Recommended restriction: History GPA of 2.0 or higher. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course HIST 3020 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to students with 87-180 credits (Senior, Fifth Year Senior) History (HIST) majors (excludes minors).
Surveys the history of Spain and Portugal from the late medieval period through early modern period. Explores the thought, art, politics and socio-economic milieu of the Golden Age. Topics include attitudes toward minorities, the Inquisition, the Age of Exploration and the establishment of colonial empires in Asia and the Americas, court culture and architecture, religious conflicts and literary production. Recommended prereq., HIST 1010 or HIST 1018. Previously HIST 4064. Same as HIST 5343. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Explores major developments in European thought from the Enlightenment to Nietzsche. Special attention given to the individuals whose ideas have had the greatest influence on modern intellectual history, e.g., Rousseau, Hegel, Herder, Marx, Kierkegaard, Baudelaire, Darwin, and others. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Emphasizes Nietzsche and the youth revolt against middle class society, the literary and artistic avant garde (impressionism to existentialism), the psychoanalytic movement, the European right and left, and post-WWII European thought. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Explores a selected theme in European thought since the Enlightenment. Topics vary each term. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Takes students on a journey from Medieval Spain to contemporary United States to explore how Jews, living in different societies, have attempted to reshape and interpret central Jewish values and beliefs in accordance with the prevailing ideas of their host societies. Focuses on the historical context of each Jewish society that produced the thinkers and ideas considered in this course. JWST 4454 and HIST 4454 are the same course. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Focus on the last 500 years of European Jewish history, from 1492 until the present, to examine Jews' place in European history and how Europe has functioned in Jewish history. The course will not end with the Holocaust, since, although Hitler and the Nazis attempted to destroy European Jewish civilization, they did not succeed. Rather, this course will spend several weeks looking at European Jewish life in the past sixty year. Recommended prereq., HIST/JWST 1818 or HIST/JWST 1828 or HIST 1020. Same as JWST 4534. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Jews have produced culture in Yiddish, the vernacular language of Eastern European Jewry, for 1000 years and the language continues to shape Jewish culture today. In this course, we will look at the literature, film, theater, music, art, sound, and laughter that defined the culture of Eastern European Jewry and, in the 20th century, Jews around the world. Recommended prereq., HIST/JWST 1818 or HIST/JWST 1828 or HEBR/JWST 2350. Same as HIST 5544. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Surveys the history of Spain and Portugal from the late medieval period through early modern period. Explores the thought, art, politics and socio-economic milieu of the Golden Age. Topics include attitudes toward minorities, the Inquisition, the Age of Exploration and the establishment of colonial empires in Asia and the Americas, court culture and architecture, religious conflicts and literary production. Previously HIST 5064. Same as HIST 4343. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Jews have produced culture in Yiddish, the vernacular language of Eastern European Jewry, for 1000 years and the language continues to shape Jewish culture today. In this course, we will look at the literature, film, theater, music, art, sound, and laughter that defined the culture of Eastern European Jewry and, in the 20th century, Jews around the world. Recommended prereq., HIST/JWST 1818 or 1828 or HEBR/JWST 2350. Same as HIST 4544. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Introduces students to research skills needed to work with historical manuscripts. Students learn to read late medieval/early modern handwriting, explore CU's microfilmed collections of manuscripts, and write a research paper based on the manuscript materials. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
