Category: 3001 & Above: Upper-Level Electives

HIST 3000: Introduction to Historical Thought & Methods

Dr. Jason Krupar: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12:30 pm – 1:50 pm; Dr. Shailaja Paik: Online Synchronous, Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays This small seminar is required of all History…

HIST 3000: Introduction to Historical Thought & Methods – FALL

Dr. Jeff Zalar: Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays, 11:15 am -12:20 pm. Dr. Man Bun Kwan: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:30 – 10:50 am. This small seminar is required of…

HIST 3001: History of Christianity I

Spring 2023; MW 2:30 – 3:50 PM Dr. Sigrun Haude This course will concentrate on pivotal events or turning points in the history of Christianity that have had…

HIST 3002: History of Christianity II

Tuesdays & Thursdays 11:00 am – 12:20 pm Dr. Sigrun Haude This course concentrates on pivotal events or turning points in the history of Christianity that has had…

HIST 3003: Witchcraft and Religion in Early America

Mondays & Wednesdays 11:15 am -12:10 pm Online Synchronous + Fridays Online Asynchronous Dr. Erika Gasser This course focuses on the Salem/Essex County, Massachusetts witchcraft trials in 1692….

HIST 3004: The Crusades

Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays 1:25 – 2:20 PM Dr. Robert Haug This course examines the period of conflict between the Latin West and the Islamic World known as…

HIST 3005: Colonial America

Tuesdays & Thursdays 12:30 PM – 1:50 PM Dr. Christopher Phillips This course focuses on the peoples, societies, and cultures that shaped early North America before the American Revolution. Courses…

HIST 3006: West African History and Civilizations

Online – Asynchronous Dr. Joseph Takougang (AFST) This class is Cross-listed with AFST 3006. This course discusses the various forces that helped in shaping the history and life…

HIST 3009: Women, Sex, and Conquest in Latin America

Spring 2023; T/TH 2:00 – 3:30 PM Dr. Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara This course focuses on the central role played by women, sex, gender, and race in the conquest and colonization of Latin…

HIST 3011: Revolutionary America

This course explores the history of the American Revolution,  examining questions and issues such as the history of democracy and social groups in the revolution and the creation…

HIST 3012: History of the American West

This course examines the history of the American West as a place and as an idea in American popular culture, memory, and imagination. In both geography and in meaning, the West…

HIST 3015: Technology and Race in America

This course considers the relationships between technological change, engineering professionalism, and racial identity/politics within the context of American development. The methods used by scholars to explain the intersections of…

HIST 3017: Slavery in America

Tuesdays & Thursdays, 12:30 – 1:50 pm Dr. Wayne Durrill This course will examine the origins and development of race-based chattel slavery in British North America and the…

HIST 3016: Cold War Technology and Science History

This course examines the interactions between technological developments, scientific advancements,  and global competition within the context of the Cold War. The class considers the efforts made by the superpowers…

HIST 3018: Global Technology and Engineering Disasters

Dr. Jason Krupar This class provides students an opportunity to study the history of global technological and engineering failures. It considers the intertwining social,  economic,  and political issues…

HIST 3019: History of American Invention

This class provides students an opportunity to study the development of invention, technology, and engineering in the United States from the colonial period to the present. It considers the…

HIST 3020: Technologies of the Civil War

This course considers the relationships between government policies, technological change,  scientific discovery, and the experience of war by examining the policies and technologies generated during the American Civil War….

HIST 3021: History of Cincinnati

Dr. Anne Steinert This course emphasizes major themes in urban history through the case of Cincinnati. The course will examine the founding and early success of the city…

HIST 3022: Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations  I

Dr. Stephen Porter This course investigates the major ideologies, movements,  and laws from the 17th through 19th centuries that gave shape to the “Atlantic World “, helped to define…

HIST 3023: Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations  II

Dr. Stephen Porter This course explores the intersections between international human rights and U.S. foreign relations, broadly construed, focusing primarily on developments since World War I, to create…

HIST 3024: War and American Society

This class explores the rationales and excuses used to justify why the United States has gone to war over the span of two centuries. Exploring the various moral…

