The French Revolution

Last Updated: Mon, 01/12/2026
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Course prefix:
HTS
Course number:
3038
Semester:
Spring
Academic year:
2026
Course description:

The French Revolution produced a sharp break with the past in many areas, including politics, economics, culture, education, art, medicine, and human rights. This course focuses on the origins of the Revolution, the nature of the transformations that occurred, the relationship between revolution and the Terror, and the rise and fall of Napoleon. The long-term global impact of the Revolution, especially that caused by warfare in Europe and around the world, is another particular emphasis.

Academic honesty/integrity statement:

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

Core IMPACTS statement(s) (if applicable):

Note: This is a core IMPACTS course within the social sciences.

 

Core IMPACTS refers to the core curriculum, which provides students with essential knowledge in foundational academic areas. This course supports students' broad academic and career goals.

 

The course directs students to a broad orienting question: How do I understand human experiences and connections?

 

Completion of this course will allow students to meet the following learning outcome: Students will effectively analyze or describe the complexity of human behavior and how historical, economic, political, social, or geographic relationships develop, persist, or change.

 

Course content, activities, and exercises help students develop the following career ready competencies: 

  • Intercultural competence
  • Perspective taking
  • Ability to persuade others
Instructor first name:
John
Instructor last name:
Tone
Section:
A
CRN
34991
Department (you may add up to three):
History and Sociology

Modern European Intellectual History

Last Updated: Mon, 01/12/2026
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Course prefix:
HTS
Course number:
3032
Semester:
Spring
Academic year:
2026
Course description:

This course covers the history of the major intellectual movements of the modern era in the West from the Renaissance to the late 20th century, focusing on developments in science, the arts, and political philosophy in western Europe. The course covers major issues in philosophy, the arts (fine art, music, and literature) and popular thought in the context of their times.  The course reviews the birth of philosophical thought in the ancient Western world through the Middle Ages. It then covers Renaissance challenges to traditional thinking, the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions, early political philosophy, the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Conservatism, Liberalism, Democracy, Socialism, modern irrationalism in political thinking, nationalism, antisemitism, fascism, totalitarianism, communism, modernism,  post-modernism and other strands of Western thought. Student will read about these movements along with selections written by the original authors (in English translation). 

Academic honesty/integrity statement:

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

Core IMPACTS statement(s) (if applicable):

This course is defined by Georgia Tech as a "Core IMPACTS course" that is part of the Social Sciences area.

Core IMPACTS refers to the core curriculum, which provides students with essential knowledge in foundational academic areas. This course will help master course content, and support students’ broad academic and career goals.

This course should direct students toward a broad Orienting Question:

  • How do I understand human experiences and connections?

Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following Learning Outcome:

  • Students will effectively analyze the complexity of human behavior, and how historical, economic, political, social or geographic relationships develop, persist or change.
Instructor first name:
David
Instructor last name:
Morton
Section:
A
CRN
33128
Department (you may add up to three):
History and Sociology

African American History since 1865

Last Updated: Mon, 01/05/2026
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Course prefix:
HTS
Course number:
3025
Semester:
Spring
Academic year:
2026
Course description:

Course Description

This course explores African American history from the abolition of chattel slavery to the present. In addition to examining Black people’s centuries-long striving for community, identity, and solidarity across local, national, and global contexts, we pay special attention to differences and diversity—particularly gender distinctions within African American communities.

We will consider the contours of Black life, thought, and resistance in the late 19th, 20th, and early 21st centuries, and the ways African American communities resisted state-sanctioned policing and violence. Students will gain new insights into lynch victims and lynch mobs, working people and employers, the rich and the poor. More importantly, students should understand how these relationships are interconnected with U.S. culture, the economy, politics, power, and tradition.

Our intention is not simply to “add more color” to the historical painting, but to revise the painting altogether.

Academic honesty/integrity statement:

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

Core IMPACTS statement(s) (if applicable):

This is a Core IMPACTS course that is part of the Social Sciences area.

Core IMPACTS refers to the core curriculum, which provides students with essential knowledge in foundational academic areas. This course will help master course content, and support students’ broad academic and career goals.

This course should direct students toward a broad Orienting Question:

  • How do I understand human experiences and connections?

 

Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following Learning Outcome:

  • Students will effectively analyze the complexity of human behavior, and how historical, economic, political, social or geographic relationships develop, persist or change.

