Course Offerings
FALL 2012
Course Levels:
115 Pre-Modern, 116 Modern 200, 300, 400, Graduate, Summer
For Education majors:
14118 HIST 103 01 World History to 1500 MWF 08:00 am-08:50 TBA MYBK 302
15358 HIST 104 01 World History since 1500 MWF 09:00 am-09:50 TBA MYBK 306
115 Pre-Modern Course Descriptions:
15380 HIST 115 01 N 3.000 Pre-modern History W 06:00 pm-08:45 pm Davis NORT
13756 HIST 115 02 M 3.000 Pre-modern History MWF 08:00 am-08:50 am 3 3 TBA 08/21-12/12 MYBK 306
13757 HIST 115 03 M 3.000 Pre-modern History MWF 09:00 am-09:50 am 3 3 TBA 08/21-12/12 MYBK 302
13758 HIST 115 04 Women, Children and the Family MWF 09:00 am-09:50 Edmund L. Drago
Women, Children, and the Patriarchy will be the thread that ties together our examination of the human experience over a millennia (a thousand years) and substantial historical developments. Most early civilizations were essentially patriarchal, and as they became more prosperous, the status of women declined. More often than not, religion bolstered patriarchal notions. Even in matrilineal societies, women were still considered inferior. Why did women put up with this situation? In what ways were they able to carve out some space for themselves? What power did they collectively possess? These are some of the questions we will be examining.
13759 HIST 115 05 M 3.000 Pre-modern History MWF 09:00 am-09:50 TBA BELL 320--
13760 HIST 115 06 M 3.000 Pre-modern History MWF 10:00 am-10:50 am 0 0 TBA BELL 320--
13761 HIST 115 07 Women, Children and the Family MWF 10:00 am-10:50 Edmund L. Drago
Women, Children, and the Patriarchy will be the thread that ties together our examination of the human experience over a millennia (a thousand years) and substantial historical developments. Most early civilizations were essentially patriarchal, and as they became more prosperous, the status of women declined. More often than not, religion bolstered patriarchal notions. Even in matrilineal societies, women were still considered inferior. Why did women put up with this situation? In what ways were they able to carve out some space for themselves? What power did they collectively possess? These are some of the questions we will be examining. MYBK 303
13762 HIST 115 08 M 3.000 Pre-modern History MWF 11:00 am-11:50 am 3 3 TBA 08/21-12/12 MYBK 303
13763 HIST 115 09 M 3.000 Pre-modern History MWF 12:00 pm-12:50 pm 3 3 TBA 08/21-12/12 MYBK 303
13764 HIST 115 10 Gender and Sex in Western Civilization MWF 11:00 am-11:50 Sandra D. Slater MYBK 100
Over the course of the semester we’ll be discussing major historic development, but through the lens of gender and sexualities beginning with Ancient Greece and ending at the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. Political, economic, relgious, and social developments will be discussed, but within a larger fromwork of evolving attitudes, understandings, and practices of gender and sex. This is a mature subject matter and students should be advised of the graphic nature of some materials and discussions. Performance will be evaluated from a series of exams, two papers, discussion and occasional reading quizzes
13765 HIST 115 11 M 3.000 Pre-modern History MWF 10:00 am-10:50 am 3 3 TBA 08/21-12/12 MYBK 304
13766 HIST 115 12 M 3.000 Pre-modern History MWF 01:00 pm-01:50 pm 0 0 TBA MYBK 303--
13770 HIST 115 13 M 3.000 Pre-modern History MWF 01:00 pm-01:50 pm 0 0 TBA 08/21-12/12 MYBK 304
13773 HIST 115 14 M 3.000 Pre-modern History MWF 11:00 am-11:50 am 0 0 TBA MYBK 304 --
13775 HIST 115 15 M 3.000 Pre-modern History MWF 12:00 pm-12:50 pm 3 3 TBA 08/21-12/12 MYBK 304
13779 HIST 115 16 M 3.000 Pre-modern History MW 03:20 pm-04:35 pm 3 3 TBA 08/21-12/12 BELL 321
13780 HIST 115 17 Pre-Modern TR 08:00 am-09:15 TBA MYBK 317
13781 HIST 115 18 Civilizations: Conflict or Concord? TR 08:00 am-09:15 Peter A. Piccione MYBK 306
This course is an historical survey of the major civilizations and cultures of human history up to the Age of Discovery (early AD sixteenth century). Here the course centers around the theme of intercultural contacts through history and relationships among different civilizations, e.g., East-West relations over time, including: Egypt & Mesopotamia, Greece & Asia, Rome and Africa & Asia, Europe and the Middle East & East Asia. A major focus will be the Great Crusades from both the European and Saracen perspectives to demonstrate how different cultures understood the same historical processes differently.
