Upper-Division

HIS 101A The Making of the Modern World, 1400-1750

Focuses on the transformation of many different societies of Asia, Africa, and the Americas from 1400 to 1750 through case histories and the comparative study of European colonial hegemony, labor systems, global economic exchange, missions, and warfare.

Credits

5

General Education Code

CC

Quarter offered

Spring

HIS 101B The Making of the Modern World, 1750-1950

The history of the world from 1750. Focuses on the liberal project (the industrial and democratic revolutions) and its impact on the world—slavery and abolition, self-strengthening movements, race and class, imperialism, colonialism, and nationalism.

Credits

5

General Education Code

CC

Quarter offered

Winter

HIS 107 Religion and Modernity

Explores the impact of modernity on a variety of religious traditions. Examines the rise of secularism and the phenomenon of disenchantment; the invention of religion; and the emergence of fundamentalism in the modern period.

Credits

5

Instructor

Nathaniel Deutsch

General Education Code

CC

Quarter offered

Spring

HIS 108 Social Movements in Historical Perspective

Readings examine 18th- through 20th-century social movements and related phenomena in Europe/America: examples include Tulipomania; revolutionary action in France; U.S. Civil Rights movement; and the environmental and feminist movements. Lectures focus on social science frameworks used to explore the social base, tactics, success or failure, and inter-relationships of social movements as a distinctive mode of social change.

Credits

5

Quarter offered

Fall

HIS 115A U.S. Labor History to 1919

Explores the history of work, working-class people, and the labor movement in the U.S., with attention to race and gender dynamics as well as to the development of workers' organizations.

Credits

5

Instructor

Dana Frank

American History and Institutions

Yes

General Education Code

ER

Quarter offered

Fall, Summer

HIS 115B U.S. Labor History, 1919 to the Present

Explores the history of work, working-class people, and the labor movement in the U.S. in global perspective with attention to race and gender dynamics and political-economic changes.

Credits

5

Instructor

Dana Frank

American History and Institutions

Yes

General Education Code

ER

Quarter offered

Winter

HIS 115C Learning from the U.S. Great Depression

Examines U.S. society, politics, and culture during the 1930s, with emphasis on the relationship between social movements and public policy, and dynamics of race, ethnicity, immigration, and gender, and dynamics between labor, business, and the state.

Credits

5

Instructor

Dana Frank

Quarter offered

Winter

HIS 124 American Empire

Examines U.S. expansion and subsequent ascent to global power. In tracing the presence of the U.S. in different areas of the world during the 20th century, course considers the ideas, politics, gender, and social relations that have influenced imperial aspirations.

Credits

5

Instructor

Lisbeth Haas

HIS 125 California History

California had a multi-ethnic indigenous society for centuries. Course traces the persistent multi-ethnic quality of the region as it became part of the Spanish empire, Mexico, and the United States. Considers the many diasporas that have shaped California's steady connection to the world, especially to Mexico and other nations that border the Pacific.

Credits

5

Instructor

Lisbeth Haas

General Education Code

ER

HIS 125A Indigenous Histories of California

Examines the tribal histories and epistemologies of California's recognized and unrecognized tribes. Beginning with ancient pasts of linguistically distinct indigenous peoples, the class focuses on the 19th and 20th centuries, and considers the role of colonialism, genocide, and historical recovery.

Credits

5

Instructor

Lisbeth Haas

HIS 126 From Indigenous Colonial Borderlands to the U.S.-Mexico Border

Examines the interactions and integration of indigenous people and settlers in the Southwest U.S. and Northern Mexico from a region defined by its indigenous colonial borderlands to national borders. Explores the connections between the U.S. and Mexico. Within the deeply cross-cultural region studied, also examines the particular histories of states, indigenous peoples, and Mexican-origin groups and regions.

Credits

5

Instructor

Lisbeth Haas

General Education Code

ER

HIS 127 Race and the American City

History of racial and ethnic minorities in the American city in the 19th and 20th centuries. Examines the experiences of several non-white groups, with analyses of race, class, culture, gender, acculturation, and implications for social policy in the urban environment.

Credits

5

Instructor

The Staff

American History and Institutions

Yes

General Education Code

ER

Quarter offered

Spring

HIS 129 History and Public Policy

Helps students better understand the various social/economic/political issues of public policy by providinga historical perspective analysis. Each student is required to participate in a public history/public service internship.

