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 Israeli and Palestinian nationalisms have been constructed and analyzes U.S. involvement in the conflict. 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. Cross-list: FSEM 151.

Long Title: FRESHMAN SEMINAR: THOMAS JEFFERSON, THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, AND THE USES OF THE PAST

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar will focus on three dimensions of Thomas Jefferson's life and legacy: first, what he said and did in the American Revolution; second, how he has been understood by historians; and third, how his words, ideas, and actions have been used by successive generations of Americans. This course is limited to first years students only, any others will be removed from this course. Cross-list: FSEM 160.

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. 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? 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. Cross-list: FSEM 165.

Long Title: FRESHMAN SEMINAR: RELIGION AND VIOLENCE

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar explores the nexus of religion and violence as it appears in sacred traditions, as it played out historically, and as it occurs in the contemporary world. Discussions and readings include sociological, psychological, philosophical, and political approaches to religion itself, to violence in general, and particularly religious violence. Cross-list: FSEM 170, RELI 170.

Long Title: FRESHMAN SEMINAR: SOUTHERN REBELS

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The "South" is often understood to be the most conservative region in the U.S. Seminar will use selected autobiographical texts by "southern rebels" to challenge that idea, and examine the tradition of dissent in the culture and history of the American South. Cross-list: FSEM 173.

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 1880s to 1968, lynch mobs murdered nearly 5,000 African-Americans. Terror and black responses to it have shaped nearly every aspect of African American history. This seminar examines black society, politics, gender, and culture in 20th century America against the backdrop of racial violence. Cross-list: FSEM 176.

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: 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: INTRODUCTION TO ASIAN CIVILIZATIONS

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introduction to the great cultural traditions of Asia, past and present, with emphasis on evolving religious and philosophical traditions, artistic and literary achievements, and patterns of political, social, and economic change. Cross-list: ASIA 211.

Long Title: AMERICAN THOUGHT AND SOCIETY, I

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Survey of 17th and 18th century American history, with emphasis on intellectual and social developments underlying the surface of events. Credit may not be recieved for both HIST 211 and HIST 311. Equivalency: HIST 311.

Long Title: AMERICAN THOUGHT AND SOCIETY, II

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Continuation of HIST 211. Survey of the 19th and early 20th century American cultural history, stressing developments underlying surface events. May take HIST 211 and HIST 212 separately. Equivalency: HIST 312.

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

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course will examine the way fortune-telling beliefs and practices -- use of "oracle bones", consultation of the "I-ching" (Book of Changes), physiognomy, spirit-writing, fengshui--have evolved over 3000 years in China. Focus will be how these practices have traveled to other countries; and exploring political, social and cultural significances. Credit may not be received for both HIST 219 and HIST 319. Equivalency: HIST 319.

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 newly established Special Administrative Region (SAR) of Hong Kong, the Republic of China on Taiwan, and overseas Chinese communities throughout the world. Credit may not be received for both HIST 220 and HIST 310. Equivalency: HIST 310.

Long Title: EMPIRES AND COMMUNITIES IN THE MIDDLE AGES

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course will explore the political, social, and economic conceptions of the Byzantine and Holy Roman Empires. Examining the self-perceptions of the Empire; the role of Roman tradition and languages; notions of (geographical) borders and nations; different constitutions in political representation, administration, and economic organization. Credit may not be received for both HIST 223 and HIST 323. Cross-list: MDST 223, Equivalency: HIST 323.

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: COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Survey course of colonial Latin america focusing on construction of the self and "other" narrative strategies and rhetoric. Examination of narrative of conquest, travel and piracy in Latin America and the Caribbean in the 16th and 17th centuries. . .

Long Title: MODERN LATIN AMERICA

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Survey course explores the histories of Spanish speaking neighbors, including Brazil from the Wars of Independence (first third of 19th century) to the present. Organized thematically for the 19th century and chronologically for the 20th, the class will converge on particular countries to convey a general understanding of modern Latin America.

Long Title: AFRICA TO 1884

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Survey of the changing historiography of Africa. Includes the emergence of the Bantu; early Christianity and Islam; trans-Saharan trade; Medieval Sudanic empires; statelessness and state formation; Portugal in Africa; the slave trade; the Mfecane; the Sudanic jihads; long-distance trade; and African-European relations in the 19th century.

Long Title: THE MAKING OF MODERN AFRICA

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Survey of the transformation of Africa from the late 19th century to the present. Includes the partition of Africa and colonial states; economic and social changes in the 20th century; political developments; and Africa since independence.

