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2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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HIST 150 - Food and Empire
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course surveys the history of food and empire since 1500. Food literally connects our bodies to global history: what we eat now - and why we eat it - result from centuries of unequal economic, political, and cultural interactions. Food also symbolizes the power relations that have shaped human identities, diets, and health over the last 500 years. Using scholarly writings, fiction, film, and field trips in the Boston area, we will explore how histories of empire and globalization have shaped contemporary foodways and the global politics of food provisioning today.
041024:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 152 - Crime, Corruption, and Scandal in Historical Perspective
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This introductory history class examines an array of events that were widely known in their own eras. Focusing on sensational crimes, instances of deep corruption, and other types of scandals in the past provides insight into our past. The course will pay careful attention to shocking events and people whose outrageous behavior astounded their society. The course will then place these events and people within the wider frameworks in which they occurred, using one to illuminate the other. It is the historical context, after all, that makes the behavior scandalous! From semester to semester specific topics will vary, please contact the History for more information.
040917:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 160L - East Asian Civilizations to 1850
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An introduction to the traditional civilizations of China, Japan, and to a lesser extent Korea, from the earliest times to the arrival of the modern industrial West in the mid-nineteenth century. (Course offered in the fall only.) ASIAN 160L and HIST 160L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International
000532:2
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 161L - East Asian Civilizations since 1850
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An introduction to the modern transformation of China, Japan, and, to a lesser extent, Korea, from their encounter with the industrial West in the mid-nineteenth century up to the present day. (Course offered in the spring only.) ASIAN 161L and HIST 161L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International
000531:2
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 171 - Leeches to Lasers: Medicine and Health in the United States
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
“Leeches to Lasers: Medicine and Health in the United States” examines the rise of institutional and professional structures in response to health needs and disease, as well as cultural responses to epidemics, illness, and changing norms of well-being in American history. This course is designed for science majors and those who intend to enter the health professions as well as for history majors.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: United States
038438:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 173 - Baseball and American History
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will focus on the history of baseball from its murky origins in the late 18th and early 19th centuries down through the era of expansion, free agency, and steroids in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The course will discuss the changes in baseball over time; the evolution of the game’s rules; famous players, teams, and games; and the impact of baseball on American culture. Throughout the semester, the course will put that discussion of baseball into the larger context of American history. By studying the history of baseball, students will also learn about broader economic, social, and cultural themes in U.S. history, such as the struggles between labor and capital; the effects of urbanization and industrialization; notions of gender and masculinity; the impact of leisure and entertainment; demographic changes such as immigration and geographic shifts in population; the legacy of racial segregation; and the impact of globalization on society.
040676:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 175 - Comic Books in America: The History of Comic Books and American Society since 1938
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
In 1938 a man in a colorful costume appeared on the cover of Action Comics #1, a comic aimed at eight year old boys. Superman went on to become one of the most internationally recognized figures in the world. Since then there have been crime comics, romance comics, science fiction comics, and many other genres; in the 21st century “Graphic Novels” appear on the best seller lists and are reviewed in the nation’s leading newspapers. This course will examine the history of comic books, and how they have both reflected and influenced American society across more than seven decades.
038355:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 177 - Race, Citizenship, and Immigration in the United States
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course is designed to introduce students to the history of immigration in the United States. It moves from the early Republic to present-day debates that surround DREAMers and their families. The course will consider the causes, social contexts, and impacts of immigration on American society and culture. central to the course are such questions of race and citizenship as;: who is an immigrant; how ideas of immigration change overtime; how categories of race, nationality, and citizenship have affected American policies and the lived experiences of immigrants themselves; how immigration has shaped American history; and what it means to be an American.
039495:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 178 - Special Topics in History
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course offers study of selected topics within this subject. Course content and credits vary according to topic and are announced prior to the registration period.
033558:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 180 - Family Secrets, or How to Become an Online History Detective
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course teaches students to become skilled “history detectives” as they explore a wide range of primary source documents available online (censuses, vital records, wills, deeds, military pensions, immigration records) and “interrogate” them to tell the history of their family or community. While the main focus is on the United States, we take side-trips to Canada, Britain, Ireland and beyond. We extend our searches over several centuries and see how different kinds of records have changed over time. We consider how “official” and “unofficial” records have addressed gender, family and community structure, definitions of race and disability, inclusion and exclusion.
