History 1151 - American History to 1877
Instructor: Teague, Greyson Edwards
Days/Time: Online, asynchronous
Session: 4-wk Session 1
Description: The political, constitutional, social, and economic development of the United States from the colonial period through the era of Reconstruction.
Prerequisites and Special Comments: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 1150 or 2001. GE historical study course. GE foundation historical and cultural studies course. This course is available for EM credit.
History 1152 - American History since 1877
Instructor: Schoof, Markus
Days/Time: Online, asynchronous
Session: 4-wk Session 2
Description: The political, constitutional, social and economic development of the United States from the end of Reconstruction to the present.
Prerequisites and Special Comments: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 1150 or 2002. GE historical study course. GE foundation historical and cultural studies course. This course is available for EM credit.
History 1211 - European History
Instructor: Parker, Geoffrey
Days/Time: Online; 1 synchronous recitation each Monday and 2 asynchronous lectures each week
Session: 8 wk Session 1
Description: For better or worse, Western societies have become extremely prominent in the world today – not just in the West but (thanks to Karl Marx and the Internet) around the world. How did this process begin? What is distinctive about Western values? These are two of the questions that this course seeks to answer. In addition, we will examine How Things Happen:
- Why did the West develop at such an early stage the right to free speech guaranteed in
this country by the First Amendment?
- Why were 50% of all Western populations in this period under the age of 20?
- How could 167 Spaniards overthrow the Inca Empire, with perhaps 8 million subjects,
and go on to dominate much of South America?
The course also offers strategies on how to identify, among masses of facts, the aberration from the trend, the cause from the contingent, the important from the incidental, and the continuities among the changes.
Assigned Readings:
Wiesner-Hanks, Crowston, Perry & McKay, A history of Western society, Volume I: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment, 13th edition (2020)
Wiesner-Hanks, Evans, Wheeler and Ruff, Discovering the Western Past, Volume I: to 1789, 7th edition (2015)
Assignments:
- Watch all materials for the course posted online
- Read and discuss all assigned readings; attend and participate in all group discussions (20% of total grade)
- Complete all assigned recitation exercises (20% of total grade)
- one 5-page term paper (30% of total grade)
- one final exam (30% of total grade)20
Prerequisites and Special Comments: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 1210, 2201, 2201H, 2202, 2203, or 2205. This course is available for EM credit. GE historical study and diversity global studies course. GE foundation historical and cultural studies course.
History 1212 - European History 2
Instructor: Freeman, Nikki
Days/Time: Online, asynchronous
Session: 4-wk Session 1
Description: Political, scientific, and industrial revolutions; nationalism; the two World Wars; the decline of empires; the Cold War
Prerequisites and Special Comments: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 1210, 2203, 2204. This course is available for EM credit. GE historical study and diversity global studies course. GE foundation historical and cultural studies course.
History 1681 - World History to 1500
Instructor: Misa, Henry
Days/Time: Online, asynchronous
Session: 4-wk Session 2
Description: This course will explore the diversity of human experience between the agricultural revolution and the dawn of the early modern era. In part one, we will take a chronological approach and explore the major historical processes and transformations that have shaped world history from the beginnings of the human civilization up to 1500 CE. Then, in part two, we will take a thematic approach to discuss four major themes in pre-modern world history: religion/cosmology, trade/exchange, gender/family, and environment/disease. Over the course of four weeks, this course will introduce students to the main topics of world history. The course is designed for a wide range of students in mind: those who know a lot about history, those who know nothing at all, and everyone in between. The assigned readings cover a wide variety of topics and are intended to promote critical thinking and discussion.
Assigned Readings:
No purchase of textbooks is required. All required readings will be available on Carmen or the library website.
Assignments:
Four interactive discussion posts, three primary source reading reflections, one map quiz, and one exam.
Prerequisites and Special Comments: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 2641. This course is available for EM credit. GE historical study and diversity global studies course. GE foundation historical and cultural studies course.
History 1682 - World History 1500 - Present
Instructor: Humphrey, Neil
Days/Time: Online, asynchronous
Session: 4-wk Session 1
Description: This class explores the most important transformations that have altered the course of global history over the preceding five centuries. How did the Columbian Exchange begin the process of recreating Pangea—a supercontinent that broke apart some 200,000,000 years ago? How did African slaves actively shape the landscape, culture, and lifeways of the areas that they were forcibly relocated to? How was the industrial revolution—a process beginning in England—adopted up by other countries to become a global phenomenon that radically changed traditional lifestyles and the global environment? These are some of the big questions—and broad themes—that we will unpack during our time together. Integration, connection, and migration will anchor this course as we examine the movement of humans, animals, ideas, technologies, and commodities across the globe. Not only will we ascertain why these events were important in the past, but you will leave this course understanding how these historical events fundamentally influence your life today.
