Course Descriptions

HHV 232 - Introduction to Environmental Health with Community-Based Learning (=ENV 232)

Students will apply biological, chemical and epidemiological content to environmental health case studies and community-based learning projects. This is an introductory course designed to expose students to different scientific disciplines within the context of environmental health.

Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Health and Human Values.
Satisfies depth or breadth course requirement in Natural Science Track of the Environmental Studies major or interdisciplinary minor. 
Satisfies the Liberal Studies requirement.
 

Prerequisites & Notes
ENV 232 may not be taken for credit after ENV 233.

HHV 233 - Introduction to Environmental Health with Laboratory-Based Learning (= ENV 233)

Students will apply biological, chemical and epidemiological content to environmental health case studies and laboratory projects. This is an introductory course designed to expose students to different scientific disciplines within the context of environmental health.

Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Health and Human Values.

Satisfies the Natural Science requirement.

Satisfies depth or breadth course requirement in Natural Science Track of the Environmental Studies major or interdisciplinary minor.

Prerequisites & Notes
ENV 233 may not be taken for credit after ENV 232.

HHV 244 - Child Psychopathology (=EDU 234 and PSY 234)

An overview of the psychological disorders of childhood, including their description, classification, etiology, assessment and treatment.  Emphasis will be placed on the theoretical and empirical bases of these disorders, focusing on relevant research methods and findings as well as case history material. 

Social-Scientific Thought requirement.
Educational Studies minor credit.
Health and Human Values interdisciplinary minor credit.
Psychology Major credit (Clinical column)

Prerequisites & Notes
PSY 101

HHV 250 - Methods in Health & Research

This course will focus on introducing fundamentals of methods used in modern public health research and practice. Through a variety of approaches to formal and experiential learning, you will develop your skills and knowledge in several core concept areas of public health methods: quantitative health data analysis, health surveys, policy analysis, environmental health risk assessment, qualitative data analysis, and health communications. One class per week (on average) will be a “workshop class”, in which you and your classmates will break out into groups to evaluate current topics and issues in public health using different methodological approaches.

Satisfies an interdisci[plinary minor reuqirement in Health and Human Values.
Satisfies a requirement in the Communication Studies interdisciplinary major and minor.

Prerequisites & Notes
HHV 110 “Introduction to Public Health” or HHV 392 “Introduction to Epidemiology”

HHV 251 - Health Disparities in the U.S. and Beyond (=SOC 251)

This course will explore connections between race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and U.S.  social policy with the historical and current trends in health disparities in the USA. This course will offer a foundation in both core concepts and theoretical frameworks for understanding health disparities in the US. Additionally, this course will introduce theory and strategies for developing health interventions and policies to address the crisis of racial, ethnic and socioeconomic health disparities in the USA.

Satisfies a major requirement in Sociology.
Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Health and Human Values.
Satisfies a requirement in the Communication Studies interdisciplinary major and minor.
Satisfies Social-Scientific Thought requirement.
Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
HHV 110 “Introduction to Public Health” or HHV 392 “Introduction to Epidemiology”

HHV 260 - Environmental Public Health

Environmental Public Health

HHV 280 - Introduction to Global Health (= SOC 280)

Global health is an emerging interdisciplinary field that approaches health issues as transnational challenges requiring multi-level, community-based solutions. This course introduces its major concepts, tools, and debates. Topics include global health inequities, historical and ongoing strategies for control of communicable diseases from smallpox to HIV/AIDS, the global rise in prominence of non-communicable disease, connections between social structures and the global distribution of disease, and debates over health as a human right. Students will learn to interpret and evaluate population health indicators, interact with WHO datasets, and analyze health interventions and policies from both solutions-oriented and critical perspectives.

Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
(Fall)

HHV 292 - Introduction to Epidemiology

Satisfies the Social-Scientific Thought requirement.
Satisfies a requirement in the Health and Human Values interdisciplinary minor.

Prerequisites & Notes
(Spring)

HHV 320 - Health, Culture and Illness in East Asia

This seminar explores the health systems of East Asia using Arthur Kleinman’s definition of a health system as the complex social system of healing supported by culture-bound understandings of health and illness, not merely the institutions that provide health services. Readings and discussion cover the major cultural and institutional characteristics of health, illness, and health care in Japan and mainland China, with more limited attention to Taiwan and South Korea. Discussion topics include the role of Chinese medicine, cultures of biomedicine, rapid demographic change, environmental/industrial diseases, and infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS. Particular attention is paid to the role of “plural” medical cultures in many East Asian contexts and how such syncretic health systems shape health practices and policies across the region.

Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in East Asian Studies.
Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Health and Human Values.
Satisfies the Cultural Diversity requirement

HHV 354 - Medical Rehabilitation and Disability (=PSY 354)

This course addresses the conceptualization, assessment, and treatment of chronic health conditions, traumatic injuries, and disabilities.  The readings will include an evidenced-based handbook on psychosocial adjustment to illness; peer-reviewed articles; and memoirs from the vantage point of the patient, caregiver, and healthcare provider.  This course is community-based; therefore, it will also include a field experience at a local rehabilitation hospital. 

Fulfills a credit in the Psychology major.
Fulfills a credit in the Health and Human Values interdisciplinary minor.
 

