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HIST 330 - America and China: U.S.-China Relations since 1784
Credits: (3)
A study of U.S.-China relations from 1784 to the present, with special attention to Sino-American relations in the 20th and 21st centuries. This course satisfies the department’s computing requirement.
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HIST 331 - Modern Japanese History
Credits: (3)
A history of Japan from the Tokugawa period (1600-1868) to the present, with emphasis on the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
Formerly: (formerly HIST 328)
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HIST 332 - Modern Korean History
Credits: (3)
An examination of the major developments and issues in modern Korean history, including the collapse of the traditional order, Japanese colonial rule, the emergence of distinct political regimes in the north and south and north-south confrontation.
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HIST 333 - Modern Chinese History
Credits: (3)
A history of China from 1644 to the present focusing on China’s imperial system, the experiment with republican government, and China under communist rule since 1949. This course satisfies the departments computing requirement.
Formerly: (formerly HIST 329)
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HIST 334 - Nation, Gender, and Race in South Asia
Credits: (3)
This course examines the often inter-linked roles and definitions of nation, gender, and race, how these factors both undermined and reinforced British rule, and how they reshaped social relations in South Asia. Assignments include films, novels, memoirs, and travelogues.
Formerly: (formerly HIST 270)
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HIST 336 - History of the Ottoman Empire: 1300-1923
Credits: (3)
The Ottoman Empire was one of the longest-lasting political structures in world history, ruling over a large portion of the Middle East and the Balkans for six centuries. This course is a survey of the history of the empire from its origins as a small principality in medieval Anatolia to a major world power in the sixteenth century, and to its eventual disintegration by the end of World War I. It intends to familiarize the students with the main political, social and cultural institutions of the Ottoman state and society, and how these changed over time. It will also introduce students to some of the major themes and recent trends in Ottoman historiography, including debates on the origins and decline of the Ottomans, the issue of Ottomans’ legacy for the successor states, as well as the growing research on Ottoman women.
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HIST 341 - United States Immigration History
Credits: (3)
An introduction to the history of immigration to the United States from 1789 to the present. Emphasizing immigration from Ireland, China, Mexico and Eastern Europe, the course focuses on the history of U.S. immigration policy. It involves short lectures and discussions.
Formerly: (formerly HIST 431)
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HIST 342 - The Invasion of North America
Credits: (3)
An introduction to the exploration, exploitation and colonization of eastern North America by the Spanish, French, English and Dutch; their cultural interaction with Native Americans in war and peace.
Formerly: (formerly HIST 426)
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HIST 344 - Colonial North America, 1492-1763
Credits: (3)
A survey of the history of North America north of Mexico from the beginnings of sustained European contact through the end of the Seven Years’ War.
Formerly: (formerly HIST 411)
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HIST 345 - The American Revolution, 1763-1789
Credits: (3)
Domain (Anchored): CSI
An in-depth study of the origins of the American independence movement, the struggle between the rebellious colonies and the British Empire, the formation of the United States, and the salient cultural and social developments of the Revolutionary era.
Formerly: (formerly HIST 412)
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HIST 346 - Antebellum America
Credits: (3)
Covering the period from 1815-1850, this course examines social, political, economic and cultural transformations in the pre-Civil War United States.
Formerly: (formerly HIST 415)
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HIST 347 - US Civil War Era
Credits: (3)
Domain (Anchored): CSI
Examines the social, political, economic, and cultural history of the United States from 1850-1877. Military campaigns receive only minimal coverage.
Formerly: (formerly HIST 416)
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HIST 348 - Old South
Credits: (3)
The American South from its colonial origins to the defeat of the Confederacy, including as major topics social structure, economic and geographic expansion, slavery as a system of profit and social control, the growth of southern sectionalism, and the southern mind.
Formerly: (formerly HIST 417)
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HIST 350 - Free and Enslaved Black People in the Old South
Credits: (3)
Free and enslaved Afro-Southerners’ relations with one another and with whites from colonization to the Civil War. Themes include the variety of human experience under the slave regime; cultural affinities and differences among blacks, and between black and white Southerners.
Formerly: (formerly HIST 452)
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HIST 351 - U.S. Gilded Age
Credits: (3)
1866-1901. Explores the collapse of Reconstruction and the rise of big business. Topics include Victorian sexuality, the Jim Crow South, craft unionism, cities in the West and literary naturalism. Preference to juniors and seniors.
Formerly: (formerly HIST 418)
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HIST 352 - America in the World, 1763-1900
Credits: (3)
An examination of U.S. interactions with the wider world from 1763 to 1900. Topics include war, policymaking, economics, culture, immigration, religion, race, gender, and protest movements.
Formerly: (formerly HIST 433)
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HIST 353 - America in the World, 1901-Present
Credits: (3)
College Curriculum: COLL 200
Domain (Anchored): CSI
Domain (Reaching Out): ALV
An examination of U.S. interactions with the wider world from 1901 to the present day. Topics include war, policymaking, economics, culture, immigration, religion, race, gender, and protest movements.
