• HIST 3884: Civil Rights Movement

  3.00 Credits

  University of Memphis

  
  (was 4882)This course explores a critical history of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. We will focus on the complex nature of racial relations, and various themes, events, organizations, and personalities that contributed to shaping the Black awakening of the 1960s in the United States. The course aims to model and foster critical thinking about African American history and encourages students to challenge the dominant or “mainstream” narratives and perspectives. PREREQUISITE: HIST 3881, or AAAS 2100, or equivalent introductory course.
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• HIST 3905: History of Memphis

  3.00 Credits

  University of Memphis

  
  No course description available.
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• HIST 3910: Witchcraft, Magic, and Sorcery

  3.00 Credits

  University of Memphis

  
  This course focuses on early Americans' pervasive belief in the supernatural. Students consider how cultural differences shaped views on the supernatural and affected outcomes for those accused of behavior outside the accepted community mores. While the Salem witchcraft crisis is a focal point of the course, students also consider the traditions of supernatural belief, as well as concerns and accusations of occult behavior beyond Salem, in order to contextualize and explain the Salem crisis while developing a more complete understanding of competing ideologies and dynamics of power.Students will analyze court records, religious tracts, and print culture as well as modern-day depictions of the supernatural in early America. Students will develop a more complete understanding of competing ideologies and the dynamics of power that informed and were influenced by constructs of race, ethnicity, status, gender, and power.
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• HIST 3920: South to 1865

  3.00 Credits

  University of Memphis

  
  (3) The US South from the colonial period to the end of the Civil War
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• HIST 3930: South since 1865

  3.00 Credits

  University of Memphis

  
  South from Civil War to present.
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• HIST 3941: North American First Peoples

  3.00 Credits

  University of Memphis

  
  This course will synthesize the histories of North American first peoples from pre-Columbian periods to the present day. Select topics may include tribal social, political, and economic patterns, spirituality and worldviews, inter- and intra-tribal relations, gender relations, contact and exchange, imperialism, governmental Indian policies, Indianness, and Native Americans in contemporary society. The course will pay particular attention the intersection of ethnicities and cultures in early North American history.
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• HIST 3942: Queer American History

  3.00 Credits

  University of Memphis

  
  This course will examine the changing meanings of same-sex behavior, gender transgression, and the emergence of modern LGBTQ identities and communities throughout American history. Students will learn about the shifting factors in American society that led to the formation of queer subcultures and modern gay identities, as well as the divergent experiences of same-sex loving and gender-transgressing people across race, gender, and class differences. Beginning with examinations of queer desire in early America, race and sexuality under slavery, and romantic friendships, the first part of the class will pay close attention to the varied ways that same-sex desire and sexuality were envisioned in the years before the heterosexual/homosexual binary solidified in the late nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. We will then turn to the rise of modern gay and lesbian identities and the rise of sexology; black queer urban enclaves in the Jazz Age; the role of World War II in solidifying queer communities; the Homophile movement of the 1950s and 60s, the rise of transgender identities; Gay Liberation and the Stonewall uprising; lesbian feminism; the AIDS epidemic; and emergence of queer and non-binary identities. Students will complete written work that demonstrates their breadth of topics and themes within early and modern Queer American History.
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• HIST 4012: Directed Reading/Honors

  3.00 Credits

  University of Memphis

  
  No course description available.
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• HIST 4014: Directed Readings

  1.00 - 3.00 Credits

  University of Memphis

  
  No course description available.
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• HIST 4020: Internship in History

  1.00 - 12.00 Credits

  University of Memphis

  
  No course description available.
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