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  • HIST 2700: US History to 1877

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Surveys the origins of the United States from the Pre-Columbian era and early colonization through Reconstruction. Focuses on encounters among indigenous, African and European peoples; gender, race, and Atlantic slavery; the causes and consequences of the American Revolution; the westward expansion of the United States; and the sectional crisis that lead to the American Civil War.
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  • HIST 2700H: US History to 1877

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Examines the first half of the American experience, beginning with the Paleo-Indian cultures through Post-Civil War Reconstruction. Surveys social, political, cultural, and diplomatic developments throughout this period.
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  • HIST 2710: US History since 1877

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Surveys the making of a modern United States, beginning with the promises and failures of Reconstruction and concluding with contemporary American issues. Emphasizes diverse American experiences at the intersections of race, gender, and class while tracing social, cultural, political and diplomatic developments during this period.
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  • HIST 2710H: US History since 1877

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Examines the second half of the American experience, beginning with the collapse of Post-Civil War Reconstruction and concluding with contemporary American issues. Surveys social, political, cultural, and diplomatic developments during this period. Deepens the course's historical inquiry with in-depth discussions and more critical written and reading requirements, all of which allow the student a fuller participation in historical debates and the process of "doing" history.
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  • HIST 2900H: Independent Study

    1.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): Honors Director Approval. Provides independent study for Honors students unable to secure a desired class within regular semester curriculum offering. Involves designing and completing readings and other projects at the lower-division level in cooperation with the Honors director. Maximum of 3 credits may be applied toward Honors graduation.
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  • HIST 2900R: Independent Study

    1.00 - 4.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): Dean and/or Department Chair approval. Provides independent study for students unable to secure a desired class within regular semester curriculum offering. With approval of dean and/or department chair, student and instructor design and complete readings and other projects at the lower-division level. Maximum of 6 credits may be applied toward graduation.
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  • HIST 3010: The Historians Craft

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): HIST 1500G, HIST 1510G, HIST 2700, and HIST 2710 and University Advanced Standing. Develops methodological skills to prepare students for Junior/Senior-level coursework. Teaches historical research skills, including information and library literacy skills. Refines analytical writing skills using primary and secondary sources. Introduces debates in the field of history.
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  • HIST 3020: Public and Digital History

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Introduces the disciplines of public history and digital history, including methodology and literature. Exposes students to the major fields in public history, and identifies career opportunities. Covers the tools of public history, such as archives, special collections, oral histories, photographs, documents, journals, museum exhibitions. Emphasizes new digital techniques for collection, preservation, and presentation of primary sources. Teaches skills such as analyzing, interpreting, and communicating historical data for the public and by digital means. Discusses the professional and ethical dimensions of public history.
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  • HIST 3030: Introduction to African History

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Surveys African history since the sixteenth century: traditional societies, the slave trade, European colonialism, struggles for independence, underdevelopment, and challenges of globalization.
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  • HIST 3110: Greek History

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Explores historical and geographical context of Greece from 1600 B.C.E. to the Roman conquest in 30 B.C.E. spanning Minoan, Mycenaean, Hellenic, and Hellenistic ages. Examines the development of social/cultural, political, and economic institutions emphasizing their influence on Western civilization and our own cultural context.
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