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206 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 101Contemporary World 3
This course explores the historical background behind major issues of the contemporary world, including: colonialism/decolonization; the Cold War and other global conflicts; genocide; religious fundamentalism; and the role of women.
A historical survey of human rights as a concept and political cause in international law, transnational movements, and global events from the 18th century to the present.
Early African empires, the spread of Islam, European exploration, the Atlantic slave trade and its effects, slavery in Africa, white settlement in South Africa.
Colonial partition, missionaries, wars of resistance, styles of colonial rule, development and underdevelopment, independence movements and de-colonization, neo-colonialism, capitalism and socialism, civil wars, apartheid in South Africa.
Cross-cultural themes in premodern continental European history explored in a world context, such as: History of Christianity; Atlantic Exploration and the Columbian Exchange; Everyday Life before 1750.
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May be repeated for credit when topic of study changes.
Cross-cultural themes in premodern African, Asian, or Latin American/Caribbean history explored in a world context, such as: Merchants, Trade, and Cultural Encounters; Islam in Asia and Africa; Ancient American Empires.
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May be repeated for credit when topic of study changes.
Transnational themes in modern continental European history explored in a world context, such as: Emigration and Immigration; Nation States and National Identities; History of "Development"; European Expansion and Colonial Empires.
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May be repeated for credit when topic of study changes.
Transnational themes in modern African, Asian, or Latin American/Caribbean history explored in a world context, such as: Borderlands, Frontier, and Cultural Change; Contradictions of Colonial Experience; Gender, Labor, and Modernization.
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May be repeated for credit if the topic of study changes.
Selected topics in American history at an introductory level. Topics may vary from colonial era through the twentieth century. This course stresses the analysis and interpretation of primary sources.
History, institutions, and culture of India, China, and Japan, from earliest times to about 1700. Limited reference to Southeast Asia, Central Asia, and Korea.
Impact of West on Asia and Asia's response; development of nationalism and Communism. Focus is on India, China, and Japan in nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Political, social, and economic forces affecting Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. Issues include Cold War, imperialism, nationalism, terrorism, world war. Covers the twentieth century from 1900 to 1945.
Political, social, and economic forces affecting Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe since 1945. Issues include Cold War, imperialism, nationalism, terrorism, and decolonization.
Survey of Western European history from the end of the Roman Empire to the fifteenth century exploring such varied aspects of the medieval experience as pilgrimage, crusade, peasant life, the emergence of national states, and the rise of the university.
HIS 233Witches, Spirits, and Metaphysicalism in America 3
This course focuses on the traditions of paganism, the occult, and metaphysicalism in the US. We will learn about New England witches, Black conjure, spiritualist seances, and the flowering of New Age and Neopaganism in the twentieth century. We will also consider how these traditions relate to institutional religion.
This course focuses on race as a component of religious experience as well as the role of religion in “racialization.” We will focus on the Iberian categories of “bad blood,” Afro-Atlantic religions, Nation of Islam, Mormons and whiteness, and the role of Christianity in American white supremacy.
HIS 239The First America: Latin America, 1492-1830 3
Introduction to the early history of Latin America. Emphasis on the clash of cultures, Indian-Spanish relations, and the structure and mechanisms of empire.
HIS 240(Dis)order and Progress: Latin America since 1810 3
Introduction to the political and economic history of Latin America since independence. Survey covers political dynamics, social transformations, and the evolution of export economics.
This course explores American Jewish Medical Ethics, analyzing their historical development and application in contemporary Jewish life. Topics include maintaining health, bodily integrity, vaccination, mental health, genetic testing, contraception and abortion, and end of life care.
This course explores global Jewish diversity, perceptions of Jewish bodies, and past and present uses of the terms "Jew" and "Hebrew" as racial categories.
Examination of the black experience from ancient to modern times, including pre-colonial Africa, the Atlantic slave trade, slavery in the Americas with special emphasis on the United States before 1865.