Formerly: (formerly HIST 434)
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HIST 355 - Religion in 19th Century America
Credits: (3)
This course explores how nineteenth-century Americans construed and debated personal religious experience, and how religious institutions developed and competed for social, cultural, and political power in this period. Topics include: Reason and Revolution; Evangelicalism; Democratization; Class Formation; Millennialism and the Apocalypse; Antislavery, Proslavery, and Reform; Civil War Christianities; Gender; Religious Psychology; Liberalism, Fundamentalism, and Agnosticism; and the Varieties of Religious Experience.
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HIST 357 - Medieval Europe
Credits: (3)
Surveys the history of medieval Europe from the later Roman Empire through the Renaissance.
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HIST 358 - The European Renaissance
Credits: (3)
Investigation into the intellectual emphases and social and political contexts of humanist practices in Europe between 1314- 1598. Attention to historiography and historical method.
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HIST 359 - The Reformation in Western Europe
Credits: (3)
College Curriculum: COLL 200
Domain (Anchored): CSI
Domain (Reaching Out): ALV
An investigation into the Catholic and Protestant Reformations in early modern Europe, 1500-1700. Examination of the foundations and effects of religious upheaval and codification. Attention to literacy, printing, the family, the creation of confessional identity and historiography.
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HIST 360 - Roman Britain
Credits: (3)
The history and archaeology of Roman Britain. The story of the founding of the Roman province in Britain and its subsequent development. Examination of various aspects of Roman-British culture, including town life, fortifications, religion, art, villas, leisure and amusements.
Cross-listed with: CLCV 340
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HIST 361 - Roman Greece
Credits: (3)
An archaeological, literary and cultural study of ancient Greece during the period in which Greece was part of the Roman Empire. How did Greece change under Roman rule, and how did Greek culture affect the rest of the empire?
Cross-listed with: CLCV 341
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HIST 362 - History and Statecraft: Great Power Diplomacy, 1648-1949
Credits: (3)
This course uses case studies of episodes in Great Power politics from the Treaty of Westphalia to the founding of NATO to consider the application of history to current issues in international relations. Course readings prepare students to discuss and debate a range of key topics, such as the challenge of diplomatic/military overextension, foreign intervention in civil conflicts, relations among democracies and dictatorships, and the creation of successful (and unsuccessful) international structures. Evaluation is based on in-class participation, brief essays, and exams.
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HIST 363 - The Age of Absolutism in Europe, 1648-1789
Credits: (3)
Domain (Anchored): CSI
An intensive survey of Europe in transition: absolutism, enlightenment, enlightened despotism. This course satisfies the Department’s computing requirement.
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HIST 364 - The Age of Absolutism in Europe, 1789-1870
Credits: (3)
An intensive survey of Europe in transition: revolution, industrialization and the emergence of the modern state. This course satisfies the Department’s computing requirement.
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HIST 367 - Early Modern Britain, 1485-1714
Credits: (3)
This class introduces students to early modern British history, beginning with the wartime accession of Henry VII, the first Tudor king, in 1485 and concluding with the death of Queen Anne, the last Stuart monarch, in 1714. It has sometimes been claimed that Britain emerged as the first modern society during this period, and this class is largely oriented towards providing students with historical tools useful for assessing the grounds of this claim, identifying its underlying assumptions, and determining its validity.
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HIST 368 - Race, Class, and Gender in the British Empire
Credits: (3)
This course will survey the social and cultural history of the British Empire from the sixteenth century to the present, with an emphasis on the ways in which diverse groups of people experienced empire. Themes will include migration, slavery, race, gender, imperial culture, class, and resistance to empire.
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HIST 369 - History of Britain 1453-1783
Credits: (3)
A survey of the political, social, economic, and cultural history of Britain.
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HIST 370 - History of Britain 1783 to the Present
Credits: (3)
A survey of the political, social, economic, and cultural history of Britain.
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HIST 373 - East Central Europe
Credits: (3)
Modern history of the east-central region of Europe between Germany and Russia. Topics include: 19th century multi-national empires, 20th century (re)emergence of nation-states, citizens’ struggles to define political, social, and cultural identities despite foreign domination, and post-1989 developments.
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HIST 377 - History of Russia to 1800
Credits: (3)
Domain (Anchored): CSI
The political, cultural and intellectual development of Russia. From Kievan Rus’ to the end of the 18th century, tracing the Mongol occupation, the rise of Muscovy and the Romanov dynasty.
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HIST 378 - History of Russia since 1800
Credits: (3)
College Curriculum: COLL 200
Domain (Anchored): CSI
Domain (Reaching Out): ALV
The political, cultural and intellectual development of 19th and 20th century Russia, tracing the twilight of the Romanovs, the rise of socialist thought, and the Communist state.
