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2021-2022 Hill Book (Class of 2025) [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]
Course Descriptions
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HIS 100/122 - China Rising: The Re-emergence of a Global Superpower (Core/First-Year Seminar) Three or Four Credits
Offered Periodically
China is a political and economic juggernaut in the 21st century, but has also been a vibrant center of global trade and socio-cultural influence for millennia. We explore this long and turbulent history, from the Silk Roads to first encounters between cultures, from diplomacy and war to power struggles between East and West.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): HIS 122 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
General Education Attribute(s): HIS 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the History Cornerstone.
HIS 122, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and History Cornerstone.
Course Applies to: Asian Studies
Note: Considered a World History.
Course does not count towards Elementary Education licensure.
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HIS 100/128 - The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (Core/First-Year Seminar) Three or Four Credits
Offered Periodically
Frederick Douglass’ heroic journey from slavery to freedom in antebellum America illuminates–in lightning flashes–a nation riven by race, region, economy and differing conceptions of justice and morality. The course weaves literature, film, and primary materials, tracing Douglass’s complex life and times and introducing students to college-level historical inquiry.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): HIS 128 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
General Education Attribute(s): HIS 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the History Cornerstone.
HIS 128, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and History Cornerstone.
Course Applies to: American Studies, Digital Humanities
Note: Considered a United States History.
Course does not count towards Elementary Education licensure.
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HIS 100/130 - American Family History (Core/First-Year Seminar) Three or Four Credits
Offered Periodically
This seminar focuses on the changing American family, its myths and realities, and places it in historical, cultural, economic, and philosophic contexts. What are the consequences of the many illusions and fallacies that Americans have generated around family life? Frequent short writing assignments, multimedia blogging, and archival labs based on primary sources will be part of the fabric of this course, which will conclude with making digital stories, short films based on individual family history.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): HIS 130 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
General Education Attribute(s): HIS 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the History Cornerstone.
HIS 130, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and History Cornerstone.
Course Applies to: American Studies, Digital Humanities
Note: Considered a United States History.
Course does not count towards Elementary Education licensure.
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HIS 100/131 - Medicine, Healthcare and Society in Europe, 1000-1700 (Core/First-Year Seminar) Three or Four Credits
Offered Periodically
Surveys the history of medical knowledge and practice in medieval and early modern Europe. Through primary and secondary readings, students will gain a historical perspective on doctor-patient relationships, diagnosing illness, anatomy and dissection, explanations of sex and gender difference, contagious disease, religious and magical beliefs about healing, and the connection between mental, physical, and spiritual health.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): HIS 131 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
General Education Attribute(s): HIS 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the History Cornerstone.
HIS 131, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and History Cornerstone.
Note: Considered a European History.
Course does not count towards Elementary Education licensure.
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HIS 100/133 - Asian American History (Core/First-Year Seminar) Three or Four Credits
Offered Periodically
Survey of Asian migration to and experiences in the United States from mid-nineteenth century to the present. Follows East, Southeast and Asian migrants through gold mines and sugar plantations, on the first transcontinental railroad and on agricultural frontiers, through struggles over citizenship and identity politics. Themes include immigration, race relations and multiculturalism in modern United States history.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): HIS 133 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
General Education Attribute(s): HIS 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the History Cornerstone.
HIS 133, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and History Cornerstone.
Course Applies to: American Studies, Asian Studies
Note: Considered a United States or World History.
Course does not count towards Elementary Education licensure.
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HIS 100/135 - Revolutionary History: Hamilton (Core/First-Year Seminar) Three or Four Credits
Offered Periodically
The hit Broadway musical “Hamilton” has inspired audiences around the world with its hip-hop styled interpretation of the life and times of Alexander Hamilton and his band of revolutionary brothers. But how familiar are we with the actual history the musical presents? This course examines both the irreverent musical and the revolutionary history that informs it, analyzing the biographies and historical contexts of Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, George Washington, Elizabeth and Angelica Schuyler, and the famous duel that ended one founder’s life and another’s promising career. We will look at the complicated personalities and politics of these figures and analyze “who lives, who dies, who tells your story.”
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): HIS 135 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
General Education Attribute(s): HIS 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the History Cornerstone.
HIS 135, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and History Cornerstone.
Course Applies to: American Studies
Note: Considered a United States History.
Course does not count towards Elementary Education licensure.
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HIS 100/136 - Fact or Fiction? Myth, Reality and Conspiracy in America (Core/First-Year Seminar) Three or Four Credits
Offered Periodically
What do “alternative facts,” beliefs in UFOs and space aliens, Christian millennialism, competing theories about the JFK assassination, the Death of Elvis Presley, or the controversy surrounding Barack Obama’s American citizenship have in common? This course explores, through writing and focused research, historical, cultural, and political myths and conspiracies in American culture, focusing on the changeable and sometimes fantastic nature of historical truth.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): HIS 136 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
General Education Attribute(s): HIS 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the History Cornerstone.
HIS 136, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and History Cornerstone.
Course Applies to: American Studies
Note: Considered a United States History.
Course does not count towards Elementary Education licensure.
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HIS 101/115 - The Declaration of Independence in World History (Core/First-Year Seminar) Three or Four Credits
Offered Periodically
Introduces students to one of the most significant documents in world history: The Declaration of Independence. We will read the original draft to uncover the elusive document’s “original meaning.” Then, we will examine the intellectual and political underpinnings of the Declaration along with its impact on world history.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): HIS 115 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
General Education Attribute(s): HIS 101, for 3-credits, fulfills the History Cornerstone.
HIS 115, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and History Cornerstone.
Note: Considered a World History.
Counts towards Elementary Education licensure.
