193 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 1101The Shaping of the Modern World
3 hours; 3 credits A history of the world since 1500: the emergence of a global society. Early modern societies, cultures, and state structures. Trade, colonialism, slavery, and revolutions. Comparative industrialization and urbanization. Nationalism, internationalism, and totalitarianism. Demography, environment, Developments in the history of ideas, culture, race, sexuality, and gender. Satisfies Pathways Flexible Core World Cultures and Global Issues requirement.
3 hours; 3 credits The history of the United States to 1877. Indigenous history before European settlements. Political and economic developments of colonial institutions through the Revolutionary era and the periods dominated by Federalism, Jeffersonianism, and Jacksonianism. Consideration of the issues of the Civil War and the Reconstruction era. Satisfies Pathways Flexible Core US Experience in Its Diversity requirement.
3 hours; 3 credits The history of the United States from the end of Reconstruction to the present, emphasizing the varying experiences and contributions of diverse populations living in the United States, including race, ethnicity, class, religion, citizenship status, economic and political culture, language, gender, sexuality and more. Satisfies Pathways Flexible Core US Experience in Its Diversity requirement. Programs and Courses of Instruction story. Some courses may be creditable toward the CUNY doctoral ment chairperson or deputy chairperson for graduate studies. below. However, some courses may count towards multiple distribution rogram in history requirements for details. History pre-1500 C.E.
1500 3 hours; 3 credits Development of Mediterranean and European cultures from earliest origins to beginnings of early modern European colonization. Cross-cultural exchange, roles of religious traditions; rural environment and economy; role of marginalized populations, gender dynamics, arts, literature, philosophy; cultural revivals.
HIST 3002Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Europe to
1800 3 hours; 3 credits History of women, gender, and sexuality in Europe from antiquity through the early modern era based on literary, theological, historical, artistic, and theoretical sources. Course will ask questions like: how did early European societies understand and use the categories female and male? Was premodern Europe tolerant of homosexuality? How did Christian practices both solidify and undermine gender norms? How did the history of gender and sexuality shape the formation of European societies, cultures, and polities, and give way to the institutions and ideologies of later European institutions and hegemonies?
3 hours; 3 credits History of the global medieval world from ca. 500 to ca. 1600, including war, peace, technology, society, philosophy, political theory, and literature.
3 classroom hours plus conference and independent research; Rise of Macedon, from feudal state to world power. Development of government and society. Political and military developments under Philip II and Alexander the Great. Cultural exchange under Alexander. Focus on archaeological, epigraphic, and literary evidence. Emphasis on research methodologies. This course is the same as Classics 4011.
3 hours; 3 credits The history, culture, and art of post-classical Greek antiquity, focusing especially on the time frame between Alexander the Great and Cleopatra VII. Analysis of how the ancient world changed with Alexander and his successors, especially on the political, social, and cultural transformations that came with a multicultural world; changes in the religious landscape; gender roles; literary forms; and state formation. This course is the same as Classics 3302.
3 hours; 3 credits A historical survey covering the Roman civil wars that led to the Principate (Imperial Period), Julio-Claudian Period and subsequent Dynasties, finishing with crises of the third century CE, the transformation into the divided Dominate (post 284 CE) and finally reunified and re invented under Constantine. The diversity of the Roman experience across its vast geographical territory, different ethnic and religious groups, and social hierarchies is emphasized. This course is the same as Classics 3304.
3 hours; 3 credits The world of antiquity seen through a cultural history of ideas and practices relating to death and the afterlife in the ancient world. Mortuary practices and beliefs promulgated by populations in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Ancient Israel, Greece, Rome, Syria, North Africa and Asia Minor from the second millennium B.C.E. through the sixth century C.E. Covers: (1) the ancient context out of which notions about the afterlife emerged (2) cross-cultural developments, which resulted in ideas about death and the afterlife more familiar from Judaism and Christianity. Direct engagement with primary source materials through visits to local cemeteries, museums, and through individual research. This course is the same as Religion 3035 and Classics 3244.
3 Hours; 3 Credits Exploration of Egypt and how Egyptologists have constructed Egypt's history from both textual and archaeological sources. History 333 Predynastic Period (Ca. 3700-3032 BC) and the Early Dynastic Period (Ca. 3032-2707 BC) through ceramics, tools, art, and architecture; Old Kingdom (2707-2216 BC) through hieroglyphs; Egyptian history recounted in royal inscriptions, temple wall texts, biographies of high officials, and administrative documents; classical Egyptian civilization through Alexander's conquest of 332 BC; field study at Brooklyn Museum Egyptian collection.
3 hours; 3 credits The study of the Middle Ages, from 300 C.E. to 1500 C.E. Topics include the birth and development of Christianity and Islam; agricultural and commercial revolutions; the invention of the university; the creation of the modern notion of romantic love; medieval contributions to modern ideas about race; the development of the nation-state; the extensive collaboration and tension between Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Mediterranean; the origin of the first pogroms; and the formation of a globalized world with international trade routes. Ultimately, we will ask the question: how was the medieval world essential to the development of our modern ideas and institutions?
3 hours; 3 credits A course on the development of Christianity from its earliest days until the Protestant Reformation (ca. 1500 C.E.). With the help of historical, literary, musical, and artistic sources, we will investigate not only religious developments of the premodern world, but also how those developments had wide-ranging ramifications on the way that future world history unfolded.
3 hours; 3 credits The history of Europe from 1350 to 1789. For a long time, Early Modern Europe has been glorified as a time of “renaissances,” scientific and religious “revolutions,” and overall “Enlightenment.” After all, this period saw the print revolution, tremendous developments in art-making, and huge transformations in civic culture. But the early modern world also created systems of race, slavery, capitalism, and colonialism that would last for centuries. This class will determine how (and whether) we can reconcile these two polarities.
