• HIS 223: History of Modern China

  3.00 Credits

  Tennessee Wesleyan University

  
  This course is an introduction to modern Chinese history from approximately 1800 to the present. Since the 1600s China has been transformed from a traditional agricultural empire into a modern nation-state with a developing industrial economy. During this time, China has faced many external challenges and internal disruptions. The course will explore major themes including changes in the form of government, the impact of the West and Japan, the transformations of urban and rural society, the political and military struggles for power in the 20th century, recent political and economic trends, and China's determination to return to the heights of its glory as the Middle Kingdom.
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• HIS 241: The Making of the Islamic World

  3.00 Credits

  Tennessee Wesleyan University

  
  The goal of this course is to acquaint students with one of the world's great civilizations and to connect premodern historical processes to modern social and political realities. Mecca is still the center of the Islamic world, but Muslim civilization stretches around the globe. This course will prepare students with a sound basis for understnading the history of Islam and Islamic expansion, and will be beneficial to anyone whose interest touch on any aspect of the Islamic world.
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• HIS 242: History of the Modern Middle East

  3.00 Credits

  Tennessee Wesleyan University

  
  This course surveys the history of the Middle East and neighboring regions of the Islamic world from the fifteenth century to the end of the twentieth century. We will examine the rise and decline of the Islamic gunpowder empires (the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals); the expansion of European economic dominance, culture influence, and political control in the Islamic world; the ways in which Islamic states and societies responded to and were affected by European imperialism and Western culture; and the rise of modern political movements in the Middle East such as nationalism and pan-Islamism. A major theme of this course is the evolving relationship between Islam and modernity. This course will provide vital context for understanding the challenges and conflicts facing the Middle East and the wider Islamic world today.
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• HIS 245: The Twentieth-Century World

  3.00 Credits

  Tennessee Wesleyan University

  
  This course surveys the twentieth century�s major global, political, social, economic, cultural and technological developments, with particular attention paid to their impact on the non-Western world. It provides vital context for understanding the challenges we now face in the twenty-first century. We will explore the forces that have made our world more interdependent and interrelated than ever before. We will also examine the forces that have resisted transformations brought on by globalization.
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• HIS 249: Topics Non-Wstrn Hist: Silk Rds

  3.00 Credits

  Tennessee Wesleyan University

  
  These courses will examine a variety of topics in the history of the world outside of Europe, Canada, and the United States (the so-called Non-Western world), including cultural, political, and social issues among others.
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• HIS 266: Civil Rights Movement Biography

  3.00 Credits

  Tennessee Wesleyan University

  
  One of the most extraordinary stories of the American twentieth century (quite possibly of American history overall), the Civil Rights Movement largely turned southern society-- and America in general-- upside down. Southern history might still be marked (in much the same way as the Civil War itself) as �before and after� the revolution in civil rights of the 1950s and 1960s. This course will tell the story of the movement largely through the biographies of the extraordinary people who made it happen� African American and white, male and female, journalist and activist, politician and foot soldier.
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• HIS 301: Culture,Ideas,& Values: Literary I

  3.00 Credits

  Tennessee Wesleyan University

  
  A two-semester sequence which examines the great literary, philosophical, and artistic works from the Biblical and classical foundations of the Western culture to the present. The course, while interdisciplinary in nature, is under the auspices and direction of the English and Foreign Languages Department (with the inclusion of other faculty as may be approved). Open also to third or fourth-year students and others with the instructor�s permission. (On demand)
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• HIS 302: The Russian Rev & the Soviet Union

  3.00 Credits

  Tennessee Wesleyan University

  
  This historical survey of the Soviet Union aims to correct these misinterpretations by focusing particulary how Soviet citizens of all nationalities lived, gave menaing to their lives, understood themselves, and experienced Soviet policies. Other central themes and questions fo this course include: the tension between ideology and pragmatic concerns in shaping Soviet policies; the unfulfilled promise of the Russian Revolution and the birth of the Stalinist dictatorship; the quest to forge a new Soviet man or Homo Sovieticus; and how the Soviet Union survived for over seventy years and why it collapsed.
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• HIS 310: History Of Modern Europe I

  3.00 Credits

  Tennessee Wesleyan University

  
  An historical analysis of European politics, culture, and society from the Renaissance to the present, as well as a study of the ways that historians have attempted to interpret the events and movements of the period. The course covers Renaissance to the French Revolution. Prerequisite H102. (Fall)
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• HIS 311: History Of Modern Europe II

  3.00 Credits

  Tennessee Wesleyan University

  
  An historical analysis of European politics, culture, and society from the Renaissance to the present, as well as a study of the ways that historians have attempted to interpret the events and movements of the period. The course covers the French Revolution to the present. Prerequisite: H102. (Spring)
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