13782 HIST 115 19 Pre-Modern History TR 12:15 pm-01:30 pm TBA Bell 321
13783 HIST 115 20 "The World of Christopher Columbus" TR 09:25 am-10:40 am Christophe J. Boucher MYBK 317
Christopher Columbus is one of the most recognizable icons in mainstream American culture. In this course, students will “embark” on a voyage of intellectual discovery focusing on the following questions: Who was Christopher Columbus exactly? Was he a visionary as immortalized by later writers and in recent Hollywood movies or a man of his time? What do his writings reveal about his personality and the age he lived in? What prompted him to undertake such a momentous voyage across the Atlantic? What cultural and intellectual baggage did he carry along? What was his impression of and attitude towards Native Americans? What were short-term consequences of his “discovery”? These questions will naturally lead us to examine related issues: What was the state of maritime technology and geographic knowledge in 1492? What was life like on board a ship such as the Santa Maria and in seaports? What historical forces led Europeans deeper into the Atlantic? How did Native Americans respond to Columbus’ landfall and why? By placing Columbus’ voyages in a broad historical context, students will develop a basic knowledge of the pre-modern world from Antiquity to the Renaissance. In the process, they will also gain a better understanding of History as a discipline.
13784 HIST 115 21 Civilizations: Conflict or Concord? TR 09:25 am-10:40 Peter A. Piccione MYBK 306
This course is an historical survey of the major civilizations and cultures of human history up to the Age of Discovery (early AD sixteenth century). Here the course centers around the theme of intercultural contacts through history and relationships among different civilizations, e.g., East-West relations over time, including: Egypt & Mesopotamia, Greece & Asia, Rome and Africa & Asia, Europe and the Middle East & East Asia. A major focus will be the Great Crusades from both the European and Saracen perspectives to demonstrate how different cultures understood the same historical processes differently.
13785 HIST 115 22 M 3.000 Pre-modern History TR 09:25 am-10:40 am 3 3 TBA 08/21-12/12 MYBK 304
13786 HIST 115 23 "The World of Christopher Columbus" TR 10:50 am-12:05 pm Christophe J. Boucher MYBK 317
Christopher Columbus is one of the most recognizable icons in mainstream American culture. In this course, students will “embark” on a voyage of intellectual discovery focusing on the following questions: Who was Christopher Columbus exactly? Was he a visionary as immortalized by later writers and in recent Hollywood movies or a man of his time? What do his writings reveal about his personality and the age he lived in? What prompted him to undertake such a momentous voyage across the Atlantic? What cultural and intellectual baggage did he carry along? What was his impression of and attitude towards Native Americans? What were short-term consequences of his “discovery”? These questions will naturally lead us to examine related issues: What was the state of maritime technology and geographic knowledge in 1492? What was life like on board a ship such as the Santa Maria and in seaports? What historical forces led Europeans deeper into the Atlantic? How did Native Americans respond to Columbus’ landfall and why? By placing Columbus’ voyages in a broad historical context, students will develop a basic knowledge of the pre-modern world from Antiquity to the Renaissance. In the process, they will also gain a better understanding of History as a discipline.
