COURSES
Summer 2023 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 10 through June 14, 2023
HIS 206-01: "Women, Gender, and Power in the Premodern Atlantic World"
50384 ONLINE asynchronous
Jewel Parker
This course surveys women's and gender history in the Atlantic World up to 1750. This course explores how social and cultural expectations for gender roles informed concepts of power, reproductive and physical labor, family dynamics, religion, economics, and politics as exchanges of peoples, ideas, and goods circulated the Atlantic Ocean. Focusing on these themes and the lives of women living in Africa, Europe, and the Americas, this course will examine questions such as "How were women’s lives affected by European exploration and the growth of empires?," "How did women display power within their families and communities?," and "How did the lives of single women differ from the lives of married women?" Through answering these questions, learners will develop a more thorough understanding of how ideas about gender, sexuality, race, and class informed significant developments across the Atlantic, such as European exploration, intercultural interactions, the Atlantic slave trade, and the ways women worked within and pushed against societal boundaries to control their own lives and gain visibility within their communities. Learners will analyze primary sources from diverse perspectives that introduce the controversies, trends, events, and actors in the premodern period. In addition to exploring women and gender as a historical concept, learners will also learn analytical skills employed in the study of history.
Field: Europe. Markers: GHP; GL; GPM; MHFA
HIS 209-01 - Topics in Modern World History: "Women in Modern World History"
51048 ONLINE asynchronousKatharine 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
51333 ONLINE asynchronous
Mark Elliott
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 asynchronous
Kaitlyn Williams
General survey of American history from colonization through the Civil War.
Field: United States. Writing Intensive. Markers: GHP; GMO; MDEQ; CW; WI
HIS 212-01 - United States History since 1865
Writing Intensive
51667 ONLINE asynchronous
Ashley Gilbert
General survey of American history from Reconstruction to the present.
Field: United States. Markers: GHP; GMO; CW; WI
HIS 213-01 Topics in American History: "American Political Parties"
51668 ONLINE asynchronous
Robert Skelton
The Founders feared the formation of permanent political parties, and George Washington warned against them in his presidential farewell address. How have they come to dominate American politics? Why do so many Americans feel the parties do not represent their interests? How and when did the current system originate? This course will reveal the origins and development of two-party political systems in American history. It will trace the rise and fall of several different two-party systems, along with attempts by third parties wishing to alter the balance of power. To better understand the evolution of the political parties, the course will look at the parties' core beliefs, membership (who's in and who's out?), and economic, social, and cultural factors that defined the parties over time.
Field: United States. Markers: GHP; GMO; MDEQ
HIS 217-01 - The World in the Twentieth Century (1900-1945)
50391 ONLINE asynchronous
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 asynchronous
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 414 and 514 - World History Topics: "The Global Cold War"
51669HIS 414 Undergraduate section
51670HIS 514 Graduate section
ONLINE
David Wight
This course explores the global roots and consequences of the Cold War. While the two superpowers, the Soviet Union and the United States, were important leaders in this global struggle, myriad countries from across the world contributed to the start, prolongation, and resolution of the conflict. Furthermore, many of the consequences of the Cold War, particularly its "hot wars," were larger imposed upon societies within the Third World. This course will thus look at the superpowers, allied nations, and non-aligned countries to present a truly global understanding of the defining geopolitical struggle of the second half of the 20th century. Field: Wider World. Both sections meet together
Field: Wider World
Session II - June 15 through July 20, 2023
SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE! Always check the University online schedule for the latest changes.
HIS 206-11 - Topics in Premodern Western History: "The Atlantic World"
50385 ONLINE Emilee Robbins
In this course we will explore the historical concept of the "Atlantic World" and the many cultures that come into contact from 1492 through the Age of Revolutions. We will identify key people and events in this historical narrative as well as lesser known stories and cultures that contributed to the Atlantic World. Throughout the course we will see how indigenous groups, Africans, women, and Europeans were not only impacted by the formation of the Atlantic World, but also how these groups actively contributed to the development of the social, political, and economic spheres of the Atlantic World. A major theme of this course looks at human agency through Primary Sources as we observe and analyze various perspectives of this historical period. Field: Europe. Markers: GHP; GL; GPM; MHFA
HIS 211-11 - United States History to 1865
Writing Intensive
51671 ONLINE asynchronous
Jonathan Baier
General survey of American history from colonization through the Civil War.
Field: United States. Writing Intensive. Markers: GHP; GMO; MDEQ; CW; WI
HIS 212-11 - United States History since 1865
Writing Intensive
50390 ONLINE asynchronous
Andrew Turner
General survey of American history from Reconstruction to the present.
Field: United States. Markers: GHP; GMO; CW; WI
HIS 213-11 Topics in American History: "Women in U.S. History"
51672 ONLINE asynchronous
Abigail Shimer
This course investigates how women’s issues and experiences changed during the colonial period to the present, based on not only when women lived but also their race, class, and location in the United States. Students will use primary and secondary sources to examine subjects in women’s history such as women in settler colonies, enslavement, the women’s suffrage movement, the Civil Rights Movement, and the feminist movement.
Field: United States. Markers: GHP; GMO; MDEQ
HIS 347-11 - North Carolina History
50395 ONLINE asynchronous
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.
