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Surveys:
HIST 10003 (staff) Western Civilization to 1500
This course follows the path of European history beginning with its origins in Mesopotamia, following the developments of Greek and Roman society, continuing through the medieval period and ending with the Renaissance (approximately 3000 BCE-1500 CE). Its main purpose will be to identify the general patterns of politics, economics, religion, society, and culture that characterized Europe during these centuries. We will also explore primary sources to learn the techniques of historians and to give us glimpses in the lives of the inhabitants of the past. (NWH, HS)
Section Time Instructor
002 8-8:50 MWF Staff
010 9-9:50 MWF J. Campbell
015 9:30-10:50 TR J. Chambers
HIST 10013: Western Civilization from 1500
History of Western Civilization. A Survey from 1500 to the present. The development of European society from the Reformation to the Twentieth Century. Topics include the Protestant and Catholic Reformations, cultural encounters with the New World, the rise of absolutism, the Enlightenment and democratic revolutions, industrialization, the emergence of liberalism, capitalism and socialism, World War I and World War II. Readings, course requirements and course design vary with the individual instructor. ( NWH, HS.)
Section Time Instructor
005 8-9:20 TR Staff
010 9-9:50 MWF C. Sanders
030 11-11:50 MWF C. Sanders
HIST 10603 -- United States History: A Survey to 1877
Review of the evolution of the American nation from the discovery of the
New World to the end of the Civil War era, with emphasis on major forces
shaping its development. Readings, course requirements and course design
vary with the individual instructor. (WH, HS-U)
Section Time Instructor
002 8-8:50 MWF Staff
005 8-9:20 TR S. Woodworth
010 9-9:50 MWF G. Smith
015 9:30-10:50TR Staff
020 10-10:50 MWF K. Stott
050 1-1:50 MWF K. Stott
055 2-3:20 TR Staff
080 6:30-9:10(p.m.) T. W. Watters
HIST 10613 - United States History: A Survey from 1877
Review of the emergence of the American nation through the transitional
crises of the past hundred years, with emphasis on the roots of movements
persisting into the modern period. Readings, course requirements and course
design vary with the individual instructor.(WH, HS-U)
Section Time Instructor
002 8-8:50 MWF Staff
015 9:30-10:50 TR J. Floyd-Thomas
005 8-9:20 TR Staff
016 9:30-10:50 TR D. C. Brown
040 12-12:50 MWF K. Stevens
060 2-2:50 MWF K. Stevens
070 3-3:50 MWF Staff
080 6:30-9:10(p.m.) W W. Watters
HIST 10533-U.S. History through Sport. 2:00-4:40 W. Dr. T. Kerstetter.
This freshman seminar explores the role sport has played in American history
and how political, economic, class, ethnic, gender, and racial issues
have surfaced in games, competitions, and the business of sport. Chronologically,
the course begins with sport among American Indians and European colonists
and concludes with the status of sport in the early 21st century. Put
another way, sport will provide a lens through which to survey U.S. history.
The course will also provide an intensive, personalized learning experience
to introduce students to academic life at TCU. The seminar format leans
heavily on discussion and students will be expected to participate actively
in each class session. Students will also write a research paper on a
topic chosen in consultation with the instructor. Reading assignments
will include articles from academic journals and Sports Illustrated, a
textbook, biographies of "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias (Beaumont
High School graduate who starred in track and field and golf in the 1930's)
and "Major" Taylor ("Fastest Bicycle Racer in the World"
who broke the racial barrier in cycling during the late 1800s), and Walter
LaFeber's engaging book Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism.
HIST 10533 - Ancient Mysteries. 2:30-5:10 M. Dr. J. Chambers.
This course provides a survey of ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern
history from the Paleolithic Age to early Greece. In addition, it explores
in some detail various controversial topics from this period that have
generated scholarly disagreement and popular interest, often involving
misinformation. As a class, students will analyze these topics in order
to show the history of each controversy and apply the techniques of critical
historical method. Students will write short papers on two of these controversies.
In addition each student will identify a third topic and complete a paper
and presentation on it. Throughout the course student presentations and
classroom participation are emphasized along with regular consultation
with the professor.
