Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: MODERN EUROPE, 1450-1789

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: MODERN EUROPE, 1789-PRESENT

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: WORLD HISTORY SINCE 1492

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: AMERICA TO 1848

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Survey of North America from 1500 to the conclusion of the Mexican War.

Long Title: THE UNITED STATES, 1848 TO THE PRESENT

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A continuation of HIST 117 (though 117 is not a prerequisite) surveying the social, political, cultural, and economic history of the United States from the end of the Mexican War to the present.

Long Title: FRESHMAN SEMINAR: THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar traces the history and 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 and at what costs Israeli and Palestinian nationalism's have been constructed and analyzes U.S. involvement in the conflict. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FSEM 144.

Long Title: FRESHMAN SEMINAR: THE HERO AND HIS COMPANION FROM GILGAMESH TO SAM SPADE

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FSEM 151.

Long Title: FRESHMAN SEMINAR: LEGENDARY AMERICANS

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Exploration of popular myths surrounding larger-than-life figures like Davy Crockett and Harriet Tubman. Specific figures vary. Through scholarly readings and analysis of cultural artifacts ling songs and films, we will consider why and how such figures become iconic and explore the relations between history, biography, and memory. This course is limited to first year students only, any other students will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FSEM 159.

Long Title: FRESHMAN SEMINAR: THE USES OF THE PAST

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FSEM 161.

Long Title: FRESHMAN SEMINAR: BROWN V. BOARD

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A first year seminar examining the origins and legacies of the civil rights case that all but defined the parameters of modern American society and race relations. Where did the case come from? How was it argued and decided: What have been its consequences? This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FSEM 163.

Long Title: FRESHMAN SEMINAR: THE FRENCH REVOLUTION-HISTORIES AND LEGACIES

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Freshman seminar will focus on the French Revolution and the era of Napoleon Bonaparte, 1789-1815. Lectures address three main topics: the history of the Revolution and its main actors; the diverging interpretations offered by historians; and the multiple legacies of the revolutionary period in the modern era. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FSEM 165.

Long Title: NEWTON AND THE 18TH CENTURY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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 and the complex legacy of his thought in other 18th century thinkers: Locke, Leibniz, Boerhaave, Voltaire, D'Alembert, Hume, Maupertuis, Buffon, Kant, Priestley, Blake and Goethe. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FSEM 167.

Long Title: FRESHMAN SEMINAR: TERROR AND AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: From the Murder of James Byrd. From the early 1880's to 1978, lynch mobs murdered nearly 5,000 African-Americans Terror and black responses to it have shaped nearly every aspect of African American history. Seminar examines black society, politics, gender, and culture in the 20th century America against the backdrop of racial violence. This course is limited to first year students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FSEM 176.

Long Title: FRESHMAN SEMINAR: VESPUCCI'S MAP?

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Part history of cartography; part historical detective work, this seminar will examine the first maps of the Americas and consider if an anonymous map of c. 1502-1506 might have been drawn by Amerigo Vespucci, whose influential letters shaped European thinking about the new world. This course is limited to first-year students only, any others will be removed. Cross-list: FSEM 177.

Long Title: THE ATLANTIC WORLD: ORIGINS TO THE AGE OF REVOLUTION

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Credit may not be received for both HIST 188 and HIST 388. Equivalency: HIST 388. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HIST 188 if student has credit for HIST 388.

Long Title: ANCIENT EMPIRES: ORIGINS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATIONS

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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, Persians, Greeks, and Romans examined with consideration given to strengths and weaknesses of contributions to the modern world.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL CIVILIZATION I: THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Cross-list: MDST 202.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL CIVILIZATION: THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Cross-list: MDST 203.

Long Title: SECULAR JUDAISM

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The course examines the intersection and cross-section of secular Judaism and Jewish secularism from the seventeenth century until today. Is Judaism maintained or rejected in its secularization? Has secularization welcomed or rejected Judaism? Our discussions take a historical perspective to yield perspectives on their future. Cross-list: RELI 204.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO ASIAN CIVILIZATIONS

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A team-taught interdisciplinary course focusing on certain major philosophical, religious and artistic traditions of pre-modern Asia, with an emphasis on the historical processes by which ideas, people, products, technologies and skills circulated within and beyond state boundaries. Cross-list: ASIA 211, HART 211.

Long Title: ATHLETES ONE AND ALL: THE BIRTH OF MASS SPORT IN ANCIENT GREECE AND ITS REBIRTH IN THE MODERN WEST

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will offer an introduction to Greek sport in its societal context, will explore how Greek sport has influenced modern-day sport in the Western World, and will consider how our own experience of sport helps shed light on the realities of sport in ancient Greece. Cross-list: GREE 203.

Long Title: CARIBBEAN NATION BUILDING

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Credit may not be received for both HIST 214 and HIST 314. Equivalency: HIST 314. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HIST 214 if student has credit for HIST 314.

Long Title: BLACKS IN THE AMERICAS

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Comparative survey of black people in the Americas from the late 15th century to the present examines the Atlantic slave trade, the movement toward slave emancipation in various countries, and 19th century black self-help efforts. Course also concentrates on economic and social conditions for blacks in the 20th and 21st centuries. Credit may not be received for both HIST 215 and HIST 315. Equivalency: HIST 315. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HIST 215 if student has credit for HIST 315.

Long Title: EUROPE SINCE 1945

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Survey of 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.

Long Title: LATIN AMERICAN CULTURAL TRADITIONS

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A synthetic overview of the emergence of Latin American culture and society beginning with the 16th century encounters and continuing through independence in the 19th century. Discovery, conquest, slavery, family life, religious beliefs, and urban and rural communities are explored through chronicles, visual images, music, and maps.

