HIST 3292 - Ancient Rome

• Students will be critical readers of both primary and secondary sources, and will use both types of evidence in their written work.
• Students will be able to synthesize primary and secondary source materials in either an original research project or in a creative project.
• Students will improve their ability to make historical observations and arguments in written work.
• Students’ work will reflect an understanding of the events and culture of the historical topics examined in class.

HIST 3292A - Honors Experience in Ancient Rome

HIST 3293 - World of Late Antiquity: Culture and Society in the Late Roman Empire

• Students are able to apply knowledge to unfamiliar scenarios.
• Students are able to recognize and weigh multiple perspectives regarding cultural phenomena, including ethnicity and religion.
• Students demonstrate knowledge of various characteristics of another society whose similarities to their own may be misleading.
• Students know and understand rival arguments for either decline or continuity in late Roman culture and governance.

HIST 3301 - African History Through Film

• Students will be able to discuss major historical themes and time periods in African history, and basic, general trends in African cinematography.
• Students will demonstrate understanding that African political, economic, and social/cultural systems changed over time.
• Students will develop increased knowledge of different African cultural groups and their historical developments during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

HIST 3320 - Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Middle East History

• Students will be able to discuss major historical themes and time periods in Middle Eastern history, and basic, general trends in Middle Eastern historiography.
• Students will be able to identify, assess, and evaluate critically a variety of primary sources pertaining to Middle Eastern history, interpretations of such sources, and broader historical interpretations based on these sources.
• Students will be familiar with the variety of women’s experiences and contributions to Middle Eastern history and significant scholarly debates concerning women’s status and roles in different Middle Eastern societies.
• Students will develop increased knowledge of different Middle Eastern cultural groups and their historical developments during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

HIST 3330 - Oil, the Persian Gulf, and World Power

• Critical skills: Contextualization
• Critical skills: Historical thinking
• Critical skills: Reading for argument
• Critical skills: Strategic thinking
• Writing skills: Argumentation

HIST 3360 - History of North Africa

• Students will be able to discuss major historical themes and time periods in African history, and basic, general trends in North African historiography.
• Students will be able to identify, assess, and evaluate critically a variety of primary sources pertaining to North African history, interpretations of such sources, and broader historical interpretations based on these sources.
• Students will demonstrate understanding that North African political, economic, and social/cultural systems changed over time.
• Students will demonstrate understanding that North Africans contributed significantly to the development of processes of globalization.
• Students will develop increased knowledge of different North African cultural groups and their historical developments through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

HIST 3370 - Middle East History 600 to 1500

• Students will be able to discuss major historical themes and time periods in Middle Eastern history, and basic, general trends in Middle Eastern historiography.
• Students will be able to identify geographical, historical, and contemporary features of maps of the Middle East.
• Students will be able to explain how Middle Eastern political, economic, and social/cultural systems changed over time.
• Students will be able to identify different Middle Eastern cultural groups and their historical developments during the seventh through sixteenth centuries.

HIST 3371 - Middle East History 1500 to the present

• Students will be able to discuss major historical themes and time periods in Middle Eastern history, and basic, general trends in Middle Eastern historiography.
• Students will be able to identify geographical, historical, and contemporary features of maps of the Middle East.
• Students will be able to explain how Middle Eastern political, economic, and social/cultural systems changed over time.
• Students will be able to identify different Middle Eastern cultural groups and their historical developments during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

HIST 3372 - Protest, Rebellion, and Revolution in the Modern Middle East

• Students will be able to define the term “mass politics” and explain the historical forces that produced its emergence in the Middle East.
• Students will be able to identify the different types of mass movements that appeared throughout the modern history of the Middle East, and how these movements relate to the specific political, economic, and cultural contexts they operated.
• Students will be able to synthesize the differential manifestations of mass politics across time in a given country as well as across countries at a given historical moment.
• Students will be able to identify key historical moments of political, military, economic, social, cultural, religious, and scientific interaction between the Middle East and other regions of the world.
• Students will be able to apply analytic skills to think critically through contemporary events by drawing on the history and historiography of the region in which they occur: the modern Middle East.

