Spring 2027 Undergraduate Courses
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African History
History 2303 History of Contemporary Africa, 1960 - Present
Instructor: Sikainga, Ahmad
Days/Times: TR, 11:10am-12:30pm | Second Session
After less than 100 years of colonial rule, most African societies gained their independence between the late 1950s and the mid-1960s. Formal independence from European colonial rule implied that Africans were in charge of their own political and economic destinies. What happened during this era of formal independence? How did African leaders seek to create stable political systems to promote economic progress in their societies and what difficulties did they encounter? In what ways did the colonial legacy and the new world order that emerged after the Second World War affect the processes of nation-building in Africa? What relationship emerged between Africa and the former colonial rulers on the one hand, and between Africa and the new world powers (the United States and the Soviet Union) on the other? This African course explores these questions to help us understand why Africa has continued to struggle to implement the desired political stability and sustainable economic development. Rather than seeking to provide you with a seamless and cohesive body of knowledge, the course will focus on important themes that will give you a broader picture of historical processes, contingencies and outcomes that will help us understand Africa’s predicaments as well as achievements since the 1960s. Students should leave this course with the ability to engage in well-informed discussions about modern Africa and its place in the global system.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEN Foundation: Historical and Cultural Studies
History 3302 Nationalism, Socialism, and Revolution in Africa
Instructor: Sikainga, Ahmad
Days/Times: TR, 2:20-3:40pm | Second Session
This course examines the history of the nationalist, revolutionary, and socialist movements in Africa in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The course will begin with a discussion of the establishment and the legacy of European colonial rule in Africa, and proceeds to examine the development of African nationalism and decolonization. Using a variety of secondary and primary sources as well as films and documentaries, the discussion will illuminate the complexities and the ideologies that informed the nationalist movements in Africa. The anti-colonial protests and the nationalism movements in Africa produced many charismatic leaders and intellectuals whose ideas and writings had a lasting impact on the nationalist and the post-colonial discourse in Africa. They included figures such as Kwame Nkrumah, Julius Nyerere, Patrice Lumumba, and Amilcar Cabral, jusCollecting and Empire: A Global History of Objects and Knowledget to name a few. The course will also examine the way in which conflict and tensions involving such issues as race, ethnicity, gender, and class have shaped nationalist thought, strategies, agenda, and the post-colonial realities in Africa. The last part of the course will focus on the theory and practice of socialism in Africa by looking at specific examples from countries such as Tanzania, Mozambique, Burkina Faso, and Ethiopia. We will conclude by assessing the experiences and the success and failures of these regimes and their impact.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEL Diversity: Global Studies
History 3704 HIV: From Microbiology to Macrohistory
Instructor: McDow, Thomas
Days/Times: TR, 12:45-2:05pm
This course is an interdisciplinary exploration of HIV/AIDS, tracing the evolution of the virus at both the molecular level and within in its global historical context. This course is team-taught by a virologist and a historian.
General Education
GEN HIP: Interdisciplinary and Integrated Coll Tch, GEN Theme: Origins and Evolution
African American History
History 3085 Civil Rights and Black Power Movements
Instructor: Jeffries, Hasan
Days/Times: M, 2:15-5:00pm
Uses contemporary film to explore the history of African American life, culture, politics, and resistance.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEL Diversity: Social Diversity in the US, GEN Theme: Traditions, Cultures, & Transformations
History 4085 Seminar in Modern U.S. History
Instructor: Fontanilla, Ryan
Days/Times: R, 2:15-5:00pm
Advanced research and readings on selected topics in African American History.
American History
History 1151: American History to 1877
Instructor: Teague, Greyson
Days/Times: Online, Asynchronous | Second Session
The political, constitutional, social, and economic development of the United States from the colonial period through the era of Reconstruction.
General Education
GE Foundation Historical and Cultural Studies Course.
History 1152 American History since 1877
Instructor: Wood, Josh
Days/Time: Online, Asynchronous
The political, constitutional, social and economical development of the United States from the end of Reconstruction to the present.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEN Foundation: Historical and Cultural Studies
History 2003 American Civics through History
Instructor: Cook, DeAnza
Days/Times: W 12:45pm – 2:05pm
This course introduces students to the complex history of American democratic civic traditions through close analysis of some of the most important texts and concepts in U.S. political history from the colonial era to the present.
General Education
Civic Literacy, GEN Foundation: Historical and Cultural Studies
History 2003 American Civics through History
Instructor: Limbach, Eric
Days/Times: Online, asynchronous | Second Session
This course introduces students to the complex history of American democratic civic traditions through close analysis of some of the most important texts and concepts in U.S. political history from the colonial era to the present.
General Education
Civic Literacy, GEN Foundation: Historical and Cultural Studies
History 2003 American Civics through History
Instructor: Rivers, Daniel
Days/Times: Online, asynchronous
This course introduces students to the complex history of American democratic civic traditions through close analysis of some of the most important texts and concepts in U.S. political history from the colonial era to the present.
General Education
Civic Literacy, GEN Foundation: Historical and Cultural Studies
History 2015: History of American Criminal Justice
Instructor: Cook, DeAnza
Days/Times: TR, 2:20-3:40 pm
Crime and punishment are among the most important issues in contemporary America. This course offers an introduction to the historical study of crime in the United States from colonial times to the present. It highlights changes in criminal behavior and the ways in which Americans have sought to deter, punish, and rehabilitate. Primary topics include historical patterns of violence, the role and organization of the police, and the evolution of punishment in theory and practice. This course also emphasizes differences in crime and punishment by region, class, ethnicity, gender, and age. Topics will include riots, homicide, capital punishment, organized crime, gangs, prisons, policing, jurisprudence, and official violence.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEN Foundation: Historical and Cultural Studies
History 3006 United States Constitution and American Society since 1877
Instructor: Stebenne, David
Days/Times: TR, 11:10am-12:30pm
Examination of the major developments in American constitutional history since the Civil War. Emphasis on the new constitutional system created by the Fourteenth Amendment; the rise and decline of laissez-faire constitutionalism; the more moderate constitutionalism of the New Deal era; the resurgence of judicial activism in the 1960’s, ‘70’s and ‘80’s; and the more recent emphasis on originalism, history, and tradition in constitutional interpretation. The course will deal in detail with the most influential Supreme Court rulings since 1877, including those in the areas of federal regulation of the economy, limits on freedom of speech and press during wartime, racial segregation, the rights of criminal suspects and defendants, legal equality for women, abortion, affirmative action, presidential power, gerrymandering, and church-state relations.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEN Foundation: Historical and Cultural Studies
History 3013 Civil War and Reconstruction
Instructor: Kurilla, Ivan
Days/Times: WF, 9:35-10:55am
This course explores the United States Civil War and the era of Reconstruction (1861–1877) as both a national crisis and a global event. We will examine how the war transformed the meaning of freedom, citizenship, and federal power within the United States, while also tracing its international resonance—from European debates over liberalism and nationalism to the global circulation of ideas about emancipation, democracy, and revolution. Readings and discussions will address the causes, course, and consequences of the conflict, the experience of slavery and emancipation, and the contested legacies of Reconstruction. By situating the Civil War in a broader transatlantic context, students will see how the struggle over the Union and slavery became part of a worldwide nineteenth-century conversation about rights, sovereignty, and modernity.
