The following courses will be offered Fall Semester 2012. 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 101:  Introduction to the History of the United States for Elementary Education Majors
Mark Rhodes
mrhodes@decorah.k12.ia.us
Mondays, 6:30 - 9:30 p.m.
This course provides a basic survey of the social, economic, political, and diplomatic history of the United States for students with little background in U.S. history. Answering the questions: What is America and what does it mean to be American? What is the nature of U.S. democracy? How do the lives of ordinary people intersect with the great events of our past? The course will emphasize content that will be of greatest use for students preparing to teach social studies in the upper elementary grades. (HB, Hist, Intcl)

History 111: Survey of US History to 1877
Edward Tebbenhoff
tebbened@luther.edu
M-W-F 11:00 - 12:00
This course surveys American history from the early colonial period to the end of Reconstruction in 1877. Topics are wide-ranging and include society, politics and culture but the overall theme emphasizes the evolution of the New England colonies, the Middle Colonies, the Chesapeake, and the Lower South into coherent regions with different economies, social structures and cultural attributes. The course then explores how these various regions successfully cooperated with one another long enough to engage in an independence movement that separated them from Great Britain and created the United States. These regional differences lived on into the nineteenth century, however, and became the basis for the sectional conflict which erupted into Civil War in 1861. The course closes with the successes and failures of Reconstruction policy as a bridge to later American history. (HBSSM, Hist)

History 135: African-American History
Keona Ervin
ervike01@luther.edu
M-W-F 11:00 - 12:00
A survey of African-American history from the 17th century to the present. Highlights the issues and struggles of black people in their rural and urban context and places the African experience in America in the larger world considering, for example, the impact of events outside of America, such as the Haitian Revolution, British emancipation of slavery, and European nationalism. (Same as AFRS 135.) (HB, Hist, Intcl)

History 149: Europe to 1648
Robert Christman
chriro05@luther.edu
M-W-F 9:15 - 10:15
An introductory survey of European history from ancient Greece to the end of the "Religious Wars" (and the Peace of Westphalia) in 1648. Topics will include: Greece from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Empires, Ancient Rome (Republic and Empire), Medieval Europe, the Renaissance, and the Reformation and Age of Religious Wars. (HBSSM, Hist)

History 171: History of Africa to 1880
Richard Mtisi
mtisri01@luther.edu
M-W-F 12:15 - 1:15
Survey of African history from the earliest times to roughly about 1880. The course begins with the historical development of Africa's still-vital cultural, linguistic, social, and economic systems and moves on to examine the Islamic and Christian impact on these systems through the era of the Atlantic slave trade. The course concludes by discussing the ways in which early European colonialism affected the African past. (Same as AFRS 171). (HB, Hist)

History 226: History and Material Culture
Edward Tebbenhoff
tebbened@luther.edu
Tu-Th 11:00 - 12:30
This course explores how the study of material culture—objects made or modified by human beings—can inform us about how people thought, lived, and behaved in the past. The course draws upon the multi-disciplinary nature of material culture studies to offer as a fresh approach to history by using insights from folk art, anthropology, and the decorative arts to augment and broaden what historians have learned through the use of written records. Significant attention is given to the ways in which museums contribute to the study of material culture by collecting, preserving, identifying, exhibiting, and interpreting these objects. Required for museum studies students. Offered alternate years. (HBSSM, Hist)

History 235: The Modern Black Freedom Movement in the United States
Keona Ervin
ervike01@luther.edu
M-W-F 9:15 - 10:15
The debate over the timing, scope, and trajectory of the civil rights and black power movements in the United States has long been a contested subject among historians. Scholars are now challenging the traditional non-violent southern movement narrative by pointing to a broad range of regionally diverse black political struggles across the twentieth century. Researchers are also calling into question the notion that civil rights and black power were two distinct movements. Engaging in these conversations and covering such themes as class, region, gender, community formation, militancy, and grassroots activism, we will cover the mass protests of the thirties and forties, the direct action campaigns of the fifties and sixties, and black liberation struggles that stretched into the seventies. Through analysis of key texts in new civil rights and black power studies, speeches, music, film, television, oral histories, and photography, we will critically examine the movement’s objectives and results, raise questions about the contour of American democracy and racial politics in the late twentieth century, and explore what is distinct about the “post-civil rights era.” (HB, HIST)

