200-level courses provide broad, introductory surveys suitable for first and second year students. Co-requisite: FIQWS
300-level courses provide more intensive examinations of regional and topical themes. Pre-requisites: sophomore standing, one 200-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
400-level courses provide intensive courses designed primarily for majors. Pre-requisite: junior standing, one 300-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
American Civilization I
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Examines the rise and fall of civilizations in the ancient Near East and the Greek world to the Hellenistic Age.
FIQWS
3 hr./wk.
Surveys the history of classical antiquity from the Hellenistic Age to the fall of the Western Empire.
FIQWS.
3 hr./wk.
An overview of European history from the resurgence of urban life and classical cultureduring the Renaissance to the trials and tribulations of the French Revolution.
FIQWS.
3 hr./wk.
An overview of social, economic, political, and intellectual developments in Europe from the Enlightenment to the present, and an introduction to the study of history. Topics include the problem of revolution, industrialization and the transformation of rural societies, the emergence of liberalism and the challenges it has faced in the twentieth century.
FIQWS.
3 hr./wk.
An overview of social, economic, political, and intellectual developments in Europe from the Enlightenment to the present and an introduction to the study of History. Topics include the problem of revolution, industrialization and the transformation of rural societies, the emergence of liberalism and the challenges it has faced in the 20th century.
3 hr./wk.
These special topics courses offer experimental and thematic courses on a rotating basis, providing broad, introductory surveys suitable for first and second year students.
3 hr./wk.
This course surveys the history of U.S. foreign relations since 1890, with special attention to the rise of the U.S. as a superpower. Topics include ideology and U.S. foreign policy, human rights, grand strategy, imperialism, American political culture, globalization, American unilateralism, and the War on Terror.
3 hr./wk.
Course will examine such early civilizations as the Axum, Nubia, Jenne-jeno, Ile-Ife, central African rain forest societies, Swahili towns, and Great Zimbabwe. Close attention will be paid to how mobility, technological innovation, environmental management, and cross-cultural interaction have shaped African history.
3 hr./wk.
Designed to introduce history as an academic discipline. It offers students an intensive introduction to research skills and the principles and methods of historical analysis. Helps students enhance their critical reading and writing skills while increasing their understanding of the nature of historical inquiry.
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Course will examine such early civilizations as the Axum, Nubia, Jenne-jeno, Ile-Ife, central African rainforest societies, Swahili towns, and Great Zimbabwe. Close attention will be paid to how mobility, technological innovation, environmental management, and cross-cultural interaction have shaped African history.
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The major factors that have shaped the Asian countries and peoples; geography, civilization, migration, and settlements of ethnic groups; philosophies, religions, historical events, leaders, and modern political and socioeconomic institutions.
3 hr./wk.
An overview of twentieth-century European history that pairs classic films with iconic texts.
The major theological and social conflicts of 17th century English colonies; the political and ideological process that defined an American identity; the social and economic forces that shaped the early Republic; the nature and the regional conflicts that culminated in civil war.
FIQWS.
3 hr./wk.
Examines the social conflicts that accompanied the transformation of the U.S. from an agrarian republic and slave society to one of the most powerful industrial nations in the world. Particular attention will be paid to the building of new social and economic institutions and to cultural and visual representations of the nation and its people.
FIQWS.
3 hr./wk.
A broad historical introduction to Latin American and Caribbean development in the context of global history, focusing on colonialism, the Atlantic slave and sugar economies, revolution, nationalism, race and racism, topics economics modernization, migration/emigration, and social movements. The approach will be chronological and thematic, with particular attention to influence of Latin American and Caribbean development beyond the borders of the continent.
3 hr./wk.
The early formation of the Chinese state, the intellectual foundation that has sustained its long history, the shaping of the Confucian way of life, and the cultural sophistication and its decline on the eve of the modern world.
FIQWS.
3 hr./wk.
