HIST110 The Ancient World; (3 credits) Eckstein
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Humanities (HO) Course.
Interpretation of select literature and art of the ancient Mediterranean world with a view to illuminating the antecedents of modern culture; religion and myth in the ancient near East; Greek philosophical, scientific, and literary invention; and the Roman tradition in politics and administration.
HIST111 The Medieval World; (3 credits) Rutenberg
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Social or Political History (SH) Course.
The development of Europe in the Middle Ages; the role of religious values in shaping new social, economic, and political institutions; medieval literature, art and architecture.
HIST111H The Medieval World; (3 credits) Rutenberg
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Social or Political History (SH) Course.
HIST113 Modern Europe: 1789 - Present; (3 credits) David-Fox, K.
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Social or Political History (SH) Course.
Evolution of modern nation states. Industrial-economic structure and demography. Emergence of modern secular society
HIST120 Islamic Civilization; (3 credits) Ali
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Social or Political History (SH) Course. CORE Diversity (D) Course.
Introduction to society and culture in the Middle East since the advent of Islam: as a personal and communal faith; as artistic and literary highlights of intellectual and cultural life; and as the interplay between politics and religion under the major Islamic regimes.
HIST122 African Civilization to 1800; (3 credits) Jones
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Social or Political History (SH) Course. CORE Diversity (D) Course.
History of Africa from earliest times to 1800. Topics of study include origins of African societies, Nile Valley civilization, medieval African states and societies, Islam, oral traditions, African slavery and the slave trade, and early African-European interactions.
HIST156 History of the United States to 1865; (3 credits) Berlin
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Social or Political History (SH) Course.
The United States from colonial times to the end of the Civil War. Establishment and development of American institutions.
HIST157 History of the United States Since 1865; (3 credits) Smead, McNeilly
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Social or Political History (SH) Course.
The United States from the end of the Civil War to the present. Economic, social, intellectual, and political developments. Rise of industry and emergence of the United States as a world power.
HIST175 Science and Technology in Western Civilization; (3 credits) Friedel
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Social or Political History (SH) Course.
Key periods of change in science and technology; the causes and effects of these changes beginning with prehistory and ending with the current century.
HIST208W (PermReq) Historical Research and Methods Seminar; (3 credits)
Grade Method: REG.
HIST208X (PermReq) Historical Research and Methods Seminar; (3 credits)
Grade Method: REG.
HIST208Y (PermReq) Historical Research and Methods Seminar; (3 credits)
Grade Method: REG.
HIST208Z (PermReq) Historical Research and Methods Seminar; (3 credits)
Grade Method: REG.
HIST210 Women in America to 1880; (3 credits) Lyons
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Social or Political History (SH) Course. CORE Diversity (D) Course. Also offered as WMST210. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: HIST210 or WMST210.
An examination of the economic, family and political roles of colonial, slave, immigrant and frontier women in America from pre-industrial colonial period through the early stages of the 19th-century industrialization and urbanization.
HIST212 Women in Western Europe, 1750-Present; (3 credits) Gullickson
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Social or Political History (SH) Course. CORE Diversity (D) Course. Also offered as WMST212. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: HIST212 or WMST212.
An analysis of the economic, family, and political roles of European women from 1750 to the present. The effects of industrialization on women's work and status, the demographic parameters of women's lives, and women's participation in political events from market riots to suffrage struggles.
HIST219G Special Topics in History: Asian American History; (3 credits) Mar
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.
HIST219R Special Topics in History: Terrorism in the 20th Century; (3 credits)
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.
HIST224 Modern Military History, 1494-1815; (3 credits) Sumida
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Social or Political History (SH) Course.
Survey of the military history of Europe through an examination of the economic, financial, strategic, tactical, and technological aspects of the development of military institutions and warfare from the dynastic wars of the Valois and Habsburgs to the national wars of the French Revolution and Empire.
HIST235 History of Britain 1461 to 1714; (3 credits) Baron
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Social or Political History (SH) Course.
British history from the War of the Roses to the Hanoverian succession; Yorkist and Tudor society and politics; the Renaissance and Reformation in England, Henry VIII through Elizabeth I; 17th-century crises and revolutions; intellectual and cultural changes; the beginnings of empire; the achievement of political and intellectual order.
HIST250 Latin American History I; (3 credits)
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Social or Political History (SH) Course. CORE Diversity (D) Course.
Latin America from pre-Columbian Indian cultures to the beginnings of the wars for independence (ca.1810), covering cultural, political, social, and economic developments.
