Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MODERN EUROPE, 1450-1789 ***** This course provides an introduction to European history from 1500 to the French Revolution, tracing Europe's rise to world dominance via capitalism, the nation-state, science and technology, and a secular world view. It asks how conditions in the rest of the world allowed European imperialism and colonialism to triumph. ***** Instructor(s): Zammito.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MODERN EUROPE, 1789-PRESENT ***** This course provides an introduction to European history between the French Revolution and the collapse of the Soviet system in 1989-1990. The course examines industrialization, the development of the nation-state, World War One, Fascism and Communism, World War Two, European integration, decolonization and the Velvet Revolutions of 1989. ***** Instructor(s): Cohen.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WORLD HISTORY SINCE 1492 ***** Class will explore the last 500 years of world history. The focus will be four long-term processes that have shaped the world today: struggles between Europeans and colonized peoples; forms of producing and exchanging goods; formation and spread of the modern state; and the development of 'bourgeois' ways of living. ***** Instructor(s): Wildenthal, Ward.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GOD, TIME, AND HISTORY ***** How is the passage of time given meaning, and what role--if any--is assigned to divinity in shaping the direction of events? Course explores various forms of recording and interpreting events, drawing from ancient Mesopotamia, Israel, and the Greco-Roman world. ***** Also offered as RELI 123 and HUMA 113. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Maas, Henze.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE UNITED STATES,1776-1877 ***** Survey of American social, political, and economic history from the early republic through the Civil War and Reconstruction, with emphasis on industrialization and the history of labor, women's history, and race relations. ***** Instructor(s): Staff.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE UNITED STATES,1877-PRESENT ***** A continuation of HIST 117 (though 117 is not a prerequisite) from the Reconstruction to the present. ***** Instructor(s): Lichtenstein.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WRITING HISTORY: ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN AMERICAN HISTORY ***** How has the interdependency between humans and their natural environment shaped American history? Intensive writing course will examine social and economic trends that were affected by humans' reliance on nature and dissect stereotypes: ecological Indians, genteel planters, rugged frontiersmen, among others scrutinized to discover how myths have defined American culture. ***** Enrollment limited to 12. ***** Course offered Spring. ***** Instructor(s): Biehn

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WRITING HISTORY: UNITED STATES MUSEUMS AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION ***** Intensive writing course examining the history of museums and historic preservation in the United States and provide the opportunity to survey debates within the public history community. Topics will include: purposes of museums, controversies such as the Enola Gay, representations of minorities, heritage tourism, and the challenges of historical preservation. ***** Enrollment limited to 12. ***** Course offered Spring. ***** Instructor(s): Gutting

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WRITING HISTORY: THE MODERN CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT IN U.S. POLITICS ***** Intensive writing course will analyze the dramatic rise of the conservative movement in the last fifty years of U.S. politics. Examination of the movement's political and intellectual leaders and the institutions that support them. Topics include: libertarianism, anti-communism, neo-conservatism, social conservatism, and critiques of conservatism in its different variants. ***** Enrollment limited to 12. ***** Course offered Spring. ***** Instructor(s): Eow

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WRITING HISTORY: SOUTHERN IDEAS AND THE IDEA OF THE SOUTH ***** Intensive writing course approaches the American South as both a region and a concept in an attempt to uncover the relationship between the history of the region and the culture it produced. Exploration of the "idea of the South" through fiction, film, and music from the 20th century. ***** Enrollment limited to 12. ***** Course offered Spring. ***** Instructor(s): Wise

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FRESHMAN SEMINAR: THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT ***** Seminar traces the history of politics of the Arab-Israeli conflict, delving into both Palestinian and Israeli understandings of the past and present using books, documentaries, and films. The course seeks to understand how Israeli and Palestinian nationalisms have been constructed and analyzes U.S. involvement in the conflict. ***** Also offered as FSEM 144. ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Makdisi

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FRESHMAN SEMINAR: THE HERO AND HIS COMPANION FROM GILGAMESH TO SAM SPADE ***** How does presentation of heroic action illustrate the basic values of society? Historical sources including ancient texts, modern mystery stories, and two "western" movies, show the development of a style of community service linking heroism with alienation. The extent to which women participate will be traced. ***** Also offered as FSEM 151. ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Instructor(s): Maas

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FRESHMAN SEMINAR: JEFFERSON AND THE ORIGINS OF THE REPUBLIC ***** Examination of the most talented of the U.S. Founding Fathers and how he helped define the country's revolutionary ideals, diplomacy, and politics, as well as its public lands, domestic architecture, religion, practice of slavery, and education. Includes readings, discussions, and essays. ***** Also offered as FSEM 160. ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Gruber

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FRESHMAN SEMINAR: THE USES OF THE PAST ***** Seminar analyzes how selected historical events are interpreted at different times and contexts. Sources include history books, novels, movies, court cases, and political debates. Specific events studied will vary according to student interest from ancient times to the present. ***** Also offered as FSEM 161. ***** Limited Enrollment. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Quillen

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FRESHMAN SEMINAR: THE WORLD OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS ***** Seminar on the social and cultural world of the stories of the 1001 nights. Readings and discussions reveal how they became famous in Europe and a source for western images of the Islamic World. Source materials range from translations and similar stories from different traditions to modern movies and TV shows. ***** Also offered as FSEM 168 and MDST 168. ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Sanders

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FRESHMAN SEMINAR: ROPE AND FAGGOT - TERROR AND AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY FROM THE HAMBURG MASSACRE TO THE MURDER OF JAMES BYRD ***** From the 1880s to 1968, lynch mobs murdered nearly 5,000 African-Americans. Terror and black responses to it have shaped nearly every aspect of African American history. This seminar examines black society, politics, gender, and culture in 20th century America against the backdrop of racial violence. ***** Also offered as FSEM 176. ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Byrd

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE ATLANTIC WORLD: ORIGINS TO THE AGE OF REVOLUTION ***** Survey of social, political, economic, and intellectual ligatures which bound the particular histories of Africa, Europe, and the Americas one to the other, till by the late 18th century the Atlantic basin constituted a world unto itself. Offered with additional work as HIST 388. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Byrd.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ORIGINS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATIONS: ATHENS, ROME, AND JERUSALEM ***** Course explores development of imperial systems from the Bronze Age to Roman Empire with attention to subject peoples' participation in multi-ethnic states. Aspects of art, law, economics, religion, and literature of the Hittites, Assyrians, Persian, Greeks, and Romans examined with consideration given to strengths and weaknesses of contributions to the modern world. **** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Maas.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL CIVILIZATION: THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES ***** Introduction to the European culture of the "Dark Ages," from the fall of Rome to the end of the Viking invasions. Includes the use of historical, literary, artistic, and archaeological sources to trace changes in European material , spiritual, and cultural life between 300 and 1000 AD. ***** Also offered as MDST 202. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Staff.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL CIVILIZATION: THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES ***** Continuation of HIST 202 (not a prerequisite). Includes European culture from the year 1000 to the discovery of the Americas, which encompasses the Crusades, the "discovery of the individual", chivalry and chivalric literature, the Black Death, and the beginnings of the Age of Exploration, using pictorial and architectural as well as literary and historical sources. ***** Instructor(s): Haverkamp.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO ASIAN CIVILIZATIONS ***** Introduction to the great cultural traditions of Asia, past and present, with emphasis on evolving religious and philosophical traditions, artistic and literary achievements, and patterns of political, social, and economic change. ***** Also offered as ASIA 211. ***** Limited Enrollment. ***** Instructor(s): Thal, Klein, Smith.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GREEK CIVILIZATION FROM HOMER TO ALEXANDER THE GREAT ***** Overview of the literary, artistic, and intellectual achievements of classical Greek civilization from Homer and the Bronze Age through the golden age of classical Athens to the spread of Greek culture in the Hellenistic world. Includes historical background and readings in primary sources. ***** Also offered as CLAS 207 and HUMA 109. ***** Enrollment limited to 25. ***** Instructor(s): Yunis.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: AMERICAN THOUGHT AND SOCIETY, I ***** Survey of 17th and 18th century American history, with emphasis on intellectual and social developments underlying the surface of events. Offered with additional work as HIST 311. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Haskell.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: AMERICAN THOUGHT AND SOCIETY, II ***** Continuation of HIST 211. Includes 19th and 20th century American history. May take HIST 211 and HIST 212 separately. Offered with additional work as HIST 312. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Haskell.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CARIBBEAN NATION BUILDING ***** This course will focus on the slow, steady process through which nation states emerged in the Caribbean from the 18th century to the present, as well as the difficulties they face amidst increasing globalization. Offered with additional work as HIST 314. ***** Instructor(s): Cox