Prerequisites & Notes
PSY 101
(Fall)

HHV 370 - Nutrition, Bodies, and Health

HHV 371 - Topics in Public Health

New Course. Information coming soon.

HHV 373 - Food and Nutrition Policy

HHV 380 - Issues in Medicine

HHV 381 - Health Regulations and Public Policy

HHV 387 - Health Law, Policy and Ethics

This survey course will introduce students to contemporary issues in health law, policy and ethics. Topics will address the history, evolution of legislation, policy and case law in areas of individual health care, as well as the public health law sphere.

Topics will include issues in the patient-physician relationship, such as reproduction, experimental treatments, medical error and death. Other topics relate more to the relationship individual-state and include quality of health care provision, organ donation and vaccinations. Students will navigate legal principles and statutes, and will develop critical thinking towards policy and legal regimes. This course seeks to create awareness of policies and legislations in health care.  It will combine theory and practice and stimulate critical thinking. The goal of this course is to develop methodic and analytical reasoning skills to discuss value-based conflicts in the health care setting.

Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Health and Human Values

HHV 388 - History of Medical Law

This course examines the interrelationship between law and medicine in the United States and how physicians’ roles in the legal system have evolved through U.S. history. The course considers physicians as medical examiners, expert witnesses, defendants, and politicians; the course looks at issues or incidents in which physicians have had a large impact on the law.

HHV 389 - Neuroethics

Neuroethics is a young and multidisciplinary field of inquiry. It has developed at a time that neuroscience is making significant discoveries and developments at a rapid pace. New drugs and treatments for mental and neurological disorders appear on the horizon every day. As new types of interventions are being translated from bench to bedside, the public’s awareness of ethical issues surrounding neuroscientific developments has been growing. Neuroscience brings hypes and hopes, and neuroethics reflects on these. Neuroethics asks questions about: What can and should be done with the developments in neuroscience? Is neuroscience moving too fast? Topics for inquiry include addiction, deep brain stimulation, free will, enhancement and consciousness.
 

Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Health and Human Values.
Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Neuroscience

HHV 390 - Health Care Ethics

Does not satisfy a requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
(Fall)

HHV 391 - Research Ethics

This course provides students with a comprehensive overview of the responsible conduct of research. Students will learn the conventions for appropriate animal and human research. They will also develop critical thinking and moral reasoning skills to resolve situations that may arise during the course of research. The course will address the following topics: historical and social context of science; government oversight and regulation of research; guidelines for research involving animals; and guidelines for research involving human subjects. Special consideration will be given to topics in which moral dilemmas in research are more likely to occur, including conflicts of interest, informed consent, confidentiality, data ownership and intellectual property, disclosure, and dissemination of results.

HHV 393 - Infectious Disease Epidemiology

The objective of this course is to introduce students to the epidemiology of infectious diseases. The emphasis of the course will be on the common factors that unite infectious diseases, using particular diseases as examples to illustrate the epidemiologic principles and methods to study infectious diseases. The goal is to introduce students to analytical approaches used to study infectious disease transmission in a population. After reviewing basic epidemiology and microbiology, the course will cover specific issues relating to infectious diseases. These include the natural history of infectious diseases, detection and analysis of outbreaks, surveillance, measuring infectivity, seroepidemiology, vaccines, mathematical models for epidemics, and the study of contact patterns.

Satisfies Health and Human Values interdisciplinary minor requirement.

HHV 395 - Current Issues in Public Health

The seminar class will examine current and emerging issues in field of public health. While our focus will be on the novel studies, models and concepts in the field, we will direct our attention towards developments in some specific focal areas. Foci for this class will include: infectious disease epidemics, health and public policy, environmental justice, health disparities, climate change, social determinants of health, early childhood development, among other topics.

The course is designed for students with prior exposure to public health issues and concepts. Enrollment in the course requires taking one or more of the following as a prerequisite, or obtaining the permission of the course instructor: Introduction to Public Health; Health Disparities in the US and Beyond; Introduction to Epidemiology; Genes, Environment and Health.

HHV 395 is repeatable for credit.

HHV 396 - Independent Study

Independent study under the direction and supervision of a faculty member who reviews and approves the topic(s) of the independent study and who determines the basis for the evaluation of students’ work.

HHV 397 - Future of American Health Care

HIS 112 - Medieval Europe

Satisfies the Historical Thought requirement.

HIS 119 - England to 1688

HIS 120 - Britain since 1688

HIS 121 - Early Modern Europe

Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought requirement.
Students entering before 2012: satisfies History requirement.

HIS 122 - Europe since 1789

Satisfies the Historical Thought requirement.

HIS 125 - History of Modern Russia, 1855-2000

Survey of modern Russia from the “Great Reforms” under Tsar Alexander II up to the struggles of the “Second Russian Republic” headed by President Boris Yeltsin.

Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought requirement. 
Students entering before 2012: satisfies History requirement.

HIS 141 - 19th-Century US History

This course will introduce students to advanced concepts in historical thinking and selected topics in nineteenth-century US history. Students will explore secondary literature and primary sources organized into five case studies. Although the specific case studies will evolve, one each will generally explore the following major topics: 1) gender and sexuality; 2) white supremacy and racism; 3) immigration and naturalization/citizenship; 4) settler colonialism and expansion; 5) industrialization and urbanization. Students will create a sixth case study in teams.  