 

Course content, activities and exercises in this course should help students develop the following Career-Ready Competencies:

  • Intercultural Competence
  • Perspective-Taking
  • Persuasion
Instructor first name:
Sherie
Instructor last name:
Randolph
Section:
A
CRN
202602
Department (you may add up to three):
History and Sociology

Introduction to Sociology

Last Updated: Sun, 01/04/2026
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Course prefix:
SOC
Course number:
1101
Semester:
Spring
Academic year:
2026
Course description:

This course is to provide students with a general survey of the field of sociology. The lectures, readings, and assignments will focus on understanding the basic social processes and how sociological concepts can be applied to everyday events, both small and large, both personal and political. With this in mind, the course begins by focusing on the development of the ‘self’ and identity, as well as the rules that guide interaction between individuals. Then, in the second part of the course, we will examine how large-scale social changes and the organization of society affect us as individuals. In the second part of the course, we will also explore how institutions and social interaction create and reproduce social inequality. And in the final part of the course, we will see how all of this applies to contemporary U.S. society.

Academic honesty/integrity statement:

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

Core IMPACTS statement(s) (if applicable):

This is a Core IMPACTS course that is part of the Social Sciences area.

Core IMPACTS refers to the core curriculum, which provides students with essential knowledge in foundational academic areas. This course will help master course content, and support students’ broad academic and career goals.

This course should direct students toward a broad Orienting Question:

 • How do I understand human experiences and connections?

Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following Learning Outcome:

  • Students will effectively analyze the complexity of human behavior, and how historical, economic, political, social, or geographic relationships develop, persist, or change.

Course content, activities and exercises in this course should help students develop the following Career-Ready Competencies:

  • Intercultural Competence
  • Perspective-Taking
  • Persuasion 
Instructor first name:
William
Instructor last name:
Winders
Section:
B
CRN
31428
35848
Department (you may add up to three):
History and Sociology

Survey of U.S. History I

Last Updated: Sat, 01/03/2026
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Course prefix:
HIST
Course number:
2111
Semester:
Spring
Academic year:
2026
Course description:

This is a course about an early America bathed not in the hazy soft light of folklore and imagined memory, but confronted head-on in its ambitious, boisterous, complex, contentious, messy, noisy, violent, fully human and full-bodied act of becoming. It is a course about arguments and uprisings, rebellions and revolutions, stunning successes and heartbreaking failures. 

This semester we will explore the collisions and chaos of colonial settlement, multiple struggles for independence, and the improbable rise of a new nation founded on the proposition, radical for its time, that “all men are created equal.” Together we will try to understand the American past through examinations of art, class, culture, gender, geography, politics, race, and technology. We will also investigate how the grand ideals but unequal outcomes of the first American Revolution set the stage for a second in the Civil War and Reconstruction. 

Academic honesty/integrity statement:

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

Core IMPACTS statement(s) (if applicable):

This is a Core IMPACTS course that is part of the Social Sciences area 

Core IMPACTS refers to the core curriculum, which provides students with essential knowledge in foundational academic areas. This course will help master course content, and support students’ broad academic and career goals. 

This course should direct students toward a broad Orienting Question: 

  • How do I understand human experiences and connections? 

Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following Learning Outcome: 

  • Students will effectively analyze the complexity of human behavior, and how historical, economic, political, social, or geographic relationships develop, persist, or change. 

Course content, activities and exercises in this course should help students develop the following Career-Ready Competencies: 

  • Intercultural Competence
  • Perspective-Taking
  • Persuasion 

 

This is a Core IMPACTS course that is part of the Citizenship area 

Core IMPACTS refers to the core curriculum, which provides students with essential knowledge in foundational academic areas. This course will help master course content, and support students’ broad academic and career goals. 

This course should direct students toward a broad Orienting Question: 

  • How do I prepare for my responsibilities as an engaged citizen? 

Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following Learning Outcome:

  • Students will demonstrate knowledge of the history of the United States, the history of Georgia, and the provisions and principles of the United States Constitution and the Constitution of Georgia. 

Course content, activities and exercises in this course should help students develop the following Career-Ready Competencies: 

  • Critical Thinking
  • Intercultural Competence
  • Persuasion 
Instructor first name:
Christopher
Instructor last name:
Lawton
Section:
D
CRN
35256
Department (you may add up to three):
History and Sociology

Twentieth Century Europe.

