Course Guide
History 110: World History to 1500
This course explores some of the most ancient cultures of the world, including Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China, and Meso-America, through ancient primary sources and artifacts. For more information or to request a syllabus, contact Professor Anna Taylor: @email. (4 credits, HS DG GenEd)
History 154: Social Change and the 1960s
his course focuses on the 'Long Sixties,' a period stretching from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s. We will look in new ways at topics you are probably already familiar with: the civil rights movement, the anti-Vietnam War movement, counterculture, sexual experimentation, and never trusting anyone over 30. We will also explore aspects of the Sixties you may not know about or associate with a different era, such as the Great Society, a thriving conservative movement, environmentalism, and gay rights. Students will view online lectures, participate in online discussions, and complete assignments which include reviewing music, movies, and books from the sixties. For more information or to request a syllabus, contact Professor Sandy: [email protected] (HS DU GenEd)
History 280: History of Baseball
This class examines the history of baseball from its earliest days as a game for young men in New York City in the mid-19th century to the present and its professional leagues in the United States and elsewhere in the world. The class studies the rise of sport as a leisure activity and then industry, the creation of the major leagues, the racial integration of baseball, the rise of free agency, the steroid era and beyond. For more information or to request a syllabus, contact Professor Wolfe: @email. (4 credits, HS GenEd)
History 385: Modern Boston
This course will survey the history of Boston from the nineteenth century to the present. The course will use Boston as a lens to analyze and understand how the United States in general and American cities in particular have changed over the past two hundred years. Topics include urbanization; industrialization and women and child labor; abolitionism and Boston’s role in the Civil War; Irish immigration and discrimination; class conflict and the Gilded Age; machine politics and political and moral reform in the Progressive Era; radicalism and protest; urban renewal; racism, civil rights activism, and school desegregation; immigration and migration in the twentieth century. Students will gain an understanding of Boston’s rich history and how cities can offer insight into larger historical changes. For more information or to request a syllabus, contact Professor Andy Grim: @email. (4 credits, DU HS GenEd)
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