Courses - Fall 2026
HIST106
Cross-listed with: JWST141.
Credit only granted for: HIST106 or JWST141.
History of the Jews in America from Colonial times to the present. Emphasis on the waves of migration from Germany and Eastern Europe; the changing nature of the American Jewish community and its participation in American social, economic, and political life.
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.
HIST120
Islamic Civilization
Cross-listed with: RELS120.
Credit only granted for: HIST120 or RELS120.
Introduction to society and culture in the Middle East since the advent of Islam: as a personal and communal faith; as artistic and literary highlights of intellectual and cultural life; and as the interplay between politics and religion under the major Islamic regimes.
Cross-listed with RELS120. Credit granted only for HIST120 or RELS120.
HIST122
History of Africa from earliest times to 1800. Topics of study include origins of African societies, Nile Valley civilization, medieval African states and societies, Islam, oral traditions, African slavery and the slave trade, and early African-European interactions.
HIST135
Civil Discourse or Urban Riot: Why Cities Don't (Often) Explode
Cross-listed with: JWST289E.
Credit only granted for: HIST135 or JWST289E.
An examination of the mechanisms that promote peaceful co-existence in urban societies and a discussion of how and why city streets sometimes become violent.
HIST143
Credit only granted for: HIST289F or HIST143.
Formerly: HIST289F.
Introduces students to influential works of political thinking, in the Western tradition from classical Antiquity to the present, that treat the relationship between power, ritual, and society. Investigates ritual and its relationships to power, both in reality and the imagination of political thinkers.
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.
HIST208R
Historical Research and Methods Seminar; TBD
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
HIST208T
Historical Research and Methods Seminar; TBD
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
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.
Cross-listed with WGSS211. Credit only granted for WGSS211 or HIST211.
HIST215
Credit only granted for: HIST215 or HIST219A.
Formerly: HIST219A.
An exploration of the theories and rhetoric about the nature and existence of women in the West, focusing on the experience of women from the hegemony of Classical Greece to the French Revolution, an era that marks the beginning of a continuous process of change. Emphasis will be on the period between 1250 and 1750, when the Western European world was fundamentally altered in every aspect and in every level of society, culture, and government.
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.
HIST224
Modern Military History, 1494-1815
Survey of global military history from the European "discovery" of the Americas to the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Explores how the creation of professional armies, advancement of weapons technology, and evolution of military-civilian relations in Europe during these three centuries sparked the "Rise of the West".
HIST226
Revolution, Regret, and Reform: The People and Principles in American Political History
Credit only granted for: HONR299G or HIST226.
Formerly: HONR299G.
Explores American political history from Independence through the present day. Interrogates the roots of American political ideas, the dynamics of partisan competition, the interaction of class, ethnicity, race, and politics, the evolution of policy preferences, the growth of the state, and the transformation of grassroots expectations and ambitions, among other important themes. By exploring the writings of major figures as well as the preferences of anonymous voters--and everyone in between, this course will help students identify the overarching themes and the important forgotten moments in our nation's political development. Students will end the semester armed with a mastery of this history, an understanding of the methods of political historians and scholars in related fields, and a contextualization of our contemporary political world.
HIST234
Invaders, Conquerors, Usurpers: A History of Pre-Modern Britain to 1485
British history from Roman times to the 15th century. The Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian, and Norman invasions; the coming of Christianity; Magna Carta, the development of Parliament, legal institutions, and the Common Law; the decline of medieval kingship.
HIST236
From Peacocks to Punks: Modern Britain from 1688 to Today
British history from the Glorious Revolution of 1688 to the present. The revolution of 1688; the structure of 18th-century society and politics; economic and social change in the Industrial Revolution; 19th- and 20th-century political and social reform; imperialism; the impact of the First and Second World Wars on British society.
HIST237
Russian Civilization
An overview of Russian history stressing the main lines of development of the Russian state and the evolution of Russian culture to the present day.
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.
HIST250
Cross-listed with: LACS250.
Credit only granted for: LASC250, HIST250, OR LACS250.
