May 09, 2024  
2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

Fitness and Human Performance

  
  • HLTH 3321 - Epidemiology

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3

    An introduction to the investigation of the cause, transmission and measurement of disease within a population. Students will learn to critically assess and solve relevant public health problems using epidemiological methods.

  
  • HLTH 3322 - Healthcare Management and Policy

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3

    Fee Type: None
    Fee ($): 0

    An introduction to the field of healthcare management and policy sciences. Topics include the history of health care delivery, healthcare payment and reimbursement mechanisms, international health care systems and health policy issues.

  
  • HLTH 3323 - Statistics for Public Health

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3

    This course highlights the need for data management and its applications in health research. Students will learn to transform data, program in R (programming language), explore and model data and communicate about health data.

  
  • HLTH 3324 - Public Health Communication

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3

    An introduction to the strategies for educating the public about health issues including understanding and reporting science, communicating for policy and advocacy, health literacy and numeracy, patient-provider communication and emergency communication. 

  
  • HLTH 3325 - Global Public Health

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    An introduction to the ways populations around the world interact to shape health outcomes. Relevant historical, political, and current events will be discussed.

  
  • HLTH 4301 - Physiology of Exercise

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 10

    Study of the physiological bases of exercise with emphasis on the adaptation of the systems of the body to stress.

  
  • HLTH 4302 - Biomechanics

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 10

    Biomechanical analysis of human motion based on anatomical, physiological and mechanical principles. Role of mechanics in human performance. A background in algebra and trigonometry is recommended.

  
  • HLTH 4305 - Seminar in Sports Medicine

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 10

    Approaches to injury prevention by conditioning and utilization of proper equipment. Diagnosis and rehabilitation of common sports injuries. Laboratory exercises.

  
  • HLTH 4306 - Senior Seminar in Public Health

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Senior capstone course where students will combine knowledge and skills to discuss emerging issues and examine future avenues for employment, education, or community work in the field of public health. Instructor consent required.

  
  • HLTH 4307 - Peak Performance

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 10

    How to improve performance by enhancing strength, flexibility, speed, power, agility and coordination.

  
  • HLTH 4308 - Resistive Exercise: Theory and Practice

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 20

    Laboratory and lecture activities relating to appropriate training techniques for traditional, Olympic and rehabilitative strength exercises. The development of advanced periodization models.

  
  • HLTH 4309 - Research Practicum

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 0 Lab: 0

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 20

    An introduction to human subject research including data collection, reduction and analysis. Students will participate in abstract and manuscript preparation.

    Prerequisites: HLTH 4370 , Instructor permission required.
  
  • HLTH 4311 - Methods in Physical Education I

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Introduction to instructional concepts, methods and technologies in teaching and administering secondary-level physical education programs.

  
  • HLTH 4312 - Methods in Physical Education II

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Advanced instructional concepts, methods and technologies in teaching and administering secondary-level physical education programs.

  
  • HLTH 4370 - Undergraduate Practicum

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 0 Lab: 0

    Fee Type: Practicum
    Fee ($): 30

    The application of test procedures utilized for general fitness assessment testing. Permission of instructor required.

    Prerequisites: Prerequisite: HLTH 4301 
  
  • HLTH 4379 - Internship

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 0 Lab: 0

    Fee Type: Practicum
    Fee ($): 30

    Work-related learning experience in the application of exercise health promotion programs to teaching, clinical or research activities. Permission of instructor required.

    Prerequisites: Completion of or concurrent enrollment in HLTH 3303 , HLTH 3304 , HLTH 4301 , HLTH 4302 , HLTH 4305 , HLTH 4308 , and HLTH 4370 .
  
  • HLTH 4389 - Independent Study in Health

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 0 Lab: 0

    Individual projects and activities in development of skills related to health.

    Prerequisites: Approval of independent study director.
  
  • HLTH 4391 - Selected Topics in Health

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 10

    Identified by specific title each time course is offered.


Geography

  
  • GEOG 1301 - Modern Physical Geography

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    TCCN: GEOG 1301
    This course is designed to provide students with an overview of the natural environment in which we live and the way it functions, at varying scales from local to global. Specifically, it aims to introduce students to important concepts, facts and terminology of physical geography and impart an appreciation of the interrelationships between humans and their environment.