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: BLACKS IN THE AMERICAS ***** This comparative survey of black people in the Americas for 1619 to the present examines the Atlantic slave trade, the movement toward slave emancipation in various countries, and 19th century black self-help efforts. The course also concentrates on economic conditions for blacks at the turn of the 20th century. Offered with additional work as HIST 315. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Cox, Byrd.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FORTUNE-TELLERS AND PHILOSOPHERS: THE ROLE OF DIVINATION IN CHINESE HISTORY ***** Course will examine the way fortune-telling beliefs and practices -- use of "oracle bones", consultation of the "I-ching" (Book of Changes), physiognomy, spirit-writing, fengshui--have evolved over 3000 years in China. Focus will be how these practices have traveled to other countries; and exploring political, social and cultural significances. Offered with additional work as HIST 319. ***** Instructor(s): Smith

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CONTEMPORARY CHINA ***** This introductory course is designed to encourage creative ways of thinking about "Cultural China"- a broad-ranging concept that includes the People's Republic of China, the newly established Special Administrative Region (SAR) of Hong Kong, the Republic of China on Taiwan, and overseas Chinese communities throughout the world. Offered with additional work as HIST 310. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Smith, Lewis

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: JAPAN IN THE WORLD UNTIL 1800 ***** Survey of the cultural, social, and economic development of pre-modern Japan within a regional and world context, focusing on the origins of the Japanese people; contentious relations between Korea and Japan; importance of Japan in European expansion; and relations to a vibrant intellectual and cultural world in East Asia. ***** Offered with additional work as HIST 321. ***** Instructor(s): Thal

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: JAPAN IN THE WORLD SINCE 1800 ***** Examination of the modern history of Japan in the context of its relations with the rest of the world, focusing on the "opening" of Japan; patterns of democracy; imperialism and war; international trade; and cultural globalization. Offered with additional work as HIST 322. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Thal

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: EMPIRES AND COMMUNITIES IN THE MIDDLE AGES ***** Course will explore the political, social, and economic conceptions of the Byzantine and Holy Roman Empires. Examining the self-perceptions of the Empire; the role of Roman tradition and languages; notions of (geographical) borders and nations; different constitutions in political representation, administration, and economic organization. Offered with additional work as HIST 323. ***** Also offered as MDST 223. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005 ***** Instructor(s): Haverkamp

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: EUROPE SINCE 1945 ***** The course surveys the history of Europe from the end of World War II to 1989. The course focuses on the impact of the war on European societies as well as on decolonization, European unification, economic reconstruction and immigration and the rise and fall of communism in Eastern Europe. ***** Instructor(s): Cohen

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MODERN LATIN AMERICA ***** Lecture course examining the creation of modern Latin America. Concentrating of the struggles over land and labor , the creation of nation-states, and the conflicts within those states over issues of citizenship and social justice. This course will also address the contentious role the United States has played in the region. ***** Course not offered in 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Wolfe.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: AFRICA TO 1884 ***** Survey of the changing historiography of Africa. Includes the emergence of the Bantu, early Christianity and Islam, trans-Saharan trade, medieval Sudanic empires, statelessness and state formation, Portugal in Africa, the slave trade, the Mfecane, the Sudanic jihads, long-distance trade, and African-European relations in the 19th century. ***** Instructor(s): Odhiambo

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE MAKING OF MODERN AFRICA ***** Survey of the transformation of Africa from the late 19th century to the present. Includes the partition of Africa and colonial states; economic and social changes in the 20th century; political developments; and Africa since independence. ***** Instructor(s): Odhiambo

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: HISTORY OF SCIENCE IN THE MODERN PERIOD ***** Main issues in the history of modern science from the 17th century to the present. Topics might include: the "Scientific Revolution", Newtonianism in the 18th century, Darwinism and evolution, the relativity and quantum revolutions in physics in the early 20th century, and recent developments in the life sciences like molecular biology. ***** Course offered Spring. ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE WORLD AND THE WEST ***** Introduction to the last 500 years of world history, focusing on processes that define the modern period. Topics include industrialization, democratization, colonialism, and emergence of new forms of cultural production with exploration of how and why such processes have come to divide the modern world into "west" and a "non-west". Offered with additional work as HIST 365. ***** Also offered as HUMA 235. ***** Instructor(s): Quillen.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: U.S. WOMEN'S HISTORY: COLONIAL BEGINNINGS TO THE CIVIL WAR ***** Survey of American women's history examines the lives of elite, working, black, Indian, and white women, and traces changes in women's legal, political, and economic status from the mid-17th century through the Civil War. Topics include slavery, suffrage, sexuality, and feminism. ***** Also offered as WGST 234. ***** Instructor(s): Sneider.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: US WOMEN'S HISTORY: CIVIL WAR TO THE PRESENT ***** Survey of American women's history examines the lives of black, Asian American, Chicana, native American, and white women, and traces changes in women's legal, political, and economic status from the Civil War to the present. Topics include suffrage, anti-lynching, welfare, birth control, and the modern civil rights and feminist movements. ***** Also offered as WGST 235. ***** Instructor(s): Sneider.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: TRADITIONAL CHINESE CULTURE ***** Introduction to the language, philosophy, religion art, literature, and social customs of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)- the most expansive consolidated regime in all of Chinese history, and a crucial bridge between "traditional" and "modern" China. Offered with additional work as HIST 368. ***** Instructor(s): Smith

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE NATION IN 19-TH CENTURY EUROPE ***** This course surveys the historical context of nation building in 19th century Europe and anlyzes theoretical works on the nation and nationalism in order to understand why the nation has become a dominant model of social organizaiton in our world. ***** Instructor(s): Dunlap

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN POST-1945 GERMANY ***** Course examines German politics and societies under Allied administration (West and East Germany 1949-1989) and the Federal Republic since 1990. Topics include democracy; post-1945 responses to Nazism; political economies; challenges of the "new social movements", and national identity in context of European unification and global migration. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Wildenthal

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: EUROPEAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY, 1890-1945 ***** Examination of European history in the age of total war. Includes imperialism and the development of the welfare state, institutional responses to the demands of total warfare, the crisis of liberal constitutionalism, the Russian Revolution, and the rise of fascism. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Caldwell.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: JEWS AND CHRISTIANS IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE ***** Course will study relationships between Jewish and Christian communities within the context of Christian Europe. Topics will include settlement and demography; economics; legal status; hostility against Jews; family and the position of women; communal organizations; social diversity; and intellectual and spiritual achievements. Offered with additional work as HIST 357. ***** Also offered as MDST 257. ***** Instructor(s): Haverkamp

