Spring 2008 | Undergraduate Courses
When possible, syllabi are provided along with course descriptions. Please note that instructors may alter readings and assignments as needed.
Writing Seminars
HIST 009.301 Reconciling South Africa
Byala
MW 2-3:30PM
HIST 009.302 Winston Churchill
Deveney
TR 3-4:30PM
HIST 009.303 How Soccer Explains Africa
Byala
MW 3:30-5PM
HIST 009.304 Business or Pleasure?
Ghazvinian
TR 3-4:30PM
HIST 009.305 Business or Pleasure?
Ghazvinian
TR 10:30-12NOON
HIST 009.306 Native American Women: From Pocahontas to Mankiller
Keenan
TR 9-10:30AM
HIST 009.601 The New World
Waleson
W 5:30-8:30PM
CGS Course
Freshman Seminars
HIST 101.301 The First Crusade
Peters
M 2-5PM
SEM
HIST 106.301 Massacres in History
Doyle
W 2-5PM
SEM
HIST 106.302 Conspiracies in History
Cassanelli
MW 3:30-5PM
SEM
Regional and Topical Surveys
HIST 001 Europe in a Wider World
Muskiet
R 6-9PM
PRE-1800 | CGS Course
HIST 002 Europe in a Wider World, since 1500
McDougall
TR 9-10:30AM
HIST 003 Asia in the Wider World
Waldron
TR 10:30-12NOON
PRE-1800
HIST 011 The World: History and Modernity
Lees
MW 10-11AM
HIST 020 History of the United States to 1865
Lanctot
M 6:30-9:30PM
PRE-1800 | CGS Course
HIST 021 U.S. History, 1865 - Present
Kropp
MW 2-3PM
HIST 027 History of Ancient Rome
Grey
MW 12-1PM
HIST 034 Cultures of the Book
Chartier and Stallybrass
T 1:30-4:30PM
PRE-1800
HIST 040 Early Modern Europe, 1450 - 1750
Safley
TR 3-4:30PM
PRE-1800
HIST 047 Portraits of Russian Society
Platt
TR 12-1:30PM
HIST 071 Latin America, 1791 - Present
Hesson
MW 2-3:30PM
HIST 075 Africa before 1800
Babou
MW 11-12NOON
PRE-1800
HIST 089 Introduction to Modern India
Rawat
MW 10-11AM
HIST 091 Modern Japanese History
Dickinson
TR 1:30-3PM
HIST 097 China in the 20th Century
Algers
HIST 107 Comparative Capitalist Systems
Drew
TR 12-1:30PM
HIST 117 Science and Literature
Adams
MW 12-1PM
HIST 119 History of the Modern Business Corporation
Drew
TR 3-4:30PM
HIST 120 Korean History before 1860
Lee
TR 1:30-3PM
HIST 127 Europe: 1890 - 1945
Allport
T 5-8PM
CGS Course
HIST 129 The Social Contract & Origins of Society
Robcis
W 3:30-6:30PM
SEM
HIST 137 European Empires, 1830 - 1947
Allport
TR 12-1:30PM
HIST 139 History of Jewish Civilization I
Dohrmann
3:30-5PM
PRE-1800
HIST 141 History of Jewish Civilization III (Modern Period)
Wenger
MW 12-1PM
HIST 153 Urban Crisis
Stern
TR 12-1:30PM
HIST 155 Introduction to Asian-American History
Azuma
TR 3-4:30PM
HIST 169 History of American Law
Berry
TR 10:30-12NOON
HIST 171 American South since the Civil War
Hackney
MW 11-12NOON
HIST 172 Native Peoples of Eastern North America
Snyder
MW 3:30-5PM
PRE-1800
Major Seminars
History 201-206 seminars are open to history majors only during pre-registration. If the course does not reach its enrollment maximum, it will be open to all students beginning with drop/add on a first-come first-serve basis.
HIST 201.301 French Enlightenment
Kors
T 3-6PM
R | SEM | PRE-1800
HIST 201.601 Bubbles, Mania and Market Failures
Coffman
R 6-9PM
R | SEM | PRE-1800 | CGS Course
HIST 202.301 War and Society in the 20th Century
Childers
T 1:30-4:30PM
SEM
HIST 202.302 Economic Thought
Coffman
W 2-5PM
R
HIST 202.303 Post-War Britain, 1945 - 1965
Deveney
TR 12-1:30PM
SEM
HIST 202.401 Secular Judaism and Secular Jews - Lives and Choices
Steinberg and Kant
M 2-5PM
R | SEM
HIST 203.301 Revolutionary Philadelphia , 1760 - 1800
Richter
M 2-5PM
R | SEM | PRE-1800
HIST 203.401 Health and Healing in Early America
Paugh
M 2-5PM
SEM | PRE-1800
HIST 204.301 American Reform, 1954 - 1974
Hackney
R 1:30-4:30PM
R | SEM
HIST 204.302 Roots of American Empire
Hahn
T 1:30-4:30PM
R | SEM
HIST 204.303 Politics of Cultural Heritage
Peiss
T 1:30-4:30PM
R | SEM
HIST 204.304 Wall Street: A Cultural History
Fraser
W 2-5PM
SEM
HIST 204.401 West Philadelphia Community History
Licht and Lloyd
T 1:30-4:30PM
An Academically Based Community Service Course | SEM
HIST 204.402 Mexican-American History
Kropp
R 1:30-4:30PM
R | SEM
HIST 204.601 Vietnam and America
Wilkens
W 6-9PM
SEM | CGS Course
HIST 204.602 Food and American History
Nelson
M 6-9PM
SEM | CGS Course
HIST 205.401 The City in Colonial Spanish America
Walker
R 1:30-4:30PM
SEM | PRE-1800
HIST 206.301 Comparative Industrializations
Drew
M 2-5PM
R | SEM
HIST 206.401 Middle East and the United States
Kashani-Sabet
T 1:30-4:30PM
SEM
HIST 206.402 Decolonization & Africa
Babou
W 2-5PM
R | SEM
HIST 206.601 Europe and the End of the Ottoman Empire, 1815 - 1919
Antonoff
W 4:30-7:30PM
SEM | CGS Course
Benjamin Franklin Seminars
211-216 are advanced seminars, mainly for juniors and seniors in the Benjamin Franklin Scholars Program. All other students need permission from the instructor to enroll in these courses.