Race and segregation in the United States since the Civil War, including the origins of Jim Crow laws, civil rights movement, black urbanization, the Harlem Renaissance, black nationalism, and the black experience in America.
Introduction to and overview of world history, ca. 8000 BCE to the present. Prepares Social Studies Licensure majors to teach world history at the middle grades and high school level.
Examines the ways in which the towns of Medieval Europe constructed social unity and the ways in which that unity was threatened by cultural change and social unrest.
HIS 310Daughters of Eve: Women in the Middle Ages 3
Examines the political, social, religious, and cultural experiences of women during the European Middle Ages. Consideration given to gender roles, family structure, and writings by and about women.
Social, political, and religious causes of crusading: events of the crusades (1097–1250); impact of the crusades on Christian Europe and the Muslim Near East.
Examines the Scandinavian peoples of Europe during the Viking Age (750-1150), with focus on the internal culture, religion, and politics of Scandinavia and on external raids and colonization.
This course examines the British Empire from the mid-eighteenth century to the present. Themes include: the changing nature of imperial expansion, methods of colonial rule, decolonization, and legacies of empire.
Examination of witchcraft beliefs and persecution as a way of studying the social history of Europe before industrialization. Emphasizes the "Witch Craze" of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Examination of a broad variety of primary source evidence and historiographical methods for studying the American past from the colonial era through the twentieth century.
Explores the place of the past in contemporary life and introduces the field of public history: the effort to make history for and with audiences beyond the university.
HIS 318Revolution and Reform in Modern Latin America 3
Origins and historical influence of major social and cultural movements in Latin America since 1800. Topics include liberalism, populism, and communism; gender movements, countercultures, and Catholic traditionalism; and ethnic nationalisms.
General history of Brazil since 1500. Topics include cultural and environmental history; the history of slavery and colonization; immigration, race, and economic development; and modern struggles for equality and democracy.
The political and economic history of Mexico and Central America from the dissolution of colonial New Spain in 1821 to the debates over neoliberalism in the early 21st century.
A history of inter-American relations from the Monroe Doctrine to the Caribbean Basin Initiative. An examination of traditional interpretations and contemporary arguments and the Latin American context and perspective.
This course will explore the history of schismatic religious groups, anti-cult hysteria, and controlling religious authority in American history by focusing on Jonestown, Waco, and NXIVM. This course asks who gets to call a religion a cult, and whether the term is a useful category for cultural analysis.
Case study approach using photographs as historical evidence from the Civil War to the Great Depression. History and interpretation of specific print materials. Identification, care and handling of historic photographs.
We will look at how enslaved people remade Christianity and how many enslaved people rejected Christianity and continued to practice their own traditions, from Islam to the Afro-Atlantic religions of the African Diaspora. We will also read cultural theories of “power,” in both the material and spiritual sense.
A history of women in the U.S. to the Civil War. Topics include Native American gender systems, midwives, witchcraft, women's labor and education, families, slavery, and social reform.
A history of women in the U.S. since the Civil War. Topics include women's activism, labor, reproduction, public policy, race and class inequalities, and contemporary women's issues.
Analyzes Jewish understandings of gender and sexuality from ancient through modern times, with focus on law and tradition, roles in Jewish communities, family, sexuality, and religious thought.
HIS 332Civil Rights and Black Freedom, 1940-1980 3
Southern and national civil rights politics in light of local and human rights dimensions of the wider black freedom movement. Special attention to leadership, economics, local movements, and white resistance.
Selected topics on North American history prior to the American Revolution, such as the lives of diverse groups of people, trade, war, rebellion, religion, and politics.
HIS 336The American Revolutionary Era, 1763-1789 3
Selected topics in the history of the American Revolution, such as the roles of gender, class, race, politics, war, and various groups of peoples in the Revolutionary era.
Selected topics in United States history during the early national era, such as the Market Revolution, the growth of slavery, foreign relations, Indian Removal, democratizing politics, and territorial expansion.
