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

Advanced non-classroom experiences in the field of history. Placements are off-campus, and may be full- or part-time, and with or without pay. Credit for experiences must be sought prior to occurance, and learning contracts must be submitted before the end of the first week of the semester. See the experiential learning: internship section of this catalog for more details. Restricted to students with junior standing or higher. Graded CR/NC.

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.

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the practice of responsible ethical reflection and judgment. Students will learn about the practice of moral analysis, examine many influential moral theories, such as, Virtue ethics, Deontological ethics, and Utilitarianism, and look at many contemporary moral debates in applied ethics, such as the issue of capital punishment, euthanasia, animal rights, and abortion. Restricted to students with freshman and sophomore standing. PMI Offered every semester.

This course considers the origin, nature and value of philosophy as a discipline unique in its method of exposing the underlying values in the human experience. With specific regard to the history of the Western philosophical tradition, this course aims at the development of a broad and coherent world-view. Restricted to students with freshman and sophomore standing. PMI Offered spring even years.

An analysis of the ways in which Americans have interacted with their natural environment over time: population pressures on the land, the impact of the market economy, technology, social structures and social relations involved in the use, exploitation, and conservation of a particular natural resource, and human attitudes toward the environment. HA

This class examines women as an economic force in American history. Topics will include womens unpaid and paid domestic work, women and industrialization, the growth of labor unions, female-dominated professions, and opportunities for women in higher education. Feminist frameworks of recognizing womens search for gender equality will inform the analysis of the role of race, class and ethnicity in creating sexual divisions of labor. HA

A study of selected themes and topics in the history of the 20th century. SJE, HA

The history of the three major states and socities of Asia - China, Japan, and India, since 1750, including the coming of the West, the hey-day of imperialism, nationalist stirring and responses, and the 20th century transformations. HA

The course will consider the patterns of colonization, examples of cooperation and conflict between the various groups that came into contact in South Africa, strategies of resistance to imperial control, and connections to the broader global networks of trade, imperialism, slavery, and discovery. Special attention will be given to the topics of violence, assimilation, and institutionalized racism during the colonial imperial, and post-colonial periods of South African history. HA