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HIST 1114 United States History to 1865 (3 credits)
HIST 1115 United States History since 1865 (3 credits)
HIST 1304 World History, Prehistory-1500 (3 credits)
HIST 1305 World History, 1500-Present (3 credits)
HIST 1899 Introduction to Writing an American History Paper (1 credits)
HIST 2219 Medieval European Culture (3 credits)
HIST 2228 Renaissance and Reformation Europe (3 credits)
HIST 2300 History of China (3 credits)
HIST 2500 Native Americans and the United States, 1600s-Present (3 credits)
HIST 2580 Russia (3 credits)
HIST 2600 Topics in History (3 credits)
HIST 2610 Minnesota History (3 credits)
HIST 2660 Women and History (3 credits)
HIST 2667 Men and Women: Gender in America (3 credits)
HIST 2700 The History of World Religions (3 credits)
HIST 2799 Religion in America (3 credits)
HIST 2925 People of the Environment: Environment and History (3 credits)
HIST 2953 Study-Travel, History and the Social and Behavioral Sciences (1-6 credits)
HIST 3117 American Revolutionary Era, 1763-1800 (3 credits)
HIST 3128 Testing Democracy: Reform in Antebellum America, 1787-1865 (3 credits)
HIST 3137 The American Civil War (3 credits)
HIST 3159 The World at War, 1931-1945 (3 credits)
HIST 3187 American West (3 credits)
HIST 3208 Greece and Rome, 1500 BCE-500 CE (3 credits)
HIST 3277 Readings and Research in European History (3 credits)
HIST 3409 Colonialism and Modernization in the Non-Western World (3 credits)
HIST 3459 Latin America (3 credits)
HIST 3650 Environmental History (3 credits)
HIST 3799 Tudor and Stuart England, 1485-1714 (3 credits)
HIST 3800 Georgian Britain, 1688-1820 (3 credits)
HIST 4000 Historiography (3 credits)
HIST 4600 History Portfolio (1 credits)
HIST 4783 Senior Thesis in History (3 credits)
HIST 4917 DIS Tchg Assoc | (1-2 credits)

HIST 2799 Religion in America (3 credits)

This course explore the history of America's diverse religious traditions since the colonial era and their relationship to historical developments in society, politics, and culture. We will consider how religion has both acted as a conservative force in society by preserving the status quo AND been the motivation for radical democratic upheaval. We will investigate patterns of religious establishment, revivalism, the influence of science on religion, the rise of a national civil religion, changes in denominational structures and theology, secular accommodation, and cycles of denominational growth and change. While we will explore the history of American Christianity, we will also study the influence of other faith traditions.