3 hours; 3 credits The origins, development, and evolving political culture of the Russian empire from the seventeenth century to the transformative era of Great Reforms in the late nineteenth
HIST 3080Love, Death, and Magic in Europe, 1500-1800
3 hours; 3 credits Topics in the social and cultural history of early modern Europe. Love, death, and magic are the three chief themes that will provide our focus. Historical demography, social structure, family and household, economic growth and crisis, popular religion and culture, witchcraft, violence, and revolt. Profound transformations in how people lived, thought, and behaved. Social historical background and classic microhistories. History of private life, love and sexuality, the ages of life, and death. History of witchcraft. Enlightenment, popular science, mesmerism, culture, and revolution.
3 hours; 3 credits Topics vary from term to term. Course descriptions may be obtained from the undergraduate deputy before registration. Students may take this course for credit twice, but may not repeat topics.
3 hours; 3 credits Religious beliefs and political institutions from Saul and David until the destruction of the First Temple. Second Temple Israel under Persians, Greeks, and Romans. The Maccabean uprising, the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls and other varieties of Judaism, the rise of Christianity, the revolts against Rome, and the victory of Rabbinic Judaism.
3 hours; 3 credits Medieval Jews and their interaction with the Christian and Muslim worlds. Crusades, blood libels, and expulsions; philosophers, Talmudists, and religious debaters; forced converts, moneylenders, and courtiers. This course is the same as JUST 3035.
3 hours; 3 credits Kabbalah (a form of Jewish mysticism emerging during the Medieval period) and various influential messianic ideologies and movements during the early modern and modern eras. Central doctrines of Kabbalah and geographic and social contexts of the evolution of mystical ideas and messianic trends. Factors that led to their popularization. This course is the same as Judaic Studies 4034.
from 1800 3 hours; 3 credits History of women, gender, and sexuality in Europe from the era of revolution, industrialization, and demographic transition to the present. How did gendered notions of humanity play out in forms of political representation, the nature of the workplace, and the structure of the state? What were the implications for family life and social organization? How did sexual identities and the life course evolve in modern and postmodern societies? This course is the same as Women's and Gender Studies 3224.
3 hours; 3 credits Europe from the rise of the new imperialism to the end of World War II. Second industrial revolution. Cultural revolt and intellectual ferment. The two world wars and inter-war instability. Bolshevik revolution, Soviet Russia, and the origins of the Cold War. Nazism and Fascism.
3 hours; 3 credits The history of Europe since the end of World War II, including the reconstruction of war-torn societies, the separate development of eastern and western European nations, the impact of the Cold War, the domestic effects of decolonization, the development of a European Union. International social issues, such as the rise of feminism, the new immigration, and changing class structures will be emphasized.
3 Hours; 3 credits Beginning with the French Revolution, this course will study both state-sponsored terror and terrorist movements in Europe. Topics will include definitions of terrorism, anarchism, Nazi and Soviet terror, modern separatist movements, domestic terrorism, and an examination of the West and Islamic fundamentalism.
3 hours; 3 credits From the shattering Messianic movement of 1666 to the establishment of the state of Israel. Impact on modern Jewish history of emancipation, the Enlightenment, anti-Semitism, Reform Judaism, assimilation, and Zionism.
3 hours; 3 credits The French Revolution and how it has been interpreted and remembered over two centuries. After an introduction to the society, culture, and politics of the Old Regime, an exploration of events and historiographical controversies of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic period, 1789-1815. Importance of the Revolution in the history of liberty, equality, nationalism terror, gender, race, and human rights. Contexts in European, Atlantic, Caribbean, and world history.
3 hours; 3 credits Social, cultural, and political history of France from 1789 to the present. Cycles of revolution and reaction, labor, gender, the role of French culture in the world, experiences and memories of war, the impacts of empire, decolonization, and migration, and the place of France in the construction of Europe.
3 hours; 3 credits German history from national unification under Bismarck through political division after Hitler and reunification in 1989. Wilhelmine Empire, Weimar Republic, Nazi dictatorship. Germany's role in European affairs and in the origins of the two world wars. Reconstruction after 1945, divergent development of the two Germanies, politics of reunification. Germany and European Union.
3 hours; 3 credits History of Nazi Germany (1933-1945). Ideological origins of National Socialism. Hitler's ascent to and consolidation of power. Significance of the exile experience. Social consensus in Germany behind National Socialism. World War II and origins of the Holocaust. The Nazi "new order" in Europe and collaboration. Resistance to National Socialism. Postwar trials and the public memory of Nazi Germany after 1945.
3 hours; 3 credits History 337 Genocide against the Jews of Europe under the Nazi German regime; historiography of genocide and the Holocaust; roots of anti-Semitism; rise of Nazis and anti-Jewish policies; Jewish responses to intensifying persecution, confiscations, forced emigration, slave labor, extortion, ghettos, concentration camps, and systematic mass murder; collaboration by non- Germans; Jewish resistance and rescue operations; Allied and Soviet policies and actions; fate of other groups targeted by the Nazis; reactions of post-World War II survivors; war crime trials at Nuremburg; genocide after the Holocaust precedent. This course is the same as Judaic Studies 3050.
3 hours; 3 credits The history of the Soviet Union as a multiethnic empire, 1917- 1991. Topics include Soviet nationality policy; the construction and evolution of the Soviet state and its constituent socialist republics; the evolution and variation of governmental , approaches to managing and “Sovietizing” non-Russian citizens; the “everyday life” of non-Russian peoples throughout the empire; ethnic discrimination, conflicts, and deportations within the Soviet Union; the elevation of Russia as the “first among equals;” and the fracturing of the Soviet Union in 1991 along national lines. Emphasis will be placed on the geographic and cultural diversity of the Soviet Union as whole.
3 hours; 3 credits The history of the Soviet Union in its global contexts. Emphasis on Soviet foreign relations, citizen diplomacy, and Soviet perspectives on the international conflicts and collaborations that shaped the twentieth century. Exploration of how people, ideas, goods, and expertise traveled across Soviet borders and circulated within and beyond the twentieth-century’s “socialist world.” Study of the global dimensions of the October Revolution, Stalinist industrialization, World War II, the Cold War, and the Soviet Union’s demise.
