Apr 18, 2024

2016-2017

2016-2017 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions

Course Filter
Filter this list of courses using course prefix, course code, keywords or any combination.
Prefix:	Code or Number:	Type	Keyword or Phrase:
Choose Course Prefix	Choose Course Number	Choose Course Type	Choose Keyword
Find whole word or phrase only.


	HIS 183 - East Asian History to 1850 Instructor Mortensen This course provides a broad overview of the important intellectual, cultural, economic, and political developments in China, Japan, and Korea from prehistoric times until 1850. Particular attention will be paid to philosophical traditions, political dynamics, material culture, the Mongol Empire, trade, women’s roles in society, literature, and social change. Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement. Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
	HIS 184 - East Asian History 1850 to the Present Instructor Mortensen This course covers the societies, cultures, politics, and economies of China, Japan, and Korea from 1850 to the present. By reading a variety of primary and secondary sources, students will consider interpretations of the past that continue to influence how people in East Asia today perceive themselves, their countries, and international relations. We will also interrogate the ways in which historical events are interpreted by the hermeneutics of the present. Topics covered include imperialism, nationalism, World War II, revolution, economic development, political protests, and environmental challenges. Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement. Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
	HIS 211 - Land and Power in the Middle Ages Instructor Kabala A course on the exercise of power in Europe, ca. 750 - 1100 C.E In the absence of what we would call state or public institutions, power in the Early Middle Ages was personal, fluid, expressed through elaborate rituals, and tied closely to the land. Students will investigate these topics through a careful study of primary sources as well as the historical scholarship they have inspired. Satisfies a major requirement in History. Satisfies an Historical Thought distribution requirement.
	HIS 218 - Jihad and Crusade Instructor Berkey A study of the history of religious violence. Topics include the relationship between religion and violence in a number of different traditions, with a special focus on the history of violent conflict between the Islamic world and the West. Satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement. Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement. Satisfies the Middle East Studies interdisciplinary minor.
	HIS 225 - Women and Work: Gender and Society in Britain, 1700-1918 Instructor Dietz An examination of British women’s lives and social relations with regard to production-artistic, domestic, industrial, intellectual, etc.-in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement. Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement.
	HIS 228 - The Modern Body: Gender, Sex, and Politics in France Instructor Tilburg One of the greatest “discoveries” of modern historical thought has been that even the human body has aspects that are historically contingent. Examines the way historians of modern France tackled the history of the body. Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement. Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement.
	HIS 230 - African Diasporas, German Encounters: Histories, Conflicts and Movements Instructor Weimers Provides new perspectives on African Diasporas and Germany by exploring how Germans interacted with and impacted the lives of African Americans in North America and indigenous peoples on the African continent and how, in turn, African Americans and Africans in the German lands profoundly reshaped things German since the eighteenth century. The course will examine these complex histories with a particular emphasis on the Black Atlantic, migration and labor, cultural practice and political activism, gender relations, racism, violence, war, and genocide. Satisfies a major requirement in History. Satisfies a major requirement in Africana Studies. Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement. Students entering before 2012: satisfies history distribution requirement. Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
	HIS 242 - Origins of the American South Instructor Guasco An introduction to the main events, ideas, and issues that have shaped the history of the American South from the era of first contact and colonial settlement through the era of Civil War and Reconstruction (1580s-1870s). Major topics include Anglo-Indian relations, colonialism, plantation agriculture, race and slavery, regionalism, violence, and warfare.
	HIS 243 - Native Women Instructor Stremlau How have Indigenous, American Indian, Native American, and First Nations women constructed their identities, participated in their societies, and responded to common experiences, particularly those resulting from colonization? How did Indigenous women’s ancestors live, and how have cultural traditions and identities been lost, maintained, and reconfigured over time? Through historical scholarship, films, fiction, and autobiography, the voices of Indigenous women and their allies speak eloquently about the diversity and complexity of these women’s lives over time and across place. Meets the Historical Thought distribution requirement
	HIS 244 - Settlement of the American West, 1800-1900 Instructor Staff An examination of three controversial issues connected with the settlement of the American West-gender, race, and environment. Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement. Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement. Satisfies depth or breadth course requirement in the humanities track of the Environmental Studies major or interdisciplinary minor.
	HIS 245 - Digital History of Early American Knowledge Instructor Shrout This course explores communication technologies and knowledge production in the antebellum United States, while introducing students to newer methods afforded by digital studies. By the end of the course, students will understand how people parsed information, talked, wrote, and signaled one another in the past. They will also understand how new tools help us to communicate both with other scholars and with the public today. Throughout the course they will engage in formal historical writing - historiography, primary source analysis, historical interpretation - as well as with the new opportunities for public engagement afforded by digital history. We will examine both elite and non-elite modes of knowledge production and transmission, and how communication was used both to exert power and as a form of resistance. Over the course of the semester, students will engage with primary sources, historical monographs and popular culture representations of communication and knowledge production in America’s past. Satisfies a major requirement in History Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement Satisfied an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Communication Studies
