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HES 131 - Water Safety Instruction
Prerequisite(s): HES 120 .
The objective of this course is to teach advanced swimmers the art of instructing swimming skills to infants, children, teens, and adults. The course is intense in its requirements of the student. Much practice and reading are required to successfully complete the course. The course is not for novice swimmers.
Hours: 2
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HES 132 - Lifeguard Training
The objective of this course is to train advanced swimmers in lifesaving skills. Other components of the course include CPR for the Professional Rescuer and First Aid. This course is not for novice swimmers.
Hours: 2
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HES 133 - Beginning Ballroom Dancing
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Hours: 1
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HES 134 - Intermediate Ballroom Dancing
Fee TBD
Hours: 1
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HES 135 - Irish Dancing
Hours: 1
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HES 136 - Advanced Horsemanship
Fee TBD
Hours: 1
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HES 137 - Dressage I
Fee TBD
Hours: 1
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HES 138 - Dressage II
Fee TBD
Hours: 1
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HES 139 - Dressage III
Fee TBD
Hours: 1
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HES 140 - Cross-training and Outward Bound Experience
HES 140 is designed to increase leadership potential through wilderness activities such as backpacking, rock climbing, camping, orienting, and survival skills development. Students may complete cross-training through Lutheridge or Lutherock or Outward Bound. Graded on pass/fail basis. Fee TBD
Hours: 3
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HES 141 - High Intensity Interval Training
This course is designed to promote alternative means for physical activity including core stabilization and calisthenics exercise with high intensity intervals to promote overall fitness.
Hours: 1
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HES 144 - Intermediate Yoga
A deeper exploration of Hatha Yoga, which is the branch of yoga that incorporates Yoga asana (postures) and pranayama (breathing practices). This course will not only offer intermediate postures and practices, but will require a midterm paper and final project on a topic of choice within Yoga.
Hours: 1
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HES 170 - Olympic Weightlifting
This course is designed to introduce and teach students the Olympic lifting movements to be used to enhance performance and fitness. Student will learn to perform snatch, clean and jerk, and squat properly and safely.
Hours: 3
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HES 171 - Athletic Speed and Conditioning
The purpose of this course is to provide experiential education in the components of speed training and conditioning in an effort to improve technique in athletic movement and fitness. This course provides opportunity for the student to learn and experience a comprehensive approach toward developing sport-specific fitness.
Hours: 3
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HES 200 - Introduction to Kinesiology
An introduction to the variety of concentrations encompassed in the general study of physical activity. Topics cover the overall importance of physical activity in our society and include a general overview of the historical, philosophical, scientific, and psychosocial aspects of the field. The course will introduce students to a wide-range of career opportunities in healthful living and sport.
Hours: 3
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HES 201 - Introduction to Exercise Science
This course is designed to provide entry-level exercise science majors with a brief background on the history, theories, and disciplines comprising exercise science. Specifically, the course will detail the emergence exercise science as a discipline, including the exercise and sport applications of physiology, biomechanics, and psychology. In addition, students will gain insight into various career paths one may follow within the exercise science discipline.
Hours: 1
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HES 203 - Techniques of Coaching
An introduction to the profession which examines the many facets involved in coaching, along with guidelines that a beginning coach will find useful in establishing his or her own methods and philosophy.
Hours: 3
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HES 205 - Principles of Sports Management
A study of the appropriate organizational and administrative techniques needed to design and implement programs in a variety of sport-related fields.
Hours: 3
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HES 207 - Motor Learning
Prerequisite(s): BIO 281 .
A study of the development and acquisition of movement skills with emphasis on implications for teachers and athletic coaches.
Hours: 3
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HES 208 - Physical Education for the Elementary School
Prerequisite(s): HES 200 , HES 207 .
Methods, materials, and techniques for teaching physical education on the elementary school level (K-6).
