Course Descriptions Autumn Semester, 2013
The Department of History
The Ohio State University
Undergraduate History Office
110 Dulles Hall
614.292.6793
The Department of History has compiled information in this booklet to assist students in selecting courses for Autumn Semester, 2013. The descriptions are accurate as of March 4, 2013. Please be aware that changes may be made.
A printed version of the coursebook is also available in the History office, 106 Dulles Hall.
African History | American History | Ancient History | Asian & Islamic History | European History | Jewish History | Latin American | Military History | Thematic | Women's History | World History | Graduate Courses
African History
HISTORY 2302 HISTORY OF MODERN AFRICA, 1800-1960
3 Cr. Hrs.
This course will examine Africans' engagements with European colonial rule and how these engagements culminated in ending European rule in the 1960s.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
3:55-5:15 TR Miles, D.
On-line on-line Stringer, K.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course fulfills Group Africa, post-1750 for history majors.
HISTORY 2303 HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICA, 1960-PRESENT
3 Cr. Hrs.
This course will examine Africans' engagements with European colonial rule and how these engagements culminated in ending European rule in the 1960s. Our discussions begins in the 1800s when the abolishing of the slave trade and industrialization in Europe provided a new impetus for the expansion of European commerce and subsequently the colonization of Africa toward the end of the 19th century. We will proceed to examine the factors that facilitated European conquests of Africa and the various ways Africans responded to the lost of their sovereignty. The themes of the course include but not limited to: wars of colonial conquests; African resistances to colonial conquests; Christian missionary activities; the rise of Muslim reformers in colonial contexts; the nature of colonial rule; Africans' perceptions of colonial rule; Africans in the two world wars; the development of African nationalism; pan-Africanism and the end of colonial rule; and establishment of modern African states. Although no prerequisite is required for enrolling in the course, students are expected to have some background in pre-colonial African history. Conversely, students who lack this background will be expected to make the efforts to read more extensively during the first three weeks of lectures in order to acquire some basic knowledge essential for understanding the broader themes of the course.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
On-line on-line Kobo, O.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course fulfills Group Africa, post-1750 for history majors.
American History
HISTORY 1511 AMERICAN CIVILIZATIONS, 1607-1877
3 Cr. Hrs.
This course surveys the political, constitutional, social, and economic development of the U.S. from the Colonial Period through the Era of Reconstruction. This course, in conjunction with HIS 1152, furnishes one of the sequence requirements for the GEC and GE. Not open to students with credit for History 150.01, 151 or 2001.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
TBA TBA TBA
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Not open to students with credit for 1150, 2001 or 151.
HISTORY 1152 AMERICAN CIVILIZATIONS SINCE 1877
3 Cr. Hrs.
This course surveys the political, constitutional, social, and economic development of the U.S. from the Era of Reconstruction to the present. This course, in conjunction with HIS 151, furnishes one of the sequence requirements for the GEC and GE. Not open to students with credit for History 150.02 or History 150.03, 1152 or 2002.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
On-line on-line Torunoglu
3:00-3:55 MWF Bolzenius, S.
3:55-5:15 TR Ward, S.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Not open to students with credit for 1150, 2002 or 152.
HISTORY 2001 LAUNCHING AMERICA
3 Cr. Hrs.
An intermediate-level approach to American history in its wider Atlantic context from the late Middle Ages to the era of Civil War and Reconstruction.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
8:00-8:55 MWF Zevorich, L.
8:00-9:20 TR Boonshoft, M.
On-line Goodall, J.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Not open to students with credit for History 151 or 1151.
HISTORY 2002 MAKING AMERICA MODERN
3 Cr. Hrs.
A rigorous, intermediate-level history of modern U.S in the world from the age of industrialization to the age of globalization.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
8:00-8:55 MWF Potyondy, P.
3:00-3:55 MWF Fernandez, D.
3:55-5:15 TR Hadley, D.
Prerequisites and Special Comments: Not open to students with credit for History 152 or 1152.
HISTORY 2002 MAKING AMERICA MODERN
3 Cr. Hrs.
A rigorous, intermediate-level history of modern U.S in the world from the age of industrialization to the age of globalization.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
11:30-12:25 TR Conn, S.
9:10; 10:20; 12:40 Tues orThurs (recitations)
Prerequisites and Special Comments: Not open to students with credit for History 152 or 1152.
HISTORY 2065 COLONIALISM AT THE MOVIES
3 Cr. Hrs.
Colonialism at the Movies: American History in Film
Many Americans get their information about our past from visual media. To paraphrase the Journal of History and Film, movies interpret history, they reflect history, and ultimately they influence history. In this course students will critically examine the ways in which Early American history is presented in film. Over the course of the term, each student will view 10-12 movies with a focus on American history beginning with Native Americans’ encounter with Europeans through the Civil War. We will read critical analysis of the films as well as primary and secondary sources relevant to the topics they explore. We will discuss why certain topics attract filmmakers, while others do not, and assess the accuracy (or inaccuracy) of depictions of various incidents and groups. As a capstone project, each student will create a research project on the subject of one of the films. Aside from mastering issues of content, this course will help students develop their skills in historical writing and research through the critical consideration of primary and secondary works. It will also improve their ability to “read” and evaluate visual sources. Studying the ways in which American history is portrayed in film will enhance students’ understanding of not only the periods in question, but also of more trends in historiography and popular consciousness of history. Students will also learn to think, speak and write critically about primary and secondary historical sources by examining diverse interpretations of past events and ideas in their historical contexts.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
online online Newell, M.
Course Requirements: Our philosophy for this course is that online learning should be as rich and as challenging as in-class learning. Students will write short weekly reaction papers that assess selected movies in the light of the primary and secondary source record. They will also complete a final project. The final project can combine digital and written forms, such as a short film/documentary with a written script; or students can complete a more traditional term paper. Students will also be expected to view lectures and engage in online discussion with each other and with Prof. Newell.
Prerequisites and Special Comments: This course fulfills Group N. America, pre-1750 for history majors.
HISTORY 2070 INTRODUCTION TO NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY
3 Cr. Hrs.
History of Native Americans from pre-contact times to the present.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
3:55-5:15 TR Shriver, C.
Prerequisites and Special Comments: This course fulfills Group N. America, post-1750 for history majors.
HISTORY 2079 ASIAN AMERICAN HISTORY
3 Cr. Hrs.
A survey of how Asian immigrants, their American-born children, and international relations with Asia have shaped U.S. history.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
On-line on-line Winans
Prerequisites and Special Comments: This course fulfills Group N. America, post-1750 for history majors.
HISTORY 2080 AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY TO 1877
3 Cr. Hrs.
This course is a survey of the black American experience from 1619 to the end of Reconstruction.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
On-line on-line Schreiber, A.
3:00-3:55 MWF Nevius, M.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course fulfills Group N. America, pre or post-1750 for history majors.
HISTORY 2081 AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY FROM EMANCIPATION – PRESENT
3 Cr. Hrs.
This course examines the African American experience from 1865 to the present. It aims to provide students with a working knowledge of the major themes and issues in contemporary African American history. The specific topics explored include: Reconstruction, the Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, the Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro, Black radicalism during the Depression Era, the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, Black politics during the conservative ascendency of the 1980s, and the state of Black America at the start of the 21st century.
Upon completing this course, students should have a clear understanding of the general history of African Americans in the second half of the 19th century and throughout the 20th century and the start of the 21st century, including African American life during the Jim Crow era; African Americans’ transition from field workers to factory laborers; and African American protest before, during, and after the Civil Rights and Black Power eras of the 1950s and 1960s. Students should also have gained keen insight into the diverse array of questions, sources, and methods that historians have used to uncover African American history, and developed the skills necessary for critically analyzing primary source material.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
3:55-5:15 TR Jeffries
Assigned Readings include:
- Hine, Hine, and Harrold, The African American Odyssey, Volume 2, Fourth or Fifth Edition (New Jersey: Pearson, 2010).
- Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt (New York: NYU Press, 2009).
Assignments:
*Three exams, including the Final Exam.
*Twelve (4 question) quizzes will be given over the course of the semester; 10 will count toward your quiz grade. Makeup quizzes will not be given. The quizzes will be administered on randomly selected days at the start of class. The questions will be based solely on the reading assigned for that day.
*A five to seven page, typed, double-spaced, clearly and correctly written, critical analysis of primary source material.
*Lectures on Tuesdays and discussion of online films and primary sources on Thursdays.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course fulfills Group N. America, post-1750 for history majors.
HISTORY 2610 INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN & GENDER IN THE U.S.
3 Cr. Hrs.
This course surveys the history of American women from pre-European settlement to the present. The lectures, readings, and films will emphasize how female roles in the realms of family, work, politics, and culture change over time. Particular attention will be paid to how women negotiate social norms and help to create new standards of acceptability. Also, the class will focus on the diversity among women in terms of race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
9:10-10:05 MWF Arendt, E.
3:55-5:15 TR Solic
Prerequisites and Special Comments: This course fulfills Group N. America, post-1750 for history majors.
HISTORY 2610H INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN & GENDER HISTORY
3 Cr. Hrs.
This honors course surveys the history of women and gender in North America from pre-European settlement to the present. Through lectures, discussion, films, visuals, music and readings, the class will examine how female roles in the realms of family, work, politic, and culture have changed over time. A major goal of the course is to present women’s history both as an integral part of United States history and as a unique subject of historical investigation. Students will learn to think critically about historical arguments as well as to understand the difference that gender makes in history and the way that gender interacts with class, race, ethnicity, and sexuality.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
12:45-2:05 TR Marino, K.
