History (HIST)
HIST 101 - MODERN EUROPE, 1500-1789
Short Title: MODERN EUROPE, 1500-1789
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: Course provides an introduction to European history from 1500 to the French Revolution, tracing Europe's rise to world dominance via capitalism, the nation-state, science and technology, and a secular world view. It asks how conditions in the rest of the world allowed European imperialism and colonialism to triumph.
HIST 102 - DEMOCRACY, POWER, AND INDUSTRY IN MODERN EUROPE SINCE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
Short Title: DEMOCRACY-POWER-INDUSTRY-EUROP
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: Course provides an introduction to European history between the French Revolution and the collapse of the Soviet system in 1989-1990. The course examines industrialization, the development of the nation-state, World War One, fascism and communism, World War Two, European integration, decolonization and the Velvet Revolutions of 1989. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HIST 102 if student has credit for HIST 326.
HIST 103 - AP/OTH CREDIT IN EUROPEAN HISTORY I
Short Title: AP/OTH CREDIT-EUROPEAN HISTORY
Department: History
Grade Mode: Transfer Courses
Course Type: Transfer
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: This course provides credit for students who have successfully completed approved examinations, such as Advanced Placement exams. This credit counts toward the total credit hours required for graduation.
HIST 105 - AP/OTH CREDIT IN UNITED STATES HISTORY I
Short Title: AP/OTH CREDIT U.S. HISTORY
Department: History
Grade Mode: Transfer Courses
Course Type: Transfer
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: This course provides credit for students who have successfully completed approved examinations, such as Advanced Placement exams. This credit counts toward the total credit hours required for graduation.
HIST 107 - AP/OTH CREDIT IN WORLD HISTORY
Short Title: AP/OTH CREDIT IN WORLD HISTORY
Department: History
Grade Mode: Transfer Courses
Course Type: Transfer
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: This course provides credit for students who have successfully completed approved examinations, such as Advanced Placement exams. This credit counts toward the total credit hours required for graduation.
HIST 108 - WORLD HISTORY SINCE 1492
Short Title: WORLD HISTORY SINCE 1492
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: Class will explore the last 500 years of world history. The focus will be four long-term processes that have shaped the world today: struggles between Europeans and colonized peoples; forms of producing and exchanging goods; formation and spread of the modern state; and the development of 'bourgeois' ways of living.
HIST 109 - THE HERO AND HIS COMPANION FROM GILGAMESH TO SHERLOCK HOLMES (AND BEYOND)
Short Title: THE HERO AND HIS COMPANION
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: How does presentation of heroic action illustrate the basic values of society? Historical sources including ancient texts, modern mystery stories, and two "western" movies, show the development of a style of community service linking heroism with alienation. The extent to which women participate will be traced.
HIST 111 - RACE IN EARLY AMERICA: CREATING RACIAL IDENTITIES IN THE ERA OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Short Title: RACE IN EARLY AMERICA
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: This class analyzes the way peoples of African, American and European descent in North America came to think of themselves as members of different racial groups from about 1750 to 1820. The class will include a mixture of lectures and discussion.
HIST 112 - MODERN PALESTINIAN HISTORY
Short Title: MODERN PALESTINIAN HISTORY
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: This course explores the settler colonial experience of Palestine from the period of late-Ottoman rule to the 1967 occupation and its aftermath. Using a broad range of primary sources, students evaluate lively historiographical debates and theoretical approaches.
HIST 116 - AP/OTH CREDIT AFRICA/MIDDLE EAST HISTORY
Short Title: AP/OTH AFRICA/MIDDLE EAST HIST
Department: History
Grade Mode: Transfer Courses
Course Type: Transfer
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: This course provides credit for students who have successfully completed approved examinations, such as Advanced Placement exams (or International Baccalaureate exams/diploma). This credit counts toward the total credit hours required for graduation.
HIST 117 - EARLY AMERICA TO THE CIVIL WAR
Short Title: EARLY AMERICA TO THE CIVIL WAR
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: Survey of North America from 1500 to the beginning of the U.S. Civil War.
HIST 118 - THE UNITED STATES SINCE THE CIVIL WAR
Short Title: UNITED STATES SINCE CIVIL WAR
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: A continuation of HIST 117 (though 117 is not a prerequisite) surveying the social, political, cultural, and economic history of the United States from the American Civil War to the present.
HIST 119 - AP/OTH CREDIT ASIA/OCEANIA HISTORY
Short Title: AP/OTH ASIA/OCEANIA HISTORY
Department: History
Grade Mode: Transfer Courses
Course Type: Transfer
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: This course provides credit for students who have successfully completed approved examinations, such as Advanced Placement exams (or International Baccalaureate exams/diploma). This credit counts toward the total credit hours required for graduation.
HIST 120 - MEDIEVAL CIVILIZATIONS
Short Title: MEDIEVAL CIVILIZATIONS
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: Focusing on the period between 300-1500 CE, the course will survey political institutions, society, and culture in medieval European, Byzantine, and Islamic civilizations. Topics include Christianization of Europe, the rise of Islam, the Crusades, scholastic theology, persecution of heretics, bubonic plague, and the rise of centralized monarchies. Cross-list: MDEM 120.
HIST 176 - MEXICO: AN INTRODUCTION
Short Title: MEXICO: AN INTRODUCTION
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: Class will explore the last 600 years of Mexican history. The focus will be four long-term processes that have shaped Mexico today: pre-Columbian civilizations, the arrival of Spaniards and colonization; the post 1810 independence national period, and the Post Revolutionary period.
HIST 188 - THE ATLANTIC WORLD: ORIGINS TO THE AGE OF REVOLUTION
Short Title: THE ATLANTIC WORLD
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: Survey of social, political, economic, and intellectual ligatures that bound the particular histories of Africa, Europe, and the Americas one to the other, until by the late 18th century the Atlantic basin constituted a world unto itself. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HIST 188 if student has credit for HIST 388.
HIST 200 - ANCIENT EMPIRES: ORIGINS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATIONS
Short Title: ANCIENT EMPIRES
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: Course explores development of imperial systems from the Bronze Age to Roman Empire with attention to subject peoples' participation in multi-ethnic states. Aspects of art, law, economics, religion, and literature of the Hittites, Assyrians, Hebrews, Persians, Greeks, and Romans examined with consideration given to strengths and weaknesses of contributions to the modern world.
HIST 201 - JUDAISM OF JESUS AND HILLEL
Short Title: JUDAISM OF JESUS AND HILLEL
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: This course examines the history and literature of Judaism during the Second Temple period, which produced such religious leaders as Jesus and Hillel. Topics include: Jewish sectarianism, scribes and the growth of Scripture, temple worship and the first synagogues, diaspora religion, Jesus and the birth of Christianity, and the origin of Rabbinic Judaism. Counts for the Minor in Jewish Studies. Cross-list: RELI 203.
HIST 202 - IMMIGRATION IN 20TH AND 21ST CENTURY UNITED STATES SOCIETY
Short Title: IMMIGRATION IN THE USA
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: This course examines how immigration policies and attitudes have developed during the 20th and 21st centuries. It provides a historical context that allows one to better understand the root of contemporary immigration discourse. Additionally, it considers how immigrants shape and have been shaped by American society.
HIST 205 - MEDIEVAL MEDITERRANEAN WORLD
Short Title: MEDIEVAL MEDITERRANEAN WORLD
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: Course examines the political, institutional, military, and cultural development of the societies that successively dominated the "Middle Sea" from AD 500-1500 in Europe and the Islamic World. It highlights the Mediterranean legacy of commercial, cultural, and religious exchange and coexistence, as well as its history of confrontation and warfare. Cross-list: MDEM 205.
HIST 207 - SPATIAL HISTORY AND HISTORICAL GIS
Short Title: SPATIAL HISTORY HISTORICAL GIS
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: This course introduces students to the emerging methodologies that combine geographic information systems (GIS) with historical thinking. Students will study and evaluate the benefits and limitations of key works in historical GIS, become familiar with basic principles of cartographic design, and learn technical skills to create their own HGIS project.
HIST 208 - RACE AND MEDICINE IN AMERICAN HISTORY
Short Title: RACE AND MEDICINE IN AMERICA
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: This course explores how medical theories have supported racial inequalities in American history from the beginning of European settlement until today. It traces the emergence of the concept of race, its effect on the development of modern medicine, and medicine’s continuing reliance on race as a category of analysis.
HIST 210 - REMEMBERING PAINFUL PASTS: THE PRACTICE OF MEMORY AND PUBLIC HISTORY
Short Title: REMEMBERING PAINFUL PASTS
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: This course introduces students to memory studies and the practice of public history. Particular attention is paid to the role of power and ideology in shaping both dominant and minority memories and commemorations of slavery, the Civil War, labor exploitation, and the Civil Rights Movement. Students will learn to construct digital exhibits that collect, interpret and present historical memory.
HIST 211 - MEDIEVAL VIOLENCE
Short Title: MEDIEVAL VIOLENCE
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: Discussion course looks at private and large-scale warfare during the European Middle Ages. It considers how violence was legitimized and carried out, and examines attitudes towards violence and its effects on society. Topics include theoretical approaches to violence, crusading, chivalry, Truce of God, rituals of violence, military technologies, and cinematic portrayals of medieval warfare. Cross-list: MDEM 210.
HIST 212 - CONTEMPORARY CHINA
Short Title: CONTEMPORARY CHINA
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: Survey of 40 year period (post socialism) 1976-2016 known as “China’s Rise.” Focus on social, political, intellectual, economic change and China’s globalization.
HIST 213 - THE MIDDLE EAST FROM THE AGE OF MUHAMMAD TO THE ARAB SPRING
Short Title: AGE OF MUHAMMAD TO ARAB SPRING
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: Lecture-discussion. Course surveys history of the Middle East from the Age of Muhammad to the Arab spring. No background needed. Includes political institutions; impact of migrations; development of cultural traditions; communal structures; economics, society, and environment; colonialisms; emergence of nation-states; revolutions; changing religious discourses; contemporary debates.
