History

• HI 205: Western Civilization Since 1400
• HI 207: The Ancient World to 180 AD
• HIST 106: Ancient History
• HIST 127: American History to 1865
• HIST 128: American History Since 1865
• HIST 140: The World Since 1945
• HIST 142: Latin America Under Colonial Rule
• HIST 151: History of Western Civilization to 1650
• HIST 157: English History Since 1688
• HIST 158: Early Modern European History, 1450-1815
• HIST 162: History of Russia from 1861 to the Present
• HIST 364: History of American Business

HI 205: Western Civilization Since 1400

Self-paced Correspondence

A survey of Western civilization from the Renaissance to the present.

• Instructor: Robert Porter, MA
• Credit-granting Institution: NC State University
• Credit Hours: 3
• Submitted Assignments: 12
• View a sample course syllabus.

Required Texts

• Chodorow et al., The Mainstream of Civilization, Vol. II, 6th comprehensive edition
• Anderson and Zinsser, A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present, Vol. II, revised edition (2000)

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HI 207: The Ancient World to 180 AD

Self-paced Correspondence

The ancient cultures of the Middle East, Greece, and Rome, including Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Hebrew, Phoenician, Greek, and Roman societies and cultures.

• Instructor: Ronald Sack, PhD
• Credit-granting Institution: NC State University
• Credit Hours: 3
• Submitted Assignments: 15
• View a sample course syllabus.

Required Texts

• Bailkey, Readings in Ancient History, 5th edition (1996)
• de Blois and van der Spek, An Introduction to the Ancient World (1997)
• Pritchard, The Ancient Near East, Vol. I (1973)
• Roux, Ancient Iraq, 3rd edition (1992)

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HIST 106: Ancient History

Self-paced Correspondence

This course is a compendium of ancient history, covering in outline format the major civilizations of the ancient world, including Egypt, the Mesopotamian empires, Greece, and Rome. It examines the important political, social, and economic events and institutions of each civilization, their influence on each other, and their influence on Western thought and experience.

• Instructors: W.J. McCoy, PhD; and Rex Crews, MA
• Credit-granting Institution: UNC-Chapel Hill
• UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
• Credit Hours: 3
• Submitted Assignments: 11
• View a sample course syllabus.

Required Text

• de Blois and van der Spek, An Introduction to the Ancient World (1997)

Optional Texts:

• Talbert, An Atlas of Classical History (1989)
• Freeman, Egypt, Greece, and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean (2004)

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HIST 127: American History to 1865

Self-paced Online and Correspondence

This is a general survey course of American history from the earliest days of European contact to the conclusion of the Civil War. We will study and discuss the evolution of the American colonies and the subsequent nation building (and refining) that occurred throughout the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Emphasis will be on the most vital political, economic, and social events of the period..

• Instructor: David Long, PhD
• Credit-granting Institution: UNC-Chapel Hill
• UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
• Credit Hours: 3
• Submitted Assignments: 14
• View a sample course syllabus for the correspondence course.
• View a sample course syllabus for the online course.

Required Texts

• Divine, America, Past and Present, Vol. I, 7th edition (2005)
• Davidson and Lytle, After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection, Vol. I, 5th edition (2005)
• Ambrose, Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West (1996)
• Paludan, Victims: A True Story of the Civil War (1981)
• Berlin and Favreau, editors, Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation (1998)

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HIST 128: American History Since 1865

Self-paced Online and Correspondence

This course is a general survey of the history of the United States from the end of the Civil War to the present, with particular emphasis on the politics, economics, and significant legislation of the period. Primary or “original” source documents comprise roughly half of the course materials, so students will be able to form their own judgments about many historical issues and think about important historical events from the point of view of the people who experienced them. Students are encouraged to make connections between the history they read and their own lives.

• Instructor: David R. Long, PhD
• Credit-granting Institution: UNC-Chapel Hill
• UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
• Credit Hours: 3
• Submitted Assignments: 16
• View a sample course syllabus for the correspondence course.
• View a sample course syllabus for the online course.

Required Materials

• Boyer et al., The Enduring Vision, Vol. II, 6th edition (2008)
• Lorence, Enduring Voices, Vol. II, 4th edition (2000)
• Terkel, Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression (1978)
• Set of recorded lectures on CD

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Other Requirements

• Students are required have access to a CD player for listening to the recorded lectures.

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HIST 140: The World Since 1945

Self-paced Correspondence

This course provides an introduction to the social, economic, and political history of the world since 1945. The course focuses on international problems and on case studies of individual countries.

• Instructor: Russ Van Wyk, PhD
• Credit-granting Institution: UNC-Chapel Hill
• UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
• Credit Hours: 3
• Submitted Assignments: 18
• View a sample course syllabus.

