History (HIST)

A survey of the political, social, economic, military, cultural and intellectual history of the United States from 1492 to 1865.

A survey of the political, social, economic, military, cultural and intellectual history of the United States from 1865 to the present.

Spanish colonial period, Mexican statehood, independence, the development of the Republic, annexation and growth as a state.

This course offers a survey of the history of the world from the emergence of human cultures through the 15th century. The course examines major cultural regions of the world with a focus on their development and their cross-regional interactions.

examines major global issues over the past 500 years. Topics may include European expansion and colonialism, the integration of the Americans into world economic systems, changes in science and technology, decolonization, and modern environmental problems. This course will help students understand historical events within a global framework.

This course examines the history of Mexican Americans in the United States up to World War I. We will explore how Mexicans and Mexican Americans built communities while facing significant political and economic barriers. We will consider many facets of Mexican American life such as work, culture, and politics. The main themes we will cover include migration, empire, resistance, and identity. The goal of this course is to situate Mexican Americans into a United States national narrative.

This course examines the history of Mexican Americans in the United States from World War I to the present. We will explore how Mexicans and Mexican Americans built communities while facing significant political and economic barriers. We will consider many facets of Mexican American life such as work, culture, and politics. The main themes we will cover include migration, empire, resistance, and identity. The goal of this course is to situate Mexican Americans into a United States national narrative.

Designed especially for non-History majors, this course takes a broad view of the term business by tracing the ways that private enterprises have shaped U.S. history from the colonial era to the present. We’ll explore critical developments in how businesses are organized, and what activities they have engaged in (i.e., trade, manufacturing, transportation, retail, and finance). At the same time, we’ll investigate the contentious debates among workers, managers, owners, and consumers about what role enterprise should play in society.

Designed especially for non-History majors, this course is an introduction to the history of human interactions with the environment in the United States. It examines how past human activities have depended on and interacted with the natural world. It also traces the shifting attitudes toward nature held by different Americans during various periods of their nation's history. Additionally, the course will chart how human attitudes and activities have worked together to reshape the American landscape. This course will not just offer students a survey of the history and environments of the United States from colonial times to the present, but will also present different ways of thinking about these subjects.

Designed especially for non-History majors, this course will examine the history of science and technology from their earliest roots in ancient civilizations through the modern era. Specifically, the course will challenge students to think critically about their definitions of science and will examine how these definitions have changed over time. The course examines science and technology as products of specific social and historical conditions, and conversely the social changes created by scientific knowledge. Additionally, it will examine the significance of race, class, gender, and religion in the construction of reception of scientific ideas.

Designed especially for non-History majors, this course examines the social and cultural histories of medicine and perceptions of health from 1500 through the modern era. We will examine developments regarding health advice, the medical profession, and how environmental changes affected approaches to maintaining a healthy lifestyle in different periods. To do this we will analyze shifts in medicine and perceptions of healthiness through the lenses of major historical transitions beginning during the Renaissance where colonization of the ‘New World’ brought about transformations in medicinal practice and radically altered Western interpretations of the world. We will then proceed through the Enlightenment to show how understandings of medicine and health continued to shift alongside concepts of individual rights and scientific thought through the age of Atlantic Revolutions and into the 20th century where Western medicine evolved in response to the demands of the world wars and the nuclear age.

Surveys the key beliefs, practices, rituals, figures, and historical developments of the world's major religious traditions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and New Age religions. Gives particular attention to their encounter with modernity and their complicated place in today's global, diverse, post-modern world.

An overview of Latin American history from pre-Columbian times until Independence.

A study of the major political, economic and cultural processes that marked the development of modern Latin America.

This course examines the ancient history of the human race. It begins with the evolution of Homo sapiens in Africa and continues through approximately the 4th century CE. Topics examined include the formation of cultures, societies, states, and empires around the world such as those in Egypt, Southwest Asia, India, China, and the Mediterranean.

Covers early North American history from pre-contact through 1763, with a focus on the territory that would eventually become the United States. Examines the varieties of colonial worlds created by Europeans and native peoples, the nature and impact of European colonization, the development of slave societies, the emergence of regional economies and modern culture, the consolidation of European empires in the early and mid-18th century, and the imperial wars that finally set the stage for the coming of the American Revolution.

Covers the history of the American Revolution from the end of the Seven Years’ War in 1763 to the ratification on the new federal constitution in 1789. Covers the political and social history of the independence movement, the Declaration of Independence, the military, social, and indigenous history of the Revolutionary War, and the making of the Constitution.

Traces regional economic, social, and political change in the Americas from 1607 to the end of the Revolution.

This course examines American history from the end of the revolutionary war to 1850. Political, economic, and social issues including, but not limited to, the creation of the Constitution, the development of the first and second party systems, the market revolution, antebellum reform, the Old South, and westward expansion.

Background and causes of the Civil War; military, political, diplomatic, and economic developments during the War; Reconstruction and post?war adjustments.

An examination of the dramatic period when the United States definitively settled the remaining portions of the continent and decisively moved towards becoming an industrial, urban nation with world-wide economic and political influence.

Study of American life from World War I through World War II. Topics include America's rise to a world power, the social, cultural, and political effects of corporate enterprise, urbanization, and immigration, women's suffrage, the Twenties, and the New Deal.

A study of American life and development as a world power since World War II.