Satisfies the Historical Thought requirement.

HIS 142 - The United States since 1900

Satisfies Historical Thought requirement.

HIS 162 - Latin America to 1825

A survey of Latin American history from the eve of Spain’s conquest of the Americas to the era of Latin American independence from Spain. An introduction to the societies of the Americas and the major social, political, and economic themes following the arrival of Europeans to the Americas. 

Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought requirement. 
Students entering before 2012: satisfies History requirement.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.

HIS 163 - Place & Nation in Modern Latin America

This course introduces students to Latin American history through themes related to place and space.  Newly independent nations were eager to defend, define, and regulate territory as well as public and domestic spaces.  By following the hows and whys of space and place from Independence to the late 20th century, we chart important political, social, economic, and cultural changes. Topics will include museums, schools, parks, prisons, transportation, maps, and borders. Through learning about the actions of governments and people in these places and spaces, we will analyze how national identity was defined and contested by individuals of multiple classes, races, genders.

Satisfies a requirement in the Africana Studies major (Geographic Region: Latin America/Caribbean).
Satisfies a requirement in the Latin American Studies major or minor.
Satisfies an Historical Thought requirement.
Satisfies a cultural diversity requirement.

HIS 168 - Africa to 1800

Introduction to the major civilizations and cultures of Africa from prehistoric times through the Transatlantic slave trade, examining changes in economy, ecology, and societies as Africa became involved in the global economy. 

Fulfills a requirement in the Africana Studies major (Geographic Region: Africa).
Satisfies interdisciplinary minor requirement in International Studies.
Satisfies Historical Thought requirement. 
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.

HIS 169 - The Making of Modern Africa

Survey of African history from the end of the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the present, emphasizing major trends in economic, political, and social life in colonial and post-colonial Africa. Introduces students to critical  historical debates and a range of historical artifacts including oral histories, African literature, and popular culture. 

Fulfills a requirement in the Africana Studies major (Geographic Region: Africa).
Satisfies the Historical Thought requirement. 
Satisfies a requirement in the International Studies interdisciplinary minor.
Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement. 

HIS 171 - Taj Mahal to Terrorism: Modern India

What unfolded in South Asian history from the time the Taj Mahal was built in the seventeenth century to contemporary War on Terror?  Focuses on transition from Mughal to British Rule, British colonialism, Indian nationalism, rise of independent India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, in terms of social, economic, political, and cultural developments.

Satisfies the Historical Thought requirement.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
Satisfies interdisciplinary minor requirement in South Asian studies.

HIS 175 - The Middle East, 610-1453: The Formation of Islam

Satisfies a requirement in the Arab Studies interdisciplinary minor.
Satisfies a requirement in the Middle East interdisciplinary minor.
Satisfies Historical Thought requirement.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.

HIS 176 - The Middle East, 1453-Present: Islam in the Modern World

Satisfies the Historical Thought requirement.
Satisfies the Cultural Diversity requirement.
Satisfied a requirement in the Arab Studies interdisciplinary minor.
Satisfies a requirement in the Middle East Studies interdisciplinary minor.

HIS 183 - East Asian History to 1850

This course provides a broad overview of the important intellectual, cultural, economic, and political developments in China, Japan, and Korea from prehistoric times until 1850. Particular attention will be paid to philosophical traditions, political dynamics, material culture, the Mongol Empire, trade, women’s roles in society, literature, and social change.

Satisfies Historical Thought requirement. 
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.

HIS 184 - East Asian History 1850 to the Present

This course covers the societies, cultures, politics, and economies of China, Japan, and Korea from 1850 to the present. By reading a variety of primary and secondary sources, students will consider interpretations of the past that continue to influence how people in East Asia today perceive themselves, their countries, and international relations. We will also interrogate the ways in which historical events are interpreted by the hermeneutics of the present. Topics covered include imperialism, nationalism, World War II, revolution, economic development, political protests, and environmental challenges.

Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought requirement.

Satisfies the Cultural Diversity requirement.

HIS 207 - Digital Medieval History

An introduction to reading, writing and research in history with the help of digital methods. Students will study the primary sources and historiography of Medieval Europe (500-1500 C.E.) using digital methods of text mining, map making, sentiment analysis, network analysis and/or topic modeling. No prior experience expected. 

Satisfies an Historical Thought requirement.
Satisfies a requirement in the Digital Studies interdisciplinary minor.
Satisfies requirement in Data Science interdisciplinary minor.

HIS 211 - Land and Power in the Middle Ages

A course on the exercise of power in Europe, ca. 750 - 1100 C.E   In the absence of what we would call state or public institutions, power in the Early Middle Ages was personal, fluid, expressed through elaborate rituals, and tied closely to the land. Students will investigate these topics through a careful study of primary sources as well as the historical scholarship they have inspired.

Satisfies a major requirement in History.
Satisfies an Historical Thought requirement.

HIS 218 - Jihad and Crusade

A study of the history of religious violence.  Topics include the relationship between religion and violence in a number of different traditions, with a special focus on the history of violent conflict between the Islamic world and the West.