HIST 3390 - Women in African History

• Students will be able to discuss major historical themes and time periods in African history, and basic, general trends in African historiography.
• Students will be able to identify, assess, and evaluate critically a variety of primary sources pertaining to African history, interpretations of such sources, and broader historical interpretations based on these sources.
• Students will be familiar with the variety of women’s experiences and contributions to African history and significant scholarly debates concerning women’s status and roles in different African societies.
• Students will develop increased knowledge of different African cultural groups and their historical developments during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

HIST 3410 - History of Africa to 1850

• Students will be able to discuss major historical themes and time periods in African history, and basic, general trends in African historiography.
• Students will be familiar with geographical, historical, and contemporary features of maps of Africa.
• Students will demonstrate understanding that African political, economic, and social/cultural systems changed over time.
• Students will demonstrate understanding that Africans contributed significantly to the development of processes of globalization.
• Students will develop increased knowledge of different African cultural groups and their historical developments during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

HIST 3411 - History of Africa Since 1850

• Students will be able to discuss major historical themes and time periods in African history, and basic, general trends in African historiography.
• Students will be familiar with geographical, historical, and contemporary features of maps of Africa.
• Students will demonstrate understanding that African political, economic, and social/cultural systems changed over time.
• Students will demonstrate understanding that Africans contributed significantly to the development of processes of globalization.
• Students will develop increased knowledge of different African cultural groups and their historical developments during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

HIST 3412X - Islam in Africa

HIST 3420 - History of South Africa

• Students will be able to discuss major historical themes and time periods in African history, and basic, general trends in African historiography.
• Students will be familiar with geographical, historical, and contemporary features of maps of Southern Africa.
• Students will demonstrate understanding that African political, economic, and social/cultural systems changed over time.
• Students will develop increased knowledge of different African cultural groups and their historical developments during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

HIST 3440 - History of Vietnam

• Student’s work reflects an understanding of the political, military, economic, and international history of area.
• Students will be able to understand the interconnection with different civilizations of the world.
• Students’ work will reflect an understanding of the events and culture of the historical topics examined in class.

HIST 3450 - Southeast Asia to c. 1750: The Creative Synthesis

• Student’s work reflects an understanding of historiographic traditions.
• Students will be able to understand the interconnection with different civilizations of the world.
• Students’ work will reflect an understanding of the events and culture of the historical topics examined in class.

HIST 3451 - Southeast Asia, c. 1750 to 1945: Change and Conflict

• Student’s work employs the formal styles of writing, argumentation, and presentation that historians use.
• Students will be able to understand the interconnection with different civilizations of the world.
• Students’ work will reflect an understanding of the events and culture of the historical topics examined in class.

HIST 3452 - Southeast Asia, 1945 to the Present: The Search for Stability

• Student’s work reflects an understanding of the political, military, economic, and international history of Southeast Asia.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding the roles of race, class, gender, or ethnicity in history.
• Students’ work will reflect an understanding of the events and culture of the historical topics examined in class.

HIST 3463 - History of China from Antiquity to the Early Modern Era

• Students will be able to identify major political, economic, social, and intellectual trends in pre-, early, and late imperial Chinese history.
• Students will be able to identify specific individuals and events that illustrate major political, economic, social, and intellectual trends in pre-, early, and late imperial Chinese history.
• Students will learn to articulate useful connections and comparisons between various eras of Chinese history and between the past and the present.
• Students will learn to use primary source materials to construct spoken and written arguments.

HIST 3464 - History of China from the Early Modern Era to the Present

• Students will be able to identify major political, economic, social, and intellectual trends in late imperial and post-imperial Chinese history.
• Students will be able to identify specific individuals and events that illustrate major political, economic, social, and intellectual trends in late imperial and post-imperial Chinese history.
• Students will learn to articulate useful connections and comparisons between different historical eras and between the past and the present.
• Students will learn to use primary source materials to construct spoken and written arguments.

HIST 3480 - Traditional Japan

• Students will be able to discuss the contributions major scholars in this field have made to the study and understanding of pre and early modern Japanese history.
• Students will become familiar with the main historical narrative and facts relative to the study of Japanese history up to the early modern period.
• Students will improve their writing and argumentative skills, and learn the conventions and practices of historical writing.
• Students will learn to employ critically primary and secondary sources to develop their own analysis of major topics discussed in the course.

HIST 3481 - Modern Japan

• Students will be able to discuss the contributions major scholars in this field have made to the study and understanding of modern Japanese history.
• Students will become familiar with the main historical narrative and facts relative to the study of modern Japanese history.
• Students will improve their writing and argumentative skills, and learn the conventions and practices of historical writing.
• Students will learn to employ critically primary and secondary sources to develop their own analysis of major topics discussed in the course.