	HIS 248 - The Native South Instructor Stremlau This course is an interdisciplinary analysis of the history of the Indigenous peoples of the American South. Throughout the semester, we will develop a sophisticated understanding of the development of Southeastern Indian societies over time and across place since prior to the arrival of Europeans until the modern day. Scholars of the Native South critique the “black and white” master narrative of Southern history and suggest that an inclusive perspective with Native people at its heart enriches the stories we tell about this region. We seek to understand how Native people in this region formed, maintained, and evolved as distinct groups united (and sometimes divided) by experience, belief, and action. This class is an immersion into the sixteenth through twentieth centuries as lived by the ancestors of those Native communities that call the South home today or look to it as their ancestral homeland.
	HIS 252 - The United States from 1900 to 1945 Instructor Wertheimer An examination of United States history and controversies about it during the first half of the 20th century. Topics include the Progressive Era, the “Roaring Twenties,” the Great Depression, and the two world wars. Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement. Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement.
	HIS 253 - The United States since 1945 Instructor Wertheimer An examination of United States history and controversies about it from World War II to the present. Topics include the Cold War, the upheavals of the 1960s, the “New Right,” and the War on Terror. Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement. Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement.
	HIS 255 - American Popular Culture Instructor Aldridge American popular culture in the 19th and 20th centuries. Topics include sports, popular music, theatre, motion pictures and television. Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement. Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement.
	HIS 262 - Piracy in the Americas Instructor Guasco An examination of the history of piracy in the Atlantic world, primarily in the 17th and 18th centuries. Special consideration given to the emergence of the sea rovers, the social composition of pirate communities, and the ongoing fascination with swashbucklers and peg-legged captains. Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement. Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement.
	HIS 264 - The Digital Mexican Revolution Instructor Mangan In depth study of the Mexican Revolution through political as well as cultural history. Emphasis on traditional and digital methodologies. No digital skills required. Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement. Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement. Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
	HIS 267 - Health and Society in Africa Instructor Wiemers Histories of health, healing, and disease control in Africa from c. 1500 to the present. Explores the ways African people and states have conceived of and responded to relationships between human and natural environment, between individual and collective well-being, and between bodily and social health. Satisfies a major requirement in History. Satisfies a major requirement in Africana Studies. Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Health and Human Values. Satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement. Satisfies the Cultural Diversity requirement.
	HIS 273 - Japan 1800-1965: The Making of Modern Japan Instructor Staff An introduction to the changes in society, politics, and culture of Japan from roughly the late Tokugawa period to the mid-20th century. Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement. Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement. Satisfies Asian Studies and International Studies interdisciplinary minor.
	HIS 274 - Youth and Revolution Instructor Mortensen This global history course explores the fascinating causes and dynamics of revolutions and social movements in India, China, Iran, Egypt, and the United States. Students will investigate how and why young people participated in revolutions and social movements around the world in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Key themes of the course include anti-colonialism, nationalism, communism, democracy, religion, youthful rebellion, race relations, and social media. Satisfies a major requirement in History and East Asian Studies. Satisfies a minor requirement in Chinese Studies. Satisfies an interdiscplinary minor requirement in East Asian Studies and International Studies. Satisfies an Historical Thought distribution requirement. Satisfies a cultural diversity requirement.
	HIS 275 - Drugs in East Asia Instructor Staff This is an introduction to the history of addiction and psychoactive substances - opium, tobacco, and alcohol - in East Asia from 1600-present. Questions involving the consumption, circulation, perception, and regulation of psychoactive substances will be discussed. Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement. Satisfies requirement in Asian Studies, International Studies, Health and Human Values, and Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Minors.
	HIS 283 - Historiography of Modern China Instructor Staff This course is an introduction to common topics and methodologies used in the professional study of Chinese history. Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement. Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement. Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement. Satisfies Asian Studies and International Studies Interdisciplinary Minor.
	HIS 302 - African American History to 1877 Instructor Guasco African American experience from the colonial period through the Reconstruction era. Topics include the slave trade, the institution of slavery, free blacks, slave revolts, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and African American culture. Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement. Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement. Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
	HIS 303 - African American Society & Culture since 1877 Instructor Aldridge African American experience since the end of Reconstruction. Topics include the origins of the Jim Crow system, the Harlem Renaissance, black participation in the military, and the civil rights movement. Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement. Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement. Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
	HIS 306 - Women and Gender in U.S. History to 1870 Instructor Stremlau The history of women in what is now the United States, beginning prior to European colonization and ending after the Civil War. Comparison and contrast of the experiences of female people with attention to race, class, and religion in shaping women’s lives, with emphasis on changing social roles, labor, and suffrage.
	HIS 307 - Women and Gender in U.S. History Since 1870 Instructor Stremlau The history of women in the United States from 1870 to the present, with emphasis on educational and work experiences, the suffrage movement and the ongoing struggle for women’s equality, family and sexuality, and differences of race, class, and sexual orientation.
