2024-2025 Course List

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

Goal Areas:

GE-05, GE-09

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

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

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

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

Examines the causes, course and legacy of World War II and the Holocaust, including the rise of fascism; European, Japanese, and U.S. imperialism in Asia; the course of the war in Europe and Asia; the home fronts of the belligerent countries; and the march toward the final solution. This course will focus in on a global perspective of these events and discuss the impact it had on various ethnic, racial, religious and gender groups.

Goal Areas:

GE-08, GE-09

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

This course is a historical investigation of taboos in America across time, cultures, and communities. Together, we explore how a range of taboos came to be, how they vary, where the power of taboos come from, and how they are often connected to ideas of gender, sex, race, and class. We will also explore how taboos have been transgressed, challenged, and evolved over time.

Goal Areas:

GE-02, GE-09

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

This class looks at the history of sports and games across the span of global history! Progressing through the course of human history, this class will discuss recreation, organized sports, professional sports, and the advent of modern video games. Students will develop critical thinking skills and engage with this fascinating topic by developing oral and written communication skills. This class will engage with human diversity, both inside and outside of the US through the lens of sports and games.

Goal Areas:

GE-02, GE-07

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

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 communication, reasoning, and collaborative skills through history-based exercises interrogating diverse and changing understandings of democracy in what is now the United States. Students will analyze historical sources highlighting American traditions of disagreement as well as creative compromise over the character and features of self-government, the narratives by which to understand the past, and the legacies and lessons of the past for the present. The course puts current divisions among Americans into historical context to help students widen their perspectives, work productively across differences, and learn to substantiate their opinions on public issues with historical and contemporary evidence.

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.

This course examines U.S. constitutional history from its foundations to the current day. Students will read and analyze legal material and explore how U.S. constitutional interpretations changed over time; factors affecting change and resistance; and how constitutional change both reflected and shaped U.S. society, culture, politics, and economics.

This course moves thematically through the history of America from pre-European invasion to the 21st century and examines the history of American conceptions of sex, sexual desire, normal behaviors, and various belief systems held by different religious, political, and cultural groups. The class will also examine the ways sex, sexuality, and gender have been regulated and represented via legal, political, and social forces across time.

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

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.