HIST 10101-10102-10103. Introduction to African Civilization I-II-III.

Completion of the general education requirement in social sciences recommended. Taking these courses in sequence is recommended but not required. This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. African Civilization introduces students to African history and cultures in a two-quarter sequence.

HIST 10800-10900. Introduction to the Civilization of South Asia I-II.

This course meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. This sequence introduces core themes in the formation of culture and society in South Asia from the early modern period until the present. The Winter Quarter focuses on Islam in South Asia, Hindu-Muslim interaction, Mughal political and literary traditions, and South Asia’s early encounters with Europe. The Spring Quarter analyzes the colonial period (i.e., reform movements, the rise of nationalism, communalism, caste, and other identity movements) up to the independence and partition of India

HIST 12700-12800. Music in Western Civilization I-II.

Prior music course or ability to read music not required. Students must confirm enrollment by attending one of the first two sessions of class. Taking these courses in sequence is recommended but not required. This two-quarter sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. It does not meet the general education requirement in the dramatic, musical, and visual arts. This two-quarter sequence explores musical works of broad cultural significance in Western civilization. We study pieces not only from the standpoint of musical style but also through the lenses of politics, intellectual history, economics, gender, cultural studies, and so on. Readings are taken both from our music textbook and from the writings of a number of figures such as St. Benedict of Nursia and Martin Luther. In addition to lectures, students discuss important issues in the readings and participate in music listening exercises in smaller sections

HIST 13001-13002-13003. History of European Civilization I-II-III.

Students who plan to complete a three-quarter sequence will register for HIST 13003 in Spring Quarter after completing HIST 13001-13002. Students may not combine HIST 13003 with one other quarter of European Civilization to construct a two-quarter sequence. This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. European Civilization is a two-quarter sequence designed to introduce students to the nature and history of European civilization from the early Middle Ages to the twentieth century. It complements parallel sequences in ancient Mediterranean, Byzantine, Islamic, and American civilizations, and may be supplemented by a third quarter (HIST 13003) chosen from several topics designed to expand a student’s understanding of European civilization in a particular direction. Emphasis is placed throughout on the recurring tension between universal aspirations and localizing boundaries, and on the fundamental rhythms of tradition and change. Our method consists of close readings of primary sources intended to illuminate the formation and development of a characteristically European way of life in the high middle ages; the collapse of ecclesiastical universalism in the early modern period; and the development of modern politics, society, and culture in the centuries to follow. Individual instructors may choose different sources to illuminate those themes, but some of the most important readings are the same in all sections

HIST 13100-13200-13300. History of Western Civilization I-II-III.

Available as a three-quarter sequence (Autumn, Winter, Spring) or as a two-quarter sequence (Autumn, Winter; or Winter, Spring). This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. The purpose of this sequence is threefold: (1) to introduce students to the principles of historical thought, (2) to acquaint them with some of the more important epochs in the development of Western civilization since the sixth century BC, and (3) to assist them in discovering connections between the various epochs. The purpose of the course is not to present a general survey of Western history. Instruction consists of intensive investigation of a selection of original documents bearing on a number of separate topics, usually two or three a quarter, occasionally supplemented by the work of a modern historian. The treatment of the selected topics varies from section to section. This sequence is currently offered twice a year. The amount of material covered is the same whether the student enrolls in the Autumn-Winter-Spring sequence or the other sequence

HIST 13500-13600-13700. America in World Civilization I-II-III.

Available as a three-quarter sequence (Autumn, Winter, Spring) or as a two-quarter sequence (Autumn, Winter; or Winter, Spring). This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. This sequence uses the American historical experience, set within the context of Western civilization, to (1) introduce students to the principles of historical thought, (2) probe the ways political and social theory emerge within specific historical contexts, and (3) explore some of the major issues and trends in American historical development. This sequence is not a general survey of American history

HIST 13900-14000. Introduction to Russian Civilization I-II.

This two-quarter sequence provides an interdisciplinary introduction to Russian civilization. The first quarter covers the ninth century to the 1880s; the second quarter continues on through the post-Soviet period. Working closely with a variety of primary sources—from oral legends to film and music, from political treatises to literary masterpieces—we will track the evolution of Russian civilization over the centuries and through radically different political regimes. Topics to be discussed include: the influence of Byzantine, Mongol-Tataric, and Western culture in Russian civilization; forces of change and continuity in political, intellectual and cultural life; the relationship between center and periphery; systems of social and political legitimization; and symbols and practices of collective identity. This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. Taking these courses in sequence is recommended but not required. This sequence is offered in alternate years

HIST 15100-15200-15300. Introduction to the Civilizations of East Asia I-II-III.

Taking these courses in sequence is not required. This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. This is a three-quarter sequence on the civilizations of China, Japan, and Korea, with emphasis on major transformation in these cultures and societies from the Middle Ages to the present

HIST 16101-16102-16103. Introduction to Latin American Civilization I-II-III.

Taking these courses in sequence is not required. This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. This course introduces the history and cultures of Latin America (e.g., Mexico, Central America, South America, Caribbean Islands). This sequence is offered every year

HIST 16700-16800-16900. Ancient Mediterranean World I-II-III.

Available as a three-quarter sequence (Autumn, Winter, Spring) or as a two-quarter sequence (Autumn, Winter; or Winter, Spring). This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. This sequence surveys the social, economic, and political history of Greece to the death of Alexander the Great (323 BC), Autumn Quarter; the Roman Republic (509 to 27 BC), Winter Quarter; and the five centuries between the establishment of imperial autocracy in 27 BC and the fall of the Western empire in the fifth century AD, Spring Quarter

HIST 17300-17400-17501-17502. Science, Culture, and Society in Western Civilization I; Science Culture and Society in Western Civilization II; Medicine since the Renaissance; Modern Science.

Taking these courses in sequence is recommended but not required. This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. This three-quarter sequence focuses on the origins and development of science in the West. Our aim is to trace the evolution of the biological, psychological, natural, and mathematical sciences as they emerge from the cultural and social matrix of their periods and, in turn, affect culture and society. NOTE: Either HIST 17501 or HIST 17502 may be taken as a third course in this sequence

HIST 17602. Introduction to Asian/Pacific Islander American History. 100 Units.

