COURSE DESCRIPTIONS College Catalog 2023 - 2024
Description: The second half of Western
Civilization considers the historical forces
and events that shaped the world in the 19th
and 20th centuries. The course examines
revolutions, nationalism, industrialization,
imperialism, war, and the clash of Nazism,
fascism, communism, and democracy. Other
major components consist of the decline of
colonialism, the atomic age, the Cold War,
contemporary world conflicts, and prospects
for the future.
SUNY GE-SDES, SSBS, SWHI; SUNY GEN
ED-GWEH, GSBS; NCC GEN ED-SBS,
WESH
Offered: Fall, Winterim, Spring, Summer
Credit Hours: 3
Department: His/PolSci/Geo/LatinAm Studies
HIS 103 - History of the United States
through the Civil War
Description: The course covers the broad
spectrum of American life through a survey
of American social, cultural and political
events. Included are such topics as the rise of
colonial America; the American Revolution;
the early national period of Washington,
Adams, Jefferson and Hamilton; the westward
movement; and the antislavery movement
which climaxes with the bitter struggle of the
Civil War.
SUNY GE-SDES, SSBS, SUSC; SUNY GEN
ED-GSBS, GAMH; NCC GEN ED-SBS,
WESH
Offered: Fall, Winterim, Spring, Summer
Credit Hours: 3
Department: His/PolSci/Geo/LatinAm Studies
HIS 104 - History of the United States
since the Civil War
Description: This second half of the American
history sequence picks up the American story
with the era of Reconstruction and moves on
to mark the growth of industrial America, the
expanding frontier with its Indian wars, the
Progressive Era, the expansion of American
foreign interests, the Great Depression, and the
rise and image of modern America. Designed
to reveal this nation's colorful and remarkable
past in the modern era, the course seeks to
examine the impact recent events have had
on the creation of modern American society,
culture, politics and world affairs.
SUNY GE-SDES, SSBS, SUSC; SUNY GEN
ED-GSBS, GAMH; NCC GEN ED-SBS,
WESH
Offered: Fall, Winterim, Spring, Summer
Credit Hours: 3
Department: His/PolSci/Geo/LatinAm Studies
HIS 105 - The World, 1945-Present
Description: With its focus on the present,
this course is designed to give students an
understanding of the world they live in, how it
was born out of the past and how it is creating
the future. Recent international conflicts, social
change and expectations of the future are
explored in the framework of the nuclear age.
SUNY GE-SDES, SSBS, SWHI; SUNY GEN
ED-GSBS; NCC GEN ED-GLNW, SBS,
HISD
Offered: Fall, Winterim, Spring, Summer
Credit Hours: 3
Department: His/PolSci/Geo/LatinAm Studies
HIS 106 - U.S.A., 1945-Present
Description: This course deals with America
in the nuclear age, its recovery from World
War II and its growing domination of the
Western world. The course covers the dramatic
changes in American society at home and
its entanglements abroad in an effort to
contain Russian and Chinese power. Domestic
transformation of the Kennedy-Johnson
period, the upheaval of Watergate, the Reagan
"revolution", and contemporary issues in
American life conclude the course.
SUNY GE-SDES, SSBS, SUSC; SUNY GEN
ED-GAMH, GSBS; NCC GEN ED-SBS,
WESH
Offered: Fall, Winterim, Spring, Summer
Credit Hours: 3
Department: His/PolSci/Geo/LatinAm Studies
HIS 107 - A Pictorial Approach to
European History Since 1500
Description: This course offers a unique
approach to European history using media
as a major part of each class period. Slides
and films of great masterpieces are used to
illuminate selected historical periods giving the
class discussions visual impact not available in
ordinary history presentations.
SUNY GE-SSBS, SWHI; SUNY GEN ED-
GWEH, GSBS; NCC GEN ED-SBS, WESH
Credit Hours: 3
Department: His/PolSci/Geo/LatinAm Studies
HIS 108 - Honors History: Western
Roots through the 18th Century
Description: This course traces the roots of
Western Civilization beginning with a survey
of the Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman
traditions and concluding with the Age of
Enlightenment and revolutionary upheavals
through 1789 that helped usher in the modern
world. The course is designed for honors
students only and includes extensive reading in
primary and secondary source materials.
SUNY GE-SDES, SSBS, SWHI; SUNY GEN
ED-GSBS, GWEH; NCC GEN ED-SBS,
WESH
Credit Hours: 3
Department: His/PolSci/Geo/LatinAm Studies
HIS 109 - Honors History: Western
Roots since the 18th Century
Description: This second half of Honors
Western Civilization studies the development
of the Western world from 1789 to the present.
The course considers that great events and
forces that have shaped our Atlantic world:
revolutions, nationalism, industrialization,
imperialism, war, and conflict between
fascism, communism, and democracy to the
present day. This course is designed for honors
students only and includes extensive reading in
primary and secondary source materials.
SUNY GE-SDES, SSBS, SWHI; SUNY GEN
ED-GWEH, GSBS; NCC GEN ED-SBS,
WESH
Credit Hours: 3
Department: His/PolSci/Geo/LatinAm Studies
HIS 110 - History of Contemporary
Africa
Prerequisites: Completion of RDG 001 and/or
RDG 002.
Description: (Dual listed with AFR 143)
The study of African independence
movements; discussion of the problems of
post-independent Africa, such as nation
building, strategies of development, education,
pan-Africanism; and problems of democracy in
southern Africa.
SUNY GE-SSBS, SWHI; SUNY GEN ED-
GSBS, GOWC; NCC GEN ED-SBS, GLNW
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit Hours: 3
Department: His/PolSci/Geo/LatinAm Studies
HIS 124 - Women in the Western World
Description: A focus on the role of women
as a significant force in the development of
the Western world. The course examines,
in historical context, the factors which have
determined women's place over the centuries,
compares the situation of women in capitalist,
socialist, and fascist societies, and surveys
contemporary European feminist movements.
SUNY GE-SDES, SSBS, SWHI; SUNY GEN
ED-GSBS, GWEH; NCC GEN ED-SBS,
WESH, PLDI
Credit Hours: 3
Department: His/PolSci/Geo/LatinAm Studies
HIS 125 - The Role of Women in
American History
Description: Women's history offers an
important new dimension to the study of
American society. This course examines the
vital role ordinary women have played in
American life for 350 years, the experiences
and achievements of women, and the successes
and failures of the feminist movements.
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