Fall 2005 Course Descriptions
200-400 Level
HIS
203 - History of Africa to 1870
MW 3:30-4:45 Writing Intensive
Colleen Kriger
What is civilization? This course
examines the variety of African civilizations throughout the continent, from
ancient times up to the 19th century, and how closer study of African history
has prompted scholars to revise the way "civilization" is defined. We
will focus on ancient civilizations in Africa, the empires and city-states of
the Islamic period, and the rise of trade with Europe, especially the Atlantic
slave trade and its effects on African societies.
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HIS 211 - United States History to 1865
General survey of American history from colonization through the Civil War.
211-01 Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie MW 1:00-1:50
Registration in one of the following discussion sections on Friday at 12:00 or 1:00 is required: HIS 211D-01, HIS 211D-02, HIS 211D-04, HIS 211D-05, HIS 211D-06.
211-02 Watson Jennison MW 9:00-9:50
Registration in one of the following discussion sections on Friday at 9:00, 10:00 or 1:00 is required: HIS 211D-07, HIS 211D-08, HIS 211D-09, HIS 211D-10.
211-81 Susannah Link Online
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HIS 215-01 - Civilizations of Asia
TR 2:00-3:15
James A. Anderson
This course is an introduction to the pre-modern history of Asia, and will focus
on the following countries: China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Most students
in the West may only be familiar with these nations in the context of the traumatic
episodes of war and violence and revolution that swept the region throughout
the twentieth century. However, these countries are heirs to long histories
of cultural brilliance and diversity. In this class we will first explore
how the history of this region has shaped the common bonds that bring this part
of the world together as a whole. Secondly, we will consider how the literary
traditions of these various societies depict the social and political conditions
from which modern Asian nations would later emerge.
HIS 221 - Medieval Legacy
TR 11:00-12:15
Richard E. Barton
Survey of Western European history from the end of the Roman Empire to the fifteenth century exploring such varied aspects of the medieval experience as pilgrimage, crusade, peasant life, the emergence of nation states, and the rise of the university.
HIS 222 - Europe 1400-1789
222-01 Jodi Bilinkoff TR 2:00-3:15 Speaking Intensive Section
222-02 Frank T. Melton MWF 9:00-9:50
222-03 Frank T. Melton MWF 11:00-11:50
Survey of major socio-economic, political,
and cultural trends in Europe from the Renaissance to the French Revolution.
HIS 223 - Modern Europe
223-01 Jeff Jones MW 3:30-4:45
223-02 Eve Duffy
TR 11:00-12:15
A survey of the political, social
and cultural history of Europe from the time of the French Revolution to the
present. Emphasis will be placed on the political culture and the emergence
of the great ideological systems of the West (e.g., liberalism, conservatism,
socialism, communism, nationalism, and fascism).
HIS 240 - Latin America: National Period
TR 12:30-1:45
Mary Floyd
In this introductory survey of the history of Latin America from the late eighteenth century to the early twenty-first century, we will explore the political dynamics, social transformations, and the economic evolution of Latin America. We will also attempt to keep track of three themes as they unfold over the two centuries: economic change, the evolution of democracy, and revolutionary movements. This course meets the following requirements: CNW, GHP, GMO, GN, NW.
HIS 302 - Race and Segregation
MWF 11:00-11:50
Watson Jennison
Race and segregation in the United States since the Civil War, including the origins of the Jim Crow laws, the civil rights movement, black urbanization, the Harlem Renaissance, black nationalism, and the African American experience in America.
HIS 310 - Daughters of Eve
TR 9:30-10:45 Speaking Intensive
Richard E. Barton
This course offers an introduction to the experience of women in the Middle Ages through close examination of writings by and about women. In
so doing we will be less concerned with the more traditional elements of medieval history and more interested in how such elements came to shape women's lives and opportunities. One of the central themes will be the importance of gender as a category of cultural difference; with this in mind we will spend a fair amount of time considering the ways in which medieval society defined femininity, appropriate female behavior, and
the female body, as well as the ways in which those definitions and understandings changed over time.