040748:1
3 Credit(s) |
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4 Credit(s) |
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HIST 210L - Labor and Working Class History in the United States
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines the history of labor and working people in the United States from the colonial period to the present. It explores the diversity of work and working-class experiences, the history of labor movements, labor conflicts, and the larger processes of social, economic, and political change that have affected work and workers. While work and organized labor receive central attention, the course gives equal consideration to the comparative dimensions of class and cultural identity, race and gender, immigration and ethnicity, family and community, technology, politics, and government policy. We will work to improve our skills in critical reading and writing. Lectures, readings, videos, and discussion explore the actions, opinions, identities, and experiences of diverse women and men. You will work on understanding and interpreting the materials. Short essays, in-class exams, and presentation will provide opportunities to develop your interpretations systematically and polish your writing skills.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences | Diversity Area: United States
036772:3
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 211 - Foundations of Western Civilization
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A survey of European history from the golden age of Greece in the 5th century BCE to 1715, laying particular stress on politics, culture and religion. Major topics examined will include the culture of ancient Greece; the rise of Rome and the ideology of the Roman Empire; the early development of Christianity and its impact on the ancient world; the evolution of new political forms in the Middle Ages; medieval Christianity; the impact of Renaissance efforts to revive Greek and Roman civilization; the Protestant Reformation and Catholic responses to it; and the scientific and intellectual culture of the seventeenth century. In addition to broad coverage the course will devote attention to critical examination of a selection of key historical texts.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
018354:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 212 - Modern Western Civilization
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course traces the history of Western Civilization from the enlightenment of the 18th century up to the transformations that took place in the 1990’s. It is a history of revolutions and wars, ideologies and institutions. It is also a history of people, the lives they led and the decisions they made. In this period Western European nations, and a former colony, the United States, became the dominant powers in the world. During the last three centuries, Western Civilization has influenced the lives of all people whether they lived in the west or in other parts of the world. By studying western civilization we therefore come to understand a great deal about our present day world and the lives we lead.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
018355:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 213 - World History to 1800
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course considers the ways that disparate parts of the world were interconnected and interdependent before the modern era. Through studies of the growth of civilizations across the continents, the rise of world religions, the development and later transformations of the silk roads, and the early modern colonial projects of Europe, student swill have opportunities to consider how religion, language, empire, and trade created common spaces for peoples from diverse regions of the world. Topics range from early urbanization in Egypt and Mexico, to the Islamic empire, the Asian world system. Europe’s shift from periphery to core, the civilizations of the Americas, and the rise of the African slave trade in the trans-Atlantic context.
001925:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 214 - Modern World History
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course offers an examination for the processes of modernization and globalization since the late eighteenth century; their connections to imperialism, colonialism, and war; and their relationships to changing perceptions of society, politics, economics, gender, and culture in different regions of the world.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences | Diversity Area: International
000546:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 219 - History of the Mediterranean
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The Mediterranean is a “global player” that has made the peoples of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa participate in a common path since antiquity. The course analyzes the history of the Mediterranean and the extraordinary interactions between multiple and rich cultural, ethnic and religious backgrounds. From the time of the Greek city-states to the Roman Empire, the Italian Renaissance, the Ottoman Empire and the new scenarios of the 20th century, this course will explore the economy, politics, and religion of three continents developing a unique exchange.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102
037078:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 220 - History of European Imperialism
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course introduces students to the history of European imperialism from the late eighteenth century to the present day. It will consider the political, economic and cultural dimensions of imperialism, focusing in particular on the different experiences of empire from the perspective of both those who ruled and those who lived under colonial rule. Required readings will draw on recent historical scholarship and a range of primary sources including maps, photographs, films, and novels spanning the Caribbean, North and West Africa, the Middle East, and South and Southeast Asia.
039207:1
3 Credit(s) |
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3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 230L - Ancient Egypt
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A survey of the history, art, archaeology, and religion of ancient Egypt. CLSICS 230L and HIST 230L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
037820:2
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 248 - Early Islamic History
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course explores the history of Islamic civilizaiton from its foundation in the seventh century to the establishment of the Ottoman Empire in the fourteenth century. After examining the consolidation of the Arabian peninsula under the Prophet Muhammad and the early Caliphs, we will turn our attention to the Umayyad and Abbasid states. The course will conclude with a discussion of the Mongol invasion of the Middle East/West Asia in 1258 and its aftermath. Topics to be covered include early Islamic political philosophy, the emergence and development of Islamic law, the posistion of minority groups within various early Islamic states, early Islamic approaches to gender and sexuality, and how this formative period of Islamic history is remembered both inside and outsice of the Middle East/West Asia today.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: International
018543:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 249 - Modern Middle East History
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course begins where HIST 248 ends, with an exploration of the early Ottoman Empire as a European and Middle Eastern/West Asian state. It then turns to the transformation of this state in the context of European imperialism. Finally, it examines the construction of post-Ottoman borders, mandates, and nation states. The first half of the term will focus on the period between 1299 and the First World War. The second half will be devoted to twentieth and twenty-first century case studies. Although our framework of inquiry will be political and legal history boradly conceived, we will read a variety of sources-including religious texts, philosophy, literature, and travelogues-to help us understand the modern history of the region.
