Courses

    Describes the forces at work in the antebellum period that led to sectional warfare; social, economic, and political changes effected by the war; the American agony of reconstruction; and the long-range results of that difficult era. Prereq., HIST 1015 or 3020. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
    Traces the development of American culture from its colonial roots to the early decades of the 19th century. Focuses on regional differences in the colonial period, the creation of a new cultural synthesis during the Revolution, and the cultural implications of the Revolutionary legacy. Prereq., HIST 1015 or 3020. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
    Familiarizes students with the Mediterranean ecumene covering concepts such as the Renaissance, the Crusades, traders and travelers, religions and cities. Explores both conflicts (military, confessional) and exchanges (commercial, artistic, scientific) thus helping students think cross culturally, comparatively, and thematically. Emphasizes the Mediterranean contribution to historical developments of western Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Prereq., HIST 1010, 1061, 1308, 4061, 4071, 4081, 4091, or 4711. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
    Examines health care and disease patterns in the United States, from the colonial period through the 1980s. Topics include biomedicine and alternative therapies, changing ideas about health and disease, the patient perspective, and financing health care. Prereq., HIST 1015, 1025, or 3020. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
    Primarily from 1800 to the present. Attention divided equally between the region's political history and international relations and its patterns of economic, social, and cultural modernization in the main countries. Prereq., HIST 1308. Same as HIST 5328. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
    Examines the more important movements of reform in Muslim world (including Africa, the Middle East, and India) from the 18th century to the present, and their origins and intellectual import. Due to the trans-regional nature of this broad movement of reform, we will pay particular attention to how these movements related to local political, economic,and social contexts, and how they, in turn, moved across larger networks of oceanic commerce and trade. The course concludes with extended case studies of Islamic reformism in modern Egypt and India, and their ultimate influence on the politics of contemporary Islamist movements, especially the intellectual position of Ussama B. Ladin. Prereq., HIST 1308. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
    Examines developing intellectual traditions in their social and political contexts. Addresses democracy, religion, transcendentalism, women, race, union or disunion, the Darwinian revolution, and literary realism and naturalism. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
    Explore the history culture, and politics of this crossroads of Europe and Asia from the late Ottoman period to the present. Topics include: nationalism and colonialism, development of Zionist ideology, Palestinian nationalism, the Jewish community (Yishusv) under British rule, the founding of the State of Israel, Arab-Israeli and Palestinian-Israeli relations, Israel's minorities, and the conflict of religion and state. Recommended prereqs., HIST/JWST 1818 or 1828 or HEBR/JWST 2350, or other courses in Jewish or Middle Eastern Studies. HIST 4338 and JWST 4338 are the same course. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
    Examines the development of the borderlands of the British empire through imperial expansion, consolidation, and early decolonization. Focuses on the 19th and early 20th centuries. Topics include domination, resistance, and negotiation in areas such as India, Afghanistan, the Palestine Mandate. Aims for students to acquire skills in comparative history and to develop a better understanding of the roots of contemporary conflicts. Prereq., HIST 1020, 1123, 1228, 1308, or 1528. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
    Addresses the impacts of political, social, and economic developments on ideas about democracy, science, race, gender, faith, the supposed mission of America, and the role of intellectuals in society. Same as ETHN 4344. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
    Covers topics in Jewish history from biblical beginnings to present day. Topics vary each semester. Consult the online Schedule Planner for specific topics. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours within the degree. Prereqs., HIST 1108 or 1308 or JWST 2350. Same as JWST 4348. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
    Examines the end of the British Empire. Focuses on connections between imperial territories, such as networks of anticolonial activists and links between British decision makers. Students will acquire research skills and develop a better understanding of the roots of contemporary conflict. Prior coursework in British imperial history and excellent writing skills are required. Prereq., HIST 1228, 1308, 1528, 4053, 4238, 4258, 4328, 4329, 4339, 4538, or 4558. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
    Examines how U.S. public moralists, intellectuals, and artists from the end of the nineteenth century to World War II both celebrated and attacked the rise of two characteristic features of modernity: mass culture (amusement parks, popular music, radio, movies), and modernist literary and artistic expression. Addresses how Americans both constructed and violated the line between "popular" and "high" culture. Recommended prereq., HIST 1025. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.

    Examines Jewish communities of the Mediterranean basin and Middle East in modern times. Topics covered include culture and identity of these communities, as well as their encounter with empire, westernization, and nationalism, among other political and social currents. Exploration of images and representations of Sephardi and Eastern Jewries. Sources include memoirs, diaries, films, 19th century press and correspondence, and travelogues. Same as JWST 4378.

    Examines the origins, character, and significance of the First and Second World Wars for the major nations of Europe during the first half of the 20th century. Prereq., HIST 1020, or 3020. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
    Explores major developments in European thought from the Enlightenment to Nietzsche. Special attention given to the individuals whose ideas have had the greatest influence on modern intellectual history, e.g., Rousseau, Hegel, Herder, Marx, Kierkegaard, Baudelaire, Darwin, and others. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
    Examines the social, economic, political, and cultural history of the United States from the end of Reconstruction to the eve of World War I. Topics include the struggles of labor and industry, race and immigration, western and environmental issues, city life and new technologies, feminism and Progressivism, and Indian wars and imperialism. Prereq., HIST 1015, 1025, or 3020. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
    Examines how people of North America, from precolonial times to the present, organized their lives within the ecological systems of the area, how they conceived of their natural world, and how they reshaped their environment according to their human needs. Prereq., HIST 1015, 1025, or 3020 or ENVS 1000. Formerly HIST 4417. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
    Examines the origins of World War I; the military, social, and cultural character of the conflict; and its enduring impact in the post-1918 world. By thinking about the war as both a military undertaking and an experience that affected domestic and global politics, the course will explore why World War I constituted an event of major importance to Europe and the twentieth-century world. Prereq., HIST 1020 or 3020. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
    Cultural, political, and social history of Germany since 1849. Emphasizes German unification, Bismarkian foreign policy, the rise of neoromanticism, Weimar politics, and the rise of national socialism. Prereq., HIST 1020 or 3020. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.

    Emphasizes Nietzsche and the youth revolt against middle class society, the literary and artistic avant garde (impressionism to existentialism), the psychoanalytic movement, the European right and left, and post-WWII European thought. Restricted to sophomores/juniors/seniors.

    Examines U.S. history from World War I through World War II. Key themes include: warfare; the rise of the modern state; consumer culture; the shift from conservative politics to the New Deal liberalism; the women's movement; immigration restriction; segregation; the Great Migration, and civil rights; conflicts between secular modernism and religious fundamentalism; and new technologies such as the automobile. Prereq., HIST 1025 or 3020. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
    Focuses on the political, social, cultural, and psychological roots of national socialism, with the nature of the national socialist regime, and those politics and actions that came directly out of its challenge to values central to Western civilization. Studies how Nazism came out of this civilization. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 87-180 credits (Senior, Fifth Year Senior).
    Examines the History of the United States during the Cold War, with an emphasis on social and cultural issues at home. Also addresses the economic and political evolution of the American people and the nation's role in world affairs. Prereq., HIST 1025 or 3020. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
    Explores the history of Africans in America from the first arrivals to emancipation, and their role in the social, cultural, economic, and political evolution of the United States. Prereqs., HIST 1015 or 3020. Formerly HIST 4016. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.

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