COURSES
Summer 2022 History Course Descriptions
All classes are scheduled online. SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE! Always check the University online schedule for the latest changes.
Session I - May 11 through June 15, 2022
HIS 206-01 - Topics in Premodern Western History: "The Transatlantic Impact: The Atlantic World, 1400-1807"
50384 ONLINE
Abigail Shimer
This course covers the various aspects of the Atlantic World, starting with the reasons and rationale of Europeans' seemingly sudden interest in Atlantic routes in the 1400s, the establishment of colonies, the creation of the Atlantic slave trade, and concluding with the end of the transatlantic slave trade in 1807. Students will learn about the experiences of Indigenous Americans, Africans, and Europeans in the Atlantic World and how the exchange across the Atlantic transformed the continents of the Americas, Africa, and Europe.
Field: Europe. Markers: GHP; GL; GPM; MHFA
HIS 207-01 - Topics in Premodern World History: "Empires and the Atlantic World to 1800"
51047 ONLINE
Ashley Gilbert
The central focus of this course will be on pre-colonization societies, colonization, and the Age of Revolutions while giving agency to Africans, Native Americans, and Europeans. These three groups played vital roles in the creation of an Atlantic World. From contact in 1492 to the Haitian Revolution, the interactions and decisions of these groups had global impacts. This course will not only look at the construction of an Atlantic World, but also the preservation, changes, and growth of cultures and societies.
Field: Wider World. Markers: GHP; GN; GPM; IGS; MGIL
HIS 209-01 - Topics in Modern World History: "Women in Modern World History"
51048 ONLINE Katharine Duckworth
In this course, we will explore some of the major themes in the study of women and world history since 1750, focusing primarily on Africa, Latin America, Europe, and the United States. We will consider how women's experiences have changed over time and differed according to location. The course will examine four topics in-depth a) the Atlantic slave system b) the rise of industrial capitalism c) women and imperialism and d) women's political activism. Students will learn how to analyze a variety of primary sources and evaluate historical debates. Students will analyze how researching women and gender changes our understanding of major topics in world history and sheds light on contemporary politics.
Field: Wider World. Markers: GHP; GMO; GN; IGS; MGIL
HIS 210-01 - Human Rights in World History
50388 ONLINE
Carolyn Lindley
This course provides a conceptual and historical introduction to the idea of human rights, surveying major developments in the advocacy of human rights around the globe from 1760 to the present. Focusing on a selection of important events, historical figures, and international issues of global significance, this course explores human rights in international law, transnational movements, and global causes. By understanding how claims of "humanity" arise from grassroots struggles, this course will widen the historical inquiry on this topic from a World, rather than Eurocentric, perspective. The concept of "human rights" has not remained static over time; it has been a contested idea and the subject of debate and disagreement among its advocates as well as its detractors. Placing the debates around, and the uses of, "human rights" in historical context will be the main endeavor of this course. Markers: GHP; GMO; GN; IGS; MGIL
HIS 211-01 - United States History to 1865
Writing Intensive
50389 ONLINE
Emilee Robbins
General survey of American history from colonization through the Civil War.
Field: United States. Writing Intensive. Markers: GHP; GMO; MDEQ; CW; WI
HIS 217-01 - The World in the Twentieth Century (1900-1945)
50391 ONLINE
Mark Moser
Political, social, and economic forces affecting Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. 1900-1945.
Field: Wider World. Markers: GHP; GMO; GN; IGS; MGIL
HIS 335-01 - America Before the Revolution: Moments of Crisis in the Colonial South
Writing Intensive
50131 ONLINE
Greg O'Brien
This course makes the point that moments of crisis, revolt, and rebellion were not new with the American Revolution but had been occurring from virtually the moment that Europeans and Africans arrived in the Americas and began interacting with American Indians. Of the dozens of such events in colonial America we will focus on four in Virginia and the Carolinas: Bacon's Rebellion (1670s Virginia), the Tuscarora War (1710s North Carolina), the Stono Rebellion (1730s-40s South Carolina), and the Regulator Movement (1760s North Carolina). Through these representative samples, students will learn about the issues and conditions that drove indentured servants and small farmers to seek redress of their grievances through violent means, Native people to resist colonial encroachment, and Africans to rebel against their enslavement.
Field: United States. Markers: GMO; CW; WI
HIS 424 and 524 - 20th Century U.S. History: "U.S.-Middle East Relations"
50151HIS 424 Undergraduate section
50152HIS 524 Graduate section
ONLINE
David Wight
This course is centered on two key questions: how did relations between the United States and the Middle East, which were largely peripheral to each other's interests and concerns at the end of the 18th century, change to become so important and intertwined in the present, and what have been the consequences of this process of interaction and change? While the questions are simple, the answers are rich and complex, involving issues that include military and geopolitical power, economic interests, culture, religion, ideology, transnational communities, and historical memory.
Field: United States
Crosslisted - both classes meet together.
Session II - June 16 through July 21, 2022
SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE! Always check the University online schedule for the latest changes.
HIS 206-11 - Topics in Premodern Western History: "History of Christianity"
50385 ONLINE Jewel Parker
Before Christianity became officially recognized by the Roman Empire, Christians were punished, tortured, and martyred by several Roman emperors. Christianity grew tremendously in the years leading up to the fall of the Roman Empire, and by the Middle Ages, Christianity had spread throughout Europe. The growth of the Roman Catholic Church amongst nobility and laypeople alike, led to the Church's amass of great fortune and diplomatic power. Premodern Christians sought conversion of pagans through missions and waged holy war against nonbelievers. This course will explore the roots of early Christianity in the West, the Great Schism and Great Western Schism within Christianity, Protestant Reformation, English Reformation, and the spread of Christianity in America through the First Great Awakening. Students will practice analytical skills through reading and interpreting primary and secondary sources on the history of Christianity up to 1750. Field: Europe. Markers: GHP; GL; GPM; MHFA
HIS 207-11 - Topics in Premodern World History: "Empires and Cultures of the Atlantic World to 1800"
50386 ONLINE
Kaitlyn Williams
Contact between Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans had global impacts. This course will look at pre-colonization societies, early colonization and responses to Europeans, and the Age of Revolutions while giving agency to all three groups. Africans, Europeans, and Native Americans all played vital roles in the creation of the Atlantic World. From initial contact in 1492 to the Haitian Revolution, interactions and decisions of these groups shaped the world. This course will not only look at the emerging Atlantic economies and political systems, but also the preservation, changes, and growth of cultures and societies.
Field: Wider World. Markers: GHP; GN; GPM; IGS; MGIL
HIS 212-11 - United States History since 1865
Writing Intensive
50390 ONLINE
Andrew Turner
General survey of American history from Reconstruction to the present.
Field: United States. Markers: GHP; GMO; CW; WI
HIS 218-11 - The World since 1945
50392 ONLINE
Connor Harney
This class will examine global issues in the contemporary world, focusing mainly on the post-World War II period, from the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan in August 1945, to the complex, high-tech, evolving world of today. We will examine some of the important political, economic, social, and cultural changes of the second half of the twentieth century and how these changes have shaped the world we live in today.
Field: Wider World. Markers: GHP; GMO; GN; IGS; MGIL
HIS 347-11 - North Carolina History
50395 ONLINE
Christine Flood
History of North Carolina from its colonial origins to the twentieth century, including the evolution of its political system, economy, social structure, and culture.
Field: United States.