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HIS 101/116 - Antisemitism, Nazism, and the Holocaust (Core/First-Year Seminar) Three or Four Credits
Offered Periodically
An examination of Europe’s antisemitic past that culminated in the rise of National Socialism and the Holocaust of European Jews. Special emphasis will be given to eyewitness biographical accounts of this tragic history.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): HIS 116 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
General Education Attribute(s): HIS 101, for 3-credits, fulfills the History Cornerstone.
HIS 116, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and History Cornerstone.
Note: Considered a European History.
Counts towards Elementary Education licensure.
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HIS 101/117 - Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration (Core/First-Year Seminar) Three or Four Credits
Offered Periodically
The history of exploration is the history of convergence-how humans knit together the globe after tens of thousands of years of divergence. From Polynesian seafarers to Christopher Columbus and from the Vikings to David Livingstone, we examine the pathfinders who have shaped our world.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): HIS 117 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
General Education Attribute(s): HIS 101, for 3-credits, fulfills the History Cornerstone.
HIS 117, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and History Cornerstone.
Course Applies to: Latin American & Caribbean Studies (with permission of the LACS Program Director).
Note: Considered a World History.
Counts towards Elementary Education licensure.
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HIS 101/124 - History of American Freedom (Core/First-Year Seminar) Three or Four Credits
Offered Periodically
This course examines the idea of freedom in U.S. history from the American Revolution to the present. It focuses on how this idea, so central to American identity, has evolved and has been contested throughout the nation’s history.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): HIS 124 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
General Education Attribute(s): HIS 101, for 3-credits, fulfills the History Cornerstone.
HIS 124, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and History Cornerstone.
Note: Considered a United States History.
Counts towards Elementary Education licensure.
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HIS 101/125 - The Ancient Dead: Mummies and Other Ancestors (Core/First-Year Seminar) Three or Four Credits
Offered Periodically
This course explores world history through the study of human remains and the human culture surrounding the dead. Through various windows on social history, this will allow a historical survey of human beliefs about life, death and the afterlife, and its relationship to the present.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): HIS 125 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
General Education Attribute(s): HIS 101, for 3-credits, fulfills the History Cornerstone.
HIS 125, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and History Cornerstone.
Note: Considered a World History.
Counts towards Elementary Education licensure.
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HIS 101/126 - Shamans, Prophets and Saints: Mystics in World History (Core/First-Year Seminar) Three or Four Credits
Offered Periodically
“Strange” individuals who journey into other realms of consciousness have been central not only as spiritual or religious guides but as lawgivers, healers, poets, scientists, and even rulers. The course investigates three overlapping categories, tracing their history through various societies and cultural traditions, from Neolithic times up to the present.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): HIS 126 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
General Education Attribute(s): HIS 101, for 3-credits, fulfills the History Cornerstone.
HIS 126, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and History Cornerstone.
Note: Considered a World History.
Counts towards Elementary Education licensure.
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HIS 101/134 - Money and Power in Europe, 1000-1700 (Core/First-Year Seminar) Three or Four Credits
Offered Periodically
Examines the role of money, trade and banking in medieval and early modern European history. Topics include the Mediterranean trading networks of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, medieval entrepreneurship, the Hanseatic League, workers’ revolts after the Black Death, dynastic politics in the Italian Renaissance, the international banking networks of the Medici and the Fuggers, mercenaries and war financing, religious and ethical debates about banking and credit, and the Dutch tulip craze of the seventeenth century.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): HIS 134 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
General Education Attribute(s): HIS 101, for 3-credits, fulfills the History Cornerstone.
HIS 134, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and History Cornerstone.
Note: Considered a European History.
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HIS 141 - History and Horror (First-Year Seminar) Three or Four Credits
Fall Semester
An examination of the history of horror films. This course is an excursion that will compare and contrast the fictional world of the macabre with the historical realities that form and challenge our social and cultural lives. With the aid of film, this course will analyze the phenomenon of the horror genre down through the ages.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): HIS 141 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
General Education Attribute(s): HIS 241, for 3-credits, fulfills the History Cornerstone.
HIS 141, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and History Cornerstone.
Course Applies to: Cinema Studies
Note: Can be considered a United States or European History.
Students may not take both HIS 141 and HIS 241.
Course does not count towards Elementary Education licensure.
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HIS 143 - The Roman Empire of Neros Three Credits
Periodically or As Needed
Rome’s first imperial dynasty collapsed with the reign of Nero. Nero is infamous for murdering relatives, living scandalously, persecuting Christians, and, just possibly, starting a massive fire that nearly destroyed the city of Rome, all while ignoring his duties in a quest to become the Roman equivalent of a pop star, and his reign ended in rebellion and civil war. In this course, students will use ancient sources and modern scholarship to evaluate his reputation as one of the “bad” Roman emperors while also gaining an understanding of Roman political systems, daily life, and culture in the first century.
General Education Attribute(s): First Year Seminar, History Cornerstone
Note: Considered a European History
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HIS 205 - Irish American Experience Three Credits
Spring Semester
Irish background, different waves of Irish immigration, Irish contributions to politics, religion, business and fine arts, as well as the different interpretations of the Irish experience in America.
Course Applies to: American Studies
Note: Considered a United States History.
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HIS 209 - Native American History Three Credits
Not Offered 2019-2020
An interdisciplinary survey of the aboriginal inhabitants of North America from pre-history to the present. Confronts long-standing stereotypes of Native Americans and seeks a deeper understanding of native beliefs, values, and historical experiences. Course deals extensively with European and Native American encounters and evaluates their continuing impact on indigenous communities.
Course Applies to: American Studies, Anthropology
Note: Considered a United States or World History.
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HIS 214 - Ireland: From Colony to Nation State Three Credits
Not Offered 2019-2020
An introduction to Ireland: its history, people, culture, and mystique. This course explores Irish history from the Norman invasion to the present. Topics include the Cromwellian settlement of Ireland, the Anglo-Irish estate system, revolution and nationalism in Ireland from 1780, the Great Famine, and Irish emigration.