HIST 3025: Indian Nationalism

Dr. Shailaja Paik This course deals with key topics of Indian political and social history from 1885 to 1947  including Indian nationalist responses to colonialism, socio-religious reform and revival…

HIST 3027: History of American Capitalism: American Economy and Society

Spring 2023; T/TH 9:30 – 10:50 AM Dr. Wayne Durrill The History of American Capitalism will cover all economic activity in the United States from about 1600 to…

HIST 3028: American Material Culture

This course focuses on the spaces, places, and things in the American past which are both markers of cultural change, and also a means of constituting the social, economic, and…

HIST 3029: The Immigrant Experience in America

Dr. Mark Raider This course is an introduction to American immigration history, focusing on immigration to the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. Special attention will be…

HIST 3031: African American Women’s History

This course traces the experiences of African American women against the backdrop of the triple perils of racism, sexism, and classism they have faced in American history. It examines not…

HIST 3035: Afghanistan and Central Asia: At the Crossroads of the World

Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:00 – 3:20 pm Dr. Robert Haug This course examines the history of Afghanistan and Central Asia from ancient times to the present. We will…

HIST 3036: Black Liberation Struggles

This course focuses on the movements of people of African descent in search of freedom from racist systems of oppression around the world – specifically, colonialism, segregation, and apartheid. The course…

HIST 3038: The Soviet Union in World War II

T/Th 9:30 – 10:50AM Dr. Willard Sunderland This course will examine the Soviet experience in World War II, paying close attention to the political, military, social, cultural, and…

HIST 3039: Lincoln and His World

Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:30 am -10:50 am Dr. Christopher Phillips This course is an introduction to the life of Abraham Lincoln in the era of the Civil War….

HIST 3040: History of the Civil Rights Movement

This course will examine the struggle of African-Americans to achieve equality and civil rights from the beginning of the “Jim Crow” era  through to the present  with emphasis…

HIST 3042: Rulers, Rebels,  & Rights: Early Modern Britain  1485-1689

Dr. Susan Longfield Karr This course explores a turbulent and transformative period in English and British history from about 1485 to 1689. This period includes the Renaissance, Reformation,…

HIST 3046: Museums and Collecting

Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays, 1:25-2:20 pm Dr. Tracy Teslow This class will examine the thinking and practices that lie behind collecting and exhibiting artifacts of history, science, and culture. Among…

HIST 3047: Art, Race, and Nation: Citizenship and Identity in the United States

Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:00 pm -3:20 pm Dr. Tracy Teslow This course examines the social construction of American identity in the United States through a study of sculpture, painting, photography,…

HIST 3048: Race and Science in the United States

Dr. Tracy Teslow This course examines the way scientific concepts and practices have defined racial difference in the United States. Spanning the 19th and 20th centuries, the course…

HIST 3050: World War I

The purpose of this class is to introduce students to the causes,  events,  and consequences of World War I, or the Great War as contemporaries called it, and how…

HIST 3051: World War II

This course charts the origins, development, and impact of World War II. We will begin with an examination of the causes of the war and then progress to the actual…

HIST 3052: The Cold War

This course focuses on the Cold War from its World War II origins to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Among the important issues to be covered are…

HIST 3056: The European Renaissance, Power, Politics, & Persuasion

Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:00 to 3:20 PM Dr. Susan Longfield Karr This course explores the history of Renaissance Europe through the lens of Power, Politics, and Persuasion. Throughout…

HIST 3057: Anna Karenina’s Russia

Dr. Willard Sunderland This course explores the novel Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy as a guide for examining Russian history in the late imperial period,  including questions related…

HIST 3059: Russia in the Age of Peter the Great

Dr. Willard Sunderland This course examines Russian history during the life and reign of Peter the Great (1672-1725). It investigates fundamental questions of continuity and change set against…

HIST 3063: The Merchant of Venice in Historical Perspective

Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays 1:25 pm – 2:20 pm Dr. Mark Raider This course examines William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (c. 1596) in historical perspective. It explores…