HIST 214 - THE HISTORY WARS: ARGUING OVER AMERICA'S ORIGINS
Short Title: THE HISTORY WARS
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: This class will have a lecture/discussion format. We will examine recent high-profile public struggles over the places of race and slavery in the American past. We will contextualize the 1619 Project and the 1836 Project by looking at earlier fights over history curricula and by discussing debates in other countries over controversial aspects of their pasts. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HIST 214 if student has credit for HIST 314.
HIST 215 - BLACKS IN THE AMERICAS
Short Title: BLACKS IN THE AMERICAS
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: Comparative survey of black people in the Americas from the late 15th century to the present examines the Atlantic slave trade, the movement toward slave emancipation in various countries, and 19th century black self-help efforts. Course also concentrates on economic and social conditions for blacks in the 20th and 21st centuries. Equivalency: HIST 315. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HIST 215 if student has credit for HIST 315.
HIST 216 - BLACK LIFE IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY UNITED STATES
Short Title: BLACK LIFE IN THE 19TH C. U.S.
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: This course traces the lives of people of African descent in America before and after the Civil War, an event which transformed enslaved people from property to citizens and forced the country to determine the place of these new citizens in American society.
HIST 217 - HISTORY: THE WORKSHOP
Short Title: HISTORY: THE WORKSHOP
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: This course introduces students to the craft of history; formulating a question for inquiry, finding and analyzing primary sources, critiquing secondary source, and constructing an argument in support of a thesis. Recommended for History Majors and open to all majors.
HIST 218 - HISTORY THROUGH FILM IN EAST AND NORTHEAST ASIA
Short Title: EAST/NORTHEAST ASIA FILM HIST
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: Can we learn history by analyzing movies? Using documentary and feature films from Asian film culture's beginnings, we view 19th-20th century Chinese, Japanese, and Korean history. Collective in-class film viewing, discussion and reading required. Cross-list: ASIA 218, FILM 218.
HIST 219 - GENGHIS KHAN AND THE EMPIRE OF THE MONGOLS
Short Title: MONGOL EMPIRE
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: The 13th century semi-nomadic tribes of Central Asia, led by Genghis (Chingis) Khan, created the largest contiguous land empire in World history, reaching from Korea to Hungary. This class examines the conditions of their rise and military success, the global impact of their conquests, and their political and cultural legacy.
HIST 220 - MEXICO: 1910 TO PRESENT
Short Title: MEXICO: 1910 TO PRESENT
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: Survey course from the outbreak of the 1910 Revolution to the Present>. The class will focus on the impact of the Revolution in the Building of Mexican Society, culture, politics, economic and relationship to the world, with a specific focus on Latin America and the U.S.
HIST 221 - UNITED STATES AND LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS
Short Title: US - LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: This course examines the history of U.S.-Latin American relations since the early 1800s. It is organized chronologically but addresses political, economic, social, and cultural themes. The class considers both reasons for specific outcomes of U.S. - Latin American relations and their implications for the peoples most affected by them.
HIST 222 - HISTORY OF EARLY AFRICA
Short Title: HISTORY OF EARLY AFRICA
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: Introduces students to the history of Africa from the rise of humankind to the period of the transatlantic slave trade.
HIST 223 - HISTORY OF MODERN AFRICA
Short Title: HISTORY OF MODERN AFRICA
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: Introduces students to the history of Africa from the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade to the Arab Spring.
HIST 225 - EUROPE SINCE 1945
Short Title: EUROPE SINCE 1945
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: Survey of the history of Europe from the end of World War II to 1989. The course focuses on the impact of the war on European societies as well as on decolonization, European unification, economic reconstruction, immigration, and the rise and fall of communism in Eastern Europe.
HIST 226 - MESOAMERICAN MEXICO: FROM THE OLMECS TO THE AZTECS ON THE EVE OF TENOCHTITLAN'S FALL
Short Title: MESOAMERICAN MEXICO
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: Using a multi-disciplinary approach, this course examines the history of the different peoples of pre-Columbian Mexico from the emerge of the Olmec Civilization in 1500 B.C. to the civil wars between the different Mesoamerican groups that brought the eventual demise of the Acolhua-Mexica-Tepaneca alliance (Aztec Empire) in the summer of 1521 C.E. and facilitated the Spanish conquest. We will learn about the diversity of the different groups that inhabited what is Mexico today. This course counts towards the Core Requirements (Premodern Courses and Africa, Asia, Latin America, Middle East Courses) for the HIST major; the requirements (Premodern Courses and Africa, Asia, Latin America, Middle East Courses) for the HISM minor; the electives requirement for the LALX major; and the electives requirement for the LALM minor.
HIST 227 - LATIN AMERICAN CULTURAL TRADITIONS
Short Title: LATIN AM CULTURAL TRADITIONS
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: A synthetic overview of the emergence of Latin American culture and society beginning with the 16th century encounters and continuing through independence in the 19th century. Discovery, conquest, slavery, family life, religious beliefs, and urban and rural communities are explored through chronicles, visual images, music, and maps.
HIST 228 - MODERN LATIN AMERICA
Short Title: MODERN LATIN AMERICA
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: Course introduces the student to the history of contemporary Latin America. For the most part political events will provide the periodic framework of the course, but we shall also consider major economic, social and cultural developments to understand the complex social formations that comprise contemporary Latin American societies.
HIST 230 - SPORTS, EMPIRE AND NATION: THE HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD THROUGH SPORTS
Short Title: SPORTS, EMPIRE AND NATION
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: This course examines the history of the world since the 19th century through the lens of sports and athletics. It investigates who/why sport emerged as social activity and became entrenched in the modern world and what this historical development can tell us about political, social, economic and cultural change. Effective May 15, 2019, this course does not carry D1 credit.
HIST 236 - STATE, SOCIETY, AND THE ECONOMY IN THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST
Short Title: MIDDLE EAST:SOCIETY/STATE/ECON
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: Arab societies are often studied through the lens of cultural, religious, tribal, or kinship relations, with little attention to the role of the state and the economy. This course will examine the intersection of politics, social movements, and economics in the building of nation-states from the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and up to the Arab uprisings.
HIST 237 - RADICAL MOVEMENTS IN THE AMERICAS
Short Title: RADICALS IN THE AMERICAS
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: Course explores radical movements and politics in the Americas (the Caribbean, Latin America and North America) in the 20th century. It focuses on anti-racist, anti-colonial, socialist and feminist movements in the hemisphere. Special attention is given to Black and Indigenous movements. D1 effective Fall 2024.
HIST 238 - SPECIAL TOPICS
Short Title: SPECIAL TOPICS
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Internship/Practicum, Laboratory, Lecture, Lecture/Laboratory, Seminar, Independent Study
Credit Hours: 1-4
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: Topics and credit hours vary each semester. Contact department for current semester's topic(s). Repeatable for Credit.
HIST 239 - NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY: FROM EUROPEAN CONTACT TO THE ERA OF REMOVAL
Short Title: NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: This course will cover the history of Native Americans from the time of European arrival in the Americas until the era of removal.
HIST 243 - HISTORY OF COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES, FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD TO TODAY
Short Title: HIST OF COMM TECHNOLOGIES
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: This course examines major transformations in forms of communication and communications technologies. It explores transitions from orality to writing, from scroll to codex, from manuscript to print, from hand-press to steam-press, and from print to digital and audio media communication. It asks how these technologies developed and what role they played in changes, in reading, writing, and thinking across the centuries. This course counts towards the electives requirement for the STSM minor.
HIST 244 - MUSEUMS IN WORLD HISTORY
Short Title: MUSEUMS IN WORLD HISTORY
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: Examining museums in global history gives critical insight into their present role in society. Museums were sites of identity at local, regional, national, imperial and global levels. The collection and display of objects allowed communities, states, and empires to use cultural heritage, history, and science to interpret the past.
HIST 245 - RACE, RESISTANCE, AND REVOLUTION: BLACKS AND BLACKNESS IN THE MAKING OF LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBB
Short Title: RACE, RESISTANCE, & REVOLUTION
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: Broadly, this course is at once a colonial history of Latin America and the Caribbean that concerns itself with the role of Africans and the making of Blackness across the region. The course treats Africa, Iberia, and the Americas in dialogue, running from the early fifteenth century through the Haitian Revolution. This CAAAS course addresses slavery, freedom and the question of Black life vis-a-vis indigeneity in the early Americas as a central theme and point of departure. Cross-list: AAAS 245.
HIST 246 - AMERICAN CIVIL WAR ERA
Short Title: AMERICAN CIVIL WAR ERA
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: Survey of the Civil War era from 1848 to 1876. Topics include the causes of the war; the mobilization of Northern and Southern armies; race, slavery and emancipation; Reconstruction; the Civil War in contemporary popular culture and memory; and the global dimensions of the war and its aftermath.
HIST 250 - MAPPING THE WORLD FROM PTOLEMY TO GOOGLE
Short Title: MAPPING THE WORLD
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: How has the world been mapped? This course traces the creation of world maps from the ancient Greeks to digital mapping. Special attention will be given to how environmental features, such oceans, forests, and rivers are mapped historically and in modern Geographic Information Systems.
HIST 251 - CONTINUITIES AND CHANGES IN BRAZILIAN HISTORY
Short Title: BRAZIL: CONTINUITY & CHANGE
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: An exploration of themes essential to understanding modern Brazil, such as the origins of a multi-racial society, the transition from monoculture to industry, authoritarian and democratic trends, the emergence of a uniquely Brazilian culture, and the conflicts - environmental, political, and economic - over the development of the Amazon. Cross-list: LALX 251.
