97 courses with the subject HIST, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
HIST 101The Growth of National States in Europe
Examines national states after 1450; conflict in Europe and world-wide commercial and colonial ambitions; Renaissance culture, the Protestant revolt, Spanish ascendancy; 17th-century French absolutism and constitutional government in England; Austria, the weakened Germanies, the rise of Prussia and Russia; 18th-century liberalism; and the French Revolution, Napoleonic conquest, and the European settlement of 1815.
Explores the social, economic, political, and cultural history of Europe over the last two centuries. Topics include the revolutions of 1848, nationalism and the unification of Italy and Germany, the Industrial Revolution and the growth of socialism, imperialism and the alliance system, the Russian Revolution and the two World Wars, Stalinism and the fall of the Soviet Empire after 1989, and the development of the European Union. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No Junior, Senior Restrictions: Not open to students with AP credit in European history. Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges Core Component: None
A broad survey of key patterns, events, and the history of peoples in America from ca. 1500 to 1877. Covers the breadth of Native American life and the effects of European settlement, the colonial and constitutional periods through the age of reform, the crisis of union, and the Civil War and Reconstruction. Prepares students for upper-level courses in early American history. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No Junior, Senior Restrictions: Not open to students with AP credit in U.S. history. Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges Core Component: None
A survey of United States history from the era of Reconstruction to the present. Topics include post- Reconstruction racial retrenchment in the South; immigration; the rise of industrialism and the response to it by farmers and workers; Populism and Progressivism; women's suffrage and the modern women's movement; the World Wars, the Cold War, Korea, and Vietnam; the New Deal and public policy; the cultural convulsions of the 1920s and 1960s; the victories and frustrations of the Civil Rights movement; and the
HIST 105Introduction to the Modern Middle East1.00
This is a beginning course for study of the Middle East region, and a nuts-and-bolts primer on understanding the background for current events. Students learn the political, geographical, and social/ethnic borders that divide the region and the distribution of languages and faiths across it. The historical content of the course is a survey, with emphasis on the 20th century. No prior knowledge of the Middle East is assumed. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No Senior Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
Surveys the history of Africa from the1880s to the contemporary period. Major themes will include: the imperial scramble and partition of Africa; African resistances; colonial rule in Africa; independence and problems of independence; socio-economic developments in independent Africa; ethnic conflicts; crises and contemporary issues. Crosslisted: ALST 282 Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges Core Component: None Formerly: HIST 282
An introduction to major political and social transformations across the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries of the Americas, covering the period from 1800 to the present. Students build foundational knowledge on movements for independence, postcolonial struggles for sovereignty, efforts at national building, and revolutions and political violence. Students learn about major figures from throughout the
HIST 110Through Their Eyes: An Introduction to Cultural History1.00
Cultural history is an evolving and experimental field of study that investigates the many different ways in which diverse peoples in the past have understood themselves, their societies, and their surroundings. It concerns itself with the lives of ordinary people, asking not only what they did, but how they thought about what they did. In other words, cultural history attempts to see the past through the eyes of those who lived there. Students delve into the cultural practices and mentalities of past individuals and groups through a series of case studies from widely disparate times and places. In doing so, students are introduced to the methods of cultural history and to the many exciting and unexpected possibilities for exploring the past through a cultural lens. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No Junior, Senior Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
Introduces students to the study of technology in its social and historical contexts, centered on the United States in the last two centuries. Examines the development of large technological systems and infrastructures, investigates the ways that social hierarchies, financial flows, and political power shape different technologies, and looks at the means by which ordinary people cope with or adapt to technological systems. Students learn some of the basics of historical interpretation, while they come to see how technologies are, necessarily, profoundly shaped by history. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents
Introduces students to the rich interdisciplinary array of historical, theoretical, and practical topics that comprise this fast-growing field. Major themes include the history of museums from cabinets of curiosity to the Museum of Modern Art; critical display analysis; post-colonial critiques of museums; restitution and repatriation; and the practical aspects of museum management, education, and curating. Crosslisted: MUSE 120 Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No Junior, Senior Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges Core Component: None
Trains students in historical methods by focusing on research, writing, and communication skills. Students learn to understand historiographical debates, assemble and assess bibliographies, find and interpret primary sources, construct effective written arguments, cite sources correctly, and develop appropriate oral communication skills. Depending on the instructor, the course may also include the use of non-traditional sources such as film or material culture, as well as the interpretation of historic sites, monuments, and landscapes. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No Junior, Senior Recommended: Intended for history majors; should be completed by the end of sophomore year. Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
HIST 202Europe in the Middle Ages, c. 300 - 15001.00
The Middle Ages were a period of enormous transformation and creativity in Europe. This course examines the emergence of medieval civilization from the ruins of the ancient world and the subsequent evolution of that civilization into modern Europe. Themes to be covered include the fall of Rome, the spread of Christianity and the conflicts within the medieval church, the rise and fall of Byzantium, the challenge of Islam and the crusades, the Vikings, the development of the medieval economy, the feudal revolution, the 12th-century Renaissance, the origins of law and government, the effects of the Black Death, and the Italian Renaissance.
