Research for thesis or dissertation purposes only. Repeatable. This course is graded S/U.

The investigation of particular problems in various fields of history through individual studies.

Basic ideas and techniques for effective teaching of college history; emphasis on classroom application.

Analysis of seminal works and concepts in the development of global-scaled integrative approaches to world history.

Compares constitutions and constitutionalism across cultures and through different disciplines with special attention to how people make claims to secure their rights and interests.

An intensive readings course in some aspect of the history of religion; specific topic to be announced.

Research topics to be announced. Continuation of 810.01.

To give students some exposure to the wide variety of intellectual activities that fall under "public history".

Research topic to be announced. Continuation of 890.01.

A one-quarter seminar on topical themes.

First of a two-part course on the history and evolution of the African Diaspora worldwide, from ancient times to the present. Examination of the dispersal of Africans, mainly through the slave trade across the Sahara, the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean, and the Atlantic Ocean.

Examination of pre-colonial political, economic, and social systems, including material culture and agriculture.

The study of sources, research methods, interpretations, and research trends in the field of African history.

Focuses on African women's experiences: legal and socioeconomic status, religious and political roles, the impact of colonial and post colonial developments, feminism and representation issues.

Readings in the evolution of black culture, economics and family life, race relations, and the emergence of class stratification within the black community.

A study of the social, political, and economic history of black Americans during the 19th century. Prereq: Grad standing. Repeatable to a maximum of 10 cr hrs. Cross-listed in AfAmASt.

Selected topics in African-American history from the origins of African-American culture and slavery to emancipation.

This course is designed to acquaint students with the origins and evolution of African American history from the late-eighteenth century up to the present.

First of a two-quarter seminar designed to provide experience in the research and writing of a scholarly paper based on primary source material in African-American history.

The social system of the Old South; the various aspects of secession and the impact of war.

Readings in selected topics in American history to 1877.

Major issues and events in American Indian history from the 1820s to the twenty-first century.

Chicano experience from the late 16th century to 1900, with a special emphasis on race, class, and gender relations.

The history of American law and legal institutions, and their relationship to society, from colonial times to the present.

Survey of religious history of the United States from colonial times to the present.

Analysis of social, economic, cultural, and political changes in 18th century America.

A continuation of 557.01 but may be taken separately; primary emphasis on social and political history of post revolutionary America.

The causes, character, and consequences of America's inter sectional war and the post-war settlement.

Social and intellectual factors from colonial beginnings to professionalization; Darwinism; American preeminence; the modern scientific crisis.

Intensive study of the U.S. from 1877 to 1920; subjects include industrialization, Populism, Progressivism, immigration, urbanization, and foreign policy through World War I.

U.S. domestic and foreign policy history, 1921 to 1963 covering New Era, New Deal, World War II, Cold War, Fair Deal, Eisenhower Republicanism, New Frontier.

Evolution of working-class life, culture, politics, and trade unionism in America from the late 18th century to the present.

Readings in selected topics in American history since 1898.

Research topic to be announced.

Continuation of 870.01.

Chicano experience from 1900 to the present era, with a special emphasis on race, class, and gender relations.

Major currents in American thought of the 19th century.

Major currents in American thought and culture, 1900-present.

A history of Rome from the founding to the fall of the Roman Republic; readings in ancient sources in translation.

Decline and fall of the Empire in the West; military, social, economic problems; religious conflicts; emergence of Germanic kingdoms; readings from sources in translation.

Cities in the ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome, with an emphasis on their physical form and historical importance.

History of Byzantium, A.D. 843-1453, with emphasis on internal developments, the Crusades, the Fall of the City, and the legacy of Byzantium.

The ancient history of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia, Persia, Israel, and the Levant to the establishment of the Persian Empire; readings from sources in translation.

Continuation of 808.01.

Studies in the civilizations of Minoan Crete and Helladic/Mycenaean Greece in relationship with the Trojans, Hittites, Philistines, Cypriotes, Syrians, and Egyptians.

Examination of Atlantic World history in the early modern era, including imperialism and colonialism, the intercontinental exchange of people, ideas, and goods, and cultural development. Prereq: Grad standing.

Research topics to be announced. Prereq: 700 or permission of instructor. This course is Progress ('P') graded. Credit will be awarded upon completion of 810.02. Repeatable to a maximum of 10 cr hrs.

An examination of the historical development of business from the early 17th century to the present with attention to the interconnections between business, technology, and science.

