 Bachelor of Individualized Studies (BIS)Adult Degree Program
U.S. History (GHIST 225 OP01)
Course Description:
The American Experience package is part of cluster four of the General Education Program at James Madison University. This cluster is designed to enable students to examine the political, social, and economic processes and structures with both domestic and global contexts. This course examines the significant developments, trends and events that have shaped the course of American History from first contact to the present.
Instructor: Shaun Mooney
Europe: Renaissance to Revolution
Course Description:
This course is an in-depth analysis of European history from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, with special attention to public opinion, literature, and the formation and adaptation of a national ideology. The major themes of the class will be how personal and public choices, preferences, and ambitions are translated into reality. Additionally, we will examine the nature of ideas throughout history and how they shaped the overall trajectory of progress and development of humanity.
The central goals of this course are to provide students with a more sophisticated understanding of why things happened in history, to contemplate the deeper consequences of events had they turned out differently, and why the simple prescriptions applied to the study of history often do not work. Indeed, "the historian must have some concept of how men who are not historians behave."
Instructor: Dr. Mark C. Wallace
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For more information on the BIS program, contact:
Carol Ann Fleming
Continuing Education
James Madison University
MEMH 3185B
MSC 6906
395 South High Street
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
Office: (540) 568-8987
E-Mail: fleminca@jmu.eduWeb:
www.jmu.edu/adultdegree
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