Long Title: MODERN LATIN AMERICA

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course introduces the student to the history of contemporary Latin America. For the most part political events will provide the periodic framework of the course, but we shall also consider major economic, social and cultural developments to understand the complex social formations that comprise contemporary Latin American societies.

Long Title: HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Survey begins with early human settlement, African-European encounters, and the creation of a slave-based colonial society. Exploring African state formation and British colonial expansion focuses on wars of conquest. The 19C mineral revolution stimulated industrial development. Examines the origins of apartheid, resistance, and liberation and, the challenges of post-apartheid nation-building.

Long Title: AFRICA: ANCIENT THROUGH MODERN

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Survey examines African History over the longue duree, placing persistent historical problems in contexts that span decades, centuries, and millennia. Includes Bantu expansions, development of food systems, politics of Swahili origins, spread of Islam and Christianity, medieval empires, the rise of stateless political complexity, long-distance trade, slavery, colonialism and independence.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN HISTORY: EAST, CENTRAL, AND SOUTHERN AFRICA; EARLY TIMES TO PRESENT

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: History of societies of East, Central and Southern Africa, earliest times to the present. Through primary sources like vocabulary from dead languages, art, archaeological remains, photographs, oral traditions and journalists' accounts, we explore Swahili origins, Great Zimbabwe, African slavery, colonialism, independence, Rwandan genocide and these like ethnicity, gender and poverty.

Long Title: HISTORY OF MODERN SCIENCE

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: TECHNOLOGICAL DISASTERS

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: From the Titanic to Betamax, some technologies become by-words for spectacular failure. Engineers use such disasters as object lessons in how to improve design. Laypeople use them to evaluate unfamiliar technologies. Course combines case studies, guest panels, and class projects to see what disasters say about technology's role in society. Cross-list: ELEC 234.

Long Title: THE WORLD AND THE WEST

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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". Credit may not be received for both HIST 235 and HIST 365. Cross-list: HUMA 235, Equivalency: HIST 365. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HIST 235 if student has credit for HIST 365.

Long Title: NANOTECHNOLOGY: CONTENT AND CONTEXT

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Nanotechnology is science and engineering resulting from the manipulation of matter's most basic building blocks: atoms and molecules. This course is designed for humanities and science students who want to explore the content of nanotechnology, (e.g., the methods of visualization, experimentation, and manufacture, and technical feasibility) with the social context of nanotechnology (issues of ethics, regulation, risk assessment, history, funding, intellectual property, controversy, and conflict). Preference will be given to freshmen and sophomore students. Register for CHEM 235 to receive Group 3 distribution credit; register for ANTH 235 to receive Group 2 distribution credit. You may receive credit only for one group, not both. Cross-list: ANTH 235, CHEM 235. Preference given to freshmen and sophomores.

Long Title: U.S. WOMEN'S HISTORY I: COLONIAL BEGINNINGS TO THE CIVIL WAR

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Cross-list: SWGS 234.

Long Title: U.S. WOMEN'S HISTORY II: CIVIL WAR TO THE PRESENT

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Cross-list: SWGS 235.

Long Title: AMERICAN CIVIL WAR ERA

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Survey of the Civil War era from 1848 to 1876. Topics include the causes of the war; the mobilization of Northern and Southern armies; race, slavery and emancipation; Reconstruction; the Civil War in contemporary popular culture and memory; and the global dimensions of the war and its aftermath.

Long Title: CONTINUITIES AND CHANGES IN BRAZILIAN HISTORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An exploration of themes essential to understanding modern Brazil, such as the origins of a multi-racial society, the transition from monoculture to industry, authoritarian and democratic trends, the emergence of a uniquely Brazilian culture, and the conflicts - environmental, political, and economic - over the development of the Amazon.

Long Title: FAMILY CONFLICT IN AMERICA: 1600s TO THE PRESENT

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An historical overview of family conflict in North America from the colonial period to the present. Focusing on cruelty and violence expressed by husbands, wives, and children, the course explores the complex development of marriage, gender roles, and the family. Cross-list: SWGS 252.

Long Title: THERE'S SOMETHING HAPPENING HERE: A BIOGRAPHICAL APPROACH TO THE 1960s IN AMERICA

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course will explore the decade of the 1960s in the United States by representative figures from the period, such as Robert F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Gloria Steinem, George Wallace, and Richard Nixon.

Long Title: EASTERN EUROPE, 1800 - PRESENT

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The peoples and states of Eastern Europe are varied, but the common experience of these "lands between" has been dominated by Germany to the west and Russia to the east. Course will focus on the emergence of nationalism and socialism, on the ideas of "backwardness" and what is "European."

Long Title: EUROPEAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY, 1890-1945

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: ROME: CITY AND EMPIRE

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Cross-list: CLAS 202, HART 215.

Long Title: NORTH AMERICA IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION, 1763-1789

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An overview of the American Revolution from its beginning as a colonial protest to its transformation into a movement seeking independence from Britain. Also examines differences over the meaning and legacy of the Revolution in the new Republic, with consideration of its significance for the Atlantic World as well.

Long Title: AMERICAN SLAVERY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Survey on American slavery from the African coast to the plantations of the southern U.S. With attention to cultural and social change within and in response to American slavery, course explores slavery from multiple perspectives with concerns on the role of slavery in making the U.S. as a nation.

Long Title: BONDAGE IN THE MODERN WORLD

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Slavery has re-emerged as a global issue in the 21st century. This course will explore the origins of slavery, convict transportation, indentured servitude and other forms of forced migration from the 17th century onward with examination of the colonial and post-colonial contexts of the Americas, Africa, Asia and Australia.