General Education
GEL Historical Study
History 3014 Gilded Age to Progressive Era, 1877-1920
Instructor: Wood, Josh
Days/Times: Online, asynchronous
Advanced study of U.S. social, political, cultural, foreign policy history from 1877-1920: Industrialization; immigration; urbanization; populism; Spanish-American War; progressivism; WWI.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEL Diversity: Social Diversity in the US, GEN Theme: Citizenship for a Diverse & Just World
History 3014 Gilded Age to Progressive Era, 1877-1920
Instructor: Wood, Josh
Days/Times: Online, asynchronous | Second Session
Advanced study of U.S. social, political, cultural, foreign policy history from 1877-1920: Industrialization; immigration; urbanization; populism; Spanish-American War; progressivism; WWI.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEL Diversity: Social Diversity in the US, GEN Theme: Citizenship for a Diverse & Just World
History 3016 The Contemporary U.S. since 1963
Instructor: Howard, Clayton
Days/Times: MWF, 1:50-2:45pm
Advanced study U.S. political, economic, social, and cultural changes since 1963: political polarization; post-industrial economy/consumer economy; civil rights, feminism, environmentalism, Vietnam, detente, and globalization.
General Education
GEL Historical Study
History 3030 History of Ohio
Instructor: Colin, William
Days/Times: Online, asynchronous
Survey of economic, social, political development of the geographic area that became Ohio from Native Americans to present.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEN Theme: Traditions, Cultures, & Transformations
History 3071 Native American History from Removal to the Present
Instructor: Rivers, Daniel
Days/Times: WF, 11:10am-12:30pm
Covers major events in American Indian history from 1820s to present, including removal, reservations, cultural adaptation, federal policies, self-determination, activism, and contemporary issues.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEL Diversity: Social Diversity in the US
History 3085 Civil Rights and Black Power Movements
Instructor: Jeffries, Hasan
Days/Times: M, 2:15-5:00pm
Uses contemporary film to explore the history of African American life, culture, politics, and resistance.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEL Diversity: Social Diversity in the US, GEN Theme: Traditions, Cultures, & Transformations
History 3706 Coca-Cola Globalization: The History of American Business and Global Environmental Change 1800-Today
Instructor: Elmore, Bart
Days/Times: T, 12:30-3:15pm
Coca-Cola is everywhere. Today, the company sells over 2.2 billion servings of its products daily to customers in over 190 countries worldwide. The company has bottling plants in every corner of the globe from Australia to Zimbabwe. This is remarkable considering the company started out as a “brain tonic” first sold for just five cents in a small Gilded Age Atlanta pharmacy in 1886 by a sick and cash-strapped businessman named John Pemberton. So how did the company do it? That’s one of the big questions we will ask in this global environmental history course.
History 3706 offers an introduction to the fields of environmental history and business history. It is organized chronologically, beginning with the railroad revolution of the nineteenth century and ending in the twenty-first century. It chronicles the rise of some of America’s biggest multinational corporations and examines how these firms, working with governments and other institutions, shaped global ecological change between 1800 and 2017. It also considers the social and political responses to these environmental changes.
The questions we will ask in this course are not simple, and they will require us to re-imagine well-told stories from a new, ecological perspective. How did Coca-Cola acquire the natural resources it needed to end up all over the world? Can history tell us whether global climate change is real? Are Californians going to run out of water? We will deal with these and other intriguing questions as we explore the history of America in the world through the lens of environmental history.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEL Diversity: Social Diversity in the US, GEN Theme: Sustainability
History 4015 Seminar in Modern U.S. History
Instructor: Howard, Clayton
Days/Times: WF, 11:10am-12:30pm
This class will explore the gender and sexual politics of the United States in the 1950s and 1960s. Many historians agree that numerous Americans embraced conservative social norms in the two decades after World War II. These customs included the stigmatization of premarital sex, prohibitions against divorce, taboos against interracial relationships, discrimination against women who defied gender norms, and intense homophobia. But many historians disagree about how much emphasis scholars should place on those trends. Perhaps Americans should understand the conservative rules of the postwar period as an acknowledgement that many people were in fact violating those norms and the era was not as conservative as it might seem. Our class will use primary and secondary source research to not only understand topics such as the “Lavender Scare” and the Baby Boom, but also how historians have offered competing interpretations of them.
History 4085 Seminar in Modern U.S. History
Instructor: Fontanilla, Ryan
Days/Times: R, 2:15-5:00pm | Online
Advanced research and readings on selected topics in African American History.
History 4870 The Ohio State University: Its History and Its World
Instructor: Staley, David
Days/Times: TR, 9:35-10:55 am
An introduction to the past and present of OSU, its importance, its disciplines, the interrelations of the academic and other components of the institution, and the contributions over the years of OSU to the wider world.
