Approved Four Year History Course Rotation (February 14, 2014)
Notes
Fall 2014
Required for
SSEd majors
Post 1865 US
(4 year cycle)
HIST 2133
Intro to
Historical
Research and
Writing
HIST 3133
American
Military History
HIST 4773
Methods of
Teaching Social
Studies (ITV)
HIST 4293
The Gilded Age
and
Progressivism
HIST 2133
Intro to
Historical
Research and
Writing
HIST 3133
American
Military History
HIST 3043
Oklahoma
History
Broad US
Surveys
(3 year cycle)
HIST 3333
The American
Indian (ONL)
Modern
Europe
(3 year cycle)
HIST 4373
History of
Europe, 17891914
HIST 4413
Religion and
Magic in Early
Modern Europe
Spring 2016
Fall 2016
HIST 4793
Senior Seminar
HIST 2133
Intro to
Historical
Research and
Writing
HIST 3133
American
Military History
HIST 4773
Methods of
Teaching Social
Studies (ITV)
HIST 4313
Depression and
the World
Wars, 19171945 (ONL)
HIST 4243
American
Colonial
Pre 1865 US
(4 year cycle)
Early Modern
Europe
(3 year cycle)
Fall 2015
HIST 4793
Senior Seminar
Required for
History majors
Required for
History and
Social Studies
Education
majors
Service Course
for ROTC
Spring 2015
HIST 2133
Intro to
Historical
Research and
Writing
HIST 3133
American
Military History
HIST 3043
Oklahoma
History
HIST 3333
The American
Indian
HIST 4403
Europe’s
Enlightenments,
1648-1789
HIST 3123
The Crusades
(ONL)
HIST 3243
Britain Since
1689
HIST 3013
A History of
Religion in
America
HIST 3233
Britain to 1689
HIST 3363
Europe and the
Mediterranean,
1200-1750
Fall 2017
HIST 4793
Senior Seminar
HIST 2133
Intro to
Historical
Research and
Writing
HIST 3133
American
Military History
HIST 4773
Methods of
Teaching Social
Studies (ITV)
HIST 4323
America, 1945Present
HIST 4283 The
Civil War and
Reconstruction
HIST 4123
American
Women, 1679Present
HIST 4443
20th Century
Europe
Spring 2017
HIST 3333
The American
Indian (ONL)
HIST 4473
Nazi Germany,
1918-1945
(ONL)
HIST 4353
Northern
Europe, 13001800
HIST 2133
Intro to
Historical
Research and
Writing
HIST 3133
American
Military History
HIST 3043
Oklahoma
History
HIST 4253 The
American
Revolution and
Early National
Period, 17541824 (ONL)
HIST 3353
African
American
History
HIST 4333
History of
South Africa
Through Film
HIST 3033
The Atlantic
World (ONL)
Spring 2018
HIST 4793 Senior
Seminar
HIST 2133
Intro to
Historical
Research and
Writing
HIST 3133
American
Military History
HIST 4773
Methods of
Teaching Social
Studies (ITV)
HIST 4283
The Civil War
and
Reconstruction
HIST 2133
Intro to Historical
Research and
Writing
HIST 3133
American Military
History
HIST 3043
Oklahoma History
HIST 4273
The Age of
Jackson and
American
Expansion, 18151848
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The rotation does not include 1000 and 2000 level courses because they do not compete with 3000 and 4000 level classes for enrollment.
HIST 2133 must be offered in both Fall and Spring due to demand driven by the fact it serves both History and Social Studies Education.
HIST 4793 must be offered every Spring to serve graduation seniors, and it must be in the Spring because it’s the senior capstone class.
HIST 3133 serves the ROTC program and there has always been strong demand for the course in both Fall and Spring. We could run it in one semester
rather than both, but it would grow extremely large if we did that. We could also reduce it to a 2000 level class so that it did not compete for majors. As a
rule, the course does not attract too many majors. ROTC likes it every Fall and Spring and at the 3000 level, but we have a choice here.
HIST 3333 is in strong demand by the nursing program. The demand is not as strong as we were led to believe by the nursing advisor, and demand seems
stronger for the online version of the class at this point. Historically, it has not attracted too many majors. Demand seems strong enough to run it every
other semester, and it needs to be in the Fall so that neither Mike nor Travis end up with two upper division classes in either Fall or Spring. Post 1865
courses are set to run in the Fall while pre 1865 courses run in the Spring. And it has to be that way for now because we have to offer HIST 4773 (Travis)
in the Fall and HIST 3043 (Suzanne) in the Spring for the Teacher Ed folks. And we don’t want anyone teaching two upper division courses the same
semester if we can avoid it.
HIST 3483 is not on the list and has been pulling majors from other classes because the chair has been running it too much. He’s also been letting too
many students take it. So, going forward, we will run it only during the Summer and only let students with 3.0 or above GPAs enroll. That’ll mesh well
with the fact we probably won’t run any regular upper division classes during the Summer for the foreseeable future to due budget cuts and enrollment
declines.
The rotation provides for a three year cycle for non US upper division classes and the broad US surveys (which are spread out to accommodate running
HIST 3333 every other year). It features a four year cycle for the pre and post 1865 US courses. I’d like that cycle to be three years too, but we can’t do
that without running too may classes given our other service commitments.
The rotation allows for seven upper division classes in the Fall and eight in the Spring. We have run those numbers before and done fine. We should not go
beyond them for any reason. We got away with it for a while when enrollment was up, but we are at a point where we cannot take the risk any more. That
means no upper division at Fort Still again and no funky experimenting. Our numbers are low enough that even one additional class can have a detrimental
effect on the enrollment of multiple upper division sections, and we don’t every want/need that. We need to be as efficient as possible when it comes to
credit hour production.
The rotation includes online offerings, which I think we should reduce or eliminate. We have experimented with online courses for some time, which I
think was wise. But they are not superior to traditional classes in my view, and they haven’t pulled in non-majors or students from other schools in any
appreciable numbers. Our student surveys are ambivalent when it comes to online courses, but again, in the absence of clear data that says we should keep
pressing forward in this realm I don’t see further need. We’ll need to talk about this soon.
Note that HIST 4283 appears once in the pre and once in the post 1865 rotation. This balances them up at four classes each, and it seems reasonable for
that class to be taught twice in each four year cycle because it’s popular, important, and counts in either the pre or post category or our program check
sheet because it’s a bridge class between the periods.
HIST 3113 American West is not on the rotation. I can’t fit it into a three year cycle for the broad surveys and we’re not teaching it now so it seems the
easiest to let lie fallow for a while. We could extend the broad survey rotation to four years and fit it in that way if we chose, but it would be difficult
because it would inevitably overload someone with multiple upper division content classes because of the other demands of the rotation and would destroy
student chances to take certain courses. We are already doing that by extending the period course rotation to four years, so we might want to think twice
about doing it with the broad survey courses too. We could include the class in a three year rotation if we reduced the number of times we run American
Indian during each cycle.
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