History
Courses
For course descriptions not found in the 2006-2007 General
Catalog, please contact the department for more information.
Lower-Division
HILD 2A-B-C. United States A year-long
lower-division course that will provide students with a background
in United States history from colonial times to the present, concentrating
on social, economic, and political developments. (Satisfies Muir
College humanities requirement and American History and Institutions
requirement.)
HILD 7A-B-C. Race and Ethnicity in the United States Lectures
and discussions surveying the topics of race, slavery, demographic
patterns, ethnic variety, rural and urban life in the U.S.A., with
special focus on European, Asian, and Mexican immigration.
HILD 7A. Race and Ethnicity in the United States (4) A
lecture-discussion course on the comparative ethnic history of the
United States. Of central concern will be slavery, race, oppression,
mass migrations, ethnicity, city life in industrial America, and
power and protest in modern America.
HILD 7B. Race and Ethnicity in the United States (4) A
lecture-discussion course on the comparative ethnic history of the
United States. Of central concern will be the Asian-American and
white ethnic groups, race, oppression, mass migrations, ethnicity,
city life in industrial America, and power and protest in modern
America.
HILD 7C. Race and Ethnicity in the United States (4) A
lecture-discussion course on the comparative ethnic history of the
United States. Of central concern will be the Mexican-American,
race, oppression, mass migrations, ethnicity, city life in industrial
America, and power and protest in modern America.
HILD 10-11-12. East Asia A lower-division
survey that compares and contrasts the development of China and
Japan from ancient times to the present. Themes include the nature
of traditional East Asian society and culture, East Asian responses
to political and economic challenges posed by an industrialized
West, and war, revolution and modernization in the twentieth century.
HILD 10. East Asia: The Great Tradition (4) Examines
the evolving characteristics of East Asian culture and civilization
before 1600. Contrasts the rise of imperial Confucian governance
in China to the development of feudal society in Japan.
HILD 11. East Asia and the West (4) Compares
Chinese and Japanese responses to Western imperialism after 1600,
focusing on popular protest and dynastic decline in China and the
rise of the modernizing nation state in Japan.
HILD 12. Twentieth-Century East Asia (4) Deals
with the rise of East Asia in the Pacific Century. This course stresses
the emergence of a regionally dominant Japan before and after World
War II and examines the process of revolution and state-building
in China during the Nationalist and Communist eras.
HILD 14. Film and History in Latin
America (4)
Students watch films on Latin America and compare them to historical
research on similar episodes or issues. Films will vary each
year but will focus on the social and psychological consequences
of colonialism, forced labor, religious beliefs, and “Modernization.”
Upper-Division
Please note: The following upper-division courses are offered
on a regular basis, although not every class is available every
year. Check with the department to see what is available each quarter.
AFRICA
Lecture Courses
HIAF 110. History of Africa to 1880 (4) A
survey of pre-colonial Africa, concentrating on ancient Africa,
Islam, state formation, the slave trade and abolition, and European
penetration of the interior. Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
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HIAF 111. Modern Africa Since 1880 (4) A
survey of African history dealing with the European scramble for
territory, primary resistance movements, the rise of nationalism
and the response of metropolitan powers, the transfer of power,
self-rule and military coups, and the quest for identity and unity.
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
HIAF 120. History of South Africa (4) The
origins and the interaction between the peoples of South Africa.
Special attention will be devoted to industrial development, urbanization,
African and Afrikaner nationalism, and the origin and development
of apartheid and its consequences. Prerequisite: upper-division
standing.
HIAF 122. Traditional African Religions (4) A
study of the meaning, structure, and sources of African traditional
religion. The course examines the attitudes of mind and belief and
practices which have evolved in many societies in Africa.
HIAF 130. African Society and the Slave Trade (4) Topics
include trans-Saharan trade, slavery with African societies, Atlantic
slave trade, East African slave trade, problems of numbers exported
and profitability, impact of slave trade on African society, and
the abolition of the slave trade. Prerequisite: upper-division
standing. Reynolds
Colloquia
The following courses are available to both undergraduate and
graduate students. Undergraduates must receive a departmental stamp
or permission of the instructor to register for the course. Requirements
for each course will differ for undergraduate, M.A., and Ph.D. students.
HIAF 161/261. Special Topics in African History (4) This
colloquium is intended for students with sufficient background in
African history. Topics, which vary from year to year, will include
traditional political, economic, and religious systems, and theory
and practice of indirect rule, decolonization, African socialism,
and pan-Africanism. Department stamp required.
HIAF 199. Independent Study in African History (4) Directed
readings for undergraduates. Prerequisite: consent of instructor
and academic adviser required.
EAST ASIA
Lecture Courses
HIEA 111. Japan: Twelfth to Mid-Nineteenth Centuries (4) Covers
important political issuessuch as the medieval decentralization
of state power, unification in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,
the Tokugawa system of rule, and conflicts between rulers and ruledwhile
examining long-term changes in economy, society, and culture.
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HIEA 112. Japan: From the Mid-Nineteenth Century through the
U.S. Occupation (4) Topics include the
Meiji Restoration, nationalism, industrialization, imperialism,
Taish Democracy, and the Occupation. Special attention will
be given to the costs as well as benefits of modernization
and the relations between dominant and subordinated cultures and
groups within Japan.
HIEA 113. The Fifteen-Year War in Asia and the Pacific (4) Lecture-discussion
course approaching the 1931-1945 war through various local,
rather than simply national, experiences. Perspectives examined
include those of marginalized groups within Japan, Japanese Americans,
Pacific Islanders, and other elites and nonelites in Asian and Pacific
settings.
HIEA 114. Postwar Japan (4) Examines
social, cultural, political, and economic transformations and continuities
in Japan since World War II. Emphases will differ by instructor.
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
HIEA 115. Social and Cultural History of Twentieth-Century Japan
(4) Japanese culture and society changed
dramatically during the twentieth century. This course will focus
on the transformation of cultural codes into what we know as Japanese,
the politics of culture, and the interaction between individuals
and society.
HIEA 116. Japan-U.S. Relations (4) Survey
of relations between Japan and the United States in the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries. Although the focus will be on these nation-states,
the course will be framed within the global transformation of societies.
Topics include cultural frameworks, political and economic changes,
colonialism and imperialism, and migration.
HIEA 117. Ghosts in Japan (4) By
examining the roles of ghosts in Japanese belief systems in a non-scientific
age, this course addresses topics including folk beliefs and ghost
stories, religiosity, early science, tools of amelioration and authoritative
knowledge, and the relationship between myth and history. Prerequisite:
upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
HIEA 120. Classical Chinese Philosophy and Culture (4) Course
covers the period from the second millennium B.C. to second century
A.D. This is a formative period in Chinese history, witnessing the
flowering of philosophical schoolsConfucianism, Taoism, and
Realism. It was also during this period that the foundations of
Chinese political and social structures were laid down. +
HIEA 121. Medieval Chinese Culture and Society (4) This
course covers the period from the sixth century to thirteenth century,
the time of the glorious Tang and Sung dynasties. We focus
on the medieval revolution that changed the political,
economic, and social life of the empire. As much as possible we
study these changes from the eyes of the people who lived through
themaristocrats, peasants, soldiers, merchants, women. Prerequisite:
HIEA 120 recommended but not required.+
HIEA 122. Late Imperial Chinese Culture and Society (4) This
course surveys Chinese culture and society from the fifteenth century
to the eighteenth century. We will explore the experiences of a
range of political actorsemperors, scholar-officials, merchants,
peasants, and women from all classes. Prerequisites: HIEA 120
and EA 121 recommended but not required.+
HIEA 125. Women and Gender in East Asia (4)
Meanings of womanhood in traditional China, Japan, and Korea, and
the impact of modern transformation on gender roles in the three
nations, focusing on the seventh through the early twentieth
centuries. Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
HIEA 126. The
Silk Road in Chinese and Japanese History (4)
This course studies the peoples, cultures, religions, economics,
arts, and technologies of the trade routes known collectively
as the Silk Road from c. 200 BCE to 1000 CE. We will use an
interdisciplinary
approach. Primary sources will include written texts and visual
materials. We will examine these trade routes as an early example
of globalization. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or
consent of instructor. +
HIEA 127. History of Medicine in China (4) History
of medicine in Chinese society from antiquity to the present day.
Medical conceptions of the human body, gender, health, geography,
climate, disease, and epidemics. Change in medical institutions,
ideas, publishing, practitioners, and therapies. Prerequisite:
upper-division standing.
HIEA 128. History of Material Culture in China (4)
Introduction to material culture in China from a historical perspective.
Consider Chinese primary sources (including both historical
texts and objects) from the point of view of the new interdisciplinary
field of material culture studies. Prerequisite: upper-division
standing.
HIEA 130. History of the Modern Chinese Revolution: 18001911
(4) This course stresses the major social,
political, and intellectual problems of China in the period from
the Opium War to the Revolution of 1911. Special emphasis is placed
on the nature of traditional Chinese society and values, the impact
of Western imperialism and popular rebellion on the traditional
order, reform movements, and the origins of the early revolutionary
movement.
HIEA 131. History of the Modern Chinese Revolution: 19111949
(4) This course deals with the formative
period of the twentieth-century Chinese revolution. Considerable
stress is placed on the iconoclastic New Culture period, the rise
of the student movement, Chinese communism, the labor movement,
revolutionary nationalism, and the emergence of the peasant movement.
HIEA 132. History of the Peoples Republic of China (4) This
course analyzes the history of the PRC from 1949 to the present.
Special emphasis is placed on the problem of postrevolutionary institutionalization,
the role of ideology, the tension between city and countryside,
Maoism, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution.
HIEA 133. Twentieth Century China: Cultural History (4) This
course looks at how the historical problems of twentieth- century
China are treated in the popular and elite cultures of the nationalist
and communist eras. Special emphasis is placed on film and fiction.
Knowledge of Chinese required.
HIEA 137. Women and Family in Chinese History (4) We
explore how the Confucian philosophy influenced the way the Chinese
look at the family and the role of women in it, as well as the domestic
lives that men and women actually led from the classical times to
the present day. Prerequisite: upper-division standing. +
Colloquia
The following courses are available to both undergraduate and
graduate students. Undergraduates must receive a departmental stamp
or permission of the instructor to register for the course. Requirements
for each course will differ for undergraduate, M.A., and Ph.D. students.
HIEA 160/260. Seminar in Modern Japanese History (4) This
colloquium examines controversial domestic and international issues
in Japanese history from 1850 to recent times. Topics will vary
from year to year. Prerequisite: department stamp, consent of
instructor.
HIEA 162/262. History of Women in China (4) This
course concerns women in Chinese history in Imperial times. This
course will focus on womens changing roles in the family,
society, and culture. Topics will vary from year to year. Requirements
will vary for undergraduate, M.A., and Ph.D. students. Prerequisite:
upper-division standing.
