Summer 2024 Courses

HIST 1618-001 / The Great Wall Exchange: China and the Nomadic Conquerors, 500 BC-1500 AD
   
   Professor Kim
​  MTWThF 9:00AM-12:00PM Remote

  This course surveys the intertwined history of China and the Inner Asian nomads. Major themes include but are not limited to 1) the origins of Chinese and Inner Asian civilizations, 2) the Great Wall and nomadic conquests of China, 3) the Silk Road and trans-Eurasian trades, 4) Chinggis Khan and the Mongol empire, 5) Buddhism, Islam, and Confucianism,  6) the tribute system and Asia, and 7) China and the Indian Ocean. Approved for GT-HI1.

HIST 4258-001 / Africa Under European Colonial Rule
   
   Professor Osborne
​  Online

Looks at the British, French, Portuguese and German empires that undertook the "Scramble for Africa" in the late 19th century. Themes include slavery and the slave trade; colonization and "pacification"; African resistance to European rule; missionaries and converts; decolonization and anti-colonial uprisings; issues facing Africa today, including oil, war and the Rwandan genocide. 

HIST 1025-100 / American History since 1865
   
   Professor Babicz
​  Online

  Explores political, social and cultural changes in American life since Reconstruction. Focuses on shifting social and political relations as the U.S. changed from a nation of farmers and small-town dwellers to an urban, industrial society; the changing meaning of American identity in a society divided by ethnicity, race and class; and the emergence of the U.S. as a world power. 

HIST 2728-100 / Militarism in Japanese History
   
   Professor Kadia
​  Online

  Death-defying warriors prepared to cut their bellies and die over the slightest insult to their honor. Conscripted soldiers who charged uphill directly into the line of fire while shouting their loyalty to the emperor. Pilots who took off knowing they wouldn't return, blowing up military targets and themselves. This course peeks beneath stereotypes in the military history of Japan from the first evidence of armed conflict through World War II and beyond.

HIST 4521-100 / Europe in the High Middle Ages (1000-1400 A.D.)
   
   Professor Upton
​   Online

 

This Summer 2024, SOAR AS HIGH AS A GOTHIC CATHEDRAL’S FLYING BUTTRESSES in a 5-week history course that will assay “Europe in the High Middle Ages, 1000-1400 A.D.!” In this dynamic “virtual class” (that’s right, Zooming every day from the comfort of your home, a beach, pool-side, lawn chair, golf course, or wherever you have a secure internet link!), we’ll survey the medieval period of Europe with attention to the following: the emergence of feudal institutions and the rise of nation states, and assessing social, intellectual and religious change, the role of law and ritual, the Crusades and European expansion, and urban growth and identity in the West. We’ll also evaluate developments in the Church such as the Great Schism between the West and East, the Gregorian Reform Movement, and new paths to spirituality (Franciscans, Dominicans, Beguines, etc) and explain contemporaneous cultural aspects of the 12th Century Renaissance. By the end of the class, students will also understand the ramifications of the Black Death, the Hundred Years’ War, and humanistic expressions in Italy and Northern Europe that yielded the Renaissance.

 

AND ALL OF THIS MATERIAL IS DELIVERED IN A SHORT 5 WEEKS THAT EARNS 3 FULL COURSE CREDITS , SO REGISTER NOW!!!

 

HIST 2516-200 / America Through Baseball
   
   Professor Zeiler
​  Online

Baseball could not have existed without America. Explains how the game fit into the larger context of social, cultural, economic and political history from the 19th century to the present. Studies the events and people who made baseball the national pastime. Similar to HIST 4556. 

 

HIST 4222-200 / War and the European State, 1618-1793
   
   Professor Gerber
​  Online

  Studies the development of the European states in response to international power struggles in the 17th and 18th centuries (up to the French Revolution).

HIST 4315-200 / Civil War and Reconstruction
   
   Professor DeRoche
​  MTWThF 9:20AM - 10:55AM Remote

  Describes the forces at work in the antebellum period that led to sectional warfare; social, economic, and political changes effected by the war; the American agony of reconstruction; and the long-range results of that difficult era. Recommended prerequisite: .