HIST 173 Faculty-Student Collaborative Action Seminar in University-Community School Partnerships
Harkavy and Benson
W 2-5PM
An Academically Based Community Service Course
SEM | Permit May Be Required: See note
HIST 211.301 Utopia
Todd
M 2-5PM
R | SEM | PRE-1800 | Permit May Be Required: See note
HIST 214.301 Law and Social Change in Modern America
Berry
T 1:30-4:30PM
SEM | Permit May Be Required: See note
HIST 214.401 Immigrants, African-Americans, and Cities in Twentieth-Century America
Katz
M 2-5PM
SEM | Permit May Be Required: See note
Honors Seminars
HIST 398.301 Junior Honors in History
Breckman
3-6PM
HIST 398.302 Junior Honors in History
Igo
1:30-4:30PM
HIST 401.301 Senior Honors in History II
Stromberg
HIST 401.302 Senior Honors in History II
Zuckerman
Upper Level Courses
300-400 level courses are on special topics and are more advanced. They often presuppose some basic knowledge in the field and should be more difficult courses than courses at the 1-199 levels. The department is trying to insure that some 400 level courses, although substantially more difficult, are also small in size; they thus may be suitable for graduate students.
HIST 210 The City
Vitiello
SEM
HIST 219 Medieval Russia: Origins of Russian Cultural Identity
Verkholantsev
TR 4:30-6PM
PRE-1800 | Cross-listed with RUSS 234, SLAV 517, and COML 235
HIST 220 Russia and the West
Vinitsky
MW 2-3:30PM
SEM
HIST 223 Wartime Internment of Japanese-Americans
Azuma
W 2-5PM
SEM
HIST 237 Berlin: History, Politics, and Culture
Weissberg
TR 10:30-12NOON
HIST 240 Sports in American History
Miller
M 2-5PM
R | SEM
HIST 250 African Religions
Ofosu-Donkoh
M 6-9PM
CGS Course
HIST 265 Yiddish Literature & Culture in Eastern Europe
Hellerstein
TR 10:30-12NOON
HIST 276 Japan: Age of the Samurai
Hurst
W 4:30-7:30PM
PRE-1800 | CGS Course
HIST 304 Teaching West Philadelphia History
Engs
TR 1:30-3PM
SEM
HIST 310 Europe in the Age of Baroque
Safley
TR 10:30-12NOON
PRE-1800
HIST 318 Italian History from Napoleon to Berlusconi
Steinberg
TR 10:30-12NOON
HIST 320 Environmental History
Greene
TR 3-4:30PM
SEM
HIST 325 Religion in American History, 1877 - 2005
Gordon
MW 1-2PM
HIST 339 Making Money before Columbus
Goldberg
TR 1:30-3PM
PRE-1800
HIST 342 European Intellectual History, 1300 - 1600
Moyer
MW 3:30-5PM
PRE-1800
HIST 344 20th Century European Intellectual History
DiLiberto
MW 2-3:30PM
HIST 345 Gender in American History to 1865
Brown
TR 10:30-12NOON
PRE-1800
HIST 353 Slavery, Race & Revolution in the Atlantic World
Hahn
MW 2-3:30PM
HIST 363 Civil War and Reconstruction
Engs
MW 12-1PM
HIST 371 Africa and the Mid-East
Powell
1:30-4:30PM
R | SEM
HIST 372 From Missionaries to the War on Terror: The History of Foreign Aid to Africa
Cassanelli
MW 2-3:30PM
HIST 373 America in the 1960s
Sugrue
MW 11-12NOON
HIST 379 Modern American Cultural and Intellectual History
Schrum
T 6-9PM
CGS Course
HIST 382 History from Below: Colonialism, Nationalism and Subalterns in South Asia
Rawat
W 2-5PM
SEM
HIST 384 Modern History of Afghanistan and Pakistan
Siddiqa
MW 2-3:30PM
SEM
HIST 405 Church & Urban Challenge: Religion, Social Justice and Urban Development
Lamas
M 6-9PM
SEM | CGS Course
HIST 408 The World of Dante
Peters
T 1:30-4:30PM
PRE-1800 | R | SEM
HIST 416 European Intellectual History in the 18th Century
Kors
TR 1:30-3PM
PRE-1800
HIST 421 History of International Relations since WWI
Granieri
MW 10-11AM
HIST 423 The Mediterranean World in the Age of Don Quixote
Feros and Chartier
M 2-5PM
PRE-1800 | R | SEM
HIST 425 World War I
Holquist
TR 10:30-12NOON
HIST 431 A World at War
Childers
MW 1-2PM
HIST 442 American Revolution
St. George
MW 2-3:30PM
PRE-1800
HIST 443 American National Character
Zuckerman
TR 10:30-12NOON
HIST 449 Jewish Historical Writing
Ruderman
T 3-6PM
PRE-1800 | R | SEM
HIST 451 War and Diplomacy
Wilkens
MW 12-1PM
HIST 490 Topics in Jewish History: The German Jewish Experience
Weissberg
T 3-5PM
SEM
