66 courses with the subject HIS, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
HIS 101Dawn of Civilizations3
Semester Hours An introductory history course intended for students of all majors to become familiar with the advent and variety of human civilizations. Topics will include formation and evolution of gender roles, religions and beliefs, political structures and ideas from the ancient world to the European Renaissance. Wesleyan Core SLO: Ethical and Historical Reasoning
Semester Hours An introductory history course intended for students of all majors to become familiar with the development of the modern European world, from the French Revolution to the present. Topics will include the creation of modern political ideas like socialism and liberalism, modern gender concepts, modern class developments and nations. Wesleyan Core SLO: Ethical and Historical Reasoning
HIS 111The United States: From Colonies to Civil War3
Semester Hours A survey of American history from the European settlement to the Civil War. Usually offered in the fall semester. Wesleyan Core SLO: Information Literacy
HIS 112The United States: From Emancipation to 9/113
Semester Hours A survey of U.S. history from the destruction of slavery to the modern period. Usually offered in the spring semester. Wesleyan Core SLO: Information Literacy
Semester Hours This course introduces students to the main political, social and cultural developments throughout the ancient world, spanning from the Mediterranean to East Asia. Students are expected to acquire an understanding of the important people and events that shaped ancient world history.
Semester Hours This is the history of medicine, the body and human civilization. Topics will include changing concepts of the body, the development of germ theory, eugenics, race, genetics and human civilization’s responses, as well as alternative medicine. Open to all majors, no pre-requisites. Wesleyan Core SLO: Ethical and Historical Reasoning
Semester Hours This course will engage students with the history of sports, their development as mass phenomenon, and as proxies for larger political and social issues of their respective societies.
Semester Hours A survey of African political and social developments, including the end of the slave trade, growth of nineteenth-century states, the establishment of European domination and the struggles for political independence and economic development in the twentieth century.
Semester Hours This course introduces students to the methods involved in historical analysis, research and writing. Emphasis will be placed on approaches to the study of history, modes of historical writing, interpretation and argument, data collection, analysis and documentation and style and writing conventions. Students successfully completing this course will be able to write effectively, reason logically and argue convincingly. Offered during spring semester.
Semester Hours This course focuses on the early exploration, settlement, and founding of the United States. Themes include the clash of European and Native American civilizations, the development of slavery, the Revolutionary War and the framing of the U.S. Constitution. Writing Intensive
HIS 102 , HIS 111 or HIS 112 recommended This course is about the transformation of Europe from an impoverished continent of kingdoms in 1815 to the planet’s wealthiest, most powerful continent of democracies in 1914. Topics will include nationalism, industrialization, mass politics, feminism, women and popular culture. Open to all major, no
HIS 303The 99 Years3
This course is about the transformation of Europe from an impoverished continent of kingdoms in 1815
Semester Hours An examination of events in United States history from the perspective of African-Americans. Special consideration is given to slavery and its historical interpretations and to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
Semester Hours A survey of the Latin-American political, economic, social and cultural experience. HIS 315 covers pre-Columbian times to the wars for independence. HIS 316 explores Latin America’s attempts to overcome poverty without provoking social revolution. Topics covered include the wars of independence, imperialism and revolutions from Castro’s Cuba to Sandinista Nicaragua. Writing Intensive
HIS 318Southward Bound: History of an American Region3
Semester Hours What makes the American South unique? Students in this course will answer that question by examining Southern history through its politics, customs, and culture. We’ll study slavery and the plantation system, the Civil War and Reconstruction, the civil rights movement and the rise of the sunbelt in American politics.
Semester Hours The purpose of this course is to study the rise and fall of an Atlantic World System that tied Europe, Africa and the Americas into a web of economic and cultural interdependence. We will examine different models of New World colonization by European colonial powers, the ramifications of New World Slavery, encounters and conflicts between native and colonial peoples and the development of nation states in the Western Hemisphere. Throughout the course, we will emphasize comparative analysis of historical events and trends, examining how different peoples in different regions experienced colonization, slavery, trade, nation-making and emancipation in the Atlantic World.