Looking through a broad interdisciplinary lens, this course examines the trajectory of Asians and Pacific Islanders in America. How did nineteenth- and early–twentieth-century "sojourners" become "citizens?" What constituted the public's shift in perception of Asians from unassimilable alien to ostensible "model minority?" We interrogate not only what it means to have been and to be an Asian in America but also what role Asian Americans have played in striving for a multiracial democracy. Conscious of the tendency to homogenize all Asians in the historical imagination, the course is explicitly comparative, incorporating the diverse and disparate experiences of East, Southeast, and South Asians, as well as Pacific Islanders in America. We also investigate and compare the histories of African Americans, Native Americans, ethnic whites, Latinas/os, and Arab Americans to highlight the Asian American experience

Instructor(s): M. Briones     Terms Offered: Autumn
Prerequisite(s): Third- or fourth-year standing, or consent of instructor
Equivalent Course(s): CRES 17602

HIST 18301-18302-18303. Colonizations I-II-III.

This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. This three-quarter sequence approaches the concept of civilization from an emphasis on cross-cultural/societal connection and exchange. We explore the dynamics of conquest, slavery, colonialism, and their reciprocal relationships with concepts such as resistance, freedom, and independence, with an eye toward understanding their interlocking role in the making of the modern world. Themes of slavery, colonization, and the making of the Atlantic world are covered in the first quarter. Modern European and Japanese colonialism in Asia and the Pacific is the theme of the second quarter. The third quarter considers the processes and consequences of decolonization, both in the newly independent nations and the former colonial powers

HIST 18600. U.S. Labor History. 100 Units.

This course will explore the history of labor and laboring people in the United States. The significance of work will be considered from the vantage points of political economy, culture, and law. Key topics will include working-class life, industrialization and corporate capitalism, slavery and emancipation, the role of the state and trade unions, race and sex difference in the workplace

Equivalent Course(s): HMRT 28600,LLSO 28000

HIST 20005. Colonial African History. 100 Units.

In the late nineteenth century, European powers embarked on an ambitious effort to conquer and occupy the African continent. This course considers the conditions that enabled the European “Scramble for Africa” and the long-lasting consequences of that project. Primary sources, secondary texts, and fiction will present students with various perspectives on the experiences and effects of colonialism. Case studies will be drawn from French West Africa, Nigeria, South Africa, and Kenya.

Instructor(s): E. Osborn     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 30005,CRES 20005

HIST 20403. Aristophanes. 100 Units.

We will read Aristophanes' Lysistrata. in Greek, a play whose timeless popularity often overshadows the fact that it was produced during a particularly menacing period of Athens’ history. Students will prepare translations for class on Mondays and Wednesdays while Fridays will be devoted to discussions, based on secondary readings, that will include staging issues, the function of political comedy, and the potential uses of Aristophanes’ plays as historical evidence

Instructor(s): J. Hall     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 30403,GREK 21400

HIST 20701. Who Were the Greeks? 100 Units.

If the current resurgence of interest in ethnic studies is a direct reflection of a contemporary upsurge in ethnic conflict throughout the world, it remains the case that notions of peoplehood and belonging have been of periodic importance throughout history. This course will study the various expressions of Greek identity within shifting political, social and cultural contexts from prehistory to the present day, though with a strong emphasis on classical antiquity. Particular attention will be given to theoretical issues such as anthropological definitions of ethnicity, the difference between ethnic and cultural identities, methods for studying ethnicity in historical societies, and the intersection of ethnicity with politics

Instructor(s): J. Hall     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 30701,ANST 20400,CLCV 20400,CLAS 30400

HIST 21005. Economy and Society in Ancient Greece and Rome. 100 Units.

In this course we will explore not only the nature of ancient Greek and Roman economies, but also the way in which social and political structures constrained or facilitated the efforts of individuals to devise successful strategies within those economies. We will consider trade, manufacture, and agriculture, and we will devote considerable attention to issues of methodology: what questions should we ask about ancient economic life, and with what evidence can we answer them?

Instructor(s): C. Hawkins     Terms Offered: Not offered in 2011-12
Equivalent Course(s): CLCV 26508,CLAS 36508

HIST 21702. Byzantine Empire, 610 to 1025. 100 Units.

This is a lecture course, with limited discussion, of the principle developments with respect to government, society, and culture in the Middle Byzantine Period. Although this course is a survey of events and changes, including external relations, many of the latest scholarly controversies also receive scrutiny. Readings include some primary sources in translation and examples of modern scholarly interpretations

Instructor(s): W. Kaegi     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 31702,CLCV 24307,CLAS 34307

HIST 21703. Byzantine Empire, 1025 to 1453. 100 Units.

Internal and external problems and developments. Internal tensions on the eve of the arrival of the Seljuks. Eleventh-century economic growth. The Crusades. Achievements and Deficiencies of Komnenian Byzantium. The Fourth Crusade and Byzantine successor states. Palaeologan Political and Cultural Revival. Religious topics such as relations with the Papacy, Bogomilism and Hesychasm. Readings will include M. Angold, The Byzantine Empire 1025-1204, D. M. Nicol, Last Centuries of Byzantium, the histories of Michael Psellos and Anna Comnena. Course grade will include a final examination and a 10-page paper

Instructor(s): W. Kaegi     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 31703,ANCM 36700,NEHC 20507

HIST 21900. History of Strategy. 100 Units.

This is a lecture and discussion course on the emergence of and changes in European thinking about strategy and command from the end of antiquity to 1815. Topics include the gradual evolution of European military thinking away from dependence on classical thinking about warfare; relationships between firepower and the character of warfare after the appearance of gunpowder; changing conceptions of strategy, tactics, and generalship; and thinking about warfare, maneuver, and battle. Readings are drawn from classics of military history in historical context

Instructor(s): W. Kaegi     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 31900

HIST 22001. Byzantium and Islam. 100 Units.

This lecture/discussion course covers selected Byzantine-Islamic experiences from the emergence of Islam in the seventh century through the middle of the eleventh century. With no single textbook, this course is not a narrative survey. Topics include diplomatic (political), military, economic, cultural, and religious relations that range from subtle influences and adaptations to open polemics. Readings include modern scholarly interpretations and primary source readings. Texts in English

Instructor(s): W. Kaegi     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 32001,CLCV 24309,CLAS 34309

HIST 22111. Mary and Mariology. 100 Units.

More than a saint but less than God, no figure of Christian devotion other than Jesus Christ himself has inspired as much piety or excited as much controversy as the Virgin Mother of God. In this course, we will study the development of her image and cult from her descriptions in the Gospels through the modern papal definitions of Marian dogma so as to come to some understanding how and why this woman “about whom the Gospels say so little” has become a figure of such popular and theological significance. We will consider both the medieval flowering of her cult and its dismantling, transformation, transmission and reinvention in the centuries since.