Assigned Readings: Readings will include primary sources such as journals, diary excerpts, and letters, as well as historical interpretations.
Prerequisites and Special Comments: Honors standing. This course fulfills Group N. America, post-1750 for history majors.
HISTORY 3001 AMERICAN POLITICAL HISTORY TO 1877
3 Cr. Hrs.
An overview of the political in American life, from the earliest colonial outposts through the Civil War and Reconstruction. American politics had their origins in the distillation of Old World forms on the edge of empire in the New World, reformed in the Revolution, and routinized in the decades of the early republic. While its institutions, practices, and responsiveness to public opinion made it the first successful model of a modern democratic republic, the routines of American politics were fundamentally threatened by the uncompromisable questions bound up in racial slavery. Thus, while we will consider the origins and development of the basic patterns of American self-governance, we will also examine trajectories to and through constitutional crisis.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
11:10-12:30 TR Brooke
Assigned readings [tentative]:
Bernard Bailyn, The Origins of American Politics
Morton Keller, America’s Three Regimes: A New Political History
Michael Schudson, The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life
Bruce Levine, Half Slave, Half Free: The Roots of Civil War
Assignments:
Three take-home papers, totally roughly 20 pages of writing.
Prerequisites and Special Comments: American history background useful. This course fulfills Group N. America, pre-1750 for history majors.
HISTORY 3012 ANTEBELLUM AMERICA
3 Cr. Hrs.
In this course we will be discussing the social, economic, cultural, and political history of antebellum America. We will explore the experiences of ordinary people, such as farmers, shopkeepers, factory workers, as well as famous names, such as Andrew Jackson and Harriet Tubman. We will also explore large-scale social processes such as the expansion of slavery, the growth of reform movements, and sectionalism in national politics.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
8:00-9:20 TR Cashin
Assignments:
Students will read several monographs; they will write a paper and take one exam. Students are expected to attend class and meet the course requirements.
Prerequisites and Special Comments: This course fulfills Group N. America, post-1750 for history majors.
HISTORY 3014 GILDED AGE TO PROGRESSIVE ERA, 1877-1920
3 Cr. Hrs.
The course explores the origins of modern America. We will examine the aftermath of Reconstruction and its reverberations in all of the nation’s regions. Focusing on politics and social change, we will examine Industrial expansion, immigration, the movement of people to cities & to the West, & technological change. The development of a more powerful & active national state was one of the major developments of the period; we will trace that in conjunction with the period’s social movements for temperance, women’s rights, civil rights, and labor.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
5:30-6:50pm TR Baker
Assigned Readings: We will read 3 short books written during the period, along with 2 history texts.
Assignments: There will be a number of web-based assignments, midterm and a final.
Prerequisites and Special Comments: This course fulfills Group N. America, post-1750 for history majors.
HISTORY 3015 FROM THE NEW ERA TO THE NEW FRONTIER: THE UNITED STATES
3 Cr. Hrs. 1921-1963
Examination of the major political, economic, social and cultural changes in the USA from the end of World War I through the early 1960’s. Emphasis on economy and culture in the 1920’s, the Great Depression and New Deal reform in the 1930’s, World War II, the Cold War and the rise and decline of the 1950’s system.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
11:10-12:30 TR Stebenne
Assigned Readings:
William Leuchtenburg, The Perils of Prosperity (1993 ed.), chaps. VI-XIII
William Leuchtenburg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal (1963), chaps. 3-13
John Hersey, Hiroshima (1985 ed.)
Melvyn P. Leffler, The Specter of Communism (1994), chaps. 1-4
Alan Ehrenhalt, The Lost City: Discovering the Forgotten Virtues of Community in the
Chicago of the 1950’s (1995)
Betty Freidan, The Feminine Mystique (2001 ed.)
Assignments: A midterm, a final and a short (5-7 page) paper based on the assigned reading.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
History 1152 or H1152 strongly recommended. Students planning to pursue a Master’s in Education should note that this course satisfies one of the course requirements in history, This course fulfills Group North America, post 1750 for history majors.
HISTORY 3017 THE SIXTIES
3 Cr. Hrs.
Almost half a century after it began, the 1960s maintains its grip on the American imagination. This course explores the profound political and social convulsions of the decade and traces how they shape our own times. In particular, the course will focus on three dynamics: the struggle for civil rights and its effect on American politics; the Vietnam War & the fracturing of the Cold War system; the era’s sweeping challenges to traditional culture.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
11:10-12:30 TR Boyle
Assigned Readings:
The following is a tentative list of required readings.
Diane McWhorter, Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
Paul Hendrickson, The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
Joan Didion, Slouching Toward Bethlehem
Marian Faux, Roe v. Wade: The Untold Story of the Landmark Supreme Court Decision that
Made Abortion Legal
Jonathan Rieder, Canarsie: The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn against Liberalism
Assignments:
The course will rely heavily on reading, writing, and personal participation. Students will be required to write at least three papers and to participate in classroom discussion. Regular attendance is expected.
Prerequisites and Special Comments: This course fulfills Group N. America, post-1750 for history majors.
HISTORY 3085 AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY THROUGH CONTEMPORARY FILM
3 Cr. Hrs.
This course explores Black politics and resistance through the lens of Black film. We seek to understand how and why various historical topics have been depicted in movies, and to what extent the film version of particular events reflected the reality of the actual experience. The purpose of the class will be to use film to explore themes like Black resistance, racial violence and Black political thought, and place these subjects and topics in historical context. We will view a series of films on the Black experience, ranging from slavery through the contemporary era.
This course grapples with a central question: Given the fact that the majority of people in American society rely upon media and film for their understanding of the past, to what extent do contemporary films do an adequate job of relaying the “truth” and accuracy of various historical subjects in the African American experience? As a result, this class examines a variety of topics including, slavery, culture, racial violence, segregation, and social movements to explore how these issues are depicted in film, in comparison with the historical research and documents focusing on those subjects. We will also question specific issues about films on the Black experience, such as why do so many of these movies deal with autobiography, and/or stories about Blacks in the military?
Time Meeting Days Instructor
2:15-5:00 M Jeffries
Assigned Readings are TBA, but will consist of books and articles related to the historical themes presented in each film. We will watch one movie each week, including films such as Rosewood, Malcolm X, and Bamboozled. In addition, there will a series of short primary source documents that the students will be asked to compare with the depiction in the film.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course fulfills Group N. America, post-1750 for history majors.
Ancient History
HISTORY 2201 ANCIENT GREECE & ROME
3 Cr. Hrs.
This class is an introduction to the history of the Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations of Greece and Rome.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
TBA TBA TBA
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course fulfills Group Europe, pre-1750 for history majors.
HISTORY 2201 ANCIENT GREECE & ROME
3 Cr. Hrs.
This course will be offered ONLY in this online version and it will not be offered in a classroom setting this year. There will be no class meetings and all assignments will be done on the Internet, using the University’s class-delivery system, “Carmen.” Students who enroll will need to be online every week—probably for about 6-10 hours per week--and it is absolutely crucial that they do the reading and the online work in a regular fashion and that they don’t fall behind. This course is neither harder nor easier than a regular in-class offering: it is simply different, and it requires significant self-discipline and a willingness to learn using online course material. The educational outcomes and expectations for the class, however, are precisely the same as one would find in a classroom-based course, and the grading system will be the same.
Description:
This class is an introduction to the history of the Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations of Greece and Rome. It provides a background of the chronological development of ancient Greek and Roman civilizations and then focuses on the broad issues of state-formation, politics, gender, warfare, tyranny, monotheism, and the environment over a period of some two thousand years, allowing students the opportunity to deal with these issues in several historical contexts over the whole of the course. The course concludes with a consideration of the importance of Greek and Roman history in the modern world and the ways in which it is perceived and used today.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
Online online Gregory
Assigned Readings:
The textbook for this class is D. Brendan Nagle, The Ancient World. A Social and Cultural History, 7th edition. Prentice Hall 2010. Additional readings in the primary (ancient) sources will be available either online or in printed form (details of this are not available yet).
Assignments:
Students will be expected to do assigned weekly readings, and present 5 graded assignments of their choice (from a total of 8) that can include discussion, quizzes, exams, and short papers.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course fulfills Group Europe, pre-1750 for history majors.
HISTORY 3210 HISTORY OF ARCHAIC GREECE
3 Cr. Hrs.
This is the first half of a two-course sequence that surveys the history of ancient Greece (the second half will be offered in spring semester). The course examines the formative period of Greek civilization, from the Neolithic era (ca. 7000-3000 BC) all the way down to the year 480 BC. Our primary focus will be on the period's major political developments: the rise and mysterious demise of the Mycenean kingdoms of the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1600-1100 BC); the subsequent emergence of small, village-based chiefdoms and, later, the first city-states in the Dark Age (ca. 100-700 BC); the creation of written laws, political institutions, and, ultimately, the world's first citizen-states in the Archaic Age (ca. 700-480 BC); and the momentous wars against the Persian empire in the early fifth century. Along the way, we will also explore various social and cultural phenomena associated with these political developments. Here, particular attention will be paid to the many innovations of the Archaic Age in art, architecture, sports, literature, and philosophy, as well as to broader social issues, such as the place of women and slaves in Greek society.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
11:10-12:30 TR Anderson
Assignments:
2 exams and term paper
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course fulfills Group Europe, pre-1750 for history majors.
