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2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Courses
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Academic departments and programs are generally listed in alphabetical order. All courses are listed under the department or program in which they are offered. Courses which are cross-listed will appear in more than one place.
Course Designations
Courses of instruction are designated by a system of four-digit numbers within each department. The first digit in the number indicates the class standing that a student must attain to be eligible for the course. To interpret the numbering system, students need to know that:
- Courses generally for freshmen are numbered in the series beginning 1000. Freshmen may not register for any course numbered 2000 or above, except by placement or with the permission of the instructor. Similarly, sophomores may not register for courses numbered 3000 or above, or juniors 4000 or above, with exceptions permitted only by the instructor.
- Cross-listed courses are courses appropriate to more than one department or area.
- The number of credit hours per course is indicated below the course title. Courses which may be taken for variable credit (applied music lessons, independent studies, internships, etc.) or which can be repeated for credit are so indicated.
- Prerequisites for each course are so indicated following the description.
- Special Topics, Internships, and Independent Studies courses are listed with numbers separated by semicolons. These courses may be taken in any order.
- The (FR) designation after a number indicates that the course is offered only as a first-year seminar.
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GSC 1153 - Trees on the Hill: The Science of Wood Credits: 4
What can one learn about science simply by studying a common substance, wood, found all around us? The biology of a tree investigates the growth and structure of trees and methods for identifying different woods (for example, in antique furniture). The physics of wood explores the strength of wood and how simple machines apply to woodworking techniques. The chemistry of wood reveals what holds a tree together and how protective finishes are used to protect and beautify wood. Associated biographical readings explore wood in literature and the sociological aspects of humans in tune with nature. Mini-labs will provide opportunities to experience what it was like to work in a 19th-century carpentry shop.
Prerequisites Mathematics 1001 and 1002 or placement above Mathematics 1002.
McDaniel Plan: Scientific Inquiry Embedded Lab
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GSC 2203 - History of Scientific Thought I Credits: 4
A study of the development of theories to explain physical and natural phenomena from the earliest Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Greek, Arabian, Indian, and Chinese civilizations. The loss of impetus during the Medieval Age and the re-emergence in the Renaissance is traced.
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GSC 2204 - History of Scientific Thought II Credits: 4
A course which traces the development of modern scientific theories in Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Geology, and Physics from the Renaissance to the present. Readings include excerpts of original writings by over 40 scientists.
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GSC 2206 - Women in Science: From Antiquity into the Next Millennium Credits: 4
A study of the contributions and experiences of women in the traditionally male-dominated field of science. The course will include an introduction to the basic scientific principles underlying the subject areas studied by selected women scientists. The work of these women will also be explored as illustrations of holistic vs. reductionist approaches to science, the application of the scientific method and data evaluation, and the criteria used for “proof ” of an idea. Throughout the course, emphasis will be placed not only on the scientific achievements of women and their struggle for equality, but also on their advances in the context of their work of their contemporary male scientists.
McDaniel Plan: Scientific Inquiry Embedded Lab
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GSC 2208 - Science in Islam’s Golden Age Credits: 4.00
The Islamic Middle Ages’ (9th to 14th century) cosmopolitan and fostering environment initiated intense development of Muslim scholarship in science, technology and mathematics. In this course, we will review how the socio-political and religious culture of Muslims encouraged the preservation and adaptation of knowledge from earlier civilizations, such as Greek and Indian. This will be followed by a detailed exploration of how Muslims developed and expanded fields of inquiry and transmitted newly accumulated knowledge to Europe. Students will use simple hands-on activities to investigate basic scientific, technological and mathematical contributions of medieval Muslims.
McDaniel Plan: Scientific Inquiry with Embedded Lab
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GSC 2210 - History of Modern Science Credits: 4
A course which traces the development of the natural and physical sciences from antiquity to the present. The emphasis will be upon the western scientific community: its origin in the Classical Period, its preservation by the Arabs of the Middle Ages, its reintroduction into Europe during Renaissance, and the emergence of the modern global scientific community. This route will be followed by reading original writings (in translation) of the scientists whose ideas marked the path to modern science.
McDaniel Plan: Scientific Inquiry Embedded Lab
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GSC 2265 - Special Topics In General Science Credits: 4
The study of a selected topic in the discipline. Different topics are chosen for each offering, based on students’ interests and needs.
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GSC 2295 - Internships In General Science Credits: 0-4
Supervised field experiences in appropriate settings, usually off-campus, designed to assist students in acquiring and using skills and knowledge of the discipline unique to the selected topic.
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GSC 2298 - Independent Studies in General Science Credits: 0-4
Directed study planned and conducted with reference to the needs of those students who are candidates for departmental honors. Qualified students who are not candidates for such honors but who desire to do independent studies are also admitted with permission of the Department.
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GSC 3365 - Special Topics In General Science Credits: 4
The study of a selected topic in the discipline. Different topics are chosen for each offering, based on students’ interests and needs.