Note: Considered a European History.
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HIS 219 - History of World Economic Development Three Credits
Fall Semester
For description, see ECO 219 .
Course Applies to: Asian Studies, Anthropology, Middle Eastern Studies, and Latin American & Caribbean Studies (with permission of the LACS Program Director)
Note: Considered a World History.
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HIS 220 - Comparative Empires: Spain and Portugal Three Credits
Not Offered 2019-2020
Investigation of the historical foundations and development of the Iberian Empires of Spain and Portugal, the first global maritime empires of the modern era, and evaluation of their historical significance; Columbus and the age of exploration and conquest; and the maturation and decline of the Iberian Empires.
Course Applies to: Latin American & Caribbean Studies
Note: Considered a European and World History.
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HIS 221 - Ancient Mediterranean Greece and Rome Three Credits
Not Offered 2019-2020
A study of the ancient civilizations that coalesced into Hellenistic Culture with a focus on the political, institutional, and intellectual movements, which provided the context for the development of European Civilization.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Sophomore standing.
Note: Considered a European History.
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HIS 225 - History and Film Three Credits
Not Offered 2019-2020
For years, Hollywood has offered an array of films, both epic and provincial, that center upon events in history. Using primary and secondary written accounts, this course will view a comparative selection of these films in the search for “historical” truth.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Sophomore standing.
Course Applies to: American Studies
Note: Considered a United States and European History.
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HIS 227 - Renaissance and Revolutions: Early Modern Europe Three Credits
Not Offered 2019-2020
This course examines the major developments of a pivotal time in European history known as the Early Modern Era (1400-1800). These developments include the educational reforms of the Renaissance, the religious change and violence of the Reformation, the rise of centralized monarchies, European expansion overseas, the Enlightenment, and democratic revolutions.
General Education Attribute(s): Catholic Intellectual Traditions
Note: Considered a European History.
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HIS 228 - History of U.S. Foreign Relations Three Credits
Not Offered 2019-2020
In this survey of American foreign relations from the late eighteenth century to the recent past, we will explore significant trends and changes to explain the movement of the United States from a fledgling nation, to regional power, to global empire, and, finally, to declining superpower.
Course Applies to: American Studies
Note: Considered a United States History.
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HIS 229 - Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe Three Credits
Not Offered 2019-2020
This history of women, men and gender in early modern Europe, between the Renaissance and the early nineteenth century. The course will consider philosophical, medical and religious beliefs about women and men, and the real and imagined roles that women played in early modern society: queens, scientists, healers, witches and saints.
Course Applies to: Gender & Sexuality Studies
Note: Considered a European History.
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HIS 233 - American Catholic Social History Three Credits
Not Offered 2019-2020
An historical presentation of the numerous social issues, conflicts, and varied solutions in American Catholicism from the late 19th century forward with emphasis on how the many issues of society impacted Catholicism. The course demonstrates how the application of faith and various theological and philosophical theories were used in resolution of social conflict.
General Education Attribute(s): Catholic Intellectual Traditions, Moral Inquiry
Course Applies to: American Studies
Note: Considered a United States History.
Cross-listed with RST 233 .
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HIS 234 - The Civil Rights Movement 1945-1966 (History Cornerstone) Three Credits
Not Offered 2019-2020
The American Civil Rights Movement arose out of the centuries-long efforts of the African American community to resist and overcome the injustices of slavery, racism, and segregation. African Americans’ experiences during an immediately after World War II laid the foundation for the civil rights struggle of the 1950s and 1960s. This course explores this pivotal period in American history through the documentary record, photography, art, literature, film, and music.
General Education Attribute(s): History Cornerstone
Course Applies to: American Studies
Note: Considered a United States History
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HIS 241 - History and Horror (History Cornerstone) Three Credits
Not Offered 2019-2020
An examination of the history of horror films. This course is an excursion that will compare and contrast the fictional world of the macabre with the historical realities that form and challenge our social and cultural lives. With the aid of film, this course will analyze the phenomenon of the horror genre down through the ages.
General Education Attribute(s): History Cornerstone
Course Applies to: Cinema Studies
Note: Considered United States or European History.
Course is the equivalent to HIS 141. Students may not take both HIS 141 (FYS) and HIS 241.
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HIS 244 - Colonial Latin America Three Credits
Not Offered 2019-2020
A survey of the historical, economic, political, social, and cultural development of colonial Latin America from before the European discovery to the era of independence. It addresses the major themes and substance of the three centuries of colonial government and an appreciation for the complexity and diversity of colonial Latin America.
Course Applies to: Anthropology, Latin American & Caribbean Studies
Note: Considered a World History.
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HIS 245 - Modern France Three Credits
Not Offered 2019-2020
An examination of the rise of modern France from the 1789 Revolution to France’s role in the search for European Union. This includes a study of the reign of Napoleon, the Franco- Prussian War, the German Occupation and the Vichy regime, and De Gaulle and the Fifth Republic. The course will place special emphasis on the lives of French men and women.
Note: Considered a European History.
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HIS 247 - Modern Germany Three Credits
Not Offered 2019-2020
A history of Modern Germany from the 1871 unification under Chancellor Otto von Bismark through the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification in 1990. The course material will consider such topics as German colonization, the World Wars, National Socialism, and Communism.
Note: Considered a European History.
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HIS 251 - United States Economic History Three Credits
Not Offered 2019-2020
For description, see ECO 206 .
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Not open to first semester students.
Note: Considered a United States History.
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HIS 257 - Modern Latin America Three Credits
Not Offered 2019-2020
Seeks to locate Modern Latin America (c. 1800-present) within a global framework and to understand the origins and development of the political, economic, social, and cultural issues that challenge and define Latin America today, including US foreign policy and changing ethnic, gender, and class relations.