Satisfies Historical Thought requirement.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
Satisfies the Middle East Studies interdisciplinary minor.

HIS 225 - Women and Work: Gender and Society in Britain, 1700-1918

An examination of British women’s lives and social relations with regard to production-artistic, domestic, industrial, intellectual, etc.-in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. 

Satisfies the Historical Thought requirement.
Satisfies a major requirement in Gender and Sexuality Studies
Satisfies a minor requirement in Gender and Sexuality Studies

HIS 226 - Repression & Liberation in the Soviet Union: Minorities and the Soviet Project

This course looks at the promises, failures, hopes and disappointments of the Soviet project through the lens of minority groups. What appeal did the communist ideology have to marginalized populations, both in the Soviet Union and across international borders? How did minority groups help to shape Soviet policy, propaganda, and international outreach? What responses did minority groups have, upon realizing that the Soviet Union was not the bastion of minority rights that they had expected? How were minorities mobilized by both the East and the West in the Cold War? This class explores these questions, which are central to understanding the Soviet project, the Cold War, and the rise of socialism and leftist values among educated minorities around the world. It focuses on groups like Jews, Central Eurasians, American black intellectuals, linguistic minorities, and Muslims and their hopes, beliefs, and disappointments in the Soviet project, as well as historiographic debates around repression and agency of minority groups in the USSR.

Satisfies History major and minor requirement.
Satisfies Center for Interdisciplinary Studies major requirement.  
Satisfies Russian Studies minor requirement.
Satisfies Historical Thought Ways of Knowing requirement.
Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement.

HIS 228 - The Modern Body: Gender, Sex, and Race in France

Satisfies Historical Thought requirement.
Counts as an elective in the French & Francophone Studies major (prior departmental approval required).
Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement.
Satisfies a major requirement in Gender and Sexuality Studies
Satisfies a minor requirement in Gender and Sexuality Studies

HIS 230 - African Diasporas, German Encounters: Histories, Conflicts and Movements

Provides new perspectives on African Diasporas and Germany by exploring how Germans interacted with and impacted the lives of African Americans in North America and indigenous peoples on the African continent and how, in turn, African Americans and Africans in the German lands profoundly reshaped things German since the eighteenth century.  The course will examine these complex histories with a particular emphasis on the Black Atlantic, migration and labor, cultural practice and political activism, gender relations, racism, violence, war, and genocide.

Satisfies a major or minor requirement in History.
Satisfies a requirement in the Africana Studies major (Geographic Region: Africa).
Satisfies Historical Thought requirement.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.

HIS 242 - Origins of the American South

An introduction to the main events, ideas, and issues that have shaped the history of the American South from the era of first contact and colonial settlement through the era of Civil War and Reconstruction (1580s-1870s). Major topics include Anglo-Indian relations, colonialism, plantation agriculture, race and slavery, regionalism, violence, and warfare.

HIS 243 - Native Women

How have Indigenous, American Indian, Native American, and First Nations women constructed their identities, participated in their societies, and responded to common experiences, particularly those resulting from colonization? How did Indigenous women’s ancestors live, and how have cultural traditions and identities been lost, maintained, and reconfigured over time? Through historical scholarship, films, fiction, and autobiography, the voices of Indigenous women and their allies speak eloquently about the diversity and complexity of these women’s lives over time and across place.

Meets the Historical Thought requirement.
Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement.
Satisfies a major requirement in Gender and Sexuality Studies
Satisfies a minor requirement in Gender and Sexuality Studies

HIS 244 - Settlement of the American West, 1800-1900

Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought requirement. 
Students entering before 2012: satisfies History requirement.
Satisfies depth or breadth course requirement in the humanities track of the Environmental Studies major or interdisciplinary minor.

HIS 245 - Digital History of Early American Knowledge

This course explores communication technologies and knowledge production in the antebellum United States, while introducing students to newer methods afforded by digital studies.  By the end of the course, students will understand how people parsed information, talked, wrote, and signaled one another in the past. They will also understand how new tools help us to communicate both with other scholars and with the public today.  Throughout the course they will engage in formal historical writing - historiography, primary source analysis, historical interpretation - as well as with the new opportunities for public engagement afforded by digital history.

We will examine both elite and non-elite modes of knowledge production and transmission, and how communication was used both to exert power and as a form of resistance.  Over the course of the semester, students will engage with primary sources, historical monographs and popular culture representations of communication and knowledge production in America’s past.

Satisfies a major requirement in History

Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought requirement

Students entering before 2012: satisfies History requirement

Satisfied an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Communication Studies

HIS 248 - The Native South

This course is an interdisciplinary analysis of the history of the Indigenous peoples of the American South. Throughout the semester, we will develop a sophisticated understanding of the development of Southeastern Indian societies over time and across place since prior to the arrival of Europeans until the modern day. Scholars of the Native South critique the “black and white” master narrative of Southern history and suggest that an inclusive perspective with Native people at its heart enriches the stories we tell about this region. We seek to understand how Native people in this region formed, maintained, and evolved as distinct groups united (and sometimes divided) by experience, belief, and action. This class is an immersion into the sixteenth through twentieth centuries as lived by the ancestors of those Native communities that call the South home today or look to it as their ancestral homeland. 

