Courses of Study 2016-2017

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Courses of Study 2016-2017 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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Courses:

First-Year Writing Seminars:

Please consult John S. Knight Institute for additional information.

Introductory Courses:

Sophomore Seminars:

HIST 2006 - Understanding Global Capitalism Through Service Learning (crosslisted)
HIST 2007 - Global Capitalism in One Community (crosslisted)
HIST 2010 - [Atlantic Travelers]
HIST 2051 - The United States as a Developing Nation
HIST 2063 - [Anarchism: History, Theory, Practice] (crosslisted)
HIST 2070 - [The Occidental Tourist: Travel Writing and History in Southeast Asia and Beyond] (crosslisted)
HIST 2085 - The Enlightenment: The Birth of Modern Thought
HIST 2090 - [The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692] (crosslisted)
HIST 2111 - [Black History Topics Through Film] (crosslisted)
HIST 2122 - [Darwin and the Making of Histories] (crosslisted)
HIST 2131 - [Energy in History] (crosslisted)
HIST 2161 - [Iran and the World] (crosslisted)
HIST 2163 - History of the United Nations
HIST 2180 - [Seminar on Genocide]
HIST 2181 - States and Failed States
HIST 2190 - [Women and Gender in South Asia] (crosslisted)
HIST 2209 - Daoist Traditions (crosslisted)
HIST 2210 - [Pop Culture in China] (crosslisted)
HIST 2220 - From the New Deal to the Age of Reagan (crosslisted)
HIST 2251 - [U.S. Immigration Narratives] (crosslisted)
HIST 2252 - Immigrant Ithaca (crosslisted)
HIST 2273 - Russian Revolutionary Intelligentsia
HIST 2280 - [Indian Ocean World] (crosslisted)
HIST 2293 - [Digital History] (crosslisted)
HIST 2305 - Ethiopia and Ethiopianism
HIST 2315 - The Occupation of Japan (crosslisted)
HIST 2321 - [Introduction to Military History] (crosslisted)
HIST 2352 - [Paul Robeson and the Revolutionary Imagination] (crosslisted)
HIST 2353 - [Civil Rights vs. Human Rights in the Black Freedom Struggle] (crosslisted)
HIST 2390 - Seminar in Iroquois History (crosslisted)
HIST 2411 - [Enslaved! Then and Now] (crosslisted)
HIST 2412 - The White Image in the Black Mind (crosslisted)
HIST 2422 - [The History of the U.S. Prison] (crosslisted)
HIST 2423 - Dazed and Confused: The Politics of Drug and Alcohol in US History (crosslisted)
HIST 2452 - [Dress Cloth and Identity] (crosslisted)
HIST 2465 - Democracy and Modern China
HIST 2492 - Europe’s Asia: Modern European Discourse on History and Subjectivity (crosslisted)

Lecture Courses:

