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Fall 2008 Courses
[ 100 Level Courses | 200 Level Courses | 300 Level Courses ]
HI 103 001 Medieval Europe (3 credits)
Erica Bastress-Dukehart
The formation of Europe: from the breakdown of Roman political authority in the West in the fourth century to the rise of national states and their conflicts in the fourteenth. (Fulfills social sciences requirement.)
HI 105 001 Nineteenth-Century Europe: Ideology and Revolution (3 credits)
Katherine Foshko
An intensive examination of the revolutions in economics, politics, and society in Europe from 1789 to 1914. Emphasis on the French and industrial revolutions; the rise in nationalism, liberalism, socialism, imperialism, and the women's movement; international rivalry and diplomacy culminating in World War I. (Fulfills social sciences requirement.)
HI 121W 001 American History to the Civil War (4 credits)
Colin McCoy
A survey of the early history of the United States from the colonial era through the Civil War, with a special emphasis on reading and writing about key works by Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Abraham Lincoln. (Fulfills social sciences requirement.)
HI 142 001 Introduction to Modern China (3 credits)
Margaret Pearson
An introductory survey of the major political, economic, and social developments in China, from the foundation of the last imperial dynasty in 1644 to the present. Emphasis is on the major stages of the revolution, from the Opium War to the present. (Designated a non-Western culture course; fulfills social sciences requirement.)
200 Level Courses
HI 202 001 Roman History (3 credits)
Michael Arnush
A study of Rome from its foundation by Romulus to the principate of Justinian and the end of antiquity. The course focuses on the Etruscan world, the rise of Rome in Italy, the impact of Hellenism, social and political institutions in the Republic, imperialism under Augustus, the evolution of Roman culture and the spread of Christianity. Special emphasis is given to the study of the ancient sources: literary, historiographic, archaeological, and numismatic. (Fulfills social sciences requirement.)
HI 217 001 the Russian Revolution (3 credits)
Katherine Foshko
Examines the causes and consequences of the overthrow of the tsarist empire and the establishment of the Soviet regime following the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. The course focuses on the Revolution as a transformative event for the history of Russia in the twentieth century--the source of the ideology behind Soviet totalitarianism, radical transformations in society, and the establishment of an alternative "Russia in exile. (Fulfills social sciences requirement.)
HI 217 002 Vietnam War (3 credits)
Jennifer Delton
Topically organized courses based on problems and issues of special interest at the introductory level. The specific themes to be examined will vary from year to year. Recent offerings include "An Introduction to U.S. Environmental History" and "Vietnam War." This course with a different topic may be repeated for credit. (Fulfills social sciences requirement.)
HI 217 003 Topics in History Islamic World (3 credits)
TBA
Topically organized courses based on problems and issues of special interest at the introductory level. The specific themes to be examined will vary from year to year. Recent offerings include "An Introduction to U.S. Environmental History" and "Vietnam War." This course with a different topic may be repeated for credit. (Fulfills social sciences requirement.)
HI 217 004 Topics in History Islamic World (3 credits)
TBA
Topically organized courses based on problems and issues of special interest at the introductory level. The specific themes to be examined will vary from year to year. Recent offerings include "An Introduction to U.S. Environmental History" and "Vietnam War." This course with a different topic may be repeated for credit. (Fulfills social sciences requirement.)
HI 224 H 001 The Enlightenment
Erica Bastress-Dukehart
Studies the most important interactions to take place within and among society, politics, and culture that characterized this intellectual and cultural transformation. Influenced by revolutionary advancements in science and medicine, inflamed by seditious political treatises, and distrustful of Catholic reforms, eighteenth-century enlightened thinkers sparked the emergence of a new political and literary culture. Ultimately, the intellectual advancements that excited Europe's philosophers helped shape the ideological foundations of the American and French Revolutions. (Fulfills humanities requirement.)
HI 275 001 Intro to the History Major (1 credit)
Erica Bastress-Dukehart (8 week course)
An introduction to the aims of the History major. A prerequisite for the Colloquium. Required of all majors and interdepartmental majors, to be taken in the sophomore or junior years. Open to non-majors with consent of instructor.