Formerly: LASC250.
Introductory survey of the history of Latin America from pre-Columbian Indian cultures to the beginning of the wars for independence (ca. 1810), covering cultural, political, social, and economic developments. Major themes include conquest, colonialism, indigenous culture, African slavery, religion, race and ethnicity, and gender ideologies.
HIST254
African-American History to 1865
Cross-listed with: AAAS254.
Credit only granted for: HIST254, AAAS254 or AASP298C.
Survey of the principal developments in the history and culture of the peoples of African descent in colonial North America and the United States to 1865. Examines the African past, the Atlantic slave trade, variation in slavery, the growth of free black communities, the transformations of families and cultural forms, and patterns of resistance.
Cross-listed with AASP298C. Credit will be granted for AASP298C or HIST 254.
HIST261
An introduction to the broad shifts in European medicine of early modern period, a period that saw the extension of overseas empires and the emergence of medicine as a profession. The course offers a thematic and comparative look at the intertwined experiences of disease, empire, and global commerce that reshaped expectations of what medicine could or should do, for whom, and at what cost.
HIST266
The United States in World Affairs
A study of the United States as an emerging world power and the American response to changing status in world affairs. Emphasis on the relationship between internal and external development of the nation.
HIST281
Inventing Traditions: The Making of Rabbinic Judaism
Cross-listed with: JWST230, RELS230.
Credit only granted for: HIST281, JWST230, RELS219C or RELS230.
Formerly: RELS219C.
Introduces the dramatic literary and cultural (as well as political and demographic) innovations that reshaped Judaism in late antiquity. Examines the fundamental works and genres of rabbinic literature and the religious movement that produced them. Special emphasis on the rabbinic uses of "tradition" to enhance authority and legitimacy, and to foster group identity.
HIST284
An interdisciplinary survey of the development of East Asian cultures. An historical approach drawing on all facets of East Asian traditional life, to gain an appreciation of the different and complex cultures of the area.
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.
HIST289T
Jesus, Mani, and Muhammad: The Dynamics of New Religious Movements
Cross-listed with: RELS273.
Credit only granted for: RELS273 or RELS289M or HIST289T.
Formerly: RELS289M.
We examine three significant ancient religious figures: Jesus (d. 30s CE), Mani (d. 276 CE), and Muhammad (d. 632). All three were founders of long-lasting religions that were part of a dramatic change in the society and religion of the ancient world. Special areas of focus: the biographies of these founding figures, and how we know them; a historical approach to religious founders; and the sociology of new religious movements.
Cross-listed with RELS273. Credit only granted for RELS273 or HIST289T.
HIST299
Directed Research
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: permission of department.
HIST310
History of South Africa
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Formerly: HIST419E.
Explores the roots of Apartheid and the anti-Apartheid movement from precolonial times to the present: the social history of work and identity, the rise of kingdoms (Zulu, Sotho), conquest and colonial administration, urban and rural mass politics, gender relations, and the transition to democracy.
HIST319F
Special Topics in History; Modern African History through Film, Literature, and Music
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
HIST319P
Special Topics in History; Ukraine and Russia: Entangled Histories, Clashing Identities
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Formerly offered as HIST429W. Credit only for HIST319P or HIST429W.
Interactions and 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.
Interactions and 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.
HIST319Y
Special Topics in History; The Making of Middle Eastern Identities
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with ARAB398M. Credit only granted for ARAB398M or HIST319Y.
Explores changing ideas of ethnicity, identity, and heritage between Arabs and other communities in the Middle East from the rise of Islam tothe present, with an emphasis on ethnic and religious minorities. Taughtin English.
Explores changing ideas of ethnicity, identity, and heritage between Arabs and other communities in the Middle East from the rise of Islam tothe present, with an emphasis on ethnic and religious minorities. Taughtin English.
HIST328O
Selected Topics in History; Inventing the New World
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
From Columbus to the Amazons, El Dorado and the cannibals. Explores how sixteenth-century Europeans tried to make sense of their discovery of the Americas. Emphasis on the ways in which the textual and visual representations of native peoples and their cultures by explorers, conquistadors, mapmakers and missionaries contributed to development of European colonialism.
