The History Department offers a menu of on campus and online courses this summer, many filling Ohio University general education requirements.
HIST 1220 Western Civilization: Modernity from 1500 ONLINE
Tier II Humanities & Literature (2HL)
Class #3696/3707 | Second Summer Session
Description: What is the West? Is there indeed a coherent, identifiable Western heritage? If so, what is distinctive about the West’s heritage? And what, further, is distinctive about the West’s modern heritage? Addresses these questions by way of an examination of major intellectual, cultural, and political developments from 1500 until the present. Topics to be considered include the Renaissance; the religious Reformations of the 16th- century; absolutism, constitutional monarchy, and enlightened despotism; the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment; the American and French Revolutions; industrialization and nation building; modernism; imperialism and the World Wars; and the rise and fall of totalitarian regimes in the 20th century.
HIST 1330 Introduction to World History Since 1750
Tier II Cross-Cultural Perspectives(2CP)
Class #3699/3708 and 3703/3704 and 4710/4711 | First & Second Summer Sessions
Description: This course introduces cross-cultural perspectives in world history, with a focus on the major themes in human development, such as the rise of nationalism, modernization, and westernization, in order to understand the nature of global and cultural interaction in the modern era.
HIST 2000 Survey of United States History, 1600-1877
Tier II Social Sciences (2SS)
Class #4712/4713 | Second Summer Session
Description: This is a survey of American history from colonial origins through Reconstruction. The major political, social, cultural, and economic developments are discussed.
HIST 2010 Survey of United States History, 1865-present
Tier II Social Sciences (2SS)
Class #3705/3706 | Second Summer Session
Description: This is a survey of American history from Reconstruction to the present. The major political, social, cultural, and economic developments are discussed.
HIST 2460 The Rise of Modern Asia ONLINE
Tier II Cross-Cultural Perspectives (2CP)
Class #3700 | First Summer Session
Description: This introductory survey of the history of Asia from the early modern era to the present day emphasizes the rise of modern nationalism, economic development, and social and cultural achievements.
HIST 3231 Latin American History: From Independence to the Present ONLINE
Tier II Cross-Cultural Perspectives (2CP)
Class #3697 | Second Summer Session
Description: This course examines Latin American history in the 19th- and 20th- centuries, focusing on causes and consequences of Independence; the political, social and economic challenges of nation-state formation; competing political/ideological responses to structural crisis in the 20th- century (social revolution, authoritarianism, democratic change); and ongoing search for viable formulas of economic development.
HIST 3250 History of U.S.- Latin American Relations ONLINE
Class #3698 | First Summer Session
Description: This survey of inter-American relations from the 19th century focuses on evolving, and often conflicting, definitions of national interest that have shaped the United States and Latin American policy orientations toward each other.
HIST 3501 Nature, Science and Religion to 1800 ONLINE
Class #4714 | First Summer Session
Description: This overview of the history of science from the ancient world to the 17th century examines areas of knowledge and technique most modern people consider to be a part of science, and some they do not, including medicine, astronomy, construction, mining, navigation, and warfare. It considers how politics, economy, gender, and religion affected the development of these technologies and sciences.
HIST 3741 Origins of World War II, 1914-1941 ONLINE
Class #4715 | Second Summer Session
Description: This course covers international problems of peace and war, international organization and alliances.
HIST 3862 English History to 1688 ONLINE
Class #3207 | Second Summer Session
Description: This course surveys the social, political, religious, and constitutional history of England from its first settlement until the end of James II’s reign. Major topics to be considered include the impact of the Roman, Christian, Viking, and Norman conquests of England; the demographic, social, and political crises of the late medieval period; religious reformation during the 16th century; and England’s relationship to Britain, Europe, and the world.
HIST 3900 History Through Film ONLINE
Class #3701 | First Summer Session
Description: Examination of selected topics in the United States, European, or Third World history through films and readings accompanied by lectures and discussion.
HIST 4910 History Internship
Class #3712 | Full Summer Session
Description: The internship is designed to enhance skills for history majors through history-related work assignments in public and private agencies.
T3 4100 The Intellectual Origins of the American Revolution ONLINE
Tier III Synthesis (3)
Class #4716 | Second Summer Session
Description: This interdisciplinary course examines the intellectual origins of the American Revolution. In particular, it will explore the ways in which English and North American authors thought about sovereignty, religion and empire from 1550s until the 1770s and the ways in which thinking on those subjects laid the intellectual groundwork for the American Revolution. Among the authors considered are John Milton, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke.
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