13787 HIST 115 24 M 3.000 Pre-modern History TR 10:50 am-12:05 pm 3 3 TBA 08/21-12/12 MYBK 304
13788 HIST 115 25 M 3.000 Pre-modern History TR 12:15 pm-01:30 pm 3 3 TBA 08/21-12/12 MYBK 304
13789 HIST 115 26 M 3.000 Pre-modern History TR 01:40 pm-02:55 pm 3 3 TBA 08/21-12/12 MYBK 304
13790 HIST 115 27 M 3.000 Pre-modern History TR 03:05 pm-04:20 pm 3 3 TBA 08/21-12/12 MYBK 303
13793 HIST 115 28 M 3.000 Pre-modern History TR 03:05 pm-04:20 pm 3 3 TBA 08/21-12/12 MYBK 304
13795 HIST 115 29 M 3.000 Pre-modern History TR 03:05 pm-04:20 pm 3 3 TBA 08/21-12/12 Bell 321
14108 HIST 115 30 M 3.000 Pre-modern History MW 02:00 pm-03:15 pm 0 0 TBA 08/21-12/12 BELL 321
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116 Modern Course Descriptions:
13796 HIST 116 01 M 3.000 Modern History MWF 08:00 am-08:50 am 3 3 TBA 08/21-12/12 MYBK 317
13799 HIST 116 02 M 3.000 Modern History MWF 09:00 am-09:50 am 0 0 TBA 08/21-12/12 MYBK 304
15382 HIST 116 03 M 3.000 Modern History MWF 09:00 am-09:50 am 0 0 TBA 08/21-12/12 BELL 321
15384 HIST 116 04 M 3.000 Modern History MWF 10:00 am-10:50 am 0 0 TBA BELL 321 --
15386 HIST 116 05 M 3.000 Modern History MWF 11:00 am-11:50 am 0 0 TBA BELL 321--
14780 HIST 116 06 Modern History MW 04:00 pm-06:45 pm MYBK 211
13807 HIST 116 07 M 3.000 Modern History MWF 12:00 pm-12:50 pm 3 3 TBA 08/21-12/12 MYBK 306
13809 HIST 116 08 M 3.000 Modern History MWF 10:00 am-10:50 Gigova MYBK 317
13811 HIST 116 09 M 3.000 Modern History MW 02:00 pm-03:15 pm 0 0 TBA 08/21-12/12 BELL 320
13812 HIST 116 10 Modern MWF 01:00 pm-01:50 TBA BELL 321
13816 HIST 116 12 M 3.000 Modern History MWF 12:00 pm-12:50 Gigova MYBK 302
13817 HIST 116 13 Modern MWF 12:00 pm-12:50 pm TBA BELL 321
13818 HIST 116 14 M 3.000 Modern History MWF 01:00 pm-01:50 pm 3 3 TBA 08/21-12/12 MYBK 302
13819 HIST 116 15 M 3.000 Modern History MWF 01:00 pm-01:50 Ryan ECTR 118
This course offers a survey of European history from 1700 to the present. Lectures and readings focus on historical developments and their relationship to modern European society, politics, and culture. Our focus alternates between perspectives of historical actors, both “high” and “low.” Students will consider dominant and subordinate classes, majority and minority ethnicities, states and subjects, perpetrators and victims, men and women, and “centers” and “peripheries.” Participants will examine the ways that these actors both shaped and experienced important eras of modern history
13820 HIST 116 16 M 3.000 Modern History MW 03:20 pm-04:35 pm 0 0 TBA MYBK 303
13821 HIST 116 17 M 3.000 Modern History MW 03:20 pm-04:35 pm 0 0 TBA MYBK 304 --
13822 HIST 116 18 M 3.000 Modern History MW 03:20 pm-04:35 pm 0 0 TBA 08/21-12/12 MYBK 306
13823 HIST 116 19 M 3.000 Modern History TR 12:15 pm-01:30 pm 3 3 TBA 08/21-12/12 MYBK 303
13824 HIST 116 20 M 3.000 Modern History TR 01:40 pm-02:55 pm 0 0 TBA MYBK 303 --
13825 HIST 116 21 The Devil in the West:The History of Evil in Modern Europe and America TR 9:25 am-10:40 Poole MYBK 302
This course looks at how the West has imagined the problem of evil in the modern world. The course will examine the following themes: How did Enlightenment skepticism alter attitudes toward supernatural evil and what new answers did it provide to those questions? How did 19th century moments for popular democracy and social reform reimagine the question of evil? What role did belief in the Devil and the supernatural play in the resurgence of religion in 19th and 20th century America?