  
  • GEOG 1302 - Global Geography

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    TCCN: GEOG 1302
    A broad survey of the world’s major culture regions emphasizing basic physical, cultural, economic and political patterns, as well as the processes that have created those patterns. Emphasis on economic development, ethnic conflict and environmental degradation, as well as on the changing role of the United States.

  
  • GEOG 1303 - World Regional Geography

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    TCCN: GEOG 1303 
    Core Category: Social Behavioral Science
    An examination of the world’s geographic regions focusing on the location of Earth’s major physical features, human populations and cultures and their interaction. Topics include the cultural landscape, globalization, development, migration, commodity chains, tourism and the Anthropocene.

  
  • GEOG 4300 - Geography of North America

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    This course introduces students to the human and physical landscapes of North America as they would be encountered traveling about the continent. It aims to help students understand why landscapes differ from place to place and at the same time provide them with information and insight about what one could expect to find on the landscape, and why.

  
  • GEOG 4301 - Urban Geography

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    What is the nature of our relationship with cities? Do we control them, or do they control us? How are cities shaped by culture, society, economics, politics and the environment? Why do urban places look the way they do? How did their morphology evolve and change through the millennia? The goal of this course is to answer these questions and other related to the ongoing urbanization of our lives and the earth.

  
  • GEOG 4302 - Geography of Latin America

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    This course is a general introduction to Latin American and Caribbean environments and peoples from a geographical perspective. The course explores such topics as landforms, climate, environmental hazards, resource management, globalization, population and migration, cities, sustainable development, geopolitics, frontiers, conservation and cultural survival.

  
  • GEOG 4303 - Geography of Texas

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    This course explores the geography of Texas. Topics include past and current physical and biotic environments; ethnic origins, human ecology; and the social, economic and political sources of environmental problems.

  
  • GEOG 4306 - Service Learning

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Service Learning is a course designed for students to take an active part in organized experiences that meet actual community needs combined with academic instruction, focusing on critical, reflective thinking and personal and civic responsibility. This course will involve students in activities that address community-identified needs with service integrating academic skills.

  
  • GEOG 4311 - Historical Geography

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    An introduction to historical geography as a subfield of geography with an emphasis on the evolving patterns of land use and settlement in the United States from the pre-colonial period to the present.

  
  • GEOG 4312 - Human Geography

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 30

    Study of the importance of human/environment relationships to a global society. Focuses on the world distribution of natural and human resources as they interrelate and provide character to places.

  
  • GEOG 4314 - Teaching Geography

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 30

    An exploration of best practices for teaching geography in K-12 schools. Topics include the nature of geographic reasoning; integrating geography in the social studies curriculum; teaching strategies; and assessment.

  
  • GEOG 4321 - Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 0 Lab: 3

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 30

    In this introductory course, students become familiar with the concepts and gain the experience necessary to appreciate the utility of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in decision making. Topics include the fundamentals of data structures, georeferencing, data classification, querying, cartography, web GIS and basic spatial data analysis. The course provides an overview of the capabilities of ArcGIS desktop and web-based and applications of GIS. All majors welcome. 

  
  • GEOG 4322 - Advanced Geographic Information Systems

    Credit Hours: 3 Lab: 3

    Builds on existing Geographic Information System (GIS) skills through analytical and cartographic applications to all disciplines. Covers advanced geoprocessing tools for analyzing vector, raster, and network data, as well as fundamentals of remotely sensed image processing, classification and visualization. Emphasis on spatial data creation, representation, modeling, and programming using ArcGIS desktop and web-based software. All majors welcome. 

    Prerequisites: Pre-requisite GEOG 4321 or instructor approval.
  
  • GEOG 4323 - Geographic Information Systems Design and Implementation

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 0 Lab: 3

    Fee ($): 30

    This course teaches GIS design, project management and communication skills and an appreciation of the ethical, legal and social issues surrounding maps, GIS and geographical data. Students engage in exercises that span the entire range of GIS design and implementation: from problem inception to solution testing

  
  • GEOG 4379 - Internship in Geography

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 0 Lab: 0

    Provides supervised professional experience in public and private sector positions and is intended to introduce students to the skills and working environments of careers in geography. Students are required to consult with a geography faculty member before registering for this class.