General Education
GEL Cultures and Ideas, GEN Foundation: Historical and Cultural Studies
Ancient Mediterranean History
History 3211 Classical Greece
Instructor: Anderson, Greg
Days/Times: Online, asynchronous
This is an asynchronous online class, the second half of a two-course sequence on the history of ancient Greece. The first course (History 3210) explores developments in the Greek world from the Neolithic era to the end of the Archaic age (ca. 7000-480 BC). The second course (History 3211) focuses on the history and culture of the Classical age (ca. 480-320 BC), the "Golden Age" of ancient Greece. Major topics addressed include: Athenian democracy; the cataclysmic Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta (431-404 BC); the rise of Macedon and Alexander the Great; tragedy and comedy; art and architecture; and philosophy. The class places particular emphasis on engagement with original ancient sources and on trying to see Greek experience through the eyes of the Greeks themselves.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEN Foundation: Historical and Cultural Studies
History 3216 War in the Ancient Mediterranean World
Instructor: Vanderpuy, Peter
Days/Times: Online, asynchronous | Second session
A survey of military history from the late Bronze Age to the fall of the Roman Empire in the West, with an emphasis on the ways in which warfare and militaries connected to modes of citizenship, belonging, and participation in the societies of Antiquity.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEL Diversity: Global Studies, GEN Theme: Citizenship for a Diverse & Just World
History 3222 The Roman Empire, 69-337 CE
Instructor: Goggin, Caspian
Days/Times: R, 2:20-3:40pm
An advanced survey of Rome's imperial history from the end of the Julio-Claudian dynasty to the death of Constantine.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEN Theme: Citizenship for a Diverse & Just World
History 3222 The Roman Empire, 69-337 CE
Instructor: Vanderpuy, Peter
Days/Times: Online, asynchronous | Second session
An advanced survey of Rome's imperial history from the end of the Julio-Claudian dynasty to the death of Constantine.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEN Theme: Citizenship for a Diverse & Just World
History 3227 Gnostics and Other Early Christian Heresies
Instructor: Goggin, Caspian
Days/Times: R, 9:35-10:55am
Examines the early Christian philosophical movement known as 'the Gnostics' whose beliefs, based on the stories of the Bible, Platonist philosophy, and the new revelation of Jesus, shocked other Christians.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEL Diversity: Global Studies, GEN Theme: Traditions, Cultures, & Transformations
Asian History
History 2402 History of East Asia in the Modern Era
Instructor: Reed, Christopher
Days/Times: TR, 2:20-3:40pm
History 2402 is an introductory and explicitly comparative survey of early modern and late modern East Asian history that focuses on China, Korea, and Japan. It thematically examines the major political, social, economic, and military contexts and processes that shaped East Asia from 1600 up to the late 20th century. To do so, History 2402 extends, chronologically and to some extent spatially, topics some of you may have covered in History 2401 (which is not a required introduction to this course) and adds some new ones.
The basis of comparison is the three countries of East Asia themselves. The course is aimed at students with no background. There are no formal prerequisites other than good reading and writing skills for this course nor for success in it. Further, almost any humanities or social science course you’ve taken will help you succeed in this course.
China is the focus of much of the first third of the course, Korea of the second third, and Japan of much of the final third. The lectures will devote equal time to each of the three countries while including some comparative topics involving all three.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEL Diversity: Global Studies, GEN Foundation: Historical and Cultural Studies
History 3404 Modern China 1750-1949
Instructor: Guan, Cruz
Days/Times: Online, asynchronous | Second session
History of Modern China, circa 1750 to 1949; emphasis on state and society (politics, military affairs, economics, social structure, and culture).
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEL Diversity: Global Studies, GEN Theme: Traditions, Cultures, and Transformations
History 3426 History of Modern Japan
Instructor: Jeong, Yehji
Days/Times: TR, 11:10am-12:30pm
This course introduces students to the historical trajectory of modern Japan. Students will trace major historical transformations across Japanese society, culture, and politics, while consistently examining how historical experiences in and beyond the Japanese archipelago intersect with broader global historical contexts.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEN Foundation: Historical and Cultural Studies
History 4410 Seminar in Chinese History
Instructor: Reed, Christopher
Days/Times: WF, 2:20-3:40pm
In July 1937, soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) were involved in what initially seemed to be a minor military skirmish with Republican (not Communist) Chinese soldiers at the Marco Polo Bridge (Lugouqiao) near Beijing. Since the 19th century, Japanese and other foreign troops had frequently used/provoked such false-flag events to provide their political leaders at home with excuses to send military reinforcements to China. This time, however, what the Japanese used to call “The China Incident (Shina jihen*)” grew into a protracted 8-year continental war. Over that period, the Japanese goals—to establish an anti-Communist, anti-imperialist alliance against Soviet Russia & the Western imperialists, particularly Britain and America; to create an East Asian “civilization” (so-called “New Order” announced by Prime Minister and Prince Konoe Fumimaro in Nov 1938); to build a reformed economy (“Yen Bloc”); and to establish a stable new Chinese government that was friendly to Japan—all grew ever-more elusive. In their desperation to end the war by imposing a full embargo on Chiang Kai-shek’s alleged pro-Communist wartime government holed up in Chongqing (pronounced “Choeng-cheeng”), the Japanese eventually attacked and invaded British-controlled Hong Kong, US-colonized Philippines, all of Southeast Asia from French Indochina across Thailand to British Malaya, Singapore, Burma, and India; the Dutch East Indies; New Guinea; and they even assaulted Darwin, Australia. They also attacked the American-controlled, pre-statehood territory of Hawaii, due east of Japan’s post-WWI Pacific Mandates (Marshall, Caroline, and Marianna islands, which were formerly German). In the process, the Japanese added to the China Incident what they call the Pacific War (1941-45) and what the West calls World War II. Behind it all, however, the 2nd Sino-Japanese War (2SJW, 1937-45) churned on unceasingly and remained the justification for all the Empire of Japan’s various post-1940 “sideshows.”
This course, led by a modern-China history specialist who also teaches modern Japanese history, will examine this 2nd Sino-Japanese War from Chinese and Japanese political, economic, military, and civilian perspectives. Like all 4000-level Readings/Research Seminars, the course will emphasize readings, discussions, sources, and student-initiated analytical writing projects rather than lectures. Throughout the course, we will use the case study of the 2SJW to better understand the broader historical field of modern East Asian, particularly Chinese and Japanese, history.
* Now more commonly called “Japan-China War (NiChū sensō)” or “Fifteen-Year War” (Jūgonen sensō) in Japan; and “Anti-Japanese War of Resistance (KangRi zhanzheng) in China.
