Graduate Programs

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 […]

  HIST 608 O5B / POLSC 608 O5B: Civil War and Reconstruction This course will examine military aspects of the war, as well as political developments during it, including the […]

HIST 633 4A / POLSC 633 4A: The American Presidency II – Andrew Johnson to the present This course is an examination of the political and constitutional development of the office of president from Reconstruction to the present. It focuses on how changing conceptions of the presidency have shaped American political life in the 19th […]

HIST 631 4A / POLSC 631 4A: American Political Rhetoric This course examines the principles and practice of American political rhetoric through the careful reading of the speeches of its […]

HIST 614 4A / POLSC 614 4A: Contemporary America, 1974 to present Examines the United States from the end of Watergate to the present, with emphasis on the rise of […]

HIST 505 4A / POLSC 505 4A: The Progressive Era The transition to an industrial economy posed many problems for the United States. This course examines those problems and the […]