	HIS 315 - Central Europe in the Middle Ages Instructor Kabala Ethnogenesis, slavery, conversion, state building, sanctity, economic life, family relations and learned culture in medieval Germany, Poland, Bohemia and Hungary 800-1250 CE. Satisfies a major requirement in History Satisfies a distribution requirement in Historical Thought
	HIS 317 - The European Renaissance Instructor Staff Basic social and cultural shifts in Italy, northern Europe, and Iberia from the 14th century to the 16th century. Special attention to the varieties and implications of humanism, and the effects of the printing press, religious and political conflicts, and encounters with the world beyond Europe. Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement. Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement.
	HIS 322 - The Age of Discovery, 1492-1700 Instructors Guasco, Mangan Exploration of the European voyages of discovery, cross-cultural encounters, and the conquest of the Americas in the early modern period. Special attention to issues of race and ethnicity and the roles of religion, disease, technology, and the circulation of ideas throughout the Atlantic world. Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement. Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement.
	HIS 324 - Illicit Sexualities: Sex, Law, and Modernity = GSS 324 This course, team-taught by a historian of European gender and a legal and literary scholar of the Hispanic world, will introduce students to the ways that early modern and modern Western societies have intervened in and defined categories of illicit sexual desire, identity, and conduct. Modern European states took an abiding interest in regulating what they considered to be disordered and deviant sexual persons– the Homosexual, the Prostitute, the Intersexed. These same states took a marked interest in enforcing public health and hygiene by way of laws targeting private sexual behavior, from birth control to interracial relationships. These interventions expressed sharp anxieties about the character of modern life: urbanization, industrialization, democratization, the rise of the middle classes, empire. The course will combine an interrogation of primary texts from the early modern and modern periods with secondary and theoretical works dealing with history, law, and sexuality. Satisfies a major requirement in History Satisfies a major requirement in Gender and Sexuality Studies. Only counted in one track. Satisfies a minor requirement in Gender and Sexuality Studies Only counted in one track. Satisfies a distribution requirement in Historical Thought
	HIS 325 - Britain from 1688 to 1832 Instructor Dietz The evolution of British society and culture during the “Long Eighteenth Century,” with emphasis on the reaction to an age of revolution-the Glorious Revolution, Industrial Revolution, American Revolution, and French Revolution. Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement. Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement.
	HIS 328 - Bohemian France; Art, Culture, and Society, 1789-1945 Instructor Tilburg The development of modern art and culture in France, as it relates to cataclysmic changes of the 18th and 19th centuries. Traces the way that Enlightenment thought threaded and structured artistic and literary movements from the French Revolution to World War I. Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies History Thought distribution requirement. Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement.
	HIS 331 - History of Germany in Global Context, 1871-1990 Instructor Staff The foundation of the first German nation state in 1871 to German unification of 1990. Examines modern German history in the context of cross-regional exchanges, inter-cultural connections, and European-wide and global transformations. Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement. Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement.
	HIS 332 - European Metropolis, 1870-1914 Instructor Tilburg This course explores the political, cultural and intellectual history of the turn of the nineteenth century through the prism of several glittering European cities: Vienna, Berlin, Barcelona, Paris, and London. We examine the political and social landscape of these fin-de-siècle urban centers- including labor unrest in Barcelona, the devastating impact of the Franco-Prussian War on Paris, suffrage movements in London. The class grapples with the particular problems of urban life-from the new realms of consumer pleasure to the depths of the city dweller’s psyche. We approach the turn-of-the-century European metropolis through the eyes of Charles Baudelaire and Otto von Bismarck, Jack the Ripper and Sigmund Freud, the Victorian prostitute and the bourgeois housewife. The City at the turn of the century was the testing ground for modern life, from nationalism to art nouveau to industrialization. Satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement.
	HIS 336 - European Women and Gender, 1650-Present Instructor Tilburg The contributions of women in modern Europe, as well as the ways that gender difference was employed in constructing political and social relations. Topics include scientific debates and women, the birth of feminism, women and the Industrial Revolution, prostitution, women and fascism, and changing concepts of masculinity. Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement. Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement.
	HIS 337 - Cultures and Technologies of Imperialism: Germany and Great Britain 1840-1945 Instructor Staff From the first Opium War in China in 1840 to the end of the Second World War in 1945. A comparative investigation of British and German imperialism that shows how intersecting cultural and technological transformations have remade perceptions and subjectivities of colonizers and colonized alike. Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement. Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement.
	HIS 338 - Berlin (=GER 438) Instructor Denham The Berlin Republic of the Federal Republic of Germany is the seat of economic, political, and cultural power in Europe and the EU today. Key to understanding the role of Germany and Berlin in the world now is a historical understanding of how Berlin got to be what it is now. The course will also introduce students to the uses and methods of cultural geography, maps, various kinds of sources (diplomatic, cultural, geographic), and to competing historiographies and their politics in the context of Berlin, Germany, and Europe. The on-site component (pending funding) will allow students access to the “laboratory” for the course: archives, museums, people, memorial sites, architecture, the densely layered artifact that is Berlin now. Satisfies the Historical Thought distribution requirement.
	HIS 340 - Colonial America Instructor Guasco Foundation and development of the British North American colonies to 1763. Examines colonial America as the product of Old World elements in a unique New World environment. Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement. Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement.