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HIST 379 - Russia After Stalin
Credits: (3)
College Curriculum: COLL 200
Domain (Anchored): CSI
Domain (Reaching Out): ALV
This course will examine Soviet and post-Soviet history after the death of Stalin in 1953. It will cover Stalinism and the legacy of Stalin, the rise of Khrushchev and attempts to modify or transform the Soviet system in economic, political and cultural terms, and the rise and fall of Gorbachev and his and Yeltsin’s attempts to transform Soviet society and culture. Special focus will be on the tumultuous years of glasnost’ and perestroika in the late 1980s. The Putin era’s descent into authoritarianism, and the fate of History in the post-Soviet era will also be examined.
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HIST 382 - History of Spain
Credits: (3)
A survey of Spanish history from 1478 to 1978 that also asks students to investigate cultural, political and social issues in depth, such as the goals of inquisitors, the question of Spanish decline and the context of the Civil War.
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HIST 383 - History of Germany to 1918
Credits: (3)
Origins and establishment of the modern German state to the First World War.
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HIST 384 - History of Germany since 1918
Credits: (3)
Establishment and course of Hitler’s Third Reich, development of two Germanies since 1945, and their subsequent reunification.
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HIST 385 - History of France, 1648 to 1800
Credits: (3)
Intensive examination of a pre-industrial society with special emphasis on social, economic and intellectual problems during the ancient regime and Revolution.
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HIST 386 - History of France, 1800 to the Present
Credits: (3)
1800 to the present with special attention to social and economic problems as well as to the politics of 20th and 21st century France.
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HIST 387 - England Under the Tudors, 1485-1603
Credits: (3)
A survey of developments in English political, social, intellectual, cultural, and religious history from the ascension of Henry VII in 1485 to the death of Elizabeth I in 1603.
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HIST 388 - Britain Under the Stuarts, 1603-1714
Credits: (3)
A survey of the political, religious, cultural, social, and intellectual history of the British Isles from the coronation of James VI and I in 1603 to the death of Queen Anne in 1714.
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HIST 391 - Intellectual History of Modern Europe: Renaissance to the Enlightenment
Credits: (3)
Cultural and intellectual development of the Western world from the end of the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment.
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HIST 392 - Intellectual History of Modern Europe: 19th to the 21st Centuries
Credits: (3)
Cultural and intellectual development of the Western world from the Enlightenment to the present.
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HIST 393 - American Cultural and Intellectual History from the Beginnings through the Early National Period
Credits: (3)
An interdisciplinary approach to the development of colonial and early national American culture and society, with special emphasis on the transit of European culture, regionalism and the emergence of the ideology of American exceptionalism.
Formerly: (formerly HIST 437)
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HIST 394 - American Cultural and Intellectual History from the Early National Period through the Early 20th Century
Credits: (3)
An interdisciplinary approach to the development of colonial and early national American culture and society. Explores the social construction of knowledge, race, gender and class in the 19th- and early 20th-century United States, through an intensive reading of primary sources.
Formerly: (formerly HIST 438)
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HIST 400 - Colonial and Revolutionary Virginia
Credits: (3)
A specialized study of the founding and development of Virginia from the founding of Jamestown through the early years of the new nation with special emphasis on the evolution of its social and political structure, economy, gender, race, and material culture. This course is sponsored by NIAHD .
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HIST 401 - Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
Credits: (3)
An examination and assessment of the influence of gender, race, and power on the way in which all people–male and female; free and enslaved; Indian, European, and African–shaped the development of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Virginia society. This course is sponsored by NIAHD .
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HIST 402 - Thomas Jefferson in America and the World
Credits: (3)
This course explores the life of Thomas Jefferson, his contributions to ideas of liberty and government that reverberate in the world, and his many complex legacies that are part of United States history and culture, including being one of America’s most famous slaveholders and author of Indian extermination policies. This course is sponsored by NIAHD .
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HIST 403 - Archaeology of Colonial Williamsburg and Tidewater Virginia
Credits: (3)
Prerequisites: ANTH 301 or consent of instructor. This course examines the archaeological research on sites located in and around Williamsburg, the capital of the colony of Virginia from 1699-1781, as a way of reviewing the theory and method of historical archaeology. This course is sponsored by NIAHD .
Cross-listed with: ANTH 457 and ANTH 557
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HIST 404 - Foodways and the Archaeological Record
Credits: (3)
In a seminar format, students will draw upon archaeological, historical, and anthropological studies to explore topics such as human-animal relationships surrounding the procurement and production of food, as well as the distribution, preparation, and consumption of food. This course is sponsored by NIAHD .
Cross-listed with: ANTH 426 and ANTH 526
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HIST 405 - History of Museums and Historic Preservation-US 1850-Present
Credits: (3)
This course will identify and challenge how landmark institutions define and redefine culture, history, and their own significance. We will consider private, volunteer, and government roles in preserving and creating historic sites, and how museums and public history have changed since the mid-nineteenth century. This course is sponsored by NIAHD .