Course Applies to: Anthropology, Latin American & Caribbean Studies
Note: Considered a World History.
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HIS 262 - Medieval Europe, 400-1500 Three Credits
Not Offered 2019-2020
Rise of Medieval Europe through the “barbarization” and Christianization of the Roman Order. Idea of Empire and Christendom, the conflict of Papacy and Kingship. Feudalization of Europe and the rise of cities, popular religious movements. The culmination and crisis of this order in Renaissance cities and its fragmentation in the political and religious conflicts of the Reformation Era.
Note: Considered a European History.
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HIS 263 - Religion in America Three Credits
Not Offered 2019-2020
An examination of a variety of religious ideas, institutions, and traditions in the United States from the colonial period to the present. Special emphasis is placed upon questions of religious pluralism, religion and cultural identity, and religion in public life.
General Education Attribute(s): Catholic Intellectual Traditions
Course Applies to: American Studies
Note: Considered a United States History.
Cross-listed with RST 262 .
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HIS 270 - Modern China Three Credits
Spring Semester
An introduction to the dramatic transformations in China’s political, economic and socio-cultural life from the seventeenth century to the present. The course will cover transitions from dynastic to republican to communist rule, encounters with the West, socio-economic reforms, and the challenges of modernization in the world’s oldest continuous civilization and bureaucratic state.
Course Applies to: Anthropology, Asian Studies
Note: Considered a World History.
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HIS 271 - World History I (History Cornerstone) Three Credits
Fall Semester
This course examines the history of humanity from the emergence of our species to the early modern era. Explores how and why humans shifted from nomadic hunting and gathering to settled agriculture societies creating cities, states, and empires. Examines the consequences of this transition for human societies and the environment.
General Education Attribute(s): History Cornerstone
Course Applies to: Asian Studies
Note: Considered a World History.
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HIS 272 - World History II (History Cornerstone) Three Credits
Spring Semester
Examines the history of the human community from the early modern era to the present. Explores how and why industry, nation states, and European style economics have come to define the modern world. It analyzes the interconnections and interdependencies, nowadays called “globalization” that continue to define human historical development.
General Education Attribute(s): History Cornerstone
Course Applies to: Asian Studies
Note: Considered a World History.
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HIS 277 - History of Brazil Three Credits
Not Offered 2019-2020
This course examines the history of Brazil from 1500 to the present and explores its richly diverse culture, politics, economy, and geography that ultimately tie it to the histories of Europe, Africa, Asia, the U.S. Major themes include: race relations, national development, military dictatorships, and popular culture.
Course Applies to: Anthropology, Latin American & Caribbean Studies
Note: Considered a World History.
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HIS 278 - History of the Islamic World I Three Credits
Not Offered 2019-2020
This course explores the historical development of Islamic societies from the pre-Islamic period to roughly 1500 CE. We will develop a nuanced understanding of cultural, intellectual, spiritual, political and economic themes important to the formation of classical Islamic civilization, through studying primary texts in translation, visual arts and contemporary scholarship.
Course Applies to: Anthropology, Middle Eastern Studies
Note: Considered a World History.
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HIS 281 - American Nation I (History Cornerstone) Three Credits
Fall Semester
Comprehensive study of American historical development with a focus on the development of U.S. political principles, ideals, founding documents, institutions, and processes. Topics include modes of colonial life, geographical perspectives, the Revolution and Constitution, urban development, westward movement, constructions of race and gender, popular culture, the Civil War and Reconstruction.
General Education Attribute(s): History Cornerstone
Course Applies to: American Studies
Note: Considered a United States History.
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HIS 282 - American Nation II (History Cornerstone) Three Credits
Spring Semester
An analysis and interpretation of the development of American politics, foreign policy, and domestic society from Reconstruction to the present. Topics include the gilded society, world power, the rise of consumer culture, the New Deal, World War II, the Cold War, affluence and discontent.
General Education Attribute(s): History Cornerstone
Course Applies to: American Studies, Asian Studies
Note: Considered a United States History.
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HIS 285 - Women in Early America: 1630-1865 (History Cornerstone) Three Credits
Not Offered 2019-2020
The history of women from the colonial era through the end of the nineteenth century. Examines the diversity of experiences among women of different races and classes in America, focusing on issues central to female experience: reproduction and family life, work, religion and reform, and political struggles for civil rights.
General Education Attribute(s): History Cornerstone
Course Applies to: American Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Note: Considered a United States History.
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HIS 287 - Women in Modern America: 1865-1975 Three Credits
Not Offered 2019-2020
Survey course of U.S. Women’s History from Reconstruction to 1975. Examines a diverse array of women’s lives and experiences including women’s rights activists, African-Americans, Native Americans and Immigrants. Topics will include civil rights, women in war, education, reform, marriage, family and reproduction, labor, consumer and popular culture.
Course Applies to: American Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Note: Considered a United States History.
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HIS 289 - African American History Three Credits
Not Offered 2018-2019
A survey of the African American experience in the North American colonies and the United States, from its origins to the present. Topics include the beginnings of New World slavery and modern conceptions of race, the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, the development of slave society and culture, the U.S. Civil War and emancipation, life under segregation, the Civil Rights movement, and contemporary issues.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Sophomore standing.
Course Applies to: American Studies
Note: Considered a United States History.
Course was formerly offered as HIS 321. Students may not take both HIS 321 and HIS 289.
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HIS 290 - History of the Islamic World II Three Credits
Not Offered 2019-2020
This course explores the historical development of Muslim societies from roughly 1500 CE to the present. We will develop a nuanced understanding of cultural, intellectual, spiritual, political and economic themes important to the contemporary Muslim world in its global context, through studying primary texts in translation, visual arts and contemporary scholarship.
Course Applies to: Anthropology, Middle Eastern Studies
Note: Considered a World History.