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GSC 3395 - Internships In General Science Credits: 0-4
Supervised field experiences in appropriate settings, usually off-campus, designed to assist students in acquiring and using skills and knowledge of the discipline unique to the selected topic.
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GSC 3398 - Independent Studies in General Science Credits: 0-4
Directed study planned and conducted with reference to the needs of those students who are candidates for departmental honors.Qualified students who are not candidates for such honors but who desire to do independent studies are also admitted with permission of the Department.
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GSC 4465 - Special Topics In General Science Credits: 4
The study of a selected topic in the discipline. Different topics are chosen for each offering, based on students’ interests and needs.
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GSC 4495 - Internships In General Science Credits: 0-4
Supervised field experiences in appropriate settings, usually off-campus, designed to assist students in acquiring and using skills and knowledge of the discipline unique to the selected topic.
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GSC 4498 - Independent Studies in General Science Credits: 0-4
Directed study planned and conducted with reference to the needs of those students who are candidates for departmental honors. Qualified students who are not candidates for such honors but who desire to do independent studies are also admitted with permission of the Department.
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HIS 1109 - Survey of Modern U.S. History, 1865-2000 Credits: 4
An inquiry into the events and forces that have shaped the United States since 1865, including industrialization, urbanization, race relations, reform, social and cultural tensions, and global conflict.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding.
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HIS 1111 - The End of Cold War Cultur Credits: 4
The Cold War was perhaps the most defining aspect of American culture for half a century, casting a shadow over politics, popular culture, and academics. Films, in particular, were at the center of the battle for the hearts and minds of the American public. The presence of the Cold War in popular culture is undeniable, but once the Cold War ended what effect did that have? This course will examine the questions: Did the end of the Cold War change our popular culture? Did it change how we perceive ourselves? How can popular films help us better understand the meaning of the Cold War and its end?
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural & Historical Understanding
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HIS 1134 - Understanding Europe I Credits: 4
This interdisciplinary course offers a comparative study of Europe’s history, culture, heritage, political and economic development. Attention is focused on the 20th century: the two World Wars, the division of Europe after 1945, integration in the West, Soviet-type political and economic systems in East-Central Europe; the disintegration of the Communist Bloc and the Soviet Union; new tension and crises; renewed hopes for a unified Europe; European institutions and organizations; Europe’s role in world affairs.
(offered at the Budapest Campus only)
Two-semester course.
McDaniel Plan: International Western; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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HIS 1135 - Understanding Europe II Credits: 4
This interdisciplinary course offers a comparative study of Europe’s history, culture, heritage, political and economic development. Attention is focused on the 20th century: the two World Wars, the division of Europe after 1945, integration in the West, Soviet-type political and economic systems in East-Central Europe; the disintegration of the Communist Bloc and the Soviet Union; new tension and crises; renewed hopes for a unified Europe; European institutions and organizations; Europe’s role in world affairs.
(offered at the Budapest Campus only)
Two-semester course.
McDaniel Plan: International Western; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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HIS 1141 - Classical Jiangnan in China Credits: 2.00
Jiangnan, which means “the south of Yangzi River,” is a cultural and economic region slightly smaller in size than modern France. Centered around today’s Shanghai, Jiangnan by all accounts was/is the most prosperous and most highly urbanized region in China, featuring distinctive gardens, arts, and landscape. A historian compared the region to England because since the eighteenth century both have become highly developed economic regions and formed distinctive regional cultures on both sides of Eurasia. We will travel to the region and view gardens, folk arts (e.g. iron pictures), art workshops/markets, and mountains/rivers/lakes, all of which feature the regional culture and history. Locations to be included are Shanghai, Zhouzhuang, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Zhenjiang, Wuhu, Hefei, Huizhou, etc. Students will keep daily journals and amass a portfolio of Jiangnan-based photos and journals the local Jiangnan culture. These journals and photos will result in a campus-wide show.
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HIS 1149 - Hydraulic China: Water, Culture & Society Credits: 2
Why has the Grand Canal been maintained for thousands of years? What materials are used to construct seawalls? How have intertwined sluicegate-and-dam irrigation systems molded and remolded local terrains? Water is the source of life. Due to unequal distribution of water resources, China has developed into a hydraulic society. The hydraulic projects such as the Grand Canal, coastal seawalls and irrigation systems maintain and control Chinese economy and society. These large-scale water projects have carved China’s environment, shaped local cultural landscapes and social terrains and formed Chinese views on the dynamic relations between water and humans. In this course, students will travel to the regions along the Grand Canal to explore environmental, political and cultural aspects of China’s hydraulic society. We will visit ancient canal sites (Beijing and Zhenjiang), explore existing sluicegate-and-dam systems (Hangzhou, Wuhu, and Shanghai) and examine seawalls and tidal bores (Haining) to understand our complete
dependence on water and political/social debates over hydraulic projects in China.
McDaniel Plan: January Term
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HIS 1165 - Special Topics in History Credits: 4
The study of a selected topic in the discipline. Different topics are chosen for each offering, based on students’ interests and needs.
