Considers current theoretical approaches to the history of sexuality and traces the changing meaning of same-sex sexuality in the United States through investigation of lesbian/gay identity formation, community development, politics, and queer cultural resistance. Recommended prereq., HIST 1015 or HIST 1025 or LGBT 2000. Same as HIST 5636 and WMST 4636. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Examines the shifting kaleidoscope of immigration to the United Sates in the 19th and 20th centuries. Considers immigrant motives, cultures and experiences; changing cultural and political ideas about the value of immigration; the relationship of immigration and immigration policy to ideas about the American national project; the creation and consequences of immigration law. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Students gain an acquaintance with major works in the field and discuss current issues of interpretation and methodology. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Traces the rise of the United States to world power. Explores the interactions of expansionist and isolationist impulses with politics, ideology, culture, and economics, with a focus on the Spanish American War and the acquisition of empire, World War I and the coming of World War II. Instructor's permission required for non-history graduate students. Same as HIST 4116. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Traces the development of the United States as a superpower. Details American power and diplomacy in World War II and the rise of the national security state in the Cold War. Explores the Korean, Vietnam and Persian Gulf Wars, and the era of modern-day globalization. Same as HIST 4126. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Examines female experience in the United States from 17th century European colonization to 19th century settlement of the frontier. Emphasizes comparison between classes, regions, and racial/ethnic groups. Women's writings provide the basis for discussions of private and public roles, definitions of femininity, interpersonal relationships, and struggles for survival and self-expression. HIST 4616 and 5616 are the same course. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Examines the history of ideas and the social history of intellectuals in American society during the 19th and 20th centuries. Stresses social and political dimensions and the changing cultural and institutional contexts of intellectual discourse. Requisites: Restricted to History (HIST) graduate students only.
Introduces standard works and recent developments in cultural history. Explores structuralism and post-structuralism, semiotics, social construction, relativism, hegemony, and the idea of postmodernity in the uses of culture as an historical category. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Focuses on analytical, ideological, cultural, and political tensions between understandings of race and nationalism. Readings are interdisciplinary, but students identify and analyze tensions between race and nationalism at particular historical moments. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
