Courses - Spring 2024
HIST108A
Freshman/Sophomore Seminar in History; Incarceration Nation
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
America leads the world in jailing its own citizens and there are now more than two million Americans behind bars. How did it come to this? This course examines America s long history of incarceration, with a particular focus on the period from the Revolution to the Civil War.
HIST108D
Freshman/Sophomore Seminar in History; A History of Drugs from Ayahuasca to Zantac
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
The term "drug" has meant many things over its long history, ranging from a remedy to a banned substance. In this seminar we'll explore the term's history/and see how it has changed over time. Topics include global trade, cultural appropriation, healthcare. politics, law, technology, and big pharma.
HIST110
The Ancient World
Interpretation of select literature and art of the ancient Mediterranean world with a view to illuminating the antecedents of modern culture; religion and myth in the ancient Near East; Greek philosophical, scientific, and literary invention; and the Roman tradition in politics and administration.
HIST113
The Making of Modern Europe
Evolution of modern nation states since late medieval times. Industrial-economic structure and demography. Emergence of modern secular society.
HIST131
Credit only granted for: HIST131 or HIST289J.
Formerly: HIST289J.
An introduction to the way Americans thought of themselves in the past, and their often conflicting visions of what constituted the American Dream. Central questions will include whether or not Americans have always envisioned their country as a land of equality, opportunity, democracy, and freedom and whether or not their ideas of what these values meant changed or remained the same over time.
HIST200
HIST201
Interpreting American History: From 1865 to the Present
Credit only granted for: HIST157 or HIST201.
Formerly: HIST157.
The United States from the end of the Civil War to the present. Economic, social, intellectual, and political developments. Rise of industry and emergence of the United States as a world power.
HIST205
An exploration of the way different societies have used, imagined, and managed nature. Includes examination of questions of land use, pollution, conservation, and the ideology of nature, especially but not exclusively in Europe and North America.
HIST208B
Historical Research and Methods Seminar; Constructing, Imagining, and Narrating Pre-Modern Cities
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
Restriction: Permission of department.
HIST208C
Historical Research and Methods Seminar; Duck and Cover, Detante, and Decolonization: The Global Cold War, 1945-1991
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
Restriction: Permission of department.
HIST208D
Historical Research and Methods Seminar; Beyond Rosie and Just as Riveting: Women and War in American History
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
Restriction: Permission of department.
HIST211
Cross-listed with: WGSS211.
Credit only granted for: HIST211, WMST211 or WGSS211.
Formerly: WMST211.
An examination of women's changing roles in working class and middle class families, the effects of industrialization on women's economic activities and status, and women's involvement in political and social struggles, including those for women's rights, birth control, and civil rights.
HIST219I
Religions of the Ancient Near East
Cross-listed with: RELS225, JWST225.
Credit only granted for: JWST225, HIST219I, RELS225, or RELS219A.
Formerly: RELS219A.
Introduction to ancient Near Eastern religious systems and mythology, from the third millennium BCE through the fourth century BCE. Particular emphasis on Mesopotamia and ancient Israel.
Cross-listed with JWST225 and RELS219A. Credit only granted for JWST225, RELS219A and HIST219I.
HIST219X
Modern Iran
Cross-listed with: PERS251.
Credit only granted for: PERS251 or HIST219X.
General sociopolitical introduction to modern Iran from establishment of the Qajar dynasty in the late 18th century to the present day. Taught in English.
HIST221
Cross-listed with: AAST201.
Credit only granted for: AAST201 or HIST221.
Introduction to the history of Asian Americans and Asians in the United States and the Americas and to the field of Asian American Studies, from an interdisciplinary perspective. Topics include theories of race and ethnicity; Asian migration and diaspora to the Americas; Asian American work and labor issues; gender, family, and communities; nationalism and nativism, and anti-Asian movements; Asian Americans in World War II, the Cold War, and the issues in the civil rights & post-civil rights era.
HIST222
Credit only granted for: AAST222, HIST222, or SOCY222.
The history of immigration and the development of diverse populations i the United States are examined. Topics include related political controversies, the social experiences of immigrants, ethnicity, generations, migration, inter-group relations, race, and diversity in American culture.
HIST223
Cross-listed with: HNUH218C.
Credit only granted for: HNUH218C or HIST223.