Hours: 3
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HES 211 - Prevention and Care of Athletic Injuries
An introductory course for athletic training students in the prevention and emergency care techniques of athletic injuries. Includes certification in Emergency Cardiac Care.
Hours: 3
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HES 220 - Facility and Event Management
A comprehensive examination of facility and event management in the field of sport and recreation. The course will include, but will not be limited to the following topics: facility development and design, maintenance, tournament and event operations, budgeting and risk management.
Hours: 3
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HES 225 - Introduction to Public Health
This writing intensive course includes a general review of the public health sector. Related topics include public health terminology, careers, and analytical methods; the biomedical basis of public health; social and behavioral factors; environmental health issues; medical care and public health; and the future of public health. Course will be assessed using a final health issue paper cited in APA style where students will tackle a similar health issue through a variety of different public health approaches.
Hours: 3
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HES 245 - Teaching and Coaching Team Sports
This course is designed to prepare students interested in teaching and coaching to successfully teach specific team sport activities. Students are exposed to rules, strategies, organization and skill development in a variety of team sports. Sports may include but are not limited to basketball, softball, soccer, volleyball and lacrosse. This course does not meet the Wellness component of the Core Curriculum requirements.
Hours: 2
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HES 246 - Teaching and Coaching Lifetime Sports
This course is designed to prepare students interested in teaching and coaching to successfully teach specific lifetime activities. Activities may include, but are not limited to, tennis, badminton, golf, and ultimate Frisbee. Students are exposed to rules, strategies, organization and skill development in a variety of lifetime sports. This course does not meet the Wellness component of the Core Curriculum Requirements.
Hours: 2
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HES 247 - Group Fitness Instruction
This course is designed to prepare students interested in teaching and coaching to successfully plan, design and instruct group fitness activities. Students are exposed to how to design and teach group fitness classes in a variety of techniques, including but not limited to, aquatic exercise, aerobics, yoga and Pilates. This course does not meet the Wellness component of the Core Curriculum Requirements.
Hours: 2
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HES 280 - Methods and Materials in Healthful Living Education
An introduction to the scope and strategies of teaching students the importance of a healthy lifestyle. Special emphasis will be placed upon how to integrate healthful living into the subjects taught by the classroom teacher.
Hours: 3
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HES 284 - Health Education for the Secondary School
Methods and materials for developing health content knowledge, skills, and disposition focusing on secondary health education. Special emphasis is on the North Carolina Standard Course of Study for Healthful Living Education and public school internship in health education.
Hours: 2
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HES 285 - First Aid and Emergency Care
The study, practice and application of first aid and emergency care, which includes in depth training in CPR and first aid. American Red Cross certification in Adult CPR and standard First Aid is granted upon successful completion of requirements.
Hours: 1
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HES 287 - Personal Health
Contemporary health issues as they relate to the individual and problems in everyday living.
Hours: 3
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HES 288 - Nutrition
This course explores the basic concepts integral to the science of nutrition. Emphasis will be placed on the metabolic and physiological principles underlying digestion and absorption of nutrients, chemical structure and metabolic fate of nutrients, the biochemical role of nutrients in maintaining health, and the effects of over- and undernutrition on disease pathogenesis.
Hours: 3
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HES 300 - Exercise Physiology
Prerequisite(s): BIO 282 .
A lecture and laboratory course which emphasizes understanding and application of knowledge regarding human cardiopulmonary, muscular and metabolic responses to exercise and adaptations to chronic physical activity. Application of this knowledge includes healthy individuals as well as patient populations (e. g. , cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation, diabetes, asthma, endocrine disorders, sports injury, etc. ). Laboratory experiences are provided to aid in understanding the basic principles underlying the responses of the body to various exercise stimuli.
Hours: 4
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HES 301 - Adapted Physical Education
Prerequisite(s): HES 207 or permission of the instructor.
Principles and problems related to adapting the physical education program to meet the needs of the atypical student.
