HISTORY 392A      Archival Internship
Students work directly with professional archivists and other personnel at the Kansas City Federal Records Center, the Truman Library, Jackson County Historical Society, and similar facilities in the area. Emphasis will be given to areas of arrangement, description and preservation of archival materials. Each student must make individual arrangements through the department. Also offered as HISTORY 592. Prerequisites: None Offered: Fall, Winter, Summer Restriction: Approval of Department Chair
Credits: 1-3 hours
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HISTORY 392B      Public History Internship
Students work directly with public history and editorial personnel at the Kansas City Museum, the Kansas City Pitch Weekly, the Truman Library, and similar facilities in the area. Depending on the institutional affiliation, emphasis will be given to museum operations and displays, editing, fund-raising, historical research and writing. Each student must make individual arrangements through the department. Also offered as HISTORY 592B. Prerequisites: approval of the department chair.
Credits: 1-3 hours
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HISTORY 393      Museum Studies
This course is designed to acquaint students with specific careers in museums and historical agencies; to introduce students to the wide range of operating issues facing those working in the museum profession on a day-to-day basis; and to familiarize students with the organizations, reference works and resources available to develop the skills and training required for those who choose to make this their profession. Also offered as HISTORY 593. Offered: On demand.
Credits: 3 hours
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HISTORY 394      African American History Before 1877
This course is a survey of the African American experience from Pre-Columbian exploration through reconstruction. The course focuses on the trans-Atlantic slave trade, slavery in the colonies as well as resistance and abolition movements. Prerequisite: None.
Credits: 3 hours
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HISTORY 395      African American History Since 1877
This course is a survey of African Americans in the United States from 1877 to the present. The course explores the post-reconstruction era, civil rights and black nationalistic movements; the concepts of racism, desegregation/integration and separation. Contemporary issues facing a multiracial and pluralistic society are also addressed. Prerequisite: None.
Credits: 3 hours
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HISTORY 400      Special Studies
Courses on subjects which are not a part of the regular department offering. The courses result from one or more of the following: (1) The expressed desire of students; (2) the broadened or refocused scholarship of a member of the history faculty; (3) the temporary presence of a scholar whose specialization is not reflected in the department's regular offerings; (4) the conclusion by the department that the course meets a community need; (5) the effort of the history faculty to provide an interdisciplinary approach to an era or topic. The course is experimental in the sense that it is a one-time offering with the potential of repetition or modification--depending upon student, faculty and community response. Also offered as HISTORY 500R.
Credits: 1-3 hours
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HISTORY 400      Special Studies
Courses on subjects which are not a part of the regular department offering. The courses result from one or more of the following: (1) The expressed desire of students; (2) the broadened or refocused scholarship of a member of the history faculty; (3) the temporary presence of a scholar whose specialization is not reflected in the department's regular offerings; (4) the conclusion by the department that the course meets a community need; (5) the effort of the history faculty to provide an interdisciplinary approach to an era or topic. The course is experimental in the sense that it is a one-time offering with the potential of repetition or modification--depending upon student, faculty and community response. Also offered as HISTORY 500R.
Credits: 1-3 hours
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HISTORY 400B      Special Studies
Credits: 1-3 hours
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HISTORY 400C      Special Studies
Credits: 1-3 hours
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HISTORY 400CC      Special Studies
Credits: 3 hours
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HISTORY 400CF      Cluster Course: Courts And Culture In The High Middle Ages
This course offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the High Middle Ages. In addition to the regularly scheduled meetings of this self-contained history class, there will be common sessions with students and faculty of English 400CF to look in dept at four royal courts from the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries. We will focus on the courts of William the Conqueror, Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, Louis IX, and Frederick II Hohenstaufen. Semester offered: On demand
Credits: 3 hours
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HISTORY 400CL      Special Studies
Credits: 1-3 hours
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HISTORY 400CM      Nazi Occupied Europe & The Holocaust
With the collaboration of many other nations, Nazi Germany attempted a genocidal war to systematically colonize, relocate and annihilate entire social groups, most notably the Jews. Employing an intentionally cosmopolitan perspective, this interdisciplinary cluster-course will explore how ordinary Europeans behaved in these circumstances and the different ways that scholars have attempted to comprehend, analyze and represent those choices.
Credits: 3 hours
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HISTORY 400CP      American Social Film: Silver Screen And The American Dream
This course will combine American social history and American film history. Using Hollywood entertainment films, the course will look at Hollywood as an indicator of social, political, and economic conditions in the U.S. from the early 1900s to the late 1950s. The main topics are war and the threat of war, poverty and affluence, racial tensions, censorship, and political zealotry. A paper is required, and a social history textbook, a film history textbook, a play by Arthur Miller and a collection of articles constitute core readings. This course is offered as a cluster with AMER-ST 300CD, COMM-ST 402CD and ENGLISH 300CD.
Credits: 3 hours
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HISTORY 400CR      Cc:Roman Revolution:History&Culture From The Gracchi To Augustus
In this course, the period of Roman history from the revolution initiated by the Gracchi to the demise of the Republic and the establishment of the Principate under Augustus will be discussed. Political, social and cultural developments will be traced which culminated in the violent death of the old system and a new government established by Augustus acceptable to the tradition-loving Romans. The events will be examined through the words of participants such as Terence, Cato, Polybius, Cicero, Caesar, Sallust, Catullus, Horace, Virgil, and Ovid. The disciplines of history and English will be treated together; therefore all sessions will be held in common. Grades will be based upon two examinations and assigned papers using both historical and English perspectives.
Credits: 3 hours
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HISTORY 400CS      Cluster Course:Clio&The Other Muses:Hist&Culture 5Th Cent Athens
Credits: 3 hours
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HISTORY 400CW      Cluster Course: Critical Issues in Women's & Gender Studies
What does it mean to grow up female in America? How does being female influence the body, the mind, identity? This course is an interdisciplinary exploration of the issues that have shaped the lives of American women throughout the life cycle and across the timeline. This course examines the role that culture and society have played in shaping and defining what it means to be an American girl and woman. May be cross-listed with CC ENG 300CW and/or SOC 300CW.
Credits: 3 hours
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HISTORY 400CY      Cluster Course: The Ancient World And The Cinema
This course will explore the tradition of depicting the ancient Mediterranean world in film from the early silent era to the present. Topics to be covered include the ways that filmmakers respond to literacy and historical sources from the ancient world, interact with the artistic tradition of films about the ancient world, the relation of these films to other works by the same creative personnel (directors, actors, writers, producers, etc.), and the political and cultural contexts in which the films were released.
Credits: 3 hours
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HISTORY 400CZ      CC: The Other Europe
This cluster course addresses a crucial, if often overlooked arena of history and culture: East-Central Europe. Open to all undergraduates, this course will explore the challenges of geopolitics, modernization, Western influences, multiethnic societies, and collective memory. Cross-listed with German 300 CZ.
Credits: 3 hours
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HISTORY 400D      Special Studies
Credits: 1-3 hours
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