Long Title: HISTORY OF SCIENCE IN THE MODERN PERIOD

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Main issues in the history of modern science from the 17th century to the present. Topics might inlcude: 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: 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 manipulation of matter's most basic building blocks: atoms and molecules. Course is designed for humanities and science students desiring to explore content of nanotechnology (e.g., methods of visualizaiton, experimentation, manufacture, and technical feasibility) with social context (issues of ethics, regulation, history, intellectual property, controversy). Cross-list: ANTH 235, CHEM 235.

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

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 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: HISTORY WRITING SEMINAR: RELIGION IN AMERICAN LIFE, FROM THE FOUNDING TO FUNDAMENTALISM

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Intensive writing course will survey major developments in the first 150 years of the United States' religious history. Topics will include church-state debates; race and slavery; gender and religious practice; religion and warfare; science, Darwin, and natural theology; nativism and immigration; the origins of fundamentalism.

Long Title: WRITING HISTORY: JAPANESE AMERICANS IN WORLD WAR II

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Writing course will examine the Japanese American experience of internment and military service during World War II. Using a variety of materials, including novels, oral histories, and popular media the class will investigate the relationship between public memory, museums, academics, and politics.

Long Title: CIVIL WAR & RECONSTRUCTION

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introduction on the American Civil War, 1861 - 1865. Topics will include the origins of sectional differences prior to the war; the effects and consequences of the war for various groups in the North and South; conflicts of the home front; and the Reconstruction era.

Long Title: WRITING HISTORY: EUROPEAN ROMANTICISM, 1750 - 1850

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Intensive writing course will be a comparative but chronological examination of the Romantic movements of Germany, Britain, and France from 1750 to 1850, stressing the "unity in multiplicity" of European Romanticism. Although literature will be the focus, the course will also incorporate the visual arts and music.

Long Title: CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN POST-1945 GERMANY

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: 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: JEWS AND CHRISTIANS IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course will study relationships between Jewish and Christian communities within the context of Christian Europe. Topics will include settlement and demography; economics; legal status; hostility against Jews; family and the position of women; communal organizations; social diversity; and intellectual and spiritual achievements. Credit may not be received for both HIST 257 and HIST 357. Cross-list: MDST 257, Equivalency: HIST 357.

Long Title: FOCUS EUROPE: POLICY DEBATES IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction to the study of Europe through current policy debates on topics such as religious fundamentalism and the rights of cultural minorities; migration and immigration; and the prospects for the traditional welfare state in a global economy. Historical and cultural analysis will be brouhgt to bear on these policy issues.

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: 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: 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: Study of South Asian independence, from development of political resistance to partition and its aftermath: the legacy of Ghandi and the Nehru dynasty, separaitist movements in Sri Lanka and Kashmir, communism, literacy, gender, Islamic Pakistan vs India's Saffron Wave, Bollywood and Bangalore, a nuclear South Asia.

Long Title: JEWISH HISTORY, 1500-1948

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: History of the Jews' expulsion from Spain to the establishment of the state of Israel. Life in western and eastern Europe as well as in Islamic countries, seen from the perspective of settlement, assimilation, and the particularities of the Jewish historical experience. Credit may not be received for both HIST 274 and HIST 374. Equivalency: HIST 374.

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: 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 alanyze 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.

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 China. . An interpretive introduction to the language, philosophy, religion, art, literature, and social customs of China.

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: BYZANTIUM AND THE SLAVS

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course is about the marvelous Byzantine Empire, its history and culture in relation to the Slavs. Cross-list: SLAV 410.

Long Title: CONTEMPORARY CHINA

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An enriched version of HIST 220. May not receive credit for both HIST 220 and 310. Equivalency: HIST 220.

Long Title: AMERICAN THOUGHT AND SOCIETY, I

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Enriched version of HIST 211. Students may not receive credit for both HIST 211 and 311. Equivalency: HIST 211.

Long Title: AMERICAN THOUGHT AND SOCIETY, II

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An enriched version of HIST 212. Students may not receive credit for both HIST 212 and 312. Equivalency: HIST 212.

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.

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: Enriched version of HIST 219. May not receive credit for both HIST 219 and 319. 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: EMPIRES AND COMMUNITIES IN THE MIDDLE AGES

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Enriched version of HIST 223. May not receive credit for both HIST 223 and 323. Cross-list: MDST 323, Equivalency: HIST 223.

Long Title: MEXICAN AMERICAN HISTORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Lecture course will examine Mexican Americans in the context of their everyday lives to reconstruct their worldviews, values, and habits in order to evaluate their response to the changing economic, social, and political relations determined by the evolution of American capitalism.