Assigned Readings:
None - all assigned readings will be included on the Carmen page.
Prerequisites and Special Comments: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 2642. This course is available for EM credit. GE historical study and diversity global studies course. GE foundation historical and cultural studies course.
History 2201 - Ancient Greece and Rome
Instructor: Turner, James
Days/Time: Online, asynchronous
Session: 8-wk Session 1
Description: Comparative historical analysis of ancient Mediterranean civilizations of the Near East, Greece, and Rome from the Bronze Age to Fall of Rome.
Prerequisites and Special Comments: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 1211 or 301. GE historical study course. GE foundation historical and cultural studies course.
History 2204 - Modern European History
Instructor: Esposito, James
Days/Time: Online, asynchronous
Session: 6-wk Session 2
Description: Examination of selected themes from the history of Modern Europe from the French Revolution to the Present.
Prerequisites and Special Comments: PEnglish 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 1212. GE historical study and diversity global studies course. GE foundation historical and cultural studies course. No required textbooks.
History 2210 - Classical Archaeology
Instructor: Vanderpuy, Peter
Days/Time: Online, asynchronous
Session: 6-wk Session 1
Description: Introduction to the principles, methods, and history of archaeological investigation in the ancient Greek and Roman world, illustrated through a selection of major classical sites.
Prerequisites and Special Comments: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 306, Clas 2301 (240), or HistArt 2301 (306). GE cultures and ideas and historical study and diversity global studies course. Cross-listed in Clas 2301 and HistArt 2301
History 2353 - The Middle East Since 1914
Instructor: Akin, Yiğit
Days/Time: Online, asynchronous
Session: 4-wk Session 1
Description: This course presents a foundational overview of the political, social, economic, and cultural history of the Middle East from the late-nineteenth century to the present. It aims to go beyond the simplistic generalizations and stereotypes about the region and its people by introducing students to the complexities of the Middle East’s modern history and its present. The course also aims to enable students to adopt an informed and critical perspective on the region’s current conflicts and challenges. Among other issues, we will pay particular attention to the following topics: nineteenth century reformism; economic dependency, imperialism, and anti-imperialism; nationalism and nation state formation; the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; women’s experiences; U.S. involvement in the region; the Islamic Revolution in Iran; the rise of Islamist movements; and recent upheavals in the Middle East. This course offers students the chance to explore these issues through a variety of media—academic works, film, fiction, and other primary sources.
Assigned Readings:
- Sandy Tolan, The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East (Bloomsbury, 2007) ISBN-13: 978-1596913431 [Paperback]
- All other readings will be available online through Carmen.
Assignments:
Attendance & participation, quizzes, response papers, writing assignment, take home final exam
Prerequisites and Special Comments: Prereq: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 3358 or 540.05. GE historical study course. GE foundation historical and cultural studies course.
History 2550 - History of War
Instructor: Williams, Rob
Days/Time: Online, asynchronous
Session: 4-wk Session 3
Description:
A survey of the main concepts and issues involved in the study of war in world perspective, using case studies from prehistoric times to the present.
Prerequisites and Special Comments: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 380. GE historical study and diversity global studies course. GE foundation historical and cultural studies course.
History 2650 - The World since 1914
Instructor: Limbach, Eric
Days/Time: Online
Session: 4-wk Session 3
Description: Global perspective on major forces that shaped the world since 1914. Provides students with factual knowledge and a critical interpretive framework for responsible global citizenship.
Prerequisites and Special Comments: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. GE historical study and diversity global studies course. GE foundation historical and cultural studies course.
History 2700 - Global Environmental History
Instructor: Harris, Jim
Days/Time: Online, asynchronous
Session: 6-wk Session 2
Description: In this course, we explore how humans have shaped the environment and how the environment has shaped human history from the paleolithic to the present. Our topics will be diverse in range and scale and range from the earliest uses of fire to plagues to climate change. We will pay particularly close attention to the relationship between humans and the environment and the influence of/impacts on the various “spheres” of our planet: the atmosphere (focusing on climate change and pollution); the biosphere (ecological changes, human-animal interactions, and the role of micro-organisms), the cryosphere (the role of glaciers and ice-ages in the development of civilization); and the hydrosphere (human interactions with oceans, lakes and rivers).
Along the way we will focus on how some of the world’s major civilizations changed their environment, how nature limited their development, and how they coped—or failed to cope—with the environmental problems that civilizations inevitably produce. Students will also learn the essential background to major environmental issues and consider how history might (or might not) help us confront environmental challenges in the present and future.
Required Texts / Assigned Readings:
- Alfred Crosby, Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity’s Unappeasable Appetite for Energy (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2006).
- J.R. McNeill and Peter Engelke, The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014).
Assignments:
Weekly Quizzes + Writing Exercises
Term Paper
Prerequisites and Special Comments: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. GE historical study and soc sci human, nat, and econ resources and diversity global studies course. GE foundation historical and cultural studies and social and behavioral sci course.
