USF DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
USF Department
of History
A GUIDE
Descriptions are in onedocument, loaded in the orderin which they appear in theOASIS search schedule
AMH comes first, followed byEUH and LAH
Descriptions present a moreinformative general summaryof the kind of material you arelikely to encounter in theseclasses and the main events ofthe time period you will study
If a course meets an FKLrequirement, this is noted onthe description
Specific course content maychange with the individualinstructor, so if you’re lookingfor particular material that is orisn’t listed here, please emailthe instructor listed in theschedule for more informationabout the specific materials inhis or her courses
You should also email theinstructor if you want a list ofreadings or a guideline to howthe course will be graded
Not all lower level classes areoffered every semester
Above: USF History Alumni speak with interested students at a forum about what they’ve done with their history degrees since leaving USF.
Below: USF history professors with President Genshaft and Provost Wilcox at 2015 Commencement.
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USF History Department
2000-level course
descriptions
USF HISTORY STUDENTS VISIT THE SMITHSONIAN NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
NO PREREQUISITES!
AMH 2010 US HISTORY I
AMH 2010US HISTORY I
CHILD MILL WORKER, LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS, AROUND 1830
Europeans came here insearch of freedom – whatdid “freedom” mean todifferent people orgroups in this period?
European arrival in theAmericas (Hispaniola, StAugustine, Jamestown,Plymouth Rock)
Settlement history ofNorth American colonies
Revolutionary War
Ideas of framers of theU.S. Constitution
Voluntary migration bydifferent populationgroups through Irishimmigration of 1840s
Enslavement of Africans
European – Nativeinteractions from 1492 tothe Trail of Tears (1838/9)
Economic developmentand industrialization –railroads and the textileeconomy
Settlement of the US tothe Mississippi River andbeyond
Civil War (1861-65)
Reconstruction (1877)
UNITED STATES HISTORY TO
1877
COVERS FKL HUMANITIES
REQUIRED FOR B.S. IN SOCIAL STUDIES EDUCATION / FLORIDA
SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHER CERTIFICATION
Above: John Trumbull, The Declaration of Independence (1817/19). Below, sketch of a Richmond slave auction, from the Illustrated News of London, 1856.
AMH 2020 US HISTORY II
AMH 2020 US HISTORY II
Formation of Americanidentity – how did werespond to the mostrapid transformations inhuman history?
Reconstruction and theJim Crow South
Gilded Age railroad andsteel barons
Factory work and daily life
American empire
Women’s suffrage
Progressivism
Prohibition
Wars! Spanish-AmericanWar, WWI, WWII, Korea,Vietnam, Iraq andAfghanistan
Great Depression and theNew Deal
Postwar consumer societyand the baby boomers
Important jurisprudence:Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v.Board of Education, Roe v.Wade, Citizens United
Cold War and “Red Scare”
Space race
Civil rights movement
Great Society and originsof Medicare / Medicaid
Civil Rights and VotingRights Acts, Patriot Act,Affordable Care Act
Reagan Revolution
9/11 and consequences
Above left: U.S. pole vaulter Jenn Suhr (2012 Olympics) personifies changes in female roles over the twentieth century. Above right: Protests
for repeal of the 18th Amendment. Below: The Apollo 11 moon landing, July 1969.
FKL Social / Behavioral Sciences
Required for BS in Social Studiesed / FL teacher certification
Recommended for pre-law
Some small, discussion-intensesessions for FYS and sophomores
UNITED STATES HISTORY 1877 to present
COVERS GENERAL
CORE
STUDENT CIVIL RIGHTS PROTESTORS, SELMA, ALABAMA (1965)
EUH 2011 ANCIENT HISTORY I
EUH 2011 ANCIENT
HISTORY I
THE PYRAMIDS AT GIZA (EGYPT), ONE OF THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
How did early civilizationsemerge and develop?
What led to the formation ofthe first cities, states andempires?
How did environment andeconomic resources affectreligious beliefs andpromote complex socialsystems?
What led to the invention ofwriting?
What do monuments – thepyramids and the Parthenon– or statues and luxurygoods for gods and rulers tell us about power, prosperity and propaganda?
Ancient “world” empires
Evolution of Mesopotamia
Heroic tales, royalproclamations, laws, battleaccounts and biographies
Archaeological evidence
Absolute and divine powerof Egyptian pharaohs
Minoa and Mycenae
Homer, Herodotus, Plato,Thucydides, Aristotle,Euripides, Aristophanes
First democracy in Athens
Persian invasion of Greece
Athens and Sparta at war
Conquests of Alexanderthe Great
Above: The Parthenon, or Temple to Athena (447-438 BCE), the most important surviving building of Classical Greece. Below: Alexander the Great, Battle of Issus, detail from the Alexander Mosaic, a work of Roman art (ca. 100 BCE)
Covers FKL Humanities
Recommended for anthropology, classics, interdisciplinary classical civilization, humanities, education, literature majors
Ancient Near East, Egypt,
Greece – 5,000 years!
EUH 2012 ANCIENT HISTORY II
EUH 2012 ANCIENT
HISTORY II
TOURISTS VISIT THE COLOSSEUM (72-80 CE), AN ICONIC BUILDING OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
Traces the growth ofRome from a village toa mighty empire, oneof the largest theworld has ever known
Roman entertainment-- gladiatorial games,horse races, theatricalperformances
Great statesmen andgenerals -- Caesar,Cicero, Pompey andthe like
Emperors and theircourts
Outsiders in Romansociety such as slaves,barbarians, andprostitutes
Wars: with barbarians,with Egypt, withCarthage
The Aeneid
The “mad” emperors
Roman religion,official cults, mysterycults
Constantine andChristianity
Decline and Fall
Above: The First Triumvirate -- Julius Caesar, Crassus, Pompey the Great – who ended the Roman Republic and set the stage for the Empire
Below: Prostitute with her client, from a wall mural in the brothel at Pompeii
Covers FKL Humanities
Recommended for anthropology, classics, interdisciplinary classical civilization, humanities, education, literature majors
No prerequisites
Ancient Rome Learn the history behind the Rome you see on film!