HIST 256 - EUROPEAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY, 1890-1945
Short Title: EUR POLITICS&SOCIETY,1890-1945
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: Examination of European history in the age of total war. Includes imperialism and the development of the welfare state, institutional responses to the demands of total warfare, the crisis of liberal constitutionalism, the Russian Revolution, and the rise of fascism.
HIST 257 - AUTHORITARIANISM: FROM THE EARLY MODERN ERA TO THE PRESENT
Short Title: AUTHORITARIANISM, 1500 TO PRES
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: This course is inspired by current events, including the rise of alt-right, populist, and authoritarian parties and governments across the globe. We begin by introducing the concept of authoritarianism: how it differs from democracy and how authoritarian regimes differ from each other. We then investigate the tools authoritarian rulers employ to maintain power, including institutions, policies, and tactics. Our aim is to understand how authoritarian regimes have appealed to voters and citizens in different places and contexts, and, crucially, how leaders have harnessed popular sentiments to their own end.
HIST 259 - US IN THE 1960s AND 70s
Short Title: US IN THE 1960s AND 70s
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: A political, cultural and economic history of the 1960s and 70s, with special attention to American culture and public policy.
HIST 260 - EARLY HISTORY OF SCIENCE
Short Title: EARLY HISTORY OF SCIENCE
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: A survey of the history of science from the ancient world to the Enlightenment. Topics include: science in the ancient world (Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome); science in the medieval Arab and Islamicate world and in medieval Europe; the “Scientific Revolution;” and the early modern sciences of the European Enlightenment.
HIST 261 - HISTORY OF MODERN SCIENCE
Short Title: HISTORY OF MODERN SCIENCE
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: This course surveys the modern history of science from 1543 to today, in conversation with the many scientists and historians who have debated the origins of modern science and explored its many valuable and contested legacies.
HIST 266 - SLAVERY AND THE FOUNDING FATHERS
Short Title: SLAVERY & THE FOUNDING FATHERS
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: Course will explore the Founding Fathers' attitudes towards slaves, towards slavery, and towards racial difference, beginning with interpretations of the Founders as a group, and moving to case studies of individual founders. Students will write a paper about the engagement with slavery of one person from the founding generation.
HIST 271 - HISTORY OF SOUTH ASIA
Short Title: HISTORY OF SOUTH ASIA
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: Introduction to the history of the cultural, religious, economic and political systems of South Asia, beginning with the development of world religious systems such as Hinduism and Buddhism, indigenous state-building, the rise of Islamic power, emergent European colonialism, and subsequent resistance movements which resulted in South Asian independence in mid-20th century.
HIST 275 - MODERN MIDDLE EAST
Short Title: MODERN MIDDLE EAST
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: This course is an introduction to the history of the Modern Middle East: the Arab countries of the Levant and North Africa, as well as Turkey, Iran, and Israel. It covers the main events that shaped the region from the final years of the Ottoman empire, to the creation of the nation-states by Western colonialism, to the struggles for independence and decolonization. The course tackles some of the following themes: reform and modernization in the Ottoman Empire; World War One and its impact on the Middle East; the emergence of a new world order, and modern states and their political systems since World War I; and the transformation of Middle Eastern societies during this same period under the impact of colonialism, independence, regional wars, and oil. It also sheds light on particular social and cultural phenomena: the role of women in society; changing notions of gender roles; class formation and relations; and cultural expressions through art, literature and new modes and spaces of sociability.
HIST 278 - MODERN ARAB HISTORY
Short Title: MODERN ARAB HISTORY
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: Survey of the history and culture of the Arab world from World War I to the present. Topics include nationalism, colonialism, modern secular and Islamist politics and the "Arab Spring." Equivalency: HIST 378. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HIST 278 if student has credit for HIST 378.
HIST 281 - GOLDEN AGE OF ISLAM
Short Title: GOLDEN AGE OF ISLAM
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: Introduction to the Islamic World from the 8th century to the 13th century. Topics include conquests and classical Islamic states, Arabization, Jewish and Christian communities, impact of Turkic peoples, and the Ottoman Empire, with emphasis on social, cultural, artistic, and scientific trends that shaped the region's history. Cross-list: MDEM 281.
HIST 291 - 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN PRESIDENTS
Short Title: 20TH C. AMERICAN PRESIDENTS
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: Course will study the American presidency and the evolving use of executive power from Theodore Roosevelt to Bill Clinton. It will analyze how presidents develop foreign and domestic policy, relate to congress and their cabinets, and lead the nation in wartime.
HIST 295 - THE AMERICAN SOUTH
Short Title: THE AMERICAN SOUTH
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level
Description: Survey of the American South from development of Native American cultures to present. Topics include slavery and plantation economy; emergence of southern distinctiveness; Civil War and Reconstruction; political reform and the civil rights movement; rise of the Sunbelt, southern religion, music, and literature; and the future of southern regionalism. Equivalency: HIST 395. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HIST 295 if student has credit for HIST 395.
HIST 300 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
Short Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Independent Study
Credit Hours: 1-4
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Independent study under the supervision of a history faculty member. Hours are variable. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.
HIST 301 - FIGHTING THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE
Short Title: FIGHTING THE SLAVE TRADE
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Provides students with a deeper understanding of the history of African slavery in the Americas by allowing them to step in the shoes of late-eighteenth century abolitionists and fight the Atlantic slave trade.
HIST 305 - READING HISTORIES OF WORK
Short Title: READING HISTORIES OF WORK
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Work in the modern world is about earning a living, identity, creativity, morality, and much more. This course emphasizes discussion and writing about a common set of assigned readings. We read Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and other classic texts on work as well as important recent monographs on the experiences and meanings of work. The authors and settings of our readings are mostly European, but also extend to the Americas and other colonial and postcolonial societies since 1492. This class is useful for students who are pre-law, pre-HUM grad, or interested in economics or social theory. HIST 445 Writing Histories of Work is complementary to this course, but one does not require the other. While this course emphasizes longer, complex assigned texts and analysis, HIST 445 has fewer common readings and emphasizes individual research projects on student-chosen topics. The assignments for these two courses do not overlap.
HIST 307 - IMPERIAL ROME FROM CAESAR TO DIOCLETIAN
Short Title: IMPERIAL ROME
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Examination of how Rome acquired, maintained, and understood her empire. Includes the development of a political, social, and ideological system reaching from Scotland to Mesopotamia during the three centuries of Rome's greatest power. D1 effective Fall 2024.
HIST 308 - THE WORLD OF LATE ANTIQUITY
Short Title: THE WORLD OF LATE ANTIQUITY
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Study of the social, religious, and political history of the Roman world from Diocletian to the rise of Islam, with emphasis on the breaking of the unity of the Mediterranean world and the emergence of early medieval societies in the east and west. Cross-list: MDEM 308.
HIST 309 - CHINESE INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
Short Title: CHINESE INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Framework and categories of modern Chinese intellectual history and its major traditions of thought in early modern and modern period.
HIST 310 - THE BODY IN GLOBAL HISTORIES OF MEDICINE
Short Title: BODY IN GLOBAL HIST OF MED
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: This class surveys the body, health, and healing in ancient, medieval, early modern, and modern periods. It compares regional and transnational practices to learn about how physicians, laypeople, women, and men understood and recovered from illnesses. This course moves chronemically and thematically to cover different bodily processes.
HIST 311 - SEX, GENDER, AND FAMILY IN EUROPE, 1300-1700
Short Title: SEX & GEN IN EUROPE, 1300-1700
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: What did it mean to be child, woman, or man in Europe between 1300 and 1700? This course explores the experiences of nuns, soldiers, courtesans, sodomites, apprentices, witches, and slaves. It examines the construction of sexual identity in a period of dramatic change and increasing entanglement with non-Christian cultures.
HIST 312 - ENVIRONMENT, MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH IN LATIN AMERICA
Short Title: ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH IN LAT AM
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: The environment, medicine, diseases, public health, demography, and nutrition in Latin America in historical perspective. It delves on classic works on the history of human societies. It will also use historical studies from particular disciplines such as biology, demography, medicine, nutrition, anthropology, and economic concentrating around disease, medicine and public health.
HIST 314 - HISTORY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Short Title: HISTORY OF AI
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: This course covers the history of artificial intelligence from three perspectives: its technical development, the philosophy behind it, and its impact on society. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HIST 314 if student has credit for HIST 214.
HIST 315 - BLACKS IN THE AMERICAS
Short Title: BLACKS IN THE AMERICAS
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Enriched version of HIST 215. Students may not receive credit for both HIST 215 and 315. Equivalency: HIST 215. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HIST 315 if student has credit for HIST 215.
HIST 316 - JEWS AND CHRISTIANS IN THE MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC WORLD
Short Title: JEWS CHRISTIANS MEDIEVAL ISLAM
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Lecture discussion. Course focuses on Jewish and Christian communities in the medieval Islamic world. Topics include legal status of non-Muslims, social life, economic life, distinctive developments in religious thought in Islamic context, dynamics among communities, shared culture through the medium of Arabic, distinctive features in comparison with medieval Europe.
HIST 319 - ATOMIC AMERICA
Short Title: ATOMIC AMERICA
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Los Alamos, Trinity, Hiroshima. This course surveys the complex historical, political, cultural, and moral dimensions of the atomic age, from the discovery of radioactivity in the late nineteenth century through the Manhattan Project, the development of the atomic bomb, and the subsequent Cold War arms race and its environmental legacies. D1 effective Fall 2024.
HIST 320 - IMPERIAL PLEASURE GARDENS, A WORLD HISTORY
Short Title: IMPERIAL PLEASURE GARDENS
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Course will examine the design and development of gardens (primarily those of the Islamic world - Al Andalus, the Middle East, Persia, Central and South Asia) and their use as political and religious metaphors, havens for meditation, stages of imperial performance and ritual, sites of social interaction, and affirmations of power and legitimacy.