018547:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 251 - South Asia and the India Ocean World: Trade, Labor and Capital from 1800 to the Present
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The Indian Ocean region includes Southern and Eastern Africa, the Persian Gulf, South Asia, and parts of South East Asia. This course will study the influence of South Asia int he creation of systems of state, and the circulation of goods, labor and capital through his region over two hundred years.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
039156:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 253 - African History since 1800
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course offers a broad introduction to the history of Africa from 1800 to the present day. A tumultuous time for the continent, this period encompasses everything from the end of the Atlantic slave trade to European colonialism, national independence, and the economic, political and social challenges of postcolonial life. Drawing on primary sources (maps, travelers’ accounts, oral histories) as well as literature, art music and film, the course explores the major events of the 19th-21st centuries through such themes as Abolition and the rise of slavery in Africa, late precolonial states and the Islamic empires, racial ideology and the European imperialism, technologies of colonial rule, Christianity and colonial education, changing gender and ethnic identities, urbanization, nationalist movements and liberation wars, post-independence conflicts and development challenges, the end of apartheid in South Africa, and African experiences of globalization.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: International
018550:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 255L - Gods and Slaves: Latin America before 1800
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course introduces students to the history and cultures of early Latin America, an area of the world that includes Mesoamerica (Mexico and Central America), South America, and the Caribbean. In this class we will examine the political, cultural, and social dimensions of the major Pre-Columbian civilizations; the causes and consequences of Spanish and Portuguese colonization; the establishment of New World societies and economies in the sixteenth century; and the vastly divergent forms of mature colonial society across the continent in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. HIST 255L and LATAM 255L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: International
000534:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 256L - Skyscrapers and Shantytowns: Latin America since 1800
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This class attempts a wider reckoning of the last two centuries in our “Latin” hemisphere, broadening and contextualizing core topics such as slavery and revolution, contraband and informality, inequality and exclusion, economize booms and busts, environmental and technological change, gender and demographic change, migration and mass culture. In addition to these core interpenetrating themes, the class also addresses how history is produced, consumed, and transformed. HIST 256L and LATAM 256L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: International
000533:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 262 - American Indian History to 1783
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Once relegated to the margins of U.S. history, American Indian histories have emerged as important narratives in their own right and central components to the stories we tell about our own states, regions, and nation. For generations, American Indians have pushed their own priorities and been crucial historical actors in the making of the United States long before this nation came into existence. As part one of a yearlong survey of American Indian history, this course examines the histories of indigenous peoples of North America from their perspective, including the peopling of the Americas; pre-Columbian societies and civilizations; first contact encounters and exchanges with non-Natives; strategies American Indians used to confront expanding European and indigenous powers; and ways indigenous North Americans engaged global markets, diplomacy, and competing empires.
036251:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 263 - Modern American Indian Social and Political History: From the American Revolution to Standing Rock
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will examine the varied historical experiences of American Indians from the time of the American Revolution to the present, with a special focus on the 20th century. American Indians (as well as Native Hawaiians and Alaska Natives) are and were actors in history and not just hapless victims of Euro-American imperialism and power. The course will examine the ways Native peoples in the U.S. adapted and responded to the host of stresses that accompanied the rapid and often violent social, cultural, and environmental transformations of the 19th and 20th centuries.
