Kathleen Mapes

Classes

• HIST 101: Intro to the History Major

  This is an introductory course for first semester college students considering a major in history. The course will introduce students to the discipline of history and career paths for history majors, will provide enhanced advisement and planning for the undergraduate degree, will provide problem solving assistance to students as they navigate the first semester of college, will expose students to the range of academic and co-curricular opportunities available to history majors at Geneseo, and will provide opportunities for students to interact with members of the faculty and more advanced undergraduates. This class is open to any first year student at the college interested in majoring in history.

• HIST 410: Gilded Age &Prog Era,1877-1918

  In this course, students will explore the major issues, transformations, contests, and conflicts of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Rather than privileging one set of historical actors over others, we will do our best to try to understand how a number of women and men, from businessmen and presidents to immigrant workers and African Americans, affected historical change during their lives. In this course, then, we will not develop one grand narrative to explain U.S. history from 1877 to 1918. Rather, we will explore a number of competing narratives that will allow us to deal with the complexity of this period in American history and the people who made it. Specific topics to be covered include: industrialization and class conflicts; Jim Crow; Populism; urbanization; imperialism; gender debates; immigration; and World War I. Prerequisite: HIST 302 (HIST 301 also recommended).