13826 HIST 116 22 The Deep Roots of Globalization TR 10:50 am-12:05 Sarr BELL 321
In recent years, more and more people have come to recognize diffusion and economic integration as major elements of what they tend to view, incorrectly, as a new phenomenon: globalization. Contact and borrowing have always led to thorough change among groups of the world’s peoples, as ideas have for centuries, if not for millennia, spread with relative ease across global communication networks. This course deals with how events associated with the growth of European capitalism after the sixteenth century brought together increasing numbers of people of the world and how the world has since changed dramatically. We will be discussing several themes that involved people living in separate political units beyond the recognized boundaries of states, beyond empires, or even beyond what we have tend to call civilizations. Over the last 500 years groups of people that always had been isolated regionally, with different customs and traditions, steadily came into contact with one another and began to interact. As they did so, they began to share everything from their beliefs and aspirations to their plants, animals and microbes. They also steadily increased their involvement in larger-eventually global-economic systems. The interaction has increased greatly overtime, and the way people live today, everywhere on earth, for better or worse, is largely a result of this interaction
13827 HIST 116 23 M 3.000 Modern History TR 10:50 am-12:05 pm 3 3 TBA 08/21-12/12 MYBK 303
13828 HIST 116 24 History and Memory TR 03:05 pm-04:20 Covert MYBK 100
This course will explore how individuals, institutions, and governments have sought to remember or tried to forget historical events, people, and artifacts, using examples from modern world history ranging from Columbus’s arrival in the Americas to the present. Students will grapple with the political and economic implications of history and how it is commemorated, represented, or erased. Lectures and discussions will cover the event, person, or place in question within the broader historical context as well as the ways in which it/they have subsequently been remembered
13829 HIST 116 25 The Devil in the West: The History of Evil in Modern Europe and America TR 8-9:15 Poole MYBK 302
This course looks at how the West has imagined the problem of evil in the modern world. The course will examine the following themes: How did Enlightenment skepticism alter attitudes toward supernatural evil and what new answers did it provide to those questions? How did 19th century moments for popular democracy and social reform reimagine the question of evil? What role did belief in the Devil and the supernatural play in the resurgence of religion in 19th and 20th century America?
13830 HIST 116 26 M 3.000 Modern History TR 10:50 am-12:05 pm 0 0 TBA BELL 320 --
13831 HIST 116 27 M 3.000 Modern History TR 12:15 pm-01:30 pm 0 0 TBA BELL 320--
13833 HIST 116 29 History of Asia since 1600 TR 01:40 pm-02:55 pm 3 3 Bei Gao MYBK 302
“This course serves as an introduction to Asian history and civilization since 1600 and examines the emergence of the greatest Asian powers - the Mughal Empire in India, the Qing dynasty in China, and Tokugawa Japan. It aims to explore the transition from traditional to modern Asia and will focus, especially, on the major social, political, economic, and intellectual developments in Asian societies. It will be structured to examine the processes which led to the decline of the old Asian empires, the rise of Western hegemony in the region, the evolution of anti-Western nationalism and revolutionary movements, modernization, and the reemergence of independent Asian culture and states. The course explores the rise and development of Japanese imperialism and Chinese communism, and the modern wars fought on Asian soil. Finally, it will also ask students to consider economic and political globalization in Asia by analyzing the interactions of Asian countries with each other and the rest of the world.”
