History Archives - 51��

The Scientific Revolution in Europe

Amy Winslow-Weiss — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 15:57:05 +0000

This course will focus on scientific, philosophic and political thought from the Renaissance to the 1800s. We will examine how attitudes and ideas within these disciplines evolved, and how those changes had effects across the disciplines and society, as in art, religion and economics. The course will provide a sense of the wide-ranging and fundamental shifts that marked the end of the medieval period and the beginnings of modern ideas of society that are sometimes referred to as a ‘scientific revolution’. It will also introduce students to the methods and techniques of engaging with sources and writing history, and in particular intellectual history and the history of science.

Fall or Spring semesters

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World History Since 1500

Amy Winslow-Weiss — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 15:52:45 +0000

This course surveys the development of world cultures and their interconnectedness from the year 1500 to modern times. Students will compare various cultures to recognize their different, similar, and interconnected aspects across a period of increasing globalization and interaction through global empires, industrialization, world wars, cold wars and the internet. Students will also examine the social, political, economic and religious forces and trends that shaped the cultures collectively or independently, while exploring the methods of the discipline of history and critically analyzing both primary and secondary sources throughout the course. This course fulfills a social science or humanities elective.

All semesters

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World History to 1500

Amy Winslow-Weiss — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 15:46:08 +0000

This course surveys the development of world cultures and trends from the earliest settlements to the year 1500. Students will compare various cultures to recognize their different, similar and interconnected aspects. Students will also examine the social, political, economic, military and religious forces and trends that shaped the cultures collectively or independently, while exploring the methods of the discipline of history and critically analyzing both primary and secondary sources throughout the course. This course fulfills a social science or humanities elective.

All semesters

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History Internship

Kurniawan Antonius — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 17:08:47 +0000

This course will provide students with the opportunity to experience real world application of Social Science theory. Students will complete a minimum of 135 hours of fieldwork that builds upon previously learned concepts in the Social Sciences. Students need Department Chair approval to register for this course. Prerequisite: Permission of Department Chair.

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U.S. History Since 1945

Kurniawan Antonius — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 17:08:42 +0000

This course examines American history since World War II, with an emphasis on the social, political and economic trends, reviewing major events and trends from different perspectives. The goals of the course include a fundamental understanding of major events that shaped the period, a sense of the sources of contemporary issues and their interrelated circumstances within and without the United States, exposure to artistic and cultural developments and their historical context, the development of a chronological sense of the period, and an understanding how historiographical interpretations of events change over time. As a culminating project, students will develop an historiography on a topic relevant to the course.

Spring semester. Fulfills Social Science requirement.

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Western Civilization through 1500