HIST 321 - US ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY
Short Title: US ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: An introduction to the interaction between humans and the natural environment in the present United States from the colonial era to recent environmentalism. The course will center on discussion and writing; readings will include primary sources as well as secondary analysis.
HIST 323 - HISTORY OF ATLANTIC AFRICA
Short Title: ATLANTIC AFRICA
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Provides students with a deeper understanding of the history of Atlantic Africa by researching key topics based on primary and secondary sources.
HIST 324 - CONFLICT AND COEXISTENCE IN MEDIEVAL SPAIN
Short Title: COEXISTENCE IN MEDIEVAL SPAIN
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Course explores the history of the Iberian Peninsula from late Antiquity to the early 16th century, focusing on coexistence and conflict between medieval Spain's three religious communities - Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Cross-list: MDEM 324.
HIST 325 - THE CENTURY OF THE GENE: HISTORY OF GENETICS AND EUGENICS
Short Title: THE CENTURY OF THE GENE
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: A survey of the history of genetics from Mendel to the Human Genome Project, and of the history of efforts to improve human heredity (eugenics), from Galton to “GATTACA.” Some topics include experimental breeding; agriculture; the mutation theory; Lysenkoism; molecular biology; the genetic code; genetic engineering; biotech; patenting; and personal genomics.
HIST 327 - MEDIEVAL BORDERLANDS
Short Title: MEDIEVAL BORDERLANDS
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Courses examines the military, political, social and cultural developments on the European frontiers between 500-1500 AD. Topics include colonization and conquest, crusades and Spanish Reconquista, piracy, slavery, encounters with native peoples, spread of Christianity, medieval colonial regimes, map-making and cultural exchanges. Cross-list: MDEM 327.
HIST 328 - POVERTY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE IN LATIN AMERICA
Short Title: POVERTY & SOCIAL JUSTICE
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Course surveys the economic, political, social, environmental and geographic origins of poverty and inequality in Latin American countries since independence. It compares welfare policies to promote social justices across these nations and examines their different outcomes in historical perspective.
HIST 330 - ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE AND THE ORIGINS OF AFRO AMERICA
Short Title: SLAVE TRADE & AFRO-AMERICA
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: An examination of black society, culture, and politics from the late 15th century through the late 18th century (focusing geographically on the Caribbean, and on black life within what is now Mexico and the United States).
HIST 331 - THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION
Short Title: THE CUBAN REVOLUTION
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: This course surveys the Cuban Revolution in its historical context. It will focus on the period since 1959, but also place revolutionary events in their broader time and regional contexts, and evaluate their larger significance, through class discussions, lectures, and the examination of documents and other sources.
HIST 332 - AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY, 1863 TO THE PRESENT
Short Title: AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: This survey of American legal history begins with the Emancipation Proclamation and ends near the present. Legal themes covered are related to major political, economic, and social developments that have shaped the U.S. since 1863: the civil war's outcome and abolition of slavery; the organization of an industrial economy; U.S. ascendancy in the world; and the social movements of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
HIST 338 - 19TH CENTURY WOMEN'S NARRATIVES
Short Title: 19TH C. WOMEN'S NARRATIVES
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: This course examines the experiences of women in the United States during the nineteenth century through first-hand accounts and scholarly readings. Students will ready a variety of materials to explore the social and legal status of women and consider the impact of race on women's lives. Cross-list: SWGS 338.
HIST 339 - HISTORY OF THE SLAVE EXPERIENCE
Short Title: HISTORY OF SLAVE EXPERIENCE
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Students will to read, write and think about the history of people who left few written records by focusing on the history of enslaved people in the 18th and 19th century Americas. They will read primary sources, examine different historians' competing interpretations of specific topics, and write a paper using primary sources to understand the lives of enslaved people.
HIST 340 - HISTORY OF FEMINISM
Short Title: HISTORY OF FEMINISM
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Explores feminism as political thought and social movement in various times and places. Readings will include classic as well as non-canonical texts. We will consider the historical contexts of feminist action, and examine controversies over and within feminisms. Cross-list: SWGS 345.
HIST 342 - MODERN CHINA
Short Title: MODERN CHINA
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: A survey of Chinese history from c. 1800 to the present, focusing on the related themes of imperialism, nationalism, modernization and revolution.
HIST 343 - HISTORY OF AFRICA IN THE MUSEUM
Short Title: AFRICA IN THE MUSEUM
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Provides students with an opportunity to examine the history of Africa in modern museums through readings, discussions, and analyses of exhibits.
HIST 345 - THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES' ENGAGEMENT WITH ASIA, 1780 TO THE PRESENT
Short Title: THE U. S. AND ASIA
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: The general survey of the United States' engagement with a region that would cohere as the Asia-Pacific World through the 19th and 20th centuries. Topics to be explored include early North American interests in Asia and the Pacific, migration, territorial expansion, diplomacy and war and cultural diffusion.
HIST 346 - COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY
Short Title: COMPUTERS AND SOCIETY
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: This course traces the development of computer technology from its theoretical origins in the nineteenth century; to the growth of digital technology; the emergence of personal computing; up to computers of today, in order to understand the place of computer technology in people's lives and how they shape each other.
HIST 347 - BLACK AMERICA: FROM NADIR THROUGH THE GREAT DEPRESSION
Short Title: BLACK AMERICA: THE NADIR
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: This course examines the changing nature of black society, culture, and politics in the United States from the census of 1890 through the attack on Pearl Harbor.
HIST 348 - U.S. LAW AND TECHNOLOGY: INVENTION AND REGULATION
Short Title: U.S. LAW AND TECHNOLOGY
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: This course examines how different aspects of law have historically affected the development of technology in the United States. We will cover four broad categories of technology from the founding of the U.S. to today: industrialization, transportation, communication, and information technology. We will analyze the invention of technology within issues of patent and copyright, the funding and regulation of technology through legislation, and challenges to technology fought in the courts. Our goal is to understand changes in both law and technology within their historical and cultural context.
HIST 350 - AMERICA, 1900-1940
Short Title: AMERICA, 1900-1940
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Survey of major economic, social, and political developments in the United States from 1900 to 1940.
HIST 351 - AMERICA SINCE 1945
Short Title: AMERICA SINCE 1945
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Survey of major economic, social and political developments in the United States since 1945.
HIST 353 - HISTORY OF SENSATION
Short Title: HISTORY OF SENSATION
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: This class offers a deep history of sensation. It opens a window into how scientists, philosophers, medical practitioners, and neurophysiologists developed theories of touching, tasting, smelling, hearing, and seeing. Students will learn about the history of using animal models to inform human sensation, as well as the medical consequences of sensations that failed to fit neat categories of sensing.
HIST 354 - RACE AND ETHNICITY IN LATIN AMERICA
Short Title: RACE IN LATIN AMERICA
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: This course analyzes ethnic and racial formations in Latin America, paying special attention to Indigenous, African and European relations and exchanges. Themes include the relationship between race and nation building; the construction of racial categories and hierarchies; scientific racism; racism and political violence; and antiracist social movements.
HIST 355 - FROM DEMOCRACY TO DICTATORSHIP: GERMAN HISTORY, 1890-1945
Short Title: GERMAN HISTORY, 1890-1945
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: From 1890-1945, Germans experienced dramatic changes in their political environment. This lecture class will examine these changes, taking into account not only political history, but also attempts to come to terms with the challenges posed by organized capitalism, the rise and fall of socialism, the development of an interventionist state, cultural critique, and political culture, the Nazi social revolution, and the Holocaust. Taught in English. Cross-list: GERM 345.
HIST 356 - AFTER NAZISM: GERMAN HISTORY, 1945 - PRESENT
Short Title: GERMAN HISTORY, 1945 - PRESENT
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Course examines German politics and societies under Allied administration, West and East Germany 1949-1989, and the Federal Republic since 1990. Topics include democracy; post-1945 responses to Nazism; political economies; challenges of the "new social movements;" and national identity in context of European unification and global migration.
HIST 357 - JEWS AND CHRISTIANS IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE
Short Title: JEWS & CHRISTIANS-MEDIEVAL EUR
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Course will focus on Jewish-Christian coexistence in medieval Europe. Will examine the Jews' legal status in Christendom, their communal life, economic activities, intellectual achievements, while also focusing on the complex dynamics of Jewish-Christian interaction, and the shifting patterns of persecution and acceptance. Cross-list: MDEM 357.
HIST 358 - HUMANITARIANISM FROM THE 19TH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT
Short Title: HUMANITARIANISM FROM 19TH C.
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: This course surveys the history of humanitarian sentiment and practices in the West form the 19th Century to the present. It is conceived as a critical investigation of the humanitarian movement and examines various patterns of Western interventions on behalf of "suffering humanity." Topics covered are evangelicalism, abolitionism, colonialism and war humanitarianism, as well as United Nations humanitarianism since 1945.
HIST 359 - THE UNITED STATES IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY WORLD
Short Title: U.S. IN THE 20TH CENTURY WORLD
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Overview of the United States interactions with the wider world in the 20th century. Impact of international affairs on the evolution of U.S. Domestic institutions, changing ideas about the United States' role in the world as articulated and practiced by key public figures, private-sector activists, intellectuals, and citizens at large.
HIST 361 - HISTORY OF PREMODERN BRITAIN: TUDORS AND STUARTS, 1485 - 1707
Short Title: TUDORS AND STUARTS, 1485-1707
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Tudor and Stuart monarchs were some of the most intriguing characters to walk on the world's stage. This course will explore the foundational political and religious changes which occurred in their reigns, from the victory of Henry VII at Bosworth to the union of Great Britain in 1707.