Diplomatic/International History
History 3500 U.S. Diplomacy from Independence to 1920
Instructor: Kurilla, Ivan
Days/Times: WF, 2:20pm-3:40pm
Between 1776 and 1920, the United States transformed from a fragile confederacy of bickering states into a globe-spanning empire. This class will consider American foreign relations exploring the contested ideas of ideology and expansion that motivated official policy and international affairs, with a particular emphasis on themes of expansion, immigration, and migration.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEN Theme: Migration, Mobility, and Immobility
History 3501 U.S. Diplomacy, 1920 to Present
Instructor: Parrott, Joe
Days/Times: TR, 2:20pm – 3:40pm
The formulation of U.S. foreign policy and foreign relations around the world from the aftermath of World War I to the modern day.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEN Theme: Citizenship for a Diverse & Just World
Environment, Health, Technology, and Science
History 2701 History of Technology
Instructor: Cahn, Dylan
Days/Times: Online, asynchronous | Second Session
Survey of the history of technology in global context from ancient times.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEN Theme: Lived Environments
History 2701 History of Technology
Instructor: Guan, Cruz
Days/Times: Online, asynchronous
Survey of the history of technology in global context from ancient times.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEN Theme: Lived Environments
History 2702 Food in World History
Instructor: Arnold, Ellen
Days/Times: Online, asynchronous
Food is implicated in all dimensions of human existence. It is a biological necessity, without which human beings slowly die. Control over food supplies is a basic function of all organized societies and polities. Shared food traditions and tastes shape cultural identities of particular groups. Human history can be told as a history of how food has been produced, distributed and consumed. This course offers a synoptic, global history of food. It begins with the history of fire and the Neolithic revolution (c.10,000 BCE) and the foundations of agriculture and ends with the recent wave of global “food crises” (late 1940s, early 1970s, early 2000s). In between, it explores the formation of food cultures in Europe, Asia and South America, and development of an integrated world food system from the sixteenth century. It examines the “nutrition transition” – the rise of a food complex built around animal proteins, dairy products, sugar and refined wheat – which began in the west in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and is currently spreading across much of the rest of the world. It looks at the rise of the modern food industries, agribusiness, the green revolution, industrialized food production, fast food and the development of modern dietary anxieties and pathologies. It also examines the persistence of famines and global hunger over the past two centuries.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEL Diversity: Global Studies, GEN Theme: Sustainability
History 2702 Food in World History
Instructor: Cahn, Dylan
Online, asynchronous
Food is implicated in all dimensions of human existence. It is a biological necessity, without which human beings slowly die. Control over food supplies is a basic function of all organized societies and polities. Shared food traditions and tastes shape cultural identities of particular groups. Human history can be told as a history of how food has been produced, distributed and consumed. This course offers a synoptic, global history of food. It begins with the history of fire and the Neolithic revolution (c.10,000 BCE) and the foundations of agriculture and ends with the recent wave of global “food crises” (late 1940s, early 1970s, early 2000s). In between, it explores the formation of food cultures in Europe, Asia and South America, and development of an integrated world food system from the sixteenth century. It examines the “nutrition transition” – the rise of a food complex built around animal proteins, dairy products, sugar and refined wheat – which began in the west in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and is currently spreading across much of the rest of the world. It looks at the rise of the modern food industries, agribusiness, the green revolution, industrialized food production, fast food and the development of modern dietary anxieties and pathologies. It also examines the persistence of famines and global hunger over the past two centuries.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEL Diversity: Global Studies, GEN Theme: Sustainability
History 2702 Food in World History
Instructor: Cahn, Dylan
Online, asynchronous | Second Session
Food is implicated in all dimensions of human existence. It is a biological necessity, without which human beings slowly die. Control over food supplies is a basic function of all organized societies and polities. Shared food traditions and tastes shape cultural identities of particular groups. Human history can be told as a history of how food has been produced, distributed and consumed. This course offers a synoptic, global history of food. It begins with the history of fire and the Neolithic revolution (c.10,000 BCE) and the foundations of agriculture and ends with the recent wave of global “food crises” (late 1940s, early 1970s, early 2000s). In between, it explores the formation of food cultures in Europe, Asia and South America, and development of an integrated world food system from the sixteenth century. It examines the “nutrition transition” – the rise of a food complex built around animal proteins, dairy products, sugar and refined wheat – which began in the west in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and is currently spreading across much of the rest of the world. It looks at the rise of the modern food industries, agribusiness, the green revolution, industrialized food production, fast food and the development of modern dietary anxieties and pathologies. It also examines the persistence of famines and global hunger over the past two centuries.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEL Diversity: Global Studies, GEN Theme: Sustainability
History 2703 History of Public Health, Medicine and Disease
Instructor: Harris, James
Days/Times: TR, 3:55-5:15pm
Survey of the history of public health, disease and medicine in a global context.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEL Diversity: Global Studies, GEN Theme: Health and Well-being
History 2704 Water: A Human History
Instructor: Arnold, Ellen
Days/Times: Online, asynchronous | Second Session
History of human use and understandings of water from ancient to modern times, with case studies taken from different geographic locations. Sometimes this course is offered in a distance-only format.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEL Diversity: Global Studies, GEN Theme: Sustainability
History 2704 Water: A Human History
Instructor: Breyfogle, Nicholas
Days/Times: WF, 12:45 – 2:05pm
History of human use and understandings of water from ancient to modern times, with case studies taken from different geographic locations. Sometimes this course is offered in a distance-only format.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEL Diversity: Global Studies, GEN Theme: Sustainability
History 3706 Coca-Cola Globalization: The History of American Business and Global Environmental Change 1800-Today
Instructor: Elmore, Bart
Days/Times: T, 12:30-3:15pm
Coca-Cola is everywhere. Today, the company sells over 2.2 billion servings of its products daily to customers in over 190 countries worldwide. The company has bottling plants in every corner of the globe from Australia to Zimbabwe. This is remarkable considering the company started out as a “brain tonic” first sold for just five cents in a small Gilded Age Atlanta pharmacy in 1886 by a sick and cash-strapped businessman named John Pemberton. So how did the company do it? That’s one of the big questions we will ask in this global environmental history course.
History 3706 offers an introduction to the fields of environmental history and business history. It is organized chronologically, beginning with the railroad revolution of the nineteenth century and ending in the twenty-first century. It chronicles the rise of some of America’s biggest multinational corporations and examines how these firms, working with governments and other institutions, shaped global ecological change between 1800 and 2017. It also considers the social and political responses to these environmental changes.
