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Courses numbered 016:001 Western Civilization I through 016:040 Perspectives: Diversity in American History are approved for General Education, except 016:008 Civilizations of Africa, which is not approved for General Education. Some other courses are approved in the foreign civilization and culture General Education area. They cannot be taken pass/nonpass, even when they are taken as electives. Majors should take 16A:051 Colloquium for History Majors (American), 16E:051 Colloquium for History Majors (European), or 16W:051 Colloquium for History Majors (World) in the sophomore year or in the first semester after declaring the major. Other courses numbered below 200 are open to first-year students who already have fulfilled the General Education Program historical perspectives requirement. Courses numbered 200 and above are offered as occasion demands.

For Undergraduates

016:001 Western Civilization I 3-4 s.h.
Ancient and medieval. GE: Foreign Civilization & Culture, Historical Perspectives.
 
016:002 Western Civilization II 3-4 s.h.
Early modern world. GE: Foreign Civilization & Culture, Historical Perspectives.
 
016:003 Western Civilization III 3-4 s.h.
The modern world. GE: Foreign Civilization & Culture, Historical Perspectives.
 
016:005 Civilizations of Asia: China 3 s.h.
GE: Foreign Civilization & Culture, Historical Perspectives. Same as 039:055.
 
016:006 Civilizations of Asia: Japan 3-4 s.h.
GE: Foreign Civilization & Culture, Historical Perspectives. Same as 039:056.
 
016:007 Civilizations of Asia: South Asia 3-4 s.h.
GE: Foreign Civilization & Culture, Historical Perspectives. Same as 039:057.
 
016:008 Civilizations of Africa 3 s.h.
Introduction to the study of Africa; brief survey of African history; aspects of modern African life, including political and social issues, economic and health problems (including HIV-AIDS); classroom discussion of selected African films shown in class and selected African novels included in course reading.
 
016:011 Issues in Human History: The Vietnam War in Historical Perspective 3 s.h.
GE: Historical Perspectives.
 
016:012 Issues in Human History: Communities and Society in History 3 s.h.
GE: Historical Perspectives.
 
016:014 Issues in Human History: Europe's Expansion Overseas 3 s.h.
GE: Historical Perspectives.
 
016:015 Issues in Human History: Gender in Historical Perspective 3 s.h.
GE: Historical Perspectives.
 
016:017 Issues: Twentieth-Century Crisis 3 s.h.
GE: Historical Perspectives.
 
016:020 Issues in Medieval Society 3 s.h.
GE: Historical Perspectives.
 
016:022 Issues: Nature and Society in Historical Perspective 3 s.h.
GE: Historical Perspectives.
 
016:023 Issues in European Politics and Society 3 s.h.
GE: Historical Perspectives.
 
016:035 Medieval Religion and Culture 3 s.h.
Religion in Europe from classical antiquity to dawn of the Reformation; the religious element in traditions such as art, architecture, literature. GE: Historical Perspectives. Same as 032:025.
 
016:036 Modern Religion and Culture 3 s.h.
European and American religious life from Renaissance to 21st century; focus on specific themes, such as secularism, regionalism, pluralism. GE: Historical Perspectives. Same as 032:026.
 
016:040 Perspectives: Diversity in American History 3 s.h.
People, cultures, behaviors, and values that have shaped American society and its past. GE: Cultural Diversity.
 
016:045 Middle East and Mediterranean, Alexander to Suleiman 3 s.h.
GE: Foreign Civilization & Culture. Same as 032:061, 20E:071.
 
016:049 First-Year Seminar 1-2 s.h.
Small discussion class taught by a faculty member; topics chosen by instructor; may include outside activities (e.g., films, lectures, performances, readings, visits to research facilities). Prerequisite: first- or second-semester standing.
 
16A:051 Colloquium for History Majors (American) 3 s.h.
Prerequisite: history major or consent of instructor.
 
16E:051 Colloquium for History Majors (European) 3 s.h.
Prerequisite: history major or consent of instructor.
 
16W:051 Colloquium for History Majors (World) 3 s.h.
Prerequisite: history major or consent of instructor.
 
16E:058 Liturgy and Devotion in Christian Tradition 3 s.h.
Liturgical traditions and devotional practices in western Christianity; Medieval Christian tradition, changes in liturgy and devotion that occurred with reformations of the 16th and 17th centuries; overview of modern developments. Same as 032:058.
 
16W:061 Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade 3 s.h.
 
016:082 The World Since 1945 3 s.h.
GE: Foreign Civilization & Culture.
 
16E:085 Early Modern Catholicism 3 s.h.
Same as 032:085.
 
016:088 Introduction to New Media in the Humanities and Social Sciences 4 s.h.
Use of New Media software in research, presentation, and instruction; includes HTML editors (Dreamweaver), wikis (Confluence), blogs (WordPress), collaborative mark-up programs (CommentPress), graphics editors (Illustrator), map editors (MapPoint, ArcView), photographic editors (Photoshop), audio editors (Garage Band, Soundbooth, Audio Hijack Pro), video editors (iMovie, Premiere Pro, Photo-To-Movie), and animation editors (Flash); projects.
 
016:089 History Internship 3-6 s.h.
Internship involving historical work. Prerequisite: consent of director of undergraduate studies and Pomerantz Career Center.
 