HIST329A
Special Topics in History; Britain in the Age of Bridgerton
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Period dramas like Bridgerton and Jane Austen adaptations often present a fantasy of the late Georgian and Regency period; this course will explore the social, political and cultural realities, from slavery in the sugar colonies and Parliamentary politics to the history of fashion and sexuality. We will also examine how 21st century popular culture uses this period in history to promote a certain version of "Britishness" andr omanticize the past for profit.
HIST329O
Special Topics in History; Ideologies, Parties, and Social Movements in the Modern Middle East
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Focuses on the emergence and evolution of political and social movements in Middle Eastern countries since the second half of the 19th century. Orientations spanned from left wing radicalism, communism, to political Islam and right-wing nationalism.
HIST331
Europe in the High Middle Ages: 1000-1500
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with: RELS341.
Credit only granted for: HIST331 or RELS341.
Medieval civilization in the 11th through 15th centuries. Emphasis on cultural and political developments of the high Middle Ages with study of the principal sources of medieval thought and learning, art and architecture, and political theory prior to the Renaissance.
Cross-listed with RELS341. Credit only granted for RELS341 or HIST331.
HIST338F
Special Topics in History; What Does Government Do?: Rethinking American Political History
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
What does the U.S. government do and why is there so much disagreement about its responsibilities and influence? How have Americans drawn distinctions between private interest and the public purpose in the modern era? To answer these questions we will examine conflicts over policy, protest, civil rights, inequality, and a range of American "freedoms," from the Civil War to the present.
HIST338L
Special Topics in History; Environmental Justice in the Americas
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross listed with AMST328Y. Credit only granted for HIST338L or AMST328Y.
Through a focus on the history of agrochemicals-fertilizers and pesticides-this course traces the development of industrial agriculture and its impact from 1863 to 1962. Through influential case studies in "pest control" such as, arsenic and cotton, fumigants and fruit trees, and locusts epidemics, this course combines histories of race, abolition, plants, technology, and empire.
Through a focus on the history of agrochemicals-fertilizers and pesticides-this course traces the development of industrial agriculture and its impact from 1863 to 1962. Through influential case studies in "pest control" such as, arsenic and cotton, fumigants and fruit trees, and locusts epidemics, this course combines histories of race, abolition, plants, technology, and empire.
HIST338Y
Special Topics in History; History of the Salvadoran Civil War
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
The civil war in El Salvador resulted in tens of thousands of casualties, nearly one million displaced persons, and the creation of the largest Central American diaspora in the United States. We will explore the intellectual origins of the Salvadoran left, the Salvadoran political economy, international solidarity movements, and struggles over the meaning of the conflict s legacy.
HIST339T
Special Topics in History; History of Iraq
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
HIST343
Empires, Revolutions, and Cold Wars: Modern Central and Eastern Europe
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Credit only granted for: HIST328L or HIST343.
Formerly: HIST328L.
We live in an international system upended by Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Central and Eastern Europe -- a region largely taken for granted since the end of the Cold War -- is now once again the key battleground for the future of the rules-based global order. This course will offer a broad overview of that region's history since the late 1700s -- through empires, revolutions, and cold wars -- and provide students with the critical tools to develop their own views on that history.
HIST353
America in the Revolutionary Era, 1763-1815
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
The background and course of the American Revolution and early nationhood through the War of 1812. Emphasis on how the Revolution shaped American political and social development, the creation of a new government under the Constitution, and the challenges facing the new nation.
HIST355
Civil War and the Rise of Industrialization, 1860-1900
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Credit only granted for: HIST355 or HIST364.
Civil War, sectional and class conflicts and their impact on American life and institutions from the beginning of the Civil War through the Gilded Age; social, economic, and political reconstruction of the Union; industrialization, urbanization, and technological changes.
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.
HIST363
Mobility in History: Planes, Trains, Automobiles
Credit only granted for: HIST329X or HIST363.