040509:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 265 - American History before 1877
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Beginning with the history of North America prior to the voyages of Columbus, History 265 examines the impact of Europeans upon indigenous peoples, and studies the evolution of colonial settlements in British North America. It covers the causes and consequences of the American Revolution, the subsequent development of democratic political and social institutions, the emergence of transportation, market and industrial revolutions and the coming of the sectional conflict and Civil War.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
018360:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 266 - American History since 1877
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
History 266 begins in the aftermath of the Civil War and Reconstruction and examines the nature and impact of urbanization, immigration, and industrialization. The course then examines the growth of American imperialism and the nation’s rise to world power status. It also focuses on cycles of economic change, including the Great Depression and the enormous expansion of the middle class after World War II. The course will also examine the Cold War in both its worldwide impact, such as wars in Korea and Vietnam, and on the domestic front. Finally, the course examines the transformation of society and culture in the second half of the Twentieth Century.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
018362:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 276 - This Land is Your Land: A Survey of American Environmental History
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
From the Dust Bowl to current global climate change, from Hoover Dam to acid rain, from the 1927 Mississippi flood to Hurricane Katrina, from Native American agriculture to the recent Farm Bill, this class studies how people have used and changed the North American environment from the colonial era to the present. Through discussion exams, and essays, students will master historical material and build skills in document analysis and written argument. This class does not require a background in history. Science majors and first-year students welcome.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States
038181:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 280 - Special Topics
1 - 3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course offers study of selected topics within this subject. Course content and credits vary according to topic and are announced prior to the registration period.
018660:1
1 - 3 Credit(s) |
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3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 301L - Ancient Greek History
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course provides a survey of the origin, rise and development of ancient Greek civilization from the arrival of the Greeks in Europe until the death of Cleopatra (approximately 1600-30 BC). Emphasis is placed on the rise of the Greek city-state and the spread of Greek culture to the East. CLSICS 301L and HIST 301L are the same course.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: One 200-level or higher CLSICS or HIST course or permission of instructor
018675:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 302L - Roman History
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course focuses on the Roman state from its origins until the triumph of Christianity from about 700 BC to 300 AD. Republic and Empire receive equal attention. CLSICS 302L and HIST 302L are the same course.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: One 200-level or higher CLSICS or HIST course or permission of instructor
018676:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 303L - The Archaeology of Ancient Greece
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course provides a survey of Greek archaeology and history from the Bronze Age through the Classical Era. Students are introduced to the methods and aims of archaeology. The course begins with the Minoan and Mycenaean eras; the Dark Age and emergency of the full Hellenic era are treated, with emphasis on the city-states of the Greeks. The course makes extensive use of images and surveys the art and architecture of the Greeks in the context of primary literary sources. CLSICS 303L and HIST 303L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: One 200-level or higher CLSICS or HIST course or permission of instructor
018679:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 304 - Early Middle Ages: Europe 300-1000
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The Early Middle Ages covers the period when the great Western monarchies and the social structures and economy that supported them began and the enormous influence of Imperial Rome persisted. Additionally, interaction with a series of invaders as well as relations with the rapidly expanding Islamic states helped to shape Europe geographically, culturally and linguistically. History 304 examines these developments with close analysis of original documents and historiographical analysis.
018683:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 305 - Later Middle Ages: Europe 1000-1450
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The Later Middle Ages examines the story of a backward part of the world. By the year 1000, Europe was a collection of fractious and fragile governments, a scattered population, few towns (with mostly barter economies) and frequent wars. Poor cousins to the magnificent civilizations of Asia and Africa, nevertheless Europeans, in the space of a few hundred years, forged a civilization that more than any other has been able to impose its culture on the rest of the planet. History 305 seeks to explain this by close analysis of original document sand historiographical analysis.
018685:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 306L - The Archaeology of Ancient Rome
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course provides a methodological approach to roman archaeology as a key to understanding the history and culture of Rome and its empire from the city’s origins in about 750 BC through the height and decline of Roman civilization during the first through fourth centuries AD. The course makes extensive use of images and surveys the art and architecture of the Romans in the context of primary literary sources. CLSICS 306L and HIST 306L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: One 200-level or higher CLSICS or HIST course or permission of instructor
018689:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 307 - Renaissance and Reformation
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
People, ideas, and institutions of fourteenth century through sixteenth century Europe.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
018692:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 308 - The History of Common Law
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The principles underlying the evolution of law in Western Europe. Emphasis on England during the Middle Ages. Some of the legal concepts and procedures necessary in understanding medieval history and common law. Recommended for pre-law students. (Course offered in the fall only.)