3 hours; 3 credits Topics vary from term to term. Course description may be obtained in the department office before registration. Students may take this course for credit twice, but may not repeat topics. Transnational, comparative and/or global history
3 hours; 3 credits Religious developments and conflicts. Intersections of ancient Judaisms, Christianities, state religions, mystery cults and other belief systems in the Ancient Mediterranean. This course is the same as Classics 3237.
3 hours; 3 credits A cultural history of Christianity from the first century to the present. Using scripture, theology, literature, art, archaeology, and music as sources, we will investigate the place of Christian culture in the history of the world. This course is the same as Studies in Religion 3050.
3 hours; 3 credits Children's place in society and thought from antiquity to the present. Drawing from a variety of written, material, and visual sources, topics will include the history of child-rearing practices childhood disease and mortality; the political status of children; the education of children; the place of children in religious practice, in the culture of the family, and in the societal conception of women and gender; the development of children’ s rights under the law; literary and philosophical ideals of childhood; and the historiography of childhood studies.
3 hours; 3 credits Slavery and the slave trade. Comparative early origins of Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, French and English colonial development in the Caribbean and American mainland from Columbus to the Treaty of Utrecht.
3 hours; 3 credits Sexuality in practice and thought in North and South America since colonial times. Continuities, commonalities and differences from cultural, geographic and temporal perspectives, looking at the effects of major social movements including nationalism, industrialization and globalization. Use of secondary sources and a wide variety of primary sources from Inquisition documents to Flapper films. Theory and historical contextualization. This course is the same as Women's and Gender Studies 3238.
3 hours; 3 credits An exploration of urban development in world history, and its transformative effect on the lives and thought of urban dwellers. The role of cities in shaping world events will be studied alongside the influence of historical trends on the evolving nature of urban society and city life. Topics will vary.
HIST 3332Comparative Industrialization, Late 18th to
Early 20th Centuries Programs and Courses of Instruction 3 hours, 3 credits Origins and development of global industrialization. Effect of tehnological development and industiral processes on the organization of business and work, social classes and relations, gender expectations and family life, governmental roles and political movements, rural and urban environments, cultural beliefs/rituals and the production of art; competition and global ; consumption, colonization and commodification of resources, products, and peoples; imperial designs, colonial critiques, and global warfare. Alternatively, may satisfy credit requirements in European History.
3 hours; 3 credits Definitions of feminism; feminists in the Renaissance and early modern Europe; feminist demands arising from the French Revolution; early radical feminism in the United States, France, and the Germanies; liberal and Marxist feminism; women's movements from the 1850s to World War I in the West; the development of women's movements outside of Europe and America; imperialism, feminism, and national independence; the "second wave": women's liberation movements since 1968. This course is the same as Women's and Gender Studies 3230.
and Nation-State—A Cross-Cultural Perspective 3 hours; 3 credits Exploration of gender, family, and households, and their connection with nation and state formation; social construction of gender, different forms of families and households, class- caste-racial hierarchies, the life-course, sexualities, gender, labor, and family inequalities across time in various geopolitical contexts, socio-cultural and political-economic processes. This course is the same as Women and Gender Studies 3338 and Children and Youth Studies 3338.
centuries) 3 hours; 3 credits Traces intersection of gender, race, and empire in regulation and maintenance of European, particularly British, colonies in different parts of Asia and Africa. Race and gender specific ideologies introduced by colonial regimes and their impacts on native populations in a comparative framework; connections between women and imperialism; involvement and activism of European and American women with nationalist and women’s questions in South Asia and beyond. This course is the same as Women's and Gender Studies 3333.
3 hours; 3 credits Perceptions and visions of the future in Western culture from the scientific revolution to present as developed through science fiction, utopian literature, world’s fairs, movies, and the field of future studies. Major themes include science and technology, socialism, war, cities, the environment, and the relationship between history and prophecy.
3 hours; 3 credits Roots of the conflict, from Eastern Europe to Ottoman Palestine; transformation from Ottoman civil conflict to national struggle; founding of the Israeli state and transfer of the Palestinian population; the Arab-Israeli conflict and roots of peacemaking; return of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Oslo Accords and failure; Second Intifada; the conflict in literature, music, and film.
and, Culture 3 hours; 3 credits Islamic classical and contemporary thinkers on a broad range of topics, including the compatibility of religion and science, reason and revelation, and Islam and women’s and minority rights, among others. This course is the same as RELG 3020.
3 hours; 3 credits The uses and abuses of history in politics and culture worldwide since the 19th Century. The meanings and practices of collective memory, the politics of memory, memorialization, and coming to terms with the past in historiography, politics, diplomacy, law, and popular culture.
3 hours; 3 credits Fascism in an international context from its origins in the 19th Century to its contemporary manifestations; topics include contested definitions, the roots of fascism, how fascist regimes come to power, how fascist regimes rule, fascism as a form of imperialism, fascism’s gender dynamics, the aesthetics of fascism, antifascism, the fate of fascism after World War II, and fascism in contemporary Europe and the Americas.
3 hours; 3 credits A history of global conflict between imperial states from the late 1800s through the 1980s; topics include competition for colonies and regional conflicts in the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, and Asia; World War I and World War II as instances of conflict between imperial states; decolonization as an extension of the age of global imperial wars.
3 hours; 3 credits Development of Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism, with emphasis on origins, teachings, and role in culture. Unique features of Eastern spirituality through comparison with the Abrahamic traditions and secular societies. Consideration of the practice of these religious traditions within contemporary United States. This course is the same as RELG 3005. History 339
3 hours; 3 credits Selected aspects of Indigenous History from the entire American continent starting from Pre-Columbian eras to the present. May include studies of North American peoples, Meso- American and Andean civilizations and other peoples based in South America and the Caribbean. Topics may include social, political and religious formation, warfare, the environment, and resistance and assimilation with European invading groups. This course is the same as AMST 3308.
3 hours; 3 credits The history of decolonization and its legacies in the contemporary world. The first wave of decolonization in the 18th and 19th Centuries; roots of post-World War II decolonizations; the core phase of decolonization from the 1940s through the 1960s; the post-colonial experience and neocolonialism; decolonization in the contemporary world.