Instructor(s): R. Fulton     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 32111,RLST 22111,HCHR 32111

HIST 22202. Jewish History and Society III. 100 Units.

This course is both an introduction to European Jewish history from the mid 19th century to the present and a case study in the history of diasporic, minority cultures. Key topics include the effects of urbanization and social mobility on Jewish life; transnational migration; Jewish engagement in colonialism, socialism and feminism as well as Zionism; consequences of the two world wars; changing forms of anti-Semitism; and the rebuilding of European Jewry following the Shoah. These issues will be addressed through intensive analysis of a variety of media; books, newspaper articles, cartoons and caricature, painting, photography, prints, advertisements, and film. Extensive use will be made of the Rosenberger and Sondheim collections in Special Collections and several sessions will be held in the study room of the Smart Museum

Instructor(s): L. Auslander     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): JWSC 20003

HIST 22406. Jewish History and Society II. 100 Units.

This quarter will focus on the history of European Jewry from the late 17th century to the mid-19th. Of particular concern will be the debates around Emancipation and the consequences of its early application in Western Europe and late in the Central and Eastern Europe. Making substantial use of the textual and visual materials held in Special Collections at Regenstein Library, we will explore the major issues of the period: transformations in religious practice including Hassidism; the Jewish Enlightenment; 19th century reform movements. We will be equally concerned with dynamics and consequences of social mobility and changing forms of discrimination. Attention will be paid to Jewish participation overseas exploration and settlement, including the communities in the Caribbean and North and South America

Instructor(s): L. Auslander     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): JWSC 20002

HIST 22707. Britain's Industrial Revolution. 100 Units.

Why and how did Britain become the first industrial society? We will consider a host of possible explanations, including geopolitics, political economy, social structure/demography, useful knowledge, colonies, and mineral energy. Readings will include works by Pincus, O’Brien, Mokyr, Berg, Wrigley, Pomeranz, de Vries, Macfarlane, Horn, Brewer, Ashworth, and Warde

Instructor(s): F. Albritton Jonsson     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 32707,LLSO 22707

HIST 22902. Renaissance Humanism. 100 Units.

The course will concentrate on the development and varieties of Renaissance humanism from the late fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries, with special attention to the ways in which the humanists brought classical thought and ancient history to bear on their ideas of the good state and the reform of the social order

Instructor(s): H. Gray     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 32902,LLSO 28611

HIST 23000. Intellectual Property and Piracy. 100 Units.

Intellectual property presents some of the most pressing problems in modern science, industry, and law. This course helps students to understand why. It explains the principles of modern intellectual property, by examining their historical development over the last five hundred years. Using sources from the history of literature, art, and music – as well as from modern science and information technology – students will discover how piracy and property have clashed since the Renaissance, and still do so today. They will then be well-placed to address the central problem of intellectual property, and one of the most basic questions facing today's universities: what is the proper relation between creativity and commerce?

Instructor(s): A. Johns     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): CHSS 31900,HIST 33000,HIPS 26700,LLSO 22104

HIST 23002. Protestant Reformation in Germany. 100 Units.

This course is designed to clarify and test the assumptions underlying the present state of knowledge about the Protestant Reformation. Its method consists of reading extensively in the historiography and reflecting intensively on the issues raised by that reading. So as to maintain a well-defined focus the course is largely limited to the Reformation in Germany. So as to develop a broad perspective the course is not limited to the most recent literature. We will begin with some of the most famous older interpretations (Hegel, Ranke, Engels, Troeltsch, Weber, Febvre). We will then go on to consider the redefinition of the historical agenda since the 1960's and the current state of our knowledge by reading the work of leading contemporary historians of the Reformation (e.g., Bernd Moeller, Thomas Brady, Heiko Oberman, Jean Delumeau, Peter Blickle, Heinz Schilling). I will focus on explaining the readings, but I will also leave room for questions and discussion

Instructor(s): C. Fasolt     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): RLST 22602

HIST 23302. Europe, 1815 to 1914. 100 Units.

This is the second installment of a three-quarter sequence, which surveys the history of Europe from the era of its greatest hegemony in the world to the eve of the depression of the 1930s. Themes considered include industrialization; the revolutions of 1848; the formation and consolidation of modern nation-states; the rise and travails of political liberalism and laissez faire; the spread of socialism in its various guises; international rivalries, alliances, and imperialism; and the causes, character and effects of World War I

Instructor(s): J. Craig     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 33302

HIST 23305. Europe, 1660 to 1815. 100 Units.

This is the first installment of a three-quarter sequence, which offers a general introduction to the processes and events that constituted the passage to modernity in Europe: monarchical absolutism as a means to state-building on the Continent and its parliamentary alternative in Britain; the intellectual and cultural transformations effected by the Enlightenment, including the creation of a liberal public sphere; the French Revolution and its pan-European implications; the rise of the laissez-faire market and the Industrial Revolution; the emergence of feminism and socialism. The course will be conducted primarily by means of lectures. Readings will include both primary and secondary sources

Instructor(s): J. Goldstein     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 33301

HIST 23306. Europe, 1914 to Present. 100 Units.

This lecture course will provide an introductory survey to European history in the twentieth century. It aims to provide a critical overview of political, economic, social, and cultural developments. Topics covered will include: the causes, experiences, and effects of the First and Second World Wars, decolonization and the Cold War; transformations in society and economy, including changes in class- and gender relations, the changing place of religious belief, and the consequences of post-colonial immigration; mass politics and particularly the conflict between Bolshevism and Fascism, protest- and new social movements in the 1960s and 1970s, and anti-globalization mobilization at the end of the 20th century; issues of national sovereignty, raised by the Europeanism, Bolshevism and Americanism as well as the cha! ng! ing relations between European metropoles and peripheries. A reflection on the state of Europe today will conclude the course

Instructor(s): T. Zahra     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 33303

HIST 23407. Comparative Kingship: Rulers in 12th-Century Europe. 100 Units.

The purpose of this course is to examine the different forms that kingship took in the Latin Christian kingdoms of Europe during the twelfth century. In the first half of the course, we will read and discuss a broad range of primary and secondary sources that will give us the opportunity to analyze critically kingship in England, France and Germany (the Holy Roman Empire). In the second half of the course, we will broaden our discussion to consider how other kingdoms in Europe—including Scotland, Norway, Denmark, Poland, Hungary, Sicily, Aragon and Castile—do and do not conform to more general models of 12th-century European kingship

Instructor(s): J. Lyon     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 33407

HIST 23510. The Arts of Language in the Middle Ages: The Trivium. 100 Units.

