• HIST 4082: Modern Japan

  3.00 Credits

  Austin Peay State University

  
  Description: A critical examination of Japanese history from 1854 to present. Topicsinclude the Meiji Restoration, the process and consequences ofModernization and Modernity, the rise of militarism, the road toward WWIIand its aftermath, and social, political, and economic transformation in thepost-war period.
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• HIST 4083: History of Modern Korea

  3.00 Credits

  Austin Peay State University

  
  Crosslisted: HIST 5083;Description: A critical examination of Korean History, 19th Century to the present.Topics include clashes between tradition and modernization, relationshipswith China and Japan, internal and external struggles for independence,and causes and effects of two Koreas.
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• HIST 4090: The Renaissance

  3.00 Credits

  Austin Peay State University

  
  Description: The development and impact of humanism in Italy and Northern Europe. Renaissance Italy, England, France and the Holy Roman Empire aretopics covered within this course.
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• HIST 4091: Reformation Europe

  3.00 Credits

  Austin Peay State University

  
  Crosslisted: HIST 5091;Description: Late medieval religious beliefs and practices in western Europe. Covers the movements begun by Luther, Zwingli and Calvin. Continues with the English Reformation, Counter-Reformation, and the Wars of Religion. Includes social, economic, and political topics of the period.
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• HIST 4092: Judaism in Jesus' Day

  3.00 Credits

  Austin Peay State University

  
  Description: This course provides an overview of Jewish history from the building of the second temple under the Persians to its destruction under the Romans. It covers the political, literary, and religious history of the Second Temple Period.
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• HIST 4101: History of African Am Religion

  3.00 Credits

  Austin Peay State University

  
  Description: This course traces African-American religion from West Africa roots through the 21st century, including topics such as the first and second Great Awakenings, secret slave religion, music, the role of churches in the Civil Rights Movement, and twentieth-century Christian denominations.
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• HIST 4102: Modern India Mughals, Gandhi

  3.00 Credits

  Austin Peay State University

  
  Description: This course gives a broad overview of the history of the Indiansubcontinent, from the eighteenth century to India’s independence in1947. Beginning with a brief introduction to the demise of the MughalEmpire, it focuses on the nature of British power in India.
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• HIST 4103: The Making of Modern Science

  3.00 Credits

  Austin Peay State University

  
  Description: An introductory survey of the history of science in its social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from antiquity to the beginning of twenty-first century through the lens of a humanistic and social science approach. Students will also appreciate a very different view of the making of modern science—one thatneeded real cultural engagement on the part of its practitioners fromAristotle/Plato through Galileo/Newton till Albert Einstein, Satyen Bose and Richard Feynman among others
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• HIST 4104: Mughal India

  3.00 Credits

  Austin Peay State University

  
  Description: This course addresses the political economic and cultural changes inthe sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. It covers the Mughal Empire--one of thelargest empires in the world of its time--and other Indian kingdoms contemporaneous with it such as those in the Deccan and South India. Studentswill become acquainted with a world where occupations and identities were in constant flux, where kings became impoverished renunciates, bandits became kings, peasants became warriors, warriors became scholarly writers, and harem women became traders and power brokers.
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• HIST 4105: Hist of Sci and Tec South Asia

  3.00 Credits

  Austin Peay State University

  
  Description: The increasing importance of South Asian countries in the nternational arena in present day has led to the growing importance of the history of science &technology in these countries. We will sample a variety of approaches to the investigation of the history of South Asian sciences and technologies and discuss what is, and whether there is, something special about this field. By focusing on topics like colonial science, civilization through science & technology, ationalism/Imperialism and science, the vernacularization of science & technology and how knowledge circulates transnationally we will examine the nature of modernity in South Asia.
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