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HIST 3426 is also offered in Fall 2021
Fall 2021 | HIST 3426 Section 001: Piracy in the Mediterranean: The World of Merchants and Pirates (34558)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option No Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Meets With:
MEST 3426 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PM
Off Campus
UMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
Open (36 of 38 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course will use the vehicle of piracy and privateering in the Mediterranean world to explore issues of cross-cultural interaction, global connections, and identity from earliest times when people took to the sea to the Middle Ages through the early modern era, 500-1800. Wherever there was trade, wherever there was movement on the seas, there was piracy. Recent scholarship on the Mediterranean has focused on connectivities, micro-environments, the uniqueness of islands, and various climatic spheres in a geographic tradition that follows the path-breaking work of Fernand Braudel. This course will consider the urban and rural dimensions of the Mediterranean region as they relate to the history of merchants and pirates. Finally, the political and military aspects of Mediterranean history will be examined. There was a continuum from piracy to privateering to war. Students should gain a deeper understanding of a region that continues to fascinate us today.
- Class Description:
- 0A
This course will use the vehicle of piracy and privateering in the Mediterranean world to explore issues of cross-cultural interaction, global connections, and identity from earliest times when people took to the sea to the Middle Ages through the early modern era, 500-1800. Wherever there was trade, wherever there was movement on the seas, there was piracy. Recent scholarship on the Mediterranean has focused on connectivities, micro-environments, the uniqueness of islands, and various climatic spheres in a geographic tradition that follows the path-breaking work of Fernand Braudel. This course will consider the urban and rural dimensions of the Mediterranean region as they relate to the history of merchants and pirates. Finally, the political and military aspects of Mediterranean history will be examined. There was a continuum from piracy to privateering to war. Students should gain a deeper understanding of a region that continues to fascinate us today.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Students intrigued by pirates, Mediterranean history, the Middle Ages, politics and military history
- Learning Objectives:
- Development of critical thinking and skills of textual analysis, acquisition of the grand narrative of Mediterranean history and of specific information about merchants and pirates.
- Grading:
- A-F, S-N with S a C- or better
- Exam Format:
- essay
- Class Format:
- Lecture and discussion
- Workload:
- 50-75 pages of reading a week; one textual analysis, one midterm exam, one class small group presentation, one individual class project
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34558/1219
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 17 October 2018
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