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2021-2022 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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FYS 1234 - City Dwellers Credits: 4
This course will examine the city as a multifaceted phenomenon intrinsically intertwined with human experience. What does it mean to live in a city nowadays? In what ways was this Western urban model reduplicated in non-European regions during European colonialist expansion? What beliefs and values do urban dwellers embrace in this globalized capitalist era? These are some of the questions examined throughout the course. Current forms of organization, based on marginalization, such as slums, gentrification, among others, will also be considered. Special emphasis will be placed on studying the impact that city life, with its multitudes and vertiginous pace, had on individuals on a psychological level during the 19th century. Social and cultural practices/products such as flânerie, street art, urban tribes, and social demonstrations will also be taken into account.
McDaniel Plan: First Year Seminar; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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FYS 1235 - Decoding Disney Credits: 4
The popularity of Disney children’s movies has contributed to the company’s status as a commercial juggernaut. The Oxford English Dictionary’s recognized word, “Disneyfied,” a term denoting romanticization, speaks to Disney’s impact on children’s entertainment. The movies’ accessibility through videos, DVDs as well as streaming, has created a need for the critical sociological analysis of their contents. In this first-year seminar, students will gain an understanding of how these movies play an integral role in the mediascape that shapes our understanding of topics from gender, race, and class, to colonialism and imperialism. Student presentations will explore how the identity of princesses and princes as well as heroes and villains reflects, perpetuates and influences cultural norms. A class research project about Disney movies will also introduce students to methodological issues involved in conducting research.
McDaniel Plan: First Year Seminar; Multicultural
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FYS 1236 - Art on the Edge Credits: 4
Why should we care about art and artists? How have the arts and artists contributed to and participated in cultural dialogues that have been evolving over thousands of years? Through readings, writing, studio problems, trips off-campus, visiting artist lectures, and collaboration, students will eceive a thorough introduction to this dialogue and will specifically investigate three broad topics throughout the semester: the Artist, the Object, and the Institution.
McDaniel Plan: First Year Seminar; Creative Expression
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FYS 1237 - Justice, Fairness, and the Law Credits: 4
How do we respond to situations of injustice in our ever-changing, violent, and volatile world? How do laws respond, protect and inhibit demands for justice? How do players in our criminal
justice system perceive their roles and how do they attempt to create a more just society? Themes of justice and fairness, individual rights and claims of community, equality and inequality as well as morality and law will be studied through theories articulated by John Locke, Robert Nozick, John Rawls and Richard Posner and applied to debates and policies in current US culture.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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FYS 1239 - Animals, Ethics & Policy Credits: 4
Animal rights issues are receiving more and more public attention each year, with people increasingly questioning their relationship to animals and the environment. Is it wrong to eat animals? To experiment on them? To wear them as clothing? To display them in circuses, zoos, and aquariums? These are difficult moral questions. To answer them we consider contemporary readings, speeches, and films on animal rights, as well as readings in philosophy and ethics. And if we decide that society should change, how can that change be achieved? What tactics work? Education? Lobbying? Protest? Civil Disobedience? Direct action? This course looks for answers in political science, sociology, and the examples of past and present movements like Civil Rights and LGBT rights.
McDaniel Plan: First Year Seminar; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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FYS 1240 - Fears and Fangs Credits: 4
Students will analyze tales of vampires in literature and film, paying particular attention to the ways in which vampire imagery explore the fears of multiple eras. Texts will focus on those stories that explore issues of gender, sexuality, immigration, and food ethics.
McDaniel Plan: First Year Seminar; Textual Analysis
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FYS 1241 - Reading the Recipe Credits: 4
Students will analyze food-themed texts, such as cookbooks, menus, travel logs, memoirs, and television shows. Texts will focus on those stories that explore issues of race, gender, sexuality, immigration, and religion in the context of food cultures.
McDaniel Plan: First Year Seminar; Multicultural
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FYS 1242 - Materials Mimicking Nature Credits: 4
Nature has evolved over time to create structures and materials with amazing properties. In this course students will examine the work scientists have done to mimic these materials. The students will gain understanding of how nature has solved problems such as self-healing, adhesion, and harnessing solar energy. Student presentations will explore different materials scientists have made in an attempt to make materials smarter than nature. Finally students will explore the question – can we make materials smarter than nature?