Long Title: SOUTH AFRICA AND INDONESIA: EMPIRE TO NATION

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: HISTORY OF SOUTH ASIA TO 1857

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Historical survey of cultural, religious, economic and political systems of South Asia from ancient settlements in the Indus River valley, appearance of Aryan-Vedic society, development of world religious systems and global trade networks, rise of Islamic empire, British imperialism, opposition and alliance.

Long Title: HISTORY OF SOUTH ASIA, 1857 TO PRESENT

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course will focus on important issues facing various South Asian countries today. It will engage in a historical overview starting in 1857 until the present and covers topics such as nationalism, partition, gender, communalism, violence, urbanization, globalization, environmental movements and issues of poverty and justice.

Long Title: RAJ AND RESISTANCE

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examination of the development and nature of the British-Indian relationship. From John Company to Company Raj (17th to 10th centuries), British mercantile and imperial ambitions in South Asia were met by indigenous movements of political independence and popular resistance across the subcontinent, in Bengal, Mysore, Punjab, Delhi and beyond.

Long Title: HISTORY OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, 1453-1918

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course surveys the political, social, economic, and cultural history of the Ottoman Empire. Credit may cannot be received for both HIST 277 and HIST 377 Equivalency: HIST 377. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HIST 277 if student has credit for HIST 377.

Long Title: THE ARAB WORLD IN THE 20TH CENTURY, 1918 TO PRESENT

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Survey of the history and culture of the Arab world from World War I to the present. Topics include nationalism, colonialism, modernand Credit may not be received for both HIST 278 and HIST 378. Equivalency: HIST 378. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HIST 278 if student has credit for HIST 378.

Long Title: THE CARIBBEAN IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION, 1770-1820

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Credit may not be received for both HIST 279 and HIST 379. Equivalency: HIST 379. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HIST 279 if student has credit for HIST 379.

Long Title: THE MIDDLE EAST FROM THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD TO SULAYMAN THE MAGNIFICENT

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introduction to the Middle East from the rise of Islam to the middle of the 16th 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. Cross-list: MDST 281.

Long Title: WOMEN IN THE MODERN ISLAMIC WORLD

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Lecture 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. Cross-list: SWGS 283.

Long Title: 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN PRESIDENTS

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course will study the American presidency and the evolving use of executive power from Theodore Roosevelt to Bill Clinton. It will analyze how presidents develop foreign and domestic policy, relate to congress and their cabinets, and lead the nation in wartime.

Long Title: THE AMERICAN SOUTH

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Credit may not be received for both HIST 295 and HIST 395. Equivalency: HIST 395. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HIST 295 if student has credit for HIST 395.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 4

Description: Independent study under the supervision of a history faculty member. Hours are variable. Department Chair's permission required. Department Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: TRADITIONAL CHINESE CULTURE

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An interpretive Introduction to the language, philosophy, religion, art, literature, and social customs of premodern China.

Long Title: THE HELLENISTIC AGE: ALEXANDER TO AUGUSTUS

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: We examine the art, architecture, and cultural history of the Hellenistic Age, from Alexander the Great (d. 323 BC) until the death of Cleopatra (31 BC). During this period a brilliant Greek-based culture developed from the Mediterranean to the Indus Valley, transforming Greeks, Persians, Jews, Romans and many others. Cross-list: CLAS 313, HART 313.

Long Title: IMPERIAL ROME FROM CAESAR TO DIOCLETIAN

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: THE WORLD OF LATE ANTIQUITY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Cross-list: MDST 308.

Long Title: CONTEMPORARY CHINA

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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 Special Administrative Region (SAR) of Hong Kong, the Republic of China on Taiwan, and overseas Chinese communities throughout the world. Equivalency: HIST 220.

Long Title: MODERN MEXICO

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: CARIBBEAN NATION BUILDING

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Enriched version of HIST 214. May not receive credit for both HIST 214 and 314. Equivalency: HIST 214. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HIST 314 if student has credit for HIST 214.

Long Title: BLACKS IN THE AMERICAS

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Enriched version of HIST 215. May not receive credit for both HIST 215 and 315. Equivalency: HIST 215. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HIST 315 if student has credit for HIST 215.

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Lecture discussion. Course focuses on Jewish and Christian communities in the medieval Islamic world. Topics include legal status of non-Muslims, social life, economic life, distinctive developments in religious thought in Islamic context, dynamics among communities, shared culture through the medium of Arabic, distinctive features in comparison with medieval Europe. Cross-list: CLAS 318.

Long Title: AMERICAN RELIGIOUS HISTORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course covers the wide variety of American religious experiences, from the pre-contact period to the early Republic. Consideration will be given to Indian and African religious practices in North America as well as European Christianities.

Long Title: FORTUNE-TELLERS AND PHILOSOPHERS: THE ROLE OF DIVINATION IN CHINESE HISTORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An examination of the way that fortune-telling beliefs and practices - including the use of "oracle bones," consultation of the Yijing (Classic of Changes), physiognomy, spirit-writing, and fengshui - have evolved over 3000 years in China. Attention will also be given to the way these practices have traveled to other countries and cultures. Equivalency: HIST 219.

Long Title: IMPERIAL GARDENS: A CULTURAL COMPARATIVE

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course will examine the design and development of gardens (primarily those of the Islamic world - Al Andalus, the Middle East, Persia, Central and South Asia) and their use as political and religious metaphors, havens for meditation, stages of imperial performance and ritual, sites of social interaction, and affirmations of power and legitimacy.

Long Title: POVERTY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE IN LATIN AMERICA

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course surveys the economic, political, social, environmental and geographic origins of poverty and inequality in Latin American countries since independence. It compares welfare policies to promote social justices across these nations and examines their different outcomes in historical perspective.

