73 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.
Credits: 3 hrs This course provides an introduction to the theories, histories, and methods of historical interpretation and thought. It offers a comparative survey of select historical events, eras and areas before 1600 through a global thematic lense and the use of relevant primary and scholarly sources.
Credits: 3 hrs This course provides an introduction to the theories, histories, and methods of historical interpretation and thought. It offers a comparative survey of select historical events, eras and areas after 1600 through a global thematic lense and the use of relevant primary and scholarly sources.
Credits: 3 hrs This course provides an introduction to the methodology of history and historical thought by tracing Africa’s impact on World History. Beginning with early humanity, the class traces the history of the world through the lens of Africa’s contributions to the political, social and economic.
Credits: 3 hrs This course provides an introduction to the methodology of history and historical thought, through the comparison of the role of gender in three or four different societies. Societies from at least two different continents are ecompared, and at least one society from the ancient (to 500 CE), medieval/early modern (400-1750), and modern (1600-present) eras are examined. Gender is used as the thematic lens in developing a historical analytical approach in identifying and explaining long-term historical developments over time in the context of the intersection of gender with culture, religion, politics, and economy both within specific societies and in relation to cross-cultural encounters and exchanges over time. Students are introduced to different methodological approaches used by historians to study gender as both a category and an agent of historical change in global history.
Credits: 3 hrs This course provides an introduction to the methodology of history and historical thought by tracing the development of the Atlantic World: the social, cultural, political, economic, and ecological interactions of the peoples of the Americas, Africa, and Europe from the 1400s to the present. Students are introduced to different methodological approaches used by historians to study historical change in global history. This course may be substituted for
Credits: 3 hrs In this class, we will examine historical and contemporary movements and critical perspectives on freedom, justice, equality, autonomy and self-determination. Freedom is the operative word because the movements and activists we consider emerge out of, or struggle against, the conditions of incarceration (Kelley 2008). Incarceration or imprisonment is not limited to the formal jail or prision; we will be looking at the conditions of Southern sharecroppers, the position of women of color under racism and patriarchy, incarcerated activists as political prisioners, indigenous movements, and the struggle against state-sanctioned and/or extralegal violence proscribing hegemonic sexual and gender expressions. We will consider a wide range of movements, including labor, civil/human rights, radical feminism, lgbtqi liberation. Black and Brown liberation, prisoners’ rights, indigenous rights, and environmental justice. Framed through a transdisciplinary approach, this course employs sources from academic texts and articles to autobiography, film, music and poetry to examine, among other things, how movements were formed and sustained; the social and historical contexts for their emergence and demise; the impact they might have had on power, on participants in the movement, on the community at large, and on people’s vision of a liberated future. The lectures, readings and talks by guest activists should, compel us to move beyond traditional binariers; demolish the myth of “the great man of history” by introducing us to local leaders who rose from the grassroots but never found a place in the grand historical narratives; and reveal a vision of liberation so broad, so complex, so fluid that it defies labels and categories. Through our collective study, we will strive to remake the world, “to imagine something different, to realize that things need not always be this way” (Kelley, 2002, 9). Toward that end, we will center the analysis of those freedom dreamers who seek to build a society free of inequality, oppression and violence.
Credits: 3 hrs This is a basic course in American history from explorations and the colonial periods through the Civil War. A study is made of the European background, colonial beginnings and growth, westward expansion, sectionalism, and the slavery controversy and secession.
Credits: 3 hrs In this course, emphasis is placed on the political, constitutional, economic and social problems resulting from Reconstruction and the rise of “Big Business,” the emergence of the United States as a world power, World War I, prosperity, the Depression and the New Deal, the Second World War, and the position of the United States in the contemporary world community.
Credits: 3 hrs In this survey course students will be introduced to and explore an understanding of the concept of a culturally and historically linked African world by (a) examining the cultural history of African peoples and their movement through time and space from antiquity to the present and (b) analyzing the major tenets of cultural unity and diasporic theories and their application. The course will use an interdisciplinary approach to examine the spiritual, ideational, and physical-material dimensions of African culture, and those that participate in that culture, in its sociopolitical, ecological, and historically constituted contexts.
Credits: 3 hrs. This course will introduce history majors to major schools of historical thought, methodology, and philosophy of history. Research methods, historical thinking, and skills needed for historical writing and critical thinking will be emphasized.
Credits: 3 hrs This course introduces students to the global military experience. Students will learn the history of the military and its effects on various aspects of human society. This course will not only introduce students to the core themes of the history of warfare, the effects of war on societies, and the militiary’s role in shaping humanity, but will challenge the Eurocentric approach to the study of military history.
