• HIST 4326: Imperial Egypt

  3.00 Credits

  University of Memphis

  
  The New Kingdom era (1550-1100 BCE) transformed pharaonic Egypt and its relations with the outside world. During this imperial age, warrior pharaohs forged an empire stretching from Sudan in Africa to Syria and the borders of Turkey. Intensive military, diplomatic, economic, and cultural interactions with other civilizations transformed Egyptian society and culture. With new military technologies like the horse drawn chariot and composite bow, Egypt became a military superpower. An influx of foreign peoples brought religious, cultural, and economic change to the land along the Nile. We will explore the major historical issues and problems of this age, and the methodologies used by Egyptologists to reconstruct the history of this civilization.
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• HIST 4327: Life and Death Ancient Egypt

  3.00 Credits

  University of Memphis

  
  Traversing the realms of the living and the dead, this course focuses on what it was like for the ancient Egyptians to live, grow old, die, and be born again in this complex and fascinating society. Surveys ancient Egyptian political, social, and religious structure as they relate to daily life. Explores topics of gender, identity, family structure, social hierarchy, labor, slavery, poverty, death, and burial in the Pharaonic period c. 3000 to 323 BCE.
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• HIST 4329: Imperial Rome

  3.00 Credits

  University of Memphis

  
  This course examines the history and culture of Ancient Rome’s imperial age from the fall of the Republic to the 4th century after Christ (49 BCE – 400 CE). Augustus and his successors established a new imperial system centered on the rule of one man. Roman culture was highly urbanized with complex social structures. Topics include sexuality and family life, slavery, urban life, gladiators and spectacles and the rise of Christianity.
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• HIST 4330: Topics in Ancient History

  3.00 Credits

  University of Memphis

  
  This course examines a subject in ancient history selected by the instructor. Can be repeated twice for up to six credits.
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• HIST 4331: Rome in the Dark Ages

  3.00 Credits

  University of Memphis

  
  This course investigates how Rome's physical plant developed in the centuries after the end of Rome's Mediterranean hegemony. It also explores the afterlife of the idea of Rome, as locus of law and justice, symbol of empire and universal rule, and focus of religious devotion. 'Rome After Empire' seeks to understand the nature of the dialectic between an increasingly desolate, then Christian topography, and the mystique that Rome had, especially far from its walls, throughout the Middle Ages.
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• HIST 4361: History of Byzantine Empire

  3.00 Credits

  University of Memphis

  
  No course description available.
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• HIST 4380: Renaissance and Reformation

  3.00 Credits

  University of Memphis

  
  Exploration of the European Renaissance and Reformation, including civic and Christian humanism; republicanism and despotism; the print revolution; the creation of new Protestant churches and the reform of the Roman Catholic Church; and the Reformation’s impact on the development of early modern states and societies. NOTE: Only one of HIST 4380 and HIST 3880 may be used to satisfy degree requirements.
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• HIST 4381: The Enlightenment, 1650-1815

  3.00 Credits

  University of Memphis

  
  The Enlightenment has been described as a “revolution of the mind” and also as a “crisis of the mind,” a century when Europeans’ understanding of themselves, their societies, and their place in the world was irrevocably transformed. In this course we will consider the nature of this intellectual and cultural revolution. Did Enlightenment thinkers invent modern political freedom or lay the groundwork for new forms of colonial oppression, slavery, and political terror? Did the Enlightenment justify empire or critique it? What role did religion and religious thought play in the Enlightenment? What was the relationship between the Enlightenment and the revolutions that convulsed the British, French, and Spanish empires at the end of the eighteenth century?
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• HIST 4386: Intro to Museums

  3.00 Credits

  University of Memphis

  
  (Same as ARTH 4386). Overview of museums and the museum field, including history, development, philosophy, function and current and future trends in museums. May not be repeated for credit.
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• HIST 4391: Global History of Food

  3.00 Credits

  University of Memphis

  
  This course introduces advanced students to the history of food. Instead of following a chronological thread, it examines the subject of food on different scales, from the microbial to the continental, and from various modes of historical inquiry, including anthropological, economic, and gendered lenses. Omnivore’s Past also creates fresh perspectives on familiar topics (the stuff you eat) by drawing insightful parallels from around the globe—it shows linkages between cannibalism and dieting, anorexia and religious power, mundane cookbooks and the formation of a nation. In short, this class explores methodological approaches to the discipline of history through food.
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