Selected topics in history and politics. Topics will rotate based on student and faculty interest.

This semester-long class will introduce students to the significance of sport as part of the larger American experience. Throughout the course, students will engage with the role of sport in relation to nationalism, race and racism, gender politics, class conflict, and community formation.

Origins, progression, and consequences of the founding of the American Republic.

Military, social, and political history of the American Iliad.

An introduction to historiography and to the methods of historical research, analysis and writing. This course should be taken in sophomore year and is required for the major.

For moviegoers, films both reinforce and challenge their conceptions of their world and their past. This course will examine noteworthy American films in light of their historical significance and context.

An exploration of the roots of contemporary issues in society in the United States: the increased power of the executive in government, the rise of minority groups, the changing family, the place of communications media in the formation of public opinion, and changes in the economy.

Historical perspectives on the evolution of women’s lives and roles in America and the rest of the world.

This course examines decisive moments and important developments in the history of Ireland and of the Irish abroad through the medium of film.

Survey of the history of Ireland from pre-Celtic times through the present with a special emphasis on the development of the Anglo-Irish ethnic and religious conflict.