HIST 180 - FS: First-Year Seminar

FDR: HU
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered occasionally. Each first-year seminar topic is approved by the Dean of The College and the Committee on Courses and Degrees. Applicability to FDRs and other requirements varies.

HIST 180-01: Heresy, Sex, and Terror: Nonconformity in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (3). This course explores the role of social, cultural, and religious nonconformity in medieval and early modern Europe. From Jews, Muslims and Catholic heretics in medieval Europe through the Reformation and great witch-hunts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, culminating in the discovery of vast civilizations of “heathens” in the New World, this course examines the experience of difference and persecution within medieval and early modern Europe. (HU) Schnepper.

HIST 180-02: FS: Slavery in Antiquity (3).  This course explores the various slave systems in antiquity in terms of their motivations, utilization, and broader social, economic, and political implications. Through translated literary sources and archaeological remains, we will investigate the slave cultures within the ancient Near East and Egypt, the Jewish exploitation of slaves, and evidence for slaves in Greek, Roman, early Christian, and Islamic societies. (HU) Bond.