Courses in this mode of inquiry explore the human past and offer an opportunity to reflect on the continuities, change, and diversity in human experience across time. They investigate social, cultural, political, and other dimensions of human historical experience. They introduce students to various methods that scholars in different disciplines have developed to study the human past. These courses also encourage students to think critically about the interconnections between past and present. Vital Past courses are designated VP in this catalog and each semester’s registration materials.

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES

Students who complete a course with VP designation should do the following:

1. Identify, analyze, and contextualize primary sources.
2. Identify and critique secondary, scholarly arguments about the past.
3. Develop and defend an analytical or interpretive argument about the past.
4. Recognize that differences separate people past and present, though all people share a common humanity.
5. Evaluate the reliability of evidence about the past.

Courses with VP designation address all of the above learning outcomes.

Course List (Per Attribute)

Code	Title	Credits
ARTS 214	HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY	4
ARTS 310	MODERN ART 1860-1960	4
ARTS 311	ART SINCE 1960	4
ARTS 314	HISTORY OF ANIMATION AND DIGITAL ART	4
COMM 353	TOPICS IN WOMEN'S RHETORIC	3
COMM 355	TOPICS IN AMERICAN PUBLIC ADDRESS	3
ECON 361	TOPICS IN ECONOMIC HISTORY	4
ECON 461	HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT	4
GENS 267	INTRODUCTION TO US WOMEN'S HISTORY	4
GENS 318	HISTORY OF WOMEN IN LATIN AMERICA	4
GENS 322	GENDER AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF EAST ASIA	4
GENS 350	SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES AND HISTORIES: PERFORMING GENDER & SEXUALITY	4
GENS 353	TOPICS IN WOMEN'S RHETORIC	3
GLCS 365	ETHNIC DIVERSITY IN EASTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE	4
GLFR 280	YOUR HISTORY, NOT MINE--CREOLIZATION IN MARTINIQUE	3
GLSP 311	SPANISH CULTURE & CIVILIZATION	4
HIST 120	WESTERN CULTURE TO 1500	4
HIST 121	WESTERN CULTURE SINCE 1500	4
HIST 122	HISTORY OF WORLD CIVILIZATIONS TO 1500	4
HIST 123	HISTORY OF WORLD CIVILIZATIONS SINCE 1500	4
HIST 124	EAST ASIA BEFORE 1800	4
HIST 125	EAST ASIA SINCE 1800	4
HIST 150	SURVEY OF US HISTORY TO 1877	4
HIST 151	SURVEY OF US HISTORY, 1877 TO THE PRESENT	4
HIST 152	ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES	4
HIST 153	LATIN AMERICA TO 1810	4
HIST 154	LATIN AMERICA SINCE 1810	4
HIST 200	MODERN CHINA	4
HIST 201	TOPICS IN U.S. HISTORY	4
HIST 202	TOPICS IN EUROPEAN HISTORY	4
HIST 207	JEWISH-MUSLIM RELATIONS IN MODERN EUROPE AND THE MEDITERRANEAN	4
HIST 210	MODERN JAPAN	4
HIST 212	EPIDEMICS, PLAGUES, AND DISEASE IN HISTORY	4
HIST 215	REVOLUTIONS IN 20TH CENTURY LATIN AMERICA	4
HIST 242	HISTORY OF ENGLAND TO 1707	4
HIST 248	EUROPE IN THE AGE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION	4
HIST 251	WORLD WAR I: EXPERIENCE, IDENTITY, AND MEMORY IN THE MODERN WORLD	4
HIST 252	HISTORY OF THE US WEST	4
HIST 253	FASCISM AND THE HOLOCAUST IN EUROPE AND NORTH AFRICA	4
HIST 257	PACIFIC NORTHWEST HISTORY	3
HIST 267	INTRODUCTION TO US WOMEN'S HISTORY	4
HIST 276	NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY	4
HIST 301	TOPICS IN EUROPEAN HISTORY	4
HIST 304	TOPICS IN LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY	4
HIST 314	THE US-MEXICO BORDER REGION	4
HIST 315	MODERN MEXICO	4
HIST 318	HISTORY OF WOMEN IN LATIN AMERICA	4
HIST 322	GENDER AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF EAST ASIA	4
HIST 325	COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA	4
HIST 335	THE CIVIL WAR IN BLACK AND WHITE	4
HIST 345	THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN AMERICA	4
HIST 355	AMERICAN EMPIRE	4
HIST 360	HISTORY OF MODERN BRITAIN	4
HIST 362	HISTORY OF IRELAND	4
HIST 371	RACE AND MINORITY CULTURES IN THE UNITED STATES	3
HIST 390	SLAVERY IN THE AMERICAS	4
IDST 320	HISTORY OF WESTERN THOUGHT I	3
IDST 321	HISTORY OF WESTERN THOUGHT II	3
JAMS 330	MEDIA HISTORY	4
LITR 221	WESTERN AMERICAN LITERATURE	4
LITR 330	EPIC & ROMANCE	4
LITR 331	SEX AND POWER IN THE RENAISSANCE	4
LITR 334	SECRET LIVES IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE	4
LITR 350	SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES AND HISTORIES: PERFORMING GENDER & SEXUALITY	4
LITR 351	SHAKESPEARE: TRAGEDIES & TRAGICOMEDIES	4
MUSC 233	MUSIC AS ART, HISTORY, AND DISCOURSE	3
NURS 345	EVOLUTION OF NURSING	3
POLS 384	U.S. FOREIGN POLICY	4
RELS 120	OLD TESTAMENT	4
RELS 130	NEW TESTAMENT	4
RELS 140	THE HOLY QUR'AN	4
RELS 207	JEWISH-MUSLIM RELATIONS IN MODERN EUROPE AND THE MEDITERRANEAN	4
RELS 220	CHRISTIANITY	4
RELS 309	OLD TESTAMENT PROPHETS	4
RELS 360	DEAD SEA SCROLLS	4
SOAN 225	PEOPLES AND CULTURES OF NORTH AMERICA: THE NATIVE AMERICANS	4
THTR 351	SHAKESPEARE: TRAGEDIES & TRAGICOMEDIES	4
THTR 470	THEATRE HISTORIES I	4
THTR 473	THEATRE HISTORIES II	4