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HIST 406 - Architectural History Field School
Credits: (3)
College Curriculum: COLL 200
Domain (Anchored): CSI
Domain (Reaching Out): NQR
The course introduces students to the methods used in the investigation, description, and recording of historic buildings. The program is intended to help students distinguish the form, fabrication, and assembly of materials and building elements and understand their chronology. They will learn how to read and apply field evidence to answer larger questions concerning architectural and social history. This course is sponsored by NIAHD .
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HIST 407 - Field School in Material Culture
Credits: (3)
This course provides tools for using material culture as a source for history through multidisciplinary study in the identification, documentation, analysis, and interpretation of material objects. The material culture of tobacco provides our subject, from ancient forms of consumption, agricultural practices, labor systems, to the rise of the modern corporation. This course is sponsored by NIAHD .
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HIST 408 - Field School in Public History
Credits: (3)
This course fulfills the NIAHD internship requirement and is designed to give students practical experience in a museum setting with a background of readings in public history and classroom discussion sessions designed to promote both critical and scholarly engagement with an individually chosen topic. The instructor will work with students before the start of the semester to arrange for a museum professional to host the student in a professional working environment for 10-12 hours a week in addition to the class meetings. This course is sponsored by NIAHD.
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HIST 409 - Public History
Credits: (3)
Public History explores how history museums, especially Colonial Williamsburg, present history and make it meaningful today. The course uses current issues of society, politics, and race to interpret institutions that purport to speak to the collective identity of Americans through such media as museum exhibitions, performances, and interpretations books, film, and digital communications. This course is sponsored by NIAHD.
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HIST 410 - Early American Architecture
Credits: (3)
This course is intended to introduce students to issues and research methods in early American architecture. Buildings are examined as expressions of fine art and social history. The course focuses on a variety of topics, building types, and theoretical approaches by examining archaeological and documentary sources and standing structures. This course is sponsored by NIAHD .
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HIST 413 - Topics in History
Credits: (3)
Topics vary by semester. For current offerings, please consult the course schedule posted on my.wm.edu.
(These courses may be repeated for credit if there is no duplication of topic.) Formerly: (formerly HIST 490)
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HIST 414 - Topics in History
Credits: (3)
Topics vary by semester. For current offerings, please consult the course schedule posted on my.wm.edu.
(These courses may be repeated for credit if there is no duplication of topic.) Formerly: (formerly HIST 491)
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HIST 467 - Independent Study
Credits: (3)
A tutorial designed primarily for history majors who wish to pursue independent study of a problem or topic. Programs of study will be arranged individually with a faculty supervisor. Admission by consent of the chair of the department. Students must have a 3.0 cumulative grade point average to pursue independent study in history.
(These courses may be repeated for credit if there is no duplication of topic.)
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HIST 468 - Independent Study
Credits: (3)
A tutorial designed primarily for history majors who wish to pursue independent study of a problem or topic. Programs of study will be arranged individually with a faculty supervisor. Admission by consent of the chair of the department. Students must have a 3.0 cumulative grade point average to pursue independent study in history.
(These courses may be repeated for credit if there is no duplication of topic.)
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HIST 478 - Ancient Egyptian Inscriptions: Royal, Biographical, and Religious Texts
Credits: (3)
Prerequisite(s): HIST 278 and HIST 279
College Curriculum: COLL 200
Domain (Anchored): AL
Domain (Reaching Out): CSI
This online seminar course is offered only in the Summer III semester and is designed for students who would like to continue reading ancient Egyptian inscriptions together after completing the two prerequisite lecture courses: HIST 278 (ANTH 343/CLCV 209/RELG 278) and HIST 279 (ANTH 344/CLCV 210/RELG 279). This summer seminar course, HIST 478: Ancient Egyptian Inscriptions, is not a prerequisite for the fall-semester seminar, HIST 479: Middle Egyptian Texts. HIST 478 is only offered online during the summer and focuses primarily on societal and individual values expressed in Egyptian royal inscriptions, biographies, and religious texts, whereas HIST 479 is offered only during the fall semester and focuses more on the expression of such values in Egyptian fiction and poetry. In most other respects, however, the courses are similar in format and constitute electives at the advanced level of the Egyptian course sequence.
