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Course Catalog 2012-2013 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Oberlin College Courses Offered in 2012-13 (and planned offerings in future years)

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  • GSFS 305 - Feminist Research Methodologies


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, CD, WR
    This course traces the historical and dialectical impact of feminist epistemologies on disciplines of the social sciences and humanities. We will explore feminist approaches to research practices including oral history, case studies, archival research, visual and literary criticism, survey/content analysis, and fieldwork. Throughout the semester, each student works on an individual research proposal that incorporates interdisciplinary methods and includes a literature review.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: A. Needham
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite & Notes: Priority given to GSFS majors.
  

  • GSFS 400 - Advanced Seminar


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 0 hour
    Attribute: 0EX
    This non-credit course represents the advanced seminar requirement for the major in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies. It can be fulfilled by enrolling in and passing an appropriate course in another department as articulated in the description of the major.
    Instructor: M. Kamitsuka
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • GSFS 500 - Honors


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4EX
    Honors open to selected majors.
    Instructor: M. Kamitsuka
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • HISP 101 - Elementary Spanish I


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 5 hours
    Attribute: 5HU, CD
    Taught in Spanish. Strong emphasis on communicative tasks to show students how Spanish is used across the Spanish-speaking world in real-life situations. Culture is an important thread that is tightly woven throughout the course. Basic grammar and vocabulary will be introduced and practiced through intensive oral and written practice. Weekly compositions and meetings with language tutors.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: K. Tungseth-Faber
  

  • HISP 102 - Elementary Spanish II


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 5 hours
    Attribute: 5HU, CD
    Taught in Spanish, this course is a continuation of HISP 101, complemented by additional readings to enhance written and oral skills. Grammar will continue to be introduced through more intensive oral and written practice.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: E. Martinez-Tapia, C. Tovar
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: Students with any previous knowledge of Spanish other than from Oberlin College must first take the placement exam before enrolling in this course.
  

  • HISP 202 - Intermediate Spanish I


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, CD
    Taught in Spanish. This course is a continuation of HISP 102. It adopts a format integrating grammar, oral and written practice in exercises, conversation and readings which evolve within a cultural context. Students have to attend one mandatory conversation class on Tuesdays or Thursdays for one hour, time TBA
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: C. Tovar, C. Solomon
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: HISP 102 or consent of instructor.
  

  • HISP 203 - Intermediate Spanish II


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4HU, CD
    This course is a continuation of HISP 202. It adopts a format integrating grammar, oral and written practice in exercises, conversation and readings which evolve within a cultural context. Students have to attend one mandatory conversation class on Tuesdays or Thursdays for one hour, time TBA.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: B. Sawhill, Staff
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: HISP 202 or consent of instructor.
  

  • HISP 205 - Communication & Conversation in Spanish-Speaking Worlds


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    The goal of this course is to prepare non-native speakers for the rigors and the rewards of conversing and communicating in a Spanish-speaking environment. Students will explore a variety of online, immersive environments in order to connect with Spanish speakers outside of Oberlin. Reading, writing, listening and speaking skills will be emphasized as we study current events in the Spanish-speaking world. Highly recommended for students just returning from or about to study abroad.
    Enrollment Limit: 18
    Instructor: B. Sawhill
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite & Notes: Prerequisite: HISP 203 or equivalent.
  

  • HISP 304 - Advanced Grammar and Composition


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    It is strongly recommended that students complete HISP 203 or equivalent before taking this course, which offers an in-depth review of Spanish grammar and the opportunity to study closely the different steps involved in the writing process. Students will develop and improve their writing skills by practicing descriptive, narrative, argumentative and expository writing in Spanish.
    Enrollment Limit: 18
    Instructor: B. Cobeta, P. O’Connor
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: This course fulfills prerequisites for upper-division literature courses and may be counted for the major or minor.
  

  • HISP 306 - Colloquium: Introduction to Literary Analysis: Close Reading & Theory in Hispanic Literature


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Latin American Studies Program
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    Reading poems and short stories from Spain and Latin America (1500-present) together with modern trends in literary theory, we will problematize the politics of theory as students develop their own critical readings. Authors include Quevedo, Lorca, Borges, Cortazar, Lispector, Sor Juana. Offered every year. Conducted in Spanish.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: C. Solomon
  

  • HISP 309 - Survey of Spanish Literature I:Breaking the Rules in Early Modern Spain


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Comparative Literature
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    The early modern period in Spain is one marked by the dual experiences of the construction and transgression of political borders, geographical boundaries, and linguistic and cultural norms. This course will explore the central and formative role played by the figure of the rule breaker in early modern Spanish literature through readings of medieval epic and lyric poetry, the crónicas of discovery, and Golden Age drama, poetry and narrative. Taught in Spanish.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: E. Cohen
  