HIST 3075: Urban African American History in the 20th Century

The course examines the forces, events,  and demographic movements that shaped the development of racially isolated low-income African American communities in American cities in the 20th century; starting in…

HIST 3074: The Vietnam War

This course will examine all major aspects of the American experience in Vietnam beginning with initial involvement during the early years of the Cold War, direct American intervention…

HIST 3076: Imperial China

Tuesdays & Thursdays, 12:30-1:50  pm Dr. Man Bun Kwan This course focuses on the history of China from neolithic times down to the 12th century. How did the country develop…

HIST 3078: World War I and the World

Online Synchronous Tuesdays & Thursdays, 12:30 pm – 1:50 pm Dr. Elizabeth Frierson This class will focus on the history of World War I and the world, in…

HIST 3079: Stock Exchanges and Global Capitalism

T/Th 11:00AM – 12:20PM Dr. Maura O’Connor This course examines the historical, cultural, and economic histories of the rise and expansion of financial and global capitalism through the…

HIST 3081: The Holocaust

The goal of this course is to examine the causes, events, and consequences of the destruction of European Jewry during World War II; an event known historically as the…

HIST 3085: Film and the History of World War II

This course will introduce students to a variety of propaganda films made during World War II. The class will focus on Germany, Britain, and the United States; the three nations…

HIST 3086: Modern China

Dr. Man Bun Kwan This course examines China’s modern experience. Considered “modern” by the 12th century, the country was condemned to “modernize” again in the 19th century. How…

HIST 3084: The History of Antisemitism

Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays, 11:15 to 12:10 pm Dr. Mark Raider The study of different manifestations of antisemitism throughout history in varied geographical settings and of the historical,…

HIST 3087: Immigration Across the Disciplines

Explores the history of immigration, race, and citizenship in the United States through multidisciplinary frameworks,  examining how distinct disciplinary approaches yield different understandings.

HIST 3088: Global Protest Movements  1960s-2000s

This course explores the rise of protest movements that emerged from the 1960s through the early 2000s that self-consciously embraced an international framework, often operating on a transnational scale.

HIST 3089: Technology in World History

Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:00 – 3:20 pm Dr. Jason Krupar This course provides students an opportunity to examine the interactions of technology and society from the 18th century…

HIST 3093: Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe

Dr. Sigrun Haude This course explores the social, economic, sexual, religious, and political aspects of women’s lives in European history from 1600-1850; placing women’s experience into a range of broad historiographical…

HIST 3096 (Honors): Holocaust History in the Digital Age

Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11:00 -12:20 PM Dr. Kate Sorrels Efforts to educate the public about the Holocaust have depended on survivors who were willing to share their stories in person….

HIST 3096 (Honors): Global History of World War II

Mondays & Wednesdays, 2:30 -3:50 PM Dr. Jeff Zalar This course examines the Second World War in its global context.  It emphasizes the comprehensive impact of warfare not…

HIST 3097: History Honors Seminar II

This course offers students in the Honors Program and other high-achieving undergraduates the opportunity to study focused historical topics that incorporate social and ethical reasoning from an historical…

HIST 3098: History of Ohio

This course concerns itself with the political, social, economic, and artistic history of Ohio from prehistory to the present. This course will illuminate national trends through the lens of local history….

HIST 3102: Great Trials in History

Dr. Longfield Karr This class examines the institution,  meaning,  and historical significance of the development of the rule of law and due process by critically examining some of…

HIST 3107: Sex and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa

Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:00 – 3:20 PM Online Synchronous Dr. Elizabeth Frierson This course studies gender as a category of historical analysis in the modern Middle East and…

HIST 3110: Israel Today: Start-Up Nation

Dr. Mark Raider This course investigates the history and culture of Israeli society since the establishment of the state in 1948 until the present. We will pay close…

HIST 3111: History of the World in 100 Objects

Dr. Robert Haug This exploration of World History is based on the popular podcast and book, The History of the World in 100 Objects,  a project that told…

HIST 3113: No Future: The History of Punk

Mondays & Wednesdays 2:30 pm – 3:35 pm + Fridays Online Asynchronous Dr. Robert Haug Punk emerged in the mid-1970s out of the New York and London music…