How is the American Revolution a creation story in the making of our multi-cultural and interconnected modern world? Consider the Declaration of Independence. When first published on July 5, 1776, it was printed by an immigrant Irishman on Dutch paper that had been brought over from England. This was the first such declaration of independence ever issued, but its ideas and forms traveled far and wide. More than 100 other declarations of independence have been issued since then. The people that declaration mobilized are similarly diverse: the American Revolution is as much the story of Creek farmers, Spanish soldiers, French slaves, Canadian fugitives, Indian tea-growers, and African statesmen as it is of the Minutemen and Sons of Liberty. In this globe-trotting class, students will be positioned to debate how the familiar story of the American Revolution changes when we place it in transnational context.
HIST225
Modern Military History, 1815-Present
The military history of Europe through an examination of the economic, financial, strategic, tactical, and technological aspects of the development of military institutions and warfare from the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to the present.
HIST233
Empire! The British Imperial Experience 1558-1997
Credit only granted for: HIST219P or HIST233.
Formerly: HIST219P.
Britain's empire from the mid-sixteenth century to the late twentieth century, focusing on the encounter between Britain and indigenous peoples. Topics include the origins of British imperialism in Ireland and North America, the slave trade, the East India Company and India, women in empire, transportation and the making of Australia, sex in empire, missionaries, racial theories, and decolonization.
HIST235
Divorced, Beheaded, Deposed: England and Britain 1485-1689
British history from the War of the Roses to the Hanoverian succession; Yorkist and Tudor society and politics; the Renaissance and Reformation in England, Henry VIII through Elizabeth I; 17th-century crises and revolutions; intellectual and cultural changes; the beginnings of empire; the achievement of political and intellectual order.
HIST245
Reformers, Radicals, and Revolutionaries: The Middle East in the Twentieth Century
Cross-listed with: RELS219K.
Credit only granted for: RELS219K or HIST245.
The 20th century was a period of dramatic changes in the Middle East. Within the global context of the two World Wars and the Cold War, countries in the region struggled with the effects of colonialism and painful processes of decolonization. The course offers a thematic-comparative approach to issues such as social and political reform, nationalism, the colonial experience, independence struggles, models of governance, political violence, and Islamism. Course lectures and the analysis and discussion of primary sources will lead students to understand that the peoples of the Middle East found answers to the challenges posed by Western dominance based on their specific historical, cultural and socio-economic circumstances.
HIST251
Cross-listed with: LACS251.
Credit only granted for: HIST251, LASC251, or LACS251.
Formerly: LASC251.
Introductory survey of the history of Latin America from the era of independence (c. 1810-1825) through the early 1980s. Major themes include independence and sovereignty, postcolonialism and neocolonialism, nation- and state-building, liberalism, citizenship, economic development and modernization, social organization and stratification, race and ethnicity, gender relations, identity politics, reform and revolution, authoritarianism and democratization, and inter-American relations.
Cross-listed with LASC251. Credit granted for HIST251 or LASC251.
HIST255
African-American History, 1865 - Present
Cross-listed with: AAAS255.
Credit only granted for: HIST255, AASP255, AAAS255 or AASP298A.
An introductory course in the African-American experience in the United States from 1865 to the present. Topics include the aftermath of the Civil War on US race relations, the rise of segregation, northern migration, World War I and II, Civil Rights Movements, and the Black Power Movement.
HIST285
East Asian Civilization II
A survey of the historical development of modern Asia since 1700. Primarily concerned with the efforts of East Asians to preserve their traditional cultures in the face of Western expansion in the 18th and 19th centuries, and their attempts to survive as nations in the 20th century.
HIST287
Why the Jews? Historical and Cultural Investigations
Restriction: Must not have completed HIST282, HIST283, JWST234, or JWST235.
Cross-listed with JWST233.
Credit only granted for: HIST287 or JWST233.
Examines the history and culture of the Jews from the thirteenth century BCE/BC to the present through an examination of significant themes or problems (such as "religion" or "diaspora") that shape our understanding of the Jewish people. A primary focus in the course will be on texts, artifacts, and other cultural products by Jews and others that illustrate the history of the Jews help understand their cultural heritage.
HIST289A
Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Medieval Spain: Tolerance, Oppression, and the Problematic Past
Cross-listed with: RELS289C.
Credit only granted for: HIST289A or RELS289C.
