History ( HIST )

TG HIST 203	History of Europe
This course focuses on the major issues in modern European history, emphasizing the relationship between ideas and events. Sample themes: Revolution and social change; the scientific outlook and democratic ideals; liberalism and industrialization; theory and practice in socialism and Soviet communism.
Hours: 42 hrs (3-0)
Credits: 3
TG HIST 205	The Americas
Course discusses selected topics in the history of conquest, expansionism and migrations in the New World. Special attention is given to exploration, social and economic development, race relations, colonial and military rivalries, frontiers, and revolutions.
Hours: 42 hrs (3-0)
Credits: 3
TG HIST 217	The United States 1607 to 1865
Course focuses on a survey of major themes and issues in American history from colonial settlement to the end of the Civil War. Topics include: Early exploration, colonial society, religion and education, the road to revolution, the revolutionary war, American democracy, American expansion, race relation, and the Civil War.
Hours: 42 hrs (3-0)
Credits: 3
TG HIST 219	United States 1865 to Present
Focus of the course is a survey of American history from the Civil War to the present. Topics include: Reconstruction and black freedom, the response to industrialization, the emergence of the USA as a world power, the Great Depression and the New Deal, involvement in war (WWI, WWII, Cold War, Vietnam War), student rebellion in the 1960s, and conservatism in the Reagan era.
Hours: 42 hrs (3-0)
Credits: 3
TG HIST 231	Canada, Origins to 1867
This course provides an historical introduction to the dynamic themes in early Canadian history. Special attention is devoted to social, economic, and political development. White-Aboriginal relations and the opening of the Canadian West is also studied.
Hours: 42 hrs (3-0)
Credits: 3
TG HIST 233	Canada Since 1867
Course focuses on the development of the Canadian nation from Confederation to 1945, with particular attention to federal-provincial relations, economic development, social movements, and western political protest.
Hours: 42 hrs (3-0)
Credits: 3
TG HIST 331	Canadian Social Development
Course is a study of the growth of Canadian society from colonial times to the present. Emphasis is placed on European and American backgrounds of Canadian social institutions and their development in various regional settings. Consideration is given to the role of immigrants, social and ethnic groups, health, crime and punishment, education, religion, the arts, and recreation.
Hours: 42 hrs (3-0)
Credits: 3
TG HIST 333	Popular Culture in Nineteenth Century Canada
Course focuses on selected themes in 19th century Canadian culture: Working class culture and leisure; rural and urban lifestyles; social class and the Victorian family; newspapers and periodicals; regional societies and folk myths; and political culture.
Hours: 42 hrs (3-0)
Credits: 3
Pending HIST 345	Crime and Criminal Justice in Canada
This course focuses on the history of crime and criminal justice in Canada from the earliest settlement by Europeans to the late twentieth century. Topics include crime and the development of the criminal law, criminal courts and jurisdictions, the police, punishments, correctional institutions in Eastern, Central and Western Canada during the time period. Attention will be given to the relationship of criminality to the moral attitudes and socio-economic conditions, and the historic role of crime and punishment in the local communities, society and the state.
Hours: 42 hrs (30-0)
Credits: 3
TG HIST 350	Eighteenth Century Europe, 1715-1815 Age of Enlightenment and Revolution
Topics for this course include: State building and international relations; aristocracy, peasants, and the urban middle classes; popular culture; critical spirit of the Enlightenment; crises of the old regimes; and the era of the French Revolution and Napoleon.
Hours: 42 hrs (3-0)
Credits: 3
TG HIST 351	Nineteenth Century Europe, 1815-1914 Material Progress and Political Collapse
Topics for this course include: New ideologies of liberalism, conservatism, nationalism, and socialism; 19th century revolutions; industrialization and its social consequences; emergence of new nation-states; imperialism, partial emancipation of women; new cultural trends; and the successes and ultimate failure of the European balance of power.
Hours: 42 hrs (3-0)
Credits: 3