018693:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 310L - Greek and Roman Historians
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Through the examination of all of the major Greek and Roman writers of history from Herodotus to Ammianus Marcellinus, this course considers the development of historical writing. With support from secondary scholarship and through extensive reading of the ancient texts, students will evaluate the work of each author, with particular attention to the roles that audience, culture and historical context have in shaping narrative structure and approach. CLSICS 310L and HIST 310L are the same course.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: One 200-level or higher CLSICS course or HIST 211 or permission of instructor
012242:2
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 313 - Nineteenth Century Europe
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A political, social and cultural history of Europe from 1815 to 1900, including the history of each major European nation.
018699:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 314 - Health and Healing in Early Modern Europe
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course explores the ways illness intersected with everyday life in Europe spanning the years 1500-1800. Topics include experiences of childbirth, popular medical texts, witchcraft and magic, plague, religious approaches to healing, and ordinary people’s understanding of their bodies. A significant amount of class time will be spent discussing and analyzing primary sources, including diaries, recipes, anatomical texts, casebooks, and literature.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
038439:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 315 - Europe 1900-1945
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Political, social and intellectual history of Europe from 1900 to 1945. Emphasis on the origins of the World Wars, European totalitarianism, the Great Depression and inter-war societies.
018702:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 316 - Europe since 1945
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Political, economic, social, and intellectual history of Europe with attention to extra-European influences, from 1945 to the present.
018707:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 317L - Women in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course is designed to introduce students to the study of European women in the medieval and early modern eras and, more generally, to the challenges and rewards of women’s and gender history. Through in-class discussions and writing assignments, the course hones students’ ability to analyze, critique, and compare primary and secondary sources. Topics include women’s work, writing, religious lives, and relationships. HIST 317L and WGS 317L are the same course.
039493:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 318 - Advanced Topics in History
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Intensive study of selected topics in history. Course content is announced during the advanced registration period. Course material is consistent with other advanced level history courses.
018713:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 320 - Tudor-Stuart England
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An introduction to English history from the high Middle Ages. Emphasis on the political crises of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, to 1660. (Course offered in the fall only.)
018714:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 322 - Shakespeare’s London
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course draws on artifacts, literature, and first-hand accounts to recover life in London during Shakespeare’s time (1550-1650). The course captures various dimensions of life in the bustling city, including reading practices and education, alehouses and coffeehouses, the experiences of the working poor, and urban crime. It addresses how men and women used various kinds or personal writing - from diaries and letters to spiritual journals and recipe books - to construct their day-to-day lives. Class discussion and assignments consider how Londoners chose to record certain information and how varying genres of writing informed resulting accounts.
039496:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 324 - Russia and the Soviet Union: From the 1917 Revolution to Putin
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The peasant emancipation from serfdom in 1861 left the overwhelming majority of Russians destitute and disenfranchised. How did the subsequent revolutionary movement that promised social and economic equality transform into such a brutally oppressive system under Stalin? How did the Soviet Union become a world superpower and what were the reasons for its downfall? Through the use of primary documents, this course will attempt to answer these questions and emphasize social history: the ideals, aspirations, and actions of ordinary Soviet citizens.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences | Diversity Area: International
018736:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 325 - European Expansion
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The first European empires began to develop after 1492, challenging Europeans to build complicated relationships with outside societies. This era saw the first example of globalization in the “world trade system.” Tremendous growth in the circulation of goods and ideas and the affirmation of the modern perception of “East” and “West” all played significant roles in shaping politics, business, society, and the environment in new ways. This course will examine these issues and related changes from the 1400s to the 1800s.
038180:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 326 - Hitler, A Man and His Times
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A focus on the life and career of Adolph Hitler to elucidate an important period in German and European history. (Course offered in the spring only.)
000539:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 330 - The French Revolution
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
History of the efforts of the French people to overthrow the social system of the old regime and to replace it with one more suited to their needs. (Course offered in the spring only.)
018767:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 334 - Italy Since 1815
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The most significant events in modern Italian history including the Resorgimento, the Giolittian Era, the rise and fall of Fascism, the Republic, and the growth of terrorism.
018769:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 339 - Modern Irish History from 1800 to present
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines the forces and movements in the development of Irish nationalism from 1800 to the achievement of national independence. The course also explores the history of an independent Ireland. (Course offered summer only.)
018794:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 342 - Cinema in Hitler’s Germany: Movies, Propaganda, Politics in Weimar and Nazi Germany 1919-1945
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course explores the history of German cinema between 1919 and 1945. The first half of the course will focus on the films of the Weimar Republic - a time of bold artistic experimentation when Germany’s film industry was second only to Hollywood in worldwide influence. The second half of the semester will be devoted to the cinema produced in Germany during the Nazi dictatorship, when movies were no longer simply entertainment, but also served as an important form of propaganda. The films of both of these periods will be analyzed as historical sources that illuminate the society that produced them.
