EUROPEAN HISTORY

102 Ancient and Medieval Worlds  MHC
A survey from 3000 B.C.E. to the Renaissance, including Mesopotamian, Greek, Roman, Carolingian, and European societies. Religion, politics, war, thought, society, and family issues will be discussed. Prof. Hagerman

103 Europe Since 1500-2000  MHC
Europe from the Renaissance to the present through history, literature, and film. Major topics include: Wars of Religion, French and Industrial Revolutions, and war and peace in the twentieth century. Prof. Cocks

217 Europe, 1789-1918  YGL
Europe from the French and Industrial Revolutions to the end of the First World War through history and film. Prof. Cocks

218 Europe Since 1918  YGL
The fall and rise of Europe, 1918 to the present: social, economic, and political developments as reflected in history, literature, and film. Prof. Cocks

229 Film Images of World War II  MTA
A team-taught course on the history of the Second World War and world films made about the war from 1939 to the present. $25 film fee. Profs. Cocks & Grossman
 

251 Ancient Greece
A study of Minoans, Mycenaeans, classical Spartans and Athenians, and early Hellenistic Greeks and their politics, myths, economics, architecture, philosophy, warfare, religion, and families.  Covering pre-history to 330 B.C. the course uses ancient sources such as plays and philosophical writings as well as recent works. Prof. Hagerman

307 Tudor-Stuart England                        
England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries emphasizing the biographies of Henry VIII and his children, the Reformation, social history, and the developments leading to the English Civil War. Staff

308 Victorian England  YGE
Nineteenth-century England emphasizing issues of social class and industrialism, gender and the family, religion and philosophy, and imperialism. Prof. Hagerman

313 Modern Russia  YGL
Russia from 1815 to the present: the collapse of the tsarist autocracy, the Bolshevik revolution, Soviet Russia's struggle within itself and against the outside world, and the dissolution of the Soviet and Russian imperium.  Prof. Cocks

390 Modern Germany  YGE
Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing or permission of  instructor.  
A history of Germany, 1871 to the present, with special emphasis on Nazi Germany.  Prof. Cocks

395 The Irrational in History
Prerequisite: Prior course work in history or permission of instructor.
An introduction to historical aspects of the irrational in human society and the application of psychodynamic models of the mind to the study of history.  Topics include:  the history of mental illness and its management; the science and profession of psychiatry; sexuality and gender; psychoanalytic drive psychology; ego psychology; object relations theory; self psychology; Lacanian theory; psychobiography; and psychohistory. Prof. Cocks

UNITED STATES HISTORY

101 American Dreams and Realities  MHC
One-semester thematic approach to understanding the American experience from its beginning to the present. The course will attempt to aid students in answering such questions as: "What are my values and how are they connected to the historical past?" Witch hunts, the frontier, violence, the city, technology, war (Hiroshima & Vietnam), success, morals, women immigration, racism, reform, and the environment will be among the themes explored in a search toward defining the American character. Designed for majors, non-majors, and as the introductory course for American Studies students.  $10 film fee. Prof. Dick

121 Early America:  Three Worlds Meet  YEH
Early colonial America, with an emphasis on the Caribbean, Mexico, the Southwest, British North America, and New France from 1492 to the 1770s.  Readings and films focus on the Americas as a meeting place for indigenous peoples, Europeans, and Africans. Students will analyze the varied realities of conquest, native population decline and conversion, the brutalities of slavery, and the evolution of ideas about race in the New World. Prof. Kanter

131 The United States from Colonization to 1877  MHC
Introductory survey of United States history from pre-settlement of Europeans through the fall of Reconstruction. Examines the multicultural origins of the United States; the economic, social, and political course to independence; the early national period; the Jacksonian era; and the causes and results of the Civil War.  Also focuses on historical methodology. Prof. Sacks

132 The United States Since 1877  MHC
Introductory survey of American civilization from Reconstruction to the present, encompassing the ways that Americans have responded to the rise of the city, industrialization, immigration, imperialism, world wars, the atomic bomb, racial turmoil, changing roles of men and women, rise of the welfare state, and environmental controversies. Recommended for pre-law students. $10 film fee. Prof. Dick

