Summer 2025 Courses
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Hist 300 courses: The Banner registration system only allows you to enroll in one Hist 300 course. However, you may enroll in more than one History 300 course. To register for an additional Hist 300 course, please contact Marie Walper or Emily Ganderton in the History Department which will process a course override for you by email (mwalper@unm.edu or eganderton321@unm.edu). In your communication please include your full name, student ID number, and the course title and course number that you wish to register for.
Hist 491: To enroll in Hist 491 (Historiography) you must first receive departmental approval. This is to ensure that History majors near graduation have first priority. To be added to that list, please email Marie Walper (mwalper@unm.edu) who will add you to the list and process a course override that will allow you to register for this course. Please include your name and student ID in your communication.
Please allow up to 48 hours for your override request to be processed. You will be notified when the override has been completed. Be sure to include all information or this will delay your request.
DAVIS-SECORD | ONLINE | CRN: TBA
HIST 1150-001 Western Civilization
This course will trace the development of societies in “the West” from the first human settlements in the ancient Near East, through the Greek and Roman worlds and their legacies in the Islamic and Christian Middle Ages, and up to the Protestant Reformation and the discovery of the Americas in the early modern period. The course will cover the period from 10,000 B.C.E. to 1648 C.E. Course lectures, readings, and discussions will focus primarily on what we call “western” civilization, but always with a view to connections and comparisons between the West and the rest of the world. We will ask what constitutes “civilization” and why make the “western” distinction at the same time that we see global inter-connection and mutual influence. Major themes of this course will include the development and diffusion of monotheistic religions, various models for social organization, dominant paradigms of political and economic power, and the cultural and intellectual heritage of the western world. No prerequisites.
GIBBS | ONLINE | CRN: TBA
HIST 410-001: History of Diet and Health
This course description will be updated soon.
WITHYCOMBE | ONLINE | CRN: TBA
HIST 417-001: History of Modern Medicine
This course will investigate the development of the modern medical profession over the last 300 years. We will examine the clinical encounter between patient and healer and how it has been shaped by larger forces such as race, class, gender, politics, and economics. Covering diverse topics such as the effects of the French Revolution upon the field of medicine, the links between mass urbanization and epidemics, the popularization of germs, and the power of modern pharmaceutical companies, students will explore how shifting social and cultural values have motivated changes in thinking about health and healers.
