Senior Thesis
Category: Spring Semester 2025
Moodle at Eckerd College 2024-25 Academic Year
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Making History introduces students to the historian’s craft with a focus on a particular era or theme. Students learn research methods, source analysis and critical theory as an introduction to the field of historical scholarship.
- Teacher: Andrew Chittick
Category: Spring Semester 2025
Making History introduces students to the historian’s craft with a focus on a particular era or theme. Students learn research methods, source analysis and critical theory as an introduction to the field of historical scholarship.
- Teacher: Barney Hartston
Category: Spring Semester 2025
Engage "big ideas" in comparative global history, from the origins of civilization to the rise of Europe. Emphasis on developing skills for historians: critical reading, analytic writing, defending a thesis, debates, maps, and timelines.
- Teacher: Andrew Chittick
Category: Fall Semester 2024
Explore relationships between sociopolitical change and cultural production. From the shantytowns of Trinidad, Haiti and Jamaica, we follow thematic chronological arcs through The Bronx to Los Angeles, attending to connections between power, marginalization and culture.
- Teacher: Adam Guerin
Category: Spring Semester 2025
Feminist theory, growth of women's movements, minority women, working women, changes in women's health, birth control, images of women in literature and film. Changes in women's position in America.
- Teacher: Carolyn Johnston
Category: Spring Semester 2025
This course explores how environmental issues helped to shape the myths of the American West. It begins with the first European settlements in North America and culminates with a study of ecological concerns in the contemporary West.
- Teacher: Gregory Padgett
Category: Spring Semester 2025
History of one of the world's most vibrant and also bloodiest of centuries. The course focuses on social, cultural, and technological change; important political and ideological conflicts; and the legacies of hot and cold wars.
- Teacher: Barney Hartston
Category: Fall Semester 2024
This course will examine the social construction of race in Eurpoean societies, from slavery and abolitionism, through Nazi racial policies and the Holocaust, to the persistence of racism, anti-Semitism, and xenophobia in the 21st century.
- Teacher: Barney Hartston
Category: Spring Semester 2025
The role and place of nature in human life, and the interactions that societies in the past have had with the environment. Concentrates on the U.S., but provides methodological approaches to the broader field.
- Teacher: Dawn Shedden
Category: Spring Semester 2025
Covers the environmental history of Europe between 1850 and the present. In addition to industrialization, urbanization, and globalization, the course also investigates how particular intellectuals, movements, and ideologies conceptualized and interacted with the natural world.
- Teacher: Barney Hartston
Category: Fall Semester 2024
History of Native Americans from the time of European contact to present. Inner workings of Native American communities, Indian-White relations, changing governmental policy, Native American spirituality, economics, gender roles, decision making.
- Teacher: Carolyn Johnston
Category: Spring Semester 2025
Establishment of Vietnamese nation in 111 B.C., its struggle for autonomy despite foreign invasion. The impact of the Vietnam War on American society, antiwar movement during Johnson and Nixon administrations, analysis of the war's legacy.
- Teacher: Gregory Padgett
Category: Fall Semester 2024
Events that preceded the Civil War and contributed to disunion, such as the Southern Carolina Nullification Crisis, the Compromise of 1850, and John Brown's raid. Impact of the war on both North and South. PBS video on Civil War is used.
- Teacher: Gregory Padgett
Category: Fall Semester 2024
Students will engage in a self-designed research project on the history of FPC/Eckerd College based on oral interviews and archival resources – all while developing research, writing, and presentation skills useful for a variety of professions.
- Teacher: Barney Hartston
Category: Spring Semester 2025
This course will enable students to effectively communicate complex scientific issues to various audiences. By engaging with materials from the growing field of science communication, students will produce multiple professional forms of science communication.
- Teacher: Lisa Bonner
- Teacher: Denise Flaherty
- Teacher: Jo Huxster
- Teacher: Jason Markins
- Teacher: Alexis Ramsey-Tobienne
- Teacher: Kat Robinson
Category: Spring Semester 2025
This course brings humanity into the sciences by investigating and developing strategies for applied ethical decision-making in medicine, science, and technology. E-STEM Scholars and Honors Program students have priority for registration.
- Teacher: Sarah Duncan
- Teacher: Michael Goyette
Category: Fall Semester 2024
Provides a multi-disciplinary introduction to research on gender and sexuality. Includes perspectives from natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Sophomores in the Honors program have priority for registration; others may enroll on a space available basis.
- Teacher: Jordan Aitken
- Teacher: Heather Vincent
Category: Fall Semester 2024
This course will investigate how technology is reshaping what it means to be human and live in a "natural" environment. This emerging field of inquiry lies at the intersection of several fields: biology, computer science, philosophy, biopsychology, cultural studies. Sophomores in the Honors Program have priority for registration. Permission of instructors required.
- Teacher: Jordan Aitken
- Teacher: Kelly Debure
- Teacher: Heather Vincent
Category: Spring Semester 2025