Satisfies the Historical Thought requirement.

HIS 252 - The United States from 1900 to 1945

Satisfies a requirement in the Communication Studies interdisciplinary major and minor.
Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought requirement. 
Students entering before 2012: satisfies History requirement.

HIS 253 - The United States since 1945

Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought requirement. 
Students entering before 2012: satisfies History requirement.
Satisfies a requirement in the Communication Studies interdisciplinary major and minor.

HIS 255 - American Popular Culture

American popular culture in the 19th and 20th centuries. Topics include sports, popular music, theatre, motion pictures and television. 

Satisfies the Historical Thought requirement.
Satisfies a requirement in the Communication Studies interdisciplinary major and minor.

HIS 259 - US Latino/a History

This course contends that we cannot understand the history of the US without studying the history of Latin@s from the colonial-era Spanish possessions to the US-Mexican War era to the Bracero era and, finally, the beginnings of Latino Charlotte in the late 20thc. Themes include migration, labor, religion, cultural identity, political organization. Students will learn about the cultures and experiences of Latinos with the US as well as US government responses to Latinos.  Emphasis on Mexican-Americans with some attention to the Caribbean and South American experience. 

Satisfies a major and minor credit in Latin American Studies.
Satisfies an Historical Thought requirement.
Satisfies a cultural diversity requirement. 

HIS 262 - Piracy in the Americas

Satisfies Historical Thought requirement.

HIS 263 - Development and Dissent in Africa

In this course, we will examine a variety of projects for economic and social transformation in twentieth-century Africa. The guiding principle of this course is to consider development not as a pre-determined trajectory (from “traditional” to “modern” or “developing” to “developed”), but instead as a deeply contested set of ideas and practices that has shaped interactions among African people, African governments, and international and diasporic actors for over a century. The course will introduce students to the writings of pan-Africanist thinkers, architects of colonial rule, and theorists of development and underdevelopment. To develop our understanding and facility with historical analysis, we will then examine particular cases in which these theories were put into (messy) practice, using a variety of sources from print media, planning documents, scholarly publications, and records of oral historical research. As historians, we will grapple with the choices we face in reconstructing contested visions and exploring the sizable gap between theory and reality.

Satisfies a requirement in the History major.
Satisfies a requirement in the History minor.
Satisfies a requirement in the Historical & Geographical Investigations category of the Africana Studies major (Region: Africa).
Satisfies the Historical Thought requirement.
Satisfies the Justice, Equality and Community requirement.

HIS 264 - The Digital Mexican Revolution

In depth study of the Mexican Revolution through political as well as cultural history.  Emphasis on traditional and digital methodologies.  No digital skills required. 

Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought requirement.
Students entering before 2012: satisfies History requirement.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.

HIS 267 - Health and Society in Africa

Histories of health, healing, and disease control in Africa from c. 1500 to the present.  Explores the ways African people and states have conceived of and responded to relationships between human and natural environment, between individual and collective well-being, and between bodily and social health.

Satisfies a major or minor requirement in History.
Satisfies a requirement in the Africana Studies major (Geographic Region: Africa).
Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Health and Human Values.
Satisfies the Historical Thought requirement.
Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement 

HIS 272 - Massacres and Migrations: India Partitioned

Examines the causes and consquences of Partition of India in 1947. As centuries of British rule drew to a close, chaos enveloped South Asia. India and Pakistan were born out of genocidal violence that left over a million people dead as millions escaping turmoil traversed to new lands. Focuses on a people’s history of Partition, in South Asia’s unprecedented territorial division into nations along religious lines.

Satisfies a requirement in South Asian Studies minor.
Fulfills the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement

HIS 273 - Japan 1800-1965: The Making of Modern Japan

An introduction to the changes in society, politics, and culture of Japan from roughly the late Tokugawa period to the mid-20th century.  

Students entering before 2012: satisfies History requirement.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
Satisfies Asian Studies and International Studies interdisciplinary minor.

HIS 274 - Youth and Revolution

This global history course explores the fascinating causes and dynamics of revolutions and social movements in India, China, Iran, Egypt, and the United States. Students will investigate how and why young people participated in revolutions and social movements around the world in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Key themes of the course include anti-colonialism, nationalism, communism, democracy, religion, youthful rebellion, race relations, and social media.

Satisfies a major requirement in History and East Asian Studies.
Satisfies a minor requirement in Chinese Studies.
Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in East Asian Studies and International Studies.
Satisfies an Historical Thought requirement.
Satisfies a cultural diversity requirement.
 

HIS 275 - Drugs in East Asia

This is an introduction to the history of addiction and psychoactive substances - opium, tobacco, and alcohol - in East Asia from 1600-present. Questions involving the consumption, circulation, perception, and regulation of psychoactive substances will be discussed.

Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
Satisfies requirement in Asian Studies, International Studies, Health and Human Values, and Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Minors.

HIS 283 - Historiography of Modern China

This course is an introduction to common topics and methodologies used in the professional study of Chinese history.  

Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought requirement. 
Students entering before 2012: satisfies History requirement.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
Satisfies Asian Studies and International Studies Interdisciplinary Minor.

HIS 286 - Student Movements & Revolution in China

This course explores the fascinating dynamics, causes, and pathways of student movements and revolutions in China. The course is divided into four units, each of which covers a different period of student activism in twentieth- and twenty-first-century China: student involvement in the May Fourth Movement (1919), Red Guard activism during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1968), the Tian’anmen Square protest and its aftermath (1989), and student involvement in the Hong Kong democracy protests (2014). We will examine not only how each of these movements affected individual Chinese citizens, but also how these movements shaped the way the Chinese government explained, re-evaluated, condemned, celebrated, or silenced previous revolutions. Students in this course will analyze primary source documents from each of these periods and critically engage with a variety of other less conventional texts, such as films, memoirs, literature, propaganda posters, song lyrics, and blogs. Key themes of the course include nationalism, anti-imperialism, communism, capitalism, youthful rebellion, and democracy.

Satisfies the 200-level methods course requirement in the History major and minor.
Satisfies the research methods course requirement in the East Asian Studies major.
Counts as an elective in the Chinese Studies minor
Counts as an elective in the East Asian Studies interdisciplinary minor.
Counts as an elective in the International Studies interdisciplinary minor.
Satisfies an Historical Thought requirement.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.

HIS 287 - Memory and Identity in the People’s Republic of China

Instructor
Mortensen

This course explores how the government of the People’s Republic of China historically has defined and managed ethnic and religious diversity within China, and how in turn, various ethno-religious groups in China have negotiated their own sometimes fraught positions. How have local understandings of identity in China been influenced by state-driven narratives about China’s collective past? How is historical memory in China incarnated in physically tangible and symbolically meaningful places, such as museums and memorials? This course draws on historical and anthropological approaches to identity, ethnicity, language, modernity, religion, nationalism, and memory to explore these questions in detail.

Satisfies a requirement in the History major and minor.
Satisfies a requirement in the East Asian Studies major.
Satisfies a requirement in the Chinese Studies major and minor.
Satisfies the Historical Thought requirement.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.

*Interlinked Memory Studies Courses
Five different courses that engage with phenomena of memory will link up once a week for common readings and discussions. Students will meet one day a week with their course instructor to engage in the discipline-specific study of memory. On the other day each week, students and faculty members in all five courses will meet together to compare and share different disciplinary and personal ideas about the study of memory; the creation and effects of memory; the representation of memory; and the social, cultural, and personal creative processes that make memory.  Participating courses are:

AFR 320 / EDU 320 / SOC 320 (Kelly) Growing Up Jim Crow
CIS 292 / PSY 292 (Multhaup) Collective Memory
ENG 204 (Parker) Introduction to Writing Fiction
GER 433 / HIS 433 (Denham) The Holocaust and Representation
​HIS 287 (Mortensen) Memory and Identity in the People’s Republic of China

HIS 288 - Environmental China: Nature, History, and Crisis

Satisfies a major requirement in History.
Satisfies a major requirement in East Asian Studies.
Satisfies a major requirement in Environmental Studies.
Satisfies a minor requirement in History.
Satisfies a minor requirement in Chinese Studies.
Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in East Asian Studies.
Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Environmental Studies.
Meets the Historical Thought requirement.
Meets the Cultural Diversity requirement.

HIS 301 - Making History

This course explores how history is produced, memorialized, and remembered in the present day (and all the complications and debates that result). It will do so locally, investigating history and memory in the South in general, and Charlotte in particular. It will do so internationally, investigating history and memory in Great Britain in general, and London in particular. And it will do so independently, as students pursue an in-depth study of how history manifests itself in an arena of personal interest. 

Course materials will include historical scholarship, films, literature, and site visits. Course members will spend spring break in London visiting and reporting on spaces and institutions of historical importance. The History Department will finance all course-related travel.
 

Satisfies a History major and minor requirement.
Satisfies the Historical Thought Ways of Knowing requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
Intended for History majors and minors and will require permission to enroll.  

HIS 302 - African American History to 1877

Satisfies a requirement in the Africana Studies major (Geographic Region: North America).
Satisfies the Historical Thought requirement.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.

HIS 303 - African American Society & Culture since 1877

Satisfies a requirement in the Africana Studies major (Geographic Region: North America).
Satisfies Historical Thought requirement.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.

HIS 306 - Women and Gender in U.S. History to 1870

The history of women in what is now the United States, beginning prior to European colonization and ending after the Civil War.  Comparison and contrast of the experiences of female people with attention to race, class, and religion in shaping women’s lives, with emphasis on changing social roles, labor, and suffrage.

Satisfies Gender and Sexuality Studies major and minor requirement.
Satisfies the Historical Thought requirement.
Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement.

HIS 307 - Women and Gender in U.S. History Since 1870

The history of women in the United States from 1870 to the present, with emphasis on educational and work experiences, the suffrage movement and the ongoing struggle for women’s equality, family and sexuality, and differences of race, class, and sexual orientation.

Satisfies the Historical Thought requirement.
Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement.