HIST 2500 - [Technology in Society] (crosslisted)
HIST 2511 - [Black Women to 1900] (crosslisted)
HIST 2512 - [Black Women in the 20th Century] (crosslisted)
HIST 2525 - From Blues to Hip Hop: Music and Social Movements (crosslisted)
HIST 2530 - Introduction to Islamic Civilization (crosslisted)
HIST 2541 - [Modern Caribbean History] (crosslisted)
HIST 2542 - [The Making of Contemporary Africa] (crosslisted)
HIST 2543 - [In the Crossfire of Empires: Africa and World War II] (crosslisted)
HIST 2562 - Medicine and Healing in China (crosslisted)
HIST 2571 - [China Encounters the World] (crosslisted)
HIST 2572 - [20th Century Chinese-American Relation]
HIST 2581 - Environmental History (crosslisted)
HIST 2590 - [The Crusades] (crosslisted)
HIST 2630 - [Histories of the Apocalypse: From Nostradamus to Nuclear Winter]
HIST 2640 - Introduction to Asian American History (crosslisted)
HIST 2650 - [Ancient Greece from Helen to Alexander] (crosslisted)
HIST 2660 - [Everything You Know About Indians is Wrong: Unlearning Native American History] (crosslisted)
HIST 2665 - The American Revolutionary Era (crosslisted)
HIST 2670 - [History of Rome I] (crosslisted)
HIST 2671 - History of Rome II (crosslisted)
HIST 2672 - The History and Politics of Modern Egypt (crosslisted)
HIST 2674 - History of the Modern Middle East (crosslisted)
HIST 2676 - [Periclean Athens] (crosslisted)
HIST 2680 - The United States in the 1960s and 1970s (crosslisted)
HIST 2690 - [History of Terrorism]
HIST 2710 - Introduction to the History of Medicine (crosslisted)
HIST 2726 - [Culture and Identity in Modern America: The 19th Century]
HIST 2731 - [The French Modern] (crosslisted)
HIST 2742 - [Cultures of the Middle Ages] (crosslisted)
HIST 2749 - [Mughal India and the Early Modern World, c. 1500-1800] (crosslisted)
HIST 2750 - History of Modern India (crosslisted)
HIST 2760 - The British Empire
HIST 2773 - [Violence & Order in the North] (crosslisted)
HIST 2791 - International Humanitarianism
HIST 2800 - [Latinos in US History] (crosslisted)
HIST 2820 - Science in Western Civilization: Newton to Darwin, Darwin to Einstein (crosslisted)
HIST 2860 - The French Revolution (crosslisted)
HIST 2862 - [Before the Modern: European Culture, Thought, and Politics (1500 to 1750)]
HIST 2881 - Ten Technologies That Shook the World? (crosslisted)
HIST 2920 - [Inventing an Information Society] (crosslisted)
HIST 2960 - [East Asian Martial Arts] (crosslisted)
HIST 2970 - Imperial Russia: Peter the Great to the Revolution of 1917
HIST 2985 - Transformations in Twentieth Century China (crosslisted)
HIST 3002 - Supervised Research - Undergraduate
HIST 3031 - [Race and Revolution in the Americas: 1776-1900] (crosslisted)
HIST 3050 - Eighteenth-Century Britain