13834 HIST 116 30 History of Asia since 1600 TR 03:05 pm-04:20 pm 3 3 Bei Gao MYBK 302
“This course serves as an introduction to Asian history and civilization since 1600 and examines the emergence of the greatest Asian powers - the Mughal Empire in India, the Qing dynasty in China, and Tokugawa Japan. It aims to explore the transition from traditional to modern Asia and will focus, especially, on the major social, political, economic, and intellectual developments in Asian societies. It will be structured to examine the processes which led to the decline of the old Asian empires, the rise of Western hegemony in the region, the evolution of anti-Western nationalism and revolutionary movements, modernization, and the reemergence of independent Asian culture and states. The course explores the rise and development of Japanese imperialism and Chinese communism, and the modern wars fought on Asian soil. Finally, it will also ask students to consider economic and political globalization in Asia by analyzing the interactions of Asian countries with each other and the rest of the world.”
13836 HIST 116 31 M 3.000 Modern History MW 05:30 pm-06:45 pm 3 3 TBA 08/21-12/12 MYBK 302
13837 HIST 116 32 M 3.000 Modern History TR 05:30 pm-06:45 pm 3 3 TBA 08/21-12/12 MYBK 302
13839 HIST 116 34 N 3.000 Modern History M 06:00 pm-08:45 pm Davis NORT 120
14132 HIST 116 36 M 3.000 Modern History MW 03:20 pm-04:35 pm 3 3 TBA 08/21-12/12 MYBK 317
14133 HIST 116 37 Stimulants in History MWF 11:00 am-11:50 am 10 10 Timothy D. Carmichael ECTR 118
This section of HST 116 investigates major historical issues, events and developments, such as European exploration of the New World(s), trade between India and China, the growth of Islamic empires, the emergence of the Atlantic Slave Trade, the outbreak of WWI, Nazi Germany’s blitzkrieg advances against Russia, the process of decolonization in Africa, and Latin America’s relationships with the US in recent decades. These events and others will be linked together by a framework that views the world as linked economic, political, and social networks. Within this framework, we will focus on the theme of psychoactive substances (tobacco, coffee, tea, sugar, opium, marijuana, alcohol, caffeine, etc.).
14135 HIST 116 38 The Deep Roots of Gobalization TR 09:25 am-10:40 Sarr BELL 321
In recent years, more and more people have come to recognize diffusion and economic integration as major elements of what they tend to view, incorrectly, as a new phenomenon: globalization. Contact and borrowing have always led to thorough change among groups of the world’s peoples, as ideas have for centuries, if not for millennia, spread with relative ease across global communication networks. This course deals with how events associated with the growth of European capitalism after the sixteenth century brought together increasing numbers of people of the world and how the world has since changed dramatically. We will be discussing several themes that involved people living in separate political units beyond the recognized boundaries of states, beyond empires, or even beyond what we have tend to call civilizations. Over the last 500 years groups of people that always had been isolated regionally, with different customs and traditions, steadily came into contact with one another and began to interact. As they did so, they began to share everything from their beliefs and aspirations to their plants, animals and microbes. They also steadily increased their involvement in larger-eventually global-economic systems. The interaction has increased greatly overtime, and the way people live today, everywhere on earth, for better or worse, is largely a result of this interaction
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200 Level:
11462 HIST 201 01 United States to 1865 MWF 01:00 pm-01:50 Powers MYBK 317
15396 HIST 210 02 ST: Monsters in America TR 12:15 pm-01:30 POOLE MYBK 302
11463 HIST 216 01 African American History to 1865 MWF 11:00 am-11:50 Powers MYBK 317
15397 HIST 230 01 Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia TR 12:15 pm-01:30 pm Piccione M 306
12593 HIST 231 01 Ancient Greece TR 10:50-12:05 pm Phillips Rand 301 A
30036 HIST 241 01 Hitler & National Socialism
15400 HIST 242 01 History of Modern France TR 10:50 am-12:05 pm Olejniczak MYBK 302
15401HIST 250 02 ST:Revolution and Reaction TR 10:50-12:05 Covert 306
15403 HIST 272 01 Pre-Colonial Africa TR 01:40 pm-02:55 pm Sarr MYBK 306
15405 HIST 283 01 History of Modern China TR 09:25 am-10:40 Gao MYBK 303
12430 HIST 299 01 The Historian's Craft MW 2:00-03:15 Ryan MYBK 306
This is a required couse for all history majors. It will focus on a wide variety of readings and materials that make up what we know and do today as historians. It is foundational in that the knowledge and skills that you learn is this course will prepare you for upper-level courses and especially the required research seminar capstone course.Students will learn the fundamentals of historical analytical thinking, research, and writing skills, how to carry out library and online research, and how to evaluate primary and secondary sources. We will also discuss the nature of history as a discipline and the world of the professional historian in the United States.