McDaniel Plan: First Year Seminar
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FYS 1243 - Observing the Environment Credits: 4
What does it mean to observe? How do our own backgrounds and biases influence what we choose to watch and what we overlook? How do we increase our awareness of our surroundings to include small but important details which others might not see? In this class, students will explore the writings of natural historians, such as Charles Darwin, Bernd Heinrich, and Robin Wall Kimmerer, as well as the world around them. We will spend ample time outside, making our own observations in field notebooks and relating the observations we make to those made by previous nature writers. Students will be expected to develop their skills in observation and understanding that through observation, everyone is a scientist.
McDaniel Plan: First Year Seminar
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FYS 1244 - Introduction to Innovation Credits: 4
What does it mean to “innovate”? It’s more than you think! And it’s something you can do. Build a business. Start a nonprofit. Change the way things work, here and now, as you learn how to leverage entrepreneurship opportunities to make the most of your liberal arts degree.
In this FYS class, taught by the director of the Encompass Distinction, we’ll be engaging closely with real-world scenarios as we research the challenges and opportunities all around us, creating effective solutions. Carroll County will be our laboratory as we bring in special speakers from the nonprofit and business communities, research challenges and opportunities, and work on launching YOUR own innovative ideas that will compliment whatever future paths your academic and career choices take!
McDaniel Plan: First Year Seminar
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FYS 1245 - Unseen Math in Puzzles and Games Credits: 4
Do you like to solve puzzles and play games? This is a hands-on, active-learning style course where we will play games and solve puzzles and along the way discover interesting ideas in mathematics. Students will be introduced to elementary ideas in college mathematics by looking for patterns. The mathematics in this course is designed to be accessible to all incoming students. Topics we explore will include graph theory, topology, probability, and cryptography.
McDaniel Plan: First Year Seminar; Quantitative Reasoning
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FYS 1246 - Learn to Think Like a Computer Credits: 4
This course introduces students to fundamental ideas and topics in computer science studies. Students are set out to discover technical knowhow through exploring and surveying popular technologies including Web Applications, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Computer Security, and Internet of Things. In addition, students will be introduced to computational thinking, and using software and scripting tools to exam real computer servers and systems. There will be hands-on problem-solving opportunities for students to examine and analyze relevant issues in order to design appropriate prototypes towards solutions. All technologies and applications used in this course are redesigned to be accessible to all incoming students with or without prior technology experiences.
McDaniel Plan: First Year Seminar; Quantitative Reasoning
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FYS 1248 - Economic Issues and Policy Credits: 4
Exploration of the contributions made by economic theory towards understanding and solving major policy issues of our times. The basic principles of economics are studied and applied to timely topics such as the environment, health care, the minimum wage, international trade, and a variety of similarly critical economic issues. Student interest will play a role in topic selection.
McDaniel Plan: First Year Seminar
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FYS 1249 - Intro to Innovation Credits: 4
What is innovation? It’s more than you think! You can do it–and the world needs you to do it. In this class, we’ll be engaging closely with real world scenarios as we research the challenges and opportunities all around us, and create effective solutions. Carroll County will be our laboratory as we bring in special speakers, meet with community members, and work on launching YOUR own innovative idea–eligible to enter the Innovation Challenge in the spring and compete for the chance to win $10,000 in start-up funding.
McDaniel Plan: First Year Seminar
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FYS 1250 - Stephen King: The Books & Movies Credits: 4
The “Master of Horror” Stephen King is also known as “America’s Storyteller” because his 60+ books and over 200 short stories are written in variety of genres including science fiction, supernatural fiction, thrillers, drama, and nonfiction. Dozens of these stories have been adapted as feature films, TV movies, and TV series — and Americans have devoured them for almost 50 years. This class explores King’s works, such as The Shining, Stand by Me, Misery, and Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption. We will read and discuss these works, and discover what they tell us about America’s aspirations, fantasies, and fears. We will then see how his written works are transformed, enhanced, or degraded by their translation into film. This course will include several three-hour film-viewing sessions outside of regularly schedule class time.