HIS 312 - The Crusades: Then and Now

This course concerns the Crusades and the broader crusading movement, as well as the impact of that movement on the peoples of both Europe and the Middle East. Most people think of “the Crusades” as the effort of European Christians to reclaim the “Holy Land” from the Muslims, an effort that stretched from Pope Urban II’s famous sermon at the Council of Clermont in 1095 to the fall of Acre, the last Crusader outpost in Palestine, in 1291. In fact, however, the Crusading phenomenon had roots in an older history of competition between Christianity and Islam, and in Christian and Muslim thinking about what constituted a “just war.” Moreover, the Crusading spirit, the religious competition behind it, and the memories of the Crusades did not disappear at the end of the thirteenth century, but continued to shape the experiences of the inhabitants of Europe and the Middle East down to the present day.

Satisfies an elective requirement in the History major and minor.
Satisfies an Historical Thought requirement.

HIS 315 - Central Europe in the Middle Ages

Ethnogenesis, slavery, conversion, state building, sanctity, economic life, family relations

and learned culture in medieval Germany, Poland, Bohemia and Hungary 800-1250 CE.

Satisfies a major requirement in History

Satisfies a requirement in Historical Thought

HIS 317 - The European Renaissance

Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought requirement.
Students entering before 2012: satisfies History requirement.

HIS 322 - The Age of Discovery, 1492-1700

HIS 324 - Illicit Sexualities: Sex, Law, and Modernity = GSS 324

Satisfies a major requirement in History

Satisfies a major requirement in Gender and Sexuality Studies.  Only counted in one track.

Satisfies a minor requirement in Gender and Sexuality Studies  Only counted in one track.

Satisfies a requirement in Historical Thought

HIS 325 - Britain from 1688 to 1832

The evolution of British society and culture during the “Long Eighteenth Century,” with emphasis on the reaction to an age of revolution-the Glorious Revolution, Industrial Revolution, American Revolution, and French Revolution. 

Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought requirement. 
Students entering before 2012: satisfies History requirement.

HIS 328 - Rebels & Radicals: Art and Politics in France, 1789-1940

HIS 331 - History of Germany in Global Context, 1871-1990

The foundation of the first German nation state in 1871 to German unification of 1990. Examines modern German history in the context of cross-regional exchanges, inter-cultural connections, and European-wide and global transformations. 

Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought requirement.
Students entering before 2012: satisfies History requirement.
 

HIS 332 - European Metropolis, 1870-1914

Satisfies Historical Thought requirement. 
 

HIS 333 - Empire Jews: From False Messiahs to Fascism

Empire, as a political structure, shaped the experience of Modern Jewry in ways that continued beyond the collapse of the major European empires after World War I. This course explores the Jewish experience of living within three major European Empires-the Russian, Habsburg, and Ottoman Empires. What social, cultural, and economic realities did Jews face as citizens of diverse and expansive bureaucratic empires? It explores religious, cultural, and political developments through the early modern and modern period, focusing particularly on promises of salvation (both political and religious); Jewish, Christian, and Muslim coexistence; and how modernization and a changing world affected Jews’ every day realities within the empire. The course begins with the arrival of false messiah Shabtai Tzvi in 1648 and continues until after World War I, when Jews were viewed suspiciously for having been loyal citizens of their respective Empires in their new nation states. It focuses on topics such as religious movements, secularization, economic realities, communal structures and the development of modern Jewish cultures, the careers of merchant traders, intra-Jewish prejudices, the rise of Zionism and socialism, and living with anti-Semitism.

Satisfies a History major and minor requirement.
Satisfies a Center for Interdisciplinary Studies major requirement.
Satisfies a Russian Studies minor requirement. 
Satisfies the Historical Thought Ways of Knowing requirement.
Satisfies the Cultural Diversity requirement.
 

HIS 336 - Sexual Revolutions:Women, Gender, & Sex in Modern Europe

Satisfies the Historical Thought requirement. 
Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement.

HIS 337 - Anti-Semitism and Modern Europe

This class examines anti-Semitism and its opponents in 20th Century Europe, beginning with the Dreyfus Affair and continuing until the post-communist Jewish culture boom in Eastern Europe. It considers how anti-Semitism has motivated European political and social movements, as well as how both Jewish and non-Jewish political, cultural, and social movements have envisioned their work as responses to anti-Semitism. Topics include: the Dreyfus Affair; Protocols of the Elders of Zion (the most enduring anti-Semitic pamphlet of all time); Nationalism and anti-Semitism; Zionism, Bundism and other Jewish political movements as “answers” to anti-Semitism; Nazi propaganda, rescue, uprisings, and other forms of resistance during World War II; reckoning with the Holocaust; the complicated reality of Jewish life under communism; and recent Jewish culture festivals and tourism in Europe. 

HIS 340 - Colonial America

Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought requirement. 
Students entering before 2012: satisfies History requirement.

HIS 341 - The Era of the American Revolution

Satisfies Historical Thought requirement.

HIS 343 - The Old South

Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought requirement. 
Students entering before 2012: satisfies History requirement.

HIS 344 - The South since 1865

Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought requirement.
Students entering before 2012: satisfies History requirement.

HIS 346 - The Civil War and Reconstruction

Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought requirement.
Students entering before 2012: satisfies History requirement.