Change and continuity in the Chinese tradition across the 19th and 20th centuries. The encounter with the West, social and political disruptions, efforts to industrialize, and especially the evolution and outcome of the Chinese revolution will be stressed.
FIQWS.
3 hr./wk.
Japanese history from its origins to the nineteenth century, i.e., the "classic" Heian period, "medieval" Kamakura to Sengoku periods and the "early modern" Tokugawa world. Topics: Japan's contacts and borrowings from other civilizations, especially China; Shinto and Buddhism; women and the family; the rise and transformation of bushi or warriors; artistic traditions.
FIQWS.
3 hr./wk.
Survey of the building of the modern Japanese state, society and economy from 1868 to the present, with focus on continuity and change, the social costs of rapid industrialization and the emergence of Japan in the global economy.
FIQWS.
3 hr./wk.
The rise of Islam and Arab conquests of the Middle East and North Africa through the Crusades and Mongol invasion. Covering the period 600 to 1500, we will focus on politics, culture, and society.
FIQWS.
3 hr./wk.
The history and culture of Indian civilization before modern times; major emphasis will be on its formation and classical age, its continuity and change, and the coming of Islam.
FIQWS.
3 hr./wk.
Surveys the elements which have shaped the characteristic institutions of India; the disintegration of the Mogul empire and the rise of the British to dominance; political, economic, cultural, and social developments during the British period and the changes wrought by the republic.
FIQWS.
3 hr./wk.
A social history of Africa from the 19th century to the present, with emphasis on state formation, impact of the slave trade, and resistance to colonialism.
FIQWS.
3 hr./wk.
Examines the diverse and complex history of sub-Saharan Africa, from the 1960s to the present. Themes will include the rise of the post-colonial state, legacies of colonialism, ideologies of development, globalization, as well as questions relating to ethnicity, race, class, and culture.
FIQWS.
3 hr./wk.
A historical introduction to the cultures and societies of Latin America and the Caribbean from the Pre-Colombian era to the present and their place in world history.
FIQWS.
3 hr./wk.
A study of the impact and meaning of colonial rule in Latin America and the Caribbean, focusing on the interaction between European goals and institutions, and indigenous American and African strategies of socio-cultural survival.
FIQWS.
3 hr./wk.
Contemporary economic, social and political problems of Latin America and the Caribbean studied in historical perspective. Themes include foreign economic and political intervention; labor systems and patterns of land ownership; class, ethnic, and racial relations; the politics of reform, revolution and authoritarianism.
FIQWS.
3 hr./wk.
A program of individual reading and research under the guidance of faculty members specializing in various areas of historical study. Ordinarily the three-term sequence culminates in the writing of an honors thesis. The Departmental Honors Committee also conducts informal colloquia on problems of historical method and criticism, and on important books on history. Approval of Dean and the Departmental Honors Committee is required. Apply no later than December 10 in the Fall term and May 1 in the Spring term.
Credit flexible but usually 3 cr./sem.
Designed to meet the needs of students for work not covered in regular offerings. The student will pursue a reading program, with periodic conferences, under the direction of a member of the Department, and with the approval of the Department Chair; limited to juniors and seniors with an adequate background for the work to be pursued.
Credit flexible, but will not exceed 4 credits. Credit will be determined by the instructor with the approval of the Chair.
Special study in topics not covered in the usual department offerings, more intensive examinations of regional and topical themes. Topics vary from semester to semester, depending upon student and instructor interest.
Usually 3 hr./wk.
How do we begin to understand the mass destruction of civilians, and especially Jews, by the Nazis during World War II, commonly known as the Holocaust? This course will examine some of the conditions that led to this extraordinary process of transforming whole peoples into the "other" and as potential objects for extermination. Students will look especially at how the race hatred of anti-Semitism became state policy under the Nazis, and what economic, social and political conditions encouraged its rise. The course will as look at examples of resistance to the Holocaust. Guest lectures will be included as part of the Patai Program's Lecture Series.
