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Prerequisite: HIST 1131 or HIST 1132. A study focusing on the methods of historical research in both primary and secondary sources and the skills necessary to organize and write effective research papers.

Prerequisite: HIST 1111 or HIST 1112. Students in this course will learn historical methodologies while focusing on the Modern World with an emphasis on the development of social and political ideas from around the world and the ways in which those traditions continue to influence global society. In this course students will critically read, analyze, and discuss primary sources from a variety of perspectives and place those primary courses in their proper historical contexts. Students will also learn the skills necessary to organize and write effective research papers and shorter written assignments.

Prerequisite: HIST 2111 or HIST 2112. This course engages students across an array of texts from a US perspective that will help them to better understand the role of history in our society, and the craft of the historian in the context of the liberal arts. Students will master the tools of historical research and writing, and the skills necessary to think like an historian. This course will provide foundational preparation for upper level courses in American history.

Prerequisite: HIST 1131 ,1132. The history of women in modern society, with special emphasis on the changes in the role of women accompanying the transition to industrial societies in the United States and England. (Cross-listed as WMST 3010.)

A study of the African-American experience from enslavement in Africa until the end of Reconstruction. Major themes will include: the creation of African American identity, black resistance, white oppression, the impact of gender on the black historical experience, African American cultural expression, and black community life in both slave and free communities. This course is non-repeatable.

A study of the African-American experience from the end of Reconstruction until the present. The topics covered will include: African-American political activism, economic and labor struggles, and cultural and intellectual life. This course is non-repeatable.

Prerequisite: HIST 1131 or HIST 1132. A survey of the history of England from earliest times to the Restoration.

Prerequisite: HIST 1131 or 1132. The history ofEngland from the Restoration to the present.

This course is a unique study away course that gives students in-class learning and real-world experiences during the annual spring break. Students will learn about various ethnic groups that comprise the population of the American South through a historical approach that utilizes foodways concepts. Combined with an academic approach, students will participate in hands-on activities in a teaching kitchen and during a week-long field experience in places like Savannah and Sapelo Island.

Introduction to Global Food Studies is a course that provides students with the knowledge and skill to examine the role, and importance, of food in historical and contemporary settings. Using a global perspective, this class examines the complex ways food has influenced human history. The class focuses on both the large-scale patterns as well as the more intimate ways that we experience food in our daily lives. Some of the major questions posed in this class are: How has food, or the lack of it, influenced human history; How is it produced and distributed?; Who produces the food and who controls it?; How can you use food to understand the changes in a society over time?; How does food create meaning and identity?; what is the impact of environment and weather on what we eat; and how is culture influence or represented by foodways.

Prerequisite: HIST 1131 or 1132. A historical survey of America during its formative period. Emphasis is placed on the change from colonies to mature provinces.

A survey of slavery in the United States from its origins until its demise with a particular emphasis on slave culture and the slave community.

Prerequisite: HIST 1131 or 1132. An examination of basic factors in Southern life such as the agrarian economy and racial dualism.

This course will examine the prominent place religion has occupied in the region’s history. It will involve an in-depth analysis of religion’s role in shaping the region’s most significant historical moments, from its pre-colonial beginnings to the dawning of the twenty-first century, with a particular emphasis on issues of race, gender, and class as reflected in and influenced by these religious developments.

This course will address issues relating to gender ideals, conventions, and prevailing social norms by examining the South’s history through a gendered analytical lens. It will involve an in-depth analysis of gender’s role in shaping the region’s most significant historical moments, from its pre-colonial beginnings to the dawning of the twenty-first century.

Prerequisite: HIST 1131 or 1132. Economic, social and political developments in the South from the end of Reconstruction to the present.

Prerequisite: HIST 2112. A study of the U.S. politically, economically, socially, culturally, and diplomatically in the period between World War I and World War II.

Prerequisite: HIST 1131 or 1132. This course examines the social, political, economic, and environmental issues that arose in the second half of the twentieth century.

Prerequisite: HIST 1131 or HIST 1132. This course investigates the different cultures and civilizations on the Asian continent from antiquity to 1500, including their interactions with one another and the wider world.

Prerequisite: HIST 1131 or HIST 1132. This course considers cultures and civilizations on the Asian continent from 1500 to the present, focusing on their interrelations with one another and the wider world.

Prerequisite: HIST 1131 or HIST 1132 This course surveys the rise and decline of Spanish and Portuguese imperial systems in the Americas from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries.

Prerequisite: HIST 1131 or HIST 1132. This course surveys the history of modern Latin America from the early nineteenth century to the present.

Prerequisites: HIST 1131 or HIST 1132. A survey of the significant developments in establishment and growth of various ancient civilizations and cultures including economic, social, political changes from the pre-historic period until 500 C.E.