Courses - Spring 2023
HIST108B
Freshman/Sophomore Seminar in History; Gandhi: The Individual in History
Uses the life and legacy of Mohandas K. Gandhi, in modern India and beyond, as a starting point to explore the relationship between individuals in world history and the social contexts that produced them. Topics include non-violence, diet, sexuality, politics, law, technology, the environment, and representations in film and other media.
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.
HIST123
Overviews early mid-19th-century changes in African societies, European conquest and African resistances in the late 19th-century, colonial states and societies, African nationalisms and decolonization and the independence era. Struggles over social, economic, and political changes are emphasized.
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.
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.
HIST146
Credit only granted for: HIST289L or HIST146.
Formerly: HIST289L.
Explores the transformation of crime and punishment in England, France, and America over five centuries. Focus is on the connections between forms of government, cultural norms, and punishment. How do ideas about government and its rightful exercise connect to which actions are deemed crimes, who is punished, and how they are punished? "Crimes" covered in this course will range from high crimes such as murder, theft, witchcraft, heresy, sedition, and treason to crimes of property and morals crimes such as non-attendance at church and drunkenness.
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.
HIST206
Introduction to the History of Technology
Credit only granted for: HIST175 or HIST206.
Formerly: HIST175.
Introduction to the history of major technological changes and innovations; examination of the revolutionizing potential of technology.
HIST208V
Historical Research and Methods Seminar; How Revolutionary: Upheavals in History
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
Examines the major historiographical trends and debates in the study of revolutions, ranging from the long eighteenth century's Age of Revolutions through the twentieth century's independence movements and social revolutions.
HIST208W
Historical Research and Methods Seminar; Construction, Imagining, and Narrating Pre-Modern Cities
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
Investigates narratives on pre-modern cities, circa 4th-15th centuries, from a comparative perspective.
HIST208X
Historical Research and Methods Seminar; Strange But Not a Stranger: Pre-Modern Minorities
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.
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.
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.
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: HIST251 or 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: AASP255.
Credit only granted for: HIST255, AASP255 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.
HIST307
The Holocaust of European Jewry
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with: JWST345.
Credit only granted for: HIST307 or JWST345.
Roots of Nazi Jewish policy in the 1930's and during World War II: the process of destruction and the implementation of the "final solution of the Jewish problem" in Europe, and the responses made by the Jews to their concentration and annihilation.
HIST319C
Special Topics in History; The Roman Empire in Late Antiquity
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Explores a famous historical conundrum Edward Gibbon (d. 1794) defined as The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. What historical forces, operating between the third century and the seventh, brought the high Classical civilization of the Greeks and Romans to an end? Was it the invasions of Germans and other barbarian peoples? The bubonic plague or climate disasters? Do we think our own societies and governments would respond to similar challenges? Or, was Gibbon wrong, and Rome never really "fell?"
HIST319D
Special Topics in History; Islam and the Body
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with RELS319E and WGSS379E. Credit only granted for RELS319E, HIST319D, or WGSS379E.
The body is central to enacting facets of Islamic culture across history: worshippers ritually wash, mystical mendicants dance, love poets starve themselves, and pilgrims walk well-trodden routes. This course will thus explore why and how bodies matter: how are bodily norms created and enforced? How have people tried to transcend their individual, mortal, embodied selves, and why? How does religion help people make sense of their bodily experiences? How does it deal with bodily differences?
The body is central to enacting facets of Islamic culture across history: worshippers ritually wash, mystical mendicants dance, love poets starve themselves, and pilgrims walk well-trodden routes. This course will thus explore why and how bodies matter: how are bodily norms created and enforced? How have people tried to transcend their individual, mortal, embodied selves, and why? How does religion help people make sense of their bodily experiences? How does it deal with bodily differences?
HIST319E
Special Topics in History; European Entanglements in the Thirty Years War
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
HIST319V
Special Topics in History; America in the 1960s
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Both celebrated and vilified, the years between 1960 and 1970 witnessed watershed moments in American history. This course will examine the seminal events, policies, actors, and movements that continue to shape our nation. Topics include the civil rights movement; the women's movement; the Chicano movement; the gay rights movement; the Vietnam war; the peace movement; the sexual revolution; the presedencies of Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon; the New Right; the New Left; and the counterculture.
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.