Credits

5

Instructor

The Staff

American History and Institutions

Yes

General Education Code

PR-S

Quarter offered

Spring

HIS 132 History of the Caribbean: Colonial Period

A study of the Caribbean from the conquest to the abolition of slavery in the 19th century. Focus on the Greater Antilles, particularly the Spanish Caribbean. Emphasis on economic and social issues such as colonialism and the role of sugar production, slavery, and race/ethnicity in these multicultural societies.

Credits

5

Instructor

Maria Diaz

HIS 133 Topics in Colonial Latin American History, Early and Middle Period

Studies Pre-18th century colonial Latin America, with particular emphasis on Peru and Mexico. Topics include: strategies of colonization; cities and urban life; and knowledge, technology, and the professions (ethnographic projects, indigenous intellectuals, schools and universities, medicine and hospitals, the law and the courts).

Credits

5

Instructor

Maria Diaz

Quarter offered

Spring

HIS 135A Brazil to 1889

Exploration of the social history of colonial and imperial Brazil. Material progresses chronologically and thematically from the pre-contact indigenous societies that were encountered in South America to the colonization of Brazil through independence to the 19th-Century empire that ended in 1889.

Credits

5

Quarter offered

Winter

HIS 135B Brazil Since 1889

Exploration of the social history of the Brazilian republic. Course passes chronologically and thematically from the end of the Empire in 1889 to present-day Brazilian films, texts, and lectures.

Credits

5

Quarter offered

Spring

HIS 140A History of China

China to 1644. Examines the origins and development of the Chinese political and cultural order, including intellectual and religious systems, the imperial state, village and urban life, the family system, gender hierarchy, economic transformation, millenarianism and rebellion. (Formerly course 150A.)

Credits

5

HIS 140F Modern China

Explores aspects of Chinese history from the 16th to the 21st Century. Analyzes modernization movements, nationalism, the party-state regime, gender and family, minority policies, human rights, the Chinese legal system, national identity, and the Chinese diaspora.

Credits

5

Instructor

The Staff

Quarter offered

Spring

HIS 148 Cinema and History: Film Author Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray is widely acclaimed as a master of world cinema. Course considers his work to examine authorship at multiple levels: the cultural, historical, social, and familial contexts and the relationship of his film to fiction, the politics and poetics of his vision, and its relationship to colonial, nationalist, and postcolonial India. Also studies the question of gender and the underclass.

Credits

5

Quarter offered

Winter

HIS 153 Mediterranean Empire, 1100–1500

Political, social, economic, and cultural history of the Crown of Aragon, a major medieval Mediterranean power which failed to survive the transition to the modern world. Emphasis on interaction between diverse ethnic/religious groups within and outside of the Crown.

Credits

5

Instructor

Brian Catlos

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): HIS 32, HIS 33, or HIS 163.

HIS 154A Classic Islamic Civilization

The civilization of Islam to 1258 A.D. Origins and early florescence, an international civilization, the coming of the steppe peoples. (Formerly course 161.)

Credits

5

Quarter offered

Spring

HIS 154B Islam in the Modern World, 1500 to the Present

Surveys the history of modern Islamic societies from the emergence of the regional gunpowder empires (Ottoman Turkish, Safevi Persian, Mughal Indian) in the 16th century to their subsequent transformations in the new global context of Western hegemony and the world market. (Formerly course 162.)

Credits

5

HIS 160B Greek Art and Archaeology

An introduction to the physical manifestations of ancient Greece, with emphasis on the various interpretative strategies for deciphering the cultural meanings of the material object. The specific topic of the course rotates among the following: Aegean Bronze Age; Dark Ages and Archaic Period; Classical Greece; the Hellenistic World. (Formerly course 102.)

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

HIS 162 Canaan, Israel, and Palestine from Polytheism to Monotheism

This social and cultural history of Israel begins with the rise of the Israelite monarchy and ends in the early Roman period. Economy, political organization, and religious practices and beliefs such as polytheism and monotheism are compared with those of neighboring peoples. Priority given to history majors.

Credits

5

Quarter offered

Fall

HIS 163A A History of Sin

Ancient and modern conceptions of sin, and remedies offered for it. Course is not a theology of sin and redemption, but an invitation to reflect on ways sin and fault have been imagined and formulated. (Formerly course 163.)

