Course Information for Winter 2010

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 Winter 2010 we will offer the following special topics classes for undergraduates:

• Steven Ramold will offer HIST 379 History of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps (Area A). This course will look at how the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps have contributed to America's defense, participated in the nation's wars, and served as instruments of foreign policy.
  

• 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 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, art, and literature. 

• Joseph Engwenyu will teach HIST 479 African Women: A Modern History (Area C). This course focuses on varieties of social groups of African Women and their experiences from pre-colonial times to the present, ending with an assessment of the difficult post-colonial experiences of the women. This is partly a narrative of betrayal, but there is also plenty of room for optimism.

Over Winter Break, HIST 364 U.S. Military History will meet in Bellaire, MI, and HIST 329 Power, Place, & Image in Florence & Rome will travel to Italy.

HIST 444 China and Its Nomadic Neighbors and HIST 479 African Women: A Modern History will be taught over three weekend sessions, and one section of HIST 124 The United States, 1877 to Present will meet at the Livonia campus. Several classes will be taught online.

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

• HIST 123 and 124 sections taught by Russell 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 305 Native American History, HIST 307 Buddhism, HIST 315 The History of Black Americans, HIST 328 Europe in the Late Middle Ages, HIST 339 Arab-Israeli Conflict, HIST 365 The Old South, HIST 379 India to 1757, HIST 379 The History of the Middle East: From the Rise of Islam to 1800, HIST 385 Civil War and Reconstruction, and HIST 471 Social and Intellectual History of 19th-Century Europe.

October 2009; updated November 2009