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2016-2017 Graduate Studies Bulletin (Archived Copy)
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2016-2017 Graduate Studies Bulletin (Archived Copy) 
    
 
  May 15, 2024
 
2016-2017 Graduate Studies Bulletin (Archived Copy) [Archived Catalog]

Course Descriptions


 
  
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    HGEN 704 - The Genetic Counseling Process

    Credits: 3

    Introduction to counseling skills utilized in genetic counseling via reading, discussion, clinical observation, and role play.

    Corequisite: HGEN 701

  
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    HGEN 705 - Clinical Skills Seminar

    Credits: 1

    Intensive skill development focused on practical aspects of patient care for clinical rotation preparation.

    Note: Pass-Fail grading

  
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    HGEN 710 - Genetic Counseling Methods

    Credits: 3

    An integration of the student’s theoretical background and clinical experiences with focus on the development of clinical skills. Format includes case presentation and discussion.

    Prerequisites: HGEN 702

  
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    HGEN 715 - Contemporary Issues in Genetic Counseling

    Credits: 1

    Discussion forum targeted at critical evaluation of medical genetics literature and examination of current issues facing the genetic counseling profession.

    Note: May be repeated for up to 4 credit hours.

  
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    HGEN 720 - Medical Genetics

    Credits: 4

    A study of the clinical aspects of human genetics with focus on single gene, chromosomal, and multifactorial genetic disease; the underlying molecular and biochemical principles; and determination of genetic risk.

    Prerequisites: Consent of instructor

  
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    HGEN 722 - Human and Medical Genetics

    Credits: 3

    Principles of genetics as they apply to medicine and basic concepts needed to understand human genetics. Current knowledge and essential areas of research in human and medical genetics.

    Prerequisites: BIOL 302 and 303 or equivalent with permission of instructor

  
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    HGEN 725 - Human Developmental Biology I

    Credits: 4

    The process of normal human development and basic physiological/anatomical processes of organ systems including embryo, craniofacial, nervous, respiratory, musculoskeletal, and the integumentary systems. Clinical significance andetiologies of human malformations.

  
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    HGEN 726 - Human Developmental Biology II

    Credits: 4

    Systems covered include cardiac, vascular, and urogenital. Additional topics include clinical correlates, ultrasound, labod and delivery, infancy, childhood, and adolescence.

  
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    HGEN 730 - Advanced Medical Genetics I

    Credits: 3

    A comprehensive seminar series taught by clinical/medical geneticists and medical practitioners. Topics include Mendelian genetics, cytogenetics, metabolic disorders, multifactorial disorders, and mental retardation.

    Prerequisites: HGEN 720

  
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    HGEN 731 - Advanced Medical Genetics II

    Credits: 3

    Continuation of HGEN 730. Topics include psychiatric disorders, cancer genetics, skeletal, renal, neuromuscular and neurocutaneous disorders, genetic autopsy, molecular diagnostics, and immunogenetics.

  
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    HGEN 735 - Cancer Genetics and Genetic Counseling

    Credits: 3

    Overview of medical oncology with an emphasis on familial and hereditary cancer. Includes didactic lectures, oral and written assignments.

    Prerequisites: HGEN 720

  
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    HGEN 740 - Transforming Health Care for the Future

    Credits: 1

    Foundation for beginning health professions students to gain an understanding of the complexities of the health care system through experiential activities conducted in interprofessional teams and the importance of interprofessional collaboration in order to improve the system. 

    Note: Pass/Fail also graded for pharmacy, social work and public health, other units with stand-alone course (medicine and nursing have requirements embedded in larger class).

  
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    HGEN 750 - Summer Clinical Rotation

    Credits: 2

    Clinical placement in a regional genetic center under direct supervision of geneticist/genetic counselor. Allows opportunity for development of genetic counseling skills as students begin transition from theory to practice.

    Prerequisites: HGEN 702

  
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    HGEN 760 - Clinical Rotation I

    Credits: 3

    Two days per week of clinical placement under direct supervision of geneticist/genetic counselor for experience in prenatal, pediatric, and disease-specific clinics.

    Prerequisites: HGEN 702

  
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    HGEN 761 - Clinical Rotation II

    Credits: 3

    Two days per week of clinical placement under direct supervision of geneticist/genetic counselor for experience in prenatal, pediatric, and disease-specific clinics.

