Spring 2012 | History Department Courses
Graduate Courses
When possible, syllabi are provided along with course descriptions. Please note that instructors may alter readings and assignments as needed.
Freshman Seminars
HIST 101 Dreams in Jewish Cultures and Traditions
Schur
M 2-5PM
SEM| EU
HIST 105 Culture and Conflict in Japan
Spafford
TR 3-4:30PM
SEM | EA/SA
Regional and Topical Surveys
HIST 001 Making of the Modern World
Cassanelli and Hahn
MW 10-11AM
HIST 021.601 U.S. History, 1865 - Present
Hanson
MW 5-6:30PM
LPS Course | US
HIST 023 Introduction to the Middle East
Cobb
MW 2-3:30PM
AF/ME
HIST 027 History of Ancient Rome
Grey
MW 12-1PM
PRE-1800 | EU | For more information, contact the Classical Studies Department.
HIST 040 Early Modern Europe
Schur
M 6:30-9:30PM
PRE-1800 | LPS Course | EU
HIST 047 Portraits of Russian Society
Verkholantsev
MW 2-3:30PM
EU
HIST 071 Latin America, 1791 - Present
Farnsworth-Alvear
MW 11-12NOON
LA/CA
HIST 075 Africa Before 1800
Babou
MW 11-12NOON
PRE-1800 | AF/ME
HIST 087 East and West: A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Cultural History of the Modern World
Mitchell
TR 3-4:30PM
EA/SA
HIST 089 Introduction to Modern India
Ali
MWF 10-11AM
EA/SA
HIST 091 Modern Japanese History
Hopson
TR 12-1:30PM
EA/SA
HIST 097 China in the 20th Century
Fei
MW 12-1PM
EA/SA
HIST 107 Comparative Capitalist Systems
Drew
TR 1:30-3PM
HIST 117 Science and Literature
Adam
MW 12-1PM
HIST 119 History of the Modern Business Corporation
Drew
MW 2-3:30PM
HIST 121 Korean History after 1864
Park
TR 10:30-12NOON
EA/SA
HIST 139 Jews & Judaism in Antiquity
Dohrmann
MW 3:30-5PM
PRE-1800 | AF/ME
HIST 141 Jews in the Modern World
Wenger
TR 12-1:30PM
EU
HIST 146 Comparative Medicine
Feierman
MW 11-12NOON
HIST 153 Urban Crisis
Hanson
MW 2-3:30PM
US
HIST 155 Introduction to Asian-American History
Azuma
TR 3-4:30PM
US
HIST 160 Strategy, Policy, & War
Waldron
MW 10-11AM
PRE-1800
HIST 166 Arab/Israeli Conflict in Literature & Film
Troutt-Powell
TR 10:30-12NOON
AF/ME
HIST 169 History of American Law: Cultural Diversity in the US
Natalini
TR 10:30-12NOON
US
HIST 171 The American South Since the Civil War
Hahn
MW 2-3PM
US
HIST 175 Society and Culture in Brazil
Walker
TR 10:30-12NOON
PRE-1800 | LA/CA
HIST 177 African American History, 1876 - Present
Savage
TR 12-1:30PM
US
Major Seminars
History 201-206 seminars are open to history majors only during pre-registration. If the course does not reach its enrollment maximum, the professor may then open it to all students beginning with drop/add on a first-come first-serve basis.
