NIACC History Courses

• HIS-112: Western Civilization: Ancient-Early Modern
  • A study of the major social, political, economic, cultural, and philosophical movements in the Western World from the beginning of civilization to 1648.

• HIS-113: Western Civilization: Early Modern to Present
  • A study of the major social, political, economic, and philosophical movements in the Western World from 1648 to the present.

• HIS-151: U.S. History to 1877
  • A survey course covering the social, political, and economic history of American civilization from the Age of Discovery through Reconstruction.

• HIS-152: U.S. History Since 1877
  • A survey course covering the social, political, and economic history of the United States since 1877.

• HIS-254: American Indian History
  • American Indian History is an ethnographic and historical survey of the social, cultural, and political systems developed by Native Americans north of Mexico, and the developing relationship of these systems with those of the European-Americans. Native religion and world view, agricultural and hunting practices, material culture, trade, diplomacy and political structures are examined, as are the mutual impact on both societies resulting from contact with and interaction between native North Americans and Europeans and their descendants.

• HIS-257: African American History
  • The course chronicles the experience of African Americans in the history of the United States. Topics include African heritage, the slave trade, slavery in the Antebellum South, the Civil War and emancipation, the Jim Crow era, the birth of racial advancement organizations, the development of twentieth-century urbanization and nationalism, and the struggle for civil rights, political power and cultural expression from mid century to the present.

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