Cross-listed with: ANTH 345 CLCV 215 RELG 280
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HIST 479 - Middle Egyptian Texts: Fiction and Poetry
Credits: (3)
Prerequisite(s): (HIST 278 and HIST 279 ) or (ANTH 343 and ANTH 344 ) or (CLCV 209 and CLCV 210 ) or (RELG 278 and RELG 279 )
College Curriculum: COLL 200
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Domain (Reaching Out): CSI
This seminar course is offered only in the fall semester and is designed for students who would like to continue reading ancient Egyptian inscriptions together after completing the two prerequisite lecture courses: HIST 278 (ANTH 343/CLCV 209/RELG 278) and HIST 279 (ANTH 344/CLCV 210/RELG 279). The summer seminar course, HIST 478: Ancient Egyptian Inscriptions, is not a prerequisite for this fall-semester seminar, HIST 479: Middle Egyptian Texts. HIST 478 is only offered online during the summer and focuses primarily on societal and individual values expressed in Egyptian royal inscriptions, biographies, and religious texts, whereas HIST 479 is offered only during the fall semester and focuses more on the expression of such values in Egyptian fiction and poetry. In most other respects, however, the courses are similar in format and constitute electives at the advanced level of the Egyptian course sequence.
Cross-listed with: ANTH 346 CLCV 216 RELG 281
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HIST 490C - Capstone Seminar
Credits: (4)
College Curriculum: COLL 400
Topics vary by semester.
Note: For current offerings, please consult the course schedule posted on my.wm.edu. (These courses may be repeated for credit if there is no duplication of topic.)
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HIST 491C - Capstone Seminar
Credits: (4)
College Curriculum: COLL 400
Topics vary by semester.
Note: For current offerings, please consult the course schedule posted on my.wm.edu. (These courses may be repeated for credit if there is no duplication of topic.)
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HIST 494 - Honors Seminar
Credits: (0)
Corequisite(s): HIST 495
This seminar provides support for students writing honors theses in History. Taken during the first semester of honors work, it guides students through the process of developing a bibliography, engaging historiography, writing a literature review, crafting an argument, and refining their prose.
Graded: Pass/Fail
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HIST 495 - Honors
Credits: (3)
Corequisite(s): HIST 494
Students admitted to honors study in history will be enrolled in this course during the first semester of honors work, typically in the fall of their senior year. Each candidate will be responsible for (a) reading and discussion of a selected list of books in some specific area of historical literature; and (b) preparing to submit a scholarly thesis to his or her advisor two weeks before the last day of classes of his or her graduating semester. When taken in the fall semester, students must concurrently enroll in HIST 494. Admission by consent of the department chair. The department’s honors program guidelines are available on the department’s website and in hard copy (consult the department secretary). Note: For College provisions governing the Admission to Honors, see Honors and Special Programs under Requirements for Degrees in this catalog.
Note: For College provisions governing the Admission to Honors, see Honors and Special Programs under Requirements for Degrees in this catalog.
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HIST 496 - Honors
Credits: (3)
Students admitted to honors study in history will be enrolled in this course during the second semester of honors work, typically in the spring of their senior year. Each candidate will be responsible for (a) reading and discussion of a selected list of books in some specific area of historical literature; (b) submission of a scholarly thesis to his or her advisor two weeks before the last day of classes of his or her graduating semester; (c) a comprehensive oral examination. Admission by consent of the department chair. The department’s honors program guidelines are available on the department’s website. Note: For College provisions governing the Admission to Honors, see Honors and Special Programs under Requirements for Degrees in this catalog.
Note: For College provisions governing the Admission to Honors, see Honors and Special Programs under Requirements for Degrees in this catalog.
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HIST 499 - Internship in History
Credits: (1-3)
This designation is used for internships that would count towards the major in history. Each internship application can be approved only by the department’s Director of Undergraduate Studies who will decide whether the internship meets the academic standards and work requirements of the
history department.
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CONS 495 - Honors
Credits: (3)
Prerequisite(s): Senior standing, an overall major grade point average of 3.0 or greater, and consent of the Faculty Director of the Institute for Integrative Conservation. All are required.
Honors candidates must complete a two-semester sequence of 495 and 496. This course is a blend of independent research, under the supervision of a faculty mentor, combined with technical, professional, and career development activities relevant to integrative conservation. The course is intended for senior students who are exploring conservation careers while giving them applied research experience in areas of integrative conservation. Students are required to engage in original research and produce an Honors thesis based on a review of relevant literature and their own research. Students will also present their findings to a global audience of conservation partners and W&M alumni. For university provisions governing the admission to Honors, please refer to the catalog section titled Honors and Special Programs. By instructor permission only.
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CONS 496 - Honors
Credits: (3)
Prerequisite(s): Senior standing, an overall major grade point average of 3.0 or greater, and consent of the Faculty Director of the Institute for Integrative Conservation. All are required.
College Curriculum: COLL 400
Honors candidates must complete a two-semester sequence of 495 and 496. This course is a blend of independent research, under the supervision of a faculty mentor, combined with technical, professional, and career development activities relevant to integrative conservation. The course is intended for senior students who are exploring conservation careers while giving them applied research experience in areas of integrative conservation. Students are required to engage in original research and produce an Honors thesis based on a review of relevant literature and their own research. Students will also present their findings to a global audience of conservation partners and W&M alumni. For university provisions governing the admission to Honors, please refer to the catalog section titled Honors and Special Programs. By instructor permission only.