HIST 3500 - Science and Society in the Modern World

• Students will be able to analyze the role of science in politics with reference to course topics in classroom discussions and essay exams.
• Students will be able to articulate the relationship between science and politics to society over time.
• Students will be able to describe the scientific method and its standards for inquiry, discovery, and debate.
• Students will be able to identify major developments in modern scientific method and discuss their historical consequences on exams.
• Students will be able to write an essay on the contingent relationship between science and society using a particular case from the course materials.

HIST 3501 - Nature, Science and Religion to 1800

• Have a capacity for synthesis.
• Have the ability to effectively present information orally.
• Have the ability to weave many complex strands into a fabric of definable issues, patterns and topics.
• Have the ability to work collaboratively.
• Student’s work employs the formal styles of writing, argumentation, and presentation that historians use.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding of the intellectual, political, economic, social, and cultural history of science and medicine.

HIST 3520 - Roman Law & Society

• Students are able to recognize and weigh multiple perspectives regarding cultural phenomena, especially notions of public and private domains, family obligations, and personal liberty.
• Students demonstrate understanding of how another society can utilize institutions and processes similar to their own for achieving different ends.
• Students have a basic knowledge of the institutions and historical development of Roman law that they demonstrate on exams and use in discussion and analysis of sources.
• Students write argumentative essays based on their interpretation of original documents from a society with moral and social values very different from their own.

HIST 3521 - Medieval Law & Society: Byzantine, Sharia, and Germanic Law, 500-1000

• Students will be able to identify and describe key features of several major legal systems from the early medieval period.
• Students will be able to identify key lawmakers, jurists, and schools of legal thought.
• Students will be able to compare social and historical effects of different legal systems.
• Students will be able to interpret hypothetical cases in relation to different legal systems.

HIST 3531 - Vikings - Saxons - Franks: Western Europe, 476-1066

• Students will be able to outline the chronology of major events in western Europe between the fifth and eleventh centuries.
• Students will be able to describe various political institutions and legal practices important to early medieval societies.
• Students will be able to identify key individuals and factors in the Christianization of western Europe between the fifth and eleventh centuries.
• Students will be able to analyze primary sources for evidence of early medieval social and cultural practices.

HIST 3531A - Honors Experience: Vikings - Saxons - Franks: Western Europe, 476-1066

HIST 3532 - History of the Crusades

• Understand the development and application of Just War Theory.
• Present ideas clearly in writing and discussion.
• Understand the causes of the First and subsequent crusades.
• Understand the consequences of crusading for medieval Europe and subsequent historiography.

HIST 3533 - Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000-1350

• Student’s work employs the formal styles of writing, argumentation, and presentation that historians use.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding of historiographic traditions.

HIST 3540 - History of Early Christianity

• Oral presentations are clear and comprehensive.
• Student’s work demonstrates critical use and proper citation of both primary and secondary sources.
• Student’s work employs the formal styles of writing, argumentation, and presentation that historians use.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding of the intellectual, political, economic, social, and cultural history of the United States, Europe, classical civilization, the Near-East, or one Non-Western area.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding the roles of race, class, gender, or ethnicity in history.

HIST 3541 - Medieval Christianity: Church and Society

• Oral presentations are clear and comprehensive.
• Student’s work demonstrates critical use and proper citation of both primary and secondary sources.
• Student’s work employs the formal styles of writing, argumentation, and presentation that historians use.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding of the intellectual, political, economic, social, and cultural history of the United States, Europe, classical civilization, the Near-East, or one Non-Western area.

HIST 3542 - The European Reformation

• Have a capacity for synthesis.
• Have the ability to weave many complex strands into a fabric of definable issues, patterns and topics.
• Student’s work employs the formal styles of writing, argumentation, and presentation that historians use.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding of the intellectual, political, economic, social, and cultural history of Europe.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding the roles of class, gender, or ethnicity in history.

HIST 3550 - The Age of Darwin, 1800-Present

• Students will be able to identify and articulate how evolutionary ideas were interpreted as well as used in their specific social and historical context with reference to the course topics.
• Students will be able to identify and articulate how historical change in society has shaped technical ideas, practices, and people with reference to the course topics.
• Students will be able to compare evolutionary ideas and their social implications between different societies as well as different times.
• Students will be able to present and explain, both orally and in writing, a historical research finding that employs a variety of scholarly resources and demonstrates their interpretive skills (as described in the other three outcome goals).

