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ENTS 307 Wilderness Field Studies: Grand Canyon 6 credits
This course is the second half of a two-course sequence focused on the study of wilderness in American society and culture. The course will begin with an Off-Campus Studies program at Grand Canyon National Park, where we will learn about the natural and human history of the Grand Canyon region, examine contemporary issues facing the park, meet with officials from the National Park Service and other local experts, conduct research, and experience the park through hiking and camping. The course will culminate in spring term with the completion and presentation of a major research project.
HIST 306 required previous winter term, Extra Time
- Spring 2022, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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History 306 and Acceptance in Wilderness Studies at the Grand Canyon OCS program
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ENTS 307.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- T, THLibrary 344 10:10am-11:55am
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ENTS 307.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- T, THLibrary 344 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 100 American Farms and Food 6 credits
What’s for dinner? The answers to that question–and others like it–have never been more complicated or consequential than they are today. Behind a glance into the refrigerator or the shelves of any supermarket lie a myriad of concerns, ideas, and cultural developments that touch on everything from health and nutrition to taste, tradition, identity, time, cost, and environmental stewardship. This seminar will consider the evolution of these interconnected issues in American history, giving particular attention to the rise, inner workings, and effects of the agro-industrial food system and to contemporary movements that seek a new path forward.
Held for new first year students
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HIST 100.01 Fall 2021
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLibrary 344 1:15pm-3:00pm
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HIST 100 Exploration, Science, and Empire 6 credits
This course provides an introduction to the global history of exploration. We will examine the scientific and artistic aspects of expeditions, and consider how scientific knowledge–navigation, medicinal treatments, or the collection of scientific specimens–helped make exploration, and subsequently Western colonialism, possible. We will also explore how the visual and literary representations of exotic places shaped distant audiences’ understandings of empire and of the so-called races of the world. Art and science helped form the politics of Western nationalism and expansion; this course will explore some of the ways in which their legacy remains with us today.
Held for new first year students
- Fall 2017, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
- Argument and Inquiry Seminar International Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 100.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Antony Adler 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 301 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 301 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 100.03 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Antony Adler 🏫 👤
- Size:14
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 2:30pm-3:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 3:10pm-4:10pm
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HIST 100.04 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Antony Adler 🏫 👤
- Size:16
- M, WWillis 203 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 203 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 100.03 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Antony Adler 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 303 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 303 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 100.02 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Antony Adler 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 231 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 231 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 100 Soot, Smog and Satanic Mills: Environment & Industrialization 6 credits
Soot, smog, water pollution, cholera, asthma… all of these and many more are environmental and health problems that we associate with industrialization. In this course, we trace the history of industrialization through the the lens of the impact of this major social and economic change on the built and natural environment and on public health. The course will focus on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England, with significant comparative work on France, and a broader chronological and regional view where appropriate.
Held for new first year students
- Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2023
- Argument and Inquiry Seminar International Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 100.04 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Susannah Ottaway 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 202 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 202 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 100.06 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Susannah Ottaway 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 303 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 303 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 100.03 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Susannah Ottaway 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 303 3:10pm-4:55pm
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HIST 111 Uncharted Waters: The History of Society and the Sea 6 credits
This course introduces students to maritime history, marine environmental history, and issues in contemporary marine policy. While traditional histories have framed the sea as an empty space and obstacle to be traversed, or as a battleground, we will approach the ocean as a contact zone, a space of labor, and as the site of focused scientific research, thereby emphasizing human interaction with the oceans. We will examine how people have come to know, utilize, and govern the world’s oceans across time and space, and we will explore how this history informs contemporary issues in maritime law, governance, and ocean conservation.
- Winter 2023, Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 111.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Antony Adler 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 304 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 304 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 111.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Antony Adler 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 402 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 131 Saints, Sinners, and Philosophers in Late Antiquity 6 credits
In Late Antiquity, Christians and pagans asked with particular intensity: How should I live? What should be my relationship to wealth, family, power, and the world? How are mind and body related in the good life and how can this relationship be controlled and directed? What place had education in the pursuit of the good life? Was the best life to be achieved through material renunciation, psychological transformation, or both? We will ask these and many other questions of a wide array of primary sources written originally in Latin, Greek, Syriac, Coptic, and Armenian while employing the insights of modern scholarship.