016:090 Individual Study: Undergraduate arr.
 
016:091 Honors Seminar 0-3 s.h.
 
016:092 Honors Thesis 3 s.h.
Individual research and writing under supervision of faculty member; occasional group sessions with other students in the course.
 

For Undergraduate and Graduate Students

World and General History

016:100 Historical Background of Contemporary Issues arr.
 
16W:106 Society and Revolution in Cuba 3 s.h.
Cuban society and revolutionary movements since the late colonial period, including the years since 1959.
 
16W:107 History of Mexico 3 s.h.
Mexican history since the eve of the Spanish invasion, with focus on the national period; may include ethnic groups, conquest and demographic disaster, native survival, labor and migration, social protest and rebellions, nationhood, regional differences, religions, popular culture, economic growth and distribution, state building, international relations; survey.
 
16W:110 Topics in Latin American History 3 s.h.
 
16W:111 Colonial Latin America 3 s.h.
Cultural, institutional continuity from 16th century to independence.
 
16W:112 Introduction to Modern Latin America 3 s.h.
Cultural, institutional continuity from independence to present.
 
16W:114 Latin America and the U.S.: The Historical Perspective 3 s.h.
 
016:115 Policy Matters: Perspective on Contemporary Problems 3 s.h.
Public policy issues in scholarly perspective; UI experts provide background introduction to weekly issues; presentations of new policy initiatives, roundtable on policy options; panels representing local, state, and national options and experience involving policy practitioners, legislators, and advocates.
 
16W:115 Latin American Revolution 3 s.h.
 
16W:116 Dictatorships of Latin America 3 s.h.
Dictatorships, truth commissions, politics of memory in modern Latin America; the political and socio-economic origins of authoritarian regimes as well as their forms of rule, sources of support, uses of violence, and eventual downfall; the experience of specific sectors of society under authoritarian regimes, forms of resistance to authoritarianism, memories of terror, efforts to forge peace and justice in the aftermath of horror; includes personal testimony, film, human rights, reports, historical studies.
 
16W:119 African and African American Interactions 3 s.h.
The slave trade, its legacy in Africa and the Americas; cultural, political interaction between Africans and African Americans; images of Africa in African American thought; Afrocentrism, its African critics. Same as 129:138.
 
016:120 Museum Literacy and Historical Memory 3 s.h.
Concepts and methods for understanding the role of museums in shaping knowledge and collective memory of history; institutionally based exhibits and collections, historical markers and public monuments, public holidays and events, media and artistic works that interpret the past; how events, people, and civic ambitions are memorialized and how memories of them are shaped; appearance of museums and related practices in the non-Western world after 1850. Prerequisite: honors standing or consent of instructor. Same as 024:115.
 
16W:120 Pre-Colonial African History 3 s.h.
Africa to 1880; oral tradition, other sources; political development, ecological change, slavery and slave trade. GE: Foreign Civilization & Culture. Same as 129:163.
 
16W:121 African History Since 1880 3 s.h.
Africa in colonial, post-colonial period; economics, political structures of colonialism; social change, political life in the 20th century. GE: Foreign Civilization & Culture. Same as 129:164.
 
16W:122 History and Environment in Africa 3 s.h.
 
16W:124 Crossing the Indian Ocean 3 s.h.
Transnational history of Western Indian Ocean; explore cultural and economic networks in the Indian Ocean World; how Islam and colonization are common experiences of peoples in this region; Indian Ocean World historical diversity; analytical concepts such as migration, Islam, globalization.
 
16W:125 Women in African History 3 s.h.
Importance of female agency in African history; African women’s history in historiographical framework of women’s history, challenges historians face in exploring African women’s past; varied sources (e.g., novels, films, court records) from sub-Saharan Africa, urban and rural settings; current literature on African women, African women’s experiences in a comparative context.
 
16W:126 Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa 3 s.h.
Islamization of sub-Saharan Africa; process, history of Muslim societies from beginnings of Islamization to present; source material on Islam in sub-Saharan Africa, historiographical approaches; jihad; Islamic law, learning, networks; Muslim women; historical role of African Muslims in global Muslim community.
 
016:136 History of Medicine in Western Society 3 s.h.
Theories about the body, illness, medical practice in social, economic, intellectual contexts; role of healers, professionalization of practitioners; evolution of public, private medical institutions; interrelationships of science, medicine, technology. Same as 152:136.
 
16W:137 History of Public Health 3 s.h.
State-endorsed measures to avert or control disease in society. Same as 152:137.
 
16W:138 History of International Health 3 s.h.
Foremost problems of health and disease in colonial and postcolonial societies; topical approach. Same as 152:138.
 
16W:140 Disease, Politics, and Health in South Asia 3 s.h.
South Asia's long-term success lengthening lives and stopping disease, weighed against its continuing burden of infection, violence, pollution, and class-based suffering.
 
16W:142 Palestine, Israel, and the World Since 1890 3 s.h.
 
016:144 War and Peace in the Twentieth Century 3 s.h.
 
16W:152 History of the Modern Middle East 3 s.h.
 
16W:153 Topics in the Modern Middle East 3 s.h.
 
