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This class looks at the history of sports and games across the span of global history! Progressing through the course of human history, this class will discuss recreation, organized sports, professional sports, and the advent of modern video games. Students will develop critical thinking skills and engage with this fascinating topic by developing oral and written communication skills. This class will engage with human diversity, both inside and outside of the US through the lens of sports and games.
Through a series of historical simulations, students develop communication and oral reasoning skills by researching, writing, and participating in debates about key global political events that changed the course of history. Students will study primary and secondary sources related to the historical events. Students will draft, rewrite, and defend oral arguments based on their research, and they will conduct debates with other students in class.
A general survey of premodern East Asian civilizations -- particularly China and Japan -- from the beginning to 1800. Topics include the formation and development of East Asian civilizations and the evolving East Asian engagement with the natural environment before the 19th century.
A general survey of premodern East Asian civilizations -- particularly China and Japan -- from the beginning to 1800. Topics include the formation and development of East Asian civilizations and the evolving East Asian engagement with the natural environment before the 19th century.
Students will develop communication, reasoning, and collaborative skills through history-based exercises interrogating diverse and changing understandings of democracy in what is now the United States. Students will analyze historical sources highlighting American traditions of disagreement as well as creative compromise over the character and features of self-government, the narratives by which to understand the past, and the legacies and lessons of the past for the present. The course puts current divisions among Americans into historical context to help students widen their perspectives, work productively across differences, and learn to substantiate their opinions on public issues with historical and contemporary evidence.
This class traces the evolving history of race from its creation in early modern Europe to political uses of this history in the twenty-first century United States. Students will learn about whiteness and blackness as social constructions that implicated the trans-Atlantic slave trade, patterns of imperialism, systems of oppression, and notions of beauty in western society. Students will also be involved in historical commemoration and/or racial justice projects involving communities of color in Minnesota to reflect on how the historical context informs these activities and how history continues to be used politically.
Historical study tours provide students with the opportunity to study at an off-campus location in a tour or program organized by a History professor. In addition to the off-campus experience, the course may also include readings, assignments, and class meetings on campus before or after the tour.
Review of World History as a field of study.
This course examines U.S. constitutional history from its foundations to the current day. Students will read and analyze legal material and explore how U.S. constitutional interpretations changed over time; factors affecting change and resistance; and how constitutional change both reflected and shaped U.S. society, culture, politics, and economics.
This course moves thematically through the history of America from pre-European invasion to the 21st century and examines the history of American conceptions of sex, sexual desire, normal behaviors, and various belief systems held by different religious, political, and cultural groups. The class will also examine the ways sex, sexuality, and gender have been regulated and represented via legal, political, and social forces across time.
Students will read primary and/or secondary sources in United States history and complete writing assignments to prepare for future graduate study.
- Prerequisites:
- Permission of instructor.
Students will read primary and/or secondary sources in European history and complete writing assignments to prepare for future graduate study.
- Prerequisites:
- Permission of instructor.
Students will read primary and/or secondary sources in World history and complete writing assignments to prepare for future graduate study.
- Prerequisites:
- Permission of instructor.
The history of Greece and Rome stressing political, social and economic institutions and cultural and intellectual achievements.
A history of western monotheistic religions and their interactions with the secular world and each other from the beginnings of Judaism to the Crusades.
A history of the Middle Ages stressing political, social and economic interactions and cultural achievements.
European history from the later Middle Ages to the end of the Thirty Years' War (c. 1300-1648). Students will examine the intellectual, religious, and cultural developments in Western-Europe, with special attention given to social life and popular culture.
The history of Europe from the Treaty of Westphalia to the eve of the French Revolution (1648-1789). Course emphasizes absolutism and constitutionalism, the construction of European empires, the scientific revolution and Enlightenment, and social and economic changes.
A history of women from Classical Greece and Rome to the modern era. An analysis of the changing concepts of gender relations within a study of women as individuals and as members of socio-economic, ethnic, kin, and religious groups.
A history of the witchcraft phenomenon in Europe from the Middle Ages to 1800. The course examines the rise and decline of the European witch hunts through the history of religion, politics, law, gender, sexuality, and social life.
England from ancient times to the death of Elizabeth I.
Political, social and economic development of England and Great Britain since the death of Elizabeth I.
Review of French history from the Revolution of 1789 to the present, including such topics as origins and course of the Revolution, Napoleon, Louis XVIII to Third Republic, World War I, World War II and France since 1945.
Political, economic, social, cultural, and immigration history of the Scandinavian countries, including major themes in the mass migration and history of Scandinavians in America. Emphasis on the period, 1500-present.
This seminar course will deal with a specific aspect of United States history as announced by the department.