    Prerequisites: HGEN 702

  
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    HGEN 799 - Thesis preparation

    Credits: 1-6

  
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    HIST 562 - The Middle East and the United States: 1800 to the Present

    Credits: 3

    Political, cultural, and economic ties which have linked the Middle East to the United States. Middle Eastern views of these relationships and their impact on modern Middle Eastern history.

  
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    HIST 599 - Topics in History

    Credits: 3

    Reading and research on selected historical topics. Course content varies and will be announced in the schedule of classes by suffix and title.

  
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    HIST 640 - South Carolina History

    Credits: 3

    South Carolina since colonization.

    Note: Television instruction only.

  
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    HIST 641 - The American South Comes of Age

    Credits: 3

    Changes in the Southern region since 1940.

    Note: Television instruction only.

  
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    HIST 648 - The Black Experience in the United States

    Credits: 3

    The social, cultural, economic, and political life of black people in the United States. First semester: to 1865; second semester: since 1865.

  
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    HIST 649 - The Black Experience in the United States

    Credits: 3

    The social, cultural, economic, and political life of black people in the United States. First semester: to 1865; second semester: since 1865.

  
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    HIST 692 - Historic Preservation Field Experience—Charleston, S.C

    Credits: 3

    On-site introduction to historic preservation including research, interpretation, management, and economics of preservation. Offered only in Charleston during summer term.

    Prerequisites: consent of instructor

  
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    HIST 700 - Topics in History

    Credits: 3

    Reading and research in selected historical subjects

  
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    HIST 701 - Reading Seminar in Colonial American History

    Credits: 3

  
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    HIST 702 - Reading Seminar in American History, 1789-1876

    Credits: 3

  
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    HIST 703 - Reading Seminar in American History since 1876

    Credits: 3

  
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    HIST 704 - Reading Seminar in Ancient History

    Credits: 3

  
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    HIST 705 - Reading Seminar in Medieval History

    Credits: 3

  
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    HIST 706 - Reading Seminar in Early Modern European History

    Credits: 3

  
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    HIST 707A - Reading Seminar in Modern European History, 1789-1900

    Credits: 3

    Restricted to graduate students in history.

    Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students in history.

  
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    HIST 707B - Reading Seminar in European History, 1900-Present

    Credits: 3

    Restricted to graduate students in history.

    Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students in history.

  
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    HIST 708 - Reading Seminar in Russian and East European History

    Credits: 3

  
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    HIST 709 - Reading Seminar in British History, 1500-1815

    Credits: 3

  
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    HIST 710 - Reading Seminar in British History since 1815

    Credits: 3

  
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    HIST 712 - Reading Seminar in Special Fields

    Credits: 3

  
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    HIST 713 - The Age of the Antonines

    Credits: 3

    A consideration of the political, social, economic, and intellectual developments in the Roman world of the second century A.D.

  
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    HIST 715 - The Crusades

    Credits: 3

    Holy war and realpolitik in Mediterranean; East and West relations from the 10th through the 15th centuries.

  
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    HIST 716 - Normandy, France, and England, 911-1453

    Credits: 3

    The development of the French and English monarchies from the establishment of Normandy to the end of the Hundred Years’ War.

  
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    HIST 720 - Introduction to the Study of History

    Credits: 3

    Introduction to the field for students who intend to become professional historians. Covers debates concerning the writing of history with a focus on recent theoretical and methodological issues.

    Prerequisites: Restricted to M.A. and Ph.D. students in history.

  
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    HIST 721 - England Under the Tudors and Stuarts

    Credits: 3

    A detailed study of the history of England, 1485-1714.

  
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    HIST 722 - England Under the Tudors and Stuarts

    Credits: 3

    A detailed study of the history of England, 1485-1714.

  
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    HIST 725 - Modern British History

    Credits: 3

    A reading course in the literature of British history since 1815.

  
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    HIST 726 - Modern British History

    Credits: 3

    A reading course in the literature of British history since 1815.

  
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    HIST 727 - European Intellectual History, 1815-1900

    Credits: 3

    A reading course in art history, literature, and changing social thought in the 19th century.

  
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    HIST 728 - European Intellectual History, 1900-1960

    Credits: 3

    A reading course in art, architecture, the cinema, literature, and social thought in the 20th century.

  
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    HIST 729 - France since 1815

    Credits: 3

    Readings in the political, social, economic, and cultural history of modern France.