Long Title: MIGRANT LABOR IN AMERICA

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course examines the history of seasonal migratory workers since the end of the Civil War. Analyzes the transformation of the U.S. economy to study the roots of migrant labor in rural America.

Long Title: STREETS IN URBAN LIFE: PARIS TO ISTANBUL

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This exploration of the street as a focus of urban life in 18th and 19th century. We will look at ways streets functioned as spaces of livelihood, sociability and transgression in cities such as London, Paris, Istanbul, Amsterdam and Cairo.

Long Title: ORIGINS OF AFRO-AMERICA

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Survey of major issues and events in the formation of modern Afro-America from the 15th to late 18th century.

Long Title: CONSUMER CULTURE IN THE AMERICAS

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course will examine the emergence of consumer culture in the Americas (the United States and Latin America) from comparative and transnational perspectives beginning with the colonial period. Exploration between consumption and citizenship, consumer culture and gender norms, and consumer culture and the mass media.

Long Title: MEXICAN-AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS, 1930-1980

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course examines the history of Mexican-American civil rights from 1930 - 1980.

Long Title: AMERICAN RADICALISM AND DISSENT

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course will explore the political, cultural and intellectual history of radical social movements in the United States. Topics will include abolitionism, feminism, anarchism, socialism, communism, civil rights, black nationalism, gay rights, anti-war protest, and the 1960s New Left.

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: 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 feminism.

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 salient aspects of China's heritage.

Long Title: MODERN CHINA

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course surveys China's tumultuous historical changes from the 1860s to 2007, from the late Qing dynasty to today's market sociallist experiment.

Long Title: REFORMATION EUROPE

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Survey of Western Europe in the 16th century, with emphasis on the interplay between politics and religion in the rise and consolidation of Protestantism and the Catholic revival.

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: U.S. LABOR HISTORY: 20TH CENTURY REPRESENTATIONS

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Lecture/discussion course considers the last century of American labor history through a close analysis of journalism, fiction, and film. Topics will include: industrialization, immigration, gender, industrial unionism, race relations, syndicalist, socialist and communist organizing, agrarian labor, and de-industrialization.

Long Title: U.S. HISTORY: THE NEW DEAL AND W.W. II

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics include political economy of the depression and development of a government response; growth of the labor movement; cultural and political ferment of the era; regionalism; and the wartime home experience of women, racial minorities, and the working class.

Long Title: WOMEN AND GENDER IN 19TH CENTURY 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: GERMAN HISTORY, 1648-1890

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

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

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

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Lecture class examines empire, democracy and dictatorship in Germany, 1890-1945. Includes political history, challenges of organized capitalism, the rise and fall of socialism, development of an interventionist state, cultural critique and political culture, the Nazi social revolution, and the Holocaust. Cross-list: GERM 345.

Long Title: JEWS AND CHRISTIANS IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Enriched version of HIST 257. May not receive credit for both HIST 257 and 357. Cross-list: MDST 357, Equivalency: HIST 257.

Long Title: EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY FROM AUGUSTINE TO DESCARTES

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course will survey key developments in Western thought (political theory, literature, philosophy, theology, and art) from the consolidation and institutionalization of Christian doctrine in the fourth and fifth centuries through the beginnings of the "Scientific Revolution" in the 17th century. Cross-list: MDST 358.

Long Title: HUMOR AND ENTERTAINMENT IN ISLAMIC SOCIET

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course investigates humor and entertainment in Islamic societies from the early Islamic period to the 20th century. Reading and discussion of texts from the Arabic, Persian, and Turkish literary traditions, and analysis of 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". In addition, readings. Recommended prerequisite(s): Some previous work in either history or film.

Long Title: EARLY MODERN BRITAIN, 1485 - 1688

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Lecture course examines one of the most dynamic periods of British history. Topics include: the Tudor- Stuart monarchy; interaction between England, Ireland, and Scotland; Protestant Reformation and Puritanism; Shakespeare and the English Renaissance; the British Revolution; and British expansion in North America. Readings will focus on primary sources.

Long Title: BRITAIN FROM THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION TO , 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: 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 before, during, and after the French Revolution. Taught in English.

Long Title: JEWISH HISTORY, 1500-1948

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Enriched version of HIST 274. Students may not receive credit for both HIST 274 and 374. Equivalency: HIST 274.

