Global History Courses

Survey of South Asian society, culture, politics and economy, from the birth of Indian civilization to the present. Approved for LAS Humanities area and Global Awareness requirements. Approved for Compass Curriculum requirement: Inclusiveness (Global/Diversity); Explore-Arts, Humanities, and Cultures. GT-HI1.

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

The evolution of Chinese society, economy, culture and political systems from the birth of Chinese civilization to the present. Approved for LAS Humanities area and Global Awareness requirements. Approved for Compass Curriculum requirement: Inclusiveness (Global/Diversity); Explore-Arts, Humanities, and Cultures. GT-HI1.

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

A survey of Japanese society, culture, politics and economy, from the birth of Japanese civilization to the present. Approved for LAS Humanities area and Global Awareness requirements. Approved for Compass Curriculum requirement: Inclusiveness (Global/Diversity); Explore-Arts, Humanities, and Cultures. GT-HI1.

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

This course provides an introductory history to sub-Saharan Africa including topics such as the effects of Word Wars I and II, African nationalism, decolonization, the influence of the Cold War, and the roots of contemporary challenges and accomplishments. Approved for LAS Global Awareness requirement. Approved for Compass Curriculum requirements: Inclusiveness (Global/Diversity); Sustainability; Writing Intensive.

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

Revolutions represent moments of a “world turned upside down,” when new ways of understanding society confront existing systems and hierarchies. This course explores the concept of “revolution” around the world in several different social, economic, political, religious, and/or cultural movements. Approved for Global Awareness requirement. Approved for Compass Curriculum requirements: Inclusiveness (Global/Diversity); Sustainability; Writing Intensive.

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

This course provides students an introductory examination of the role of war and peace in human history from the earliest forms of organized violence to the 21st century “War on Terror.” Students explore how organized violence shaped not just the lives of soldiers, but all members of society by examining key pieces of popular culture including poetry, propaganda, music, movies, and even short YouTube videos. Approved for LAS Global Awareness requirement.

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

TBA

Survey of the political, social and economic development of Latin America from pre-Columbian beginnings to 1810. Approved for LAS Humanities area and Global Awareness requirements. Approved for Compass Curriculum requirements: Inclusiveness (Global/Diversity); Explore-Arts, Humanities, and Cultures; Writing Intensive. GT-HI1.

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

Survey of the political, social, and economic development of Latin America since 1810. Approved for LAS Humanities area and Global Awareness requirements. Approved for Compass Curriculum requirements: Inclusiveness (Global/Diversity); Explore-Arts, Humanities, and Cultures; Writing Intensive. GT-HI1.

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

Survey of the political, social, and economic development of Latin America since 1810. Approved for LAS Humanities area and Global Awareness requirements. Approved for Compass Curriculum requirements: Inclusiveness (Global/Diversity); Explore-Arts, Humanities, and Cultures; Writing Intensive. GT-HI1.

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

Survey of the political, social, economic, and intellectual currents in the Middle East from World War II until the present. Approved for LAS Humanities area and Global Awareness requirements. Approved for Compass Curriculum requirement: Inclusiveness (Global/Diversity); Explore-Arts, Humanities, and Cultures.

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

This course explores the realities, expectations, and representations of women in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Begins sequence that continues with HIST 4140: Women in Medieval Europe. Meets with PHIL 3140 and WEST 3140. Approved for Compass Curriculum requirement: Inclusiveness (Global/Diversity).

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

Explores the development and global interactions of cultures, particularly: West Africa, Europe, indigenous (First Nations) Americas, subcontinent Asia, East Africa, and the Middle East. Emphasizes the “core values” of selected traditions surviving and persisting in contemporary times. Approved for LAS Global Awareness Area Requirement. Approved for Compass Curriculum requirement: Inclusiveness (Global/Diversity).

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

Surveys traditional China from the beginning of the civilization to 1800. Examines dynastic transitions, politics, cultural innovations, ideological debates, religions, economy, gender, and ethnicity. Reading and writing intensive.

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

Emergence, development and decline of Mesopotamian civilizations from the early 3rd to the late 1st Millennium B.C.E. While students will concentrate on Sumerian and Akkadian history, they will gain a broad understanding of the development of Amorite, Kassite, Hurrian, Assyrian, Chaldean and Babylonian culture as well.

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

This course explores the character of the distinctive eras of ancient Egypt, as well as influences on, and of, Egyptian civilization, including waves of Egyptomania recurring from the Roman period to the present. Approved for Compass Curriculum requirement: Writing Intensive.

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

The emergence, development, and decline of the Roman civilization from the 2nd Millennium B.C.E. to the rise of Constantine in the 4th Century C.E.

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

20th century war, genocide, and oppression as represented by certain forms of art: film, literature, photography, visual arts. The issue is the distinctive contribution of artistic treatment to historical understanding.

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

Course covers the history of U.S. Latino communities and Latin American immigrants to the U.S. from the 1820s to the present. Approved for LAS Cultural Diversity requirement. Meets with WEST 3520.

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

Explores the major trends of modern Mexican history, focusing on the Mexican Revolution, struggles to realize the “promises” of the revolution, crises of debt and destabilization, and the effects of NAFTA and the Zapatista uprising of the 1990s. Approved for LAS Global Awareness requirement. Approved for Compass Curriculum requirements: Inclusiveness (Global/Diversity); Writing Intensive.