HISTORY 3221 ROME FROM THE GRACCHI TO NERO
3 Cr. Hrs.
This course focuses on Rome’s transform republic to empire. Topics include the political strife of the late Republic; the rise of Julius Caesar; problem of the Republic’s “fall”; civil war; the Augustan “revolution”; and the Julio-Claudian dynasty. The course also examines foreign policy and imperial administration, economic and social developments in both Italy and the provinces, family life, women’s status, the impact of slavery, literature, art, and religion.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
12:45-2:05 WF Rosenstein
Assigned Readings:
Appian, The Civil Wars
Boatwright, Gargola, and Talbert, The Romans, From Village to Empire
Catullus, The Poems of Catullus
Cicero, Selected Political Speeches
Horace, The Complete Odes and Epodes
Petronius & Seneca, Satyricon & Apocolocyntosis
Plutarch, The Fall of the Roman Republic
Sallust, The Jugurthine War and the Conspiracy of Catiline
Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars
Tacitus, Complete Works
Virgil, The Aeneid
Assignments:
Term paper; midterm; final exam.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course fulfills Group Europe, pre-1750 for history majors.
HISTORY 3225 THE EARLY BYZANTINE EMPIRE
3 Cr. Hrs.
Notice: This course will be offered entirely on the Online: there will be no class meetings and all exams and other assignments will be done through the Internet. There will be no need for you to come to campus for this class and you can be in any part of the world and still participate in it. Students will follow the normal reading schedule and do all the assignments associated with the course, but there will be no class meeting and students need not ever come to class.
I will be on campus Autumn Semester and will have office hours where you can meet with me. I will also schedule a couple of face-to-face meetings for those on the Columbus campus who want to meet together.
All assignments will be submitted over the Internet, using Carmen, the University’s online course software. Students who wish to enroll in this course must be reasonably comfortable working with computers. Full details on accessing the course will be sent a few weeks before the beginning of classed to those who enroll, via regular mail to their home addresses and e-mail to their OSU address.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
On-line on-line Gregory, T.
The course is designed as an introduction to early Byzantine civilization and history, A.D. 330-843 (from the death of Justinian to the end of the Macedonian dynasty). In it we will trace the transformation of the ancient world and the emergence of a distinctly medieval Byzantine civilization. We will observe the growth and triumph of Christianity and its transformation into a world religion. We will examine critically the myths concerning the "fall of the Roman empire" and the typical evaluation of Byzantium. We will attempt to understand Byzantine civilization through the eyes of the Byzantines themselves, examining their values and comparing them with those of our own. In this regard, we will seek to gain insight into the religious sensitivities of the Byzantines and how Byzantine Christianity expressed important transcendent ideas. We will also investigate relations between Byzantium and its neighbors and pay special attention to the military developments that influenced the course of history in this crucial period. The Byzantine Empire represents a fascinating, although little-known chapter in the history of mankind. This course is designed to explore some aspects of that civilization and to expose you to challenging new ideas.
Assigned Readings:
The following books are required (both will be available at all OSU area bookstores and elsewhere):
Timothy E. Gregory, A History of Byzantium (Oxford: Blackwell 2010) ISBN: 9781405184717
Assignments:
Regular (graded) weekly discussion is required (20% of the grade) and a choice of other assignments including quizzes, short papers, a mid-term exam, and final exam; you will be able to choose which of these assignments you wish to submit for your final grade, but all students are required to participate in the discussion, which is conducted using a discussion board built into the course. You should note that the discussions will be "asynchronous" in the sense that you will not have to "show up" in the discussion area at any particular time. Rather, you will post messages, read others, and carry on discussion within your groups. Assignments will be on a week-by-week basis and you'll have to get those done each week as we go along.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
The course is especially appropriate for anyone interested in ancient and/or medieval history and for those who want to understand better the course of current affairs in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, since many of these have their roots in the Byzantine period.
This course fulfills group Europe, pre-1750 for history majors
For further information, contact Professor Gregory: gregory.4@osu.edu
Asian & Islamic History
HISTORY 2350 ISLAM, POLITCS AND SOCIETY IN HISTORY
3 Cr. Hrs.
Introduction to the manner in which Islam has interacted with politics in the Middle East and vicinity from the rise of Islam through the present.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
9:10-10:05 MWF Hunt, C.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course fulfills Group Middle East, pre-1750 for history majors.
HISTORY 2352 OTTOMAN EMPIRE, 1300-1800
3 Cr. Hrs.
This is an upper-division examination of the political, social, and economic history of the Ottoman Empire, one of the world’s great empires, which ruled most of the Middle East and the Balkans for many centuries before its collapse following World War I. The course extends from the Ottomans’ humble beginnings as a principality in what is now northwestern Turkey ca. 1300 through the empire’s early attempts at westernizing reform at the end of the 18th century. Attention will be devoted to key historiographical debates within the Ottoman field, notably the rejection of the “decline” paradigm and the rethinking of the implications of administrative decentralization. The core of the course will center on Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk’s novel My Name Is Red, which concerns miniature-painters in late 16th-century Istanbul; a series of lectures and discussion activities are aimed at contextualizing the novel and examining the various trends, institutions, and social groups that it introduces.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
11:10-12:30 TR Hathaway, J.
Assigned readings:
Jane Hathaway, The Arab Lands under Ottoman Rule, 1516-1800
Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red
various excerpts from primary and secondary sources
Assignments:
in-class midterm, paper related to My Name Is Red, take-home final, participation in group discussions
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course fulfills Group Middle East, pre-1750 for history majors.
HISTORY 2375 ISLAMIC CENTRAL ASIA
3 Cr. Hrs.
This course is an introductory survey of the political, cultural, religious and economic history of Islamic Central Asia from the eighth-century Arab conquests to the nineteenth-century Russian colonial era.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
3:55-5:15 TR Honchell, S.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course fulfills Group Central Asia, pre-1750 for history majors.
HISTORY 2392 COLONIAL INDIA
3 Cr. Hrs.
This course investigates the history of the Indian subcontinent during British rule, ca. 1757-1947. Termed the “jewel in the crown” of Britain’s vast overseas empire, India played a pivotal role in the global histories of imperialism and anti-colonial nationalism from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. In addition to discussing the causes and consequences of British conquest, we will also consider Indian responses to British rule – ranging from important leaders to the ordinary men and women who helped to shape the society, politics, and economy of colonial India. We end the course with the partitioning of the subcontinent into the independent nations of Pakistan and India in 1947.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
9:35-10:55 WF Sreenivas, M
Assigned Readings: (may include)
Mohandas Gandhi, An Autobiography: A Story of my Experiments with Truth
Stephen Hay, ed. Sources of Indian Tradition, vol. 2
Rabindranath Tagore, Home and the World
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course fulfills Group East Asia, Middle East, South or Central Asia Group, pre-1750 for history majors.
HISTORY 2401 HISTORY OF EAST ASIA IN THE PRE-MODERN ERA
3 Cr. Hrs.
History 2401 is an introduction to the societies and cultures of pre-modern China, Korea, and Japan, the countries that make up the geographical and cultural unit of East. Asia. We will accomplish three goals: 1) to explore what is distinctive about “East Asian Civilization;” 2) to study the relationship between the evolution of China and Japan, and to a lesser extent, Korea, as distinct cultures themselves; 3) to examine how interactions with other civilizations outside East Asia shaped its history. The course is designed to provide a broad chronological overview of East Asian history, with special attention to the interrelationships of intellectual, cultural, political, social, artistic, technological, and economic change. In addition to lectures, students will participate in discussions that focus on the analysis of primary sources such as philosophical and religious texts, poetry, drama, fiction and documents related to government, economic activities, and international relations.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
9:10-10:05 MWF Zhang, Y.
Assigned Readings:
Ebrey, Palais & Walthall, East Asia: A Cultural, Social and Political History – Pre-Modern East Asia.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course fulfills Group East Asia, pre-1750 for history majors.
HISTORY 2402 HISTORY OF EAST ASIA IN THE MODERN ERA
3 Cr. Hrs.
Introduction to the transformation of societies and cultures of modern China, Korea, and Japan from the 17th century to the present.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
3:00-3:55 MWF Dean, A.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course fulfills Group East Asia, post-1750 for history majors.
HISTORY 2402 HISTORY OF EAST ASIA IN THE MODERN ERA, 1600-PRESENT
3 Cr. Hrs.
History 2402 will introduce the histories of the societies of East Asia (China, Korea, Japan) starting in about 1600. To a higher degree than History 2401, which is useful but certainly not required preparation, History 2402 is organized on a 3-way comparative model (“how to China, Japan, or Korea compare to each other in our period?”) One of our goals is to learn to think comparatively about history and societies. We will survey key historical phenomena (including political, military, social, and intellectual themes) that have distinguished each country in the modern period. For most of the semester, the course will be organized chronologically and thematically. It will also seek a balance between examination of particular periods and exploration of patterns of continuity and change across historical periods and different societies. In addition to providing a basic narrative of East Asian civilization since 1600, the course will introduce students to important written sources and to historical writing.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
1:50-2:45 TR Reed
9:10; 10:20; 11:30 Monday (recitations)
Assigned Readings:
A textbook, a monograph, primary sources, short films.