HIS 351 - Native American History to 1840

This course is an interdisciplinary survey of American Indian history from the period immediately prior to contact with Europeans and Africans until the end of the removal era. We will learn how Native people have survived the colonization of their homelands, and we will focus on key reasons explaining cultural continuity despite change over time. Likewise, we will seek to understand the “big picture” of Indigenous North America, but we will not attempt to create a “master narrative” that summarizes the stories of all Native peoples. Rather, because we take cultural and experiential diversity as our starting point and recognize that what brings Native American people together today is not a monolithic past or a uniform present, we will draw comparisons among the Indigenous nations of the United States. Our goal is a nuanced appreciation for the range of Native American experiences and not a simplistic chronology. Course content will expose students to the histories of many Native societies in relationship to their arts, sciences, and spiritual traditions. We will cultivate a respect for diversity and an appreciation of the values and ethics of Indigenous civilizations.

Counts towards the Western History (Europe & US) requirement in the History major.
Satisfies a requirement in the History minor.
Satisfies an Historical Thought requirement.
Satisfies the Cultural Diversity requirement.

HIS 352 - Native America since 1840

This course is an interdisciplinary survey of American Indian history covering expansion into the trans-Mississippi West in the mid-nineteenth century through the beginning of the twenty-first century. We will learn how Native people have survived the incorporation of their homelands into the United States, and we will focus on key reasons explaining cultural continuity despite change over time. Likewise, we will seek to understand the “big picture” of Indigenous North America, but we will not attempt to create a “master narrative” that summarizes the stories of all Native peoples. Rather, because we take cultural and experiential diversity as our starting point and recognize that what brings Native American people together today is not a monolithic past or a uniform present, we will draw comparisons among the Indigenous nations of the United States, including rural and urban communities and Alaska and Hawaii. Our goal is a nuanced appreciation for the range of experiences and not a simplistic chronology. We will cultivate awareness of the values and ethics of Indigenous civilizations by learning about the range of ways that Native peoples have responded to attempts to assimilate them and are currently revitalizing their cultures.

Satisfies the Western history (European & US) requirement in the History major.
Satisfies a requirement in the History minor.
Satisfies an Historical Thought requirement.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.

 

HIS 354 - United States Foreign Policy since 1890

Satisfies the Historical Thought requirement.

HIS 355 - American Legal History

Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought requirement.
Students entering before 2012: satisfies History requirement.

HIS 356 - Presidents and First Ladies

This course examines U.S. presidents and first ladies - their backgrounds, personalities, strengths, weaknesses, goals, policies, successes, and failures - from George and Martha Washington to the present.  Students will study these figures in their own right, will contextualize them historically, and will compare and contrast them to others who held the same offices.

Satisfies an Historical Thought requirement.

HIS 357 - The Civil Rights Movement in the United States

Satisfies a requirement in the Africana Studies major (Geographic Region: North America).
Satisfies a requirement in the Communication Studies interdisciplinary major and minor.
Satisfies Historical Thought requirement. 
Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement.

HIS 358 - Civil Rights Wars, Civil Rights Warriors

An oral history-based course that examines the lawyers and litigants who, in the 1960s and 1970s, accepted personal and financial risk to challenge Jim Crow laws.  Students will interview and videotape the courageous lawyers and prepare a video documentary.  Research essays on current civil rights topics as well.

Satisfies a requirement in the Africana Studies major (Geographic Region: North America).
Satisfies a requirement in the Communication Studies major and minor.

Prerequisites & Notes
Spring

HIS 360 - History of the Caribbean: Race, Nation, and Politics (=AFR 360, =LAS 360)

This course explores the history of the Caribbean from pre-Colombian times to the present. The goal of the class is to trace the emergence of modern Caribbean nations beginning from their status as slave colonies of the not-so-distant past within an emphasis on the central role the Caribbean islands have played in global history.  Particular emphasis is given to the maintenance of European and North American imperial enterprises and the elaboration of racial ideologies growing out of the diversity that has characterized the island populations.  Issues to be addressed include colonialism, piracy, sugar revolution, slavery and emancipation, national independence, tourism, and Caribbean migrations. Cuba, Haiti, and Jamaica will be the main areas under consideration, although texts from other islands such as the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Martinique are included.

Satisfies a requirement in the Africana Studies major (Geographic Region: Latin America/Caribbean).
Satisfies a requirement in Latin American Studies major and minor.
Satisfies a requirement in the History major or minor.
Satisfies the Historical Thought requirement.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.

HIS 362 - The 1959 Cuban Revolution (=AFR 235, =LAS 235)

This course explores the historical underpinnings of the 1959 Cuban Revolution, U.S.-Cuban relations, and how Cubans have experienced the changes the island has undergone in the past 100 years. Particular attention is given to people of African descent who make up over a one-third of the island’s population. This Cuban narrative illuminates a variety of themes including the spread of U.S. imperialism, Cuba’s fight for sovereignty, and race relations in the Americas.  

Satisfies a major requirement in Africana Studies (Geographic Region: Latin American/Caribbean).
Satisfies a major or minor requirement in History.
Satisfies a major or minor requirement in Latin American Studies.
Satisfies the Historical Thought requirement.
Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.