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HIS 1191 - Gender and Society in Ancient Greece Credits: 4
A study of gender relations and the cultural roles assigned to men and women in the earliest western sources, from the epic society of Homer to the period of the Hellenistic monarchies. Topics will include myth and cult, family law, economy and slavery, medicine, sport, concepts of misogyny, sexuality, and male honor codes. Comparative evidence from ancient and modern Mediterranean societies will also be examined.
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HIS 2101 - Cold War as Global Conflict Credits: 4
Although the Cold War formally ended twenty-five years ago its repercussions can still be felt in United States relations with Russia, in the partial warming of ties between the US and Cuba, and in the national security challenge posed by North Korea. The Cold War can also be linked to “failed states” in the Middle East and elsewhere which are a major concern for US foreign policy today. This course will trace the origins and conduct of US-Soviet or “East-West” rivalry after World War II. It will include the division of Europe in its political, economic, military, and cultural aspects. It will consider mutual perceptions and fears that informed both US and Soviet foreign policies. Last but not least, this course will encompass the impact of the Cold War on a global scale, taking account of the ways that US-Soviet rivalry intersected with the
European retreat from empire in Asia and Africa, helping to shape anti-colonial struggles and post-colonial “nation-building.”
McDaniel Plan: International Nonwestern
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HIS 2104 - Illusory Frontiers Credits: 4
After a cursory survey of the origins of the geographic and historical-political concept of Europe, this course gives an introduction to some of the most important definitions of European regions from the 16th century on. This “symbolic geography” has been shaped by numerous political developments leading to the immediate antecedents of our present. They include the key issues of 19th century international politics (as the gradual decline of the Ottoman-Turkish Empire and the emergence of the Balkan national states, the unification of Germany and Italy, the restructuring of the great power alliances after the dualistic reorganization of the Habsburg Empire in 1867), followed by dramas of 20th century: the dismemberment of the Habsburg Monarchy, the two world wars, the cold war and the recent process of European integration. These processes are studied from the perspective of shifting political, cultural and mental borders in the lands between Germany and Russia, stretching from the River Elbe to the Eastern Carpathians.
Offered at Budapest Campus.
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HIS 2202 - Formation of Western Europe Credits: 4
An introduction to the diverse peoples and societies that created what is conventionally termed “Western Civilization.” The course focuses on the formative period of that tradition, and provides a firm chronological basis for understanding the interaction, evolution, and achievement of these peoples and societies in the ancient, medieval, and early modern periods.
McDaniel Plan: International Western.
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HIS 2203 - Western Civ: 1700 to the Present Credits: 4
Reflection on and analysis of Western traditions organized thematically: the Age of Absolutism; the Enlightenment;the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic period; the liberal, national, and industrial forces of the 19th century; imperialism and the issue of power and domination, the political and moral crises of the 20th century.
Prerequisites HIS-1105
McDaniel Plan: International and Social, Cultural, Historical
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HIS 2205 - Ancient Greece Credits: 4
A history of the Greek world from the archaic to the Hellenistic period. Topics include the growth of the polis and problems of early democracy; the religious, social, and cultural structures of classical Athens and Sparta; and Alexander the Great and the creation of Hellenism. Readings will be from literature and drama, rhetoric, and history, with emphasis on Herodotus and Thucydides.
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HIS 2206 - Republican Rome Credits: 4
A survey of Roman history from the beginnings to the death of Augustus, the first emperor. Discussion will focus on sources from myth, history, epigraphy, and archaeology. Historians include Livy, Polybius, Plutarch, Sallust, and Cicero.
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HIS 2207 - Archaeology of Greece Credits: 4
Introduction to the history of classical archaeology and to the current theories and methods of the discipline through study of archaeological sites and material remains from the Bronze Age to the fourth century B.C.E. The course also includes examination of architecture, painting, and sculpture in their original private, civic, and religious context.
Cross-listed with Art History 2207.
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HIS 2208 - Roman Women Credits: 4
A study of Roman women within the evolving moral, religious, familial (patriarchal), political, and economic structures of the Roman world. Emphasis will be on recent methodological approaches to the study of ancient women through analysis of sources that include historians, legal and medical texts, literature, and art.
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HIS 2210 - Gender and Society in Early Europe Credits: 4.00
A study of the roles and experiences of women vis-à-vis men in early Europe from antiquity through the Middle Ages and into the Early Modern period. Readings include primary documents and secondary works on gender theory, philosophy, medicine, religion and law as well as economy and labor, sexuality and marriage, motherhood and the body, and issues of race and status. By the end of the semester students should understand what the difficult and ongoing project to find women’s voices and create a space for women in the historical record has accomplished to date. They should be aware that many of the basic issues and problems that women faced in the past are still faced today. Throughout the semester examples from modern media will illustrate the contemporary status of many age-old gender issues.