For 800 years, medieval Spain was home to one of the most religiously diverse societies in European history. Despite frequent hostilities, the interactions of Spanish Jews, Christians, and Muslims produced a flowering of science, theology, and literature in an often remarkably tolerant climate. Students will learn how medieval Spanish people themselves experienced interreligious contact and conflict. They will also discover the modern pressures, prejudices, and ideals that have shaped historians interpretations of medieval Spain.
HIST289N
The Politics of Sexuality in America: A Historical Approach
Cross-listed with: WGSS298N.
Credit only granted for: HIST289N or WGSS298N.
Why do particular issues about sexuality hold such an important place in American political debates? What animates these controversies and what can a historical perspective on these issues add to our understanding of modern sexual politics? This class explores the historical sexual politics that undergird contemporary debates concerning sexuality in America. It focuses on topics that garner significant public attention - Reproductive rights - LGBTQ rights - Sexting - and explores the histories that undergird Americans disagreements.
HIST291
Jewish Texts and Cultures of the Second Temple Period
Cross-listed with: JWST231.
Credit only granted for: HIST291 or JWST231.
An introduction to the literature, history, and culture of Jews in the period between the sixth century BCE and the second century CE. Special topics may include the rise of the formation of the biblical canon, scriptural interpretation, sectarian and revolutionary movements, and growth of the diaspora.
HIST299
Directed Research
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: permission of department.
HIST319P
Special Topics in History; Ukraine and Russia: Parallel Histories, Clashing Identities
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Previously offered as HIST429W. Credit only for HIST319P or HIST429W. The course addresses various interactions encounters as well as divergences between the processes of Ukrainian and Russian national identity and state formation, in a broader context of East European and Slavic history, from the Middle Ages up to Russia s aggression against Ukraine in 2022.
HIST319Z
Special Topics in History; State and Society in Modern China: Opium War to the Present
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
A survey in the change of state-society relation in China as the country transformed from empire, to Republic, then to People's Republic.
HIST320
Early Christianity: Jesus to Constantine
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with: JWST331.
Credit only granted for: HIST320 or JWST331.
Social and religious history of early Christianity from its origin in the first century to the reign of Constantine.
Cross-listed with JWST331. Credit granted for HIST320 or JWST331.
HIST321
Biblical History and Culture
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
Cross-listed with: JWST324.
Credit only granted for: HIST321 or JWST324.
The Hebrew Bible/Old Testament tells the story of "Biblical Israel" in ways that overlap with but are not identical to the evidence for "ancient Israel" provided by archaeological sources. Close attention to archaeology and inscriptional evidence allows for an understanding of biblical literature in light of its ancient Near Eastern context. Primary focus is on the Iron Age (ca. 1200-540 BCE), whose archaeology and inscriptions will be explored alongside biblical texts set during the this period but often written much later. Class discussion will address modern controversies regarding ancient Israel, including questions of origins (what does proto-Israelite mean?), problems of historiography (minimalist vs. maximalist), and archaeological dating (low chronology vs. high chronology).
HIST328G
Selected Topics in History; Heretics, Withches, and Slaves: Marginalized Communities in the Middle Ages
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Discover medieval people whose religious beliefs, sexuality, disability, or enslavement led to their exclusion--both from their own communities and from histories written about them today--and explore why and how societies choose whom to persecute.
HIST328K
Selected Topics in History; Borders and Memory-making in Times of War: A Global Classroom connecting College Park and Kyiv
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine has shone a spotlight on the need for evidence-based, critical discussion of borders and memory-making, grounded in History but speaking to a wider global public. This course will use the historian's toolkit to examine borders and memory-making at war through a global lens. Bringing together undergrads from College Park & from Kyiv, Ukraine, this Global Classroom will both compare & connect different stories across time and space, from the Polish-Ukrainian borderlands, to the US-Mexico border, to Korea, to Rwanda and Uganda. Content delivery will combine once-a-week online, real-time mini-lectures with small-group projects & meetings. These will facilitate collaborative partnerships between US & Ukrainian students.
HIST328W
Cross-listed with: CLAS320, WGSS320.
Credit only granted for: CLAS320, WMST320, WGSS320 or HIST328W.
A study of women's image and reality in ancient Greek and Roman societies through an examination of literary, linguistic, historical, legal, and artistic evidence; special emphasis in women's role in the family, views of female sexuality, and the place of women in creative art. Readings in primary sources in translation and modern critical writings.
