2021-2022 Course List

Survey of European history from the end of the Thirty Years War to the present. Same content as HIST 181. Students may not take both HIST 181 and HIST 181W for credit.

Goal Areas:

GE-05, GE-09

A survey of European history from the end of the Thirty Years War to the present.

Goal Areas:

GE-05, GE-09

This course is designed to provide an overview of America's political, social, economic, and cultural development from earliest colonization to 1877. Same content as HIST 190. Students may not take both HIST 190 and HIST 190W for credit.

Goal Areas:

GE-05, GE-07

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

This course is designed to provide an overview of America's political, social, economic, and cultural development from earliest colonization to 1877.

Goal Areas:

GE-05, GE-07

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

A survey of American History from the end of Reconstruction to the present with a special emphasis on political and social developments.

Goal Areas:

GE-05, GE-07

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

This course is designed to provide an overview of America's political, social, economic, and cultural development from 1877 to the present. This course has the same content as HIST 191. Students may not take both HIST 191 and HIST 191W for credit.

Goal Areas:

GE-05, GE-07

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

This course provides an historical and interdisciplinary approach to the study of the Islamic world. The course examines Islam and Islamic cultures within a global context, from its beginnings through the contemporary period.

Goal Areas:

GE-07, GE-08

Diverse Cultures:

Gold

Through a series of historical simulations, students develop communication and oral reasoning skills by researching, writing, and participating in debates about key global political events that changed the course of history. Students will study primary and secondary sources related to the historical events. Students will draft, rewrite, and defend oral arguments based on their research, and they will conduct debates with other students in class.

Goal Areas:

GE-09, GE-1B

A general survey of premodern East Asian civilizations -- particularly China and Japan -- from the beginning to 1800. Topics include the formation and development of East Asian civilizations and the evolving East Asian engagement with the natural environment before the 19th century.

Goal Areas:

GE-05, GE-10

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

A general survey of premodern East Asian civilizations -- particularly China and Japan -- from the beginning to 1800. Topics include the formation and development of East Asian civilizations and the evolving East Asian engagement with the natural environment before the 19th century.

Goal Areas:

GE-05, GE-10

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

Students will develop their communication and oral reasoning skills through historical role-playing exercises that interrogate what it means to be a citizen. The class will focus on specific historical periods and events. Students will read sources related to the period and research the events and characters of the era to give presentations and speeches. At times students will play the role of a historical character from the period. Our goal is to better understand the history of law and citizenship and to improve student rhetorical, speaking, research, and writing skills.

Goal Areas:

GE-09, GE-1B

This class traces the evolving history of race from its creation in early modern Europe to political uses of this history in the twenty-first century United States. Students will learn about whiteness and blackness as social constructions that implicated the trans-Atlantic slave trade, patterns of imperialism, systems of oppression, and notions of beauty in western society. Students will also be involved in historical commemoration and/or racial justice projects involving communities of color in Minnesota to reflect on how the historical context informs these activities and how history continues to be used politically.

Goal Areas:

GE-09, GE-11

Diverse Cultures:

Gold

Historical study tours provide students with the opportunity to study at an off-campus location in a tour or program organized by a History professor. In addition to the off-campus experience, the course may also include readings, assignments, and class meetings on campus before or after the tour.

Review of World History as a field of study.

Students will read primary and/or secondary sources in United States history and complete writing assignments to prepare for future graduate study.

Prerequisites:

Permission of instructor.

Students will read primary and/or secondary sources in European history and complete writing assignments to prepare for future graduate study.

Prerequisites:

Permission of instructor.

Students will read primary and/or secondary sources in World history and complete writing assignments to prepare for future graduate study.

Prerequisites:

Permission of instructor.

The history of Greece and Rome stressing political, social and economic institutions and cultural and intellectual achievements.

A history of western monotheistic religions and their interactions with the secular world and each other from the beginnings of Judaism to the Crusades.

A history of the Middle Ages stressing political, social and economic interactions and cultural achievements.

European history from the later Middle Ages to the end of the Thirty Years' War (c. 1300-1648). Students will examine the intellectual, religious, and cultural developments in Western-Europe, with special attention given to social life and popular culture.

The history of Europe from the Treaty of Westphalia to the eve of the French Revolution (1648-1789). Course emphasizes absolutism and constitutionalism, the construction of European empires, the scientific revolution and Enlightenment, and social and economic changes.

A history of women from Classical Greece and Rome to the modern era. An analysis of the changing concepts of gender relations within a study of women as individuals and as members of socio-economic, ethnic, kin, and religious groups.

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

A history of the witchcraft phenomenon in Europe from the Middle Ages to 1800. The course examines the rise and decline of the European witch hunts through the history of religion, politics, law, gender, sexuality, and social life.

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

England from ancient times to the death of Elizabeth I.