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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 193: The Ancient World

Ancient history from the origins of civilization in Mesopotamia to the dissolution of the Roman Empire in the West. Lectures and discussion. Fulfills Global and Cultural Diversity Requirement. Cross-listed as CLSC 193 (formerly known as CLSC 201/HSTY 200).

Dates: June 3 - July 10, 2024

Session: 5 Week Session

Dates: In-person course

Session: On campus

Time: MWF 1-3:20pm

Instructor: Aaron Beek

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 257: Immigrants in America

Immigration to America has constantly reshaped the way the nation views itself. This course examines the overall history of immigration to the United States, but places that movement within a global context. It also pays particular attention to the roles that policy and technology have played in controlling or defining immigration to America. Counts as a CAS Global & Cultural Diversity course.

Dates: May 13 - May 31, 2024

Session: May Session

Dates: In-person course

Session: On campus

Time: MTWRF 10:30am-1pm

Instructor: Maysan Haydar

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

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