The following courses, numbered 5000-9999, are offered for graduate credit. Courses numbered 5000-6999 which are offered for undergraduate credit only may be found in the undergraduate bulletin, as well as all other undergraduate courses (numbered 0900-4999). Courses in the following list numbered 5000-6999 may be taken for undergraduate credit unless specifically restricted to graduate students as indicated by individual course limitations. For interpretation of numbering system, signs and abbreviations, see University Courses
Prereq: HIS 2040. European expansion to North America, interaction among European, Native American, and African peoples, and imperial competition over the New World through the Seven Years' War. (I)
Social, political, and cultural background to America's independence movement; development of American national identity, social relations, and early politics through the election of 1800. (I)
Emphasis on the political culture with special attention to the founding of the American Republic, the emergence of a modern economy, slavery, social reform, and the sectional crisis. (B)
Emphasis on the coming of the Civil War, the war's impact on American society, and the reconstruction of the United States after the war. (B)
Emphasis on the rise of big business, social and intellectual change, protest movements and government policies. (B)
Analysis of economic and social problems, politics, and government policies. (B)
Social, political, intellectual, economic, diplomatic, and cultural trends in the United States since World War II. (Y)
U.S. constitutional development since the Judicial Revolution of 1937, emphasizing New Deal constitutionalism, dramatic shifts in the role of courts and the executive branch, civil rights movements, and modern rights consciousness. (B)
Prereq: senior standing or consent of instructor. Historical and analytic investigation into the role of class and race in American politics.
(I)
United States involvement in the international system from the Revolution through World War I and Versailles. Emphasis on the War of 1812 and the Mexican and Spanish-American Wars. (B)
United States involvement in the international system from the twenties to the present. Emphasis on World War II to Vietnam and the role of the United States in the Cold War and the Third World. (B)
Anglo-American constitutional development from European expansion and New World Settlement through the onset of the Civil War. Changing relationship between colonies and imperial center, emergence of revolutionary republic in North America, framing of new constitutional orders, nineteenth-century developments through 1860. (B)
United States constitutional development from the beginning of Civil War through the Judicial Revolution of 1937. Emergence of new constitutional agenda between 1860 and the 1890s. Progressive constitutionalism, changes in relations between branches of government and in the federation, New Deal constitutionalism, and struggles for enfranchisement of blacks and women. (B)
Social thought and ideologies from the colonial era to the recent past, including Puritanism, the Enlightenment, Transcendentalism, Darwinism, Pragmatism, and the social sciences; emphasis on major figures and social context. (B)
Role of women in the development of American society and in women's movements. (B)
Causes and consequences of immigration; immigrants and labor; immigrant culture and institutions; relationship between immigration, industrialization, and urbanization; racism, nativism, and immigration restriction. (B)
Assimilation, cultural pluralism and the "melting pot"; persistence of ethnic cultures; class and ethnicity; internal migrations; America's recent immigrants; race and ethnic relations in the city; the "new ethnicity." (B)
An upper division - graduate level course on the main ideological, intellectual, and political sources and developments in the history of feminism in the United States. (B)
Non-technical survey of relationships between private law and a developing American society from earliest settlement to the present. Emphasis on evolving conceptions of civil authority and private right, the legal profession, legal education, the law of slavery, and doctrinal developments touching property, labor, women, children, and others.
(I)
Analysis of American workers and unions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. (B)
Prereq: upper division standing. Offered for undergraduate credit only. History of black labor from the colonial period to the present . Topics include the development of a dual racial labor system in America; black workers in the development and evolution of the American labor movement; and black responses to white working class behavior. (B)
Ancient Greek culture, emphasizing political events, social and economic institutions, cultural achievements. (B)
Institutional and cultural development. (B)
Interaction of Roman, Christian and barbarian elements in the emergence of Europe as a cultural entity between the fourth and tenth centuries. (B)
Economic, social and cultural developments that transformed Western European civilization during the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth centuries. (B)
Europe in an age of transition between the fourteenth century and about 1530; Italian cultural and intellectual developments within a social and political context. (B)
Protestant and Catholic reformation seen in the context of social, economic, and political conditions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. (B)
Development of modern centralized state; social and cultural changes, including the Enlightenment. (B)
Rise of modern science; major changes in study of astronomy, medicine, physics, mathematics, and other sciences from 1500 to 1700
. (B)
The dramatic changes of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century that altered the course of French and European development and laid the basis for political modernization. (Y)
Total war and disillusionment, attempts to restore stability and security, totalitarianism as an answer, more war and reconstruction, a divided Europe, the search for Europe's place in the world. (B)
Social and cultural trends in modern European society; ideological struggles of interwar period. Topics include: impact of World War I; development of communism, fascism, nazism; Freud and the liberal defense; existentialism; postwar disillusionment. (Y)
Holocaust as a tragic conjuncture of general European and Jewish history. Topics include: development of anti-semitism in Europe and the rise of Nazism; European Jewry in the interwar period; the Third Reich's treatment of the `Jewish Question' in the 1930s; Jewish resistance; fate of the survivors; implications of the Holocaust for contemporary society. (Y)
The history of modern Germany against the background of its tradition and culture. Concentration on the Prussian-Austrian conflict, the emergence of German intellectual life, unification and modernization, and the crises and wars of the twentieth century. (I)
Hitler and Nazi Germany. Topics include: impact of World War I, the Weimar Republic, the growth of the Nazi party, the seizure of power, internal and foreign policies, and the war experience. (B)
Development and transformation of state power, with particular attention to those economic and social elements peculiar to Russia. (Y)
Bolshevik seizure of power, collectivization of agriculture and forced-draft industrialization, Nazi German invasion, Khrushchev and deStalinization, predominance of the new middle class, nationality problems, problems of detente. (Y)
A military history of the two world wars of the twentieth century. (B)
Impact of religious, political and social change on British people during sixteenth, seventeenth, and early eighteenth centuries. (I)
The impact of capitalism on peasant society; the transformation of handicraft industry; the emergence of the factory proletariat; class conflict and the working class movement in Europe's revolutionary age. (B)
Struggle between old and new political forces, impact of industrialization, search for freedom with order, effect of total war, problems of decolonialization and European integration, cultural transformations.