Covers the age of the American Revolution, beginning with the Stamp Act Riots in 1765 and ending with the onset of the American Civil War in 1860. Topics include the pre-Revolutionary debates and turmoil, the war itself, popular post-war government, and the construction of the Constitution. From there, students survey the first presidential elections, the building of a federal government, and the expansion of the United States to the Mississippi River. Includes ample discussion of slavery and freedom, Forced Native American exile, violence in American society and the Women's Movement. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: The Process of Writing Core Component: None HIST 209 - The Atlantic World, 1492 - 1800 The events that followed Columbus' accidental arrival in the New World in 1492 shaped the world we live in today. Students explore the formation of the Atlantic communities as the result of interactions between European, African, and Native American peoples, as well as the circulation of diseases, natural products, labor systems, imperial designs, economic policies, and frontier zones in the Atlantic world. Many of the consequences of this process of interaction were unintended. Students explore the configuration of European, African, and Native American societies before contact and the configuration of new communities in the New World; the slave trade and the establishment of the plantation complex from Brazil to South Carolina; the spread of Christianity in the New World; the development of scientific practices in the service of imperial and national states; the establishment of labor systems; and the different strategies of accommodation, resistance, and rebellion of different actors trying to find/protect their place in the Atlantic world. Coursework is intended to provide a regional framework for studying colonial societies in the Western Hemisphere and for studying emerging empires and states in Europe. Credits: 1.00 Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
A comparative approach to exploring issues of disease, health, and medicine in the context of European imperial projects around the globe. Focusing on the 16th through the early 20th centuries, students trace
Examines the social and cultural history of women in the United States from the Revolutionary era to the present day, tracing feminist ideas from the margins of democratic thought to the center of modern political discourse and culture. Students explore how gender, race, class, region, religion, work, education, and generational differences have shaped women's lives and maintained order in American society and how, in turn, women have shaped their lives in response to these opportunities and constraints. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges Core Component: None
How has gender been negotiated in the confined space of the city? Focusing primarily on the rich histories of New York and Chicago, and other U.S. cities, this course considers how urban life for women and men diverged, and how it met, from the early 19th century, through the post-WWII "urban crisis" and women's liberation movements, to the present day. Students will examine historical arguments about the construction of gendered identities, paying particular attention to divisions of race, class, sexuality, and religion. Throughout the course, students will interrogate their own personal geographies, as well as those inhabited by our historical subjects. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No Senior Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges Core Component: None
HIST 218The African American Struggle for Freedom and Democracy1.00
Surveys the presence of African Americans in the United States and their struggle for freedom under the concept of democracy. Examines African origins, the Middle Passage, the creation of an African American culture in slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction, the growth of black communities in the face of hostility, the African American impact on American culture, the Civil Rights movement, and the continuing struggle by African Americans to make democracy real. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No Senior Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
It may seem self-evident that oceans have histories, that far from being timeless, they constantly change. Nonetheless, this is a relatively recent idea. Students take this idea as their starting point, and in doing so explore oceans and coastal areas as more than simply spaces, but as complex historical entities. Marine environmental history provides the main framework for the course, although maritime history and oceanic studies concepts, such as Atlantic and Pacific Worlds, also feature prominently. Coursework gives particular attention to the period of increasing globalization and drastically intensifying human exploitation of the oceans since roughly the fifteenth century. It also, however, considers pre-modern, pre-industrial relations between humans, oceans, and marine environments, suggesting their mutual influences long before the period usually associated with major human effects on the environment. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
An examination of the history of immigration and migration in the United States; students not only consider movements across national borders, but also take up the more expansive history of movements – both free and coerced – across all kinds of space. The examination is centered on the 1860s to the present, the period in which the demarcation and policing of national borders came to define what it meant to be a "modern" nation state. Just as students consider the rise and solidification of efforts to police borders, they also consider the entangled lives and relationships that were built across and in the space between borders. As students consider the United States' history as both a nation of immigrants and a gatekeeping nation, the categories of race, gender, sexuality, and class is at the center of the interrogation. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
The American West is many things: it is a vast geographic region defined by awe-inspiring landscapes; it is an ancient homeland filled with deep political and spiritual meaning; and it is a process, a "frontier" that has profoundly shaped the way Americans see themselves and their place in the world. Students examine the history of the West as both a place and a process, with a particular emphasis on issues of settler colonialism, Indigenous sovereignty, environmental change, mythology, and the formation of American identity. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
Explores reciprocal relationships between people and the environment over time. These relationships can be intimate and mundane (mowing a lawn, eating an avocado) or much grander in scale (testing nuclear weapons, creating a national park); they are also connected to global processes of colonialism and industrial development. Focusing on the modern period, students investigate how a wide range of people around the globe—from Indigenous peoples to plantation workers to suburban families—have used, transformed, and made sense of their environments over time. This history is also considered for its relevance to contemporary environmental politics and activism. Crosslisted: ENST 224 Major/Minor Restrictions: None
HIST 227Civil Rights & Civil Fights: The History of the Long Civil Rights1
Movement in the United States Designed as a historical and interdisciplinary course that provides a deep and thorough examination of the "long civil rights movement" among African Americans and their allies during the 20th and early 21st century United States, with attention to the structure of racial inequality, movement philosophies and strategies, white allies and opponents, relationships to other freedom movements, and the movement's historical legacies with the Black Lives Matter Movement and #SayHerName. Crosslisted: ALST 227 Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
Explores the history of migration in the Americas, focusing on mobility to and within Latin America. In addition to discussion on Latin American immigration to the United States, emphasis is on significant but little-known trajectories, such as those linking East Asia and the Middle East to Latin America. Illustrates how mobility to and from Latin America has crucially shaped the region's history, exploring both what has attracted migrants to the region and what structural forces have influenced Latin Americans' choices to leave. Includes several weeks of inquiry into present-day migration in Latin America which students connect with their newfound knowledge of historical migration realities. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges Core Component: None
In 1099, a crusading army sacked Jerusalem, killing Muslims, Jews, and Christians alike. This act of savagery earned the crusade fame in Christian Europe and infamy in the Islamic world, prompting a crusade movement in the West and a military reaction in the East. The forces stirred up by these events also led Western Europe toward the conquest of Spain, Eastern Europe, Greece, and eventually the Americas and beyond. Students study the causes, progress, and results of the Crusades themselves, as well as the new colonial societies that developed in their wake, focusing on the transformation of four cultures: western Christendom, Judaism, Byzantium, and Islam.
