人文学院
History Undergraduate Course Descriptions
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**This is not a complete list of course offerings. 请使用课程目录 SOAR提供准确的建议.**
他201年
美国历史上
Dr. 约翰的冬天
T / TH 9:30-10:45AM
This course is a survey of American history from Reconstruction to the present day.
Through lectures, readings, and in-class discussions, we will examine the major political
events, social and economic developments, international influences, and cultural changes
that have impacted the nation since 1877. 到最后 class, we will have a
better understanding of how we got to where we are today, what role the United States
plays in the world, and the many ways individuals and communities shape and are shaped
他们周围的世界.
他330年
中世纪早期
Dr. 考特尼Luckhardt
米/ W 9:30-10:45AM
This course will introduce students to a formative period of early medieval history,
300-1000 CE. We will emphasize the mash-up of Roman, Germanic, Christian, and non-Christian
traditions into a new medieval civilization. We will trace the development of communities
and cultures; social relations and economic conditions; political, religious and intellectual
制度和思想. The principal goal will be to acquire an informed understanding
of certain themes, such as “ethnogenesis” (nation or ethnic formation); the significance
of monotheism (belief in one god); the nature of medieval source material, especially
historical texts, religious texts, and material culture (archaeology). 我们的任务
the semester will be to examine the transformation of the relatively unified, urbanized,
polytheistic Roman Empire of Late Antiquity into the distinct, deurbanized, monotheistic,
and politically divided civilizations of Latin (Catholic) Christendom, Greek (Orthodox)
Christendom, and the Caliphates of Islam.
他350年
公共历史
Dr. 约翰的冬天
T / TH 2:30-3:45PM
Students in this course will engage with the theory and methods of public history.
本课程分为两个部分. Section 1 is the scholarly analysis of public
history and museums through readings, case studies, and seminar-style discussions.
We will analyze the philosophy and practice of the museums and historic homes, explore
what it means to do "activist" public humanities, explore the wide world of digital
history, and interrogate the purpose and power of public parks and memorials. 由
end of this section, we will have addressed the question: what is public history and
究竟谁是公众? In Section 2, we will meet every class period at the
Special Collections in the McCain Library and Archives. 作为一个团体，在协助下
of USM librarians, you will conduct research on a topic related to the semesterly
theme and contribute to a publicly accessible exhibition on the history of USM. 你
will do this in small teams and present your group projects to the campus community.
他424年
World in the 20th Century: Global History of Mass Incarceration
Dr. 卡蒂亚Maslakowski
T / TH 1:00-2:15PM
Prisons and jails across the globe currently hold more than 10 million people, approximately
one-fifth of them in the United States alone. 本课程向学生介绍
intertwined histories of the modern prison and various types of detention camps (concentration,
forced labor, prisoner-of-war, refugee) that became ubiquitous over the course of
现代. With an eye to both similarity and difference, the course aims to
investigate these developments from an integrated global perspective in an effort
to understand the ideas behind the implementation of specific systems of confinement
and the lived experience of those confined.
他的471/571
美国边境
Dr. 帕特里克Hoehne
米/ W 1:00-2:15PM
This cross-listed course for graduate and advanced undergraduate students explores
the history and mythology of the American West. “狂野西部”在美国经久不衰
memory as a dangerous, violent, and romantic region. 的确，是金子、枪和绞架
continue to dominate many of our popular representations of this history. 但是
西部扩张真的像这样吗? 这真的是无法无天吗? 到底有多暴力?
How likely were you to die of dysentery? In this course, we will answer those questions
和更多的.
This course will span from the colonial period through the dawn of the twentieth century.
This is not a simple narrative of the continuous movement of settlers towards the
Pacific Ocean, but a twisting and complicated history of many peoples, movements,
交换和碰撞. As we move across this range, we will examine violence,
种族，法律，性别和经济. We will also trace the roots of the mythologization
of the West and appraise media representation in print as well as in both film and
视频游戏.
他的473/573
U.S. 外交关系
Dr. 希瑟Stur
T / TH 11:00AM-12:15PM
In this course, we will explore the relationships that the U.S. 与其他国家的关系
from America's founding to the Global War on Terror of the 21st century. 我们将学习
politics, war, diplomacy, culture, and ideas, and we will see how America's relationship
with the world has shaped the lives of people at home and abroad. 到最后
semester, we will use the historical contexts of U.S. 外交关系来帮助我们
understand America's current relationships with allies and adversaries and to think
关于美国如何.S. might respond to ongoing and potential conflicts around the world.