Examines the history of Europe from the emergence of feudal institutions to the rise of nation states, with specific attention to social, intellectual and religious change, the role of law and ritual, the crusades and European expansion, and urban growth and identity in the West. Recommended prereq., HIST 1010 or 2170. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
In the 21st century we see a widely divided U.S. society, with a privileged "one percent" on one end, and a striking pattern of poverty on the other. How did the U.S. get this way? This course shows students how to explore social change through the people of the 20th century, their experiences, and the words they left behind. Recommended prereq., HIST 1025. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Examines Mexican-origins people in the United States from the 19th century through the present. Focuses on Mexican-American history as both an integral part of American history and as a unique subject of historical investigation. Using primary and secondary sources, students will examine how Mexicans and Mexican-Americans have negotiated, influenced, and responded to political, social, cultural, and economic circumstances in the U.S. Recommended prereq., HIST 1015 or HIST 1025. 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.
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.
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.
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.
Traces the history of cultural expression in the United States since the late nineteenth century. From art, fiction, and music to the movies, amusement parks, shopping, and sports, popular culture offers clues to decipher shifting patterns of consumption, globalization, race, gender, politics, technology, and media. Includes instruction and practice interpreting cultural materials in historical context. Recommended prereq., HIST 1025 or ATLS 2000. 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.
Baseball serves as a window to view the American experience. Covers U.S. history since 1830, addressing the major topics that reflect on American society, such as professionalization, labor management conflict, race, gender, culture, politics, economics, and diplomacy. Recommended prereq., HIST 1015. Credit not granted for this course and HIST 2516. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of HIST 1025 (minImum grade D-). 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 the social history and cultural construction of genders and sexualities in America to 1870, exploring how discourses of race, religion, nationalism, medicine and criminality have shaped erotic encounters, informed gender and sexual identities a served as sites of political conflict. Same as HIST 5616 and WMST 4616. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Explores the establishment and development of human societies in North America prior to 1492; the varied experiences of contact; the crises, opportunities, and transformations that attended colonialism; Indians and the inter-imperial contests of the eighteenth century; and the struggles of native peoples confronting the newly-independent United States. 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.
Considers major issues in the history of women in East Asia (China, Korea, Japan) in the 17th through 20th centuries. Focuses on gender roles in Asian family, state, and cultural systems. Topic varies in any given semester. Same as WMST 4619 and HIST 5619. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Provides an introduction to the history of sexuality in the modern era through engagement with recent interdisciplinary research into what sexuality has meant in the everyday lives of individuals; in the imagined communities formed by the bonds of shared religion, ethnicity, language and national citizenship; on the global stage of cultural encounter, imperialist expansion, transnational migration and international commerce. Same as WMST 4620. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Examines the struggle of nations of eastern Europe to assert their independence, from break-up of the imperial system at the end of World War I, through the Soviet bloc that emerged after World War II, to the establishment of democratic governments after the1989 revolutions. Recommended prereq., HIST 1020. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Examines the social history and cultural construction of genders and sexualities in America from 1870, exploring how discourses of race, religion, nationalism, medicine and criminality have shaped erotic encounters, informed gender and sexual identities and served as sites of political conflict. Same as WMST 4626. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Explores the longevity and continuity of human history in North America by discussing pre-European social and cultural developments. By examining ways in which Indian societies west of the Mississippi River responded to Euro-Americans, the Indians' role inwestern North American history is demonstrated. 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.
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 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.
Study of how women experience war, and how the structure, practice and memory of war, and the rights and obligations of military service structure gender (masculinity and femininity) and are structured by the gender system. Recommended prereq., HIST 1015 or HIST 1020 or HIST 1025 or HIST 1123 or HIST 1628 or HIST 1708. Same as WMST 4640. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Traces themes of democracy and nationalism in Polish history from the "Noble Republic" of the early modern era through the struggles with fascism and communism in the 20th century, to Poland's current position on the eastern edge of Western Europe. Recommended prereq., HIST 1020. 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.