Extra time
- Winter 2017, Winter 2021, Fall 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 131.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 304 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 304 8:30am-9:30am
- FLeighton 301 2:20pm-3:20pm
- FLeighton 301 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 131.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 305 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 305 8:30am-9:30am
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HIST 131.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 305 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 305 8:30am-9:30am
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HIST 177 Borderlands in Latin American History 6 credits
Fluid borders, imagined frontiers, and contested territories have shaped Latin American history from the colonial period through the present. The course asks, how did people cross borders and form new identities? How did they engage with the landscape around them? Focusing on regions including Patagonia, the Gran Chaco, the Brazilian Sertão, and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, this course explores the complexity of regional, national, and transnational identities. Course themes include the relationship between mapping and power, peoples’ relationship with the environment, the enslavement of African and Indigenous peoples in frontier regions, conflicts over contested regions, and processes of nation-building.
- Winter 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 177.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 305 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 305 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 205 American Environmental History 6 credits
Environmental concerns, conflicts, and change mark the course of American history, from the distant colonial past to our own day. This course will consider the nature of these eco-cultural developments, focusing on the complicated ways that human thought and perception, culture and society, and natural processes and biota have all combined to forge Americans’ changing relationship with the natural world. Topics will include Native American subsistence strategies, Euroamerican settlement, industrialization, urbanization, consumption, and the environmental movement. As we explore these issues, one of our overarching goals will be to develop an historical context for thinking deeply about contemporary environmental dilemmas.
- Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies
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HIST 205.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 205.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 205.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 205.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 205.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 205.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:27
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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HIST 205.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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HIST 205.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 8:15am-10:00am
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HIST 205.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 8:15am-10:00am
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HIST 205.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 1:15pm-3:00pm
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HIST 205.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 1:15pm-3:00pm
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HIST 205.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 1:15pm-3:00pm
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HIST 239 Hunger, Public Policy and Food Provision in History 6 credits
For the first four weeks, the course covers the comparative history of famine, and will be led by internationally renowned economic historian Cormac O’Grada, the 2020 Ott Family Lecturer in Economic History at Carleton College. We examine causes and consequences (political, economic, demographic) and the historical memories of famines as well as case studies from Imperial Britain, Bengal and Ireland. In the second half of term, the course broadens its focus to examine the persistence of hunger and the nature of public policies related to food provision in comparative historical contexts.
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HIST 239.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Susannah Ottaway 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 330 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 263 Plagues of Empire 6 credits
The globalization of disease is often seen as a recent phenomenon aided by high-speed communication and travel. This course examines the history of the spread of infectious diseases by exploring the connection between disease, medicine and European imperial expansion. We consider the ways in which European expansion from 1500 onwards changed the disease landscape of the world and how pre-existing diseases in the tropics shaped and thwarted imperial ambitions. We will also question how far Western medicine can be seen as a benefit by examining its role in facilitating colonial expansion and constructing racial and gender difference.
- Spring 2017, Winter 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2022, Spring 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 263.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 426 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 263.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 426 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 263.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 330 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 263.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 236 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 263.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 426 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 264 A History of India Through Food 6 credits
Indian cuisine is today famed worldwide and known for its complex diversity. This course will explore food as a gateway through which to understand a broader history of society, economy and politics in the Indian subcontinent. An analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of food and spices, beginning in the ancient era and ending in contemporary times, will allow us to examine community formation, patterns of wealth distribution, and state-building strategies. We will look at topics including farming and the environment, medical and religious systems, culture, caste, and colonialism.
- Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 264.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Brendan LaRocque 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 202 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 202 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 273 Disease and Health in Latin American History 6 credits
Yellow fever, malaria, chagas, dengue, tuberculosis, and cholera preoccupied physicians, scientists, politicians, and urban planners in Latin America from the colonial period through the present. This course explores how ideas about health and disease were connected to race, ethnicity, and status during the colonial period and linked with nation-building during the nineteenth century. It examines how health and disease intertwined with imperialist projects and intersected with modernization campaigns during the twentieth century. It also considers the relationship between medical institutions, physicians, midwives, and healers. Other course topics include how perceptions about health, including mental and reproductive health, shaped people’s experiences.
