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HIST 1031W is also offered in Spring 2025
HIST 1031W is also offered in Fall 2021
Spring 2019 | HIST 1031W Section 001: Europe and the World: Expansion, Encounter, and Exchange to 1500 (66705)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PMUMTC, West BankScience Teaching Student Svcs 330
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (105 of 126 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Europe, from Hammurabi to Columbus. Heyday of ancient Near East, Late Middle Ages. Culture, European interactions with wider world through religion, conquest, and trade. Beginning of the age of discoveries. prereq: Fr or soph or non-hist major
- Class Description:
- Europe in the making from Hammurabi to Columbus; conflict, co-existence, and cultural exchange in the first global age: religion (Moses, Jesus, Muhammad); power (Cleopatra, Alexander the Great, Ghengis Khan); conquest (Spartans, Romans, Vikings); culture (Greek sculpture, Islamic philosophy, Mesopotamian epic); everyday life (family life, the commercial revolution, the heavy plough!) We will pursue our subject by engaging intensely with the original documentary remains of the period, including several masterpieces of world culture both written and visual. This course is suitable for majors, non-majors, and transfer students alike.
- Grading:
- 15% Midterm Exam
25% Final Exam
40% Reports/Papers
10% Written Homework
10% Class Participation - Exam Format:
- Identifications and essays.
- Class Format:
- 45% Lecture
45% Discussion
10% Small Group Activities - Workload:
- 55 Pages Reading Per Week
10-13 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
2 Paper(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66705/1193
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 7 May 2013
Spring 2019 | HIST 1031W Section 002: Europe and the World: Expansion, Encounter, and Exchange to 1500 (66706)
- Instructor(s)
- Alex Magnolia (TA)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019Thu 10:10AM - 11:00AMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 430
- Auto Enrolls With:
- Section 001
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (20 of 22 seats filled)
- Course Catalog Description:
- Europe, from Hammurabi to Columbus. Heyday of ancient Near East, Late Middle Ages. Culture, European interactions with wider world through religion, conquest, and trade. Beginning of the age of discoveries. prereq: Fr or soph or non-hist major
- Class Description:
- This class will survey major themes in European history from approximately 3000 B.C. to 1500 A.D. and emphasize the variety of complex and important links between Europe and the wider world during the period. We will: visit ancient Mesopotamia and classical Athens, imperial Rome and Islamic North Africa, medieval England and Renaissance Italy; witness the birth and spread of Christianity and Islam; meet figures as diverse as Plato and Caesar, Saladin and St. Francis, Genghis Khan and Joan of Arc; consider political, social, cultural, economic, and even biological (e.g.the Black Death!) developments through a combination of lecture, class discussion and regularly assigned readings (both from a textbook and from original source material). This class is suitable for majors, non-majors, transfer students and others.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66706/1193
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 12 April 2013
Spring 2019 | HIST 1031W Section 004: Europe and the World: Expansion, Encounter, and Exchange to 1500 (66708)
- Instructor(s)
- Lorenzo Schiavetta (TA)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019Wed 12:20PM - 01:10PMUMTC, West BankHubert H Humphrey Center 20
- Auto Enrolls With:
- Section 001
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (22 of 22 seats filled)
- Course Catalog Description:
- Europe, from Hammurabi to Columbus. Heyday of ancient Near East, Late Middle Ages. Culture, European interactions with wider world through religion, conquest, and trade. Beginning of the age of discoveries. prereq: Fr or soph or non-hist major
- Class Description:
- This class will survey major themes in European history from approximately 3000 B.C. to 1500 A.D. and emphasize the variety of complex and important links between Europe and the wider world during the period. We will: visit ancient Mesopotamia and classical Athens, imperial Rome and Islamic North Africa, medieval England and Renaissance Italy; witness the birth and spread of Christianity and Islam; meet figures as diverse as Plato and Caesar, Saladin and St. Francis, Genghis Khan and Joan of Arc; consider political, social, cultural, economic, and even biological (e.g.the Black Death!) developments through a combination of lecture, class discussion and regularly assigned readings (both from a textbook and from original source material). This class is suitable for majors, non-majors, transfer students and others.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66708/1193
