Modern Western civilization, the forces that make it, the processes by which it unfolds and the broad patterns of development that can be identified and understood as they evolve.
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Issues in United States History
Survey of United States history, with particular attention to the study of major individuals, movements, institutions and ideas. Also, beginning instruction on historiography, the appraisal of monographs and biographies and the use of primary sources. Designed as an introduction to the major.
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History of Women in America
The history of women in America from the Colonial period to the present. The focus is not on chronology, but on acquainting students with topics which disclose significant events, issues and problems in the changing experience of American women.
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United States Social and Intellectual History
Social conditions of various regions, occupations and classes with emphasis on antebellum reform movements, the intellectual problems introduced by technology and the role of minorities in society.
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Twentieth Century Europe
Study of European civilization from 1914 to the present. Special emphasis on the origin and course of World War I, the search for diplomatic stability, the regimes of Mussolini, Stalin and Hitler, World War II, the Cold War and the turmoil of the 1980s.
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The United States, 1820-1890
The development of nationalism after the War of 1812, new party alignment, Jacksonian democracy, the Civil War with its causes and ramifications, and the process of Reconstruction.
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The United States, 1890-1941
Examination, in some depth, of basic domestic problems and foreign policy in United States history of the period. Includes modernization, imperialism, entry and objectives in the World Wars, the complexities of the 1920s, the Great Depression and the New Deal.
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The United States since 1941
Central focus on the evolving experience of the American people from 1941 to the present, and the conflicting social, racial, political, economic and international forces which have shaped that experience.
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South Carolina
Study of the development of South Carolina as an American state and its unique contributions to the United States as well as the way in which it reflects development in the South and the nation as a whole.
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