Great for ROTC
EUH 2021 BYZANTINE EMPIRE
EUH 2021 Byzantine
Empire
BYZANTINE SHIPS USE GREEK FIRE AGAINST ARABS (MADRID SKYLITZES, 12TH CENTURY)
Was the Byzantinegovernment “Byzantine”?What does the wordmean?
Constantine, the RomanEmpire, and Christianity
Christians and barbarians
Eastern Orthodox Churchand Greek culture
Birth and spread of Islamto Egypt, Syria, NorthAfrica and the Holy Land
Black plague
Silk Road and luxurygoods
Legacy of Greekphilosophy and medicine
Arab and Persian scienceand astronomy
Naval battles and Greekfire
War with Persia, Russia,Arab territories, Bulgaria
Christian / Muslimrelations
The Crusades
Iconoclasm
Hybrid architecture ofEast and West
Emergence and spreadof the Ottoman Turks
Early Renaissance
Fall of Constantinople(1453) and end of theByzantine Empire
Above: Hagia Sophia, built in the sixth century by Emperor Justinian as an Eastern Orthodox Church, became a mosque after 1453 and is now a museum; Below: a map of the Empire ca. 650.
Byzantium (Istanbul) Crossroads of East and West
Recommended for humanities, art history, political science / international relations, literature, philosophy, religion majors
Great for ROTC
If you like films and tv about the Roman Empire, you should enjoy this class
EUH 2022 MEDIEVAL WEST
EUH 2022 MEDIEVAL
WEST
VICTIMS OF BUBONIC PLAGUE (TOGGENBURG BIBLE, 1411)
Fall of Rome
“Barbarian” empires:Goths, Vandals, Huns
Birth, rise, and spread ofIslam
Charlemagne’s new“Roman” empire
Christianization of Europe
Vikings and Normans –challengers from thenorth
Battle of Hastings andConquest of England
Weapons: stirrup,crossbow, armor,gunpowder
Monasticism and culture
Romanesque and Gothicarchitecture
Rise of the papacy
Magna Carta and roots ofwestern law
Medieval chivalry –romance and reality
Church/state conflict
Crusades
Heretics: Cathars,Albigensians and more
Black Plague, disease,and medicine
Everyday life: beer,bread, and the peasantswho made them
Above: Interior of Sainte-Chapelle, Paris with medieval stained glass (1200s); Below: The death of Harold, king of England, at the Battle of Hastings, 1066 (from Bayeux Tapestry, 1070s).
Covers FKL Humanities
Recommended for literature, political science, humanities, art history, education, health sciences, religion, or classics majors
Europe’s world, 476-1500
Great class if you love Game of Thrones, Lord ofthe Rings / Tolkien, or Monty Python!
EUH 2030 MODERN EUROPE I
EUH 2030 Modern
Europe I
EXECUTION OF FRENCH KING LOUIS XVI (1793), FROM AN 18TH-CENTURY ENGRAVING
Flat world? Explorationbefore 1492
Everyday life, diet, anddisease: bread and beer
Renaissance andRenaissance art
Guns, germs, and steel –European conquest andits aftermath
Printing press and literacy
The Reformation and theCatholic Church
The Inquisition
Witch-burning
The Thirty Years’ War andthe Military Revolution
The modern state system The revolutionary potato
Copernicus, Galileo, andmodern science
Consumer revolution: tea,coffee, tobacco, cotton
Atlantic slavery
Triangular “trade”
Roots of capitalism
Citizen rights in England:The Bill of Rights (1689)and Glorious Revolution
American (1776) andFrench Revolutions (1789)
Emergence of populardemocracies and popularvoting
Above: Hernan Cortes accepts gifts from the messengers of Montezuma in 1519, from the Codex Duran (1571). Below: Face of Michelangelo’s David [1501-4].)
What is modern? 1450-1789
Covers FKL HUMANITIESRecommended for English, humanities, religion, philosophy, Latin American Studies, World Languages, international studies, art history, education students
EUH 2031 MODERN EUROPE II
EUH 2031 Modern
Europe II
THE COLD WAR TOPPLES THE BELRIN WALL: BRANDENBURG GATE, NOVEMBER 9, 1989
French Revolution (1789)and Napoleon
Industrial Revolution andworker politics
An ideological age
Nation-state identities
Romanticism
Science, technology,chemistry, physics
Germ theory and modernmedicine
Art and culture
European colonialism
The Race for Empire
Constitutional revolutionsand popular democracies
Expanding rights to vote
Women’s emancipation
The Russian Revolution(1917)
World War I
Interwar Years andhyperinflation inGermany
World War II
Economic transformation
The Cold War
NATO
The European Union
The Fall of the Wall
Crumbling of Yugoslavia
The Euro
The West in aninternational world
Above: Benito Mussolini salutes the population of Rome (propaganda photo). Below: Congolese slaves on a 19th-century Belgian rubber plantation
Europe in the world, 1789 to present
WHAT MAKES US MODERN?
NO PREREQUISITE
Recommended for English, humanities, religion, philosophy, political science, World Languages, international studies, art history, education students
Covers FKL HUMANITIESGreat for ROTC