16W:155 Europe and the U.S. in the Twentieth Century 3 s.h.
The U.S.-European transatlantic relationship over the 20th century in historical perspective; sense of common heritage transformed into program of political purpose; alliances in defense of a shared civilization--the West--challenged by nations and ideologies, from the Wilhelmine Empire to Nazi Germany, from U.S.S.R. to Islamist groups; reluctant American involvement in Europe, East European claims of inclusion, mutual frustrations and suspicions, differences in interpreting the shared tradition; diverging concepts of security, legitimacy, sovereignty, and history lessons underscored by U.S. role as sole superpower and European Union experiment in integration.
 
16W:157 Gender, Sexuality, and Human Rights 3 s.h.
History of gender and sexuality as components in international human rights activism and law; current debates, representative topics. Same as 131:157, 154:157.
 
16W:167 Patterns in World History 3 s.h.
Patterns in world history from the evolution of humankind to the present; basic texts in evolution, migration, social evolution.
 
16W:168 Cooperation in World History 3 s.h.
Origins and role of human cooperation in world history, from human evolution to present; basic evolutionary theory, origins of humans, character of human nature, emergence of human cooperation, human cooperation in comparative zoological perspective; evolution of cooperative institutions such as family, tribe, market, state, mass religion, science, Internet.
 
16W:172 Japan--Age of the Samurai 3 s.h.
Society, culture, and politics of feudal Japan; social class, gender, norms, and political and economic developments explored through cinema and literature. Same as 39J:172.
 
16W:173 Modern Japan 3 s.h.
Political, social, and cultural developments of Japanese feudalism; feature films, fiction. Same as 39J:173.
 
16W:174 History, Memory & Pacific War 3 s.h.
Contemporary meanings of the Pacific War in the collective memory of Americans and Japanese; readings and travel to war/peace memorials in Hawaii and Japan.
 
16W:175 Japan--U.S. Relations 3 s.h.
Political, social, economic, and cultural developments in Japan mid-19th to late-20th century. Same as 39J:175.
 
16W:178 Topics in Asian History 3 s.h.
Same as 039:175.
 
016:180 Readings: International Security 3-4 s.h.
 
16W:183 Vietnam War on Film 3-4 s.h.
 
016:185 History and the New Media 3 s.h.
How to do history on the Internet; project/methods approach.
 
016:186 Modern Warfare, 1500-Present 3 s.h.
World military history from 15th century to present; development of weapons, tactics, strategies.
 
016:190 Teaching History: Approaches in Lesson Design 3 s.h.
 
016:192 Traditions of Religious Reform 3 s.h.
Same as 032:192.
 
16W:198 China Since 1927 3 s.h.
Communist revolution from 1920s to founding of People's Republic of China in 1949; Mao Zedong's radical policies, Cultural Revolution; Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms; China today. GE: Foreign Civilization & Culture. Same as 039:196.
 

American History

16A:061 American History 1492-1877 3 s.h.
Discovery through Civil War, Reconstruction; emphasis on social history of colonial era and social, economic, political developments of Revolutionary, antebellum periods.
 
16A:062 American History 1877-Present 3 s.h.
Emphasis on social, political developments of Gilded Age, Progressive Era, Great Depression; the United States as a world power.
 
16A:065 Introduction to African American History 3 s.h.
GE: Cultural Diversity. Same as 129:065.
 
16A:066 Civil War and Reconstruction 3 s.h.
 
16A:067 Survey of U.S. Women's History 3 s.h.
Private lives and public roles of American women of different class, race, ethnic, religious backgrounds, colonial period to present; women's roles in American life, how women have shaped society, culture, politics; family life, work roles, political participation. Same as 131:067.
 
16A:069 Introduction to Mexican American History 3 s.h.
Introduction to major themes in Mexican American history from the 18th century to the present; settlement of Mexico's Far North by Spanish Mexican residents, their incorporation into the United States after a war of conquest, and the growth of Mexican Americans into the nation's largest Latino group.
 
16A:104 History of the American Deaf Community 3-4 s.h.
Creation of a distinct language and culture of deaf people in America during the 19th and 20th centuries. Taught in American Sign Language. Prerequisite: 158:014 or consent of instructor. Same as 158:100.
 
16A:106 Disability in American History 3 s.h.
 
16A:107 American Cultural History 1820-1920 3 s.h.
Culture as contested terrain; creation of cultural hierarchy (high and popular culture); struggles over the cultural construction of meaning; competing stories of America; advent and significance of mass culture.
 
16A:110 Introduction to American Indian History and Policy 3 s.h.
Same as 149:102.
 
16A:112 Mexican American History 3 s.h.
Survey of Chicana/o (Mexican American) history from 18th century to present; Mexican American society's diverse nature, explored through class, ethnic, gender, and regional divisions. Approved for GE: Cultural Diversity.
 
16A:113 Latina/o Immigration 3 s.h.
Immigration experiences of people arriving in the United States from other regions of the Americas (e.g., Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, South America); what has fueled immigration--social, political, and economic developments in the United States and other nations; territorial conquest, colonialism, real and imagined borders, chain migration, formation of immigrant communities, acculturation, circular migration, social networks; how migration restructures gender relations; immigrant communities and pan-Latino identity in the United States.
 
16A:115 Native North America I: Precontact-1789 3 s.h.
Same as 149:115.
 