	HIS 341 - The Era of the American Revolution Instructor Guasco The colonial movement from resistance to revolution; early republican thought and the adoption of state constitutions; the War for Independence; political and socioeconomic struggles of the Confederation period; the origins of the federal Constitution; and the Revolution’s social impact. Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement. Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement.
	HIS 343 - The Old South Instructor Staff The American South from colonial origins to secession with major emphasis on the antebellum period, 1800 to the outbreak of the Civil War. Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement. Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement.
	HIS 344 - The South since 1865 Instructor Staff Political, economic, and social developments in the South since the Civil War. Focus on Reconstruction, Populism, racism, the Depression, the flourishing of the “Sun Belt” after 1945, and the civil rights movement. Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement. Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement.
	HIS 346 - The Civil War and Reconstruction Instructor Staff Origins of sectional conflict; the battle front and home front, military, political, and social transformations of the war years; the upheavals of the Reconstruction era; and the legacies of the era for modern America. Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement. Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement.
	HIS 354 - United States Foreign Policy since 1939 Instructor Aldridge American foreign relations during a period of global political, economic, and military leadership. Topics include World War II, Cold War and detente, Vietnam War, and relations with the Third World. Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement. Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement.
	HIS 355 - American Legal History Instructor Wertheimer Law in American history from English settlement to the present. Topics include the origins and evolution of the U.S. legal system; law and economic development; race, sex, and the law; the legal profession; industrialization and the regulatory state; and individual liberties and civil rights. Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement. Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement.
	HIS 357 - The Civil Rights Movement in the United States Instructor Aldridge An examination of the American civil rights movement’s origins; its diverse strains of thought; its legal issues, strategies, and grassroots efforts; and its legacies. Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement. Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement. Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
	HIS 358 - Civil Rights Wars, Civil Rights Warriors Instructor Staff An oral history-based course that examines the lawyers and litigants who, in the 1960s and 1970s, accepted personal and financial risk to challenge Jim Crow laws. Students will interview and videotape the courageous lawyers, prepare a video documentary. Research essays on current civil rights topics as well. Prerequisites & Notes Spring
	HIS 359 - Latinos in the United States Instructor Mangan History of Latinos in the United States. Course content focuses on Mexican American experience as well as Latinos of Caribbean descent. Themes include: the border; labor; discrimination; geography; migration. Emphasis on post-US-Mexico War through the late 20th century. Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement. Satisfies Ethnic Studies interdisciplinary minor. Satisfies a major credit in Latin American Studies. Satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement.
	HIS 360 - History of the Caribbean (=AFR 230 and LAS 230) Instructor Benson This course explores the history of the Caribbean from pre-Colombian times to the present. The goal of the class is to trace the emergence of modern Caribbean nations beginning from their status as slave colonies of the not-so-distant past within an emphasis on the central role the Caribbean islands have played in global history. Particular emphasis is given to the maintenance of European and North American imperial enterprises and the elaboration of racial ideologies growing out of the diversity that has characterized the island populations. Issues to be addressed include colonialism, piracy, sugar revolution, slavery and emancipation, national independence, tourism, and Caribbean migrations. Cuba, Haiti, and Jamaica will be the main areas under consideration, although texts from other islands such as the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Martinique are included. Satisfies a major requirement in Africana Studies Satisfies a major requirement in Latin American Studies Satisfies a minor requirement in Latin American Studies Satisfies the Historical Thought distribution requirement Satisfies the Cultural Diversity distribution requirement
	HIS 362 - The Cuban Revolution (= AFR 235 and LAS 235) Instructor Benson This course explores the historical underpinnings of the 1959 Cuban Revolution, U.S.-Cuban relations, and how Cubans have experienced the changes the island has undergone in the past 100 years. Particular attention is given to people of African descent who make up over a one-third of the island’s population. This Cuban narrative illuminates a variety of themes including the spread of U.S. imperialism, Cuba’s fight for sovereignty, and race relations in the Americas. Satisfies a major requirement in Africana Studies Satisfies a major requirement in Latin American Studies Satisfies a minor requirement in Latin American Studies Satisfies the Historical Thought distribution requirement Satisfies the Cultural Diversity requirement
	HIS 363 - African Encounters with Development Instructor Wiemers Examines how projects for “development” have been conceived and carried out in colonial and post-colonial Africa, and how they have been represented and understood by African people, governments, and international actors. Explores the interaction of ideas and experience-from changing economic and political theories to the daily practices of farmers, bureaucrats, activists, and scholars. Satisfies a major requirement in History. Satisfies a major requirement in Africana Studies. Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement. Students entering before 2012: satisfies history distribution requirement. Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
	HIS 364 - Gender and History in Latin America Instructor Mangan Women’s and men’s experiences and how gender roles have shaped the social and political history of Latin America. Themes include conquest encounters, elite and religious notions of gender propriety, labor roles, and political activism. Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement. Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement. Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
	HIS 365 - Environmental History Instructor Staff This course covers environmental interactions large and small, tracing the changing ways that Americans have shaped and thought about the places where they live and work. Course focuses on US environmental history from the colonial period to the present, including national parks, preservation, conservation, and wilderness; the relationship between the US and the rest of the world; and debates over what nature is, who it is for, and how it should be used. Satisfies a major requirement in Environmental Studies Satisfies a major requirement in History Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Environmental Studies Satisfies the Historical Thought distribution requirement