Hours: 3
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HES 302 - Physical Education for the Secondary School
Prerequisite(s): HES 200 , HES 207 , HES 208 .
Methods, materials and techniques of teaching Physical Education at the middle and high school level (6-12).
Hours: 3
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HES 303 - Biomechanics/Kinesiology
Prerequisite(s): BIO 281 .
Anatomical, physiological, and kinesiological principles of muscle action and joint mechanics as related to physical education, health, and exercise sciences, and athletic training.
Hours: 4
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HES 305 - Medical Terminology
This medical terminology course covers the basic knowledge and understanding of medical language and terminology used by health care professionals everywhere.
Hours: 1
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HES 315 - Sports Management Internship I
Prerequisites HES 205 , HES 220 .
Hours: 2
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HES 316 - Sports Management Internship II
Prerequisite(s): HES 205 , HES 220 .
This course is designed to give Sports Management majors practical work experience in the day-to-day running of an intercollegiate athletics department or other area of sport, recreation, or physical activity. Hours vary based on placement.
Hours: 2
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HES 320 - Exercise Evaluation and Prescription
Prerequisite(s): HES 300 .
This is a lecture and lab course which covers the fundamental principles of assessing cardiorespiratory fitness, muscular fitness, and flexibility as well as exercise prescription for healthy and diseased individuals. Specific attention will be given to the guidelines established by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) enabling the student to seek certification. Electrocardiogram (ECG) interpretation and Pulmonary Function Testing will also be explored in depth. The student will be given ample opportunity to practice essential laboratory techniques in exercise testing.
Hours: 4
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HES 321 - Internship in Health and Exercise Science
This course is designed to prepare majors for practical experience in a clinical setting.
Hours: 2
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HES 325 - Community Health
This course will focus on the science of protecting and improving the health of communities through promotion of healthy lifestyles and environmental change. The courses emphasizes the social determinants of health, health behavior theories, and the process for addressing community health issues, including assessment planning, and evaluation. Course will be assessed through a final project where students demonstrate their understanding of community health practices outlined throughout the semester.
Hours: 3
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HES 330 - Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity
A study of the psychological aspects of the sport and exercise settings. Special attention will be given to motivation, anxiety, aggression, performance enhancement, spectator influences, and the youth sports setting.
Hours: 3
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HES 331 - Sport in Society
An examination of sport as a social institution with discussion centering around violence in sport, race and gender issues, and youth sport.
Hours: 3
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HES 335 - Communicating and Advocating for Health
Introduction to human communication in a healthcare context. Examines health promotion with a focus on current trends in the design of health messages and advocacy for health education. Explores health campaigns, interpersonal interventions, development of health education materials, media advocacy, and consumer-based models and participatory approaches to health.
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HES 344 - Drugs Society and Human Behavior
Prerequisite(s): Students must be classified as juniors or seniors.
This course provides students with an interdisciplinary view of the pharmacology of drugs of abuse and psychotropic drugs, used in the treatment of mental disorders. The historical background, as well as the social context, of drugs is explored.
Hours: 3
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HES 373 - Women’s Wholeness
Students will engage in development of the concept of the whole healthful person, including mind, body, and spirit. Students will grow skills in writing, reading and thinking as they engage in female issues of the world today. Engaging in discussion and reflection of the latest research about women’s health issues will allow students of the class to institute reflection on their own habits as a beginning to improvement of self and positive influence of others. Students will be prompted to reflect upon topics from a viewpoint of women’s physical and mental health, including media, violence, finances, leadership, and spirituality. The course will include review of current literature, class discussion, guest speakers, creative assignments, and group work.
Hours: 3
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HES 381 - Special Topics
Selected topics in Health, Exercise and Sport Science. May be repeated with change of topic.
Hours: 1
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HES 382 - Special Topics
Selected topics in Health, Exercise and Sport Science. May be repeated with change of topic.
Hours: 2
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HES 383 - Special Topics
Selected topics in Health, Exercise and Sport Science. May be repeated with change of topic.