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INTR 100 - Big Ideas in Interdisciplinary Studies
Credits: (4)
College Curriculum: COLL 100
An exploration of significant questions and integrative concepts in Interdisciplinary Studies, their grounding in the process of scientific discovery and application, and their broader relevance to society. Designed for first-year students. Although topics vary, the courses also seek to improve students’ communication skills beyond the written word.
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INTR 110 - Wellness Applications
Credits: (1)
Wellness Applications are one-credit, pass/fail courses that provide students with sustained and engaged wellness experiences, as well as perspective on associated history, philosophical, and health considerations. There will be several Applications each semester on topics such as creative arts, yoga, bicycling, outdoor experiences, and mindfulness. Students may only register for one Wellness Application course in each semester, however the course may be repeated in future semesters if the topic varies.
May be repeated if topic varies.
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INTR 110A - Art and Wellness
Credits: (1)
This course will explore visual art and how it connects to our well-being. Students will experiment with various art mediums such as drawing, painting, and sculpture with a focus on their applications to promote wellness with different populations and settings. The course will combine academic and experiential content.
Note: Students may register for only ONE INTR 110 course per semester. Course may not be repeated.
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INTR 110M - Mindfullness Meditation
Credits: (1)
This class will focus on learning mindfulness meditation techniques, the benefits to the body as it cultivates resilience, and the neuroscience that surrounds the meditation with enhancing well-being. Students will be guided in the development of several meditation techniques. Class sessions will include practicing techniques, discussion, and identifying ways to use mindfulness meditation in everyday life.
Note: Students may register for only ONE INTR 110 course per semester. Course may not be repeated.
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INTR 110S - Soccer and Culture in the Hispanic World
Credits: (1)
This course invites students to practice basic soccer skills and to learn about the historical and cultural role that soccer has played in the Hispanic world. On a weekly basis, individual and group soccer practice will be accompanied by discussions on text and film materials. The goal is to hone individual technical and tactical soccer skills and, at the same time, to engage with one of the world’s oldest soccer cultures. No previous experience necessary.
Note: Students may register for only ONE INTR 110 course per semester. Course may not be repeated.
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INTR 110Y - Yoga
Credits: (1)
This course will integrate academic content with an opportunity to practice yoga. Students will examine the practice, philosophy, and study of yoga through development of a basic yoga practice that will be personalized to students’ unique abilities.
Note: Students may register for only ONE INTR 110 course per semester. Course may not be repeated.
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INTR 150 - First-Year Seminar
Credits: (4)
College Curriculum: COLL 150
An exploration of interdisciplinary topics in a seminar format. A grade of C- or better fulfills the COLL 150 requirement. Although topics vary, the courses emphasize academic writing skills, reading and analysis of texts, and discussion.
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INTR 161 - Transitions: W&M
Credits: (1)
This course’s academic content will introduce students to some Scottish history and literature: Arthur Herman’s How the Scots Invented the Modern World, some literature by Walter Scott, Robert Burns, James Hogg, and R.L. Stevenson. It will also fulfill the DIL requirement through assignments that require students to do research online, construct a digital project, and offer a PowerPoint presentation to the class (all students also complete the College Studies course in the summer).
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INTR 162 - Transitions: St Andrews
Credits: (1)
This course is part informational and part academic, and is designed for first year Joint Degree Programme students to prepare them for their second year abroad. The course’s theme is “Transitions” and looks at people and characters who are experiencing two (or more) different cultures. Along with academic content and assignments, there will be guest speakers on topics relevant to the students’ transition and to help answer their questions and address concerns.
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INTR 190 - Sharpe Living-Learning Community
Credits: (1)
This course introduces freshman Sharpe Scholars to community engagement as guided by interdisciplinary objectives for learning. Students develop an intellectual foundation for understanding discipline-based study as integrated with key ethics and practices in various forms of civic participation. The course aims to prepare first-year students for carrying out community-based action and/or research locally, regionally, and abroad. Sharpe Scholars all take this course in both the fall and spring of the freshman years.
Course will be repeated once for a maximum of two credits.
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INTR 201 - History of Science and Race
Credits: (3)
College Curriculum: COLL 200
Domain (Anchored): CSI
Domain (Reaching Out): ALV, NQR
This class examines how, during the past two hundred years, science has both promoted and debunked the idea of race and racial hierarchy. We will read primary scientific texts in order to, first, see how what counts as “scientific knowledge” has changed during the past two centuries. Second, see how scientists have dealt with the problem of explicit or implicit value judgments in scientific research regarding race. Third, to discover how different scientific methdologies have developed over time. Last, to learn some basics of evolutionary biology from Darwin through the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis of the 20th century.