3 hours; 3 credits A content-oriented course for students with an interest in careers that entail a knowledge of history and/or a use of historical sources and scholarship. We will explore the different philosophies, methods, and sources of history that are relevant to teaching history in the classroom and applying historical knowledge and research in other career settings.
3 hours; 3 credits Colonial origins of the ideas and forms of American constitutional development. Drafting and establishment of the Constitution. Study of its changing interpretation in the context of changing global political, economic, and social conditions of the nineteenth century and twentieth century, particularly concerning class, race, and gender. Evolving concepts of liberty. Supreme Court and modern American politics.
3 hours; 3 credits Narratives of Black Atlantic history on films from Africa, the Americas, Europe, and the Caribbean, juxtaposed with scholarly works and archival documents on three topics: slavery and emancipation; decolonization and civil rights; and migrations and immigration. Study of history as a tool of mastery and resistance in the politics of representation; analysis of the relationship among history, memory, and the performative arts.
3 hours; 3 credits African Americans from the era of the Atlantic slave trade through the Civil War. Topics include the African origins of African Americans, defining African Americans, the slave trade, free Blacks in antebellum America, role of gender and class, Black family and community, origins of the black church, slavery, resistance and abolitionism. This course is the same as Africana Studies 3120.
3 hours; 3 credits African Americans since the end of the Civil War. Topics include Blacks and Reconstruction, Blacks and Redemption, "The Nadir," emigration and colonization, the Great Migration, Blacks in World Wars I and II, Black Nationalism, Blacks and the Great Depression, the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, post-Civil Rights Black politics, mass incarceration, 21st century political movements. This course is the same as Africana Studies 3121.
3 hours; 3 credits Development of major American religious traditions, from indigenous practices, through traditions of early America, religious experiences of immigrants to America, and the interface between religious movements and the civil rights struggle, to the present. This course is the same as American Studies 3106.
3 hours; 3 credits Explores the colonial origins of American society and shows how a broad array of peoples encountered one another in different regions of North America. Religion and power, warfare and slavery, civilization and wilderness, province and empire, with a particular focus on English-speaking settlements from the 1660s to the end of the Seven Years War in 1763. Examines the ways in which historians and historical actors have interpreted the events of the colonial period.
3 hours; 3 credits The era of the American Revolution and the early national period as observed through the lives of representative men and women. War, loyalism, and republicanism. The establishment of the Constitution and the emergence of political parties. Cultural and social life of the new nation. Programs and Courses of Instruction
3 hours; 3 credits This course explores the military history of the British-American colonies and the United States through the end of the nineteenth century. Through lectures, reading, and discussions, we will discuss civilian-military relations; the role of culture and social hierarchies in wartime; the effects of war on the home front; professionalization, recruitment, and mobilization; imperial ambitions, strategies, and tactics; technology and logistics; and the commemoration of war. We will examine the ways in which historians and historical actors have interpreted this subject.
3 hours; 3 credits History of the U.S. Civil War and its meaning for the debate over states’ rights as well as citizenship. Slavery as the mark of southern distinctiveness; westward expansion; new forms of mass politics, and economic and cultural changes within northern society that shaped antislavery. The impact of class, gender, and racial affiliations. Reconstruction as America’s “unfinished revolution.”
3 hours; 3 credits The nineteenth and twentieth-century American West in history and myth. Emphasis on the development of the frontier myth through literature, dime novels, films, and other forms of popular culture. The relationship between myth and history; the development of the western hero; the role of race, gender, and violence. This course is the same as American Studies 3102.
3 hours; 3 credits Incorporation and commodification of American life. Completion of continental communications and transportation networks; expansion and incorporation of agriculture, business, consumption, government, labor, manufacturing, and technology; Immigration and internal migration; rise of the city, the West, and the "New" South; speculation, monopoly behavior, progress and poverty, and systematic philanthropy; political protests and reform movements for civil rights, equality, conservation, health and safety and “scientific” management”; imperialism, global war, and the return to "normalcy."
3 hours; 3 credits United States history from the Wilson presidency through the U. S. entry into the Korean War and the onset of McCarthyism: consolidation of progressivism and the Wilson presidency; entry into World War I and the Wilsonian agenda; the rise of the corporatist state; the United States and the world of the 1920s; clashes of culture in interwar America; the Depression and the emergence of a Democratic majority; the importance of dissenters; Franklin Roosevelt and American reform; the battle over the role of the Supreme Court; the United States and World War II; postwar politics; nuclear weapons and the militarization of the Cold War.
HIST 3450United States Foreign Relations since 1898
3 hours; 3 credits The emergence of the United States as a major world power; Wilsonianism; the United States and the 1920s world; the debate over isolationism and presidential power; World War II; the onset of the Cold War; nuclear weapons and U.S. foreign policy; Latin America; Vietnam and the collapse of the liberal consensus; detente; American foreign policy in an age of uncertainty; the ending of the cold war; 9/11 and its impacts; U. S. campaigns in the Middle East. Special attention will be paid to the viewpoints presented by dissenters on both the right and the left.
3 hours; 3 credits Historical background to the war in Vietnam; The French War in Indochina; origins of American involvement; conscription and issues of race, class, and ethnicity in the armed forces; strategy and tactics, 1965-1973; origins and growth of the antiwar movement; the Pentagon Papers and the role of the media; representations of the war in film, music, fiction, and personal memoirs; remembering the war in oral history.
3 hours; 3 credits History and experiences of people of the Asian diaspora in the United States, as part of a vast and diverse global history spanning centuries and across continents. Topics include: interrogation of the theories of race and ethnicity that permit room to study and understand the history of the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) experience in the United States; the ways in which the Asian (especially Chinese) diaspora shaped subsequent immigration and race-based policies due to xenophobia and discrimination; the emergence of the panethnic identity “Asian-American,” and its evolution over time into a complex and convoluted dropping of the hyphen to become “Asian American”; and the history of cross-racial solidarity. This course is the same as AMST 3141.
History Outside the Classroom 3 hours; 3 credits Introduction to the field of public history. Films, television, living history, archives and archaeology; local and business history.