Long Title: ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE AND THE ORIGINS OF AFRO AMERICA

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An examination of black society, culture, and politics from the late 15th century through the late 18th century (focusing geographically on the Caribbean, and on black life within the present limits of what is now Mexico and the United States).

Long Title: CARIBBEAN HISTORY TO 1838

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: CARIBBEAN HISTORY 1838 TO PRESENT

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: HUMANIST TRADITIONS AND ITS CRITICS

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: BEAUTY AND THE BODY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Class explores what bodies have meant in the West, and how those meanings have changed over time. Study how self-presentation (bodily, sartorial, cosmetic) has been used and examine what beauty ideals have been over the past centuries, and the means by which elites and ordinary people have strived to realize them. Cross-list: SWGS 339.

Long Title: HISTORY OF FEMINISM

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Explores feminism as political thought and social movement in various times and places. Readings will include classic as well as non-canonical texts, consider the historical contexts of feminist action, and examine controversies over and within feminisms. Cross-list: SWGS 345.

Long Title: PRE-MODERN CHINA

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Survey of Chinese history from antiquity to c.1800, highlighting major themes, issues, personalities and events.

Long Title: MODERN CHINA

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A survey of Chinese history from c. 1800 to the present, focusing on the related themes of imperialism, nationalism, modernization and revolution.

Long Title: DARWIN, MARX AND CONFUCIUS

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Provides students with an opportunity to examine the history of Africa in modern museums through readings, discussions, and analyses of exhibits. Cross-list: ASIA 343.

Long Title: RENAISSANCE EUROPE

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Cross-list: MDST 345.

Long Title: WOMEN, SEX, AND RIGHTS IN EUROPE

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examination of the political and cultural discussions of the "woman question" in 19th century Europe. Includes the role of 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. Cross-list: SWGS 420.

Long Title: AMERICA, 1900-1940

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Survey of major economic, social, and political developments in the United States from 1900 to 1940.

Long Title: AMERICA SINCE 1945

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Survey of major economic, social and political developments in the United States since 1945.

Long Title: HISTORY OF THE COLD WAR

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course will cover Russo-American relations from the end of World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 --profiling the major policymakers and world leaders and exploring not only the diplomatic and military operations but also the cultural landscape of the Cold War.

Long Title: RAINBOW FAMILIES: MULTIRACIAL AND TRANSNATIONAL ADOPTION SINCE 1945

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course will look closely at the concept of the multiracial adopted family, including Josephine Baker's Rainbow Tribe and "Brangelina's" postmodern assemblage, adoption as religious practice and adoption as political metaphor, and the DeBolts, the McCains, and everything in-between.

Long Title: GERMAN HISTORY, 1648-1890

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Survey of "Germanies" from the rise of absolutist state following the Thirty Years' War to the unification of Germany in 1871. Includes the development of the bureaucratic and military institutions of the modern state, changing conceptions of state and society, and the major social and economic changes of the period. Taught in English. Cross-list: GERM 344.

Long Title: FROM DEMOCRACY TO DICTATORSHIP: GERMAN HISTORY 1890-1945

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: From 1890-1945, Germans experienced dramatic changes in their political environment. This lecture class will examine these changes, taking into account not only political history, but also attempts to come to terms with the challenges posed by organized capitalism, the rise and fall of socialism, the development of an interventionists state, cultural critique, and political culture, the Nazi social revolution, and the Holocaust. Taught in English. Cross-list: GERM 345.

Long Title: AFTER NAZISM: GERMAN HISTORY, 1945 - PRESENT

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: EARLY EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY FROM AUGUSTINE TO DESCARTES

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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 beginning of the "Scientific Revolution" in the 17th century. Cross-list: MDST 358.

Long Title: HUMOR AND ENTERTAINMENT IN ISLAMIC SOCIETIES

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course investigates humor and entertainment in Islamic societies from the early Islamic period to the 20th century. We will read and discuss texts from the Arabic, Persian, and Turkish literary traditions, and analyze their genres and entertainment values. Cross-list: RELI 358.

Long Title: EMPIRE AND FILM

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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". Recommended prerequisite(s): Some previous work in either history or film.

Long Title: BRITAIN FROM HENRY VIII TO THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, 1509-1815

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: BRITAIN FROM THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION TO GORDON BROWN, 1815-PRESENT

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: CENTRAL ASIAN CONQUEST EMPIRES

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course examines the rise of Chingis Khan and Mongol Steppe society (religion, role of women, cultural exchange, strategies of violence, imperial ideologies) as well as successor empires: Yuan, Golden Horde, Ilkhanid and eventually that ruled by Timur/Tamerlane, who reproduced Mongol imperial power in Central Asia and India. Cross-list: MDST 364.

Long Title: THE WORLD AND THE WEST

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Enriched version of HIST 235. Students may not receive credit for both HIST 235 and 365. Equivalency: HIST 235. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HIST 365 if student has credit for HIST 235/HUMA 235.

Long Title: AMERICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Exploration of American political, cultural, and religious involvement in the Middle East. Contents vary.

Long Title: EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY: BACON TO HEGEL

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: HISTORY OF MODERN FRANCE

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of transformations in French society, culture, and politics from the French Revolution to the end of the 20th century. Taught in English.

Long Title: IMMIGRATION AND THE STATE: 19TH & 20TH CENTURY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: How did modern states organize and regulate immigration in the modern era? Lecture course explores the comparative history of labor migration and forced displacement from the point of view of state policies: United States and Western Europe from 1800 to the present.