  • HISP 310 - Survey of Spanish Literature II:


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Comparative Literature
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    Taught in Spanish.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: Staff
  

  • HISP 317 - Survey of Latin American Literature I: Defining Latin America


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Latin American Studies, Comparative Literature
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    After Columbus’s discovery of America a `new world’ emerged. This course looks at the early writings by Spaniards and `Americans’ in the Spanish colonies and traces the development of regional and national literatures in the centuries that follow. Although broad in scope, the course focuses on three questions: How did Latin America differentiate itself culturally from Europe? What characterizes the New World criollo tradition? How are national literary canons constructed during the periods of independence? Taught in Spanish.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: A. Cara
  

  • HISP 318 - Survey of Latin American Literature II: La Ciudad


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Latin American Studies, Comparative Literature
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    From the Buenos Aires and Paris of Ruben Dario, and the Havana and New York of José Martí, all the way to the slums of Rio de Janeiro and Ciudad Juarez, the city has been a reality in modern Latin American literature and film. We will study the alienated cityscapes of Storni, Neruda, and Vallejo, the bohemian city of Bolaño’s Mexico, and the vivid ruins of post-Castro Havana. We will also study Borges and Garro’s imaginary cities (and the nostalgia for small towns of García Márquez’s Macondo). Taught in Spanish.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: P. O’Connor
  

  • HISP 322 - Visions of Mexican Women


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Latin American Studies
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    The last hundred years of Mexico’s Revolution, murals, mass media, magical realism, and maquiladoras is threaded through with the works of great women writers and artists, dealing with the reality of machismo and some of the ghosts of men’s images of them. After a backward glance to icons of Colonial women, we jump to: stories by Mexican women of the Revolution: the artwork of the women of Mexico’s ‘30s and ‘40s; indigenism, feminism, and political activism in the `60s and `70s; and, in contemporary fiction and film, realism both magical and ironic. Conducted in Spanish
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: P. O’Connor
  

  • HISP 324 - Popular Culture in Latin America


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    We will cultivate the critical tools to problematize the paradoxical category of pop culture that includes self-expression, collective empowerment, shilling for corporations, putting a pretty face on dictatorship, and a lot that is in between. We will study music, performance, advertising and political messaging (indigenous eco-sovereignty, horizontalism, populism), and become addicted to telenovelas.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: C. Solomon
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Conducted in Spanish Prerequisite & Notes: HISP 304 or equivalent. Conducted in Spanish.
  

  • HISP 340 - Spain and Yugoslavia in the 20th Century


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Russian and East European Studies
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 1.5HU, 1.5SS, CD
    The 20th century histories of Spain and Yugoslavia run surprisingly parallel, but have resulted in widely different outcomes. Why? This course analyzes the interaction among nationalism, culture, and politics in both countries through sociological, historical, literary, and visual materials. Special attention is paid to late state-building, the rise of competing nationalisms, civil wars and their legacies, dictatorship, collective memories, democratic transition (Spain), and state collapse (Yugoslavia).
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: S. Faber, V. Vujacic
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite & Notes: Taught in English.
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with SOCI 340.
  

  • HISP 341 - Spain and Yugoslavia LxC


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    LATS
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hours
    Attribute: 1 HU
    This is the Spanish-taught discussion section to accompany the team-taught, cross-listed courses HISP/SOCI 340. Only open to students enrolled in the main course.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: S. Faber
  

  • HISP 356 - Hispanic America in Verse


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    An exploration of poetry from Latin America and the Caribbean.   The course will begin with Rubén Darío and Modernismo and then will focus on the twentieth century poets, among them Jorge Luis Borges, Nicolás Guíllen and Rosario Castellanos.  Special attention will be paid to Nobel Poets fom this area (Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz). Taught in Spanish.
     
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: A. Cara
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Hisp 304 or equiv.
  

  • HISP 401 - Tango: The Politics and Poetics of a National Icon LxC


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 hours
    Attribute: 1HU, CD
    This is an optional one-credit course allowing students enrolled in Prof. Cara’s HISP/CMPL 410 to read, discuss and write about primary and critical material in Spanish. One-hour discussion section.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: A. Cara
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite & Notes: Only open to students enrolled in HISP/COMPL 410. HISP 304 or the equivalent.
  