HIST255 African-American History, 1865 - Present; (3 credits) Moss
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Social or Political History (SH) Course. CORE Diversity (D) Course.
An introductory course in the African-American experience in the United States from 1865 to present. Topics include the aftermath of the Civil War on US race relations, the rise of segregation, northern migration, World War I and II, Civil Rights Movements, and the Black Power Movement.
HIST280 Reconstructing the Civilization of Ancient Mesopotamia; (3 credits) Cohen
Grade Method: REG. Also offered as JWST227. Not open to students who have completed HEBR440. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: HIST280 or JWST227. Formerly HEBR 440.
History and culture of Ancient Mesopotamia, as reconstructed from archaeology, language, and texts of the region. Emphasis on culture, literature, religion, and institutions.
HIST282 History of the Jewish People I; (3 credits) Cooperman
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Social or Political History (SH) Course. CORE Diversity (D) Course. Also offered as JWST234. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: HIST282 or JWST234.
Political, economic, social and cultural development within Jewish history from the Biblical period to the late Middle Ages. Special attention to the emergence of Rabbinic Judaism and its subsequent encounter with medieval Christian and Islamic civilizations.
HIST282H History of the Jewish People I; (3 credits)
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Social or Political History (SH) Course. CORE Diversity (D) Course.
Also offered as JWST234. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: HIST282 or JWST234. Cooperman
HIST284 East Asian Civilization I; (3 credits)
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Social or Political History (SH) Course. CORE Diversity (D) Course.
An interdisciplinary survey of the development of East Asian cultures. An historical approach drawing on all facets of East Asian traditional life, to gain an appreciation of the different and complex cultures of the area. Goldman
HIST319L Special Topics in History: Asian Age in World History; (3 credits)
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Lilley
HIST324 Classical Greece; (3 credits)
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.
The ancient Greeks from Homer to Socrates, 800-400 B.C. Society and religion of the city-state, the art and literature of Periclean Athens, the Peloponnesian War, and the intellectual circle of Socrates. Holum
HIST330 Europe in the Making: The Early Medieval West (A.D. 300-1000); (3 credits)
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.
From one empire to another: Rome to Charlemagne. This period is approached as a crucible in which classical, Christian, and Germanic elements merged, yielding new experimental syntheses. This course will deal with issues of authority, cultural trends, and the formation of group solidarity.
HIST352 America in the Colonial Era, 1600-1763; (3 credits)
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.
The founding of the English colonies in America and their European backgrounds, the reasons for the instability of colonial society to 1689 and the emergence of stable societies after 1689; the development of colonial regionalism, political institutions, social divisions, the economy, religion, education, urban and frontier problems in the eighteenth century. Bradbury
HIST353 America in the Revolutionary Era, 1763-1815; (3 credits)
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.
Credit will be granted for only one of the following: HIST353 or HIST361. The background and course of the American Revolution and early nationhood through the War of 1812. Emphasis on how the Revolution shaped American political and social development, the creation of a new government under the Constitution, and the challenges facing the new nation. Ridgway
HIST357 Recent America: 1945-Present; (3 credits)
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.
Recommended: HIST157 or HIST356. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: HIST357 or HIST367. American history from the inauguration of Harry S. Truman to the present with emphasis upon politics and foreign relations, but with consideration of special topics such as radicalism, conservatism, and labor. Smead
HIST404 History of Modern Biology; (3 credits)
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.
The internal development of biology in the 19th and 20th-centuries, including evolution, cell theory, heredity and development, spontaneous generation, and mechanism-vitalism controversies. The philosophical aspects of the development of scientific knowledge and the interaction of biology with chemistry and physics. Darden
HIST406 History of Technology; (3 credits)
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.
Not open to students who have completed HIST407 prior to Fall Semester, 1989. The changing character of technology in modern history, beginning with the Middle Ages. Concentrates on the Industrial Revolution and its aftermath, the nature of technological knowledge and the sources of technological change. Friedel
HIST408A (PermReq) Senior Seminar: Benjamin Franklin: The World in a Man; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. CORE Capstone (CS) Course. Bell
HIST408B (PermReq) Senior Seminar: The Scope and Variety of US Diplomatic History; (3 credits) Zhang
Grade Method: REG. CORE Capstone (CS) Course.
HIST408C (PermReq) Senior Seminar: Early American History; (3 credits)
Grade Method: REG. CORE Capstone (CS) Course. Bradbury
HIST408D (PermReq) Senior Seminar: Modern Latin America; (3 credits)
Grade Method: REG. CORE Capstone (CS) Course.