HIST328Y
Selected Topics in History; Cities in Flux: Urban Environmental Histories of Water
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Everyday, massive volumes of water move in and out of the worlds cities. The way water moves in urban spaces, however, is more than a technical question: it is a historical problem that cities have confronted for centuries. In this class, we'll take a look at how water has shaped cities over time, and how increasing urbanization has shaped humanity s relationship to water, creating the hybrid waterscapes that undergird cities and occasionally undermine them.
HIST328Z
Selected Topics in History; Chocolate Cities: Urban America and the Black Experience
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with AASP478G. Credit only granted for HIST328Z or AASP478G.
As early as the colonial area, cities have included significant numbers of people of African descent within their borders. By the twentieth century, war and mass migration had transformed African Americans into a predominantly urban people. This course examines a variety of urban areas in the United States, delineating how the opportunities and obstacles ofthese spaces have shaped African American life and culture from the colonial era to the present.
As early as the colonial area, cities have included significant numbers of people of African descent within their borders. By the twentieth century, war and mass migration had transformed African Americans into a predominantly urban people. This course examines a variety of urban areas in the United States, delineating how the opportunities and obstacles ofthese spaces have shaped African American life and culture from the colonial era to the present.
HIST329M
Special Topics in History; From Damascus to Cordoba: The First Dynasty of Islam East and West
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with RELS429M. Credit only granted for HIST329M or RELS429M.
A global history of the first dynasty of Islam, from their Arabian origins to Syria and Iberia, with a focus on how the Umayyads wanted to memorialize themselves while questioning the construction of historical narratives in medieval Islam.
A global history of the first dynasty of Islam, from their Arabian origins to Syria and Iberia, with a focus on how the Umayyads wanted to memorialize themselves while questioning the construction of historical narratives in medieval Islam.
HIST329Q
Special Topics in History; Jews and Sports: Identities, Nationalisms, and Masculinities
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with JWST319A. Credit only granted for JWST319A or HIST329Q.
Modern Jewish culture is marked by competing visions of Jewish masculinity, from the traditional learned scholar to the muscle Jew of the 19th century. Athleticism plays an important role in this cultural formation. Attention to Jewish engagement in and with sports including boxing, baseball, basketball, and soccer allows for a better understanding of modern Jewish identity and its development and challenges.
Modern Jewish culture is marked by competing visions of Jewish masculinity, from the traditional learned scholar to the muscle Jew of the 19th century. Athleticism plays an important role in this cultural formation. Attention to Jewish engagement in and with sports including boxing, baseball, basketball, and soccer allows for a better understanding of modern Jewish identity and its development and challenges.
HIST333
The European Reformations
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with: RELS343.
Credit only granted for: HIST333 or RELS343.
Examination of developments in European religion between 1450 and 1700; the late-medieval Church and its critics; rise of Protestant thought in Germany and its spread throughout Europe; reform efforts in the Catholic Church; religious wars and violence and their impact on state and society; consequences of religious reform in society and its impact on the family and women.
HIST339J
Cross-listed with: CLAS340.
Credit only granted for: CLAS340 or HIST339J.
Interrogates how slavery permeated the ancient Mediterranean societies of Greece and Rome. We will pay particular attention to how hierarchical inequalities are institutionalized, experienced, and represented and to how different marginalized and dominant groups interacted. Enslaved persons performed necessary labor in Greece and Rome and their work was essential for the formation of ancient society in agriculture, mining, domestic spaces, literature, finance, and government. Studying ancient slavery offers a chance to examine Greece and Rome from the bottom up, parsing the scant literary and material evidence for the lives and struggles of enslaved persons. We will practice several different approaches in order to tease out the systematic, economic, political, and personal effects of slavery in the ancient world. The United States of America was also founded as a slave society, and discussions of slavery in the Americas often look back to the ancient Mediterranean. The course will therefore conclude with a unit on how enslavers and abolitionists in the United States utilized and responded to slavery in antiquity.
HIST339L
Special Topics in History; Minorities, Minoritization, and Sectarianism in the Modern Middle East
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Minorities and Sectarianism are two categories that are commonly used in contemporary political and social analysis of the Modern Middle East. The course will look at the historical events and processes that have led to the emergence of such social structures that are more often the product of modern politics than markers of essential historical difference. We will analyze the roots of ethnic and religious diversity and their manipulation by colonial and post-colonial governments, and at the politics of self-assertion by minority groups in the Middle East and North Africa during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
HIST339O
Special Topics in History; Elizabeth I of England and Mary Queen of Scots: Between Propaganda and Myth
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
A study of both the propaganda strategies developed during the reigns of Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart in shaping their images and the literary and artistic representations that after their deaths transfigured their vicissitudes in dozens of portraits, poems, dramas, musical operas, novels and movies. We will also seek to investigate the different narrative codes utilized in these fictionalized narratives.