Credits: 3 hrs This course surveys the major political, social, cultural (including literacy history), and intellectual trends in Britain from pre-history to the present.
Credits: 3 hrs The course surveys the historical development of the concepts of social justice and the “just society” through the mediums of futurist studies and Utopian/Dystopian books and films.
Credits: 3 hrs Covering the world from 1914-1945, This course includes the world wars and the Great Depression, and beyond them the social (race, gender, and class changes), cultural (including the Jazz Age and cinema), and political histories of the period, with special emphasis on the liberation/civil rights movements created out of the turmoil of the period.
Credits: 3 hrs This course is the first of a two-part survey of Muslim communities and institutions from the rise of Islam to the present. This part focuses on the diverse sources of medieval Islamic societies, cultures and thought from late antiquity to 1500 C.E. Special attention is given to the formation of early Muslim communities, the rise of the Islamic states and economies in Western Asia, and the interplay between religious and political thought and culture in medieval Muslim societies across Africa, Europe, and Asia.
Credits: 3 hrs This course is the second in a two-part survey of Muslim communities, institutions and lands from the rise of Islam to the present. This part focuses on Muslim societies, cultures, institutions, and thought over the last six centuries (from about 1500 C.E. to the present). It includes a brief overview of the spread of Islam and the development of the Islamic empires, institutions, and spiritual traditions int he late medieval period, and the spread of Islamic culture and thought to diverse societies in Africa, Europe, Asia and the Americas.
Credits: 3 hrs This course analyses the economic development of Latin America from colonial times to the present, including the evolution of markets, changing roles of government and politics; and the impact of international organizations.
This course introduces students to historical methodology by examining the role of Africans and their descendants in the Americas since the beginning of contact in the New World. This course charts a path from the San Miguel de Gualdape slave revolt in early 16th Century Spanish America to Nelson Mandela’s election as President of South Africa in 1994. This course explores the revolutionary ideas that Africans and their descendants in the New World formulated and utilized to secure their freedom and liberation.
Credits: 3 hrs This course presents a survey of the ideas and activities of the American people which contributed to the development of the Armed Forces and the relationship between war and society.
Credits: 3 hrs The course surveys the political, cultural, and religious history of the Indian sub-continent from the earliest civilizations through the contemporary period.
Credits: 3 hrs This course deals with the diplomacy of the United States as a world power. This rise to “super power” status and the special problems encountered as a result are stressed.
Credits: 3 hrs This course examines various philosophies of history as well as methodologies of writing history. Historians and histories, with their various findings, will be studied.
Credits: 3 hrs Oral history deals with the information in the minds of individuals. It seeks to recover this kind of history by way of recorded interviews and typed transcripts. This course includes instructions in interviewing and transcribing. Actual interviews are conducted.
Covering the world from 1914-1945, This course includes the world wars and the Great Depression, and beyond them the social (race, gender, and class changes), cultural (including the Jazz Age and cinema), and political histories of the period, with special emphasis on the liberation/civil rights movements created out of the turmoil of the period.
Credits: 3 hrs This course examines the cultural dimension of the African experience in the Caribbean from sixteenth-century to the contemporary period. The course will specifically examine the cultural history of African peoples in the Caribbean region, their cultural innovations, interactions and exchanges, and the continuity or discontinuity of African culture in the Americas. Using a culture concept that encompasses spiritual, ideational, and physical-materials dimensions, the course advances an interdisciplinary approach as both conceptual foundation and as a tool for analyzing, reading, writing, and talking about the course content.
Credits: 3 hrs This African History course is the first of a two-course survey. History of Africa until 1808 surveys the history of the continent from the earliest human inhabitants until the abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in 1808. This course is not a pre-requisite for its sequel History of Africa since 1808.
Credits: 3 hrs This course is a continuation of African History until 1808 and surveys the history of the continent from the abolition of the Transatlantic slave Trade in 1808 until early in the 21st century. African History until 1808 is not a pre-requisite.
Credits: 3 hrs This course covers the formation and change of American social groups as well as the ideas of various intellectuals from colonial times through the Civil War.
Credits: 3 hrs This course covers major changes in American society and the ideas of various intellectuals from the Civil War to the present.
Credits: 3 hrs This course examines the history and nature of Christianity and Christian self-understanding in its multifaceted world context.
Credits: 3 hrs This course covers the history of black Americans’ African background through the Civil War. Major emphasis is placed on the development and institutionalization of slavery and varied responses to it.