HIST 3060 - Modern Mexico: A Global History (crosslisted)
HIST 3080 - [History of Post War Germany, from 1945 to the Present]
HIST 3101 - [British History, from 1870 to the Present]
HIST 3140 - U.S. in the World (crosslisted)
HIST 3160 - [American Political Thought from Madison to Malcolm X] (crosslisted)
HIST 3181 - Living in an Uncertain World: Science, Technology, and Risk (crosslisted)
HIST 3189 - The Supreme Court, the Constitution, and Criminal Justice
HIST 3200 - [The Viking Age] (crosslisted)
HIST 3232 - [Sports History in the United States]
HIST 3240 - [Varieties of American Dissent, 1880 - 1990] (crosslisted)
HIST 3300 - Japan from War to Prosperity (crosslisted)
HIST 3310 - [Causes of the American Civil War, 1815-1860] (crosslisted)
HIST 3342 - [Death of God] (crosslisted)
HIST 3343 - [The History of the Present] (crosslisted)
HIST 3391 - Seminar on American Relations with China (crosslisted)
HIST 3411 - [Engineering in History] (crosslisted)
HIST 3430 - [History of the Civil War and Reconstruction] (crosslisted)
HIST 3451 - Culture and Identity in Modern America: The 20th Century (crosslisted)
HIST 3470 - [Asian American Women’s History] (crosslisted)
HIST 3490 - [Renaissance England, 1485 - 1660]
HIST 3519 - History of State and Society in Modern Iran (Through Literature and Film) (crosslisted)
HIST 3520 - [Twentieth Century East Asian-American Relations] (crosslisted)
HIST 3541 - [Empire to Nation-states in the Eastern Mediterranean] (crosslisted)
HIST 3542 - Greece, Turkey, and the Levant, 1800-1950 (crosslisted)
HIST 3580 - The Road to Nazi Germany: German History from 1870 to 1945
HIST 3590 - The Black Radical Tradition in the U.S. (crosslisted)
HIST 3626 - Revolution (crosslisted)
HIST 3634 - Religion and Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean World (crosslisted)
HIST 3644 - [Sages and Saints/Ancient World] (crosslisted)
HIST 3650 - West Africa and the West, 1450 - 1850 (crosslisted)
HIST 3652 - African Economic Development Histories (crosslisted)
HIST 3677 - [The Search for the Historical Muhammad] (crosslisted)
HIST 3700 - History of the Holocaust (crosslisted)
HIST 3710 - World War II in Europe
HIST 3720 - Chinese Communism (crosslisted)
HIST 3740 - America Becomes Modern: The Gilded Age and Progressive Era (crosslisted)
HIST 3760 - African American Social History, from 1910 to the Present: Race, Work, and the City (crosslisted)
HIST 3790 - The First World War
HIST 3837 - [The Cold War] (crosslisted)
HIST 3880 - [Vietnamese History] (crosslisted)
HIST 3920 - Totalitarianism: History and Theory (crosslisted)
HIST 3950 - Monsoon Kingdoms: Pre-Modern Southeast Asian History (crosslisted)
HIST 3960 - Transnational Local: Histories of the Modern in Southeast Asia (crosslisted)

