History Summer Courses
HIS 10A
Session 2
Focuses on the building of British American colonies and the establishment, disintegration, and reconstruction of the nation with an emphasis on how class, race, ethnicity, and gender impacted colonial development and structured the nation's agenda and the definition of citizenship. Satisfies American History and Institutions Requirement. (General Education Code(s): ER.)
Proposed Instructor: Edward Noel Smith
HIS 10B
Session 1
Surveys the political, social, and cultural history of the United States from 1877 to 1977. Focuses on national politics with emphasis on how class, race, ethnicity, and gender changed the nation's agenda. Satisfies American History and Institutions Requirement. (General Education Code(s): ER.)
Proposed Instructor: Erik Bernardino
HIS 59
Session 2
Online only class.
In this class, students will acquire an understanding of the history of the development of the English language, from its origins to present and will engage critically with the quantitative evidence for that history, using accessible online databases and digital texts. (General Education Code(s): SR.)
Proposed Instructor: Charles Hedrick
HIS 60
Session 1
Online only course.
Trains students in the principals that will help them make sense of Greco-Latin scientific and technical vocabulary. Introduces Greco-Roman natural philosophy and its general cultural context, and explains the historical relationship of that tradition to the emergence of modern European experimental science and technology. (Formerly Scientific Vocabulary and the Roots of the European Scientific Tradition.) (General Education Code(s): PE-T.)
Proposed Instructor: Charles Hedrick
HIS 100
Session 1
Designed to introduce history majors to historical methods and provide preparation for exit seminars. Students develop critical reading, historical analysis, research, and disciplinary writing skills. Enrollment is restricted to history majors and proposed majors or by permission of the instructor. (General Education Code(s): TA.)
Proposed Instructor: Matt O'Hara
HIS 101D
Session 1
Online only class.
Human curiosity and inquiry changed and varied widely across Eurasia. We will survey and understand how the curiosity and inquiry were framed in three major civilizational settings (China, Islam
and Judeo-Christian) from the end of the Mongol conquest of Eurasia to the beginning of industrial capitalism. During this period, most people lived in an agrarian society and political hierarchy of various kinds. It was a different world from our industrial and even post-industrial world we currently reside and it will take quite a lot of imagination and understanding to venture into their world: Why and how did they watch sky, track the movement of the Sun, draw maps, make tools and weapons, heal the sick, preserve and pass on what they had learned? May be repeated for credit. (General Education Code(s): SI.)Proposed Instructor: Minghui Hu
HIS 134A
Session 1
Covers the social, cultural, economic, and political history of colonial Mexico (New Spain). Special attention paid to colonial identity formation, religion, and labor systems. Begins by examining indigenous societies prior to the arrival of Europeans and concludes with Mexico's independence movement in the early 19th century. (General Education Code(s): ER.)
Proposed Instructor: Matt O'Hara
HIS 139C
Session 2
Queer Pasts: A Radical Telling of LGBTQ History in the United States critically explores how to preserve, represent, and study the history of queer and gender non-conforming people. Focus on non-traditional and digital archives, oral history, and original research. (General Education Code(s): TA.)
Proposed Instructor: Bristol Cava-
LaCoste
United States History to 1877 (5 credits)
United States History, 1877 to 1977 (5 credits)
History of the English Language (online) (5 credits)
Medical and Scientific Terminology (online) (5 credits)
Historical Skills and Methods (5 credits)
Topics In The World History Of Science (online) (5 credits)
Colonial Mexico (5 credits)
Queer Pasts: A Radical Telling of LGBTQ History in the United States (5 credits)