Hours: 3
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HES 384 - Special Topics
Selected topics in Health, Exercise and Sport Science. May be repeated with change of topic.
Hours: 4
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HES 385 - Research in Health Exercise and Sport Science
Research in Health, Exercise and Sport Science - An introduction to research in the fields of health, exercise, and sport science with an emphasis on understanding and application of research findings.
Hours: 3
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HES 390 - Directed Readings and Research
Prerequisite(s): HES 385 .
This course is a study of the principles and basic concepts of research and the research process. Special emphasis will be placed on selecting a research topic, posing research questions, forming a hypothesis, designing an experiment, choosing appropriate statistical methods, analyzing results and developing conclusions. In addition, skills necessary for seeking appropriate sources of information and critical evaluation and analysis of the scientific literature will be developed.
Hours: 3
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HES 405 - Coaching Practicum
This course is designed to provide coaching minors with practical experience in the coaching setting. A minimum of 200 practicum hours are required.
Hours: 2
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HES 408 - Critical Issues in Sport
Prerequisite(s): HES 331 or Instructor Permission.
The course is designed to explore current issues in the sports world and the relationship of these issues to problems in business and society. The course will seek to provide students the opportunity to examine more closely issues such as drug use among athletes, contract and labor struggles, educational issues, racial and gender equity questions, and other contemporary topics as they may arise during the course of the semester.
Hours: 3
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HES 409 - Sports Law
Prerequisite(s): HES 205 or Instructor permission.
Sports law is a growing component of the sports industry. This course provides information on how the field of sports law emerged, the issues relative to sports law, and how these issues have an impact on the different factions of the sports industry, such as administrators, coaches, officials, and participants. Key areas of law such as contract law, tort liability, constitutional law, sex discrimination, criminal law, and labor law will be introduced.
Hours: 3
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HES 415 - Senior Teaching Strategies in Physical Education
Prerequisite(s): HES 200 , HES 208 , HES 300 , HES 301 , HES 302 , HES 303 .
A culmination of the methodology of physical education in the form of planned, sequential curriculum development; pedagogy, and assessment of student learning. A major focus of the course will be development of the Teacher Work Sample: Unit Planning and Implementation, to begin in the internship semester of the student teaching experience and be completed during the full semester of student teaching.
Hours: 3
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HES 416 - Sports Management Field Experience
Prerequisite(s): HES 205 and HES 220 .
This course is designed to give Sports Management majors practical work experience in an area of their choice. Hour requirements vary based on placement.
Hours: 4
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HES 422 - Internship in Health and Exercise Science II
Prerequisite(s): HES 321 .
This course is designed to give the major practical experience in a clinical setting, requiring 200 on-site hours for one semester.
Hours: 2
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HES 425 - Health Promotion Programming and Evaluation
Prerequisite(s): HES 225 .
This course focuses on targeting the priority health risk behaviors outlined in Healthy People 2020 and the ever-growing concern to reduce healthcare costs. Course participants address these issues through learning the fundamentals of health risk assessment, program design, management, and evaluation. Course will be assessed through a final program plan and evaluation.
Hours: 3
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HES 431 - Sports Nutrition
Prerequisite(s): HES 288 and HES 300 .
This course will cover the relationship between macronutrient and micronutrient intakes and athletic performance. Detailed knowledge of how exercise influences dietary intake, digestion, absorption, energy metabolism, and storage of nutrients will be discussed. In addition, dietary planning for weight gain and weight loss, sport specific concerns and conditions that present to athletes of all age groups regarding nutrition, and the use of dietary supplements as ergogenic aids will be explored.
Hours: 3
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HES 435 - Methods in Health Education
Prerequisite(s): HES 225 , HES 287 , HES 288 and HES 325 .
Students will examine the process of selecting, organizing and presenting health education materials, in a community-based setting. This course is devoted to the “doing” of health education. Methods and materials for developing health knowledge, skills, attitudes, and practices used by the community health professional will be a primary focus of this class.