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ROME: CITY AND EMPIRE ***** An introduction to the history of Rome from its origins to its collapse in western Europe ca 500 A.D. Emphasis is on the development of the city of Rome as the center of an evolving empire, seen through its monuments, buildings, art, and literature.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FORCED MIGRATION IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE ***** Convict transportation existed as a global phenomenon from the early modern era and was embedded in the first wave of European imperialism. This survey course explores penal transportation within the broader context of forced migration, examining the complexities of early colonial settlements in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Australia. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Ward

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WORLD HISTORY THROUGH GAMES ***** Survey of world history using computer games from 1300 B.C. to the present, emphasis will be placed upon human interaction with geology, environment and diseases. Limited enrollment. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Seed

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SOUTH AFRICA AND INDONESIA: EMPIRE TO NATION ***** Survey examines the histories of modern South Africa and Indonesia from the earliest indigenous societies of the present. Focus on the role of the Dutch Indian Ocean Empire; South Africa under British rule; and the rise of nationalism and dramatic transitions to democracy in the 20th century. ***** Course not offered in 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Ward

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: JEWISH HISTORY, 1500-1948 ***** History of the Jews' expulsion from Spain to the establishment of the state of Israel. Life in western and eastern Europe as well as in Islamic countries, seen from the perspective of settlement, assimilation, and the particularities of the Jewish historical experience. Offered with additional work as HIST 374. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Haverkamp

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: HISTORY OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, 1453-1918 ***** This course surveys the political, social, economic, and cultural history of the Ottoman Empire. Offered with additional work as HIST 377. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Makdisi

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE ARAB WORLD IN THE 20TH CENTURY, 1918 TO PRESENT ***** Survey of the history and culture of the Arab world from World War I to the present. Topics include nationalism, colonialism, and Orientalism as understood and discussed in the contemporary Arab world through debates about Palestine, status of women, and rise of modern Islamic politics. Offered with additional work as HIST 377. ***** Course not offered in 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Makdisi

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE CARIBBEAN IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION, 1770-1820 ***** An examination and analysis of Caribbean societies as they sought to adjust to forces unleashed by the American and French Revolutions and amidst mounting antislavery sentiment in the western world. Offered with additional work as HIST 379. ***** Instructor(s): Cox

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE MIDDLE EAST FROM THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD TO MUHAMMAD ALI ***** Introduction to the Middle East from the rise of Islam to the beginning of the 19th century. Topics include conquests and classical Islamic states, Arabization, Jewish and Christian communities, impact of Turkic peoples, and the Ottoman Empire, with emphasis on social, cultural, and political trends which shaped the region's history. ***** Also offered as MDST 281. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Sanders.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WOMEN IN THE MODERN ISLAMIC WORLD ***** This course introduces students to the history of women in the Islamic world. Topics include women and law, family relations, work, women as political actors in Islamic history, the harem as a social and political institution, women as property owners, veiling, and modern feminist movements throughout the Islamic world. ***** Also offered as WGST 283. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Sanders.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE REFORMATION & ITS RESULTS ***** Theology and church-state issues from the 16th century Reformation to the 17th century; medieval background; Luther and Calvin, the Catholic Reformation; religious wars; Protestant Orthodoxy; Pietist spirituality; Puritanism; and calls for toleration. ***** Also offered as RELI 286. ***** Instructor(s): Stroup.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1

Description: GREEK AND LATIN READINGS ***** Independent reading in selected Greek and Latin texts. Taken in conjunction with an undergraduate history course. Offered by permission of instructor only. ***** Instructor(s): Maas

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE ART OF WAR FROM MACHIAVELLI TO NAPOLEON ***** Study of the theory and practice of warfare from the 15th century to the early 19th century. Includes Machiavelli, Saxe, and Napoleon. Offered with additional work as HIST 393. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Gruber

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WAR IN THE MODERN WORLD ***** Study of the theory, practice, and experience of war in the 19th and 20th centuries. Includes Clausewitz, Remarque, and Fuchida. Offered with additional work as HIST 394. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Gruber

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE AMERICAN SOUTH ***** Survey of the American South from development of Native American cultures to present. Topics include slavery and plantation economy; emergence of southern distinctiveness; Civil War and Reconstruction; political reform and the civil rights movement; rise of the Sunbelt, southern religion, music, and literature; and the future of southern regionalism. Offered with additional work as HIST 395. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Boles.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: INDEPENDENT STUDY ***** Independent study under the supervision of a history faculty member. Hours are variable. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: RUSSIAN HISTORY ***** Survey of Russian history from earliest times to present. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Stokes

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: IMPERIAL ROME FROM CAESAR TO DIOCLETIAN ***** Examination of how Rome acquired, maintained, and understood her empire. Includes the development of a political, social, and ideological system reaching from Scotland to Mesopotamia during the three centuries of Rome's greatest power. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Maas

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE WORLD OF LATE ANTIQUITY ***** Study of the social, religious, and political history of the Roman world from Diocletian to the rise of Islam, with emphasis on the breaking of the unity of the Mediterranean world and the formation of Byzantine society in the Greek East. ***** Also offered as MDST 308. ***** Instructor(s): Maas

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CONTEMPORARY CHINA ***** An enriched version of HIST 220. May not receive credit for both HIST 220 and 310. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Smith, Lewis

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: AMERICAN THOUGHT AND SOCIETY, I ***** Enriched version of HIST 211. Students may not receive credit for both HIST 211 and 311. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Haskell.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: AMERICAN THOUGHT AND SOCIETY, II ***** An enriched version of HIST 212. Students may not receive credit for both HIST 212 and 312. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Haskell.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MODERN MEXICO ***** Lecture and discussion course examining the roots of the Mexican Revolution with the development of the coalitions of peasants, workers, and middle-class politicians that participated in the 1910-1917 revolution and the slow institutionalization that followed. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Wolfe.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CARIBBEAN NATION BUILDING ***** Enriched version of HIST 214. May not receive credit for both HIST 214 and 314. ***** Instructor(s): Cox

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: BLACKS IN THE AMERICAS ***** Enriched version of HIST 215. May not receive credit for both HIST 215 and 315. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Cox, Byrd.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INVENTION OF PAGANISM IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE ***** This interdisciplinary course examines the development of the concept of "paganism" during the Roman Empire, the first through seventh centuries AD. We will examine the mutually tolerant character of the many religions of the Roman world and see how the category of paganism was invented and applied by Christians to all the polythesis of the empire and beyond. ***** Also offerd as CLAS 318 and RELI 316. ***** Instructor(s): Staff.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FORTUNE-TELLERS AND PHILOSOPHERS ***** Enriched version of HIST 219. May not receive credit for both HIST 219 and 319. ***** Instructor(s): Smith

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: JAPAN IN THE WORLD UNTIL 1800 ***** Enriched version of HIST 221. May not receive credit for both HIST 221 and 321. ***** Instructor(s): Thal

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: JAPAN IN THE WORLD SINCE 1800 ***** Enriched version of HIST 222. May not receive credit for both HIST 222 and 322. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Thal

