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  Undergraduate Catalog :: College of Arts and Sciences :: History
 
  

Bachelor of Arts: History

General College Requirements

The student must fulfill the requirements of the general college program as outlined in Undergraduate Academic Regulations and Information.

History Department Requirements

  1. Each major shall concentrate in one area: American, European, Latin American or Global, or devise a thematic concentration and have it approved by the chair of the undergraduate studies committee.
  2. Two prerequisite courses (six hours) are required in either World History (206 and 208) or Western Civilization (201 and 202). These courses may also fulfill the UMKC general education requirements.
  3. Ten courses in history at the upper division, 300-400 level, are required (30 hours)
  4. Five of the ten courses, or 50 percent of upper division coursework, must fall into students' field of concentration.
  5. The other half of upper division coursework must be outside students' field of concentration.
  6. All history majors are required to complete History 301WI Historiography and Method and 498WI Senior Capstone as part of their 30-hour upper division requirement.
  7. All majors will take at least one history department course that examines a non-western society. Non-western societies include socio-cultural groups that are not of European origins or that have evolved a distinctive non-European identity. In our department, non-Western courses include those which deal with:
    • Africa
    • Asia
    • Latin America
    • Non-European Peoples of the Middle East
    • Indigenous North Americans
  8. History majors are strongly urged to pursue competence in a foreign language by continuing their foreign language training beyond the 13-hour general education requirement.
  9. All history majors at UMKC are required to establish and maintain a portfolio of their undergraduate work. The portfolio is a measurement tool that will allow students and faculty mentors to monitor intellectual growth, acquisition and sharpening of skills, and mastery of historical knowledge while at UMKC. The online portfolio may include any written or visual assignment completed at UMKC. It must include at least the following:
    • One book review
    • One historiographical essay
    • One exam essay
    • History 301WI Research Prospectus
    • History 498WI Senior Capstone Research Paper
    You should strive to make your portfolio materials as impressive as possible. Choose your best exam essay. If you received back a book review or historiographical assignment with suggestions for editing and revision, make the revisions and polish the paper before submitting it to the portfolio. Your 301WI Research Prospectus and your 498WI Senior Capstone should undergo several drafts before you submit them for grading. Again, make any changes that your professors suggest, and give the papers one last proofread and polishing before adding them to your portfolio. You will be responsible for managing your portfolio electronically.

Concentrations

The History department's course offerings, all of historical knowledge, can be categorized in any number of ways. The fields of concentration reflect an appreciation for the value of studying the past through multiple lenses. Students may choose to concentrate their undergraduate history education in a particular chronological period and region. Or they may choose course offerings that fall into coherent topics that lend themselves to transnational analysis over extended periods of time.
  • Chronological/Regional Concentrations:
    • Antiquity
    • Medieval and Early Modern
    • Modern U.S.
    • Modern Europe
    • Non-Western
  • Topical/Thematic Concentrations:
    • Class, Race and Gender
    • Global
    • Material Culture and Everyday Life
    • Science, Medicine and the Environment

Courses by Concentration

In reviewing the following list of concentrations and courses, keep in mind that new courses focused on specific topics relevant to professors' research interests are offered every semester, though they are not listed below.

Antiquity

 400CS   Clio and the Other Muses:  History and
           Culture of 5th Century Athens
 400CY   The Ancient World and the Cinema
 468R    Archeology and the History of Antiquity
 469     Archeology and Biblical History
 470     Ancient Egypt
 471     Ancient Greece
 472     Ancient Rome
 475WI   Ancient Israel

Medieval and Early Modern

 302     America, 1000-1763:  The Formative Era
 303     America, 1763-1783:  The Revolutionary 
           Heritage
 394     African American History to 1877
 400CF   Courts and Culture in the High Middle
           Ages
 411A    Medieval Civilization I
 411B    Medieval Civilization II
 412A    Women and Family in Medieval and
           Early Modern Europe
 412B    The Black Death and Late Medieval 
           Society
 413     Renaissance
 414     Reformation
 415B    17th and 18th Century Europe
 416R    The French Revolution and Napoleon
 426R    The Scientific Revolution, 1500-1700
 432R    Tudor England, 1485-1603
 433R    Britain, 1603-1832
 476     Medieval Jewish History

Modern United States

 300DM   Dollars, Culture and America's
           Hemispheric Empire
 300JH   The West in Film:  Fact and Fiction
 300MBA  Missouri and Kansas in the Era of
           the Border Wars
 300MBB  Social History and Material Culture of 19th 
           Century America
 300WY   The Sixties
 304     America, 1783-1828:  The National 
           Experience
 305     America, 1828-1852:  The Jacksonian 
           Period
306     America, 1850-1877:  Civil War
           and Reconstruction
 307     America, 1877-1917:  Development of
           Industrial America
 308A    America, 1914-1945:  The Era of the World
           Wars
 308B    America, 1945-Present:  Our Times
 353     Immigrants and Immigration in
           American History
 354R    Women in Modern America
 356     Rise of the City
 356R    Kansas City:  History of a Regional 
           Metropolis
 360R    Constitutional History
 361     American Foreign Relations
 366RR   American Labor History
 395     African American History Since 1877
 400CP   Silver Screen and the American Dream
 400Z    Kansas City Labor History