Last Updated: Mon, 01/05/2026
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Course prefix:
HTS
Course number:
2037
Semester:
Spring
Academic year:
2026
Course description:

The course provides an overview of European history from 1914 to the present. It examines the major economic, social, and political developments in Europe, including the world wars, totalitarian regimes, postwar economic growth, the welfare state, the fall of communism, the rise of neoliberalism, European integration, and the rise of nationalism and populism. The course will combine lectures and discussions. Students are expected to attend class sessions and contribute to classroom discussions.

Academic honesty/integrity statement:

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

Instructor first name:
Nikolay
Instructor last name:
Koposov
Section:
A
CRN
33383
Department (you may add up to three):
History and Sociology

The City in American History

Last Updated: Fri, 01/02/2026
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Course prefix:
HTS
Course number:
3011
Semester:
Spring
Academic year:
2026
Course description:

Through a combination of lectures, readings, and discussion, this course examines the nature of urban life throughout U.S. history, especially since the late nineteenth century. It explores how cities have arisen, declined, and changed over time due to economic, demographic, cultural, and political developments as well as shifts in ideas about how to manage urban and later metropolitan affairs. It also examines how cities have served as engines of cultural and artistic production and why cities have been a perennial source of political controversy. Above all, it contends that the struggle to make cities livable and sustainable remains one of the most pressing issues of our time and that understanding the past is indispensable for moving toward a better urban future.  

Academic honesty/integrity statement:

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

Core IMPACTS statement(s) (if applicable):

This is a Core IMPACTS course that is part of the Social Sciences area. 

Core IMPACTS refers to the core curriculum, which provides students with essential knowledge in foundational academic areas. This course will help master course content and support students’ broad academic and career goals. 

This course should direct students toward a broad Orienting Question: How do I understand human experiences and connections? 

Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following Learning Outcome:  Students will effectively analyze the complexity of human behavior, and how historical, economic, political, social, or geographic relationships develop, persist, or change. 

Course content, activities and exercises in this course should help students develop the following Career-Ready Competencies: 

  • Intercultural Competence
  • Perspective-Taking
  • Persuasion 
Instructor first name:
Daniel
Instructor last name:
Amsterdam
Section:
A
CRN
31656
Department (you may add up to three):
History and Sociology

Survey of US History II

Last Updated: Fri, 01/02/2026
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Course prefix:
HIST
Course number:
2112
Semester:
Spring
Academic year:
2026
Course description:

Through a combination of lectures, readings, visual art, documentary photography and film, this primarily lecture-based course examines the major political, economic, social and cultural trends that have made the United States the nation that it is today. The class also examines related dynamics in Atlanta and in Georgia more generally. The course focuses on the period since 1877 and especially examines: 

            1) the rise of a modern industrial economy and its transformation in recent decades; 

            2) the creation of modern American government as well as debates over its proper size and scope; 

            3) how inequality has riddled American society and how various groups have sought to redress this fact;

             4) why the United States has gone to war since the late 19th century and how these conflicts have, in turn, shaped American life. 

Academic honesty/integrity statement:

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

Core IMPACTS statement(s) (if applicable):

This is a Core IMPACTS course that is part of the Social Sciences area.

Core IMPACTS refers to the core curriculum, which provides students with essential knowledge in foundational academic areas. This course will help master course content, and support students’ broad academic and career goals.

This course should direct students toward a broad Orienting Question: How do I understand human experiences and connections?

Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following Learning Outcome: Students will effectively analyze the complexity of human behavior, and how historical, economic, political, social, or geographic relationships develop, persist, or change.

Course content, activities and exercises in this course should help students develop the following Career-Ready Competencies:

•  Intercultural Competence
•  Perspective-Taking
•  Persuasion
 

This is also a Core IMPACTS course that satisfies part of the Georgia Legislative Requirement 
This course should also direct students toward a broad Orienting Question: How do I prepare for my responsibilities as an engaged citizen? 

Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following Learning Outcome: Students will demonstrate knowledge of the history of the United States and the history of Georgia

Course content, activities and exercises in this course should help students develop the following Career-Ready Competencies: 
•    Critical Thinking 
•    Intercultural Competence 
•    Persuasion 
 

Instructor first name:
Daniel
Instructor last name:
Amsterdam
Section:
A
CRN
23831
Department (you may add up to three):
History and Sociology

Survey of U.S. History I

Last Updated: Fri, 01/02/2026
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Course prefix:
HIST
Course number:
2111
Semester:
Spring
Academic year:
2026
Course description:

This is a course about an early America bathed not in the hazy soft light of folklore and imagined memory, but confronted head-on in its ambitious, boisterous, complex, contentious, messy, noisy, violent, fully human and full-bodied act of becoming. It is a course about arguments and uprisings, rebellions and revolutions, stunning successes and heartbreaking failures. 