  
  • GEOG 4389 - Independent Study in Geography

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 0 Lab: 0

    Allows the student to pursue topics not offered in the course catalog through in-depth coursework under the direction of an instructor. This course may include directed readings, coverage of special topics and other independent study. The topic and scope of study, learning objectives, work required, methods of evaluation and academic level will be determined in conference between the student and instructor.

  
  • GEOG 4391 - Selected Topics in Geography

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Identified by specific title each time course is offered. Topics vary;

    may be repeated for credit with permission of instructor.

Geology

  
  • GEOL 1103 - Laboratory for Physical Geology

    Credit Hours: 1 Lecture: 0 Lab: 1

    TCCN: GEOL 1103 
    Fee Type: Special
    Core Category: Component Area Option
    Fee ($): 75

    Hands-on identification of common rocks and minerals; analysis of geological processes associated with different environments.

    Corequisites: GEOL 1303 .
  
  • GEOL 1104 - Laboratory for Historical Geology

    Credit Hours: 1 Lecture: 0 Lab: 1

    TCCN: GEOL 1104 
    Fee Type: Special
    Core Category: Component Area Option
    Fee ($): 75

    Laboratory activities will introduce methods used by scientists to interpret the history of life and major events in the physical development of Earth from rocks and fossils.

    Corequisites: GEOL 1304 .
  
  • GEOL 1303 - Physical Geology

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    TCCN: GEOL 1303 
    Fee Type: Special
    Core Category: Life and Physical Sciences
    Fee ($): 50

    An introduction to physical geology. A study of minerals, rocks, Earth’s structures and the geological processes that modify the Earth’s surface.

    Corequisites: GEOL 1103 .
  
  • GEOL 1304 - Historical Geology

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    TCCN: GEOL 1304 
    Fee Type: Special
    Core Category: Life and Physical Sciences
    Fee ($): 50

    A study of the geologic history of the Earth. Topics include the geologic processes and principles that have shaped our planet including plate tectonics, geological age dating ancient depositional environments and the preservation of fossils.

    Corequisites: GEOL 1104 .
  
  • GEOL 3117 - Laboratory for Mineralogy and Petrology

    Credit Hours: 1 Lecture: 0 Lab: 1

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 80

    Hand specimen and optical characterization and interpretation of minerals and rocks. Fields trips may be required.

    Corequisites: GEOL 3317 .
  
  • GEOL 3240 - Geological Field Methods

    Credit Hours: 2 Lecture: 2 Lab: 0

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 70

    Collection of field data, interpretation and construction of geologic and topographic maps and examination of petrologic systems. Field trips required.

  
  • GEOL 3304 - Planetary Geology

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 45

    Study of the origins and evolution of Earth, Mercury, Venus, Mars and the Moon. Physical processes essential to understanding geology are stressed. Laboratory exercises included.

    Prerequisites: GEOL 1303  or ASTR 1304 .
  
  • GEOL 3305 - Fundamentals of Earth Science

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Study of basic physical and chemical processes that operate within the geosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, solar system and universe. Natural and anthropogenic factors that affect global climate change are also studied. Suitable for non-majors.

  
  • GEOL 3317 - Mineralogy and Petrology

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 45

    Formation, identification and geologic and economic significance of minerals and igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks. Field Trips Required.

    Prerequisites: GEOL 1303  and GEOL 1103 , or ENSC 3333 .
    Corequisites: GEOL 3117 .
  
  • GEOL 4145 - Lab for Structural Geology

    Credit Hours: 1 Lecture: 0 Lab: 1

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 70

    Laboratory for the analysis of rock, the geometry, kinematics and mechanics of rock deformation as a result of tectonic processes. Field trips required.

    Corequisites: GEOL 4345 .
  
  • GEOL 4189 - Independent Study in Geology

    Credit Hours: 1 Lecture: 1 Lab: 0

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 15

    Prerequisites: Approval of instructor, chair and associate dean.
  
  • GEOL 4191 - Selected Topics in Geology

    Credit Hours: 1 Lecture: 1 Lab: 0

    Identified by specific title each time course is offered.