16A:116 Native North America II: 1789-Present 3 s.h.
Same as 149:116.
 
16A:117 U.S. Indian Policy in the American Indian Family 3 s.h.
 
16A:122 Varieties of American Religion 3 s.h.
World views of religious groups (e.g., Mormon, Scientology, Jehovah's Witness, Black Muslim, Unification Church of Sun Myung Moon). Same as 032:141.
 
16A:131 The Frontier in American History to 1840 3 s.h.
 
16A:132 The Frontier in American History 1840-Present 3 s.h.
 
16A:133 American West in Film 4 s.h.
 
16A:135 American West in the Twentieth Century 3-4 s.h.
Focus on growth, redistribution of political power, exploitation of and competition for natural resources, intermingling of diverse cultural groups.
 
16A:137 History of Iowa 3 s.h.
 
16A:139 The Social History of American Baseball 3 s.h.
History of baseball in the United States from its beginnings as a working-class recreation through the present; history of the game and the people who have played it, how the history of American society is viewed through the lens of baseball, how the game has contributed to social change; social class, race, urbanization, crime and political corruption, public health, big business and professionalism, spectatorship, entertainment and mass culture, national mythology, the exercise of legitimate authority (umpires!).
 
16A:141 Work and Society in Industrializing America 3 s.h.
Industrialization, formation of an American working class; changing patterns of labor organization, strike activity, politics; impact of ethnic, racial, gender divisions on working class communities, culture.
 
16A:142 American Labor in the Twentieth Century 3-4 s.h.
Competing philosophies and organizational strategies of workers in a maturing industrial economy; impact of world wars and Great Depression on American workers and their unions; rise of service sector, deindustrialization.
 
16A:144 American Economic History 3 s.h.
Emphasis on role of population and technology. Prerequisites: 06E:001 and 06E:002 or consent of instructor for economics majors; 06E:001 and 16A:061 for nonmajors. Same as 06E:158.
 
16A:146 Immigrant America 1845-1925 3 s.h.
Era of mass immigration in world context; formation, organization of immigrant communities; diverse processes of adaptation, assimilation; rural, urban contrasts; coercive Americanization, immigration restriction.
 
16A:147 History of Slavery in the U.S.A. 3-4 s.h.
Origins, development; focus on labor, family, gender, community, culture, resistance; South's defense of slavery; wartime collapse, destruction of slavery. Same as 129:137.
 
16A:148 Race, Gender, U.S. International History 3 s.h.
Interplay between the United States' 20th-century rise to world power and its racial and gender politics, in context of the dynamic interaction of U.S. domestic society and international relations; U.S. colonialism in the Caribbean and Pacific, struggles over migration, world wars as crucibles of social and political change, cultural politics of the Cold War, racial and gendered dimensions of the war on terror.
 
16A:149 Transnational America 1880-1939 arr.
The United States as a society increasingly embedded in global history during the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries; approaches for thinking about history in transnational ways; intensification of European, Asian, and Latin American immigration; cross-national dimensions of American reform; emergence of diasporic social movements; international scale of the corporate state; politics of colonialism and world war.
 
16A:150 The United States as Empire 3 s.h.
The U.S. rise to world power; continental empire-building in the 19th century; industrial, military and colonial power in the early 20th century; global hegemony from the mid-20th century to the present; white settler colonialism; overseas rule of Philippines and Puerto Rico; cultural Americanization; Cold War interventionism; post-9/11 unilateralism; meanings of American exceptionalism, intersections of U.S. nationalism with race and gender, remaking of domestic U.S. society within a changing global and imperial context.
 
16A:151 United States in World Affairs to 1900 3 s.h.
Origins of modern diplomatic practices; security, territorial and commercial expansion; legal, constitutional problems.
 
16A:152 United States in World Affairs 3 s.h.
America's emergence as leader in world affairs; imperialism, international collaboration, participation in world wars, the Cold War.
 
16A:153 U.S.A. in a World at War 1931-1945 3 s.h.
Significance of World War II to the United States.
 
16A:154 Sexuality in the United States 3 s.h.
Same as 131:158.
 
16A:155 Political Culture of U.S. Foreign Policy 3 s.h.
Political culture of U.S. foreign policy in historical perspective; connections and interactions between the domestic scene and international realities, from time of manifest destiny to national security state; domestic foundations of American power and its projection abroad, including constitutional framework, economic developments, rise of the state, role of media, public opinion, civilian-military relations; concepts of race, ethnic identifications, and religious and political beliefs have shaped understandings of patriotism, national interest, international responsibility; great debates in which American national identity and purpose are renegotiated.
 
16A:156 Major Topics in U.S. Foreign Policy 3 s.h.
Continuation of 16A:152; select themes in the history of U.S. foreign policy studied in greater detail; examination of major conflicts (i.e., World War Two, the Cold War or the Vietnam War, and recent engagements in the Middle East), drawing from a wide range of primary sources, film material, and secondary material.
 
16A:158 History of American Society 1820-1920 3-4 s.h.
Social foundation of the Civil War, Reconstruction; emergence of industrial and urban society, immigration, agrarian and working class protest, segregation, social reform, progressivism, nationalism, roots of imperialism.
 
