Individual research is conducted under the supervision of a faculty member. Topic and format must be approved by the Department Chairperson and Dean.

Individual student research is conducted under the supervision of a faculty member. Topic and format must be approved by the Department Chairperson and Dean.

This course introduces students to the growing subfield of history and memory. Rather than asking what happened in the past and why, this course asks how humans have remembered, or misremembered, the past. Students interrogate concepts like collective memory, heritage tourism, and truth and reconciliation and examine case studies of memory-making in art, celebrations, memorials, museums, historic sites, and more.

Course will explore what Heritage Preservation means and how it is unique within the field of Public History. This course also introduces students to various career paths in public history, archives, museums, and interpretation within federal agencies such as the U.S. Forest Service, the National Parks Service, the Bureau of Land Management and tribal cultural preservation programs.

Course focuses on Public History concepts and their connections within History and to other disciplines by examining how Public Historians take stories of the past outside the academy and present them to the general public (in the U.S. and the world). Students will analyze concepts and ideas central to Public History through archives, museums, historical sites, businesses, and mass media.

Building on prospectus work of HIST 396, students work in a specialized field of historic study, synthesizing advanced knowledge, working with master skills in the discipline to create an independent senior history research paper with a public presentation and defense.

The Greater Southwest is distinguished by cultural pluralism. Many different cultures have interacted continuously for centuries, sometimes in cooperation, often in conflict. From Ancestral Puebloans to the Atom Bomb, we'll study how human history has shaped the Southwest and how the landscape has shaped human events.

This course will explore the economic, political, social, religious, cultural and environmental developments in the pre-Civil War era.

Introduction to Museums enables students to learn about a wide facet of museum careers in art, culture, and history museums and in the interpretation of culture and historic sites. Students get hands-on experience with the numerous collections at the Center of Southwest Studies.

This course will examine the transnational history of Europe since the 1700s, possibly including focus on revolution, nationalism, war, and cultural, intellectual, and/or political developments (such as the Enlightenment).