McDaniel Plan: First Year Seminar
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FYS 1252 - Wondering Like Einstein Credits: 4
The name Einstein has become synonymous with genius. But do you really know what he did? Einstein revolutionized physics and set much of the modern world in motion! This course will trace his major contributions to our understanding of motion, space and time, gravity, light and lasers, thermodynamics, and quantum mechanics. In addition to exploring these topics, we will also study the great debates between Einstein and Bohr about the reality of nature, and what we can and cannot know. While the focus of the course is conceptual, we will use some basic algebra to express his many ideas and solve simply problems. After all, Einstein was not so good at math!
McDaniel Plan: First Year Seminar
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FYS 1253 - The Women of Harry Potter Credits: 4
Those of us that are Potter fans love Harry, however, Harry’s success in defeating Voldemort is scaffolded by a supporting cast of characters. The female characters in the Harry Potter books and movies provide the foundation, motivation and in some cases, the sense of family, all of which are essential for Harry to persevere. The course will also explore the background of the female author, JK Rowling and how her perspective influenced the development of the female characters. Discussion will focus on questions such as: What role does each character play in molding Harry’s core values? How do the female characters who are nemeses to Harry actually make him stronger and more effective as a hero? We will unpack the influence of major characters such as Hermione, Ginny, and Mrs. Weasley as well as a few of the minor characters like Mrs. Figg and Professor Trelawney. We will use a variety of media to explore characters and will work in small groups for our discussion.
McDaniel Plan: First Year Seminar
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FYS 1254 - Fairy Tale Films Credits: 4
Did you grow up listening to or reading fairy tales? Are you a fan of the movies? Then this class is for you. Over the ages, fairy tales became part of our common culture. They have been adapted for adult and young adult fiction, featured in advertisements, and above all portrayed in film and on television. This course focuses on magical elements in fairy tale movies. We will watch, discuss and critically analyze various fairy tale films from around the world.
McDaniel Plan: First Year Seminar; International
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FYS 1255 - Comics & Graphic Novels Credits: 4
Are graphic novels literature or art? Answer: Yes, both! What they are not: just for kids. Today’s graphic novels and manga tell serious—and seriously fun—stories that deserve space in any course on contemporary literature. In fact, the medium is sophisticated enough to present rich adaptations of literary classics and to produce compelling stories for TV, animation, and liveaction films. We will study some of those adaptations in this course, but our main focus is the printed medium. What happens when comics artists create autobiography, journalism, sci-fi, and dystopian fiction in comics form? Are the capes and masks and flashy colors all gone? And what role to the pictures have in the ways we analyze narratives? Among other topics, we will see how the drawn body becomes a language of intersecting spiritual, ethnic, racial, gender, and sexual identities. (Some books address mature themes.) As a bonus: Although like any literature course we focus mainly on text analysis, some projects can be tackled through comics-creating … no super art skills required!
Students are not required to suscribe to ComiXology (an Amazon company), but some will find this to be a good way to access texts.
McDaniel Plan: First Year Seminar; Creative Expression
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GEO 2200 - Human Geography: Cultures of the Non-Western World Credits: 4
The goal of this course is to explore the cultural geography of non – western developing world. It is based on a multidisciplinary approach, this means thematic topics from subject areas like anthropology, sociology, environmental studies etc are used to study peoples’ experiences. The course examines among other major questions: Where are these areas geographically located? What are the common and unique characteristics of the cultural environment that have been created? How have these peoples’ cultures impacted the western world and vice versa? Geographic areas and regions studied include Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
McDaniel Plan: International Nonwestern.
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GEO 2201 - Immigrants in Trump’s USA Credits: 4
This course examines the cultural environment or landscape that immigrants from non-Western regions have created in the United States. It is based on a human geography tradition that uses a multi-disciplinary approach; thematic topics from disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, political science, and economics are used to examine human experiences. This course will also include the examination of contemporary social and political fallout around the question of immigration in the United States. The immigrant communities studied are those from regions of Africa, Asia, Central America, and the Caribbean. The course examines among other questions: What are their cultural beliefs, traditions, and practices? What are the common or unique characteristics of the related cultural geographic environments? How have the immigrants’ cultures impacted the United States and vice versa?