	HIS 366 - Slavery and Africa Instructor Wiemers Explores slavery and slave trades in and out of Africa from the 5th to the 20th centuries, as a way of understanding changing relationships between trade, personhood, and social belonging. Special attention to ideas of and debates about, race, slave status, and diaspora. Satisfies a major requirement in History. Satisfies a major requirement in Africana Studies. Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement. Students entering before 2012: satisfies history distribution requirement. Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
	HIS 369 - Urban Africa Instructor Weimers Examines urban life in Africa from early origins to the present. Uses a variety of sources, including material and visual culture, to understand the changing ways that urban dwellers, rural migrants, and a state governments came to see and encounter cities. Satisfies a cultural diversity requirement. Satisfies a major requirement in History. Satisfies a major requirement in Africana Studies. Satisfies a Historical Thought distribution requirement.
	HIS 372 - Egypt, From Soup to Nuts This class is a survey of the history of Egypt, from the rise of the first unified kingdom circa 3,000 BCE (actually, from just before that development) down to the present day. Satisfies a major requirement in History Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in International Studies Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Middle East Studies Satisfies a distribution requirement in Historical Thought Meets the cultural diversity graduation requirement
	HIS 375 - Nationalism and Colonialism in the Modern Arab World Instructor Berkey European colonialism and American involvement in the Middle East and the Arab response. Great Power politics, nationalist ideology, and cultural identity in the Arab world. Satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement. Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement. Satisfies the Middle East Studies interdisciplinary minor.
	HIS 378 - Gender and Sexuality in Modern South Asia This course will investigate constructions of gender relations as power relations, as well as perceptions of sexuality in South Asia as historical phenomena from the seventeenth century to the present. Subjects include: cultural conceptions of family; notions of same-sex desire; law, tradition, and reform; the making of gender relations across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as they were informed by colonialism and nationalism. Satisfies a major requirement in History Satisfies a major requirement in Gender and Sexuality Studies Satisfies a minor requirement in Gender and Sexuality Studies Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in South Asian Studies Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in International Studies Satisfies a distribution requirement in Historical Thought Meets the cultural diversity graduation requirement
	HIS 379 - Islam in South Asia Instructor Berkey This course will explore the long and complicated history of Islam in South Asia, from the arrival of the Arabs in the eighth century to the emergence of Pakistan and Bangladesh in the twentieth, through both lectures and visits to sites of historical and artistic importance. Satisfies a major requirement in History. Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in South Asian Studies. Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement. Students entering before 2012: satisfies history distribution requirement. Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
	HIS 380 - Travel and Cultures of the Indian Ocean World Instructor Waheed The wealth that crossed the Indian Ocean surpassed that of any other region. This course explores multifaceted connections among the Indian Ocean cultures of India, China, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and East Africa, from medieval to modern times. It also examines interactions between those Indian Ocean cultures and European maritime powers. Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies the Historical Thought distribution requirement. Students entering before 2012: satisfies the History distribution requirement. Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
	HIS 382 - Science and the Body II: Public Health in East Asia Instructor Staff This course employs an interdisciplinary approach by drawing upon and applying history, anthropology, gender studies, and philosophy to the study of science and medicine. Designed for students interested in a) the history, philosophy, and anthropology of science, technology, and medicine, b) East Asian studies, and c) history of public health, this class offers students opportunities to analyze and critically assess the politics of the body in East Asia, 1800-present. Satisfies a major requirement in History. Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Medical Humanities. Satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement. Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
	HIS 383 - Pre-Modern Japan Instructor Staff Japanese history from ancient times to 1868. Topics include the origins of Japanese civilization, state and society, economy, law, connections to the outside world, daily life and customs, family, sexuality, warfare and the samurai, arts, literature, and religion. Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies the Historical Thought distribution requirement. Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement. Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
	HIS 385 - History of Imperial China, 900-1800 Instructor Staff Survey of late imperial Chinese history with topics covering the environment, daily life, family, kinship, sex, government, law, military, economy, science, medicine, print culture, and travel. Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
	HIS 386 - History of Modern China Instructor Staff Chinese history from 1840 to the present, including China’s transformation from a Confucian empire to a socialist state, and its more recent conversion into an authoritarian regime promoting wealth and nationalism. Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies the Historical Thought distribution requirement. Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement. Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
	HIS 387 - Memory and Identity in the People’s Republic of China Instructor Mortensen This course explores how the government of the People’s Republic of China defines and manages ethnic and religious diversity within China, and how in turn, various ethno-religious groups in China negotiate their own sometimes fraught positions. How have local understandings of identity in China been influenced by state-driven narratives about China’s collective past? How is historical memory in China incarnated in physically tangible and symbolically meaningful places, such as museums and memorials? This course draws on historical and anthropological approaches to identity, ethnicity, language, modernity, religion, nationalism, and memory to explore these questions in detail. Satisfies a requirement in the History major. Satisfies a requirement in the East Asian Studies major. Satisfies a requirement in the Chinese Studies minor. Satisfies a requirement in the East Asian Studies interdisciplinary minor. Satisfies a requirement in the International Studies interdisciplinary minor. Satisfies an Historical Thought distribution requirement. Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