Credits: 3 hrs This course covers developments in politics, civil rights, education and economics as well as the background and philosophy of outstanding blacks and organizations as they emerged during the period.
Credits: 3 hrs This course is an intensive study of the economic, political and social roles of blacks in urban America.
Credits: 3 hrs Emphasis on materials and methods of research will give students opportunities to do research based on original materials, as well as secondary works.
Credits: 3 hrs History of Science is interdisciplinary, combining the areas of science and history so students of various scientific areas may acquire a broad developmental view. Students of history or other areas of the social sciences and humanities may see the importance and relevance of scientific ideas.
Credits: 3 hrs This course examines the African-Mexican experience from the pre-contact period in both hemispheres through the colonial age, the wars of independence, and the national period. The course will examine demographic patterns, surviving African customs and practices, and the adaptations of African-Mexicans to the legal and social structures of New Spain and Mexico. It can serve as one of the options for the Third World requirement in the history program.
Credits: 3 hrs This course surveys the history of Latin America with a special emphasis on Africans and their descendants, particularly in the Caribbean Islands, Central America and Brazil. This course examines the responses of Africans and their descendants to the political, economic, and social conditions in the colonial and post-colonial periods. It can serve as one of the options for the Third World requirement in the history program.
Credits: 3 hrs This course surveys the major Latin American countries since independence with emphasis on political structure and government development, but also including economic, social and cultural development.
Credits: 3 hrs This course begins with the historical background of the Russian Revolution and traces the development of Russia as a democratic country.
Credits: 3 hrs This course will place contemporary urbanization in historical perspective. Past and present municipalities will be studied. Students’ research will be directed toward topics in the history of Winston-Salem.
Credits: 3 hrs This is an introduction to the varied fields of applied history. It includes reading and problem studies in the fields of museology, genealogy, records management and historic preservation. It also provides visits to local public and private agencies involved with applied history.
Credits: 3 hrs This is an intern program. The student will work 90 hours under the supervision of a local or private agency involved in applied history.
Credits: 3 hrs A survey of major political, economic, and cultural developments from the pre-Contact period through the Wars for Independence. Meets history Third World requirement.
This course provides an introduction to the field of archaeology by exploring the methods and techniques archaeologists use to investigate and interpret past cultures and their adaptations to local environments. Students will learn about the practical applications of archaeology to the fields of cultural resource management and historic preservation. A large part of the course will be experiential. Students will observe and be involved in an ongoing archaeological research project and historical interpretation. Field trips to other historic sites, archives, and research laboratories will be part of the course. There will also be daily classroom instruction and discussion.
Credits: 3-6 hrs This course is intended to provide the student with an upper division experience in history to supplement current offerings on the freshman and sophomore levels. The student will select some topic in history and study under the direction of a history faculty member, meeting weekly to receive guidance and report progress. This course may be repeated if a student has not earned the maximum of six semester hours.
Credits: 3 hrs Examines the many forms of Latin American governments and the political philosophies behind those political expressions since the end of the colonial period. Special attention is given to the post WWII period.
Credits: 3 hrs The topic area covered in this course will be announced by the instructor, and is designed to offer areas not covered by the current range of history offerings.
Credits: 3 hrs. This course covers the ‘high medieval’ period, from the split of Christianity in 1054 and the start of the Crusades through the early Thirteenth century. The conflicts between Islam and Christianity and the spread of knowledge through Islamic sources from the Indian to the Atlantic Oceans will also be highlight.
This course covers the major European political, economic, social and cultural movements beginning with the French Revolution and continuing to the present.
Credits: 3 hrs In this course, the civilizations of the ancient Near and Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean will be studied from their growth and development in the Fertile Crescent and Egypt through the Bronze Age and down to the development of Kush, pre-Classical Greece, the Median Empire, and associated cultures.
Credits: 3 hrs. In this course, the ‘Classical’ civilizations of Greece, the Hellenistic states, Rome, Persia, Meroe, Axum, and associated cultures and civilizations will be studied.
Credits: 3 hrs. This course covers the period from the ‘decline’ of the Roman Empire through the year 1054. The cultures and institutions of Western Europe, the Byzantine Empire, and Islam are studied as background for the modern world.
Credits: 3 hrs This course includes a review of major developments which contributed to the growth of the state. Emphasis is placed upon factors responsible for the emergence of North Carolina since 1830.
Credits: 3 hrs. This course will cover Europe from the rebirth of scholarship in the twelfth century and the rebirth of secular learning and full urban life in the Renaissance through the end of the Wars of Religion in the late sixteenth century.