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: EMPIRES AND COMMUNITIES IN THE MIDDLE AGES ***** Enriched version of HIST 223. May not receive credit for both HIST 223 and 323. ***** Also offered as MDST 323. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Haverkamp Repeatable for Credit.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: NAVIGATION AND CARTOGRAPHY ***** Navigation and cartography changed more rapidly in the period from 1400 to 1600 than in any other period prior to the 20th century. Topics covered include the history of projections, origin of latitude and longitude scales, compass roses, ship design, and related subjects. See http://www.rice.edu./latitude>. ***** Instructor(s): Seed

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY ***** Geography is not destiny, nor is its art of representation, cartography. Map-making sits on the frontier between art and science, a boundary that has shifted across time and cultures. The first part of the course covers different conceptions of mapping; the second, the origin of the science of cartography. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Seed

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: LATIN AMERICAN GENDERS ***** Course examines diversity of Latin American cultures and gender relations from modern urban societies to Indian peasant villages. ***** Also offered as WGST 328. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Wolfe

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ORIGINS OF AFRO-AMERICA ***** Survey of major issues and events in the formation of modern Afro-America from the 15th to late 18th century. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Byrd

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: AMERICAN RADICALISM AND DISSENT ***** This course will explore the political, cultural and intellectual history of radical social movements in the United States. Topics will include abolitionism, feminism, anarchism, socialism, communism, civil rights, black nationalism, gay rights, anti-war protest, and the 1960s New Left. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Lichtenstein

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CARIBBEAN HISTORY TO 1838 ***** Study of Caribbean history from the arrival of the Europeans to the abolition of slavery in the British West Indies in 1838, with emphasis on the social and economic history of the region. Includes the question of why slavery and the plantation system both emerged and fell. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Cox

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CARIBBEAN HISTORY 1838 TO PRESENT ***** Study of the social, economic, and political history of the Caribbean people from the abolition of slavery to the emergence of independent nations in the modern era. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Cox

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: HUMANIST TRADITION AND ITS CRITICS ***** Exploration of aspects of Western humanist and anti-humanist traditions from the early modern period to the present, with emphasis on how writers within each tradition understood fundamental terms like human nature, self, community, morality, and freedom. Includes literary, theological, and philosophical texts, as well as contemporary critical theory. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Quillen

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: VICTORIAN INTELLECTUALS ***** Study of the upheaval in late 19th century social thought and culture caused in part by Darwin's theory of evolution, with emphasis on American readings, using English and continental writers for comparison. May include Spencer, Veblen, Henry Adams, William James, Dewey, Matthew Arnold, and Nietzsche. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Haskell

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PRE-MODERN CHINA ***** Survey of Chinese history from antiquity to c.1800, highlighting salient aspects of China's heritage. ***** Instructor(s): Smith

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MODERN CHINA ***** Continuation of HIST 341. Includes China's revolutionary transformation in the 19th and 20th centuries, from the Ch'ing dynasty to the People's Republic. May take HIST 341 and 342 separately. ***** Instructor(s): Smith

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: EARLY MODERN EUROPE:HUMANISM AND EXPANSION ***** Exploration of major cultural developments in Western Europe from the rise of Italian humanism in the 14th century to European conquest and expansion in the 16th century. ***** Also offered as MDST 345. ***** Instructor(s): Quillen

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: U.S. LABOR HISTORY: 20TH CENTURY REPRESENTATIONS ***** This lecture/discussion course considers the last century of American labor history through a close analysis of journalism, fiction, and film. Topics will include: industrialization, immigration, gender, industrial unionism, race relations, syndicalist, socialist and communist organizing, agrarian labor, and de-industrialization. Reading will be supplemented by required evening film showings. ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Lichtenstein

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: U.S. HISTORY: THE NEW DEAL & W.W. II ***** Topics include political economy of the depression and development of a government response; growth of the labor movement; cultural and political ferment of the era; regionalism; and the wartime home experience of women, racial minorities, and the working class. ***** Enrollment limited to 30. ***** Instructor(s): Lichtenstein

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WOMEN AND GENDER IN 19TH CENTURY EUROPE ***** Examination of the political and cultural discussions of the "woman question" in 19th century Europe. Includes the role of the public and private legal rights in republicanism and the early feminist movement, gender equality in the context of socialist movements, and challenges to gender identity posed by cultural modernism. ***** Also offered as WGST 420. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Wildenthal

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: AMERICA, 1900-1940 ***** Survey of major economic, social, and political developments in the United States from 1900 to 1940. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Matusow.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: AMERICA SINCE 1945 ***** Survey of major economic, social and political developments in the United States since 1945. Limited Enrollment. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Matusow.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GERMAN HISTORY, 1648-1890 ***** Survey of the "Germanies" from the rise of the absolutist state following the Thirty Years' War to the unification of Germany in 1871. Includes development of modern bureaucratic and military institutions, changing conceptions of state and society, and the major social and economic changes of the period. ***** Also offered as GERM 344. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Caldwell

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FROM DEMOCARCY TO DICTATORSHIP: GERMAN HISTORY, 1890-1945 ***** Lecture class examines empire, democracy and dictatorship in Germany, 1890-1945. Includes political history, challenges of organized capitalism, the rise and fall of socialism, development of an interventionist state, cultural critique and political culture, the Nazi social revolution, and the Holocaust. ***** Also offered as GERM 345. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Caldwell

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: JEWS AND CHRISTIANS IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE ***** Enriched version of HIST 257. May not receive credit for both HIST 257 and 357. ***** Also offered as MDST 357. ***** Instructor(s): Haverkamp

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY FROM AUGUSTINE TO DESCARTES ***** This course will survey key developments in Western thought (political theory, literature, philosophy, theology, and art) from the consolidation and institutionalization of Christian doctrine in the fourth and fifth centuries through the beginnings of the "Scientific Revolution" in the 17th century. ***** Also offered as MDST 358. ***** Instructor(s): Quillen

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: EMPIRE AND FILM ***** The British Empire will be explored through a wide range of films from Britain, America, India and China. These films offer a storehouse of images, styles and sentiments reflecting in many ways on "the imperial enterprise". In addition, readings. ***** Prerequisite(s): Some previous work in either history or film recommended. ***** Limited Enrollment. ***** Instructor(s): Wiener

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: BRITAIN FROM HENRY VIII TO THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, 1509 - 1815 ***** Examination of the personalities and forces that changed England from a backwater of Europe into, by 1815, the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the leading nation, and empire, in the world. About equal amounts of lecture and discussion. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Wiener.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: BRITAIN FROM THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION TO TONY BLAIR, 1815 - Present. ***** Exploration of Britain's take-off into the Industrial Revolution, the flourishing of the Empire, and the adjustment to the end of the Empire and the diminishment of world political and economic stature from the First World War to Tony Blair's "New Britain." Includes the use of novels and films to examine these transformations. ***** Instructor(s): Wiener.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GENDER AND SOCIETY IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE ***** Exploration of the relationship between ideas about gender and the social, political, and legal institutions in Europe from c. 1350 to 1800. Includes the structure and role of the family, gender roles in religious institutions, and the regulation of sexuality. ***** Also offered as WGST 338. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Quillen

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE WORLD AND THE WEST ***** Enriched version of HIST 235. Students may not receive credit for both HIST 235 and 365. ***** Instructor(s): Quillen.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MODERN BRAZIL ***** Course examines Brazil's history, from its 1822 peaceful independence to present efforts in creating a democratic society following a military dictatorship. Topics include a legacy as the world's largest slave-holding society in the 19th century, struggles to conquer its huge territory, and the interaction of those factors in shaping national identity. ***** Instructor(s): Wolfe.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: TRADITIONAL CHINESE CULTURE ***** An enriched version of HIST 250. Students may not receive credit for both HIST 250 and 368. ***** Instructor(s): Smith