	HIS 388 - War and Memory in East Asia, 1592-1598 Instructor Staff This course examines the impact of the First Great East Asian War, involving Korea, China, and Japan. Current tensions in East Asia continue to be understood through the memorial lens of this conflict. Some issues discussed are: war and memory, dead bodies, martyrdom, and subjecthood. Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement. Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement. Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
	HIS 389 - Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Japan Instructor Mortensen This course explores gender dynamics and the lives of women in Japan from the nineteenth century to the present day. It introduces students to the gendered dimensions of Confucianism, marriage, paid employment and unpaid work, parenting, war, political activism, structural power, and popular culture in Japan. Other topics include the political, social, and economic challenges that Japanese women and the Japanese LGBTQ community continue to face. Satisfies a requirement for the History, East Asian Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies majors. Satisfies a requirement for the Gender and Sexuality Studies minor. Satisfies a requirement for the East Asian Studies and International Studies interdisciplinary minors. Satisfies an Historical Thought distribution requirement. Satisfies a cultural diversity requirement.
	HIS 390 - Davidson Summer Program at Cambridge University Limited to thirty students, the Davidson Summer Program at Cambridge focuses on the history and literature of late 18th- and 19th-century Britain. Students may receive credit for either English or History. Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement. Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement.
	HIS 391 - Writing Historical Fiction Instructor Wertheimer This course teaches students about history by having them research and write original works of historical fiction. The course approaches historical fiction with an emphasis on the “historical.” A paper prepared in this course might be a lousy work of fiction but still a great paper if the historical research and analysis are strong. But no fictional glitter, however sparkling, can redeem a paper marred by weak historical research and analysis. Satisfies a major requirement in History Students entering 2012 and after: satisfies Historical Thought distribution requirement Students entering before 2012: satisfies History distribution requirement
	HIS 392 - Histories of Science, Knowledge, and Skill Instructor Schade A study of how humans have known, verified, and communicated about natural phenomena, how they have tested their observations through science, applied technical knowledge, and skill, and how they have institutionalized scientific knowledge and engineered their own impacts on the natural world. Satisfies the History distribution requirement through class of 2015. Satisfies the Historical Thought distribution requirement for class of 2016 and after. Environmental Studies major.
	HIS 395 - Independent Study Instructor Staff Reading and research on a special subject and writing of a substantial paper. Under the direction and supervision of a faculty member who reviews and approves the topic of the independent study. Admission with permission of the professor, who will also evaluate the student’s work. Does not satisfy distribution requirement.
	HIS 396 - Independent Study Instructor Staff Reading and research on a special subject and writing of a substantial paper. Under the direction and supervision of a faculty member who reviews and approves the topic of the independent study. Admission with permission of the professor, who will also evaluate the student’s work. Does not satisfy distribution requirement.
	HIS 420 - The English Civil War Instructor Dietz An examination of how 17th-century English men and women turned their world “upside down.” Emphasis on the political, social, and religious causes and consequences of the Great Rebellion of 1640-1660.
	HIS 422 - Gender in Early Modern Europe (C. 15th-18th Centuries) Instructor Dietz From Christine de Pisan to Mary Wollstonecraft. An examination of changing roles, expectations, and desires of men and women, with particular emphasis on their interaction.
	HIS 424 - The French Revolution Instructor Tilburg The history and historiography of the French Revolution through books, paintings, music, and film.
	HIS 426 - Victorian People Instructor Dietz Society and culture of Victorian Britain through the lens of some of its more captivating personalities and their writings. Possible figures include: Charles Darwin, George Eliot, William Gladstone, William Morris, and Sidney and Beatrice Webb.
	HIS 427 - European Consumer Culture: 1750 to the Present Instructor Tilburg The history and historiography of consumer culture in Europe from the 18th century through the 1980s. The lens of consumerism reveals the momentous economic, social, and political transformations of the modern era, up to and including the controversial process of “Americanization” following World War II.
	HIS 433 - The Holocaust and Representation (=GER 433) Instructor Denham History and historiography of the origins and execution of the Nazi genocide during World War II, with a focus on representations of the Holocaust and cultural memory practices in popular and public history, in the visual and performing arts and in literature, and especially in memorial structures and spaces. This seminar includes a required study trip (at no cost to participants except for food) during the week of spring break. Students must agree to participate in the study trip in order to receive permission to add the course to web tree. Prerequisites & Notes Permission required.
	HIS 439 - Topics in Modern European History Instructor Staff Topics in Modern European History.
	HIS 440 - Slavery in the Americas Instructor Guasco Comparative exploration of the foundation and development of slavery in the western hemisphere since 1492. Topics include the transatlantic slave trade, work and labor, resistance and rebellion, and the articulation of African culture throughout the Americas.
	HIS 441 - Natives and Newcomers in Early America Instructor Guasco Encounter between indigenous peoples and English, French, and Spanish newcomers in North America. Special emphasis on the clash of cultures in spiritual, material, and physical realms and how Europeans and Indians created a distinctive American landscape by the end of the eighteenth century.
	HIS 444 - Southern Women, or How to Explain Scarlett and Mammy Instructor Staff An examination of the changing roles of black and white southern women from 1607 to the present, with an emphasis on understanding their unique character and history.
