The following courses will be offered January term 2013. For more information, contact the faculty member teaching the course. Times listed are tentative, and subject to change by the Registrar, who will issue the official time schedule.

History 185:  From Mobile to Margaritaville: Human Geography in the Music and Fiction of Jimmy Buffett
Marvin G. Slind
Daily, 9:15 - 10:15, 11:00 - 12:00
This course will use the fiction and extensive musical repertoire of Jimmy Buffett as a focal point for studying world geography and the human interactions associated with it through the course of history. Geographic references in Buffett’s songs and fiction will serve as a springboard for student presentations, discussion, and writing. (FYS, HB)

History 185: April, 1865: The Month the Civil War Ended
Edward Tebbenhoff
Daily, 12:15 - 2:30
The events of April 1865 provided Americans with a kaleidoscope of jarring experiences and an emotional roller coaster which spared no one. Lee surrendered, the Civil War ended, Lincoln was assassinated and all the while, four and a half million African-American slaves contemplated their futures and the contours and meanings of a freedom that few, black or white, fully understood. The course examines primary and secondary sources describing and analyzing the meaning of this tumultuous thirty day period and explores the process by which events are turned into narratives from which are extracted conclusions, hypotheses, and generalizations. (FYS, Hist, HBSSM)

History 185/Africana Studies 185: "Free At last": The Global Anti-apartheid Movement
Lauren Kientz Anderson
Daily, 11:00 - 1:15
How should oppressed peoples fight against the powers that oppress them? How should different ethnic, national, and racial groups interact with each other and with their government? How should the government treat these different groups? How can violent conflict be resolved and both sides learn to live with each other? How should we remember and document these conflicts and resolutions? These are pressing questions we face today in many areas around the globe. We can study the beginnings of answers by investigating a recent global movement--the world-wide anti-apartheid struggle. Students will become investigators through this course by examining several different multi-media sources, including a seven-part documentary about the anti-apartheid movement entitled "Have You Heard from Johannesburg," online interviews and podcasts with participants, oral histories, autobiographies, and newspaper sources. We will travel the globe as we meet activists from many different nations engaged in the anti-apartheid struggle and ask what made their activism more or less effective. The course will cultivate critical thinking skills, ask philosophical questions, and examine historical sources. (FYS, Hist, Intcl)

History 239/Africana Studies 239: Victim or Villain: The Causes of Contemporary Crises in Africa
Richard Mtisi
Daily, 11:00 - 1:15
This course examines several crises affecting post-colonial African states. Special attention will be paid to economic problems, civil war, and AIDS. Through close study of autobiography and film, the course will explore how different colonial and post-colonial policies contributed to the emergence of problems in post-colonial African states. Although the course focuses on Zimbabwe, Rwanda and South Africa, it will give students an opportunity to understand both the achievements and failures of post-colonial rule in Africa. (Hist, HB)