Independent reading and/or research under the guidance of a history faculty member. Refer to the academic policy section for independent study policy. Independent study contract is required. May be repeated for credit.

Courses on topics of interest to history students offered on the basis of need, interest, or timeliness. Restricted to students with freshman or sophomore standing. May be repeated for credit. For specific section description, click to the Section Details in VitNet.

This course uses film and relevant texts to study themes in history. The course will critically analyze how the histories of peoples, nations and culture, as well as political, economic, cultural and social conflicts are portrayed and worked out in popular films. Students will develop critical thinking skills and learn to read films as historical and cultural texts. HA

This course examines and traces the evolution of a specific urban center chosen for study by the instructor. Whether organized chronologically to investigate the social, economic, cultural, and political processes that shaped urbanization and urbanism and the human responses to them, or thematically to examine the city as political capital, entrepot, cultural center, or as financial hub, to name a few possibilities, cities are human creations at the center of civilization. This course does not include travel or study abroad. HA

This course examines and traces the evolution of a specific urban center chosen for study by the instructor. Whether organized chronologically to investigate the social, economic, cultural, and political processes that shaped urbanization and urbanism and the human responses to them, or thematically to examine the city as political capital, entrepot, cultural center, or as financial hub, to name a few possibilities, cities are human creations at the center of civilization. This course includes a period of travel and study in the chosen city and its environs.

Same as 217 without the travel and study abroad. HA

We begin our study with some context: the significant developments that established the social, political, economic, philosophical and religious foundations in which the Jesus movement entered. Combining the evidence from archeological discoveries with advances in scholarship made over the last two centuries in our historical and textual understanding of Christianitys origins, we gain a clearer understanding of the ancient struggle between roman Power and the Jewish peoples passionate belief in a just God.

A survey of Latin American history from Pre-Comlumbian civilizations to the present. The course emphasizes the complex agency of Latin American peoples in their cultural, social, political, and economic interactions. HA

A survey of the political, economic, cultural, and social developments in U.S. history from Reconstruction to the present. Restricted to students with freshman and sophomore standing. HA

A survey of the political, economic, cultural, and social developments in U.S. history from Pre-Columbian America to the Civil War. Restricted to students with freshman and sophomore standing. HA