Registration for Fall 2009 Classes Begins March 25

Update: Late additions to the Fall schedule

These courses do not appear in the printed course schedule: HIST 344 Russia since 1855, HIST 370 History of American Sport, HIST 379 Clashing 20th Century Global Forces, an additional section of HIST 109 World History to 1500, and two additional sections of HIST 124 The United States, 1877 to the Present.

Consult the Student Guide to Registration for directions how to register. Please check our course offerings online, as the printed schedule does not reflect late changes.  If you would like to meet with an adviser to discuss your schedule, call us to make an appointment or email an adviser with a question.  Consult the online catalog for course descriptions, and feel free to email the instructor if you have additional questions.

In Fall 2009 we will offer the following special topics classes:

  • HIST 379 Biblical History.  A survey of the primary history of the Hebrew Bible (Joshua—2 Kings) from the perspective of contemporary historical method. (Area C)
  • HIST 379 Clashing 20th Century Global Forces. Primarily a discussion-format course based on reading Prof. Moss’s recent book An Age of Progress? Clashing Twentieth-Century Global Forces and online sources. Main topics to be treated are 20th century war, terrorism, capitalism, socialism, communism, imperialism, racism, nationalism, westernization, globalization, and international finance; freedom and human rights; physical and mental environmental changes; and culture, science, education, religion, and social criticism. Finally it explores in what ways the twentieth century made significant progress and in what ways it did not. (Area A, B, or C)

The following hybrid classes will combine on campus and online instruction:

  • HIST 300W Researching and Writing History, Friday morning section. Research will focus on topics and primary sources in Michigan, your local communities, and your families. We will visit local archives as a group in the early weeks of the class; subsequently, online discussions of research issues will be substituted for several of the class sessions. Explorations into primary sources (census records and election data, for example) and assignments will be online.
  • HIST 123 and 124 sections taught by Dr. Jones: These courses employ an online research/writing component called EDiT: EMU's Digital History Textbook.  Students will work collaboratively online to develop, expand, critique, and improve the accuracy and reliability of the Digital History Textbook.  Other course components include weekly online quizzes of course content.  Class periods will be used for discussion of knowledge of the history discipline and for discussion about the broader themes in US and world history that are not available through the textbook.

The following sections fulfill the Historical Writing (HW) requirement: HIST 306 Hinduism, HIST 336 The History of Women in the US and Great Britain, 1800 – Present, HIST 341 The Middle East 1798 – Present, HIST 379 Clashing 20th Century Global Forces, HIST 456 Europe since 1945, HIST 465 US Constitutional History, HIST 468 The American Mind to the Civil War, and HIST 480 The American Revolution.

March 2009; last update September 2009