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INTR 220 - Curating, Collecting, and Connoisseurship
Credits: (3)
This seminar, held in the Muscarelle Museum of Art, emphasizes the role of the curator in the museum field, especially in the areas of exhibition, preparation,
cataloguing, and public speaking. Through exploration of the Muscarelle permanent collection, seminar students will also gain practical curatorial training in primary source research that will provide a foundation in the knowledge and skills expected of museum professionals. Lectures by the Museum’s permanent staff will broaden the students’ knowledge of the inner-workings of a museum and the variety of skillsets required in a productive and attractive museum. Students may take this course two times for credit, making it possible for them to work with additional materials for exhibition and to learn more about connoisseurship curation.
(May be repeated once for credit.)
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INTR 295 - Sharpe Participatory Mapping Project
Credits: (4)
College Curriculum: COLL 200
Domain (Anchored): CSI
Domain (Reaching Out): ALV
This course is directly affiliated with the W&M Sharpe Participatory Mapping Project (hereinafter referred to as the Sharpe Mapping project), led by Dr. Monica D. Griffin and Dr. Shannon White. Students will have the opportunity to use GIS mapping tools (such as ArcGIS and StoryMaps) to make sense of qualitative and quantitative data about WJCC and surrounding areas, organizations, and communities. They will identify and document the particular ways that W&M is situated within a broader system of relationships in Williamsburg-James City County; and they will interact with others (e.g. residents, scholars, leaders, etc.) in local settings to imagine and invite new ways of engaging the region’s past, present, and future for addressing social issues.
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INTR 299 - Summer Study Abroad Preparatory Course
Credits: (1)
This course is designed specifically for students going on one of the W&M Summer Study Abroad Programs and is intended to enhance a student’s cross-cultural understanding and experience, and to cover a variety of pre-departure questions. This course will include substantive academic content.
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INTR 301 - Emerging Research in Action
Credits: (3)
College Curriculum: COLL 300
Emerging Research in Action will challenge students to engage, evaluate, and produce social knowledge in active experiential learning contexts such as educational, corporate, non-profit, and governmental organizations, or also community, grassroots, or neighborhood organizing with defined parameters for action and learning. As an online, asynchronous course, Emerging Research is especially suitable for students who will be involved in community-based research, summer internships or sustained activism or volunteerism within communities throughout the third summer school session at William and Mary. Students are NOT required to be located in Williamsburg, VA or the U.S. continent for enrollment; asynchronous accommodations will be made for students’ whose experiences are outliers to U.S. time zones. However, consistent Internet access is required.
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INTR 322 - Introduction to Library Resources
Credits: (1)
Course Objectives: to gain an understanding of the role of libraries and information in American culture and society today; to acquire a theoretical and logical approach to information gathering; to learn the practical skills of identifying, locating, evaluating, and effectively using print and electronic information sources.
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INTR 350 - Emergent Dialogues: The Intersection of Art and Science
Credits: (4)
Three-week intensive course straddling art and science. Motivated by the science of complex systems thinking, students will create sculptures interacting with the landscape of Matoaka Woods. This course will foster a creative, interdisciplinary, and reciprocal dialogue between artists and scientists.
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INTR 390 - Topics
Credits: (1-4)
This topics course allows students to study interdisciplinary material at an intermediate level.
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INTR 455 - Pilgrimage Studies Seminar
Credits: (3)
Prerequisite(s): Instructor Permission
Intensive seminar on pilgrimage studies in Santiago, Spain, a major goal of Christian quests in a medieval and modern times. Interdisciplinary approaches to travel for transformation in diverse traditions through an examination of history, monuments, and current religious and touristic practices.
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INTR 456 - Pilgrimage Studies Field Research
Credits: (4)
Corequisite(s): INTR 455 .
Intensive guided field research on pilgrimage studies and practices In Santiago, Spain, or on the pilgrimage trails leading to its shrine. Interdisciplinary approaches to travel for transformation through mentored data collection and analysis on history, monuments, and current religious and touristic practices.
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INTR 470 - Leadership Theory and Application
Credits: (3)
This course aims to help students think critically about what makes for successful leaders in the public sector. Lessons and examples are drawn from
history, communication studies, education, philosophy, sociology, and politics as well as from the field of social entrepreneurship. The class will explore the complex challenges that affect our communities today. This innovative curriculum combines rigorous academic work with a variety of
site visits to locations and agencies throughout Washington DC.Through lectures, discussions, debates, readings and writing assignments, students will develop a deeper perspective from which to interpret, question, reflect upon, and engage with the underlying issues within engaged community leadership.
Cross-listed with: EDUC 470
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INTR 480 - Independent Study
Credits: (1-4)
For majors who have completed most of their major requirements and who have secured approval of the Committee on Honors and Interdisciplinary Studies and that of the instructor(s) concerned. An interdisciplinary major may include no more than six hours of Independent Study.