Study of the political, social, and religious development of the Jewish nation from its inception to its return from exile in Babylonia around 536 C.E. Focus on biblical texts, archeological finds, and source materials from neighboring cultures to reconstruct political history and the development of religious concepts.
HIST325
Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
History of the Greeks 400-30 B.C.: Alexander and the changes he wrought in the Mediterranean world; the rise of monarchies and leagues; new directions in religion, art, literature, and science; and Hellenization of the Near East, including the Jews.
HIST328O
Selected Topics in History; Inventing the New World
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
HIST329L
Special Topics in History; Riches and Ruin: A Global History of Capitalism
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Surveys the development of capitalism since the 1500s from a global perspective, focusing on Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Topics include commodity flows, labor migration, the environment, markets, and entrepreneurs. Engagement with key scholarly debates, primary sources, and digital methods.
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.
HIST329W
Special Topics in History; Climate, Science and Society
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Approaches climate change from a historical perspective. In it, we will examine how different societies throughout history have been shaped by their climates and, in turn, how human activity has influenced the climate. The course concludes by focusing on efforts towards climate resiliency and climate justice since the beginning of the twenty-first century.
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.
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
HIST339X
Special Topics in History; From Divided State to World Power: History of Republican China and the People's Republic of China
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
An investigation of China s transformations in the twentieth century and beyond. Topics include revolution and civil wars, imperialism and international conflicts, social movements and mass politics, institutional change and economic growth, gender and everyday life, ethnic relations and frontier society, and memory of the past in contemporary China. We will also examine Taiwan s political and social patterns, and how they diverged and/or converged with those of mainland China.
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.
HIST381
The Israeli Settler Movement: The Road to One State?
Cross-listed with: JWST332, ISRL344.
Credit only granted for: HIST329G, HIST381, ISRL329G, ISRL344, JWST332 or JWST319N.
Formerly: JWST319N.
Explores the Israeli settler movement over the last four decades, from its position on the fringes of Israeli society in the 1970s and 1980s to its rise to prominence in Israeli politics today. Topics will include the history of the Israeli settlement project in the West Bank, the emergence of Gush Emunim and its ideological foundations in Jewish messianism, its violent offshoots, and the influence of the settler movement on the Israeli political system. Study of these topics illuminates some of the most important driving forces of modern history such as nationalism, religious fundamentalism, colonialism and the ability of a determined minority to influence a country's policies.
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.
HIST408M
Senior Seminar; Race and the History of Jim Crow Segregation
HIST408P
HIST408Q
Senior Seminar; Heresy and Inquisition in the Middle Ages
This research seminar will explore the challenges that face historians who study medieval heresy. Using the testimony of people tried as Christian heretics, secret Jews, and witches, students will learn methods for working with potentially unreliable sources, and discuss the ethics of interpreting material produced by persecution and torture.
HIST418C
Jews and Judaism: Selected Historical Topics; What Did the Rabbis Think the Bible Really Means?
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with JWST419B. Credit only granted for HIST418C or JWST419B.
Sacred texts like the Hebrew bible challenge human understanding the voice of the divine, they demand our constant study, interpretation and reinterpretation. Jewish scholars have been engaged in this process, known as exegesis, for many centuries, and have used many different methods to make the Bible give up its mysteries. In this course we will use the method of close reading to watch as rabbis struggled with, and argued over, biblical passages in order to construct Jewish law and Jewish rationalist and mystical theologies. We will examine issues ranging fromvegetarianism to messianism, gender to eros, the purpose of life, the holiness of Jerusalem to the legitimacy of Halacha.
M-W 10-10:50 plus one hour (to be arranged) for close text study of commentaries in translation.
Sacred texts like the Hebrew bible challenge human understanding the voice of the divine, they demand our constant study, interpretation and reinterpretation. Jewish scholars have been engaged in this process, known as exegesis, for many centuries, and have used many different methods to make the Bible give up its mysteries. In this course we will use the method of close reading to watch as rabbis struggled with, and argued over, biblical passages in order to construct Jewish law and Jewish rationalist and mystical theologies. We will examine issues ranging fromvegetarianism to messianism, gender to eros, the purpose of life, the holiness of Jerusalem to the legitimacy of Halacha.
M-W 10-10:50 plus one hour (to be arranged) for close text study of commentaries in translation.
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?
