Bachelor degrees in American History (United States): A program that focuses on the development of American society, culture, and institutions from the Pre-Columbian period to the present. Includes instruction in American historiography, American history sources and materials, historical research methods, and applications to the study of specific themes, issues, periods, and institutions.
The concentration in American civilization offers a framework for those students who wish to take an interdisciplinary approach to American culture. As it developed in the years following World War II, the American studies movement here and abroad included literary scholars who gave new weight to the historical context of the texts they read, as well as historians eager to move beyond the main lines of political and economic historiography into other...
* HIST-100/HIST-100G Historians and the Living Past 2:1 (3)
* HIST-205/HIST-205G American Encounters: 1492-1865 2:2 (3)
* HIST-215/HIST-215G Social Forces that Shaped America 2:2 (3)
One course from the following:
* HIST-206 The United States from Emancipation through World War II, 1865-1945
(3)
* HIST-207 The United States since 1945 (3)
* HIST-208 African-American History to 1865 (3)
* HIST-209 African-American History 1865 to...
This track provides a wide range of approaches to studying the history and culture of the region.
Focus-Area Courses
* HST 293 Historical Themes in Latin America
* HST 305 Studies in Latin American History * HST 329 Women in 20th-Century U.S. West
* HST 330 Mexican Women in the United States: Conquests and Migrations
* HST 331 Mexican-American History to 1900
* HST 332 Mexican-American History Since 1900
* HST 337 American...
The American Studies Program offers an interdisciplinary major for students who want to study the society and culture(s) of the United States by focusing on a central subject, theme, or set of questions. In consultation with the program director, each student chooses an adviser to define a thematic concentration within the major.
A student can choose her concentration as in 19th-Century American History and Literature.
The dynamics of global politics and economics and the increase in cross-cultural interaction have had a profound impact on national and local cultures--elite and popular, secular and religious. These processes of global cultural change have at once brought opportunities for cultural enrichment but also provoked intense resistance and strife. It is obviously critical to understand how cultural interaction and transfer have affected local cultures and...
Environmental pollution increasingly transcends state boundaries, defies national remedies, and requires international solutions that presuppose global governance to ensure implementation. This specialization seeks to explore the dynamics, problems, and responses to these profound changes in the global environment. It offers a close study of the patterns and dynamics of ecological change, drawing upon scientific assessments of the magnitude of these...
UMUC offered its first distance education courses in 1972. Today, more than 30 percent of our students are enrolled in courses that do not require on-site class attendance. The Internet serves as their link to the university.
UMUC holds the highest honor given in Web education:...
You can achieve a higher level of success. And you can start today.
For nearly 40 years, Walden University, an accredited institution, has helped adult learners balance their personal and professional commitments while earning a respected degree.
Earn your degree online from an accredited university.
You‘ll get a sense of the Capella University difference from the moment you talk to one of our enrollment counselors. "They made me feel like a person, not just a number," says Miriam Napolitano-Magaw, who earned a master‘s degree...
See why over 37,000 students have chosen to study with
Liberty University Online.
Liberty is Established.
As part of the world’s largest evangelical university, Liberty University
Online is campus-based and has offered first-rate distance education since
1985. LU Online now has...
With convenient class locations as well as online learning, University of Phoenix makes quality higher education highly accessible. Whether you're seeking an associate's, bachelor's, master's or doctoral degree, we can help you reach your goal...