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: CLASSICAL ISLAMIC CULTURES

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction to the cultures and religions of the Islamic world from the 9th through the 14th centuries. Topics include Islamic law and theology, philosophy, ritual, Islamic science and medicine, classical Arabic literature, the impact of Arabo-Islamic culture on Jewish and Christian cultures of the Islamic world. Cross-list: MDST 382.

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.

Long Title: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN LEGAL HISTORY: ABORTION, AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, EUTHANASIA & GAY RIGHTS

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Cours will explore contemporary issues in constitutional history of the United States: abortion, affirmative action, euthanasia, and gay rights. 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: HISTORY OF EAST AFRICA

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

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

Long Title: KENYA IN MODERN HISTORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

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

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: 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. Topic for 2008 is "Two Schools: Race, Education and society in the Urban South since Brown v. Board." Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: SEMINAR TOPICS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Research seminar for Spring 2008 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. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: MORALITY AND HISTORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Exploration of the idea of morality as having a history and therefore being susceptible to change. Includes selected readings, drawn mainly from Anglo-American history and philosophy, that range over a period of several centuries.

Long Title: UNSTEADY STATE: DEVELOPMENT OF THE AMERICAN ADMINISTRATIVE STATE

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar examines the evolution of a national administrative state in the U.S. from the early national period to the era of deregulation and focuses on structural, cultural, and historical forces that influenced this development (e.g., constitutionalism, federalism/nationalism, liberalism/republicanism, rise of industrialization and managerial capitalism, economic regulation/social welfare).

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: 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: POLITICS AND CULTURE IN WEIMAR GERMANY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

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. Cross-list: 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

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 "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 invovlement 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: CHRISTIANS AND JEWS IN THE MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC WORLD

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examination of Christian and Jewish communities in the Islamic world from the rise of Islam to the Ottoman Empire. Topics include the "dhimmis" (protected peoples); social and economic life; communal organization; and interplay of religious laws and political authority. Discussions focus on modern historiography and Muslim communities under Christian rule. Cross-list: MDST 385.

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

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar examines the legal position and social realities of men and women in the Islamic world, with emphasis on how boundaries of gender have traditionally been drawn. Includes family and sexual ethics, the harem, polygyny, divorce, and eunuchs (who played an important role in the military and certain religious institutions). 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: THE FUTURE OF THE UNIVERSITY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Research seminar will examine and place in historical context current controversies over the future of the modern American research university. Students will prepare papers based on the archival records of Rice University and secondary literature on other universities.

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: GENDER AND SOCIETY IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Exploration of the relationship between ideas about gender and the social, political, and legal institutions in Europe from c. 1350 to 1800. Includes the structure and role of the family, gender roles in religious institutions, and the regulation of sexuality.

Long Title: JEWS IN IMAGE AND FILM

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar course will trace the perceptions of Jews and of certain themes in Jewish history from the Middle Ages to modern times. Focus will be placed on their representation in medieval and early modern images of Christian and Jewish art and on modern film.

Long Title: MEDIEVAL WOMEN

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Many aspects of today's life for women go back to developments in Medieval times. Seminar explores the freedom and restrictions of women from different religions, queens and nobles, merchants to prostitutes, in families and monasteries. Participation may also include a trip to significant sights in Germany. Cross-list: MDST 446.

Long Title: THE AGE OF THE CRUSADES

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar will discuss characteristics of the Crusades against Muslim, Jews, pagans, Mongols, heretics, schismatics, and political enemies and explore to what extent the concepts of "holy war" and new expressions of religious beliefs impacted fundamentalism creating new possibilities for globalization in medieval Europe. Discussions will include primary and secondary sources. Cross-list: MDST 447.

Long Title: CITY LIFE IN THE MIDDLE AGES

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3 TO 4

Description: Medieval cities provided as many opportunities for political, economic, social and religious enterprises as their modern coutnerparts. Housing a variety of religious communities, these cultural centers differed profoundly across Europe and the Islamic world. This seminar will discuss these characteristics and explore them on a 10-day trip to Germany.

Long Title: COMPARATIVE HISTORY: THE U.S. AND SOUTH AFRICA

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar compares and contrasts the history of two modern societies based on the foundation of racial division and exploitation. Examination will include historical evolution of white racism in both nations; comparing systems of segregation and apartheid; and the history of the civil rights and anti-apartheid movements.

Long Title: DEFINING MARRIAGE: GENDER AND THE STATE IN U.S. HISTORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar will exam marriage as an institution and what it has meant at different times in U.S. history by considering its legal context, changing cultural meaning, and importance to political debates over issues such as immigration, emancipation, and religious freedom.