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HIS 295 - History of India Three Credits
Not Offered 2019-2020
This course explores the diverse history of India from paleolithic times to the present. From the earliest known human past in India, we will move into the development of its powerful mythological and religious systems. India’s great cities, epic poems, artistic and scientific traditions and spiritual texts will be explored along with the political history of empires, colonialism, independence and modernity.
Course Applies to: Asian Studies
Note: Considered a World History.
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HIS 301 - Colonial America Three Credits
Fall Semester
Examines the social consequences of colonization, migration and war in early America, 1500-1775. Emphasis is placed on the evolution of regional cultures, and the interaction of British colonies with competing European cultures (French, Spanish, Dutch), with Native Americans, and with African-American slaves.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Sophomore standing.
Course Applies to: American Studies
Note: Considered a United States History.
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HIS 303 - From Depression to Dominance Three Credits
Not Offered 2019-2020
Studies the political, social, and economic life of the United States from the Great Depression to 1960. Students will explore the New Deal, World War II, the origins of the Cold War, the growth of new media, and major changes in class, gender, and race relations.
Course Applies to: American Studies
Note: Considered a United States History.
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HIS 304 - U.S. Popular Culture Three Credits
Not Offered 2019-2020
An investigation of U.S. popular culture focusing on its ability to illuminate important themes in the nation’s social, economic, and political development. A special emphasis will be given to twentieth-century popular culture. Important questions and themes will include popular culture’s role in perpetuating attitudes regarding race and gender.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Sophomore standing.
Course Applies to: American Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Note: Considered a United States History.
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HIS 305 - U.S. Popular Music Three Credits
Fall Semester
In a seminar format, this course will analyze how American popular music reflected and shaped public notions about class, gender, and race. Topics will include jazz, rap, rock and roll, rhythm and blues, country, and folk music.
Course Applies to: American Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Note: Considered a United States History.
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HIS 306 - Topics in U.S. Cultural History Three Credits
Not Offered 2019-2020
In a seminar format, this course offers an opportunity to study a specific area or problem in U.S. cultural history in greater depth. Secondary and primary sources will form the basis of class discussion. Alternating topics to be announced prior to registration.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Limited to sophomores, juniors, and seniors.
Note: Considered a United States History. Course may be taken twice as topics vary.
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HIS 307 - From the New Frontier to a New Century Three Credits
Spring Semester
This course studies the political, social, and economic life of the United States from 1960 to the present. Students will explore the burst of political activism during the 1960s and 1970s, Watergate, the Reagan era, and other historically significant individuals, events, and programs of the last decades of the twentieth century and the early decades of the twenty first century.
Course Applies to: American Studies
Note: Considered a United States History.
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HIS 308 - The Early Republic Three Credits
Not Offered 2019-2020
Explores the tumultuous years following the American Revolution when Americans fought over the meaning of the war and the future direction of the country. We will examine the major conflicts of the period, including ratification of the Constitution, slavery, reform movements, Indian removal, immigration and capitalist development.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Sophomore standing.
Course Applies to: American Studies
Note: Considered a United States History.
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HIS 309 - The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era 1865-1929 Three Credits
Not Offered 2019-2020
This course will immerse students in two of the most colorful, tumultuous, and important epochs in U. S. History: the Gilded Age (1865-1900) and the Progressive Era (1900-1920), transformative periods, when banks and corporations wielded enormous power, the income gap between the 1% and the other 99% grew significantly larger, and new technologies dramatically changed American lives, a time when heated debates about U.S. military interventionism, the environment, and immigration dominate the news headlines.
Course Applies to: American Studies
Note: Considered a United States History
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HIS 323 - Africa in Stories: History, Literature and Film Three Credits
Fall Semester
Africa is the site of rich intellectual and cultural diversity. It is the site of fundamental traditions and turning points in the larger story of humanity. African histories have been narrated in diverse ways by outsiders and by Africans themselves. Each story comes from a religious, political and intellectual vantage point. In this course, we will explore and critically examine the ways in which these stories have both expressed and shaped history.
Note: Considered a World History.
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HIS 324 - From Jackson to Lincoln Three Credits
Not Offered 2019-2020
Examination of the major political, social, and economic developments in U.S. Society from the election of Andrew Jackson to the presidency in 1828, to that of Abraham Lincoln in 1860.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Sophomore standing.
Course Applies to: American Studies
Note: Considered a United States History.
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HIS 325 - Lincoln and His America Three Credits
Spring Semester
An examination of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln, one of the most important and frequently studied figures in U.S. history. The course is conducted as a seminar, and readings include Lincoln’s own speeches and writings as well as scholarly studies of his life and career.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Sophomore standing.
Course Applies to: American Studies
Note: Considered a United States History.
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HIS 326 - The Christian Churches in Nazi Germany Three Credits
Not Offered 2019-2020
An examination of the choices that the Catholic and Protestant churches made under the impact of National Socialism. The course will also examine the reaction of the churches to the persecution of the Jews and the Holocaust.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Junior standing.
General Education Attribute(s): Catholic Intellectual Traditions, Moral Inquiry
Course Applies to: American Studies
Note: Considered a European History.
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HIS 327 - American Civil War and Reconstruction Three Credits
Not Offered 2019-2020
Examines the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction in U.S. history (1860 - 1880), including the war’s origins and consequences. The course explores, in addition to the military aspects of the war, the major political, social, and economic development of the period.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Sophomore Standing.
Course Applies to: American Studies
Note: Considered a United States History.
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HIS 328 - Revolutionary America Three Credits
Spring Semester
Traces the events and conditions that led North American colonists to pursue life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness through political conflict, revolution, and war. We will examine the breakup of empire in North America and consider how ordinary men and women, African Americans, and Native Americans responded to and shaped revolutionary events.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Sophomore standing.
Course Applies to: American Studies
Note: Considered a United States History.