1793 HIST 299 02 The Historian's Craft TR 1:40-02:55 Ryan MYBK 317
This is a required couse for all history majors. It will focus on a wide variety of readings and materials that make up what we know and do today as historians. It is foundational in that the knowledge and skills that you learn is this course will prepare you for upper-level courses and especially the required research seminar capstone course.Students will learn the fundamentals of historical analytical thinking, research, and writing skills, how to carry out library and online research, and how to evaluate primary and secondary sources. We will also discuss the nature of history as a discipline and the world of the professional historian in the United States.
300 Level:
15409 HIST 301 01 Colonial America, 1585-1763 MWF 01:00 pm-01:50 Slater MYBK 306
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the colonial period of North America from the earliest contacts between Europeans and Native Americans to the American Revolution. Particular attention is paid to the interaction of Indians, European and African peoples and cultures, the rise of British dominance, the internal development of the Anglo-American colonies, and the events that led to the colonial rebellion and the American Revolution. The goal is to understand the racial, ethnic, gendered, class and regional diversity of American colonial society as well as to understand the colonial period in its own terms rather than as a prelude to United States history. Classes will be structured with a formal lecture (usually accompanied by PowerPoint multimedia) followed by discussion of primary and secondary source readings
14140 HIST 320 01 ST: Modern Charleston T 7-9:45 pm Stockton MYBK 302
15835 HIST 345.01 ST:Modern German Culture Intellectual Thought-German Jewish Thought MW 2-3:15 Bodek MYBK 303
15413 HIST 350 01 ST: The Real Pirates of the Caribbean TR 12:15 pm-1:30 pm Coates M 317
14109 HIST 357 01 Victorian Britain MWF 11:00-11:50 Steere-Williams MYBK 306
15417 HIST 361 01 ST: African Nationalisms, 1920-1960 MWF 9:00-9:50 Carmichael MYBK 317
400 Level - Research Seminars:
12438 HIST 410.01 Civilians & Soldiers in America's Civil War Era and Its Global Impact MWF 1:00 1:50 Drago M303
The Civil War and Reconstruction form a watershed in United States and Global History. Students will choose a topic, compose an extensive bibliography (primary and secondary sources), make an outline, and write a 25-30 page research paper on some aspect of this epic event in American History.