Assignments:
TBA, similar to other courses at this level.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
History 2401 is not a prerequisite for History 2402. This course fulfills Group, East Asia, post-1750 for history majors.
HISTORY 3350 MIDDLE EAST IN THE 19TH CENTURY
3 Cr. Hrs.
The subject of this course is the Middle East in the nineteenth century. Emphasizing political, economic, and social history, the course focuses on the period when--more than at any other time in their history--the peoples of this core region of the Islamic world had to confront the onslaught of alien powers. While trying to understand this challenge, the course primarily emphasizes the efforts of the region’s governments, religious movements, and peoples to survive, reform, and reassert their values.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
11:10-12:30 TR Findley
Assigned Readings:
Now under revision, the final reading list may include titles such as the following.
Baron, Beth, The Women's Awakening in Egypt: Culture, Society, and the Press, 1994
Cleveland, William L., and Martin Bunton, 4th ed., A History of the Modern Middle East, 2009
Doumani, Beshara, Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900, 1995
Esposito, John, Islam the Straight Path, 4th ed., 2011
Khater, Akram Fouad, Inventing Home: Emigration, Gender, and the Middle Class in Lebanon, 1870-1920
Assignments:
Occasional quizzes or homework assignments that factor into participation, plus thoroughness and completeness in the reading assignments stated in the syllabus
1 paper based on the readings
1 mid-term exam (essay and ID)
1 final exam (essay and ID, comprehensive)
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course is a sequel to courses pertaining to earlier periods of Islamic history (such as History 2350, 2351, and 2352). Although no other course on Islamic history is listed as a prerequisite for History 3350, it is not designed to serve as an introduction to the basics of Islam or Islamic civilization. Students lacking background on those subjects would therefore benefit from getting a head start by reading John Esposito's Islam, the Straight Path (2005) in advance. Such students are also urged to contact the instructor for recommendations. This course fulfills Group Middle East, post-1750 for history majors.
HISTORY 3425 HISTORY OF JAPAN BEFORE 1800
3 Cr. Hrs.
This course treats the history of Japan from the earliest times to the beginning of the nineteenth century. It touches on a number of areas of politics, economic development, social trends and elements of the history of ideas and religion, samurai, and women, although it’s main focus is the development of samurai dominance.
Specific Academic Objectives for this Course:
1. To gain a basic factual knowledge of pre-modern Japanese history, including government, class structure, culture, and economy;
2. To develop the ability to assess and think critically about historical issues associated with pre-modern Japanese history and how people interpret those issues;
3. To develop skills in analyzing historical data and reaching informed conclusions about those data, even when incomplete and you have no background.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
11:10-12:30 TR Brown, P.
Assigned Readings:
Wm. Wayne Farris, Japan to 1600: A Social & Economic History
Katsu Kokichi, Musui;s Story, Arizona.
Donald Keene, (trans), Chushingura, (tale of the 47 loyal retainers)
Assignments:
Students will write two papers that build on assigned readings but go beyond them. An option: substitution of a term paper for one of the other essay assignments.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course fulfills Group East Asia, pre-1750 for history majors.
European History
HISTORY 1211 WESTERN CIVILIZATIONS FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE 17TH CENTURY
3 Cr. Hrs.
This course surveys the Ancient Civilizations (Near East, Greece, & Rome), the Barbarian Invasions, Medieval Civilizations (Byzantium, Islam, & Europe), the Renaissance, and the Reformation. A central text focuses on the course and each instructor supplements the text with several other readings. This course, in conjunction with HIS 1212, furnishes one of the sequence requirements for the GEC and GE.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
TBA TBA TBA
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Not open to students with credit for History 1210, 2201, 2201H, 2202, 2203, 2205 or 111.
HISTORY 1212 WESTERN CIVILIZATION FROM THE 17TH CENTURY TO MODERN
3 Cr. Hrs. TIMES
This course surveys the political, scientific, and industrial revolutions; the rise of nationalism and the decline of empires; the two world wars and the cold war. A central text focuses the course and each instructor supplements the text with other readings. This course, in conjunction with HIS 1211, furnishes one of the requirements for the GEC & GE.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
TBA TBA TBA
Prerequisites and Special Comments: Not open to students with credit for History 1210, 2203, 2204, or 112.
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HISTORY 2202 INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL HISTORY
3 Cr. Hrs.
Survey of medieval history from the late Roman Empire to the early sixteenth century.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
3:00-3:55 MWF Favorito, R.
Prerequisites & Special Comments: This course fulfills Group Europe, pre-1750 for history majors.
HISTORY 2203 INTRODUCTION TO EARLY MODERN EUROPE
3 Cr. Hrs.
A survey of European history from the Black Death to the Congress of Vienna. This course examines social, cultural, religious, political and economic developments from the mid-fourteenth to the early nineteenth century.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
3:55-5:15 TR Barr, K.
Prerequisites and Special Comments: This course fulfills Group B, pre-1750 for history majors.
HISTORY 2204 MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY
3 Cr. Hrs.
In this course, we will study fundamental events and processes in European politics, war, economics, intellectual thought, culture, and society from the French and Industrial Revolutions to the present.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
3:55-5:15 TR Peterson, A.
8:00-9:55 TR Perry, J.
Prerequisites and Special Comments: This course fulfills Group Europe, post-1750 for history majors.
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HISTORY 2204 MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY
3 Cr. Hrs.
This survey introduces you to European history in the Modern Age, that is, from 1700 to the present. In it we will discuss the great intellectual, economic, and cultural movements that have given European society its unique qualities. We will explore how science and technology changed European lives, sometimes for the better, sometimes not so much. Though we will begin at a time when Europeans were sharply and often violently divided, by nationality, ethnicity, and religion, we will end our survey with a Europe that has become remarkably unified and peaceful.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
10:20-11:15 WF Davis, R.
9:10; 10:20; 12:40 Mondays (recitations)
Assigned Readings:
Levack, et al., The West, Encounters and Transformations vol. 2, 1550-present, 3rd ed
Dennis Sherman, Western Civilization, Sources, Images & Interpretations vol. 2, 1660-present, 8th ed.
Assignments:
Midterm, final, and section attendance and quizzes.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course fulfills Group Europe, post-1750 for history majors.
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HISTORY 2205 THEMES IN THE HISTORY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION TO 1650
3 Cr. Hrs.
What is distinctive about the West: for better or worse one of the major Civilizations in the world today – and not just in the West, but thanks to Karl Marx and the Internet, also a major influence in the rest of the world? That is one of the questions this course seeks to answer. In addition it tries to show How Things Happen (Why did the West develop so early the right to free speech guaranteed in this country by the First Amendment? Why were 50% of all Western populations in this period under the age of 20? How could 167 Spaniards overthrow the Inca Empire, with perhaps 8 million subjects, and go on to dominate much of South America?) It also offers strategies to distinguish, among the masses of facts, the aberration from the trend the cause from the contingent, the important from the incidental, and the continuities among the changes.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
12:40-1:35 MW Parker
9:10; 10:20; 12:40 Fridays (recitations)
Assigned Readings:
McKay, Buckler, Hill, Crowston & Wiesner, A History of Western Society, 9th edition, Vol. I.
Slaughter & Bokovoy, Sharing the stage: Biography & Gender in Western Civ.,, Vol. I.
Weisner, Ruff & Wheeler, Discovering the Western Past, 6th ed., Vol. I.
Assignments:
Read and discuss all assigned readings; attend and participate in all group discussions; write two essays, a midterm and a final examination.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course fulfills Group Global, pre-1750 for history majors.
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HISTORY 2220 INTRODUCTION TO CHRISTIANITY
3 Cr. Hrs.
Ranging from Jesus to Joel Osteen, this course will study how in 2,000 years the messianic beliefs of a small group of Jews transformed into a worldwide religion of amazing diversity. Our approach will be historical and contextual: how have Christian beliefs, practices, and institutions changed over time and adapted to different cultures? We will consider major developments in theology (from the Council of Nicea, to medieval scholasticism, to liberation theology), spirituality (from monasticism, to mysticism, to Pentecostalism), modes of authority (from apostles, to bishops, to televangelists), and social structures (from house assemblies, to an imperial church, to base communities). Although we will focus on developments in the Mediterranean, Europe and North America, we will not completely neglect Christianity in Asia, Africa and Latin America. We will learn that “Christianity” has never been a single monolithic entity, but rather an astonishing collection of individuals and groups creating new and diverse ways of living as followers of Christ. Lectures on key themes will be supplemented by recitation sections focused on primary sources.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
10:20-11:15 MW Brakke
9:10; 10:20; 11:30 Thursday (recitations)
*Students must choose one of the recitations on Thursday
Assigned Readings (tentative):
Bradley Nystrom and David Nystrom, The History of Christianity: An Introduction
John W. Coakley and Andrea Sterk, Readings in World Christian History, Vol. 1: Earliest Christianity to 1453
William C. Placher, Readings in the History of Christian Theology, Vol. 2: From the Reformation to the Present
Assignments:
Attendance and participation in recitation section, Two in-class tests, two short papers, and a final exam.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course fulfills Group Global, pre-1750 for history majors.
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HISTORY 2280 INTRODUCTION TO RUSSIAN HISTORY
3 Cr. Hrs.
Selected topics introducing students to the history of Russian politics, society and culture.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
9:10-10:05 MWF Johnson, J.
