HIST 695 (01) - Independent Study
Independent Study
Term: Fall 2024 - Full Term (08/26/2024 - 12/09/2024)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
CRN: 11517
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8/26/2024 | 12/9/2024 | Hours Arranged | TBA |
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8/26/2024 | 12/9/2024 | Hours Arranged | TBA |
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8/26/2024 | 12/9/2024 | Hours Arranged | TBA |
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8/26/2024 | 12/9/2024 | T | 4:10pm - 6:00pm | HORT 422 |
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8/26/2024 | 12/9/2024 | MW | 12:10pm - 1:30pm | HORT 422 |
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence, whose 250th anniversary Americans will commemorate in two years, is the United States’ founding text. This colloquium will focus on what the Declaration meant to Americans in 1776 and what it has come to mean since. Topics will include the Declaration’s origins, the Declaration’s impact on people on the margins of American society — women, African Americans, and Native Americans — and the way that a document written by a Congress of white men, most of whom were enslavers and investors in Indian land, became a charter of freedom and democracy. The colloquium will spend the first half of the semester doing common reading, then write a 15-page research paper that can be on any topic (with the professor’s approval) pertaining to the Declaration broadly conceived but that must be based on primary sources.
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8/26/2024 | 12/9/2024 | MW | 10:10am - 11:30am | HORT 445 |
Warfare in the Premodern World
Throughout much of much of the globe in pre-modern times warfare, preparation for war, and dealing with the aftermath of war consumed an enormous portion of surplus societal wealth and, indeed, wealth necessary for the basic sustenance of human life. Warfare touched on virtually all aspects of life in pre-modern societies, including political and economic organization, technological development as well as philosophy and religion. In short, war was central to the human condition. As a consequence, investigating the ways in which societies conceptualized military activities, established military obligations, and developed their human, material as well as ideological resources to engage in large-scale military activities plays a key role in understanding the pre-modern world. Students in the course, which serves as a capstone experience for history majors, will learn the skills for undertaking independent research projects on the history warfare in the pre-modern period. The course readings and intermediate writing assignments will focus on warfare in the western tradition from the classical Greek world up through the later medieval period in Europe. However, students are welcome to write their final papers on any aspect of warfare pre-modern Eurasia, Africa, and the Americas.
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8/26/2024 | 12/9/2024 | Hours Arranged | TBA |
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8/26/2024 | 12/9/2024 | MW | 1:10pm - 2:30pm | MORR 204 |
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8/26/2024 | 12/9/2024 | TR | 9:40am - 11:00am | NESM G13 |
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8/26/2024 | 12/9/2024 | MW | 3:40pm - 5:00pm | HS 201 |
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8/26/2024 | 12/9/2024 | MW | 3:40pm - 5:00pm | ONLINE |