HIS 338Civil War, Reconstruction, and Reunion, 1848-1896 3
American history from the end of the Mexican War to the Bryan campaign, centering on the slavery controversy, Civil War and Reconstruction, industrialization, urbanization, and agrarian problems.
HIS 339From Civil War to Superpower: America 1896-1945 3
Examines the rise of American global power and its domestic foundations, includes coverage of the labor movement, the World Wars, progressive reform, the New Deal, civil rights issues, and the women's rights movements.
Selected social, political, and international trends and events: Cold War and Vietnam; conservatism from McCarthy to Reagan; black freedom, radicalism and the Great Society; feminism; mass immigration and multicultural America.
Introduces students to the fascinating, complex, and changing roles of corsairs, buccaneers, and privateers in shaping the emerging colonial economies, societies, and cultures of the early modern Caribbean.
This course will provide insight into how understanding and representation of the past has been constructed and reshaped over time through memory and history. Topics examined can include the origin of national myths, heroes, celebrations and commemorations, monuments and memorials, national traumas, and more.
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May be repeated once for credit when topic varies.
History of North Carolina from its colonial origins to the twentieth century, including the evolution of its political system, economy, social structure, and culture.
Emphasis on the political systems responsible for the Second World War; military establishments that fought it, the populations that suffered it, and sociopolitical and cultural changes it brought about.
HIS 350American Immigration: Newcomers and Gatekeepers 3
Examines how immigrants and immigration restrictionists shaped the society, culture, national identity, and politics of the U.S. since 1880. Work, community, poverty and opportunity, political organizing for and against immigration.
Mycenaean society, Greek "dark ages" colonization and tyranny, Athens and Sparta, flowering in the fifth and fourth centuries, conquests of Alexander, Hellenistic empires, and the diffusion of Greek civilization.
Diversity of Judaism in the ancient world; study of major themes, texts, and movements in ancient Judaism; focus on primary texts, material culture, and scholarly approaches.
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May be repeated for credit when topics vary, with permission of instructor.
Survey of politics and society at Rome under the Empire, when Rome dominated Western Civilization. Topics covered include: Augustus and the rise of one-man rule at Rome, the long "Roman Peace" and the civilizing of Europe under the Emperors, the rise of Christianity, and the transformed Empire of Constantine the Great.
The history of economic thought and criticism since the eighteenth century. Major topics include classical economics, socialism, communism, marginalism, Keynesianism, corporatism, Austrian economics, monetarism, developmentalism, neoliberalism, and modern anti-market revolutions.
Study of the evolution of European economies from early modern times to the twentieth century. Emphasis on sources of growth: trade, migration, industry, technical change, labor, and capital.
Social, political, and cultural forces that shaped France through the Third Republic, World Wars, rise of communism and fascism, Occupation and Resistance, postwar Fourth and Fifth Republics.
Discusses and evaluates major works by a modern Jewish thinker (example: Martin Buber) or works exemplifying a modern Jewish intellectual movement (example: post-Holocaust theology). Topics will vary.
Exploration of major themes in Spanish history, including the concept of crusade, the experience of empire, and struggle for religious, ethnic, and political unity. Focuses on Spain during its "Golden Age" (1500–1700).
A survey of modern Europe with emphasis on the two world wars, political ideologies and cultural developments, and the postwar movement to European integration.
Discusses and evaluates specific Jewish topics in historical perspective. Topics vary and may include mysticism, antisemitism, philosophy, ethics, and culture.
Major landmarks in the social, political, intellectual, and cultural history of the diverse peoples of the British Isles from the Glorious Revolution of 1688 to the 21st century.
HIS 375Germany in the Nineteenth Century, 1800-1914 3
Examination of German social and political structures and their functioning between 1800 and outbreak of World War I. Attendant emphasis placed upon cultural and intellectual issues which illuminate German (and European) culture of the nineteenth century.