	HIS 446 - Presidents and First Ladies Instructor Staff Presidents and first ladies from Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt through Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Emphasis on their goals and policies, their successes and failures, and the changing meanings of “liberalism” and “conservatism” that they represented.
	HIS 449 - Age of Revolution: The United States in the 1960s Instructor Aldridge A seminar on an important era of changes and transformation in American history. Topics studied include the civil rights movement, the counterculture, the New Left, the Vietnam War, and the women’s movement.
	HIS 451 - African American Cultural History Instructor Aldridge A study of African American cultural history with particular focus on the 20th century. Specific artistic and cultural forms studied may include the visual arts, music, dance, film, and television in their historical context. Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
	HIS 455 - Law and Society in American History Instructor Wertheimer Selected topics in U.S. legal history. Seminar members will work collaboratively on a large-scale research project.
	HIS 459 - Topics in American History Instructor Staff Topics in American History
	HIS 464 - Religion and Social Change in Latin America Instructor Mangan Exploration of the nexus between religion and social upheaval through topics including conquest, rebellion, liberation theology, and religious tradition new to the region, such as Evangelicalism. Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
	HIS 465 - Colonialism and Imagination in Early Latin America Instructor Mangan The rise and fall of colonial power in Latin America with a focus on the emergence of colonial Latin America as a historical unit. Topics include justification of colonial rule, civilization and barbarism, differences between the Old and New Worlds, and American Identity. Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
	HIS 466 - Migrations and Immigration in Latin America Instructor Mangan Study of the relationship between internal migrations and outward immigration in Latin America. Students will acquire in-depth information about migration/immigration in the early colonial period, in the neo-imperial nineteenth century, and in the twentieth century. Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement.
	HIS 467 - Family and Families in African History Instructor Weimers Studies how Africans have defined and achieved family and family connections along with ways that states have attempted to use family–as metaphor, ideal, and unit of political and social organization-to organize African life from the 17^th century to the present. Satisfies a major requirement in History. Satisfies a cultural diversity requirement. Satisfies a Historical Thought distribution requirement. Satisfies a major and a minor requirement in Gender and Sexuality Studies.
	HIS 469 - Work, Gender, and Political Imagination in Africa Instructor Wiemers Investigates how gender and labor have been used to construct and contest the political imaginaries of individuals, communities, and states in 19th and 20th c Africa. Satisfies a major requirement in History Satisfies a major requirement in Gender and Sexuality Studies Satisfies a major requirement in Africana Studies Satisfies a minor requirement in Gender and Sexuality Studies Satisfies an interdisciplinary minor requirement in Global Literary Theory Satisfies the Cultural Diversity distribution requirement
	HIS 474 - History of Indian Cinema Instructor Waheed History of Indian Cinema, one of the world’s most popularly viewed, from the ‘golden age’ of Bombay’s Hindi- and Urdu- language films of the 1940s to the present. Satisfies the Historical Thought distribution requirement. Satisfies the cultural diversity requirement. Satisfies the Film and Media Studies Interdisciplinary Minor.
	HIS 480 - Senior Research Seminar Instructors Staff Capstone course for history majors. Students define, research, and write a major research paper on a topic of their choice. Required of senior majors not enrolled in History 488/489.
	HIS 488 - Kelley Honors Seminar: Research and Thesis Instructors Staff Two-semester research seminar for senior history majors who qualify for honors work and who are selected as Kelley Scholars. Culminates in the researching and writing of a thesis. Admission by invitation of the History Department.
	HIS 489 - Kelley Honors Seminar: Research and Thesis Instructors Staff Two-semester research seminar for senior history majors who qualify for honors work and who are selected as Kelley Scholars. Culminates in the researching and writing of a thesis. Admission by invitation of the History Department
	HUM 101 - Connections & Conflict in the Humanities I Instructors - Berkey, Henke, Hillard, Lerner, Wills A team-taught interdisciplinary course that considers key texts from intellectual and artistic traditions that come chiefly from what has been previously defined as the West but with comparative examples originating from around the globe. Chronological coverage from antiquity to the present, with attention to historical contexts, patterns of aesthetic styles, and comparative synthesis. Introduces basic skills needed to approach a variety of humanistic discourses including written works, musical compositions, paintings and sculptures, live performances, and film and interactive media.
	HUM 103 - Connections & Conflict in the Humanities I Instructors: Berkey, Hillard, Lerner, Wills A team-taught interdisciplinary course that considers key texts from intellectual and artistic traditions that come chiefly from what has been previously defined as the West but with comparative examples originating from around the globe. Chronological coverage from antiquity to the present, with attention to historical contexts, patterns of aesthetic styles, and comparative synthesis. Introduces basic skills needed to approach a variety of humanistic discourses including written works, musical compositions, paintings and sculptures, live performances, and film and interactive media. 2 credits
	HUM 104 - Connections & Conflicts in the Humanities II Instructors Berkey, Henke, Hillard, Lerner A team-taught interdisciplinary course that considers key texts from intellectual and artistic traditions that come chiefly from what has been previously defined as the West but with comparative examples originating from around the globe. Chronological coverage from antiquity to the present, with attention to historical contexts, patterns of aesthetic styles, and comparative synthesis. Introduces basic skills needed to approach a variety of humanistic discourses including written works, musical compositions, paintings and sculptures, live performances, and film and interactive media. Fulfills the WRI requirement, Historical Thought distribution requirement, and Literary studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric distribution requirement.
	HUM 250 - W Trad: The Renaissance to the Eighteenth Century Instructors Griffith, Henke, Ingram Interdisciplinary study of texts and contexts of Western culture from the Renaissance to the late 18th century. Prerequisites & Notes Humanities 150 and 151W
	HUM 251 - W Trad: The Modern World Instructors Kietrys, Lerner, Utkin Interdisciplinary study of texts and contexts of Western culture in the 19th and 20th centuries. Prerequisites & Notes Humanities 150, 151W, and 250