History 256:  Scandinavian Immigration History
Marvin G. Slind
slindmar@luther.edu
Tu-Th 12:45 - 2:15
A study of the history of immigrants to the United States from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland, and their descendants. Drawing on the rich ethnic resources of Luther College and Vesterheim museums, this course examines the nature of the immigration experience and the development within immigrant communities of a sense of old world ethnicity combined with a rising U.S. nationalism. Offered alternate years. (HB, Hist, Intcl)

History 271: African Diaspora
Richard Mtisi
mtisri01@luther.edu
M-W-F 1:30 - 2:30
This course explores the global experiences of people of African descent. Students will study the human experiences of Africans in the Indian Ocean world, the trans-Saharan trade, and the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Geographical areas include Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Particular attention will be given to the web of interrelated histories, social dynamics, political, and economic processes affecting and reflecting world cultures and histories. (Same as AFRS 271.) (HBSSM, Hist, Intcl)

History 321: Topics in American History:  Civil War and Reconstruction: 1800 - 1877
Edward Tebbenhoff
tebbened@luther.edu
M-W-F 1:30 - 2:30
This course focuses on the geographic and economic expansion of the United States, of spreading industrialization in the North and the renewed centrality of slavery in the South based on cotton agriculture. Next we will explore the reasons for the deepening sectional rift between the North and the South, with special attention to the critical decade of the 1850s and the sectional crisis of 1860-61.  We will examine the war years, the apparent military stalemate and the reasons for ultimate Union victory and Confederate defeat.  We will look at war-time politics in the North and South, the economic impact of the war in the United States and in the Confederacy, the experience of war on soldiers and civilians, men, women, blacks and whites. Toward the end of the semester, we will concentrate on the complex evolving, twin themes of Reconstruction: (1) establishing the conditions under which the former Confederate states would reenter the Union, and (2) determining whether the end of slavery would be accompanied by a fundamental reconstruction of southern economic, political and racial life. Finally we will examine how the Civil War has been remembered through subsequent decades. Prerequisite: PAID 112 or equivalent. (HBSS, HIST) 

History 351: Topics in European History:  Age of European Revolutions, 1789-1917
Marvin G. Slind
slindmar@luther.edu
M-W-F 11:00 - 12:00
This course will examine the nature of modern revolutions within the context of the European political upheavals between 1789 and 1917.  To do so, it will study several specific revolutionary events which may serve as models of "typical" revolutions, and from which the general characteristics of that political phenomenon can be determined.  The French Revolution of 1789, the European Revolutions of 1848, and the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 will serve as the primary focus of the lectures.  Individual readings and a 10-12 page research paper will supplement those lectures, and serve as the basis for a broader discussion of the general issue of "what is (or is not) a revolution." Prerequisite: PAID 112 or equivalent. (HB, Hist, Intcl) (Same as ScSt-352)

History 485: Junior-Senior Seminar, "History of Heresy"
Victoria Christman
chrivi02@luther.edu
Tu-Th 12:45 - 2:15
In this junior/senior seminar, students will examine a broad sweep of heresy within the Christian church, from the earliest heresies of the pre-Nicene church to medieval and early modern iterations of the same and similar themes.  We will discuss the notion of heresy itself, and consider how its definition changed over time, and the various ways in which clerical authorities grappled with it.  Because the course seeks to provide students with a starting point for their own individual research projects, the initial scope of our discussions will remain broad, covering a variety of topics, eras, and geographic locales, and examining both primary sources and scholarly secondary treatments of them.  Students will then select themes for their own research, and much of the seminar will be devoted to individual work on those projects, and class discussion of that work.