McDaniel Plan: Multicultural
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GEO 2202 - Cultural Geography: Non – Arab Islamic Societies Credits: 4
This course focuses on the geography of the non – Arab Islamic societies, their cultural traits and experiences. How have they interacted with the natural environment to create Islamic cultural environment? How have their cultural practices impacted Islam and the world? How has westernization impacted their identity, economic, political, and social practices, and vice versa? Among the geographic areas explored are: sub-Saharan Africa, Turkey, Central, South and South-East Asia. Diaspora experiences, especially in Europe and North America are also studied. Special emphasis will be placed on current issues after September 2001 attacks in the United States.
McDaniel Plan: International Nonwestern.
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GNI 1138 - Self-Advocacy in the Workplace Credits: 2
This course is specifically designed to prepare students with a specific need or disability for their transition into the workplace. Students will begin by participating in a thorough exploration of personal strengths, needs and
goals. Through a one-week domestic study tour of New York City, students will increase confidence, strengthen personal identity, and practice overcoming adversity. Upon return to campus, students will explore individualized
accommodations, strategies and supports that may benefit them in the workplace. Priority registration will be for students who are registered with the SASS Office.
McDaniel Plan: January Term; Experiential
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GNI 1195 - IN: Peer Mentor Credits: 1.00 - 2.00
This course/internship is for students that have been selected as Peer Mentors in the Peer Mentor Program for the current academic year.
The Fall semester requirements (up to 2 credits) include attending the Peer Mentor August training period (5 days) and attending and working with mentees throughout the 5-Day New Student Orientation period. The Peer Mentor works with the mentees throughout fall semester in a mentoring role.
The Spring semester requirements (1 credit) include regular communication and meetings with mentees, planning (with the Peer Mentor program) events for first-year students, reporting to the First Year team on mentee progress and supporting mentees throughout Spring semester in their transition to McDaniel.
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GNI 1198 - Leadership, Citizenship & Service Credits: 2
This course on Leadership, Citizenship, and Service provides active learning opportunities for students to gain a valid concept of the operations, ideals, functions, and goals of government. Leadership skills are practiced and developed, and students are asked to translate these skills into a practical plan of action with the potential to positively impact their communities. To receive credit, students must participate in all aspects of Maryland Boys State or ALA Maryland Girls State, pass a written exam, and complete a service plan.
This course is open to participants of Maryland Boys State or ALA Maryland Girls State only.
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GSC 1111 - Introductory Astronomy Credits: 4
This course provides an overview of the field of astronomy. Students will study the history of astronomy; tools and methods used by astronomers; age, distance, size, and temperature scales encountered in the science of the cosmos; motions of celestial objects; composition, characteristics, and development of the planets, Sun, galaxies, and other astronomical bodies; and current events and discoveries, as well as the role of the space program.
Cross-listed with Physics 1111.
McDaniel Plan: Scientific Inquiry Embedded Lab
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GSC 1112 - The Earth Credits: 4
This course is a study of the Earth’s cosmic place, history, and systems. Topics will include observations of objects on the Celestial Sphere, formation of the solar system and the Earth, and modern Earth’s global systems – geological, hydrological, atmospheric, and biological. We will also analyze human impacts on the planet and ponder its future.
Offered as needed.
McDaniel Plan: Scientific Inquiry Embedded Lab
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GSC 1142 - The Science of Cooking Credits: 2
We all eat; but have you ever wondered if there is any scientific basis to what is being done in the kitchen? This is a course that considers the science of cooking because we all love to indulge our two most chemically related senses - smell and taste. During the course we will consider
questions as diverse as: What does “caramelize” mean? Are green potatoes poisonous? What makes ground beef brown? What is freezer burn? Is white chocolate really chocolate? and How can I get red wine stains out of a tablecloth? We will also consider international food and cooking methodologies, as well as the interpretation of nutritional information and marketing messages. The course will expand and enlighten your taste and smell experience. This is a course for those who would like to be more knowledgeable eaters.
