• HIST 420R: Issues and Topics in Global History

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): Instructor approval; and University Advanced Standing. Analyzes a specific topic in global history as decided by the instructor. Debates the context and legacy of the topic using primary sources in a seminar setting. Evaluates varying interpretations and methods of different historians on the topic. Culminates in a major project requiring historical research. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credits toward graduation.
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• HIST 421G: The Global Cold War GI

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Examines the Cold War using global and interdisciplinary lenses. Explores key topics and questions about the global Cold War from multiple perspectives using sources from Latin America, Africa, Europe, and Asia alongside the U.S.S.R. and U.S. Discusses geopolitics as ideologies, interventions, decolonization, and revolution alongside themes such as resistance, gender, peace, militarism and imperialism, diplomacy, and soft power. Concludes by looking at how historical legacies of the Cold War shape today's world.
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• HIST 4250: Teaching History in the Secondary Curriculum

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): Admission to Professional Education Program, (EDSC 455G or instructor approval), and University Advanced Standing. For students majoring in secondary education. Examines teaching methodology as related to teaching history and learning teaching strategies to prepare students for secondary education certification. Utilizes various group projects, classroom exercises, and an actual teaching project at the end of the semester. Evaluated by participation, teacher evaluation, written evaluation, exams, personal journal, and a final teaching project.
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• HIST 430G: Violence and Social Conflict in Latin America GI

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): HIST 3010 or instructor approval; University Advanced Standing. Examines impact of violence and social conflict in Latin American society. Covers from Ancient Native American cultures to the present.
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• HIST 4310: Violence and War in the Ancient World WE

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Investigates violence in the Ancient Mediterranean from 2000 BCE to 700 CE. Discusses violence in many forms from domestic disputes to protracted war. Evaluates the way ancient people thought about violence and the arguments of modern historians of violence and war.
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• HIST 4320: History of Scientific Thought

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Explores development of Western scientific context from 6th century B.C. Greece to modern times. Emphasizes how our understanding of nature is influenced by a scientific approach. Examines technological impact of science on our lives.
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• HIST 461G: Peoples of the Atlantic World 1450-1800 GI

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): HIST 3010 or instructor approval; University Advanced Standing. Offers an introduction to the main themes and issues of the early Atlantic world and the field of Atlantic History, from the angle of intercultural relations and social/political productions. Examines in depth the encounters, exchanges, and clashes between Africans, Europeans, and Native Americans through the life experiences of the peoples who lived "between cultures," such as interpreters, mariners, missionaries, creoles, etc. Encourages reflection about the modern legacies of the colonial period and issues of multiculturalism and post-colonialism.
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• HIST 463G: Missions and Conversion in Early North America GI

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): (HIST 2700 or HIST 3730) and (ENGL 2010 with a grade of C+ or higher, or instructor approval) and University Advanced Standing. Examines in a comparative perspective various European religious missionary enterprises in North America and their reception among Indians from the seventeenth century through the antebellum period. Surveys the origins, doctrines, methods, and changes over time of the Jesuit, Franciscan, Moravian, Puritan, and other Protestant missions, emphasizing the international and multicultural aspects of the missionary landscape in early America. Addresses the ways in which various Native American groups and individuals responded to these European missionary efforts.
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• HIST 466G: Legacies and Reckonings in the American West GI WE

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): HIST 3010 or instructor approval; University Advanced Standing. Surveys key theories and issues in the American West, the diverse experiences of peoples and cultures in the West, the often contested interactions of these cultures, the cultural symbolism of the American West, human impact upon the western environment, and the role of myth in the formulation of regional identity. Emphasizes discipline-specific writing.
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• HIST 471R: Special Issues and Topics in American History

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Analyzes a specific topic in US history as decided by the instructor. Debates the context and legacy of the topic using primary sources in a seminar setting. Evaluates varying interpretations and methods of different historians on the topic. Culminates in a major project requiring historical research. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credits toward graduation.
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