Throughout the Middle Ages, formal instruction in the liberal arts began with the study of language: grammar, including the study of literature as well as the practical mastery of the mechanics of language (here, Latin); rhetoric, or the art of speaking well, whether to praise or persuade; and logic or dialectic, whether narrowly defined as the art of constructing arguments or, more generally, as metaphysics, including the philosophy of mind. In this course, we will be following this medieval curriculum insofar as we are able through some of its primary texts, many only recently translated, so as to come to a better appreciation of the way in which the study of these arts affected the development of medieval European intellectual and artistic culture

Instructor(s): R. Fulton Brown     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 33510

HIST 24003. The Russian Empire, 1700 to 1917. 100 Units.

This class provides a historical overview of the Russian empire, its role in the world, and its people from the reign of Peter the Great to the collapse of the Old Regime in 1917. Topics to be discussed include: autocracy and the tradition of reform from above; techniques of imperial expansion; Russia’s relations with its neighbors and rivals; class, estate, religious and ethnic identities; the role of ideology in high politics and everyday life; the relationship between imperial officials and subjects; and the causes and consequences of the empire’s ultimate demise.

Instructor(s): F. Hillis     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 34003

HIST 24110. Buddhism and the West. 100 Units.

Buddhism is a transnational phenomenon and as such can be found in vast array of cultures and times. This course, focusing on East Asian Buddhism, looks at Buddhist history in China, Korea and Japan and the interpretation and reception of these traditions by and in "the West." Topics to be discussed include, but are not limited to, orientalism, occidentalism, esoteric and exoteric traditions, Chan/Son/Zen, problems of translation, the roles of culture, history, nation and nationalism in religion, etcetera

Instructor(s): J. Ketelaar, P. Copp     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): CRES 24110,EALC 24110,EALC 34110,HIST 34110,HREL 34110

HIST 24111. The Japanese Empire and National Formations in East Asia. 100 Units.

The rise and fall of the Japanese colonial empire in the first half of the twentieth century is an event of singular important in the history of modern Japan as well as its concurrent East Asia. This course surveys the imperial or colonial roots of the formation of modern East Asian nations—mainly Japan but also Taiwan, Korea, and China—with a focus on the complex interplays between nationalism and imperialism or colonialism. By examining several key issues of colonial studies, we will look at the intertwinement and tensions between empire-building and nation-forming. All readings are in English

Instructor(s): W. Chen     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): EALC 24720

HIST 24206. Medicine and Culture in Modern East Asia. 100 Units.

This course will focus on the cultural history of medicine in China, Japan, and Korea from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1980s. We will be concerned with tracing the circulation of new medical knowledge and understanding its cultural and social implications. Topics to be explored include the introduction of "Western medicine" and its impact for "traditional" medicine, the struggles over public health, gender, medicine, and modernity, consumer culture and medicine. No knowledge of an East Asian language is required, but those with reading skills will be encouraged to utilize them

Instructor(s): S. Burns     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 34206,EALC 26201,EALC 36201

HIST 24207. Imperialism and Popular Culture. 100 Units.

Instructor(s): J. Hevia     Terms Offered: Spring

HIST 24210. Modern Japan. Units.

This course explores the history of Japan from the 1830s through the 1990s. Topics to be examined include Japan's transformation into a powerful nation-state and empire, the social and cultural developments that followed, the devastation of the war and its aftermath, and the era of remarkable economic rebuilding that followed. The emphasis will be on the interconnectedness of politics and culture, and we will seek to understand modern Japanese history in light of regional and global changes. Course requirements include an in class midterm and final and a research paper of 10–12 pages.

Instructor(s): S. Burns     Terms Offered: Spring

HIST 24500. Reading Qing Documents. 100 Units.

Reading and discussion of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century historical political documents, including such forms as memorials, decrees, local gazetteers, diplomatic communications, essays, and the like

Instructor(s): G. Alitto     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): EALC 24500,EALC 34500,HIST 34500

HIST 24504. Reading the Revolution: Chinese Social History in Documents. 100 Units.

What are the sources for a social history of revolutionary China? What can we learn from the official account, from newspaper articles, and from published speeches? What kind of information can we expect to find in archives? Or in unpublished sources (e.g., letters, diaries)? How useful is oral history, and what are its limitations? What, finally, can we learn from material objects (e.g., clothes, furniture) and from visual representations? We look at language policies and classification systems to understand how the official record was created and how information was channeled, at Western translation series, at official compilations such as the Selections of Historical Materials (wenshi ziliao) and the Four Histories (si shi), and at the functions and limitations of archives. The guiding question of this course is: How can we reconstruct the life experience of "ordinary" people at a time of rapid historical change?

Instructor(s): J. Eyferth     Terms Offered: Spring
Prerequisite(s): Reading knowledge of modern Chinese

HIST 24507. Everyday Maoism: Work, Daily Life, and Material Culture in Socialist China. 100 Units.

The history of Maoist China is usually told as a sequence of political campaigns: land and marriage reform, nationalization of industry, anti-rightist campaign, Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, etc. Yet for the majority of the Chinese population, socialism was as much about material changes as about politics: about the two-story brick houses, electric lights and telephones (loushang louxia, diandeng dianhua) that the revolution had promised; about new work regimes and new consumption patterns – or, to the contrary, about the absence of such change. If we want to understand what socialism meant for different groups of people, we have to look at the "new objects" of socialist modernity, at changes in dress codes and apartment layouts, at electrification and city planning. We have to analyze workplaces and labor processes in order to understand how socialism changed the way people worked. We also have to look at the rationing of consumer goods and its effects on people's daily lives. The course has a strong comparative dimension: we will look at the literature on socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, to see how Chinese socialism differed from its cousins. Another aim is methodological. How can we understand the lives of people who wrote little and were rarely written about? To which extent can we read people's life experiences out of material objects?

Instructor(s): J. Eyferth     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 34507,EALC 24255

HIST 24706. Edo/Tokyo: Society and the City in Japan. 100 Units.

This course will explore the cultural and cultural history of Edo/Tokyo form its origins in the early 17th century through c.1945. Issues to be explored include he configuration of urban space and its transformation over time in relation to issues of status, class, and political authority, the formation of "city person" as a form of identity, and the tensions between the real city of lived experience and the imagined city of art and literature. We will pay particular attention to two periods of transformation, the 1870s when the modernizing state made Tokyo its capital, and the period of reconstruction after the devastating earthquake of 1923. Assignments include the writing of a final research paper of approximately 15-18 pages

Instructor(s): S. Burns     Terms Offered: Not offered in 2011-12
Equivalent Course(s): EALC 24706

HIST 24710. Oral History and the Politics of Memory in Socialist China. 100 Units.

