Graduate Programs

HIST 642 2A / POLSC 642 2A: Political Parties This course examines the development of American political parties, focusing on the meaning of parties and historic moments in the rise […]

HIST 632 2A / POLSC 632 2A: The American Presidency I – Washington to Lincoln This course is an examination of the political and development of the office of president […]

HIST 506 2A / POLSC 506 2A: The Rise of Modern America, 1914-1945 With the exception of the Civil War era, it is difficult to find another thirty-year period in […]

HIST 503 2A / POLSC 503 2A: Sectionalism and Civil War A study of the sectional conflict beginning with the nullification crisis. The course will not only examine the political, […]

HIST 610 3A / POLSC 610 3A: American Foreign Policy Students examine events and issues in the foreign policy of the American republic. Topics include the major schools of thought […]

HIST 608 3A / POLSC 608 3A: Civil War and Reconstruction This course will examine military aspects of the war, as well as political developments during it, including the political […]

HIST 605 3A / POLSC 605 3A: The Age of Enterprise In the last decades of the 19th century, the United States took decisive steps away from its rural, agrarian […]

HIST 510 3A / POLSC 510 3A: Great American Texts – Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America is the best book on democracy and the best book […]

HIST 502 3A / POLSC 502 3A: The American Founding This course is an intensive study of the constitutional convention, the struggle over ratification of the Constitution, and the creation […]

HIST 641 O5B / POLSC 641 O5B: The Supreme Court The course is an intensive study of the highest court in the federal judiciary, focusing on the place of the […]