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 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	4
COMM 355	TOPICS IN AMERICAN PUBLIC ADDRESS	4
ECON 361	TOPICS IN ECONOMIC HISTORY	4
ECON 461	HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT	4
GENS 222	GENDER AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF EAST ASIA	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 353	TOPICS IN WOMEN'S RHETORIC	4
GLSP 311	SPANISH CULTURE & CIVILIZATION	4
GLSP 365	REVOLUTIONARY WOMEN IN LATIN AMERICA	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 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 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 222	GENDER AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF EAST ASIA	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 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
JAMS 362	ADS, BRANDS & CULTURE	4
JAMS 365	FILM GENRES	4
LITR 220	AMERICAN DREAMING: RESISTANCE, FREEDOM, OPPORTUNITY	4
LITR 221	WESTERN AMERICAN LITERATURE	4
MUSC 233	MUSIC AS ART, HISTORY, AND DISCOURSE	4
POLS 384	U.S. FOREIGN POLICY	4
RELS 120	OLD TESTAMENT	4
RELS 130	NEW TESTAMENT	4
RELS 207	JEWISH-MUSLIM RELATIONS IN MODERN EUROPE AND THE MEDITERRANEAN	4
RELS 209	OLD TESTAMENT PROPHETS	4
RELS 220	CHRISTIANITY	4
SOAN 114	ARCHAEOLOGY - ORIGIN OF CIVILIZATIONS	4
SOAN 225	PEOPLES AND CULTURES OF NORTH AMERICA: THE NATIVE AMERICANS	4
THTR 471	THEATRE HISTORIES	4