The questions we will ask in this course are not simple, and they will require us to re-imagine well-told stories from a new, ecological perspective. How did Coca-Cola acquire the natural resources it needed to end up all over the world? Can history tell us whether global climate change is real? Are Californians going to run out of water? We will deal with these and other intriguing questions as we explore the history of America in the world through the lens of environmental history.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEL Diversity: Social Diversity in the US, GEN Theme: Sustainability
History 3708 Vaccines: A Global History
Instructor: Harris, Jim
Days/Times: MTWR, 11:30am-12:25pm
This course examines the history and biology of vaccines. We explore the discovery and development of vaccines, along with the political and cultural controversies that have surrounded them for centuries. Team-taught course with faculty member in Pharmacy.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEN HIP: Interdisciplinary and Integrated Coll Tch, GEN Theme: Health and Well-being
History 3711 Science and Society in Early Modern Europe
Instructor: Goldish, Matt
Days/Times: TR, 9:35-10:55am
A survey of the history of science and its place and relationship to European society in the early modern period. Students will understand the various strands that constitute the scientific revolution in early modern Europe, modern intellectual history, how revolutions in thought occur, and will practice analytical and communications skills in working with both secondary and primary sources.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEN Theme: Number, Nature, Mind
History 4705 Seminar in the History of Environment, Technology, and Science
Instructor: Moore, Erin
Days/Times: W, 12:45-3:30pm
Advanced research and readings on selected topics in Environmental History, Technology and Science.
European History
History 1211 European History I
Instructor: Goggin, Caspian
Days/Time: Online, Asynchronous | Second Session
Ancient civilizations (Near East, Greece, Rome); barbarian invasions; medieval civilizations (Byzantium, Islam, Europe); Renaissance and Reformation.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEL Diversity: Global Studies, GEN Foundation: Historical and Cultural Studies
History 1212- European History II
Instructor: McKew, Martin
Days/Time: MWF, 10:20-11:15 am
This class introduces students to the political, economic, social, and cultural history of modern Europe from roughly 1500 to the present. This course contextualizes European history within a global frame. We will study the major changes of the modern period, including: the Protestant and Catholic Reformations; the emergence of new models of states and empires; the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment; the Age of Revolutions, democracy, and human rights; the Industrial Revolution, urbanization, and popular politics; the First World War, technology, and diplomacy; World War II and the Holocaust; the Cold War and the collapse of communism; decolonization and globalization; and life in Europe today. This survey course also focuses on how these larger trends were experienced by people. Readings, lectures, and films will highlight how these moments in modern European history were lived.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEL Diversity: Global Studies, GEN Foundation: Historical and Cultural Studies
History 2202 Medieval History
Instructor: Flannigan, Laura
Days/Times: TR, 11:10 am – 12:30 pm
Survey of medieval history from the late Roman Empire to the early sixteenth century. Sometimes this course is offered in a distance-only format.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEL Diversity: Global Studies, GEN Theme: Traditions, Cultures, & Transformations
History 2203 Introduction to Early Modern Europe
Instructor: Stevens, Samuel
Days/Times: TR, 3:55 – 5:15 pm
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.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEL Diversity: Global Studies, GEN Foundation: Historical and Cultural Studies
History 2206 History of Paris
Instructor: Bond, Elizabeth
Days/Times: Online, asynchronous
A history of Paris, France, as told through the human stories of its diverse inhabitants and shaped by the collective memories and stories surrounding the legendary City of Lights. Using a social and cultural history of the city, the course will examine and analyze the rich, complex, and multi-faceted environments that have shaped life in Paris for more than two millennia.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEN Theme: Lived Environments
History 2220 History of Christianity
Instructor: Brakke, David
Days/Times: MWF, 11:30 am – 12:25 pm
The history of how 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 and changed different cultures? Some topics include developments in theology, spirituality, modes of authority, social structures.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEL Diversity: Global Studies, GEN Theme: Traditions, Cultures, & Transformations
History 2272 Reacting to the Past: Citizenship in Historical Context
Instructor: Harris, James
Days/Times: TR, 2:20 – 3:40 pm
Study the history of citizenship through a series of role-playing games! Students will explore the history of Ancient Athens, Renaissance Italy, and Revolutionary France by taking on an assigned persona and working in teams to respond to historical documents and events. Be prepared to work individually in reading primary documents and writing preparation, and in teams during class sessions.
General Education
GEN Theme: Citizenship for a Diverse & Just World
History 3211 Classical Greece
Instructor: Anderson, Greg
Days/Times: Online, asynchronous
Survey of Greek history during the Classical era (480-320 BC).
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEN Foundation: Historical and Cultural Studies
History 3222 The Roman Empire, 69-337 CE
Instructor: Goggin, Caspian
Days/Times: R, 2:20-3:40pm
An advanced survey of Rome's imperial history from the end of the Julio-Claudian dynasty to the death of Constantine.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEN Theme: Citizenship for a Diverse & Just World
History 3222 The Roman Empire, 69-337 CE
Instructor: Vanderpuy, Peter
Days/Times: Online, asynchronous
An advanced survey of Rome's imperial history from the end of the Julio-Claudian dynasty to the death of Constantine.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEN Theme: Citizenship for a Diverse & Just World
History 3230 Saints and Demons in Medieval Europe
Instructor: Butler, Sara
Days/Times: WF, 9:35-10:55am
Study of the development of Medieval Christianity from Constantine to the early sixteenth century.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEN Theme: Traditions, Cultures, & Transformations
History 3232 Solving Crime in Medieval Europe
Instructor: Butler, Sara
Days/Times: WF, 12:45-2:05pm
This course explores the interaction between the development of criminal law and social change in the late medieval period from a comparative perspective, examining primarily the English common law, but also the continental courts of law. Topics such as trial by ordeal; forensic medicine; homicide; sex crimes; clerical criminals; treason; sanctuary; and fear-mongering, will be explored.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEL Diversity: Global Studies, GEN Theme: Traditions, Cultures, & Transformations
History 3247 Magic and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe (1450-1750)
Instructor: Schoonover, Jordan
Days/Times: Online, asynchronous | Second Session
Investigation of the history of European witchcraft, focusing on intellectual, religious, and social developments and on the great witchcraft trials of the early modern period.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEL Diversity: Global Studies, GEN Theme: Traditions, Cultures, & Transformations
History 3253 20th Century Europe to 1950
Instructor: Limbach, Eric
Days/Times: TR, 9:35-10:55 am
Exploration of the major historical events and issues from approximately 1900 to 1950.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEN Theme: Traditions, Cultures, & Transformations
History 3260 The Victorians: Power, Money and Empire
Instructor: Otter, Christopher
Days/Times: TR, 11:10am-12:30pm
This lecture course provides a survey of British history, including imperial history, from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. It covers many dimensions of British history: political, economic, social, religious, medical, technological, scientific, imperial, and environmental. The central themes of the course are the rise of liberalism as a political and economic theory, the development of industrial and urban society, the dramatic growth of the British Empire, the Irish famine, individualism and self-help, the development of Darwinian evolutionary biology, and the rise of social problems. The course will explore how Britain and its governments attempted to generate economic strength while simultaneously ameliorating the ‘social question’. The tensions between economic freedom and social protection remain central to British politics, just as they do in America.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEN Theme: Traditions, Cultures, & Transformations
History 3711 Science and Society in Early Modern Europe
Instructor: Goldish, Matt
Days/Times: TR, 9:35-10:55am
A survey of the history of science and its place and relationship to European society in the early modern period. Students will understand the various strands that constitute the scientific revolution in early modern Europe, modern intellectual history, how revolutions in thought occur, and will practice analytical and communications skills in working with both secondary and primary sources.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEN Theme: Number, Nature, Mind
History 4255 Seminar in Modern European History
Instructor: Dragostinova, Theodora
Days/Times: W, 12:45-3:30pm
Advanced research and readings on selected topics in Modern European History.