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 12 April 2013
Spring 2019 | HIST 1031W Section 005: Europe and the World: Expansion, Encounter, and Exchange to 1500 (66709)
- Instructor(s)
- Lorenzo Schiavetta (TA)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019Tue 11:15AM - 12:05PMUMTC, West BankSocial Sciences Building 278
- Auto Enrolls With:
- Section 001
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (19 of 22 seats filled)
- Course Catalog Description:
- Europe, from Hammurabi to Columbus. Heyday of ancient Near East, Late Middle Ages. Culture, European interactions with wider world through religion, conquest, and trade. Beginning of the age of discoveries. prereq: Fr or soph or non-hist major
- Class Description:
- This class will survey major themes in European history from approximately 3000 B.C. to 1500 A.D. and emphasize the variety of complex and important links between Europe and the wider world during the period. We will: visit ancient Mesopotamia and classical Athens, imperial Rome and Islamic North Africa, medieval England and Renaissance Italy; witness the birth and spread of Christianity and Islam; meet figures as diverse as Plato and Caesar, Saladin and St. Francis, Genghis Khan and Joan of Arc; consider political, social, cultural, economic, and even biological (e.g.the Black Death!) developments through a combination of lecture, class discussion and regularly assigned readings (both from a textbook and from original source material). This class is suitable for majors, non-majors, transfer students and others.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66709/1193
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 12 April 2013
Spring 2019 | HIST 1031W Section 006: Europe and the World: Expansion, Encounter, and Exchange to 1500 (66710)
- Instructor(s)
- Kerry Lowell (TA)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019Tue 02:30PM - 03:20PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 330
- Auto Enrolls With:
- Section 001
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (22 of 22 seats filled)
- Course Catalog Description:
- Europe, from Hammurabi to Columbus. Heyday of ancient Near East, Late Middle Ages. Culture, European interactions with wider world through religion, conquest, and trade. Beginning of the age of discoveries. prereq: Fr or soph or non-hist major
- Class Description:
- This class will survey major themes in European history from approximately 3000 B.C. to 1500 A.D. and emphasize the variety of complex and important links between Europe and the wider world during the period. We will: visit ancient Mesopotamia and classical Athens, imperial Rome and Islamic North Africa, medieval England and Renaissance Italy; witness the birth and spread of Christianity and Islam; meet figures as diverse as Plato and Caesar, Saladin and St. Francis, Genghis Khan and Joan of Arc; consider political, social, cultural, economic, and even biological (e.g.the Black Death!) developments through a combination of lecture, class discussion and regularly assigned readings (both from a textbook and from original source material). This class is suitable for majors, non-majors, transfer students and others.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66710/1193
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 12 April 2013
Spring 2019 | HIST 1031W Section 007: Europe and the World: Expansion, Encounter, and Exchange to 1500 (66711)
- Instructor(s)
- Alex Magnolia (TA)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019Wed 01:25PM - 02:15PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 125
- Auto Enrolls With:
- Section 001
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (22 of 22 seats filled)
- Course Catalog Description:
- Europe, from Hammurabi to Columbus. Heyday of ancient Near East, Late Middle Ages. Culture, European interactions with wider world through religion, conquest, and trade. Beginning of the age of discoveries. prereq: Fr or soph or non-hist major
- Class Description:
- This class will survey major themes in European history from approximately 3000 B.C. to 1500 A.D. and emphasize the variety of complex and important links between Europe and the wider world during the period. We will: visit ancient Mesopotamia and classical Athens, imperial Rome and Islamic North Africa, medieval England and Renaissance Italy; witness the birth and spread of Christianity and Islam; meet figures as diverse as Plato and Caesar, Saladin and St. Francis, Genghis Khan and Joan of Arc; consider political, social, cultural, economic, and even biological (e.g.the Black Death!) developments through a combination of lecture, class discussion and regularly assigned readings (both from a textbook and from original source material). This class is suitable for majors, non-majors, transfer students and others.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66711/1193
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 12 April 2013
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