4hr/wk
This course examines the formation of early American society on the Atlantic seaboard. Particular attention is given to the establishment of four distinct regional socio-political cultures in New England, the Middle Colonies, the Chesapeake, and the Deep South. Other topics include the impact of European settlement and trade on Amerindian life and culture, the emergence and rise of slavery, and the role of women and the family in early American society.
Sophomore standing, one 200-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
This course details the causes, events, and consequences of one of the first and most important revolutionary movements of the Enlightenment, down to the creation and ratifications of the United States Constitution. Particular attention is devoted to the social and political causes of the uprising, as well as its cultural meaning for the different participants in the American scene.
Sophomore standing, one 200-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
Republicanism and the democratization of politics, industrialization of an American working class, social reform and the making of the middle class, westward expansion and the removal of the Native Americans, sectional conflict and slave culture.
Sophomore standing, one 200-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
North and South; Puritans and Witchcraft; Plantations and Slavery. In this course students will examine two radically different experiments in creating a new society in the early years of our nation. The economic and social systems, membership, and successes and failures, of two of the first permanent settlements - the Jamestown Virginia Plantation and the Massachusetts Bay Colony - will be starting points to examine how such radically different societies came together to fight a revolutionary war for independence. These issues will be framed in terms of the legacies, tragedies, compromises, and conflicts that followed and set the tone for our many of our current systems and laws.
4hr/wk
The causes and consequences of the American Civil War, focusing on the reasons for sectional conflict, emancipation, the role of Abraham Lincoln, the conflict over Reconstruction and the new status of emancipated slaves.
Sophomore standing, one 200-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
An in-depth exploration of the culture of the Italian Renaissance. Through primary sources, this course reconstructs experiences of: citizenship in the Italian city-states; the enterprises and vagaries of the business world; matrimony, paternity/maternity and sexuality; elementary education and University study; art patronage and visual culture; the entertainments and decorum of life at Court as well as expressions of religiosity.
Sophomore standing, one 200-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
The political, economic, and social phases of the development of the United States from Reconstruction to WWI. Populism and Progressivism; the industrialization of society and emergence of the labor movement.
Sophomore standing, one 200-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
A survey of major political, social, economic, and cultural themes in South African history. The focus is on South Africa’s recent history from the 19th century to the present; however, the course will also give some attention to South Africa’s roles in the wider history of Africa and the world.
3 hr./wk.
History without Documents is an exploration of the potential and techniques of non-documentary history. How do we study the history of those without written records? This course explores the potential of historical analysis using sources from art, language, material culture, and spoken words. Case studies will introduce students to the basic principles and techniques of historical linguistics, material culture, oral history, and visual history analysis. Class examples will focus on case-studies in African history; however the course’s techniques and themes connect to many other historical and social science topics. No prior African history coursework is required.
3 hr./wk.
This course explores major political, social, cultural, and economic exchanges between China and Japan from 1800 to the present. We will examine mutual perceptions, travel, and educational exchanges between the two countries. Topics include travel writing, imperialism, Japanese Orientalism, Pan-Asianism, and debates over post-war territory and historical memory. Assignments include note-taking paragraphs, a final paper, midterm, and final exam.
3 hr./wk.
This course examines wars in East Asia and their impact on the societies of Japan, China, Korea, and Southeast Asia from 1800 to the present. Topics include the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95), Russo-Japanese War (1904-5), Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-45), Pacific War (1941-45), Cold War in Asia, and the historical legacies of these conflicts today.
3 hr./wk.
The European Union is the largest democratically conceived confederation of sovereign states in human history, directly affecting a half a billion people. How did this come to pass, and how has it fared? We will examine earlier 19th and 20th century examples of union, analyze the nature and origins of the EU, and explore its mechanics and policies. Texts are historical, analytical, theoretical, and archival, including comprehensive web-based history and policy archives and a foundational myth.
None. HIST 20600 is recommended.
3 hr./wk.
