Geography Courses:
GEOG 105 (3) Introduction to Cultural Geography. Knowledge of the basic concepts characterizing each culture with emphasis on past population and global problems; patterns and spatial aspects of fertility and mortality; migration; social customers on the landscape; and urban patterns. Students are required to do two cultural field based projects.
GEOG 209 (3) World Regional Geography. Study of the different geographical regions of the world consisting of early settlement; people and economic development; physical environment; resources; and future. This class is a lecture-lab. Students are required to do lab activities in class, the library, and community field based as well.
History Courses:
HIST 101 (3) History of Civilization I. A survey of the history of the world from the earliest civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt to the rise of capitalism and the beginnings of European imperialism before 1648.
HIST 102 (3) History of Civilization II. A survey of the history of the world tracing the rise and fall of European domination and the growing significance of Africa, Asia, and Latin America in the twentieth century.
HIST 201 (3) United States History I. A survey of society from the Colonial period to Reconstruction emphasizing political, cultural, social, and economic development.
HIST 202 (3) United States History II. A survey of society since Reconstruction emphasizing political, cultural, social, and economic development.
HIST 260 (3) Early African American History. An examination of African-descended people’s historical participation in American life from the Atlantic slave trade through Reconstruction.
HIST 261 (3) Modern African American History. An examination of African descended people’s historical participation in modern American life since Reconstruction.
HIST 300 (3) Oral History Methodology. An introduction to the application of oral history techniques and methodology.
HIST 306 (3) Topics in History. An analysis of American and European topics designed to promote intense topical reading, research, and critical writing exercises.
HIST 308 (3) American Military History. Survey of the American war experience from the colonial period to the Vietnam War.
HIST 323 (3) Civil War and Reconstruction. Emphasis is placed on the causes of the War, the emancipation of slaves, the transition from slavery to freedom, and the interpretations of Reconstruction.
HIST 325 (3) History of Mississippi. A survey of the political, economic, social, and cultural development of Mississippi with special emphasis on late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
HIST 328 (3) History of Latin America. A readings and research centered course focusing on the historical development of Latin America in the Western Hemisphere. Primary emphasis will be given to the impact of Spanish culture in the region, patterns of political, economic, social and intellectual ferment as well as historic and enduring problems specific to Latin America.
HIST 329 (3) History of the Caribbean. A study of the economic, political, social, and cultural life, of the people of the Caribbean area and their relationship with the United States.
HIST 344 (3) Historiography. Designed to study the problems encountered in studying, interpreting, and writing history. Majors will also be introduced to schools and theories of historical interpretation in American, Asian, European, and African historiography.
HIST 382 (3) History of the South. An examination of the social, political, and economic development of the American South from Jamestown to the present with a particular focus on the history of race relations.
HIST 384 (3) Sexuality in the United States. Students will examine the changes in sexual morals, the regulation of sexual behavior, and the construction of sexual identities from the colonial period to the present.
HIST 385 (3) History of African American Women I. An in depth exploration of the historical experience of African American women from settlement through the Civil War.
HIST 386 (3) History of African American Women II. An in depth exploration of the historical experience of African American women from Reconstruction through the present.
HIST 405 (3) Early Africa. A study of pre-colonial African History. The course emphasizes African civilizations before the coming of Europeans.
HIST 406 (3) Colonial Africa. The study of the European scramble for Africa and the subsequent division of the continent’s societies into colonies. The course explores as well the emergence of nationalism in Africa and the struggle for independence that it wrought.
HIST 407 (3) Contemporary Africa. A study of the emergence of Africa since 1945 with emphasis on the role of nations of the continent in both regional and world affairs.
HIST 412 (3) European Imperialism. An analysis and interpretation of the circumstances that enabled Europeans and their descendants to explore, settle, conquer, control, and dominate two-thirds of the world’s peoples.
HIST 447 (3) Research Seminar. Prerequisite: HIST 344. For senior History majors with emphasis on completion of a major historical research paper.
HIST 448 (1 – 6) Independent Study and/or Directed Readings. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Intensive study in research materials or reading directed toward a specified topic or project.
HIST 449 (3) Black Americans in the South. A study of the development of the Black Southerners culturally and institutionally between the Civil War and 1915.
HIST 452 (3) Introduction to Public and Applied Historical Studies. An introduction to selected subjects and skills related to the use of history in the public and private sectors.
HIST 461 (3) History of Disability. An exploration of the historical experience of people with mental and physical disabilities, including a critical survey of the shifting cultural conceptions of mental and physical disability in American history. Emphasis will be placed on the lives of people with disabilities in the community, the development of residential institutions, the growth of social welfare programs, and the disability rights movement of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
HIST 462 (3) History of Childhood and Youth. An exploration of the historical experiences of children and youth. The class examines how race, gender, class, religion, and disability shaped the lives of children and youth. Other topics to be discussed include the role of the community and state in child-rearing and evolving concepts of childhood and adulthood.
HIST 463 (3) History of Public Health. A critical study of the history public health, including the changing role of epidemic disease, the development of government public health programs, lay health care practices, the rise of the modern medical professions, the growing influence of technology in health care, and the persistence of racial, ethnic, and class differences in health care, morbidity, and mortality.
HIST 473 (3) Introduction to Museums. Survey of the history of American museums and principles of museum management.
HIST 476 (3) Archives and Records Management. Survey of the principles of archive and resource management with an emphasis on material culture.
HIST 498 (3) Discovery and Preservation of Local, State, and National History. Survey of techniques and methodologies for researching and writing the histories of various political and cultural subdivisions. The subdivisions that will serve as venues for the historical studies include and range from local municipalities, small towns and counties to the state, region and nation.
HIST 499 (3) History Internship. History majors relate their academic education to on-the-job training situations in public and private programs, organizations, and agencies.
Philosophy Courses:
PHIL 301 (3) Introduction to Philosophy. Four principal types: metaphysics, epistemology, logic, ethics. Illustrated from classical, medieval and modern philosophic systems.
PHIL 309 (3) Ethics. Representative thinkers from the pre-Axial Age up to the modern period focusing on capacities for analysis and critical thinking.
PHIL 416 (3) Logic. Development of normative mental act in classical deductive and inductive forms, up to the syllogism. Relation of logical structure to effective communication.