HIST 3555 - Women in Medieval Europe

• Appreciate the methods and questions particular to women’s history in the pre-modern world.
• Improve basic research skills.
• Learn the basic historiographic trends in current medieval history of women.
• Produce several short or one long written essays and a class presentation.
• Understand the diverse and unique experiences of women in the medieval period.

HIST 3560 - The Italian Renaissance

• Have the ability to weave many complex strands into a fabric of definable issues, patterns and topics.
• Student’s work demonstrates critical use and proper citation of both primary and secondary sources.
• Student’s work employs the formal styles of writing, argumentation, and presentation that historians use.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding of the intellectual, political, economic, social, and cultural history of Europe.
• Understand that problems and issues are often only successfully approached from a variety of perspectives.

HIST 3562 - Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the History of Medieval Spain

• Ability to interpret and analyze historical sources.
• Improvement of research and writing skills.
• Knowledge of the chronological development of the Iberian peninsula from 500 -1500.
• Knowledge of the political and cultural contributions of medieval Spain.
• Understanding of the importance of cross-cultural contact and conflict in the medieval era.

HIST 3580 - Power and Revolution in Early Modern Europe, 1450-1650

• Student’s work demonstrates critical use and proper citation of both primary and secondary sources.
• Student’s work employs the formal styles of writing, argumentation, and presentation that historians use.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding the roles of race, class, gender, or ethnicity in history.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding of the intellectual, political, economic, social, and cultural history of Europe.

HIST 3581 - Politics, Power and People in Europe, 1650-1775

• Have a capacity for synthesis.
• Have the ability to weave many complex strands into a fabric of definable issues, patterns and topics.
• Student’s work employs the formal styles of writing, argumentation, and presentation that historians use.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding of the intellectual, political, economic, social, and cultural history of the United States, Europe.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding the roles of race, class, gender, or ethnicity in history.

HIST 3600 - Women in Early Modern European History, 1400-1800

• Students will be able to communicate their ideas in written and oral form.
• Students will understand the historgraphic traditions of writing on women.
• Students will understand the political, social, economic and gender forces that shaped the history of women in Europe.

HIST 3640 - Europe Between World Wars, 1919-1939

• Student’s work employs the formal styles of writing, argumentation, and presentation that historians use.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding of the intellectual, political, economic, social, and cultural history of Interwar Europe.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding the roles of religion, nationality, race, class, gender, and ethnicity in history.

HIST 3641 - Contemporary Europe

• Student’s work employs the formal styles of writing, argumentation, and presentation that historians use.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding of the intellectual, political, economic, social, and cultural history of postwar Europe.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding the roles of religion, nationality, race, class, gender, and ethnicity in history.

HIST 3680 - Germany in the 19th- Century

• Student’s work reflects an understanding of the intellectual, political, economic, social, and cultural history of Germany.
• Students will be able to communicate their ideas in written and oral form.
• Students will understand the forces that shaped the rise and fall of Germany.

HIST 3681 - Germany in the 20th Century

• Students will be able to communicate their ideas in written and oral form.
• Students will understand the forces that shaped the rise and fall of Germany.
• Students will understand the historgraphic traditions of writing on Germany.

HIST 3682 - Nazi Germany

• Students will learn to frame significant historical question and engage in discussion and analysis of historical issues of great contemporary relevance.
• Student’s work demonstrates a basic mastery of research techniques that historians use.
• Student’s work employs the formal styles of writing, argumentation, and presentation that historians use.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding of historiographic traditions.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding of the political, military, economic, social and cultural history of Nazi Germany.

HIST 3683 - Germany between East and West since 1945

• Students will be able to analyze the complexities and apparent contradictions in modern German history and their relationship to the present.
• Students will be able to describe major events and discuss the role of major individuals associated with the history of Germany since 1945.
• Students will be able to outline significant points of contact between the history of divided and reunified Germany and the history of the Cold War in Europe and globally.
• Students will be able to identify and analyze social, political, and cultural factors that have shaped postwar Germany and Europe.

HIST 3710 - Magic, Heresy and Witchcraft in Europe

• Student’s work demonstrates critical use and proper citation of both primary and secondary sources.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding of historiographic traditions.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding of the intellectual, political, economic, social, and cultural history of the United States, Europe, classical civilization, the Near-East, or one ¿Non-Western¿ area.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding the roles of race, class, gender, or ethnicity in history.