  • HISP 410 - Tango: The Politics and Poetics of a National Icon


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Dance
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    This course, taught in English, examines the sociocultural, political and artistic dimensions of tango. By looking at dance, music, lyrics and other tango manifestations students will explore how communities encode their traditional values in expressive forms, how these forms operate subversively in popular culture, and how they officially represent the nation. Films, recordings, performances, and guest speakers complement class readings.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: A. Cara
    Prerequisites & Notes
    For optional extra hour conducted in Spanish see HISP 401.
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with CMPL 410
  

  • HISP 411 - Laughing in/at Don Quijote


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 HU, CD
    Don Quijote is often read as a funny book, with readers laughing at characters while the characters laugh at one another. But laughter in Don Quijote is a complicated thing, related not only to light-hearted humor but also to violence. In this course we will explore the nature and function of laughter in Cervantes’ novel as well as situate our own readings within a context of the history of ideas about laughter. Taught in Spanish.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: E. Cohen
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Two Spanish-taught 300-level courses.
  

  • HISP 421 - Julio Cortázar’s Rayuela


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    Julio Cortázar’s 1963 magnum opus, Rayuela, like Don Quixote and Ulysses, is a game-changer. It is an experimental hypertext, a love story, and a novel about being far from home and not wanting to grow up. Neruda said that anybody who didn’t read Cortazar was doomed. Conducted in Spanish.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: C. Solomon
  

  • HISP 446 - Literature and Exile in Spain and Latin America


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    Since the history of 20th century Spain and Latin America is studded with dictatorships, for many writers leaving their country was the only way to regain their intellectual freedom. This course will analyze the effects of political exile on narrative, poetry, plays, and essays written in Spanish on both sides of the Atlantic, with a particular focus on issues of national identity, loyalty, and representation. Reading list includes Aub, Cernuda, Chacel, Cortázar, Dorfman, Goytisolo, Molloy, Neruda, Peri Rossi, Piglia, Reyes, Semprún, Sender, and Valenzuela. Taught in Spanish.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: S. Faber
  

  • HISP 505 - Honors


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2-6 hours
    Attribute: 2-6HU
    Consent of instructor required.
    Instructor: A. Cara, S. Faber, P. O’Connor, C. Solomon
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • HISP 995 - Private Reading


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 0.5-3 hours
    Attribute: 0.5-3HU, CD
    Signed permission of the instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: A. Cara, S. Faber, E. Martinez-Tapia, P. O’Connor, B. Sawhill, C. Solomon, K. Tungseth-Faber
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • HIST 101 - Medieval and Early Modern European History


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    An introductory level survey course extending from the fall of Rome through the ‘modernization’ of medieval Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries. Topics will include: the political and religious order in the early Middle Ages, conflict between Church and Empire, the urbanization of Europe, the culture of the High Middle Ages, the growth of secular monarchies, the Black Death, the Italian Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation and the Scientific Revolution.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: D. Wasserman-Soler
    Consent of the Instructor Required: No
  

  • HIST 102 - Modern European History


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    This introductory course surveys the histories of the peoples of Europe from the Old Regime to the present. Students are introduced to the methods of studying history as well as the subject matter proper. Particular topics include: the decline of the society of orders, the French Revolution and its aftershocks through the 19th century, liberalism, socialism, imperialism, fascism and the rise and fall of the Cold War.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: M. Dumancic
  

  • HIST 103 - American History to 1877


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This survey course explores various facets of the American experience from the “pre-contact” era through the Civil War and Reconstruction. It examines the continuities and transformations of dominant political, social, religious, intellectual and economic currents in early America, and analyzes contentious interpretive debates that complicate our understandings of these phenomena. Prominent topics include cross-cultural encounter, violence, slavery and the emergence of race, and social reform in antebellum America.  
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: M. Bahar
    Consent of the Instructor Required: No
  

  • HIST 104 - American History, 1877 to the Present: Major Problems of Interpretation


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD, WR
    This course will explore American politics, society, and culture from the post-Civil War era to the present. We will focus on changes in power relations in American society produced by social and political movements. We will also examine the construction and contestation of gender, race, ethnic, and class. This course will emphasize the use of primary sources, different modes of historical analysis and interpretation, and scholarly controversies.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: J. Petrulis
    Consent of the Instructor Required: N
  

  • HIST 105 - Chinese Civilization


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    An introduction to the history of China from the archaeological origins of Chinese civilization to the period of the mature imperial state in the 17th century. The diverse origins of China’s civilization are stressed as topics in political, social, and economic history are explored, as well as developments in religion and thought, language and literature, and art. This course is the normal introduction to further study of Chinese history and culture and, in particular, provides a valuable context for themes treated in Modern China.
    Enrollment Limit: 50
    Instructor: D. Kelley
    Consent of the Instructor Required: N
    Prerequisites & Notes
    This course is cross-listed with East 121
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with East 121
  