Credits: 3 hrs This course covers the major European cultural movements (including art, music, and literature, and their intersections with each other) from the end of the Baroque through the present.
Credits: 3 hrs This course covers the major European intellectual movements, including science, philosophy, and the history of ideas, from the Scientific Revolution through the present.
This is the required senior, capstone research and writing course for all history majors. Students in the course identify and evaluate a variety of research problems and issues in history using different sources and methods. The seminar is designed to give students an opportunity to review, consolidate, and extend their study as History majors and to consider this study in a context of interrelatedness of subject matter and concern for History as a discipline.
This course details the relationship between the Roman Empire (and Roman culture) and the first 400 years of Christianity, including: the organization of the Empire; the religious and philosophical beliefs of the Romans (and other Mediterranean, Middle Eastern/West Asian, and African cultures) and Christians which led to their conflicts; the conflicts within early Christianity; and the compromises made which led to the late Christianizing Roman Empire and the Catholic and Orthodox Churches.
The Roman legal system and views of justice and jurisprudence form the legal systems of most countries. This course studies the development of that legal system and Roman views of law and justice as well the societal, cultural, and political impacts of those systems and views.
This senior level course engages with the history of genocide, genocidal conflicts and the response to this “crime of crimes”. Students will familiarize themselves with the concept of genocide drawing on varied disciplines that seek to define the crime, and examine the historical processes that lead to genocide. We will examine several cases and study how and why genocides occur, the resistance to genocide and the creation of an international framework to deal with genocide and its aftermath. Utilizing texts, films, and other primary and secondary sources, students will understand the complexity of genocide in the modern world and the even more complex nature of the global response to it.
Credits: 3 hrs A colloquium designed around a problem in Latin American history, requiring reading, discussion, reports, and a major paper.
Credits: 3 hrs This course is interdisciplinary, combining history and literature. The literature gains more of an historical context and history receives an infusion of emotion, interest, and life from the literature. Music, art, and films are incorporated into the total study.
Credits: 3 hrs The Victorian period was the transitional era towards modern views and practices in many ways, including the areas of social justice, all areas of law enforcement and the justice system, and views on ethnicity, gender, and class. By focusing on the intersections of society and myriad aspects of the changes in the British and Imperial justice systems, the debates of the period on social issues - especially class, gender, and ethnicity - will be highlighted
Credits: 3 hrs This is a survey of the governmental institutions and political processes of East Asia since colonialism. Special emphasis will be placed on China and Japan.
Credits: 3 hrs This course stresses economic concepts as they apply to United States history with emphases placed upon agriculture, labor, United States fiscal politics, and the regulation of large business by the federal government.
Credits: 3 hrs This course provides an intensive study of United States history since 1945. Special attention is given to the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, Watergate, and the Reagan-Bush years.
Credits: 3 hrs This research-based, seminar course is designed for the advanced study of the African experience in America from the seventeenth century through the colonial enslavement period, civil war and civil rights eras and the contemporary period. The course will examine the “African American” life and practice in the context of African cultural and historical continuity. This examination will include an interdisciplinary exploration of cultural expressions, religious orientations, language, mannerism, food, folklore, political and social thought, educational efforts, family and community life. Such an approach will offer experiential outlets for students to conduct research in the special collections of Duke University, UNC-Chapel Hill and the state archives in Raleigh, as well as present their findings through a research symposia organized b the instructor and students.
Credits: 3 hrs The purpose of this seminar is to supplement the two general courses in Afro-American history by providing the opportunity for serious study of various aspects of Afro-American history through the use of the historical method. The problem or focus of any given semester will vary according to the needs and desires of the students, faculty and community.
In this course the civilizations of the Ancient Near East, Greece and Rome are studied.
The period from the decadence of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance is covered in this course. The culture and institutions of the period are studied as background for the modern scene.
Credits: 3 hrs This course will examine the changing views of the South in American popular culture, using an interdisciplinary approach that will include the study of music, art, film, literature, television, political cartoons, and advertising. Students will examine and analyze these cultural artifacts in order to better understand the changing views of the American South from both inside and outside of Southern society.
Credits: 3 hrs This course surveys the major Latin American countries since independence with emphasis on political structure and government development, but also including economic, social and cultural development. Students may not receive credit for both HIS 4372 and POS 4372.
Credits: 3 hrs The topic area covered in this course will be announced by the instructor, and is designed to offer areas not covered by the current range of history offerings.
Source: Winston-Salem State University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