HIST 365 - WORLD ECONOMIC HISTORY
Short Title: WORLD ECONOMIC HISTORY
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Prerequisite(s): (ECON 100 or ECON 201 or ECON 211) and (ECON 200 or ECON 301 or ECON 370) and (ECON 203 or ECON 303 or ECON 375)
Description: Study and analysis of world economy focusing on the economic expansion of Western countries between the 14th and 21st centuries. Emphasis on contextual changes in economy, geography, history, society, culture, religion and politics in determining economic leadership of certain economies, such as Italy, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Sweden, the United States and Japan. Cross-list: ECON 365. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HIST 365 if student has credit for HIST 235/HUMA 235.
HIST 366 - RIO DE JANEIRO: A SOCIAL AND ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY
Short Title: RIO DE JANEIRO
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: The development of Rio de Janeiro from a colonial capital to an Olympic host with emphasis on the peoples of the city and evolution of the urban panorama. Cross-list: ARCH 366.
HIST 368 - THE AGE OF ISLAMIC EMPIRE
Short Title: THE AGE OF ISLAMIC EMPIRE
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: The Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires shared a Turco-Mongol Muslim inheritance. Through their rivalries and the influence of their diverse subject populations, each developed distinctive methods for managing imperial success. Even as they dramatically modified their imperial characters, the empires remained culturally united through shared aesthetic, political, and social values. Cross-list: ASIA 368.
HIST 370 - EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY: BACON TO HEGEL
Short Title: EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Survey of major thinkers and intellectual movements from the scientific revolution to the French Revolution. Includes the use of primary and secondary sources to establish the main contours of philosophical, political, and cultural expression and to relate them to their historical context.
HIST 372 - IMMIGRATION AND THE STATE: 19TH & 20TH CENTURY
Short Title: IMMIGRATION AND THE STATE
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: How did modern states organize and regulate immigration in the modern era? Lecture course explores the comparative history of labor migration and forced displacement from the point of view of state policies in the United States and Western Europe from 1800 to the present. D1 effective Fall 2024.
HIST 373 - SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT IN 19TH CENTURY EUROPE
Short Title: 19TH C SOC/POLITICAL THOUGHT
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Social and political thinkers of the 19th century confronted revolutionary change in both politics and society: the demand for democracy as well as the challenges associated with industrial capitalism. Course combines lectures with discussion of original sources, including Smith, Mill, Marx, Proudhon, Wollstonecraft, and Weber.
HIST 374 - JEWISH HISTORY, 1500-1948
Short Title: JEWISH HISTORY, 1500-1948
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: History of the Jews' expulsion from Spain to the establishment of the state of Israel. Life in western and eastern Europe as well as in Islamic countries, seen from the perspective of settlement, assimilation, and the particularities of the Jewish historical experience.
HIST 375 - EUROPEAN ROMANTICISM, 1750-1850
Short Title: EUROPEAN ROMANTICISM 1750-1850
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Investigation of the emergence, triumph, and defeat of romanticism as a major cultural force in European history, with emphasis on national and epochal diversity within Romanticism in Britain, Germany, and France. Includes Rousseau, Goethe, Schiller, Schlegel, Schelling, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Stendhal, Hugo, and Baudelaire, as well as music and art.
HIST 378 - MODERN ARAB HISTORY
Short Title: MODERN ARAB HISTORY
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Survey of the history and culture of the Arab world from World War I to the present. Topics include colonialism and nationalism, modern secular and Islamist politics and the "Arab Spring." Equivalency: HIST 278. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HIST 378 if student has credit for HIST 278.
HIST 380 - ASIAN AMERICAN HISTORY
Short Title: ASIAN AMERICAN HISTORY
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: This interdisciplinary course will investigate the diverse cultural traditions and shared experiences of Asian Americans in the United States. By analyzing historical works, literary texts, and films, we will explore a range of topics including Asian immigration, gender roles, identity formation, and ethnic media. Distribution 1 credit effective Fall 2022. Cross-list: ASIA 380.
HIST 381 - GOD, TIME AND HISTORY
Short Title: GOD, TIME AND HISTORY
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: How is the passage of time given meaning, and what role - if any- is assigned to divinity in shaping the direction of events? Course explores various forms of recording and interpreting events, drawing from ancient Mesopotamia, Israel, and the Greco-Roman world - the cultures in which modern ideas of history began. Cross-list: RELI 385.
HIST 384 - MODERN GIRL AND ASIA IN THE WORLD
Short Title: MOD GIRL & ASIA IN THE WORLD
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Using the textbook "The Modern Girl Around the World," this course examines the phenomenon of the so-called modern girl in Asia and the world, 1890-1949. Topics include: modernity, consumer culture, sexuality, and liberation. Cross-list: ASIA 328, SWGS 384.
HIST 387 - THE UNITED STATES IN THE WORLD: AGE OF EMPIRE AND REVOLUTION
Short Title: U.S. IN THE WORLD: 1750-1900
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: This course provides an overview of the United States’ interactions with the world from the revolutionary period to the Spanish-American war. Impact of international affairs on the evolution of U.S. domestic institutions, changing ideas about America’s role in the world by key political figures, private-sector activists, intellectuals, and citizens at large.
HIST 390 - JOURNAL PUBLISHING WORKSHOP
Short Title: JOURNAL PUBLISHING WORKSHOP
Department: History
Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Participants will explore scholarly communication through hands-on-work running the university's new undergraduate history journal, talking with editors, and discussing readings. Tasks include preparing to publish the journal’s annual issues, refining the workflow, issuing a call for papers, and promoting the journal. Repeatable for Credit.
HIST 391 - QUEER HISTORY
Short Title: QUEER HISTORY
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: This course examines the history of queer sexualities from the pre-modern era to the present, analyzing ancient and medieval same-sex relations, Enlightenment appeals for queer liberation, 19th century sexology and the creation of the "homosexual," and modern gay and lesbian liberation movements. D1 effective Fall 2024.
HIST 392 - PRE-MODERN POLITICAL THOUGHT FROM CICERO TO LOCKE
Short Title: PRE-MOD POLITICAL THOUGHT
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Examining major texts from Cicero's De Officiis (CCE 44) to Locke's Two Treatises (1689 CE) shows how significant political questions emerged from specific historical contexts and developed over time. Writing intensive. Students will have weekly meetings in groups of three at an agreed-upon time (inclusive of the regular class meeting time).
HIST 395 - THE AMERICAN SOUTH
Short Title: THE AMERICAN SOUTH
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: An enriched version of HIST 295. Equivalency: HIST 295. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HIST 395 if student has credit for HIST 295.
HIST 401 - THE AGE OF ATTILA THE HUN
Short Title: THE AGE OF ATTILA THE HUN
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: This course examines the fifth century A.D. in Western Europe, when the Roman Empire ended and new kingdoms were established from Britain to North Africa. The "barbarian invasions" and Attila and the Huns will be considered. Research seminar format. Open to juniors and seniors. Open to others only with permission of instructor. (Please note that class rank is determined by year of matriculation, not credits.)
HIST 403 - ADVANCED RESEARCH SEMINAR
Short Title: ADVANCED RESEARCH SEMINAR
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Restricted to students admitted to History Honors Program. Seminar is designed to advance students from preliminary research to development of a formal prospectus for the honors thesis and a first draft of one section. Open to juniors and seniors. Open to others only with permission of instructor. (Please note that class rank is determined by year of matriculation, not credits.) Instructor Permission Required.
HIST 404 - HISTORY HONORS THESIS
Short Title: HISTORY HONORS THESIS
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Prerequisite(s): HIST 403
Description: Restricted to students admitted to History Honors Program. Seminar is designed to advance students from prospectus to draft and final version of the honors thesis. Prerequisite: HIST 403 and approval of Director of Undergraduate Studies. Open to juniors and seniors. Open to others only with permission of instructor. (Please note that class rank is determined by year of matriculation, not credits.) Instructor Permission Required.
HIST 405 - DEMOCRACY AND CAPITALISM: THE HISTORICAL DEBATE FROM MARX TO TRUMP
Short Title: DEMOCRACY AND CAPITALISM
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Does mass democracy presume freedom of private property, free labor, and market relations as fundamental rights of the individual? Or does the market mean capital's domination over individuals, negating democracy? Does democratic "freedom" involve restraining capitalism? Or does capitalism involve limiting democracy through undemocratic institutions like rights and central banks?
HIST 406 - WORKERS' REVOLUTIONS, SUBALTERN SOLIDARITIES, AND THE MAKING OF EMANCIPATORY POLITICS
Short Title: THE GLOBAL LEFT
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Seminar examines the origins of the political left and its global manifestations in the 20th century world. Focusing especially on the global south, the seminar explores the ways marginalized groups interpreted and applied leftist politics to build international solidarities against capitalism but also imperialism, fascism, and patriarchy.
HIST 407 - THE RISE AND FALL OF SLAVERY IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD, 1791-1888
Short Title: SLAVERY IN THE ATLANTIC
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Examines the expansion and eradication of slavery in the Atlantic world during the 19th century. Special emphasis given to history of enslaved resistance, slaveholders, and abolitionists. Considers the influence of slavery on the cultural, economic, and political developments of Atlantic societies from the Haitian Revolution (1791) to Brazilian abolition (1888).
HIST 408 - THE JAPANESE EMPIRE
Short Title: THE JAPANESE EMPIRE
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: A history of Japanese imperialism starting in the mid-19th century and ending in the 1990s and the end of the "bubble economy." Economic, political, intellectual history.
HIST 409 - MUSLIMS, JEWS, CHRISTIANS, HERETICS, AND PAGANS IN THE AGE OF THE CRUSADES
Short Title: CHRISTIAN HOLY WARS, 1095-1492
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: This course examines the crusading movement between the proclamation of the First Crusade in 1095 and the fall of Muslim Granada in 1492. It focuses on the wars against Muslims in the Middle East and Iberia, Baltic crusades against pagans, wars against Christian heretics in Europe, and political crusades.
