HIST 1010 - Survey of Western Civilization I
(3 Credits)
This course is a survey of Western Civilization from its emergence to the Reformation. It focuses on the social, political, cultural, and intellectual transformation of Europe from ancient history to the 17th century. Some of the major themes include the emergence and spread of the Abrahamic religions, Ancient Greece and the Hellenistic World, Rome, collapse of Rome, Early Middle Ages, the High Middle Ages, global encounters, and the Renaissance and Reformation.
Lecture: 3 hours
Course completes the following requirements:
Gen.Ed. Ability 2B
Gen.Ed. Ability 4A
Social Sciences Requirement
URI/RIC Transfer General Education Transfer Opportunity: Yes
HIST 1020 - Survey of Western Civilization II
(3 Credits)
This course is a survey of Western Civilization from the seventeenth century to the present day. The course will focus on the social, political, cultural, and intellectual transformation of Europe and its empire during this period. Some of the major themes to be addressed include the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment, the French and Industrial Revolutions, imperialism, decolonization, World Wars I and II, the Cold War and its end.
Lecture: 3 hours
Course completes the following requirements:
Gen.Ed. Ability 1A
Gen.Ed. Ability 1B
Social Sciences Requirement
URI/RIC Transfer General Education Transfer Opportunity: Yes
HIST 1030 - World History I
(3 Credits)
This course is designed as a broad survey of world history and culture from the earliest human civilizations through the end of the European Middle Ages in the fifteenth century. The course is truly global, accessing examples from across Europe and Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Our focus throughout the semester as we traverse from the Neolithic period through the ancient age and into the beginnings of modernity is on connections between various peoples, ideas, and trends across time and space. We examine the rise of the great world religions, global commerce, and on the ways that military and political events and innovations shaped the world as it developed.
Lecture: 3 hours
Course completes the following requirements:
Gen.Ed. Ability 2A
Gen.Ed. Ability 4A
Social Sciences Requirement
URI/RIC Transfer General Education Transfer Opportunity: Yes
HIST 1040 - World History II
(3 Credits)
This course is designed as a broad survey of world history and culture in the modern period. The course examines the development of modern ideas, institutions, and economic and political systems that were created as a result of networks of exchange and resistance connecting different regions of the world. We explore the ways various forms of globalization--political, economic, social, and technological--helped to create the world we live in today. We begin with the encounters between Europe and the rest of the world before considering how these relationships changed over time.
Lecture: 3 hours
Course completes the following requirements:
Gen.Ed. Ability 2A
Gen.Ed. Ability 4A
Social Sciences Requirement
URI/RIC Transfer General Education Transfer Opportunity: Yes
HIST 1210 - History of the United States to 1877
(3 Credits)
This course surveys the history of the United States from its colonial origins to the end of post-Civil War Reconstruction. Students explore social, cultural, political, and economic factors domestically as well as relations with Indigenous peoples and foreign nations.
Lecture: 3 hours
Course completes the following requirements:
Gen.Ed. Ability 2B
Gen.Ed. Ability 4A
Social Sciences Requirement
URI/RIC Transfer General Education Transfer Opportunity: Yes
HIST 1220 - History of the United States from 1877
(3 Credits)
This course surveys the history of the United States since 1877. Students examine social, cultural, political, and economic factors domestically as well as relations with foreign nations. Emphasis is placed on the growing role of the United States on the world stage.
Lecture: 3 hours
Course completes the following requirements:
Gen.Ed. Ability 2B
Gen.Ed. Ability 4A
Social Sciences Requirement
URI/RIC Transfer General Education Transfer Opportunity: Yes
HIST 2010 - Women in North American History, 1600-1900
(3 Credits)
This is a survey course in the history of American women in North America that begins with pre-contact societies of native Americans and concludes with the Progressive Era at the turn of the twentieth century. Students will examine the experiences of native American women, European colonial women, African slave women and their mistresses, middle-class women of the Northeast, pioneering women, working girls, female reformers and radicals, women in the Civil War, and in Progressivism.
