Registration for Winter 2009 Classes Has Begun

Consult the Student Guide to Registration for directions on 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 winter schedule, call or email us to make an appointment.

For course descriptions, consult the online catalog, and feel free to email the instructor if you have additional questions. In addition to our regular classes, we will also offer five special topics classes for undergraduates:   

• Steven Ramold will offer HIST 279: D-Day: Operation Overlord and the Battle for Europe. Using Operation Overlord, the campaign to invade and liberate France in 1944, as a central theme, the course provides an introductory look at the European side of World War II.  Students will study the broad strategies, goals, and outcomes of one of the most important military campaigns in U.S. history.  This class is intended especially for students considering a major or minor in history, and it assumes no prior background in the study of history.
• John Knight will teach HIST 379: The History of the Middle East: From the Rise of Islam to 1800 (Area C).  This course traces the history of the Middle East, from the eve of the emergence of Islam (c. 600) to the beginning of the modern era.  Topics covered include the life and mission of the prophet Muhammad, the great Islamic empires, the doctrinal development of Islam, and the influences that shaped Sunni and Shi'a Islam. 
• James Egge will offer HIST 379: India to 1757 (Area C).  This new class will survey the history of South Asia from the beginnings of Indic civilization to the decline of the Mughal empire, focusing on the relationship between politics, religion, and literature. 
• John McCurdy will teach HIST 379: Fathers, Warriors, Lovers: Manhood in America (Area A).  This interdisciplinary exploration of the male gender in American history asks what manhood is and how it has evolved in the United States over the past four hundred years.  This class will seek to contextualize these historical transformations within the emergent body of masculinity studies.  In particular, this course will focus on issues of particular pertinence to manhood such as fatherhood, war, sexuality, globalization and diversity, and alienation. 
• Kathy Chamberlain will offer a new class, HIST 479 Indians of the Great Lakes (Area A), which will explore the cultures and history of the native peoples of Michigan and the surrounding area.  The major focus of this course is on the early period, namely from Native-European contact to the removal of tribes to Indian Territory in the 1830s-50s, but the class will also follow those who remained in the region into the 20th century to see what issues and events continued to impact their lives. 
  

We are also offering HIST 441: The Far East to 1800 in a weekend only format, and we are offering HIST 124: The US 1877 to Present on the Livonia campus. Several classes will be taught online. 

Over winter break, we are offering both halves of the US survey, HIST 123 and HIST 124, on the Gaylord campus. Also over winter break, the class HIST 329: Power, Place and Image in Florence and Rome will travel to Italy.  

Classes offered this winter that meet the Historical Writing (HW) requirement are 307: Buddhism, 319: The Civil Rights Movement in the US, 330: Europe in the Renaissance and Reformation, 339: Arab-Israeli Conflict, 379: The History of the Middle East: From the Rise of Islam to 1800, 379: Fathers, Warriors, Lovers: Manhood in America, 383: The Age of Jackson, and 479: Indians of the Great Lakes.

November 2008