038371:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 343 - World War II: The Global War
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The Second World War was certainly the 20th century’s seminal and most cataclysmic global event, its effects felt on every continent. Although this course will explore all aspects of the Second World War, it will focus heavily on the role of the United States as part of the Allied cause, including examining the political, social, and industrial aspects of the war on the American homefront. This will include a view both from the “homefront out” - how activities in the United States affected events across the world and changed the course of history - and also from “overseas back” - how the war changed America and the world, from a foreign and domestic perspective. This course will discuss the impact of the war, as well as how the war has impacted the United States and the world in the years since 1945.
040703:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 346 - Women & Gender in African History
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course looks at major themes in African history - precolonial states, the slave trade, colonialism, nationalism, development - from the point of view of women’s experiences and knowledge. How does Africa’s past look different when women’s voices and lives are put at the center of the story? What can be learned from feminist debates about the relevance of gender in African history, especially prior to colonial rule? Drawing on scholarship, primary sources, life stories, fiction and film, this course will examine women’s roles in African history as well as the gender ideologies and practices constraining women’s agency in the past and today.
038679:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 347 - Feast to Famine: Food in African History
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
For a continent long known as the world’s poster child for famine, Africa possesses an extraordinarily rich range of food systems, consumption cultures, and culinary histories. For farmers and hunters, diviners and chiefs, missionaries and scientists, aid workers and tourists - food figures in crucial ways. This course explores Africa’s diverse foodways since ca. 1800, through case studies that illustrate the critical role of food - in times of abundance and times of scarcity - in ethnic and national identity, health and economic development, and struggles over wealth and power in the colonial and postcolonial eras.
041025:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 349L - The Cold War: Rise and Fall
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines the shifting US and Russian images of each other during the rise and fall of the Cold War. It focuses in particular on the way that issues of difference play out in the US/Soviet/Russian encounter, and on the emergence of public perceptions which linked struggles for racial, gender, and social equality with Communism and its agents. AMST 349L and HIST 349L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: International
009542:2
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 350 - Mexico since 1850
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
It is hard to separate modern Mexico from its famous but conflicting stereotypes: massive wealth and crushing poverty, international leadership set against institutional weakness, an openness to the world together with proud localism. At the same time, however, the deeper history of this society makes it harder to separate out these extremes. This class presents modern Mexico beyond these stereotypes, seeking to understand the deeper processes that cause such apparent contradictions.
040704:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 351 - Histories of Brazil
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
What makes Brazil so distinctive? Why is it so unequal? How did it become so powerful, seemingly overnight? And, what is it about all that samba, soccer, and carnaval? This course introduces students to the history and contemporary society of Brazil, a large and increasingly important actor in Latin America, the wider hemisphere, and the world. Additionally, the particularities of Brazilian history can illuminate wider questions relating to social change, economic growth and inequality, exclusion and prejudice, creativity and leadership, and the relationship between humans and their environment, among many other questions.
038440:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 352 - Topics in African History
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An intensive study of selected themes in African history; although the approach is thematic, attention is given to essential chronology and to regional differences. Topics, which vary from semester to semester, include African economic history; pan-Africanism and nationalism; post-colonial Africa: its prospects, developments, and crises; religion in Africa; and African urban history.
018818:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 357 - The Vietnam War
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course covers the period from 1945 to 1975, with attention to the Vietnamese Revolution and its American and Vietnamese adversaries. Topics include origins of the Cold War and US policy in Indochina; Vietnam’s peasant revolution and Communist Party; society, economy, and ideology of the Saigon milieu; the US anti-war movement; and US soldiers and veterans of the Vietnam War era.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: International
018826:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 358 - War in the Twentieth Century
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A study of military plans, strategy and weapons employed in twentieth century wars, and their consequences on the battlefield, together with their larger impact on the societies involved. Emphasis on the two world wars and the Vietnam War. The course concludes with a review of current military plans and weapons systems of the world powers in the perspective of military history since 1914. (Course offered in the spring only.)
018368:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 359L - Women in Modern China
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines the social and cultural roles of Chinese women, and their changes over time. Emphasis is given to twentieth-century China, especially the People’s Republic period. ASIAN 359L and HIST 359L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International
000004:3
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 360L - Traditional China
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A survey of traditional China from ancient times to about 1800, with emphasis on cultural, intellectual, and social developments. ASIAN 360L and HIST 360L are the same course.