McDaniel Plan: International Western, Textual Analysis
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HIS 2213 - The High Middle Ages Credits: 4
An examination of the distinctive civilization of Western Europe during the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries. Emphasis will be on the rise of monarchies and urban economies, social and familial practices, and intellectual and cultural achievements. The course is based largely on primary source readings from autobiographies, chronicles, courtly literature, and legal documents.
McDaniel Plan: International Western; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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HIS 2214 - Early Modern Europe Credits: 4
An examination of the transformation of Western Europe from the 14th through the 16th centuries. Topics include the 14th-century crash, humanism and the Renaissance in Italy, the rise of the Atlantic economies, and reformation movements.
McDaniel Plan: International
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HIS 2215 - Medieval England Credits: 4
The evolution of the English monarchy and society in the Anglo-Saxon, Norman, and Plantagenet periods. Readings include primary sources on the social and constitutional development of England to 1485.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding.
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HIS 2219 - 19th-Century Europe: Age of Anxiety Credits: 4
This is a survey of nineteenth-century European history, a period sometimes characterized as the age of “isms” for the numerous movements and ideologies it spawned. As the Enlightenment and revolutionary era gave way to Romanticism, liberalism, and nationalism, the Industrial Revolution, with its breakthroughs in technology and accompanying social dislocation, helped pave the way for Victorianism, socialism, feminism, and the “new nationalism” often characterized by xenophobia and anti-Semitism. Rapid social, political, cultural, and scientific change was so characteristic of the century that this so-called “Age of Progress” was also, in many respects, one of great anxiety. Evaluating how nineteenth-century Europeans adapted to their changing world will be the main focus of this course.
McDaniel Plan: International Western; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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HIS 2220 - 20th-Century Europe Credits: 4
In the early twenty-first century, historians must grapple with how to define the tumultuous and in many ways tragic period that preceded. Worldwide depression, two world wars, Cold War, communism, totalitarianism, Holocaust, collectivization, decolonization—these singular events have greatly altered the image of a prosperous and progressive Europe that took hold in the previous century. In this wide-ranging course, which will consider cultural, social, economic, and political trends in Europe from the First World War to the present, we will attempt to understand the various paths that Europe and individual European nations have taken, their global and human implications, and the place of Europe in the world today.
McDaniel Plan: International Western; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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HIS 2222 - Gender and Society in America, Past and Present Credits: 4
An examination of women’s experiences in American society with special emphasis on attitudes toward sex, the family, the workplace, and the political arena in order to explore the interaction between context and ideology in the process of social change.
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HIS 2224 - Becoming American: Topics in American History Credits: 4
An examination of significant cultural, political, and social themes in the history of the United States from 1600 to 1866. Emphasis is placed upon critical reading and written analysis of primary and secondary sources.
McDaniel Plan: Multicultural; Social Cultural and Historical Understanding.
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HIS 2225 - Colonial America, 1607–1763 Credits: 4
An in-depth study of early American culture and history, utilizing primary and secondary sources, focusing on the 17th and 18th centuries. Topics will include social structure, labor systems, family life, political culture, and issues of race and ethnicity.
McDaniel Plan: Multicultural; Social Cultural and Historical Understanding.
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HIS 2226 - Revolutionary America and the New Nation, 1763–1840 Credits: 4
An examination of the political, social, and economic issues that led to the American Revolution and that shaped the United States’ early growth and development as an independent nation. Special attention will be given to issues of race and gender, industrialization and urbanization, and political culture.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding.
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HIS 2229 - U.S. History in the Cold War Era, 1945-1991 Credits: 4
A survey of some of the main currents in United States history since the end of the Second World War. Topics include: the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement, the countercultural movement, and the Post-Cold War Era.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding.
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HIS 2231 - History of East Asia to 1600 Credits: 4
Survey of the history of China, Korea, and Japan, from mythical times to 1600. Although this survey outlines the individual histories of China, Korea, and Japan, it emphasizes the cultural continuities and historical interactions that have made “East Asia” a coherent cultural region: shamanism, writing systems, rituals of kingship, Buddhism, Confucianism, literature and visual arts, technological development, travel, commerce, and war.
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HIS 2232 - History of East Asia since 1600 Credits: 4
Survey of East Asian history from 1600 to the present. This course maps the intersections and divergences in the histories of China, Korea, and Japan during the past four hundred years, from the Japanese invasion of Korea in 1592, the global economic crisis in the seventeenth century, and the Chinese domination of the world market in the eighteenth century, to the violent encroachment on East Asia by imperialist powers in the nineteenth century, the reforms and revolutions of the turn of the twentieth century, the massive destruction during the Second World War, and the political and economic developments of recent decades.
McDaniel Plan: International Nonwestern.
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HIS 2233 - Women in U.S. History Credits: 4
This course surveys the ways in which women have influenced United States history and how their stories and experiences have been omitted from the mainstream telling of the national history.
McDaniel Plan: Multicultural; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding.
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HIS 2234 - Evolution of American Freedom Credits: 4
Drawing on primary documents and recent scholarship, this course traces the evolution of the concept of Freedom in the United States. How was it defined, and how has the concept changed?