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
HIST428E
Selected Topics in History; Personal Stories of Migrations: (Re)Creating Communities Amidst Dramatic Change
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Cross-listed with JWST429C and HJWST648C. Credit only granted for JWST429C, JWST648C, or HIST428E.
As migrants struggle to establish themselves in new social, economic, and political environments they must cope with the trauma that drove them from their homes and with the culture shock of their new lands. They require resilience to reinvent themselves, to seize new opportunities, and to build new lives and communities. We will use oral histories, autobiographical writings, as well as paintings, photos and other visual expressions of self, to explore the experience of Jewish immigrants to North America. Personal stories will give us new insights into the long history of Jewish communities in North America.
As migrants struggle to establish themselves in new social, economic, and political environments they must cope with the trauma that drove them from their homes and with the culture shock of their new lands. They require resilience to reinvent themselves, to seize new opportunities, and to build new lives and communities. We will use oral histories, autobiographical writings, as well as paintings, photos and other visual expressions of self, to explore the experience of Jewish immigrants to North America. Personal stories will give us new insights into the long history of Jewish communities in North America.
HIST428J
Selected Topics in History; Global Revolutions in the Modern Era
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
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.
HIST429K
Special Topics in History; From Colonization to Decolonization in North Africa, 1830-1962
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
We will cover 130 years of French colonial rule in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco, and foreground the impact colonialism had on local political and social structures.We will focus on the cultural changes it generated, and also situate the North African example in the wider context of 19th century imperialism, and that of global decolonization processes of the middle of the 20th century.
HIST429O
Special Topics in History; Righting Historical Wrongs: Global Struggles for Truth and Justice
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Explores the diverse approaches that societies around the world have adopted to investigate, adjudicate, acknowledge, or otherwise atone for a wide range of historical injustices: colonial violence, apartheid, sexual atrocities committed during war, gross human rights violations carried out by dictatorial regimes, and genocide. Global case studies with an emphasis on non-US examples.
HIST429W
Special Topics in History; Ukraine and Russia: Tragically Intertwined Histories
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
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 ghastly invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
HIST437
Modern France from Napoleon to De Gaulle
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
The changing political and cultural values of French society in response to recurrent crises throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Students should have had some previous survey of either Western civilization or European history.
HIST442
Twentieth-Century Russia
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Russia and the Soviet Union from the fall of the tsars to the post- communist present. Impact of Leninism, Stalinism, and Soviet Communism on state, society, culture, and nationality.
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.
HIST462
Slavery, Sectionalism, and the U.S. Civil War
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Slavery, sectionalism, and the coming of the Civil War. Resources and strategy of the Confederacy and the Union, the war's changing character, emancipation and its consequences, conditions on the home front, and the wartime origins of Reconstruction.
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.
HIST483
History of Japan Since 1800
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Japan's renewed contact with the Western world and emergence as a modern state, industrial society, and world power, 1800-1931; and Japan's road to war, occupation, and recovery, 1931 to the present.
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.
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.
HIST619E
Special Topics in History; From Colonization to Decolonization in North Africa, 1830-1962
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
We will cover 130 years of French colonial rule in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco, and foreground the impact colonialism had on local political and social structures.We will focus on the cultural changes it generated, and also situate the North African example in the wider context of 19th century imperialism, and that of global decolonization processes of the middle of the 20th century.
HIST619O
Special Topics in History; Righting Historical Wrongs: Global Struggles for Truth and Justice
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
Explores the diverse approaches that societies around the world have adopted to investigate, adjudicate, acknowledge, or otherwise atone for a wide range of historical injustices: colonial violence, apartheid, sexual atrocities committed during war, gross human rights violations carried out by dictatorial regimes, and genocide. Global case studies with an emphasis on non-US examples.
HIST638A
Special Topics in History; The Long 20th Century: Politics, Culture, and Institutions in U.S. History
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
HIST638J
Special Topics in History; Global Revolutions in the Modern Era
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.
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.
HIST819G
Special Topics in History: Independent Research; Research Seminar in Early America
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
A graduate-level course designed to help you research and write a research paper, with strategies for turning it into an article. Focus will be on topics related to the Atlantic World and Early America through the Civil war.
HIST819Y
Special Topics in History: Independent Research; Global Research Seminar
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
Research seminar for topics outside of the US field.
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University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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