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HIS 329 - The Vietnam Era and Its Legacy Three Credits
Not Offered 2019-2020
An examination of U.S. policy toward Southeast Asia and the war in Vietnam from the 1940s to the present. The course explores the origins of the U.S. military commitment in Southeast Asia and the ultimate failure of U.S. policy. The effects of the war on veterans and the home front, the peace movement, and the legacy of the war for contemporary U.S. society is also examined.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Sophomore standing.
Course Applies to: American Studies, Asian Studies
Note: Considered a United States History.
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HIS 330 - United States Seminar: Topical Three Credits
Not Offered 2019-2020
Offers an opportunity to study a specific area or problem in U.S. history in greater depth. Seminar format focusing on discussion of primary sources and secondary literature. Alternating topics to be announced prior to registration.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Sophomore standing.
Course Applies to: American Studies and/or Gender & Sexuality Studies (based on topic)
Note: Considered a United States History.
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HIS 333 - The American Catholic Experience Three Credits
Spring 2021
A critical examination and analysis of the peoples, events, and ideas that shaped American Catholicism from the era of discovery to the 21st century. Catholicism’s minority status and the perennial tension being American and Catholic are used as guiding principles in this study.
General Education Attribute(s): Catholic Intellectual Traditions
Note: Considered a United States History. Cross-listed with RST 333 .
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HIS 335 - Abolitionist and Proslavery Thought Three Credits
Fall Semester
An examination of writing and speeches attacking and defending slavery in the United States between the American Revolution and the Civil War.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Sophomore standing.
General Education Attribute(s): Moral Inquiry
Course Applies to: American Studies
Note: Considered a United States History.
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HIS 337 - The Electric Guitar in American Culture Three Credits
Not Offered 2019-2020
This course explores the electric guitar as instrument, symbol, and artifact in modern American culture. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, we will assess the impact of the electric guitar on various kinds of music, from blues to heavy metal, and dig into the lives of the musicians and manufacturers who gave the electric guitar its iconic power.
Course Applies to: American Studies
Note: Considered a United States History. Course formerly offered as AMS 333.
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HIS 347 - Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany Three Credits
Not Offered 2019-2020
An in-depth study of the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement from the establishment of the Weimar Republic through the end of World War II.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Sophomore standing.
General Education Attribute(s): Moral Inquiry
Note: Considered a European History.
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HIS 349 - The Inquisition: Myth and History Three Credits
Not Offered 2019-2020
Explores the myths and history of the Inquisition as a social, political and religious institution in Europe, the Americas, and in Goa, India, from its Medieval inception to its final abolition in the nineteenth century. Students will seek to understand why it was created, how it functioned, the impact it had on the societies that sustained it, and why it was finally abolished.
General Education Attribute(s): Catholic Intellectual Traditions
Course Applies to: Latin American & Caribbean Studies (with permission of the LACS Program Director).
Note: Considered a European and World History.
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HIS 351 - The French Revolution Three Credits
Not Offered 2019-2020
This course focuses on the decade of political upheaval in France (1789-1799) that later became a catalyst for widespread political changes in countries all around the world. In addition to the key events of the Revolution, students explore how ordinary people (including women and people of color) experienced this tumultuous event.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Sophomore Standing.
Note: Considered a European History.
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HIS 353 - A World at War Three Credits
Fall Semester
Organized violence represents one of the most common of human activities. Warfare shapes, and is shaped by, deep seated political, social, economic, religious, and technological values and attitudes. For good or ill, warfare has played, and continues to play, a key role in shaping the world we live in. The course explores warfare and its consequences from a world historical perspective from Paleolithic times to ancient China and the Middle East to modern day forms of state and extra-state violence.
Course Applies to: Middle Eastern Studies
Note: Considered a World History.
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HIS 355 - The Holocaust Three Credits
Spring Semester
A historical analysis of the Holocaust of European Jews under National Socialism. This includes a study of the origins of antisemitism, the rise of National Socialism, German Jews in the Weimar Republic and their exclusion from public life under National Socialism, the euthanasia action, Reichskristallnacht, ghettoization, deportation, and the concentration and death camps.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Sophomore standing.
General Education Attribute(s): Moral Inquiry
Note: Considered a European History.
Course formerly offered as HIS 207, so students may not take both.
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HIS 360 - European History Seminar: Topical Three Credits
Spring Semester
Offers an opportunity to study a specific area or problem in European history in greater depth. Seminar format focusing on discussion of primary sources and secondary literature. Alternating topics to be announced prior to registration.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Sophomore standing.
Course Applies to: Anthropology
Note: Considered a European History.
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HIS 362 - World History Seminar: Topical Three Credits
Not Offered 2019-2020
Offers an opportunity to study a specific area or problem in World history in greater depth. Seminar format focusing on discussion of primary sources and secondary literature. Alternating topics to be announced prior to registration.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Sophomore standing.
Note: Considered a World History.
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HIS 374 - Bound Feet and Dragon Ladies: Women & Power in East Asia Three Credits
Fall Semester
This course challenges western conceptions of Chinese and Japanese women as unwanted daughters, submissive wives, and exotic geishas. We explore this complex history by studying women’s oppression and agency, their evolving socio-political roles, and the construction of gender ideals - male and female - through close examination of popular culture, film, art, and literature.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Sophomore Standing and above.
Course Applies to: Anthropology, Asian Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Note: Considered a World History.
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HIS 380 - Public History Three Credits
Spring Semester
This academic and experiential course looks at the practice, methods, and possibilities associated with practicing history in museums, historic sites, and archives. In the classroom, we will explore the nature of public history through curatorial, archival, and preservation issues, as well as examine the roles of education, interpretation, exhibitions, and living history. A substantial field component has students encountering museums, archives, and historic sites to interact with professionals, discover what public historians do, and critically assess their public history offerings. As a final project, students will collaboratively produce a museum exhibition at Stonehill.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Sophomore standing.
