A study of the political, social, economic, religious, intellectual and development trends in the United States directly after the Civil War to the present.
This course emphasizes the post-colonial period of Micronesian History from Spain’s formal claim of Micronesia in 1885 throughout the German, Japanese, and American Trust Territory administrations to the present COFA political status of Palau, FSM, and the Marshall Islands.
This course emphasizes the pre-colonial period of Micronesian history from Magellan’s contact of Guam in 1521 to the beginning of Spanish rule in 1885. The Colonial Period, 1885-1980, is briefly surveyed.