Topical Seminar In Gender And Women's Studies: (Subtitle Required)
Intensive work in particular topics in gender and Women's studies. May be repeated four times with different subtitles.
Intensive work in particular topics in gender and Women's studies. May be repeated four times with different subtitles.
European politics, society, and culture from the Age of Absolutism to the present. It is a continuation of HIS 104.
Presents the interactions of science and technology with the social and cultural development of Western civilization; the values in scientific inquiry as compared with other kinds of inquiry; the importance of science and technology in modifying social organization and human expectations. Emphasizes the period to the Industrial Revolution.
From the Roman period to the Stuart period. A general survey of the various epochs and phases of the English people at home and abroad.
A general survey of the chief periods of Kentucky's growth and development from 1750 to the present.
This course is a survey of the history of Africa from the onset of colonial rule in the 1880s to the present. Its main objective is to introduce students to some of the major socio-political and economic developments that made Africa what it is today. The course will explore themes such as the European conquest of Africa and Africans' responses, African nationalism and struggles for independence, as well as post- colonial African politics and economic (under)development.
African American history has many beginnings all over the Atlantic World in Europe, North and South America, and Africa. This course begins with by blending and connecting the histories of many continents then moves on to focus on the lives of Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and African Americans in what became the Untied States of America.
In this course, we will consider the ways sex and gender have shaped U. S. history from the colonial period until now. Because gender roles and sexuality are socially constructed, they change over time. We will track these shifts. We will spend much of our time investigating the creative ways women have negotiated political, social, and economic constraints imposed by rigid gender roles, but we will also scrutinize the ways men are similarly empowered and limited by expectations to be masculine.
This course will furnish University of Kentucky Students with the methodological tools and materials needed to gain a more detailed understanding of American Military History and to put together a major research paper.
This course explores a number of important themes in early America: the comparative view of Western European colonization efforts; the dynamics of a multiracial environment; the character of family, community and religious life; regional distinctiveness in social/economic life; and the maturation of the colonies in the 18th century.