000529:2
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 361L - The History of Modern China
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A survey of the political, social, and intellectual development of China from 1800 to the present, with emphasis on Sino-Western relations and twentieth century reform and revolution. (Course offered in the fall only.) ASIAN 361L and HIST 361L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: International
000528:2
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 363L - Modern Japan
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A historical survey of economic, social, political and cultural developments in Japan from 1800 to the present, special consideration of economic and foreign policy problems. ASIAN 363L and HIST 363L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: International
000527:2
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 364 - India since 1857
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Intended to be an introduction to the Indian subcontinent as it emerged from British rule to independence. Designed for students interested in this area and the Third World, regardless of major. The framework of the course is historical, but it also deals with social and religious institutions such as the caste system, as well as economic and political change in a traditional society.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: International
018837:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 365 - Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan in Modern History
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
In 1979, three separate events in three different countries marked the beginning of a new era of politics and religion in western Asia. A revolutionary Islamic government took control in Iran, a religiously-motivated military dictator took power in Pakistan, and the USSR invaded Afghanistan, triggering the Afghan Jihad. This course will explore the history leading up to the events of 1979 in the context of global events and political change and religious thought in Western Asia. It will then go on to examine the consequences of these events as they have played out into the new millennium.
038441:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 365 - The Middle East, 1798-1914
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Impact of the Western world on the Middle East and the Middle Eastern response, especially the latter, from 1798 to 1914. Comparative analysis of the different societies of the area and their political, economic, and social structures.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits
018840:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 370 - Colonial America to 1763
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The English background of emigration and settlement. The evolution of imperial institutions; American social, economic, and religious development. Emphasis on political ideas, institutions and behavior in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
018856:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 371 - The American Revolution, 1763-1789
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The development of the conflict with Britain, 1763-1776, the Revolutionary War and its effect, the forming of republican institutions for state and federal governments.
018370:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 372 - The Early Republic
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Survey and analysis of the early development of the United States as an independent federal republic. Focus is on key issues: civil liberties, slavery and the first emancipation, federalist economic policy, neutrality, war, institutional growth (presidency, congress, judiciary, political parties), and changes in the social, ideological and cultural environment. (Course offered in the spring only.)
018865:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 374 - The Whaling Women of Nantucket
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course introduces the lives and the worlds of women living on Nantucket from the beginning of whaling in the seventeenth century. Through both primary and secondary sources, the course examines the lives of the wives of whalers, indigenous Wampanoag women, and African American women, all of who lived in close proximity on Nantucket. These women, living far from urban centers, were responsible for their homes and families alone while their husbands were away, often for month or years at a time. The course will look at their daily lives, their communities, and their ideas about womanhood in circumstances far different from their mainland sisters.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
039770:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 375 - The US Civil War and Reconstruction
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Causes of the Civil War, its social, political, and ideological history, and the problems and results of Southern Reconstruction. (Course offered in the spring only.)
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: United States
018869:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 377 - The American Progressive Era, 1890-1920
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course covers a volatile period in which Americans came to grips with the social and political consequences of industrial and urban transformation. a generation of reformers and political activists reorganized cities, confronting issues of poverty and dangerous working conditions, and looking to government to regulate the unbridled power of large corporations. Artists challenged European traditions in art, music and literature. The period also saw racial polarization and a new, rights-oriented African American movement. Unprecedented immigration and the massive influx of so-called “new immigrants’ from southern and eastern Europe stirred nativist and racial exclusionist sentiment.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States
039991:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 380 - The United States Since 1945
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
American politics and culture from the end of World War II to the present.
018373:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 383 - History of the American West
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
With a long and diverse story, the American West has a narrative people by many distinc indigenous peoples, Mexicans and Mexican Americans, Asians and Asian Americans, African Americans, and immigrants form Europeans countries. In this course, we will begin with indigenous peoples before the arrival of Europeans, and then examine their early contacts with the newcomers. The course will then explore an array of topics, including the Spanish in the southwest, the fur and hide trades, the westward expansion of the United States, gold rushes and the arrival of industrialization, farming and the Dust Bowl, the West as myth and commodity, and issues that remain central to the region today, such as American Indian sovereignty, urban growth, conservation, and immigration.