HIST 3123: Caste  Gender  and Nation in South Asia

Dr. Shailaja Paik This course will explore the transformations of intimate life as well as of political culture in South Asia during the last two hundred years through…

HIST 3135: Women in South Asia

Dr. Shailaja Paik To explore women in South Asia,  particularly in India,  Pakistan,  and Bangladesh. We will study traditional topics like patriarchy, marriage and family, gender and sexuality, and also explore…

HIST 3151: The Golden Age of Television: from The Wire to The Queen’s Gambit

“Change is neither good or bad,  it simply is ” Don Drapper once said in the critically acclaimed television show Mad Men. Over the last twenty years, the…

HIST 3154: The Reformation: Religious and Societal Upheaval at the Dawn of Modern Europe

Dr. Sigrun Haude The course explores the roots of the reformations, their theological and religious profiles , and their social, political, economic, and cultural underpinnings. It evaluates these movements in the context…

HIST 3152: The Global Middle Ages

Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11:00-12:20 pm Dr. Robert Haug For many, Medieval history is European history. It is the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the…

HIST 3155: Nazi Medicine

Online – Asynchronous Dr. Katherine Sorrels This course investigates the rise of the Nazi Party, the National Socialist seizure of power, and the policies of the Nazi state…

HIST 3156: Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability in History

Since the last few decades of the 20th century  the disability rights movement and the field of disability studies have forcefully critiqued the legal  social  and cultural concepts…

HIST 3158: Special Topics in Digital History

This course offers students the opportunity to apply digital history methods to focused historical topics. The topics will vary from year to year and will be determined by…

HIST 3160: History Internship

Every term; By Permission Only Contact Dr. Rebecca Wingo (wingora@ucmail.uc.edu) or Dr Tracy Teslow (teslowtl@ucmail.uc.edu) Internships provide students with practical professional experience, under the guidance of specialists, in…

HIST 3161: Britain and the World After 1945

Dr. Maura O’Connor This course will examine how Britain made the modern world and how the modern world made Britain, particularly in the decades that followed the Second…

HIST 3180: Underground Railroad in the Ohio Valley

Through the decades leading to the Civil War,  African Americans and other opponents of slavery increasingly acted in secret to help runaways to safety in violation of Federal…

HIST 3187: Refugees & Immigration,  America & the World

Dr. Stephen Porter Explores the historical roots of contemporary international refugee crises global migration, and the role played by American people, institutions, politics, and culture in these affairs….

HIST 3190: Dictators  Guerrillas  and Violence: The Cold War in Latin America  1947-1990

Dr. Isaac Campos This course explores the history of the Cold War in Latin America with particular emphasis on the relationship between the United States and the region…

HIST 3191: Soldiers,  Saints,  and Slaves: Afro-Latin America  1492-1888

Dr. Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara People in the U.S. often think of African slavery as a North American story. But the vast majority of enslaved Africans went to Latin America, ten…

HIST 3192: Aztec, Inka, and Maya: Indigenous Empires in Latin America

Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:00 pm – 3:20 pm Dr. Brianna Leavitt- Alcantara We tend to imagine the Mexica (“Aztec”), Inkan, and Mayan empires as timeless ancient dynasties reigning…

HIST 3196: War and Society in the Age of Napoleon, 1796-1815

M/W/F 10:10 – 11:05AM Dr. Jeffrey Zalar This lecture and discussion course addresses the Napoleonic age in Europe from Napoleon’s First Italian Campaign in 1796 to the Congress…

HIST 3197: Uncomfortable Truths: From Africa to #GeorgeFloyd in “American” History

Spring 2023; Dr. Holly McGee It is impossible to understand the true history of this nation,  or place into proper context the current racial crisis in society, without…

HIST 3199: Special Topics in History

This course offers students the opportunity to study focused historical topics based on the research interests of department faculty.  The topics will vary from year to year and…

HIST 4002: From Natural Law to Human Rights?