12439 HIST 441 01 Europe in the Cold War TR 9:25-10:40 Gigova BELL 320
GRADUATE: FALL 2012 Courses
15893 HIST 590.2 ST: The Sixties in America T 7-9:45 Taylor Citadel Capers 405
15895 HIST 740.01 ST: Gender in Modern Europe W 4-6:45 Neulander Citadel Capers 420 seminar
12561 HIST 691 01 Historiography M 4-6:45 Mushaf Citadel Capers 423
15891 HIST 543 01 ST: Twentieth Century Europe M 7-9:45 Ganaway,Brian MYBK 306
15892 HIST 670.01 The Rise of Early Modern Empires T 4-6:45 Coates MYBK 306
14411 HIST 590.01 ST: Native American History R 4-6:45 Boucher MYBK 317
16090 HIST 521:01 The American South R 7-9:45 Tammy Ingram Room TBA.
HONORS:
12609 HONS 120 21 M 6.000 Colloquium: Western Civil MWF 09:00 am-09:50 am Irina G. Ganaway PHYM 101
12613 HONS 120 22 M 6.000 Colloquium: Western Civil MWF 09:00 am-09:50 am Jason P. Coy (P), Cristian Coseru 08/21-12/12 PHYM 101
11543 HONS 120D 11 M 0.000 Western Civ Discussion MWF 10:00 am-10:50 am Irina G. Ganaway (P) 08/21-12/12 10GW
11544 HONS 120D 12 M 0.000 Western Civ Discussion MWF 10:00 am-10:50 am Cristian Coseru (P), Jason P. Coy 08/21-12/12 BUST 104
FYSM fall:
FYSM 138.05 The City of Light: History of Paris (Learning Community) Olejniczak MWF 10-10:50 LRC 302
FYSM 138.04 The City of Light: History of Paris (Seminar) Olejniczak MWF 11-11:50 MYBK 302
FYSM 140 World History Through Food Coates R 4-6:45 MYBK 306
FYSM 140 Film and History Ingram MW 2-3:15 MYBK 317 and MW 5:30-6:45 MYBK 317
FYSM 138 History Bites:Vampires in the Folklore, Science and Pop Culture of the West Welsh MW 2-3:15, 3:20-4:35M302
SUMMER 2012: (last update 3/29/12)
Maymester: (May 14-29) 8:30-12 M-F
30800 HIST 210 02 Monsters in America: American History in Film M-F 8:30 -12:00 Poole MYBK 306
30036 HIST 241 01 Hitler & National Socialism M-F 8:30-12:00 GanawayB MYBK 317
30037 HIST 261 01 Drugs in Pop Culture & Film M-F 8:30-12:00 Carmichael MYBK 322
30810 HIST 210.03 Film & Southern History M-F 8:30-12:00 Ingram M-F MYBK 210
May Evening: (May 9-June 20) 5:30/7:00 MW/TR *
30731 HIST 115 08 Journeys and Encounters: Pre-modern Travelers and Explorers (DE) Welsh TBA
In the twenty-first century, global travel is common. We see the connections between different areas of the world, and recognize the influences one culture has on another. However, even before Columbus ventured across the Atlantic, global travelers ventured forth across Europe, Asia, and Africa, leaving records of their journeys through new places and their encounters with foreign cultures. Venetian merchant Marco Polo described the wonders of China; Moroccan pilgrim Ibn Battuta recounted his experiences from decades of travel through the Islamic world; Chinese monk Rabban Sauma traveled from Central Asia to Europe, hoping to forge an alliance between the Mongols and the Roman Church. With Columbus’ voyage to what he thought was China, travel and exploration reached a new height of activity, curiosity, and scheming. Through the stories of these and other global travelers, we can learn not only about the cultures they traveled through, but also about the cultures they came from. In this course, students will use the accounts of pre-modern travelers and explorers to learn about global interactions and cross-cultural perceptions. As a Distance Education class, this course will use a variety of textual and visual sources, ranging from scans of historical documents to modern documentaries. The DE format also allows for flexibility in when you access the class materials; while it is scheduled as an evening class, you have the freedom to watch lectures and complete assignment around your own schedule.