Hours: 3
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HES 436 - Clinical Exercise Physiology
Prerequisite(s): HES 300 and HES 320 .
This course will explore the use of exercise as a treatment modality for specific symptomatic and asymptomatic clinical conditions. Functional assessment, exercise prescription and adaptations to chronic physical activity will be discussed with respect to endocrinological, neuromuscular, skeletal, metabolic, cardiovascular, respiratory, oncological, and immunological disorders and diseases. Special considerations for children, females, and the elderly will also be covered.
Hours: 3
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HES 438 - Essentials of Strength and Conditioning
Prerequisite(s): HES 300 ; HES 303
This class is intended to immerse students into the evidence-based application of scientific principles to prepare to sit for the National Strength and Conditioning Association’s Certified Strength and
Conditioning Specialist exam.
Hours: 3
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HES 445 - Praxis II Preparation in Health and Physical Education
This course is designed to prepare the Health and Physical Education major for the PRAXIS II Licensure Exam. Students will review health and physical education content and focus on test taking strategies.
Hours: 1
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HES 451 - Human Sexuality
Prerequisite(s): Student must be classified as junior or senior.
This course provides students with an interdisciplinary review of human sexuality. The unalterable facts of anatomy, genes, hormones, and other biological processes that influence the way humans reproduce will be covered. Additionally, the constant influence of individual and societal values, behaviors, views and opinions will be highlighted.
Hours: 3
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HES 452G - Global Health & Ethics
Prerequisite(s): Student must be classified as junior or senior.
This course explores a series of contemporary health issues and challenges for the international community. The impact of political, socioeconomic, cultural, environmental, healthcare delivery and demographic conditions on health and human rights from an international perspective are discussed. Topics include: population dynamics, water and sanitation, HIV/AIDS, technology, international organizations, climate change, pharmaceutical policies, and food delivery. Additionally, various ethical dimensions of public health policy and practice are related to population health issues.
Hours: 3
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HES 453 - Application of Theories
Prerequisite(s): Student must be classified as junior or senior.
This course describes prevalent educational and psychological theories of learning and behavior change used by public health practitioners and academics in a variety of settings. Explores considerations for incorporating health promotion and education activities into the design of local, regional and national public health programs.
Hours: 3
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HES 455 - Community Health Practicum I
This course is designed to provide community health students with practical experience in order to gain proficiency in the field of community health. Requires completion of 100 on-site hours with an approved site supervisor on the university campus.
Hours: 2
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HES 456 - Community Health Practicum II
Prerequisite(s): HES 455
This course is designed to provide community health students with practical experience in order to gain proficiency in the field of community health. Requires completion of 100 on-site hours with an approved site supervisor. This will be in an on or off-campus community-based setting.
Hours: 2
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HES 499 - Senior Honors Thesis
Intensive study of a topic chosen by the student which culminates in a thesis and an oral defense or presentation. Senior majors only.
Hours: 3
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HIS 101 - World Civilizations I the Emergence of Global Society to 1500
A survey of the development of human civilization, focusing on their convergence in a nascent global community by approximately 1500. This survey explores the independent emergence and development of various civilizations, with an emphasis on societies of Africa, Europe, the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia. The class investigates local classical traditions in religion and governance, medieval transformations that created today’s major regional cultures, and the emergence of global community though the Silk Roads. Fall, Spring, Summer
Hours: 3
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HIS 102 - World Civilizations II Assembling a Globalized Community from 1500
A survey of the development of our current globalized society. This survey explores the convergence of the world’s major societies (the Americas, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, South Asia and East Asia) to their present configuration. This course stresses how the contingent events during “the rise of Europe” in the First (1500-1750) and Second (1850-1950) Ages of Imperialism have created the infrastructure of the present-day global community. Special attention is given to the exchanges that have created our interdependent globalized society, while exploring the uneven and sometimes one-sided nature of these exchanges for most non-Western societies. HIS 101 is strongly recommended, but is not a Prerequisite for this course. Fall, Spring, Summer
Hours: 3
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HIS 115G - Global Histories
This course is a thematic introduction to the flows of people, goods, and ideas throughout ancient, modern, and recent world histories. The course also emphasizes interactions and connections between different cultures, religious traditions, and political practices around the globe. Through this course students will develop an understanding of the complexity of the human experience, across time and space as well an appreciation of the dynamics of economic, political, and social power. The themes of the course provide a conceptual framework with which to view the past. These themes include empire and imperialism; slavery; the unfamiliar and the “other”; systems and places.