Dr. Susan Longfield Karr Although Human Rights issues continue to be debated and contested, the longer history and intellectual tradition of Human Rights is often unexamined and even…

HIST 4003: Science,  Technology,  & the Humanities

Dr. Susan Longfield Karr We live in a world increasingly dominated by science and technology and we often assume that each can provide us with objective principles to…

HIST 4011: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms in Early America

Dr. Erika A Gasser This course focuses on the trades in three commodities, each of which played a central role in the economic,  social,  and military development of the…

HIST 4028: Gender in Britain and North America  1600-1850

Dr. Erika Gasser Drawing upon primary and secondary sources, literature, and images,  this course explores how women and men negotiated social and cultural identities in early modern Britain, colonial British North…

HIST 4044: History of the American South to 1865

Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays, 1:25 – 2:20 pm Dr. Christopher Phillips This course will introduce students to the history of the American South from its colonial beginnings to…

HIST 4066: The Golden Age of Islamic Civilization: The Abbasid Caliphate

Dr. Robert Haug This course examines the history of the Abbasid Caliphate,  rulers of the Islamic world from 750 to 1258. The Abbasid era is often called the…

HIST 4088: The Nuclear World: Technology and History in the Atomic Age

Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11:00-12:20 pm Dr. Jason Krupar This course examines the technological development of nuclear weapons from the interwar period to the post-Cold War era. The class…

HIST 4089: Drugs in the Americas and in Global Perspective

Dr. Isaac Campos This course will explore the history of intoxicants in the Americas within a comparative  global perspective. Primarily the course will explore the political, economic, and cultural forces…

HIST 4090: The Cold War in Latin America

Tuesdays & Thursdays 12:30 pm – 1:50 pm Dr. Isaac Campos This course explores the history of the Cold War in Latin America, with particular emphasis on the way…

HIST 4092: The Inquisition in Spain and the New World

Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11:00 – 12:20 pm Dr. Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara This course examines the development of the Spanish Inquisition from its medieval roots to its early nineteenth-century demise….

HIST 5040: War and Peace in Early Modern Europe

Dr. Sigrun Haude This course explores the conflicting ideas and realities that brought about the great conflicts of early modern Europe,  in particular,  the Thirty Years War. The…

Hist 5123: After Empire

Tuesdays 2:00 pm – 4:50 pm Dr. Maura O’Connor This seminar will examine the relationship between decolonization and the history of Europe and America’s engagement with neoliberalism and…

HIST 5124: Gender and Empire

Dr. Shailaja Paik This course investigates how colonial and post-colonial encounters have shaped gender, sexuality,  race,  class,  caste,  nationalism,  and imperialism in South Asia. Students will consider the various…

HIST 5125: Women in South Asia

Dr. Shailaja Paik To explore women in South Asia, particularly in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. We will study traditional topics like patriarchy,  marriage and family,  gender and sexuality,  but also explore…

HIST 5127: Commodities in World History

This course focuses on the debate over how to understand and do world history and study the process of globalization. Interdisciplinary readings are drawn from Anthropology and Sociology,…

HIST 5129: Making Knowledge: Culture, Technology, and Ideas in World History

T/Th 4:00 -6:50 PMDr. Willard Sunderland This course explores the production of varieties of knowledge, the technologies involved in their production, and the ways in which culture mediates…

HIST 5132: Land of the Tsars: The Russian Empire in the Modern Era

Dr. Willard Sunderland This course explores the history of the Russian Empire from its founding in the sixteenth century up to the period of the Russian Revolution and…

HIST 5140: War and Peace in Early Modern Europe

Dr. Sigrun Haude This course explores the conflicting ideas and realities that brought about the great conflicts of early modern Europe, in particular,  the Thirty Years War. The course…

HIST 5147: Barbarians, Bandits, and Other Pests: History from the Fringes

Dr. Robert Haug History is told by those who could write and those who could archive. This has meant that the dominant historical narratives have been those told…

HIST 5150: History of the Ottoman Empire

Dr. Elizabeth Frierson In this combined undergraduate and graduate discussion-based course,  we will study the political,  intellectual, and social history and historiography of the Ottoman Empire from its founding…

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