Courses - Fall 2024
AASP100
Introduction to African American Studies
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Significant aspects of the history of African Americans with particular emphasis on the evolution and development of black communities from slavery to the present. Interdisciplinary introduction to social, political, legal and economic roots of contemporary problems faced by blacks in the United States with applications to the lives of other racial and ethnic minorities in the Americas and in other societies.
AASP100H
Introduction to African American Studies
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Significant aspects of the history of African Americans with particular emphasis on the evolution and development of black communities from slavery to the present. Interdisciplinary introduction to social, political, legal and economic roots of contemporary problems faced by blacks in the United States with applications to the lives of other racial and ethnic minorities in the Americas and in other societies.
AASP202
Black Culture in the United States
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
The course examines important aspects of African American life and thought which are reflected in African American literature, drama, music and art. Beginning with the cultural heritage of slavery, the course surveys the changing modes of black creative expression from the 19th-century to the present.
AASP202H
Black Culture in the United States
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
The course examines important aspects of African American life and thought which are reflected in African American literature, drama, music and art. Beginning with the cultural heritage of slavery, the course surveys the changing modes of black creative expression from the 19th-century to the present.
AASP298C
African-American History to 1865
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with: HIST254.
Credit only granted for: HIST254 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.
AAST
Asian American Studies
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AAST201
Asian American History
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with: HIST221.
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.
AMST
American Studies
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AMST202
Cultures of Everyday Life in America
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Examine the structures and patterns of everyday life in the U.S., utilizing methods such as ethnography, oral history, survey research, and textual, visual, and material cultural analysis.
HIST
History
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HIST106
American Jewish Experience
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
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.
HIST111
The Medieval World
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
The development of Europe in the Middle Ages; the role of religious values in shaping new social, economic, and political institutions; medieval literature, art and architecture.
HIST120
Islamic Civilization
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
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.
HIST122
African Civilization to 1800
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
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.
HIST132
Fighting Slavery
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
An examination of the different tools and tactics, means and methods that Americans have used to escape slavery or try to eliminate it.
HIST133
God Wills It! The Crusades in Medieval and Modern Perspectives
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with: RELS133.
Credit only granted for: HIST133, RELS133 or RELS289D.
Formerly: RELS289D.
An examination of the identities and convictions both of the Western Europeans who participated in the Crusades and of the Easterners (Muslim, Christian, and Jewish) whom they encountered in the Holy Land. Focuses on the era of the first four great Crusades, from about 1095 to 1215. Consideration of the cultural impact of these movements on both Western Europe and the Middle East.
HIST134
Spies, Assassins, Martyrs, and Witches: Famous Trials in American History
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Examination of some of the most famous trials in American history and their enduring hold on the imagination.
HIST134S
Spies, Assassins, Martyrs, and Witches: Famous Trials in American History
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Examination of some of the most famous trials in American history and their enduring hold on the imagination.
HIST135
Civil Discourse or Urban Riot: Why Cities Don't (Often) Explode
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
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.
HIST136
Moneyland: Business in American Culture
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
An exploration of American business culture and institutions from colonial times to the present with emphasis on how inherited and acquired identities (social capital) have shaped Americans' experiences as entrepreneurs, managers, workers, and consumers.
HIST200
Interpreting American History: Beginnings to 1877
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Credit only granted for: HIST156 or HIST200.
Formerly: HIST156.
The United States from colonial times to the end of the Civil War. Establishment and development of American institutions.
HIST201
Interpreting American History: From 1865 to the Present
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
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.
HIST204
Introduction to the History of Science
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Credit only granted for: HIST174 or HIST204.
Formerly: HIST174.
An exploration of the roots of modern science from the ancient Greeks through the medieval and early modern periods. Focus on the men and women who helped to create the sciences and to change public perceptions of their disciplines.
HIST215
Women in Western Europe to 1750
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
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
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
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.
HIST221
Asian American History
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
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.
HIST234
Invaders, Conquerors, Usurpers: A History of Pre-Modern Britain to 1485
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
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.
HIST250
History of Colonial Latin America
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
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.
HIST284
East Asian Civilization I
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
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.
HIST286
Urban Dreams and Nightmares: The Jewish Experience of Cities
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with: JWST275.
Credit only granted for: HIST286 or JWST275.
Cities give expression to man's power while they highlight human limitations. It is urban social diversity that makes great wealth and thriving culture possible, but it also fixes discrimination behind walls constructed from paper and stone. Nations make cities symbols of the sacred and the glorious, while they ignore the poverty and social alienation that city life breeds. Jews, intensively urbanized for millennia, provide a special vantage point from which to study the beauty and the tragedy implicit in city-building. Our sources will include the Bible, poems, plays and novels but also US Supreme Court rulings and news of riots in Israel. We will survey how Jews have shaped, and been shaped by, the urban challenge over time and space.
HIST289N
The Politics of Sexuality in America: A Historical Approach
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
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.
JWST
Jewish Studies
Department Site
JWST141
American Jewish Experience
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with: HIST106.
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.
JWST275
Urban Dreams and Nightmares: The Jewish Experience of Cities
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with: HIST286.
Credit only granted for: HIST286 or JWST275.
Cities give expression to man's power while they highlight human limitations. It is urban social diversity that makes great wealth and thriving culture possible, but it also fixes discrimination behind walls constructed from paper and stone. Nations make cities symbols of the sacred and the glorious, while they ignore the poverty and social alienation that city life breeds. Jews, intensively urbanized for millennia, provide a special vantage point from which to study the beauty and the tragedy implicit in city-building. Our sources will include the Bible, poems, plays and novels but also US Supreme Court rulings and news of riots in Israel. We will survey how Jews have shaped, and been shaped by, the urban challenge over time and space.
RELS
Religious Studies
RELS120
Islamic Civilization
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with: HIST120.
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.
USLT
Latina/o Studies
Please visit http://amst.umd.edu/programs/course/ for more course information.
USLT201
U.S. Latina/o Studies I: An Historical Overview to the 1960's
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Interdisciplinary course focusing on demographics, terminology and social constructs of race, class, ethnicity, indigeneity, gender, and sexuality associated with the historical and political roots of US Latinidades. Examines the formation, evolution an adaptation of US Latina/o communities as critical field of inquiry.
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