Perhaps more than most other national histories, the history of China has been shaped by selective remembering and forgetting. This course will look at how history was and is produced in China. We will look at official sites of memory (museums and memorials) and at official historiography. At the same time, we will ask to which extent local, unofficial memories can be recovered. We will look not only at the methodology of oral history interviewing but also at the interface of written and oral cultures: who wrote, and why? What was written down and what is not? How did transcription and ritualized retelling affect memory? We will look at the numerous collections and sound recordings of oral texts and memories produced in twentieth century China: recorded folk songs and folk stories in the Republican era; the Maoist “Four Histories” of families, villages, communes, and factories; the memoir literature of the 1980s; the systematic cataloging and appropriation of local “cultural heritage” in the last decade. The course should also provoke self-critical reflections about how our work as historians differs from state attempts to permanently fix memories for administrative and political purposes

Instructor(s): J. Eyferth     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 34710,EALC 24210

HIST 24913. Victorian Science. 100 Units.

Instructor(s): A. Winter     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): CHSS 34913,HIPS 24913,HIST 34913

HIST 25104. History and Philosophy of Biology. 100 Units.

This lecture-discussion class will examine in an episodic fashion the basic biological ideas of the following theorists: the Hippocratics, Aristotle, Vesalius, William Harvey, Descartes, Buffon, Galvani and Volta (i.e., the spark of life), Bichat, Schleiden and Schwann (i.e. cell theory), Lamarck, Darwin, Mendel. The central questions of concern will be: what is life and how can it be experimentally and theoretically investigated?

Instructor(s): R. Richards     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 35104,CHSS 37402,HIPS 25104,PHIL 23405

HIST 25107. Sciences of Mind and the Moving Image. 100 Units.

This course will examine the relationship between moving images, particularly motion-picture films, and the human sciences broadly construed, from the early days of cinema to the advent of fMRI. It will use primary source documents alongside screenings to allow students to study what the moving image meant to researchers wishing to develop knowledge of mind and behavior - what they thought film could do that still photography, and unmediated human observation, could not. The kinds of motion pictures we will study will vary widely, from infant development studies to psychiatric films, from documentaries to research films, and from films made by scientists or clinicians as part of their laboratory or therapeutic work, to experimental films made by seasoned film-makers. We will explore how people used the recordings they made, in their own studies, in communications with other scientists, and for didactic and other purposes. We will also discuss how researchers' claims about mental processes - perception, memory, consciousness, and interpersonal influence - drew on their understandings of particular technologies

Instructor(s): A. Winter     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): CHSS 35107,HIPS 25107,HIST 35107

HIST 25203. Economic/Social History of Europe, 1700 to 1880. 100 Units.

This course examines the causes, characteristics, and effects—economic, social, and otherwise—of the "industrious" and industrial revolutions. The course reviews an array of unresolved debates, among them the so-called Brenner debate and the debates over proto-industrialization, the enclosure movements, the sources of technological innovation, path dependence and diffusion patterns within and across economies, the family economy, the standard of living, the formation of the middle and working classes, the consequences of literacy, and the voluntary initiatives and public policies addressing such social problems as poverty, disease, illegitimacy, and crime. The course is the first in a two-course sequence covering the economic and social history of Europe from 1700 to the present, but each course is free-standing—students enrolled in this course are not required to take its sequel

Instructor(s): J. Craig     Terms Offered: Autumn
Note(s): HIST 25203-25204 may be taken in or out of sequence.
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 35203,LLSO 25203

HIST 25204. Economic/Social History of Europe, 1880 to the Present. 100 Units.

This course focuses on economic and social problems and debates identified with mature industrialization and the transition to a postindustrial and increasingly integrated Europe. Themes receiving particular attention include the crisis of the old rural order, international factor mobility (including migration), urbanization and "municipal socialism," the rise of the professions and the new middle class, the demographic and schooling transitions, the economic and social impact of business cycles, the world wars, and mass movements, the evolution and so-called crisis of the welfare state, and the social policies of the European Union

Instructor(s): J. Craig     Terms Offered: Winter
Prerequisite(s): This course is a sequel to HIST 25203, but the latter is not a prerequisite.
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 35204,LLSO 25204

HIST 25300. American Revolution, 1763 to 1789. 100 Units.

This lecture and discussion course explores the background of the American Revolution and the problem of organizing a new nation. The first half of the course uses the theory of revolutionary stages to organize a framework for the events of the 1760s and 1770s, and the second half of the course examines the period of constitution-making (1776-1789) for evidence on the ways in which the Revolution was truly revolutionary

Instructor(s): E. Cook     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 35300,LLSO 20601

HIST 25307. History and Historiography of Science. 100 Units.

Science poses particular problems of historical understanding because it claims to reveal truths independent of human culture and historical change. Yet scholars have argued for decades that both the enterprise of science and, indeed, scientific knowledge itself can be accounted for historically. Since World War II a thriving discipline has arisen to pursue this objective. It has transformed our understanding of such central topics as the practice of experiment, the social meaning of nature, and the constitution of scientific authority. History and Historiography of Science offers an opportunity to see how historians of science have achieved this. We will read both canonical works and new research, in order to understand how they practice their craft of bringing history to bear on what seems the most unhistorical of subjects

Instructor(s): A. Johns     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): CHSS 35307,HIPS 25307,HIST 35307

HIST 25408. The History of Suggestion. 100 Units.

This course examines the history of studies of the nature of what has commonly become known as suggestion--subtle influences over personal and group behavior that are thought to affect us outside our conscious awareness or control. The idea of an unconscious influence of this kind has deep roots, but it was only in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that it became a major focus of research, controversy and reflection. The course will examine the development and significance of characterizations of suggestion and related concepts of subtle influence in medicine, advertising, and various fields in the sciences. Course materials will include primary sources in those areas, literary materials, and film

Instructor(s): A. Winter     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): CHSS 35408,HIPS 25408,HIST 35408

HIST 25704-25804-25904. Islamic History and Society I-II-III.

Taking these courses in sequence is recommended but not required. This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. This sequence surveys the main trends in the political history of the Islamic world, with some attention to economic, social, and intellectual history

HIST 25807. The High Caliphate. 100 Units.