HIS 325 - History of the American Home
TR 3:30-4:45 Writing and Research Intensive
Lisa Tolbert
From the frontier log cabin to the suburban cottage, the single-family home has served as one of the most powerful symbols of American culture and American identity. While homeownership has been a central goal in the fulfillment of the "American Dream," Americans have experimented with and reinvented their houses in a variety of ways that offer a deeper and more complex understanding of American life than the simplicity of the "Dream" might suggest. This course will take you from the colonial period through the twentieth century as we study houses as historical evidence of social change. Rather than a descriptive focus on stylistic or aesthetic changes in American house design, emphasis will be on analysis of the home
as an idea and houses as physical and material spaces. How, for example, did the invention of the parlor document new ideas about private life, new gender roles, and developments in commerce and technology related to the home? As the semester unfolds, we will explore such subjects as the symbolism and politics of domesticity, the evolving functions of particular rooms and spaces, new technologies that reshaped houses, and the diversity of American homes based on region, ethnicity, and class.
HIS 328 - Women in American History, Part I
MWF 10:00-10:50
Susanna Lee
This course looks at the history of women and gender hierarchy in the area that is now the United States. We will begin with Native American women's lives before and during contact with Europeans, including different nations of Native Americans' relationships with
French, British and Spanish colonizers in the midwest, east and southwest.
We will also look at diverse topics such as colonial midwives and early medical
practices, education in the early republic, the role of women in families, women
and slavery, black and white women active in the abolition movement, feminism
in the 1830s and the first women factory workers.
HIS 340-01 - United States since World War II
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MW 2:00-3:15 Writing and Research Intensive
Thomas F. Jackson
An in-depth examination of several
important social, political and international trends and events that have shaped
the contemporary U.S.: atomic weapons, the Cold War and Vietnam; the black freedom
movement, radicalism and Great Society liberalism; feminism; conservative movements
from McCarthyism to the New Right; mass immigration from Latin America and Asia
and the nativist reaction.
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HIS 347 - History of North Carolina
347-01 Laurinda deBeck MWF 10:00-10:50
347-02 Laurinda deBeck TR 9:30-10:45
This is a survey course. It spans more than 400 years of state history - from colonization to the present. It is
American history with the spotlight on North Carolina. Objectives of the course
include an examination of:
- when, how, and why North Carolina developed as
it did.
- How its actions and reactions were similar or different from the
other states.
- How the development of its economic, social, and political
structure determines present-day North Carolina with special emphasis on such
topics as: a) the economy b) politics c) race relations.
HIS 351 - History of Greece, 2000 BC-31 BC
MW 2:00-3:15
Stephen Ruzicka
Mycenaean society, Greek "dark ages," colonization and tyranny, Athens and Sparta, flowering in the fifth and fourth centuries, conquests of Alexander, Hellenistic empires, and the diffusion of Greek civilization. (Same as CCI 351)
HIS 371 - Europe Since WWI
TR 12:30-1:45 Writing and Research Intensive
Paul Mazgaj
A survey of modern Europe with emphasis on the two world wars, political ideologies and cultural developments, and the postwar movement to European integration.
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HIS 373-01 - English History to 1660
TR 2:00-3:15
Frank T. Melton
From 55 BC to the restoration of
Charles II in 1660, this course surveys all the major developments- Roman, Britain,
the Anglo-Saxons, Normans, and Medieval England, the Reformation and the Puritan
Revolution. Within each period the main political, intellectual, religious,
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HIS 374-01 - English History since 1660
MW 2:00-3:15
Staff TBA
HIS 375 - Germany in the Nineteenth Century
MWF 11:00-11:50
Karl Schleunes
Examination of German social and political structures and their functioning between 1800 and outbreak of World War I. Attendant emphasis placed upon cultural and intellectual issues which illuminate German (and European) culture of the nineteenth century.
HIS 377 - Russian History to 1900
MW 2:00-3:15
Jeff Jones
This course surveys Russian history
from its beginning around 800 AD through the Kievan Rus period, the Mongol invasion,
and the rise of Muscovy. The course focuses on the turbulent reigns of
Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, Nicholas I, and Russia's
reformist tsar Alexander II. We will deal with Russia's ever-changing
social, economic, and cultural development and end on the eve of revolutionary
turmoil in the 20th century.
HIS 381 - The Near and Middle East
R 6:00-8:50
Ann P. Saab
This course deals with the history of the Israel and the Muslim Middle East in the twentieth century. After a background of events before and during the two world wars, we will examine a series of continuing controversial issues, such as the Arab-Israeli conflict, the revolution in Iran, and the use of oil. Student reading and discussion will be emphasized.
HIS 390 - History Internship
Field learning experience in public or applied history. Academic supervision provided by job supervisor. Assigned
reading and written reports. May be repeated. Prerequisite: Consent of Department Head.
HIS 401, 402 - Independent Study
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