HIST 233The French Revolution: Old Regime, Revolution, and Napoleonic1.00
Empire, 1770-1815 An overview of one of the most tumultuous periods in modern European history. France experienced a range of different governments, from absolute monarchy, to the Reign of Terror, to the Napoleonic Empire, a progression that was accompanied by an expansion of the existing war (from 1792 on) into a massive European-wide war. There were serious claims for citizenship and equality from working class men, from women of all classes, and from enslaved and free people of color in France's colonial empire; there were disturbing acts of violence committed by crowds as well as by the government itself. Designed to introduce students to the major events and personalities and the political evolution of the state during this time, as well as to discuss some of the important historiographical arguments. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: The Process of Writing Core Component: None
Focuses on the recent history of France, from the fall of Napoleon to the present, with a particular focus on the revolutionary unrest in the 1830s; the Paris Commune of 1871; the two World Wars; the student and worker revolts of 1968; the decolonization wars in Vietnam and Algeria; and France in the 21st century. Students look at the rise of populism and the National Front, immigration and politics, France within the European Union, and changes in the political party landscape. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: The Process of Writing Core Component: None
Explores the complex history and experiences of African American women's lives beginning with their enslavement in the United States through the present day. Students consider issues that African American
Surveys the history of money as an economic, political, and cultural resource. Touches on ancient and medieval precedents, but mostly deals with the early modern period and later. Surveys key controversies surrounding money, banking, and finance, particularly in the modern United States, and considers the development of accounting and credit systems alongside the diverse uses and meanings ascribed to cash and other forms of payment. Traces the financialization of late twentieth century and consider the recent development of digital currencies. Employs various approaches to this subject, including the history of economic thought, economic sociology, legal studies, media studies, political history, intellectual and cultural history, and the history of technology. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
Empires controlled much of the world for much of recorded history. They did much to shape the modern world. Much of what we think about empires is based on Western European examples such as the Portuguese, Spanish, British, French, and Dutch empires of the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries. Students reconsider the formation, operation, and impact of early modern empires through a comparative look at Western European empires and powerful but often ignored East Asian empires. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
HIST 241Life and Death in Early Modern Britain1.00
In 1485, Henry Tudor became king of England. A second-rate power in Europe, his kingdom had been torn apart by dynastic struggles and civil war. By 1714, when the last of the Stuart monarchs died, everything had changed. England was now part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, which included Scotland and Wales, and whose king also ruled over the neighboring island of Ireland. The medieval feudal kingship had been replaced by a well-established parliamentary monarchy, with many stops along the way. Britain was now a world power, at the center of a far-flung empire, and competing with France for dominance in Europe and beyond. This course will explore precisely how these monumental changes came about, taking a close look at British history over the long 16th and 17th centuries from a number of different perspectives: political, religious, social, cultural, commercial, and intellectual. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
Typically, American history is told from the perspective of European colonizers, with the story beginning on the east coast and expanding west across the continent. How does American history look different when we reverse this perspective and put the continent's original people at the center of the story? What has been the experience of America's Indigenous people, both before and after European contact? And why is this history essential for understanding the world we live in today? With these questions in mind, students will examine the history of indigenous peoples in what is now the United States from 1492 to the present day. Particular focus will be placed on Native Americans' history of adaptation and resilience in the face of European and American colonialism. Crosslisted: NAST 243 Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents
Examines five Russian wars fought between 1800 and the present: the Napoleonic wars, the Crimean War, World Wars One and Two, and the current conflict in Ukraine. Russia's modern wars have been particularly (although certainly not uniquely) traumatic, with profound impacts on government and citizens alike. The course examines the ways in which the events leading up to war, wartime conditions, and eyewitness accounts were recorded and internalized by citizens and managed by an autocratic state to create collective historical understandings of events. By analyzing the changing ways in which social hierarchy, gender and exclusivity have been structured during and in the aftermath of war, the course offers an important guide to understanding the emergence of ethno-nationalism in one of the world's largest and longest lasting multi- ethnic Empires. Crosslisted: REST 245 Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges and The Process of Writing Core Component: None
HIST 249History of the City of London (Study Group)1.00
A history of the city from its origins in Roman times, through its medieval rebirth, its growth as the commercial and institutional capital of empire, to its refashioning as a vibrant, cosmopolitan metropolis. Taught through a combination of classroom sessions and walking tours. Offered only in London. When Offered: London Study Group Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
HIST 250Introduction to the History of Modern Medicine
Seeking medical care today looks different now than in the past – from the practitioners, to the treatments, to ideas of how disease is spread, to the very disease categories through which people think about poor health. Students explore major themes in the history of medicine from 1600 to the present, using a global frame and following changes in medical practice across several therapeutic systems, via case studies from Japan, South Africa, France, Bangladesh, the United States and elsewhere. Students critically analyze the causes and effects of changes in the practice of medicine over time, including the development of new modes of knowing the body and disease transmission (from anatomy and germ theory to DNA technology); shifts in who practiced medicine; and methods for responding to disease at communal or individual scales.