German social and political structures and their functioning during World War I, Weimar Republic, and Third Reich with attendant emphasis on cultural and intellectual themes.
Explores interdisciplinary topics in the Near and Middle East designed to enrich historical perspectives such as archaeology, environmental history, and travel literature. Emphasis is on the Islamic world.
Exploration of the ways in which the various peoples existed on the edges of the Chinese empire throughout history, fighting during much of this time for political and cultural autonomy.
HIS 389West Africa during the Atlantic Slave Trade 3
Examines how trade between European and African countries developed into a trans-Atlantic slave trade. Focus on origins of slaves and effects of slave trade on Africa, ca. 1450–1850.
Field learning experience in public or applied history, or archaeology. Academic supervision provided by job supervisor. Assigned reading and written reports.
Introduction to research methods in history. Topics include: analyzing varieties of primary and secondary source materials; designing a project focus; finding and evaluating appropriate sources; citation methods; historiography.
This course examines the long- and short-term causes of the Holocaust, analyzing its origins in Nazi Germany while also exploring it as a European-wide event with global ramifications.
Course examines origins, elaboration, and impact of political thought in the West as it arose out of the ongoing transformation of the medieval church and state from circa 300–1500.
Principles of archival management, featuring both classroom instruction in archival theory and practical experience in manuscript repositories and public and private archives.
HIS 408Latin America and Caribbean: Selected Topics 3
A study of select political and economic developments from a historical perspective. Topics include an examination of Hispanic democracy, the evolution of the military, and land tenure. Seminar format.
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May be repeated once for credit when topic varies.
Selected topics in world history such as migration, religions, human and/or environmental interaction, imperialism, trade, urbanism, frontiers, and global networks.
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May be repeated once for credit when topics varies.
Selected topics in the history of the American South from the colonial origins to our time. Examples include politics, education, economic development, reform, race, and gender.
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May be repeated once for credit when topic varies.
Varying topics in early American history including settlement, economic development, Puritanism, the Great Awakening, slavery, ethnicity, and pre-Revolutionary politics.
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May be repeated once for credit when topic varies.
HIS 424Twentieth-Century U.S. History: Selected Topics 3
Varying topics in twentieth-century U.S. history including Progressive Era, World War I, the 1920s, the Great Depression and New Deal, World War II, McCarthyism, Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam War, the 1960s.
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May be repeated once for credit when topic varies.
HIS 426The Civil War and Reconstruction: Selected Topics 3
Causes of the Civil War. Military events and developments on the home front in wartime, North and South. Reconstruction policy in Washington and its implementation in the South.
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May be repeated once for credit when topic varies.
HIS 440Principles and Practices for Teaching History 3
Philosophy and methods for teaching historical reasoning. Topics include evaluating curricular standards, using primary sources in the classroom, teaching with historic places, creating and evaluating assignments, and teaching research methods.
Varying topics in ancient Near Eastern, Greek, and Roman history, including politics and public rituals, patterns of social organization, ancient slavery, and cross-cultural interactions.
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May be repeated once for credit when topic varies.
HIS 443Historic Preservation: Principles and Practice 3
Study of change in historic preservation theory and practice since the 1800s with emphasis on preservation of built environment. Development of philosophical approach for designers to contemporary preservation projects.
Varying topics in early modern European history, including Renaissance cities, Protestant Reformation, Catholic Reformation, court cultures, impact of printing, gender and identity and the Age of Discovery.
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May be repeated once for credit when topic varies.
HIS 446American Cultural History: Selected Topics 3
Varying topics in the creation and development of American culture including the role of technology, environment, ethnic diversity, and the history of ideas.
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May be repeated once for credit when topic varies.
HIS 447History Museum Curatorship: Collections Management 3
Professional practices in the care and management of historic site and history museum collections, including principles of collection development, object registration, cataloging, and preservation.
Overview of contemporary architectural conservation principles, practice and technology. A series of field exercises, group projects and investigation of an individual research topic expand upon lectures and readings.