A general survey of the social, cultural, and political history of the American city, with particular emphasis on Corpus Christi and the ways our city illustrates these larger trends.

This course will examine Asia from 1600 to the present. Topics include politics, the nation state, colonialism, empire, war, nationalism, the Cold War and revolution, all in a historical context.

Explores how the environment has shaped society and the ways in which humans, in turn, have shaped nature throughout American history. Also focuses on environmental justice and injustices along the Gulf Coast. Public history component.

In this cross-disciplinary class, students of history, sciences, the arts, and more will be introduced to the different departments of a museum and gain experience in programming, exhibits, research, public engagement, and other various aspects of museum management through their participation in a real working museum (Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History).

A Project-centered class that examines public history practices and debates, including the changing field over time, the relationship between history and memory, and the interpretive and sometimes controversial nature of historical sites and exhibits. Students will also learn methods and practices of museums, archives, oral history, digital history, and more. Includes community-engaged learning, workshops, local field trips.

A project-based course designed to teach students oral history, audio recording, and editing. Topics include oral history theory and methods, the role of testimony and memory in constructing historical narratives, interview techniques, archival practices, and the technical aspects of audio production, audio storytelling, and podcasting.

This course covers variable topics in European History from the Renaissance through the Enlightenment. Each semester, the course content will focus on specific events, areas, time periods, and themes of the instructor’s choosing.

This course covers variable topics in European History from the Age of Revolutions to the Present. Each semester, the course content will focus on specific events, areas, time periods, and themes of the instructor’s choosing.

Introduces students to the most significant historiographical problems that face historians, focusing on recent and current controversies that have shaken the profession and been the subject of public and political debate. Provides examples of how historians think about and do history.

Prerequisite: HIST 1301 and 1302 and (HIST 2321 or 2322).

Explores ways that the myriad groups who have made up American society from the colonial period to the "information age" understood and expressed themselves and related to each other. (The chronological scope of this course may vary.)

The historical development of modern popular culture—including television, movies, fiction, newspapers, music and consumption—and its effect on the structure and experience of U.S. society and work from the nineteenth century to the present.

The development of U.S. military strategy and policy from the Colonial Wars through Vietnam.

Spanish and Mesoamerican backgrounds, conquest and mestizaje, settlement of Aztlán, interaction with Anglo-Americans, 20th century immigration, urbanization, identity, the Chicano Movement, and Mexican American organizational/political development.

Themes include transformations in the notion of womanhood and of sexual differences, changes in the structure, function, and concept of "family" and "household," and historical factors that have shaped women's role in the work force and public life.

Study of the experiences of European women from the 18th to the 20th centuries. Also addresses the role that gender has played in the development of modern European societies. Some topics covered are women and the French Revolution, gender and class in industrial Europe, feminism and suffrage, and women and fashion.

Examines the Holocaust by exploring the role of racism and anti-Semitism, the rise of Nazi policies, Jewish responses and resistance to them, deportation and genocide, the role of war, and the aftermath and memory of an event "beyond human imagination."

Survey of the major European intellectual and cultural movements from the Enlightenment to the present. Broader than a traditional course in intellectual history, special attention will be given to the emergence and development of the concepts of "modernity" and the challenges of "postmodernism."

This course surveys modern Chinese history from the late Ming dynasty to the present, with an emphasis on the late 19th and 20th centuries. Topics include empire, colonialism, nationalism, the nation state, modernization, revolution and the Cold War, all in a historical context.

This course will have students examine the changes in sexual morals, the regulation of sexual behavior, and the construction of sexual identities in the United States from the colonial period to the present.

Explores the transnational relations of Asia and the Pacific with the West from the 19th century to the present day. Themes include colonialism and imperialism, diaspora and migration, labor and economy, war and displacement. Topics include the Opium Wars, Immigration and Exclusion, Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima, Military War Brides, Third World Radicalism, Transnational Adoption Complex, and Environmentalism and Globalization.

Examines how the relations between history, memory, and contemporary politics in post-WWII U.S. and Asia-Pacific have shaped the meaning of various contentious issues related to the Pacific War-such as war origins and responsibility, atrocities, racism, reparations, and nationalism-in textbooks, monuments, literature, art, films, political debates, exhibits, commemorative events, and scholarly works in different social and temporal contexts.

Examines the broad political, economic, social, and cultural trends in the lives of Mexican American women since 1848.

Traces economic, social, and political change in Mexico from independence to the present.

This course examines the history of Latinos in the United States from the early 19th century to the present. We will explore how Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Central Americans, and other Latinos built communities while facing significant political and economic barriers. The course focuses on changing notions of race, class, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and citizenship and how those changes shaped the experiences of Latinos. We will consider many facets of Latino life such as work, culture, and politics. The main themes we will cover include migration, empire, resistance, and identity. The goal of this course is to situate Latinos into a U.S. national narrative. The first half of this course moves chronologically and the second-half, dealing mostly with the post-Word War II era, is organized thematically.

The study and writing of history, with emphasis on historical analysis, research, and writing. Designed as the capstone course for history majors and prospective social science teachers. This course will feature a senior research paper, and should be taken during the student's final year of undergraduate study.

Prerequisite: HIST 3385 or READ 3353.

Study of significant periods, countries, regions, or themes in history. May be repeated when topics vary.

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Best practices and methods in digital archives, museums, and /or public history through field work at a local organization or museum. Offered on application. Repeatable up to 6 hours.