HISTORY
HI 101: ORIGINS OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION
HI 199: AMERICA: ORIGINS TO WORLD POWER
HI 355: MODERN AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS
HI 374: ST: HOLLYWOOD AND U.S. HISTORY
HI 385: ST: VIETNAM WAR
Western Civilization, from its Middle East origins to approximately 1600.
This course covers crucial issues in U.S. History from the American Revolution to the 21st century, with a heavy focus on processes which created, challenged and changed the Constitution and on the United States’ interactions with the rest of the world.
Surveys American foreign relations from the 1890s to the present. The course examines the emergence of the United States as a world power, the challenges of war and peace, and America in the Cold War and post-Cold War world.
Few institutions of pop culture loom larger in the popular imagination than movies. Since the advent of film, movies have reflected social, political, and cultural change, even as they have helped to shape values and ideas in American society at large. This course examines the phenomenon of Hollywood filmmaking and encourages students to “see” movies in a different way – as historical sources, windows through which we can understand the social, political, and cultural transformations of the twentieth-century America.
This course focuses on American involvement in Vietnam from 1954 to 1975, though we will also discuss events before and after this period. Students should note that this is not a course in military history. We will discuss military events, but we will also take a broader view of the conflict. Topics will include the reasons for American intervention in Vietnam, the experiences of people involved in the conflict, the viability of the South Vietnamese state, the causes of America’s defeat (and North Vietnam’s victory),
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