History Courses
HSTY 113: Introduction to Modern World History
An introduction to modern world history, covering European imperialism, the industrial revolution, nationalism, political revolutions, major military conflicts, and the massive social changes that both caused and followed these. Substantial attention will be paid to class and race formation, transformations of gender roles, and the role of cultural differences in shaping modernity. Counts as a CAS Global & Cultural Diversity course. Counts as a Human Diversity & Commonality course. Counts as a Understanding Global Perspectives course.
Dates: June 3 - July 1, 2024
Session: 4 Week Session (1)
Dates: Online course
Session: Online
Time: MTWRF 12-1:45pm
Instructor: Maysan Haydar
Credits: 3 credits
Department: History
HSTY 241: Inventing Public Health
The core principle of this course is that public health is a concept that was formed in different ways at different times in different places. It had no existence as we know it before the nineteenth century, but course participants will learn how it grew out of an ancient tradition of the political elite’s concern that its subjects were a threat to them and the stability of the realm. Course participants will discover how, in the nineteenth century, it became a professional practice as we know it and realized advances in human health, longevity, and security perhaps greater than any made since. At the same time, the course will also cover how many of the assumptions of those that inaugurated public health were completely alien to present-day practitioners–even though in many ways it is a practice that helped inaugurate the modern world so familiar to us. Course participants will learn about the close relationship between public health agencies and agendas and various kinds of social authority: political power, moral influence, colonial power, and others. Ultimately, the aim of the course is to show participants that even though public health seems a supremely common sense practice, it had a highly contested birth and early life that was anything but natural or pre-ordained. That complicated birth continues to shape public health to this day. Counts as a CAS Global & Cultural Diversity course.
Dates: June 17 - July 31, 2024
Session: 6 Week Session
Dates: Online course
Session: Online
Time: asynchronous
Instructor: John Broich
Credits: 3 credits
Department: History
HSTY 270: Introduction to Gender Studies
This course introduces women and men students to the methods and concepts of gender studies, women’s studies, and feminist theory. An interdisciplinary course, it covers approaches used in literary criticism, history, philosophy, political science, sociology, anthropology, psychology, film studies, cultural studies, art history, and religion. It is the required introductory course for students taking the women’s and gender studies major.
Offered as ENGL 270, HSTY 270, PHIL 270, RLGN 270, SOCI 201, and WGST 201.
Dates: May 13 - May 31, 2024
Session: May Session
Dates: Online course
Session: Online
Time: MTWRF 9:30-12pm
Instructor: Justine Howe
Credits: 3 credits
Department: History
HSTY 285: Psychedelics in History
A global exploration of psychedelic drugs, which have been revered, idealized, vilified, banned, and revived, HSTY 285 will look at their use in contexts ranging from indigenous Native American and African cultures, CIA explorations of “mind control,” 20th century psychotherapy, the 1960s counter-culture, and the current “psychedelic renaissance. How has historical context influenced the experience of these powerful substances? How have they in turn influenced historical context? We will explore ritual, medicinal, and recreational uses of psychedelics, but will also see how those categories can overlap.
Dates: July 11 - August 7, 2024
Session: 4 Week Session (2)
Dates: Online course
Session: Online
Time: TWRF 10:30am-12:40pm
Instructor: Jonathan Sadowsky
Credits: 3 credits
Department: History
WGST 201: Introduction to Gender Studies
This course introduces women and men students to the methods and concepts of gender studies, women’s studies, and feminist theory. An interdisciplinary course, it covers approaches used in literary criticism, history, philosophy, political science, sociology, anthropology, psychology, film studies, cultural studies, art history, and religion. It is the required introductory course for students taking the women’s and gender studies major.
Offered as ENGL 270, HSTY 270, PHIL 270, RLGN 270, SOCI 201, and WGST 201.
