Sponsored by:  Arts and Humanities and History and Society Divisions

Faculty Contact: Kevin Bruyneel
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Courses in this category have as their primary focus the historical and political processes and patterns that have structured the relationship between individuals and communities. This concentration explores how communities attempt to reconcile the claims of justice, power, liberty, and authority historically and in contemporary public life. By developing an inter-disciplinary approach that can include law, economics, sociology, and philosophy, Historical and Political Studies is a broadly based concentration that shares the traditional aims of liberal arts education while attempting to come to grips with the origins and contemporary manifestations of major political and social issues.

Requirements:

Students Must choose a minimum distribution from the following lists:

At least three (3) of the four (4) courses required to complete this concentration must be selected from the following list of Primary Courses.

Primary Courses:
AMS 3612 Working in America: Labor in the 20th Century
AMS 3673  American Music History (Inactive)
AMS 3674  Immigrants and Popular Culture (Inactive)
ECN 3662  Political Economy of Latin American Development and Underdevelopment
HIS 3600  Modern Japan
HIS 3601  Cultural History of the European Renaissance
HIS 3603  Germany: Bismarck – Hitler
HIS 3604  Sexuality and Power in Modern Society
HIS 3665  Revolutions and Terror in Modern Latin America
HIS 3670  History of Capitalism
HIS 3671  Peoples and Cultures of the Americas
HIS 3674  U.S. Women’s History
HIS 3677  The History, Culture and Economy of Modern Mexico 
HIS 3680  Modern China
HIS 3682  Women in China
HIS 3685  Cross-Cultural Trade in Asian-Pacific Histories
HIS 3668 Ethno-Political Conflict (Inactive) *Note: HSS 2432: Ethno-Political Conflict Does NOT count toward this concentration.
HIS 3693  Food in Chinese Culture
PHL 3611  Social and Political Philosophy
POL 3673  Native American Politics and Policy
POL 3675  Justice, Revenge, and Defeat
POL 3676  European Politics at the Dawn of the 21st Century
POL 3677  American Presidency
POL 3678 Global Politics: Collaboration and Conflict

AND
 

One (1) of the four (4) courses required to complete this concentration may be selected from the following list of Secondary Courses.

Secondary Courses:
GDR 3610  Women’s Studies
HIS 3610: The Moral Responsibility of Corporate Power in a Democratic Society, *(2 credit course)
LIT 3603  Espionage, Subversion, and Terror: The Spy Novel (Inactive)
LAW 3661  American Constitutional Law
LAW 3671  European Unification & US Federalism: A Comparative Perspective
LAW 3672  Intolerance, Culture and the Law
LAW 3690  European Union vs The United States
VSA 3600  Art, Religion, and Politics in Ancient Egypt
VSA 3601 Greek and Roman Art