HIEA 164/264. Seminar in Late Imperial Chinese History (4) Special
topics in late Imperial Chinese history. Topics will vary from year
to year. Requirements will vary for M.A. and Ph.D. students. Graduate
students may be expected to submit a more substantial piece of work.
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
+
HIEA 165/265. History of Material Culture in China (4)
Introduction to material culture in China from a historical perspective.
Consider Chinese primary sources (including both historical texts
and objects) from the point of view of the new interdisciplinary
field of material culture studies. Requirements will vary for
undergraduate, M.A., and Ph.D. students. Graduate students are
required to submit an additional paper.
HIEA 167/267. Special Topics in Modern Chinese History (4) This
seminar examines controversial, domestic, and international issues
in Chinese history from 1800 to recent times. Prerequisite: department
stamp or consent of instructor.
HIEA 168/268. Topics in Classical and Medieval Chinese History
(4) This course covers specific topics
in Chinese society, thought, religion, culture, and history from
the Zhon through the Song dynasties. It always involves reading
primary sources. Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent
of instructor, department stamp. +
HIEA 170/270. Colloquium on Science, Technology, and Medicine
in China (4) In this course students
will examine Chinese history through writings on nature, the heavens,
and the human body. The focus will be on the traditional Chinese
sciences: medicine, divination, astronomy, alchemy, and geomancy.
Discussion will be based on primary Chinese sources in English translation
including literary, religious, philosophical, governmental, and
medical texts. Prerequisite: department stamp.
HIEA 171/271.
Society and Culture in Premodern China (4)
Explores premodern Chinese society and culture through the reading
and discussion of classics and masterpieces in history. Examines
how values and ideas were represented in the texts and how they
differed, developed, or shifted over time. Requirements will
vary for undergraduate, M.A., and Ph.D. students. Graduate students
are required to submit an additional paper. Prerequisites:
upper-division or graduate standing, department stamp.
HIEA 199. Independent Study in East Asian History (4) Directed
reading for undergraduates under the supervision of various faculty
members. Prerequisite: consent of instructor required.
EUROPE
See Histof ry oScience for more European courses (HISC 101ABC,
HISC 106)
Lecture Courses
HIEU 101. Greece in the Classical Age (4) The
social, political, and cultural history of the ancient Greek world
from the Persian Wars to the death of Alexander the Great (480323
B.C.). +
HIEU 102. The Roman Republic (4) The
political, economic, and intellectual history of the Roman world
from the foundation of Rome to the time of Julius Caesar. +
HIEU 103. The Roman Empire (4) The
political, economic, and intellectual history of the Roman world
from the time of Julius Caesar to the death of Justinian (A.D. 565).
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HIEU 104. Byzantine Empire (4) A
survey course of the history of the Byzantine state from the reign
of Constantine to the fall of Constan-tinople. This course will
emphasize the importance of the Byzantine state within a larger
European focus, its relationship to the emerging Arab states, its
political and cultural contributions to Russia and the late medieval
west. +
HIEU 109. European Nationalism from a Historical Perspective
(4) An exploration of the origins, evolution,
and role of nationalism in European history, from the French Revolution
to the present. Nationalism has been a major force in consolidating
nation-states, in creating modern identities, and in mobilizing
mass movements in the modern world, and most scholars locate its
birthplace in Europe. The course will provide a comparative history
of nationalism as idea and political movement in each of the major
European countries, as well as a more thematic analysis of scholarly
approaches to the construction of nationalism and national identities.
+
HIEU 110. The Rise of Europe (4) The
development of European society and culture from the decline of
the Roman Empire to 1050. Prerequisit: Humanities sequence or
its equivalent. +
HIEU 111. Europe in the Middle Ages (4) The
development of European society and culture from 1050 to 1400. Prerequisite:
Humanities sequence or its equivalent. +
HIEU 113. Rule, Conflict, and Dissent in the Middle Ages (4) This
course explores the question of religious and political dissent
in Europe from the twelfth through the fifteenth centuries. We will
explore the tensions between ideal models of religious and cultural
unity, and the realities of community conflict, heretical controversies,
and popular uprisings. +
HIEU 119. Modern Italy: From Unification to the Present
(4) History of Italy from the 1860s
to the present with special focus on the changing relationship between
state and society. Topics include the “Southern problem,”
the Catholic Church, the fascist dictatorship, the Cold War, terrorism,
contemporary politics, and culture. Prerequisite: upper-division
standing or consent of instructor.
HIEU 120. The Renaissance in Italy (4) The
social, political, and cultural transformation of late-medieval
Italy from the heyday of mercantile expansion before the plague
to the dissolution of the Italian state system with the French invasions
of 1494. Special focus upon family, associational life and factionalism
in the city, the development of the techniques of capitalist accumulation,
and the spread of humanism. Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
+
HIEU 121. Early Modern Italy (4) Society,
politics, and culture in the Italian states from the Renaissance
to the Enlightenment provide a laboratory to study the complex interaction
and transformation of a wide variety of social and political systems.
Prerequisite: upper-division standing. +
HIEU 122. Politics Italian Renaissance Style (4) Modern
political and historical thought find their roots in the realistic
examination of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italian political
experience. Contemporary Renaissance humanists and thinkersMachiavelli,
Guicciardini, Castiglione, Botero, and Campanellatested classical,
Christian, and legal models against practical necessities. +
HIEU 125. Reformation Europe (4) The
intellectual and social history of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation
from the French invasions to the Edict of Nantes. Emphasis is upon
reform from below and above, the transformation of grass-roots spirituality
into institutional control. Prerequisite: upper-division standing
or consent of instructor. +
HIEU 126. Age of Expansion: Europe and the World, 14001600
(4) Course will begin with a survey of
the major empires of the fifteenth century, concentrating on the
links between them. It will then examine the entrance of Europeans
on the global scene in the sixteenth century. This part of the course
will examine European/ non-European encounters, focusing on perceptions,
economic interaction, and institutional adaptation and will emphasize
the Hispanic American, Ottoman, and Indian Ocean cases. +
HIEU 127. Sport in the Modern World (4) This
course looks at the phenomenon of sport in all of its social, cultural,
political, and economic aspects. The starting point will be the
emergence of modern sport in nineteenth-century Britain, but the
focus will be global. Since the approach will be topical rather
than chronological, students should already have a good knowledge
of world history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Prerequisite:
upper-division standing.
HIEU 128. Europe Since 1945 An analysis
of European history since the end of the Second World War. Focus
is on political, social, economic, and cultural developments within
European societies as well as on Europes relationship with
the wider world (the Cold War, decolonization).
HIEU 129. Paris, Past and Present (4) This
course surveys the historical and cultural significance of Paris
from about 1500 to the present. The focus is on interactions between
political, architectural, and urban evolutions, and the changing
populations of Paris in times of war, revolutions, and peace. +
HIEU 130. Europe in the Eighteenth Century (4) A
lecture-discussion course focusing on Europe from 1688-1789. Emphasis
is on the social, cultural, and intellectual history of France,
Germany, and England. Topics considered will include family life,
urban and rural production and unrest, the poor, absolutism, and
the Enlightenment from Voltaire to Rousseau. Prerequisite: upper-division
standing. +
HIEU 131. The French Revolution: 17891814 (4) This
course examines the Revolution in France and its impact in Europe
and the Caribbean. Special emphasis will be given to the origins
of the Revolution, the development of political and popular radicalism
and symbolism from 1789 to 1794, the role of political participants
(e.g., women, sans-culottes, Robespierre), and the legacy of revolutionary
wars and the Napeoleonic system on Europe. Prerequisite: upper-division
standing. +
HIEU 132. Germany from Luther to Bismarck (4) How
Germany, from being a maze of tiny states rife with religious conflict,
became a nation. Did the nations-building process lead to Nazism?
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
HIEU 133. Gender in Antiquity and the Early Medieval Mediterranean
(4) This course discusses sex and gender
at the end of the classical period and its development into the
Middle Ages in both Eastern and Western Mediterranean. Course will
examine the ways in which our medieval predecessors assigned gender
traits and relationships to members of society. It will approach
the topic in part through an examination of the language used about
gender and in part through use of modern gender theories. Prerequisite:
upper-division standing. +
HIEU 134. The Formation of the Russian Empire, 8001855
(4) State-building and imperial expansion
among the peoples of the East Slavic lands of Europe and Asia from
the origins of the Russian state in ninth-century Kiev, through
Peter the Greats empire up to the middle of the nineteenth
century. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of
instructor. +
HIEU 136. The Napoleonic Era (4) A
study of the social, intellectual, military, and political currents
in French history from 1799 to 1815. Special emphasis on Napoleonic
Frances interactions with Europe, the non-European world,
women, and the military. Lectures, slides, readings, and discussions.
HIEU 136A. European Society and Social Thought, 16881870
(4) A lecture and discussion course on
European political and cultural development and social theory from
1688-1870. Important writings will be considered both as responses
to and as provocations for political and cultural change. +
HIEU 136B. European Society and Social Thought, 18701989
(4) A lecture and discussion course on
European political and cultural development and theory from 1870-1989.
Important writings will be considered both as responses to and as
provocations for political and cultural change.
HIEU 138. Imperial Spain, 14761808 (4) The
rise and decline of Spains European empire from Ferdinand
and Isabella to 1700. The revival of Spain and her return to European
affairs in the eighteenth century. Prerequisite: upper-division
standing or graduate standing. +
HIEU 139. The Origins of Constitutions (4) The
course will cover the development of constitutional ideas and institutions
from the twelfth century to the U.S. Constitution. Students will
read legal texts and commentaries that established the foundations
of the ideas of the rule of law, limited government, inalienable
rights, and the independent judiciary. Students will study the formation
of institutions such as parliament, the court system, and common
law. The course will start and finish with an analysis of the U.S.
Constitution. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent
of instructor. +
HIEU 141. European Diplomatic History, 18701945 (4) European
imperialism, alliances, and the outbreak of the First World War.
The postwar settlement and its breakdown. The advent of Hitler and
the disarray of the western democracies. The Second World War and
the emergence of the super powers.
HIEU 142. European Intellectual History, 17801870 (4) European
thought from the late Enlightenment and the French Revolution to
Marx and Baudelaire, emphasizing the origins of romanticism, idealism,
and positivism in England, Germany, and France. Prerequisite:
upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
HIEU 143. European Intellectual History, 18701945 (4) A
lecture-discussion course on the crisis of bourgeois culture, the
redefinition of Marxist ideology, and the transformation of modern
social theory. Readings will include Nietzsche, Sorel, Weber, Freud,
and Musil. (This course satisfies the minor in the Humanities Program.)
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
HIEU 146. Fascism, Communism, and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy:
Europe 19191945 (4) A consideration
of the political, social, and cultural crisis that faced Western
liberal democracies in the interwar period, with emphasis on the
mass movements that opposed bourgeois liberalism from both the left
and the right.