While the discipline of history is often approached as a collection of static, undisputed facts, the past is constantly re-interpreted and re-written to suit the needs of those living in the present. Far from being an apolitical exercise or a straightforward empirical investigation, history is contested and sometimes hijacked by individuals and groups who seek to use it to advance their interests and promote their agendas. History is not only subject to intense and divisive public debates, it frequently appears at the center of both latent and active inter-group conflicts. Through close readings of key texts and engagement with contemporary case studies, students are provided an overview of the politics of history. The scope is global, and the methodological approach is multi-disciplinary, spanning such fields as history, political science, public and international affairs, memory studies, museum studies, and peace and conflict studies. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
Colonial states often justified their rule through a reference to the "civilizing mission," a central part of which was the provision of 'modern' health care and education. But what truly was the role of these programs in the exploitative colonial system? And how did they set the stage for global health programs, all the way to the present? Through an examination of the field of global health in the 19th and 20th century, this course explores the history of global health from its roots in colonial medicine to contemporary responses to Ebola. Using historical sources, it focuses on the social, political, economic histories of global health, discussing the relationship between public health interventions and violence, racial discrimination, and caretaking and empathy. Crosslisted: GPEH 253 Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges Core Component: None
How did Arabian coffee and American tobacco become global vices? How has the use and meaning of these everyday products changed over time? Why are so many people drawn to caffeine and nicotine, and why do they have such a hard time quitting them? Students trace the history of coffee and cigarettes from the 1500s to the present. Readings and discussions range from 16th-century Turkish coffeehouses to 21st- century Starbucks, and from the prohibition by King James I of tobacco to contemporary debates on second- hand smoke and vaping. This allows students to look at the medical properties of these two products, the close links between colonialism and consumer goods; the marketing campaigns and advertisements that promoted them; and the impact of climate change on their production. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges Core Component: None HIST 255 - The Ottoman Empire, 1300 - 1924 The Ottoman Empire lasted for over six centuries and was one of the last multi-ethnic empires in world history. States that were once part of the empire include Iraq, Israel, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Libya, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia. Students examine the social, political, and economic life of the Ottoman state from its beginnings among nomadic tribesmen to the fall of the "Grand Turk" in World War I. Issues addressed include the organization of structures of control over such a large and heterogeneous population and the maintenance of a relatively high level of integration in society over time. The factors that led to the disintegration of this empire, including nationalism and colonialism, are also examined. Credits: 1.00 Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
Few Western European countries have had as turbulent a recent history as Ireland, nor one whose legacy remains as persistent. This course focuses on Ireland's evolution from Britain's oldest colony to a self- governing state, culminating in her current situation as a divided nation whose acute internal tensions sit uneasily within a broader framework of European unity. Although the independence struggle and Anglo-Irish relations in general feature prominently, the course goes beyond the "national question" to examine such issues as the growth of Irish culture, images of Irishness at home and abroad, developments in social and economic history, and the complex roots of the conflict in Northern Ireland.
Examines the formation of modern East Asia, with particular focus on China, Japan, and Korea. Explores the changing role of empire and nation, indigenous reevaluations of tradition, and finally the shifting political, economic, and military relations among China, Japan, and Korea. Concludes with a look at East Asia's evolving place in the world as a whole. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
Explores the place of war and violence in East Asian societies from 1200 to 1700. Among the many topics examined are samurai, ninja, martial arts, Ghenghis Khan, and piracy. First, students look at the internal organization of armies, their place in domestic politics and society, and their role in foreign relations. Second, they examine the impact of war on religion, economics, politics, and the arts. Third, because of its importance, violence was tightly linked to religion, literature, and popular theater. Finally, students consider the various ways that these traditions attempted to prevent, control, and manipulate violence through examining political philosophy, law codes, and social mores. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
Surveys the history of South Asian from the expansion of the Mughal Empire in the early modern period and the rise of the British colonial power in the 18th and 19th centuries to the emergences of modern nation states. Students also look at the different political, economic, and cultural trajectories that these nation states, particularly India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, have taken since independence. With the aim of developing a historical perspective to the complex and often paradoxical social, religious, and political identities that the region of South Asia exhibits today, students are introduced to a diverse set of primary sources ranging from Mughal court chronicles, European travel accounts and autobiographies to public speeches and official correspondences. Although this course complements the survey of the ancient and medieval history of South Asia taught in HIST 268, no prior background in South Asian history is required.