Prerequisites and Special Comments: This course fulfills Group Europe, post-1750 for history majors.
HISTORY 2475 THE HOLOCAUST
5 Cr. Hrs.
This course will examine the state-sponsored murder of millions of Jews and non-Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II. Together we will trace the interrelated individuals, institutions, historical events, and ideologies that allowed for the Holocaust to occur. This class does not focus only on the Final Solution. Instead, in the first part of the course, we will analyze important historical factors that occurred before the Nazi rise to power. In the next segment of the class, we will examine the crucial period of 1933-1938, paying close to attention to the erratic anti-Jewish policies of the era and the myriad of Jewish responses to them. In the third portion of the course, we will explore the Final Solution itself. Next we will study the perpetrators, bystanders, and victims during the Shoah. Finally, we will consider the Holocaust’s aftermath and legacy among Jews and non-Jews in Germany, Israel, and the United States.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
9:35-10:55 TR Judd
Assigned Reading:
Doris Bergen, War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust
Marion Kaplan, Between Dignity and Despair (selections only)
Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
Art Spiegelman, Maus I and II
Assignments:
Midterm, paper, quizzes, final.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course fulfills Group Europe, post-1750 for history majors.
HISTORY 3229 HISTORY OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY
3 Cr. Hrs.
This course surveys the history and literature of ancient Christianity from its origins as a Jewish sect in Palestine to its establishment as the official religion of the Roman Empire in the fifth century. Topics include persecution and martyrdom, scripture, Gnosticism, theological controversies over the Trinity and the nature of Christ, Constantine and the establishment of catholic orthodoxy, the rise of monasticism, and important figures such as Origen and Augustine. The course will emphasize the variety of early Christian groups and will provide a good foundation for the study of Christianity in any later period. No previous study of ancient history or of Christianity is assumed. The format is primarily lecture.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
12:45-2:05 TR Brakke
Assigned Readings:
Henry Chadwick, The Early Church
Bart Ehrman, ed., After the New Testament: A Reader in Early Christianity
Bart Ehrman and Andrew Jacobs, eds., Christianity in Late Antiquity, 300 – 450 C.E.: A Reader
Assignments:
Two hourly tests, three short papers, and final examination.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course fulfills Group Europe, pre-1750.
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HISTORY 3240 ITALIAN RENAISSANCE I, 1300s AND 1400S
3 Cr. Hrs.
Our study of Italian history and society covers roughly 200 years, from 1250-1450. We will explore what set Italians apart from other medieval Europeans, while also tracing their intellectual and cultural flowering – what came to be known as the Renaissance. Your readings will provide you with a survey of the society, economy, and art that made Italians so distinctive during these centuries. You will also be introduced to some of the most important modern-day historians of the Renaissance, getting some experience with their approaches to and ideas about this fascinating period. Both the lectures and readings will presume that you have had some general course or courses in pre-modern European history.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
TR 11:10-12:30 Davis
Assigned Readings:
Textbook and reader, TBA.
Assignments:
There will be a midterm and final and short papers on the readings.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course fulfills Group Europe, pre-1750 for history majors.
HISTORY 3269 EASTERN EUROPE IN THE 20TH CENTURY
3 Cr. Hrs.
This course examines the history of Eastern Europe in the long twentieth century up until today. Eastern Europe is defined as the area encompassing Southeastern and East-Central Europe, including the territories of Greece, Bulgaria, the former Yugoslav republics, Albania, Romania, Hungary, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland.
The course will focus on several discrete themes. First, we will examine the political situation in Eastern Europe after the establishment of new nation-states following World War I, paying special attention to the minority problems, refugee flows and political crises that the new regimes faced. Next, we will explore the importance of World War II for redrawing the map of Europe, unleashing the most comprehensive ethnic cleansing in the history of the continent, and paving the way for the communist takeovers in Eastern Europe. We will then turn to the socialist experience behind the Iron Curtain through the study of the party-state and nomenklatura, the show trials and the gulag, dissident voices and reform movements, as well as everyday life and national celebrations in socialist societies. We will conclude with contemporary problems of transition to democracy and market economy after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s, and Eastern Europe’s integration in the European Union in 2004 and 2007.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
11:10-12:30 WF Dragostinova
Assigned Readings: (tentative)
Tara Zahra, Kidnapped Souls: National Indifference & the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands, 1900-1948 (Ithaca: Cornell Univ., Press, 2008).
Bruce Clark, Twice a Stranger: The Mass Expulsions that Forged Modern Greece and Turkey (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007).
Heda Margolius Kovaly, Under a Cruel Star. A Life in Prague, 1941-1968 (NY: Holmes & Meier, 1997)
Kristen Ghodsee, Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe: Gender Ethnicity, & the Transformation of Islam in Postsocialist Bulgaria (Princeton Univ. Press, 2009).
Miroslav Penkov, The East of the West: A Country in Stories (Farar: Straus & Giroux, 2011).
Assignments:
Two quizzes: 10% (5% each)
Three essay exams 45% (15% each)
Final research project: 30%
Participation and discussion: 15%
Prerequisites and Special Comments: This course fulfills Group Europe, post-1750 for history majors.
HISTORY 3276 EUROPEAN THOUGHT & CULTURE 19TH CENTURY
3 Cr. Hrs.
A survey of cultural developments during a dynamic period of war and revolution and the emergence of the modern nation state. During this time artists and intellectuals engaged the ideas that held the world together, ideas about religion and science, freedom and democracy, capitalism and class warfare, health and suffering, love and death and the meaning of life. The course begins with background on Ancient Judaism and Christianity, Descartes and Newton, and the philosophy of the enlightenment; then concentrates on Romanticism (Mary Shelley), Realism (Flaubert and Dostoevsky), Darwinism, Marxism, utilitarianism and naturalism and concludes with Friedrich Nietzsche’s provocative critiques of Christianity, egalitarianism, democracy, socialism, and utilitarianism as well as his positive philosophy of the superman and his celebration of art in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. I also devote two days to a writing workshop that prepares students to write the papers.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
9:35-10:55 WF Kern
Assigned Readings:
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Penguin ISBN 0141439475
Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto, Bedford/St. Martin’s ISBN 0312157118
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground, Dover, ISBN 048627053 x
Gustave Flaubert, “A Simple Heart” in Three Tales, Oxford ISBN 0192836315
F. Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Books 1-3 Penguin, ISBN 0140047484
Diana Hacker, A Pocket Style Manual, Bedford/St. Martin’s ISBN 0312406843
Assignments: Class discussions will involve close readings of the texts, and for that reason students should buy the same assigned edition so they will be able to follow these discussions (see above for ISBN numbers). Students will write three short papers on assigned topics based on the readings and class discussions.
Prerequisites and Special Comments: This course fulfills Group Europe, post-1750 for history majors.
HISTORY 3712 SCIENCE AND SOCIETY IN MODERN EUROPE
3 Cr. Hrs.
This course explores the history of science from the seventeenth through to the late twentieth century. The primary geographical focus is Western Europe (France, Germany and Britain), and there will be some focus on developments elsewhere in Europe (Italy, Russia) and in America. Throughout the course, the history of science will be related to broader developments in European history, notably social ones.
The course begins by looking at the scientific revolution and enlightenment science, and ends by examining current debates surrounding human-made climate change. En route, students will study major developments in the physical, geological, biological and chemical sciences, such as thermodynamics, uniformitarian theory, evolutionary biology, germ theory, the creation of the periodic table of the elements, quantum theory and the discovery of the human genome. The course does not only study “successful” scientific ideas, but also ones which are now held open to ridicule, like catastrophism, phrenology and Lamarckianism. Students will learn to comprehend the socially-embedded nature of science, the complex relations between science and politics, the vast efforts that are made to divide science from pseudoscience, and the historical origins of skepticism towards the scientific theories like evolution and climate change.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
9:35-10:55 TR Otter
Prerequisites and Special Comments: This course fulfills Group Europe, post-1750 for history majors.
Jewish History
HISTORY 2451 MEDIEVAL & EARLY MODERN JEWISH HISTORY
3 Cr. Hrs.
Introduction to the history of Jewish communities, religion, and culture in Europe during the medieval and early modern periods.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
3:55-5:15 TR Watkins, D.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course fulfills Group Global, pre-1750 for history majors.
HISTORY 2452 MODERN JEWISH HISTORY, 1750-PRESENT
3 Cr. Hrs.
This course investigates modern Jewish history from 1750 to the present. In it we will examine the social, economic, political, and intellectual forces that shaped Jewish experiences in Europe the United States, Latin America, and the Middle East. We will pay special attention to the ways in which Jewish life experienced a dramatic transformation during the 19th and 20th centuries. Our studies will begin with a consideration of pre-modern Jewry and will quickly turn to an examination of the shocks that transformed Jewish communities throughout the world. The first portion of the course will study the Enlightenment(s), emancipation, and acculturation in Western and Central Europe and in North America. As we examine these significant shifts, we will compare Jewish life in Western and Central Europe with that of Jewish communities elsewhere. Our second portion of the course will examine Jewish life during the long nineteenth century. Here, we will study the formation of the Jewish middle class, the entry of East European Jewry into modernity, and the rise of antisemitism throughout the world. Then, we will proceed to survey the First World War and the interwar years, questioning how the impact of WWI affected Jewish communities throughout the world. Our course will then examine the Holocaust, World War II, and the rise of the State of Israel. The final part of the class will look to contemporary Jewish life.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
12:45-2:05 TR Judd
Assigned Readings:
Carmit Delman, Burnt Bread and Chutney: Growing up Between Cultures
Lucy Dawidowicz From that Place and Time A memoir
Rebecca Kobrin Jewish Bialystok and its Diaspora
Jehudah Reinharz and Paul Mendes-Flohr, The Jew in the Modern World
Assignments:
Class participation, Midterm Exam, Short Paper, Final exam.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course fulfills Group Europe, post-1750 for history majors.