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FILM, LITERATURE AND THE JAPANESE PAST ***** Since 1945, authors and film directors in Japan have made sense of the horrors of war, the challenges of rapid economic growth, and the crisis of affluence through artistic reinterpretations of historical themes. Course examines historical allusions and their uses in 20th century Japanese film and literature. ***** Also offered as ASIA 369. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Thal.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY: BACON TO HEGEL ***** Survey of major thinkers and intellectual movements from the scientific revolution to the French Revolution. Includes the use of primary and secondary sources to establish the main contours of philosophical, political, and cultural expression and to relate them to their historical context. ***** Instructor(s): Zammito

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE HISTORY OF MODERN FRANCE ***** Study of transformations in French society, culture, and politics before, during, and after the French Revolution. Taught in English. ***** Also offered as FREN 371. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Cohen

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: JEWISH HISTORY, 1500-1948 ***** Enriched version of HIST 274. Students may not receive credit for both HIST 274 and 374. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Haverkamp

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: EUROPEAN ROMANTICISM, 1750-1850 ***** Investigation of the emergence, triumph and defeat of Romanticism as a major cultural force in European history, with emphasis on national and epochal diversity within Romanticism in Britain, Germany, and France. Includes Rousseau, Goethe, Schiller, Schlegel, Schelling, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Stendhal, Hugo, and Baudelaire, as well as music and art. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Zammito

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: HISTORY OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, 1453-1918 ***** Enriched version of HIST 277. May not receive credit for both HIST 277 and 377. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Makdisi

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE ARAB WORLD IN THE 20TH CENTURY, 1918 - PRESENT ***** Enriched version of HIST 278. May not receive credit for both HIST 278 and 378. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Makdisi

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE CARIBBEAN IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION, 1770-1820 ***** An enriched version of HIST 279. Students may not receive credit for both HIST 279 and 379. ***** Instructor(s): Cox

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CULTURE, SECURITY, AND HUMAN RIGHTS ***** Course addresses theories of risk society and their relationship to concepts of culture, gender, security, and human rights-based social movements. It addresses contemporary reorganizations of domestic, cultural, geopolitical space and also examines the increasingly intense discussions surrounding 'cultures' of fear, risk, safety, civility, governance, biopolitics, and rights. ***** Also offered as ANTH 380, WGST 380. ***** Course offered Spring. ***** Instructor(s): Chivens.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CLASSICAL ISLAMIC CULTURES ***** An introduction to the cultures and religions of the Islamic world from the 9th through the 14th centuries. Topics include Islamic law and theology, philosophy, ritual, Islamic science and medicine, classical Arabic literature, the impact of Arabo-Islamic culture on Jewish and Christian cultures of the Islamic world. ***** Also offered as MDST 382. ***** Courses not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Sanders

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE CRUSADES: HOLY WAR IN MEDIEVAL CHRISTENDOM AND ISLAM ***** Examination of the Crusades (11th to 15th centuries) from the point of view of both Christian Europe and the Islamic Near East. Includes the political and military history of the Crusades, as well as the social, cultural and religious transformations that caused, and were wrought by, these conflicts. ***** Also offered as MDST 384. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Sanders

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: RECENT U.S. FOREIGN POLICY ***** This course will examine American policy during the climactic years of the Cold War. Topics will include detente under Nixon and Carter, confrontation under Reagan, the "new thinking" of Gorbachev, regional conflicts, and the fall of the Soviet Union. ***** Enrollment limited to 30. ***** Instructor(s): Matusow

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: LIFE ON THE NILE ***** Egyptian society, culture, and religion from the 18th to 20th centuries. Course will use travel accounts, ethnographies, novels, historical chronicles, and movies, to examine the position of Egypt in the Ottoman and British Empires. Focus will be the long-term Egyptian cultural and social structures and their transformation in different political contexts. ***** Instructor(s): Sanders

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE ATLANTIC WORLD: ORIGINS TO THE AGE OF REVOLUTION ***** Enriched version of HIST 188. Students may not receive credit for both HIST 188 and 388. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Byrd.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: HISTORY OF SEXUALITY IN AMERICA ***** Course surveys four centuries of the social, cultural, political, and legal history of sex and sexuality in America. Seeking to challenge conventional interpretations of the history of sexuality as a movement from the repressed days of Puritan America to the more liberated, modern ideals of the 20th century. Also offered as WGST 392. ***** Course offered Spring. ***** Instructor(s): Foster

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE ART OF WAR FROM MACHIAVELLI TO NAPOLEON ***** Enriched version of HIST 293. May not receive credit for both HIST 293 and 393. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Gruber

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WAR IN THE MODERN WORLD ***** Enriched version of HIST 294. Students may not receive credit for both HIST 294 and 394. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Gruber

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE AMERICAN SOUTH ***** An enriched version of HIST 295. May not receive credit for both HIST 295 and 395. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Boles.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF DISCRIMINATION: RACE, GENDER, AND SEXUAL ORIENTATION ***** Course will cover the history of discrimination in the United States on the basis of race, gender, and sexual orientation; examination of the roots of this discrimination, consider some its causes, and the legal efforts to eradicate it. ***** Enrollment limited to 30. ***** Course offered Spring. ***** Instructor(s): Dow

Department: History

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: HONORS THESIS ***** Restricted to students who have been admitted to the honors program; consent of the director of the honors program is required. Students must take both HIST 403 and 404 to gain credit. ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: HONORS THESIS ***** Continuation of HIST 403, which is prerequisite for enrollment. Completion of this course is required to obtain credit for HIST 403. ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: HISTORY OF EAST AFRICA ***** Seminar on East African cultures, societies, economies, and politics from earliest times to the present. Includes the peoples and languages of East Africa; migrations and settlement, state formation; long-distance trade and expansions in scale, imperialisms and colonial conquest; colonial transformations of African societies; nationalism, and independence. ***** Instructor(s): Odhiambo

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: KENYA IN MODERN HISTORY ***** Study of Kenya's transformation from tribal societies to modern state. Topics include migrations and settlement; emergence of pre-colonial societies, underlying cultural unities, and pre-capitalist socio-economic formations; British conquest; colonial state and economic changes; traditions of resistance and collaboration; invention of tribes; Mau Mau; de-colonization and constitutional changes; and the post-colonial state. ***** Instructor(s): Odhiambo

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE ***** Seminar on how the largest empire in world history came into existence, the impact it had on people and states worldwide, and its decline and fall. Course work will consist of reading, viewing, and evaluating films, and preparing and summarizing in class a research paper on a topic of choice. Prerequisite(s): Some background in either British history or one of the areas impacted by the British desirable. ***** Limited enrollment ***** Instructor(s): Wiener

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SEMINAR IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY ***** A reading- and writing-intensive seminar focusing on selected issues in black culture, politics, and community in the United States since the climax of the Civil Rights movement. Contents vary. Limited enrollment. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Byrd

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SEMINAR TOPICS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, MEDICINE ***** Research seminar on selected topics in the history of science, technology, or medicine. Contents vary. Limited enrollment. ***** Course offered Spring. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: COMPARATIVE SLAVERY AND RACE RELATIONS IN THE AMERICAS ***** Comparative analysis of slavery and race relations in the U.S., the Caribbean, and Latin America, chiefly to the late 19th century. Includes the relative harshness or mildness of the institution of slavery in various systems, opportunities for advancement for former slaves, and the resultant nature of race relations. Limited enrollment. ***** Instructor(s): Cox

