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ACADEMIC PROGRAMS
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HI 155 ES Reforming America (1)
A study of the ideas, events, and people influencing major reform movements from the
colonial period to 1877. Emphasis is placed on notable reform campaigns directed toward
social, political, and economic change in America and the successes and limitations of
those efforts. Some topics include social transformations in the Chesapeake and New
England colonies; political thought in the American Revolution; responses to Native
American removal legislation; evangelical Protestantism; social welfare campaigns
relating to public education, temperance, prison, and asylum reforms; abolitionism and
racial equality; anti-immigration organizations; and women’s rights. An Explorations in
Scholarship designated course.
HI 177, 277, 377, 477 Special Topics in History (1)
An exploration of a selected topic or problem in history.
HI 204 CI The History of Birmingham (1)
An investigation of the history of Birmingham, Alabama, from 1871 to the present, with
special attention to economic, political, social, and cultural developments as well as a
treatment of the Civil Rights movement. A Community Interests and Poverty Studies
designated course.
HI 205 IA The Old South (1)
A study of the American South from pre-contact to the end of the Civil War. The course
examines the centrality of slavery in shaping the political, economic, and social
development of the region; the role of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and geographic
differences in producing “many Souths” rather than the monolithic image often promoted
in popular culture; and the causes and effects of the Civil War. An Interpretation or
Analysis and Leadership Studies designated course.
HI 206 IA The New South: Civil War to Civil Rights (1)
A study of the South from the end of the Civil War to the present. The course charts the
ending of slavery for four million people, the social transformations that followed in
Reconstruction, the upheavals of the New South, the world of segregation in the
twentieth century, the nonviolent overthrow of the Jim Crow system, and the emergence
of the complicated and sometimes conflicted South we know today. An Interpretation or
Analysis designated course.
HI 210 U.S. Women’s History (1)
A study of American women from the pre-colonial era to the late twentieth century. This
course introduces the uniqueness of women’s experiences and their role in shaping the
economic, political, and social development of the nation. Among the topics covered are
notions of “proper” womanhood, women’s involvement in wars, women’s role in family
life, women’s paid labor, and female activism. Emphasis is placed on the diversity of
women’s lives based on racial, class, ethnic, and sexual differences. A Leadership Studies
designated course.
Birmingham-Southern College Catalog 2023-2024