HISTORY 2475 THE HOLOCAUST
3 Cr. Hrs.
This course will examine the state-sponsored murder of millions of Jews and non-Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II. Together we will trace the interrelated individuals, institutions, historical events, and ideologies that allowed for the Holocaust to occur. This class does not focus only on the Final Solution. Instead, in the first part of the course, we will analyze important historical factors that occurred before the Nazi rise to power. In the next segment of the class, we will examine the crucial period of 1933-1938, paying close to attention to the erratic anti-Jewish policies of the era and the myriad of Jewish responses to them. In the third portion of the course, we will explore the Final Solution itself. Next we will study the perpetrators, bystanders, and victims during the Shoah. Finally, we will consider the Holocaust’s aftermath and legacy among Jews and non-Jews in Germany, Israel, and the United States.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
9:35-10:55 TR Judd
Assigned Reading:
Doris Bergen, War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust
Marion Kaplan, Between Dignity and Despair (selections only)
Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
Art Spiegelman, Maus I and II
Assignments:
Midterm, paper, quizzes, final.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course fulfills Group Europe, post-1750 for history majors.
Latin American
HISTORY 1101 LATIN AMERICAN CIVILIZATION TO 1825
3 Cr. Hrs.
History 1101 is an introductory survey of early Latin American history from Pre-Columbian times through independence (1825) that assumes no previous study of the region.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
TBA TBA TBA
HISTORY 2100 INTRODUCTION TO THE SPANISH ATLANTIC WORLD
3 Cr. Hrs.
Introductory survey of the Spanish Empire in the Americas to 1825.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
3:55-5:15 TR Tyce, S.
HISTORY 3106 HISTORY OF MEXICO
3 Cr. Hrs.
Where are the roots of the myth of the Maya 2012 end-of-the-world prediction? Why did the Aztecs rip out the hearts of warriors captured during warfare? What were the causes of the great Mexican revolution? What is the historical foundation of today’s immigration issues? Why is Mexico experiencing a “drug war” that is ripping apart some parts of Mexican society?
This course will explore Mexico’s dynamic and exciting history from the pre-Conquest era to the present. Several themes analyzed during the course are: 1. The diversity of Mexico’s pre-Columbian indigenous societies; 2. The Conquest; 3. The complex interactions between the Spaniards and the indigenous populations of Mexico; 4. The colonial era, including the development of colonial political, economic, and social systems; 5. The Independence movements; 6. The 19th century breakdown into chaos; 7. The modernizing “Porfirian” dictatorship; 8. The Mexican Revolution; 9. The rise of the country’s one-party state, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.); 10. The 1968 student movements; 11. The post-1968 political, social and economic struggles; 12. Mexico’s ongoing struggles for just economic development, and the continuing movement for inclusion by Mexico’s indigenous population; 13. Mexico’s border with the United States, including the movement of peoples; 14. Mexico’s current critical issues, including the “Drug Wars.” Throughout the course we examine issues of gender and the role of women, race and ethnicity, and Mexico’s transcultural interactions and conflicts. We will also enjoy Mexico’s rich culture through films, music, and art.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
11:10-12:30 TR Smith
Assigned Readings and Assignments: TBA
Prerequisites and Special Comments: Group Latin America, pre/post-1750 for majors.
Military History
HISTORY 2550 THE HISTORY OF WAR
3 Cr. Hrs.
This course is an introduction to the salient concepts and problems involved in the study of military history. It also addresses the effect of war on human society and development and examines the significance of war in human culture.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
3:00-3:55 MWF Douglas, S.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course fulfills Group Global, post -1750 for history majors.
HISTORY 2550 THE HISTORY OF WAR
5 Cr. Hrs.
This course is an introduction to the salient concepts and problems involved in the study of military history. It also addresses the effect of war on human society and development and examines the significance of war in human culture. Although it examines war from prehistoric times to the present, the course is thematic rather than chronological — less a survey of wars and military developments per se than a survey of the main concepts involved in studying war. In addition to such topics as the nature of war, the causes of war, and the development of warfare, two concepts in particular will receive extended treatment: the “warrior code” as understood in various cultures (Greek, Roman, Norse, Japanese, Native American, etc.) and the problem of moral judgment in war.
Students will achieve an understanding of the causes and consequences of war, as well as how various societies — past and present, western and nonwestern — have understood and practiced war. They will also hone their skills at critical writing and analysis, and will gain greater insight into the way historians explore the human condition.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
12:45-2:05 TR Grimsley
Assigned Readings:
John R. Ferris, et al. World History of Warfare.
Shannon E. French, The Code of the Warrior: Exploring Warrior Values Past and Present.
Michael Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations.
Assignments:
The course grade is based on weekly quizzes administered through Carmen, a take home midterm examination, a final examination, and class participation. These requirements are weighted as follows:
Quizzes 40%
Midterm 25%
Final Exam 35%
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
There are no prerequisites, but a solid grounding in Western Civilization or World History is very helpful. This course fulfills Group Global, post -1750 for history majors.
HISTORY 3552 WAR IN WORLD HISTORY ,1900 - PRESENT
3 Cr. Hrs.
History 3552 explores the military history of Europe and those regions of the world where European military institutions and patterns of warfare dominated from the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War through World War II. The course traces the development of the tactical means and operational methods of organized socially sanctioned armed violence and the development of strategies within which to apply them for political, economic or social purposes. Particular attention is devoted to the human dimension of war as experienced by combatants and civilians. Beginning with an overview of the last of the European colonial wars and the breakdown of Otto von Bismark's diplomatic system, the course turns to a comprehensive study of World War I followed by an examination of the Versailles peace settlement and the rise of totalitarian ideologies. The second half of the course begins with a discussion of the underlying origins of global war, 1939-1945, and the principal interwar conflicts and centers on a comprehensive study of the causes, conduct and outcome of World War II with the Pacific and European theaters receiving equal attention.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
9:35-10:55 TR Guilmartin
Assigned Readings:
Colin McEvedy, The Penguin Atlas of Recent History (Europe since 1815) (optional)
George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia (required)
Millett & Murray, A War to be Won (required)
Richard Overy, Why the Allies Won (required)
Gerhard Weinberg, A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II (optional)
One of the following three books is required:
Richard Baughn, The Hellish Vortex
E.B. Sledge, With the Old Breed
Dennis Winter, Death's Men.
Assignments:
Course requirements include a midterm, a critical review of two related books approved by the instructor and a final examination. Texts are available at SBX.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course fulfills Group Global, post-1750 for history majors.
HISTORY 3580 THE VIETNAM WAR
3 Cr. Hrs.
Beginning with an overview of the Southeast Asian cultural and political background, History 3580 addresses the history of the Vietnam War focusing on the French and American phases of the conflict, beginning with the March 1945 Japanese counter-coup against the French colonial regime and ending with the April 1975 fall of the Republic of (South) Vietnam to forces of the People’s Army of Vietnam. While the course addresses political reaction to the war in America, the emphasis is on events on the ground in Southeast Asia, encompassing developments in Laos, Cambodia and Thailand as well as Vietnam proper. The course has two basic objectives: to give the student a basic understanding of the causes, conduct, and consequences of the war; and to convey a critical appreciation of selected works dealing with the war.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
12:45-2:05 TR Guilmartin
Assigned Readings (tentative):
Stuart Herrington, Stalking the Vietcong: Inside Operation Phoenix, A Personal Account (2004) [required]; first published as Silence Was a Weapon (1982) either ed. is acceptable
Robert Olen Butler, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (1992)
Duong Thu Huong, Paradise of the Blind (1988)
Duong Thu Huong, Novel Without a Name, (1996)
Bao Ninh, The Sorrow of War (1995)
Philip B. Davidson, Vietnam at War: The History, 1945-1975 (1988)
Bernard Fall, Street Without Joy (1964)
Otto J. Lehrack, No Shining Armor: The Marines at War in Vietnam (1992)
Marshall L. Michael, III, The Eleven Days of Christmas: America’s Last Vietnam Battle (2002)
Assignments: Course requirements include a seminar presentation on a selected work and author and a research paper. Texts are available at the Student Book Exchange.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course fulfills Group Global, post-1750 for history majors.
Thematic
HISTORY 2800 INTRODUCTION TO THE DISCIPLINE OF HISTORY
3 Cr. Hrs.
This course will introduce students to the historical method, that is, how historians write history. We will focus on a specific issue, Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation. The class will discuss the debate among scholars on this topic. Students will also explore primary sources created by historical figures who lived through the Civil War, such as journalists, soldiers, slaves, and politicians. We will examine newspapers, military records, narratives from ex-slaves, memoirs by ex-soldiers, and political cartoons. We will discuss the different perspectives these historical figures had on Lincoln and Emancipation.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
11:10-12:30 TR Cashin
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course is required for all students declaring a Major in history, students must earn a C or higher to have it count on the Major.