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding.
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HIS 2235 - U.S. History in the Progressive Era, 1890-1920 Credits: 4
An exploration of one of the more controversial periods in U.S. history: the course will consider the meaning of progressivism and will examine the social, political, and cultural forces acting upon the country during this period.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding.
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HIS 2236 - Black America and the Civil Rights Era, 1865-1968 Credits: 4
This course examines the long view of the civil rights era, beginning with Reconstruction in the aftermath of the Civil War and continuing on to the climactic events of the 1960s.
McDaniel Plan: Multicultural; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding.
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HIS 2237 - Religion and Society in China Credits: 4
This course will introduce some of the basic concepts and changing practices of religion at important moments in Chinese imperial history prior to the collapse of the Qing dynasty in 1911. After a brief introduction to the diversity of religions of China (from Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism and popular religions to the introduction of Islam and Christianity), the course will focus on the impact of religions on the daily lives of ordinary people. Readings will include primary sources-religious tracts, biographies of religious figures, and works of fiction in which religion plays a central role. Lectures will provide a critical framework through which students will interpret these materials and learn about the liveliness of the practices of Chinese religions.
McDaniel Plan: International Nonwestern, Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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HIS 2238 - U.S. Intellectual Tradition Credits: 4.00
This course will examine the important ideas that have helped to define the United States. From the first waves of European immigration to the present day we will examine the changing meanings of such ideas as liberty, freedom, and equality, as well as the concepts of citizenship, patriotism, and what it means to be an American at different times in our history.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding and Textual Analysis
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HIS 2240 - Modern China in Film Credits: 4.00
McDaniel Plan: International Nonwestern, Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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HIS 2241 - Fathoming Evil: Genocide Credits: 4.0
An exploration of genocide—its origins, manifestations, outside responses, consequences, and legacies—in Western and non-Western cultures/societies, including instances in Europe (WWII and Soviet collectivization), Armenia/Turkey, Cambodia (Southeast Asia), and Rwanda (Africa). Students will read about the lives of genocide survivors, delve into local cultures, and examine the responses of the United States.
McDaniel Plan: International, Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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HIS 2242 - Beyone 1492: Indian Encounters Credits: 4
Ever since Christopher Columbus stumbled upon the Americas, and Europeans and Native Americans have wondered what to make of each other. This course will seek to examine the range of contacts between Indians and Europeans with a particular emphasis on eastern North America through the era of removal. We will examine a range of first-hand and scholarly sources offering a glimpse of the religious encounters, shifts in trade, military invasions, ecological transformations, legal disputes, and diplomatic alliances.
McDaniel Plan: Multicultural
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HIS 2250 - Reconstruction Credits: 4.00
This course is focused on the moment in time when four million black slaves became American citizens, and the aftermath of their emancipation. We will examine the policies of the Reconstruction Era and the ideals behind them, as well as the actions that brought about the end of Reconstruction. We will also study what changes freedom brought to the African American community, their attempts at gaining equality, obtaining an education, creating their own communities, and the systematic repression of those efforts,
McDaniel Plan: Multicultural, Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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HIS 2265 - Special Topics in History Credits: 4
The study of a selected topic in the discipline. Different topics are chosen for each offering, based on students’ interests and needs.
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HIS 2267 - Spec Topics in History Modern Europe Credits: 4.00
The study of a selected topic in the discipline. Different topics are chosen for each offering, based on students’ interests and needs.
McDaniel Plan: Inernational and Social, Cultural and Histroical Understanding
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HIS 2269 - Special Topics in History Asia Credits: 4.00
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HIS 2295 - Internships in History Credits: 0-4
Supervised field experiences in appropriate settings, usually off-campus, designed to assist students in acquiring and using skills and knowledge of the discipline unique to the selected topic.
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HIS 2298 - Independent Studies in History Credits: 0-4
Directed study with permission of the Department.
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HIS 3302 - The Civil War and Reconstruction, 1840–1877 Credits: 4
An examination of political, social, and economic conflicts and change in mid 19th-century America that led to the Civil War. The course will also explore the impact of the war on American society and the process of national reunification.
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HIS 3305 - Seminar: Rome, The Early Empire Credits: 4
A seminar on Rome and its empire in the first two centuries of the modern era. Topics include the development of monarchy and the decline of old Roman values, the growth of early Christianity, and the spread and transformation of Roman culture and technology through contact with Europe and the Eastern Empire.
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HIS 3315 - Seminar: Early European Society Credits: 4
A seminar on the political, social, and familial life of the peoples who settled in Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. The course will consider the reasons for the collapse of the Empire as well as the ways in which the new peoples accommodated and preserved Mediterranean culture. Readings will be drawn from both primary sources and recent interpretive studies.
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HIS 3316 - Seminar: The Crusades Credits: 4
A seminar based on the close reading of eyewitness accounts of the crusades. The course will include discussion of recent interpretations of the crusades and their significance for Europe and the Mediterranean world.