Honors HIST 20923: History of Latin American Civilization and
Culture to 1830. 11-12:20 TR
Through lectures, reading, classroom discussions, and research assignments,
this course examines the indigenous, European, and African roots of Latin
American civilization and culture; the evolution of colonial institutions
and ideas; the emergence of a distinctly Latin American culture; and the
independence movements that established national states in most of Spanish
and Portuguese American by 1830. The course will also include some comparative
analysis with other civilizations.(WH, HS)
Honors HIST 20003: Western Civilization to 1500. 11:00MWF.
Dr. J. Campbell. (CI, NWH). (See course description for HIST 10003)
Honors HIST 20014: Western Civilization from 1500. 1:00MWF. Dr. S. Sohmer. (CI, NWH). (See course description for HIST 10013)
Honors HIST 20603: The American Mind. 3:30-4:50TR. Dr.
J. Floyd-Thomas.
This Honors course is an interdisciplinary survey of American intellectual
history from the colonial era to the end of Reconstruction. The course
will focus upon how key ideas such as democracy, capitalism, manifest
destiny, federalism, slavery, civil liberties/civil rights, and technological
progress among others emerged and influenced American history and, in
turn, helped create a distinctly American intellectual tradition. Although
a strong historical narrative will be evident, the course will also incorporate
insights and methods drawn from literature, politics, sociology, religious
studies, demography, and philosophy to introduce students to the current
scholarship and controversies prevalent within the academic study of American
culture and civilization. Through lectures, assigned readings, classroom
discussions, and written assignments, great consideration will be given
to issues of race, ethnicity, gender, class, religion, regional culture,
and technological innovation in shaping the history of ideas in the United
States. (WH. HS.)
Honors HIST 20943: Asian Civilization to 1500. 9:30-10:50
TR. Dr. P. Worthing.
This course is an introduction to the history and culture of traditional
Asia from Neolithic times to approximately 1500. We will focus on the
major political, economic, cultural, religious and intellectual trends
of the people of East, South and Southeast Asia. Students in this course
will pursue a greater knowledge and understanding of Asian history and
civilization through a combination of readings, lectures, videos, discussion
and writing assignments. Readings include primary texts such as The Ramayana,
Cushingura (47 Ronin) and Confucian, Daoist and Legalist writings from
ancient China. (NW. HS.)
HIST 20763: US Military History. Dr. M.Gilderhus. 11:00
MWF.
This is a survey of the American military experience from colonial times
until the Wars in the Persian Gulf. The War for Independence, the Civil
War, the First World War, the Second World War, and Vietnam receive the
most detailed attention. I emphasize military operations and the impact
of technology on the development of tactical conceptions and strategic
designs. Students will read American Military History by Maurice Matloff
and Major Problems in American Military History, edited by John Whiteclay
Chambers II and G. Kurt Piehler. Also, as a term project, they will write
a short paper, 5-7 pages, based on their readings. Details will appear
later. The course is based on lecture and discussion. In addition, we
will look at a few videos to provide visual impressions of warfare. (WH,
HS.)
.HIST 30993: History of Mexico. 12:00 MWF. Dr. D. Coerver.
After a review of the indigenous and colonial heritages, the course focuses
on Mexico from 1810 to the present. Efforts at modernization in the 19th
Century lead to the lengthy authoritarian regime of Porfirio Diaz from
1876 to 1911. The great Revolution of 1910 sets in motion a number of
political, military, social and economic changes that will influence Mexico
for the next 70 years. Reforms in the 1980's drastically redirect the
Revolution, as economic and financial crises afflict Mexico. TEXTS: Beezley
and MacLachlan, El Gran Pueblo; Aguilar Camin and Meyer, In the Shadow
of the Mexican Revolution. Requirements: three book reviews of 6 pages
each accounting for 30% of the final grade; 3 essay exams accounting for
70% of the final grade. (WH, W, CI.)
HIST 40643: Civil War & Reconstruction. 11-12:20
TR. Dr. S. Woodworth.
This course surveys the social, political, and especially military history
of the United States from 1859-1877. The primary emphasis is naturally
on the war itself-the efforts of statesmen and generals, and of common
soldiers, ordinary civilians, and slaves--- to secure the future of the
continent as they wanted to see it, to win freedom, or just to survive.