HIS 449American Social History: Family and Religion 3
American social history from the eve of colonization to Reconstruction, the family and communal organization of early American society, and the assumptions about human nature and destiny underlying culture and change.
Intensive on-site fieldwork experience addressing issues of architectural conservation and historic building technology. Includes methods, techniques, and theories of preservation technology and accepted conservation practices.
HIS 460Nineteenth-Century Europe: Selected Topics 3
Selected topics address comparative political, social, and economic development of major European states and changing power relationships from the defeat of Napoleon to the end of the First World War.
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May be repeated once for credit when topic varies.
HIS 462Twentieth-Century Europe: Selected Topics 3
Topics in 20th-century European history including World War I, its impact on European thought and culture, the origins of World War II, the movement for European Unity, the Cold War.
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May be repeated once for credit when topic varies.
Varying topics in modern British history such as the industrial revolution, parliamentary reform, loss of one empire and the creation of a second, World War I and II.
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May be repeated once for credit when topic varies.
HIS 469African History and Cultures through Film 3
Examines how Africans are portrayed in a variety of film genres, focusing on representations of race, gender, class, and sexuality in world cinema and legacies of colonialism.
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may be repeated once for credit when topic varies.
Varying topics in modern Russian history, including "Great Reforms," industrialization, revolutionary movement, Marxism–Leninism, tsarist and Soviet foreign policy, Soviet politics, post-World War II changes, Gorbachev era, and end of Soviet Union.
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May be repeated once for credit when topic varies.
HIS 478Research Methods in Historical Archaeology 3
Advanced training in research methods in Historic Archaeology, involving on-site training in field, laboratory, and library components of Historic Archaeology.
The rise and decline of African nations in nineteenth-century southern Africa: economic and social change; the creation of the Union of South Africa and the roots of apartheid.
Varying history in East Asian history: a detailed examination of specific social, economic, political and intellectual facets of Chinese, Korean and Japanese history.
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May be repeated once for credit when topic varies.
HIS 508Latin America and Caribbean: Selected Topics 3
A study of select political and economic developments from a historical perspective. Topics include an examination of Hispanic democracy, the evolution of the military, and land tenure. Seminar format.
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Repeatable
May be repeated once for credit when topic varies.
Development of the historical profession and perspectives on historical methodology. Selected readings by philosophers of history and practicing historians.
Selected topics in world history such as migration, religions, human and/or environmental interaction, imperialism, trade, urbanism, frontiers, and global networks.
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Repeatable
May be repeated once for credit when topics varies.
Selected topics in the history of the American South from the colonial origins to our time. Examples include politics, education, economic development, reform, race, and gender.
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HIS
Type
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Repeatable
May be repeated once for credit when topic varies.
Varying topics in early American history including settlement, economic development, Puritanism, the Great Awakening, slavery, ethnicity, and pre-Revolutionary politics.
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HIS
Type
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Repeatable
May be repeated once for credit when topic varies.
HIS 524Twentieth-Century U.S. History: Selected Topics 3
Varying topics in twentieth-century U.S. history including Progressive Era, World War I, the 1920s, the Great Depression and New Deal, World War II, McCarthyism, Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam War, the 1960s.
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May be repeated once for credit when topic varies.
HIS 526The Civil War and Reconstruction: Selected Topics 3
Causes of the Civil War. Military events and developments on the home front in wartime, North and South. Reconstruction policy in Washington and its implementation in the South.
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Repeatable
May be repeated once for credit when topic varies.
Varying topics in the history of the American Revolutionary era, 1750s-1800, such as the roles of gender, class, race, politics, war, and various groups of peoples.
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May be repeated once for credit when topic varies.
Varying topics in ancient Near Eastern, Greek, and Roman history, including politics and public rituals, patterns of social organization, ancient slavery, cross-cultural interactions.