Was the First World War a "tragic and unnecessary conflict," as one of its leading historians has recently suggested? Why did men continue to fight amid horror and misery? And how did total war rend the fabric of society, politics, and everyday life? To answer these and other questions, this course examines the First World War from a variety of perspectives. Attention will be paid to its origins and outbreak, its conduct by generals and common soldiers, its effect on women and workers, and its wide ranging consequences, both on individuals and empires. The course concludes with a discussion of how the First World War has shaped the world in which we live today. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges Core Component: None
Focusing on one of the darkest chapters in European history, students examine the causes, conduct, and consequences of the Second World War and maps the terrible course of the Holocaust. Chronologically, the course begins with Hitler's seizure of power and ends with the collapse of the Nazi empire in 1945. Thematically, coursework gives special attention to collaboration and resistance, morale and mobilization, and military and diplomatic turning points. Throughout the course, emphasis is given to the experience of ordinary men and women, whether on the home front or the battle front, in neutral or warring states, in hiding or in the camps. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
HIST 276Racial States: The Jim Crow South and Nazi Germany1.0
The trajectories of the Jim Crow South and Nazi Germany departed from each other in fundamental ways: the Jim Crow South harnessed racism to subjugate African Americans, Nazi Germany relied on racism for persecution and extermination. And yet Nazi leaders, including Adolf Hitler, looked to the United States as both a model, and a cautionary tale, of how to put racial ideas into political practice. By examining the intertwined histories of these two societies, students are asked a series of vexing questions about the creation and memories of societies of oppression: What cultural, political and scientific ideologies did leaders use to justify racial segregation and violence? How and why did ordinary people support, comply with, or resist racist and antisemitic policies? How did ordinary individuals experience, and remember, their personal histories of persecution? Can making comparisons (to Jim Crow and to other victim groups in Nazi Germany) complicate how we understand the mechanisms and intent of the Holocaust? These two historical epochs are historically intertwined and share universal phenomena that continue to resonate. Crosslisted: JWST 276 Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges Core Component: None
Slavery and the slave trade are global phenomena with historical roots in the earliest civilizations. The course examines the long history of slavery and the slave trade in African societies, exploring the role that slavery played in African economic, political, and social life, as well as how the export of human beings as slaves transformed African societies. The course also considers how slaveholders and slaves shaped early African societies, the logic and consequences of African participation in the Atlantic slave trade, the aftermath of abolition in 20th-century colonial Africa, and how coercive forms of labor control have persisted into the 21st century. Crosslisted: ALST 281
Surveys the history of the growth of anti-colonial nationalism, the end of colonial rule, and post- independence Africa to the contemporary period. It focuses on the comparative analysis of the winning of independence from French, British, Italian, Portuguese, and Belgian colonization. Major themes include African responses to colonial rule, wind of change, independence and problems of independence, pan- African movement, socio-economic developments, cold war, colonial legacies, political systems, and contemporary issues. Crosslisted: ALST 284 Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges Core Component: None
Focuses on human-animal relationships in global history. Considers how animals have shaped the human past, as well as how humans have shaped animal lives, through interactions like hunting, husbandry, pet keeping, and conservation. In taking seriously the agency of nonhuman animals, coursework challenges notions of human superiority and decenters humans in historical narratives. Students learn to look for animals—as elusive as these may be—in the historical record and will come to understand human histories as embedded in ecological contexts. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges Core Component: None
Taught each fall semester. Limited to students accepted to the London History Study Group the following spring. Has three purposes: first, to introduce students to subject matter to be covered in the instructor's London seminar; second, to get students started on the London-based seminar projects, to be researched and finished under the auspices of HIST 491 in London; and third, to prepare students for life and work in London through study of the city's history and culture. When Offered: Fall semester only Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
Focuses on the themes of contamination, waste, and toxic exposure in the modern world, with the goal of understanding environmental health issues in historical context. What political, economic, and social forces have contributed to the prevalence of contamination? Why have some communities suffered disproportionately? How have people in the past identified and coped with toxic danger, and how have they fought against the contamination of their regions, cities, homes, and bodies? In the face of mounting global challenges of toxicity and contamination today, students consider what lessons might be found in these past struggles. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges and The Process of Writing Core Component: None
Explores the complex and often hidden histories of sex and sexualities in U.S. history, from the late 18th century to the present day. Students consider how American views of sex, desire, and other intimate matters have changed over time, influencing both private decisions and public policies. Topics to be examined include: the emergence of hetero- and homosexuality as categories of experience and identity; the contested boundaries drawn between sociability, friendship, and romance; experiences of dating and
Offers an in-depth survey of the history of people of Asian descent from the first arrivals of significant numbers of Asians in America in the mid-19th century to the present, with heavier emphasis on the post- 1965 era. In that year, the Hart-Cellar Act lifted earlier restrictions on Asian immigration and initiated substantial migration from the East. Covers significant events and people in Asian American history while examining the course of ordinary individuals through demography, law, family, and cultural history. This history enables students to learn about and analyze issues of tradition/modernity; race, acculturation, and identity politics; culture and the intersection of laws and politics; and multiculturalism. While coverage extends to every Asian nationality present in the United States, emphasis is placed on the largest groups including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipinos, and East Asians. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: The Process of Writing Core Component: None
Students in this course explore American history by asking how numbers have come to play such a powerful role in shaping American lives. Case studies present the histories of some of American society's most important numbers, including IQ and SAT scores, credit ratings and stock indices, BMI and the calorie, census data and the consumer price index. Students learn the methods of cultural and intellectual history. They develop new conceptual tools for understanding US history, as well as the history of science, business, and the modern state. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: The Process of Writing Core Component: None
HIST 316The United States in Vietnam, 1945 - 19751.00
The origins, progress, and consequences of the U.S. war in Vietnam. The course opens with a chronological overview of the war and U.S. decision making, then examines several key interpretations of American intervention, explores special topics on the war (including antiwar protest and the war as an international event), and concludes with a look at the legacy of the war. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
HIST 318African American History: African Background to Emancipation1.00
This is a course in the history of African American people from 1619 to 1865. The emphasis is on the transition from Africa to the New World, the slavery experience, and the transition from slavery to freedom. The ideology of racism, the formation of racial identity within the diaspora, and the importance of African American culture are also studied. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
Survey key patterns of development of New York City's society, economy, and culture from colonial through recent history includes contact and syncretistic cultures of Iroquois, Dutch, German, English, and Afro- Americans; impact of New York's post-revolutionary growth; establishment of metropolitan culture and politics; social and political ramifications of New York's transport and trade; rise of ethnic democracy in 19th and 20th centuries; New York's place in national perspective; perspectives for the future. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: The Process of Writing Core Component: None HIST 331 - Medieval Italy, c. 1000 - 1500 Italy in the Middle Ages comprised an immense variety of cultures and societies, from papal Rome to republican Venice, from Arab and Norman Sicily to the commercial cities of the north. Students examine aspects of this complex history; themes for the semester may include the Normans in Southern Italy, Piety and Strife in Medieval Italy, or Venice and the World. Credits: 1.00 Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
Topics in the history of England between the years 600 and 1500. The focus may in a particular semester be the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms, the Norman Conquest and the origins of English law, or Revolutions and Piety in the later Middle Ages.
