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Civil War Era Studies Minor

Check Sheet

Six courses are required for the CWES minor.

Core Course

  • CWES 205 Intro to Civil War Era Studies

Two courses in the American Civil War Era

  • CWES 210: Civil War Memory: Race, Politics, and Commemoration
  • CWES 212: Narratives of Illness
  • CWES 225: Cameras, Canvas& Cannon: Visual Culture of the Civil War
  • CWES 237: From Reconstruction to Black Lives Matter
  • CWES/AFS 240: Race & Slavery in the American South
  • CWES 245: Gettysburg to Charlottesville: Race in the American Imagination
  • CWES 250: Topics in Civil War Studies
  • CWES/IDS 285: Interpreting and Preserving Civil War Artifacts
  • HIST 247: Gettysburg in History & Memory
  • HIST 339: From Slavery to Segregation
  • HIST 343: The Early Republic
  • HIST 346: Slavery, Rebellion, and Emancipation in the Atlantic World
  • HIST 351: Social Protest in the 19th Century
  • HIST 352: Gender & Sexuality During the Civil War

One Course in War and Society

  • ANTH 304: Violence and Conflict (open to CWES minors without prerequisite)
  • CWES 215/ IDS 216 Introduction to War Studies
  • CWES 320: Aftermath: The Experience of War and “Modern” Memory
  • HIST 244: American Military History
  • IDS 315: The Muse of Fire: War Stories & Culture

One Cross-Listed Elective

  • ARTH 225: History and Theory of Photography
  • AFS 130: Introduction to African-American Studies (sections offered by Hancock and Melton)
  • ANTH 212: Archaeology of Pennsylvania
  • FYS 183: Investigating the Battlefield of Gettysburg
  • FYS 183-4: Blood on the Moon: Literature of the Civil War
  • FYS 184-4: Remembering Slavery & the Civil War from 1865 to the Age of Black Lives Matter
  • ENG 237: American Realism and Naturalism
  • HIST 201: Introduction to Public History
  • IDS 217: The American Civil War on Film
  • PHIL 219: Philosophy of Peace and Nonviolence
  • PHIL 226: Philosophy of Resistance
  • POL 253: Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict
  • POL 303: Topic: Civil Wars and Political Violence
  • POL 347: Global Conflict Management
  • POL 351: The Political Economy of Armed Conflict

One additional course from any of the previous categories

Notes:

  • Course has a prerequisite