Category: Pre-1800 Requirement
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 12:30 – 1:50 PMDr. Christopher Phillips This course will examine the origins and development of race-based chattel slavery in British North America and the United…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays, 11:15 am – 12:10 pm Dr. Man Bun Kwan This course focuses on the history of China from neolithic times down to the 12th century. How…
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…
Dr. Robert Haug For many, Medieval history is European history. It is the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance, roughly 500-1500, popularly misunderstood as…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Spring 2023; MWF 10:10 – 11:05 AM Dr. Christopher Phillips This course will introduce students to the history of the American South from its colonial beginnings to the…
Spring 2023; T/TH 11:00 – 12:20 PM Dr. Robert Haug This course examines the history of the Abbasid Caliphate, rulers of the Islamic world from 750 to 1258….
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