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: HISTORY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, 1954 TO THE PRESENT ***** Examination of the modern Civil Rights movement, with emphasis on the goals and strategies of major spokespersons and leaders, as well as the achievements of the campaign. Includes the extent of its success or failure and whether or not an "unfinished" agenda needs to be completed. ***** Limited Enrollment. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Cox

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: COMPARATIVE LABOR HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS ***** Seminar on the history of work and politics among free wage laborers in the Americas in the 19th and 20th centuries. Incorporates studies of workers' experiences during the process of industrialization and urbanization; analyses of the creation of unions and progressive political movements; and study of class, gender, and race. ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Wolfe

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: TECHNOLOGY AND MODERNITY ***** Seminar examines both modernity and technology in a variety of settings. Topics include the role of technology in European expansionism, the advent of the railroad, new forms of telecommunications, air travel and warfare, the rise of the automobile, space exploration, and the ongoing development of computers. ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Instructor(s): Wolfe

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WORLD HISTORY THROUGH FOOD ***** Food is a great constant in human history, but its materials, methods of preparation, and ingredients are not. This seminar covers the basics of cooking from the Bronze Age to the present emphasizing the reception and transmission of ingredients, and the labor of preparation. ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Instructor(s): Seed

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: POLITICS AND CULTURE IN WEIMAR GERMANY ***** Born in political and social crisis, the Weimar Republic exemplifies the possibilities and limits of modern democracy. This seminar focuses on original documents of political thought, literature, the visual arts, society, and law to explore the political culture of Germany's first, ill-fated democracy. ***** Also offered as GERM 331. ***** Enrollment limited to 15. ***** Instructor(s): Caldwell, Emden

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ISLAM IN SOUTH ASIA ***** Seminar on Islamic history, politics, and culture in the South Asian subcontinent. Topics will include emergence of Indian Muslim society; Muslim responses to colonialism and the movement for Pakistan; and the role of Islam in politics in contemporary India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Requires no prior knowledge of Islam or South Asia. ***** Also offered as ASIA 432 and WGST 432. ***** Limited Enrollment. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Shehabuddin

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT ***** Seminar traces the history and politics of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Course seeks to understand how and at what costs Israeli and Palestinian nationalisms have been constructed in both Palestinian and Israeli understandings of the past and present using books, documentaries, and films. ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Makdisi

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ISLAM AND THE WEST ***** Seminar explores issues of contact and exploration between Western and Islamic worlds, from the Crusades to the modern era. Investigations will explore how identities are formed and reshaped through interaction with other cultures and how traditions "invented" by relationships between civilization and despotism, freedom and tyranny, religious tolerance and holy war. ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Makdisi

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: COLONIALISM AND NATIONALISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST ***** This seminar focuses on colonialism and nationalism in the modern Middle East. Beginning with Napolean's invasion of Egypt in 1798, the seminar delves into specific case studies of European and Middle Eastern encounters and their representations that span both the 19th and 20th centuries. ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Makdisi

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: AMERICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST ***** Exploration of American political, cultural, and religious involvement in the Middle East. Contents vary. ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Makdisi Repeatable for Credit.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CHRISTIANS AND JEWS IN THE MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC WORLD ***** Examination of Christian and Jewish communities in the Islamic world from the rise of Islam to the Ottoman Empire. Topics include the "dhimmis" (protected peoples); social and economic life; communal organization; and interplay of religious laws and political authority. Discussions focus on modern historiogrpahy and Muslim communities under Christian rule. ***** Also offered as MDST 385. ***** Enrollment limited to 15. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Sanders

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WOMEN AND GENDER IN THE MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC SOCIETIES ***** Course examines the legal position and social realities of men and women in the Islamic world, with emphasis on how boundaries of gender have traditionally been drawn. Includes family and sexual ethics, the harem, polygyny, divorce, and eunuchs (who played an important role in the military and certain religious institutions). ***** Also offered as MDST 438 and WGST 455. ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Sanders Repeatable for Credit.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: COMPARATIVE SLAVERY FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT: AFRICA, ASIA AND EUROPE ***** Course introduces the debates on the history of slavery in human society. Examines case studies in Africa, Asia and Europe with comparative analyses of topics; slavery and the state; slavery and gender; slave trades; and slave resistance. ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Ward

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE FUTURE OF THE UNIVERSITY ***** This research seminar will examine and place in historical context current controversies over the future of the modern American research university. Students will prepare papers based on the archival records of Rice University and secondary literature on other universities. ***** Enrollment limited to 15. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Haskell

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE RENAISSANCE IN EUROPEAN HISTORY ***** This seminar examines major approaches to and interpretations of the European Renaissance (the period from about 1350-1600) and then analyzes the place that this era came to occupy in our understanding of "western civilization" and of European history generally. ***** Also offered as HIST 542. ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Quillen

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MEMORY AND COMMEMORATION IN THE MIDDLE AGES ***** Memory and commemoration are the intentions, attitudes, acts, and media that should prevent oblivion of individuals and communities (beyond death). Possessing universal dimensions which date from antiquity, in the present they are often driven into individual remembrance, the institutional realm of politics, the secluded world of museums. ***** Also offered MDST 444. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Haverkamp

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: JEWS IN IMAGE AND FILM ***** This seminar course will trace the perceptions of Jews and of certain themes in Jewish history from the Middle Ages to modern times. Focus will be placed on their representation in medieval and early modern images of Christian and Jewish art and on modern film. ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Instructor(s): Haverkamp Repeatable for Credit.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MEDIEVAL WOMEN ***** Many aspects of today's life for women go back to developments in Medieval times. Seminar explores the freedom and restrictions of women from different religions, queens and nobles, merchants to prostitutes, in families and monasteries. Participation includes a trip to an exhibition in Germany. Course fulfills requirements for MDST major. ***** Course offered Spring. ***** Instructor(s): Haverkamp.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE AGE OF THE CRUSADES ***** Seminar will discuss characteristics of the Crusades against Muslim, Jews, pagans, Mongols, heretics, schismatics, and political enemies and explore to what extent the concepts of "holy war" and new expressions of religious beliefs impacted fundamentalism creating new possibilities for globalization in medieval Europe. Discussions will include primary and secondary sources. ***** Also offered as MDST 447. ***** Limited Enrollment. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Haverkamp.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CREATING MODERN JAPAN: THE MEIJI RESTORATION ***** What does it mean to become modern? This seminar examines the revolutionary changes in thought, language, society, politics, and economics that took place in Japan in the late 19th century - transformations that enabled the rapid development of Japan into a world industrial and military power. ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Instructor(s): Thal

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PHILOSOPHIES AND THEOLOGIES OF HISTORY ***** Modern thought on the meaning, direction of history; roots in eschatology, Augustine; flowering in progress, historicism: Hegel, Ranke, Burckhardt, Nietzsche, Troeltsch, Spengler, Heidegger, Toynbee; cultural echo (de Chirico, Proust, Mann, Robbe-Grillet, Bunuel, Bergman, Fellini). ***** Also offered as RELI 451. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Stroup

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: COMPARATIVE HISTORY: THE U.S. AND SOUTH AFRICA ***** Seminar compares and contrasts the history of two modern societies based on the foundation of racial division and exploitation. Examination will include historical evolution of white racism in both nations; comparing systems of segregation and apartheid; and the history of the civil rights and anti-apartheid movements. ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Lichtenstein