HIST408E (PermReq) Senior Seminar: Statistics and Methods for Historians; (3 credits) Sutherland
Grade Method: REG. CORE Capstone (CS) Course. Sutherland
HIST408F (PermReq) Senior Seminar: 20th Century African American History; (3 credits) Moss
Grade Method: REG. CORE Capstone (CS) Course.
HIST408G (PermReq) Senior Seminar: Women and Gender in 20th Century America; (3 Credits) Muncy
Grade Method: REG. CORE Capstone (CS) Course.
HIST408J (PermReq) Senior Seminar: European Borderlands; (3 credits)
Grade Method: REG. CORE Capstone (CS) Course.
HIST408Y Senior Seminar: Antisemitism in Jewish History; (3 credits) Cooperman
Grade Method: REG. CORE Capstone (CS) Course. Also offered as JWST409C.
HIST415 History of European Ideas II; (3 credits)
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.
A continuation of HIST414 emphasizing 19th and 20th-century thought.
HIST419A Special Topics in History: Modern Latin America; (3 credits)
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.
HIST419B Special Topics in History: 20th Century America; (3 credits)
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.
HIST419C Special Topics in History: Empires and Nations in Eastern Europe 1750-1918; (3 credits)
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.
HIST419D Special Topics in History: Visions of America: Americanism and Antiamericanism in 20th Century Film; (3 credits) Giovacchini
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.
HIST419E/619V Special Topics in History: History of South Africa; (3 credits) Landau
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.
HIST419F/619W Special Topics in History: Frida Kahlo: Her Life and Times; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.
HIST419G Special Topics in History: Iraq: From the Origins of the Modern State to the Current Crisis; (3 credits) Landau
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.
HIST419I Special Topics in History: Old Regime France; (3 credits) Sutherland
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.
HIST419J Special Topics in History: Strategic Military Theory: Clausewitz; (3 credits) Sumida
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.
HIST419L Special Topics in History: Gendering the Asia-Pacific War & Occupied Japan; (3 credits) Mayo
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.
HIST419M Special Topics in History: Society and Culture in Victorian Britain; (3 credits) Taddeo
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.
HIST419N Special Topics in History: Social Issues in Modern China; (3 credits) Gao
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Click here for more course information.
HIST419P Special Topics in History: Women and Reform Movements in the 20th Century; (3 credits) Muncy
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.
HIST419R Special Topics in History: Religious Movements in Modern Jewish History; (3 credits) Rozenblit
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.
HIST419T Special Topics in History: History of Jewish Religion in America; (3 credits) Berlin
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.
HIST419V Special Topics in History: Urban History; Cities as Resource; (3 credits) Medelsohn
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.
HIST419W Special Topics in History: Cinema and Colonialism; (3 credits) Landau
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.
HIST419Z Special Topics in History: Immigration and Ethnicity (3 credits) Mar
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.
HIST425 Imperial Russia; (3 credits) David-Fox, M.
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. The rise and fall of the Russian Empire, Peter the Great to the collapse of tsarism in revolution. Emphasis on the evolution of autocracy, social groups, national identities, and cultural change.
HIST430 Tudor England; (3 credits) Baron
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.
An examination of the political, religious and social forces in English life, 1485-1603, with special emphasis on Tudor government, the English reformation and the Elizabethan era.
HIST443 Modern Balkan History; (3 credits) Lampe
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.
A political, socioeconomic, and cultural history of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, and Albania from the breakdown of Ottoman domination to the present. Emphasis is on movements for national liberation during the 19th-century and on approaches to modernization in the 20th-century.
HIST453 Diplomatic History of the United States from 1914; (3 credits) Zhang
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.
American foreign relations in the 20th-century. World War I, the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, the Korean War, and Vietnam. A continuation of HIST452.
HIST474 History of Mexico and Central America I; (3 credits) Vaughan
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Diversity (D) Course.
History of Mexico and Central America, beginning with the Pre-Spanish Indian cultures and continuing through European contact, conquest, and colonial dominance, down to the beginning of the Mexican War for Independence in 1810.
HIST481 A History of Modern China; (3 credits) Gao
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.
Modern China from 1644 to the People's Republic of China. Emphasis on the coming of the West to China and the various stages of the Chinese reaction.
HIST482 History of Japan to 1800; (3 credits) Mayo
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.
Traditional Japanese civilization from the age of Shinto mythology and introduction of continental learning down to the rule of military families, the transition to a money economy, and the creation of a townsmen's culture. A survey of political, economic, religious, and cultural history.
HIST491 History of the Ottoman Empire; (3 credits) Zilfi
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Diversity (D) Course.