McDaniel Plan: Textual Analysis
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HIS 3317 - Seminar: The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century Credits: 4
This seminar will examine the twelfth century as formative one for European culture in that the written word began to permeate every facet of life: government records, private letters, memoirs, autobiographies, epics, romances, and contracts were written down, often for the first time, creating creating a large and varied body of records depicting the thoughts and practices of twelfth-century people. We will examine these primary sources to consider how literate ways of thinking and doing transformed European culture as profoundly as the print revolution of the fifteenth century.
McDaniel Plan: Textual Analysis.
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HIS 3324 - Seminar: The American Revolution as a Social Movement Credits: 4
An exploration of the Revolutionary experience. Emphasis is on a study of class structure, military conflict, and social and political consequences both during and immediately after the Revolution through a study of primary and secondary source materials.
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HIS 3327 - Seminar: Modern U.S. History Credits: 4.00
Readings and discussions of selected topics in Modern U.S. history drawing on primary and secondary sources, along with popular culture. The specific topic of the seminar will change from year to year but may include; citizenship, immigration, progressivism, the rise of the suburbs, the effect of the media on American society, etc.
Prerequisites/Co-requisites One four-credit 2000-level History course
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HIS 3328 - Seminar: African-American History Credits: 4
Readings and discussions of selected topics in African-American history drawing on primary and secondary sources, novels, and material culture. The specific topic the seminar will examine, such as slavery, racism, community and family, and black nationalism, will change each offering of the course.
Prerequisites One 2000-level history course
McDaniel Plan: Multicultural, Social, Cultural, and Hisotrical Understanding
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HIS 3331 - Gender and the Family in China Credits: 4
Examination of the changing constructions of gender and the shifting configurations of the family, from imperial times to the present. Primary sources (in translation) and secondary literature together convey how changing notions of kinship, property, ritual, space, and the body have informed notions of gender in China, from the traditional courtyard house to the modern high-rise apartment.
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HIS 3332 - China’s Troubled Waters Credits: 4.00
Two conflicting images dominate our views of China. One is of a people engaged in harmonious relationships with nature. Another is of overpopulation, resource depletion, and environmental degradation. This course will examine Chinese relations with nature through its history of dams great and small, canals, rerouted rivers, and irrigation projects. We will examine how such water-control projects affected Chinese local societies from the Song dynasty through today. We will explore which regions, which groups (ethnic, gender, class), and which hydraulic projects have been the winners and losers in different eras. From there, we will further examine continuity and ruptures in state policies, political ideology, and institutional politics behind hydraulic projects in their historical contexts. Finally, we will examine crucial turning points in the history of water control in China and see how past historical visions live on in the present.
McDaniel Plan: International Nonwestern, Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding, Textual Analysis
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HIS 3365 - Special Topics in History Credits: 4
The study of a selected topic in the discipline. Different topics are chosen for each offering, based on students’ interests and needs.
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HIS 3369 - Special Topics History Credits: 4.00
The study of a selected topic in the discipline. Different topics are chosen for each offering, based on students’ interests and needs.
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HIS 3395 - Internships in History Credits: 0-4
Supervised field experiences in appropriate settings, usually off-campus, designed to assist students in acquiring and using skills and knowledge of the discipline unique to the selected topic.
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HIS 3398 - Independent Studies in History Credits: 0-4
Directed study with permission of the Department.
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HIS 4465 - Special Topics in History Credits: 4
The study of a selected topic in the discipline. Different topics are chosen for each offering, based on students’ interests and needs.
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HIS 4492 - History Colloquium Credits: 4
The History capstone, taken in the fall of the senior year, is a semester-long seminar in which students conduct original and independent research on a topic approved by the instructor, and produce a journal-length paper that meets the standards of the History profession. At the end of the semester they defend their research orally before the faculty of the History Department.
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HIS 4495 - Internships in History Credits: 0-4
Supervised field experiences in appropriate settings, usually off-campus, designed to assist students in acquiring and using skills and knowledge of the discipline unique to the selected topic.
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HIS 4498 - Independent Studies in History Credits: 0-4
Directed study with permission of the Department.
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HON 1200 - Honors A to Z Credits: 2
In keeping with the mission of McDaniel’s Honors Program, this course will introduce first year students to the Honors Program by focusing on the themes of personal change and transformation. We will address some of the unique challenges faced by high achieving students and how to deal with those challenges, introduce goal setting and personal development planning toools, prompt studens to analyze qualities and practices of effective leadership, and foster their own identities as members of the honors community.
Enrollment for Honors Program Participants
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HON 2201 - Great Works Credits: 4.00
Reading and comparative analysis of major works of literature from a range of genres, cultures and national literatures, from antiquity to the modern period. Emphasis on the nature of literary tradition, intertextuality, and the relations between texts across history and culture. Texts include works by authors such as Homer, Sappho, Dante, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Goethe, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, and Joyce. Each section will cover the chronological period to be determined by the professor.
Open to first-year honors program students only.
