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tstearns

             Dr. Thomas Stearns
             Professor of History and Political Science
             Email Dr. Stearns - tstearns@yhc.edu

B.A., History/Political Science, Baylor University
Graduate Studies, Political Science, Purdue University
M.A., History, University of Arkansas
Ph.D., History, University of Arkansas
Specializations: Film History/20th Century Cultural History; Modern Middle East History/Israeli and Egyptian Film

 

Classes


204 American History - 3 semester hours credit
U. S. History to 1865. European backgrounds, early inhabitants, the colonial period; the American Revolution; the Constitution; the new government under Federalist guidance; Jeffersonian and Jacksonian democracy; westward expansion and the growth of sectionalism; and the Civil War. The content of this course satisfies the state legislative requirements in United States and Georgia history.

205 American History - 3 semester hours credit
U.S. History since 1865. Reconstruction; readjustments of government and agriculture to the new industrialization; the new west; the world wars; problems of the cold war era; the movement toward social, political, and economic reform. The content of this course satisfies the state legislative requirements in United States and Georgia history.

208 Survey of Civilization - 3 semester hours credit
A survey of the developments of human social, economic, political, intellectual, and religious institutions from the pre-literate age to the mid-16th century. Attention is given to the civilizations of the Ancient Near East, Greece, Rome, Medieval Europe, the Byzantine Empire, the Arabic and Turkish Empires, and the Renaissance.

209 Survey of Civilization - 3 semester hours credit
A survey which examines the major religious, political, economic, social, and intellectual developments of the western world from the early modern period (c. l500) to the present.