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, IH.)

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, IH.)

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.)    

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. (General Education Code(s): PE-T.) 

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HIS 70B

Session 2 

Surveys the political, social, and cultural history of Europe from the era of the Industrial Revolution to the beginning of the second millennium. Course 70A is not prerequisite to 70B. (General Education Code(s): CC.) 

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.) 

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.)

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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.)

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.)

*New course pending CCI approval