Courses

This course examines the American War on Drugs through film. The course starts with the premise that the content in films, and the events contemporary to the making of the films, should be critically analyzed for their perspectives, biases, reliability, and interpretive choices. In the course, students will examine the ability of film to successfully portray the U.S.-Latin American transnational war on drugs and analyze how present events, cultures and attitudes shape our view of the past.

Patterns of westward expansion and settlement; Native American history and culture; global immigration to the region; Western political, economic, social, and environmental developments; the American West in popular culture.

A study of the settlement, development, and impact of the American West. Explores the mythology of the American West in history and popular literature.

Students examine the U.S. West as a region with a strong emphasis on the nineteenth development of the field as it has progressed from a traditional focus on Anglo workaday West. Students explore major recent historical interpretations and/or

Course focuses on the nineteenth century American West. Attention is given to the vast geography of the West; the pioneering trails to Oregon and California; and the interaction among Native Americans, settlers, the army and bureaucrats.

Logical empiricism and contemporary varieties of analytic philosophy are examined through a study of such writers as G. E. Moore, B. Russell, L. Wittgenstein, R. Carnap, G. Ryle, and P. Strawson.

Greek History and civilization from the Archaic Age to Alexander the Great (8th-late 4th century B.C.).

Greek History and civilization from the Archaic Age to Alexander the Great (8th-late 4th century B.C.).

The civilizations of the ancient Near East in three parts: Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Levant. Includes the following common themes: relationshipbetween religion and politics, the nature and importance of literacy, the public role of the military, and the evolution of law.

This course offers a survey of the ancient Near East, Greece, the Hellenistic period, History majors only, HIST 3340, which can be taken concurrently.