HIEU 147. The History of Women in Europe: Middle Ages to the
Early Modern Era (4) This course explores
shifts in the roles and representations of women from the early
middle ages, through the Renaissance and Reformation, and up to
the seventeenth century. Topics will be examined across the European
social order and include gender and sexuality, holy women, religious
movements, and production and reproduction. Prerequisite: upper-division
standing. +
HIEU 148. European Women: the Enlightenment to the Victorian
Era (4) This course explores shifts in
the roles and representations of women from the late seventeenth
century to about 1870. Topics are examined across the European social
order and include: gender and sexuality, women writers and print
culture, womens participation in the French and industrial
revolutions, and the emergence of feminist movements. Prerequisite:
upper-division standing or consent of instructor. +
HIEU 149. History of Women in Europe: 1870 to the Present (4) This
course explores the history of women across classes from 1870 to
the present, with an emphasis on the variety of womens experience
and the efforts towards and obstacles to empowerment. Topics include:
women and the state, science and gender, feminist movements and
the evolution of womens work. Prerequisite: upper-division
standing.
HIEU 150. Modern British History (4) Emphasis
on changes in social structure and corresponding shifts in political
power. The expansion and the end of empire. Two World Wars and the
erosion of economic leadership. Prerequisite: upper-division
standing or consent of instructor.
HIEU 151. Spain since 1808 (4) Social,
political, cultural history of Spain since Napoleon. Features second
Spanish Republic, the Civil War, Franco era, and transition to democracy.
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
HIEU 153A. Nineteenth-Century France (4) A
study of the social, intellectual, and political currents in French
history from the Revolution of 1789 to the eve of the First World
War. Lectures, slides, films, readings, and discussions.
HIEU 154. Modem German History: From Bismarck to Hitler (4) An
analysis of the volatile course of German history from unification
to the collapse of the Nazi dictatorship. Focus is on domestic developments
inside Germany as well as on their impact on European and global
politics in the twentieth century.
HIEU 155. Modern Austria (4) The
political, social, and intellectual history of Austria from Maria
Theresa to the First Republic with special emphasis on the crisis
of liberal culture in the late nineteenth century. Prerequisite:
upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
HIEU 156. The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, 18551991
(4) War, revolution, development, and
terror in the multi-national empires of the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of
instructor.
HIEU 158. Why Hitler? How Auschwitz?
(4) Why did Germany in 1919
produce an Adolf Hitler; how did the Nazis take power in 1933
; and why did the Third Reich last until 1945? Why did the war
against the Jews become industrial and absolute? Prerequisite:
upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
HIEU 159. Three Centuries of Zionism,
1648–1948 (4) For centuries
the land of Israel was present in Jewish minds and hearts. Why
and how did the return to Zion become a reality? Which were the
vicissitudes of Jewish life in Palestine? Prerequisite: upper-division
standing or consent of instructor.
Colloquia
The following courses are available to both undergraduate and
graduate students. Undergraduates must receive a departmental stamp
or permission of the instructor to register for the course. Requirements
for each course will differ for undergraduate, M.A., and Ph.D. students.
HIEU 160/260. Topics in the History of Greece (4) A
seminar focusing on selected topics in Greek history from the Bronze
Age to the Roman Conquest. Prerequisite: upper-division standing
or consent of instructor. +
HIEU 161/261. Topics in Roman History (4) A
seminar focusing on selected topics in Roman history and culture
from the period of the Kings to the later Roman Empire. Prerequisite:
upper-division or graduate standing or consent of instructor.
+
HIEU 163/263. Special Topics in Medieval History (4) Intensive
study of special problems or periods in the history of medieval
Europe. Topics vary from year to year, and students may therefore
repeat the course for credit. Prerequisites: background in European
history and upper-division standing. +
HIEU 164/264.
Special Topics in Early Modern Europe (4)
This course looks at the European and non-European in the early
modern era. Topics will vary year to year. Requirements will
vary for undergraduate, M.A., and Ph.D. students. Graduate students
are required to submit a more substantial piece of work. Prerequisite:
upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
HIEU 171/271. Special Topics in Twentieth-Century Europe (4) This
course alternates with HIEU 170. Topics will vary from year to year.
Prerequisite: background in European history.
HIEU 172/272. War in the Twentieth Century (4) Reckonings
by novelists, essayists, and biographers with the phenomenon of
contemporary warfare as an unprecedented experience and an abiding
threat. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
HIEU 174/274. The Holocaust: A Psychological Approach (4) An
examination of how traditional moral concerns and human compassion
came to be abandoned and how the mass murder of the Jews was organized
and carried out. The focus of this course will be on the perpetrators.
Requirements will vary for undergraduate M.A. and Ph.D. students.
Graduate students are required to submit a more substantial piece
of work. Prerequisites: upper-division or consent of instructor.
Department stamp required.
HIEU 175/275. Selected Topics in the History of Nineteenth-
and Twentieth-Century Spain (4) Topics
may include economic development, modernization, political change,
intellectual history, and the transition to democracy. Prerequisite:
upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
HIEU 177/277. Special Topics in Modern German Thought (4) Topics
will vary from year to year. (Satisfies the Humanities Program minor.)
Prerequisite: background in European history.
HIEU 177A/277A. The Two Germanys Since 1945 An
analysis of the parallel and divergent paths of East and West Germany
since 1945. Focus is on the close interrelationship between both
postwar societies as well as on the origins of the East German revolution
and unification in 198990. Prerequisite: upper-division
standing or consent of instructor.
HIEU 178/278. Soviet
History (4) Topics will vary from
year to year. Graduate students are required to submit a more
substantial
paper.
Prere-quisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
HIEU 180/280. Topics in European Womens History (4) The
specific content of the course will vary from year to year, but
will always analyze in depth a limited number of issues in European
womens history. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or
consent of instructor.
HIEU 199. Independent Study in European History (4) Directed
readings for undergraduates under the supervision of various faculty
members. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Latin America
Lecture Courses
HILA 100. Latin AmericaColonial Transformations (4) Lecture-discussion
survey of Latin America from the pre-Columbian era to 1825. It addresses
such issues as the nature of indigenous cultures, the implanting
of colonial institutions, native resistance and adaptations, late
colonial growth and the onset of independence. +
HILA 101. Latin America: The Construction of Independence 18101898
(4) Lecture-discussion survey of Latin
America in the nineteenth century. It addresses such issues as the
collapse of colonial practices in the society and economy as well
as the creation of national governments, political instability,
disparities among regions within particular countries, and of economies
oriented toward the export of goods to Europe and the United States.
HILA 102. Latin America in the Twentieth Century (4) This
course surveys the history of the region by focusing on two interrelated
phenomena: the absence of democracy in most nations and the regions
economic dependence on more advanced countries, especially the United
States. Among the topics discussed will be the Mexican Revolution,
the military in politics, labor movements, the wars in Central America,
liberation theology, and the current debt crisis. Prerequisite:
upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
HILA 103. Revolution in Modern Latin America A
political, economic, and social examination of the causes and consequences
of the Mexican, Cuban, and Nicaraguan revolutions. Also examine
guerrilla movements that failed to gain power in their respective
countries, namely the Shinning Path in Peru, FARC in Colombia, and
the Zapatistas in Mexico. Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
HILA 104. Modern U.S.-Latin American Relations A
survey of inter-American relations during the twentieth century.
Emphasis will be placed on U.S. territorial and economic expansion,
U.S. national-security and ideological morality, and Latin American
efforts to influence U.S. policy in order to strengthen, in most
cases, elite domination of society. Prerequisite: upper-division
standing.
HILA 108. Economic History: Continuity and Change in Latin
America (4) Main economic processes in
Latin America, from colonial times to the twenty-first century,
to understand what has been called the “colonial heritage”
role played by economic actors, including the state and foreign
capital, and will read Latin America’s development in a comparative
perspective. Main theoretical propositions to understand patterns
of development. No training in economics or statistics is required.
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
HILA 112. Economic and Social History of the Andean Region
(4) Study of the economic and social problems
of the Andean region from the colonial period until the crisis of
1912, with special attention to theoretical models to explain the
processes of change. Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
HILA 113. Lord and Peasant in Latin America (4)
Examination of the historical roots of population problems, social
conflict, and revolution in Latin America, with emphasis on man-land
relationships. Special emphasis on modern reform efforts and
on Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, and Argentina. Lecture, discussion,
reading, and films. Prerequisite: upper-division standing
or consent of instructor.
HILA 114. Dictatorships in Latin America
(4)
How did dictatorships come about? Who were the authoritarian
leaders? How did they organize their regimes and what were
the consequences?
Recent publications on dictators in Latin America allow for comparisons
across countries and throughout time to answer those questions.
Prerequisite: upper-division standing. HILA 115. The Latin American City, a History (4) A
survey of the development of urban forms of Latin America and of
the role that cities played in the region as administrative and
economic centers. After a brief survey of pre-Columbian centers,
the lectures will trace the development of cities as outposts of
the Iberian empires and as city-states that formed the
nuclei of new nations after 1810. The course concentrates primarily
on the cities of South America, but some references will be made
to Mexico City. It ends with a discussion of modern social ills
and Third World urbanization. Lima, Santiago de Chile, Buenos Aires,
Rio de Janeiro, and Sao Paulo are its principal examples. Prerequisite:
upper-division standing.
HILA 116. El Salvador and the
United States: Human Rights and Revolution (4)
From coffee boom through rebellion, militarization, revolution,
state terrorism, and migration, the U.S. has loomed large in
the history of El Salvador. This course explores this relationship
from 1920 to the present through the prisms of revolution and
human rights. Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
HILA 120. History of Argentina (4) A
survey from the colonial period to the present, with an emphasis
on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Among the topics covered:
the expansion of the frontier, the creation of a cosmopolitan, predominately
European culture, and the failure of industrialization to provide
an economic basis for democracy. Prerequisite: upper-division
standing.
HILA 121. History of Brazil (4) From
colonial times to the present, with an emphasis on the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries. Among the topics covered: the evolution
of a slave-based economy, the key differences among regions, the
military in politics, and the creation of the most populous and
industrialized country in Latin America. Prerequisite: upper-division
standing.
HILA 122. Cuba: From Colony to Socialist Republic A
lecture-discussion course on the historical roots of revolutionary
Cuba, with special emphasis on the impact of the United States on
the islands development and society. Prerequisite: upper-division
standing.
HILA 126. From Columbus to Castro: Caribbean Culture and
Society (4)
Exploration of the relationships between socioeconomic and cultural
development in Caribbean history; slavery and empire; nationalism
and migration; vodun and Rastafarianism, and the literary arts.
Prerequisite: upper-division standing. HILA 131. A History of Mexico (4) A
century of Mexican history, 1821-1924: the quest for political unity
and economic solvency, the forging of a nationality, the Gilded
Age and aftermath, the ambivalent Revolution of Zapata and his enemies.
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
HILA 132. A History of Contemporary Mexico (4) The
paradox of a conservative state as heir to a legendary social upheaval,
with special emphasis on the mural art renaissance, the school crusade,
the economic dilemma, and the failure to eradicate poverty and inequality.
