HIST520  - Graduate Seminar in U.S. History

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This course is a comprehensive seminar in U.S. history designed to provide a foundation in U.S. historical theory, trends, and concepts for the further study of specialized and topical history at the graduate level. Students examine the broad sweep of world history, major interpretive questions in world historiography, and major periods of interaction between civilizations. This course is not designed as a refresher of undergraduate history survey courses; rather, it is a concentrated study of U.S. history for serious history students and professionals.

 

Prerequisites

N/A

Corequisites

N/A

Schedule of Classes

Registration Dates Course Dates Session
11/05/09 - 03/28/10 04/05/10 - 07/25/10 Spring 2010 Session A - 16 Week session
11/30/09 - 04/25/10 05/03/10 - 08/22/10 Spring 2010 Session K - 16 Week session
12/28/09 - 05/30/10 06/07/10 - 09/26/10 Spring 2010 Session C - 16 Week session
01/25/10 - 06/27/10 07/05/10 - 10/24/10 Summer 2010 Session A - 16 Week session
02/22/10 - 07/25/10 08/02/10 - 11/21/10 Summer 2010 Session K - 16 Week session
03/29/10 - 08/29/10 09/06/10 - 12/26/10 Summer 2010 Session C - 16 Week session
04/26/10 - 09/26/10 10/04/10 - 01/23/11 Fall 2010 Session A - 16 Week session
05/31/10 - 10/24/10 11/01/10 - 02/20/11 Fall 2010 Session K - 16 Week session
06/28/10 - 11/28/10 12/06/10 - 03/27/11 Fall 2010 Session C - 16 Week session

Course Materials

Book Title: The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War
ISBN: 0679753141
Publication Info: Knopf Publishing Group, 1996

Book Title: Impending Crisis, 1848-1861 - recommended/not required for HIST680
ISBN: 0061319295
Publication Info: Torchbooks

Book Title: Search for Order, 1877-1920
ISBN: 0809001047
Publication Info: Hill and Wang

Book Title: What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
ISBN: 0195078942
Publication Info: Oxford University Press

 
 
 

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