History 2701 - History of Technology
Instructor: Cahn, Dylan
Days/Time: Online, asynchronous
Session: 6-wk Session 1
Description: Survey of the history of technology in global context from ancient times.
Prerequisites and Special Comments: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. GE historical study course. GE theme lived environments course.
History 2702 - Food in World History
Instructor: Cahn, Dylan
Days/Time: Online, asynchronous
Session: 8-wk Session 1
Description: Survey of the history of food and drink, diet and nutrition in a global context.
Prerequisites and Special Comments: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. GE historical study and diversity global studies course. GE theme sustainability course.
History 2800 - Introduction to the Discipline of History
Instructor: Anderson, Greg
Days/Times: Online, asynchronous
Session: 8-wk Session 2
Description: Investigation of the methods and analytical approaches historians use to understand the past.
Prerequisites and Special Comments: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor.
History 3014 - Gilded Age to Progressive Era, 1877-1920
Instructor: Meier, Dustin
Days/Times: Online, asynchronous
Session: 4-wk Session 3
Description: Advanced study of U.S. social, political, cultural, foreign policy history from 1877-1920: Industrialization; immigration; urbanization; populism; Spanish-American War; progressivism; WWI.
Prerequisites and Special Comments: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. GE historical study and diversity soc div in the US course. GE theme citizenship for div and just wrld course.
History 3030 - History of Ohio
Instructor: Coil, William
Days/Time: Online
Session: 8-wk Session 2
Description: Survey of economic, social, and political development of the geographic area that became Ohio from Native Americans to present.
Prerequisites and Special Comments: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. GE historical study course.
History 3270 - History of World War I
Instructor: Douglas, Sarah
Days/Time: Online, asynchronous
Session: 6-wk Session 1
Description: Origins, conduct, and consequences of the First World War in global context.
Prerequisites and Special Comments: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. GE historical study course.
History 3301 - History of Modern West Africa, post 1800
Instructor: Kobo, Ousman
Days/Time: Online, asynchronous
Session: 4-wk Session 1
Description: History of Modern West Africa since 1800; examines West African history from the era of European conquests to the present. Sometimes this course is offered in a distance-only format.
Prerequisites and Special Comments: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. GE historical study and diversity global studies course.
History 3306 - History of African Christianity
Instructor: Kobo, Ousman
Day/Time: Online, asynchronous
Session: 8-wk Session 1
Description: The development of Christianity in Africa from antiquity to the present; Christianity's interaction with Islam and indigenous religions; Mission Christianity and its aftermath. Sometimes this course is offered in a distance-only format.
Prerequisites and Special Comments: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. GE historical study and diversity global studies course.
History 3620 - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in the United States, 1940-Present
Instructor: Rivers, Daniel
Days/Time: Online, MW, 2:20-3:40pm
Session: 8-wk Session 2
Description: An overview of LGBT culture and history in the U.S. from 1940 to the present. Students will examine changes in LGBT lives and experiences during the last half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, as well as the intersections of race, sexuality, and class, and how these categories have affected sexual minority communities and broader US law and culture.
Prerequisites and Special Comments: English 1110.xx, or completion of GE Foundation Writing and Information Literacy Course, or permission of instructor. GE historical study and diversity soc div in the US course. GE foundation race, ethnicity and gender div course.
History 3798.06 - Between France and Morocco
Instructor: Conklin, Alice
Days/Time: May 4-29, study abroad
Session: 4-wk Session 1
Description: This 3-credit hour Study Abroad traces the evolution of cultural, religious, racial, and national identities in France and Morocco, focusing on shared histories between these two countries. Students will explore the ways in which the legacies of slavery, colonialism and immigration continue to shape both nations. France, a predominantly Catholic nation, controlled parts of the Caribbean, Asia and Africa (including Morocco) until the 1950s; the kingdom of Morocco was once part of a vast Islamic empire that extended into France in the 8th century. Each country today has a significant number of minorities, and thus faces, like our own country, the challenge of practicing inclusivity and respecting diversity. The first week of study will introduce students to the history and culture of Paris. For the second week, we will make the small Southern city of Aix-en-Provence our base and explore France's gateway to the Mediterranean. We will spend the third week visiting the historic cities of Marrakech, Rabat, and Casablanca in Morocco.
Assigned Readings: TBD
Assignments: On-site travel journal and final short paper
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Students in the following programs are particularly encouraged to apply:
- Todd A. Bell National Resource Center on the African American Male (BNRC)
- Latine Student Success (LSS)
- Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP)
- Morrill Scholars Program (MSP)
- Young Scholars Program (YSP)
- Program for Advancing Scholarship and Service (PASS) Scholars
- Other ASC Scholars and Scholars Groups