McDaniel Plan: International Western, Textual Analysis
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HON 2265 - Special Topics Credits: 1.0 - 4.0
Food on the Table: Contemporary Local and Global Food Issues (description for 2015-2016 academic year)
This course will provide students with a sociological and social entrepreneurial understanding of food systems (production, distribution and consumption) of food so as to enable them understand “why we eat the way we do.” The class will explore two broad themes: (1) food markets and agricultural globalization in terms of: the distributive networks through
which food travels from the farm to the table; the relationships between markets, states, and society in their historical and contemporary forms; global labor markets, international
agribusiness, food biotechnology and food global marketing. (2) food policy through a critical examination of: i) current economic, social, demographic, environmental, and ethical trends that affect the politics of food provisioning; food justice and sustainability; ii) the role of policy and planning in shaping uneven landscapes of contemporary consumption and production, where obesity exists alongside pervasive hunger, “gourmet ghettos” can be found next door to “food deserts,” and where agricultural and food service workers are among the most likely to go hungry.
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HON 2304 - Don Quixote Credits: 4.00
An analysis of Don Quixote with emphasis on the text as a product of the seventeenth-century zeitgeist and as a timeless novel.
McDaniel Plan: International, Textual Analysis
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HON 3200 - Honors Journal Club Credits: 2
This course is an interdisciplinary course that also allows for enhanced focus on one’s discipline. In this course students will research articles from top journals in their field and present these articles to the class. This allows students to become better versed in professional level ideas and discourse within their chosen field while at the same time presenting these articles forces students to decode discipline specific information for a more general audience. These are valuable skills for emerging scholars.
Enrollment for Honors Program Participants
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HON 4491 - Honors Senior Colloquium Credits: 2.00
A seminar for the senior year of the Honors Program during which students pursue a topicin-depth and write an Honors paper. During the junior year, the topic for the following year’s seminar is chosen and announced.
Grading method Credit/Fail
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HUN 1001 - Basic Hungarian Credits: 2
An introduction to the Hungarian language, history, and culture.
Offered every semester.
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HUN 1101 - Elementary Hungarian Credits: 4
The acquisition of oral/aural skills through intensive exposure to Hungarian used both as the medium of communication and the object of study. It enables students to express their daily experiences accurately in spoken and written Hungarian, and to understand communications of a moderate level of difficulty.
(offered only on the Budapest Campus)
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HUN 1102 - Elementary Hungarian Credits: 4
The acquisition of oral/aural skills through intensive exposure to Hungarian used both as the medium of communication and the object of study. It enables students to express their daily experiences accurately in spoken and written Hungarian, and to understand communications of a moderate level of difficulty.
(offered only on the Budapest Campus)
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IDS 1106 - You Are What You Eat Credits: 4.0
Develop your “foodie” identity by blogging and vlogging about food. Experience entrepreneurship in action by partnering with local entrepreneurs to explore the farm-to-table process, particularly in terms of sustainability, education, and accessibility. In this course, we’ll explore the growing literature and discourse surrounding local and organic food movements and put this knowledge to action in our blogs, vlogs, and partnerships. We’ll create cookbooks that address a variety of issues surrounding how to produce local food sustainably and provide fair access to “good” food sources for members of the community who, traditionally, do not have such access. Finally, we’ll experience entrepreneurship in action by working with constituents to develop and enact a plan in terms of producing, providing, and educating people about food (e.g. food selection and preparation). After learning about the entrepreneurs’ visions, we will assist the constituents in generating resources for their venture (i.e. students might create a crowdfunded marketing campaign or write a grant for resources to develop their plans).
McDaniel Plan: Creative Expression
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IDS 1107 - Women in Western Culture Credits: 4
A two-semester interdisciplinary study of the status and role of women in the western world. The first semester covers the period from preclassical to the French Revolution. The second semester covers the period from the French Revolution to the present.
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IDS 1108 - Women in Western Culture Credits: 4
A two-semester interdisciplinary study of the status and role of women in the western world. The first semester covers the period from preclassical to the French Revolution. The second semester covers the period from the French Revolution to the present.
McDaniel Plan: International Western, Multicultural, Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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IDS 1132 - The Forest Online I Credits: 1.0
Seminar discussing texts introducing conservation and sustainable development in Latin America from historical, cultural, and environmental perspectives. As they prepare for a 3-week trip to Perú in January, students will also examine approaches to digital and print narratives, discuss policy advocacy and nonprofits, and develop digital storytelling skills. First module of a unique three-part, year-long course.
Prerequisites/Co-requisites ENG 1106, Instructor permission
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IDS 1133 - The Forest Online II Credits: 2.0
A three-week trip to Perú to explore and share the challenges forests, nonprofits, and communities face on the Amazon frontier. Itinerary includes flying into historic Cusco, then traveling through a variety of unique ecosystems and communities to reach the semi-remote region of Madre De Dios to do fieldwork at a “living laboratory” of protected rainforest. Each step of the way will inform both live web publishing and future digital narratives. Second module of a unique three-part, year-long course.
