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2019-2020 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions

How to Read Catalog Course Descriptions

Texas Tech offers nearly 5,000 courses as part of its curriculum. These courses are listed alphabetically by subject prefix within each college and departmental section of this catalog. The courses appear in numerical order, moving from beginning freshman or developmental level courses to graduate, research, and professional courses.

Not all courses listed in this catalog are offered every year. An online class schedule published before each registration period indicates courses that will be available during the upcoming term or semester and when each class will meet. The class schedule can be found at (www.depts.ttu.edu/officialpublications/class_schedule/index.php). The university reserves the right to cancel any scheduled course or withdraw any program from the list of offerings when the best interests of the institution require such action.

Courses are designated by a subject prefix and number along with a descriptive title. Learn more  about interpreting the course descriptions found throughout the catalog.
 

HIST - History (Undergraduate Courses)

Courses are identified as follows: United States history = US; European history = E; African, Asian or Latin American history = AAL.
  

  • HIST 4329 - Race, Identity, and Citizenship in the United States

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor consent. A research course that covers legal, political, and social definitions of racial identity and citizenship in the United States. (U.S. history) Fulfills multicultural requirement. (CL)
  

  • HIST 4330 - History of Lynching and Racial Violence in America

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of the instructor. Explores the historical development and influence on society of lynching and racial violence in America. (U.S. history) Fulfills multicultural requirement. (CL)
  

  • HIST 4333 - Death and Commemoration in the American West

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor consent. Examines western battles such as Custer’s Last Stand and the Alamo from the perspective of the commemoration of the dead in the modern United States. (CL)
  

  • HIST 4334 - Race and Medicine in American History

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Introduces students to the history of race, medicine, science, and health in American history.
  

  • HIST 4337 - History of American Seapower

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Examines history of the American Navy, organizational and technological development, evolution of strategic planning, and impact on foreign relations. (U.S. history) (CL)
  

  • HIST 4338 - History of “Small Wars”

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor consent. A research seminar focusing on insurgencies involving both American and international forces. (U.S. history) (CL)
  

  • HIST 4341 - Ancient Greece

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. From the origins of classical Greek civilization to the Roman conquest. Tyranny and democracy, imperialism, and the Hellenistic age. (European history) (CL)
  

  • HIST 4342 - Ancient Rome

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Imperialism and its consequences from the early Republic through the partial collapse of the Empire in the 5th century A.D.; Christianity and the Empire. (European history) (CL)
  

  • HIST 4343 - Alexander the Great

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. A detailed study of the rise of ancient Macedonia, the reign of Alexander the Great, and the Hellenistic world. (European history) (CL)
  

  • HIST 4346 - A History of Food in Europe

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor consent. Examines the shifting politics, culture, and economics of food in Europe from pre-modern times to the contemporary period. (European history) (CL)
  

  • HIST 4347 - History of the Medieval Church

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Origins of the Roman Church, the papacy, monasticism, scholastic and mystical theology, church-state relations, and the decline of medieval Christendom. (European history) (CL)
  

  • HIST 4348 - The Renaissance

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Cultural and political history of Italy, France, and England from 1300-1600; the “rebirth” of wisdom through art, architecture, literature, music, economics, and religion. (European history) (CL)
  

  • HIST 4349 - The Protestant Reformation

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Europe from 1517 to 1648. Religious revolt and the establishment of Protestantism; the age of religious wars; attempts at religious peace. (European history) (CL)
  

  • HIST 4351 - Origins of the British Empire to 1783

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor consent. Explores the origins of the British Empire in the early modern era. Topics include exploration, colonization, trade, encounters, and ideas of imperialism and empire-building. (European history) (CL)
  

  • HIST 4352 - Witchcraft and Witch Hunting in the Early Modern Western World

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor consent. Examines the evolution of beliefs in witchcraft and the persecution of alleged witches in Europe and European colonies in the Americas from 1300 to 1800. (European history) (CL)
  

  • HIST 4353 - The French Revolution and Napoleon

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. The Old Regime and the Enlightenment. The Revolution and its drama, ideas, events, personalities, and complexities. Napoleon: heir, paladin, or liquidator of the Revolution? (European history) (CL)
  

  • HIST 4354 - From Vampires to Death Tourism: The Dead in Europe since 1700

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor consent. Examines the different ways that Europeans have handled, represented, and thought about the dead in the early modern period. (European history) (CL)
  

  • HIST 4359 - Cultural Brilliance and Political Failure: Germany’s Weimar Republic, 1919-1933

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    TCCNS: The Weimar Republic, 1919-1933 An in-depth examination of the rise and fall of Germany’s Weimar Republic through and examination of its politics, culture, and society.  (CL)
  

  • HIST 4360 - Germany Since 1945: A Divided Nation Confronts Its Past

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. A comparative study of capitalism and communism in West and East Germany emphasizing problems of national unity and efforts to atone for Nazi crimes. (European history) (CL)
  

  • HIST 4361 - The USSR and the Cold War

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor consent. Examines the successes, failures, and legacies of Soviet leaders who attempted to build the world’s first Communist society after World War II. (European history) (CL)
  

  • HIST 4363 - Emergence of New Nations in Latin America

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. This 19th century course covers the formation of political systems, challenges to social stability, abolition of slavery, and relationship to North Atlantic world. (African, Asian, or Latin American history) (CL)
  