This course introduces students to the history and historiography of food and farming, including the role of agricultural producers in advanced and pre-industrial societies. Central are the historical trajectories certain foodstuffs have taken--why they are produced and where, how they have been integrated into socio-economic and cultural environments, and how culture, politics and policies affected and are affected by them. Our focus will be on the European experience liberally construed and in comparison. Sources draw from classic economic and peasant studies, latter commodity studies and monographs, reports, and archives.
3 hr./wk.
Looking beyond traditional literary models, this course delves in to the early 20th century African American fusion of cultural and political activism known as the New Negro or Harlem Renaissance. Key themes include: Agency, Resistance, Self-determination, Citizenship, Gender, Sexuality, Colorism, and Civil and Human Rights.
Sophomore standing, one 200-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
An analysis of the evolution of crime and policing in the United States from the development of the first professional police forces in the 1830s up to the present. The course examines crime and policing as an element of governance and politics and assesses the manner in which crime and policing has interacted, processes of economic transformation, technological change, and with social conflict relating to race and class. Typical requirements involve two research papers of 6 to 8 pages in length, and a take home final exam of 6 to 8 pages in length.
3 hr./wk.
This course examines the conflict over American slavery from its genesis in the colonial period through its abolition in the Civil War and Reconstruction. Particular attention is devoted to the regional diversity of slavery; moral, political, and economic arguments against enslavement; the role of slave resistance; legacies of slavery.
3 hr./wk.
America and WWI, the Roaring Twenties, the Depression, and the New Deal, Roosevelt's leadership, WWII, and the beginnings of the Cold War.
Sophomore standing, one 200-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
Examines cities across the Mediterranean world, focusing on politics and society, cosmopolitanism, architecture, trans-regional migration, communal organization, and political and economic relations with hinterlands and metropoles. It considers a range of cities in the Middle East, Europe, and North Africa from the 16th Century to the modern era.
3 hr./wk.
Introduces students to one of longest-lived empires in world history, and examines its rise, consolidation, and transformation from the 14th through 20th centuries. It covers the major contours of Ottoman political and social history, the empire’s historical relationship to Europe, and its important legacy in the modern Middle East.
3 hr./wk.
Introduces new approaches to Middle East history, focusing on Ottoman Istanbul, Egypt, and Syria; Qajar Iran; and post-WWI mandates. Considers the impact of modernity on ordinary people, specifically how they experienced political/legal reform; integration into the world economy; sectarianism, nationalism, and colonialism; and the transition from empire to nation-state.
3 hr./wk.
Examines the Cold War from a U.S. and international perspective, using some of the newest literature to show that the it was not simply a contest between the superpowers, mostly centered on Europe, but that the Cold War was global and connected to developments in the Third World.
3 hr./wk.
Examines first, the emergence and development of a consumer culture in the U.S. during the late 19th and early 20th centuries; and second, the struggles waged during the middle decades of the 20th century over access to the fruits of a consumer-based economy, and over what shape that economy should take.
3 hr./wk.
A study of the civilization of the ancient Greeks emphasizing literature, religion, philosophy, art, political theory, gender relations, and the building of community. Special attention will be paid to how the Greeks adapted ideas from other civilizations and what in their civilization was uniquely Greek.
3 hr./wk.
Explores the historical origins and development of human rights politics and institutions in the United States and, to a lesser extent, Europe by analyzing the intellectual, legal, and political background of the concepts of human rights and humanitarianism.
3 hr./wk.
The course will analyze the main political, social, and economic events shaping the United States during this period and try to explain the key political/economic change during these years: The transformation of a country employing an activist Keynesian economic policy and belief in government action to rectify social and economic ills to one espousing market or neo-liberal principles.
Sophomore standing, one 200-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
A thorough introduction to the French Revolution - one of the defining events of modern times, and the crucible in which key elements of modern politics were forged or redefined: universal manhood suffrage, human rights, civil equality, direct democracy, ideological dictatorship, nationalism, women's liberation, and revolution itself.