HISTORY 2800 INTRODUCTION TO THE DISCIPLINE OF HISTORY
3 Cr. Hrs.
This course will introduce students to historiography and historical methodology – that is, to different interpretations of history and to different methods of studying it. Among the themes
to be covered in the course are gender and history, historical commemorations, and cultural representations of historical events. Topics will include student unrest in the 1960s, including the feminist movement, the civil rights movement, and the anti-war movement.
Class attendance will be required. As a seminar, all students will be expected to participate regularly in class discussions. Participation in discussions will count for 30 percent of the final grade.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
9:35-10:55 WF Hoffmann
Assigned Readings:
Students will be required to read several articles or a book every week – the equivalent of ten books during the semester.
Assignments:
Students will be required to write a paragraph for every class period as well as several longer papers. They will also be assigned two class presentations.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course is required for all students declaring a Major in history, students must earn a “C” or higher to have it count on the history major.
HISTORY 2800 INTRODUCTION TO THE DISCIPLINE OF HISTORY
3 Cr. Hrs.
How do historians study the past? This course introduces students to the methods and disciplines of historical inquiries. Through readings, discussions, documentaries, films and archival materials, students will be introduced to the methods and disciplines of historical inquiries. We will explore, for example, the ways in which historians use written, oral, archival and archeological sources to develop historical arguments. We will also explore the strengths and weaknesses of each of these sources. By the end of the quarter, I expect students to have acquired adequate skills for analyzing, developing and presenting historical arguments appropriate for undergraduate history majors. Organized in seminar or workshop format, this course will be discussion-driven. As such, success in the course will invariably depend on the student’s active and informed participation, as well as timely completion of assignments.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
11:30-1:35 MW Kobo
Assigned Readings (Tentative)
Conal Furay and Michael Salevouris, The Methods and Skills of History.
Robert Harm, The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade
***Level-appropriate Journal articles on historical methods
Recommended readings:
William Kelleher Storey, Writing History: A Guide for Students
Mary Lynn Rampola, A Pocket Guide to Writing in History
Assignments (Tentative)
3 Reaction papers (3-5 pages each)
A book review
Bibliography
Paper outline précis
Final paper (10-15 pages)
Prerequisites and Special Comments
This course is required for all students completing a Major in History. Students must earn a C or higher to have it count on the Major. It may not be used for the GEC Historical Study requirement.
HISTORY 2800H INTRODUCTION TO THE DISCIPLINE OF HISTORY (HONORS)
3 Cr. Hrs.
This course introduces students to the discipline of history by analyzing four approaches based on four theories about human experience generally – Marxist, psychoanalytic, phenomenological, and narratological. To that end students will read and analyze these theories at their source and then critically evaluate one extended application of them in contemporary historical works – two of them my own. These evaluations will concentrate on what these methods reveal about the past and what they are unable to reveal. In addition to some short readings of pure theory, students will also read assigned works that illustrate these respective approaches in practice and are the subject of the students’ written evaluations. I also run a week-long writing workshop that clarifies mechanics of writing to be refined in these four papers.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
9:35-10:55 TR Kern
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Honors standing or permission of the instructor.
This course is required for all students declaring a Major in history, students must earn a C or higher to have it count on the Major.
HISTORY 2800 INTRODUCTION TO DISCIPLINE OF HISTORY
3 Cr. Hrs.
This course is designed to introduce you to what historians do and how they do it. Unlike other history classes, this course does not treat a specific topic or period in history, but rather focuses on historical methodology. It is intended to enhance your research skills and to give you practice in the critical analysis of sources: historical (i.e. primary) sources--written, visual, physical, and oral; and secondary sources (i.e. other historians' interpretation of the primary source record). We will also focus on the skills necessary to communicate your analysis clearly to an audience, both in written and oral form.
Some of the issues we will explore include:
*What constitutes a historical source?
*How do we collect, select, and evaluate historical evidence, and what kinds of evidence best answer certain kinds of questions?
*Can historians be objective? What sorts of professional ethics and considerations guide the conscientious historian?
*What is the difference between history and memory?
*What forces shape how we interpret the historical record?
Time Meeting Days Instructor
2:15-5:00 M Newell
Assigned Readings:
will include some of the following works, although the final list is TBA:
Paul K. Conkin and Roland N. Stromberg, Heritage and Challenge
Natalie Zemon Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre
James Davidson and Mark Lytle, After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection, vol 1 to 1877
Art Spiegelman, Maus
Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time and various articles and handouts.
Assigned Readings:
Students will write several short papers and a longer bibliographical essay/research proposal, and will complete in-class workshops. Class discussion will be an important component of your final grade.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course is required for all students declaring a Major in history, students must earn a C or higher to have it count on the Major.
HISTORY 2800 INTRODUCTION TO THE DISCIPLINE OF HISTORY
3 Cr. Hrs.
This course is designed to introduce undergraduate history majors to the discipline and some of the methods of history. The successful completion of the course will result in your gaining firsthand knowledge of how historians work. We will achieve this objective by examining and analyzing historical documents, by reading, studying, and dissecting (critiquing) published historical (and fictional) works, by learning the mechanics of historical production, and by writing historical essays.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
12:45-2:05 TR Shaw
The specific topic of this class is Nat Turner’s rebellion. In 1831, Turner, a Southampton County Virginia slave, led a revolt designed to overthrow the institution of slavery. The revolt has been reconstructed by historians, fictionalized by novelists, and even translated onto film. Almost every generation recreates Turner anew. We will look at available documents on this incident, the different interpretations of them, and draw our own intelligent conclusions about what definitely happened, what probably happened, and what we can never really know. We will also try to account for the different views that exist and the conclusions that cannot be verified (and were probably false).
The point of these analyses is not simply to know all we can about Turner’s revolt, but to think about the discipline of history. We will examine other primary documents from the period to aid us in this process as well. We will read and write book reviews, review historical journals, and spend some time looking at new technologies and resources for conducting historical research. We will also pay attention to problems and pitfalls of historical research and writing. In the process, we will look at and think about “driving forces” of history, whether history is objective or subjective, and the role of the historian in history. We will talk about “good” history and “bad” history, how to use sources, what “facts” are, and whether or not history can be scientific. Altogether, our goal is to become better historians through critical reading and thoughtful analysis of original and interpreted sources.
Prerequisites and Special Comments: This course is required for all students declaring a Major in history, students must earn a “C” or higher to have it count on the history major.
HISTORY 2800 INTRODUCTION TO THE DISCIPLINE OF HISTORY
3 Cr. Hrs.
This course, designed for students planning to major in history, presents some of the main elements of historical methodology: how historians do their work. We shall study how historians gather information, organize and analyze their data, and write up their research and conclusions. Students will gather experience in dealing with primary and secondary historical sources, interpreting events within their historical context, and developing a comparative understanding of historical phenomenon. In addition, students will learn more about how the past influences today’s society and how our present affects our understanding of the past. This is a required course for all History majors.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
3:55-5:15 TR Staley
Assigned Readings:
John Tosh, The Pursuit of History, 5th edition
John Lewis Gaddis, The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past
Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
Assignments:
A) Thoughtful in-class discussion of the assigned readings, preparedness for and leadership of the discussion.
B) Analysis of primary source documents
C) Creation of an archive
D) Comparison of two written historical accounts
E) Wikipedia assignment
F) “History and video games” assignment
G) Discussion of/quizzes on two books
F) Final multimedia project
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course is required for all students declaring a Major in History. Students must earn a C or higher to have it count on the Major. It may not be used for the GEC Historical Study requirement.
HISTORY 4015H HONORS SEMINAR IN HISTORY
3 Cr. Hrs.
The “Fifties”: Life in the United States, 1948-1963
An examination of American life during the immediate post-World-War-II period. Emphasis on the creation of a large military establishment and collective security agreements such as NATO, Cold War conflicts (most notably in Korea) and the U.S.-Soviet arms race, moderate (Eisenhower-era) conservatism, suburbanization and the re-emphasis on domesticity for women, the advent of television, the revival of mainstream religion, the Beats and other dissenters against the Fifties’ system, and the other forces (economic, political, social and cultural) that eventually undermined the stability of the Fifties’ system, such as superpower confrontations in the Third World, environmental pollution and the increasing challenge to segregation in law and everyday life.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
2:15-5:00 M Stebenne
Assigned Readings:
Weekly reading assignments delve into the above topics in depth; approximately 125-150 pages per week.
Assignments:
Attendance at, and lively participation in, all class meetings; a 3-5-page research paper prospectus; and a first draft and a final draft of a 15-page research paper.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
History 3015 recommended. Open to honors students only. This course fulfills a history major requirement.
HISTORY 4080 READINGS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
3 Cr. Hrs.
Non-plantation Slavery in the Antebellum South
When most people think about antebellum slavery, the image of a plantation comes to mind. It is not an illogical image given the critical role slaves paid in the production of American agricultural products, especially cotton, tobacco, rice, corn, and sugar. Directly and indirectly, agricultural slave labor often generated the largest portion of American wealth in nineteenth-century America. But this course takes a different track: it looks at slavery in non-plantation/agricultural contexts and the slave experience beyond the plantation – in urban, industrial and commercial settings. These individuals worked in cities, in mines, in factories, on rivers, and in homes. And they came in contact with urban environments in diverse ways, beyond their efforts to earn a wage. In particular, we will pay especial attention to the diverse ways historians have discussed these slaves, their lives, and their labors, how and why these discussions have changed over the last hundred years, and how these new discussions complicate our traditional views of antebellum slavery.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
3:55-5:15 TR Shaw
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course is designed for senior History majors and fulfills the seminar requirement for History Majors.