McDaniel Plan: January Term
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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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HIS 1106 - Western Civilization: 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.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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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 Culture 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 1112 - 20th Century World: A Global Perspective Credits: 4
This course will investigate the major political, economic, social, and cultural developments of the twentieth century. It is designed as a study of world history, taking account of events on all continents. Broad topics include the world wars and their impact, European imperialism and decolonization, the world’s entanglement in superpower rivalry during the Cold War, and the challenges to US power since the collapse of Soviet Communism in 1991. Within this broad framework the course will address the Arab-Israeli conflict, the rise and fall of Apartheid in South Africa, the Indochina Wars, the struggle between Nationalists and Communists in China, and authoritarianism and the quest for democratic government in Latin America. The course will also consider the impact of technological innovation and economic globalization in recent decades.
McDaniel Plan: International Non-western; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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HIS 1113 - Personal Trauma and the Record Credits: 2
Through reading and analyzing various types of ego documents (testimonies, confessions, memoirs and autobiographies), we will explore what kind of historical sources ego documents are. Employing literary, psychological, linguistic, and historical methods as well as exploring the historical and social historical contexts of the documents, we will assess how reliable the narratives are and specify what sort of connections exist between individual, historical and social historical narratives. Ego documents that have been treated with condescension by scholars are the subjects of heated debates recently, as their reliability and usefulness for historical research are often questioned. As an interdisciplinary course that requires no previous knowledge of the disciplines involved, it also provides a methodological basis for future interdisciplinary research.
This course is offered at the Budapest campus.
McDaniel Plan: January Term
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HIS 1115 - Introduction to Public History Credits: 4
From monuments and battlefields, to museums and historic houses, from commemorations and celebrations, to archives and websites, this course blends theory and experience to offer an overview of the practical aspects and professional opportunities of public history. Students will learn to think critically about the public presentation of history while being introduced to the theories and practices of public history. Course includes trips to area public history sites, which may include Gettysburg, Baltimore, and Washington, DC.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding; Experiential
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HIS 1121 - Roots of Taiwanese Cuisine Credits: 2
Why does Taiwan produce black sugar? What are the origins of bubble tea? Why have Taiwanese only now begun eating beef, but don’t often drink milk? This Pacific island hosts a diverse range of local flavors . In this two-week course, students will travel around Taiwan, sampling local cuisine, experiencing culture, and exploring history. We will investigate how the island’s unique ecology, geography, and global position has produced modern Taiwan’s food culture. Students will interview and learn from producers, consumers, and local businesses in order to understand the factors that shape modern attitudes towards food in Taiwan.
McDaniel Plan: Experiential
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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 1185 - America and the Vietnam War Credits: 4
The Vietnam War is a complicated part of modern American history. In this class students will examine the War, its impact on American popular culture, and the way historians have tried to understand and contextualize the War. Using a variety of sources, including books, government documents, and popular films, students will gain a greater understanding of this important period in American history.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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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 Non-western; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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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.
McDaniel Plan: International
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HIS 2105 - Holocaust and Memory Credits: 4
The course aims to interrogate the emerging field created by the intersection of Jewish Studies and Memory to study the literary and artistic representation of the Holocaust. The course covers the topics of how Memory of Holocaust is inscribed, framed mediated and performed in Europe and especially in Hungary. The course also consists of field trips to the Jewish monuments of Hungary.
McDaniel Plan: Multicultual European, Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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HIS 2106 - Holocaust in Film and Literature Credits: 4
The German philosopher Theodor Adorno famously wrote that “to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric,” by which he meant that no representation was possible of such a horrific human event. And yet, there has been a relentless outpouring of film, memoirs, historical fiction and, even, poetry itself that deals directly with the Holocaust and some of which, such as the works of Italian survivor Primo Levi or Steven Spielberg’s film “Schindler’s List,” has become practically canonical. This course examines a wide range of both filmic and literary efforts to grapple with the Nazi Holocaust with a view to the larger question of the problem of representing history that seems to defy all explanation.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding; Textual Analysis
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HIS 2107 - Modern British History Credits: 4
Great Britain led the world into the modern era and has seen major changes at home and abroad during the past two centuries. This course will look into key issues of economic transformation, political reform, and social and cultural change. Topics include the industrial revolution and its impact, Victorian society and culture, imperialism and decolonization, and the origins and rise of the welfare state. The question of Ireland, Britain’s experiences in the world wars, its shifting international status, migration and multiculturalism, the role of the monarchy, and recent political trends such as the challenge of Scottish nationalism and relations with the European Union will also be addressed.