Sophomore standing, one 200-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
Survey of 20th century Russian history, with an emphasis on the Soviet polity from its establishment in October 1917 to its collapse in 1991. Includes Russian Revolution, socialist state-building, collectivization and industrialization, Great Terror, and decline of the Soviet empire.
Sophomore standing, one 200-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
This course will examine China's revolutionary changes in the last century. In particular, it will focus on major events from the Boxer uprising and the 1911 Revolution to the Cultural Revolution, the evolution of Sino-U.S. relations, and the post-Mao economic reforms and related social and political changes.
Sophomore standing, one 200-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
This course will help students to understand the origin, development, and consequences of the movement through the examination of key events, careers of major political players, and the life of average participants of the Cultural Revolution. It will also consider the source, difficulties, and prospects of the ongoing reforms in China.
Sophomore standing, one 200-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
This course will look at changing dynamics of Japanese society since 1945, with some emphasis on Japan today in contrast to the United States. Topics include: dynamics of family and work life, popular culture, education, women's roles, major political and ethnic/regional issues, challenges of globalization, urban cultures, Japan's issues with terrorism, and Japan's status in Asia.
Sophomore standing, one 200-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
This course will introduce students to the history of the Middle East, including the region from North Africa to Afghanistan, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Central themes include: modernizing attempts by the Ottoman and Qajar Empires in the face of European encroachment; transition from empire to nation-state; the role of religion in politics; Arab nationalism; and the role of tribes and oil in state formation.
Sophomore standing, one 200-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
Geographical and chronological focus will vary. Themes will include: religious and secular efforts to define "disease"; the importance of gender for medical theory and practice; the relationship between patient rights and the common interest; the development of public health programs; and milestones in the history of biology and medicine.
Sophomore standing, one 200-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
This course will introduce students to the history of the Middle East, including the region from North Africa to Afghanistan, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Central themes include: modernizing attempts by the Ottoman and Qajar Empires in the face of European encroachment; transition from empire to nation-state; the role of religion in politics; Arab nationalism; and the role of tribes and oil in state formation.
FIQWS.
3 hr./wk.
Especial emphasis will be placed upon the institutions, sociability and material culture of science in the early modern period and their importance for the development of modern scientific theory. Topics will include: Renaissance natural philosophy; from natural to mechanical philosophy; the telescope and the new world view of Galileo; the culture of observation, the embrace of empiricism, and the invention of experimentation; the print culture of science and the dissemination of new scientific ideas.
Sophomore standing, one 200-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
An in-depth exploration of the protean culture and new knowledges of eighteenth-century Europe. Through primary sources and select historiography, this course reconstructs: the rising literacy rate and proliferation of print culture; the culture of literary and art salons; the appeal of the exotic and the idea of the noble savage; meditations on happiness and pleasure; the problem of luxury and the discovery of the market as well as the new sciences of the mind, of language and of progress.
Sophomore standing, one 200-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
Explores the relation between science, technology and modern society from the industrial revolution to the rise of fascism, paying particular attention to the life sciences.
Sophomore standing, one 200-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3hr. / 3cr.
Examines European thought from the Enlightenment and its ideological offspring - 19th C. liberalism and socialism - to the critique of the Enlightenment, beginning with Nietzsche and culminating in late 20th C. post-structuralism.
Sophomore standing, one 200-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
This course covers the history of major developments in science and technology during the 20th C. It presents the making of these scientific and technological achievements and the lives of some of the greatest scientists and inventors as well as their social, economic, and cultural influence.
Sophomore standing, one 200-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
The growth of the socialist movement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and its main ideological expressions: utopian, Marxist, revisionist, syndicalist. The relations between ideology and concrete historical circumstances; trade unionism; revolution; working class growth and change; Bolshevism; national liberation.