Honors Courses:

Undergraduate Seminars:

HIST 4030 - History of the United States Senate (crosslisted)
HIST 4031 - From Mug Shots to Biometrics: Global Technologies of Identification (crosslisted)
HIST 4041 - Atlantic Commodities
HIST 4061 - [The New Cold War History]
HIST 4062 - [Greater China in Changing World]
HIST 4091 - [Contesting Identities in Modern Egypt] (crosslisted)
HIST 4120 - Scientific Revolution in Early - Modern Europe (crosslisted)
HIST 4122 - [Darwin and the Making of Histories] (crosslisted)
HIST 4127 - Sex, Science, and Statecraft in Early Modern and Modern Asia (crosslisted)
HIST 4131 - Comparative Environmental History (crosslisted)
HIST 4160 - [Gender and Sexuality in Southeast Asia] (crosslisted)
HIST 4175 - The First Age of Globalization (crosslisted)
HIST 4202 - [The Politics of Inequality: The History of the U.S. Welfare State] (crosslisted)
HIST 4221 - [The British in India, 1750-1830]
HIST 4231 - [Gender and Technology in Historical Perspectives] (crosslisted)
HIST 4233 - [The Holocaust in Postwar Culture (1945-1961)] (crosslisted)
HIST 4234 - [Melancholy Left: Marx to Benjamin] (crosslisted)
HIST 4241 - Religion and the State in Chinese History (crosslisted)
HIST 4252 - Migration and the Peopling of America: A Perennial Debate (crosslisted)
HIST 4256 - [The U.S.-Mexico Borderlands] (crosslisted)
HIST 4275 - [Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project]
HIST 4291 - Marriage and Divorce in the African Context (crosslisted)
HIST 4303 - [Nationalism and Decolonization in Africa] (crosslisted)
HIST 4345 - [Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar]
HIST 4383 - [Roman Social History: Problems and Methods] (crosslisted)
HIST 4390 - [Reconstruction and the New South] (crosslisted)
HIST 4393 - [The Underground Railroad and the Coming of the Civil War] (crosslisted)
HIST 4428 - [The Formation of the Field: Japan as Area] (crosslisted)
HIST 4460 - Strategy in World War II
HIST 4490 - [Peddlers, Pirates and Prostitutes: Subaltern Histories of Southeast Asia, 1800-1900] (crosslisted)
HIST 4542 - The Modern Middle East During the Long Nineteenth Century (crosslisted)
HIST 4543 - [State and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire] (crosslisted)
HIST 4544 - [WWI & the Emergence of the Modern Middle East] (crosslisted)
HIST 4546 - Ethnic and Religious Minorities in the Middle East (1800-1950) (crosslisted)
HIST 4547 - [The Middle East in Africa, Africa in the Middle East]
HIST 4570 - [Seminar in European Fascism]
HIST 4585 - The Global Music Revolution
HIST 4590 - [Resistance, Rebellion, Revolution in Latin America] (crosslisted)
HIST 4601 - Toward a Prehistory of Terrorism
HIST 4624 - [The Age of Intellectual & Political Revolutions: Europe & the Colonies in the 18th Century]
HIST 4642 - Women in the Modern Middle East (crosslisted)
HIST 4650 - [Reading and Viewing Modern China] (crosslisted)
HIST 4655 - Revolution: An Intellectual History (crosslisted)
HIST 4661 - [Contested Continents: The Great War for Empire in North America and Beyond, 1754-1763] (crosslisted)
HIST 4667 - Nationalism(s) in the Arab World (crosslisted)
HIST 4675 - Greek and Roman Historiography (crosslisted)
HIST 4680 - [Love and Sex in the Italian Renaissance] (crosslisted)
HIST 4701 - [Africa in the African American Mind] (crosslisted)
HIST 4702 - [Cultural Politics of the 1970s] (crosslisted)
HIST 4751 - Science, Race, and Colonialism (crosslisted)
HIST 4761 - [Anglo-Saxon England] (crosslisted)
HIST 4825 - [Change in Late Antiquity] (crosslisted)
HIST 4850 - [Immigration Since 1965] (crosslisted)
HIST 4851 - [Refugees] (crosslisted)
HIST 4870 - [Seminar on Thailand]
HIST 4910 - [Approaches to Medieval Violence] (crosslisted)
HIST 4922 - Ocean: The Sea in Human History (crosslisted)
HIST 4931 - [Vitality and Power in China] (crosslisted)
HIST 4945 - [The Birth of the Prison in Eighteenth Century Europe and America]
HIST 4950 - [Gender, Power, and Authority in England, 1600 to 1800] (crosslisted)
HIST 4963 - [China’s Early Modern] (crosslisted)
HIST 4970 - [Jim Crow and Exclusion-Era America] (crosslisted)
HIST 4997 - Undergraduate Research Seminar (crosslisted)