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

This course explores the deeply rooted urban-rural divide in modern Latin America, from a historical perspective organized about core city-centered theories and specific city case studies. Students will also learn about the current impact of globalization on cities and their residents. Approved for LAS global awareness requirement. Approved for Compass Curriculum requirements: Inclusiveness (Global/Diversity); Writing Intensive.

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

The history of immigrants/migrants from Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe as of 1840 to the present will be examined. Emphasis will be placed on U.S. immigration laws, the development of ethnic-based communities and connections to U.S. policy. Approved for LAS Cultural Diversity requirement. Approved for Compass Curriculum requirements: Inclusiveness (Global/Diversity); Sustainability; Writing Intensive. Meets with WEST 3580.

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

Exploration of major themes in the history of Latin America such as conquest, colonialism, cultural clashes, revolution, and nationalism through the use of films and texts. Approved for LAS Global Awareness requirement. Approved for Compass Curriculum requirements: Inclusiveness (Global/Diversity); Writing Intensive.

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

This course examines the social, political, and cultural changes arising in the turbulent and transformative years of the 1960s. Special attention will be given to global and international social movements, the Vietnam War, and other challenges to traditional culture and values.

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

Examines how the history of contacts produced and affected contemporary understanding of Islam and the West. Considers cultural, trade, and diplomatic contact in different historical periods, and the way that contact is negotiated through gender, race, class, and religion. Approved for Global Awareness Requirement. Approved for Compass Curriculum requirement: Writing Intensive. Meets with WEST 3680.

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

A history of India that details the colonization of South Asia. Topics of special attention are British imperialism, rebellions against British control, and the Indian struggle for freedom and independence.

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

A seminar tracing the evolution of the British Empire from its American roots, through its 19th century apex in Asia, Africa, and the West Indies, to its dissolution in the late 20th century.

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

A seminar dealing with global environmental history, with particular emphasis being given to the environmental history of the American West.

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

Europe’s relations with major portions of the world with focus on factors that contributed to Europe’s dominance over much of the world before the Age of Imperialism.

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

First course in a two-semester sequence on the Ottoman Empire. Discusses the foundation of the Ottoman state in its regional context, administration, social and cultural life, and gender relations. Themes include the empire’s multi-ethnic and cultural nature, cultural sophistication, and its developing relations with Western Europe.

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

This course investigates the scientific, technological, and the material cultural developments that were made possible by Christian and Islamic competition and cooperation during the Middle Ages (600-1500 C.E.). Approved for LAS Global Awareness requirement. Approved for Compass Curriculum requirements: Inclusiveness (Global/Diversity); Writing Intensive.

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

This course on medieval Spain and North Africa explores the historical interaction of Jewish, Islamic, and Christian communities. In particular, it evaluates the cultural, religious, political, and economic relations of the three cultures from 600 to 1500 C.E. Approved for LAS Global Awareness requirement. Approved for Compass Curriculum requirements: Inclusiveness (Global/Diversity); Writing Intensive.

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

This course examines superordinate and subordinate relations in the 19th and 20th centuries. This is a topical course that will cover issues such as the Holocaust and British Imperialism, as well as dictatorship and fascism.

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

This course examines superordinate and subordinate relations in the 19th and 20th centuries. This is a topical course that will cover issues such as the Holocaust and British Imperialism, as well as dictatorship and fascism.

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

Close examination of the causes, effects, and consequences of the worldwide conflict of World War II from 1932-1948. A global survey of what has been called the “biggest event in world history.” Approved for Compass Curriculum requirement: Inclusiveness (Global/Diversity).

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

A history of China from archaeological origins through the Imperial Ages, the Mongol years to the final dynastic era - the Qing. Special attention focuses on early philosophic ideals, aspects of unity and disunity, as well as social, political and economic events. Approved for Compass Curriculum requirement: Inclusiveness (Global/Diversity).

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

An examination of the fall of the Imperial dynastic system and the rise of new political ideas of governance including republicanism and communism. Important topics include: the 1911 revolution, the warlord years, the creation of the nationalist and Communist parties, WWII in Asia and the rise and fall of Mao Zedong. Approved for Compass Curriculum requirement: Inclusiveness (Global/Diversity).

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

Included in this semester will be a study of Japan’s contact with the West, the Meiji Restoration and the creation of a modern nation, the expansion of the empire, and the rise of militarism and World War II. The course concludes with the postwar occupation and recovery of Japan. Approved for Compass Curriculum requirements: Inclusiveness (Global/Diversity); Writing Intensive.

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

Course begins with the establishment of the first military feudal regime in 1185 and ends with the “Restoration” of imperial rule in 1868. Included is an examination of the political, cultural, economic, and social aspects of each of the three Shoguns that comprise the era of the Shoguns in Japan.

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

A focus on the country, people and U.S. involvement. Guest speakers will supplement the lectures and give first-hand accounts of their participation in the war. ‘Vietnam’ will also define the role of American foreign policy during the Cold War. Approved for Compass Curriculum requirement: Writing Intensive.

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)