16A:159 Warfare in American History: 1492-1924 3 s.h.
Impact of wars fought in North America on the development of American politics, society, and culture, from the arrival of Columbus to early 20th century.
 
16A:160 North America in the Atlantic World 3 s.h.
 
16A:161 Colonial North America, ca. 1600-1775 3 s.h.
Introduction to major themes in colonial American history prior to the American Revolution.
 
16A:162 American Revolutionary Period 1740-1789 3 s.h.
Political, military history of colonies 1754-1776; imperial upheaval; building a new nation; creation of federal system.
 
16A:163 Native Americans in the Age of Empires, ca. 1500-1815 3 s.h.
Overview of major issues in Native American history during the period of European Imperialism in North America. Recommended: junior or senior standing.
 
16A:165 The Gilded Age in America 3 s.h.
Emergence of industrial, urban America, from Civil War through 1890s; emphasis on social, political developments.
 
16A:166 The Progressive Era in America 3 s.h.
Protest and reform, imperialism, World War I, from 1890s to 1920.
 
16A:167 The New Era and the New Deal 1920-1940 3 s.h.
United States between the wars; emphasis on New Era system, impact of the Great Depression and response by the Hoover administration, the New Deal.
 
16A:168 The Contemporary U.S. 1940-Present 3 s.h.
United States as a global power; emphasis on World War II and Cold War, recent patterns of social and economic change, politics of 1950s, 1960s.
 
16A:171 U.S. Women's History to 1870 3 s.h.
American history through women's eyes; interaction of biology, economics, politics, ideology; how traditional historical generalizations change when women's experience is considered; legal history, women's education. Same as 131:171.
 
16A:175 Family, Gender, and Constitutional History 3 s.h.
Same as 091:252.
 
16A:176 U.S. Legal History 3 s.h.
History of the law in the United States, as it developed from era of the Revolution to present; interaction of courts and legislatures with social movements; readings on court decisions, social histories, fiction (film and prose).
 
16A:184 Black Global Metropolis: Sexual History 3 s.h.
Dispersion of people of African descent into the global metropolis, from expansion of port cities in the slave trade to industrialization of European and American cities, decolonization of the Third World, and proliferation of spatial cultures in contemporary geography; readings cover prostitution in colonial New York, sexual danger in Victorian London, jazz age Chicago, sexual psyches in Algiers, black gay expatriates in Paris, social science in Harlem and Puerto Rico ghettos, black/white sex in Johannesburg, transsexuals in Rio de Janeiro, Black Panther sexual politics in urban America, global hip-hop sexualities. Same as 129:184, 154:184.
 
16A:185 Themes in African American History 3 s.h.
Same as 129:189.
 
16A:188 African American History 1865-Present 3 s.h.
African American history since Reconstruction; survey of African American politics and society from Reconstruction to present. Same as 129:187.
 

European History

16E:065 Europe Since 1945 3 s.h.
Europe since World War II: recovery, cold war, social and economic change, global perspectives.
 
16E:101 Ancient Egypt and the Ancient Near East 3 s.h.
Same as 20E:101.
 
16E:102 Food in Ancient Mediterranean Society 3 s.h.
Practices and values influenced by consumption and production of food in ancient Mediterranean societies; varied topics, including methods of food production and distribution, hierarchies of status as associated with food, food and ethnic identity, food and health, food and religion; focus on classical Greek and Roman society, also Egypt, the ancient Near East, and Persia; group presentations, several short papers, research project. Recommended: familiarity with Greek and Roman civilization and history. Same as 20E:136.
 
16E:104 The World of Ancient Greece 3 s.h.
 
16E:106 Warfare in Ancient Mediterranean Society 3 s.h.
Same as 20E:106.
 
16E:107 The Hellenistic World and Rome 3 s.h.
Social, economic, political, intellectual history of Graeco-Roman world, from fourth century B.C.E. to Justinian's reign. GE: Foreign Civilization & Culture.
 
16E:108 The Twelfth Century Renaissance 3 s.h.
Social, economic, intellectual, and cultural rebirth of Europe in the 12th century; Latin learning and education; developments in vernacular literature, art, architecture, new religious orders and institutions, pilgrimage and Crusade.
 
16E:109 Medieval Civilization I 3 s.h.
Europe from the decline of Roman empire to the eleventh century; cultural, political, economic, artistic and architectural foundations of Western civilization. Same as 162:109.
 
16E:110 Medieval Civilization II 3 s.h.
Europe from the eleventh century to the Italian Renaissance; cultural, political, economic, artistic, and architectural foundations of Western civilization. GE: Foreign Civilization & Culture. Same as 162:110.
 
16E:111 Medieval Intellectual History 300-1150 3 s.h.
Philosophy, art, literature, religious culture of Europe from waning of classical intellectual modes of culture in late antiquity, to their recovery in 12th century.
 
16E:112 Medieval Intellectual History 1150-1500 3 s.h.
European philosophy, religion, literature, art from 12th-century rise of scholasticism; their transformation in period of Copernicus, Luther.
 
16E:113 Economic and Social History of Medieval Europe 3 s.h.
Changes in western Europe from 300 to 1500 A.D.; feudalism, manorialism, revival of towns, heresy, women, monasticism, agricultural and commercial revolutions, Black Death. GE: Foreign Civilization & Culture.
 