Required Texts

• Drakulic, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed (1993)
• Hayslip, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places (1990)
• Heng and Shapiro, Son of the Revolution (1983)
• Thiong'o, Matigari (1998)
• Menchu and Burgos-Debray, I, Rigoberta Menchu (1999)
• Greider, One World, Ready or Not (1999)
• HIST 140 Coursepack

Optional text:

• Vadney, The World Since 1945 (1999)

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HIST 142: Latin America Under Colonial Rule

Self-paced Correspondence

This course is temporarily closed to enrollment. This course provides an introduction to social and economic development under colonial rule, especially in Mexico and Peru.

• Instructor: Robert Porter, MA
• Credit-granting Institution: UNC-Chapel Hill
• UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
• Credit Hours: 3
• Submitted Assignments: 10
• A sample course syllabus is not available at this time.

Required Texts

• Chasteen, Born in Blood & Fire: A Concise History of Latin America, 2nd edition (2006)
• de las Casas, The Devastation of the Indies (1992)
• Price, ed, Maroon Societies, 3rd edition (1996)
• Klarén, Peru: Society and Nationhood in the Andes (2000)
• Meyer, Sherman, and Deeds, The Course of Mexican History, 8th edition (2007)

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HIST 151: History of Western Civilization I

Self-paced Correspondence

The emergence of Western civilization from antiquity to the mid-seventeenth century.

• Instructor: Michele Strong, PhD, or W.J. McCoy, PhD
• Credit-granting Institution: UNC-Chapel Hill
• UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
• Credit Hours: 3
• Submitted Assignments: 12
• View a sample course syllabus.

Required Text

• Chambers, The Western Experience Vol. 1: To the Eighteen Century, 9th edition (2007)

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HIST 157: English History Since 1688

Self-paced Correspondence

This course deals with the Hanoverians, the American Revolution, the Napoleonic era, the Industrial Revolution, and the great social and economic changes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as England changed from a laissez-faire economy to a welfare state.

• Instructor: Chad Ludington, PhD
• Credit-granting Institution: UNC-Chapel Hill
• UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
• Credit Hours: 3
• Submitted Assignments: 15
• View a sample course syllabus.

Required Texts

• Arnstein, The Past Speaks: Sources and Problems in British History, Vol II, Since 1688 (1993)
• Arnstein, Britain Yesterday and Today, 1830 to the Present, 8th edition (2001)
• Wilcox and Arnstein, The Age of Aristocracy, 1688-1830, 8th edition (2001)

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HIST 158: Early Modern European History, 1450-1815

Self-paced Correspondence

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the social, economic, political, intellectual, and diplomatic history of Europe between 1450 and 1815.

• Instructor: Wendy Perry, PhD
• Credit-granting Institution: UNC-Chapel Hill
• UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
• Credit Hours: 3
• Submitted Assignments: 17
• View a sample course syllabus.

Required Texts

• Palmer, Colton, and Kramer, A History of the Modern World, Vol. 1, 10th edition (2006)
• Machiavelli, The Prince (2003)
• Ginzburg, The Night Battles: Witches and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1992)
• Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History (1999)
• De Tocqueville, The Old Regime and the French Revolution (1983)

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HIST 162: History of Russia from 1861 to the Present

Self-paced Correspondence

This course is temporarily closed to new enrollments. This course surveys Russian and Soviet history since 1861. It analyzes the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, the revolutions of 1905 and 1917, the birth of the Soviet Union, Stalinism, the disintegration of the USSR in 1991, and the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States. Discussions and readings emphasize the roles that industrialization, the West, and revolution have played since 1861 and ways they continue to shape (and haunt) Russia today.

• Instructor: Staff
• Credit-granting Institution: UNC-Chapel Hill
• UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
• Credit Hours: 3
• Submitted Assignments: 15
• A sample course syllabus is not available at this time.

Required Texts

• Freeze, Russia: A History (1997)
• Chukovskaya, Sofia Petrovna (1999)
• Gorky, My Childhood (1966)
• Makine, Dreams of My Russian Summers (1997)
• Fitzpatrick, The Russian Revolution, 1917-1932 (1994)

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HIST 364: History of American Business

Self-paced Correspondence

This course is an introduction to the economic and business history of the United States, from the time of colonization to the present. The course has a broad focus, dealing mainly with general economic, political, and social changes, but also covering key individuals and institutional developments. Although it is designed as an advanced course for students of both history and business, it is suitable for any student with a basic grasp of the broader contours of American history.

• Instructor: Dwana Waugh, MA
• Credit-granting Institution: UNC-Chapel Hill
• Credit Hours: 3
• Submitted Assignments: 15
• View a sample course syllabus for the correspondence course.

Required Texts

• Blackford and Kerr, Business Enterprise in American History, 3rd edition (1994)
• Carlton and Coclanis, Confronting Southern Poverty in the Great Depression (1996)
• Coclanis, Shadow of a Dream: Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670-1920 (1989)
• Chandler, The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (1977)
• Greene, Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture (1988)
• HIST 364 Coursepack

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