Hours: 3
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HIS 121 - US History to 1865
This course is a survey of American institutional development beginning in the period of colonization to 1865. This course will focus on interrelated trends in economics, politics, religion, education, and American culture. Topics will include Pre-Columbian native cultures, British colonial policy, slavery, the American Revolution, the Constitution, growth of democracy. Westward expansion, sectionalism, and the Civil War. Fall
Hours: 3
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HIS 122 - US History since 1865
This course is a survey of American cultural development since the American Civil War. Spring
Hours: 3
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HIS 201 - The American Experiment
This course is examines American national development from the precolonial period to the end of the Cold War with a specific emphasis on key political, social, and cultural movements and moments in the development of its founding principles of freedom, equality, democracy, social justice, and civic engagement.
Hours: 3
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HIS 205G - Introduction to East Asian History
An introduction to East Asian Civilization, this course outlines the emergence of the classical cultural and political traditions of China and Japan, and the changes wrought by modernization in the region. Special emphasis is given to highlighting the commonalities which define the East Asian experience, and placing the region in a larger context with the development of Globalization.
Hours: 3
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HIS 206G - Introduction to Western European History
An introductory course to the some of the central themes in the history of Western Europe since Spring
Hours: 3
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HIS 208G - The Modern Developing World
This course will introduce students to the history of the modern developing world since about 1600. Topics will include the Atlantic World, colonialism, post-colonialism. , global economics, religion, war, and social justice. The regional emphasis will alternate between Africa and Latin America. Fall
Hours: 3
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HIS 225 - The Historian’s Craft
Historiography is the study of the writing of history. First and foremost it is the history of history (of how professional historians have written, and write, on a given topic). This course explores the major schools of historical thought and poses questions about the nature of sources, bias and perspective, and the construction of an archive. The course also looks at how historical monographs are constructed and organized. Students are expected to show historiographical command of a narrow topic in their specialization and produce an annotated bibliography.
Hours: 3
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HIS 230G - The Long 20th Century
A survey course designed to examine “the long Twentieth Century” (from the Opium War to the Post-9/11 era) to trace the origins of the present-day world. The emphasis of the course will be on the twin forces of industrialization and colonization in shaping globalization. Global in perspective, this course explores how these forces were experienced differently in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas.
Hours: 3
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HIS 248 - North Carolina
This course will trace the history of North Carolina, beginning with Native American settlement and European colonization, and continuing through to the development, during the 20th Century, of a varied, rich, and as some historians have called it profound particularism. This course will focus on North Carolina’s cultural and geo-social complexity and its regional identities. Fall
Hours: 3
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HIS 266 - Public History
This course will introduce students the methods and approaches of Public History, and to the best use of public documents, genealogies, cemeteries, archival databases, etc. in exploring the past. This course will have a service or engaged learning component.
Hours: 3
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HIS 302 - Seminar in Social and Economical History of Modern Europe
This discussion course will introduce students to major themes in the development of social roles and organization, as well as the emergence of mature industrial and financial capitalism between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. Topics may vary from year to year.
Hours: 3
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HIS 304 - Seminar in East Asian History
This course will examine at the seminar level various topical areas of East Asian history.