Graduate Seminars:

HIST 6000 - Graduate Research Seminar
HIST 6040 - [Introduction to the Graduate Study of American History]
HIST 6045 - [Literatures of History in Transnational and Global Dimensions]
HIST 6061 - [The New Cold War History]
HIST 6062 - [Greater China in Changing World]
HIST 6065 - Science, Technology and Capitalism (crosslisted)
HIST 6080 - [Readings in 20th Century U.S. History] (crosslisted)
HIST 6081 - Seminar in American Labor History (crosslisted)
HIST 6121 - [American Political Development] (crosslisted)
HIST 6130 - [Entangled Histories of the Americas and the Atlantic]
HIST 6131 - A Greater Caribbean: New Approaches to Caribbean History (crosslisted)
HIST 6160 - [Gender and Sexuality in Southeast Asia] (crosslisted)
HIST 6181 - Confluence: Environmental History and Science & Technology Studies (crosslisted)
HIST 6163 - Cambodia/Cambodge: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories
HIST 6190 - [Seminar in the History of Technology] (crosslisted)
HIST 6221 - [Environmental History] (crosslisted)
HIST 6232 - [Perspectives in Intellectual History: Modernity, Cataclysm and the Jews (1880-1930)] (crosslisted)
HIST 6233 - [The Holocaust in Postwar Culture (1945-1961)] (crosslisted)
HIST 6234 - [Melancholy Left: Marx to Benjamin] (crosslisted)
HIST 6241 - [Transformations of Law in the Age of Empire and Enlightenment]
HIST 6252 - Commemorations and Public Culture
HIST 6256 - [The U.S.-Mexico Borderlands] (crosslisted)
HIST 6275 - [Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project]
HIST 6286 - The Decolonization of the Mind: Foucault, Fanon, Althusser, Deleuze and Guattari (crosslisted)
HIST 6291 - Marriage and Divorce in the African Context (crosslisted)
HIST 6300 - Topics in Ancient History (crosslisted)
HIST 6303 - [Nationalism and Decolonization in Africa] (crosslisted)
HIST 6321 - [Black Power Movement and Transnationalism] (crosslisted)
HIST 6322 - Readings in 20th Century African-American History (crosslisted)
HIST 6330 - [Topics in Ancient Greek History] (crosslisted)
HIST 6332 - [Seminar in Digital Humanities] (crosslisted)
HIST 6345 - [Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar]
HIST 6350 - The Writing of History
HIST 6352 - [Cultural History of the US] (crosslisted)
HIST 6383 - [Roman Social History: Problems and Methods] (crosslisted)
HIST 6390 - [Mao and the Chinese Revolution]
HIST 6391 - [Reconstruction and the New South] (crosslisted)
HIST 6393 - [The Underground Railroad and the Coming of the Civil War]
HIST 6410 - [Science, Technology, Gender: Historical Issues] (crosslisted)
HIST 6442 - The Modern Middle East During the Long Nineteenth Century
HIST 6472 - [The Problem with Rights] (crosslisted)
HIST 6473 - [Beyond Freedom]
HIST 6481 - [Topics in Latin American History] (crosslisted)
HIST 6482 - History/Geography/Theory (crosslisted)
HIST 6490 - [Peddlers, Pirates and Prostitutes: Subaltern Histories of Southeast Asia, 1800-1900] (crosslisted)
HIST 6511 - [Global Early Modernity]
HIST 6543 - [State and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire]
HIST 6544 - [WWI & the Emergence of the Modern Middle East] (crosslisted)
HIST 6546 - Ethnic and Religious Minorities in the Middle East (1800-1950) (crosslisted)
HIST 6547 - [The Middle East in Africa, Africa in the Middle East]
HIST 6585 - The Global Music Revolution
HIST 6586 - [U.S. Empire in Global and Transnational Dimensions]
HIST 6590 - [Resistance, Rebellion, Revolution in Latin America] (crosslisted)
HIST 6601 - Toward a Prehistory of Terrorism
HIST 6624 - [The Age of Intellectual & Political Revolutions: Europe & the Colonies in the 18th Century]
HIST 6625 - [Race, Slavery, and Revolution: France and the Caribbean Colonies] (crosslisted)
HIST 6626 - Narratives of the French Revolution
HIST 6640 - [Approaches to Modern Chinese History] (crosslisted)
HIST 6642 - Comparative History of Capitalism
HIST 6650 - [Reading and Viewing Modern China] (crosslisted)
HIST 6655 - Revolution: An Intellectual History (crosslisted)
HIST 6761 - [Anglo-Saxon England] (crosslisted)
HIST 6675 - Greek and Roman Historiography (crosslisted)
HIST 6810 - Intellectual History of Empire (crosslisted)
HIST 6811 - [Aspects of Modern Japanese Thought] (crosslisted)
HIST 6825 - [Change in Late Antiquity] (crosslisted)
HIST 6851 - [Refugees] (crosslisted)
HIST 6870 - [Seminar on Thailand] (crosslisted)
HIST 6880 - [Vietnamese History] (crosslisted)
HIST 6920 - [Approaches to Medieval Violence] (crosslisted)
HIST 6931 - [Vitality and Power in China]
HIST 6945 - [The Birth of the Prison in Eighteenth Century Europe and America]
HIST 6950 - Monsoon Kingdoms: Pre-Modern Southeast Asian History (crosslisted)
HIST 6960 - Southeast Asian History from the Eighteenth Century (crosslisted)
HIST 6963 - [China’s Early Modern] (crosslisted)
HIST 6970 - [Jim Crow and Exclusion Era America] (crosslisted)
HIST 7090 - Introduction to the Graduate Study of History
HIST 7110 - Introduction to Science and Technology Studies (crosslisted)
HIST 8004 - Supervised Reading
HIST 8005 - Supervised Reading Grad