Grades will be based on three exams. TEXTS: Brooks D. Simpson, America's
Civil War; Steven E. Woodworth, Beneath a Northern Sky; James Abrahamson,
The Men of Secession and Civil War, 1859-1860; Stephen Davis, Atlanta
Will Fall; Ethan S. Rafuse, A Single Grand Victory. (WH)
HIST 40663: America Between World Wars. 12:30-1:50TR.
Dr. J. Floyd-Thomas.
This course will focus on the fundamental facts and interpretations of
American history - particularly its intellectual, social, and cultural
dimensions - in the era between the First and Second World Wars. Special
attention will be paid to race, gender, class, religiosity, and regional
culture as central factors of everyday life in modern American society.
Simply put, we will see how American society has used the past to understand
the present and shape the future of the United States from 1919 to 1941.
(WH, HS.)
HIST 40703: Indians of the U.S. 9:30-10.50TR. Dr. T.
Kerstetter.
This Writing Emphasis course surveys the history of American Indians living
within the boundaries of the present United States beginning with native
origin stories and ending with current issues such as urbanization, self-determination,
and sovereignty. Reading assignments will include substantial contributions
from American Indian sources and will emphasize events from the 19th and
20th centuries. (WH,W.)
HIST 40783: Constitutional History of the United States.
12:30-1:50 TR. Dr. K. Stevens.
This course begins with the Constitutional Convention and continues to
the era of the Rehnquist Court. Along the way we discuss many of the most
important decisions of the Supreme Court, examining the background of
cases, arguments made by attorneys, and the reasoning behind the decisions
of the justices. We will note how constitutional law changes over time.
Among the issues we discuss are judicial review of legislation, the development
of the contract clause and commerce clause of the Constitution, the Constitution
and slavery, civil liberties in wartime, the New Deal and the courts,
and civil rights and liberties since the Second World War. This is a Writing
Emphasis course for which students will complete a 10-12 page research
paper that uses primary as well as secondary resources. The basic text
is Peter Irons, A People's History of the Supreme Court. Additional short
readings will also be assigned. (WH, HS, W.)
Non-Western Hemisphere Courses:
HIST 30563: History of the British Empire, 1603-1857.
11:00 MWF. Dr. S. Sohmer.
The British Empire was, in the total scheme of things historical, not
particularly long-lived or particularly coherent, or particularly popular
in British society as a whole. It does, however, provide an excellent
framework for studying in a great variety of settings/contexts some of
the most critical issues of modern human history e.g. cross-cultural encounter,
the impact of technology and capital-intensive economies on areas previously
unaffected, governing/management across hitherto unimagined distances,
the relationship between power and popular culture, the transfer/adoption
of institutions and ideologies outside their original historical context.
The British Empire was, in the most literal sense of the term, a fantastic
enterprise-simultaneously imaginative and stolid, creative and destructive
and, perhaps more than anything else, an uncharted venture undertaken
by a people themselves caught up in unprecedented change. TEXTS: D. Headrick,
Tools of Empire; W. Cronin, Changes in the Land; S. Mintz, Sweetness and
Power; T. Hiney, On the Missionary Trail. Two exams, 3 book reviews from
the reading listed and 1 'special interest' paper. (NWH.)
HIST 30323: Peace or Pause?: Europe from 1919-1945.
2:00-4:40 W. Dr. C. Sanders.
World War II was the second global conflict in two generations. This course
will examine the events of the interwar years that precipitated World
War II and the war's impact on Europe. Topics include: the Treaty of Versailles,
the Great Depression, the rise of fascism and its national variations,
and Resistance. What did Europe do between the two world wars? How did
Europeans attempt to structure peace? What went wrong? These are our questions.
We will seek answers in the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, German
war guilt, and French fears. We will be Down and Out in Paris and London
to discover the Great Depression's impact on Europe and witness "The
Triumph of the Will" with the rise of fascism. We will watch the
"Weapons of the Spirit" resist the evils of war. (NWH, HS.)
HIST 30970: Topical Studies in History: Worlds Turned Upside
Down: Revolutions in theory and practice. 9:30-11:50TR. Drs.
C. Sanders and S. Sohmer.
This course will examine six case-studies of revolution in Europe and
Latin America in the modern era. Revolutions encompass far more than political
change, and we will explore the social, cultural and economic aspects
of these revolutions. Primary sources will play an important part in reading,
discussion and writing assignments. (NWH.)
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