2024-2025 Catalog

 

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HST-101 American History I

A survey of primary individuals, events, and themes of American history from the colonial era through the Civil War (1607-1865). Political, social, religious, and military topics from the following eras will be covered: European settlement in the New World, Colonial America, the American Revolution, the Federalist age, Jeffersonian republicanism, Jacksonian democracy, the antebellum sectional crisis, and the Civil War. Not open to students with credit in HST-211.

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HST-102 American History II

This course is a survey of primary individuals, events, and themes of American history from the end of the Civil War up to the present era. Political, social, economic, religious, and military topics will be covered in eras such as the following: Reconstruction, Gilded Age and industrialism, Wilsonian Progressivism, World War I, Great Depression, World War II, Cold War, Vietnam, Civil Rights movement, American cultural diversity, and global terrorism. Not open to students with credit in HST-212.

3

HST-103 Recent History and Politics

A penetrating study of intellectual, political, economic, social, legal, aesthetic, ecclesiastical, and international political developments from 1920 to the present with emphasis on America's role in the world. Gives credit for History or Political Science majors.

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HST-160 Western Civilization

This survey covers cultural Western Civilization from the Renaissance through the Modern Era. Particular emphasis is given to major economic, political, social, and religious institutions that have fashioned the history of the Western experience.

3

HST-180 Humanities World Civilization

An intellectual, institutional, and cultural consideration of world civilizations and their development, interaction, and significance. (History majors take HST-185 and HST-190 in place of HST-180. Any student may take HST-185 and HST-190 in place of the HST-180 general education requirement.)

3

HST-185 World History to 1500

This course is an introduction to the foundations of civilization from the dawn of human history to the beginning of the Modern era, focusing on religious, political, social, intellectual, and cultural developments and emphasizing their global interconnectedness. (History majors take HST-185 and HST190, World History 1500 to the present in place of HST-180.) No Prerequisite. Not open to students with credit in HST-201. This course meets IDoE Indiana History Standards' requirements and required standards from the National Council for the Social Studies.

3

HST-190 World History 1500 to Present

This course examines the development of the modern world, from roughly 1500 to the present, with an emphasis on the religious, political, social, intellectual, and cultural elements that contributed to interregional and global interconnection. Not open to students with credit in HST-202. Any student may take HST-185 and HST-190 in place of the HST-180 general education requirement. This course meets IDoE Indiana History Standards' requirements and required standards from the National Council for the Social Studies.

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