  • HIST 4365 - Foundations of Contemporary Mexico

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Examines major themes of post-nineteenth century Mexico and their political, social, and cultural relevance. (African, Asian, or Latin American history) (CL)
  

  • HIST 4370 - Great Cities

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Seminar on the history of a single major city, using it as a microcosm to study political, social, cultural, and intellectual development over time. May be repeated when topics vary. (European history) (CL)
  

  • HIST 4371 - Race, Nation, and Identity

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Nineteenth and twentieth century concepts of difference as construed by race, nation, and identity. (European history) (CL)
  

  • HIST 4372 - History of Comparative Genocide

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Examines the history of the term “genocide” and analyzes modern and contemporary examples of mass exterminations. (European history) (CL)
  

  • HIST 4373 - Tudor-Stuart England, 1450-1688

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Deals with enormous and seminal changes (religious, political, constitutional, intellectual, and geographical) that took place in England from 1450 to 1688. (European history) (CL)
  

  • HIST 4375 - Social and Cultural History of Europe, 1800 to the Present

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Modernization, industrialization, urbanization, gender, household, new professions, old occupations, and labor unrest. Bourgeois and working-class culture, avant-garde and masses, war, genocide, Europe today. (European history) (CL)
  

  • HIST 4376 - History of the Italian Mafia

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Discusses the origins and development of the Mafia in the context of Italian politics, economy, and society in the 19th and 20th centuries. (European history) (CL)
  

  • HIST 4378 - History of Italian Fascism

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Examines the origins of Italian Fascism and its development from the 1920s through 1940s, including the topics of propaganda, race, imperialism, gender, and war. (European history) (CL)
  

  • HIST 4379 - Revolutionary Russia

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor consent. Examines Russia/USSR during its revolutionary period, ca. 1900-1950. Topics studied include the 1917 revolutions, civil war, NEP, Stalinism, terror, the Gulag and WWII. (European history) (CL)
  

  • HIST 4380 - A History of Masculinity

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Examines the history of masculinity and manhood in Great Britain and the United States since the mid-nineteenth century. (U.S. history) (CL)
  

  • HIST 4381 - Colonial Mexico and the Spanish Borderlands

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Study of the Spanish conquest of Mexico and the evolution of the Spanish Empire in North America until Mexican independence in 1821. (African, Asian, or Latin American history) (CL)
  

  • HIST 4382 - Walking the Line: The History of U.S. Mexico Border Relations since 1836

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor consent. A research course that covers the social, political, and economic histories of specific borderland region between the United States and Mexico since 1836. (U.S. history) Fulfills multicultural requirement. (CL)
  

  • HIST 4383 - History of Central Asia

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor consent. Explores the history of Central Asia from ancient nomadic empires to the present. Topics include nomadic pastoralism, Mongols, competing imperial-isms, everyday life, Islam, and politics. (African, Asian, or Latin American history) (CL)
  

  • HIST 4384 - Global Buddhism

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor consent. Examines the emergence and global diffusion of Buddha Dharma. Emphasizes innovations in doctrine and practice as Buddhism has spread globally. (African, Asian, or Latin American history) (CL)
  

  • HIST 4385 - Global Islam: Past and Present

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor consent. Examines Islam not only as a religion but also as a global phenomenon that helps shape the lives of people globally. (African, Asian, or Latin American history) Fulfills multicultural requirement. (CL)
  

  • HIST 4386 - Slavery in Africa

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor consent. Explores the history of slavery in Africa, addressing varying definitions of slavery. Emphasizes West African slave kingdoms. (African, Asian, or Latin American history) Fulfills multicultural requirement. (CL)
  

  • HIST 4390 - The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

    3 Semester Credit Hours

    Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor consent. Research seminar on the 20th-century history of the land of Israel/Palestine, focusing on the conflict between Hebrew-speaking Jews and Arabic-speaking Palestinians.

      (CL)

  

  • HIST 4391 - Modern South Africa

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Description and analysis of the social, economic, and political development of South African society, focusing on the struggle against apartheid. (African, Asian, or Latin American history) (CL)
  

  • HIST 4393 - Modern China

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Chinese history from late Ming and early Qing period (17th century) until contemporary times. Emphasis on social, cultural, and political history. (African, Asian, or Latin American history) (CL)
  

  • HIST 4394 - Modern Japan

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Social, cultural, political, and economic history of Japan (17th to 20th century). Focus on merchant culture, Tokugawa times, civic training of Meiji period, militarism, postwar period. (African, Asian, or Latin American history) (CL)
  

  • HIST 4395 - Modern Vietnam

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Covers the social, political, and cultural history of Vietnam, beginning with the emergence of frontier society in the 16th century and concluding with the Vietnamese diaspora. (African, Asian, or Latin American history) (CL)
  

  • HIST 4397 - Readings and Research in History

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Senior standing and consent of instructor. An independent study course involving in-depth reading and intensive historical writing. May be repeated for credit. (CL)
  

  • HIST 4398 - Senior Seminar in History

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Senior standing or completion of 18 hours in history. Required of history majors. An intensive study in historical methodology, document analysis, retrieval and collection of data, and synthesis into well-written history. May be repeated for credit. (CL)
  

  • HIST 4696 - Studies Abroad in Southeast Asia

    6 Semester Credit Hours
    Students have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand and to participate in cultural exchanges with government leaders, students, and Vietnamese veterans. (African, Asian, or Latin American history) (CL)
 

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