HIS 543Historic Preservation: Principles and Practice 3
Study of change in historic preservation theory and practice since the 1800s with emphasis on preservation of built environment. Development of philosophical approach for designers to contemporary preservation projects.
Varying topics in early modern European history, including Renaissance cities, Protestant Reformation, Catholic Reformation, court cultures, impact of printing, gender and identity and the Age of Discovery.
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Repeatable
May be repeated once for credit when topic varies.
HIS 546American Cultural History: Selected Topics 3
Varying topics in the creation and development of American culture including the role of technology, environment, ethnic diversity, and the history of ideas.
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Repeatable
May be repeated once for credit when topic varies.
HIS 547History Museum Curatorship: Collections Management 3
Professional practices in the care and management of historic site and history museum collections, including principles of collection development, object registration, cataloging, and preservation.
Overview of contemporary architectural conservation principles, practice and technology. A series of field exercises, group projects and investigation of an individual research topic expand upon lectures and readings.
Intensive on-site fieldwork experience addressing issues of architectural conservation and historic building technology. Includes methods, techniques, and theories of preservation technology and accepted conservation practices.
HIS 560Nineteenth-Century Europe: Selected Topics 3
Selected topics address comparative political, social, and economic development of major European states and changing power relationships from the defeat of Napoleon to the end of the First World War.
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Repeatable
May be repeated once for credit when topic varies.
Varying topics in modern British history such as the industrial revolution, parliamentary reform, loss of one empire and the creation of a second, World War I and II.
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Type
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Repeatable
May be repeated once for credit when topic varies.
HIS 568African History and Cultures through Film 3
Examines how Africans are portrayed in a variety of film genres, focusing on representations of race, gender, class, and sexuality in world cinema and legacies of colonialism.
Varying topics in modern Russian history, including "Great Reforms," industrialization, revolutionary movement, Marxism–Leninism, tsarist and Soviet foreign policy, Soviet politics, post-World War II changes, Gorbachev era, and end of Soviet Union.
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Repeatable
May be repeated once for credit when topic varies.
Varying history in East Asian history: a detailed examination of specific social, economic, political and intellectual facets of Chinese, Korean and Japanese history.
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Type
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Repeatable
May be repeated once for credit when topic varies.
HIS 624History of American Landscapes and Architecture 3
Examination of the social and cultural forces affecting the design and use of landscapes and buildings in North America from the colonial period through the mid-twentieth century.
Examination and analysis of the relationship of government programs and policies, community and regional planning strategies, and legal case precedents to the field of historic preservation.
Basic principles in the administration of museums, historic sites, and other cultural resources. Subjects include fundraising, personnel and volunteer management, working with board members, and museum law and ethics.
HIS 627Museum and Historic Site Interpretation: Principles and Practice 3
Theory and practice of interpreting history to the public in the context of museums and historic sites. Topics include exhibit planning and technologies, living history, research methods, and audience evaluation.
Survey of the principles and practices of museum education. Explores the kinds of learning that occur in museums and how educational programming can engage diverse audiences.
This seminar explores the possibilities and challenges of doing history in digital spaces. Students will gain hands-on training in tools and practices and will design original digital public history projects.
Hands-on course, students work corroboratively and engage community partners as they research, design, and complete public projects that engage audiences in local/regional history.
Supervised professional experience in selected museum, historic site, or other professional setting in accordance with the major course of study of the student. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credits.
HIS 705Colloquium in European History before 1789 3
Topics in European social, economic, political and intellectual history from the Middle Ages to the French Revolution. Methodology and the diversity of historical approaches.
Introduction to the history of the Atlantic trading system, the historiography of Atlantic World studies, and comparative, cross-cultural approaches to historical research.
Comparative analysis of slavery and race relations in South and Central America, the Caribbean, British North America, and the United States, 1501-1888.
Introduction to college level teaching in history with attention to syllabi, lecturing, examinations, discussions, grading, and responding to student input. Students participate in teaching actual courses.