History 5255 Europe Since 1989: Multiple Europes after the Cold War
Instructor: Dragostinova, Theodora
Days/Times: WF, 9:35-10:55am
This course explores the post-Cold War history of Europe. Students will pay attention to multiple definitions and changing understandings of Europe, teasing out the evolution in European identities in the last 30 years. Fundamentally, this is a class about what it means to be European, which allows students to learn about the multiple meanings, manifestations, and interpretations of citizenship.
General Education
GEN Theme: Citizenship for a Diverse & Just World
Jewish History
History 3475 History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Instructor: Yehudai, Ori
Days/Times: TR, 9:35-10:55am
This course follows the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict from its inception in the late 19th century to the early 21st century. Course materials include secondary historical sources, a variety of primary documents, short stories, memoirs and films. These materials will provide students with an in-depth understanding of the history of the conflict from multiple perspectives.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEL Cultures and Ideas, GEN Theme: Traditions, Cultures, & Transformations
History 4475 Seminar in Jewish History
Arabs and Jews in Palestine/Israel
Instructor: Yehudai, Ori
Days/Times: T, 2:15-5:00pm
This seminar explores the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from its inception in the late 19th century to the present day. It takes a chronological approach, focusing on key moments and aspects of the conflict, including, but not limited to, the emergence of Jewish and Arab nationalism, the early encounter between Jews and Arabs in Palestine during the late Ottoman and British mandate periods, the wars of 1948 and 1967 and their long-term impact, US involvement, the efforts to reach a peace settlement, as well as broad themes such as religion and emotions. The seminar will expose students to primary sources and recent as well as classical secondary literature on the topic. These texts, combined with class discussions, films and fiction, will provide students with an in-depth understanding of the history of the conflict, taking into account the positions of Palestinians, Jews, and other regional and global forces involved in the conflict.
Latin American History
History 4125 Seminar in Latin American History
“Revolutions and Revolutionaries in Modern Latin America”
Instructor: Smith, Stephanie
Days/Times: R, 11:10am-1:55pm | Online
This course examines the history and meanings of revolutions and revolutionaries in modern Latin America. Starting with Mexico’s great revolution, we will move forward to analyze other revolutions and social movements in Guatemala, Cuba, Nicaragua, and others. Throughout this class we will discuss the causes of revolution, their changing historical nature, and revolutionary outcomes. Additionally, we also will consider dictatorships—for example, in Chile—to examine the search for social justice and reform. To better understand the inclusion of all peoples within the revolutionary experience, we will pay special attention to historical actors to explore participation from the ground level up. We also will look at U.S. involvement in Latin American countries, including the role of the U.S. in revolutions and in the creation of a post-revolutionary society. Through an examination of these various historical factors, this class ultimately will provide a context for many of the major issues facing Latin America today.
Middle Eastern History
History 3475 History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Instructor: Yehudai, Ori
Days/Times: TR, 9:35-10:55am
This course follows the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict from its inception in the late 19th century to the early 21st century. Course materials include secondary historical sources, a variety of primary documents, short stories, memoirs and films. These materials will provide students with an in-depth understanding of the history of the conflict from multiple perspectives.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEL Cultures and Ideas, GEN Theme: Traditions, Cultures, & Transformations
Military History
History 3270 History of World War I
Instructor: Corsi, Mike
Days/Times: Online, asynchronous | Second Session
A global history of World War I, with a particular focus on citizenship. As the first war in history waged by enormous citizen-soldier armies, this course considers citizenship within this paradigm-shifting conflict that would transform the global balance of power and power dynamics, as well as alter cultural and societal attitudes and practices both inside and outside of Europe.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEN Theme: Citizenship for a Diverse & Just World
History 3552 War in World History, 1900-Present
Instructor: Cabanes, Bruno
Days/Times: TR, 2:20-3:40pm
The past hundred years have changed the nature of war. Industrial warfare and global conflicts led to an inexorable intensification of violence. From trench warfare in World War I to ethnic cleansing in the 1990s, the total number of deaths caused by or associated with war has been estimated at the equivalent of 10% of the world’s population in 1913. In the course of the century, the burden of war shifted increasingly from armed forces to civilians, to the point where non-combatants now comprise some 80 or 90% of war victims. This lecture course investigates the blurring of distinction between combatants and non-combatants, as well as the experiences of ordinary men and women who lived through the wars of the 20th Century. It covers events such as World War I, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, and topics such as the experience of captivity, sexual violence in wartime, children in war, or genocides.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEN Theme: Traditions, Cultures, & Transformations
History 3561 Citizenship and American Military History: 1902 to the Present
Instructor: Douglas, Sarah
Days/Times: Online, asynchronous | Second session
This course examines how uniformed service impacted Americans' conception of citizenship from the aftermath of the Spanish-American War through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq after the terrorist attack on the U.S. homeland on September 11, 2001.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEN Theme: Citizenship for a Diverse & Just World
History 3570 World War II
Instructor: Douglas, Sarah
Days/Times: Online, asynchronous | Second session
This course examines the causes, conduct, and consequences of World War II, the largest and most destructive war in human history. More than seventy years after it ended, the war continues to shape our world. Through readings, lectures, and video, the class will study the politics that shaped the involvement of the major combatants; military leadership and the characteristics of major Allied and Axis armed services; the national and theater strategies of the various combatant nations; the military operations that led to victory or defeat on battlefields spanning the globe; war crimes; the Holocaust; and other factors such as leadership, economics, military doctrine and effectiveness, technology, ideology, and racism that impacted the outcome of the war. The course will also examine the Greatest Generation and the impact of uniformed military service on the concept of citizenship in the United States and globally.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEL Diversity: Global Studies, GEN Theme: Citizenship for a Diverse & Just World
History 3570 World War II
Instructor: Mansoor, Peter
Days/Times: TR, 12:45-2:05pm
This course examines the causes, conduct, and consequences of World War II, the largest and most destructive war in human history. More than seventy years after it ended, the war continues to shape our world. Through readings, lectures, and video, the class will study the politics that shaped the involvement of the major combatants; military leadership and the characteristics of major Allied and Axis armed services; the national and theater strategies of the various combatant nations; the military operations that led to victory or defeat on battlefields spanning the globe; war crimes; the Holocaust; and other factors such as leadership, economics, military doctrine and effectiveness, technology, ideology, and racism that impacted the outcome of the war. The course will also examine the Greatest Generation and the impact of uniformed military service on the concept of citizenship in the United States and globally.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEL Diversity: Global Studies, GEN Theme: Citizenship for a Diverse & Just World
History 4575 Seminar in Military History
Instructor: Walker, Lydia
Days/Times: W, 10:00am-12:45pm
Advanced research and readings on selected topics in Military History.
