UG Course Descriptions

Selected topics in history and politics. Topics will rotate based on student and faculty interest.

This semester-long class will introduce students to the significance of sport as part of the larger American experience. Throughout the course, students will engage with the role of sport in relation to nationalism, race and racism, gender politics, class conflict, and community formation.

History and spirituality of the Congregation of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
(Offered in the IHM Formation Academic Program)

Origins, progression, and consequences of the founding of the American Republic.

Military, social, and political history of the American Iliad.

An introduction to historiography and to the methods of historical research, analysis and writing. This course should be taken in sophomore year and is required for the major.

For moviegoers, films both reinforce and challenge their conceptions of their world and their past. This course will examine noteworthy American films in light of their historical significance and context.

This course examines the problems, techniques, and achievements of efforts to record or reconstruct events on film in a historically accurate way.

An exploration of the roots of contemporary issues in society in the United States: the increased power of the executive in government, the rise of minority groups, the changing family, the place of communications media in the formation of public opinion, and changes in the economy.

Examines the origins, experiences, consequences and future of mass flights of humans across national boundaries.