Review of major developments in the history of the Islamic community from ca. 700 CE until ca. 1000 CE, with focus on the extensive secondary literature devoted to key issues, including: character of Umayyad rule, conversion and taxation, rise of piety-minded opposition, character of the "Abbasid revolution," nature of Abbasid rule, development of Shi´ism and åe˜Alid-Abbasid rivary, the Abbasid civil war, Byzantium and the caliphate, evolution of military institutions, vizierate and bureaucracy, rise of Samarra and the Samarra period, rise of regionalism, beginnings of Ism´ailism, commercial relations, the Buyid ascendancy

Instructor(s): F. Donner     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 35807,NEHC 20642

HIST 26106. Tropical Commodities in Latin America. 100 Units.

This colloquium explores selected aspects of the social, economic, and cultural history of tropical export commodities from Latin America-- e.g., coffee, bananas, sugar, tobacco, henequen, rubber, vanilla, and cocaine. Topics include land, labor, capital, markets, transport, geopolitics, power, taste, and consumption

Instructor(s): E. Kouri     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 36106,LACS 26106

HIST 26113. Culture, Politics, and Sexuality in the Latin American 1960s. 100 Units.

From Ernesto “Che” Guevara’s victory alongside Fidel Castro in Cuba in 1959 to the military coup d’état against President Salvador Allende in Chile in 1973, the Latin American “long sixties” were suffused by a feeling of imminence, of “change about to happen." This seminar will explore how cultural, political, and sexual change was imagined and shaped. Using a diverse collection of secondary and primary sources—including songs, film clippings, and posters—this seminar will examine the themes of guerrilla insurgency, student protest, youth counterculture, military repression, and US interventionism during this transformative era

Instructor(s): V. Manzano     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 36113,LACS

HIST 26212. Brazilian Cultural History. 100 Units.

Exploration of cases of cultural change in 19th and 20th century Brazil. The abolitionist movement; immigrant adaptation; urban reforms and new cities; schooling; carnival; religious conversions; claims of political citizenship

Instructor(s): D. Borges     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 36312,PORT 26212

HIST 26500. History of Mexico, 1876 to Present. 100 Units.

From the Porfiriato and the Revolution to the present, a survey of Mexican society and politics, with emphasis on the connections between economic developments, social justice, and political organization. Topics include fin de siècle modernization and the agrarian problem; causes and consequences of the Revolution of 1910; the making of the modern Mexican state; relations with the United States; industrialism and land reform; urbanization and migration; ethnicity, culture and nationalism; economic crises, neoliberalism and social inequality; political reforms and electoral democracy; the zapatista rebellion in Chiapas; and the end of PRI rule

Instructor(s): E. Kouri & M. Tenorio     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): CRES 26500,CRES 36500,HIST 36500,LACS 26500,LACS 36500,LLSO 26500

HIST 26508. A Transnational History of Youth in the 20th Century. 100 Units.

In her comparative study of Fascist Italy and the United States in the 1950s, historian Luisa Passerini noted that youth served as a metaphor for change. In these and other settings, yet, young men and women were also historical actors in their own right; they propelled, shaped, and embodied cultural, political, and sexual change. This seminar will explore how and why youth, as a concept, and young people, as cultural and political actors, gained ascendancy throughout the twentieth century. In doing so, we will seek to unravel the connections between youth and modernity, drawing on case studies not only from Western Europe and North America but also from Latin America, Africa, and Asia.

Instructor(s): V. Manzano     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 36508,LACS 26508,LACS 36508

HIST 27006. Not Just the Facts: Telling about the American South. 100 Units.

This course concerns itself with the various ways people who have striven to understand the American South, past and present, have both uncovered facts about the region and given them life. Main themes of the course include the difference between historical scholarship and writing history in fictional form; the role of the author in each, and consideration of the interstitial space of autobiography; the question of authorial authenticity; and the tension between the rejection of "truth" and the contemporary demands for truthfulness

Instructor(s): J. Dailey     Terms Offered: Winter
Prerequisite(s): Third- or fourth-year standing, or consent of instructor

HIST 27102. Lincoln: Slavery, War, and the Constitution. 100 Units.

This course is a study of Abraham Lincoln's view of the Constitution, based on close readings of his writings, plus comparisons to judicial responses to Lincoln's policies

Instructor(s): D. Hutchinson     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): LLSO 24711

HIST 27114. Haitian Revolution and Human Rights. 100 Units.

There have been two successful slave revolts in world history. One of them—which unfolded between 1791-1804 in the French colony of Saint Domingue(also variously referred to as San Domingo, Santo Domingo in English) on the western portion of the island that the Spanish had called Hispaniola (Espanola)—developed sufficient socio-political force-to form a new state government that its ex-slave founders called Haiti. This course explores the Haitian revolution as critical to the examination of slave emancipation colonialism, comparative revolutions, and postcolonial governance and sovereignty. It especially aims to explore interpretive debates that explicitly (or implicitly) link the problems of slave emancipation to the contradictions of modern freedom. Course readings draw on historical, anthropological, and political studies, selected published documents, and historical fiction to think critically about ways of extending how this history and its implications have been explored

Instructor(s): J. Saville     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): CRES 27114,HIST 37114,HMRT 27114,LLSO 26803

HIST 27400. Race and Racism in American History. 100 Units.

This lecture course examines selected topics in the development of racism, drawing on both cross-national (the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean) and multiethnic (African American, Asian American, Mexican American, and Native American) perspectives. Beginning with the premise that people of color in the Americas have both a common history of dispossession, discrimination, and oppression as well as strikingly different historical experiences, I hope to probe a number of assumptions and theories about race and racism in academic and popular thought. Two quizzes, midterm and final essay examinations required

Instructor(s): T. Holt     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 37400,CRES 27400,CRES 37400,AFAM 27403,LLSO 28711

HIST 27403. African American Lives and Times. 100 Units.

This colloquium will examine selected topics and issues in African American history during a dynamic and critical decade, 1893 and 1903, that witnessed the redefinition of American national and sectional identities, social and labor relations, and race and gender relations. A principal premise of the course is that African American life and work was at the nexus of the birth of modern America, as reflected in labor and consumption, in transnational relations (especially Africa), in cultural expression (especially music and literature), and in the resistance or contestation to many of these developments. The course will focus on the Chicago World's Fair and the publication of Du Bois's Souls of Black Folk as seminal moments in the era. Our discussions will be framed by diverse primary materials, including visual and aural sources, juxtaposed with interpretations of the era by various historians. A principal goal of the course is that students gain a greater appreciation for interpreting historical processes through in-depth examination of the complex and multiple currents of an defined era—a slice of time—as well as skills in interpreting diverse primary sources.

