Tag: Religion & Culture (RC)
Dr. Elizabeth Frierson, Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:30 AM – 10:50 AM Online Synchronous In this course, we study the Middle East (Southwest Asia) and North Africa from the…
This course offers students the opportunity to study World History from a thematic approach. The themes in this course will be global or comparative in scope, presenting historical themes…
This course examines the history of India since 1880. We will concentrate on the impact of colonialism on the Indian subcontinent and on the formation of the modern…
Dr. Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara This introductory-level course explores over 500 years of Latin American history from the rise and fall of the Aztec and Incan empires to modern challenges…
In this course, we will investigate the history, geography, and civilizations of South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives) by focusing on important historical…
Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays 10:10 am – 11:15 pm Dr. Man Bun Kwan This is an introductory survey of Japanese history from the Paleolithic Age to the present….
Dr. Shailaja Paik This course explores the anti-colonial nationalist movement of India with a specific focus on M.K. Gandhi, a major political activist and thinker of our times. It…
Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays, 10:10-11:05 am Dr. Mark Raider A survey of American religious history from the time of the American Revolution to the present with emphasis on…
Dr. Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara This course examines the relationship between God and Guns, religion and violence, in Latin America from the expansion of the Aztec and Incan empires to the European Catholic…
Dr. Christopher Phillips This course focuses on the peoples, societies, and cultures that shaped early North America before the American Revolution. Courses about “Colonial America” have traditionally followed…
This course offers a thematic and inquiry-based approach to the history and development of American culture from post-Civil War era to the late twentieth century. The course examines…
Dr. Robert Haug Despite centuries of upheaval, conquest, and radical political and social changes, Iran has persisted as a geopolitical entity since the empire of the Achaemenids (r. 550-330 BC) up…
Dr. Mark Raider Superheroes and comic books are integral elements of America’s social and cultural fabric. Indeed, scholars today argue that comic books (like jazz music) constitute a…
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…
Dr. Sigrun Haude This course will concentrate on pivotal events or turning points in the history of Christianity that have had a profound influence–both positive and negative–on the…
Dr. Sigrun Haude This course concentrates on pivotal events or turning points in the history of Christianity that has had a profound influence–both positive and negative–on the formation…
Dr. Robert Haug This course examines the period of conflict between the Latin West and the Islamic World known as the Crusades. The majority of the class focuses…
Dr. Christopher Phillips This course focuses on the peoples, societies, and cultures that shaped early North America before the American Revolution. Courses in “Colonial America” have traditionally followed the beginnings…
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 America from the time of the Aztec…
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…
Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays, 11:15 am – 12:10 pm Dr. Susan Longfield Karr This course explores a turbulent and transformative period in English and British history from about…
Dr. Susan Longfield Karr This course explores the history of Renaissance Europe through the lens of Power, Politics, and Persuasion. Throughout the course, we will focus on cultural,…
Dr. Mark Raider This course examines William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (c. 1596) in historical perspective. It explores the place of the Jews in premodern Christian European…
Dr. Susan 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…
Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays, 1:25 pm – 2:20 pm Dr. Mark Raider This course investigates the history and culture of Israeli society since the establishment of the state…
Dr. Robert Haug Punk emerged in the mid-1970s out of the New York and London music scenes as both a musical genre and a subculture that has endured…
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:00 pm – 3:20 pm Dr. Sigrun Haude The course explores the roots of the reformations, their theological and religious profiles , and their social, political, economic, and cultural…
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…
Dr. Brianna Leavitt- Alcantara We tend to imagine the Mexica (“Aztec”), Inkan, and Mayan empires as timeless ancient dynasties reigning for centuries over large areas of Latin America…
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. Maura O’Connor This course will explore the connections and disconnections between popular and elite culture from sixteenth-century England when Shakespeare wrote most of his plays to early…
Dr. Katherine Sorrels Holocaust history is challenging both because it raises difficult questions and because the literature is vast, complicated, and contentious. Yet this challenging scholarship offers a special opportunity…
