Courses

A survey of the major biomes of the world, environmental interactions of species, populations and community dynamics, and impact of humans on the world around them.

Introduction to the craft of imaginative writing, the landscape of contemporary literature, and the writer as artist. Students will engage UA’s literary arts culture and regularly attend readings and author events. Fine Arts, PW: Innovation and Creativity

The civil rights movement survives in historical memory as a product of the 1950s and 1960s, when Black southerners rose up against Jim Crow and agitated for citizenship rights and basic dignity. Much of this simple narrative reflects the lived experience of historical actors. Yet this class follows recent trends in academic scholarship by challenging the temporal, geographic, and ideological parameters of the classic civil rights movement.

The civil rights movement survives in historical memory as a product of the 1950s and 1960s, when Black southerners rose up against Jim Crow and agitated for citizenship rights and basic dignity. Much of this simple narrative reflects the lived experience of historical actors. Yet this class follows recent trends in academic scholarship by challenging the temporal, geographic, and ideological parameters of the classic civil rights movement.

This course will examine the U.S. civil rights movement in a broad context of twentieth-century social movements, with particular emphasis on how the African American freedom movement intersected with and influenced debates about gender, labor, sexuality, and foreign policy. Required of all history majors during the senior year. European History

Study of significant works of contemporary architecture and materials and strategies used in their making; focus on innovative materials, systems, and partnerships necessary to realize the design.

A survey of modern Africa from the end of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade to the present.

This course will explore the emergence of the United States into a world power following the end of Reconstruction to the outset of the First World War. The development of American industrial might, the rise of cities, immigration and the establishment of the American empire in the Pacific and the Caribbean will be examined.

A study of the emergence of the United States into a world power following the end of Reconstruction to the beginning of World War I. Topics include the development of American industry, the rise of cities, immigration, the establishment of an American empire and the Populist and Progressive movements.

Changing forms of industrialism and social problems created; Populism, Progressivism, and other reform movements of era.