HIST 3715 - Sex, Crime and Deviance in Europe, 1200-1800

• Have a capacity for synthesis.
• Student’s work employs the formal styles of writing, argumentation, and presentation that historians use.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding of the intellectual, political, economic, social, and cultural history of Europe.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding the roles of race, class, gender, or ethnicity in history.
• Students understand that problems and issues are often only successfully approached from a variety of perspectives.

HIST 3731 - Balkan dreams and nightmares: Southeastern Europe from 1908 to the Present

• Student’s work employs the formal styles of writing, argumentation, and presentation that historians use.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding of the intellectual, political, economic, social, and cultural history of Southeastern Europe.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding the roles of religion, nationality, race, class, gender, and ethnicity in history.

HIST 3741 - Origins of World War II, 1914-1941

• Student’s work employs the formal styles of writing, argumentation, and presentation that historians use.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding of the political, military, economic, and international history of Interwar Europe.

HIST 3742 - The Cold War, 1941-1989

• Students will learn to frame significant historical question and engage in discussion and analysis of historical issues of great contemporary relevance.
• Student’s work demonstrates a basic mastery of research techniques that historians use.
• Student’s work employs the formal styles of writing, argumentation, and presentation that historians use.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding of historiographic traditions.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding of the political, diplomatic, economic, social, cultural, and military history of the United States, the Soviet Union, and regional powers.

HIST 3750 - World War I

• Student’s work reflects an understanding of the military, international, intellectual, political, economic, social, and cultural history of those countries taking part in the First World War.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding of the political, military, economic, and international history of Europe and the World during and immediately after the First World War.

HIST 3770 - The Holocaust

• Oral presentations are clear and comprehensive.
• Student’s work demonstrates critical use and proper citation of both primary and secondary sources
• Student’s work employs the formal styles of writing, argumentation, and presentation that historians use.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding of the intellectual, political, economic, social, and cultural history of the United States, Europe, classical civilization, the Near-East, or one Non-Western area.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding the roles of race, class, gender, or ethnicity in history.

HIST 3790 - History of Sea Power

• Critical skills: Contextualization
• Critical skills: Historical thinking
• Critical skills: Reading for argument
• Critical skills: Strategic thinking
• Writing skills: Argumentation

HIST 3791 - Britain and the World since 1970

• Students will be able to identify and explain the importance of key events in contemporary British history.
• Students will be able to describe the role of Britain in world politics during the contemporary era.
• Students will be able to describe the structure of the contemporary British state.
• Students will be able to identify the major political, economic, and strategic questions facing the United Kingdom in the 21st century.
• Students will be able to assess politics and policy from a historical standpoint.
• Students will be able to identify and explain the contributions of key individuals associated with the history of contemporary Britain.

HIST 3820 - History of Russia

• Student’s work demonstrates a basic mastery of research techniques that historians use.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding of historiographic traditions.
• Students’ work will reflect an understanding of the events and culture of the historical topics examined in class.

HIST 3821 - Russia: Road to Revolution 1825-1917

• Student’s work demonstrates a basic mastery of research techniques that historians use.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding of historiographic traditions.
• Students’ work will reflect an understanding of the events and culture of the historical topics examined in class.

HIST 3822 - Soviet Union

• Student’s work demonstrates a basic mastery of research techniques that historians use.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding of historiographic traditions.
• Students’ work will reflect an understanding of the events and culture of the historical topics examined in class.

HIST 3823 - The USSR in World War II

• Student’s work demonstrates a basic mastery of research techniques that historians use.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding of historiographic traditions.
• Students’ work will reflect an understanding of the events and culture of the historical topics examined in class.

HIST 3831 - Modern Poland: War, Revolution and Peace from 1905 to the Present

• Student’s work employs the formal styles of writing, argumentation, and presentation that historians use.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding of the military, international, intellectual, political, economic, social, and cultural history of Poland from the beginning of the 20th century to the present.