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: PERSECUTION AND TOLERATION IN EUROPE, 1200-1800

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar examines the history of persecuition and toleration in Europe from ca. 1200-1800. Why did people choose to persecute or tolerate different groups in their communities? Examination of intellectual debates, as well as the social practice of persecution and toleration "on the ground."

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. Contents vary. 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: Topic for Spring 2008 examines the causes and consequences of the collapse of Roman government in Western Europe during the 5th century AD. Through study of translated ancient sources and modern interpretations, seminar will consider th continuity of Roman culture and the formation of new Germanic kingdoms at the end of antiquity.

Long Title: SEMINAR TOPICS IN U.S. HISTORY, 1945-1974

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar requiring three short research papers.

Long Title: FROM ROANOKE TO JAMESTOWN

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: English colonization of North America from 1580 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: GENDER AND EMPIRE

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar examines role of women in U.S. imperial projects accross the 19/20th centuries and the importance of gender and race to the history of "imperial democracy." Topics include continental expansion in the U.S. west, overseas mission in Hawai'i and Caribbean, and colonial projects in Puerto Rice and Philippines.

Long Title: WOMEN AND THE WELFARE STATE: SEXUAL POLITICS AND AMERICAN POVERTY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar in the history of women and welfare focuses on women's contributions to the growth of the welfare state and investigates how welfare has been shaped by understandings of gender, race, and class. Compares American programs to similar programs developed in other countries. Cross-list: SWGS 468.

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: 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: NATION AND CULTURE IN MODERN MEXICO

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course looks at the formation of Mexican national identity in the 19th and 20th centuries. Focusing on texts that examine the relationship between culture and nation-building projects, the role of literary and artistic projects in movements for social change, and the connection between cultural and political history.

Long Title: TOPICS LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar will focus on English speaking Latin American historians and their depictions of its past events.

Long Title: SOUTHWEST NARRATIVE: WRITING FROM BELOW

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines the "engendering" of official stories and counter-narratives that have shaped the cultural history of the Mexico-US border region. We will track phosts and symptoms, encrypted and marginal voices as we consider what it means to read from the standpoints of migrants, indigenous, urban poor, and working-class people.

Long Title: SECURING AMERICA I, 1607-1865

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: How did British North Americans and citizens of the new United States provide for their security from Jamestown to Appomattox? Undergraduate seminar will consider that question in its political, social, and military dimensions.

Long Title: SECURING AMERICA II, 1865 - 2007

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar that considers the political, social, economic, and military dimensions of providing for the security of the United States in the modern world. Limited enrollment.

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: TOPICS IN MEDIEVAL HISTORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Research seminar on selected issues, subject or themes in medieval history. Cross-list: MDST 488.

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: 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: CITY LIFE IN THE MIDDLE AGES

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Medieval cities provided as many opportunities for political, economic, social and religious enterprises as their modern counterparts. Housing a variety of religious communities, these cultural center differed profoundly across Europe and the Islamic world. This seminar will discuss these characteristics and explore them on a 10-day trip to Germany.

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: 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: HISTORY OF THE MODERN SOUTH

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Seminar designed to introduce graduate students to historiographic background, sources, and methods for conducting primary research in post-1865 southern U.S. history. Topics will include, but not be limited to: labor, politics, and civil rights. Research paper required.

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. Contents vary. 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: U.S. WOMEN'S HISTORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Graduate Seminar. Contents vary. Cross-list: SWGS 551.

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: 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 French or 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: RACE, LABOR, AND REGION IN AMERICAN HISTORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Graduate seminar focusing on the struggle over jobs, equality, and civil rights in both the American South and the Southwest, from the 1880s to the 1960s. Readings will allow comparisons of Mexican-American, African-American and white working class experiences.

Long Title: 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN CONSERVATION MOVEMENT

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

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 Burrough and John Perkins Marsh - focusing on their work in context of current issues in global warming, and wetlands restoration.

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.

Long Title: TOPICS IN U.S. WOMEN'S HISTORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Graduate seminar. Contents vary. Cross-list: SWGS 576.

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: GRADUATE TOPICS IN SOUTHERN HISTORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Graduate reading seminar will entail in-depth examination of the historiography of particular issues in the history of the American South. Topics will vary.

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: U.S. INTELLECTUAL/CULTURAL HISTORY

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Graduate reading seminar in U.S. cultural and intellectual history. Contents vary.

Long Title: HISTORIOGRAPHY OF MAU MAU

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Graduate reading seminar on the historiography of Mau Mau.

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.

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.