16E:114 Medieval Philosophy 3 s.h.
Main trends and major figures, such as Augustine and Aquinas. Same as 026:112.
 
16E:116 Ireland in the Early Middle Ages 3 s.h.
Ireland and the northern British islands 400-1000 CE, a region of small kingdoms and thin population, lacking natural resources, far from Rome and ancient centers of Mediterranean culture; development of civilization, including monastic, legal, theological, and scholarly traditions that had a major impact on continental Europe; early medieval Irish history; introduction to the world of historical scholarship.
 
16E:117 History of the Medieval Church 3 s.h.
Development of Christianity to end of great schism; rise of Roman primacy, development of monasticism, orthodox and heterodox groups. GE: Foreign Civilization & Culture.
 
16E:118 The Transition from Manuscript to Print 3 s.h.
Western manuscripts and books 1200-1600; changes in production and distribution methods and in how texts were used, in cultural context. Same as 021:258, 108:183.
 
16E:119 Women, Power, and Society in Medieval Europe 3 s.h.
 
16E:120 The Book in the Middle Ages 3 s.h.
Relation of text, decoration, function, creators, and audience in different genres of medieval manuscript books 400-1500 A.D. Prerequisite: 01H:005 or 16E:110 or consent of instructor. Same as 108:182.
 
16E:123 Religious Conflict/Early-Modern Period 3 s.h.
Reformation of 16th century--Lutheran, Calvinist, Radical, English; readings from major representatives of each. Same as 032:154.
 
16E:125 Society and Gender in Europe 1200-1789 3 s.h.
Social and gender ideologies as inscribed in patterns of authority (household, church, state); ranges of human endeavor (intellectual, psychological, biological); community organization (social, economic, legal, sexual); their influence on concept of community. GE: Foreign Civilization & Culture. Same as 131:181.
 
16E:126 The French Revolutions and Human Rights 3 s.h.
Worldwide issues of human rights posed by the French Revolution, Caribbean Slave revolution, Napoleonic regime; state governance, class status, religious freedoms, marital inequities, plantation economy, slave trade, citizenship. GE: Foreign Civilization & Culture.
 
16E:127 European History in Text and Film 4 s.h.
How community and identity are formed, what laws or customs prevail, who is included and excluded, choices between civic freedoms and obligations, consequences when civil rights are transgressed; case studies mid-16th through mid-20th centuries. GE: Foreign Civilization & Culture.
 
16E:130 Modern European Imperialism 3 s.h.
Introduction to the history of European imperialism since the 18th century; major shifts in the nature of European empire examined through the Haitian Revolution, India, Australia, Congo, Algeria.
 
16E:134 Nineteenth-Century Europe 3 s.h.
Political, social, economic, and cultural factors.
 
16E:135 Twentieth-Century Europe: The Nazi Era 3 s.h.
 
16E:136 Twentieth-Century Europe: The Cold War and After 3 s.h.
 
16E:139 Ancient and Medieval Science 3 s.h.
Greeks' initiation of scientific inquiry; developments in astronomy, cosmology, optics, mathematics, physics, medicine, psychology in ancient and medieval societies of Middle East, Europe.
 
16E:143 Modern France 1789-1871 3 s.h.
 
16E:144 Modern France 1870-Present 3 s.h.
 
16E:146 France from 1815-Present 3 s.h.
 
16E:150 Modern Britain: The Eighteenth Century 3 s.h.
Great Britain from Glorious Revolution of 1688 to end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815; post-revolution political settlement, political conflict, growth of British empire, religious dissent, evangelical revival, Industrial Revolution, American Revolution, British response to the French Revolution.
 
16E:151 Modern Britain: The Nineteenth Century 3-4 s.h.
Great Britain 1780-1914; evangelical revival, Industrial Revolution, growth of modern political parties, progress of political reform, scientific developments, influence of Darwin and Mill, growth of secularism, British Empire, Boer War, advent of World War I.
 
16E:152 Modern Britain: The Twentieth Century 3 s.h.
Great Britain from Boer War to Tony Blair's political triumph; liberal revival, World War I, rise of the Labour Party, the Depression, appeasement, World War II, Labour's triumph after the war, rise of consensus politics, 1960s cultural changes, Margaret Thatcher's political ascendancy, transformation of the Labour Party under Blair.
 
16E:153 Notions of Progress in Modern European History 3 s.h.
The idea of progress used to understand the relationships between society, government, economics, and power; what constitutes progress; how notions of progress have shaped modern Europe and the United States; how the idea of progress has helped to legitimate political, social, and cultural projects; how it continues to inform local, national, and international politics and individuals' personal lives.
 
16E:155 German History 1648-1914 3 s.h.
History of German speaking lands 1648-1918.
 
16E:156 Germany Since 1914: Weimar, Hitler, and After 3-4 s.h.
Continuity, change in 20th-century German politics, society, culture; creation, collapse of Weimar Republic; Nazism and Third Reich; East and West Germany since 1945; unification and its discontents. GE: Foreign Civilization & Culture. Same as 13E:126.
 