HIST 201.301 Historians at Work: Approaches to European History
Moyer
M 2-5PM
SEM | PRE-1800 | EU
HIST 202.301 History and Literature
Childers
T 1:30-4:30PM
SEM | EU
HIST 202.302 History, Historical Practice, and Historiography
Steinberg
R 1:30-4:30PM
SEM | EU
HIST 203.301 Early American Studies
St. George
T 1:30-4:30PM
R | SEM | PRE-1800 | US
HIST 203.302 Native Americans and the Environment
Parsons
T 1:30-4:30PM
SEM | PRE-1800 | US
HIST 203.303 Franklin's Philadelphia
Roney
W 2-5PM
R |SEM | PRE-1800 | US
HIST 203.304 Protest Movements and Democratic Change, 1750-Present
Alpaugh
R 1:30-4:30PM
SEM | US
HIST 204.301 Lincoln & American Politics
Karp
R 1:30-4:30PM
SEM | US
HIST 204.601 Vietnam WarCANCELLED
Del Testa
TBA
SEM | LPS Course | US
HIST 206.301 Gender in Latin America
Farnsworth-Alvear
F 12-3PM
SEM | LA/CA
HIST 206.601 Communism and Revolution in the Third World
Hirst
W 6-9PM
SEM | LPS Course
Benjamin Franklin Seminars
211-216 are advanced seminars for juniors and seniors in the Benjamin Franklin Scholars Program as well as History majors. 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
W 2-5PM
An Academically Based Community Service Course
SEM | Permit May Be Required: See note
HIST 211.301 Utopia
Todd
W 2-5PM
SEM | Permit May Be Required: See note
HIST 212.301 World War I
Holquist
M 2-5PM
SEM | EU | Permit May Be Required: See note
HIST 212.302 History of Classical Liberal Thought
Kors
T 3-6
SEM | EU | Permit May Be Required: See note
HIST 214.401 The Immigration Debate: A View from History
Katz
W 2-5PM
SEM | US | Permit May Be Required: See note
Honors Seminars
HIST 398.301 Junior Honors in History
Goldberg
R 1:30-4:30PM
HIST 398.302 Junior Honors in History
Richter
R 1:30-4:30PM
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
Schneider
TR 3-4:30PM
SEM | US
HIST 220 Russia and the West
Verkholantsev
TR 4:30-6PM
SEM | PRE-1800 | EU
HIST 231.401 Wartime Internment of Japanese-Americans
Azuma
W 2-5PM
R |SEM | US
HIST 231.402 African-American Women's History
Savage
W 2-5PM
SEM | US
HIST 231.403 Financing Democracy: Money, Corporations and American Political Campaigns
Genova
M 2-5PM
R |SEM | US
HIST 232 History of the US and the Middle East
Kashani-Sabet
T 1:30-4:30PM
SEM | AF/ME
HIST 233.401 Fashion & Image in the African Diaspora
Walker
T 1:30-4:30PM
R | SEM | PRE-1800 | LA/CA
HIST 233.402 Indians, Pirates, Runaways and Rebels: Unofficial Histories of the Colonial Caribbean
Fabella
R 1:30-4:30PM
SEM | PRE-1800 | LA/CA
HIST 277 Shamans to Samurai
Spafford
TR 12-1:30PM
PRE-1800 | EA/SA
HIST 318 Italian History, 1789-Present
Steinberg
MW 4:30-6PM
EU
HIST 320 Environmental History
Greene
TR 12-1:30PM
R | SEM | US
HIST 333 Napoleonic Era & Tolstoy
Holquist and Vinitsky
TR 1:30-3PM
EU
HIST 341 The Tudors
Todd
TR 1:30-3PM
PRE-1800 | EU
HIST 346 Gender in Modern American History
Brown
TR 12-1:30PM
US
HIST 371 Africa and the Mid-East
Powell
W 2-5PM
R |SEM | AF/ME
HIST 372 The History of Foreign Aid to Africa
Cassanelli
MW 3:30-5PM
AF/ME
HIST 373 America in the 1960s
Sugrue
MW 12-1PM
US
HIST 411 From Gutenberg to Google: Introduction to Written Culture
Chartier
M 2-5PM
SEM
HIST 412 Topics in World History: History of China
Waldron
W 2-5PM
R |SEM | EA/SA
HIST 416 European Intellectual History in the 18th Century
Kors
TR 12-1:30PM
PRE-1800 | EU
HIST 421 European International Relations since WWI
Ogle
MW 11-12NOON
EU
HIST 431 A World at War
Childers
MW 1-2PM
EU | US
HIST 449 God and Nature: Readings on the Encounter Between Jewish Thought and Science
Ruderman
T 3-6PM
R |SEM | EU
HIST 455 Baseball and US History
Lanctot
M 6:30-9:30PM
SEM | LPS Course | US
HIST 471 Medicine and Development
Feierman
T 1:30-4:30PM
R | SEM