Formerly: HIST329X.
From walking, bicycling, riding ships and trains to driving cars and to flying: Humans and their modes of transportation have changed dramatically in history. In this class, students will explore the social, cultural, and environmental aspects of passenger and freight transportation in the 19th and 20th centuries. The focus is on the societal expectations and imaginations that have shaped how humans move about.
HIST373
Martyrs & Merchants, Lawyers & Mystics, Magicians & Messiahs: Jews Between Medieval and Modern Times
Recommended: HIST287 or JWST233; HIST 332; .
Cross-listed with: JWST333.
Credit only granted for: JWST333 or HIST373.
In an era marked by traumatic expulsions, inquisitorial barbarism, and enforced ghettoization, Jews reinvented themselves. Through their international networks of trade, Jews learned how to negotiate with kings and to govern new, large urban communities in new lands. They took advantage of the printing press to reorganize their literary traditions of law, biblical studies and mysticism, and created new hierarchies of religious status. And they flocked to hear new kinds of enthusiast preachers, celebrating the man they saw as the messiah finally come. We will together explore the contradictory forces that ultimately gave birth to the modern Jew.
HIST382
Law and Culture in Late Imperial China
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
An exploration of Chinese law and its social/cultural implications in the late imperial period (1550s-1900s). Major interpretations of the conceptions of law and justice, the functioning of the judicial system, and local courts. An introduction to society and culture, politics and the bureaucracy, family and gender relations, and literature and popular religion of China through the lens of law.
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.
HIST395
Honors Colloquium I
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Restriction: Permission of ARHU-History department; and must be in History program.
History and theory: the conceptual underpinnings of the historical discipline. Students evaluate several contrasting theories of history. Prerequisite for other honors courses.
HIST398
Honors Thesis Directed Study
Credits:
2
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
HIST399
Honors Thesis Senior Seminar
Credits:
1
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
HIST403
Credit only granted for: HIST403 or HIST428P.
Formerly: HIST428P.
What counts as valuable and what counts as trash? Who gets to decide? Who produces trash and who picks it up? By answering these questions, students will explore how humans have produced, dealt with, and ignored trash and recycling in the 19th and 20th century in both urban and rural settings.
HIST408E
Senior Seminar; The Worlds of Benjamin Franklin
An analysis of some of the multiple lives that Franklin led during the eighteenth century. We will gain a greater comprehension of Franklin and of the worlds in which he lived: colonial America, the British Empire, and the independent United States.
HIST408I
HIST408M
Senior Seminar; Health and Healing in the United States
Permission of Department Required.
Directed, independent research on the practices, ideas, and institutions of health in the United States from colonial era to present. Patient and practitioner views of how, why, and at what cost we care and heal.
Directed, independent research on the practices, ideas, and institutions of health in the United States from colonial era to present. Patient and practitioner views of how, why, and at what cost we care and heal.
HIST408W
HIST412
History of Women and Gender in Africa
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Credit only granted for: HIST412 or HIST428L.
Formerly: HIST428L.
An examination of socio-economic and cultural change in Africa from the dawn of the colonial era in the 19th century to independence in the mid-twentieth century. Major focus on how African women understood and responded to the expansion of European empires, changes in the colonial economy, and impact of westernization and urbanization.
HIST419K
Special Topics in History; Radioactive Culture
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
HIST429I
Special Topics in History; Beyond the Arabian Nights: Popular Culture in Middle EasternHistory
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with ARAB499O. Credit only granted for ARAB499O or HIST429I.
Explores storytelling, theater, epics, poetry, and other aspects of popular culture in the Middle East from the rise of Islam to today. Students will examine the connections between cultural production, social class, literacy, religion, and ethnicity in the Arabic-speaking world and will study the communicative and creative modes that people have used to entertain, educate, and preserve their history.
Explores storytelling, theater, epics, poetry, and other aspects of popular culture in the Middle East from the rise of Islam to today. Students will examine the connections between cultural production, social class, literacy, religion, and ethnicity in the Arabic-speaking world and will study the communicative and creative modes that people have used to entertain, educate, and preserve their history.