16E:171 History of the Russian Empire, 900-1917 3 s.h.
Introduction to history of polities and peoples of western Eurasia from 10th century to Russian Revolution; formation and vicissitudes of the Russian Empire; ethnogenesis in western Eurasia; origins of the Rus', Kievan Rus' and its competitors, the Mongol invasion of Rus', rise of Muscovy, Muscovite political system, birth of the Russian empire, Russian empire during republicanism and nationalism.
 
16E:178 Soviet Union 1917-1945 3-4 s.h.
Revolution, foundation of Soviet Union; Leninism; major political, social, ideological developments during Stalinist period--collectivization, industrialization, terror; nationalities, foreign policy; World War II; Cold War; socialist state system. GE: Foreign Civilization & Culture.
 
16E:179 Soviet Union 1945-1991 3 s.h.
Selected topics in history of the Soviet Union: political system, ideology, socioeconomic developments, nationalities problems, foreign policy; period of second revolution from above, openness, restructuring; fall of Soviet empire, 1985-1991. GE: Foreign Civilization & Culture.
 
16E:185 First World War 3-4 s.h.
Social, economic, political, technological, military aspects of causes, conduct, consequences of war of 1914-18; fiction, contemporary documents, historical works, films.
 

For Graduate Students

016:201 First-Year Graduate Colloquium 3 s.h.
Introduction to history graduate program.
 
016:202 Introduction to New Media in the Humanities and Social Sciences arr.
Use of New Media software in research, presentation, and instruction; includes HTML editors (Dreamweaver), wikis (Confluence), blogs (WordPress), collaborative mark-up programs (CommentPress), graphics editors (Illustrator), map editors (MapPoint, ArcView), photographic editors (Photoshop), audio editors (Garage Band, Soundbooth, Audio Hijack Pro), video editors (iMovie, Premiere Pro, Photo-To-Movie), and animation editors (Flash); projects.
 
016:204 Readings: Slavery and Emancipation arr.
 
016:205 Gender and Race in Nineteenth-Century U.S. arr.
Same as 129:205, 131:206.
 
016:207 The American Civil War in History and Memory arr.
 
016:209 Seminar: Medieval Social and Economic History arr.
 
016:210 Readings: Medieval Women arr.
 
016:211 Seminar: Medieval Intellectual History arr.
 
016:212 Readings: Medieval Intellectual History arr.
 
016:213 Seminar: History of Science arr.
 
016:214 Readings: Medieval and Early Modern Universities arr.
 
016:215 Graduate Readings: Monastic History arr.
History of Christian monasticism in the medieval west; the developing monastic and religious orders, nuns of those groups; tertiaries, beguines, other orthodox penitent movements from the development of Christianity to the Reformation.
 
016:217 Source Criticism for Medieval Studies arr.
 
016:218 Medieval Latin Paleography arr.
 
016:220 Research Seminar arr.
Research for students in all areas of history.
 
016:223 Seminar: Reformation Culture and Theology arr.
Culture and theology of 16th-century Europe. Same as 032:223.
 
016:224 Seminar: History of Disability arr.
 
016:225 Readings: History of Sexuality arr.
History of sexuality within the family, its move into the marketplace; social customs and taboos, methods of birth control and abortion, religion, medical and psychological writings, state policies. Same as 131:225.
 
016:228 Readings: History of Feminisms arr.
Same as 131:228.
 
016:229 Readings in the Arab Israeli Conflict arr.
 
016:230 Readings in Modern Middle East History arr.
 
016:231 Seminar: African History arr.
Themes in African precolonial and modern history.
 
016:232 Readings in African History arr.
 
016:233 Readings: Women, Men, and Gender in Modern Europe arr.
Same as 131:233.
 
016:234 Readings: Colonialism and Empire in European History arr.
 
016:235 Seminar: Modern Europe arr.
 
016:236 Readings: Modern European History arr.
 
016:237 European Encounters with North America arr.
History of European-American relations over the past three hundred years; reading of primary texts such as de Tocqueville's Democracy in America and secondary works on Europeans' interests in North America and their confrontations with the United States.
 
016:238 Readings in the History of Modern France arr.
 
016:239 Readings: War and Society in Modern Europe arr.
Preparation, conduct, and aftermath of war; social-historical examination; conflicts on European territory, colonial wars, and wars of decolonization, from French Revolution through late 20th century.
 
016:242 Readings: British Imperialism arr.
 
016:243 Readings: Social and Cultural History of North American Indians arr.
Same as 149:243.
 
016:244 Crossing Borders Proseminar 1 s.h.
Same as 013:260, 01H:330, 030:243, 035:271, 044:287, 048:244, 113:248.
 
016:246 United States in the World arr.
Historiographies that situate modern U.S. history in a global context; how historians study the American past beyond traditional, nation-centered frames; transnational histories of migration, nativism and exclusion; social movements; colonial empire-building; commercial and cultural Americanization; transfer of policy ideas; military occupations; decolonization; Cold War’s impact on social reform; post-9/11 moment.
 
016:247 Crossing Borders Seminar 2-3 s.h.
Repeatable. Same as 008:231, 013:262, 01H:247, 030:242, 035:273, 044:286, 048:247, 113:247, 129:231, 160:247, 181:247.
 
016:248 Seminar: Research in Race and Ethnicity arr.
 