Course Applies to: American Studies
Note: Considered a United States History.
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HIS 385 - Topics in U.S. Women’s History Three Credits
Fall Semester
This course moves beyond a broad overview of the role of women in eighteenth and nineteenth century U.S. History to examine specific topics such as education, reform, labor, culture, and political organization in depth.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Sophomore standing.
Course Applies to: American Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Note: Considered a United States History.
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HIS 420 - Historical Theory and Writing (WID) Four Credits
Spring Semester
The course explores the nature and study of history including historical theory, historical evidence, and historical writing.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): History majors and minors only. Sophomore, Junior and Senior standing.
General Education Attribute(s): Writing-in-the-Disciplines
Note: Course should be taken in Sophomore year.
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HIS 425 - History Lab Three Credits
Fall Semester
History Lab introduces majors to the hands-on methodological practices that historians use to gather, assess and interpret data to make historical arguments. Students will visit local archives and museums to further their knowledge of the craft of historical research. In addition, the lab will place emphasis on developing the student’s skills in research, analysis, citations, statistics and quantification. Lab culminates in the completion of an independent research proposal for HIS 430 .
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): HIS 420 and Junior Standing.
General Education Attribute(s): Statistical Reasoning
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HIS 430 - History Thesis Four Credits
Fall Semester
An independent, original historical research project based upon the thesis proposal written in HIS 425 . Thesis includes in-depth analysis of primary and secondary sources and a bibliography. A faculty advisor works with the student one-on-one throughout the semester. In addition, students participate in a seminar that includes draft analysis, peer review, and oral presentations.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): HIS 420 and .
Note: Fulfills the Capstone requirement in History.
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HIS 475 - History Internship Three Credits
Fall and Spring Semesters
Internships are available to History students to give them an opportunity to experience the relevance of the past to the present through active participation in contemporary institutions and organizations. Students work under the supervision of the departmental Internship Coordinator, maintain a field journal, and write a final paper.
Concentration consideration linked directly to the Internship’s area of focus.
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HIS 490 - Directed Study - History One to Four Credits
Offered as Needed
An in-depth study of an historical question under the tutorial direction of a faculty member. Concentration consideration linked directly to the Directed Study’s area of focus.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Sophomore standing. Approval of a faculty member willing to supervise the project and the Department Chair or Program Director; and submission of the online Directed Study Application and Contract to the Registrar’s Office.
Note: Students must complete 45 hours work/semester per credit.
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HON 100 - Honors Introductory Seminar One Credit
Spring Semester
The Honors Introductory Seminar introduces Moreau Honors Scholars to the importance of leadership, intellectual curiosity, and service in the Stonehill community. It challenges them to take initiatives to effect positive changes at the College and prepares them as individuals and a group to excel in their work both inside and outside the classroom.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Open to Moreau Honors Scholars only.
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HON 400 - Honors Senior Seminar One Credit
Fall Semester
HON 400 provides a fitting close to students’ experience in the Moreau Honors Scholars program by inviting them: (1) to gather as a community for bi-weekly sessions (100 minutes) throughout the spring semester of their senior year: (2) to engage in workshops on graduate school and career possibilities in conversation with staff and alumni, and (3) to share in a series of conversations and presentations that articulate and assess the outcomes of their four years at Stonehill.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Open to Senior Moreau Honors Scholars only.
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IMC 501 - Creativity in Integrated Marketing Communications Three Credits
Fall Semester
This course is the introductory course to the IMC Master’s degree program at Stonehill College. It is designed to introduce students to the fundamentals of Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) in the context of a creative and innovate program design. Students will learn techniques for improving the flexibility and originality of their thinking and will explore approaches used by practitioners of Integrated Marketing and Communication to create and sustain organizational innovation. Students will learn and apply the IMC planning process and examine the role of integration to ensure consistency of creative strategy.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Completion of a bachelor’s degree. Undergraduate seniors may be allowed to take the course with the IMC Program Director’s approval.
Course Applies to: M.A. in Integrated Marketing Communications
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IMC 514 - IMC Public Relations and Crisis Management Three Credits
Spring Semester
Students will learn about the evolution of public relations practice from its beginnings to its present professional status. The course emphasizes both the principles as well as the processes of creating and implementing an effective public relations campaign. Students will learn how to strategize, develop and produce public relations tools including press releases, public service announcements, crisis communication plans, speeches, newsletters and special events.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Completion of a bachelor’s degree. Undergraduate seniors may be allowed to take the course with the IMC Program Director’s approval.
Course Applies to: M.A. in Integrated Marketing Communications
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IMC 530 - Topics in Integrated Marketing Communications Three Credits
Offered Periodically
As needed, a special topics course in a given area of current, popular interest will offered to students as an elective for the IMC graduate program and those seniors, on a limited basis, interested in pursuing a master’s degree in IMC at Stonehill upon completion of their undergraduate degree and acceptance into the master’s program.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Completion of a bachelor’s degree. Undergraduate seniors may be allowed to take the course with the IMC Program Director’s approval.
Course Applies to: M.A. in Integrated Marketing Communications
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IMC 602 - Organizational Communication Three Credits
Fall Semester
This course is designed to expose graduate students to both traditional and contemporary organizational communication theories. This course emphasizes the applied nature of organizational communication using foundational and recent research in the field. Throughout the semester, we will direct our focus to understanding relevant research designs and methodologies for studying communication within organizations, particularly within the context of integrated marketing communication.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Completion of a bachelor’s degree.
Course Applies to: Integrated Marketing Communications
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IMC 603 - Marketing Management for Integrated Marketing Communications Three Credits
This course is designed to serve as an introduction to the theory and practice of marketing. Students will improve their ability to develop effective marketing strategies and assess market opportunities, as well as design strategy implementation programs. In addition, students will have the opportunity to communicate and defend their recommendations and build upon the recommendations of their peers.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Completion of a bachelor’s degree.