Long Title: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT IN 19TH CENTURY EUROPE

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Social and political thinkers of the 19th century confronted revolutionary change in both politics and society: the demand for democracy as well as the challenges associated with industrial capitalism. Course combines lectures with discussion of original sources, including Smith, Mill, Marx, Proudhon, Wollstonecraft, and Weber.

Long Title: EUROPEAN ROMANTICISM, 1750-1850

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: NATURAL DISASTERS IN THE CARIBBEAN

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Natural disasters have had a profound impact on the Caribbean. This course examines how hurricanes, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions affected aspects of the region's economy, political system, and social structure from colonial times to the present. Also explores opportunities these disasters presented for strengthening local institutions and promoting development.

Long Title: HISTORY OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, 1453-1918

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Enriched version of HIST 277. May not receive credit for both HIST 277 and 377. Equivalency: HIST 277. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HIST 377 if student has credit for HIST 277.

Long Title: THE ARAB WORLD IN THE 20TH CENTURY, 1918-PRESENT

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Enriched version of HIST 278. May not receive credit for both HIST 278 and 378. Equivalency: HIST 278. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HIST 378 if student has credit for HIST 278.

Long Title: THE CARIBBEAN IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION, 1770-1820

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An enriched version of HIST 279. Students may not receive credit for both HIST 279 and 379. Equivalency: HIST 279. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HIST 379 if student has credit for HIST 279.

Long Title: GOD, TIME AND HISTORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: How is the passage of time given meaning, and what roll - 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 - the cultures in which modern ideas of history began. Cross-list: RELI 385.

Long Title: RECENT U.S. FOREIGN POLICY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: LIFE ON THE NILE

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: THE ATLANTIC WORLD: ORIGINS TO THE AGE OF REVOLUTION

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Enriched version of HIST 188. Students may not receive credit for both HIST 188 and 388. Equivalency: HIST 188. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HIST 388 if student has credit for HIST 188.

Long Title: MIGRATIONS AND DIASPORAS IN THE INDIAN OCEAN WORLD

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Course introduces the region by examining societies and empires shaped by voyages of exploration, religious pilgrimages, trading diasporas and forced migration. Cross-list: ASIA 389.

Long Title: THE AMERICAN SOUTH

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An enriched version of HIST 295. May not receive credit for both HIST 295 and 395. Equivalency: HIST 295. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HIST 395 if student has credit for HIST 295.

Long Title: THE RISE OF TRANSNATIONAL ACTIVISM

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Interdisciplinary exploration of the historical roots of contemporary transnational social movements. Topics include the history of globalization; the concept of world citizenship; the origins of transnational activism in the antislavery and women's suffrage movements; the development of international norms and institutions; and the contested ideals of patriotism and cosmopolitanism.

Long Title: TOPICS IN LEGAL HISTORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course on selected topics in legal history. Contents vary. Cross-list: SWGS 398.

Long Title: HONORS THESIS

Department: History

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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 Permission Required.

Long Title: HONORS THESIS

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): HIST 403

Description: Continuation of HIST 403, which is prerequisite for enrollment. Completion of this course is required to obtain credit for HIST 403.

Long Title: THEMES IN RUSSIAN HISTORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar will focus on recent historical literature on the formation of the Soviet state, 1914-1932: World War One, the revolutions of 1917, the civil war, the consolidation of the Bolshevik regime, and Stalinization. Readings will include recent work on social, cultural, and economic history, along with original documents.

Long Title: GREAT JOURNEYS: FROM MARCO POLO TO MARK TWAIN

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Why, how, where, and with what consequence were great journeys undertaken? Seminar explores the global history of long-distance travel and encounter from the 13th to the 19th century. Evolutions in travel literature and cartography considered with the shifting boundaries of the "known" and "civilized" world. Special focus on non-Western perspectives.

Long Title: FROM EMPIRE TO NATION STATES: THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar explores the transformation of the Middle East in 19th and early 20th centuries through themes and debates of state and nation formation, religion and modernity, secularization, urban reforms, and gender. Concentrates on various approaches to this period, when the political, social, economic, and cultural dynamics of today's Middle East were formed.

Long Title: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Recommended prerequisite(s): Some background in either British history or one of the areas impacted by the British.

Long Title: SEMINAR IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An examination of the exigencies of African American life from the Reagan era to the age of Obama. 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.

Long Title: PERSPECTIVES ON SILICON VALLEY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examines the history of microelectronics, biotechnology, and the software industry through the lens of Silicon Valley. Topics include: the role of universities and government in innovation; labor and environmental issues; growth of Bay Area venture capital and libertarian technophilia; and other regions' use of Silicon Valley as a model.

Long Title: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & COLD WAR

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Research seminar will examine the mobilization of science and engineering in World War II and the ensuing confrontation between capitalism and communism. Topics include the Nuclear Age, science and diplomacy, the new American university, scientists and McCarthyism, the space race, social-ism and social science, and the counterculture in environmentalism, biotechnology and computing.

Long Title: RACE, EDUCATION AND SOCIETY IN THE URBAN SOUTH

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An examination of urban life and education since the decision in Brown v. Board. Seminar focuses on the Brown cases, the development of the post war city in the context of American race relations, the course of court-ordered desegregation, and the impact of recent reforms on urban schools and neighborhoods.

Long Title: SEMINAR TOPICS IN THE HISTORY OF RICE UNIVERSITY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Research seminar on selected topics in the history of the university, with papers to be based on primary sources in the Woodson Research Center of Fondren Library and/or oral interviews. Topics will include academic departments and schools, student life, administrative evolution, community involvement, and Rice in a comparative context.