HI 298 001 Arab Nationalisms (1 credit)
Yoram Meital (8 week course)
A topical workshop, seminar, discussion group or lab/studio experience, which can link to a regular History Department course offered at the 200 level or serve as a freestanding course.
HI 298 002 Colloquium Prep (1 credit)
Jordana Dym
This course will help students planning to take the History Colloquium in Spring 2009 select a topic, identify and start to engage primary and secondary resources, and begin refining a research question and agenda. By the end of the semester, students should have an initial research proposal and bibliography as well as a good sense of the components of the colloquium paper. This course may also be appropriate for juniors who would like to do primary source research while abroad in spring '09.
GH 322 001 Modern European Ideas (4credits)
Colin McCoy
The creation of a new nation: 1763–1789. This course will give special attention to the political ideas which gave direction to the American Revolution and the Constitution. (Fulfills social sciences requirement)
HI 363 001 Modern European Ideas (3 credits)
Mark Walker
This course will survey important ideas in modern European history, including the writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Michael Foucault. (Fulfills social sciences requirement)
HI 363 002 African American History (3 credits)
Darryl Pinckney
This course examines the tensions between black nationalism and assimilation in African American Intellectual history, with a focus on four major works in this area: W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction, St. Clair Drake and Horace Cayton, Black Metropolis, Franz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, and Harold Cruse, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual. (Fulfills social sciences requirement)
HI 363 003 Paris and New York in the 20th Century (3 credits)
Katherine Foshko
This course explores the changing roles and influence of two centers of Western culture and civilization in the twentieth century through both primary documents--memoirs, letters, novels, music, and film--and secondary sources. We will first focus on Paris as capital of the arts and beacon of Europe's authority, then on New York as an "imperial metropolis" to which the center of gravity changed after the Second World War. This course with a different topic may be repeated for credit.
HI 363 004 Topics in Islamic History (3 credits)
TBA
Topically organized courses based on problems and issues of special interest at the advanced level. The specific themes to be examined will vary from year to year. Recent offerings include "The Historian as Detective," "Utopias and Science Fiction," and "The Fifties." This course with a different topic may be repeated for credit. This course with a different topic may be repeated for credit.
**TX 201 B Puerto Rico and the United States: Culture and Colonialism, Monday, 3-5pm, 2 credits J. Dym, History/LAS and V. Rangil, Foreign Languages & Literatures
Puerto Rico has been a United States "territory" for over 100 years. For many it is a US colony, for others a captive country, and for still others an island denied the right to be a US state. This Caribbean island is a part of Latin America inside the US whose existence challenges us to rethink our definitions of nation, colonialism, race, and imperialism. This course explores the social, political, cultural, and economic impact of the U.S. on Puerto Rico and Puerto Rican responses to it. Topics include the political history of Puerto Rico's status, social construction of race and gender and Puerto Rican identity formation, the role that music and literature play in the promotion of such an identity; the emergence of social and political movements including labor, feminist, pro-statehood and pro-independence movements, and migration of Puerto Ricans to and from the United States. A day trip to visit "El Barrio," the Puerto Rican area of New York City, is planned as part of this course. (Fulfills Cultural Diversity )
**TX 202 LAS Faculty-Led Travel Seminar to Puerto Rico, January 7-17, San Juan, Puerto Rico,
1 credit V. Rangil, Foreign Languages & Literatures and J. Dym, History/LAS
A ten-day travel seminar to Puerto Rico during winter break 2008-2009, focuses on the social, political, cultural, and economic impact of the U.S. on Puerto Rico and Puerto Rican responses to it. Students will test in museums, guided tours, and meetings, the ideas developed in classroom discussion on topics such as Puerto Rican historical development, cultural production including music, art and literature in identity-formation; political positioning (such as pro-statehood and pro-independence movements) and migration of Puerto Ricans between the island and the United States. (Fulfills Cultural Diversity )
**These courses count towards Latin Ameriacan Studies, International Affairs and History programs.
**PLEASE NOTE: You must submit an application to take these courses. Students may enroll in TX201B without TX202; these students need to provide a 1-page statement of purpose but do not need to fill out the full application. APPLICATION DEADLINE IS APRIL 3, 2008! Applications are available in the History Department office, from Professors Dym and Rangil, and at the Off Campus Study & Exchanges office.
