There are still places remaining in several History courses for the upcoming 2016-2017 academic year. Short descriptions of courses can be found below. (More descriptions to be posted shortly.) Special Students who wish to register should contact the Undergraduate Administrator at history@carleton.ca to discuss any concerns regarding prerequisites or equivalencies.
HIST 3904B: Topics in U.S. History – “Fighting Words: Contemporary Perspectives on the American Civil War” (Field c)
Note: This fall-semester course conflicts with HIST 3810. For those who are interested in both courses, HIST 3810 is also available in the winter semester.
America. Divided into armed camps. Inflamed by political rhetoric that would make compromise impossible. And, from 1861 to 1865, at war with itself. Explore the words of those who would sunder a nation and those who would transcend those divisions in the battle for a re-united and re-defined nation in HIST3904 Fighting Words: Contemporary Perspectives on the American Civil War.
HIST 3907A: Transnational or Thematic Topic – “Freedom and its Discontents: Blackness and the Adventure of Western Culture” (Field e) – Winter
Numerous activists, artists and intellectuals have drawn attention to the problems of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We have been informed about the problem of the color line, the problem of difference and, perhaps most intriguingly, the problem of freedom. This course will focus on critical work that explores the shape and contours of freedom after the formal abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.