3 hours; 3 credits Introduction to the history and interpretation of American popular arts and culture. Popular music, theater, radio, film, television, and advertising. Popular expressions as shapers and reflectors of American ideas about nationalism, class, gender, ethnicity/race, region, and generation. This course is the same as American Studies 3406.
4 hours; 4 credits Interdisciplinary exploration of the dreams, myths, realities, and illusions of inclusion that have guided the American experience. Background and historical amnesia about indigenous displacements, settler colonialism, the after-lives of Atlantic world slavery, and the nation’s founding ideals, documents, and
3 hours; 3 credits Interactions among humans and natural environments from pre- contact to the present. Attention to ecological change, uses of the environment, and human ideas about nature. Native American approaches to the natural world; environmental impact of European colonization; rise of industrial cities; romanticism; conservation and preservation; impact of the automobile; environmentalism and environmental justice.
3 hours plus conference; 3 credits Interactions between urban societies and the natural environment in United States history. Attention to early urbanization and industrialization; the relationship between city and country; the development of pastoral parks and suburbs; pollution, public health, and environmental justice; sprawl.
3 hours, 3 credits History of medicine and health in North America (1492-present, with emphasis on 1840-present); intersection of medicine and American culture; development of medical ideas and practices in the United States; interplay among individuals, groups (social, governmental, professional) and factors enhancing or undermining health; economic forces shaping the practice of medicine; impact of changing medical ideas on public issues; impact of changing medical ideas on private attitudes; shifting notions of responsibility for “good health.”
"Minor Vices" in Twentieth-Century America 3 hours, 3 credits The history of changing definitions of "minor vices" in the modern United States (1840-present); the social costs of addictive, dangerous, or economically non-productive behaviors; emphasis on "moral panics" concerning behavior of adolescents and young adults; smoking, drinking, and drug- taking, "inappropriate" movies, comic books, music, sexual activities, video-gaming and internet; commercial forces shaping and promoting the "bad habits" for profit; regulatory solutions to behavioral choices; underlying assumptions about children's purity and susceptibility.
3 hours; 3 credits Programs and Courses of Instruction New York City from its origins to the present. Indigenous inhabitants before the European invasion; Dutch and English imperial periods; the American Revolution; slavery; immigration s; and ethnicity; growth, development, and infrastructure; reform, social uplift, and social conflict; urban crisis and urban renewal; public life, culture, and innovation; race and gentrification.
3 hours; 3 credits Exploration of Brooklyn’s past, and the role the city and borough have played in the larger history of New York City and the United States. Topics include: the Lenape and the legacy of settler-colonialism and indigenous displacement in Brooklyn; slavery and the building of the pre-industrial city; industrialization, inequality, and work in the nineteenth century; the cultural history of the Brooklyn Bridge and other sites of history making and memory; immigration, ethnicity, and race and religious relations in the borough over time; and de- industrialization, segregation, gentrification, and the borough’s post-World War II cultural, economic, political, and social landscapes. Employing Brooklyn as a setting for examining major themes in American and global history, students will conduct historical research into the lives of everyday Brooklynites and the context for contemporary concerns about the future of Brooklyn, the United States, and the larger world.
3 hours; 3 credits Topics vary from term to term. Course description may be obtained in the department office before registration. Students may take this course for credit twice, but may not repeat topics. Other lower division courses
and Archival Materials 3 hours; 3 credits A basic overview of the preservation of documents, books, photographs, and other paper-based materials, as well as digital collections. Through a hands-on experience in the college’s book and paper conservation laboratory, students will learn to analyze the condition of paper artifacts, investigate varied treatments and re-housing options, apply different conservation methods and techniques, and understand the critical role of conservation and preservation in libraries and archives. Does not count towards the History major or the
3 hours; 3 credits The role of the archivist in historical research. Theoretical and historical basis of archival management. Types of archives. Applications of modern archival practices. The Brooklyn College archives will serve as the student's laboratory. deputy.
3 hours; 3 credits Latin American history from 1492 to 1880. Discovery and conquest of America; Spanish and Portugese organization of government, church, and economic institutions. Colonization, settlement, and expansion of frontiers. Economic evolution of colonial America. Rise of the cities of Latin America. Education, universities, secular culture, and the Enlightenment. Reform movements of the eighteenth century. Background of the movements for independence. Establishment of modern nation states.
3 hours; 3 credits Historical forces in the evolution of Caribbean nations from the nineteenth century to the present. Includes material on Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad- Tobago among other nations. Concentrates upon national and international factors influencing each society as well as comparative analysis.
HIST 3530Land of the Dragon Throne: Imperial China
and its Origins Programs and Courses of Instruction 3 hours; 3 credits Chinese civilization from its Neolithic beginnings through the late sixteenth century C.E. The earliest Yellow River civilizations, beginnings of royal institutions, foundations of Chinese religion, the cultural, social, and economic revolution of the Warring States, the establishment and evolution of the imperial state, China and Inner Asia, the spread of Buddhism, the growth of commerce, the flourishing of art and literature, the social order and ideology of the late empire.
3 hours; 3 credits Origins, development, and present state of the Chinese revolution. Social and ideological patterns in the breakdown of the Confucian order. The Revolution of 1911. Urban nationalism and the warlords. Rise of the Guomindang and the Communist Party. The Japanese invasion, Maoist ideology, and the Communist conquest. The People's Republic since 1949. Political, social, economic and ecological crises in the struggle to modernize. China's global impact.
3 hours; 3 credits History of China, from the early Republic through the present. Topics include: New Culture Movement; founding of the Chinese Communist Party; World War Two; founding of the People’s Republic of China; Great Leap Forward; Cultural Revolution; reforms under Deng Xiaoping; Tiananmen Square movement; and restructuring of the CCP in the 21st century.
3 hours; 3 credits Development of Japan as a modern nation. Tokugawa origins of modern institutions; emergence of the imperial state in the Meiji period; expansion on the Asian continent; nationalism, liberalism, and militarism between the wars. Destruction in World War II; recovery and the rise to affluence. Japan as a post-industrial power; its regional and global influence.