Lectures and discussion. Prerequisite: upper-division standing
or consent of instructor.
Colloquia
The following courses are available to both undergraduate and
graduate students. Undergraduates must receive a departmental stamp
or permission of the instructor to register for the course. Requirements
for each course will differ for undergraduate, M.A., and Ph.D. students.
HILA 161/261. History of Women in Latin America (4) A
broad historical overview of Hispanic-American womens history
focusing on issues of gender, sexuality, and the family as they
relate to women, as well as the historiographical issues in Latin
American and Chicana womens history. Prerequisites: upper-division
standing and consent of instructor.
HILA 162/262. Special Topics in Latin American History (4) Topics
will vary from year to year or quarter to quarter. May be repeated
for an infinite number of times due to the nature of the content
of the course always changing. Prerequisite: upper-division standing
or consent of instructor.
HILA 163/263. The History of Chile 1880–Present (4) The
course surveys Chile’s basic developments beginning with the
era of nitrate exports. Students will have the opportunity to address
a specific issue of his/her own choosing and develop the topic for
class presentation and a final paper. Graduate students are expected
to submit a more substantial piece of work. Prerequisite: upper-division
standing or consent of instructor.
HILA 164/264. Women’s Work and Family Life in Latin
America (4) Inside or outside of the household,
women have always worked. Where do we find Latin American women,
how has the labor market changed, how was and is women’s work
perceived, what were the consequences of changing work patterns
on family life? Requirements will vary for undergraduate, M.A.,
and Ph.D. students. Graduate students are required to submit a more
substantial piece of work. Prerequisite: upper-division standing
or consent of instructor and department stamp.
HILA 167/267.
Historical Scholarship on Latin American History (4)
Introduction to the historiography on Latin America for the colonial
period from Spanish and Portuguese conquests to the Wars of Independence.
Requirements will vary for undergraduate, M.S., and Ph.D. students.
Graduate students are required to submit an additional research
paper. Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of
instructor; reading knowledge of Spanish; department stamp.
HILA 168/268.
Historical Scholarship on Latin American History (4)
Introduction to the historiography on Latin America for the nineteenth
century: world economy, nation-state building, agrarian processes,
incipient industrialization, political and cultural thought,
and social structure. Requirements will vary for undergraduate,
M.A.,
and Ph.D. students. Graduate students are required to submit
an additional research paper. Prerequisites: upper-division
standing or consent of instructor; reading knowledge of Spanish;
department
stamp.
HILA 169/269.
Historical Scholarship on Latin American History (4)
Introduction to the historiography on Latin America for the twentieth
century: agrarian reforms, unionization, industrialization
by import substitution, the political left, social development,
and international
relations. Requirements will vary for undergraduate, M.A.,
and
Ph.D. students. Graduate students are required to submit an
additional research paper. Prerequisites: upper-division
standing or consent
of instructor; reading knowledge of Spanish; department stamp. HILA 170/270. Topics in Latin American History, 18201910 Topics
may vary from year to year. May be repeated for credit. Requirements
will vary for undergraduate, M.A., and Ph.D. students. Graduate
students must be required to submit a more substantial piece of
work. Prerequisite: upper-division or graduate standing.
HILA 171/271. Topics in Latin American History 1910 Topics
may vary from year to year. May be repeated for credit. Requirements
will vary for undergraduates, M.A., and Ph.D. students. Graduate
students must be required to submit a more substantial piece of
work. Prerequisite: upper-division or graduate standing.
HILA 199. Independent Study in Latin American History (4) Directed
readings for undergraduates under the supervision of various faculty
members. Prerequisite: consent of instructor and department stamp.
NEAR EAST
Lecture Courses
HINE 100. The Ancient Near East and Israel (4) Introduction
to the history and literature of ancient Israel, from c.1200 B.C.E.
to c. 500 B.C.E. Reading from the Bible, historical and archaeological
surveys, and studies of authorship. +
HINE 102. The Jews in Their Homeland in Antiquity (4) The
Jews in Israel from the sixth century BCE to the seventh century
CE. Statehood, nationalism, and autonomy within the framework of
the Persian empire, the Hellenistic kingdoms, and the Roman-Byzantine
empire. Cultural and religious developments will be explored. Prerequisite:
upper-division standing. +
HINE 103. The Jewish Diaspora in
Antiquity (4)
The Jews outside their homeland and in pre-Islamic times, concentrating
on the Greco-Roman West and the Parthian-Sasanian East. Topics
include assimilation and survival; anti-Semitism and missionizing;
patterns of organization and autonomy; cultural and religious
developments. Prerequisite: upper-division standing. HINE 105. The Bible and the Near East: The Prophets (4) This
course covers the four books of the Latter Prophets, including the
three major prophets, Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Jeremiah, and the twelve
minor prophets. +
HINE 106. The Bible and the Near East: The Writings (4) This
course covers the books of the Hebrew Bible not covered in HINE
104 and HINE 105. It will include Psalms, Proverbs, Job, the Megillot,
Daniel, and the Chroniclers Work. +
HINE 108. The Middle East before Islam (4) The
peoples, politics, and cultures of Southwest Asia and Egypt from
the sixth century B.C.E. to the seventh century C.E. The Achemenid
Empire, the Ptolemaic and Seleucid kingdoms, the Roman Orient, the
Parthian and Sasanian states. Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
+
HINE 109A. Learning to Read Biblical Hebrew I (4) The
Hebrew Bible in its original tongue and historical context. Emphasis
is placed on acquiring a basic vocabulary, mastering fundamentals
of grammar, and practice at reading. No previous knowledge of Hebrew
is required. Offered during the summer. Prerequisite: upper-division
standing.
HINE 109B. Learning to Read Biblical Hebrew II (4) Continued
study of the language of the Bible with emphasis on advanced grammar
and vocabulary. Prerequisite: HINE 109A. Offered during
the summer.
HINE 114. History of the Islamic Middle East A
survey of the Middle East from the rise of Islam to the regions
economic, political, and cultural integration into the West (mid-nineteenth
century). Emphasis on socioeconomic and political change in the
early Arab empires and the Ottoman state. +
HINE 115. Islamic Civilization (4) An
introductory survey of Islamic civilizations. History and society,
law, science and philosophy, arts and letters, and architecture.
A broad picture of the dynamics and achievements of Islamic societies
over time. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent
of instructor.
HINE 116. The Middle East in the Age of European Empires
(1798–1914)
(4)
Examines the contacts of the late Ottoman Empire and Qajar Iran
with Europe from the Napoleonic invasion of Egypt to World War
I, the diverse facets of the relationship with the West , and
the reshaping of the institutions of the Islamic states and societies. HINE 118. The Middle East in the Twentieth Century (4) An
introduction to the history of the Middle East since 1914. Themes
such as nationalism, imperialism, the oil revolution, and religious
revivalism will be treated within a broad chronological and comparative
framework drawing on the experience of selected countries.
HINE 119. Contemporary Middle East Conflicts (4) An
examination of post-WWII Middle East conflicts, including the Israeli-Arab
conflicts, the Lebanese Civil War, and the Gulf War of the 1980s.
The roles of the superpowers and Middle Eastern states during the
period.
HINE 122. Politicization of Religion in the Middle East
(4)
Islamic formulations of dissent from the nineteenth century to
our day; social, cultural, and political movements inflected
by religion; domestic, interregional, and international dimensions
with emphasis on the Arab East, Iran, and Turkey. Prerequisite:
upper-division standing.
HINE 123. The Emergence of Middle
East Nationalisms (4)
A survey of nationalism in the modern Middle East with reference
to current theories of identity formation in Europe and South
Asia. The course will examine shifting identities in the Ottoman
Empire,
its Turkish and Arab successor states, and Iran. Prerequisite:
upper-division standing or consent of instructor. HINE 151A/251A. Introduction to Aramaic Language (4) General
introduction to Aramaic dialects, intense study of Targumic Aramaic.
Prerequisites: knowledge of Hebrew alphabet; acquaintance with
a cognate Semitic language highly desirable. +
HINE 151B/251B. Introduction to Aramaic Dialects (4) Study
of Ancient Inscriptional Persian Imperial and Syriac Aramaic. +
HINE 151C/251C. Introduction to Aramaic Dialects (4) Study
of Qumran and Babylonian Talmudic Aramaic. +
HINE 152A/252A. The Evolution of the Northwest Semitic Dialects
(4) Priciples of historical linguistics,
application to the languages of the ancient Levant. Prerequisites:
knowledge of at least one Semitic language; a course in general
linguistics is also desirable. +
HINE 152B/252B. Introduction to Ugaritic (4) Decipherment
of Ugaritic tablets, history, and culture of ancient Ugarit, study
of Ugaritic mythic texts. +
HINE 152C/252C. Advanced Ugaritic (4) Continued
study of Ugaritic literature, comparison with Canaanite inscriptions.
+
HINE 153A/253A. Introduction to Akkadian Language and Mesopotamian
Culture (4) Students study cuneiform
script and elements of Babylonian-Assyrian grammar, as well as the
history of Ancient Mesopotamia. +
HINE 153B/253B. Continued Akkadian Language (4) Student
begin to read and analyze ancient Mesopotamian texts from a variety
of genres. +
HINE 153C/253C. Advanced Akkadian Language (4) Continued
study of Mesopotamia literature and history. +
Colloquia
The following courses are available to both undergraduate and
graduate students. Undergraduates must receive a departmental stamp
or permission of the instructor to register for the course. Requirements
for each course will differ for undergraduate, M.A., and Ph.D. students.
HINE 161/HINE 261. Seminar in the Hebrew Bible (4) Systematic
reading and rendering of the books of the Hebrew Bible in order.
Each time the class is taught, we will look at a different book.
Adequate knowledge of Biblical Hebrew is required. Graduate students
will have to write an extra paper or exam. Prerequisites: Judiac
Studies 103, graduate standing, or consent of instructor. +
HINE 166/266. Nationalism in the Middle East (4) Growth
of nationalism in relation to imperialism, religion, and revolution
in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Middle East. Emergence
of cultural and political ethnic consciousness in the Ottoman state.
Compa-rative study of Arab, Iranian, and Turkish nationalism as
well as Zionism. Prerequisite: department stamp or consent of
instructor.
HINE 170/270. Special Topics in Jewish History (4) This
course studies a period or theme in Jewish history. Topics will
vary from year to year. Prerequisite: department stamp required.
HINE 181/281. Problems in the Study of Hebrew Manuscripts (4) Detailed
study of a portion of biblical text. Focus on text-critical and
source-critical problems. Prerequisite: upper-division or graduate
standing. +
HINE 186/286. Special Topics in Middle Eastern History (4) Focused
study of historical roots of contemporary problems in the Middle
East: Islamic modernism and Islamist movements; contacts with the
West; ethnic and religious minorities; role of the military; economic
resources and development. Department stamp and permission of instructor.
