Culture, Religion, Ideas, Media
Students in this seminar can research and write their papers on topics related to the following: print and visual culture, film, history of ideas, history of science, business and entertainment, celebrity, material arts, television, radio, folklore, folk arts, literacy, oral history and traditions, religion, memory
Sample Paper Topics:
"Condemned Spells: A Study of the Legality of Erotic Magic in the Roman World"
"Celebrating or Censoring the Past?: The Role of Heritage and History in the Reconciliation Process in Post-Apartheid South Africa, 1990-Present"
"How was Communism Portrayed to American Society During the Early Cold War Years?"
"Dubious Benevolence: The American Christian Burden and the Congregational Sponsorships of the Hmong, Minneapolis-St. Paul, 1975-1990"
"Philosophies of Rulership in Warring States China"
- HIST 3433. Images of Africa.
- HIST 3493. Islam: Religion and Culture.
- HIST 3541. Islam in the Catholic Age.
- HIST 3542. Medieval Islam.
- HIST 3608W. History of the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages
- HIST 3613. History of the Crusades
- HIST 3616. France in the Middle Ages
- HIST 3619. Chivalry, Crisis, and Revival: Medieval History 1050-1500
- HIST 3623W. Germany in the Age of Reformation.
- HIST 3626. France From the Late 16th Century Through Napoleon: 1594-1815.
- HIST 3632. History of Germany; Reformation to Unification: 1500-1871.
- HIST 3651. England Under the Tudors: 1485-1603.
- HIST 3652. England Under the Stuarts: 1603-1689.
- HIST 3728. Race, Nation, and Genocides in the Modern World
- HIST 3821. United States in the 20th Century to 1945
- HIST 3705. From Printing Press to Internet: Media, Communications, and History
- HIST 3709. Science and Enlightenment.
- HIST 3714W. Medieval Spain.
- HIST 3727W. History of the Holocaust
- HIST 3729. Nazi Germany and Hitler's Europe
- HIST 3735. Politics of Ideas: European Thought in 20th Century Contexts
- HIST 3767. Eastern Orthodoxy: History and Culture
- HIST 3775. History of the European Jews from the Middle Ages to the Present.
- HIST 3822. United States in the 20th Century Since 1945
- HIST 3837. Minnesota History.
- HIST 3842. History of Silicon Valley