This semester we will explore the collisions and chaos of colonial settlement, multiple struggles for independence, and the improbable rise of a new nation founded on the proposition, radical for its time, that “all men are created equal.” Together we will try to understand the American past through examinations of art, class, culture, gender, geography, politics, race, and technology. We will also investigate how the grand ideals but unequal outcomes of the first American Revolution set the stage for a second in the Civil War and Reconstruction. 

Academic honesty/integrity statement:

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

Core IMPACTS statement(s) (if applicable):

This is a Core IMPACTS course that is part of the Social Sciences area 

Core IMPACTS refers to the core curriculum, which provides students with essential knowledge in foundational academic areas. This course will help master course content, and support students’ broad academic and career goals. 

This course should direct students toward a broad Orienting Question: 

  • How do I understand human experiences and connections? 

Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following Learning Outcome: 

  • Students will effectively analyze the complexity of human behavior, and how historical, economic, political, social, or geographic relationships develop, persist, or change. 

Course content, activities and exercises in this course should help students develop the following Career-Ready Competencies: 

  • Intercultural Competence
  • Perspective-Taking
  • Persuasion 

 

This is a Core IMPACTS course that is part of the Citizenship area 

Core IMPACTS refers to the core curriculum, which provides students with essential knowledge in foundational academic areas. This course will help master course content, and support students’ broad academic and career goals. 

This course should direct students toward a broad Orienting Question: 

  • How do I prepare for my responsibilities as an engaged citizen? 

Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following Learning Outcome:

  • Students will demonstrate knowledge of the history of the United States, the history of Georgia, and the provisions and principles of the United States Constitution and the Constitution of Georgia. 

Course content, activities and exercises in this course should help students develop the following Career-Ready Competencies: 

  • Critical Thinking
  • Intercultural Competence
  • Persuasion 
Instructor first name:
Christopher
Instructor last name:
Lawton
Section:
B
CRN
31619
Department (you may add up to three):
History and Sociology

Survey of U.S. History I

Last Updated: Fri, 01/02/2026
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Course prefix:
HIST
Course number:
2111
Semester:
Spring
Academic year:
2026
Course description:

This is a course about an early America bathed not in the hazy soft light of folklore and imagined memory, but confronted head-on in its ambitious, boisterous, complex, contentious, messy, noisy, violent, fully human and full-bodied act of becoming. It is a course about arguments and uprisings, rebellions and revolutions, stunning successes and heartbreaking failures. 

This semester we will explore the collisions and chaos of colonial settlement, multiple struggles for independence, and the improbable rise of a new nation founded on the proposition, radical for its time, that “all men are created equal.” Together we will try to understand the American past through examinations of art, class, culture, gender, geography, politics, race, and technology. We will also investigate how the grand ideals but unequal outcomes of the first American Revolution set the stage for a second in the Civil War and Reconstruction. 

Academic honesty/integrity statement:

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

Core IMPACTS statement(s) (if applicable):

This is a Core IMPACTS course that is part of the Social Sciences area 

Core IMPACTS refers to the core curriculum, which provides students with essential knowledge in foundational academic areas. This course will help master course content, and support students’ broad academic and career goals. 

This course should direct students toward a broad Orienting Question: 

  • How do I understand human experiences and connections? 

Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following Learning Outcome: 

  • Students will effectively analyze the complexity of human behavior, and how historical, economic, political, social, or geographic relationships develop, persist, or change. 

Course content, activities and exercises in this course should help students develop the following Career-Ready Competencies: 

  • Intercultural Competence
  • Perspective-Taking
  • Persuasion 

 

This is a Core IMPACTS course that is part of the Citizenship area 

Core IMPACTS refers to the core curriculum, which provides students with essential knowledge in foundational academic areas. This course will help master course content, and support students’ broad academic and career goals. 

This course should direct students toward a broad Orienting Question: 

  • How do I prepare for my responsibilities as an engaged citizen? 

Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following Learning Outcome:

  • Students will demonstrate knowledge of the history of the United States, the history of Georgia, and the provisions and principles of the United States Constitution and the Constitution of Georgia. 

Course content, activities and exercises in this course should help students develop the following Career-Ready Competencies: 

  • Critical Thinking
  • Intercultural Competence
  • Persuasion 
Instructor first name:
Christopher
Instructor last name:
Lawton
Section:
A
CRN
31617
Department (you may add up to three):
History and Sociology
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