230 Introduction to International Studies   
Same as IDY 230.

237 America in Crisis: Great Depression, WW II, & Cold War  
America from 1929 to 1960: Stock market crash, Great Depression, Dust Bowl, New Deal, FDR and Hitler, "The Good War," Hiroshima and Nagasaki, McCarthyism and the Red Scare, Baby Boom, and "We like Ike." Stress on historical controversies, the role of workers, women, and minorities and the significance of the environment. $10 film fee. Prof. Dick

242 African American History, from Africa to 1865  YEH
A history of people of African descent in the United States from their African roots through the end of the Civil War. Stress on the development of slavery and racism in the colonial period; the tensions between slavery and freedom; slave culture, family, and religion; race relations in the North; and the black experience in the Civil War. Readings will be drawn from slave narratives as well as historical monographs. Prof. Sacks

243 African American History, 1865 to the Present  YEH
A history of black people in the United States from the end of the Civil War to the present. Stress on the rise and fall of Reconstruction, Jim Crow, black migration to the cities, the Harlem Renaissance, the Civil Rights Movement, and contemporary issues in race relations. Prof. Sacks

331 Race and Nationality in American Life  YEH
The story of uprooted ethnic, religious, and racial groups from the first invasion of North America by Euro-Americans and its impact on Indians, to the boat people of Indochina, and Central American refugees. The America of asylum and freedom is compared to the traditions of nativism  and racism by examining Afro-, Asian-, Euro-, Mexican-, and Native American experiences. $10 film fee. Prof. Dick

333 Colonial America             
In-depth study of the British North American colonies from first settlement. Concentration on social history: the interaction of different cultures and races; how people lived; why Europeans came to America, and what happened to them once they arrived. Specific topics include puritanism, witchcraft, the impact of disease and the fur trade on the native population, and the development of slavery. Prof.  Sacks

340 Changing Roles, Changing History:  Women in U.S., 1877-present YGE
Does some shared history link American Indian girls sent to BIA boarding schools at the turn of the century with the immigrant girls who labored for the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory? Is "women's" history different? This course considers such questions by examining the situations of women in the U.S. from 1877 forward. It introduces students to the theories and methods of women's history which scholars have developed over the last quarter century. Central to this course is the recognition that women's experiences are not simple parallels to men's but are a multi-textured weaving of gender, class, race, and regional factors.   Prof. Franzen

345 American Social History from Independence to the  Progressive Era  YGE
Prerequisite: 100-level history course. In-depth study of American life from nationhood through the early twentieth century. Topics include slavery, woman suffrage, the Civil War and its aftermath, white supremacy, Populism, Progressivism, industrialization, westward expansion, immigration, imperialism, and the Roaring Twenties. Prof. Sacks

377 History of Sports in America
Examination of selected themes and experiences in the history of sport in the United States, using sports as a lens through which to understand American life.  Focus on questions of identity and power; How does sport shape (and reflect) our broader understanding of race, femininity, and nationhood?  What role has sport served in American cultural and political life for groups marginalized by race, gender, and/or class? Prof. Sacks

378  Harlem Renaissance
Prerequisite: 100-level history course.
In-depth study of the "New Negro" movement of the 1920's with its emphasis on the emergence of a black artistic community.  Examination of the major literary figures of the black America in that era, as well as artists, intellects, and political activists.  Considerable focus on the racial climate of the post-WWI period that served as a backdrop to the Harlem Renaissance.  Prof. Sacks

398 The 1960s  YEH
In-depth examination of a tumultuous decade:  civil rights and Black power, student protest and New Left, counterculture and Woodstock generation, Vietnam and the anti-war movement, the "other America" and the War on Poverty, Silent Spring and Earth Day, liberation movements, JFK, LBJ, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Black Panthers, Detroit Riot, Freedom Summer, Jackson State, Kent State, Watergate, FBI, Feminine Mystique, Cesar Chavez, David Brower, and Rachel Carson. $10 film fee. Prof. Dick

ASIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY

111 East Asia:  Cultures and Civilizations  YGL
A survey of the cultural, political, and economic interactions among the societies of East Asia from the sixth century to the present, with an emphasis on the history of China, Japan, and Korea. Major themes include the historical construction of "East Asian" regional identity; traditional culture; imperialism and colonialism; nationalist movements; and the debate over "Asian values" and modern economic development. Prof. Wu

141 Colonial Latin America                                                     
Spanish America and Brazil since the first contacts between native peoples and Europeans to the nineteenth-century independence wars. Examines conquests, missionary work, slavery, silver mining, and urban growth. Special focus on ethnic and gender relations. Prof. Kanter

142 Latin America in the National Period  YGL
Introduction to Latin America from independence in the 1820's to the present. Native Americans, slaves, and European immigrants struggled with elites to form societies of "order and progress." Films and oral histories show how the world economy affected working men and women and their responses: revolutions, religion, nationalism, and popular politics. Prof. Kanter

263 Modern China  MHC
Analyzes the major events, ideologies, and individuals that have shaped Chinese state and society from 1644 to the present. Major themes include Confucianism and traditional culture; foreign imperialism and nationalism; the Maoist years; and political dissent and social change in the 1980s and the 1990s. Prof. Wu

264 Modern Japan  MHC
Analyzes the major events, ideologies, and individuals that have shaped Japanese state and society from 1600 to the present. Major themes include traditional Japanese culture; economic development; Japanese-U.S. relations; and Japanese democracy in the post-war years. Prof. Wu

300 Slave Societies of the Americas  YEH
Comparative study of the development of race-based slavery in Spanish America, Brazil, the Caribbean, and the U.S. South. Discusses the Middle Passage, plantation life, slave religion, resistance, emancipation, and its aftermath. Invites students to consider the history of ethnic relations within multiracial societies. Prof. Kanter

370 Women in East Asia  YGE
An in-depth study of the construction of gender in East Asia, focusing primarily on women in China, Japan, and Korea from 1600 to the present. Major topics include sexuality and reproduction; family structure and social class; religion; language; and the changing roles of men. Prof. Wu

393 Gender and Sexuality in the 'Hispanic' World  YGE
Intensive look at gender relations, family, and morality in Hispanic societies. Includes medieval Spain, colonial and Modern Latin America, and Latina/os in the U.S. Asks how ideological and social constructs such as patriarchy and the code of honor have changed in response to conquest, multiracial societies, and immigration. Prof. Kanter

399 Contact and Conquest in the Americas  MTA
Prerequisites: History 130, 131, 141; or permission of instructor.
1492 marked the first of many meetings between Europeans and Native American peoples. This seminar takes an intensive look at the remarkable encounters that occurred during the first century of European contact. Readings center on primary sources: written and pictorial records from that era that tell of meetings in the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, Florida, and Canada. These texts require critical reading by class participants. Prof. Kanter

Special Studies

289 Selected Topics in History                               
An examination of subjects or areas not included in other courses. May be taken more than once for credit. Sample periodic courses:

Africa Since 1800  YGL
European Communism  YGL
Going North: Latin American Immigration  YGE
Modern Africa 
The Experience of European Communism  YGL
Civil War Age

391, 392 Internship  (1/2 or 1 unit)
Offered on a credit/no credit basis. Staff

395 Psychohistory  YGE
Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing or permission of the instructor.
An introduction to historical aspects of the irrational in human society and the application of psychodynamic models of the mind to the study of history. Topics include: the history of mental illness and its management; the science and profession of psychiatry; sexuality and gender; psychoanalytic drive psychology; ego psychology; object relations theory; self psychology; psychobiography; and psychohistory. Prof. Cocks

401, 402 Seminar  (1/2 or 1 unit)
An examination of subjects or areas not included in other courses.

  Social History-American Sports  YGE
  U.S.:  Work, Leisure, & Travel        
  East Asian Environmental History  YEN
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411, 412 Directed Study  (1/2 or 1 unit)
Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing or permission of instructor.
Intensive study of a special topic and/or preparation of an honors thesis. Staff