Sophomore standing, one 200-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
The aim of this course is to study selected writings of major American historians who have thought perceptively and written eloquently about the past. Readings will stress ideas that have challenged, and continue to challenge, thinking people.
Sophomore standing, one 200-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
A survey of African American experience including their origins in Africa, the slave trade, colonial and plantation slavery, slave culture, resistance, the Civil War and Emancipation.
FIQWS.
3 hr./wk.
The post-slavery experience of African-Americans: the creation and destruction of a black peasantry, the growth of a black working class, and the resulting change in black politics and culture.
Sophomore standing, one 200-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
This course traces the linkage between women's roles in U.S. society and their activism to achieve women's rights.
Sophomore standing, one 200-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
Examines key legal and constitutional conflicts in the 19th and 20th century U.S. in order to understand the role of law and the social and cultural meaning of law in American history. Topics include slave law; property law and economic change; the law of husband and wife; race and the Constitution; and legal ethics, among others.
Sophomore standing, one 200-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
Explores the historical characteristics of the South and relates the experience of the region to that of the U.S. as a nation.
Sophomore standing, one 200-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
This course will provide a historical background to the various contemporary situations and problems peculiar to women of the African diaspora. It will study marriage, family, religious practices, politics, business, and work.
Sophomore standing, one 200-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
A survey of liberalism in the U.S. drawing on both primary sources and historians' accounts, this course provides a thorough, contextualized understanding of this country's central political ideology.
Sophomore standing, one 200-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
Examines the history of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe from the late 1960s to the present. Topics include the long- and short-term causes of the collapse of Communism, the economic, political, social, and cultural legacies of Communism, and the challenges confronting the post-Communist world.
Sophomore standing, one 200-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
An intensive survey of ideas about the nature and the natural rights of the individual and of the state in medieval and early modern Europe, placing an especial emphasis upon the legal writings of scholars such as Aquinas, Bartolus, Vitoria, Bodin, Grotius, Hobbes, Locke, Pufendorf, Vico, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Smith, and Kant.
Junior standing, one 300-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
Urbanization in Europe from 1400 through 1800. In particular, it will reconstruct the spectacular emergence of the hallmark features of Europe's preeminent capital cities out of their most intense periods of crisis and transformation in the early modern period. Especial emphasis will be placed upon the new cosmopolitanism of Rome, London and Paris.
Junior standing, one 300-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
Examines cities such as London, Paris, Vienna, Prague, and Berlin as incubators of specific versions of the "modern." Themes covered will include urban planning and architecture; class and ethnic conflict, and the rise of mass politics; the emergence of women's movements, youth culture, and anti-Semitism; and the relationship between modernism and mass culture.
Junior standing, one 300-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
Examines the emergence of the industrial revolution and efforts to control it, to manage markets for capital and labor, since the eighteenth century.
Junior standing, one 300-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
Examines social, cultural, intellectual and institutional aspects of the history of madness in Europe since 1789. The course will begin with the age of the so-called "Great Confinement," then move on to consider the institutional and therapeutic reforms of the revolutionary and post-revolutionary era; the rise of theories of degeneration, hysteria and neurasthenia in the second half of the 19th century; psychoanalysis and sexology; war neurosis and military psychiatry; psychiatry under the Nazis. It will conclude by looking at the anti-psychiatry movement of the 1960s and the new biological psychiatry of the 1980s and 1990s.
Junior standing, one 300-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
A comprehensive overview of World War I. Central themes include the origins of the conflict, both long- and short-term; the nature of industrial killing; the growth of the state, of mass armies, of economic regulation; and the revolutionary movements that the prolonged war effort spawned.
Junior standing, one 300-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
Examines the totalitarian regimes that emerged in Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany. Beginning with the impact of WWI on both societies and ending with WWII, it traces the rise of two regimes that despite their ideological opposition had many features in common: a single party system, the extensive use of propaganda and terror, an embrace of science and of cultural programming, the leadership cult surrounding Stalin and Hitler, and the camps system.