HIST354
Ante-Bellum America 1815-1861
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Traces how the strong nationalism after the War of 1812 transformed int the sectionalism that led to Civil War. The course concentrates on the controversies over slavery and other issues contributing to North-South antagonism, including Jacksonian democracy, capitalism, racism, immigration, manifest destiny and religious, social, and intellectual movements, each of which produced its own social tendencies and tensions.
HIST356
Emergence of Modern America, 1900-1945
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
The emergence of modern institutions and identities, 1900-1945. These institutions may include corporate enterprises and the welfare state; identities include homosexuality, the New Woman, and the New Negro.
HIST357
Recent America: 1945-Present
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
American history from the inauguration of Harry S. Truman to the present with emphasis upon politics and foreign relations, but with consideration of special topics such as radicalism, conservatism, and labor.
HIST376
History of Modern Israel
Cross-listed with ISRL342.
Credit only granted for: HIST376 or ISRL342.
History of modern Israel since the beginning of the Zionist settlement in 1882. Attention to different interpretations and narratives of Israel's history, including the historical and ideological roots of Zionism, the establishment of the State of Israel, ideological forces, wars, and the triumphs and crises of democracy.
HIST386
Experiential Learning
Credits:
3 - 6
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
Restriction: Permission of ARHU-History department; and junior standing or higher.
The History Department's Internship program. Pre-professional experience in historical research, analysis, and writing in a variety of work settings.
HIST396
Honors Colloquium II
Prerequisite: Permission of ARHU-History department; or HIST395.
Restriction: Must be in History program.
Uses a seminar approach to examine a major problem of historical interpretation across two or more diverse cultures in different periods. Topics vary and include: religion and society, the city in history, gender, slavery and emancipation, and modernization.
HIST398
Honors Thesis I
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
HIST399
Honors Thesis II
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
HIST408B
Senior Seminar; What Does Government Do? The State in American History
Restriction: Permission of department.
HIST408J
Senior Seminar; Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe
Restriction: Permission of department.
Recent years have witnessed an explosion of research on gender and sexuality in early modern Europe (1500-1800). This seminar will explore this challenging historiography and students will write an historiographical essay on a subject of their choosing.
Recent years have witnessed an explosion of research on gender and sexuality in early modern Europe (1500-1800). This seminar will explore this challenging historiography and students will write an historiographical essay on a subject of their choosing.
HIST408W
Senior Seminar; The Rise and Fall of the Slave South
Restriction: Permission of department.
Capstone readings seminar for history majors. Explores the rise, maturation and ultimate destruction of the slave South by examining its constituent elements--slaves, slaveholders, yeoman farmers, white nonslaveholders, free people of African descent--and the sources of cohesion and conflict among them.
Capstone readings seminar for history majors. Explores the rise, maturation and ultimate destruction of the slave South by examining its constituent elements--slaves, slaveholders, yeoman farmers, white nonslaveholders, free people of African descent--and the sources of cohesion and conflict among them.
HIST408Y
Senior Seminar; Jewish Women in Modernity
Restriction: Permission of department. Exploration of the role of Jewish women in the process of Jewish modernin and the impact of modernization on Jewish women in Europe and America e nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
HIST419A
Special Topics in History; From Neverland to Downton Abbey: History and Popular Culture in 20th Century Britain
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Examines Twentieth Century Britain through the lens of popular culture: both how popular culture reflected and was shaped by larger political and social events, from two world wars to sexual revolution, from Britain's peak of colonial power to its continuing "decline" in the age ofBrexi t. What role does film, TV, music, fashion, and literature play ingiving a voice to working class and youth culture? We'll also incorporate 21st century pop culture (for example, costume dramas like "Downton Abbey" and "Peaky Blinders") to "look back" at this history and how we romanticize the past. How do programs like "The Great British Bake-Off" and Roy alevents from weddings, births, and funerals keep nostalgia for the monarchy alive, while also recognizing the nation's evolution as a multiracial, democratic society? How does British popular culture address notions of identity and what it means to be "British" in the 20th-21st centuries?