Hours: 3
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HIS 305 - Seminar in African History
This course is a focused exploration of various topical areas of African history. Emphasis will vary from year to year. Topics include religion and politics of post-colonial Africa; images and imaginings of the African continent; and war, peace and social justice. The course may be repeated for credit on different topics with permission of the instructor.
Hours: 3
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HIS 321 - Seminar in US History
This course uses interdisciplinary methods including film, music, literature, and material culture to examine various topics in the history of American culture. Emphasis will vary from year to year. Sample topics include race and culture in post-1965 America; immigration and ethnic history; African-American history; and the history of women in the United States. Spring
Hours: 3
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HIS 325 - Modes of Narrative
Beyond simple story telling, narratives are important keys to understanding human behavior, both past and present. Who is silent, who speaks, what is said or unsaid, and how the narrative is constructed can tell us much about the events and environments that influence many cultures in history and modern-day societies. This course is designed to explore the variety of forms, structures, and objectives of narratives through the analysis of primary source materials (e. g. , documents, artifacts, oral history, etc. ).
Hours: 3
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HIS 380 - Directed Reading and Research
For students desiring work on topics of special individual interest.
Hours: 3
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HIS 381 - Special Topics
This course will examine, on a selective topics basis, various historical problems of interest to faculty and students.
Hours: 1
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HIS 382 - Special Topics
This course will examine, on a selective topics basis, various historical problems of interest to faculty and students.
Hours: 2
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HIS 383 - Special Topics
This course will examine, on a selective topics basis, various historical problems of interest to faculty and students.
Hours: 3
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HIS 384 - Special Topics
This course will examine, on a selective topics basis, various historical problems of interest to faculty and students.
Hours: 4
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HIS 400 - Senior Seminar
This seminar will involve a substantial research project, in which students will both compose and critique an historical case of significant current historiographical import.
Hours: 3
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HIS 425 - Philosophy of History
This course will consider the philosophical and methodological challenges of historical knowledge, past and present, with particular attention to the importance of the Liberal Arts for history. Attention will be given to problems of the notion of objectivity, rhetoric, the archive, and narrative. As the Capstone for History majors, this course will culminate in a significant research essay. Cross-listed with PHI 301 .
Hours: 3
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HIS 450 - Internship or Field Experience in History
Prerequisite(s): 15 credits in History or permission of the instructor.
An applied-history field experience supervised directly by the professor or an internship at a local museum or business supervised jointly by the professor and a museum or business professional. The professor regularly checks the student’s progress through conferences with the student and, when applicable, with the professional supervisor and through reviewing the student’s required log. The course may be repeated once with permission of the instructor.
Hours: 3
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HIS 490 - History Peer Tutoring and Apprenticeship
Students will engage in the delivery of a History course, including (but not limited to) design, discussion, grading and feedback, and assessment of outcomes, under the general supervision of the Peer Tutoring Director. Student must have a cumulative GPA of 3. 4 or permission of the instructor. May be taken for two or three credits.
Hours: 1
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HIS 498 - Senior Honors Research
Prerequisite(s): Invitation of the History faculty.
Directed study for students invited to undertake a senior honors theses by the History faculty. Fall.
Hours: 3
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HIS 499 - Senior Honors Thesis
Prerequisite(s) or Co-requisite(s): HIS 498
Directed study for students invited to undertake a senior honors theses by the History faculty. Continuing from HIS 498 , the drat thesis will be critiqued and rewritten and then presented and defended. Spring.
Hours: 3
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HON 200 - Ways of Knowing
Through multidisciplinary round-table discussions, this course will introduce students to the principles and process necessary to approach the question: “how do we know anything?” Participants will develop the ability to identify issues/points of argument across texts in order to discover her or his place within the academic question, thereby creating a foundation for an original contribution to their chosen field. The course will culminate in the production of multiple research proposals. Fee: $150. Registration Permission: Director of Honor’s Academy must provide permission to enroll in the zero credit hour section of this course.
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