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UNDERGRADUATE COURSES — INDEPENDENT STUDY PROGRAM

 
History Courses

A261 - Modern American Women's History

Online / Correspondence
Surveys U.S. women's history from 1820 to the present. Themes include changing ideals of gender and sexuality; women's labor in industrial and postindustrial America; racial, class, ethnic, and regional diversity; and women's participation in religious, political, social reform, and women's rights movements. NOTE: Online course requires Microsoft Word.

A301 - Colonial America

Online / Correspondence
Social, cultural, economic, and political development of colonial America from first contact between Native Americans and Europeans, up to the outbreak of the American Revolution. Topics include global capitalism, migration, slavery, consumerism, religious revivalism, and democracy. NOTE: Online course requires Microsoft Word.

A302 - Revolutionary America

Online / Correspondence
Political, social, and cultural history of Revolution. What did it take to make a revolution? What did it take to make a nation? How has the revolution lived on in popular memory? Includes strong focus on experience of women and enslaved blacks. NOTE: Online course requires Microsoft Word.

A303 - United States, 1789-1829 I

Online / Correspondence
The young republic from Washington's presidency through the Civil War. Political, economic, and social conditions and changes; Hamiltonian Federalists and Jeffersonian Republicans, the Jackson era, the slavery conflict, and the crisis of the Union.

A304 - United States, 1829-1865 II

Correspondence
A continuation of A303. May be taken without A303.

A314 - United States, 1917-1945

Online / Correspondence
Political, demographic, economic, and intellectual transformation 1917-1945; World War I, the twenties, the Great Depression, New Deal, and World War II. NOTE: Online course requires Microsoft Word.

A363 - Survey of Indiana History

Correspondence
A survey of Indiana history and culture from the original inhabitants to recent times, with emphasis on the growth of a distinctive Hoosier culture. Credit not given for both the sequence A333-A334 and A363.

A364 - History of Black Americans

Online / Correspondence
A survey of black life in America: the Atlantic slave trade, slavery, Afro-American culture, racism, Civil War and Reconstruction, peonage, segregation, northern migration, urban ghettoes, discrimination, Harlem Renaissance, black nationalism, civil rights, black revolt, contemporary setting.

B323 - History of the Holocaust

Online / Correspondence
Anti-semitism in imperial and Weimar Germany; the Nazi rise to power; the destruction of European Jewry; Jewish behavior in crisis and extremity; the attitude of the Allied nations; mass murder in comparative historical perspective; theological, moral, and political implications.

B361 - Europe in the Twentieth Century I

Correspondence
Economic, social, political, and military-diplomatic developments, 1900-1930: origins, impact, and consequences of World War I; peacemaking; postwar problems; international communism and fascism; the Great Depression.

B362 - Europe in the Twentieth Century II

Online / Correspondence
Economic, social, political, and military-diplomatic developments, 1930 to present. Depression politics; crisis of democracy; German national socialism; World War II; Cold War; postwar reconstruction and recovery.

E332 - African History from Colonial Rule To Independence

Online / Correspondence
1750 to present. Slave trade, European imperialism, impact of Islam and Christianity, new state formations, reassertion of African culture and identity. Some map study. Credit given for only one of E432 and E332.

H101 - The World in the Twentieth Century I

Correspondence
Principal world developments in the twentieth century, stressing Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Europe; global and regional problems; political revolutions; social and cultural diversity.

H106 - American History II

Online / Correspondence
A continuation of H105: 1865 to present. May be taken without H105. NOTE: Online course requires Microsoft Word.

H207 - Modern East Asian Civilization

Online
Internet only. Contrasting patterns of indigenous change and response to Western imperialism in East Asia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. China and Japan receive primary consideration. Emphasis on the rise of nationalism and other movements directed toward revolutionary change.

H233 - Sports in History

Online / Correspondence
Examines the historical conditions in which sports have developed from ancient to contemporary times, with particular emphasis on modern American society and sport.

H251 - Introduction to Jewish History: From the Bible to the Spanish Expulsion

Correspondence
Topics include the origins of Judaism, Jewish life in ancient Israel and the diaspora, Judaism and the origins of Christianity, Jewish soceity and culture under Christian and Muslim rule in the Middle Ages.


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