3 hr./wk.
Beginning with the emancipation of Jews during the French Revolution and the emergence of modern, national citizenship, the course will examine the ways in which European states have managed ethno-religious minorities, with a special emphasis on the 20th C. Topics will include WWI and the break-up of multi-ethnic empire, forced population transfers, refugees, and genocide, as well as the growth of labor migration, welfare and guest-worker systems.
Junior standing, one 300-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk
Examines the relationships between France and countries of the former French overseas empire in Africa from the occupation of Algeria in 1830 to political independence, to issues of post-colonial dependency in Africa and the emergence of multicultural France today.
Junior standing, one 300-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
This course examines how varying sociopolitical contexts and cultural systems have shaped people's understandings and expressions of sexuality through history. Themes include: same-sex and trans-gendered sexualities; sexual implications of colonialism and racism; pornography; prostitution; rape; and reproductive sexualities.
Junior standing, one 300-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
Technological change has a profound impact on both work and society. This course explores the meaning of these changes for workers, their unions and consumers. Questions related to resistance, progress and how new technologies are shaped are the main concerns of the course. Various issues and historical landmarks that pertain to the changing workplace; social and individual costs and benefits of technology; and work restructuring and how union respond to change will be examined.
Junior standing, one 300-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
Focuses on the period since 1850. Discusses industrialization and the worker, immigration, the impact of social reformers and radicals. Considerable attention to the labor movement, which is viewed within the broader context of American society.
Junior standing, one 300-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
An introduction to Europe's great land empires: the Ottoman, Russian, and Habsburg. The course begins with an overview of each empire's historical formation, political structure, economy, and social character. It then turns to the 19th and early 20th centuries. Topics include: concepts of empire; concepts of modernization; the challenges of nationalism, revolution, and terrorism; definitions of citizenship and rights; and the long and short-term causes for each empire's collapse.
Junior standing, one 300-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
Economic, social, and physical development to the present. Merchant, industrial, and corporate stages of urbanization and their distinctive architectural expressions. Slides and walking tours to examine urban forms and spatial arrangements. Major objective is analysis of physical consequences of market decisions.
Junior standing, one 300-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
This course will introduce students to the interdisciplinary study of American culture through an examination of New York City-its history, literature and culture. Students will examine the historical and cultural context of New York as a center of migration and immigration and power, as a cultural capital, and as an arena of racial, ethnic, and religious traditions and conflicts.
Junior standing, one 300-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
Traces the interrelationship between basic domestic forces and their manifestation in the objectives of United States foreign policy. Emphasis is on Puritanism, Messianism, the rise of corporate capitalism, and twentieth-century attempts to shape the American imperium.
Junior standing, one 300-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
Slavery, a relationship in which one man held property in another's person, existed in many societies, ancient and modern. By examining the role of slavery in various cultures over time, characteristics useful in understanding the development of New World slavery will be explored. The course will begin with slavery in ancient civilizations (e.g., Greece, Rome, Africa), and then examine the New World societies created after 1492. Finally, the sources and character of emancipation and abolition will be considered.
Junior standing, one 300-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
3 hr./wk.
A survey of the scientific and technological developments in China from ancient times to the present. The course covers not only the great Chinese inventions and the decline of Chinese science and technology and its consequences, but also more recent achievements and their relation to developments elsewhere in Asia and around the world.
Junior standing, one 300-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
This course will examine Japan's modern history by considering historical work that reexamines the period of the Japanese empire, 1895-1945. Topics will include the dynamics of colonial culture, issues of gender and marginality, and emerging debates on wartime responsibility and memory.
Junior standing, one 300-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
This course will explore significant milestones and issues of both U.S. and Japanese societies during the course of the Pacific War. Our focus will be on the human experience and changes that came to both societies as well as contemporary issues regarding the contested memory and responsibility of many aspects of the war.
