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History| Courses Code | Courses Name | Credit Hours | Course Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| HIS-077 | Introduction to History | 6 Credits | View Details |
| HIS-131 | World History II | 6 Credits | View Details |
| HIS-340 | Advanced American History | 6 Credits | View Details |
| HIS-344 | Twentieth Century America | 6 Credits | View Details |
| HIS-897 | Western Civilization II | 6 Credits | View Details |
Introduction to History
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- The dry bones speak.
- From village community to city-state.
- Rivervalley civilizations.
- A polycentric world.
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Dawn of the empires.
- Rome and the barbarians.
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- China.
- Indian empires.
- Hinduism and buddhism.
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Judaism and christianity.
- Islam. >
- Establishing world trade routes.
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- European visions.
- The unification of world trade.
- Migration.
- Political revolutions in europe and the americas.
- The industrial revolution.
- Nationalism, imperialism, and resistance.
- Methods of mass production and destruction.
- World war ii and the cold war.
- Cold war and new nations.
- China and india.
- New public identities.
- Regional identities and the twenty-first centu
World History II
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Stone age societies and the earliest civilizations of the near east
- Early chinese civilization:
- Early indian civilizations
- Greece
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- African beginnings:
- Culture, power, and trade in the era of asian hegemony, 2201350
- The great dynastic empires of eurasia, 13001650
- East asian cultural and political systems, 13001650
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- European cultural and religious transformations
- State development in europe:
- Absolutism and limited central power in europe, 16501774:
- New ideas and their political consequences:
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Asian and middle eastern empires and nations, 16501815
- Europe, 1815-1914:
- Imperialism and modernity in asia and the pacific, 18151914:
- World war i and its economic and political consequences
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Forging new nations in asia, 19101950
- National movements and the drive for independence in the middle east and africa from the 1920s to 1950s
- Asia and the south pacific since 1945:
- Into the 21st century: an uncertain future
Advanced American History
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- When old worlds collide: contact, conquest, catastrophe.
- The challenge to spain and the settlement of north america.
- England discovers its colonies: empire, liberty, and expansion.
- Provincial america and the struggle for a continent.
- Reform, resistance, revolution.
- The revolutionary republic.
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- The democratic republic, 1790 and ndash;1820.
- Completing the revolution, 1789 and ndash;1815.
- The market revolution, 1815 and ndash;1860.
- Toward an american culture.
- Society, culture, and politics, 1820s and ndash;1840s.
- Jacksonian democracy.
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Manifest destiny: an empire for liberty -- or slavery?
- The gathering tempest, 1853 and ndash;1860.
- Secession and civil war, 1860 and ndash;1862.
- A new birth of freedom, 1862 and ndash;1865.
- Reconstruction, 1863 and ndash;1877.
- Frontiers of change, politics of stalemate, 1865 and ndash;1890.
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Economic change and the crisis of the 1890s.
- An industrial society, 1890 and ndash;1920.
- Progressivism.
- Becoming a world power, 1898 and ndash;1917.
- War and society, 1914 and ndash;1920.
- The 1920s.
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- The great depression and the new deal, 1929 and ndash;1939.
- America during the second world war.
- The age of containment, 1946 and ndash;1953.
- Affluence and its discontents, 1953 and ndash;1963.
- America during its longest war, 1963 and ndash;1974.
- Economic and social change in the late 20th century.
- Power and politics since 1974.
Twentieth Century America
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Reconstruction, 1863-1877.
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Conquest and survival: the trans-mississippi west, 1860-1900.
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- The incorporation of america, 1865-1900.
- Commonwealth and empire, 1870-1900.
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Urban america and the progressive era, 1900-1917.
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- World war i, 1914-1920.
- The twenties, 1920-1929.
- The great depression and the new deal, 1929-1940.
- World war ii, 1941-1945.
- The cold war, 1945-1952.
- America at midcentury, 1952-1963.
- The civil rights movement, 1945-1966.
- War abroad, war at home, 1965-1974.
- The conservative ascendancy, 1974-1987.
- Toward a transnational america, since 1988.
Western Civilization II
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- The medieval west in crisis.
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- The italian renaissance and beyond: the politics of culture.
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- The west and the world: the significance of global encounters, 1450-1650.
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
- The reformation of religion.
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- The age of confessional division.
- Absolutism and state-building in europe, 1618-1715.
- The scientific revolution.
- The west and the world: empire, trade and war, 1650-1815.
- Eighteenth-century society and culture.
- The age of the french revolution, 1789-1815.