  
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    HIST 730 - Russia from Peter the Great to Nicholas I

    Credits: 3

    The history of Russia from 1675-1855.

  
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    HIST 731 - Russia, 1855-1930

    Credits: 3

    A reading course dealing with specific problems of modern Russian history.

  
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    HIST 732 - European Diplomatic History, 1870-1914

    Credits: 3

  
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    HIST 733 - Contemporary Europe

    Credits: 3

  
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    HIST 734 - Empire and Nation in Modern Europe

    Credits: 3

    Comparative study of the concepts and dynamics of empire and nation in 19th- and 20th-century Europe.

  
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    HIST 735 - State and Society in Eastern Europe

    Credits: 3

    Selected topics in the development of the area in the 19th and 20th centuries.

  
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    HIST 739 - Readings in Pre-Modern Chinese History

    Credits: 3

    Selected topics in the history of China from the founding of the Han Dynasty in 202 B.C. to the end of the Ming Dynasty in A.D. 1644.

  
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    HIST 740 - China and the West, 1840-1949

    Credits: 3

    A reading course on political, intellectual, and social changes in China resulting from the increased contacts with the West.

  
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    HIST 741 - Readings in the Social History of Sport

    Credits: 3

    A reading and discussion of the analytical and critical literature on sport history.

    Cross-listed Course: PEDU 741

  
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    HIST 744 - French Revolution and Napoleonic Era

    Credits: 3

    Reading course in the historical literature of the revolutionary era, including the 18th-century background.

  
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    HIST 745 - Readings in Modern Japanese History

    Credits: 3

    Topics include the Meiji Restoration, industrialization, nationhood and nationalism, World War II, and postwar changes.

  
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    HIST 748 - The Middle East and North Africa, 1798-1962

    Credits: 3

    A reading course emphasizing political, intellectual, social, and religious movements in the Ottoman Empire and its successor states. Special attention to the growth of contacts between the Middle East and the West.

  
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    HIST 752 - Readings in American Colonial History

    Credits: 3

  
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    HIST 753 - The Coming of the Civil War, 1815-1860

    Credits: 3

    A study of the various factors which produced a breakdown of the democratic process in the United States and produced a domestic war.

  
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    HIST 754 - Rise of Industrialism

    Credits: 3

  
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    HIST 755 - Contemporary United States

    Credits: 3

  
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    HIST 756 - United States History, 1800-1850

    Credits: 3

  
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    HIST 757 - African American Women in Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

    Credits: 3

    This course will acquaint students with some of the secondary literature in African American women’s history from the late nineteenth century through the twentieth century. The course examines the impact of race, gender, and class on the lives of black women and explores the historical relationship between African American women, work, family, community, and politics.

    Cross-listed Course: WGST 757

  
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    HIST 761 - Southern Intellectual and Cultural History

    Credits: 3

    A study of the Southern mind together with an investigation of such other aspects of Southern civilization as are clearly related to the mental life of the region.

  
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    HIST 762 - The New South

    Credits: 3

    A survey of the economic, social, and political development of the Southern region since 1876.

  
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    HIST 763 - Victorian America

    Credits: 3

    Readings in the social and political history of the United States in the period from Reconstruction to the First World War.

  
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    HIST 764 - History of American Women

    Credits: 3

    Selected research topics on the cultural, social, economic, and political roles and contributions of American women.

    Cross-listed Course: WGST 764

  
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    HIST 765 - Readings in American Diplomatic History, 1776-1914

    Credits: 3

  
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    HIST 766 - Readings in American Diplomatic History, 1914-present

    Credits: 3

  
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    HIST 770 - Latin American History

    Credits: 3

    Readings in selected topics in Latin American history.

  
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    HIST 772 - Exploring Ethnohistory

    Credits: 3

    Cross-cultural study of history. Includes theoretical perspectives and cases from the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia.

    Cross-listed Course: ANTH 773

  
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    HIST 773 - History of Mexico

    Credits: 3

    Readings in the political, economic and social history of Mexico.

  
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    HIST 776 - History of Brazil

    Credits: 3

    Readings in the political, economic and social history of Brazil.

  
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    HIST 780 - Readings in Modern Military Thought

    Credits: 3

    Major military thought from the French Revolution to the present

  
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    HIST 781 - History and Theory of Museums

    Credits: 3

    Museums as central places for the creation, presentation, and representation of human knowledge and enhancement of civic ritual in modern states. U.S. museums considered in international context.