HIST 3543The Jewel in the Crown: British Imperialism
and Indian Nationalism 3 hours; 3 credits The decline of the Mughal Empire and the competition for succession won by the British East India Company; the structure and ideology of the Raj; social, economic, and cultural changes during the Raj including the role of race and the History 335 changing place of women. Rise of Indian nationalism and Muslim separatism viewed from above and below. Leadership, organization and ideology of early nationalists and the Congress party under Gandhi. Partition and independence of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
3 hours; 3 credits Traces continuities and changes in women's lives in the geopolitical area of South Asia, mainly India, from the nineteenth century to the present. Effects of British colonial rule on different groups of women; women's question and nationalism; construction and transformation of gender roles; women's involvement in organizational activities, freedom struggles and other resistance movements; women and partition of India and Pakistan; women in family and state; contemporary issues related to democracy, women's rights, uniform civil code, and others. This course is the same as Women's and Gender Studies 3332.
3 hours; 3 credits Life and political career of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in South Asian politics against British colonial rule and his legacy for India and the modern world. Analysis of Gandhi’s writings, ideas, and philosophies of non-violence, self-reliance, civil disobedience, and moral discipline. Exploration of scholarly debates surrounding Gandhi and the significance of his movement and methods for the modern world. Imperialism and Indian Nationalism) preferred.
HIST 3554From Empire to Nation-State: the Emergence
of Modern Turkey 1800-present 3 hours; 3 credits Emergence of the "modern" Ottoman State; implementation and repercussions of "tanzimat" reforms; transformation from "subjects" to "citizens"; the Young Ottoman movement and the rise of Islam as an ideology; roots of the Young Turk revolution and introduction of parliamentary politics; World War One and its aftermath; the founding of the modern Turkish state and the period of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk; the multi-party system and breakdown of political stability; movement to capitalism; the Kurdish question; and the bid to join the European Union.
HIST 3560States, Kingdoms and Trade: Africa to 1800
3 hours; 3 credits Themes in the history of Africa south of the Sahara from earliest times to 1800. Salient themes include Nile Valley civilizations, trans-Saharan trade, early social and economic systems, West African states, especially the Empire of Mali, Islamic influences, state formation, Swahili coastal city states, and Indian Ocean trade. Origins, development, and consequences of the Atlantic slave trade. This course is the same as Africana Studies 3101. African, Asian, Caribbean, Latin American, Middle
3 hours; 3 credits Themes drawn from all regions of the continent of Africa south of the Sahara from 1800 to the present. The Islamic revolutions, the Zulu Empire and political evolution in South Africa, the rise of legitimate trade, the impact of European missionaries and explorers, imperialism, the colonial state, nationalist independence movements, post-independence challenges, and current economic, political, and current issues. This course is the same as Africana Studies 3102.
HIST 3590Special Topics in Asian, Caribbean, Latin
American, and Middle Eastern History 3 hours; 3 credits Topics vary from term to term. Course description may be obtained in the department office before registration. Students may take this course for credit twice, but may not repeat topics.
4 hours; 4 credits Colloquium on the history of religious beliefs, organizations, and communities in historical context. Topics vary from term to term. Course descriptions may be obtained from undergraduate deputy before registration. Students may take this course for credit twice, but may not repeat topics. permission of the undergraduate deputy.
4 hours; 4 credits The individual life in relation to historical change. Topics may include the life of the revolutionary, the hero in history, collective biography, and the biographer as historian. permission of the chairperson.
4 hours; 4 credits History 343 Colloquium on the history of classes, groups, and mass movements in history. Topics vary from term to term. Course descriptions may be obtained from undergraduate deputy before registration. Students may take this course for credit twice, but may not repeat topics. permission of the undergraduate deputy.
4 hours; 4 credits Colloquium focused on the history of historical writing from antiquity to the present day; particular historical methodologies and disciplines, such as microhistory, the history of emotions, spatial history, visual history, Subaltern studies, history of feminism, etc. Topics vary from term to term. Course descriptions may be obtained from undergraduate deputy before registration. Students may take this course for credit twice, but may not repeat topics. permission of the undergraduate deputy.
4 hours; 4 credits Colloquium on the history of states, governments, politics, diplomacy, parties, war/warfare, and political institutions in human history. Topics vary from term to term. Course descriptions may be obtained from undergraduate deputy before registration. Students may take this course for credit twice, but may not repeat topics. . permission of the undergraduate deputy.
4 hours; 4 credits Colloquium on public history, on the wide range of locations where history is produced and consumed outside of the classroom. Topics vary from term to term. Course descriptions may be obtained from undergraduate deputy before registration. Students may take this course for credit twice, but may not repeat topics.
4 hours; 4 credits Colloquium on the relationship between human culture and the natural environment over time. Topics vary from term to term. Course descriptions may be obtained from the undergraduate deputy before registration. Students may take this course for credit twice but may not repeat topics. permission of the undergraduate deputy.
4 hours; 4 credits Thematic consideration of history in global contexts. Topics may include approaches to writing global history, globalization and the local, humanity and the environment, climate change and its consequences, patterns of human migration, economic systems, science and systems of knowledge, imperialism, and the circulation of ideas, technologies, religions, plant and anima species, and diseases. permission of the undergraduate deputy.
4 hours; 4 credits Colloquium on historical modes of production, distribution and exchange, and forms of work, consumption, technology and innovation. Other themes include the creation of wealth and hierarchies. Topics vary from term to term. Course descriptions may be obtained from the undergraduate deputy before registration. Students may take this course for credit twice but may not repeat topics. permission of the undergraduate deputy.
4 hours; 4 credits Colloquium on “race,” defined broadly to include tropes of difference (often rationalized by physiognomy) that shaped the distribution of power within and across different societies, geopolitical locales, and cultural contexts over time. Its intersection with other discourses (that is, languages and institutions) of unequal relations, including class, gender, sex, sexuality, nationality, and religion. Histories of resistance from “the bottom up.” Topics vary from term to term. Course descriptions may be obtained from the undergraduate deputy before registration. Students may take this course for credit twice but may not repeat topics. permission of the undergraduate deputy.