Lecture: 3 hours
HIST 2015 - Women in North American History, 1900 - Present
(3 Credits)
This is a survey course in the history of American women in North America from the turn of the twentieth century to the present. Students will examine women's culture and society in a maturing urban industrial order in the late nineteenth century Gilded Age; analyze women's political activism in the Progressive Era, and explore the changing notions of sexuality that influenced gender roles for both women and men in the early twentieth century. Also included are topics concerning women's roles in the Great Depression and World War II, the re-emergence of the Cult of Domesticity in the postwar era, the civil rights movement, and feminism's second wave in the 1960s and 1970s.
Lecture: 3 hours
HIST 2020 - Civil War and Reconstruction
(3 Credits)
This course is a blend of both traditional Civil War history and the latest developments in the field, especially in social history. Political and military matters are analyzed, as well as the lives of slaves, soldiers and women. The topic of slavery will be thoroughly explored, as well as the effort to rehabilitate the lives of former slaves during Reconstruction.
Lecture: 3 hours
HIST 2025 - The American Presidency in the Twentieth Century
(3 Credits)
This course is about the American Presidency in the Twentieth Century. It examines the transformation of the institution and how foreign and domestic priorities affected the presidency and the individuals who occupied the office. Topics include internal and external influences on policy formation, interactions with Congress and the Supreme Court, foreign relations, the media, and technology.
Lecture: 3 hours
HIST 2035 - American Society and Culture in the Cold War, 1945-1991
(3 Credits)
This course examines U.S. foreign policy in the Cold War era and its impact domestically and globally.
Lecture: 3 hours
HIST 2170 - Latin American History Since Independence
(3 Credits)
This course surveys Latin American history in the period since independence from European colonial rule in the 1820s. We examine Latin America's political, economic, social, and cultural history, with a particular focus on Mexico, Central America, the Southern Cone countries of Chile and Argentina, and select countries in the Caribbean.
Lecture: 3 hours
Course completes the following requirements:
Gen.Ed. Ability 2A
Gen.Ed. Ability 4A
Humanities Requirement
URI/RIC Transfer General Education Transfer Opportunity: Yes
HIST 2245 - History of Asian-Americans
(3 Credits)
This course surveys Asian-American history from the 1840s to the present. The first half of the course focuses on the experiences of Chinese, Japanese and Filipino immigrants in the U.S. from the Gold Rush (late 1840s) to World War II. The main emphases are on immigration, communities, race relations, exclusion and incarceration. The second half of the course moves on to the great changes within the Asian-American community since the 1960s: new immigration from Korea, South Asia and the refugee communities of Vietnamese-Cambodian-, and Laotian/ Hmong-Americans.
Lecture: 3 hours
Course completes the following requirements:
Social Sciences Requirement
URI/RIC Transfer General Education Transfer Opportunity: Yes
HIST 2250 - History of Black America
(3 Credits)
This course focuses on the history of black Americans from African origins to the present. Consideration is given to slavery, Reconstruction and ethnic relations from Colonial times to the present. (Recommended: HIST 1210 and/or 1220 prior to this course)
Lecture: 3 hours
HIST 2260 - A Survey of East Asian Civilization
(3 Credits)
This is a survey of East Asian civilization from ancient times to the modern period. The course also will treat the region as part of world history with discussions and comparisons of East Asia and other world economies and cultures.
Lecture: 3 hours
Course completes the following requirements:
Social Sciences Requirement
URI/RIC Transfer General Education Transfer Opportunity: Yes
HIST 2330 - War and Society
(3 Credits)
In this course, we will explore the ways that war and violence were central to the formation, consolidation and expansion of European nation-states from the French Revolution to the collapse of empires in Europe. We will begin by reading works on the nature and origins of violence in modern society. We will then examine the rise of mass politics and the ideologies that produced widespread destruction in the wake of the French and Industrial Revolutions. When we move to the 20th century, we will focus significant attention on the history of the two World Wars, but we will be equally concerned with identifying the changing notions of legitimate state and interpersonal violence. Course readings will include primary and secondary sources, but films and music also will be important.
Lecture: 3 hours
URI/RIC Transfer General Education Transfer Opportunity: Yes