HINE 199. Independent Study in Near Eastern History (4) Directed
readings for undergraduates under the supervision of various faculty
members. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
HISTORY OF RELIGION
HIRE 120. Buddhist Thought and Practice (4) An
introduction to the Buddhist religion, with attention to its moral
and philosophical teachings, its modes of practice (e.g. meditation,
ritual), and its social and institutional contexts. The course takes
a historical approach, concentrating on the traditions as they developed
within India.
HISTORY OF SCIENCE
Lecture Courses
HISC 101A. Science in the Greek and Roman World (4) A
survey of the principal features of ancient science: the origins
of Greek naturalism, the criticism of magic, notions of quantification.
Topics may include astronomy, astrology, geography, geometry, optics,
mechanics and physical theory, classification of living beings,
and human cognition. Emphasis on primary sources, such as the presocratic
natural philosophers: Plato, Artistotle, Euclid, Archimedes, Ptolemy,
Pliny Galen, and Proclus. Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
+
HISC 101B. Medieval Science in the Latin West, ca. 5001500
(4) Styles of the medieval scientific
imagination. Reception and assimilation of the learning of the ancient
world, especially Aristotle, Plato, Euclid, Galen, and Ptolemy.
Struggles to reconcile Greek, Arabic, and Christian ideals of knowledge.
Rise of universities. Natural philosophy, logic, geometry, optics,
astronomy, astrology, mechanics, geography, and classification of
living beings. Prerequisite: upper-division standing. +
HISC 101C. Early Modern Science (4) Early
forms of modern science, mid-15th to 17th centuries. The revolution
in printing. Sites of knowledge-making: university and court cultures,
museums, academies. Astrology, astronomy, literature of the heavens,
prophecy and apocalyptic expectation. Natural history, medicine,
alchemy, magic and the physico-mathematical sciences. Prerequisite:
upper-division standing. +
HISC 102. Technology in World History
(4)
Technology as an agent of change. How have humans harnessed the
power of nature? What factors have contributed to successes and
failures? How has technology changed human life? How should we
evaluate the quality of these changes? Prerequisite: upper-division
standing. HISC 103. Gender and Science in Historical Perspective
(4) History of women’s struggles
and strategies for access and equality in professional science.
Questions related to gender bias in science—as a social institution
and as an epistemological enterprise—will be addressed in
light of the historical and biographical readings. Prerequisite:
upper-division standing.
HISC 104. History of Popular Science (4) Historical
aspects of the popularization of science. The changing relation
between expert science and popular understanding. The reciprocal
impact of scientific discoveries and theories, and popular conceptions
of the natural world. Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
HISC 105. History of Environmentalism (4) History
of human effects on the natural environment, and with environmentalist
interpretations of the history of science.
HISC 106. The Scientific Revolution (4) A
cultural history of the formation of early modern science in the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: the social forms of scientific
life; the construction and meaning of the new cosmologies from Copernicus
to Newton; the science of politics and the politics of science;
the origins of experimental practice; how Sir Isaac Newton restored
law and order to the West. Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
+
HISC 107. The Emergence of Modern Science The
development of the modern conception of the sciences, and of the
modern social and institutional structure of scientific activity,
chiefly in Europe, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
HISC 108. Science and Technology in the Twentieth Century (4) Major
intellectual developments in twentieth-century science, including
quantum mechanics and relativity, molecular biology and DNA, and
plate tectonics. Emphasis on the sources of new ideas and evidence
in science, and the forging of consensus in scientific communities.
Prerequisite: upper-division standing. Oreskes
HISC 109. Science in Western Civilization (4)
An introduction to scientific thought as it relates to Western
culture. Among the topics considered: Aristotelian, medieval,
and Renaissance science; the scientific revolution; the Newtonian
universe; science and the Enlightenment; evolution; science and
the modern state; technoscience and biotechnology. Prerequisite:
upper-division standing or consent of instructor. HISC 111. Origins of the Atomic Age (4) The
atomic bomb changed the world. We examine the origins and impact
of the atomic age: the discovery of radioactivity; the Manhattan
project and bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the H-bomb, nuclear
fallout, and the modern environmental movement. Prerequisite:
upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
HISC 114. The Darwinian Legacy (4) The
Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, and its scientific,
intellectual, and political legacies. Topics include social Darwinism,
eugenics, Nazi racial hygiene, population control, neo-Malthusianism
in the modern environmental movement. Prerequisite: upper-division
standing.
HISC 120A. Technology in America I (4)
The role of technology in American history through the Civil War.
Indigenous and colonial development, transportation infrastructures,
and industrialization are explored to understand the connections
among technology, society, and culture. Prerequisite: upper-division
standing. +
HISC 120B. Technology in America II (4)
The role of technology in the history of the United States since
the Civil War. Mass production and consumption, information technologies,
and the changing role of inventors and engineers are explored
to understand the connections among technology, society, and
culture.
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
HISC 121. Listening In: Sound, Music, and Noise in America
(4)
Explores the cultural meaning of sound by examining the history
of the phonograph, radio, movies, Muzak, noise-abatement, and
architectural acoustics. What needs did these technologies fulfill?
How did they reinforce and challenge the society in which they
were developed? Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
HISC 130. Technology in the Twentieth
Century (4) Major
technological developments in the twentieth century, including
the
rise and decline of technologies, unexpected hazards and unanticipated
consequences, and why some technologies fail. Prerequisite:
upper-division standing.
HISC 131. Science, Technology, and Law (4) Science
and law are two of the most powerful establishments of modern Western
culture. Science organizes our knowledge of the world; law directs
our action in it. Will explore the historical roots of the interplay
between them. Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
Colloquia
The following courses are available to both undergraduate and
graduate students. Undergraduates must receive a departmental stamp
or permission of the instructor to register for the course. Requirements
for each course will differ for undergraduate, M.A., and Ph.D. students.
HISC 160/260. Historical Approaches to the Study of Science
(4) Major recent publications in the
history of science will be discussed and analyzed; the topics will
range in period from the seventeenth century to the twentieth, and
will deal with all major branches of natural science. Special topics.
Topics will vary from year to year. Prerequisite: consent of
instructor.
HISC 162/262. Problems in the History of Science and Religion
(4) Intensive study of specific problems
in the relation between science and religion. The problems may range
in period from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. Topics
vary from year to year, and students may therefore repeat the course
for credit. Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
HISC 164/264. Topics in the History of the Physical Sciences Intensive
study of specific problems in the physical (including chemical and
mathematical) sciences, ranging in period from the Renaissance to
the twentieth century. Topics vary from year to year, and students
may therefore repeat the course for credit.
HISC 165/265. Topics in 20th Century Science and Culture This
is a seminar open to advanced undergraduates and graduate students,
which explores topics at the interface of science, technology, and
culture, from the late nineteenth century to the present. Topics
change yearly; may be repeated for credit with instructors
permission. Requirements vary for undergraduates, M.A. and Ph.D.
students. Graduate students are required to submit a more substantial
piece of work. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent
of instructor.
HISC 166/266. The Galileo Affair (4) Galileo’s
condemnation by the Catholic Church in 1633 is a well-known but
misunderstood episode. Was Galileo punished for holding dangerous
scientific views? Personal arrogance? Disobedience? Religious transgressions?
Readings in original sources, recent historical interpretations.
Graduate students will be expected to submit a more substantial
piece of work. +
HISC 167/267. Gender and Science (4) Why
have women been traditionally excluded from science? How has this
affected scientific knowledge? How have scientists constructed gendered
representations not only of women, but also of science and nature?
We will address these questions from perspectives including history,
philosophy, and psychoanalytic theory. Prerequisite: upper-division
standing or consent of instructor.
HISC 168/268. The Extraterrestrial Life Question (4) The
changing fortunes of the belief in the existence of life beyond
the Earth (pluralism) from 1750–present as it evolved from
a marginal speculation to a central scientific question with wide-ranging
consequences for traditional religious belief-systems. Graduate
students will be expected to submit a more substantial piece of
work. Prerequisite: upper-division or graduate standing or consent
of instructor.
HISC 170/270. Topics in the History of Science and Technology
(4) This seminar explores
topics at the interface of science, technology, and society, ranging
from the seventeenth century to the twentieth. Requirements will
vary for undergraduate, M.A., and Ph.D. students. Graduate students
are required to submit an additional paper. Prerequisite: upper-division
standing or consent of instructor.
HISC 172/272. Building America: Technology, Culture, and
the Built Environment in the United States (4) The
history of the built environment in the United States, from skyscrapers
to suburbs, canals and railroads to factories and department stores.
The technological history of structures and infrastructures, and
the social and cultural values that have been “built into”
our material environment. Graduate students are required to submit
an additional paper. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or
consent of instructor.
HISC 199. Independent Study in the History of Science (4) Directed
readings for undergraduates under the supervision of various faculty
members. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
UNITED STATES
See History of Science for more U.S. courses (HISC 105, HISC 108,
HISC 111)
Lecture Courses
HIUS 100. Colonial Period to 1763 (4) Political
and social history of the thirteen colonies: European background,
settlement and expansion, beginnings of culture, and the imperial
context. Prerequisite: upper-division standing. +
HIUS 101. The American Revolution (4) Causes
and consequences of the revolution: intellectual and social change,
the problems of the new nation, the Constitution, and the origins
of political parties. Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
+
HIUS 103. The World We Have Lost: Social History of Early
America (4) Selected themes
in early American social history—including race, gender, faith,
economy, and age—from an anthropological perspective. What
distinguished it from our own world? Prerequisite: upper-division
standing. +
HIUS 104. The Revolutionary Atlantic
(4) The
upheavals that transformed the early modern Atlantic emphasizing
the United States, Caribbean, and Great Britain. Topics: struggles
to define democracy, the reorganization of the Atlantic state system,
the Enlightenment, and international responses to the American
and
French Revolutions. Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
+
HIUS 105. Thomas Jefferson and Early American History (4) This
course will study Thomas Jefferson, both as an influential American
in his own right and as a window onto the age of the American Revolution,
the Enlightenment, and the early American Republic. Students will
read both biographical materials and original documents to address
various aspects of Jeffersons life and times. Prerequisite:
upper-division standing. +
HIUS 107. The Early Republic (4) This
course will examine the transformation of American society and politics
between the American Revolution and the Jacksonian period. Topics
to be considered include the emergence of domesticity, the development
of political parties, the expansion of capitalist relations, the
debate over slavery, the early labor movement, and the origins and
motivations of middle-class reform. +
HIUS 108/ETHN 112. History of Native Americans in the United
States This course examines the history
of Native Americans in the United States, with emphasis on the lifeways,
mores, warfare, and relations with the United States government.
Attention is given to the background and evolution of acculturation
up to the present day. Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
HIUS 109. Intellectual History:
From Contact to Civil War (4) An
exploration of cultural, political, religious, and social thought
in early America. Emphasis
will be placed on the trans-Atlantic context and on the relationships
between intellectuals and authority. Prerequisite: upper-division
standing or consent of instructor. +
HIUS 114. California History (4) This
course examines California history from 1800 onward, with an emphasis
on social, economic, and political change. The course will explore
the effect of national and international events as well as the ways
in which Californiathe ideal and the realshapes the
American experience.