Long Title: AMERICAN RADICALS AND REFORMERS

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar on radicals and reformers in American history. Readings vary and will focus on a selected group of reformers, such as abolitionists, labor radicals, socialists, feminists, pacifists, Progressives, environmentalists, or health reformers. Students may conduct original research for a thesis-driven paper related to course themes.

Long Title: RAJ AND RESISTANCE

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examination of the development and nature of the British-Indian relationship. From John Company to Company Raj (17th to 20th centuries), British mercantile and imperial ambitions in South Asia were met by indigenous movements of political independence and popular resistance across the subcontinent, in Bengal, Mysore, Punjab, Delhi and beyond.

Long Title: 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN CONSERVATION MOVEMENT

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Exploration of the American conservation movement from Pres. Theodore Roosevelt, Sierra Club founder John Muir, and Chief of the U.S. Forest Service Gifford Pinchot to naturalists John Burroughs and John Perkins Marsh - focusing on their work in context of current issues in global warming, and wetlands restoration.

Long Title: COMPARATIVE SLAVERY AND RACE RELATIONS IN THE AMERICAS

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: HISTORY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, 1954 TO THE PRESENT

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: THE WEIMER REPUBLIC

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Taught in English. Cross-list: ARTS 386, GERM 331.

Long Title: ISLAM IN SOUTH ASIA

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Cross-list: ASIA 432, SWGS 432.

Long Title: THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: ISLAM AND THE WEST: CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS?

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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 are "invented" by relationships between civilization and despotism, freedom and tyranny, religious tolerance and holy war.

Long Title: COLONIALISM AND NATIONALISM IN THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): HIST 278 OR HIST 378 OR HIST 281 OR HIST 283 OR HIST 387

Description: 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.

Long Title: AMERICA IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): (HIST 278 OR HIST 378) OR HIST 281 OR HIST 283 OR HIST 387

Description: Seminar explores evolution of American involvement in the Middle East from missionary origins in the early 19th century to superpower hegemony in the 20th. Putting into perspective central issues such as the U.S. role in the Arab-Israeli conflict, the question of terrorism, and the U.S. invasion/occupation of Iraq in 2003.

Long Title: WOMEN, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY IN MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC SOCIETIES

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examination of some features of 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 the family and sexual ethics, the harem, polygamy, divorce, and eunuchs (who played an important role in both the military and in certain religious institutions). Cross-list: MDST 438, SWGS 455.

Long Title: COMPARATIVE SLAVERY FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT: AFRICA, ASIA, AND EUROPE

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar 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.

Long Title: HISTORY OF THE LABORATORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Follows the development of a distinctive laboratory setting and its impact on the credibility and influence of science. Topics include: the alchemists' workshop; amateur and professional astronomical observatories; physics in the Victorian country home; postwar particle accelerators; the corporate research lab; and the "field' and city as laboratory.

Long Title: THE RENAISSANCE IN EUROPEAN HISTORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HIST 542.

Long Title: MULTICULTURAL EUROPE

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The art of Europe was never the product of a single culture working in isolation. This seminar will explore the multicultural aspects of medieval and early modern Europe by focusing on the visual culture of groups who defined themselves or are today defined by nationality, race, or religion. Cross-list: HART 435, MDST 435.

Long Title: SCIENCE AND EMPIRE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar will focus on the role of science/technology in constructing European nations and empires with particular attention to spacial control, contact zones between different cultures, and the colonial machinery. Imaginary voyages offer unique insights into the process of imagining nations and building global empires.

Long Title: HISTORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: KARL MARX IN CONTEXT

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar examines the stages of Marx's thought from 1841 to 1881. Topics include Hegelianism, Feuerbach, the break with ethical thought, the "discovery" of the proletariat, the party, the commodity, the working day, the crisis of capitalism, and alternative models of development.

Long Title: TOPICS IN MODERN GERMAN HISTORY:

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar on selected topics in the history of Germany. Seminar on selected topics in the history of Germany. Topic for Spring 2012: State-Formation, Industrialization, and Power: Germany, 1860-1900. Looks at the remarkable transformation of the German lands from a set of scattered states to a unified nation-state, from backwardness to industrial power. Focus on social history and political and social thought. Taught in English. Taught in English. Cross-list: GERM 332.

Long Title: ADVANCED SEMINAR IN ANCIENT HISTORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): HIST 201 AND HIST 307 or permission of instructor

Description: Seminar on selected topics in ancient history. Contents vary.

Long Title: THE SECOND WORLD WAR: A POLITICAL HISTORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: World War Two was not just a military conflict, but also a violent political and social struggle. Seminar explores the main ideologies and political blueprints devised during the war in the United States, Western and Eastern Europe.

Long Title: RECENT U.S. FOREIGN POLICY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar of American foreign policy during the Cold War.

Long Title: FROM ROANOKE TO JAMESTOWN

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar on the English colonization of North American from 1850 to 1625. Topics include English ideologies of colonization, Indian responses to the English invasion at Roanoke, and in the Chesapeake, and the controversy over the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown in 2007. Limited enrollment.

Long Title: SEMINAR TOPICS IN MODERN FRENCH HISTORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Research seminar on selected topics in modern French history. Contents vary.

Long Title: CLUBS, ASSOCIATIONS AND GUANXI NETWORKS IN CHINESE SOCIETY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The use of network analysis is a new and effective way to study history. Seminar will look at poetry clubs, secret societies, political parties and other social formations, and plot graphs of the linkage between their members, in an effort to understand China from the imperial times to the most recent decade.

Long Title: SEMINAR TOPICS IN EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Research seminar on selected topics in modern European intellectual history. Contents vary.

Long Title: FRENCH INTELLECTUALS

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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 the world of French intellectuals and their role in the 20th Century.

