Courses

An examination of the causes of the War, its impact and consequences.

Advanced study of the forces and events involved in the coming of the great American conflict, the war years, and Reconstruction.

A survey of the ways that Americans have remembered their civil war from 1865 to the present.

This course investigates how cities confront climate change. We will interrogate urban strategies for increasing resiliency to extreme weather, from sea walls to cooling centers. We will also evaluate urban progress on mitigating greenhouse gases that cause climate change. Students will learn about the transition to renewable energy, investment in public transportation, and food waste reduction.

The course examines the rise and fall of the conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union after the end of World War Two with focus on the origins of the confrontation, its expansion from Europe to the Third World, and the reasons for its demise.

This course explores the history of the Cold War, focusing on its origins, the major events (the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, the Berlin Crises, and so on), and the collapse of the Soviet Union. The emphasis of the course is placed on analyzing newly available primary documents from the Western and former communist sources and their impact on previous Cold War historiography.

An exploration of the major historiographical works and controversies of the history of the Cold War from its origins to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

A political and social survey of the origins of the Cold War, its development and conclusion.

A survey and assessment of the dynamic relationship between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China from the Second World War to 1991 and the collapse of the USSR. This course emphasizes the domestic as well as the international sources of this conflict, starting with the Second World War and communist ideology.

Students are provided with a foundation in student development, which includes and how they develop while they are in college. Students also develop an understanding to identify the role of student development/services/affairs in developing college affairs in Higher Education. Theoretical foundations, and problems in student services are addressed. Students are academics in institutions of higher education.