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: HISTORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS ***** Seminar will explore the history of human rights through disciplines of anthropology and legal philosophy as well as historical case studies of individual states and human rights organizations. Students will undertake independent research on an issue, location, and period of their choosing. ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Wildenthal

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GENDER AND POST-SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION IN EASTERN EUROPE ***** Course examines effect on women of transitions to capitalism and democracy in Eastern Europe, with special focus on labor, childcare, political participation, women and the media, reproductive rights, domestic violence and trafficking in women. Special attention given to the difficulties of forging ties between "Eastern" and "Western" feminist experiences. ***** Also offered as ANTH 657. ***** Enrollment limited to 15. ***** Instructor(s): Chivens

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: TOPICS IN MODERN GERMAN HISTORY ***** Seminar on selected topics in the history of Germany. Contents vary. ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Also offered as GERM 332. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Caldwell Repeatable for Credit.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ADVANCED SEMINAR IN ANCIENT HISTORY ***** Seminar on selected topics in ancient history. Contents vary. ***** Also offered as MDST 460. ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Prerequisite(s): HIST 201 and HIST 307 or permission of instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Maas

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: NEWTON AND THE 18TH CENTURY ***** Newton was the indispensable starting point for 18th century thought from the physical sciences to medicine and the so-called "human sciences." Seminar will consider Newton himself and the complex legacy of his thought in 18th century thinkers including Leibniz, Boerhaave, Voltaire, Hume, Haller, Kant, Priestley, Blake, and Goethe. ***** Limited Enrollment. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Zammito

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SEMINAR TOPICS IN U.S. HISTORY, 1968-1988 ***** Seminar requiring three short research papers. ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor required. ***** Instructor(s): Matusow

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: COLONIAL AMERICA ***** Study of the growth of society, thought, and politics in the English colonies of North America. ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** * Instructor(s): Gruber

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1754-1789 ***** Study of the origins and implications of the American Revolution, with emphasis on constitutional, social, and political developments. ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WOMEN AND THE WELFARE STATE: SEXUAL POLITICS AND AMERICAN POVERTY ***** This seminar in the history of women and welfare focuses on women's contributions to the growth of the welfare state and investigates how welfare has been shaped by understandings of gender, race, and class. Compares American programs to similar programs developed in other countries. ***** Also offered as WGST 468. ***** Limited Enrollment. ***** Instructor(s): Sneider

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTER-AMERICAN RELATIONS ***** Seminar explores the long and contentious relationships between the U.S. and Latin American nations. Focus will be on events from the late 19th and 20th centuries as seen through the lenses of political, economic, social, and cultural history. ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Wolfe

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SEMINAR TOPICS IN MODERN FRENCH HISTORY ***** Research seminar on selected topics in modern French history. Contents vary. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Cohen

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: JAPANESE ANIMATION: NARRATIVE, HISTORY, AND SOCIETY ***** Seminar explores the social, historical, and aesthetic significance of Japanese animation. Topics include gender and sexuality, ecological consciousness and religious imagination, folklore and history, viewership and fandom, centrality of the fantastic and grotesque, visions of a media- and technology- saturated society, and prevalence of apocalyptic motifs and conspiracy theory. ***** Also offered as ASIA 472 and HART 472. ***** Limited Enrollment. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Thal, Nakatani

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SEMINAR TOPICS IN EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY ***** Research seminar on selected topics in modern European intellectual history. Topics vary. ***** Limited Enrollment. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Zammito

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FRENCH INTELLECTUALS ***** This seminar investigates the history of a prominent French political figure: the "intellectual" born out the Dreyfus Affair (1895), whose prestige culminated in the post-1945 period before vanishing influence of Marxism after 1989. The course explores teh world of French intellectuals and their role in the 20th Century. Enrollment limited. **** Instructor(s): Cohen

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: TOPICS IN MEDIEVAL HISTORY ***** Research seminar on selected issues, subject or themes in medieval history. ***** Also offered as MDST 488. ***** Limited Enrollment. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MIGRATIONS AND DIASPORAS IN THE INDIAN OCEAN WORLD ***** The Indian Ocean World presents an enormously varied arena of cultural exchange and interaction spanning coastal regions of Africa, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia and Australia. Seminar introduces the region by examining societies and empires shaped by voyages of exploration, religious pilgrimages, trading diasporas and forced migration. ***** Also offered as ASIA 489. ***** Limited Enrollment. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Ward

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION: INTERPRETATIONS ***** Seminar will examine the Mexican Revolution from a wide variety of vantage points to address key questions regarding social upheaval, the struggle for popular democracy and state making. All assigned readings available in English. ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A TURBULENT TIME: THE WORLD OF THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION ***** An examination of the impact of the powerful forces unleashed by the Haitian Revolution on societies in the Caribbean, the U.S., and Latin America in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Cox

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PROJECTS IN AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY ***** Seminar in which participants propose and execute a collaborative project in Afro-American history. Work will culminate a substantive piece of public history (a group publication, exhibit, broadcast, or electronic document, for example). For further information, or to suggest a possible project, contact the instructor. ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Byrd Repeatable for Credit.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 4

Description: MASTER'S RESEARCH ***** Research for master's thesis. Must take both HIST 501 and 502 to receive credit. ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 12

Description: MASTER'S RESEARCH ***** Continuation of HIST 501. Must compete both HIST 501 and 502 to receive credit. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 2 TO 6

Description: GRADUATE TOPICS ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 4

Description: DIRECTED READINGS IN AMERICAN HISTORY, I ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 4

Description: DIRECTED READINGS IN AMERICAN HISTORY, I ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 4

Description: DIRECTED READINGS IN AMERICAN HISTORY, II ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 4

Description: DIRECTED READINGS IN AMERICAN HISTORY, II ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 4

Description: DIRECTED READINGS IN MILITARY HISTORY, I ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 4

Description: DIRECTED READINGS IN MILITARY HISTORY, II ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 4

Description: DIRECTED READINGS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 4

Description: DIRECTED READINGS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 4

Description: DIRECTED READINGS IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY, I ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 4

Description: DIRECTED READINGS IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY, II ***** Graduate reading in African-American history. ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 4

Description: DIRECTED READINGS IN MEDIEVAL HISTORY ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 4

Description: DIRECTED READINGS IN MEDIEVAL HISTORY ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 4

Description: DIRECTED READINGS IN WOMEN'S & GENDER HISTORY ***** Also offered as WGST 523. ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 4

Description: DIRECTED READINGS IN AFRICAN HISTORY ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 4

Description: DIRECTED READINGS IN AFRICAN HISTORY ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 4

Description: DIRECTED READINGS IN NON-WESTERN HISTORY, I ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 4

Description: DIRECTED READINGS IN NON-WESTERN HISTORY, II ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: DIRECTED READINGS IN MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY, I ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 4

Description: DIRECTED READINGS IN MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY, I ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 4

Description: DIRECTED READINGS IN MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY, II ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 4

Description: DIRECTED READINGS IN MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY, II ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: CIVILIZING MISSIONS ***** The development of "civilizing missions" legitimized territorial and spiritual conquest and validated the suppression of subject customs, cultures, and religions. Course will explore the idea which became an integral part of imperial, religious, and national ideologies. Readings include (in translation) modern historical, geographical, legal, ethnographic, religious, and literary texts. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Makdisi

