Examines the history of southern Africa history from the earliest times to the present. Short background readings and lectures cover southern African's history and class discussions of novels are layered over these basics. Topics of study include Cecil Rhodes and the diamond/gold mines; Shaka and the Zulu "nation"; apartheid; Nelson Mandela and the antiapartheid movement; issues facing South Africa today. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of HIST 1218 or HIST 1228 or HIST 3020 or ANTH 1150 or ANTH 3100 or ANTH 4630 or GEOG 3862 or PSCI 3082 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Looks at the British, French, Portuguese and German empires that undertook the "Scramble for Africa" in the late 19th century. Themes include slavery and the slave trade; colonization and "pacification"; African resistance to European rule; missionaries and converts; decolonization and anti-colonial uprisings; issues facing Africa today, including oil, war and the Rwandan genocide. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of HIST 1218 or HIST 1228 or HIST 3020 or ANTH 1150 or ANTH 3100 or ANTH 4630 or GEOG 3862 or PSCI 3082 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Primarily from 1800 to the present. Attention divided equally between the region's political history and international relations and its patterns of economic, social, and cultural modernization in the main countries. Recommended prereq., HIST 1308. Same as HIST 5328. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Explore the history culture, and politics of this crossroads of Europe and Asia from the late Ottoman period to the present. Topics include: nationalism and colonialism, development of Zionist ideology, Palestinian nationalism, the Jewish community (Yishusv) under British rule, the founding of the State of Israel, Arab-Israeli and Palestinian-Israeli relations, Israel's minorities, and the conflict of religion and state. Recommended prereqs., HIST/JWST 1818 or HIST/JWST 1828 or HIST 1308 or JWST 2350 or other course work in Middle Eastern or Jewish History. HIST 4338 and JWST 4338 are the same course. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Covers topics in Jewish history from biblical beginnings to present day. Topics vary each semester. Consult the online Schedule Planner for specific topics. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours within the degree. Recommended prereqs., HIST/JWST 1818 or HIST/JWST 1828 or HIST 1308 or JWST 2350 or other course work in Middle Eastern or Jewish History. Same as JWST 4348. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Examines the modern history and culture of Jewish communities under Islamic rule in the Middle East and North Africa; Jews' and Muslims' encounters with empire, westernization and nationalism; representations of Sephardi and Eastern Jews; Jewish-Muslim relations in Europe and the U.S.; and contact and conflict between Jews and Muslims in (and about) Israel/Palestine. Sources include memoirs, diaries, newspapers and films. Same as JWST 4378. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Examines the history of Muslim societies in South and Southeast Asia from 1000 to the present. Focuses on themes such as the rise of Islamic empires in South Asia, Sufism, trade and the spread of Islam in Southeast Asia, the rise or Muslim nationalism and religious fundamentalism, and the impact of modernization and globalization on Muslims of the region. Recommended prereq., 6 hours of any history coursework. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Examines the history of India from the British conquest of India in the late 18th century to independence in 1947. Emphasizes the impact of British rule on the political, economic, and social development of modern India. Recommended prereq., 6 hours of any history coursework. Same as HIST 5538. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Examines the history of women and gender in India from the late eighteenth century to the present. Explores topics such as the changing legal status of women in the colonial and postcolonial period, marriage, domesticity and patriarchy, and women's education and participation in anti-colonial and postcolonial politics, women, work, and the environment, violence against women, and women and globalization. Recommended prereq., HIST 1528. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Focuses on the intellectual history of nonviolence in India from the time of the Buddha to Mahatma Gandhi who led India to national independence from the British Empire in 1947. Pursues this history in light of the encounter between Indian and western cultural traditions in modern India. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Examines political, social, and cultural history of China from the Song Dynasty (960-1279) to the opium War (1839-1842). Topics covered include the development of imperial political institution and gentry society, Conquest Dynasties, Neo-Confucianism, China's "medieval economic revolution", Chinese world order in East Asia, Qing multiethnic empire, Chinese overseas migration, and the coming of the West. Recommended prereqs., HIST 1618 or HIST 1628 or CHIN 1012. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Examines the brilliance of the Qing dynasty, its collapse in 1911, and the bloody and chaotic several decades that followed, up to the 1949 Communist Revolution. Focuses on such topics a Qing imperialism in Central Asia, global capitalism and Western imperialism in China, the opium trade, domestic violence, nationalism, concepts of modernity, competing revolutionary movements, and WW II in Asia. Same as HIST 5628. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Examines the dramatic, often tragic, and globally transformative history of China under the Chinese Communist Party. Focuses on such topics as political, social, and cultural revolution, nationalism, Maoism, the Great Leap Forward, Red Guards and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, the Deng Xiaoping era, relations with Taiwan, the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre, and China's rise as a world power. HIST 4638 and HIST 5638 are the same course. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Examines the long and painful transformation, during the modern period of native Chinese concepts about the meaning of life, the proper order of politics and society, the role of the individual, the nature and role of human emotions, the place of the gods, the definition of nation, the proper relations between the sexes, and China's place in the global order. Recommended prereq., HIST 1618 or HIST 1628 or CHIN 1012. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
This course traces how "Muslims in China" transformed themselves into "Chinese Muslims" while at once accommodating and conflicting with Chinese states and people throughout history until the present time. Recommended prereq., HIST 1618 or HIST 1628 or CHIN 1012. HIST 4658 and 5658 are the same course. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Examines the relationship between China's recent history and its booming contemporary economy and society through on-location study in a Chinese city. The course makes use of a rich array of historical and other kinds of sites to teach students to think critically about themes and events that played a shaping role in the unfolding of modern Chinese history.
Begins with the prehistoric and protohistoric periods. Explores the development of Japan's classical age and traces the rise and attenuation of an elite warrior government. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Begins with early modern Japan, proceeds through the era of rapid modernization after the Meiji Restoration in the mid-19th century, and concludes with Japan's gradual descent into prolonged war, first with China and then in the Pacific. HIST 4728 and 5728 are the same course. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
Covers the history of early modern Japan (1590-1868). Explores the political, social, cultural, and economic context of Japan's history from the era of Warring States through the rise and fall of the Tokugawa military government (Shogunate). Same as HIST 5738. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
Explores political, economic, social and cultural factors in postwar Japan. Although the defeat in 1945 is often seen as "zero hour", a moment of near total disjunction, the outlines of postwar Japan emerged during World War II. Beginning with the 1930s, traces growth and development, social change, globalization, the quest for collective identity and other themes in the evolving Japanese nation-state. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Covers specialized topics in the history of World Areas outside of Europe and/or North America, usually focusing on one country or region. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Explores the social, cultural, and legal history of Anglo-American criminal justice from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Also examines tensions between various methods that historians employ to study crime and law. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
