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HISTORY (L22)  (Dept. Info) Arts & Sciences  (Policies) FL2024 L22 History 101C Western Civilization I 3.0 Units Lab Required Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course is a history of Western civilization from 3500 BC to AD 1600. Western Civilization may be characterized as one long debate on the holy. In no other civilization did this debate about the limits of the sacred and the profane, this constant effort at trying to grasp the divine through word and deed, last continuously for over five thousand years. To argue over the holy is to argue over the very nature of how to live a life, from the most mundane daily activity to the most sublime act of the imagination. It is to argue over how politics, economics, art, philosophy, literature, and religion are realized in a society. Apart from many types of polytheism, we study the three great world monotheistic religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. We study the ancient cultures of north Africa and the eastern Mediterranean, the empires of Alexander the Great and imperial Rome, the Christianization of the Roman empire and the rise of Islam, the early medieval world in the North Sea and the East (Byzantine) Empire in Constantinople, the formation of Latin Christendom and the papal monarchy, the crusades and the reaction of the Islamicate, concepts of individuality, the persecution of Jews and heretics, chivalry and peasant servitude, the Mongol Empire, the Black Death and the devastation of the fourteenth century, the renaissance in Italy and the Protestant reformation, the hunt for witches and the scientific revolution, the medieval origins of the African diaspora and the European conquest of the Americas. What defined being human, and so a man, a woman, or a child over five millennia? A fundamental question of this course is what is "Western Civilization" and when do the characteristics defined as "western" come together as coherent phenomenon? What, then, is historical truth? We will read, for example, Gilgamesh, the Iliad, Plato, Sophocles, Aristotle, Cicero, Virgil, the Bible, Augustine of Hippo, Boethius, the Qur'an, Beowulf, Peter Abelard, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Thomas Aquinas, Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio, Geoffrey Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, Niccolò Machiavelli, Desiderius Erasmus, and Michel de Montaigne. This course (through lectures, reading primary sources, discussion sections, and essay writing) gives the student a learned background in almost five thousand years of history. DISCUSSION SECTION IS REQUIRED. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUMArt: HUMBU: HUM, ISEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L23 1010 Frequency: Annually / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 1:00P-1:50P TBA Pegg Paper/Project/TakeHome 30 24 0 Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. A ----F-- 1:00P-1:50P TBA Pegg No final 15 15 0 Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. B ----F-- 12:00P-12:50P TBA Pegg No final 15 9 0 Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. L22 History 154 First-Year Seminar: Saints and Society 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: The topic of this course is saints and society in medieval and early modern Europe. It will explore the complex relationships between exceptional holy men and women, the historical settings in which they lived, and the religious and cultural traditions on which they drew. It will consider saints as both embodiments of the highest ideals of their societies and radical challenges to ordinary patterns of social existence. Attributes: A&S: FYSA&S IQ: HUM, LCDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: HUM, ISEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CP Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L23 154  L61 154A Frequency: Every 3 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 1:00P-2:20P TBA Bornstein Paper/Project/TakeHome 15 1 0 Actions: Books L22 History 163 Freedom, Citizenship and the Making of American Culture 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course is designed to introduce students to some of the major themes in American history. We will explore the emergence and expansion of the nation, changing meanings of freedom, of citizenship, of American identity, as well as major changes in the nation's economic structures, politics, social order and culture. Much of the reading and writing assignments will come from primary sources. This course satisfies the Introductory Survey requirement for the history major and minor. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, SDArch: HUMArt: CPSC, HUMBU: HUMEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L18 163  L46 163 Frequency: Annually / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 2:30P-3:50P TBA Smemo Paper/Project/TakeHome 30 30 5 Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. 02 -T-R--- 4:00P-5:20P TBA Smemo Paper/Project/TakeHome 30 25 0 Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. L22 History 2052 Historical Fiction & Fictional Histories 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: The relationship between history and fiction has always been contentious and sometimes turbulent, not least because the two genres have traditionally been seen as mutually exclusive. However, new hybrid forms of writing-from historical fiction, to docudramas, to fictionalized biographies-have led to the blurring of the boundary and encouraged the claim that history itself is just another form of fiction. At the same time, historical novelists have placed increasing emphasis on the authenticity, sometimes even the accuracy, of their narratives and characterizations. And further still, contemporary writers are challenging dominant historical narratives by creating plausible fictions from the perspectives of the subordinated, the marginalized and the disenfranchised: plebeians, women, and indigenous, enslaved, and diasporic peoples. As historical novels become ever more popular, the distinction between history and fiction appears to be collapsing before our eyes. Through reading and discussing some outstanding examples of the genre of historical fiction published between the early nineteenth and the early twenty-first century (from Walter Scott to Charles Dickens, from Toni Morrison to Amitav Ghosh, from Graham Swift to Hilary Mantel), this course will investigate whether history is 'factual' or just another form of fiction; whether the appeal of historical fiction should lie in its authenticity; whether the recent success of historical novels should be viewed as a new development, or rather, as a revival of an older literary tradition; and whether novelists and dramatists are more adept than historians at interrogating issues of memory, identity, and change. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUMEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CP Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 4:00P-5:20P TBA Hindle Paper/Project/TakeHome 30 6 0 Actions: Books L22 History 2061 Sophomore Seminar: Frontiers & Environment in Modern China 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course is a sophomore seminar in history; topics vary per semester. Prerequisite: sophomore standing. FRONTIERS & ENVIRONMENT IN MODERN CHINA -- This course delves into the intricate relationship between human activities and the dynamic environmental landscapes in China since the 17th century. From imperial expansions to present-day environmental dilemmas, our journey will unravel the environmental complexities faced by regions such as Manchuria, Xinjiang, Southwest China, and littoral areas. The course places a distinct emphasis on understanding how these border regions grapple with historical and contemporary environmental challenges. Starting with the rise of the Manchu-dominated Qing dynasty around the 1600s, we will investigate how China's frontiers extended far into Inner Asia, Southeast Asia, and maritime territories. The course will then delve into the environmental impact of these expansions, exploring issues such as resource management, deforestation, fisheries, and disease control. As we progress through the Republican and People's Republic of China (PRC) periods, we'll examine new interpretations of empire, the deployment of science and technology to aid frontier development in extreme environments, and the evolving ideas and policies regarding environmental sustainability in border regions. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUMArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: HUM, ISEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CP Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: Unpredictable / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 3:00P-4:50P TBA Shi Paper/Project/TakeHome 15 6 0 Desc: Course time 3pm-4:20pm on Mondays & Wednesdays Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. L22 History 2118 First-Year Seminar: Angels, Prostitutes and Chicas Modernas: Women in Latin American History 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Women have been active players in the construction of Latin American nations. In the last two decades, leading scholars in the field have taken up the challenge of documenting women's participation. This research explosion has produced fruitful results to allow for the development of specialized courses. This course looks at the nation building process through the lens of Latin American women. Students will examine the expectations, responsibilities and limitations women confronted in their varied roles from the Wars of Independence to the social revolutions and dictatorial regimes of the twentieth century. Besides looking at their political and economic lives, students will explore the changing gender roles and relations within marriage and the family, as well as the changing sexual and maternal mores. Attributes: A&S: FYSA&S IQ: HUM, LCD, SDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: HUM, ISEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L45 2118  L61 2118  L77 2118  L98 2118 Frequency: Every 1 or 2 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M------ 3:00P-5:50P TBA Montano Paper/Project/TakeHome 19 0 0 Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. L22 History 2850 Ampersand: The Holocaust: A European Experience 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Between 1939 and 1945, Nazi troops invaded, occupied and destroyed major parts of Europe. A central aim of the Nazi project was the destruction of European Jewry, the killing of people, and the annihilation of a cultural heritage. This course seeks to deal with questions that, more than seventy years after what is now known as the Holocaust, still continue to perplex. Why did Germany turn to a dictatorship of racism, war, and mass murder? Why did the Nazis see Jews as the supreme enemy, while also targeting Poles, Ukrainians, Soviets, homosexuals, the Roma, and the disabled? The course introduces students to issues that are central to understanding Nazi occupation and extermination regimes. Students will look at survival strategies in Western Europe including emigration, resistance movements in Eastern European ghettos, local residents' reactions to the murder in their midst, and non-European governments' reactions. Course is for first-year, non-transfer students only. Attributes: A&S: AMPA&S IQ: HUM, LCD, SC, SDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: HUM, ISEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CP Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L61 2850  L75 2850  L97 2850 Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 4:00P-5:20P TBA Pytka No final 19 2 0 Actions: Books L22 History 299 Undergraduate Internship in History Var. Units (max = 3.0) Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Students receive credit for a faculty-directed and approved internship. Registration requires completion of the Learning Agreement which the student obtains from the Career Center and which must be filled out and signed by the faculty sponsor prior to beginning internship work. Credit should correspond to actual time spent in work activities, e.g., 8-10 hours a week for 13 or 14 weeks to receive 3 units of credit; 1 or 2 credits for fewer hours. Students may not receive credit for work done for pay but are encouraged to obtain written evaluations about such work for the student's academic advisor and career placement file. Attributes: Instruction Type: Internship/Practicum Grade Options: P Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: Annually / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 TBA TBA Kastor See department 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 02 TBA TBA [TBA] See department 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 03 TBA TBA [TBA] See department 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. L22 History 3002 Independent Work 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Attributes: Instruction Type: Independent study, tutorial, or other Grade Options: CP Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: Annually / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 02 TBA TBA [TBA] See department 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 03 TBA TBA [TBA] See department 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 30 TBA TBA Pegg See department 1 0 0 Actions: Books L22 History 301R Historical Methods-European History 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This is a small-group reading course in which students are introduced to the skills essential to the historian's craft. Emphasis will be on acquiring research skills, learning to read historical works critically, and learning to use primary and secondary sources to make a persuasive and original argument. See Course Listings for current topics. Required for history majors. Preference given to History majors; other interested students welcome. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: HUM, ISCFH: MHEN: HUColl: HEU, HSM Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: Every 2-3 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M------ 3:00P-5:50P TBA Pegg Paper/Project/TakeHome 15 3 0 Desc: THE MAKING OF THE MIDDLE AGES - This course discusses the major issues, debates, problems, themes, and methods, adopted and adapted by historians of the Middle Ages since the nineteenth century. Each week students will explore the various methodologies for discovering and reading primary sources and how such methods and discoveries are transformed by historians into scholarly articles and books. Topics to be discussed include: the Christianization of the Roman Empire and the early medieval West; slavery and serfdom; the rise of Islam; the relationship of popes to kings; the fall and rise of cities and villages; the relationship of medieval Jews to Christians; Latin and the formation of vernacular literature; ideas of knighthood; heresy and the inquisition; the history of religion; the philosophy of history: how the writing of history is related to the evocation of the past; is history a humanistic or scientific discipline or a mix of both; and what were the Middle Ages and what is historical truth? Students will participate in weekly discussions and write two 8-12 page papers. Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. L22 History 301T Historical Methods: Transregional History 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This is a small-group reading course in which students are introduced to the skills essential to the historian's craft. Emphasis will be on acquiring research skills, learning to read historical works critically, and learning to use primary and secondary sources to make a persuasive and original argument. See Course Listings for current topics. Required for history majors. Preference given to History majors; other interested students welcome. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: HUM, ISEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CP Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L97 301 Frequency: Annually / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 --W-F-- 10:00A-11:20A TBA Watt Paper/Project/TakeHome 19 4 0 Desc: DECOLONIZATION IN THE 2OTH CENTURY: This course traces the international history of decolonization, that is, the transformation of the system of empires and colonies into the post-1945 world of sovereign nation states. We begin with a brief survey of the history of empire, paying close attention to problems created during colonial rule that were especially vexing during decolonization. Through secondary sources we seek to understand the international context of decolonization, especially the paradox of continued colonial rule in the midst of an international discourse of self-determination and universal human rights. We engage with some of the classic critiques of imperialism including selections by Lenin, Gandhi, Memmi, and Fanon. Through case studies, we evaluate particular problems that emerged as the colonized wrested institutional and legal control over their territories from past rulers. We consider the difference between "decolonization" and "post-colonialism," and explore how some of the problems of past colonial rule continue to trouble our world today. Modern, Transregional. Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. 02 -T-R--- 10:00A-11:20A TBA Hindle Paper/Project/TakeHome 15 13 0 Desc: MICROHISTORIES: How much can we learn about the past through the story of a single person, place, object, or event? Since the 1970s, historians have attempted to show that 'microhistories' can powerfully illuminate the grand sweep of history. By narrowing their focus to magnify the small, the particular, and the local, 'microhistorians' have argued that studies of apparently inconsequential subjects can have a major impact on our understanding of the past. This course is based on the intensive reading and discussion of several outstanding examples of the 'micro-historical' study of individuals, families, communities, events, and social interactions. These will be primarily drawn from the literature on early modern Europe, which has a long and continuing tradition of work of this kind. Some, however, are taken from the historiography of Early America and recent approaches to 'Global' history. Particular attention will be paid to questions of evidence and of its potential in the hands of imaginative historians; and to the deployment of particular analytical and narrative techniques in the construction of history. We will often be less concerned with whether the historians we study are 'right' in their arguments than with how they develop and present them. Transregional Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. L22 History 3035 Antisemitism: History, Causes, Consequences 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Why do people hate other people? Why have religion, race, gender, ethnicity and so on led to sectarian violence with terrifying regularity throughout history? Focused on antisemitism from Biblical times to today, this class will grapple with those questions. Please note: L75 5035 is intended for graduate students only. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, SCArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: BAEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L75 3035  L75 5035  L97 3035 Frequency: Every 1 or 2 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 8:30A-9:50A TBA Cassen Paper/Project/TakeHome 25 4 0 Actions: Books L22 History 3074 Hinduism & the Hindu Right 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: We are witnessing a global rise in rightwing politics, and India is no exception. In May 2019, Narendra Modi and his "Hindu Nationalist" party were elected to power for a second term. Observers in the United States and Europe may be stunned by what seems to be a new development, but observers in India have been following the rise of the Hindu Right since the early 1990s. In its wake, the Hindu Right has brought violence against minorities; curbs on free speech; and moves toward second-class citizenship for Indian Muslims. This course will track the history of the Hindu Right in India from its 19th-century roots to the present. The struggle to come to grips with the Hindu Right is of immediate political relevance. It also raises big questions about the history of religion and the politics of secularism. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: BA, ISEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L23 3074  L73 3074  L75 3074  L97 3074 Frequency: Unpredictable / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 11:30A-12:50P TBA Adcock Paper/Project/TakeHome 15 15 2 Actions: Books L22 History 310C Kings, Priests, Prophets, and Rabbis: The Jews in the Ancient World 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: We will trace Israelite and Jewish history from its beginnings in the biblical period (circa 1200 BCE) through the rise of rabbinic Judaism and Christianity until the birth of Islam (circa 620 CE). We will explore how Israel emerged as a distinct people and why the rise of the imperial powers tranformed the political, social, and religious institutions of ancient Israel. We will illuminate why the religion of the Bible developed into rabbinic Judaism and Christianity and how rabbinic literature and institutions were created. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCDArt: HUMBU: BA, HUMEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L75 301C  L23 374C  L74 301C  L75 501C Frequency: Every 2 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 10:00A-11:20A TBA Barmash Paper/Project/TakeHome 35 4 0 Actions: Books L22 History 3162 Early Modern China 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course examines political, socio-economic, and intellectual-cultural developments in Chinese society from the middle of the fourteenth century to 1800. This chronological focus largely corresponds to the last two imperial dynasties, the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911). Thematically, the course emphasizes such early modern indigenous developments as increasing commercialization, social mobility, and questioning of received cultural values. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: HUM, ISEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L04 3162  L46 3162  L97 3163 Frequency: Annually / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 8:30A-9:50A TBA Miles Dec 13 2024 1:00PM - 3:00PM 30 12 0 Desc: Course time TBD Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. L22 History 3176 Chinese Economy in World History 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: From the Belt and Road Initiative to high-tech surveillance, China is at the center of contemporary discussions about the future of the global economy. This course will expose students to a historical understanding of how China not only became part of the world economy, but in fact defined its development in major ways. Over the course of the semester, students will explore a variety of subjects, from the Great Divergence between Europe and China in the eighteenth century to the rise of Maoist socialism in mid-twentieth century, to China's transition to capitalism and involvement in Africa in the twenty-first century. Examining the past two hundred fifty years of Chinese and global economic history, the students will gain a deep understanding of how China became the world's second largest economy, and what that means for the future. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCDArch: HUMArt: LNGEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CP Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L97 3176 Frequency: Unpredictable / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 4:00P-5:20P TBA Reynolds Paper 15 13 0 Actions: Books 02 -T-R--- 4:00P-5:20P TBA Reynolds Paper 15 7 0 Actions: Books L22 History 3192 Modern South Asia 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course will cover the history of the Indian sub-continent in the 19th and 20th centuries. We shall look closely at a number of issues including colonialism in India; anti-colonial movements; the experiences of women; the interplay between religion and national identity; and popular culture in modern India. Political and social history will be emphasized equally. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: HUM, ISEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L23 3192  L75 3192  L97 3192 Frequency: Every 2 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 2:30P-3:50P TBA Adcock Paper/Project/TakeHome 30 8 0 Actions: Books L22 History 321C Introduction to Colonial Latin America until 1825 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course surveys the history of Latin America from the pre-Columbian civilizations through the Iberian exploration and conquest of the Americas until the Wars of Independence (roughly 1400-1815). Stressing the experiences and cultural contributions of Americans, Europeans, and Africans, we consider the following topics through primary written documents, first-hand accounts, and excellent secondary scholarship, as well as through art, music, and architecture: Aztec, Maya, Inca, and Iberian civilizations; models of conquest in comparative perspective (Spanish, Portuguese, and Amerindian); environmental histories; consolidation of colonialism in labor, tributary, and judicial systems; race, ethnicity, slavery, caste, and class; religion and the Catholic Church and Inquisition; sugar and mining industries, trade, and global economies; urban and rural life; the roles of women, gender, and sexuality in the colonies. Geographically, we will cover Mexico, the Andes, and to a lesser extent, Brazil, the Southwest, Cuba, and the Southern Cone. Pre-modern, Latin America. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, SC, SDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: HUMEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L18 3211  L45 321C  L97 321C  L98 321C Frequency: Annually / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 10:00A-11:20A TBA Montano Paper/Project/TakeHome 35 3 0 Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. L22 History 330C Culture & Identity: 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: What is Indigenous St. Louis and why don't we know about it? And who is the "we" who doesn't know? In this course, we will study Indigenous presence in St. Louis and how Indigenous geographies overlap and coexist in tension with settler-colonial geographies. While St. Louis began as a French colonial settlement, established by fur traders in 1764, the lands that the city occupied were and continue to be Native lands. What we call St. Louis was a geography shared by many Indigenous peoples. The region was a major urban center between the 11th and 14th centuries-today referred to as Cahokia. It then became a territory shared by many tribes, including Ni Okaska (Osage), Niúachi (Missouria), Illiniwek (Illinois Confederacy), and others. In the nineteenth century, some of these tribes were coerced into leaving their homelands and sent to reservations in Indian Territory (also known as Oklahoma). A century later, St. Louis was one of the urban centers where Indigenous people were relocated as part of an effort to break up tribes and the reservation system. And today Indigenous peoples from all over the continent inhabit St. Louis as a place of family, friendships, community, of livelihoods, education, and creative practices; but also, as a place of contestation, as a city structured by systems of domination, such as race and class, and Indigenous erasure. Loosely following this historical timeline, we will study how this erasure happened and engage with different sources to study St. Louis as an ongoing Indigenous place and space. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, SDArch: HUMArt: CPSC, HUMBU: BAEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L98 330C  L48 3300 Frequency: Unpredictable / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 1:00P-2:20P TBA Gill Paper/Project/TakeHome 19 19 0 Actions: Books L22 History 334C Crusade, Conflict, and Coexistence: Jews in Christian Europe 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course will investigate some of the major themes in the history of the Jews in Europe, from the Middle Ages to the eve of the French Revolution. Jews constituted a classic, nearly continuous minority in the premodern Christian world-a world that was not known for tolerating dissent. Or was it? One of the main purposes of the course is to investigate the phenomenon of majority/minority relations, to examine the ways in which the Jewish community interacted with and experienced European societies, cultures, and politics. We will look at the dynamics of boundary formation and cultural distinctiveness; the limits of religious and social tolerance; the periodic eruption of persecution in its social, political, and religious contexts; and the prospects for Jewish integration into various European societies during the course of the Enlightenment era. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, SC, SDBU: ETH, HUM, ISEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L22 5334  L23 334C  L75 334C  L75 5334 Frequency: Every 1 or 2 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 11:30A-12:50P TBA Cassen Dec 16 2024 1:00PM - 3:00PM 18 11 0 Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. L22 History 335C Becoming "Modern": Emancipation, Antisemitism and Nationalism in Modern Jewish History 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course offers a survey of the Jewish experience in the modern world by asking, at the outset, what it means to be-or to become-modern. To answer this question, we look at two broad trends that took shape toward the end of the eighteenth century-the Enlightenment and the formation of the modern state-and we track changes and developments in Jewish life down to the close of the twentieth century with analyses of the (very different) American and Israeli settings. The cultural, social, and political lives of Jews have undergone major transformations and dislocations over this time-from innovation to revolution, exclusion to integration, calamity to triumphs. The themes that we will be exploring in depth include the campaigns for and against Jewish "emancipation;" acculturation and religious reform; traditionalism and modernism in Eastern Europe; the rise of political and racial antisemitism; mass migration and the formation of American Jewry; varieties of Jewish national politics; Jewish-Gentile relations between the World Wars; the destruction of European Jewry; the emergence of a Jewish nation-state; and Jewish culture and identity since 1945. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, SC, SDArt: HUMBU: HUM, ISEN: HUColl: HEU, HSM Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CP Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L22 5335  L23 335C  L74 335C  L75 335C  L75 535C  L97 3350 Frequency: Every 2 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 4:00P-5:20P TBA Jay Paper/Project/TakeHome 20 20 11 Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. L22 History 3416 War, Genocide and Gender in Modern Europe 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course explores the way in which gender and gender relations shaped and were shaped by war and genocide in 20th century Europe. The course approaches the subject from various vantage points, including economic, social and cultural history, and draws on comparisons between different regions. Topics covered will include: new wartime tasks for women; soldier's treatment of civilians under occupation, including sexual violence; how combatants dealt with fear, injury and the loss of comrades; masculilne attributes of soldiers and officers of different nations and in different wartime roles; survival strategies and the relation to expectations with regard to people's (perceived) gender identity; the meanings of patriotism for women and men during war; and gender specific experiences of genocide. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, SC, SDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: HUM, ISEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CP Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L77 3416 Frequency: Every 2-3 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 8:30A-9:50A TBA Walke Paper/Project/TakeHome 20 5 0 Actions: Books L22 History 3420 Americans and Their Presidents 3.0 Units Lab Required Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: How have Americans understood what it means to be President of the United States? This seminar uses that question as a point of departure for a multidisciplinary cultural approach to the presidency in the United States, examining the shifting roles of the chief executive from George Washington through Barack Obama. In addition to a consideration of the President's political and policymaking roles, this course examines how the lived experiences of presidents have informed the ways Americans have conceived of public and private life within a broader political culture. In the process, this course uses the presidency as a means to explore topics ranging from electioneering to gender, foreign policy to popular media. Readings are drawn from a broad range of fields. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUMArch: HUMArt: HUMEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L98 3422 Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 11:00A-11:50A TBA Kastor Dec 17 2024 10:30AM - 12:30PM 80 17 0 Actions: Books A ----F-- 10:00A-10:50A TBA Kastor No final 20 4 0 Actions: Books B ----F-- 10:00A-10:50A TBA Kastor Default - none 20 0 0 Actions: Books C ----F-- 11:00A-11:50A TBA Kastor Default - none 20 9 0 Actions: Books D ----F-- 3:00P-3:50P TBA Kastor Default - none 20 4 0 Actions: Books L22 History 3456 Greek History: The Dawn of Democracy 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: From the so-called Dark Ages to the death of Socrates, a survey of the political, social, economic, and military development of early Greece, with emphasis upon citizenship and political structure, religion and culture, and the complex relationships between Greeks and neighboring peoples. This course is open to first-year students Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: HUMEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L08 345C Frequency: Every 2-3 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 1:00P-2:20P TBA [TBA] Dec 17 2024 1:00PM - 3:00PM 45 23 0 Actions: Books L22 History 3503 U.S.-China Relations from 1949 to the Present 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: The United States and China are the two most important global powers today, and the relationship between them is one of the most comprehensive, complex, and consequential major-power relations in the world. The tangled relationship is at times turbulent, and its future remains uncertain. This course studies the bilateral relationship from the Chinese Civil War to the rise of China as a major political and economic power in the 21st century. It invites students to explore the following questions: What have China and the U.S. done to confront or accommodate each other in global politics? How has foreign policy in both countries balanced the often competing goals of state security, economic stability, domestic political order, and international influence? What are the impacts of a rising China on geopolitics in the Asia-Pacific region and on the U.S.'s global leadership in the 21st century? By drawing on scholarship in political and social history and area studies, this course helps students better understand both the historical context and current developments of U.S.-China relations. Fulfills modern elective for EALC major. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: ETH, ISEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CP Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L04 350  L46 350  L81 350  L97 3503 Frequency: Every 1 or 2 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 1:00P-2:20P TBA Ma Paper/Project/TakeHome 50 50 24 Actions: Books L22 History 3514 Race, Ethnicity, and Migration: A Transatlantic History 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course interrogates the making and re-making of racial and ethnic categories in the long history of transatlantic migration from the 1850s to the present. We will examine how the steady movement of people and ideas between Europe and the United States have shaped the discourses and policies of immigration, social reform, and globalization on both sides of the mighty Atlantic. Students will be exposed to historical processes and discourses which not only affected the racialization of different groups in various nations but also the ways in which those processes and discourses were influenced by events unfolding across vast spaces. Rather than simply working in a comparative modality, students will think relationally and transnationally to explore the material and representational consequences of racial and ethnic politics. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, SCArch: HUMArt: HUMEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CP Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 10:00A-11:20A TBA Wakeley-Smith, Schult Paper/Project/TakeHome 40 6 0 Actions: Books L22 History 3521 Topics in AMCS: The Real and Fake: Identity, Conflicts, and Race in Asian American Literature 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Who is a "real" Asian and who is "fake"? Why do stereotypes like "banana" and "coconut" exist? Is cultural identity real or are we just performing certain identities to fit into social positions? This course will address these identarian questions that shape Asian American Literatures. We will draw from the "pen wars" in the 1970's and reflect on the liminality of various Asian American writers caught between Asian and American loyalties. We will unpack real, fake and fabricated identities and discuss how identities have been historically shaped by race, gender, class, but are gradually moving beyond these categories into intersectional realities of selective racialization, desirable, and cosmopolitan Asianess. Utilizing the concept of "racial formation", the course will specifically interrogate four central dynamics of Asian American identity: the politics of Asian American scholarship, frameworks of Asian American representation, the task of the ethnic writer, and the liminal dynamics of New Asian American identities in the age of digitalization and social media. Finally, the course will help students reflect, question and realize their own identarian influence and characteristics, improving critical thinking on modern issues and the habit of reflective reading and writing. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUMArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: HUMEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L98 3520  L14 352I  L46 3520 Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 10:00A-11:20A TBA Ghosh Paper/Project/TakeHome 19 6 0 Actions: Books L22 History 3598 The First World War and the Making of Modern Europe 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: The First World War ushered our age into existence. Its memories still haunt us and its aftershocks shaped the course of the twentieth century. The Russian Revolution, the emergence of new national states, Fascism, Nazism, the Second World War, and the Cold War are all its products. Today, many of the ethnic and national conflicts that triggered war in 1914 have resurfaced. Understanding the First World War, in short, is crucial to understanding our own era. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCDArt: HUMBU: HUM, ISEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L97 3598 Frequency: Every 2 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 10:00A-11:20A TBA Treitel Paper/Project/TakeHome 40 40 13 Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. L22 History 3608 Science and Society Since 1800 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course surveys selected topics and themes in the history of modern science from 1800 to the present. Emphasis will be on the life sciences, with some attention to the physical sciences. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUMArt: HUMBU: HUMEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: Every 4 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 4:00P-5:20P TBA Wardaki, Marjan Dec 18 2024 6:00PM - 8:00PM 20 0 0 Actions: Books L22 History 3613 Women and Social Movements: Gender and Sexuality in U.S. Social Movements with History 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course examines the history of grassroots activism and political engagement of women in the United States. Looking at social movements organized by women or around issues of gender and sexuality, class texts interrogate women's participation in, and exclusion from, political life. Key movements organizing the course units include, among others: the Temperance Movement, Abolitionist Movements, the Women's Suffrage Movements, Women's Labor Movements, Women's Global Peace Movements, and Recent Immigration Movements. Readings and discussion will pay particular attention to the movements of women of color, as well as the critiques of women of color of dominant women's movements. Course materials will analyze how methods of organizing reflect traditional forms of "doing politics," and we will also examine strategies and tactics for defining problems and posing solutions particular to women. Prerequisites: any 100- or 200-level Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies course or permission from the instructor. Waitlist managed by dept. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, SC, SDBU: BAEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CP Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L77 361 Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 2:30P-3:50P TBA Sangrey Paper/Project/TakeHome 15 15 0 Desc: Waitlist managed by dept. Actions: Books L22 History 365 The Birth Crisis of Democracy: The New United States of America, 1776-1850 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: "Go get yourself some democracy!" Americans have so often preached to other nations, but just how did Americans themselves go about creating the world's largest and most successful democratic republic? How democratic was this violent new nation that reeled from one crisis to another and ultimately to the brink of collapse in its first 75 years? This survey of American history from the creation of the Republic to the eve of the Civil War explores the Revolution and its ambiguous legacies, the starkly paradoxical "marriage" of slavery and freedom, and the creation of much of the America that we know; mass political parties; a powerful presidency; sustained capitalist growth; individualistic creeds; formalized and folkloric racism; heteronormative patriarchal family life; technological innovation; literary experimentation; distinctively American legal, scientific and religious cultures; and the modern movements of labor, feminism, and African-American empowerment. Prerequisite: sophomore standing or permission of the instructor. Modern, U.S. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUMArt: HUMBU: HUM, ISEN: HUColl: HSP, HUS Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L84 365  L98 365 Frequency: Every 1 or 2 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 10:00A-11:20A TBA Bernstein Paper/Project/TakeHome 50 23 0 Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. L22 History 3672 Medicine, Healing and Experimentation in the Contours of Black History 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Conversations regarding the history of medicine continue to undergo considerable transformation within academia and the general public. The infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiment serves as a marker in the historical consciousness regarding African Americans and the medical profession. This course taps into this particular evolution, prompting students to broaden their gaze to explore the often delicate relationship of people of African descent within the realm of medicine and healing. Tracing the social nature of these medical interactions from the period of enslavement through the 20th century, this course examines the changing patterns of disease and illness, social responses to physical and psychological ailments, and the experimental and exploitative use of black bodies in the field of medicine. As a history course, the focus will be extended towards the underpinnings of race and gender in the medical treatment allocated across time and space--the U.S., Caribbean, and Latin America--to give further insight into the roots of contemporary practice of medicine. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, SC, SDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: BA, HUMCFH: MHEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L85 3672  L90 3672  L97 3672  L98 367H Frequency: Every 1 or 2 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 1:00P-2:20P TBA Mustakeem Paper/Project/TakeHome 35 35 20 Actions: Books L22 History 3680 The Cold War, 1945-1991 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course presents an assessment of the Cold War from the perspective of its major participants. Topics include: the origins of the Cold War in Europe and Asia; the Korean War; the Stalin regime; McCarthyism and the Red Scare; the nuclear arms race; the conflict over Berlin; Cold War film and literature; superpower rivalry in Guatemala, Cuba, Vietnam, Africa, and the Middle East; the rise and fall of detente; the Reagan years and the impact of Gorbechev; the East European Revolutions; and the end of the Cold War. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCDArt: HUMBU: HUM, ISEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CA Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L32 3680  L97 3680  L98 3680 Frequency: Every 2 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 1:00P-2:20P TBA Knapp Paper/Project/TakeHome 45 45 17 Actions: Books 02 -T-R--- 2:30P-3:50P TBA Knapp Paper/Project/TakeHome 45 45 17 Actions: Books L22 History 3714 What a Way to Make a Living: Work, Politics, & Culture in the 20th Century United States 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course explores the lives, labors, and leisure of working people in the twentieth century United States. Students will focus on the seismic transformations and bitter conflicts that went into making a mass production, mass consumption society. How did working people experience and fight to exert control over jobs increasingly dictated by the unyielding pace of vast assembly lines? What happened when manufacturing jobs disappeared? Who left? Who got left behind? How were households and neighborhoods made and remade by huge movements of people from the countryside into cities, and then from urban centers to suburban sprawl? How have working people narrated their own stories from below, and, in turn, how has working life been narrated and (re)packaged from above? To answer these questions, and many more, we will pay close attention to how the organization of work under 20th century capitalism (re)defined social hierarchies, the meaning of citizenship, and racial, gendered, and sexual identity. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUMEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: Unpredictable / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 10:00A-11:20A TBA Smemo Paper/Project/TakeHome 30 12 0 Actions: Books L22 History 3715 Unruly Populations: Biopolitics in 20th-Century Europe 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: While modern European history is usually told as a rapid succession of political revolutions, social reforms, and expanding civil rights, this course centers demographics as the driving force of change and presents Europe's turbulent 20th century as a struggle for population control. Beginning at the turn of the century, the course critically examines what it meant to understand and govern society as a population and interrogates the state tools used to record and stratify populations by attributes of race, ethnicity, sex, and age. It then considers how the tenet of biopolitics has influenced policies towards health care, schooling, social security, the food economy, urban development, and migration in Europe and across its overseas empires. The course also explores how individual historical actors, including colonial subjects, refugees, and women's rights activists, have challenged and evaded this pervasive government of life. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, SCArch: HUMArt: HUMEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CP Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: Annually / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 4:00P-5:20P TBA Schult Paper/Project/TakeHome 30 3 0 Actions: Books L22 History 3731 Topics in Near Eastern Cultures: Arabs in Israel: Politics, Society, & Citizenship 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Arab citizens in Israel are caught between civic inclusion and national exclusion. This indigenous ethnonational minority is eligible on the one hand to equal civic rights while suffering on the other hand from policies and practices that prioritize Jewish citizens. In this course, we will examine this complex case of state-minority relations, through constructs of citizenship, politics, and society. We will discuss the ways in which this minority is constructed by the state, as we engage with current events. Students will apply frameworks studied in class to current news items, critique the news, and create news by writing their own opinion pieces. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, SDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: HUM, ISEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L75 373  L23 3730  L97 3730 Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 4:00P-5:20P TBA Hendin Paper/Project/TakeHome 30 3 0 Actions: Books L22 History 3770 History of Slavery in the Middle East 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course examines slavery and its abolition in the Middle East and North Africa from 600 C.E. to the 20th Century. It addresses slavery as a discourse and a question of political economy. We begin with an overview of slavery in late antiquity to contextualize the evolution of this practice after the rise of Islam in the region. We then examine how it was practiced, imagined, and studied under major empires, such as the Umayyads, the Abbasids, the Fatimids, the Mamluks, the Ottomans, and the Safavids. In addition to examining the Qur'anic discourse and early Islamic practices of slavery, to monitor change over time we address various forms of household, field, and military slavery as well as the remarkable phenomenon of "slave dynasties" following a chronological order. We discuss, through primary sources, theoretical, religious, and moral debates and positions on slavery, including religious scriptures, prophetic traditions, religious law, and a plethora of narratives from a range of genres. We highlight a distinct theme each week to focus on until we conclude our discussion with the abolition of slavery in the 19th and 20th centuries. Topics of discussion include various forms of male and female slavery, Qur'anic and prophetic discourse on slavery, legal and moral views on slavery, slavery as represented in religious literature, political, military, and economic structures of slavery, issues of race and gender as well as slave writings to reflect on the experiences of slavery from within. The goal is to enable students to understand the histories of slavery in the Middle East and eventually compare it to that of other regions and cultures, such as European and Atlantic slavery. No second language required. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, SCArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: BA, ISEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L75 377  L23 377  L75 577  L97 3770 Frequency: Every 2 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 2:30P-3:50P TBA Yucesoy Paper/Project/TakeHome 15 12 0 Actions: Books L22 History 3831 Magicians, Healers, and Holy Men 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Magic was part of everyday life for most people in pre-modern societies. Casting spells, fashioning voodoo dolls, wearing amulets, ingesting potions, and reading the stars are just some of the activities performed by individuals at every level of society. This course examines Greco-Roman, Egyptian, Jewish, and ancient Christian magical practices. We will study astrological manuals that teach how to read the stars, curse tablets that bring harm on enemies, and spells that make people fall in love, heal the sick, lock up success in business, and more. We will also look at what is said, both in antiquity and in contemporary scholarship, about magic and the people who practiced it, and examine the complicated relationship between magic, medicine, and religion. This course is open to first-year students Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: HUMEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L08 3831  L23 3831 Frequency: Every 2 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 3:00P-3:50P TBA Jenott Paper/Project/TakeHome 100 100 5 Actions: Books A ----F-- 3:00P-3:50P TBA [TBA] See instructor 20 19 1 Actions: Books B ----F-- 3:00P-3:50P Seigle / 210 [TBA] See instructor 20 20 2 Actions: Books C ----F-- 3:00P-3:50P Seigle / 205 [TBA] See instructor 20 20 1 Actions: Books D ----F-- 3:00P-3:50P Eads / 211 [TBA] See instructor 20 20 1 Actions: Books E ----F-- 3:00P-3:50P TBA [TBA] See instructor 20 20 1 Actions: Books L22 History 3848 1984: One Weird Year 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course examines one year as a way to make sense of recent American culture. Looking at points around the country but always returning to the experience of WashU in 1984, this course experiences the past as Americans did, through the simultaneous overlap of daily life and politics, movies and music, the books they were assigned in school and the very different books they chose to read. In addition to tackling the challenge of understanding one year, students will develop a variety of the collaborative and communication skills that are so important both in college and beyond. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUMArch: HUMArt: HUMEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L98 3841 Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 1:00P-2:20P TBA Kastor Dec 18 2024 1:00PM - 3:00PM 19 11 0 Actions: Books L22 History 3870 Topics in Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies: Social Policy in Israel 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: In Israel, two central tensions impact social policy: The first, between a welfare state and a neoliberal policy regime, and the second, between a Jewish state and a democratic state. In this course we will delve into these two tensions and use them as our analytical framework for understanding social policy in Israel. Through various examples such as health, education and employment, we will widen our understanding of social policy and familiarize ourselves with current policy debates in Israel. Please note: L75 387 is intended for undergraduate students only; graduate students should enroll in L75 587. Attributes: A&S IQ: LCDBU: ISEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L75 387  L23 3870  L74 387  L75 587 Frequency: Every 2 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 11:30A-12:50P TBA Hendin Paper/Project/TakeHome 30 6 0 Actions: Books L22 History 3904 Existentialist Thought 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Existentialism "begins with a disoriented individual facing a confused world that s/he cannot accept" (Robert Solomon). Existentialists seek to make meaning of the brokenness (Marcel), dislocation (Merleau-Ponty), and ambiguity (de Beauvoir) of modern life. While its origins go back to the nineteenth-century (Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche), with even older antecedents, as a specific moment in the history of ideas existentialism was created in response to the "age of anxiety" from the end of World War I through the 1960s. It continues to ripple through to the present. We will explore the richness and depth of the canonic figures of existentialism. But we will also consider how that canon was itself shaped and what this entailed for how these thinkers have been understood. We will consider existentialist giants such as Sartre and Heidegger. But we will also spend time with less totemic thinkers. One key thematic strand will focus on is race and existentialism. In short, we will explore why existentialism continues to speak to the Millennial generation's concerns about the meaning and purpose of human existence. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, SCEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L30 3904 Frequency: Every 2 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 2:30P-3:50P TBA Judaken Paper/Project/TakeHome 35 19 0 Actions: Books L22 History 399 Senior Honors Thesis and Colloquium: Writing-Intensive Seminar Var. Units (max = 4.0) Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: PREREQUISITE: Satisfactory standing as a candidate for Senior Honors and permission of the thesis director. Enrollment is limited. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, WIEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CU Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: Annually / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T----- 4:00P-6:50P TBA Johnson No final 15 9 0 Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. L22 History 4001 Directed Fieldwork in Historical and Archival Professions 4.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: A field work project under the direction of a member of the Department. Normally planned and undertaken in conjunction with an established museum or archival program, this work may also be done independently. Permission of supervising instructor and Department Chair is required. Attributes: Instruction Type: Internship/Practicum Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: Annually / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 TBA TBA [TBA] See instructor 1 0 0 Actions: Books L22 History 4002 Directed Fieldwork in Historical and Archival Professions 4.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: A fieldwork project under the direction of a faculty member from the Department of History. Normally planned and undertaken in conjunction with an established museum or archival program. Attributes: EN: H Instruction Type: Independent study, tutorial, or other Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: Annually / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 TBA TBA [TBA] See instructor 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 02 TBA TBA [TBA] See instructor 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. L22 History 4009 Slavery and Public History 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Public history, or applied history, encompasses the many and diverse ways in which history is put to work in the world and applied to real-world issues. This course teaches public history practice with particular emphasis on engaging in the public history of slavery through research and interpretation on the regional histories of enslavement within St. Louis and at Washington University. Students will learn by engaging critical scholarship on public history, debates about how public history is practiced, and learning core tenets of public history interpretation, museum best practices, oral history, preservation, and material culture and their particular application to public history interpreting slavery. This includes grappling with the politics of memory and heritage that shape, limit, and empower public history practice on slavery, and how white supremacy has shaped what histories we absorb in the public. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, SCArch: HUMArt: HUMEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CP Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L90 4008  L12 4080  L98 4009 Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 11:30A-12:50P TBA Schmidt Paper/Project/TakeHome 15 8 0 Desc: This course fulfills Area 2 for AFAS Major. Actions: Books L22 History 4040 Conflict or Convivencia? Muslims, Jews, and Christians in Medieval Spain 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This seminar will explore various facets of the coexistence (convivencia) of Muslims, Jews, and Christians in medieval Spain. Its horizon stretches from the Muslim conquest of Iberia (al-Andalus) up to the turn of the 16th century when Spanish Jews and Muslims were equally faced with the choice between exile and conversion to Christianity. Until about 1100, Muslims dominated most of the Iberian Peninsula; from then onward, Christians ruled much and eventually all of what would become modern Spain and Portugal. Through a process known as reconquista (reconquest), Catholic kingdoms acquired large Muslim enclaves. As borders moved, Jewish communities found themselves under varying Muslim or Christian dominion. Interactions between the three religious communities occurred throughout, some characterized by shared creativity and mutual respect, others by rivalry and strife. The course focuses on these cultural encounters, placing them in various historical contexts. It will explore the ambiguities of religious conversion, and the interplay of persecution and toleration. Last not least, the course will address the question of how the memory of medieval Spain's diversity reverberates-and is utilized-in modern popular and academic discourse. All sources will be read in English translation; however, students are encouraged to make use of their linguistic and cultural expertise acquired in previous classes. This course serves as the capstone seminar for Jewish, Islamic & Near Eastern Studies majors, Arabic majors, and Hebrew majors. Graduate students, minors, and other interested undergrads are likewise welcome. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: ETH, ISEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L75 4060  L23 4060  L49 4060  L74 4060 Frequency: Every 3 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 2:30P-3:50P TBA Jacobs Paper/Project/TakeHome 15 11 0 Actions: Books L22 History 4080 Nuns 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Nuns -- women vowed to a shared life of poverty, chastity, and obedience in a cloistered community -- were central figures in medieval and early modern religion and society. This course explores life in the convent, with the distinctive culture that developed among communities of women, and the complex relations between the world of the cloister and the world outside the cloister. We look at how female celibacy served social and political, as well as religious, interests. We read works by nuns: both willing and unwilling; and works about nuns: nuns behaving well, and nuns behaving scandalously badly; nuns embracing their heavenly spouse, and nuns putting on plays; nuns possessed by the devil, and nuns managing their possessions; nuns as enraptured visionaries, and nuns grappling with the mundane realities of life in a cloistered community. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, SC, SDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: BAEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CP Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L23 408  L22 5080  L77 408A Frequency: Every 3 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 4:00P-5:20P TBA Bornstein Paper/Project/TakeHome 15 15 0 Actions: Books L22 History 4234 The Reception of Egypt in the Graeco-Roman World 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Ancient Greeks and Romans found Egypt to be an exceptionally enthralling world, in terms not only of its physical features but also of its people, monuments, and traditions. This course will explore how different views of Egypt emerged in the Graeco-Roman world; it will also investigate the possible reasons for the remarkable popularity and allure of Egypt and things Egyptian as reflected in the writings of Greek and Roman authors as well as in the art and architecture of the Mediterranean world in Classical antiquity. In this seminar, we will read primary literary sources (in translation) that focus on the reception of ancient Egypt and, more specifically, its history, religion, and customs. Several of these sources also offer a privileged viewpoint to investigate how the perception of notable Egyptian figures -- chiefly Cleopatra -- was shaped by Rome to suit a specific agenda. In addition to the written sources, we will look at the artistic and archaeological evidence that best showcases the impact of Egypt's legacy on Graeco-Roman traditions. The readings assigned for each class will also provide a broad sample of secondary sources, consisting of some of the most significant scholarship on the image of Egypt in Classical antiquity. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: ISEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L08 4230  L01 4230  L01 5230  L08 5230 Frequency: Unpredictable / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T----- 2:30P-5:20P TBA Aravecchia Paper/Project/TakeHome 12 12 3 Actions: Books L22 History 4444 The Mystical Tradition in Judaism 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: What is Jewish "mysticism"? What is its relationship to the category of "religion"? Is Jewish mysticism just one form of a general phenomenon common to a variety of religious traditions or is it a specific interpretation of biblical, rabbinic, and other Jewish traditions? Taking the above questions as a starting point, this course aims at a systematic and historically contextualized analysis of a broad range of Jewish texts that are commonly classified as "mystical". (All primary texts are read in translation.) At the same time, we explore such overarching themes as: the interplay of esoteric exegesis of the Bible and visionary experiences; the place of traditional Jewish law (halakhah) within mystical thought and practice; the role of gender, sexuality, and the body in Jewish mystical speculation and prayer; the relationship between mysticism and messianism; Ashkenazic and Sephardic traditions and their mutual impact on Jewish mysticism; the "absence of women" from Jewish mystical movements; esoteric traditions of an elite vs. mysticism as a communal endeavor; and the tension between innovation and (the claim to) tradition in the history of Jewish mysticism. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: ETH, ISEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CP Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L23 444  L74 444  L75 444 Frequency: Every 2-3 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 11:30A-12:50P TBA Jacobs Paper/Project/TakeHome 20 12 0 Actions: Books L22 History 4633 20th-Century Latin American Revolutions 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Latin America has been described as one of the most "revolutionary" regions of the world in the twentieth century. It experienced four major social revolutions and gave rise to many consequential guerrilla movements. This course uses theories of revolution and a social science historical approach to elucidate the causes, processes, outcomes, and implications of revolutions in Mexico (1910), Bolivia (1952), Cuba (1959), and Nicaragua (1979). It also analyzes late 20th century revolutionary guerrilla movements in El Salvador and Peru. Why peasants, university students, and women formed key social bases of support for revolutionary movements and how revolutions were institutionalized and consolidated will receive special attention. Attributes: A&S IQ: LCD, SC, SD, SSCArch: SSCArt: SSCEN: S Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L97 4633  L45 4633  L97 5633  L98 4633 Frequency: Every 1 or 2 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 10:00A-11:20A TBA Hirsch Take Home 15 15 0 Actions: Books L22 History 48IB Advanced Seminar: New York, New York: The Empire City from Stuyvesant to Trump 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This research seminar engages the long history of greater New York City: from the place Native Americans called Manna-hata to the largest city in the United States and the world political, financial, and cultural capital that it is today. The course explores New York City's ambivalent relationship with America, with the world, and with itself. It focuses on matters of power - how, in different moments of the city's history, it was defined, who held it, and how various groups managed to contest for it; matters of exchange and extraction - political, cultural, and economic; and matters of belonging - whether a city of immigrants, exiles and refugees succeeded in becoming a home for the homeless. It pays close attention to both the micro - the street corner and the political ward; the bridge and the tunnel; the gentrifying neighborhood; the mosaic of the city's foodways; the theater, financial, slaughterhouse, brothel, and other districts - and the macro - the banks and the stock exchange; the port and transit authorities; the instrumentalities of knowledge and cultural production in the city's universities, print media, clubs, and salons; the sports empires; and the political machines, organized crime, grassroots labor and political movements, insurgencies, and undergrounds. Above all, the course will foreground the city's massive and unbearable contradictions, as a city of skyscrapers and of basement dives, lures, and snares; as a symbol of the future and freedom bound to traumatic, slave, and unfree pasts; as a symbol of modern independence bound to modern interdependence; and as a place of renaissances and ruinations, where the world either comes together or spectacularly falls apart. Sites of potential investigation, in a list that is suggestive rather than exhaustive, range from the African Burial Ground to the 9/11 Memorial and Museum, from Hamilton to Hamilton, from Boss Tweed to Robert Moses, from the Five Points to Chinatown, from Delmonico's to Sylvia's, from Blackwell's Island Lunatic Asylum to Hart Island Potter's Field, from the African Free School to Ocean Hill-Brownsville, from Marcus Garvey to Amadou Diallo, from Billie Holiday to Andy Warhol, from James Baldwin's Harlem to Stonewall, from George Steinbrenner to Jerry Seinfeld, from the Gowanus Canal to Estée Lauder, and, in the spirit of the course title, from Stuyvesant to Trump. Students will engage with the history of New York City via two three-page book reviews, a three-page site analysis, and two five-minute oral reports on assigned readings before conducting their own original research in consultation with the instructor that will culminate in a 15-page final essay. Attendance at all classes and participation in class discussions required. This course fulfills the history major capstone requirement as an Advanced Seminar. Each student must also register for the instructor's correlating section of 49IR. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUMArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: HUMEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L98 481B Frequency: Every 2-3 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M------ 3:00P-5:50P TBA Bernstein Paper/Project/TakeHome 15 12 0 Actions: Books L22 History 497A Global Asias 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course engages a new methodological approach to Asia that expands beyond the spatial concept of the region as a set of political entities occupying a specific part of the world. Global Asias seeks to open up avenues of inquiry to accommodate the study of flows of people, ideas, and practices across Asia and throughout the world. It provides the opportunity to consider Asian communities as they manifest themselves in different places and different ways. We begin with a survey of past attempts to define, understand, and manage Asia, which resulted in an area studies approach. We then engage transnational and interdisciplinary efforts, and conclude by considering the possibility that Global Asias can challenge and perhaps unseat the reigning epistemologies that exist today. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, SCArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: ISEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CA Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L97 4976  L97 5976 Frequency: Every 1 or 2 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 ----F-- 1:00P-3:50P TBA Watt Paper 15 13 0 Actions: Books L22 History 49IR Independent Research for Capstone 1.0 Unit Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Students who register for an advanced seminar must also register for this 1 unit course with the section number of the appropriate instructor. Attributes: EN: H Instruction Type: Independent study, tutorial, or other Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L22 59IR Frequency: Annually / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 04 TBA TBA Reynolds Default - none 999 0 0 Desc: Students registered for L22 49NR should register for this section. Actions: Books 05 TBA TBA Knapp Default - none 999 0 0 Desc: Students registered for L22 49KK should register for this section. Actions: Books 06 TBA TBA Treitel Default - none 999 0 0 Desc: Students registered for L22 4990 should register for this section. Actions: Books 07 TBA TBA Bernstein Default - none 999 1 0 Desc: Students registered for L22 48IB should register for this section. Actions: Books L22 History 49KK Advanced Seminar: The U.S. in Afghanistan: Origins, Developments, Consequences 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course offers a historical examination and analysis of America's involvement in Afghanistan from the Cold War through the present, focusing in particular on the US War in Afghanistan from 2001 onward. Special attention will be given to political, military, diplomatic and economic dynamics as well as to international relationships, the experience of war and the subsequent developments upon both American and Afghani societies. Major topics covered include US covert operations against the Soviets in Afghanistan during the 1980s; revolution, civil war and the rise of the Taliban during the 1990s; 9/11 and the War on Terror; national building and stability measures during the early 2000s and subsequent security threats in the form of an insurgency, warlords, drug gangs, criminal networks and the al-Qaeda alliance of terrorist organizations; the key roles played by Pakistan, India, Iran, Russia, China and Central Asian states; the Obama surge and counterinsurgency operations starting in 2009; the soldier's experience, special forces, and covert operations; prisoners, torture and human rights abuses; the end of NATO's mission in 2014 and subsequent developments: the Ghani government, the return of the Taliban, the arrival of ISIS, the peace process, the U.S. drawdown and the elusive quest for peace and stability in Afghanistan. This is a capstone course open to history majors only. This course fulfills the History major capstone requirement as an Advanced Seminar. Each student must also register for the instructor's correlating section of 49IR. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: ISEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: Every 2 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 10:00A-11:20A TBA Knapp Paper/Project/TakeHome 15 3 0 Actions: Books