Instructor(s): T. Holt     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): AFAM 27403,CRES 27403,CRES 37403,HIST 37403,LLSO 28314

HIST 27705. Introduction to Black Chicago, 1893 to 2008. 100 Units.

This course surveys the history of African Americans in Chicago, from before the 20th century to the present. In referring to that history, we treat a variety of themes, including: migration and its impact, origins and effects of class stratification; relation of culture and cultural endeavor to collective consciousness, rise of institutionalized religions, facts and fictions of political empowerment, and the correspondence of Black lives and living to indices of city wellness (service, schools, safety, general civic feeling). This is a history class that situates itself within a robust interdisciplinary conversation. Students can expect to engage works of autobiography and poetry, sociology, documentary photography, and political science as well as more straightforward historical analysis. By the end of the class, students should have grounding in Black Chicago's history, as well as an appreciation of how this history outlines and anticipates Black life and racial politics in the modern United States

Instructor(s): A. Green     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): CRES 27705,LLSO 22210

HIST 28404. Politics of Reproduction in Historical Perspective. 100 Units.

For centuries, women’s traditional authority over reproductive matters—birth control, pregnancy and childbearing—was little remarked upon. Yet in the twentieth century—and especially in the last quarter century—these “female matters” of birth control, abortion, and childbearing have moved to the center of national and international politics, the source of furious disputes and even violence. This course traces the history of these developments, beginning with the nineteenth century, focusing on the legalization of abortion and its aftermath in America, and studying subsequent battles over access to contraception, Roe v. Wade, reproductive health around the world, and who should be a mother. We will analyze the origins of the idea of reproductive rights in the women’s movement and trace how it became an issue in presidential politics. The focus will be on the United States, but we will bring in comparisons from Europe, Africa, and South Asia.

Instructor(s): C. Stansell     Terms Offered: Not offered in 2011-12
Equivalent Course(s): GNDR 26501, LLSO 21911

HIST 28503. Historicizing American Power Culture. 100 Units.

Instructor(s): A. Green     Terms Offered: Winter

HIST 28604. Law and Social Movements in Modern America. 100 Units.

This course traces and examines the relationship of law and social movements in the United States since 1865. We will examine how lawyers and ordinary citizens have used the law to support the expansion of social, political and economic rights in America. But we will also look at how the state and civic organizations have shaped and deployed law to criminalize the strategies of social reform movements and stifle dissent

Instructor(s): J. Dailey     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): GNDR 28604,LLSO 28604,HMRT 28604

HIST 28703. Baseball and American Culture, 1840 to Present. 100 Units.

This course will examine the rise and fall of baseball as America's national pastime. We will trace the relationship between baseball and American society from the development of the game in the mid-nineteenth century to its enormous popularity in the first half of the twentieth century to its more recent problems and declining status in our culture. The focus will be on baseball as a professional sport, with more attention devoted to the early history of the game than to the recent era. Emphasis will be on using baseball as a historical lens through which we will analyze the development of American society rather than on the celebration of individuals or teams. Crucial elements of racialization, ethnicity, class, gender, nationalism, sexuality, and masculinity will be in play, as we consider the Negro Leagues, women's leagues, internment-era baseball, the Latinization and globalization of the game, and more

Instructor(s): M. Briones     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): CRES 28703

HIST 28800. Historical Geography of the United States. 100 Units.

This course examines the spatial dynamics of empire, the frontier, regional development, the social character of settlement patterns, and the evolution of the cultural landscapes of America from pre-European times to 1900. All-day northern Illinois field trip required. This course is offered in alternate years

Instructor(s): M. Conzen     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): GEOG 21900,GEOG 31900,HIST 38800

HIST 28803. Motherhood As Institution and Historical Practice. Units.

We will examine how motherhood has changed, over time and across centuries, and how feminist scholarship has sought to elucidate the deepest meanings and most exact meanings of motherhood as a social role, primary attachment, and/or form of work. Topics include child-rearing literature, childbirth, the economics of motherhood, mothers and fathers, and mothering in catastrophic conditions.

Instructor(s): C. Stansell     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): GNDR 25502

HIST 29301. Human Rights I: Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights. 100 Units.

The aim of this course is to help students think philosophically about human rights. We ask whether human rights has or needs philosophical foundations, what we need such foundations for, and where they might be found. We also ask some questions that tend to generate the search for philosophical foundations: Are human rights universal or merely the product of particular cultures? What kinds of rights (e.g., political, cultural, economic, negative, positive) are human rights? Can there be human rights without human duties? Without universal enforcement? Do the rights we enshrine as human mark only some of us (e.g., men) as human?

Instructor(s): M. Lott     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): HMRT 20100,LLSO 25100,PHIL 21700

HIST 29302. Human Rights II: History and Theory. 100 Units.

This course is concerned with the history and theory of the modern human rights regime. We will start with the present conundrum of human rights: a surfeit of human rights law, nationally and internationally, and an actual lack of rights for individuals and people; the proliferation of humanitarian activism and the suspicion that it will not alleviate misery and provide succor. The discussion of the present will lead us to wonder when, where, and for whom human rights and, for that matter, humanitarianism provide actual solutions to real-life problems – and what these problems might be. We will also explore the passions that motivated people to pursue human rights and the empathy that led them to uproot injustice – and what this passion did and did not achieve. The revolutionary challenges to national and international society in the late eighteenth and in the mid twentieth century will be the two pivots of this inquiry. But we will also spend a good deal of time wondering about the curious absence of human rights and in the midst of the proliferation of humanitarian good will in moments of imperialism. This, in turn, will gives us plenty of material to return to the present and to come to some informed conclusions, where we stand today in terms of human rights

Instructor(s): J. Sparrow     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): HMRT 20200/30200

HIST 29303. Human Rights III: Contemporary Issues in Human Rights. 100 Units.

For U.S. students, the study of international human rights is becoming increasingly important, as interest grows regarding questions of justice around the globe. This interdisciplinary course presents a practitioner's overview of several major contemporary human rights problems as a means to explore the utility of human rights norms and mechanisms, as well as the advocacy roles of civil society organizations, legal and medical professionals, traditional and new media, and social movements. Topics may include the prohibition against torture, problems of universalism versus cultural relativism, and the human right to health

Instructor(s): S. Gzesh     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): HMRT 20300,HIST 39303,HMRT 30300,ISHU 28900,ISHU 38900,LAWS 78201,LLSO 20300,INRE 31800

HIST 29306. Problems in the Study of Gender. 100 Units.