Studies the development of the theology, institutions, and practice of Christianity in the medieval West. Topics to be covered include the early Church; the rise of the papacy and monasticism; the relationship of Catholicism with Jews, Muslims, and Orthodox Christians; the challenge of heresy; the Investiture Conflict; the role of women in the Church; and the shaping of doctrine and practice. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
HIST 337Pirates in the Atlantic World, 1500s - 17301.00
Examines the emergence of piracy and pirates in the Atlantic World. During the early modern period (15th to 18th centuries), violence and robbery at sea became intense, giving rise to famous figures. In the second half of the 17th century, pirates established a permanent presence in the Caribbean Sea, and their activities in the area are associated with the first Golden Age of Piracy. A second Golden Age dates from 1713 (Treaty of Utrecht) to the 1730s. The British Navy led an intense campaign against piracy in the 18th century, eventually removing pirates from the Caribbean Sea. Students explore the role pirates played in the development of Atlantic empires, colonial American societies, the transatlantic slave trade, and the Atlantic commercial system from the 16th to the 18th centuries, as well as international legal issues and gender issues. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
Covers the development of political absolutism in Europe, with a special focus on France from 1589 to 1774. The construction of absolutism in France began with the first Bourbon monarch, Henri IV, reached its high point under the Sun King, Louis XIV, and began its decline under Louis XV, whose many failures led the way
HIST 34020th-Century European Intellectual History1.00
At the beginning of the 20th century, European men and women of ideas agreed that the continent was experiencing an unprecedented intellectual crisis, as the optimistic and positivist doctrines of Victorian liberalism began to crumble in the face of radical challenges from left and right alike. This course examines the transformation in European world-views that has occurred during the past 100 years, focusing in particular on such themes as the growth of "cultural despair," the intellectual impact of the Great War, the New Physics, Gramscian neo-Marxism, second- and third-wave feminism, existentialism, faith after the Holocaust, the generation of 1968, and the ideas of the Frankfurt School. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
A survey of the social and political history of the "long New Deal". The long New Deal refers to the period of United States history from the election of President Roosevelt in 1932 to the election of President Eisenhower in 1952. Across this time period, the people of the United States lived through the crises of economic catastrophe, global war, reconversion from total war, and the Cold War's beginning. American society then, as now, was divided and stratified along fractures of race, class, gender, sexuality, physical ability, geographic location, and political ideology. The American people did not experience or respond to the crises and transformations of this era in a unitary fashion. Nor did they share a single vision of how the United States government should steer the country through this era of uncertainty and into the future. Our course will examine how, across this prolonged period of crisis, different Americans thought up and fought to implement different configurations of the relationship between citizen, state, and society. In our course we will repeatedly return to the possibilities, limits, unexpected consequences, and contradictions of these varied efforts to reshape American society. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents
Examines the often troubled but always fascinating history of Germany, Russia, and Eastern Europe from the earliest times to the present. Students consider what makes this region distinctive and pay close attention to its mix of peoples, languages, and religions. As part of this, students explore why coexistence sometimes gave way to conflict and what this meant for ordinary people. The course materials are equally diverse and include scholarly books and articles, maps, movies, graphic novels, podcasts, short stories, and poems. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges Core Component: None
HIST 350Contemporary European History, 1945 to the Present1.00
Studies Europe's changing status in the global community since 1945 and the domestic effects of that change. Topics include the movement toward European Union, the Cold War, decolonization, the rise and fall of Communism, and the emergence of multi-racial Europe. Also explores critiques of material prosperity and consumer culture in the West and the tenacity of nationalism in an era characterized by supra-national ideologies. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
Indigenous communities exist throughout the world, but rarely is their history approached in global terms. What does "indigenous" mean, and how does world history look different when approached from the perspective of indigenous people? How does such an approach change the way we think about our national stories, and why does that matter? With these questions in mind, students explore the history of indigenous peoples from around the world, including communities in the United States, Latin America, Pacific island nations, Canada, and Australia. By examining these diverse people's experiences with outside colonization from the 15th century to the present, students are offered new perspectives on ongoing histories of colonialism, resistance, adaptation, and cultural resilience. Crosslisted: NAST 356
HIST 358Conquest and Colony: Cultural Encounters in the Americas1.00
Explores contrasting patterns of colonization in the Americas. Traditionally, such comparative studies have focused on the cultural differences among the European colonizers, but here, students pay equal attention to differences among the many Indigenous groups that lived in this hemisphere. Rather than treating Indigenous peoples as passive players in the political and social struggles of the 16th and 17th centuries, students consider how they actively shaped processes of conquest and colonization. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: The Process of Writing Core Component: None
HIST 359Resistance and Revolt in the Colonial Atantic World1.00
Proposes to see Atlantic World history as a history of resistance (to this day). Students examine various resistance, revolts, rebellions, and revolutionary practices in the Atlantic World during the colonial period. Students examine forms of resistance, including sabotage, absenteeism, and riots, used by Indigenous and enslaved people to protest and question their life conditions and their attempts to establish autonomous and meaningful ways of life and revolts, rebellions, and the revolutions of the late colonial period.. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No Senior Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges Core Component: None