HIST419C
Special Topics in History; Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in the Islamic World
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with CMLT679D, PERS498M, PERS689M, RELS429B, WGSS498D, and WGSS698D. Credit granted for CMLT679D, HIST419C, PERS498M, PERS689M, RELS429B, WGSS498D, or WGSS698D.
HIST419N
Special Topics in History; The Unending War: From the Korean War to the Korean Wave
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Seminar course on the Korean War and its legacies. We examine how the conflict, often dubbed the "forgotten war", sparked enduring changes to the politics, culture, and economies of the United States and the two Koreas.
HIST419W
Special Topics in History; The African Side of the Black Diasporic Atlantic: People, Politics, and Faiths
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with AASP468A. Credit only granted for HIST419W or AASP468A.
The Black Atlantic- the African diaspora, and development of Atlantic- world Black communities- but with the focus on the African side. How did new Atlantic states and networks develop in Africa alongside the traffic in enslaved? How did the slave trade change Africa? Focuses include Asante, Dahomey, Yorubaland, African Islamic jihads, and abolition.
The Black Atlantic- the African diaspora, and development of Atlantic- world Black communities- but with the focus on the African side. How did new Atlantic states and networks develop in Africa alongside the traffic in enslaved? How did the slave trade change Africa? Focuses include Asante, Dahomey, Yorubaland, African Islamic jihads, and abolition.
HIST425
Imperial Russia
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
The rise and fall of the Russian Empire, Peter the Great to the collapse of tsarism in revolution. Emphasis on the evolution of autocracy, social groups, national identities, and cultural change.
HIST428B
Selected Topics in History; Seven Revolutions in Postwar Africa
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
The history of radical politics, anticolonial movements, and revolutionary violence in Africa from 1945 to the present.
HIST428I
Selected Topics in History; Contentious Historical Memories in/between Korea and Japan
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
History of modern Korea-Japan relations, with a focus on historical memories of the Japanese empire and two catastrophic wars (World War II and the Korean War). Topics include: Korean kamikaze pilots and the Yasukuni Shrine; Japanese colonial settlers in Korea; Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Korean hibakusha (atomic-bomb survivors); comfort women controversies.
HIST428J
Selected Topics in History; Global Revolutions in the Modern Era
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Examines the key social, cultural, political, and economic causes of revolution, and considers how and why modern revolutions migrated across borders, continents, and oceans. Seminar intended for both advanced undergraduate and graduate students.
HIST429B
Special Topics in History; Digital Methods in Historical Research
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with RELS419L. Credit only granted for HIST429B or RELS419L.
This course provides introductions and hands-on experience to a variety of digital approaches to historical analysis. Students will be able to plan and execute a basic digital historical project of their own and to identify resources for further development. No prior coding knowledge is necessary.
This course provides introductions and hands-on experience to a variety of digital approaches to historical analysis. Students will be able to plan and execute a basic digital historical project of their own and to identify resources for further development. No prior coding knowledge is necessary.
HIST429F
Special Topics in History; Islam in Africa and the African Diaspora
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with AASP498U and ARAB499J. Credit only granted for ARAB499J, AASP498U, or HIST429F.
Taught in English.
Taught in English.
HIST429M
Special Topics in History; Constructing the Past in Early Islam
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with RELS419C. Credit only granted for HIST429M or RELS419C.
An exploration of historical writing in the medieval Islamic world. How did early Islamic-era scholars define their relationship to the past, torn between memory and oblivion? How did they build narratives about the formative period of Islam that became so influential and long-lasting, determining in a fundamental way the access that all future generations (including us) would have to alternative pasts?
An exploration of historical writing in the medieval Islamic world. How did early Islamic-era scholars define their relationship to the past, torn between memory and oblivion? How did they build narratives about the formative period of Islam that became so influential and long-lasting, determining in a fundamental way the access that all future generations (including us) would have to alternative pasts?
HIST431
Becoming Great Britain, 1603-1704
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
An examination of the political, religious, and social forces in English life, 1603-1714, with special emphasis on Puritanism and the English revolutions.
HIST455
Constitutional History of the United States: Since 1865
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
American public law and government, with emphasis on the interaction of government, law, and politics, and the relationship between the constitution and social forces and influences, the way in which constitutional principles, rules, ideas, and institutions affect events and are in turn affected by events. Major crises in American government and politics such as Reconstruction,the rise of corporate power, civil liberties during wartime, the New Deal era, the civil disorders of the 1960s.