This course will explore interdisciplinary debates in the analysis of gender and feminism in a transnational perspective. Course readings will primarily traverse the twentieth century Atlantic world encompassing Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean. We will consider how understandings of gender intersect with categories of ethnicity, race, class, and sexuality. Topics to be covered include gendered experiences of: imperialism and colonial encounters; migration and urbanization; transformations in marriage and family life; medicine, the body, and sexual health; and decolonization and nation-building. Materials will include theoretical and empirical texts, fiction, memoirs, and films

Instructor(s): R. Jean-Baptiste     Terms Offered: Autumn

HIST 29408. Human Rights in Mexico. 100 Units.

This course examines human rights in Mexico in the contemporary period. We begin with an exploration of the religious and secular sources of Mexican concepts of human rights. We also explore the contemporary human rights movement through civil society responses to the 1968 massacre of students at Tlatelolco and the 1985 Mexico City earthquake. The second half of the course focuses on contemporary case studies, which may include labor rights, the rights of women and indigenous people, and issues of accountability and impunity. Readings are largely drawn from Mexican sources

Instructor(s): S. Gzesh     Terms Offered: Not offered 2010–11 will be offered 2011–12.
Prerequisite(s): Reading knowledge of Spanish and prior course on Latin American history or culture
Note(s): Not offered 2010–11 will be offered 2011–12.
Equivalent Course(s): HMRT 24501,HMRT 34501,LACS 24501,LACS 34501,HIST 39408,LAWS 62411

HIST 29613. Colloquium: Hyde Park and Chicago's South Side as Historical Laboratory. 100 Units.

This colloquium uses Hyde Park and Chicago's South Side as a case study to introduce students to issues and methodologies in the history and historical geography of American urban life during the past century and a half. Discussions will focus on both primary and secondary source readings, and each participant will design and carry out an original research project

Instructor(s): K. Conzen     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): GEOG 27601

HIST 29624. History Colloquium: Civil Rights and Cultural Revolution. 100 Units.

This course will examine the proposition that a cultural revolution in American life preceded and shaped the 1960s civil rights movement. Drawing on secondary and primary readings, music, film, and video resources, we will take a fresh look at the demographic, political, and economic developments conventionally viewed as sparking America's racial transformation by the mid-20th century. Since this course is designed to prepare undergraduates to undertake a major research project, its principal requirement is a substantial research paper

Instructor(s): T. Holt     Terms Offered: Spring

HIST 29625. History Colloquium: The European Family. 100 Units.

This colloquium uses the family, one of the basic building blocks of human society, as a way of introducing students to issues and methodologies in the study of European history from the medieval period to the twentieth century. Students will have the opportunity to examine politics, economics, gender, religion, social structures and a variety of other subjects through the lens of the European family. Discussions will focus on both primary and secondary source readings, and each participant will design and carry out an original research project

Instructor(s): J. Lyon     Terms Offered: Spring

HIST 29626. History Colloquium: Sex and the City in International History. 100 Units.

This course explores the theories, methods, and sources to write a transnational history of “the erotic city.” Focusing on Africa and Latin America, this course examines comparative histories of sexuality, gender, and urban geography. The late nineteenth and twentieth centuries witnessed the phenomenal growth of cities across the globe. As women and men created urban spaces, societies debated how sexual mores were to be experienced, regulated, and spatialized. The course explores urbanization in this historical moment as intersecting with colonialism, the expansion of capitalism, and decolonization. Topics to be explored include: miscegenation and race; prostitution; marriage and the law; labor and class; the body, sexual, and reproductive health; and homosexuality. Materials will include theoretical and empirical texts, fiction, legislation and court records, newspaper articles, and visual sources. Course readings encompass social, cultural, economic, and legal history. Students will produce an original research paper based on course themes

Instructor(s): R. Jean-Baptiste     Terms Offered: Autumn
Note(s): Reading knowledge of French, Spanish, or Portuguese is useful, but not required.
Equivalent Course(s): CRES 29626

HIST 29627. History Colloquium: Life Stories of Russian Women. 100 Units.

A colloquium on the varieties and genres of women's life stories in twentieth-century Russia, embracing written autobiographies, memoirs, and diaries, as well as autobiographical accounts offered in various public settings. The time span runs from the late Imperial period through the Soviet period (1917-1991) and post-Soviet period, and particular attention will be paid to the reconfiguration of individual and collective memory provoked first by cataclysmic events (the Bolshevik Revolution, the Soviet Union's collapse) and the organization of personal memory around collective traumatic experiences (the Civil War, the Great Purges,the Second World War). Required reading will be in English

Instructor(s): S. Fitzpatrick     Terms Offered: Winter
Note(s): Knowledge of Russian is not required (though welcome).

HIST 29700. Readings in History. 100 Units.

Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course Form

Terms Offered: Autumn, Winter, Spring
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor and undergraduate program coordinator

HIST 29801. BA Essay Seminar. 100 Units.

HIST 29801 and 29802 form a two-quarter sequence that is required of students with fourth-year standing who are majoring in history and writing a BA essay. Must be taken for a quality grade. This seminar provides students with a forum within which research problems are addressed and conceptual frameworks are refined. The class meets weekly

Instructor(s): S. Burns     Terms Offered: Autumn
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor and undergraduate program coordinator

HIST 29802. BA Essay Seminar. 100 Units.

HIST 29801 and 29802 form a two-quarter sequence that is required of students with fourth-year standing who are majoring in history and writing a BA essay. Must be taken for a quality grade. The purpose of this course is to assist students in the preparation of drafts of their BA essay, which are formally presented and critiqued. The class meets weekly

Instructor(s): S. Burns     Terms Offered: Winter
Prerequisite(s): HIST 29801

HIST 29900. Tolkien: Medieval and Modern. 100 Units.

J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings is one of the most popular works of imaginative literature of the twentieth century. This course seeks to understand its appeal by situating Tolkien's creation within the context of Tolkien's larger work as both artist and scholar. Themes include the problem of genre and the uses of tradition; the nature of history and its relationship to place; the activity of creation and its relationship to language, beauty, evil, and power; the role of monsters in imagination and criticism; the twinned challenges of death and immortality, fate and free will; and the interaction between the world of "faerie"; and religious belief.

Instructor(s): R. Fulton     Terms Offered: Not offered in 2011-12
Prerequisite(s): Prior reading of text