Instead of looking at history from the vantage of national centers, borderlands history focuses on the complicated places where empires, nations, and Indigenous peoples have collided, converged, and overlapped over time. Borderlands were—and continue to be—perplexing places, where national identities and boundaries often held little sway, and where marginalized peoples sought to forge new paths. A focus on borderlands has the power to change our perspective on the history of North America, and to lend insight into the complex politics that define the border up to the present day, including heated debates over migration and the building of border walls. With this in mind, students examine the history of Indigenous, U.S.-Mexican, U.S-Canadian, and imperial borderlands from the 16th through the 21st centuries, including their political, social, and environmental dimensions.
Students examine the history of Kyoto in global history, and begin with consideration of Kyoto as Japan's capital until 1868 and its multifaceted ties to East Asia and beyond. In the second half, students think about how Kyoto looks from the perspective of global history. Students look at Kyoto's cultural, political, military, economic, and ethnic ties to the world, with particular attention to developments of recent decades. Classroom work is closely tied to specific sites and organizations in Kyoto and environs, including Buddhist monasteries, Shinto shrines, public architecture, civic associations, and museums. To better contextualize Kyoto as a city, students consider it in a comparative light with places like Tokyo, Osaka, Nara, Kobe, Kanazawa, and Kagoshima, which are visited over the course of the semester. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
HIST 365Warriors, Emperors and Temples in Japan1.00
Examines three very different kinds of Japanese culture and government during the medieval and early modern periods. Study begins with the transforming influences of continental civilization such as Buddhism, Chinese techniques of government, and state building. Students then look at the ways in which these influences were integrated into Japanese society and trace the emergence of the highly refined court culture during the classical Heian period. Next, students explore the erosion of the central government's power and the rise of the first warrior government, the Kamakura military government, and the new ethos of the "way of the warrior." Finally, students examine the fate of the samurai in an age when the arts of peace and administration were more critical than skill with a sword. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
Traces the origins and impact of the greatest land empire in history. Late in the 12th century, Ghenghis Khan unified the steppe and assembled an awesome military force. During the next decades, the Mongols conquered most of Eurasia. Students examine steppe military traditions, relations between the steppe and the sown, and the establishment of the Mongol empire. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, historical chronicles, art, and modern scholarship, students explore Mongol methods of rulership in the Middle East, East Asia, and Inner Asia and how a century of Mongol domination reshaped world history. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
Designed as a reading seminar, students are introduced to major themes and the ways in which scholars approach them. Students read and discuss several recent books of history and anthropology on varied topics relevant to medicine, health and healing in Africa. These range from historical forms of healing to training African medical students to the history of malaria to the complexity of pharmacological discoveries and patenting to psychiatry and decolonization. Crosslisted: ALST 371 Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No First-year Area of Inquiry: Social Relations, Institutions, & Agents Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
Examines the history of US-Africa interactions since the 1960s. Following the end of European colonial rule in Africa in the 1960s, the United States stepped in to exert its influence. Newly independent African countries were seen as a great opportunity to promote US economic, political and sociocultural agenda particularly during the Cold War. On the other hand, many African immigrants started to permanently settle in the US following the passage of the 1980 Refugee Act consolidating interactions between the US and Africa. Major themes include: African immigrants & Refugees in the US; Cold War; Public Awareness of African Issues in the US; USAID; Disease Control in Africa; US & Apartheid; War on Extremist Groups; Peace Corps and Humanitarian Interventions. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges Core Component: None
Surveys African history to 1880: its peoples and their environments, early Islamic North Africa, Bantu expansion, early states of the northern savannas, the kingdom of Ethiopia, the impact of medieval Islam, Europe's discovery of Africa and the slave trade, and later European missionary and commercial enterprise. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges Core Component: None
HIST 384Somalia: From Independence to Collapse1.00
Examines the history of modern Somalia from 1960 to the present. Major themes include the partition of Somaliland, Somali resistance; colonial rule in Somaliland; independence and problems of independence; the Siad Barre government; irredentist claims and wars; the collapse of Somalia; international intervention and aftermath; attempts to form a government, Islamic Courts Union, and al-Shabab fighters; and piracy. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges Core Component: None
Examines the history of the Darfur crisis. Topics include the people of Darfur, ethnic relations and conflicts, conquest and colonial legacy, Darfur and the Sudan government, the rebels, responses of the Sudan government and Janjaweed, the war, human rights violations, foreign powers, the challenge of humanitarian intervention, and the future of Darfur. Students explore the responsibilities and opportunities we have, as individuals and as a nation, to respond to the refugee migrations, human rights abuses, and genocides that haunted the 20th century and that are beginning to plague the 21st. Exposes students to historical causes of the crisis and some of the humanitarian challenges facing the world today. Also offers multiple frameworks for thinking about what roles we might play in influencing public policy and having an impact on people in need. Students learn to understand and analyze the crisis that the United Nations called "the world's worst humanitarian disaster" and the United States called "genocide." Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges Core Component: None
