Undergraduate History Courses Fall 2006 UGC 111 World Civilization 1 Professor Sreenivasan W F 2 00 2 50 Reg recitation section This course introduces students to the development of world civilizations from prehistory to about 1500 and concerns the peoples forces and ideas that have shaped the way individuals have experienced and still do experience the world In this course we will focus on the origins and development of societies states economies and cultures in different parts of the world and their interactions with each other The course will emphasize the common threads in the emergence of early human societies and then explore how and why their paths diverged Recitation sections registration in a recitation section gives automatic registration in the lecture B1 W 10 00 10 50 Reg 471441 B6 W 12 00 12 50 Reg 134330 B2 T 11 00 11 50 243616 B7 W 4 004 50 407943 B3 T 2 00 2 50 197971 B8 F 10 00 12 50 110887 B4 T 3 30 3 50 369673 B9 R 2 00 2 50 426811 B5 F 12 00 12 50 291976 B10 M 10 00 10 50 294651 UGC 111 World Civilization I Professor Larkin T R 9 30 10 20 Reg recitation section This course will examine the rise of major human institutions in Europe and Asia Special emphasis will be placed on the region that was until well after the time period covered the this course home to the largest intellectually most sophisticated technologically most advanced and wealthiest areas in the world namely Asia We will explore in some detail the religious philosophical and technological innovations made in Asia We will also consider the European response to the power and wealth of Asia Readings will include a textbook and selections from primary materials Recitation sections registration in a recitation section gives automatic registration in the lecture F1 M 1 00 1 50 Reg 360696 F6 M 11 00 11 50 Reg 355326 F2 T 12 30 1 20 165155 F7 R 3 30 4 20 193900 F3 R 12 30 1 20 382476 F8 F 2 00 2 50 203174 F4 M 2 00 2 50 053752 F9 F 11 00 11 50 469516 F5 R 2 00 2 50 098755 F10 F 12 00 12 50 416693 UGC 112 World Civilization 2 Professor Pack T R 2 00 2 50 Reg recitation section This course outlines the major events and trends that have shaped the modern world since roughly 1500 Major topics will include the rise of the modern empires the advance of globalization the process of emancipation of the individual the development of nationalism and the modern state system and the major wars and genocides of the twentieth century Students will be required to write three 2 page papers on particular reading assignments There will also be a midterm paper 4 5 pages and a final paper 5 6 pages Attendance and participation in the discussion section is required Recitation sections registration in a recitation section gives automatic registration in the lecture B1 R 9 30 10 20 Reg 195571 B6 M 3 00 3 50 Reg 003912 B2 M 11 00 11 50 188130 B7 W 9 00 9 50 457965 B3 M 9 00 9 50 490591 B8 F 1 00 1 50 277752 B4 M 4 00 4 50 456419 B9 R 3 00 3 50 218488 B5 W 11 00 11 50 017838 B10 R 4 00 4 50 242671 Myth and Religion in the Ancient World Professor Woodard M W F 10 00 10 50 Reg 410904 Earliest mythologies of several ancient civilizations especially Greek Indic Germanic and Semitic studied as a source for early interpretations of the relations among the divine the cosmos society and the individual Cross listed with CL 113 reg 086240 and RSP 113 reg 343300 EAR HIS 152 Western Civilization Professor Dewald T R 11 00 12 20 Reg 342810 This course examines European modernity from about 1450 to about 2000 the conditions of its emergence its varied forms the ways in which men and women have understood their experience of it That experience has been marked by the mixture of societal progress with cataclysmic violence The centures that the course examines include Europe s conquest of the Americas and its increasing dominance over other parts of the globe the period also includes religious wars the French and Russian Revolutions world wars and the Holocaust But during these same years European societies also enjoyed new levels of prosperity and new forms of democratic political action Are modernity and violence necessarily linked The question looms behind the details of European history in these years Reading assignments consist mainly of primary sources reflections by contemporaries about the conditions of their lives and the social changes going on around them There will be a take home mid term examination take home final examination and a short about seven pages essay each dealing with the assigned reading and each counting for about one third of the total grade EAR HIS 161 U S History I Instructor Marshall M W 7 00 8 20 Reg 115315 This course will survey the history of America until the end of the Civil War We will focus on the cultural intellectual political religious and economic development of America in order to uncover how America developed as it did We will treat selected topics in depth such as Puritanism the American Revolution and the writing of the Constitution of the United States the Market Revolution Slavery Antebellum Culture and the Civil War The course is lecture based but we will examine and discuss selected primary sources from each event or period in order to develop your skills as historians USH HIS 161 U S History I Professor Seeman M W 9 00 9 50 Reg recitation section This course will provide students with a foundation for better understanding the origins of the country in which we live Many of the themes we will cover resonate throughout the history of America the interactions sometimes cooperative sometimes conflictual among people of different races and ethnicities the growth of a society in which religion plays a central role the creation of a distinctly American form of government in which ordinary people have a say and the place of the family in negotiating changes occurring in the workplace and economy These themes will be explored as we examine early America chronologically beginning with the native societies that lived here before European contact continuing through the early colonization by the English French and Spanish and through the era when America declared its independence from England The second half of the semester will consider the consolidation of slavery as the dominant labor organization of the South and its ultimate result in the Civil War Requirements for this class include faithful attendance at lectures and discussions several one page papers one threepage paper a mid term and a final