Prerequisites/Co-requisites IDS 1132, instructor permission
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IDS 1135 - American Cultural Diversity Credits: 4
This course will introduce students to issues of cultural, ethnic, racial, and artistic diversity in American culture through comparative study focusing primarily on musical artistic expression.
Cross-listed with MUL 1135.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding.
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IDS 1136 - Community and Globalization in Nicaragua Credits: 2.00
This Jan Term study/community engagement experience will help students to understand globalization on a deep, personal level. Through readings, reflections and service opportunities in Nicaragua, students will come to understand the complex personal, social and political issues that arise when one’s local experience is linked to realities of life in parts of the so-called “developing” world. Students will be introduced to community members, activists, and social service providers in Nicaragua, and they will be provided meaningful opportunities to find active ways to engage with the community, be that through participant observer community work or reflection on ways to be civically engaged both in the United States and abroad.
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IDS 1138 - From Play to Product Credits: 2.0
Are innovators born or trained? Is creation a skill or a trait? Some believe that both are skills with origins in play. This course is designed to explore creation and innovation with hands-on experiments that follow the flow from play to product. Simultaneously, we will study the process of innovation through readings and TED talks. As a cumulative product, the class will create a design for an Innovation Incubator. Be warned: We Will Play!
McDaniel Plan: Jan Term
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IDS 1139 - The Forest Online III Credits: 1.0
Seminar where students continue to process their Perúvian Jan-term experience. Culminating project(s) will focus on synthesizing the information they collected and how to best leverage it via digital storytelling, both to advance the conservation and sustainable development goals of nonprofits working in Perú and students’ own personal and professional goals. Final module of a unique three-part, year-long course.
Prerequisites/Co-requisites IDS 1133
McDaniel Plan: International, Scientific Inquiry
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IDS 1142 - Treasures of Central Europe Credits: 2
Explore the culture and history of four central European countries: Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary and Austria. The participants will learn about current events and the history of these four countries, especially the history of Germany: during the Nazi time, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the aftermath of German unification.
This trip will offer students the opportunity to visit an important region in Central Europe. They will visit old, and historic German, Czech, Hungarian and Austrian cities such as Berlin, capital of reunified Germany, Heidelberg, Germany’s oldest university town; Munich, Bavaria’s most important city and the residence of the historic Wittelsbach family. Other stops will include Dachau, Germany’s first concentration camp; Vienna, the city of music; Salzburg, the birthplace of the most famous Austrian musician, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Prague, where Mozart first conducted Don Giovanni; and Budapest where McDaniel College has a campus.
Registration in a study tour does not guarantee participation. The faculty leader for the study must provide final approval for all registered students to participate.
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IDS 1146 - Exploring Belize Credits: 2
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IDS 1152 - African-American Culture: Three Perspectives Credits: 4
This interdisciplinary course explores African- American culture from a literary, musical, and sociological perspective. While these perspectives represent distinct fields of study, they also intersect and complement one another. Exploring a text from various vantage points, provides a fuller context and broadens and complicates its interpretation. Such a multidisciplinary approach leads students to a fuller understanding and appreciation of the specific works under consideration and of African- American culture as a whole.
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IDS 1156 - Greece: Myths, Monks, and Monuments Credits: 2
McDaniel in Greece offers an intensive introduction to the history and culture of ancient Greece, including the Pre-Historic, Classical, and Byzantine Periods, primarily through its material remains. Students will study and visit a broad range of significant monuments, museums, and archaeological sites, with special emphasis on the insight they offer into Greek culture. Particular attention will be given to Greek religious belief and practices and how they are related to the material remains. In addition to extensive time and study in Athens, students will travel to Corinth, Crete, Delphi, Eleusis, Meteora, Mycenae, Olympia, Santorini, and Sounion. Study of sites, monuments and museums will be supplemented by a selection of primary and secondary source readings.
Registration in a study tour does not guarantee participation. The faculty leader for the study must provide final approval for all registered students to participate.
By registering for this class you agree to allow the Office of Student Affairs to review and approve your student record along with the faculty instructor of the class. Your enrollment in this class is not final until Student Affairs and the faculty instructor for the class approve your registration.
McDaniel Plan: Jan Term
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IDS 1161 - Crime and Detectives: Three Perspectives Credits: 4
This team-taught interdisciplinary course explores both crime and its detection from literary, criminological, and scientific perspective. The literary portion of the course traces the development of the detective as hero, the antagonist as criminal, and the ways in which narrative patterns and societal attitudes have evolved in the Anglo-American detective story since the 1840s. The criminological section of the course focuses on the realities underlying fictional portrayals of crime solving, which vary markedly depending upon the identity of the victim and perpetratory, the setting, and the time period. The forensic section of the course explores the scientific aspect of crime solving. Topics include characterization of a crime scene, analysis of hair and fibers, arson and explosives, forensic serology, DNA testing, fingerprint, firearms, and document and voice analysis.
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