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HIS 101/125 - The Ancient Dead: Mummies and Other Ancestors (Core/First-Year Seminar)

Three or Four Credits
Offered Periodically

This course explores world history through the study of human remains and the human culture surrounding the dead. Through various windows on social history, this will allow a historical survey of human beliefs about life, death and the afterlife, and its relationship to the present.

Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): HIS 125 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
General Education Attribute(s): HIS 101, for 3-credits, fulfills the History Cornerstone.
HIS 125, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and History Cornerstone.
Note: Considered a World History.
Counts towards Elementary Education licensure.