HIST429J
Special Topics in History; Legal History of the Civil Rights Movement
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
HIST429P
Special Topics in History; The Japanese Empire and East Asia
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
HIST429Z
Special Topics in History; American Money: Rethinking Finance and its History
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Standard macroeconomic treatments of money and finance cannot be supported by the historical record. While most textbooks say otherwise, money has its origins in credit instruments, and meanwhile its value and uses are inseparable from the public authority that issues it. We will briefly revisit that well-documented history and debates among scholars about money's origins and nature. Then we'll look at case studies--from the colonial period to the present (from the issue of the first paper bills to Bitcoin)--to examine money's role in shaping American development.
HIST452
Diplomatic History of the United States to 1914
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
American foreign relations from the American Revolution to the beginning of World War I. International developments and domestic influences that contributed to American expansion in world affairs. Analyses of significant individuals active in American diplomacy and foreign policy.
HIST466
Immigration and Ethnicity in the U.S.
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Credit only granted for: AAST498L or HIST466.
Seminar exploring historical problems relating to US immigration, race, and ethnicity since 1848, with emphasis on cultural impacts of migration on immigrants, their children, and U.S. society.
HIST467
Women and Reform Movements in the Twentieth-Century United States
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Recommended: HIST201, HIST211, or HIST255.
Credit only granted for: HIST467 or HIST429E.
Formerly: HIST429E.
Investigation of women's participation in such twentieth-century reform movements as the labor movement, the struggle for racial justice, social welfare reform, and women's movements. Will ask how race, class, and gender were implicated in the ways that women agitated for social political change.
HIST470
Corporations on Trial
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Credit only granted for: HIST419X or HIST470.
Formerly: HIST419X.
Examines legal challenges to corporations around the world over the past 200 years through selected case studies. Topics include globalization, empires, the world wars, and the emergence of human rights, corporate social responsibility, and environmental justice.
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
HIST608A
General Seminar; American History
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Prerequisite: permission of department.
HIST608C
General Seminar; Modern European History: Nationalism and Ethnicity
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
HIST608N
General Seminar; Global Interaction and Exchange
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
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.
HIST619P
Special Topics in History; The "Frontier" in US History: From Westward Expansion to the Space Race
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
HIST619V
Special Topics in History; Transnational Histories of Science
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
An introduction to debates around how science travels, with a focus on science and scientific workers in post-colonial and non-Western regions of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The relationship of science to otherforms of knowledge, including indigenous knowledge. Environment, medicine, technology and other forms of science in relation to politics,policy, and economics.
HIST638G
Special Topics in History; Readings in Race and Migration
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
Migration is one of the most widespread of human experiences yet generates tremendous conflicts and contradictions in constructions of identities, communities, and inequalities of power and legal statuses. Perhaps t he chief systems of differentiation troubled by migration are those of racial categorizations and nation-state formations. Students will develop a vocabulary and conceptual understanding for migration studies and its interventions into nation-based conceptual frameworks through transnational, diasporic, critical race, and ethnic studies projects.
HIST638L
Special Topics in History; Readings in the Atlantic World, 1550-1800
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
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
HIST720
Readings in the History of the Catholic Church
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
This is graduate-level readings seminar in the modern history of the Catholic Church. We will begin with the Reformation and proceed through the present day. This course will combine European history with global history, looking both at how the Church changed in the face of major turning points in modern European history (the Scientific, French, and Russian Revolutions; the two world wars; and the Cold War) and at its missionary encounters and long-term presence across the world (in Latin America, India, China, Africa, and North America).
HIST799
Master's Thesis Research
Credits:
1 - 6
Grad Meth:
S-F
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.
HIST819K
Special Topics in History: Independent Research; 20th Century U.S. History
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
HIST898
Pre-Candidacy Research
Credits:
1 - 8
Grad Meth:
Reg
HIST899
Doctoral Dissertation Research
Credits:
6
Grad Meth:
S-F
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