Readings, research, and discussions in seminar format to illuminate problems of historical and contemporary significance, in areas of special faculty competence. Covers topics related to non-western history before 1789. May be repeated for up to 15 credit hours as long as each repeat is a different subtitle.
Readings, research, and discussions in seminar format to illuminate problems of historical and contemporary significance, in areas of special faculty competence. Covers topics related to non-western history since 1789. May be repeated up to 15 credit hours under different subtitles.
Readings, research, and discussions in seminar format to illuminate problems of historical and contemporary significance, in areas of special faculty competence. Covers topics related to non-western history since 1789. May be repeated up to 15 credit hours under different subtitles.
This course covers military conflicts in modern Japan with a particular focus on the Asia-Pacific War (1931-45) - Japan's imperialist quest in China and Southeast Asia that ultimately expanded into the Pacific Theater of World War II.
This thematic course draws upon sports to chronicle social, cultural and political topics, and issues in American history. Students will explore colonial America, slavery, progressive reform, urbanization, world wars, women's rights, and the black freedom struggle. Students will examine how heroic athletes have contributed to the construction of American business and politics. Students will examine primary sources and scholarly essays in order to enhance their critical thinking skills about America's consuming and controversial investment and interest in sports.
This thematic course draws upon sports to chronicle social, cultural and political topics, and issues in American history. Students will explore colonial America, slavery, progressive reform, urbanization, world wars, women's rights, and the black freedom struggle. Students will examine how heroic athletes have contributed to the construction of American business and politics. Students will examine primary sources and scholarly essays in order to enhance their critical thinking skills about America's consuming and controversial investment and interest in sports.
"Reformation Europe" is an overview the religious, political, and social changes that we call the Protestant and Catholic Reformations. We will examine the late medieval religious scene and the theological breakthrough of Martin Luther. We will see how Luther developed his ideas, and how his ideas spread into European society, meeting both welcome and resistance. The interplay between ideas, rituals, and community, and how these worked together to create religious and social change, will be examined. We will also study alternative strains of Protestantism and the Catholic responses.
A continuation of HIS 285, this course covers the last century of the Tsarist regime (1825-1917) and the evolution of the Soviet system that followed. Emphasis will be placed on the problems that led to the collapse of the monarchy, on the revolutionary movement, and on the Communist state and society under Lenin and Stalin.
Under special conditions selected students may investigate problems with weekly reports to the in- structor. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
Under special conditions selected students may investigate problems with weekly reports to the in- structor. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