  
  • GEOL 4291 - Selected Topics in Geology

    Credit Hours: 2 Lecture: 2 Lab: 0

    Identified by specific title each time course is offered.

  
  • GEOL 4311 - Geology of Texas

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Geological evolution of Texas including physiographic provinces, landforms and subsurface structure. Field trips required.

  
  • GEOL 4317 - Advanced Mineralogy and Petrology

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 40

    Formation, identification and geologic and economic significance of minerals and igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks. Application of modern laboratory methods to the study of rocks and minerals including optical microscopy. Laboratory exercises included.

    Prerequisites: GEOL 3317 .
  
  • GEOL 4324 - Geomorphology

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 70

    Origin and evolution of landforms; geomorphic cycles, physiographic provinces, application of maps, aerial photographs and quantitative methods to geomorphology. Laboratory exercises included.

    Prerequisites: GEOL 1303 .
  
  • GEOL 4325 - Sedimentation and Stratigraphy

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 30

    Origins, depositional environments and internal structures of sedimentary rocks. Principles of stratigraphy and bio-stratigraphy, evolution of modern stratigraphic nomenclature. Fields trips required.

    Prerequisites: GEOL 1303 , GEOL 1304 .
  
  • GEOL 4326 - Oceanography

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    The course emphasizes the application of geologic principles to the study of the marine environment and associated physical, chemical and biological processes. Topics covered include coastal processes, ocean resources, ocean management and human interaction with oceans.

    Prerequisites: GEOL 1303  or ENSC 3333 .
  
  • GEOL 4327 - Natural Disasters

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 35

    This course studies the topics of mass wasting, flooding, earthquakes, hurricanes and other conditions and evaluates various natural disaster data and statistics. It provides a forum to discuss, describe and improve our understanding of human interactions with the physical environment.

    Prerequisites: GEOL 1303  or ENSC 3333 .
  
  • GEOL 4345 - Structural Geology

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Description, interpretation and classification of geologic structures and their origin.

    Prerequisites: GEOL 1303 .
    Corequisites: GEOL 4145 .
  
  • GEOL 4375 - Petroleum Geology

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    This course studies the topics of the petroleum system, origin and migration of hydrocarbons, reservoirs, traps and seals, sedimentary basins and some of the most commonly used methods in exploration and development.

    Prerequisites: GEOL 1303 .
  
  • GEOL 4379 - Internship in Environmental Geology

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Supervised work experience in an approved private firm or government agency. Written and oral reports required.

  
  • GEOL 4389 - Independent Study in Geology

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 45

    Prerequisites: Approval of instructor, chair and associate dean.
  
  • GEOL 4391 - Selected Topics in Geology

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 50

    Identified by specific title each time course is offered.


Healthcare Administration

  
  • HADM 3311 - Foundations of Healthcare Administration Leadership

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    The administration of health care services and basic principles of organization for patient care including financial, manpower and systems development and control considerations in meeting health requirements at community, state, regional and national levels. This course is also an examination of leadership in healthcare administration.

  
  • HADM 3322 - Financial Dimensions of Healthcare Administration I

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    This course is designed to teach the student to understand and analyze the financial performance of healthcare organizations and various techniques associated with financial decisions required in the operation of various healthcare entities. Also, the student shall learn the various aspects of finance that determine the financial results of a healthcare organization.

  
  • HADM 3333 - Healthcare Economics

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    This course is designed to familiarize the students with the institutional features and the current trends in the rapidly changing healthcare market. Students will learn to apply the basic tools of microeconomics to issues in healthcare policy and management. Economic concepts relevant for healthcare managers will be examined such as analysis of demand and supply of healthcare goods and services; the role of health insurance and healthcare financing; market failure and the need for government intervention in healthcare markets; and initiatives to improve population health.

  
  • HADM 3351 - Physician Group Practice Management

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Acquaints the student with the management issues of physician group practice, including insurance billing, personnel management, marketing, patient relations, financial management, venture planning, risk management, retirement planning, physician agreements, practice valuation, managed care, Medicare/Medicaid and legal/tax/professional liability.

    Prerequisites: HADM 3311  or equivalent.
  
