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• HIS 195: Special Topics in History for Non-Majors

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This is a special topics course that provides an alternative to the traditional introductory history survey courses. While traditional history surveys cover a range of eras and numerous topics, this course will focus on one historical theme, event, period, movement, person, debate, etc., and be covered in a manner suitable for non-majors. Topics will often reflect popular contemporary interests and newer trends in history.
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• HIS 200: Making History: Controversies in History

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course examines the history of controversies within and concerning the discipline of History. In examining those controversies, this course accomplishes two key goals for history majors: it introduces them to the features and issues of historiography -- the history of the history discipline -- and asks them to evaluate the professional and ethical responsibilities of historians within the larger society. In particular the course examines why there have been vastly different ideas about what the purposes and uses of history ought to be, how those differences have shaped the discipline of history, how these disagreements get expressed through public, political controversies about what "correct" and "proper" history is, and how historians identify, evaluate and resolve professional and ethical conflicts within their discipline.
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• HIS 214: Do No Harm? The Pursuit of Justice in the History of Medicine

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course examines the history of how people have understood and experienced health and sickness, and how people have practiced medicine and had medicine practiced upon them, from ancient times to the present. It places particular emphasis on the historical relationship between expert and lay medical knowledge, and in understanding how cultural values have informed the diverse ways that different societies have practiced medicine. The course similarly explores how medical knowledge and practice have become a potent form of cultural authority open to both great accomplishments and great abuse. In particular, we will examine how women, persons of African ancestry, persons with disability, and other historically marginalized groups interact with medical knowledge and practice. Using the analytical tools of social constructivist theory, the course examines how medical knowledge and the practice of medicine can be agents used to maintain structural inequalities. Crucially, however, marginalized persons and their allies also have used their own medical knowledge and practice to challenge those inequalities.
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• HIS 215: Introduction to the History of Science

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course examines the history of science from ancient Greek theories of nature, through the Scientific Revolution, Darwinian Revolution, and the Atomic Age to the Human Genome Project. In particular it looks at the historical changes in what is considered part of "nature" and its "scientific" study, changes in who and what is recognized as legitimate sources of knowledge about nature, and the significance of social factors, especially race, class, gender, and religious and political beliefs, upon the construction and reception of scientific ideas. The course emphasizes how historical methods can be used to better make sense of how and why people and societies construct scientific knowledge, and how and why they integrate that knowledge into culture, religion, politics, art, and other human endeavors.
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• HIS 221: The Medieval Middle East

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course offers a survey of some of the most fascinating topics and heated debates of pre-modern Middle East history, covering the periods of Islamic Origins, Golden Age, and Global Connections. Students will analyze crucial moments in Islamic history and understand how these pre-modern roots have lasting effects on our world today.
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• HIS 222: The Modern Middle East

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course provides a general introduction to the modern Middle East, including topics such as European imperialism, nation-building, the Cold War, and the war on terror. Rooted in a global comparative perspective, the course highlights the Middle East as a diverse region, home to many religious traditions and cultural practices.
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• HIS 224: Reform and Revolution in Imperial Russia

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Focusing on the Russian Empire from the reforms of Peter the Great in the early eighteenth century to the overthrow of the Romanov dynasty in 1917, the course examines the experiences and perspectives of the empire's diverse peoples. It immerses students in the world of imperial Russia via role-playing simulations and the analysis of primary sources. Students develop the critical skills of reading, writing, and speaking from the perspective of a historian and from the perspective of multiple historical figures in conventional and creative genres.
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• HIS 300: Varieties of History

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Historical research techniques. Methodology, historiography, and varieties of history. Prerequisite:    HIS 300 requires prerequisites of at least two 100-level history courses. Majors only.
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• HIS 302: Modern India

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Social, religious, and cultural underpinnings of modern India against a backdrop of the subcontinent's chronological development. Hindu and Muslim traditions discussed in terms of their own social, religious, and historical dynamics and as examples of complexities of national integration.
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• HIS 305: Modern China

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Survey of the historical and cultural background of China. Emphasis is given to the significance of China's modern period and its impact on world affairs.
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