HIUS 115. History of Sexuality in the United States Constructions
of sex and sexuality in the United States from the time of pre-contact
Native America to the present, focusing on sexual behaviors, sexual
ideologies, and the uses of sexuality for social control.
HIUS 116. War and American Society (4) The
connection between social relations and Americas wars. Ways
that American society has influenced decisions to prepare for or
go to war as well as the impact of war on class relations and ideologies
of race and gender. Wars considered will include the Revolutionary
and Civil Wars, the two World Wars, and Korea and Vietnam. Prerequisite:
upper-division standing.
HIUS 117. History of Los Angeles (4) This
course examines the history of Los Angeles from the early nineteenth
century to the present. Particular issues to be addressed include
urbanization, ethnicity, politics, technological change, and cultural
diversification.
HIUS 122. History and Hollywood: America and the Movies Since
the Great Depression (4) A lecture-discussion
course utilizing written texts and films to explore major themes
in American politics and culture from the Great Depression through
the 1990s. Topics will include the wars of America, McCarthyism,
the counter-culture of the 1960s, and the transformation of race
and gender relations. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or
consent of instructor.
HIUS 124/ETHN 125. Asian American History Explore
how Asian Americans were involved in the political, economic, and
cultural formation of United States society. Topics include migration;
labor systems; gender, sexuality and social organization; racial
ideologies and anti-Asian movements; and nationalism and debates
over citizenship.
HIUS 130. Cultural History from
1607 to the Civil War (4)
This course will explore connections between American culture and
the transformations of class relations, gender ideology, and
political thought. Topics will include the transformations of
religious perspectives and practices, republican art and architecture,
artisan and working class culture, the changing place of art
and artists in American society, antebellum reform movements,
antislavery and proslavery thought. Prerequisite: upper-division
standing or consent of instructor. +
HIUS 131. Cultural History from the Civl War to the Present
(4) This course will focus on the transformation
of work and leisure and the development of consumer culture. Students
will consider connections between culture, class relations, gender
ideology, and politics. Topics will include labor radicalism, Taylorism,
the development of organized sports, the rise of department stores,
the transformation of middle-class sexual morality, the growth of
commercial entertainment, and the culture of the cold war.
HIUS 134. Art and Society in America The
evolution and interaction of American art and society from the colonial
period to the early twentieth century.
HIUS 135A/ETHN 170A. Origins of the Atlantic World, c. 14501650
(4) An examination of interactions among
the peoples of western Europe, Africa, and the Americas that transformed
the Atlantic basin into an interconnected Atlantic World.
Topics will include maritime technology and the European Age of
Discovery, colonization in the Americas, the beginnings of the transatlantic
slave trade and the early development of plantation slavery in the
New World. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of
instructor. +
HIUS 135B/ETHN 170B. Slavery and the Atlantic World (4) The
development of the Atlantic slave trade and the spread of racial
slavery in the Americas before 1800. Explores the diversity of slave
labor in the Americas and the different slave cultures African Americans
produced under the constraints of slavery. Prerequisite: upper-division
standing or consent of instructor. +
HIUS 137. The Built Environment in the Twentieth Century An
examination of urban and regional planning as well as piecemeal
change in the built environment. Topics include urban and suburban
housing, work environments, public spaces, transportation and utility
infrastructures, utopianism. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
HIUS 138/ETHN 167. African-American History in War and
Peace: 1917 to the Present (4) The social,
political, economic, and ideological pressures generated during
the international conflicts of the twentieth century have had an
enormous impact on American life. The course examines how the pressures
of “total war” and “cold war” shaped the
African-American experience in both war and peacetime. Prerequisite:
upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
HIUS 139/ETHN 149. African-American History in the Twentieth
Century (4) This course examines
the transformation of African America across the expanse of the
long twentieth century: imperialism, migration, urbanization, desegregation,
and deindustrialization. Special emphasis will be placed on issues
of culture, international relations, and urban politics. Prerequisite:
upper-division standing.
HIUS 140/Econ 158A. Economic History of the United States I
(4) The United States as a raw materials
producer, as an agrarian society, and as an industrial nation. Emphasis
on the logic of the growth process, the social and political tensions
accompanying expansion, and nineteenth- and early twentieth-century
transformations of American capitalism.
HIUS 141/Econ 158B. Economic History of the United States II
(4) The United States as modern industrial
nation. Emphasis on the logic of the growth process, the social
and political tensions accompanying expansion, and twentieth-century
transformations of American capitalism.
HIUS 147. History of the American Suburb (4) This
lecture explores the development of suburbs in America, from the
early nineteenth century to the contemporary era. Topics include
suburban formation, class, ethnic and racial dimensions, government
influences, social life, and cultural responses to suburbia. The
class will explore competing theories of suburbanization as it surveys
the major literature.
HIUS 148/USP 103. The American City in the Twentieth Century
(4) This course focuses on the phenomenon
of modern American urbanization. Case studies of individual cities
will help illustrate the social, political, and environmental consequences
of rapid urban expansion, as well as the ways in which urban problems
have been dealt with historically.
HIUS 149. The United States in the 1960s (4) An
overview of the social and political developments that polarized
American society in the tumultuous decade of the 1960s. Themes include
the social impact of the post-war baby boom, the domestic
and foreign policy implications of the Cold War; the evolution of
the civil rights and womens movements; and the transformation
of American popular culture.
HIUS 150. American Legal History to 1865 (4) The
history of American law and legal institutions. This quarter focuses
on crime and punishment in the colonial era, the emergence of theories
of popular sovereignty, the forging of the Constitution and American
federalism, the relationship between law and economic change, and
the crisis of slavery and Union. Prerequisite: upper-division
standing. +
HIUS 151. American Legal History since 1865 (4) The
history of American law and legal institutions. This course examines
race relations and law, the rise of big business, the origins of
the modern welfare state during the Great Depression, the crisis
of civil liberties produced by two world wars and McCarthyism, and
the Constitutional revolution wrought by the Warren Court. HIUS
150 is not a prerequisite for HIUS 151. Prerequisite: upper-division
standing.
HIUS 152A. A Constitutional History of the United States
to 1865 (4) The historical development
of constitutional thought and practice in the United States from
the era of the American Revolution through the Civil War, with special
attention to the role of the Supreme Court under Chief Justices
Marshall and Taney. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or
consent of instructor.
HIUS 152B. A Constitutional History of the United States
Since 1865 (4) The historical development
of constitutional thought and practice in the United States since
1865, with special attention to the role of the Supreme Court from
Chief Justices Chase to Renquist. Prerequisite; upper-division
standing or consent of instructor.
HIUS 153. American Political Trials (4) Survey
of politicized criminal trials and impeachments from Colonial times
to the 1880s. Examines politically-motived prosecutions and trials
that became subjects of political controversy, were exploited by
defendants for political purposes, or had their outcomes determined
by political considerations. +
HIUS 154. Western Environmental History (4) This
course examines human interaction with the western American environment
and explores the distinction between the objective environmental
understanding of science and the subjective views of history and
historians. The course will also analyze the most compelling environmental
issues in the contemporary West.
HIUS 155A. Religion and Law in American History: Foundations
to the Civil War (4) Selected problems
in the history of the relationship between religious beliefs and
practice and legal institutions in the Anglo-American world. Topics
include the English background, religion in the age of the American
Revolution and the antebellum period. Prerequisite: upper-division
standing or consent of instructor. +
HIUS 155B. Religion and Law in American History: Civil
War to the Present (4) Selected problems
in the history of the relationship between religious beliefs and
practice and legal institutions in America from the Civil War to
the present. Topics include the religion and government aid; sacred
duties and the law; and religion and cultural politics. Prerequisite:
upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
HIUS 156. American Women, American Womanhood (4) This
course explores the emergence of a dominant ideology of womanhood
in America in the early nineteenth century and contrasts the ideal
with the historically diverse experience of women of different races
and classes, from settlement to 1870. Topics include witchcraft,
evangelicalism, cult of domesticity, sexuality, rise of industrial
capitalism and the transformation of womens work, Civil War,
and the first feminist movement. Prerequisite: upper-division
standing. +
HIUS 157. American Women, American Womanhood 1870 to Present This
course explores the making of the ideology of womanhood in modern
America and the diversity of American womens experience from
1870 to the present. Topics include the suffrage movement, the struggle
for reproductive rights and the ERA; immigrant and working-class
women, womens work, and labor organization; education, the
modern feminist movement and the contemporary politics of reproduction,
including abortion and surrogate motherhood. Prerequisite: upper-division
standing. +
HIUS 158/ETHN 130. Social and Economic History of the Southwest
I (4) This course examines the history
of the Spanish and Mexican borderlands (what became the U.S. South-west)
from roughly 1400 to the end of the U.S.-Mexico War in 1848, focusing
specifically on the areas social, cultural, and political
development. +
HIUS 159/ETHN 131. Social and Economic History of the Southwest
II (4) (Cross-listed as Ethnic Studies
131.) This course examines the history of the Amnerican Southwest
from the U.S.-Mexican War in 1846-48 to the present, focusing on
immigration, racial and ethnic conflict, and the growth of Chicano
national identity.
Colloquia
The following courses are available to both undergraduate and
graduate students. Undergraduates must receive a departmental stamp
or permission of the instructor to register for the course. Requirements
for each course will differ for undergraduate, M.A., and Ph.D. students.
HIUS 162/262. The American West (4) This
seminar will trace major themes in the history of the American West.
Topics will include ethnicity, the environment, urbanization, demographics,
and shifting concepts surrounding the significance of the West.
Graduate students will be required to submit additional work in
order to receive graduate credit for the course. Prerequisite:
department stamp required.
HIUS 164/264/ETHN 181. Topics in Comparative History of Modern
Slavery (4) Slavery was both a thread
of continuity in the history of the Americas and a distinctive institution
in specific social settings. The purpose of this course is to examine
and discuss readings that explore topics of the Caribbean and the
United States. Because topics will vary, the seminar may be taken
more than once for credit, with consent of the instructor. Requirements
vary for undergraduates, M.A., and Ph.D. students. Graduate students
are required to submit a more substantial piece of work. Prerequisite:
upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
HIUS 165/ETHN 182. Segregation, Freedom Movements, and the Crisis
of the Twentieth Century (4) A reading
and discussion seminar that views the origins of segregation and
the social movements that challenged it between 1890 and 1970 in
comparative framework. Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
HIUS 166/266. Topics in Southern History (4) Specific
topics will vary from year to year, including slavery, Civil War
and Reconstruction, the Afro-American experience, race relations.
+
HIUS 167/267/ETHN 180. Topics in Mexican-American History (4) This
colloquium studies the racial representation of Mexican Americans
in the United States from the nineteenth century to the present,
examining critically the theories and methods of the humanities
and social sciences. Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
HIUS 169/269. Topics in American Legal and Constitutional History
(4) A reading and discussion course on
topics that vary from year to year, including American federalism,
the history of civil liberties, and the Supreme Court. Prerequisite:
consent of instructor.