Credits

5

Quarter offered

Fall

HIS 165 The Power of Writing: Books and Libraries 600-1500

Surveys how books were made and used in Europe from 600-1500. Focuses on the relationship between book production and the development of libraries. Meets in Special Collections, McHenry Library. Exhibition as class project.

Credits

5

Instructor

Elisabeth Remak-Honnef

Quarter offered

Spring

HIS 168 Rise of the Dutch Republic

Focuses on the origin of the Republic in the revolt against Spanish overlordship, and its political, social, and economic development in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Credits

5

Quarter offered

Winter

HIS 171 Revolutions in France

Examines the political/social upheaval in 1789, 1830, and 1848 in light of the sweeping changes brought to 19th-century France by those other great revolutions of the age, the democratic and the industrial. Students' written work focuses on the comparative analysis of revolution.

Credits

5

HIS 172D Hitler and the Third Reich

Focuses on Hitler's political career and analyzes how he harnessed Germany and much of Europe to his vision of a New Order organized along a social-Darwinist notion of the racial community.

Credits

5

HIS 173A Medieval Russia

Topics include Russia's relations with Scandinavia, Byzantium, and the Mongols; Orthodoxy; and the roles of women. Materials include chronicles, letters, law codes, household manuals, travelogues, epics, art, architecture, and maps. Also explores the continuing relevance of Russia's medieval past through operas and film.

Credits

5

Instructor

Maya Peterson

General Education Code

CC

HIS 178D Russian Intellectual History

Focus on the emergence in 19th-century Russia of a westernized intelligentsia; its effort both to assimilate western ideas and to define the destinies of Russia; the shaping of the Russian revolutionary movement. Readings in Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, Herzen, and representative Russian Slavophils, Populists, and Nihilists.

Credits

5

Quarter offered

Fall

HIS 180B English History

Considers how Britain became the pacemaker of modernity in the 18th and 19th centuries; how national, regional, class, and gender identities formed and altered; and how Britain coped with loss of global power in the 20th century.

Credits

5

Quarter offered

Spring

HIS 185H Women, Gender, and Jewish Modernity (1800-Present)

Explores the impact of modernization upon women and the concepts of gender, both feminine and masculine, in Jewish societies across Europe, the Middle East, and India.

Credits

5

Instructor

Nathaniel Deutsch

Quarter offered

Winter

HIS 190I California and the Borderlands

Complete original research in California and borderlands history in this senior research seminar. Focus on selected problems and themes. Assignments and discussions help students frame their research and edit their writing.

Credits

5

Instructor

Lisbeth Haas

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements, two upper-division history courses, or permission of instructor. Enrollment is restricted to junior and senior history majors.

HIS 190S Women and Social Movements in the U.S

Examines history of women and social movements in the U.S., such as abolitionism, anti-lynching, Chinese and Jewish garment workers, Chicana farm labor activism, the American Indian Movement, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Civil Rights movement.

Credits

5

Instructor

Dana Frank

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements, two upper-division history courses, or permission of instructor. Enrollment is restricted to junior and senior history majors.

Quarter offered

Spring

HIS 194F Jewish Shanghai

Explores the migration of the more than 10,000 Jewish refugees who fled Europe during World War II and settled in Shanghai. Examines the different Jewish populations that fled to Shanghai, the Shanghai ghetto, and the recovery of this piece of history from the 1980s through the present.

Credits

5

Instructor

Emily Honig

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): Satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements, two upper-division history courses, or permission of instructor. Enrollment is restricted to junior and senior history majors.

HIS 194R Cairo: The City Victorious, 1750-2000

The modernization of a world city from 1750 to the present. Cairo's social and cultural history (literature, film, music) against the background of its changing political and economic contexts. Topics include: orientalism, nationalism, imperialism, minorities, women, migration, urbanism, popular culture, tourism.

Credits

5

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): Two upper-division history courses; and HIS 41 or HIS 101A or HIS 101B; and satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements. Enrollment is restricted to junior and senior history majors.

HIS 194X The Cold War in the Mediterranean, 1942-1991

Writing-intensive course on the Mediterranean. Topics include: U.S. relations with the region (including direct and indirect intervention), local responses, and cultural transformations. Students pursue advanced research using primary and secondary sources.

Credits

5

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements and two upper-division history courses. Enrollment is restricted to junior and senior history majors.

Quarter offered

Winter