McDaniel Plan: International; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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HIS 2109 - British Empire and World Credits: 4
Great Britain built the largest of the European overseas empires. This course follows both a chronological and thematic approach to the history of this empire. Students will consider the causes of imperial expansion, varying conceptions of empire and the imperial mission, diverse forms of imperial rule, the impact of empire on indigenous societies and on Britain itself, independence struggles, and decolonization. Within a broad geographic scope, special attention will be placed on British India and Africa.
McDaniel Plan: International Non-western; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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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 2204 - Russia: Origins Peter the Great Credits: 4
This course will introduce students to major events and themes in the history of Russia and its neighbors from medieval beginnings to the reign of Peter the Great. Political, social, and cultural developments will be studied in the contexts of Kievan Rus’ and its successor states, the Mongol invasion, the rise of Moscow as a new political center, the controversial reign of Ivan the Terrible, territorial expansion from Ukraine to Siberia, and Peter the Great’s westernizing reforms.
McDaniel Plan: International; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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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.
McDaniel Plan: International
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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 2212 - The Soviet Experiment Credits: 4
During the 20th century Russian Communists embarked on a radical political experiment. This course will consider both the successes and failures of this utopian project. Topics will include the Revolutions of 1917 and creation of the Soviet state, the rule of Joseph Stalin, and the resulting economic and social changes. The course will encompass the ordeal of World War II, post-Stalin attempts at revitalization, and the problems of Soviet modernity. We will address Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms of the 1980s and reasons for the USSR’s collapse. Throughout the course attention will be paid to the role of ideology in Soviet politics and society, to ethnic diversity and the national question, and to relations with the outside world.
McDaniel Plan: International; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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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 - Nineteenth Century Europe 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; 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 - Traditional East Asia 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.
McDaniel Plan: International Non-western
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HIS 2232 - Modern East Asia 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 - Immortals, Ancestors & Demons Credits: 4
A monkey named Wukong (aka Goku in Dragon Ball and Monkey King in Forbidden Kingdom) accompanies the monk Tripitaka on a journey to retrieve Buddhist sutras from India to China. 15 He is able to lift his 17, 000-pound iron cudgel with ease and to travel 34, 000 miles in one somersault. He knows 72 transformations into various shapes of animals and objects, even a clone of himself. He even knows various spells to command wind, to divide water, to conjure vprotective circles against spider spirts, and to freeze humans. Students, using a 16th-century novel Journey to the West, explore (1) the development of popular beliefs (in immortals, oxen demons, hungry ghosts, kitchen god, silkworm goddess, goddess of mercy, spider sprits, ancestors); (2) the boundaries between the seen and unseen realms of divine worlds; (3) a changing society entwined in what have formed/become the history of China. Focusing on Chinese religiosity within its own historical contexts, we examine and explore the knowledge and categorization of “religions” in the field of Chinese studies.
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
This is a course on Modern Chinese history (1749-2008). We are going to look at films as a historian would. Students will gain a broad understanding of modern China’s historical development, from the mid-eighteenth century to the 2008 Olympic Games to the present. We will focus on the connection between an opium-war-inflicted China and a cacophonous post-socialism China. Movies will include Good Earth, Once Upon a Time in China, Early Spring in a Town, Lin Family’s Shop, To Live, Please Vote Me, Not One Less, Chinese Odyssey, Still Life, and Young and Restless in China. Using films as texts, we will look at social and cultural transformation in modern China and representations of modern Chinese history presented in films. By exploring modern China in films, the course encourages critical reflection on historical interpretations of modern China.
