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 241: Antebellum North
- CWES 245: Gettysburg to Charlottesville: Race in the American Imagination
- CWES/HIST 246: Life and Times of Abraham Lincoln
- 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
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/HIST 305: Global Epidemics: From Subjugation to Science
- CWES 320: Aftermath: The Experience of War and “Modern” Memory
- HIST 244: American Military History
- HIST 352: Gender & Sexuality During the Civil War
- 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