- Winter 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 273.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 426 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 287 From Alchemy to the Atom Bomb: The Scientific Revolution and the Making of the Modern World 6 credits
This course examines the growth of modern science since the Renaissance with an emphasis on the Scientific Revolution, the development of scientific methodology, and the emergence of new scientific disciplines. How might a history of science focused on scientific networks operating within society, rather than on individual scientists, change our understanding of “genius,” “progress,” and “scientific impartiality?” We will consider a range of scientific developments, treating science both as a body of knowledge and as a set of practices, and will gauge the extent to which our knowledge of the natural world is tied to who, when, and where such knowledge has been produced and circulated.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Writing Requirement
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HIST 287.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Antony Adler 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 330 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 287.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Antony Adler 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 203 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 203 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 287.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Antony Adler 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:00am-11:10am
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 9:50am-10:50am
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HIST 287.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Antony Adler 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 236 8:30am-9:30am
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HIST 287.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Antony Adler 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 330 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 287.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Antony Adler 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 236 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 302 Creatures and Cultures: The History of Animals and Society 6 credits
How have animals shaped human societies and cultures, and how have humans in turn influenced the lives of animals? We will examine several historical contexts, cultures, and regions to gain a global understanding of the complexities of human-animal interactions. Other historical topics may include the ethical and political implications of these relationships as well as the impact on human societies and the environment of animal husbandry, wildlife conservation, and the display of exotic animals. Students will write a 25- to 30-page paper based on primary research and will read and critique each other’s papers.
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HIST 306 American Wilderness 6 credits
This course is part of the off-campus spring break program, involving two-linked courses in winter and spring. To many Americans, wild lands are among the nation’s most treasured places. Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Joshua Tree–the names alone evoke a sense of awe, naturalness, beauty, even love. But, where do those ideas and feelings come from, and how have they both reflected and shaped American cultural, political and environmental history over the last four centuries? These are the central issues and questions that we will pursue in this seminar.
Spring Break OCS Program Course. ENTS 307 required for Spring Term registration.
- Winter 2018, Winter 2020, Winter 2022, Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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Acceptance in Wilderness Studies at the Grand Canyon OCS program. History 205 is recommended but not required.
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HIST 306.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- T, THLibrary 344 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 306.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- T, THLibrary 344 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 306.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- T, THLibrary 344 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 308 American Cities and Nature 6 credits
Since the nation’s founding, the percentage of Americans living in cities has risen nearly sixteenfold, from about five percent to the current eighty-one percent. This massive change has spawned legions of others, and all of them have bearing on the complex ways that American cities and city-dwellers have shaped and reshaped the natural world. This course will consider the nature of cities in American history, giving particular attention to the dynamic linkages binding these cultural epicenters to ecological communities, environmental forces and resource flows, to eco-politics and social values, and to those seemingly far-away places we call farms and wilderness.
- Winter 2019, Winter 2021, Winter 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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History 205 is recommended but not required
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HIST 308.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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HIST 308.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLibrary 344 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 334 Voyages of Understanding 6 credits
This seminar will examine the phenomenon of travel across historical periods and around the globe. We will look at motivations for travel; ideas about place, space, and geography; travel as site of encounter and conflict with peoples of different religions, ethnicities, and cultures; the effect of travel on individual and group identity; and representations of travel, cultural contact, and geography in texts, maps, and images. We will work on key research skills, and each student will carry out an original research project leading to a ca. 25-page research paper.
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HIST 334.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Victoria Morse 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLibrary 344 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLibrary 344 2:20pm-3:20pm
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Applies to multiple history fields. Consult the instructor.
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HIST 335 Ireland: Land, Conflict, Memory 6 credits
This course explores the history of Ireland from Medieval times through the Great Famine, ending with a look at the Partition of Ireland in 1920. We examine themes of religious and cultural conflict and explore a series of English political and military interventions. Throughout the course, we will analyze views of the Irish landscape, landholding patterns, and health and welfare issues. Finally, we explore the contested nature of history and memory as the class discusses monuments and memory production in Irish public spaces.
- Fall 2019, Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Writing Requirement
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HIST 335.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Susannah Ottaway 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLibrary 305 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLibrary 305 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 335.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Susannah Ottaway 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 330 10:10am-11:55am
- T, THLeighton 202 10:10am-11:55am
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IDSC 258 Consensus or Contentious? Controversies in Science Then and Now 2 credits
Almost every global challenge confronting humankind requires some level of engagement with science and technology. However, finding solutions to our most pressing problems also requires an understanding of how science operates within its social, political, and cultural context. This course will explore the relationship between science and society by examining a series of controversies in science from both the past and the present. We will investigate topics such as biological and social concepts of race, the use of unethically obtained scientific results, the ethics of genomics research, legislation over vaccination mandates, “parachute” science, and climate change denial. Examining the role of science in society will help us understand issues related to the use of evidence, expertise, and the relationship between science and politics. By wrestling with current and historic scientific controversies, we will examine the ways in which scientific disagreements are often as much about values as they are about research methods.
- Winter 2023, Winter 2024
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IDSC 258.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Antony Adler 🏫 👤 · Rika Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- WAnderson Hall 323 1:50pm-3:00pm
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IDSC 258.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Antony Adler 🏫 👤 · Rika Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- FAnderson Hall 323 2:20pm-3:20pm