BGS in General Studies: History Emphasis (33 hours*)

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Complete the following prerequisite course:

STDEV 100 : Essential College Skills. (1:1:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

Complete the following core courses:

HIST 201 : World Civilization to 1500. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

HIST 202 : World Civilization from 1500. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

HIST 220 : The United States Through 1877. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

HIST 221 : The United States Since 1877. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

Complete 18 hours from the following:

HIST 252 : Modern Latin America. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

HIST 302 : The Italian Renaissance. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

HIST 304 : The Expansion of Europe, 1400-1800. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

HIST 317 : The Family and the Law in American History. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

HIST 319 : The Family in Europe. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

HIST 322 : English History to 1689. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

HIST 323 : English History Since 1689. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

HIST 340 : Traditional China. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

HIST 341 : Modern China Since 1500. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

HIST 378 : American Family History. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

BYU undergraduate campus courses (including Salt Lake Center classes) in history (excluding family history) may also be used to fill emphasis electives.

Complete the following capstone course:

STDEV 490 : Bachelor of General Studies Capstone. (2:2:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

*Hours include courses that may fulfill university core requirements.

OFFERED:	Independent Study also.
WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
DESCRIPTION:	Developing essential college skills. Aims of BYU, values and goals, sound thinking skills. Learning styles and adjustment to college courses. College requirements and planning.

OFFERED:	Honors also. Independent Study also.
WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
DESCRIPTION:	World civilization from Greek antiquity to Renaissance; explores fundamental questions in the human experience, examines formative events in history, and seeks to teach value of important texts.

OFFERED:	Honors also.
WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
DESCRIPTION:	World civilization from Renaissance to present; explores fundamental questions in the human experience, examines formative events in history, and seeks to teach value of important texts.
NOTE:	This course is part of a GE Mosaic. See ge.byu.edu/mosaic-list for more information.

OFFERED:	Independent study also.
WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
DESCRIPTION:	Discovery, colonization, American Revolution, estabishment of the Constitution, foreign affairs, westward expansion, slavery, sectionalism, Civil War, and reconstruction.

OFFERED:	Independent Study also.
WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
DESCRIPTION:	Industrialization, immigration, urbanization, political and social movements, and foreign policy.

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2011 - 2012

BGS in General Studies: History Emphasis (33 hours*)

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Major

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring
DESCRIPTION:	National period (1810 to present): independence, institutional development, culture, and inter-American relations.

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall Odd Yrs.
DESCRIPTION:	Major political, social, and cultural events in Italy from 1200 to 1530, emphasizing concept of the Renaissance in modern historiography.

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
DESCRIPTION:	The interaction of families with law and government as illustrated in original American sources; individual family histories reconstructed in the broader perspective of history.

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall Even Yrs.
DESCRIPTION:	Nature and development of marriage and family life and structure from the ancient to modern era.
NOTE:	Independent Study also.

WHEN TAUGHT:	Winter
DESCRIPTION:	Economic and political foundations of modernity during high Imperial China; challenge of new order from the West; rise of Chinese nationalism, revolution, and development.

OFFERED:	Independent Study only.
PREREQUISITE:	STDEV 100; completion of all other BGS program requirements.
DESCRIPTION:	Culminating course required for bachelor of general studies degree: analyze and evaluate BGS experience in light of the "Aims of a BYU Education" and summarize this experience in a reflective paper, integrate material learned in emphasis by completing a scholarly essay, and demonstrate accomplishment of learning outcomes.

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall Odd Yrs.
DESCRIPTION:	Early voyages of discovery and the actions of Europeans in the wider world from about 1400 to 1800.

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall Odd Yrs.
DESCRIPTION:	From a loose federation of Neolithic societies, Chinese civilization emerges as East Asia's dominant political and cultural force; developments to ca. 1500.