Modern Europe

 400CJ   Nordic History and Culture, 1750-Present
 400CI   Culture, Kultur, Civilization: Identity
           Formation in Middle Class
 417R    Nations and Empires:  19th Century Europe
 418R    The Age of Extremes:  20th Century Europe
 419R    Contemporary Europe, 1930-2000
 427R    The Darwinian Revolution, 1650-1900
 430R    The Ordeal of Total War, 1939-1945
 434R    Britain, 1832-Present
 436AWI  Imperial Germany 
 436BWI  Weimar Germany
 436CWI  Nazi Germany
 436DWI  Cold War Germany
 477     Modern Jewish History
 478     The Holocaust and the State of Israel

Non-Western

 300JH   Indians of the Americas
 400CR   Latin American Crises and Opportunities
 400F    Religion and Colonialism in Latin America
 400VGA  Colonial Latin America
 400VGB  Modern Latin America
 400VGC  Women in Latin America
 400VGD  Environmental History of Latin America
 424A    Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia
 424R    Twentieth Century Asia
 444R    Islam and the Arabs:  The Formative Period
 445     The Ottoman Empire in the Middle East
           to World War I
 446R    The Middle East From World War I
           to the Present
 462J    Japanese Civilization

Class, Race and Gender

 300FBA  History of Sexuality
 300J    History of Sport
 300JH   Indians of the Americas
 300K    Masculinity in History
 300L    Labor and Leisure
 300MBB  Social History and Material Culture of 19th 
           Century America
 300RH   History of Fatherhood
 353     Immigrants and Immigration
 354R    Women in Modern America
 366RR   American Labor History
 368     Girlhood and Boyhood in America
 369     Women and Work in Early America
 394     African American History Before 1877
 395     African American History Since 1877
 400B    Women in Latin America
 400K    History of Motherhood
 400Z    Kansas City Labor History
 401A    Religion in America
 412A    Women and Family in Medieval and
           Early Modern Europe
 428A    History of the Body
 428B    Women and Medicine: Patients and
           Practitioners from Antiquity to Present

Global

 300DM   Dollars, Culture and America's
           Hemispheric Empire
 300JH   Indians of the Americas
 302     America, 1000-1763:  The Formative Era
 361     American Foreign Relations
 300CN   The World Made Modern: World War I
           & Popular Film
 400CR   Latin American Crises and Opportunities
 400F    Religion and Colonialism in Latin America
 400VGA  Colonial Latin America
 400VGB  Modern Latin America
 424A    Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia
 424R    Twentieth Century Asia
 430R    The Ordeal of Total War, 1939-1945
 445     The Ottoman Empire in the Middle East
           to World War I
 446R    The Middle East From World War I
           to the Present
 467     Myth and Ritual
 477     Modern Jewish History
 478     The Holocaust and the State of Israel

Material Culture & Everyday Life

 300J    History of Sport
 300K    Masculinity in History
 300L    Labor and Leisure
 300MBB  Social History and Material Culture of 19th
           Century America
 300RH   History of Fatherhood
 368     Girlhood and Boyhood in America
 369     Women and Work in Early America
 370     Introduction to Material Culture
 392A    Archival Internship
 392B    Public History Internship
 393     Museum Science
 400CC   History, Culture and Nature in Sweden
 400K    History of Motherhood
 401A    Religion in America
 428A    History of the Body
 428B    Women and Medicine: Patients and
           Practitioners from Antiquity to Present
 436AWI  Imperial Germany
 436BWI  Weimar Germany
 436CWI  Nazi Germany
 436DWI  Cold War Germany
 468R    Archeology and the History of Antiquity
 469     Archeology and Biblical History
 497     Project in Swedish History and Culture

Science, Medicine and the Environment

 300JH   The West in Film:  Fact and Fiction
 357     The American West
 365A    American Environmental History
 400CC   History, Nature and Culture in Sweden
 400VGD  Environmental History of Latin America
 412B    The Black Death and Late Medieval Society
 426R    The Scientific Revolution, 1500-1700
 427R    The Darwinian Revolution, 1650-1900
 428A    History of the Body
 428B    Women and Medicine: Patients and
           Practioners from Antiquity to Present
 473     History of Astronomy
 497     Project in Swedish History and Culture
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