HIST 412 - EMPIRE AND INTERNATIONAL LAW
Short Title: EMPIRE AND INTERNATIONAL LAW
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: This course explores the relationship between international law and empire, from about 1500 to the present. In a period of expanding Western domination, international law developed, serving partly as a critical as well as apologetic discourse for Western imperialism. The seminar examines key primary sources and recent scholarship concerning this topic.
HIST 413 - A HISTORY OF TRAVEL: FROM MEDIEVAL PILGRIMAGE TO THE HIPPIE TRAIL
Short Title: HISTORY OF TRAVEL
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: The development of travel and travel narratives from the early medieval period through the 20th century, identifying why people travel and how those motives change over time. Examining spiritual journeys; fear and desire; the foreign gaze (east looking west); fictitious and vicarious travelling; geography/ethnography; antiquarianism; the gendered path; divine landscapes and the search for the authentic.
HIST 414 - WORLD WAR ONE IN EUROPE: ORIGINS, SOCIAL EFFECTS, POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES
Short Title: WWI IN EUROPE
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: The First World War transformed Europe and the world. This seminar examines the debates over the origins of the war; the effects of the war itself on European societies and economies; and the political outcomes of the war, on international relations as well as on domestic politics.
HIST 416 - SEMINAR IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
Short Title: CONTEMP AF-AMER HISTORY
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: An examination of the exigencies of African American life from the Reagan era to the age of Obama. A reading- and writing-intensive seminar focusing on selected issues in black culture, politics, and community in the United States since the climax of the civil rights movement. Open to juniors and seniors. Open to others only with permission of instructor. (Please note that class rank is determined by year of matriculation, not credits.)
HIST 418 - HOW HISTORIANS THINK
Short Title: HOW HISTORIANS THINK
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: The course will familiarize students with how historians think about research, problem setting, problem solving, innovation, historical problems and histories outside the nation state. Students read one book or its equivalent each week and write a 20-page research paper on the relation of primary and secondary sources.
HIST 420 - MEXICAN HISTORY
Short Title: MEXICAN HISTORY
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: This course is an advanced undergraduate seminar examining the history of Mexico from Independence to the Present. It addresses topics including the war of Independence (1810-1821), civil wars and foreign invasions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as social, cultural religious, political and economic transformations. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HIST 500. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HIST 420 if student has credit for HIST 500.
HIST 421 - RACE, EDUCATION AND SOCIETY IN THE URBAN SOUTH
Short Title: RACE, EDUCATION & SOCIETY
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: An examination of urban life and education since the decision in Brown v. Board. Seminar focuses on the Brown cases, the development of the post war city in the context of American race relations, the course of court-ordered desegregation, and the impact of recent reforms on urban schools and neighborhoods. Open to juniors and seniors. Open to others only with permission of instructor. (Please note that class rank is determined by year of matriculation, not credits.) Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HIST 521. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HIST 421 if student has credit for HIST 521.
HIST 423 - AMERICAN RADICALS AND REFORMERS
Short Title: AMERICAN RADICALS & REFORMERS
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Seminar on radicals and reformers in American history. Readings vary and will focus on a selected group of reformers, such as abolitionists, labor radicals, socialists, feminists, pacifists, Progressives, environmentalists, or health reformers. Students may conduct original research for a thesis-driven paper related to course themes. Open to juniors and seniors. Open to others only with permission of instructor. (Please note that class rank is determined by year of matriculation, not credits.)
HIST 426 - DISABILITY AND U.S. LAW
Short Title: DISABILITY AND U.S. LAW
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: This seminar examines the historical intersection of people with disabilities and U.S. law. We will study the fight for anti-discrimination legislation, the challenges to gaining such protections and enforcing them, the development of the disability rights movement, and the legal and social concerns facing people with disabilities today.
HIST 428 - MODERN SLAVERY AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING: GLOBAL AND LOCAL
Short Title: SLAVERY & HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Seminar examines contemporary slavery and human trafficking in global historical context. It examines forms of gendered unfree labor that persisted after the legal abolition of slave trades and slavery. It explores the emergence of human rights discourse, activism, and law from the 19th century onwards. Houston is the contemporary case study. Open to juniors and seniors. Open to others only with permission of instructor. (Please note that class rank is determined by year of matriculation, not credits.)
HIST 429 - BORDERLANDS HISTORY
Short Title: BORDERLANDS
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: This seminar reviews the history of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands while providing students opportunities to write a substantial research paper. It covers the period from the 16th century to the present and examines political and cultural issues relevant to comprehending the significance of the border for the U.S. and Mexico.
HIST 430 - HISTORIES OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN ASIA
Short Title: SCIENCE AND TECH IN ASIA
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Science and technology studies in East Asia is an expanding, multidisciplinary field. Sociologists, anthropologists, and philosophers have taken on questions of innovation and indigeneity to make sense of the parameters that define knowledge systems in Asia and the Global South. As industrial centers in East Asia continue to intensify, so does a swelling sentiment to capture and maintain national and cultural legacies. What do histories of science and technology in East Asia look like? What should they represent? To answer these questions, this course uses histories of scientific and technological artifacts to explore the boundaries between forms of knowledge and expertise that are both common and uncommon. Each week, we will pair an artifact or process with core literature from Science and Technology and Society (STS) studies to read again the grain and raise new historical questions. Rather than a comprehensive survey of scientific ideas alone, this course takes on histories of everyday objects and their practices to expand the scope of STS at large.
HIST 434 - MUSLIMS, AMERICA, AND ISLAMOPHOBIA
Short Title: ISLAMOPHOBIA AND AMERICA
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Seminar explores issues of contact and exploration between Western and Islamic worlds, from the Crusades to the modern era. Investigations will explore how identities are formed and reshaped through interaction with other cultures and how traditions are "invented" by relationships between civilization and despotism, freedom and tyranny, religious tolerance and holy war. Open to juniors and seniors. Open to others only with permission of instructor. (Please note that class rank is determined by year of matriculation, not credits.)
HIST 435 - SLAVE REBELLIONS IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD
Short Title: SLAVE REBELLIONS
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Students will examine the different ways historians have written about uprisings among enslaved people in the Atlantic world as preparation for a final paper examining some aspect of a major uprising. The final paper will be a major essay (ca. 20 pp.) based on primary sources.
HIST 436 - AMERICA IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Short Title: AMERICA IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Seminar explores evolution of American involvement in the Middle East from missionary origins in the early 19th century to superpower hegemony in the 20th. Puts into perspective central issues such as the U.S. role in the Arab-Israeli conflict, the question of terrorism, and the U.S. invasion/occupation of Iraq in 2003. Open to juniors and seniors. Open to others only with permission of instructor. (Please note that class rank is determined by year of matriculation, not credits.) Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HIST 603. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HIST 436 if student has credit for HIST 603.
HIST 438 - THE MEDIEVAL CITY, 300-1500
Short Title: THE MEDIEVAL CITY, 300-1500
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: In the Middle Ages, cities were seats of political power, and centers of commercial exchange and cultural innovation. This seminar will examine the history of Christian- and Muslim-ruled cities in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean. Topics include daily life and social networks, urban planning, responses to natural disasters, religious and intellectual life, crime and punishment, art and architecture, religious and ethnic minorities, and women’s role in the urban economy.
HIST 440 - GLOBAL RENAISSANCE, 1400-1700
Short Title: GLOBAL RENAISSANCE, 1400-1700
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Was the Renaissance a European achievement or a truly global phenomenon? International trade networks, finance, slavery, commodities, patronage, imperial conflict, and cultural exchange were all key elements of the European Renaissance. Further, other great civilizations in Asia, the Americas, and the Middle East simultaneously achieved cultural efflorescence in the years between 1400 and 1700. Was the result a truly global Renaissance, or the gilding on an age of internecine, imperial, and mercantile violence?
HIST 443 - MULTICULTURAL EUROPE, 1400-1700
Short Title: MULTICULTURAL EUROPE,1400-1700
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: The art of Europe was never the product of a single culture working in isolation. This seminar will explore the multicultural aspects of medieval and early modern Europe by focusing on the visual culture of groups who defined themselves or are today defined by nationality, race, or religion. Distribution 1 removed effective Fall 2022. Cross-list: HART 435, MDEM 435.
HIST 445 - WRITING HISTORIES OF WORK
Short Title: WRITING HISTORIES OF WORK
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Work in the modern world is about earning a living, identity, creativity, morality, and much more. This course emphasizes full-length research papers related to experiences, struggles, and meanings of work. The arguments and conclusions of these papers will be based on sources from the time under investigation, and will show the student’s grasp of the relevant scholarly literature. Assigned readings for all students mostly concern the modern European past; students can choose any setting worldwide since 1492 for their research paper. This class is useful for students considering law school or graduate study in history. HIST 305 Reading Histories of Work is complementary to this course, but one does not require the other. This course has fewer common assigned readings than HIST 305, in order to make space for project-specific reading and writing; students will periodically present sources and drafts to the class. The assignments for HIST 445 and HIST 305 do not overlap. Open to juniors and seniors. Open to others only with permission of instructor. (Please note that class rank is determined by year of matriculation, not credits.)
HIST 449 - LAW IN THE DIGITAL WORLD
Short Title: LAW IN THE DIGITAL WORLD
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: This seminar examines U.S. legal issues concerning digital technologies, over the past two centuries. We will cover five legal topics: privacy, security, intellectual property, corporate regulations, and crime/vice. Students will produce original research that analyzes the relationship between law and the digital world we have constructed.