035604:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 384 - E Pluribus Unum?: American Immigration and Ethnicity
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
It has been often said that America is a “nation of immigrants.” This course will examine why so many individuals have come to America over the years, the experiences of foreign-born people in America, how native-born Americans have received those immigrants, how American immigration laws have changed over the years, and what role ethnicity has played in American society. In doing so, we will utilize a variety of sources, including historical monographs, primary sources, movies, and memoirs. We will pay careful attention to the similarities and differences between the experiences of various immigrant groups over time.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102
036252:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 386 - Native American Health in Historical Perspective
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
How do historians address Native American health? How have ideas about Native American health and illness reflected broader attitudes and values in American life? This lecture class provides an historical overview of topics in Native American health and healthcare during the 19th-21st centuries. The course is premised on the idea that health is a social and political condition as much as a scientific and medical one. It seeks to understand developments in the history of Native American health, healthcare, and policy in the context of concomitant social and political changes and against a backdrop of settler colonialism.
040510:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 387 - US Foreign Policy since 1898
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Survey of United States foreign policy and diplomatic relations with other powers from the turn of the century to the present. Emphasis on domestic sources of foreign policies and on such general topics as war: World Wars I and II, Korea and Vietnam, and the Cold War, and the debate over America”s role in world affairs.
018904:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 388 - American Soldiers in American Wars: History and Memory
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course places the experiences, perspectives, and memories of American soldiers at the center of a historical study of U.S. wars from the Civil War to modern military conflicts. After covering the basic history of each war/conflict, the course will cover various historical interpretations of their origins and causes. The course will place great emphasis on understanding the lived experiences of American soldiers through their journals, letters, diaries, memoirs, interviews, and other primary sources. Finally, the course will also look at historical memory, both through the memories of soldiers themselves and as part of the collective memory of the nation.
040820:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 389 - The History of Modern Terrorism
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course studies the phenomenon of terrorism by considering twentieth-century political movements that have used or are using terror to achieve their objectives. The course develops an analytical framework for the study of terrorism and uses this framework in exploring the historical backgrounds, objectives, ideologies, tactics, and membership profiles of selected groups, and in considering the responses of their opponents. Groups to be studied include the IRA, the Irgun, the PLO, the Baader-Meinhof, and the Ku Klux Klan.
018908:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 392 - American Women in Biography
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course introduces major themes of women’s history and historiography through the biographies of individual women. Biography allows us to examine not only the lives and times of individuals, but also the considerations historians tackle in trying to represent a life, and the difficulties inherent in researching women who often did not leave public records.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102
036253:1
3 Credit(s) |
| |
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HIST 395 - The History of Boston
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A general survey from 1630 to the present, emphasizing the variety of people who gave this seaport its special character and prominence in American history.
018377:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 413 - Saints, Witches and Heretics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This seminar will examine the types of spirituality that were celebrated and the types that were brutally repressed by the Christian churches of late medieval and early modern Europe (1250-1700). It will compare different interpretations of late medieval Catholicism and then turn to Martin Luther, assessing the major theses of his theological vision and why they led to religious division. The course will then consider varied attitudes to saints, witches, and heretics in Catholic and Protestant Europe. Throughout the semester, the course will explore the interrelationship between these three categories and the ways in which they illuminate the Reformation era.
038443:1
3 Credit(s) |
| |
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HIST 416L - Thucydides: War & Human Nature
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The central event of classical Athens was the Peloponnesian War, and Thucydides’ history of it has helped define the writing of history ever since. This course, in addition to giving students an overview of ancient Greek political and military history, will also delve into his contributions to the history of political thought and international relations.
040996:2
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 433 - Mussolini
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A focus on the life and career of the Italian Fascist premier.
018949:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 440L - United States in a Global Context
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will situate thhe United States in a global context by considering US and non-US perspectives on key events of the twentieth century. Special focus: Public, media/arts as well as government perspectives. AMST 440L and HIST 440L are the same course.
009485:2
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 478 - Special Topics Seminar in History
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Course content is announced during the advance registration period. Course material is consistent with other departmental seminar offerings.
018961:1
3 Credit(s) |
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HIST 481 - Research & Methods: Senior Research Methods in History
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course is for advanced History majors focused on historical research and writing. While the topic of study varies, all sections of the seminar emphasize the close study of primary and secondary sources and the composition of an original research paper.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: HIST 101
019089:1
3 Credit(s) |
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1 - 3 Credit(s) |
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3 Credit(s) |
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3 Credit(s) |
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3 Credit(s) |
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