Domestic and international setting of U.S. diplomacy from the Revolutionary War to 1920.

Studies in the main problems of American foreign policy with primary emphasis on basic literatures and selected primary materials.

Continuation of 823.01.

Seminar in European International History I.

History of modern China with emphasis on cultural contact between China and the West.

A general but analytic introduction to the social, political, and intellectual history of contemporary China, 1949-present.

Selected thematic topics in Chinese history.

History of Japan to 19th century; emphasis on religion, politics, economic development, social structure and culture.

China's pivotal role in the evolution of the early modern world system and European colonialism.

Research topic to be announced.

A survey of the first segment of the later Chinese imperial period, the Song (960-1279) and Yuan (1279-1368) dynasties.

Principal issues in the history of the Renaissance or the Reformation.

Selected topics in western European history of the 17th and 18th centuries.

Research topic to be announced.

Research topic to be announced.

Research topic to be announced.

Unification of the thrones; the rise and fall of empire; rivalry with Portugal; Napoleon to the Civil War; Franco and the Post-Franco Era.

The literary, artistic, and intellectual achievements primarily of Renaissance Italy against the background of economic, political, and social developments in western Europe. Beginnings and flourishing of the Italian Renaissance, from the era of independent communes to the quattrocento.

History of the international relations and diplomacy of Europe from the Congress of Vienna to the First World War.

Introduction to the history of Italy from the Risorgimento to the present.

Nationalism, the democratic movement, economic growth, imperialism, and cultural advance from the Congress of Vienna to World War I.

Greece from 1453 to the present; Turkish rule, War of Independence, emergence of the modern state; focus on political, social, and cultural developments.

The important events and issues in European history from 1900-1950.

Political, social, economic, and cultural developments from the Prussian reform movement to World War I, with emphasis on German unification and the origins of the war.

World War I; the Weimar period; Hitler and the Third Reich; and the two Germanies after 1945.

A survey of the rise of nationalism and the emergence of nation-states in Eastern Europe from the early nineteenth century through World War One.

Selected topics in Western European history of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Continuation of 805.01.

Political, social, and economic developments; World Wars I and II; Communism, Nazism; present-day Europe; emphasis on methods of historical research and documentary analysis.

Continuation of 801.01.

Exploration of selected topics of 19th and 20th century German history; emphasis on methods of historical research and documentary analysis.

France's transformation from a rural, traditional society to a modern, industrial society, and the relation of this transformation to 19th-century political and intellectual movements.

Continuation of 824.01.

Research topic to be announced.

The restoration of Jewish statehood following the first Babylonian Exile and the history of Palestinian Jewry and of the Jewish Diaspora down to the 2nd Century A.D.

Continuation of 862.01.

Changing patterns of Jewish life since the Jews' struggle for Emancipation; migration movements and the shift of Jewish centers in Europe and the New World.

An investigation of Jewish life and thought in the Christian and Muslim worlds during the Renaissance.

The rise of the Jewish nation and religion in the Ancient Near East; settlement in Canaan; the Israelite and Judean monarchies until their conquest by Assyria and Babylonia.

An intensive study of problems in selected periods of Latin American history.

Christian origins and expansion to 600 A.D.; conflict with Roman Empire; internal dissent; basic institutions; Christian intellectuals; the imperial established church; monasticism; papacy; the barbarians and Christianity.

Europe 300-1100; Roman decline, Christianization of Europe, barbarian invasions; Carolingian renaissance; early feudalism and manorialism; investiture contest; crusades; economic and intellectual revival.

Europe 1100-1500; the 12th-century Renaissance; classical feudalism; rise of Christendom; the great economic revival; universities and scholasticism; religious dissent; and 14th-century crises.

England from the Roman conquest to 1485; Anglo-Saxon society and institutions; the Norman conquest; law and Parliament; social, intellectual, and economic growth of the English people.

An analysis of military affairs and of their interaction with political and diplomatic history.

American military policy from the colonial period through World War I and America's emergence as a world power; emphasis on war-waging and military institutions.

Selected topics and periods in military history; emphasis on recent scholarship.

Research topic to be announced.

A survey from the origins of the Russian state to the end of the reign of Peter the Great.

Beginning with the background and events of the revolution of 1917, analysis of developments in Russian history from World War I to the present.

Research topic to be announced.

A continuation of 523.

Continuation of 881.01.

An intensive reading course designed to prepare graduate students in women's history in a comparative framework.

A survey of love in the literature, art, and philosophy of the Western World concentrating on the years since 1800.