  • HADM 4312 - Healthcare Planning and Marketing

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    A review of concepts of planning and marketing and their application to the delivery of health care, assessment of community health needs and resources planning in an ambulatory or clinical environment.

    Prerequisites: HADM 3311  and MKTG 3301 , or equivalents.
  
  • HADM 4316 - Medical Reimbursement

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Acquaints the student with medical terminology, procedure coding, diagnosis coding, medical management and documentation.

    Prerequisites: HADM 3311  or equivalent.
  
  • HADM 4317 - Healthcare Ethics, Values, and Social Responsibilities

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    This course provides the student exposure to ethical issues in healthcare administration as well as business ethics, biomedical and research ethical issues, services to be offered and distribution and allocation of resources. Additionally, this course will address important ethical issues and problems facing the U.S. health system.

  
  • HADM 4318 - Managed Care

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Acquaints the student with managed care terminology, contracting for providers and payors, utilization review, case management, direct contracting, benefits structuring and organization structure.

    Prerequisites: HADM 3311  or equivalent.
  
  • HADM 4326 - Hospital Operations

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Concepts and methods needed to operate in a hospital. It will also provide an understanding of the impact of licensing, regulation, finance and billing, supply, operation, the different professions, risk management, compliance, engineering and physical plant and labor relations activities in healthcare institutions, with an emphasis on organization, effectiveness, productivity and profitability.

    Prerequisites: HADM 3311  or equivalent.
  
  • HADM 4332 - Legal Dimensions of Healthcare Administration

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Legal aspects of the doctor-patient-nurse-other health professional relationships; individual, corporate and institutional liability and responsibility.

    Prerequisites: HADM 3351  or equivalent.
  
  • HADM 4341 - HR in Healthcare Administration

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Concepts and methods needed to plan, forecast, recruit, train, develop, maintain and evaluate health manpower.

    Prerequisites: HADM 3311  or equivalent.
  
  • HADM 4343 - Introduction to Public Health

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Provides a comprehensive introduction to the essential concepts, values, principles, and practice of public health and the relationship of public health to the complex U.S. health care delivery system. Familiarizes the student with public health practice in a number of settings, including government, private sector and community organizations. Addresses important health issues and problems facing the US public health system.

  
  • HADM 4351 - Financial Dimensions of Healthcare Administration II

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Analysis of the financial framework within which health care organizations and facilities operate, sources and flow of funds, cost information systems and capital budgeting.

    Prerequisites: FINC 3331  and HADM 3311 , or equivalents.
  
  • HADM 4379 - Internship in Healthcare Administration

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Supervised field experience with an approved public or private health facility or physician clinic.

    Prerequisites: HADM 4316  and approval of program director.
  
  • HADM 4389 - Independent Studies in Healthcare Administration

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Independent directed study in Healthcare Administration.

    Prerequisites: Approval of instructor, faculty chair and associate dean required.
  
  • HADM 4391 - Selected Topics in Healthcare Administration

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Identified by specific title each time course is offered.


History

  
  • HIST 1301 - United States History I

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    TCCN: HIST 1301 
    Core Category: U.S. History
    A survey of the social, political, economic, cultural and intellectual history of the United States from the pre-Columbian era to the Civil War/Reconstruction period. Includes the study of pre-Columbian, colonial, revolutionary, early national, slavery, sectionalism and the Civil War/Reconstruction eras. Themes may include American settlement and diversity, American culture, religion, civil and human rights, technological change, economic change, immigration and migration and creation of the federal government.

    Prerequisites: Meet TSI college-readiness standard for Reading or equivalent.
  
  • HIST 1302 - United States History II

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    TCCN: HIST 1302 
    Core Category: U.S. History
    A survey of the social, political, economic, cultural and intellectual history of the United States from the Civil War/Reconstruction era to the present. Examines industrialization, immigration, world wars, the Great Depression, Cold War and post-Cold War eras. Themes may include American culture, religion, civil and human rights, technological change, economic change, immigration and migration, urbanization and suburbanization, the expansion of the federal government and the study of U.S. foreign policy.

    Prerequisites: Meet TSI college-readiness standard for Reading or equivalent.
  