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: COMPARATIVE EMPIRES ***** This graduate seminar examines Roman and Ottoman notions of empire, European and Eastern historiography of empire in the 18-19th centuries, and imperial practice as it was conceived and carried out in both the Ottoman and British contexts (focusing primarily, but not exclusively, on Egypt and India). ***** Instructor(s): Sanders

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: HISTORY OF THE MODERN SOUTH ***** Seminar designed to introduce graduate students to historiographic background, sources, and methods for conducting primary research in post-1865 southern U.S. history. Topics will include, but not be limited to: labor, politics, and civil rights. Research paper required. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Lichtenstein Repeatable for Credit.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: THE RENAISSANCE IN EUROPEAN HISTORY ***** Graduate version of HIST 442. Students may not receive credit for both HIST 442 and 542. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Quillen

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: TOPICS IN MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY ***** Graduate research seminar on selected themes in modern European history. Topics vary. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Caldwell Repeatable for Credit.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: MAX WEBER ***** Graduate seminar. Examines sociologist Max Weber in context. Focus on: Weber's methodology and notion of the "ideal type"; modernization theory; the typologies of religious and political understanding; political sociology; the crisis of German liberalism in Weber's own politics. ***** Undergraduates admitted with permission of the instructor. ***** Course offered Spring. ***** Instructor(s): Caldwell.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: WOMEN AND GENDER: EUROPE AND BEYOND ***** Graduate seminar exploring recent work in key areas of research on women and gender: nationalism; the modern welfare state; and the challenges which histories of working-class women have posed to definitions of politics, feminism, class, and family. Settings will include colonial and national Britain, India, Africa, Netherlands, Indonesia, France, and Germany. ***** Also offered as WGST 545. ***** Instructor(s): Wildenthal

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: WARFARE SINCE 1400 ***** Reading seminar in the history and theory of warfare since 1400. Topics on raising and equipping forces, motivating men to fight, defining war and limiting the effects of violence, creating professional soldiers and controlling military power, engaging the people in wars toward the absolute, and limited wars of ideology and terror. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Gruber

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: MARX ***** Introduction to key concepts of Marxist theory: alienation, production, rectifiction, and revolution. Traces dissemination into literary theory, cultural studies, and social sciences. Original sources and secondary readings identify impact and continuing charge provided by Marxist theory for aporias of representation, theories of subjectivity, new political movements, trans-nationality, and post-industrial capitalism. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Caldwell

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: MAIN ISSUES IN CARIBBEAN HISTORY ***** Examination of the major local and international forces and ideas that have shaped the course of the history of the Caribbean. ***** Instructor(s): Cox

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: U.S. WOMEN'S HISTORY ***** Graduate reading seminar. Topics vary. ***** Also offered as WGST 551. ***** Instructor(s): Sneider

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: HISTORY OF THE BRITISH MAINLAND COLONIES ***** Graduate seminar examining major topics and themes in social and cultural history of the British mainland colonies from settlement until the eve of the American Revolution. Primary and secondary source readings will focus on colonial America as a contested space of diverse populations in a time of competing empires. ***** Course offered Spring. ***** Instructor(s): Foster.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: GUIDE TO THE SOURCES OF MEDIEVAL HISTORY ***** This graduate seminar will introduce participants to the typology of the sources of medieval history and to the auxiliary sciences of history. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Haverkamp Repeatable for Credit.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT IN POSTWAR GERMANY ***** Seminar investigates the reconstruction of German social and political thinking between 1945 and 1989. Topics include the "end of history" in functionalist sociology; Bloch's reformulation of Marxism; literary representations of the Nazi past; the state of socialist present; reconsiderations of the public sphere; Wolf's feminist critique; and Luhmann's systems theory. ***** Course not offered in 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Caldwell

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: MIGRATION AND DISPLACEMENT IN MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY ***** The course investigates the historiography of migration in European history, from the point of view of labor immigration, forced displacement and political exile. We will explore how nation-states have invited, categorized, regulated and repelled various types of European migrants since the end of the 19th century. ***** Instructor(s): Cohen

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: GRADUATE TOPICS IN EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY ***** Graduate research seminar on selected themes in European intellectual history. Contents vary. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Zammito

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: EARLY AMERICA I, 1607-1800 ***** Study of major works on the English colonies of North America, as well as topics of particular interest to individual students from 1607 - 1800. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Gruber

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: EARLY AMERICA II, 1607-1800 ***** Continuation of HIST 564. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Gruber

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: WAR AND REVOLUTION ***** The emphasis in this graduate seminar will be on the Anglo-American world of the 17th and 18th centuries, but students may choose topics that go beyond the immediate focus of the course. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Gruber

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: GRADUATE READING SEMINAR IN 20TH CENTURY U.S. HISTORY ***** Readings seminar for graduate students on 20th century United States history. Topics vary. ***** Instructor(s): Matusow

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: GRADUATE READING SEMINAR IN POST-1945 U.S. HISTORY ***** Readings seminar for graduate students on post-1945 United States history. Topics vary. ***** Instructor(s): Matusow

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: TOPICS IN MODERN FRENCH HISTORY ***** Readings seminar for graduate students in modern French history. Topics vary. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Cohen

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: MODERNITY AND RELIGION ***** Considered antithetical to such hallmarks of European and American modernity as science, capitalism, and church-state separation, religion has nevertheless occupied a vibrant place in modern intellectual, social and political history. Seminar analyzes the role of religion in the 20th century through case studies from around the world. ***** Instructor(s): Thal

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: INTRODUCTION TO DOCTORAL STUDIES ***** Introduction to a range of methodological and theoretical approaches to historical research, as well as to important current debates about the nature of historical investigation and interpretation. ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: RESEARCH IN U.S. WOMEN'S HISTORY ***** Graduate research seminar. Topics vary. ***** Also offered as WGST 576. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Sneider

Department: History

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 2

Description: PEDAGOGY SEMINAR ***** For ABD students who intend to teach. ***** Prerequisite(s): ABD graduate status. ***** Instructor(s): Lichtenstein

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: GRADUATE TOPICS IN SOUTHERN HISTORY ***** This graduate reading seminar will entail in-depth examination of the historiography of particular issues in the history of the American South. Topics will vary. ***** Instructor(s): Lichtenstein

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: BRITISH AND IMPERIAL HISTORY, I ***** Reading seminar in British and Imperial History. Open to all graduate students. Required for graduate students in British history. ***** Instructor(s): Wiener

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: BRITISH AND IMPERIAL HISTORY, II ***** Continuation of HIST 581. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Wiener

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: SOUTHERN HISTORY ***** Graduate seminar on religion and slavery in the Old South. ***** Instructor(s): Boles

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: U.S. INTELLECTUAL/CULTURAL HISTORY ***** Intensive examination of the literature of intellectual and cultural history, with emphasis on 19th century America. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Haskell

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: INTRODUCTION TO WORLD HISTORY ***** Graduate reading seminar in world history. ***** Instructor(s): Ward

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1

Description: GRADUATE READING ***** Graduate reading in conjunction with another course. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1

Description: GRADUATE READING ***** Graduate reading in conjunction with another course. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1

Description: GRADUATE READING ***** Graduate reading in conjunction with another course. ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: THE AMERICAN SOUTH ***** Graduate reading seminar on major scholarly literature of southern history. Includes readings, discussions, and a major paper on historiographical topic decided in consultation with the instructor. ***** Course not offered 2004-2005. ***** Instructor(s): Boles

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 4

Description: ADVANCED MUSEUM STUDIES ***** Course not offered 2004-2005 ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 9 TO 12

Description: PH.D RESEARCH ***** Research for doctoral dissertation. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.