HIUS 173/273. Topics in American Women’s History
(4) The specific content of the
course will vary from year to year but will always analyze in depth
a limited number of issues in American women´s history. Special
topics. Requirements will vary for undergraduate, M.A., Ph.D. students.
Graduate students will be required to submit a more substantial
piece of work. Prerequisite: consent of instructor or department
stamp.
HIUS 175/275. Crime, Law, and Society in the United States,
16001900 This colloquium, examines
the changing relationships between crime, the law, and society in
the United States. We will pay particular attention to the changing
forms of punishment, perceptions of crime and criminals, and the
place of criminal law in the social order. Requirements will vary
for undergraduates, M.A., and Ph.D. students. Prerequisite: upper-division
standing or consent of instructor.
HIUS 176/276. Race and Sexual Politics This
seminar will explore the histories of sexual relations, politics,
and cultures that both cross and define racial boundaries in the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Reading will focus on the United
States as well as take up studies sited in Canada and Latin America.
Graduate students are expected to submit a more substantial piece
of work. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of
instructor.
HIUS 180/ETHN 134. Immigration and Ethnicity in Modern American
Society (4) Comparative study of immigration
and ethnic-group formation in the United States from 1880 to the
present. Topics include immigrant adaptation, competing theories
about the experiences of different ethnic groups, and the persistence
of ethnic attachments in modern American society. Prerequisite:
upper-division standing.
HIUS 181/281. Topics in Twentieth Century United States History
(4) A colloquium dealing with special
topics in U.S. history from 1900 to the present. Themes will vary
from year to year. Prerequisite: department stamp or consent
of instructor.
HIUS 182/282. Special Topics in Intellectual History: Politics
and Culture in the U.S. 1776–1860 (4) Cultural
and political construction of the American nation. Topics include:
how citizenship and national community were imagined and contested;
importance of class, gender, and race in the nation’s public
sphere; debates over slavery expansion and democracy in defining
national purpose. Requirements will vary for undergraduates, M.A.,
and Ph.D. students. Graduate students are required to submit a more
substantial paper.
HIUS 183/283/ETHN 159. Topics in African American History
(4) A colloquium dealing with special
topics in the history of people of African descent in the United
States. Themes will vary from quarter to quarter. Requirements will
vary for undergraduate, M.A., and Ph.D. students. Graduate students
will be required to submit a more substantial piece of work. Prerequisite:
upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
HIUS 184. Special Topics in American Urban History (4) This
colloquium explores various topics in the history of urban America,
including the process of city development, social patterning in
urban areas, city life and cultural styles, suburbanization, and
the urban west. Topics will vary from year to year. Prerequisite:
department stamp or consent of instructor.
HIUS 187/287. Topics in American Social History (4) Colloquium
on selected topics in American social history. Topics will vary
from year to year, and the course may therefore be repeated for
credit.
HIUS 189/289. The Social History of Seafaring in Early
America (4)
All American colonies were originally maritime colonies. This seminar
examines the history of fishing, whaling, shipping, and freebooting
during the age of sail and investigates through primary and secondary
sources the experience of living in communities that followed the
sea. Graduate students are required to submit an additional paper.
Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor
and department stamp. HIUS 199. Independent Study in United States History (4) Directed
readings for undergraduates under the supervision of various faculty
members. Prerequisite: consent of instructor and department stamp
required.
TOPICS
Courses
HITO 87. Special Freshman Seminar (1) A
seminar intended for exposing undergraduate students, especially
freshmen, to exciting research programs conducted by department
faculty. Enrollment is limited. Topic will vary quarter by quarter.
HITO 102. Religious Traditions: East Asian Religious Traditions
(4) Introduction to the major religious
traditions of Asia: Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Shinto, and Confucianism.
The course will focus on one religion each year. Since special topics
will vary from year to year the course may be repeated for credit
three times. Prerequisite: upper-division standing. +
HITO 104. The Jews and Judaism in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds
(4) The political and cultural history
of the Jews through the early modern period. Life under ancient
empires, Christianity and Islam. The post-biblical development of
the Jewish religion and its eventual crystallization into the classical,
rabbinic model. +
HITO 105. The Jews and Judaism in the Modern World (4) Topics
include the political emancipation of the Jews of Europe; the emergence
of Reform, Conservative, and Modern Orthodox Judaism; hasidism;
modern anti-semitism; Jewish socialism; zionism; the Holocaust;
the American Jewish community; the State of Israel.
HITO 106. Love and Family in the
Jewish Past (4) Jewish
women's experiences from the seventeenth century to the present,
covering Europe, the United States, and Israel. We examine work,
marriage, motherhood, spirituality, education, community, and
politics
across three centuries and three continents. Prerequisite:
upper-division standing.
HITO 111/211. Marxian Theory (4) A
survey and examination of the principal writings of Marx concerning
economic theory and analysis. Emphasis on the theory of value, production,
technical change, reproduction and accumulation. Some consideration
will also be made of certain neo-Marxist contributions and critiques.
Prerequisite: introductory economics or consent of instructor.
HITO 117 World History. 12001800 This
course examines the interaction between sections of the globe after
1200. It emphasizes factors operating on a transcontinental scale
(disease, climate, migration) and historical/cultural phenomena
that bridge distance (religion, trade, urban systems). This is not
narrative history , but a study of developments that operated on
a global scale and constituted the first phase of globalization.
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
+
HITO 121. Geographic Information Systems for Historians and
Social Scientists (4) This course provides
an introduction to the use of geographic information systems (GIS)
in the analysis and display of data of interest to historians and
social scientists. Topics include cartographic theory and aesthetics,
data collection and retrieval, and training in the use of the ArcView
GIS program. Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
HITO 126. A History of Childhood (4) This
course will examine the different ways that attitudes toward children
have changed throughout history. By focusing on the way that the
child was understood, we will examine the changing role of the family,
the role of culture in human development, and the impact of industrialization
and modern institutions on the child and childhood.
HITO 133. War and Society: The Second World War An
examination of the Second World War in Europe, Asia, and the United
States. Focus will be on the domestic impact of the war on the belligerent
countries as well as on the experiences of ordinary soldiers and
civilians. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of
instructor.
Colloquia
The following courses are available to both undergraduate and
graduate students. Undergraduates must receive a departmental stamp
or permission of the instructor to register for the course. Requirements
for each course will differ for undergraduate, M.A., and Ph.D. students.
HITO 169. History and Historians (4) An
introduction to the history of historical writing. Through discussion
of selected readings, the course will focus on such issues as the
development of historical thought, the nature of historiographical
debates, the interpretation of sources, and the use of theoretical
models in writing history. Courses can apply to any concentration
within the history major. Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
(History majors only.)
HITO 172/272. War in the Twentieth Century (4) Reckonings
by novelists, essayists, and biographers with the phenomenon of
contemporary warfare as an unprecedented experience and an abiding
threat. Requirements will vary for undergraduate, M.A., and Ph.D.
students. Graduate students are required to submit a more substantial
piece of work. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or department
stamp.
HITO 174. The Foundations of Constitutional Law (4)
Medieval and early modern origins of constitutional ideas and institutions.
The question of the course is: Where did the ideas and institutions
embodied in the constitutions of the U.S. (1787) and France (1791)
come from? Requirements will vary for undergraduate, M.A., and
Ph.D. students. Graduate students are required to submit a more
substantial piece of work. Prerequisite: department stamp or
consent of instructor.
HITO 193/POLI 194/COM GEN 194/USP 194. Research Seminar in Washington
d.c. (6) Course attached to six-unit
internship taken by student participating in the UCDC program. Involves
weekly seminar meetings with faculty and teaching assistant and
a substantial historical research paper. Prerequisites: department
stamp required; participating in UCDC program.
HITO 194. History Honors (4) A program
of independent study providing candidates for history honors an
opportunity to develop, in consultation with an adviser, a preliminary
proposal for the honors essay. An IP grade will be awarded at the
end of this quarter. A final grade will be given for both quarters
at the end of HITO 195. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Department stamp required.
HITO 195. The Honors Essay (4) Independent
study under the supervision of a faculty member leading to the preparation
of an honors essay. A letter grade for both HITO 194 and 195 will
be given at the completion of this quarter. Prerequisite: consent
of instructor. Department stamp required.
HITO 196. Honors Seminar (4) The
nature and uses of history are explored through the study of the
historians craft based on critical analysis of historical
literature relating to selected topics of concern to all historians.
Required of all candidates for history honors and open to other
interested students with the instructors consent. Department
stamp required.
HITO 197. Field Study Program
to be arranged between student and instructor depending on student’s
needs and instructor’s advice. Students are expected to produce
substantial final papers on specific subjects described in student’s
proposals. To prepare such papers will require extensive research
and writing. Will require bimonthly reports and one final paper.
Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
HITO 198. Directed Group Study (4) Directed
group study on a topic not generally included in the regular curriculum.
Students must make arrangements with individual faculty members.
(P/NP grades only.) Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
HITO 199. Independent Study for Undergraduates (4) Independent
study on a topic not generally included in the regular curriculum.
Students must make arrangements with individual faculty members.
(P/NP grades only.) Prerequisites: upper-division standing and
consent of instructor.
Graduate
Graduate standing is a prerequisite for all graduate-level courses.
For more graduate courses (200+), look at history undergraduate
colloquia (courses numbered 160190).
HIGR 200. History and Social Theory (4) A
weekly reading/writing seminar. Themes include historical sociology
and large-scale history, interdisciplinary approaches to history
(anthropological, psychoanalytic, etc.), and historical method.
Students from all fields welcome, though emphasis primarily on early
modern period (15001800).
HIGR 205. Feminist Historical Studies (4) An
introduction to feminist historical studies, this course is designed
for interested graduate students from all history field groups.
Graduate students from other disciplines are also encouraged to
participate. The course will provide students a rigorous training
in womens history, in the feminist theories that undergird
that scholarship, and in the emergent field of gender analysis.
The particular content of the course will change from year to year,
but each course will include theoretical texts, historical case
studies, and primary sources. Readings will be drawn from different
times and places. This course is strongly recommended for those
preparing minor fields in womens history. The course can be
repeated twice for credit.
HIGR 207. Nationalism, Colonialism and Race (4) A
transdisciplinary and comparative course on the interplay of nationalism,
colonialism, and race (as well as class and gender/sexuality) in
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Texts will include classics
by authors such as Franz Fanon, as well as theoretically informed
newer works that analyze a variety of national and colonial conditions
historically.
HIGR 208. History and Theory (4) This
is a one-quarter colloquium, designed for graduate students in modern
history. The readings will emphasize developments in historical
thinking over the past two centuries, particularly as these ideas
influenced professional work. The course includes some major figures
in social theory such as Marx and Weber, and addresses issues raised
by postmodernism.