Course Applies to: Integrated Marketing Communications
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IMC 604 - Integrated Marketing Communications Methods Three Credits
This course explores the research underlying communication and marketing campaigns. The course will cover both qualitative and quantitative methodologies. It is here that students will fully appreciative how their creative impulses can have practical rewards. Students will also be introduced to the techniques used to identify and reach audiences and to monitor results of marketing campaigns.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Completion of a bachelor’s degree.
Course Applies to: Integrated Marketing Communications
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IMC 605 - Buyer Behavior Three Credits
This course examines the consumer decision process and the effect on consumer decision making of external environmental influences (culture, sub-culture, social class, reference groups, family and personal influences) and of internal psychological influences (personality and lifestyle, learning, motives, perception, and beliefs and attitudes). Applications of psychological, sociological, anthropological, and economic theories and models to the understanding of buyer behavior and the development of an integrated marketing strategy.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Completion of a bachelor’s degree.
Course Applies to: Integrated Marketing Communications
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IMC 607 - Transformative Design and Thinking Three Credits
Fall Semester
This course will focus on communication through visual media as it relates to integrated marketing. Students will be engaged in exercises that will illustrate design theories and visual problem solving. Design principles will inform the course and students will be creatively challenged to demonstrate an understanding of them through presenting an original project for peer review.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Completion of a bachelor’s degree.
Course Applies to: Integrated Marketing Communications
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IMC 613 - Digital Marketing Three Credits
This course explores several aspects of the new digital marketing environment including topics such as digital marketing analytics, search engine optimization, social media marketing, and 3D Printing. It will provide richer understanding of the foundations of the new digital marketing landscape and a new set of stories, concepts, and tools to help the students digitally create, distribute, promote and price products and services.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Completion of a bachelor’s degree.
Course Applies to: M.A. in Intergrated Marketing Communication
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IMC 615 - Visual Problem Solving and Graphic Identity Three Credits
Every Spring
This course introduces fundamental design concepts with an emphasis on the development of brand identity systems in a marketing environment. Through the introduction of design terminology, tools, and process, students will gain insights into the practice of professional graphic designers and their role in identity projects. Employing design as a means for communication, students will learn the relationship between form, function, and content to solve visual problems and address market challenges. Students will learn about graphic design through the lenses of history, theory, and practice.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Completion of a bachelor’s degree
Course Applies to: M.A. in Integrated Marketing Communications
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IMC 616 - Digital Media Economics and Technology Three Credits
Every Fall
This course is designed to familiarize students with various media industries and its business practices, operations, content and technology with an emphasis on the digitization of media channels and platforms. The course establishes an understanding of the basic principles that underline media businesses and the markets through which audiences are aggregated for advertisers. Emphasis is placed on the roles of audience measurement and media technology in shaping the content of media and the capabilities of advertising and other brand communications to reach audiences.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Completion of a bachelor’s degree
Course Applies to: M.A. in Integrated Marketing Communications
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IMC 620 - Role of Graphic Design within Integrated Marketing Communications Three Credits
This course is a general overview of Graphic Design in IMC. Students will be introduced to the contributions and potential of a graphic designer as part of an integrated marketing team. Such things as workflow, the technological tools utilized, useful terminology and project pacing will be covered. Students will be exposed to the visual problem-solving angle within integrated marketing. In addition, basic design principles and the ability to identify effective design modules will be introduced.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Completion of a bachelor’s degree.
Course Applies to: M.A. in Integrated Marketing Communications
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IMC 621 - Media Economics and Technology Three Credits
This course is designed to familiarize students with the media industry and its business practices, operations, content and technology with an emphasis on the digitization of media channels and platforms. The course establishes an understanding of the basic economic principles that underlie media businesses and the markets through which audiences are aggregated for advertisers. Emphasis is placed on the roles of audience measurement and media technology in shaping the content of media and the capabilities of advertising and other brand communications to reach audiences. The course emphasizes how the ongoing convergence of media content and commercial messages is redefining the media business and the world of integrated marketing communications.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Completion of a bachelor’s degree.
Course Applies to: M.A. in Integrated Marketing Communications
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IMC 623 - Strategic Event Planning and Management Three Credits
Spring Semesters
Students will identify current and emerging career opportunities in the field of Event Management. They will learn relevant strategic, organizational communication theory as it relates to event planning and will gain significant practice in planning, designing and critiquing events through hands-on experience. Students will analyze ways in which organizations communicate their image and message through events and promotions, while considering key issues facing the event industry in today’s global society. Group work and hands-on applications, combined with case study analysis and class discussions are the primary teaching/learning methodologies.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Completion of a bachelor’s degree.
Course Applies to: Integrated Marketing Communications
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IMC 630 - Integrated Marketing Communications: Special Topics Three Credits
Periodically or As Needed
A course offered under this title will be a new course that was developed to meet emerging trends in the industry, special student interest and demand, or fulfill a faculty interest. Course may be taken twice.
Course Applies to: M.A. in Integrated Marketing Communications
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IMC 670 - Integrated Marketing Communications Capstone Three Credits
During this final course, IMC students will have the opportunity to apply the comprehensive skills they have built throughout their study of the concept and practice of integrated marketing communications. Students will work their advisor to choose a company or organization to take on as a “client.” Students will develop an integrated marketing communications plan, creating a well-researched, creative, integrated plan for their client. Students will work individually with their advisor and client though team approaches will also be possible depending on clients and client needs. Students will convene at multiple points during the semester to provide oral updates, written assessments, a final plan, and a strategy pitch to fellow students.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): Completion of a bachelor’s degree.
Course Applies to: M.A. in Integrated Marketing Communications
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