A group of students sitting on the lawn in front of Haven Hall, 1957
University of Michigan News and Information Services Photographs, Bentley Historical Library
University of Michigan Library Digital Collections
© Regents of the University of Michigan
This work is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Courses that are associated with IHP Project Sites or supported by the IHP Teaching Fund play a crucial role in advancing the IHP’s mission to study and share a more inclusive history of U-M.
Scroll through the courses listed below to see what’s coming up in academic year 2025-26, with courses offered in various schools and colleges across the Flint, Dearborn, and Ann Arbor campuses, and check back for updates.
Black Action Movement, 1970
Jay Cassidy
University of Michigan Library Digital Collections
© 1970 Regents of the University of Michigan
This work is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Black Action Movement: Picketing on Diag in front of Hill Auditorium, 1970
*This course is funded through the IHP Teaching Fund.
A study of the theories of historical analysis, styles of historical writing, and approaches to historical research.
*This course is funded through the IHP Teaching Fund.
Exploration of varying special topics in arts administration.
*This course is funded through the IHP Teaching Fund.
In this community-engaged course, students explore the network of practitioners, institutions, and audiences that shape the local music scene in Washtenaw County. Students study key systems, attend and review concerts, and also connect with local music practitioners through interviews and guest visits.
The Literature, Science, and the Arts Course Guide linked below requires University of Michigan login credentials.
*This course is funded through the IHP Teaching Fund.
Historical archaeology is a thread of archaeology which relies on both artifactual and documentary evidence. As a term of art, the strain of historical archaeology we’ll focus on in this class refers to the archaeology of the modern world, beginning with the onset of global connectivity spurred by European colonial projects (roughly, the last five centuries) and leading up to the present (a strand also called contemporary archaeology). Given this temporal proximity, historical archaeology can be as much about what we dig up as it is about what aspects of the past remain visible on the surface. In this class students will explore where history and archaeology converge, grappling with how archaeology might help reveal people’s histories that are often absent from historical accounts; histories of the poor and working classes, youth, and oppressed and otherwise marginalized communities. Since this course is supported in part by the Inclusive History Project (inclusivehistory.umich.edu), we will also have a significant focus on local history, investigating legacy collections from Ann Arbor excavations and visiting active archaeological projects, museum collections, and archives in the Southeast Michigan area.
The Literature, Science, and the Arts Course Guide linked below requires University of Michigan login credentials.
*This course is funded through the IHP Teaching Fund.
Course acquaints students with a style of African American folk drama which lends itself to dramatizing real-life stories.
The Literature, Science, and the Arts Course Guide linked below requires University of Michigan login credentials.
*This course is funded through the IHP Teaching Fund.
Sex, gender, race, ethnicity and class are all entangled in complicated ways in urban landscapes. This course explores the historic and geographic aspects of sexuality in urban settings, and the sexual contours of urban space, as well as how all of these are inflected by the politics and economics of urban land use. This course brings together literatures from GLBTQ studies, urban anthropology, and urban planning. It incorporates material on sex work, gentrification, and the late 20th century programs for urban renewal. The course will examine the locational aspects of diverse sexual populations. Topics will include the formation and disappearance of sexual territories. the relationships among urban size and sexual specialization, the impact of changes in transportation, red light districts, gay neighborhoods, and the effects of redevelopment on the spatial distribution of sexual populations.
The Literature, Science, and the Arts Course Guide linked below requires University of Michigan login credentials.
*This course is associated with the History of Jews at the University of Michigan project site.
Jews at the University of MIchigan–students, faculty, administration–occupied an unusual position simultaneously as insiders and outsiders, sometimes becoming outsiders because they were insiders as enrolled students, teaching and research faculty, and active administrators. This course looks at the 20th century to explore specifically the dynamics of radicalism: why Jews turned to radical politics, what forms radical politics took in different decades, how the situation of being both insiders and outsiders shaped these politics.
This course is cross-listed as HISTORY 441, Section 002.
The Literature, Science, and the Arts Course Guide linked below requires University of Michigan login credentials.
