SH A survey of events and developments in North Carolina from the age of discovery to the present day, with attention to the place of North Carolina in national and world events. SH A study of the Christian movement, its organization, leadership, literature, and theological development. It concentrates on practical teaching issues and important theoretical issues. An in depth study of the origins of World Wars I and II, the Russian revolution, Nazism, and the Cold War up to the breakup of the Soviet Union. An individualized study.
Students complete a research project under the supervision of a member of the history faculty.
Elements include finding and developing topics, finding sources through conventional and electronic means, and presenting and analyzing information in written form. The history of Southwest Asia and Arab North Africa to the present day. Major emphasis will be on the rise and spread of Islam, the Ottoman Empire, European imperialism and its decline, and the crisis of the late twentieth century. A survey of the East Asian cultures, concentrating on the impact of European imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and on the subsequent period of independence. An examination of post World War II United States society, culture, and politics, emphasizing foreign policy and the nuclear dilemma.