  
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    HIST 782 - Business History

    Credits: 3

    Readings in the modern history of business in Europe and America.

  
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    HIST 783 - History and Theory

    Credits: 3

    Examination of theory and case studies highlighting current themes in cultural history. Topics may include memory, ethnicity and race, gender and sexuality, popular culture, and truth and objectivity.

  
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    HIST 784 - Modern British Material Culture

    Credits: 3

    Use of material culture by historians of modern Britain including the country house, food and drink, slums and suburbs, the seaside resort, and the public school.

  
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    HIST 785 - Comparative History of Time

    Credits: 3

    Historical study of time-consciousness; how different modes of production have stimulated different forms of time-consciousness in American and other cultures.

  
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    HIST 786 - Comparative Applied History, U.S. and U.K

    Credits: 3

    Summer field school in the U.K. to provide comparisons with U.S. theory and practice in archives administration, museum management, and historic preservation.

    Prerequisites: Permission of Instructor

  
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    HIST 787 - Material Culture Studies

    Credits: 3

    Seminar in historical study of material culture; principal disciplinary and theoretical perspectives; emphasis on material culture of North America.

    Cross-listed Course: ANTH 787

  
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    HIST 788 - Memory, History, and Space

    Credits: 3

    A seminar in the historical study of buildings, the built environment, and cultural landscape.

    Note: Effective: Fall 2012

  
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    HIST 789 - Historic Site Interpretation

    Credits: 3

    An examination of the issues and problems in the interpretation of historic house museums and historic sites, with special emphasis on the development of an interpretive exhibit related to state and local history. Field trips.

  
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    HIST 790 - Archival Administration and Techniques

    Credits: 3

    The nature, value, and use of public and private archives; the principles and techniques for preservation, arrangement, description, and reference service for archives, personal papers, and historical manuscripts.

  
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    HIST 791 - Historical Editing

    Credits: 3

    An introduction to and a synopsis of the editorial process, including canons of selection and textual criticism; the editorial commitment; annotation; preparing manuscript for the printer; and the one-person editorial project.

  
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    HIST 792 - Historic Preservation

    Credits: 3

    An examination of the preservation process, including the history of historic preservation, the development of preservation administrative systems, and preservation research methods and strategies. Field trips.

  
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    HIST 793 - State and Local History

    Credits: 3

    An intensive inquiry into the source materials of South Carolina and the unique problems associated with state and local history.

  
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    HIST 794 - Research for Teaching

    Credits: 3

    Course to familiarize M.A.T. students with the basic bibliographic aids and printed sources useful for the preparation of lectures.

  
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    HIST 795 - Special Topics: Study Travel in History

    Credits: 1-6

    Class time will be spent preparing a project that can be completed by faculty-supervised travel in the United States or abroad.

    Note: Designed to be offered during summer sessions

  
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    HIST 796 - European Historiography

    Credits: 3

    A course whose purpose is to acquaint students with the development of European historiography, schools of historical thought and interpretation.

    Note: This course or HIST 797 is required of all history graduate students.

  
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    HIST 797 - American Historiography

    Credits: 3

    A course whose purpose is to acquaint students with the development of American historiography, schools of historical thought and interpretation.

    Note: This course or HIST 796 is required of all history graduate students.

  
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    HIST 798 - Internship in History

    Credits: 3

    The application of historical skills in a sponsoring historical or public agency.

    Note: Pass-Fail Grading

  
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    HIST 799 - Thesis Preparation

    Credits: 1-9

    Note: For master’s candidates

  
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    HIST 800 - Topics in History Research

    Credits: 3

    Writing seminar on selected historical subjects

    Note: May be repeated for credit as topics and suffixes change.

  
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    HIST 801 - Research Seminar in Colonial American History

    Credits: 3

    Note: Restricted to M.A. and Ph.D. students in history.

  
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    HIST 802 - Research Seminar in American History, 1789-1876

    Credits: 3

    Note: Restricted to M.A. and Ph.D. students in history.

  
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    HIST 803 - Research Seminar in American History, 1876-present

    Credits: 3

    Note: Restricted to M.A. and Ph.D. students in history.

  
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    HIST 804 - Research Seminar in Ancient History

    Credits: 3

    Note: Restricted to M.A. and Ph.D. students in history.

 

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