Survey of the Ottoman Turkish Empire from 1300 A.D. to its collapse during World War I. Emphasis on the empire's social and political institutions and its expansion into Europe, the Arab East and North Africa.
HIST492 Women and Society in the Middle East; (3 credits) Zilfi
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Recommended: prior coursework in Middle East studies or gender studies. Also offered as WMST456. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: HIST492 or WMST456.
Examines the customs, values and institutions that have shaped women's experience in the Middle East in the past and in the contemporary Middle East.
HIST499 (PermReq) Independent Study; (1-3 credits)
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number.
HIST607 (PermReq) The Teaching of History in Institutions of Higher Learning; (1 credit) Williams
Grade Method: S-F.
HIST608A (PermReq) General Seminar; (3 credits) Berlin
Grade Method: REG/AUD.
HIST608G (PermReq) General Seminar: Colonial Latin America; (3 credits)
Grade Method: REG/AUD.
HIST608K (PermReq) General Seminar: Early Modern China; (3 credits) Goldman
Grade Method: REG/AUD.
HIST618 Readings in the History of Women; (3 credits) Gullickson
Grade Method: REG/AUD.
HIST619A (PermReq) Special Topics in History: Independent Study; (1-3 credits)
Grade Method: REG/AUD. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number.
HIST619B (PermReq) Special Topics in History: Independent Study; (1-3 credits)
Grade Method: REG/AUD. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number.
HIST619C Special Topics in History: The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity; (3 credits) Holum
Grade Method: REG/AUD.
HIST619D Special Topics in History: Readings in Early American Gender and Sexuality; (3 credits) Lyons
Grade Method: REG/AUD.
HIST619E Special Topics in History: Citizenship and Social Policy in the US in Comparative Perspective; (3 credits) Michel
Grade Method: REG/AUD.
HIST619F Special Topics in History: Readings in Civil War and Reconstruction; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD.
HIST619G Special Topics in History: Cities of East Central Europe: Ethnic and Cultural Change 1870-1945; (3 credits) David-Fox, K
Grade Method: REG/AUD.
HIST619K Special Topics in History: Islamic Reformism; (1-3 credits) Wein
Grade Method: REG/AUD.
HIST619T Special Topics in History: Gendering the Asia-Pacific War & Occupied Japan; (1-3 credits) Mayo
Grade Method: REG/AUD.
HIST619V Special Topics in History: History of South Africa; (1-3 credits) Landau
Grade Method: REG/AUD.
HIST619W Special Topics in History: Frida Kahlo: Her Life and Times; (1-3 credits) Vaughan
Grade Method: REG/AUD.
HIST708 Directed Independent Reading for Comprehensive Examinations I; (1-4 credits) Grade Method: S-F. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number.
HIST709 Directed Independent Reading for Comprehensive Examinations II; (1-4 credits) Grade Method: S-F. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number.
HIST729 Readings in Modern European History; (3 credits) Lampe
Grade Method: REG/AUD.
HIST759 Readings in Russian and Soviet History; (3 credits) David-Fox, M
Grade Method: REG/AUD.
HIST798 Readings in Jewish History: Jews and German Culture: The Dilemma of Ethnic and National Identity; (3 credits) Rozenblit
Grade Method: REG/AUD. Also offered as JWST648.
HIST799 (PermReq) Master's Thesis Research; (1-6 credits)
Grade Method: REG/S-F. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number.
HIST810 Museum Research Seminar
HIST811 Museum Scholarship Practicum; (3-6 credits)
Grade Method: REG. Prerequisite: HIST 810 and permission of Museum Scholarship Program. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: AMST 857 or HIST 811. Students devise and carry out a research program using the collections at the Smithonian Institution or some other cooperating museum, working under joint supervision of a museum professional and a university faculty member.
HIST819A Special Topics in History: Independent Research; (1-3 credits)
Grade Method: REG/AUD. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number.
HIST819B Special Topics in History: Independent Research; (1-3 credits)
Grade Method: REG/AUD. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number.
HIST819J Special Topics in History: Independent Research: Research Sources and Methods in Latin American History; (1-3 credits) Williams
Grade Method: REG/AUD.
HIST819L Special Topics in History: Independent Research: Cultural Relations Between SA and Europe 1930-2000; (1-3 credits). Giovacchini
Grade Method: REG/AUD
HIST898 Pre-Candidacy Research; (1-8 credits)
Grade Method: REG. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number.
HIST899 (PermReq) Doctoral Dissertation Research; (6 credits)
Grade Method: REG. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. |