HIST 455 - THE HISTORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Short Title: THE HISTORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: What are human rights, and what does it mean to call them “universal”? How do rights across borders, such as those needed by refugees, fit with rights within borders that citizens use to exercise sovereignty? How do new (or previously unrecognized) rights emerge, such as rights for sexual minorities? And how can we write histories of ideas that are claimed to be timeless? This advanced history seminar draws on multiple disciplines, especially anthropology and law, to answer these and other questions. Students undertake independent research on an issue of their choosing. This class is important for students considering law school or graduate study in history. Open to juniors and seniors. Open to others only with permission of instructor. (Please note that class rank is determined by year of matriculation, not credits.)
HIST 457 - FOUR MODERN REVOLUTIONS: 1776, 1789, 1917, 1989
Short Title: FOUR MODERN REVOLUTIONS
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Seminar brings together four leading examples of modern revolution in the western world: the American Revolution, the French Revolution of 1789, the Russian Revolution of October 1917, and the Eastern European revolutions of 1989. Topics include: revolutionary subjects, reactionaries, terror, law, and constitutions. Open to juniors and seniors. Open to others only with permission of instructor. (Please note that class rank is determined by year of matriculation, not credits.)
HIST 459 - NAZISM AND THE HOLOCAUST
Short Title: NAZISM AND THE HOLOCAUST
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Seminar uses sources from the time and historians' interpretations to analyze Nazism and the Holocaust, especially pre-war racial policy; economic policy; labor; the war experience; and the phases and legacies of the Holocaust.
HIST 461 - THE SECOND WORLD WAR: A POLITICAL HISTORY
Short Title: WW II: A POLITICAL HISTORY
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: World War Two was not just a military conflict, but also a violent political and social struggle. Seminar explores the main ideologies and political blueprints devised during the war in the United States, Western and Eastern Europe. Open to juniors and seniors. Open to others only with permission of instructor. (Please note that class rank is determined by year of matriculation, not credits.)
HIST 464 - U.S. FOREIGN POLICY IN THE ERA OF THE COLD WAR
Short Title: COLD WAR U.S. FOREIGN POLICY
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Seminar on American foreign policy during the Cold War. Readings and research.
HIST 470 - ENCOUNTERING THE ENVIRONMENT: CASE STUDIES FROM THE GARDEN OF EDEN TO THE SPACE AGE
Short Title: ENCOUNTERING THE ENVIRONMENT
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: This research seminar investigates important questions that people have asked about their relationship with the environment from the ancient world to the modern day. The readings explore such themes as agency, morality, technology, and society in light of contemporary environmental crisis. Each student will develop a 20-page research paper.
HIST 477 - SPECIAL TOPICS
Short Title: SPECIAL TOPICS
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Internship/Practicum, Laboratory, Lecture, Seminar, Lecture/Laboratory
Credit Hours: 1-4
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Topics and credit hours may vary each semester. Contact department for current semester's topic(s). Repeatable for Credit.
HIST 478 - TOPICS IN LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY
Short Title: TOPICS LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Seminar on selected topics in Latin American history. Contents vary. Open to juniors and seniors. Open to others only with permission of instructor. (Please note that class rank is determined by year of matriculation, not credits.)
HIST 480 - HISTORY OF MEDICINE: FROM ART TO SCIENCE
Short Title: HISTORY OF MEDICINE
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: This seminar examines history of medicine and disease from the ancient period to the present. Using the history different diseases- their recognition, diagnosis and treatments- we will ask how medicine went from art to science and how the role of the physician has evolved over time.
HIST 484 - THE BLACK CITY: AFRICAN AMERICAN URBAN LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES
Short Title: BLACK CITY
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: An examination of how African Americans become a largely urban people in the twentieth century, how their urbanization affects the nature and prospect of US cities, and how the demands and opportunities of city life contribute changing meanings of blackness in American life.
HIST 491 - COEXISTENCE AND SECTARIANISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Short Title: MIDDLE EAST SECTARIANISM
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Seminar will examine the validity of the notion of age-old religious and tribal violence in the region, relate the nature of religious violence in the Ottoman Empire to Zionism in Palestine and sectarianism in Lebanon, and analyze the sectarian struggle in contemporary Iraq in light of the American occupation.
HIST 494 - RULING HINDUSTAN: THE TIMURID-MUGHAL KINGS OF INDIA
Short Title: RULING HINDUSTAN
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Seminar on 16th century Central Asian Muslim Turks who conquered India and, in collusion with local political and social forces, developed a sophisticated syncretic royal culture. Focus on culture, fine arts, architecture, familial relations and religious/spiritual practices in Islam. Readings include memoirs and letters of the royal family, Hindu courtiers, visiting Jesuit priests, and European merchants. A major research component is included.
HIST 499 - BLACK AT RICE: HISTORIES OF THE UNIVERSITY
Short Title: BLACK AT RICE
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students.
Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level
Description: Research seminar focused especially on recovering and analyzing the black experience at Rice University with final projects based on oral histories and primary source research. Open to juniors and seniors, and to others with the permission of the instructor. Part of the Task Force on Slavery, Segregation and Racial Injustice.
HIST 500 - GRADUATE SEMINAR IN MEXICAN HISTORY
Short Title: MEXICAN HISTORY
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: This reading seminar examines Mexico from the early nineteenth century to present through reading classic and current scholarship. It delves into questions in Mexican historiography such as political instability, economic development and inequality, the origins of social movements, the Mexican Revolution and the relationship with the US. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HIST 420. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HIST 500 if student has credit for HIST 420.
HIST 501 - WOMEN AND GENDER IN NATIVE AMERICA
Short Title: NATIVE WOMEN'S HISTORY
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: This reading course consists of texts that focus on women and gender in indigenous history from the colonial period to the early twentieth century.
HIST 502 - EARLY AMERICA AND THE WORLD THAT MADE IT, 1450 - 1820
Short Title: EARLY AMERICA AND THE WORLD
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: A reading seminar in the history of Early America (1450-1820) with an emphasis on its multifarious interactions with the wider world. Seminar participants will read books that have inaugurated key developments in the field of Early American history.
HIST 503 - HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICAN CAPITALISM
Short Title: NORTH AMERICAN CAPITALISM
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: This reading seminar is an introduction for graduate students to scholarship on the burgeoning field of the history of capitalism. The course centers largely in the U.S. but also considers developments across the world while noting capitalist formations elsewhere in North America from ca. 1500 to the near present.
HIST 504 - COLONIALISM, RACISM, AND RESISTANCE
Short Title: COLONIALISM AND RACISM
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: This seminar examines histories of colonialism and racism and resistance to these structures across Asia, Africa, and America: both as articulated by historical protagonists and by scholars.
HIST 505 - THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE
Short Title: THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: This research seminar studies four centuries of transatlantic slave voyages in comparative perspective and complements existing literature on the Atlantic economy. Primary sources will be drawn from the quantitative data of www.slavevoyages.org. Students will be able to focus on particular regions on both sides of the Atlantic.
HIST 506 - COLONIAL TO REPUBLICAN BRAZIL
Short Title: COLONIAL TO REPUBLICAN BRAZIL
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: This course traces the history of Brazil from colony to republic. Topics to be covered include: encounters, Jesuit missions, Indian and African slavery, plantation society, the court in Rio de Janeiro, and change and continuities in the 19th century.
HIST 509 - DIRECTED READINGS
Short Title: DIRECTED READINGS
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Independent Study
Credit Hours: 1-3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: Graduate level independent readings course. Topics vary. Repeatable for Credit.
HIST 510 - DIRECTED READINGS
Short Title: DIRECTED READINGS
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Independent Study
Credit Hours: 1-3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: Graduate level independent reading course. Topics vary. Repeatable for Credit.
HIST 512 - READINGS IN BORDERLANDS, CITIZENSHIP, AND IMMIGRATION HISTORY
Short Title: BORDERLANDS & IMMIGRATION
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: This reading seminar is an introduction for graduate students to the historiography that constitutes the fields of U.S.-Mexico borderlands history. The seminar covers the period from the early colonial period to the near present. Special attention is given to historical questions that have been posed in the related but separate fields of American immigration history, including the significance and conceptualization of U.S. citizenship.
HIST 515 - SCIENCE FOR THE PEOPLE: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY
Short Title: SCIENCE FOR THE PEOPLE
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Course Level: Graduate
Description: Science has always been social. In this seminar we will explore the complex and sometimes contested relationships between science, technology, and society. We will seek to understand how science studies and “makes” peoples (races, genders, sexes, patients, types); how people understand, engage with, and stake claims in science and sometimes push back; and how scientists themselves engage as actors in the public sphere. Topics to be explored include: the public understanding of science; elite and folk knowledges; citizen science; activist science; and the regulation of science and technology. Repeatable for Credit.
HIST 520 - RACIAL AND ETHNIC FORMATIONS IN THE AMERICAS
Short Title: RACIAL AND ETHNIC FORMATIONS
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Course Level: Graduate
Description: This course introduces students to ongoing questions and debates in the study of race and ethnicity in Latin America, the Caribbean, and sometimes also in the United States. While the class emphasizes recent scholarship, it also considers the development of scholarly approaches to the study of race and ethnicity in the region.
HIST 521 - RACE, EDUCATION AND SOCIETY IN THE URBAN SOUTH
Short Title: RACE, EDUCATION & SOCIETY
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: An examination of urban life and education since the decision in Brown v. Board. Seminar focuses on the Brown cases, the development of the post war city in the context of American race relations, the course of court-ordered desegregation, and the impact of recent reforms on urban schools and neighborhoods Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HIST 421. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HIST 521 if student has credit for HIST 421.
HIST 522 - FORMS OF UNFREEDOM IN MEDIEVAL IBERIA AND THE MEDITERRANEAN
Short Title: SLAVERY IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Course Level: Graduate
Description: Graduate reading seminar focuses on the forms of unfreedom in the Middle Ages, 500-1500 CE, with a focus on Islamic and Christian Mediterranean, especially Iberia. Topics will include transition from slavery to serfdom, persistence of domestic slavery, religion as the ideological basis of slavery, sexual exploitation of enslaved women, piracy and human trafficking, and the similarities/differences between the medieval and modern forms of unfreedom.
