American Environment
  Examines how questions of natural resource distribution, environmental rights, and environmental hazards have shaped United States politics and governance, with a focus on the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 360.
• CAS HI 292: Money, Markets & Managers: Economic History of the United States
  Analysis of American economic development; role of factory and frontier; changes in economic structure and institutions; parts played by government and business enterprise in development. Influence of economic conditions and occupation groupings on political alignments and on public policy. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 377.
• CAS HI 293: History of Economic Ideas
  The history of theories about how the economy works and how it is conceptualized by economic theorists. Covers the main schools in the history of economic thought, from pre-Classical economists to Milton Friedman and the Chicago School. Also offered as CAS EC 331.
• CAS HI 298: African American History
  The history of African Americans from African origins to present time; consideration of slavery, reconstruction, and ethnic relations from the colonial era to our own time. Also offered as CAS AA 371. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 371.
• CAS HI 299: History of the Civil Rights Movement
  History of the African American struggle for racial equality and democracy from the turn of the century through the 1960s. Use is made of the most recent scholarship, memoirs, documentary films, and oral history accounts. Also offered as CAS AA 310. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 378.
• 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. Also offered as CAS RN 314.
• 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 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.

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