(Y)
West African states; Islam and socio-political change; the termination of the Atlantic slave trade; European conquest; West African resistance and the Colonial experience; nationalism and independence.
(B)
Historical origins of Apartheid with emphasis on nineteenth and twentieth century, including Dutch and British settlement, African state building, the mineral revolution, European racism, African resistance and nationalism. (B)
From the rise of the last dynasty in the early seventeenth century to the present. (B)
Prereq: consent of departmental adviser. Open only to students admitted to Salford-WSU Exchange Program. Directed study at University of Salford, England. (F,W)
Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes . (B)
History of the Jewish people from their biblical origins to the contemporary period. Study of primary documents as a means of understanding how Jews have responded to the challenges of living in both the Diaspora and a Jewish State. (I)
Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes . (Y)
Exploration of complicated relationship between ethnic and racial diversity and the making of America. Using historical, literary, and cultural readings and sources to examine key themes: Who was the "Other"? What is an "American"? (B)
Major innovators and leaders as entrepreneurs, as corporate managers, and as business statesmen from colonial era to present. Special attention to relationship, American values, and government policies.
(W)
For any class designated as Web, contact online: (http://www.classschedule.wayne.edu). Management of information, including records creation, records inventory and appraisal, retention/disposition scheduling, filing systems, maintenance of inactive records, micrographics, vital records protection, and electronic impact on records management. (F)
Survey course: 1066 CE to present. Areas of private law - real property, contracts, torts, and family law; criminal law; development of the court system; labor law and rise of modern administrative state. (Y)
Rise of modern science; major changes in study of astronomy, medicine, physics, mathematics, and other sciences from 1500 to 1700.
(B)
Prereq: 9 credits in archival administration courses. Offered for S and U grades only. Planned on-site experience in an archives under the direction of a professional archivist/librarian and under the supervision of a member of the faculty. Theory and competencies relevant to the environment. Recommended for students without experience in archives. (T)
Overview of electronic tools and the role of digital process in libraries and archives. (S)
Basic course in the fundamentals of archival and library conservation problems and methods essential for effective preservation management of paper and associated materials. (S)
Prereq: LIS 6210. Current trends in electronic resources used in archival administration. (Y)
Required of all M.A. candidates. Methods and tools of research and documentation. Use of aids and guides. (F)
Basic training in archival methods. (F)
Techniques of gathering data from individuals for use in research, classroom teaching, in historical, cultural or other contexts. (S)
Comparative study of the history of ancient and modern legal systems, with particular regard to possible relationships between law and the social and intellectual contexts in which it has developed. (Y)
The operation of public and private historical agencies, archives and museums. Determination of agency priorities, problems of staffing and finance, governmental regulations, community relations, and professional ethics. (F)
Prereq: HIS 7840. Basic course in the fundamentals of administering a visual collection: evaluation, organization, and control of visual collections in archives, librarians, historical agencies, and museums.
(W)
Prereq: written consent of adviser and graduate officer. (T)
Prereq: consent of graduate director. Offered for S and U grades only. (T)
Prereq: HIS 7830 or consent of graduate director. (I)
Prereq: HIS 7830 or consent of graduate director. (I)
Prereq: HIS 7830 or consent of graduate director. (I)
Prereq: HIS 7830 or consent of graduate director. (I)
Prereq: HIS 7830 or consent of graduate director. (B)
Prereq: HIS 7830 or consent of graduate director. Research and readings in U.S. and Canadian urban history. (B)
Growth and development of American higher education K-16, including events, circumstances, and influential ideas. Emphasis on the relationship between social, political, and economic change and the evolution of education. (Y)
Prereq: HIS 7830 or consent of graduate director. (B)
Prereq: HIS 7830 or consent of graduate director. (I)
Prereq: HIS 7830 or consent of graduate director. (B)
Open only to Ph.D. students. Students meet with graduate director to consider teaching philosophies and strategies; preparation and delivery of a lecture. (Y)
Prereq: consent of department. For Ph.D. program applicants. Offered for S and U grades only. Research in preparation for doctoral dissertation. (T)
Prereq: consent of dissertation adviser; Ph.D. candidate in department. Required in academic-year semester following advancement to Ph.D. candidacy. Offered for S and U grades only. (T)
Prereq: consent of dissertation adviser; HIS 9991. Required in academic-year semester following HIS 9991. Offered for S and U grades only. (T)
Prereq: consent of dissertation adviser; HIS 9992. Required in academic-year semester following HIS 9992. Offered for S and U grades only. (T)
Prereq: consent of dissertation adviser; HIS 9993. Required in academic-year semester following HIS 9993. Offered for S and U grades only. (T)
Prereq: consent of dissertation adviser; completion of 30 credits in HIS 9999, or 9991-9994. Offered for S and U grades only. (T)
Prereq: consent of doctoral adviser. Open only to Ph.D. candidates. Offered for S and U grades only. Register in multiples of three credits or as approved by graduate adviser and graduate dean. (T)