Courses - Fall 2026
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.
HIST113
The Making of Modern Europe
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Evolution of modern nation states since late medieval times. Industrial-economic structure and demography. Emergence of modern secular society.
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.
Cross-listed with RELS120. Credit granted only for HIST120 or RELS120.
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.
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.
HIST143
Power, Ritual, and Society in Western History
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
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
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.
HIST205
Environmental History
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
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.
HIST211
Women in America Since 1880
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
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
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.
HIST224
Modern Military History, 1494-1815
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
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".
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.
HIST236
From Peacocks to Punks: Modern Britain from 1688 to Today
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
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
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
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.
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.
HIST266
The United States in World Affairs
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
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
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
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
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.
HIST285
East Asian Civilization II
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
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.
JWST
Jewish Studies
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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.
JWST230
Inventing Traditions: The Making of Rabbinic Judaism
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with: HIST281, 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.
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.
Cross-listed with HIST120. Credit granted only for RELS120 or HIST120.
USLT
Latina/o Studies
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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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