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 - American Indian History to 1840 Credits: 4
This course will seek to examine the history of American Indians, and their wide range of contacts with Europeans, with an 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 religious encounters, shifts in trade, military invasions, ecological transformations, legal disputes, and diplomatic alliances. This course also uses Reacting to the Past pedagogy to encourage learning through historical role-playing and a simulation that encourages research, speaking, writing, debating, and critical thinking in additional to fostering teamwork and leadership abilities.
McDaniel Plan: Multicultural; Experiential; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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HIS 2243 - Empires and Nations in Eastern Europe Credits: 4
Eastern Europe, roughly situated between Russia and Germany, saw itself made and remade several times over the course of the last century while serving as a testing ground for radical political
ideologies. This course will address the emergence of modern nations in this region vulnerable to invasions and annexations by its more powerful neighbors. One focus will be on the collapse of multiethnic empires during World War I and the rise of nation states which grappled with diverse populations of their own. A second focus will be on Nazi empire-building, genocide, and incidents of ethnic cleansing during and shortly after World War II. A third focus will be on the Soviet Union’s westward territorial expansion and domination of Eastern Europe during the Cold War. We will also consider developments since the collapse of Communism, including European integration and the resurgence of nationalism.
McDaniel Plan: International; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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HIS 2244 - American Dreams in China Credits: 4
The so-called “American Dream” has never been confined within the shores of America itself. Indeed, people in other lands have long had their own visions of America, its promises, and its opportunities. This course specifically examines how people in China have envisioned America and the multiple meanings of America. What was the “American Dream” in China? How and why and how did American dreams thrive in China in the past century? What does it teach about US-Chinese relations? Using the concept of the American Dream as a starting point, students will explore the complex relationship between China and the United States in the last two centuries (1789-2017). By tracing the exchanges of ideas, objects, and beliefs in China and America, we will explore economic, social, and political
interaction between two countries from a historical perspective and approach.
McDaniel Plan: International Non-Western and Textual Analysis
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HIS 2245 - Russia Through Film Credits: 4
In this course students will use film as a source for the study of Russian and Soviet history and culture. They will see how movies as a mass medium saw the intersection of politics, ideology, art, and entertainment. The course will complement relevant readings with the viewing of film segments by major directors such as Sergei Eisenstein (1920s-40s) and Andrei Tarkovsky (1960s-80s). Students will analyze and discuss these films in relation to their broader political and cultural contexts. Major periods include the post-revolutionary decade of the 1920s, the Stalin and post-Stalin eras, the late 1980s period of reforms, and the post-Soviet 1990s.
McDaniel Plan: International; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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HIS 2246 - Land of the Unfree Credits: 4
Despite celebrating the “Land of the Free,” Americans have frequently held one another in various forms of bondage. This course is a whirlwind tour of the hidden side of American history, in which we examine how slavery, indentured servants, apprentices, chain gangs, wage slaves, prostitutes, debtors, sailors, prisoners, and the institutionalized insane all complicate our narrative of freedom. We also take a comparative approach, examining practices and precedents in Africa, Europe, and among American Indians. Students engage firsthand with letters, speeches, diaries, artwork, and oral history along with scholarly works.
McDaniel Plan: Multicultural; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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HIS 2247 - The Nuclear Age Credits: 4
During the second half of the twentieth century, a new techno scientific phenomenon—the advent of nuclear energy and weapons—marked the geopolitics, environment, and culture of the United States and the world. This course examines the history of today’s nuclear infrastructure, including its origins, its geopolitical and commercial configurations, its environmental consequences, and its global social and cultural significance. It considers how historical analysis of these developments has changed dramatically over time, as new sources become available and new perspectives emerge. Subjects of particular attention include the discovery of nuclear fission, the Manhattan Project, and the origins of the nuclear world, the Cold War nuclear arms race, the commercialization of nuclear power plants, the international competition to sell them, and the national and transnational movements to stop them, the nature and environmental consequences of the nuclear fuel cycle, the causes and effects of nuclear accidents and the evaluation and management of nuclear risk, and post-Cold War nuclear proliferation as well as the international non-proliferation regime.
The course is offered at the Budapest campus.