HIGR 210. Historical Scholarship on Modern Chinese History (4) This
course will introduce students to the monographic literature and
the main historiographic controversies of modern Chinese history.
HIGR 211. Historical Scholarship on Modern Japanese History
(4) This course will introduce students
to the monographic literature and the main historiographic controversies
of modern Japanese history.
HIGR 212. Historical Scholarship on Modern East Asian History
(4) This course will introduce students
to the monographic literature and the main historiographic controversies
of modern East Asian history.
HIGR 213. Sources on Modern Chinese History (4) An
introduction to Chinese documentary sources and collections on Qing
and Republican History. This course will introduce students to the
language of Qing documents, and to the contents and uses of imperial
documents and archives, documentary collections, periodicals, gazetteers,
etc.
HIGR 214. Readings in Japanese on Modern Japan (4) A
one-quarter research and writing course based upon readings in Japanese
on modern Japan. Emphasis on selection, collection, and critical
evaluation of texts for historical research. Topics will vary from
year to year and may be repeated with instructors permission.
Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of instructor.
HIGR 215A-B. Research Seminar in Modern Chinese History (4-4) A
two-quarter research seminar in Chinese history. A paper, based
on original research, will be due in the second quarter. Seminar
topics will vary. Reading knowledge of Chinese is expected. An IP
grade will be awarded at the end of the first quarter. Final grade
will not be given until the end of the second quarter. Prerequisite:
215A is a prerequisite for 215B.
HIGR 216A-B. Research Seminar in Modern Japanese History (4-4) A
two-quarter research seminar in Japanese history. A paper, based
on original research, will be due in the second quarter. Seminar
topics will vary. Reading knowledge of Japanese is expected. An
IP grade will be awarded at the end of the first quarter. Final
grade will not be given until the end of the second quarter.
Prerequisite: 216A is a prerequisite for 216B.
HIGR 220. Historical Scholarship on European
History, 15001715
(4) Introduction to the historiography
on Renaissance, Reformation, and early modern Europe: an overview
of methodologies with emphasis on sources and critical approaches.
Required for all beginning European history graduate students.
HIGR 221. Historical Scholarship on European History, 17151850
(4) Selected topics in European history
from the early modern to the modern era. Readings and discussions
focus on issues of methodology and interpretation. Required for
all beginning European history graduate students.
HIGR 222. Historical Scholarship on European History, since
1850 (4) Critical evaluation of selected
topics in the period of modern Europe from the mid-nineteenth century
to the present. Required for all beginning European history graduate
students.
HIGR 225. Readings in Modern Russian History (4) Students
will read major works on Revolutionary Russia and Soviet history.
Attention will be paid to both classic and revisionist works.
HIGR 230A-B. Research Seminar in Early Modern Europe (4-4) Selected
topics in the period from the sixteenth century through the early
nineteenth, with an emphasis on the theory and practice of socio-economic
history. An IP grade will be awarded at the end of the first quarter.
Final grade will not be given until the end of the second quarter.
Prerequisite: 230A is a prerequisite for 230B.
HIGR 231A-B. Research Seminar in Modern European Intellectual
and Cultural History (4-4) Selected topics
in the period of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. An IP grade
will be awarded at the end of the first quarter. Final grade will
not be given until the end of the second quarter. Prerequisite:
231A is a prerequisite for 231B.
HIGR 232A-B. Research Seminar in Modern European Social and
Political History (4-4) Selected topics
in the period of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. An IP grade
will be awarded at the end of the first quarter. Final grade will
not be given until the end of the second quarter. Prerequisite:
232A is a prerequisite for 232B.
HIGR 236A-B. Research Seminar in History of Science (4-4) A
two-quarter research seminar comprising intensive study of a specific
topic in the history of science. The first quarter will be devoted
to readings and discussions; the second chiefly to the writing of
individual research papers. Topics vary from year to year, and students
may therefore repeat the course for credit. An IP grade will be
awarded at the end of the first quarter. Final grade will not be
given until the end of the second quarter.
HIGR 237. Topics in the History of Ocean Sciences (4) (Cross-listed
with SIO 201.) Intensive study of specific problems in the history
of the ocean sciences, and of related earth and atmospheric sciences,
in the modern period. Topics vary from year to year, and students
may therefore repeat the course for credit.
HIGR 238. Introduction to Science Studies (4) (Cross-listed
as Communication 225A, Philosophy 209A, and Sociology 255A.) Study
and discussion of classic work in history of science, sociology
of science and philosophy of science, and of work that attempts
to develop a unified science studies approach. Required for all
students in the Science Studies Program. Prerequisite: enrollment
in Science Studies Program.
HIGR 239. Seminar in Science Studies (4) (Cross-listed
as Communication 225B, Philosophy 209B, and Sociology 255B.) Study
and discussion of selected topics in the science studies field.
Required for all students in the Science Studies Program. May be
repeated as course content changes annually. Prerequisite: enrollment
in Science Studies Program.
HIGR 240. Colloquium in Science Studies (4) (Cross-listed
as Communication 225C, Philosophy 209C, and Sociology 255C.) A forum
for the presentation and discussion of research in progress in science
studies, by graduate students, faculty, and visitors. Required for
all students in the Science Studies Program. May be repeated as
course content changes annually. Prerequisite: enrollment in
the Science Studies Program.
HIGR 241. Advanced Approaches to Science Studies (4) (Cross-listed
as COGR 225D, PHIL 209D, SOCG 255D.) Focus on recent literature
in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science, technology,
and medicine. Required of all students in the Science Studies Program.
Prerequisites: HIGR 238 is a prerequisite for HIGR 241; enrollment
in Science Studies Program or instructor’s permission.
HIGR 243. Historical Scholarship in Technology (4)
An introduction to the historiography of technology. This reading
seminar provides an overview of scholarly approaches to the history
of technology by critically examining classic and contemporary
works in the field. Prerequisite: graduate-standing or consent
of instructor. HIGR 245A-B-C. Historical Scholarship on Latin American History
(4-4-4) Introduction to the literature
of Latin American history. A three-quarter sequence of readings
and discussions taught each quarter by members of the staff. Required
for all beginning students for a graduate degree specializing in
Latin American history; open and strongly recommended to other students
using Latin American history as a secondary field for a graduate
degree. HIGR 245A covers the colonial period, from conquest to independence
to today; HIGR 245B covers South America from independence to today;
HIGR 245C covers Mexico, Cuba, and Central America from independence
to today. The three quarters need not be taken in sequence. Reading
knowledge of Spanish is required.
HIGR 247A-B. Research Seminar in Colonial Latin America (4-4) A
two-quarter course involving readings and research on sixteenth-
through eighteenth-century Latin America. Students are expected
to compose a paper based on original research that is due in the
second quarter. Reading knowledge of Spanish required. An IP grade
will be awarded at the end of the first quarter. Final grade will
not be given until the end of the second quarter.
HIGR 248A-B. Research Seminar in Latin America, National Period
(4-4) A two-quarter course involving
readings and research; the first quarter is devoted to the nineteenth
and the second quarter to the twentieth century. Students are expected
to compose a paper based on original research that is due in the
second quarter. An IP grade will be awarded at the end of the first
quarter. Final grade will not be given until the end of the second
quarter. Reading knowledge of Spanish and/or Portuguese is helpful
but not required.
HIGR 252. History, Social Evolution, and Intellectuals in the
Andes: Mariátegui, Haya de la Torre, and Arguedas (4) The
course will study three major twentieth-century interpreters of
Andean history and society. Mariátegui is Latin Americas
most original socialist intellectual; Haya de la Torre is the founder
of Perus most important party; and Arguedas was the most profound
interpreter of the role of Indian peasants in the Andean nations.
HIGR 255. The Literature of Ancient History (4) An
introduction to the bibliography, methodology, and ancillary disciplines
for the study of ancient history together with readings and discussion
on selected topics within the field. May be repeated for credit,
topic will vary year to year.
HIGR 260A-B-C. Historical Scholarship on Judaic Studies (4-4-4) Weekly
graduate seminar. Faculty and students present results of research.
Student research may be towards course work on thesis.
HIGR 265A-B-C. Historical Scholarship on American History (4-4-4) A
three-quarter sequence of readings and discussions on the bibliographical
and monographic literature of American history from the colonial
period to the present. Taught by different members of the staff
each quarter, the course is required of all beginning graduate students
in American history.
HIGR 267A-B. Research Seminar in United States History (4-4) Readings
and discussion in selected areas of American history for advanced
graduate students. An IP (in progress) grade will be awarded the
first quarter. The second quarter will be devoted to the presentation,
discussion, and evaluation of work in progress. A final grade will
be awarded at the end of the second quarter. Prerequisite: 267A
is a prerequisite for 267B.
HIGR 271. New Research Directions in U.S. History (4) Students
will develop skills in presenting and assessing new research and
offering feedback to work in progress by senior students and faculty.
Course is required to be taken twice by third-year students and
highly recommended for audit by all students in U.S. History. (S/U
grades only.)
HIGR 273. The Culture of Consumption (4) (Cross-listed
with COGR 240.) This course will explore the development and cultural
manifestations of consumerism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Topics will include the rise of museums, the development of mass-market
journalism and literature, advertising, and the growth of commercial
amusements. Readings focus primarily on the United States. Students
will be encouraged to think historically and comparatively.
HIGR 275A. Research Seminar in
Middle Eastern History (4)
HIGR 275A is the first quarter of a two-quarter research seminar
in Middle Eastern history. Seminar topics will vary. Reading
knowledge of Arabic or Turkish is expected. A paper, based on
original research, will be due at the end of the second quarter.
Final grade will not be given until the end of the second quarter.
Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.
HIGR
275B. Research Seminar in Middle Eastern History (4)
HIGR 275B is the second quarter of a two-quarter research seminar
in Middle Eastern history. Seminar topics will vary. Reading knowledge
of Arabic or Turkish is expected. A paper, based on original research,
will be due at the end of the quarter. Final grade will be awarded
for HIGR 275A and B at the end of the second quarter. Prerequisites:
275A and graduate-standing or consent of instructor.
HIGR 295. Thesis Seminar (4) For
students advanced to candidacy to the doctorate. Discussion, criticism,
and revision of drafts of chapters of theses and of work to be submitted
for publication.
HIGR 298. Directed Reading (1-12) Guided
and supervised reading in the literature of the several fields of
history. This course may be repeated for an indefinite number of
times due to the independent nature of the content of the course.
(S/U grades permitted.)
HIGR 299. Ph.D. Thesis Direction (1-12) Independent
work by graduate students engaged in research and writing of doctoral
theses. This course may be repeated for an indefinite number of
times due to the independent nature of thesis writing and research.
(S/U grades only.)
HIGR 500. Apprentice Teaching in History (1-4) A
course in which teaching assistants are aided in learning proper
teaching methods by means of supervision of their work by the faculty:
handling of discussions, preparation and grading of examinations
and other written exercises, and student relations. (S/U grades
only.)
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