Women's Gender & Sexuality History
History 2610 A Survey of U.S. Women's and Gender History: Diversity and Intersections
Instructor: Pawlikowski, Melissah
Days/Times: Online, Asynchronous
Survey of women and gender from pre-European settlement to present, with particular attention to differences among women.
General Education
GE Foundation Historical and Cultural Studies and Race, Ethnicity and Gender Diversity Course
History 3642 Women and Gender in Modern Europe (1750-1950): Diversity in Context
Instructor: Soland, Birgitte
Days/Times: TR, 3:55-5:15pm
This course is designed as an introduction to the history of women and gender in Europe, from the late eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. Several themes will be central to the course. We will study the enormous social, political and economic upheavals Europe underwent in the 18th century, and how these upheavals also recast gender relations and produced new ideas about men and women and their respective roles and responsibilities. We will also explore how women strove to shape and improve their lives under changing circumstances, and how relationships between women and men developed both inside the family and in society in general. Finally, we will look at how economic position, religion, sexuality, marital status, ethnic and national differences influenced women's experiences.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEN Foundation: Historical and Cultural Studies, GEN Foundation: Race, Ethnicity & Gender Diversity
World, Global, and Transnational History
History 1681 World History to 1500
Instructor: Hunt, Catalina
Days/Time: Online, Asynchronous
Comparative survey of the world's major civilizations and their interconnections from the beginnings of human civilization through 1500.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEL Diversity: Global Studies, GEN Foundation: Historical and Cultural Studies.
History 1682 World History from 1500 to the Present
Instructor: Hunt, Catalina
Days/Time: Online, asynchronous | Second Session
Survey of the human community, with an emphasis on its increasing global integration, from the first European voyages of exploration through the present.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEL Diversity: Global Studies, GEN Foundation: Historical and Cultural Studies
History 2642 Global History 1500 to Present
Instructor: Corsi, Mike
Days/Time: Online, asynchronous | Second Session
Provides an overview of the history of the world from 1500 to the present day, chronicling how a world of subjects and empires became a world of states and citizens.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEL Diversity: Global Studies, GEN Theme: Citizenship for a Diverse & Just World
History 2650 The World Since 1914
Instructor: Limbach, Eric
Days/Times: Online, asynchronous | Second session
Global perspective on major forces that shaped the world since 1914. Provides students with factual knowledge and a critical interpretive framework for responsible global citizenship.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEL Diversity: Global Studies, GEN Foundation: Historical and Cultural Studies
History 2651 World History Before the Modern Age
Instructor: Respess, Amanda
Days/Times: TR, 2:20 – 3:40 pm
A thematic approach to exploring selected major processes and events that shaped human experience between the Stone Age and 1750.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEL Diversity: Global Studies, GEN Foundation: Historical and Cultural Studies
History 2675 The Indian Ocean: Communities and Commodities in Motion
Instructor: Respess, Amanda
Days/Times: TR, 3:55 – 5:15pm
This course surveys the long history of the Indian Ocean as a vital arena of world history. We need the Indian Ocean to understand Mahatma Gandhi, Osama bin Laden, and Freddie Mercury. The Indian Ocean was a meeting point for the peoples and cultures of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia long before European colonization, and it has become a site of intense innovation in our global age. It helps of understand the history of East Africa, Arabia, India, and Southeast Asia in relation to each other. Part of the story is based on the sea because the Indian Ocean is home to monsoon winds, Sinbad the sailor, and a long history of piracy from British "privateers" Davy Jones and William Kidd to more recent Somali freebooters. But it is also a story of landed empires and strategic port cities. We'll look at the production and circulation of commodities, from spices and textiles, to ivory and cloves, to opium and oil. Slaves and indentured servants crossed the Indian Ocean to work plantations in the past, and we can see new coerced labor regimes in the rise of Persian Gulf states. The Indian Ocean has been the home of Islamic scholarly networks and a focus in the global war on terror. Finally, the Indian Ocean is also an ideal place to study the history of environmental change: the dodo was hunted extinct on one of the ocean's islands in the 17th century, and global warming threatens island nations like the Maldives. In short, this is a course that will provide an introduction to a fascinating region.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEL Diversity: Global Studies, GEN Theme: Migration, Mobility, and Immobility
History 3376 The Silk Road: Cross-Cultural Exchanges in Eurasian History
Instructor: Respess, Amanda
Days/Times: TR, 12:45-2:05pm
A study of the commercial and cultural relations among Chinese, Indian, Iranian, and Roman/Islamic civilizations.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEL Diversity: Global Studies, GEN Theme: Migration, Mobility, and Immobility
History 3670 Trans-National History of World War II in Europe
Instructor: Steigerwald, David
Days/Times: M, 2:15-5:00PM
One of three Spring prerequisite courses to the World War II Study Program's May term in Europe. Only students accepted into the program during the October registration period may enroll. This class will deepen the contextual knowledge of students about the different national histories and the specific sites they will encounter in May.