30038 HIST 115 01 Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Pre-modern World MW 05:30 pm-08:45 Sarr MYBK 317
This course focuses on ancient and medieval encounters between different societies and peoples in the pre-modern era. The course focuses on religious encounters or other forms of cross-cultural encounters along the Silk Road and the trans-Saharan networks. Other major themes that will be explored include slavery, empire and conflict. Individual sections will trace the development of one theme over the course of major changes in world history. The course seeks to explore what happened when diverse groups of people met and how their encounters shaped and reshaped the way they lived. Students who take this class should expect to see that while globalization on today’s scale is new, the peoples of the pre-modern world did not live in isolation from the rest of the world. They, too, traded on a vast scale with peoples of other cultures
30727 HIST 116 06 Race, Gender & Sexuality TR 05:30 pm-08:45 Delay MYBK 306
30041 HIST 116 01 The Devil in the Western World MW 05:30 pm-08:45 Poole MYBK 302
30817 HIST 591 02 ST:Witch Hunting in the Atlantic World TR 5:30-8:45 Coy MYBK 317-Graduate
Summer I Day: (June 4-July 3) M-F
30353 HIST 115 06 Drugs and Pre-modern Cultures MTWRF 09:45 am-11:30 Carmichael MYBK 302
30043 HIST 115 04 World History in Hollywood Films M-F 9:45-11:30 Piccione MYBK 306
This course provides a survey of the great civilizations in world history from 4,000 BC to 1500 AD. It also focuses on deconstructing mythologies, false perceptions and popular misconceptions about those civilizations by examining popular Hollywood films and foreign cinematic spectacles. Students will study and discuss specific historical issues as they are properly understood, view the films and analyze discrepancies between fact and fiction by asking pertinent historical questions and applying proper historical methodology. Hence, students will understand how history is often distorted for a variety of reasons, including dramatic license for entertainment purposes, as well as society’s need to sanitize and/or mythologize its past.
30042 HIST 116 02 Modern History MTWRF 09:45 am-11:30 am Slater MYBK 304
30728 HIST 210 01 ST: American Sexuality MTWRF 11:45 am-01:30 Slater MYBK 317
Summer Evening: MW/TR 5:30
30044 HIST 116 03 The Devil in the Western World MW 05:30 pm-08:45 Poole MYBK 302
30730 HIST 115 07 The Silk Road: History, Culture, and Commerce (DE) Welsh online
The term “Silk Road” conjures up a host of exotic images of cross-cultural interaction and trans-continental trade. First invented in the nineteenth century by European explorers, the “Silk Road” actually covers a series of land and sea routes which created an intricate web of connections and relationships across and around Eurasia. In this course, students will explore these routes and how they enabled the movement of goods and ideas and the spread of belief systems from the time of the Han Dynasty and the Roman Empire up through the fifteenth-century European and Chinese explorations of the Indian Ocean. We will investigate and write about the intricate web of trade-based connections and relationships that bound people together in the medieval and early modern world, and how developments in one location could impact the culture and economy of another. How, for example, did developments in China affect the fate of Imperial Rome? How did the Indian Ocean function as a space for trade between continents? How did people react to “exotic” imports from across the globe? As a Distance Education class, this course will use a variety of textual and visual sources, ranging from scans of historical documents to modern documentaries. The DE format also allows for flexibility in when you access the class materials; while it is scheduled as an evening class, you have the freedom to watch lectures and complete assignment around your own schedule.
30040 HIST 591.01 ST:WW II France in History and Film MW 5:30-8 Neulander Citadel Capers 423 (June 25-Aug 5)
Summer II Day: July 9-August 7 M-F
30726 HIST 116 05 Modern History MTWRF 09:45 -11:30 am Slater MYBK 306
30045 HIST 116 04 Food in Modern History MTWRF 7:45-9:30 am Coates MYBK 302
A survey of selected major developments in modern history since 1500, using food as the focus. The class will cover European exploration in early modern times, the Columbian connection post 1500 as it relates to food, the formation of the Atlantic World based on sugar and slavery, the links between the Industrial Revolution and New Imperialism, and finally globalization.
30046 HIST 115 05 The Crusades & Pre-modern History MTWRF 9:45 -11:30 am Coates MYBK 302
A survey of the major developments in European and Middle Eastern history from 1000 to 1500. This course will examine ideas and events that contributed to the rise of Europe and the political, economic, and social institutions that developed in medieval Europe and parts of Asia and the Middle East. Topics will include the Middle Ages, the Silk Road, the Crusades, Islamic-Christian Encounters, and Early European Expansion into the Atlantic
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