Junior standing, one 300-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
This course will explore the traditional (Hindu and Islamic), colonial, and modern representations of Indian architectural traditions of India. Central themes include: the political manipulation of architecture in different periods and its social and cultural influence in modern India.
Junior standing, one 300-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
This course will explore the social impact of Indian cinema and the making of the new culture of Bollywood. Central themes include: How has Indian cinema influenced social change? What has been its social and cultural impact in modern India?
Junior standing, one 300-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
This course will explore the many religious traditions of India, including the dominant Hinduism, along with Buddhism, Jainism, Islam, Sikhism, and Zoroastrianism. Central themes include the origins of each religious tradition; the philosophical underpinnings and the historical growth of each religion; and the social and political conflict/accommodation of multiple religious traditions in modern India.
Junior standing, one 300-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
This course will explore the complex ties between religion, politics, and military, while tracing the circumstances of the creation of Pakistan in 1947 out of British India. Central themes include: How was Pakistan created? How did the military usurp political Power. Notwithstanding a sizeable middle class, why does religion play such an important role in Pakistan, and what ties does religion have with the military? Finally the central issue of Indo-Pakistan rivalry.
Junior standing, one 300-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
The Vietnam War presented in two ways: first, as several wars within Vietnam, including civil, revolutionary, and anti-colonial; second, as a war between the U.S. and Vietnam and its resulting conflicts within the U.S.
Junior standing, one 300-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
This course analyzes the history and culture of recent indigenous insurgencies in Latin America. Focuses on the interplay between historical memory, subaltern organization, and anti-systemic politics in the formation of cultures of resistance.
Junior standing, one 300-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
This course examines three broad themes in the history of Latin America and the Caribbean: colonial foundations of patriarchal relations; gender ideology and nation building; and gender transformations within the context of revolution and globalization.
Junior standing, one 300-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.
This course will introduce students to the history of the Middle East, including the region from North Africa to Afghanistan, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Central themes include: modernizing attempts by the Ottoman and Qajar Empires in the face of European encroachment; transition from empire to nation-state; the role of religion in politics; Arab nationalism; and the role of tribes and oil in state formation.
3 hours
This course examines the history of women and gender from the rise of Islam to the spread of contemporary Islamic political movements. Particular attention will be paid to the ways in which religion shapes women's lives as well as the ways in which women shape religion, women's roles in political and social movements, gendered economic activities, and male-female relations.
3 hr./wk.
This course looks at a century of struggle between nationalist movements that have vied for control of the same territory. In the first fifty years, the conflict was more-or-less contained in territory under Ottoman and then British jurisdiction. In the second fifty years - from 1948 - the conflict widened as wars erupted every decade. The course considers the political, socio-economic, and cultural ramifications of the struggle.
3 hr./wk.
This course will introduce students to the history of the Middle East, including the region from North Africa to Afghanistan, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Central themes include: modernizing attempts by the Ottoman and Qajar Empires in the face of European encroachment; transition from empire to nation-state; the role of religion in politics; Arab nationalism; and the role of tribes and oil in state formation.
3 hours
A historical treatment of African nationalist thought with special emphasis on the social movements and processes that stimulated the ideological development of the nationalist leaders. Readings will include the writings of these leaders.
3 hr./wk.
Focuses on the history of South Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries, from the period of Shaka Zulu to the end of Apartheid.
Junior standing, one 300-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3cr./ 3hr.
Analyzes the rise of independence movements in Africa and the Caribbean. Countries to be studied include Kenya, Guyana, Ghana, Algeria, Jamaica, Zimbabwe, Angola, and Trinidad & Tobago.
Junior standing, one 300-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3cr. / 3hr.
Albert Einstein was a towering influence over the 20th century not only because of his epoch-making discoveries in physics but also because of his active involvements in social and political debates in his world. This course will introduce to students Einstein's scientific achievements as well as his views on the social, political, and religious issues of his day.
Junior standing, one 300-level course in history, or instructor's permission.
3 hr./wk.