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Highlighted Fall 2025 Courses
HIST 356
Global Environmental History
Instructor: Prof. Gregory Cushman
T/Th 3:30-4:45
Nature is our oldest home and our newest challenge. This course surveys the environmental history of planet earth and its peoples over the very long term, from the Big Bang up to the human dominated present, the Anthropocene. It focuses on scientific and historical debates regarding environmental change and biotic exchange in world history. Although global in scope, this course will give particular attention to case studies from Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Pacific World.
HIST 231
Music, Race, & American Cultural History, 1900-present
Instructor: Dr. Tyina Steptoe
T/Th 2-3:15
HIST 231 is a cultural history course that explores the role of music in community-building and movements for racial justice. By historicizing the development of diverse musical styles (such as ragtime, corridos, blues, gospel, jazz, rock, soul, salsa, Tejano, and punk), we will examine the relationship between popular culture, politics, and social change.
HIST 280
Sports & Ethnic America
Instructor: Dr. Matthew S. Gilbert
Online
This social history course examines racial, ethnic, and gender history in the U.S. through the lens of sport from the turn of the twentieth century through the present. May include themes such as: Native American boarding schools, Japanese American internment and World War II; racial segregation and integration; Cold War nationalism and steroids; immigration and Americanization; 1960s political activism; sexuality and sport; Title IX and sexism; "melting pot" themes; Native American mascot controversies; mixed-race athletes and identity.
HIST 478a
The Global Sixties
Instructor: Dr. Jadwiga Pieper-Mooney
Online