4 hours; 4 credits Theory of and fieldwork in oral history interviewing. Preparing for, conducting, and transcribing oral history interviews. Reviewing legal and ethical issues. Analyzing the relationship between history and memory. Studying the use of life history narratives in print, film, television, radio, exhibitions, performance, community history projects, and the classroom. Programs and Courses of Instruction
Minimum of 12 hours conference and independent work; 4 credits Individual study supervised by a faculty member. Approved topic and readings. Weekly conference. Final examination or paper. Students may take this course twice for credit but may not repeat topics. permission of the faculty member and undergraduate deputy.
Minimum of 12 hours conference and independent work; 4 credits Independent research supervised by a faculty member. Approved topic. Weekly conference. Thesis or research paper. Students may take this course twice for credit but may not l repeat topics. permission of the faculty member and undergraduate deputy.
9 hours of fieldwork; 3 credits Applied training in such areas of public history as archival and museum management, mounting historical exhibits, and collection classification. To be pursued in conjunction with an institution outside the college under the supervision of a History Department liaison. A written report is required. permission of the undergraduate deputy.
9 hours of fieldwork; 3 credits Applied training in such areas of public history as archival and museum management, mounting historical exhibits, and collection classification. To be pursued in conjunction with an institution outside the college under the supervision of a History Department liaison. A written report is required. permission of the undergraduate deputy.
9 hours of fieldwork; 3 credits Applied training in history at historical sites other than archives Internships at off-site institutions that allow for supervised projects in museum management, historical exhibit creation, oral history, and collection development. Supervision by a full- time faculty member of the Brooklyn College History Department and the cooperating institution required. undergraduate deputy and/or the chair of the History Department, and the cooperating institution.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Application of basic principles and techniques of primary source based historical research and writing to the production of student theses and portfolio papers. permission of the chairperson or the graduate deputy.
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Origins and development of global industrialization. Effect of technological development and industrial processes on the organization of business and work, social classes and relations, gender expectations and family life, governmental roles and political movements, rural and urban environments, cultural History 209 beliefs/rituals and the production of art; competition and global consumption, colonization and commodification of resources, products, and peoples; imperial designs, colonial critiques, and global warfare.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Interactions among human societies and the natural environment within the context of global history. Attention to pre-modern environmental relationships; the ecological expansion of Europe; the impact of industrialization, urbanization, and colonialism; and the rise of conservation and environmental movements.
6 hours; 6 credits On-site learning and teaching. Topography and monuments of one or more major centers of ancient Mediterranean culture such as Athens, Rome, the Bay of Naples, or western Asia Minor. Emphasis on research methodologies and social contexts.
45 hours; 3 credits On-site learning and teaching. Intensive study of one or more aspects of the ancient history, culture, and development of ancient Mediterranean cultures such as Athens, Rome, or western Asia Minor. Emphasis on research methodologies and social contexts.
HIST 7210XMedieval Europe Europe. Ultimately, we will ask the question: how was the3
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits medieval world essential to the development of our modern Topics in the culture and society of western Europe from late ideas and institutions? antiquity to the fifteenth century. The transition from the Roman world. The Carolingians. “Feudal” society. Agricultural change and commercial revolutions. The Crusades. Jewish-Christian- HIST 7220X Early Modern Europe Muslim relations. Universities and Scholasticism. Chivalry. 30 hours plus conference;
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits European thought and culture in the eighteenth century. The Republic of Letters and its social and cultural contexts. Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment as roots of modern culture wars. Relationship between Enlightenment and Revolution. Globalizing, racializing, and gendering the Enlightenment.
HIST 7310XThe Old Regime and the French Revolution
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Society, culture, and politics of the Old Regime. French Revolution (1789-1799) and its historiography. Political culture, monarchy and republic, left and right, democracy and terror. Gender and race in current French Revolutionary scholarship.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Legacies of the French Revolution and Napoleon. Social, cultural, and political conflicts in the nineteenth, twentieth, and early twenty-first centuries. Histories of revolution and reaction, religion, republicanism and secularism, work and social class, region, nation, and transnational institutions, gender and race.
HIST 7340XLate Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Russian and Soviet history from the mid-nineteenth through late twentieth centuries. Emphasis on social and political upheaval during the so-called “era of great reforms” and its aftermath; ethnicity, race, and empire; revolutionaries and revolutions; Bolshevism, Leninism, and Stalinism; everyday Soviet life; ideology and its social meanings; cold war; de-Stalinization; “stagnation;” perestroika, and the demise of the USSR.
30 hours plus conference, 3 credits Stalinism and historiographical debates on Stalinism. Critical analysis of ideology, citizenship, the economy, state violence, gender, ethnicity, war, everyday life, and selfhood in the Soviet Union under Stalin. Study of and debates over historical memory of Stalin and Stalinism in the late Soviet and post- Soviet eras.
45 hours; 3 credits History of race and ethnicity in the Soviet Union with emphasis on ordinary people’s varied experiences of Soviet racial and ethnic politics. Topics include: Soviet internationalism and transnational communism; Black sojourners to the USSR; Programs and Courses of Instruction Soviet nationality policy and ethnic diversity; Stalinist ethnic cleansing; Cold War racial politics; decolonization and development in a bipolar world; the racialization of ethnicity within the USSR over time; the ethnic/racial dimensions of perestroika and the USSR’s demise; historical comparison of ideologies of race and racial regimes; and historiographical debates about race and ethnicity in the Soviet context.