016:249 Teaching Seminar: Graduate Instructors 2-3 s.h.
Issues and methods for effective history teaching at the college level.
 
016:250 Readings: History of Medicine and Health arr.
 
016:251 Seminar: History of Medicine and Health 2-4 s.h.
 
016:254 Teaching Proseminar 2-4 s.h.
Preparation for leading undergraduate discussion sections for 016:001 - 016:003 Western Civilization I-III; specific subject matter preparation similar to that offered in graduate readings courses; for first-time graduate teaching assistants.
 
016:256 Theories of World History arr.
Macrohistorical theories of world history; can a prominent theory or combination of theories explain the social evolution of humankind over hundreds of thousands of years; how to periodize world history; does history have a direction, and if so, what direction; the future of humankind.
 
016:259 Seminar: Interpreting Oral Histories arr.
Interpretations and methods applied by historians in various world regions to different forms of oral history, from old oral traditions to contemporary autobiographical testimony. Same as 129:259.
 
016:260 Readings: Comparative Labor History arr.
 
016:261 Seminar: American Colonial History arr.
 
016:262 Readings: American Colonial History arr.
 
016:263 The Art and Craft of Historical Writing arr.
Focus on improving students' skills in historical writing; readings from exemplary texts, ancient to contemporary; all aspects of historical writing, from sentence composition and paragraph structure to evidence and narrative voice.
 
016:264 Seminar: Social History of the American Working Class arr.
 
016:265 Seminar: American Social History arr.
 
016:266 Readings: The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era arr.
 
016:267 Seminar: Contemporary United States arr.
 
016:268 Readings: Modern United States arr.
 
016:269 Readings in Transnational U.S. History arr.
Emerging historiographies that problematize national frameworks of history writing and reexamine U.S. history from transnational and global perspectives; methodological works on transnational, imperial, and global history; literatures on transnational migration, global production and trade, social movements, intercultural borrowing and exchange, and empire-building.
 
016:270 Readings in the History of Women and Gender in the U.S.A. arr.
Same as 131:270.
 
016:271 Seminar: American Frontier arr.
 
016:272 Readings: The American Frontier arr.
 
016:273 Readings in American Social History arr.
 
016:275 Seminar: American Religious Thought arr.
Same as 032:213.
 
016:276 Seminar: Puritanism arr.
Same as 032:214.
 
016:277 Feminist Research Seminar arr.
Feminist research methodologies; how to conduct original research, write a research proposal and research paper, read and criticize others' work. Repeatable. Same as 131:204.
 
016:278 Research in Transnational U.S. History arr.
Experience framing, organizing, and carrying out an original investigation on a theme in U.S. transnational history, followed by review and discussion of drafts; opportunity to explore transnational methodologies while developing professional skills of literature review, source interpretation, and collegial critique.
 
016:279 Seminar: Gender and Sexuality in U.S. Law arr.
Same as 091:627.
 
016:280 Readings in Latina/o History arr.
Introduction to major works and recent scholarship in Latina/Latino history.
 
016:281 Readings in Borderlands History arr.
Comparative borderlands; articles on diverse topics from borderland regions worldwide (main focus on U.S.-Mexico borderlands, with inclusion of European, Asian, African, and Latin American borderlands); analysis of each article for its thesis, research questions, methodology, primary sources, and weaknesses; seminar.
 
016:284 Seminar: History of Women and Gender arr.
Opportunity to pursue research for a single paper, M.A. thesis, or doctoral dissertation in the history of women and gender in the United States; interdisciplinary and internationally comparative projects; meetings and evaluations with attention to the craft of writing.
 
016:285 Readings: Gender in Latin American History arr.
Same as 131:285.
 
016:286 Law and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama 1955-65 arr.
Alabama and civil rights, from the Montgomery Bus boycott to the Selma March, major civil rights organizations and their most visible leaders, fair hearings for constitutional challenges in the Alabama federal court, courageous local lawyers, and resistance to the dismantling of segregation embodied by George C. Wallace; significance of law and legal institutions in advancing or retarding a political movement of extraordinary significance, complexity, and volatility; impact of legal developments arising from the Civil Rights Movement on other protest/reform movements in subsequent periods; perspectives from recent literature commemorating Brown v. Board of Education. Same as 091:652.
 
016:287 Readings: African American Women's History arr.
Same as 129:287, 131:287.
 
016:288 Readings: Latin American History arr.
Same as 035:247.
 
016:289 Archives Master Course 1 s.h.
 
016:290 Seminar: Post-Comprehensive arr.
Historical fields, methodologies; emphasis on presentation, criticism of research materials. Prerequisite: Ph.D. comprehensive exams passed.
 
016:292 Readings in Chinese History arr.
Same as 039:258.
 
016:294 Readings: Japanese History arr.
Same as 39J:257.
 
016:295 Readings in Modern India arr.
 
016:296 Individual Study: Graduate arr.
 
016:297 Thesis arr.
 
016:298 Predissertation Seminar arr.
Preparing for dissertation work for students in all areas of history; thesis topic, relevant literature in the topic field, potential sources, primary research strategy, sources of research funding, research proposal; preparation for submitting applications for dissertation research fellowships and beginning of completing the thesis prospectus.
 
016:299 History Workshop: Theory and Interpretation arr.
 

 
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