Page: 1 <- 3 \| 4 \| 5 \| 6 \| 7 \| 8 \| 9 \| 10 \| 11 \| 12 \| 13 -> 15

Contract All Courses | Print this page.

Print this Page

Course Descriptions

HIS 183 - East Asian History to 1850

HIS 184 - East Asian History 1850 to the Present

HIS 211 - Land and Power in the Middle Ages

HIS 218 - Jihad and Crusade

HIS 225 - Women and Work: Gender and Society in Britain, 1700-1918

HIS 228 - The Modern Body: Gender, Sex, and Politics in France

HIS 230 - African Diasporas, German Encounters: Histories, Conflicts and Movements

HIS 242 - Origins of the American South

HIS 243 - Native Women

HIS 244 - Settlement of the American West, 1800-1900

HIS 245 - Digital History of Early American Knowledge

HIS 248 - The Native South

HIS 252 - The United States from 1900 to 1945

HIS 253 - The United States since 1945

HIS 255 - American Popular Culture

HIS 262 - Piracy in the Americas

HIS 264 - The Digital Mexican Revolution

HIS 267 - Health and Society in Africa

HIS 273 - Japan 1800-1965: The Making of Modern Japan

HIS 274 - Youth and Revolution

HIS 275 - Drugs in East Asia

HIS 283 - Historiography of Modern China

HIS 302 - African American History to 1877

HIS 303 - African American Society & Culture since 1877

HIS 306 - Women and Gender in U.S. History to 1870

HIS 307 - Women and Gender in U.S. History Since 1870

HIS 315 - Central Europe in the Middle Ages

HIS 317 - The European Renaissance

HIS 322 - The Age of Discovery, 1492-1700

HIS 324 - Illicit Sexualities: Sex, Law, and Modernity = GSS 324

HIS 325 - Britain from 1688 to 1832

HIS 328 - Bohemian France; Art, Culture, and Society, 1789-1945

HIS 331 - History of Germany in Global Context, 1871-1990

HIS 332 - European Metropolis, 1870-1914

HIS 336 - European Women and Gender, 1650-Present

HIS 337 - Cultures and Technologies of Imperialism: Germany and Great Britain 1840-1945

HIS 338 - Berlin (=GER 438)

HIS 340 - Colonial America

HIS 341 - The Era of the American Revolution

HIS 343 - The Old South

HIS 344 - The South since 1865

HIS 346 - The Civil War and Reconstruction

HIS 354 - United States Foreign Policy since 1939

HIS 355 - American Legal History

HIS 357 - The Civil Rights Movement in the United States

HIS 358 - Civil Rights Wars, Civil Rights Warriors

HIS 359 - Latinos in the United States

HIS 360 - History of the Caribbean (=AFR 230 and LAS 230)

HIS 362 - The Cuban Revolution (= AFR 235 and LAS 235)

HIS 363 - African Encounters with Development

HIS 364 - Gender and History in Latin America

HIS 365 - Environmental History

HIS 366 - Slavery and Africa

HIS 369 - Urban Africa

HIS 372 - Egypt, From Soup to Nuts

HIS 375 - Nationalism and Colonialism in the Modern Arab World

HIS 378 - Gender and Sexuality in Modern South Asia

HIS 379 - Islam in South Asia

HIS 380 - Travel and Cultures of the Indian Ocean World

HIS 382 - Science and the Body II: Public Health in East Asia

HIS 383 - Pre-Modern Japan

HIS 385 - History of Imperial China, 900-1800

HIS 386 - History of Modern China

HIS 387 - Memory and Identity in the People’s Republic of China

HIS 388 - War and Memory in East Asia, 1592-1598

HIS 389 - Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Japan

HIS 390 - Davidson Summer Program at Cambridge University

HIS 391 - Writing Historical Fiction

HIS 392 - Histories of Science, Knowledge, and Skill

HIS 395 - Independent Study

HIS 396 - Independent Study

HIS 420 - The English Civil War

HIS 422 - Gender in Early Modern Europe (C. 15th-18th Centuries)

HIS 424 - The French Revolution

HIS 426 - Victorian People

HIS 427 - European Consumer Culture: 1750 to the Present

HIS 433 - The Holocaust and Representation (=GER 433)

HIS 439 - Topics in Modern European History

HIS 440 - Slavery in the Americas