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Missouri Baptist University 2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog

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Missouri Baptist University 2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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CROSS-LISTED COURSES

Courses cross-listed between disciplines are generally indicated by a common course prefix as listed below. Exceptions, such as and MUCS/THEP courses, are denoted in the course description.

Course Prefix	Cross-listed Disciplines		Course Prefix	Cross-listed Disciplines
BUMU	Business and Music		HIPO	History and Political Science
CMHS	Christian Ministry and History		HUED	Human Services and Education
CMPS	Christian Ministry and Psychology		MGPS	Management and Psychology
COEN	Communications and English		MUED	Music and Education
COST	Communications and Theatre		PHED	Physical and Health Education
CPHS	Philosophy and History		POPH	Political Science and Philosophy
CRPH	Criminal Justice and Philosophy		PSHU	Psychology and Human Services
CRPO	Criminal Justice and Political Science		PSPO	Psychology and Political Science
CRPS	Criminal Justice/Psychology/Sociology		PSCM	Psychology and Christian Ministry
EDEN	Education and English		PSSC	Psychology and Sociology
EDMU	Education and Music		CEWL	Christian Education and Worship Leadership
EDPS	Education and Psychology		SOHI	Sociology and History
EDST	Education and Theatre		THMU	Theatre and Music

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World History
	HIWO 343 - History of Latin America Semester Hours: Three A survey of Latin American History from prehistoric times to the present. The first half of the course covers the colonial period, the wars for independence, and the difficulties of the 19th century. The second half of the course discusses the 20th century. Both halves focus on four nations; Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and Cuba. Term Offered: Fall, Odd Years
	HIWO 373 - History of England Semester Hours: Three A discussion-format survey of British history from prehistoric times to the present. The course covers the prehistory of England; Roman and medieval Britain; the decline of the monarchy into civil war; the reigns of the Tudors, Stuarts, and Puritans; the world wars against France; the social and political changes of the 18th century; the ages of revolution and Napoleonic Wars; 19th-century life; the height of the Empire; liberal changes; World Wars I and II and the period between them; and recent socialist-dominated Britain. Term Offered: Fall, Spring Prerequisites: HIST 113 and HIST 123 , or consent of instructor.
	HIWO 413 - Ancient History Semester Hours: Three A study of ancient civilization from the Ancient Near East and the origins of Greek city-states to the decline of the Roman Empire. Particular attention is given to the political, social, economic, intellectual, and religious trends in the classical era. Term Offered: Fall, Even Years
	HIWO 433 - Twentieth-Century Europe Semester Hours: Three A study treating the development of Europe from 1900 to the present. Major topics include the rush of the continent toward general war; the military stalemate and its final resolution; the diplomacy of peacemaking; the Russian Revolution; economic recovery, then prosperity; the international depression; the rise and fall of fascism; the Cold War; the rebuilding and reconstruction of Europe; and the new, reduced place of Europe in the recent world. Term Offered: Spring, Even Years Prerequisite: HIST 123 or consent of instructor.
U.S. History
	HIUS 213 - United States History I Semester Hours: Three A survey of United States history from the beginning of white settlement of North America to 1865. The course covers the colonial, Revolutionary War periods, the framing and nature of the Constitution of 1787, the early national period, national growth, the slavery controversy, and the Civil War. Term Offered: Fall
	HIUS 223 - United States History II Semester Hours: Three A survey of United States history from 1865 to the present. The course covers Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, World War I, the 1920’s, the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, the Vietnam War era, and recent America. Term Offered: Spring
	HIUS 363 - Early American History Semester Hours: Three A lecture/discussion course that treats the Atlantic coast of what is today the United States from the beginning of white settlement to 1789. Major topics include: the 16th-century European background; the exploration of English North America; the founding of three kinds of colonies on the Atlantic seaboard; late 17th-century revolts; colonial economics, politics, and expansionism; colonial social and intellectual activities, including religious development; the organization and reorganization of the British Empire as that affected North America; the revolutionary crisis of the 1760’s and 1770’s; the causes and consequences of the American Revolution; the War for Independence; experiments in state and national government; and the drafting and ratification of the federal Constitution. Term Offered: Fall, Odd Years Prerequisite: HIUS 213 or consent of instructor.
	HIUS 443 - the Early American Republic Semester Hours: Three A lecture and discussion course that examines the contours of American history from the beginning of effective governance under the U.S. Constitution in 1789 through the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848. Topics include: development of political parties in the early United States; the War of 1812; the so-called “Market Revolution”; the rise of the “Cotton Kingdom” and westward expansion of plantation slavery; anti-slavery and the politics of reform; proto-feminism; the policy of “Indian Removal”; changing mores, including increasing popular knowledge and use of contraception; the death of the United States’ founding generation and the politics of patriotic memory; expansion of the franchise; democratization of American culture and religion; the evolution of foundational U.S. case law; the rise of mass print culture; and the Mexican-American War. Term Offered: Spring, Even Years Prerequisite: HIUS 213 or consent of instructor.
	HIUS 453 - America in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Semester Hours: Three A lecture and discussion course surveying American history from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 into the era of the First World War. Topics include: the politics of sectional reconciliation after Reconstruction; the U.S. Supreme Court and the development of the “Jim Crow” regime of racial segregation; surging capitalism and its critics; organized labor, new technologies of communication and transportation; urbanization; the advent of mass consumption; the rise and fall of farming in the Great Plains states; Populism; Progressivism; professionalization; immigration; nativism; the closing of the American frontier; social Darwinism; America’s involvement in the West’s “scramble” for empire in the late nineteenth century; the Spanish American War; and the United States’ entry into World War One. Term Offered: Spring, Odd Years Prerequisite: HIUS 223 or consent of instructor.
	HIUS 463 - Civil War and Reconstruction Semester Hours: Three A study treating United States history from the height of sectionalism to the 1880’s. After an introduction to the age of sectional controversy, major topics include: the Compromise of 1850; the Kansas-Nebraska Act; the Dred Scott decision; John Brown’s raids; the election of 1860; the military campaigns of the Civil War; the governmental and home front activities of the war; and political, economic, and social reconstruction. Term Offered: Spring, Even Years Prerequisites: HIUS 213 and HIUS 223 , or consent of instructor.
	HIUS 483 - Recent American History Semester Hours: Three A lecture/discussion course that treats United States history since the end of World War I. Major topics include the so-called Roaring Twenties; the Great Depression and the New Deal; World War II; the Cold War abroad and at home; the third great age of American reform; the Vietnam War era; Watergate and the eclipse of the Presidency; and recent American foreign and domestic policy. Term Offered: Spring, Odd Years Prerequisite: HIUS 223 or consent of instructor.

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