Long Title: INTELLECTUALS AND POLITICS IN THE 20TH CENTURY EUROPE

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar explores intellectuals in politics throughout the 20th Century, investigating the figure of the "committed intellectual" and its attraction to revolution, fascism, anti-colonialism, human rights and anti-globalization. Special emphasis given to Emile Zola, Rosa Luxemburg, Maxime Gorki, Jean Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Susan Sontag, Vaclav Havel, and Edward Said.

Long Title: TOPICS LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar on selected topics in Latin American history. Contents vary.

Long Title: HISTORY: BIOLOGICAL APPROACHES

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar on the history of medicine, demography, health and nutrition. Course will acquaint students with importance of biology in explaining the history of the world and writing of history from outside the discipline. Content will focus on general histories of human societies and studies drawn from nutrition, anthropology and economics.

Long Title: HISTORY AND PUBLIC POLICY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar in economic history and historical political economy. Students will become acquainted with the analytical tools and quantitative techniques of public policy analysis through the examination of historical case studies, and the range of public policy issues that confronted 19th century policy makers in Latin America and the United States.

Long Title: HEALTH AND WELFARE DURING INDUSTRIALIZATION

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar explores the changing state of human welfare during industrialization by looking at the evolution of living standards in comparative international perspective. Comparing and contrasting experiences around the world from a broad perspective of indicators: region, timing of industrialization, nature of government policy, pace of change and cultural circumstances.

Long Title: DICTATORS, POPULISTS AND REBELS

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar examines the political history of Latin America since Independence by looking at the personalities of its most distinctive dictators, populist and revolutionary leaders such as Pinochet, Trujillo, Chavez, Peron, Che Guevara, Castro, Zapata and Villa among others, within the context of the institutions and organizations of each nation.

Long Title: SEX, LIES AND DEPOSITIONS: MICROHISTORIES OF VIRGINIA COUNTY COURT RECORDS

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Court records are fascinating sources for understanding the ordinary and extraordinary experiences of early Virginians. Students will read 17th and early 18th century court records and write a research paper based on selected court cases, learning the historian's craft of researching and writing about the past.

Long Title: BLACK FEMINISM, THEORY AND HISTORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar investigates the experiences of black women in the United States from the gendered origins of racial slavery in the British North American colonies, through 19th century slavery and into the Black Power movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Focus will be on black women's words, ideas and deeds. Cross-list: SWGS 487.

Long Title: COLONIAL MODERNITY IN EAST ASIA

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: History of ideas, treaties, market and corporate strategies in imperialist and anti-imperialist movement in East Asia in 19th, 20th centuries. Uses theories of colonialism and specific case studies of fashion, architecture, mass media, urban planning, etc., to define colonial modernity transnationally. Three analytic essays and one research paper. Cross-list: ASIA 490.

Long Title: UNDERSTANDING SECTARIANISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar will examine the validity of the notion of age-old religious and tribal violence in the region, relate the nature of religious violence in the Ottoman Empire to Zionism in Palestine and sectarianism in Lebanon, and analyze the sectarian struggle in contemporary Iraq in light of the American occupation.

Long Title: GENDER HISTORIES OF MODERN CHINA

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar course, with some lectures, considers conceptual tools (gynotechnics, globalization, representation, etc.) in Late Imperial/20th Century China thru femininity-masculinity. Late Qing gender order through revolutionary eras Party state formation, Great Transformations of late 20th and early 21st centuries. Visual culture, film, primary texts, secondary histories readings. Cross-listed with ASIA 492 and SWGS 492. Cross-list: ASIA 492, SWGS 492.

Long Title: GREAT ISLAMIC EMPIRES OF THE EARLY MODERN AGE

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal and Uzbek Empires shared similar origins but each developed distinct imperial understandings of power and legitimacy, gender, religion, aesthetics. This seminar is a comparative and cross- regional study of early modern Islamic culture and society, its inspiration and legacy.

Long Title: MUGHAL HISTORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar on 16th century Central Asia Muslim Turks who conquered India and, in collusion with local political and social forces developed a sophisticated syncretic royal culture. Readings include memoirs and letters of the royal family, Hindu courtiers, visiting Jesuit priests, European merchants and Ottoman adventurers, examining religion, art, women, family, war and diplomacy.

Long Title: COMPARATIVE MODERNIZATION OF CHINA AND JAPAN

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Research seminar examining not only the respective modernizing experiences of Japan and China in the 19th and 20th centuries, but also the way that developments in one country influenced developments in the other.

Long Title: A TURBULENT TIME: THE WORLD OF THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: PROJECTS IN AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar in which participants propose and execute a collaborative project in Afro-American history. Work will culminate with a substantive piece of public history (group publication, exhibit, broadcast, or electronic document, for example). For further information, or to suggest a possible project, contact the instructor. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: DIRECTED READINGS

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Graduate level, independent readings course. Topics vary. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: DIRECTED READINGS

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Graduate level, independent reading course. Topics vary. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: CIVILIZING MISSIONS

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: The development of "civilizing missions" legitimized territorial and spiritual conquest and validated the suppression of subject customs, cultures, and religions. Graduate reading seminar 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.

Long Title: COMPARATIVE EMPIRES

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: 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).

Long Title: BEAUTY AND THE BODY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Class explores what bodies have meant in the West, especially the United States, how beauty has been idealized, how those meanings and ideals have changed over time, and why. Work will move between the study of bodily norms and ideals as promulgated by the powerful and self-presentation by the ordinary. Cross-list: SWGS 538.

Long Title: ORIGINS OF AFRO AMERICA

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Graduate research seminar focused on central issues in the articulation of black society, culture, and labor in the Americas from the 15th century to the early 19th century.

