THE HISTORY OF PUNISHMENT

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Summer 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe punishment across a wide range of historical traditions. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Evaluate a variety of historical materials to determine their origins, perspective, usefulness, and reliability. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Analyze influences that shape historical narratives and debates across genres and media. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Recognize multiple ways of being in the world, and how what may seem natural in a society has been built over decades of accumulated human actions. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Assess the historiography or other scholarly debates that have shaped the study of punishment. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe punishment across a wide range of historical traditions. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Evaluate a variety of historical materials to determine their origins, perspective, usefulness, and reliability. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Analyze influences that shape historical narratives and debates across genres and media. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Recognize multiple ways of being in the world, and how what may seem natural in a society has been built over decades of accumulated human actions. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Assess the historiography or other scholarly debates that have shaped the study of punishment. Audience: Graduate