  • HIST 106 - Modern China


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This history of China from the founding of the Manchu Qing (Ch’ing) dynasty in 1644 takes a China-centered perspective. Along with political and institutional developments, long-term changes in the society and economy of China are stressed and the indigenous bases for those changes are explored so that China’s 20th century revolutionary upheaval will be seen to be more than a ‘response to the Western impact’ or an ‘emergence into modernity.’
    Enrollment Limit: 50
    Instructor: D. Kelley
    Consent of the Instructor Required: N
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with East 122
  

  • HIST 108 - Russian History II


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Russian and East European Studies
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD, WR
    Beginning with the reform era in mid-19th century, this course examines the processes that led to the revolutions of 1917 and the consolidation of Soviet power; the formation and nature of the Stalinist system; the Soviet experience of World War II and the origins of the Cold War; post-Stalin efforts at reform and factors which led to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991; the course ends with a brief consideration of the Yeltsin and Putin regimes.
    Enrollment Limit: 40
    Instructor: M. Dumancic
  

  • HIST 109 - Latin American History: Conquest and Colony


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Latin American Studies, Hispanic Studies
    Next Offered: 2013-2014
    Semester Offered: First Semester 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    An introductory survey of Latin American history centering on the imposition, maintenance, and decline of Spanish and Portuguese colonial rule in Latin America. Emphasis is placed on understanding pre-conquest native societies, the material and cultural basis of colonialism, the complex human mosaic fashioned in colonial Latin America after 1492, issues of gender in preconquest and colonial Latin America, and the nature and development of resistance within the colonial world.
    Enrollment Limit: 50
    Instructor: S. Volk
  

  • HIST 110 - Latin American History: State and Nation Since Independence


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Latin American Studies, Hispanic Studies
    Next Offered: 2013-2014
    Semester Offered: Second Semester 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This course provides an introductory survey of Latin American history from the wars of independence in the early 19th century to the independent nations’ struggle to cope with the monumental issues of political legitimacy, economic growth, and social order throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Particular emphasis will be placed on understanding the material, political, class, racial, cultural, and gender struggles which have shaped Latin America’s independent states.
    Enrollment Limit: 50
    Instructor: S. Volk
  

  • HIST 121 - History of the Middle East and North Africa, from the Rise of Islam to 1800


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This introductory course surveys the history of Islamic states, societies and cultures from the formation of Islam to the beginnings of the Ottoman Empire. The course moves between primary texts and secondary readings to cover topics including: the life of Prophet Muhammad; Qur’an, Hadith and Shari`a; religious and political sectarianism and rebellion; Sunni and Shi`i governments; Islamic philosophy, sciences, and literature; Muslim women; religious minorities; and encounters between Muslims and the West.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: Z. Abul-Magd
    Consent of the Instructor Required: N
  

  • HIST 122 - MENA History from 1800 to the Present


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This introductory course follows the intellectual, political, economic and social transformations in the region from 1800 to the present. It examines themes including the relation between the British and French colonizers and their colonized societies, the formation of modern ‘nation-states,’ national identities and wars of liberation, Arab nationalism and socialism, ethnic and sectarian conflicts, the Arab Israeli conflict; Gulf politics and economy, feminist thought and activism, and the emergence of political Islam.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: Z. Abul-Magd
  

  • HIST 131 - Jewish History From Biblical Antiquity to 1492


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Classics
    Next Offered: 2013-2014
    Semester Offered: First Semester 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD, WR
    Jewish history from biblical antiquity through the medieval period in the Middle East and Christian and Islamic Europe. Topics include: Biblical society, ideas and literature; Jews under Hellenistic and Roman rule in Judea; Jewish sects of the Second Temple period, including Jesus-followers; emergence and development of rabbinic Judaism; Jewish attitudes and policies to non-Jews and State authorities, both Jewish and Gentile; attitudes about sovereignty, its loss, and exile; Christianity, Islam and the Jews; women, family and community; theological and popular Jew-hatred and Jewish responses to contempt and persecution.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: S. Magnus
    Consent of the Instructor Required: N
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with JWST 131
  

  • HIST 132 - Jewish History II: Spanish Expulsion to the Present


    Next Offered: 2013-2014
    Semester Offered: Second Semester 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    Jewish modernity in Europe, the US, and Middle East, 1492-present. Topics include the breakup of traditional society and emerging expressions of modernity in the experience of Marranos, mystics, messiahs, religious reformers and secular Jews; the struggle for legal equality, economic betterment and social acceptance; family and community; acculturation, assimilation and cultural revival; modern Jew-hatred and Jewish responses; