World History to 1500 (3) General survey of civilization from prehistoric times to the present with emphasis on the development of the ideas, events, and institutions that make up the modem world. Three hours of lecture per week. Listed as HIST 2311 in the Texas Common Course Numbering System.

World History since 1500 (3) Continuation of HIST 131. Three hours of lecture per week. Listed as HIST 2312 in the Texas Common Course Numbering System.

Introduction to Women’s Studies (3) Interdisciplinary is scope, this course introduces the study and contributions of women and gender as social categories that transform our understanding of culture, history, and society.Three hours of lecture per week.

Survey of the history of African Americans in the United States from the colonization of North America through the Civil War.

Continuation of HIST 321. Survey of the history of African Americans in the United States from the Civil War to the present.

Examination of the political, social, and cultural history of Europe from the Renaissance through the French Revolution.

Examination of the political, social, and cultural history of Europe from the Congress of Vienna to the end of the cold war.

Examination of the history of gender, sexuality, and racial and national identity.

Survey of the history of women in the United States from the colonial period to the present.

Cultural history of China of the earliest historical records (about 1200 BCE) up through the end of the Imperial period (1911CE). Three credit hours of lecture per week.

Cultural history of China from the end of the Imperial period (1911) up to the present. Three hours of lecture per week.

History of Texas from prehistoric times to the present. Special attention focused on the role of Texas as a crossroad between Anglo and Latin America.

Introduction to the rise of African civilizations from the first African civilization in Egypt through the period of the Atlantic slave trade.

African Civilizations since 1800 (3) Continuation of HIST 381. Examines the integration of African societies into the world economy and the responses of Africans to that integration. Three hours of lecture per week.

A senior level seminar where students work with the instructor to produce a project that integrates various disciplines.

Directed reading course that may be repeated for up to six hours credit. Open to senior History majors and minors and required of majors. Students must undertake an independent research project leading to the production of an article-length senior thesis.

Topics in African Diaspora (3) Directed readings course that may be repeated for up to six hours credit. Topics examine the history of the peoples of the African Diaspora. Three hours of lecture per week.

Intensive study with reading and discussion of special topics in United States, African American, and world history. Special attention will be focused on selected national and international topics. May be repeated for up to 9 credits as topics vary.

Directed readings course that may be repeated for up to six hours credit. Topics examine themes in the history of societies and cultures throughout the world.

Examination of the rapid social and political changes experienced by the United States since World War II with particular attention given to America's involvement in foreign affairs.

Examination of the background and events of the struggle for legal, political, and economic equality by African Americans up to the present day. May be repeated as topics vary.

Examination of the Mexican-American people with special emphasis on Texas and the Southwest.

This is an upper division course in Chinese History. Three credit hours lecture per week.

Examination of the political, social, economic, and cultural impact of slavery on the Western world.

Examination of the process of urbanization in American history with special emphasis on the role of ethnic minorities, Blacks, and Browns, in an urban nation.

Series of specialized topics in African history. Topics include ancient African kingdoms, history of South Africa, and the Atlantic slave trade. May be repeated up to 6 credits as topics vary.

This class is designed to allow students to work independently to research selected topics in history. Course can be taken more than once for credit as topics vary.

Social and Political History of the United States to 1877 (3) Survey of the history of the United States with particular emphasis on the institutions and events which transformed America from an English colony to a world power. Three hours of lecture per week. Listed as HIST 1301 in the Texas Common Course Numbering System.

Social and Political History of the United States since 1877 (3) Continuation of HIST 231. Three hours of lecture per week. Listed as HIST 1302 in the Texas Common Course Numbering System.

A survey of the economic, social, political, intellectual, and cultural history of Mexican Americans/Chicanx. Periods include early indigenous societies, conflict and conquest, early European colonization and empires, New Spain, early revolutionary period, Mexican independence and nation building, United States expansion to the United States-Mexico War Era. Themes to be addressed are mestizaje and racial formation in the early empire, rise and fall of native and African slavery, relationship to early global economies, development of New Spain’s/Mexico’s northern frontier, gender and power, missions, resistance and rebellion, emergence of Mexican identities, California mission secularization, Texas independence, United States’ wars with Mexico, and the making of borders and borderlands. (May be applied to U.S. History requirement.)

A survey of the economic, social, political, intellectual, and cultural history of Mexican Americans/Chicanx. Periods include the United States-Mexico War Era, incorporation of Northern Mexico into the United States, Porfirian Mexico, and the nineteenth century American West, 1910 Mexican Revolution and Progressive Era, the Great Depression and New Deal, World War II and the Cold War, Civil Rights Era, Conservative Ascendancy, the age of NAFTA and turn of the 21st Century developments. Themes to be addressed are the making of borders and borderlands, impact of Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, gender and power, migration and national identities, citizenship and expulsion, nineteenth century activism and displacement, industrialization and the making of a transnational Mexican working class, urbanization and community formation, emergence of a Mexican American Generation, war and citizenship, organized advocacy and activism, Chicano Movement, changing identifications and identities, trade and terrorism. (May be applied to U.S. History requirement.)

Introduction to African American History (3) Historical, economic, and cultural development of African Americans from slavery through the Civil Rights and post-Civil Rights era. Three hours of lecture per week. Listed as History 2381 in the Texas Common Course Numbering System.

This course is a survey of the social, political, economic, cultural, and intellectual history of people of African descent in the United States from the Civil War/Reconstruction period to the present. African American History II examines segregation, disenfranchisement, civil rights, migrations, industrialization, world wars, the Harlem Renaissance and the conditions of African Americans in the Great Depression, Cold War and post-Cold War eras. This course will enable students to understand African American history as an integral part of U.S. history. (May be applied to the U.S. History requirement.)