HIST465
Credit only granted for: HIST428M or HIST465.
Formerly: HIST428M.
Uses oral history to explore experiences of migrants to the Washington, D.C. area since the mid-twentieth century in projects based on engagement with local immigrants.
HIST499
Independent Study
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: permission of department.
HIST601
History and Contemporary Theory
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
An introduction to contemporary theories in philosophy, literary criticism, cultural studies, anthropology, and other fields; and analysis of their usefulness to historians.
HIST607
The Teaching of History in Institutions of Higher Learning
Credits:
1
Grad Meth:
S-F
For majors only.
HIST608B
General Seminar; American History
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Prerequisite: permission of department.
HIST608C
General Seminar; Nationalism and Identity in Europe
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
HIST608K
General Seminar; East Asian History
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
HIST610
Introduction to Museum Scholarship
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Cross-listed with: AMST655, ANTH655, INST653.
Credit only granted for: AMST655, ANTH655, HIST610, INST728T or INST653.
Provides students a basic understanding of museums as cultural and intellectual institutions. Topics include the historical development of museums, museums as resources for scholarly study, and the museum exhibition as medium for presentation of scholarship.
HIST619A
Special Topics in History; Independent Study
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Prerequisite: permission of department.
HIST619B
Special Topics in History; Independent Study
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Prerequisite: permission of department.
HIST619Q
Special Topics in History; The Unending War: From the Korean War to the Korean Wave
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
HIST619V
Special Topics in History; Readings in U.S. Labor History
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
HIST638F
Special Topics in History; Readings in Colonial America and the Atlantic World
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
Offers an overview of recent and canonical works covering a vast Early America and Atlantic World. Topics will include commodities, ecology, medicine, piracy, political economy, sexuality, and slavery.
HIST638J
Special Topics in History; Global Revolutions in the Modern Era
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
HIST638L
Special Topics in History; Histories of Race in Latin America and the Caribbean
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
HIST639B
Special Topics in History; Digital Methods in Historical Research
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
This course provides introductions and hands-on experience to a variety of digital approaches to historical analysis. Students will be able to plan and execute a basic digital historical project of their own and to identify resources for further development. No prior coding knowledge is necessary.
HIST639M
Special Topics in History; Constructing the Past in Early Islam
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
HIST708
Directed Independent Reading for Comprehensive Examinations I
Credits:
1 - 4
Grad Meth:
S-F
HIST709
Directed Independent Reading for Comprehensive Examinations II
Credits:
1 - 4
Grad Meth:
S-F
HIST799
Master's Thesis Research
Credits:
1 - 6
Grad Meth:
S-F
HIST810
Museum Research Seminar
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Prerequisite: AMST655, ANTH655, or HIST610.
Cross-listed with: AMST856, ANTH856, INST786.
Credit only granted for: AMST856, ANTH856, HIST810, INST728U or INST786.
A research seminar focusing on the practice and presentation of cultural and historical scholarship in museums and historical sites. Students will complete an original research project on the challenges and opportunities of public exhibition and interpretation of cultural and historical research.
Additional Note: Cross-listed with ANTH856, HIST810, INST728U. For the Spring 2101 semester, Credit only granted for: AMST856, ANTH856, HIST810 OR INST728U.
HIST811
Museum Scholarship Practicum
Credits:
3 - 6
Grad Meth:
Reg
Prerequisite: AMST856, ANTH856, or HIST810.
Restriction: Permission of Museum Scholarship Program required.
Cross-listed with: AMST857, ANTH857, INST787.
Credit only granted for: AMST857, ANTH857, HIST811, INST728I or INST787.
Students devise and carry out a research program using the collections at the Smithsonian Institution or some other cooperating museum, working under joint supervision of a museum professional and a university faculty member.
HIST819A
Special Topics in History: Independent Research
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Department permission required.
HIST819B
Special Topics in History: Independent Research
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Department permission required.
HIST819V
Special Topics in History: Independent Research; U.S. Research Seminar: Atlantic History Before 1865
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
HIST898
Pre-Candidacy Research
Credits:
1 - 8
Grad Meth:
Reg
HIST899
Doctoral Dissertation Research
Credits:
6
Grad Meth:
S-F
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