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 […]

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 […]