HIST 203

Fall 2019 All Classes

All Classes

Reacting to the Past

SHOW FINAL EXAM SCHEDULE

Credit: 3 hours.

An introduction to history through participation in role-playing games set in the past. Topics will vary each time the course is taught. Students will take on the roles of historical figures (famous or obscure) engaged in difficult and complicated situations, and will be obliged to adhere to the beliefs and circumstances of those figures while attempting to pursue a course of action that will help them win the game -- and possibly alter the course of history.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Humanities – Hist & Phil

My Favorites

My Schedule

Section Status updates every 10 minutes.

HIST 203 class schedule data for fall 2019
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	69038	Lecture-Discussion	A	12:30PM -1:50PM	TR	David Kinley Hall	Freund Carter, H	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/19-12/11/19 Degree Notes: Humanities - Hist & Phil course. Section Info: Topic: Heretics on Trial in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America. Description: This course will explore law and religion in seventeenth-century Europe and New England through Reacting to the Past, where students are immersed in the historical moment by taking on the roles of historical figures and engaging in elaborate, weeks-long games. Students will participate in two games: The Trial of Galileo and The Trial of Anne Hutchinson. Through these cases, students will grapple with the questioning of religious authority and established scientific and religious doctrines during the tumultuous era of Reformation Europe and Puritan New England.