The purpose of this course is to study the rise and fall of an Atlantic World System that tied Europe, Africa and the Americas into a web of economic and cultural interd
Semester Hours This course analyses the social, economic and political causes and actions involved in the attempted genocide of European-Jews in the twentieth century, including the rise of Nazism and eugenics. Focus will also be placed on the meaning of the Holocaust in the world historical context.
Semester Hours How does a local history connect to national history? How “southern” is the state of North Carolina? In an effort to answer these questions, students in this course will examine the history of our state from its origins as a frontier to its rise as an exemplar of the “New South”.
Residency Special Education Major 24 credit hours in content area seeking or passage of required licensure test(s). Confirmed by Teacher Education Director after review of undergraduate degree.
Semester Hours A study of the Christian movement, its organization, leadership, literature and theological development. From the beginnings of Christianity up to the Protestant Reformation (HIS 325); from the Protestant Reformation to the present ( HIS 326 ).
Semester Hours A study of the Christian movement, its organization, leadership, literature and theological development. From the beginnings of Christianity up to the Protestant Reformation ( HIS 325 ); from the Protestant Reformation to the present (HIS 326).
HIS 101 recommeded Beginning in the 14th century recovery from the Plague, European society became reborn by discovering its own past. Along the way, a religious tradition became shattered, a new world was discovered, empires were established, wars were fought and a new way of thinking created. Topics include the Italian Renaissance, humanism, popular culture, absolutism and the voyages of discovery. Open to all majors, no
HIS 350The Renaissance, the Reformation and the Scientific Revolution3
Beginning in the 14th century recovery from the Plague, European society became reborn by discovering its own past. A
Semester Hours Intended as an introduction to the civilizations and history of China, Japan and Korea from origins through the present. Topics will include women’s history, international relations, religious traditions, Yin and Yang and political development. Open to all majors, no pre-requisites.
HIS 102 , HIS 112 recommended. Must be junior standing or have instructor approval. An in-depth study of European history from 1914 through the present. Topics include both world wars, rise and fall of communism and Nazism, nationalism, racism, the women’s movement environmentalism, and the impact of consumerism. Open to all majors, no
HIS 360Dictators versus Democracies3
An in-depth study of European history from 1914 through the present. Topics include both Wesleyan Core SLO: Ethical and Historical Reasoning
HIS 102 , HIS 111 or HIS 112 recommended This course will follow the development of the creation of the German nation between 1815, when it didn’t exist, to 1914 when it became Europe’s most powerful and most volatile country. Topics will include nationalism, economic development, women’s history, development of racism, socialism and effects of liberalism. Open to all majors, no
HIS 364Reichs and Rifles3
This course will follow the development of the creation of the German nation between 1815, when it didn’t e
None. HIS 102 , HIS 112 recommended Germany’s twentieth century is a hot mess of five different governments based on communism, Nazism, liberalism, and monarchy of a radical artistic decade, two world wars and the holocaust, as well as being ground zero of the cold war, terrorism and the invention of Green politics. She how it turns out. Open to all majors, no
HIS 365The Rise, Fall and Rise of Germany3
Germany’s twentieth century is a hot mess of five different governments based on communism, Nazism, l
Semester Hours The Civil War changed America more than any other single event in our history. Students in this course will delve beyond the myths and statues to discover the bloody, complicated, and inspiring truths behind out most destructive war.
Semester Hours This course focuses on the ways in which war has shaped American society on and off the battlefield. The course combines traditional study of battles and leaders with an exploration of the social impact of war upon ordinary people. Writing Intensive
Must be junior standing or have instructor approval. The history of Southwest Asia and Arab North Africa to the present day. Major emphasis will be on the rise and spread of Islam, the Ottoman Empire, European imperialism and its decline and the crisis of the late twentieth century. Wesleyan Core SLO: Ethical and Historical Reasoning
HIS 405Middle East3
The history of Southwest Asia and Arab North Africa to the present day. Ma Wesleyan Core SLO: Ethical and Historical Reasoning
Must be junior standing or have instructor approval.
HIS 410Forrest Gump’s America: The U.S. Since World War II3
Semester Hours This course examines recent American history, with a special focus on the impact of the Cold War on everyday life. Texts, film, TV and music will be analyzed to reveal the roots of our modern conceptions of race, gender, politics and personal freedom. Writing Intensive