  • HIST 2301 - Texas History

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    TCCN: HIST 2301
    A survey of the political, social, economic, cultural and intellectual history of Texas from the pre-Columbian era to the present. Themes that may be addressed in Texas History include Spanish colonization and Spanish Texas; Mexican Texas; the Republic of Texas; statehood and secession; oil, industrialization, and urbanization; civil rights; and modern Texas.

  
  • HIST 2321 - World Civilization I

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    TCCN: HIST 2321
    A survey of the social, political, economic, cultural, religious and intellectual history of the world from the emergence of human cultures through the 15th century. The course examines major cultural regions of the world in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania and their global interactions over time. Themes include the emergence of early societies, the rise of civilizations, the development of political and legal systems, religion and philosophy, economic systems and trans-regional networks of exchange. The course emphasizes the development, interaction and the impact of global exchange.

  
  • HIST 2322 - World Civilization II

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    TCCN: HIST 2322
    A survey of the social, political, economic, cultural, religious and intellectual history of the world from the 15th century to the present. The course examines major cultural regions of the world in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania and their global interactions over time. Themes include maritime exploration and transoceanic empires, nation/state formation and industrialization, imperialism, global conflicts and resolutions and global economic integration. The course emphasizes the development, interaction and impact of global exchange.

  
  • HIST 3301 - Ancient World

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Survey of the development of early civilizations from Mesopotamia and Egypt through Greece and the fall of Rome in the West.

  
  • HIST 3303 - Ancient Greece

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    A study of classical Greece with particular attention to cultural, social and political developments.

  
  • HIST 3305 - Ancient Rome

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Intellectual, social, political and cultural developments in the history of the ancient Roman Republic and Empire (c. 300 B.C.E. to 476 C.E.).

  
  • HIST 3307 - Medieval Europe

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    The birth and first flowering of a truly European civilization, urban society and an agricultural economy.

  
  • HIST 3309 - Renaissance and Reformation

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Economic, political, intellectual and religious developments in Europe from 1300 to 1650.

  
  • HIST 3311 - Revolutionary Europe

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    The Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment tradition, the French and Industrial Revolutions, the birth of ideologies and state-building.

  
  • HIST 3313 - Modern Europe

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    An examination of the major developments within European culture, politics, society and thought since 1815.

  
  • HIST 3316 - Historical Studies

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Introduction to the History major. Focus on developing analytical skills reading both historical documents and scholarship written by historians.

  
  • HIST 3317 - Introduction to Latin American History

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Survey of the history of Latin America from c. 1500 to the present. Introduces Latin American history.

  
  • HIST 3319 - Colonial Latin America

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 5

    Examination of the history of Latin America during period of indigenous self-rule and colonial period.

  
  • HIST 3321 - Modern Latin America

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 5

    Survey of the development of Latin America from 19th century to the present.

  
  • HIST 3323 - History of Mexico

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 5

    Survey of the history of Mexico from Spanish conquest to the present.

  
  • HIST 3325 - Colonial America

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 15

    Introduction to European exploration, conquest and colonization in North America from c. 1500 to 1763.

  
  • HIST 3327 - The New American Nation

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 5

    Emergence and development of a distinctly American society, politics and national identity.

  
  • HIST 3329 - Antebellum America

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 5

    A study of the United States from 1820 to 1860 with special emphasis on social and political developments.

  
  • HIST 3330 - Civil War and Reconstruction

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    The experience of Americans from the 1840s to the 1870s; their attempts to reconcile sectional and national identities.

  
  • HIST 3333 - Growth of Industrial America

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Fee Type: Special
    Fee ($): 5

    Early growth of industrial capitalism and America’s social and political response to it from the Civil War to World War I.

  
  • HIST 3335 - U.S. in the Roaring 1920s

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Examines the modern transformation of the U.S. in this dynamic era through exploration of Prohibition, urban life, consumer culture and a booming economy headed for collapse.

  
  • HIST 3337 - U.S. during the Cold War

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    Focus on U.S. Cold War political history and domestic upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s.

  
  • HIST 3340 - Women in European History

    Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

    The psychological, social and economic forces that contributed to the subordinate status of women in European society and an examination of feminist responses. Women’s Studies Course.

 

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