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HIS 2248 - Surviving Totalitarianism Credits: 4
One of the key issues of twentieth century European history concerns the possibilities of autonomous, independent decision making for individuals and the civil society in totalitarian systems. This course deals with theoretical aspects and case studies of this problem focusing on the Second World War and its immediate aftermath in the countries under shorter or longer control of Hitler’s and Stalin’s regimes. It analyzes various forms of collaboration, resistance and retribution. In addition to scholarly literature the course also uses fiction and films as sources.
This course is offered at the Budapest campus.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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HIS 2250 - Reconstruction Credits: 4
This course is focused on the moment in time when four million enslaved Black people 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 look at what changes freedom brought to the Black 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 2251 - Narratives and Networks Credits: 4
This course gives an introduction to a recent development in historical scholarship, network research, which attempts to build a bridge between mathematics and history. In order to evaluate this development, we will open with a survey of traditional major conceptual frameworks in historical scholarship, including class, culture, ethnicity, religion or more recently gender. This will permit us to discuss how various parallel or conflicting narratives both in scholarship and public history can be constructed around the same events, and even based on the same sources.
We shall also ask why some narratives have more impact on public discourses than others. We shall then focus on a development of the last two decades, the application of network theory to the social sciences and humanities. In historical scholarship one of the most widely-known works examining network theory is Niall Ferguson’s The Square and the Tower (Penguin, 2017). Ferguson, a university professor as well as highly visible public intellectual, employs two key concepts in this book: hierarchies and networks. Reading excerpts from his work, we will study how he attempts to use these concepts as a means of shaping historical narratives ranging from the Renaissance to the emergence of Silicon Valley. We will then consider critical assessments that challenge his work, both by questioning his deployment of narratives and his use of sources.
This course is offerd at the Budapest Campus.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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HIS 2252 - Russia Since Peter the Great Credits: 4
This course will introduce students to Russian history since the reign of Peter the Great. The course will address key questions such as the impact of Peter’s modernizing reforms, Russia’s imperial expansion and character as a multinational state, the monarchy’s struggle to contain pressures for change, the successes and failures of the Soviet experiment, Russia’s engagement with Europe and its role on the world stage. The course will conclude with the collapse of Communism and Russia’s reemergence as a great power during the early twenty-first century.
McDaniel Plan: International
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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 2350 - My Career for History Majors Credits: 1
This course provides a connective bridge between the skills developed in the history major, and the practical application of those skills when applying for graduate schools and jobs after college. This course will reinforce some of what was learned in the My Design program while pushing students further towards mastery of vital professional skills tailored specifically for history students, including: articulating the value of a degree in history, composing resumes and cover letters, networking with alumni, and researching jobs or other opportunities.
McDaniel Plan: My Career
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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 3323 - Nationalism in Europe Credits: 4
Nationalism has proven to be a potent and enduring political force. This course will trace the development of nationalism in Europe since the Enlightenment and French Revolution. It takes both a conceptual and concrete historical approach. Students will consider the debate about origins, definitions, and varieties of nations and nationalism. They will also examine the historical settings in which national aspirations took shape as well as their impact. Topics include the rise of national movements in the nineteenth century, the unification of Italy and Germany, the role of governments in “nation-building,” links between nationalism, imperialism, racism, and anti-Semitism, and the rise of new nation states. Of particular concern will be the role of nationalism in reshaping societies during and after the two world wars. Population displacements, migration, and the status of ethnic and regional minorities will also be considered. Specific cases such as those of Scotland and Catalonia will be viewed in historical perspective. Apart from class readings, students will pursue research projects of their choosing related to particular countries, regions, or peoples.
McDaniel Plan: International; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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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 3325 - Stalin Credits: 4
This course will examine one of the twentieth century’s most notorious figures, Joseph Stalin, and his leadership of the Soviet Union. It will be both a history of the Stalin era and a study of historians’ changing interpretations of Stalin’s rule. Students will consider various attempts to define and understand “Stalinism” and its place in Russian, European, and world history. They will address topics such the political terror of the 1930s, Stalin’s “revolution from above” and the economic transformation of his country, social change and the status of women, the Soviet Union as a multiethnic state, Stalin’s engagement in World War II, and the onset of the Cold War.
McDaniel Plan: International; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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