Mar 22, 2023
Summer/Fall 23 Registration - Department of History - Fall 23 Courses for UNIFI & Students Needing University Electives without PreRequisites
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- NEW: Academic Advisor Portal
- The new Academic Advisor Portal is a centralized point for campus-wide UNI faculty and staff academic advisors, as well as student success partners, for information and resources to enhance work with students and further expand professional development.
- Highlights of the portal include: Advisor Toolbox - including scheduling and registration resources | Academic Advisor FAQs | UNI Advising Network | News, Information & Announcements
- Highlights of the portal include: Advisor Toolbox - including scheduling and registration resources | Academic Advisor FAQs | UNI Advising Network | News, Information & Announcements
- The new Academic Advisor Portal is a centralized point for campus-wide UNI faculty and staff academic advisors, as well as student success partners, for information and resources to enhance work with students and further expand professional development.
- Department of History - Fall 2023 Courses for UNIFI and Students Needing University Electives without PreRequisites
- In addition to our UNIFI sections of US History (HIST 1110 and 1120, Human Condition Domestic) and Making the Modern World (HIST 1210, Human Condition Global), History is offering sections of Topics courses in the Responsibility, Human Expression, and Human Condition Global categories. To help you guide students to courses of interest, topics and brief course descriptions for individual sections are provided below
- Note: HIST 2011, 3110, and 3210 are repeatable with different topics and have no prerequisites, making them ideal for students who have completed or are close to completing UNIFI but who cannot yet enroll in courses requiring junior standing. Even if they’ve satisfied these UNIFI categories, they can use these courses as university electives.
- Please contact Jen McNabb, Head of History, with any questions: jennifer.mcnabb@uni.edu
- HIST 3110 Conflict and Justice in History (UNIFI: Responsibility)
- Section 01 Topic: Imperialism and Colonialism - Honors Only | Professor Louis Fenech / 8:00 TTH
- A survey of the history of imperialism and colonialism since 1800 CE that includes consideration of issues of morality and ethics
- Section 02 Topic: Terrorism | Professor Kenneth Atkinson / 9:00 MWF Online
- A survey of global conflicts and justice focusing on the history of terrorism from antiquity to the present. Topics to be examined include the origins, morality, and ethics of terrorism worldwide and efforts to combat it.
- Section 03 Topic: Imperialism and Colonialism | Professor Louis Fenech / 11:00 MWF
- A survey of the history of imperialism and colonialism since 1800 CE that includes consideration of issues of morality and ethics
- Section 04 Topic: Climate Change | Professor Brian Rumsey / 12:00 MWF
- This course examines how climate shapes history, how changing climates have driven conflict, and societal understandings of justice in relation to climatic change. It examines the ethical questions raised by responses to climatic change across place and time. The course will also survey how humans’ understanding of climatic shifts have changed over time.
- Section 05 Topic: Contextualizing the Little Big Horn | Professor Robert Dise / 2:00 MWF
- Contextualizing the Little Bighorn: Plains Indian Peoples, the Army, Railroads, and Gold, 1865-1877. This course explores the broader context as well as the events of the conflicts between advancing white civilization and the native peoples of the Plains in the years after the Civil War.
- Section 06 Topic: People & Revolutions | Professor Greg Bruess / 11:00 TTH
- This course explores modern European political, social, cultural, and economic revolutions and the competing ethical and moral visons which created, sustained and sometimes, defeated them. The course covers a variety of political, social, cultural, and economic upheavals such as the Scientific Revolution, the English Revolutions, the Industrial Revolution, the French Revolutions, and the Russian Revolutions.
- Section 08 and 09 Topic: Russia and Its Indigenous Peoples | Professor Alicja Boruta-Sadkowski / Online asynchronous
- The Indigenous Peoples of Russia have experienced hardships both environmental and political in origin, including the abolition of several Indigenous autonomous territories. This course explores the experiences of the Indigenous peoples of Russia during the 19th and 20th centuries, providing historical and critical perspectives.
- Section 01 Topic: Imperialism and Colonialism - Honors Only | Professor Louis Fenech / 8:00 TTH
- HIST 3210 Problems and Perspectives in Global History (UNIFI: Human Condition, Global
- Section 01 Topic: 1000 Years of Samurai | Professor Reinier Hesselink / Online asynchronous
- This course will survey the history of Japanese warriors starting with the influence exerted by mainland East Asia (i.e. what is now Korea and China) on the military technology of those living on the Japanese islands. 945 CE – 1945 CE
- Section 01 Topic: 1000 Years of Samurai | Professor Reinier Hesselink / Online asynchronous
- HIST 4198 Independent Study
- Students looking for leadership opportunities in global issues should consider this course
- Section 01 Iowa High School Model United Nations | Professor Konrad Sadkowski / Instructor consent required Konrad.Sadkowski@uni.edu / Arranged meetings TBD
- IHSMUN works with high schoolers participating in Model United Nations. This 1 – 3 credit course enhances oral and written communication skills, as well as knowledge about global affairs and concerns. In Spring semesters, participants will help coordinate the Model United Nations conference at UNI.
- IHSMUN works with high schoolers participating in Model United Nations. This 1 – 3 credit course enhances oral and written communication skills, as well as knowledge about global affairs and concerns. In Spring semesters, participants will help coordinate the Model United Nations conference at UNI.
- Section 01 Iowa High School Model United Nations | Professor Konrad Sadkowski / Instructor consent required Konrad.Sadkowski@uni.edu / Arranged meetings TBD
- Students looking for leadership opportunities in global issues should consider this course
- HIST 3110 Conflict and Justice in History (UNIFI: Responsibility)
- In addition to our UNIFI sections of US History (HIST 1110 and 1120, Human Condition Domestic) and Making the Modern World (HIST 1210, Human Condition Global), History is offering sections of Topics courses in the Responsibility, Human Expression, and Human Condition Global categories. To help you guide students to courses of interest, topics and brief course descriptions for individual sections are provided below
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