Visit a History ClassThe classes listed below are available for you to visit. Available dates are highlighted in green on the calendar. Use the calendar to select a date and class offering. COURSE: AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS 1890 TO PRESENT (HIST 276)With the rise of the United States as an international power in the 1890s through its current foreign policy initiatives, it has acted as a leader in the world community. This course examines the rise, decline and resurrection of the United States as a world power through its foreign relations. COURSE: PROVINCIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA (HIST 352)It’s 1787 in the new United States, and you are confronting debt, bribery, and collapsing economic opportunities while grappling with the philosophical foundations of government and differing ideas of tyranny. At the Constitutional Convention, you will be compelled by these issues to decide the proper frame of republican government. COURSE: TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE (HIST 282)This course examines the Transatlantic slave trade as a transcontinental episode that was responsible for the forced migration of millions of Africans to the Americas and Europe. It critically analyzes the various dimensions of the global forces that created the Atlantic World, experienced by tens of millions of enslaved African people. It illuminates the origins and continuing legacy of inequality based in European expansion, enslavement and economic supremacy. As an exploration of human history in the Atlantic World, this course discusses in depth the historiography of the slave trade and slavery in contemporary political, economic and social interactions of Africa, Americas and Europe.COURSE: VICTORIAN BRITIAN (HIST 334)The political, social, economic and intellectual development of England and the British Empire from the end of the Napoleonic wars to the outbreak of World War I.COURSE: WITCH HUNTING IN EUROPE (HIST 308)A thematic investigation of a significant historical topic with course structure and topic determined by the instructor prior to the preregistration period. |