HIST 3840 - Ethnic Cleansing in Modern European History

• Students will be able to distinguish between various kinds of expulsion - including those initiated by non-state actors, state, and super-state/multi-national authorities.
• Students will be able to evaluate the relationship of different kinds of political, ideological, artistic and religious ideals of community building and breaking as they relate to ethnic cleansing/expulsion.
• Students will be able to evaluate, critique, and assess the claims/needs of state actors of the internal and military security of various polities as these claims relate to expulsions.
• Students will be able to identify similarities and differences between the practice of population transfer/expulsion within continental Europe as well as on Europe’s periphery and in Europe’s colonies.
• Students will study and be introduced to change and continuity in the practice of ethnic cleansing/expulsion in the course of Modern European History.
• Students will study and understand different approaches to nationalism in Europe - especially Central and Eastern Europe.

HIST 3860 - Shakespeare’s England, 1450-1603

• Student¿s work demonstrates critical use and proper citation of both primary and secondary sources.
• Student¿s work employs the formal styles of writing, argumentation, and presentation that historians use.
• Student¿s work reflects an understanding of historiographic traditions.
• Student¿s work reflects an understanding of the intellectual, political, economic, social, and cultural history of England, 1450-1603.

HIST 3861 - Revolutionary Britain, 1603-1702

• Student¿s work demonstrates critical use and proper citation of both primary and secondary sources.
• Student¿s work employs the formal styles of writing, argumentation, and presentation that historians use.
• Student¿s work reflects an understanding of historiographic traditions.
• Student¿s work reflects an understanding of the intellectual, political, economic, social, and cultural history of England, 1603¿1702.

HIST 3862 - English History to 1688

• Student’s work demonstrates a basic mastery of research techniques that historians use.
• Student’s work demonstrates critical use and proper citation of both primary and secondary sources.
• Student’s work employs the formal styles of writing, argumentation, and presentation that historians use.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding of historiographic traditions
• Student’s work reflects an understanding of the intellectual, political, economic, social, and cultural history of England until 1688.

HIST 3864 - Making Modern Britain, 1702-1815

• Student’s work demonstrates critical use and proper citation of both primary and secondary sources.
• Student’s work employs the formal styles of writing, argumentation, and presentation that historians use.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding of historiographic traditions.

HIST 3865 - Churchill’s Britain

• Critical skills: contextualization
• Critical skills: historical thinking
• Critical skills: reading for argument
• Critical skills: strategic thinking
• Writing skills: argumentation

HIST 3866 - Afghan Wars

• Critical skills: contextualization
• Critical skills: historical thinking
• Critical skills: strategic thinking
• Criticial skills: reading for argument
• Writing skills: argumentation

HIST 3867 - British Empire in the 19th Century

• Critical skills: contextualization
• Critical skills: historical thinking
• Critical skills: reading for argument
• Critical skills: strategic thinking
• Writing skills: argumentation

HIST 3868 - British Empire in the 20th Century

• Critical skills: historical thinking
• Critical skills: reading for argument
• Critical skills: strategic thinking
• Crticial skills: contextualization
• Writing skills: argumentation

HIST 3900 - History Through Film

• Students will become critical readers of both primary and secondary sources, and will use and properly cite both types of evidence in their written work.
• Students will have a general familiarity with the intellectual, political, economic, social, and cultural history of the United States, Europe, classical civilization, the Near-East, and one “Non-Western” area.
• Students will master the formal styles of writing, argumentation, and presentation that historians use in their work.

HIST 3970T - History Tutorial, Third year, Non-thesis

• To equip students to pursue independent research.
• To provide students with a sophisticated understanding of their primary area of study.
• To teach students to communicate effectively in their own discipline and to a wider audience.
• To teach students to work effectively with difficult, multi-dimensional subjects in their area of study.

HIST 3980T - Honors Tutorial Study, Third Year, Non-thesis

• To equip students to pursue independent research.
• To provide students with a sophisticated understanding of their primary area of study.
• To teach students to communicate effectively in their own discipline and to a wider audience.
• To teach students to work effectively with difficult, multi-dimensional subjects in their area of study.

HIST 4115 - Ancient East Asian Ideas and the Contemporary World

• Students will be able to describe the major concerns of several schools of East Asian political and moral thought.
• Students will be able to use their previous experience in humanistic study to perform close readings of foundational texts from the East Asian tradition.
• Students will be able to contextualize traditional East Asian texts within the societies that produced them and will be able to explain how East Asian understandings of these texts has changed over time.
• Students will be able to apply ethical ideas from traditional East Asian political and moral thought to contemporary political and social problems as well as to their own personal experiences.
• Students will be able to explain the relevance of traditional East Asian political and moral thought for living in our increasingly multicultural and globalized society and will be able to connect that explanation to their own experiences.
• Students will be able to use evidence, context, and inspiration from classical texts in order to orally communicate their own observations of the contemporary world
• Students will be able to discuss, argue, and debate ethical concepts in a productive, engaged, and reasonable manner.
• Students will be able to apply and self-assess connections between East Asian political/moral thought and their own ethical self-awareness and decision-making.

