This course provides students with a grounding in the ways computing can improve and extend our understanding of historical evidence. The first third of this course is devoted to learning narrative history of a particular thematic, geographic, or chronologically bounded historical topic. This portion of the course introduces a relevant historical corpora that will serve as the archive or dataset that students will draw upon to create original research projects during the final third of the course.

This course involves a critical examination of women's lives and experiences in modern Japan (late 19C to the present). Readings will include writings by and interviews with Japanese women (in translation) as well as historiographical and analytical secondary sources. Topics covered will include education, suffrage and citizenship, gender equality, war, women's liberation movement, and anti-war activism.

Americans often call Europe "the Old Continent," a part of the world with a fascinating past but without much relevance to the future of the world. As recent events like the impact of the "Great Recession", the ongoing influx of immigrants from the Middle East and Africa, and the "Brexit" vote of 2016 show, however, Europe is still at the center of events shaping the world today and its future.

This course provides an introduction to the history of major American social movements from the Revolution to the present. It explores the impact of various historical actors - industrialists and workers, men and women, political leaders and political dissidents, capitalists and socialists, civil rights leaders and their opponents - whose actions, interactions, and struggles shaped our collective national past. We will cover a broad range of themes, confront and ask difficult questions, and attempt to make sense of how this period helped to make the U.S. what it is today.

This course will trace Spanish history from the time of Isabel and Ferdinand to the end of the Napoleonic Wars. As an upper level course, it will begin with an overview of the period and then get into depth about specific events and trends. Students will be able to describe the key events and trends of Spanish history, analyze the way that historians' ideas about Spanish history have changed over time, and produce their own analysis of an important topic in Spanish history. No prerequisites.

A multilingual, geographically expansive overview of Jewish literature from the biblical period to the present.

This course will critically explore the concept of world heritage, its theoretical underpinnings, the policy environment in which it exists, and the opportunities and challenges created by gaining world heritage status. The course will examine international and domestic applications of the concept of world heritage. The course will include an optional trip to one or more world heritage sites. Sites chosen for travel will vary from year to year, and may be domestic or international.

Surveys the history of roadside architecture in the United States, with emphasis on mimetic or programmatic architecture and the role of roadside architecture in national and global trends.

Students will learn about International Relations theory and the craft of diplomacy, as well as current global issues facing countries today. Students will also have the opportunity to participate in a Model United Nations conference.

Students will acquire a working knowledge of how to plan, implement, and evaluate effective health promotion programs. The course is designed to prepare students to become entry-level health education specialist. The course aligns with the areas of responsibilities for the Certified Health Education Specialist, fulfilling the competencies and sub competencies in the areas of health program planning (Area II), health program implementation (Area III) and health program evaluation (Area IV).