Long Title: INDUSTRIALIZATING AMERICA

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Seminar will examine, through readings and discussion, the transformation of the United States under the impact of industrialization from 1870 through World War I. Topics include labor, immigration, feminism, the social gospel, Progressivism, the Great Migration of African Americans from the South, and the rise and fall of Victorian culture.

Long Title: THE RENAISSANCE IN EUROPEAN HISTORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Graduate version of HIST 442. Students may not receive credit for both HIST 442 and HIST 542. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HIST 442.

Long Title: TOPICS IN MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Graduate research seminar on selected themes in modern European history. Topic Spring 2010: Examination of the politics, society, and economics of the German Empire, with special focus on political organization and thought, socialist and Catholic challenges, and the role of minorities in German society. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: MAX WEBER

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: 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.

Long Title: WOMEN AND GENDER: EUROPE AND BEYOND

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Graduate seminar exploring recent work in key areas of research on women and gender: nationalisms; 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 Britain, India, Africa, Netherlands, Indonesia, France, and Germany. Cross-list: SWGS 545.

Long Title: KARL MARX IN CONTEXT

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Graduate seminar focuses on reading key works of Marx in the context of post-idealist philosophy, German politics, European social thought, and industrialization. Undergraduates permitted with permission of instructor.

Long Title: MAIN ISSUES IN CARIBBEAN HISTORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Examination of the major local and international forces and ideas that have shaped the course of the history of the Caribbean.

Long Title: GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Class proceeds from the assumption that ideas about the roles of women, men and sexuality inform human behavior and human societies. Questions include did ideas about gender and sexuality shape the American South? How did notions of gender and sexuality interact with ideas about race?

Long Title: HUMAN RIGHTS

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Graduate 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.

Long Title: NATIONALISM: THEORIES, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, AND BODIES

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: The study of nationalism has taken us from debates within Marxist theory and social history to pivotal cross-disciplinary scholarship on cultures, sexualities, and race. This graduate seminar will read classics as well as explore recent work. Participants may write a research paper or historiographical essay.

Long Title: MIGRATION AND DISPLACEMENT IN MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Seminar investigates the historiography of migration in European history, from the point of view of labor immigration, forced displacement and political exile. Exploration of how nation-states have invited, categorized, regulated and repelled various types of European migrants since the end of the 19th century.

Long Title: AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES RESEARCH SEMINAR

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Interdisciplinary graduate research seminar in African American studies. Contents vary. Cross-list: RELI 552.

Long Title: GRADUATE TOPICS IN EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Graduate research seminar on selected themes in European intellectual history. Contents vary. Reading knowledge of German is not required, but definitely advantageous.

Long Title: SHAPING OF THE POST-WAR ORDER, 1945-1955

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Seminar examines how a new "post-war order" emerged in the U.S. and Western Europe during the decade following WWII. Emphasis on international and domestic features: rise of international institutions, welfare states and planning, ethnic cleansing and population management, effects of the Marshall Plan and Americanization, European integration and race relations.

Long Title: NORTH AMERICA, 1500-1800

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Overview of historical literature pertaining to British North America and the Atlantic World from 1500 to 1800. Related topics in Spanish and French North America also considered. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: RACE IN EARLY AMERICA

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Graduate research seminar focusing on the complicated and often perilous history of race as a concept in early North America.

Long Title: GRADUATE READING SEMINAR IN POST-1945 U.S. HISTORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Readings seminar for graduate students on post-1945 United States history. Contents vary. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: TOPICS IN MODERN FRENCH HISTORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Readings seminar for graduate students in modern French history. Contents vary.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO DOCTORAL STUDIES

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: 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 Permission Required.

Long Title: PEDAGOGY SEMINAR

Department: History

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 2

Description: For ABD students who intend to teach.

Long Title: THE LUSO-ATLANTIC WORLD

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Graduate seminar traces the rise of Brazil in the south Atlantic of the 16th-19th centuries. Topics include: discoveries and encounters, go-betweens and colonization, slavery and the slave trade, the rise of sugar coffee plantations, patters of family life, the development of frontiers, religion, and the abolition of slavery.

Long Title: BRITISH AND IMPERIAL HISTORY, I

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Reading seminar in British and Imperial History. Open to all graduate students. Required for graduate students in British history.

Long Title: BRITISH AND IMPERIAL HISTORY, II

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Continuation of HIST 581.

Long Title: SOUTHERN HISTORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Graduate seminar on religion and slavery in the Old South.

Long Title: THE EARLY SOUTH, 1600 - 1800

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Graduate research seminar focusing on the southern portions of colonial British North America.

Long Title: METHODS IN U.S. CULTURAL HISTORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Research seminar on American cultural/intellectual history, with emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Contents vary. Research paper required.

Long Title: 19TH CENTURY AMERICA

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Graduate readings seminar on American history from the early republic to World War I. Contents vary.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO WORLD HISTORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Graduate reading seminar in world history.

Long Title: GRADUATE READING

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1

Description: Graduate reading in conjunction with another course. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: THE AMERICAN SOUTH

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: 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.

Long Title: ADVANCED MUSEUM STUDIES

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Repeatable for credit. Offered as necessary. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: MASTER'S THESIS RESEARCH

Department: History

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Research for master's thesis. Must take both HIST 601 and 602 to receive credit. Offered as necessary.

Long Title: MASTER'S THESIS RESEARCH

Department: History

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Continuation of HIST 601. Must complete both HIST 601 and 602 to receive credit.

Long Title: PH.D. RESEARCH

Department: History

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 9 TO 12

Description: Research for doctoral dissertation. Repeatable for Credit.