Epidemics often appear akin to natural disasters in historical accounts, as unpredictable and destructive forces apparently beyond human control. But epidemics are not simply random events that shape and constrain individual people, societies, and institutions. Epidemics are the creations of particular and varied contexts, both human and ecological. Students examine some of the conditions of possibility for historical epidemics, emphasizing social and cultural factors, as well as the variable effects epidemic diseases had on people and societies in the past. Students also consider challenges of writing history in a pandemic, the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic might influence how we understand historical epidemics, and the extent to which we can draw parallels between past and present. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
HIST 388The American South: From Reconstruction to the Present1.0
Examines the historical and social changes of the American South from the end of the Civil War throughout the twentieth century. The South, a region left almost destitute following the Civil War, underwent a major transformation which saw enslaved labor replaced with prison labor, industrialization driven by southern progressives who envisioned a "new South" and race relation struggles that would and still do plague the region. Material and visual culture, literature, journalism, music, food, religion, and recreation serve as course materials. Discussions cover a variety of topics including race, class, gender, southern agriculture, Jim Crow, the southern penal system, immigration, the South and the New Deal, southern labor, religion, cultural expressions through jazz, blues, country, and hip-hop, the civil rights movement, Southern conservatism, and voting rights. Crosslisted: ALST 388 Major/Minor Restrictions: None
HIST 389Reproductive Technologies in the 20th Century1.0
What is a reproductive technology – IVF and the pill, perhaps, or maybe the fetal monitors and forceps, or even a DNA test? This class explores these and other technologies which made and remade ideas of biological reproduction and the family in the 20th century, highlighting histories of the Global South. Reproductive technologies are used as a lens to discuss the relationship of technology to medicine, the processes of medicalization, health activism, the intersections of law and healthcare, and the ways in which reproductive technologies produced, expressed, or challenged concepts of gender, sexuality, and race. Rooted in the philosophy of Reproductive Justice, this course also centers the relationship between reproductive technologies and reproductive politics, and highlights the role of race and class in the history of reproductive medicine, exploring how the same technologies could be sources of personal freedom, or used as tools of violence, eugenics, imperial domination, and reproductive control. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges Core Component: None
Opportunity for individual study in areas not covered by formal course offerings, under the guidance of a member of the faculty. Credits: variable Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
Offers history students and faculty the opportunity to explore new fields of historical scholarship and to experiment with different ways of practicing and writing history. Students hone skills of critical reading, discussion, and writing. Topics and themes vary based on faculty interests; examples include public history, history of sexuality, material culture, military history, environmental history, or historical justice. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None
Selected topics with thematic focus rather than a geographical focus. The thematic seminar underscores the importance of exploring the diversity and the connections of human experience across space and time, and it aims to support the field of focus pathway within the major. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: The Process of Writing Core Component: None
HIST 462Seminar on Problems in African History1.00
Selected topics in African history from the ancient times to the present. Possible topics include African kingdoms and civilizations, expansion of Europe and the conquest of Africa, African resistances to colonialism, decolonization, colonial legacy, socio-economic and political developments in post- independence Africa, ethnic relations and conflicts, modern and indigenous mechanisms of governance. Students become familiar with the major historiographical debates in the field and are expected to refer to them in their research project. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: The Process of Writing Core Component: None
A thematic seminar that focuses on structures of Black RAGE during the long Civil Rights Movement. Students explore forms of Black RAGE by focusing on themes including Race, Rebellion, Reform, and Revolution. Of importance to note is that RAGE, in this course, is not always madness. Rage can be eloquent, powerful, implicit, boastful, skillful, innocent, unwavering, masterful, gritty, hurtful, harmful, painful, and much more. RAGE can also mean determination, rebellion, revolution, redemption, abolition, and freedom! While pursuing work on a common theme, coursework provides the opportunity to think intensely about the craft of researching and writing history. Much of the classwork focuses on the lived experiences and narratives of Black men, women, and children who used varying forms of Black RAGE as an avenue to freedom during the long civil rights struggle.
HIST 484Seminar on Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History1.00
Examines selected themes and topics in the cultural and intellectual history of Europe from the late 18th century to the present. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: The Process of Writing Core Component: None
HIST 489Seminar on Problems in Military History1.00
Focuses on the role of organized violence in history in the context of military-civil relations and change in military technology and methodology. The period covered is ancient to modern, European and non-Western. Each seminar concentrates on a particular era. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: The Process of Writing Core Component: None
A seminar for candidates for honors and high honors in history. Students enroll in this seminar to complete or extend a paper already begun in another history course. When Offered: Spring semester only Major/Minor Restrictions: Only History Majors Class Restriction: Only Senior Restrictions: Limited to seniors with a history GPA of 3.50 of higher Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: The Process of Writing Core Component: None
Opportunity for individual study in areas not covered by formal course offerings, under the guidance of a member of the faculty. Credits: variable Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