HIST 4130 - Philosophy of History: Understanding the Past

• Students will be able to identify different historiographical traditions from antiquity through the present.
• Students will be able to describe how various factors (e.g. religion, class, gender, and race or ethnicity) help shape historical understanding within a multicultural society.
• Students will be able to identify the cumulative influence of multiple traditions of historical thought.
• Students will be able to analyze recent debates involving the use of the past from one or more historiographical perspectives.

HIST 4500 - The New Deal and Its Challengers, 1933-1945

• Students will be able to describe and critique different historians’ arguments about the New Deal’s political significance and economic impact
• Students will be able to describe the major domestic and international policies of the Roosevelt Administration between 1933 and 1945, and assess their political, economic, and social consequences
• Students will be able to describe and assess both sides of the contemporary debate surrounding America’s participation in World War II
• Students will compare and evaluate the various arguments put forth by the New Deal’s defenders and critics, and trace the intellectual development of liberalism and conservatism from Roosevelt’s first inaugural to the end of World War II
• Students will be able to interpret primary sources on political economy within their original historical context, assessing divergent analyses of the Great Depression’s origins, along with various strategies to promote economic recovery

HIST 4536 - Eternal Rome: Power and Piety

• Students will have used the topography, architecture, and iconography of Rome to learn about the city’s history.
• Students will use Rome as a case study for understanding how political authority and religious beliefs take physical form.
• Students will use a variety of media to interpret and communicate key aspects of a complex subject.

HIST 4770 - Perspectives on the Holocaust: Sources and Interpretation

• Students will analyze the complexities and apparent contradictions in the Holocaust and their relationship to the present.
• Students will be able to describe major events and discuss the role of individuals associated with the history of the Holocaust.
• Students will be able to explain a range of social, political, and cultural factors that shaped Europe during World War II and the Holocaust.
• Students will be able to outline significant points of contact between the history of the Holocaust and the history of World War II in Europe and globally.

HIST 4900 - Special Topics in History

• Students will increase their knowledge in History.

HIST 4901 - Colloquium in United States History

• An ability to communicate key ideas in both oral and written formats.
• An understanding of historiographic traditions.
• An understanding of the intellectual, political, economic, social and cultural history of the United States.
• An understanding of the use and proper citation of both primary and secondary sources.

HIST 4902 - Colloquium in Latin American History

• An ability to communicate key ideas in both oral and written formats.
• An understanding of the use and proper citation of both primary and secondary sources.

HIST 4903 - Colloquium in European History

• An ability to communicate key ideas in oral or written formats
• An understanding of historiographic traditions
• An understanding of the intellectual, political, economic, social and cultural history of the chosen topic.
• An understanding of the use and proper citation of both primary and secondary sources

HIST 4904 - Colloquium in the History of Southeast Asia

• Student’s work demonstrates a basic mastery of research techniques that historians use.
• Student’s work employs the formal styles of writing, argumentation, and presentation that historians use.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding of historiographic traditions.

HIST 4905 - Colloquium in Middle Eastern History

• Student’s work demonstrates a basic mastery of research techniques that historians use.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding of historiographic traditions.
• Students’ work will reflect an understanding of the events and culture of the historical topics examined in class.

HIST 4906 - Colloquium in African History

• Students will be able to discuss major historical themes and time periods in African history, and basic, general trends in African historiography.
• Students will be familiar with geographical, historical, and contemporary features of maps of Africa.

HIST 4907 - Colloquium in East Asian History

• Student’s work employs the formal styles of writing, argumentation, and presentation that historians use.
• Student’s work reflects an understanding of historiographic traditions.
• Students’ work will reflect an understanding of the events and culture of the historical topics examined in class.

HIST 4910 - History Internship

• Application of historical or research skills in a work setting.
• Enhance research, writing, verbal, and/or reading skills.

