Undergraduate Course and Registration Information for Winter 2012

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.

Late Additions to the Winter Schedule: HIST 479 CRN 28118 Japan and East Asia during the Cold War M 7:15 pm - 9:55 pm HIST 313 CRN 28113 History of Michigan MW 9:30 am -10:45 am

We will offer the following special topics classes:

• HIST 379 History of US Navy This course explores the role of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps in the military and diplomatic development of the United States, as well as the Navy's role in developing and defending America's economic interests. (Area A)

• HIST 379 France 1789-1919  (Area B)

• HIST 379 India to 1750 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. (Area C)

• HIST 379 Nazi Germany This course will explore the origins and nature of the Nazi regime, which ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945. Topics will include the rise of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers' Party, Nazi domestic policy, the Holocaust, and World War II. (Area B)

• HIST 478/591 LBJ’s Great Society This course concentrates on the origination and implementation of sweeping new federal policies in the greatest expansion of the U.S. government’s role in society since the New Deal. A survey of current scholarship of his turbulent era will serve as a springboard to research by students into the social and political context of federal initiatives and their impact on communities across the U.S. and Michigan.  Major topics include, but are not limited to: Civil Rights, Medicare, War on Poverty, Head Start, K-12 and Higher Education policies, Clean Air Act, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Immigration Reform, and the impact of Vietnam on domestic politics. (Area A)   

• HIST 479/592 Atlantic World A historical study of the peoples, cultures, and exchanges in the Atlantic Rim from the Age of Exploration to the abolition of slavery. Themes such as contact, trade, slavery, empire, and revolution will be examined in a comparative framework. (HIST 479: Area A, B, or C; HIST 592: Area A)

• HIST 479/592 Native American Women Traditionally, Native American women controlled family and food sources and served as healers, traders, and warriors. Although contact with Europeans dramatically altered the status of women after 1492, they continued to serve their people as mothers, wage-earners, and principal chiefs. This is a historical study that examines indigenous concepts of womanhood and gender, how these were challenged and altered over time, but how they also served as a means of resistance to total assimilation into mainstream society. (Area A) 

• HIST 479/592 African Women This course focuses on varieties of social groups of African Women and their experiences from pre-colonial to post-colonial times beginning with Unit 1. Their encounter with the colonial situation and the roles that different groups of African women played in the struggles for independence and during post- colonial times are covered completely in Unit 2 and Unit 3. The course ends with a full scale 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. (Area C)

The following sections fulfill the Historical Writing (HW) requirement:
            HIST 305 Native American History
            HIST 307 Buddhism
            HIST 339 Arab-Israeli Conflict
            HIST 379 India to 1750
            HIST 383 Age of Jackson
            HIST 479 Atlantic World
            HIST 479 Native American Women
            HIST 479 African Women

These courses will be offered online:
            HIST 100 Comparative Study of Religion
            HIST 109 World History to 1500
            HIST 123 The U.S. to 1877
            HIST 124 The U.S., 1877 to Present
            HIST 313 Michigan History
            HIST 375 Modern India
            HIST 411 England to 1689
            HIST 534 Social/Political History of Michigan 

These courses will be offered at EMU-Bellaire during Winter Break:
            HIST 370 History of American Sport
            HIST 379 Nazi Germany

HIST 479/592 African Women will be offered on a weekend only format.