General Education
GEL Historical Study, GEN Theme: Citizenship for a Diverse & Just World
History 3676 Leadership in History
Instructor: Staley, David
Days/Times: TR, 2:20-3:40pm
From our nation’s capital to the town council, from business to faith, it is commonplace to hear that we live in a crisis, or absence, of leadership. But what does good leadership mean? And what is its inexorable connection to citizenship? This course employs the lessons, models, and narratives of history to consider different characteristics of leadership and analyze how those qualities might shape students’ own vision of what it means to be an informed citizen. We encourage students to apply historical thinking to answer the questions: What does citizenship, leadership, and followership mean? What responsibilities do we have as citizens to identify and protect the needs, objectives, and values of our communities? How should we act in order to be the kind of people we would wish to follow? Throughout the semester, students will analyze specific historical case studies, which will offer narratives of citizenship, community building and change-making. These case studies will encourage students to think critically, read thoughtfully, compare events across time and place, and articulate and advance ideas with clarity and a generosity of spirit -- all essential tools in becoming informed and active citizens. Moreover, they emphasize the ways in which making connections—to other persons, communities, and environments — shapes how people act as citizens.
General Education
GEN Theme: Citizenship for a Diverse & Just World
History 5650 Special Topics in World History
Instructor: Bond, Elizabeth
Days/Times: T, 11:10-1:55pm
This special topics seminar is open to undergraduate and graduate students interested in the history of books, from the era of Gutenberg to the nineteenth century. We will traverse the entire communication circuit, studying the roles of authors, publishers, printers, booksellers, and readers. We will explore what it means to study books, both for their ideas and as objects. The course includes visits to OSU Libraries' Special Collections.
Seminars
History 2800 Introduction to the Discipline of History
Instructor: Goldish, Matthew
Days/Times: TR, 11:10am-12:30pm
Investigation of the methods and analytical approaches historians use to understand the past.
History 2800 Introduction to the Discipline of History
Instructor: Jeong,Yehji
Days/Times: WF, 11:10am-12:30pm
Investigation of the methods and analytical approaches historians use to understand the past.
History 2800 Introduction to the Discipline of History
Instructor: McDow, Thomas
Days/Times: WF, 12:45-2:05pm
Investigation of the methods and analytical approaches historians use to understand the past.
History 2800 Introduction to the Discipline of History
Instructor: Stebenne, David
Days/Times: WF, 9:35-10:55am
This course will introduce students planning to major in history to history as a discipline and a major. The course is designed to give students practice in the analysis of historical sources and in developing logic and clarity in both written and oral assignments.
Prerequisites and Special Comments:
This course is required for all students majoring in history and highly recommended for honors students seeking a minor in history (and counts toward the four courses needed to complete a history minor). Other students interested in history for its own sake and wanting a better sense of the field are also welcome.
History 2800E Introduction to the Discipline of History
Instructor: Goldish, Matthew
Days/Times: TR, 11:10am-12:30pm
This course is designed for Honors history majors. History 2800E introduces history majors to the field of history, and particularly to the historian’s craft. We will look at the different purposes for studying history, a wide array of sources that are used in examining the past, and the diverse approaches to the past that historians embrace.
History 4015 Seminar in Modern U.S. History
Instructor: Howard, Clayton
Days/Times: WF, 11:10am-12:30pm
Advanced research and readings on selected topics in Modern U.S. History.
History 4085 Seminar in Modern U.S. History
Instructor: Fontanilla, Ryan
Days/Times: R, 2:15-5:00pm | Online
Advanced research and readings on selected topics in African American History.
History 4125 Seminar in Latin American History
Instructor: Smith, Stephanie
Days/Times: R, 11:10am-1:55pm | Online Synchronous
“Revolutions and Revolutionaries in Modern Latin America”
This course examines the history and meanings of revolutions and revolutionaries in modern Latin America. Starting with Mexico’s great revolution, we will move forward to analyze other revolutions and social movements in Guatemala, Cuba, Nicaragua, and others. Throughout this class we will discuss the causes of revolution, their changing historical nature, and revolutionary outcomes. Additionally, we also will consider dictatorships—for example, in Chile—to examine the search for social justice and reform. To better understand the inclusion of all peoples within the revolutionary experience, we will pay special attention to historical actors to explore participation from the ground level up. We also will look at U.S. involvement in Latin American countries, including the role of the U.S. in revolutions and in the creation of a post-revolutionary society. Through an examination of these various historical factors, this class ultimately will provide a context for many of the major issues facing Latin America today.
History 4255 Seminar in Modern European History
Instructor: Dragostinova, Theodora
Days/Times: W, 12:45-3:30pm
Advanced research and readings on selected topics in Modern European History.
History 4255E Seminar in Modern European History
Instructor: Dragostinova, Theodora
Days/Times: W, 12:45-3:30pm
Advanced research and readings on selected topics in Modern European History.
History 4285 Research Seminar in Russian, East European, and Eurasian History
Instructor: Hoffmann, David
Days/Times: W, 10:00am-12:45pm
This research seminar will focus on the Russian Revolution and Stalinism. In the course, we will read a variety of sources on the political, social, and cultural history of the Soviet Union. Examples of topics we will cover are the Russian Revolution, the origins of Stalinism, the social consequences of Stalinist industrialization, World War II on the Eastern Front, gender roles in Soviet society, Soviet policies toward ethnic and national minorities, and official and popular culture in the Soviet Union.
The instructor is also developing a computer simulation / strategy game on the Russian Revolution, which (provided it is completed) students will get to try out in this class.
History 4410 Seminar in Chinese History
Instructor: Reed, Christopher
Days/Times: WF, 2:20-3:40pm
Advanced research and readings on selected topics in Chinese History.
History 4475 Seminar in Jewish History
Instructor: Yehudai, Ori
Days/Times: T, 2:15-5:00pm
Advanced research and readings on selected topics in Jewish History.
History 4575 Seminar in Military History
Instructor: Walker, Lydia
Days/Times: W, 10:00am-12:45pm
Advanced research and readings on selected topics in Military History.
History 4705 Seminar in the History of Environment, Technology, and Science
Instructor: Moore, Erin
Days/Times: W, 12:45-3:30pm
Advanced research and readings on selected topics in Environmental History, Technology and Science.
Other
History 3190 Career Development for History Majors
Instructor: Neff, Jennifer
Days/Times: Online, Asynchronous
This course is designed to help history majors prepare for their careers. We’ll examine the unique skills and values that the formal study of history develops and discuss their applicability to various types of work and their usefulness in career advancement. Students will also become familiar with the career preparation services that the University provides.