45 hours, 3 credits The history of the Soviet Union in its global contexts. Soviet perspectives on the international conflicts and collaborations that shaped the twentieth century. Exploration of how people, ideas, goods, and expertise traveled across Soviet borders and circulated within and beyond the twentieth century’s “socialist world.” Emphasis on the global dimensions of the October Revolution, Stalinist industrialization, World War II, the Cold War, and the Soviet Union’s demise
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits History of global conflict between imperial states from the late 1800s through the 1980s. Topics include competition for colonies and regional conflicts in the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, and Asia; World War I and World War II as instances of conflict between imperial states; decolonization as an extension of the age of global imperial wars.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits European politics and society from 1945 to the present. Emphasis on changes in European society brought about by the catastrophes of war and genocide: "deradicalization" of the right and left, the politics of memory, decolonization, the impact of the United States, the collapse of communism and the
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits British American colonies. Colonial intellectual trends. Intercolonial aspects of social development. Foundations of American nationality to 1763.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Scholarly interpretations of the U.S. Civil War; its memory; its influence on concepts of citizenship and states' rights. Slavery, Programs and Courses of Instruction race, and the "Peculiar South"; westward expansion; new forms of mass politics, and economic and cultural changes within northern society that shaped the antislavery movement. The impact of class, gender, and racial affiliations. Debates in Reconstruction historiography.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Political, economic, and social issues of the Gilded Age. Populist revolt. Spanish-American War; overseas expansion and commitments. Progressive reforms. World War I and its immediate consequences.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits American history from the aftermath of the Progressive Era until the present. The course will focus on the effects of the Wilson presidency; the Depression and American life; the New Deal, World War II, and the onset of the Cold War; the changing nature of postwar liberalism; the United States in Vietnam; Richard Nixon and Watergate; environmentalism, feminism, and new social movements; the revitalization of American conservatism; 9/11 and its impacts; the Obama and Trump presidencies.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Historical analysis of such factors as the frontier, immigration, absence of a rigid class system, regionalism, sectionalism in development of American economic thought and institutions from colonization through the nineteenth century.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Interactions among humans and the North American environment. Attention to influence of environment on human culture, impact of human culture on the environment, and ideas about nature. Native American approaches to the natural world; environmental impact of European colonization; rise of industrial cities; romanticism; conservation and preservation; environmentalism and environmental justice.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits The history of the American presidency from the constitutional era until the present day. Topics include: the constitutional debates over the executive; the establishment and consolidation of the office; the records of important presidents, such as Washington, Lincoln, and the Progressive Era presidents; FDR and the expansion of the executive branch bureaucracy; the modern presidency and security matters, the law, foreign affairs, and public opinion.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits This course will examine American constitutional history since 1750. Beginning with the Revolutionary Era and the Constitutional Convention, the course will cover the establishment of the Supreme Court, nineteenth-century debates over slavery and economics, and the changing role of the Court in twentieth- and twenty-first century America.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits African American history, historiography, and epistemologies within the framework of major landmarks, including the role of Africa and Africans in the making of the Atlantic World; enslavement, structural racism, and emancipation in North America; the Great Migration; civil rights struggles and meanings of freedom; and the legacies of this history in contemporary society. Underlying connecting themes include racial formation mediated by constructs of gender, sex, and sexuality; memory and diaspora; politics of representation in scholarship and popular culture; and the interplay between “agency,” and structure in African American pasts.
HIST 7460XRace, Ethnicity, and Migration: Histories
and Discourses 30 hours plus conference; 3 credits History of the movement of peoples to what is now the United States from the 1500s to the present. Immigration, migration, and enslaved peoples in the Colonia era; citizenship, race and ethnicity in the age of Revolution; the rise of nativism; immigration policy; assimilation, ethnic resilience, and cultural hegemony; the impact of race on identities cultures; post-World War II immigrants, migrants, and refugees; America's newest arrivals.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Transformation of the leading countries of Latin America from the age of reform and independence. Emergence of the changing political culture, society, and economic order of today.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Historiography and historical background; Ottomans and their wider world; statecraft and autocracy; trade and economic life; society and popular culture; women in the empire; peasants and townspeople; minority relations; encroaching Europe and reform; Egypt and Muhammad Ali; the Young Ottomans; centrality of the Balkans and consequences of their loss; debates over "decline"; debt crisis; Young Turks and centralization; pan-Islam; emergence of Arab nationalism; Ottomans and Zionists; war and collapse; imperial legacies.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits The history of China from its earliest origins to the Ming dynasty. Topics will vary, but may include the earliest Stone- Age civilizations, origins of the Chinese state and religion, the period of classical philosophy, the first conquest dynasties, the development of popular culture.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits China from the early nineteenth century to the present. Breakdown of the Manchu dynasty and transformation of the traditional civilization during the republican and Communist eras.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits India under British rule, and India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh since independence. Evolution of nationalist movements and problems of modernization. Role of these independent nations in world affairs.
centuries) 30 hours plus conference, 3 credits Traces intersections of gender, race, and empire in regulation and maintenance of European, particularly British, colonies in different parts of Asia and Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Investigates race and gender specific ideologies introduced by colonial regimes and their impact on native population in a comparative framework. Explores connections between women and imperialism and involvement and activism of European and American women with nationalist and women’ s questions in South Asia and beyond.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Introduction to social change in sub-Saharan Africa from the era of the slave trade to the end of World War II. Emphasis on internal transformations sparked by industrialization, imperial expansion and colonization, including both political innovations and changing market relations as well as transformations in kinship and gender relations. In depth coverage of slavery, women in the economy, the development of an African working class, religious transformations, the emergence of new elites, the growth of modern political activism, and resistance to colonization. This course is the same as Africana Studies 7050X.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Readings, discussions, and analyses of significant themes in European history. Topics vary each semester. Students may take this course for credit twice, but may not repeat topics.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Readings, discussions, and analyses of significant themes in United States history. Topics vary each semester. Students may take this course for credit twice, but may not repeat topics.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Readings, discussions, and analyses of significant themes in transnational, comparative, or international history. Topics vary each semester. Students may take this course for credit twice, but may not repeat topics.
Hours to be arranged; 3 credits Research for master's essay supervised by a faculty member. Credit is not earned until the essay is accepted. Students may register for this course only once. 7850G [785G]); and permission of the instructor, and of the chairperson or the graduate deputy.
Minimum of 135 hours of independent reading and conference; Independent study of readings from a selected area of history supervised by a faculty member. Findings are presented in written reports and/or a final examination. This course may be taken for credit twice. instructor, and of the chairperson or the graduate deputy.
Minimum of 135 hours of independent research and conference; 3 credits Extensive research under faculty supervision. Findings presented in a substantial research paper. permission of the instructor, and of the chairperson or the graduate deputy.