HIST 525 - THE BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLE
Short Title: THE BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLE
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: Interdisciplinary graduate reading seminar on recent scholarship about the history of Black freedom struggles, broadly construed across space and time, but focusing on the Americas (especially the United States), the Caribbean, and Africa, from the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade through the global twentieth-century movements for civil rights and decolonization.
HIST 530 - SOCIAL THEORY AND MODERN HISTORY
Short Title: SOCIAL THEORY AND HISTORY
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: This graduate seminar dives into several theoretical traditions important for modern history-writing. Topics include: Marx on social development, social structure, and alienation; Weber on method, cultural studies, language, and rationalization; and more recent work on politics, management, and sociology. Open to undergrads with instructor permission only.
HIST 535 - RICE, SLAVERY, & SEGREGATION
Short Title: RICE, SLAVERY, & SEGREGATION
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: Students in this course will work with the Task Force on Slavery, Segregation and Racial Injustice, perform original research on the history of Rice University, and situate that research within a broader national & international context of academic & public history work on universities and racism.
HIST 536 - AMERICA AND THE WORLD
Short Title: AMERICA & THE WORLD
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: In this graduate seminar, we will examine U.S. history in a global context, focusing particularly on imperialism and empire-building. Students are encouraged to think broadly about empire and imperial relationships of which the United States constitute an integral part, looking at domination in economic and cultural forms in addition to political subjugation, formal colonialism and military interventions/dominations. Repeatable for Credit.
HIST 539 - ORIGINS OF AFRO AMERICA
Short Title: ORIGINS OF AFRO AMERICA
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: Graduate research seminar focused on central issues in the articulation of black society, culture, and labor in the Americas from the 15th century to the early 19th century.
HIST 550 - MENTORED TEACHING PRACTICUM
Short Title: MENTORED TEACHING PRACTICUM
Department: History
Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
Course Type: Internship/Practicum
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: Open to graduate students who have been selected for the mentored teaching program in the History Department. Instructor Permission Required.
HIST 551 - TEACHING PRACTICUM
Short Title: TEACHING PRACTICUM
Department: History
Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
Course Type: Internship/Practicum
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: Open to graduate students who are serving as teaching assistants in the History Department. Repeatable for Credit.
HIST 552 - EDITING AND PUBLISHING PRACTICUM
Short Title: EDITING PRACTICUM
Department: History
Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
Course Type: Internship/Practicum
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: Open to graduate students who have been selected to serve as editorial assistants with an academic journal in the History Department. Repeatable for Credit.
HIST 558 - RELIGION, RACE, AND DIFFERENCE IN A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
Short Title: RELIGION, RACE, & DIFFERENCE
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: Graduate seminar will explore the relationship between religion, race, and difference in the modern world. Using both American and non-American cases, the course will explore how and why unequal multi-religious and multi-racial societies - from the United States to the Middle East and South Asia - have elaborated and adapted to modern ideas of secular citizenship and multiculturalism.
HIST 563 - RACE AND SLAVERY IN THE EARLY ATLANTIC
Short Title: EARLY ATLANTIC RACE & SLAVERY
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Research
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: Graduate research seminar designed to help students formulate, research, and produce an initial draft of what will hopefully become a publishable scholarly article dealing with race or slavery in the Atlantic World.
HIST 565 - THE ATLANTIC WORLD
Short Title: THE ATLANTIC WORLD
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: Graduate reading seminar provides an introduction to the historiography of the Atlantic World, especially Africa and the British Atlantic during the 17th and 18th centuries with comparison to France and French Caribbean and to Iberia and Spanish and Luso-America. Thematic topics will include commercial networks, political/imperial/legal structures, and slavery.
HIST 566 - NORTH AMERICA, 1500-1800
Short Title: NORTH AMERICA, 1500-1800
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: Graduate reading seminar provides overview of historical literature pertaining to British North America and the Atlantic World from 1500 to 1800. Related topics in Spanish and French North America also considered.
HIST 570 - U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY
Short Title: U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: Graduate reading seminar on U.S. environmental history from the colonial era to the 20th century, including conservation and environmental movements.
HIST 574 - SLAVERY AND SLAVING IN AFRICA
Short Title: SLAVERY AND SLAVING IN AFRICA
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 4
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: This course introduces graduate students to the key debates, scholars, and historiography relating to slavery and slaving in African history. Students will also gain basic familiarity with the narrative of slaving in Africa as well as introductions to topics in slavery studies like gender, commodities, and identity.
HIST 575 - INTRODUCTION TO DOCTORAL STUDIES
Short Title: INTRO DOCTORAL STUDIES
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: Introduction to a range of methodological and theoretical approaches to historical research, as well as to important current debates about the nature of historical investigation and interpretation.
HIST 577 - PEDAGOGY SEMINAR
Short Title: PEDAGOGY SEMINAR
Department: History
Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: For ABD students who intend to teach. Required for those who intend to teach for the department.
HIST 578 - PROSPECTUS SEMINAR
Short Title: PROSPECTUS SEMINAR
Department: History
Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: Seminar on prospectus and grant-writing for third-year graduate students. Required for students in the third year.
HIST 579 - COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA
Short Title: COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: Graduate reading seminar on the Spanish and Portuguese colonies in the Americas. Topics covered include: the Iberian heritage, encounters and conquests, historical demography, the colonial economy, slavery, family life, religion, and the coming of independence.
HIST 583 - SOUTHERN HISTORY
Short Title: SOUTHERN HISTORY
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: Graduate research seminar on the history of the American South.
HIST 587 - 19TH CENTURY US RESEARCH
Short Title: 19TH CENTURY US RESEARCH
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Research
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: Graduate research and writing seminar on U.S. nineteenth-century history, with an emphasis on social and cultural history. Research paper required.
HIST 588 - 19TH CENTURY AMERICA
Short Title: 19TH CENTURY AMERICA
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: Graduate reading seminar on American history from the early republic to World War I. Contents vary.
HIST 589 - READINGS IN 20TH CENTURY US HISTORY
Short Title: 20THC US HISTORY
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Course Level: Graduate
Description: This graduate reading seminar provides an overview of historical literature about the 20th-century United States including transnational and global connections. Repeatable for Credit.
HIST 590 - INTRODUCTION TO WORLD HISTORY
Short Title: INTRODUCTION TO WORLD HISTORY
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: Graduate reading seminar in world history.
HIST 591 - GRADUATE READING
Short Title: GRADUATE READING
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Independent Study
Credit Hour: 1
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: Graduate reading in conjunction with another course. Repeatable for Credit.
HIST 595 - THE AMERICAN SOUTH
Short Title: THE AMERICAN SOUTH
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Research
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: Graduate reading seminar on major scholarly literature of southern history. Includes readings, discussions, and a major paper on historiographical topic decided in consultation with the instructor.
HIST 596 - PORT CITIES IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD: SIXTEENTH-NINETEENTH CENTURIES
Short Title: ATLANTIC WORLD PORT CITIES
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: This graduate seminar investigates the social and economic history of key port cities in the Atlantic World from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. Emphasis will be placed on slavery and the slave trade, the spatial history of the port city, and the experiences of men and women. Digital humanities methods will be demonstrated through a case study of Rio de Janeiro. Students will develop and write a final paper on the port city of their choice.
HIST 598 - THE MAKING OF THE MODERN ARAB WORLD
Short Title: MAKING OF THE MODERN ARAB WRLD
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: This seminar explores how various approaches from the secular to the religious, from the colonial to the post-colonial, and from the orientalist to the nationalist and post-orientalist have shaped the idea of what constitutes the Arab world.
HIST 599 - ADVANCED MUSEUM STUDIES
Short Title: ADVANCED MUSEUM STUDIES
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Independent Study
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: Repeatable for credit. Offered as necessary. Repeatable for Credit.
HIST 601 - MASTER'S THESIS RESEARCH
Short Title: MASTER'S THESIS RESEARCH
Department: History
Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
Course Type: Research
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: Research for master's thesis. Must take both HIST 601 and 602 to receive credit. Offered as necessary.
HIST 602 - MASTER'S THESIS RESEARCH
Short Title: MASTER'S THESIS RESEARCH
Department: History
Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
Course Type: Research
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: Continuation of HIST 601. Must complete both HIST 601 and 602 to receive credit.
HIST 603 - AMERICA IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Short Title: AMERICA IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: Graduate seminar examining the encounter between the United States and Middle Eastern societies since the nineteenth century. Graduate students will complete all UG requirements in as well as an additional 15 page essay to be submitted with the project prospectus. Final papers must be at least 25 pages and incorporate non-English research as appropriate. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: HIST 436. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for HIST 603 if student has credit for HIST 436.
HIST 604 - ECONOMIC HISTORY
Short Title: ECONOMIC HISTORY
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: Advanced graduate seminar examining world economic history and the history of political economy from 1500 to the present.
HIST 677 - SPECIAL TOPICS
Short Title: SPECIAL TOPICS
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Internship/Practicum, Laboratory, Lecture, Seminar, Independent Study, Lecture/Laboratory
Credit Hours: 1-4
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate or Visiting Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: Topics and credit hours vary each semester. Contact department for current semester's topic(s). Repeatable for Credit.
HIST 700 - THIRD-YEAR RESEARCH
Short Title: THIRD-YEAR RESEARCH
Department: History
Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
Course Type: Research
Credit Hours: 4-12
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: Appropriate for third-year graduate students who are working on their prospectus and have not yet taken their general exam. Repeatable for Credit.
HIST 800 - PH.D. RESEARCH
Short Title: PH.D. RESEARCH
Department: History
Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
Course Type: Research
Credit Hours: 9-12
Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
Course Level: Graduate
Description: Research for doctoral dissertation. Repeatable for Credit.