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INTR 490 - Topics:Interdisciplinary Study
Credits: (1-4)
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INTR 491 - Short Course in Interdisciplinary Studies
Credits: (1)
This course may be repeated for credit if topics vary.
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INTR 493 - Civic Agency Project I
Credits: (3)
The Civic Agency Project (CAP) is an undergraduate think tank that focuses on problems of civic engagement and democratic leadership. Based at the Roy R. Charles Center for Academic Excellence at the College of William & Mary, CAP is designed to bridge the gap between academic learning and civic engagement. The project educates students in multi-disciplinary approaches to democratic engagement that are centered in the liberal arts, while emphasizing the leadership virtues of compassion, intellectual openness, self-awareness, public-mindedness, and personal integrity. It combines both experiential and curricular opportunities designed to facilitate the creation of projects that will uncover, explore, and act on the problems of contemporary democratic life. Finally, it offers students opportunities to connect with civically engaged scholars, expert mentors, and a strong, supportive community of their peers.
CAP fellows will identify key issues related to civic engagement and will develop projects designed with the goal of reinvigorating our democratic virtues, practices, and institutions. Undergraduate fellows will have the opportunity to present their projects to the William & Mary community at an end-of-the-year symposium.
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INTR 494 - Civic Agency Project II
Credits: (3)
Prerequisite(s): INTR 493
The Civic Agency Project (CAP) is an undergraduate think tank that focuses on problems of civic engagement and democratic leadership. Based at the Roy R. Charles Center for Academic Excellence at the College of William & Mary, CAP is designed to bridge the gap between academic learning and civic engagement. The project educates students in multi-disciplinary approaches to democratic engagement that are centered in the liberal arts,
while emphasizing the leadership virtues of compassion, intellectual openness, self-awareness, public-mindedness, and personal integrity. It combines both experiential and curricular opportunities designed to facilitate the creation of projects that will uncover, explore, and act on the problems of contemporary democratic life. Finally, it offers students opportunities to connect with civically engaged scholars, expert mentors, and a strong, supportive community of their peers.
CAP fellows will identify key issues related to civic engagement and will develop projects designed with the goal of reinvigorating our democratic virtues, practices, and institutions. Undergraduate fellows will have the opportunity to present their projects to the William & Mary community at an end-of-the-year symposium.
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INTR 495 - Interdisciplinary Honors
Credits: (3)
College Curriculum: COLL 400
Students admitted to Interdisciplinary Honors will be enrolled in this course during both semesters of their senior year. Each candidate will be responsible for: (a) formulating a program of study in consultation with a faculty advisor; (b) submission of an Honors essay two weeks before the last day of classes of the semester in which the essay is being completed; (c) satisfactory performance in an oral examination on the subject matter of the Honors essay. The procedures and standards for Interdisciplinary Honors will be those in force in the department of the students primary faculty advisor. The primary faculty advisor, with the approval of CHIS, may make appropriate changes to those procedures and standards. Requests for these exceptions must accompany the student’s proposal to do Honors.
Note: For College provisions governing the Admission to Honors, see catalog section titled Honors and Special Programs.
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INTR 496 - Interdisciplinary Honors
Credits: (3)
College Curriculum: COLL 400
Students admitted to Interdisciplinary Honors will be enrolled in this course during both semesters of their senior year (495-496). Each candidate will be responsible for: (a) formulating a program of study in consultation with a faculty advisor; (b) submission of an Honors essay two weeks before the last day of classes of the semester in which the essay is being completed; (c) satisfactory performance in an oral examination on the subject matter of the Honors essay. The procedures and standards for Interdisciplinary Honors will be those in force in the department of the students primary faculty advisor. The primary faculty advisor, with the approval of CHIS, may make appropriate changes to those procedures and standards. Requests for these exceptions must accompany the student’s proposal to do Honors.
Note: For College provisions governing the Admission to Honors, see catalog section titled Honors and Special Programs.
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INTR 497 - Washington, DC Program Internship
Credits: (6)
Corequisite(s): INTR 497R
This course provides students with an opportunity to earn credit for an internship in the D.C. Semester Program. It is designed to help students synthesize their experiences and be able to clearly articulate what they learn with, and from, others. Students in this course should be interning 30-35 hours per week for the duration of the semester in order to complete the class assignments. Assignments include two supervisor evaluations with response papers and a culminating project.
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INTR 497R - Washington, DC Professional Reflection
Credits: (2)
Corequisite(s): INTR 497
This course provides students with an opportunity to intentionally reflect upon and apply knowledge gained from DC Semester Program internship experiences to make connections for lives and careers beyond W&M. Students in this course should be interning 30-35 per week for the duration of the semester in order to complete the class assignments. Using NACE core competencies as a framework, students will explore professional skills, organizational cultures, and personal values. Online asynchronous modules paired with in-person discussion sessions and weekly journals will allow students to reflect on their internship experiences.
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