HISTORY 4100 READINGS IN LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY
“Revolutions and Revolutionaries in Modern Latin America”
What is a revolution? Why are successful revolutions such rare events? Why have so many revolutions failed and so few succeeded? Who are the revolutionaries? What is guerrilla warfare? What happens after the revolution? What is the difference between a revolution and social movement?
This course examines these and other important questions to analyze the history and meanings of revolutions and revolutionaries in Latin American. We will begin with the Haitian revolution, and then move to twentieth century uprisings and events, such as those in Mexico, Guatemala, Cuba, Chile, among others. The students will discuss the causes of revolution, their changing historical nature, and revolutionary outcomes. Throughout the class we will pay close attention to concepts of class, gender, and ethnicity to better understand the inclusion of various peoples into the revolutionary experience. We also will look at U.S. involvement in various Latin American countries, including the role of the U.S. in Latin American revolutions and in the creation a post-revolutionary society. We will pay special attention to historical participants of revolutionary actions, such as Che Guevara and guerilla movements, to explore participation from the ground level up.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
2:20-5:15 Thursday Smith, S.
Assigned Readings: TBA
Assignments: TBA
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course is designed for senior History majors and fulfills the Seminar requirement for History Majors.
HISTORY 4250H HONORS READINGS SEMINAR IN MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY
3 Cr. Hrs.
This course will explore Europe’s often brutal encounter with some of the peoples it colonized in the modern “Age of Empire,” and the many different ways in which historians have written about this encounter. Special attention will be paid to the French, British and Belgians in Africa, the devastating impact of their policies, and the way Africans shaped colonial cultures in Europe itself. Themes we will consider include the motives for European expansion; the emergence of new racist and humanitarian ideologies; women’s roles in empire; strategies of resistance and accommodation to colonial rule; and the continuing influence of the colonial past on Europe’s multicultural societies today. Students may write their final paper on an aspect of modern European imperialism in some other part of the world if they so choose (e.g. the British in India, the French in Vietnam, etc.)
Time Meeting Days Instructor
11:10-2:05 Friday Conklin
Assigned Readings:
Adam Hochschild, King Leopold’s Ghost
Chinue Achebe, Things Fall Apart
Sven Lindqvist, Exterminate All the Brutes
Edward Berenson, Heroes of Empire
Caroline Elkins, Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of the British Gulag in Kenya
Hergé, Tintin in the Congo
A number of articles, essays and book chapters will also be discussed.
Assignments:
1. Two pages of commentary and questions concerning the readings for five of the meetings. 10 pages: 30% of the total grade.
2. A final paper and class presentation examining a “colonial encounter.” 15-20 pages: 40% of the total grade.
3. Attendance at and participation in all weekly meetings of the class: 30% of the total grade.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Open to honors students only or permission of instructor. This course fulfills the seminar requirement for history majors.
HISTORY 4255 RESEARCH SEMINAR IN MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY
3 Cr. Hrs.
This course examines different perspectives on migrations within, out of, and (back) to Europe from the late eighteenth century until the present. The course explores these population movements within the context of political struggles, border changes, imperial expansion, economic conditions, demographic realities, family structures, gender roles, and cultural expectations, comparing and contrasting developments in the eastern and western parts of the European continent and its overseas colonial possessions. The course will engage theories of migration, diaspora, citizenship, nationality, and empire and study how notions of citizenship, national belonging, and state control influenced and were influenced by the evolution of migration movements within Europe.
After reviewing the relevant literature, each student will write a research paper on one case study of migration in modern Europe. For that purpose, the class will make extensive use of the OSU Library electronic bibliographic databases and visit the library for presentations and hands-on experiences on how to use these resources in historical research.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
12:45-3:40 Wednesday Dragostinova, T.
Assigned readings (tentative):
Saskia Sassen, Guests and Aliens (New York: New Press, 1999).
Leo Lucassen, The Immigrant Threat: The Integration of Old and New Migrants in Western Europe since 1850 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005).
Mark Wyman, Round-Trip to America: The Immigrants Return to Europe, 1880-1930 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996).
Bruce Clark, Twice a Stranger: The Mass Expulsions that Forged Modern Greece and Turkey (Cambridge, Ma: Harvard University Press, 2007).
Faiza Guene, Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow (New York: Mariner Books, 2006).
Additional chapter-length readings will be posted on Carmen.
Assignments:
Two 4-page papers on the assigned readings: 20% (10% each)
Preliminary bibliography: 5%
Final paper proposal and bibliography: 5%
First 10-to-12-page paper draft: 10%
Comments on another student’s draft: 5%
Paper presentation in class: 5%
Final 16-to-18-page paper: 40%
Weekly participation and discussion: 10%
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course is designed for senior History majors and fulfills the Seminar requirement for all History Majors.
HISTORY 4300 READINGS IN AFRICAN HISTORY
3 Cr. Hrs.
This course will focus on the development of popular culture and leisure activities in contemporary Africa. The course will explore such topics as the transformation of African societies during the period of European colonial rule, the development of cities and urban life, leisure activities, sports, music, dance, and other artistic expressions.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
11:10-12:30 TR Sikainga, A.
Assigned Readings:
The students will read a wide range of scholarly works on the various topics covered in the course. They should expect a weekly reading load of approximately 100-150 pages.
Assignments:(tentative)
Two papers of 10-15 pages and a book report.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course is designed for senior History majors and fulfills the seminar requirement for all History Majors.
Women's History
HISTORY 2610 INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN & GENDER IN THE U.S.
3 Cr. Hrs.
This course surveys the history of American women from pre-European settlement to the present. The lectures, readings, and films will emphasize how female roles in the realms of family, work, politics, and culture change over time. Particular attention will be paid to how women negotiate social norms and help to create new standards of acceptability. Also, the class will focus on the diversity among women in terms of race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
9:10-10:05 MWF Arendt, E.
3:55-5:15 TR Solic, P.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course fulfills Group N. America, post-1750 for history majors.
HISTORY 2610H INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN & GENDER IN THE U.S.
3 Cr. Hrs.
This honors course surveys the history of women and gender in North America from pre-European settlement to the present. Through lectures, discussion, films, visuals, music and readings, the class will examine how female roles in the realms of family, work, politic, and culture have changed over time. A major goal of the course is to present women’s history both as an integral part of United States history and as a unique subject of historical investigation. Students will learn to think critically about historical arguments as well as to understand the difference that gender makes in history and the way that gender interacts with class, race, ethnicity, and sexuality.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
12:45-2:05 TR Marino, K.
Assigned Readings:
Readings will include primary sources such as journals, diary excerpts, and letters, as well as historical interpretations.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
Honors standing. This course fulfills Group N. America, post-1750 for history majors.
World History
HISTORY 1681 WORLD HISTORY TO 1500
3 Cr. Hrs.
This course examines the major issues that have shaped the human experience from the beginnings of human civilization (ca. 3500 B.C.) to ca. A.D. 1500, when the European voyages of exploration were beginning to tie the world together more tightly than ever before in a new pattern of global interrelatedness. Before 1500, societies in different parts of the world had far less contact with each other. In particular, Afro-Eurasia and the Americas remained almost entirely cut off from each other. For this reason, the main emphasis of History 1681 will be the comparative study of civilizations. Within that context, religions (belief systems), trade, and technology will be emphasized as factors that differentiated civilizations while also linking different civilizations at regional and hemispheric, if not yet global, levels.
Time Meetings Days Instructor
8:00-9:20 TR Hathaway, J.
Assigned readings:
Richard W. Bulliet, et al., The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History, vol. 1, 3rd ed.
Robert van Gulik, The Chinese Nail Murders: A Judge Dee Mystery
Assignments:
In-class midterm and final, a paper related to The Chinese Nail Murders, attendance at and participation in recitations
Prerequisites and Special Comments: English 110.xx. Not open to students with credit for History 181.
HISTORY 1682 WORLD HISTORY 1500 TO PRESENT
3 Cr. Hrs.
This course will explore the emergence of the modern world. From the late fifteenth century, the world witnessed a rapid progression in the mobility of people and information, and an unprecedented tightening of the bonds connecting far-flung civilizations. This is most apparent in the European maritime explorations and conquests of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which led to the establishment of European colonies across much of the Americas, Africa and Asia. In addition to examining European colonialism and imperialism in various manifestations across the globe, students enrolled in this course will be challenged to think critically about the global repercussions of such historical phenomena as the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. These include the rise of nationalism, its relationship to the collapse of the European colonial empires, and its turbulent legacy today.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
8:00-9:20 TR Marvel, E.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
English 110.xx. Not open to students with credit for 182.
HISTORY 2650 THE WORLD SINCE 1914
3 Cr. Hrs.
This course looks from a global perspective at major issues that have made, or are making, the world we live in today.
Time Meeting Days Instructor
On-line On-line Hildonen, K.
Prerequisites and Special Comments: This course fulfills Group Global, post-1750 for history majors.