Courses
HST 1100. History of the World 1: Prehistory to the Renaissance. (3 Hours)
Examines the key factors and events that shaped world history from its earliest recordings to the age of the Renaissance. Analyzes history from a thematic and geographic perspective, examining the major moments in the ancient, medieval, and early modern periods. Studies how these periods in history led to the modern era.
Attribute(s): NUpath Interpreting Culture, NUpath Societies/Institutions
HST 1150. History of the World 2: From Renaissance to the Present. (3 Hours)
Examines the key factors and events that shaped world history from the Renaissance to the present. Analyzes history from a thematic and geographic perspective, examining the major moments in history since the Renaissance. Offers students an opportunity to learn how major periods in history, including the Age of Revolution, the Enlightenment, and the Age of Industrialization, led to the world we live in today.
Attribute(s): NUpath Interpreting Culture, NUpath Societies/Institutions
HST 1200. American History 1: Precontact to the Civil War. (3 Hours)
Examines American history from the precolonial period up to the end of the American Civil War. From the time of the earliest settlers through the Civil War, religious, ethnic, racial, and cultural differences were important factors in the development of the U.S. as a pluralistic democracy. The important role played by these many differences are explored as students analyze history from social, cultural, and political perspectives and examine key moments and turning points in American history.
Attribute(s): NUpath Difference/Diversity, NUpath Societies/Institutions
HST 1990. Elective. (1-4 Hours)
Offers elective credit for courses taken at other academic institutions. May be repeated without limit.
HST 2125. 20th-Century World Wars. (3 Hours)
Examines the major causes, events, and outcomes of World War I and World War II. Analyzes the period of history prior to World War I to discover the causes of the Great War and then studies the end of the war and the events of the interwar period as a pretext for World War II. Offers students an opportunity to learn how the events of history from 1914–1945 shaped the world we live in today.
Attribute(s): NUpath Difference/Diversity, NUpath Societies/Institutions
HST 2150. The World Since 1945. (3 Hours)
Examines major historical events since 1945. Analyzes the political, social, cultural, and economic relationship between the developed and developing world as a backdrop for major moments in history since the end of World War II. Major topics include the end of World War II, the Cold War, decolonization, the fall of the Soviet Union, the Middle East, and the role of nationalism and globalization in recent historical events. Emphasizes the role of difference—ethnic, racial, gender, religious, etc.—in determining the geopolitical reality.
Attribute(s): NUpath Difference/Diversity, NUpath Societies/Institutions
HST 2425. Coming to America: The American Immigrant Experience. (3 Hours)
Examines the migration of people to North America. Analyzes the migration of Native Americans in ancient times, the arrival of European settlers and explorers, and the various waves of immigration to the United States from Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Emphasizes the diverse cultures that came, their reasons for coming, their reasons for settling in particular places, and the processes by which they resolved issues relating to “Americanization.”
Attribute(s): NUpath Difference/Diversity, NUpath Societies/Institutions
HST 2990. Elective. (1-4 Hours)
Offers elective credit for courses taken at other academic institutions. May be repeated without limit.
HST 3990. Elective. (1-4 Hours)
Offers elective credit for courses taken at other academic institutions. May be repeated without limit.
HST 4955. Project. (1-4 Hours)
Focuses on in-depth project in which a student conducts research or produces a product related to the student’s major field. May be repeated without limit.
HST 4990. Elective. (1-4 Hours)
Offers elective credit for courses taken at other academic institutions. May be repeated without limit.
HST 6962. Elective. (1-4 Hours)
Offers elective credit for courses taken at other academic institutions. May be repeated without limit.