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A SAMPLING OF 2005-06 COURSES
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HI350 AFRICA IN WORLD HISTORY  |  FALL 2005  |   MWF PERIOD 2  |  PROFESSOR WILLIAM MCCOY
This course will help students understand major events of world history from the perspective of the African continent and to appreciate the active role Africans played as participants in those events.  It will fulfill the non-western history requirement for history majors, but will also be relevant to non-majors. 
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HI410 SEMINAR IN AMERICAN HISTORY: THE WORK OF DAVID HACKETT FISCHER  |  FALL 2005  |  TUES 3:00 - 5:30PM  |  PROFESSOR DONALD YERXA 
This advanced, reading-intensive seminar course will examine the work of one of the most important and creative American historians, David Hackett Fischer of Brandeis University. Fischer has written several major books in American history, including Albion's Seed (1989), Paul Revere's Ride (1994), Liberty & Freedom (2005), and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington's Crossing (2004). In addition, he wrote Historians' Fallacies (1970) and The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History (1996). The highlight of the course will be Professor Fischer's visit to ENC, tentatively scheduled for December 2005.

Prerequisites: two of the following: H1223, H1224, H1225, H1226, or permission of the instructor.
 
HI346 AMERICA IN THE VIETNAM WAR ERA  |  FALL 2005  |  TUES, THUR  |  PROFESSOR RANDALL J. STEPHENS
This course will analyze the political, cultural, and intellectual history of America in the turbulent 1960s. It will examine the African-American freedom struggle, the Great Society, the rise of the New Right and the New Left, the controversies surrounding America's involvement in Vietnam, student radicalism, the counterculture, and white backlash.  Course webpage.
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HI311 MILITARY HISTORY  |  JANUARY 2006  |  PROFESSOR DONALD YERXA 
This ain’t no disco! This ain’t no party! This ain’t Fool’n around!  This class will survey military history from antiquity to the present, with emphasis on the interplay between military activity and culture. It will also explore several overlapping critical debates about the nature of warfare in the past.
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GO/SO 320 SEMINAR IN GLOBALIZATION  |  FALL 2005  |  THUR., 2:00PM – 4:30PM PROFESSOR JAMES CAMERON AND INSTRUCTOR PAUL J. BOWEN 
This seminar will examine how globalization shapes the world in which we live, our academic disciplines, our faith communities, and our foreign policy. The topic of globalization will be studied from different perspectives that include the political, economic, historical, sociological, and theological. 
HI337 HISTORY OF SCIENCE & CHRISTIANITY  |  FALL 2005  |  TUES., THURS. 9:30 - 10:45AM  |  PROFESSOR DONALD YERXA
This course will explore the interaction of two of the most powerful forces in history-science and Christianity-from the Middle Ages to the present. It will focus on key historical episodes and the various ways historians have interpreted them. History elective open to all students who have taken CP210 and CP320 (or instructor's permission); especially attractive for veterans of GS420 Science & Religion.