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  • HIST 4095: Governing Bodies

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course is structured around a core question: what right does a government have to regulate the bodies of its subjects and citizens? It uses 19th and 20th century Britain as a case study for exploring both governmental policies for managing, disciplining, and providing for the bodies of subjects and citizens and the reaction of the public to these methods. Paying close attention to issues of gender, sexuality, class, race, and ethnicity, this course explores one of the fundamental concerns of modern society: the conflict between the rights of the individual to control his or her own person and the rights of governments to promote public good.
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  • HIST 4110: God and Money

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Surveys the intersection of religion and economics from biblical times to the present.
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  • HIST 4120: Christianity Mod World

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Surveys the major trends in Christian history since 1800.
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  • HIST 4130: Early Med Soc & Cult H

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    The intellectual, social, and cultural aspects of the formation of Europe to about 1050 A.D.: Christianity and Classical Culture; late Roman, Germanic, and Celtic societies; Christendom and the conversion of the north.
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  • HIST 4200: Topics In World History

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Focuses on key topics in world history such as migration, nationalism, and revolutions. Themes depend on instructors.
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  • HIST 4210: Global Hist of Poverty

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course focuses on the global history of poverty from the ancient world to the present. The first half of the course will explore poverty as a concept, focusing on the premodern period. We will compare attitudes toward poverty and the impoverished in different historical and geographic contexts while paying particular attention to how and why these ideas have changed over time. The second half of the course will examine poverty in relation to the making of the modern world. We will study the growing inequality between world regions and discuss topics such as poverty relief efforts, empire and exploitation, and the 'slow violence' of contemporary environmental crises.
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  • HIST 4220: Sugar and Spice

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This research and discussion course focuses on trade goods and the ways they have helped build the modern world. The desire for commodities like spices, sugar, tobacco, cotton, oil, opium and opiates, tea, silver, coffee, indigo, and even corn has driven the growth of world empires and modern nation-states, helping to shape today's global financial system along the way. In this class we will see how the desire for such trade goods led to extractive ventures on the African continent, the establishment of plantation agriculture in the Americas, and the creation of export colonies in Asia. But instead of telling the history of a specific nation or region, Sugar and Spice and Global Capitalism will follow the histories of specific high-demand trade goods and the ways they have connected the world while contributing to political upheavals, economic development, and social change in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas.
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  • HIST 4230: Global Islam

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course follows the history of Islam from its origins to the present day with a special focus on Muslims living outside of the Middle East. We will look at Muslim lives, beliefs, and cultures in places as diverse as Central Asia, China, Malaysia and Indonesia, sub-Saharan Africa, and modern Europe and North America. Religious topics discusses include relations between Muslims and non-Muslims, Sufism, various forms of Shi'ism, syncretic Southeast Asian traditions, and extremism worldwide.
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  • HIST 4260: French Colonial Empire

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course examines the history of the modern French colonial empire from the establish from the establishment of Acadia and New France at the beginning of the 17th century, through the colonization of the Antilles, Indochina, and Africa, to the end of the Algerian War of Independence in 1962. The approach taken in the course will be to focus on the interrelations between metropolitan France and the colonies, with attention given to the multiple factors, both French and indigenous, that affected the course of the development of the empire.
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