Dates: May 13 - May 31, 2024
Session: May Session
Dates: Online course
Session: Online
Time: MTWRF 9:30am-12pm
Instructor: Justine Howe
Credits: 3 credits
Departments: English, History, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Sociology, Women's and Gender Studies
HSTY 113: Introduction to Modern World History
An introduction to modern world history, covering European imperialism, the industrial revolution, nationalism, political revolutions, major military conflicts, and the massive social changes that both caused and followed these. Substantial attention will be paid to class and race formation, transformations of gender roles, and the role of cultural differences in shaping modernity. Counts as a CAS Global & Cultural Diversity course. Counts as a Human Diversity & Commonality course. Counts as a Understanding Global Perspectives course.
Dates: June 3 - July 1, 2024
Session: 4 Week Session (1)
Dates: Online course
Session: Online
Time: MTWRF 12-1:45pm
Instructor: Maysan Haydar
Credits: 3 credits
Department: History
HSTY 241: Inventing Public Health
The core principle of this course is that public health is a concept that was formed in different ways at different times in different places. It had no existence as we know it before the nineteenth century, but course participants will learn how it grew out of an ancient tradition of the political elite’s concern that its subjects were a threat to them and the stability of the realm. Course participants will discover how, in the nineteenth century, it became a professional practice as we know it and realized advances in human health, longevity, and security perhaps greater than any made since. At the same time, the course will also cover how many of the assumptions of those that inaugurated public health were completely alien to present-day practitioners–even though in many ways it is a practice that helped inaugurate the modern world so familiar to us. Course participants will learn about the close relationship between public health agencies and agendas and various kinds of social authority: political power, moral influence, colonial power, and others. Ultimately, the aim of the course is to show participants that even though public health seems a supremely common sense practice, it had a highly contested birth and early life that was anything but natural or pre-ordained. That complicated birth continues to shape public health to this day. Counts as a CAS Global & Cultural Diversity course.
Dates: June 17 - July 31, 2024
Session: 6 Week Session
Dates: Online course
Session: Online
Time: asynchronous
Instructor: John Broich
Credits: 3 credits
Department: History
HSTY 270: Introduction to Gender Studies
This course introduces women and men students to the methods and concepts of gender studies, women’s studies, and feminist theory. An interdisciplinary course, it covers approaches used in literary criticism, history, philosophy, political science, sociology, anthropology, psychology, film studies, cultural studies, art history, and religion. It is the required introductory course for students taking the women’s and gender studies major.
Offered as ENGL 270, HSTY 270, PHIL 270, RLGN 270, SOCI 201, and WGST 201.
Dates: May 13 - May 31, 2024
Session: May Session
Dates: Online course
Session: Online
Time: MTWRF 9:30-12pm
Instructor: Justine Howe
Credits: 3 credits
Department: History
HSTY 285: Psychedelics in History
A global exploration of psychedelic drugs, which have been revered, idealized, vilified, banned, and revived, HSTY 285 will look at their use in contexts ranging from indigenous Native American and African cultures, CIA explorations of “mind control,” 20th century psychotherapy, the 1960s counter-culture, and the current “psychedelic renaissance. How has historical context influenced the experience of these powerful substances? How have they in turn influenced historical context? We will explore ritual, medicinal, and recreational uses of psychedelics, but will also see how those categories can overlap.
Dates: July 11 - August 7, 2024
Session: 4 Week Session (2)
Dates: Online course
Session: Online
Time: TWRF 10:30am-12:40pm
Instructor: Jonathan Sadowsky
Credits: 3 credits
Department: History
WGST 201: Introduction to Gender Studies
This course introduces women and men students to the methods and concepts of gender studies, women’s studies, and feminist theory. An interdisciplinary course, it covers approaches used in literary criticism, history, philosophy, political science, sociology, anthropology, psychology, film studies, cultural studies, art history, and religion. It is the required introductory course for students taking the women’s and gender studies major.
Offered as ENGL 270, HSTY 270, PHIL 270, RLGN 270, SOCI 201, and WGST 201.
Dates: May 13 - May 31, 2024
Session: May Session
Dates: Online course
Session: Online
Time: MTWRF 9:30am-12pm
Instructor: Justine Howe
Credits: 3 credits
Departments: English, History, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Sociology, Women's and Gender Studies