HIST 4930 - Directed Study in History

• An understanding of the intellectual, political, economic, social and cultural history of the chosen topic.
• Basic mastery of research techniques that historians use.
• Critical use and proper citation of both primary and secondary sources.

HIST 4940H - Honors Studies of Selected Historical Topics

• Carry out an original research project.
• Finish a research project that can be defend before a panel of faculty.
• Understand the fundamentals of historical research.

HIST 4970T - HTC Thesis Tutorial, Fall Semester

• To demonstrate that students can pursue independent research.
• To teach students to communicate effectively in their own discipline and to a wider audience.

HIST 4980T - HTC Thesis Tutorial, Spring Semester

• To demonstrate that students can pursue independent research.
• To teach students to communicate effectively in their own discipline and to a wider audience.

HC 2300 - Preparation for Intercultural Experience

• Students will be able to articulate how social-construction theory applies to questions of cultural difference.
• Students will be able to identify structural and socio-historic factors that contribute to cultural differences.
• Students will be able to identify areas of commonality and distinction between local cultures and the dominant cultures in the sites of their study abroad/away experiences.
• Students will be able to explain how cultural factors affect the experiences of members of specific identity groups.

HC 2301 - Culture, Environment and Community Engagement in Peru

• Students will be able to describe the unique ethnic and cultural heritage of Cusco and the surrounding region.
• Students will be able to identify specific challenges experienced by the different segments of contemporary Peruvian society in the contexts of gender, race, and socio-economic status.
• Students will be able to articulate how the people of Peru enlist their cultural heritage in response to specific challenges.
• Students will be able to describe the efforts of the Peruvian people to establish autonomy over natural resources and to resist foreign exploitation.

HC 2400 - Introduction to OHIO Honors

• Students will be able to articulate basic definitions of community engagement, research & creative activity, and leadership that take into account critical arguments related to each term.
• Students will be able to explain connections among the three pathways in specific contexts and describe how various designs of a single project could accommodate each pathway.
• Students will be able to identify an area of personal interest and suggest a general means by which they might explore that interest through one or more of the pathways.

HC 2401 - OHIO Honors Engagement Lab

• Students will be able to evaluate the intersecting roles of leadership, community engagement, and research and creative actiivty in addressing social challenges.
• Students will be able to work collaboratively with stakeholders to implement a project that addresses an identified need in a particular community.
• Students will be able to articulate theoretically and practically grounded arguments for the value of experiential and interdisciplinary learning.
• Students will be able to identify the distinct ways community engagement, research and creative activity, and leadership operate in the contexts of specific projects.

HC 2420 - OHIO Honors Engagement Lab in Health & Social Sciences

• Students will be able to analyze the value of different methods and disciplinary approaches for addressing challenges in a given social context.
• Students will be able to evaluate the intersecting roles of leadership, community engagement, and research and creative activity in addressing health and social problems.
• Students will be able to work collaboratively with other stakeholders to define a challenge, generate and test multiple solutions, and implement the solution that best addresses needs as defined by stakeholders.
• Students will be able to investigate a given question using interdisciplinary collaboration, creative problem-solving, evidence-based practice, and academic research methods.

HC 2500 - Honors Seminar

• To equip students to pursue independent research and/or creative activity.
• To familiarize students with the role of intellectuals in society and in academia.

HC 2600 - Introduction to Ethical Community Engagement

• Students will be able to explain the basic principles of asset-based community development.
• Students will be able to explain such concepts as the “culture of poverty” and articulate critical arguments that address those concepts.
• Students will be able to identify relevant power differentials in specific cases of community engagement.
• Students will be able to articulate a personal philosophy of lifelong community engagement.

HC 2610 - Introduction to Ethical Research and Creative Activity

• Students will be able to explain the basic principles of ethical research and creative activity.
• Students will be able to explain steps in the research and creative processes, such as ideation, contextualization to existing literature/creative works, implementation, and dissemination.
• Students will be able to describe how ethical principles and practices run through all stages of the research process.
• Students will be able to articulate a personal philosophy for research/creative activity.

HC 2620 - Introduction to Ethical Leadership

• Students will be able to explain key organizational and leadership theories and the sociopolitical contexts that shaped them.
• Students will be able to identify contemporary leadership concepts such as emotional and social intelligence, collaboration, and advocacy in the stated values and practices of specific organizational leaders.
• Students will be able to apply organizational and leadership theories to develop strategies for change.
• Students will be able to articulate a personal philosophy of leadership.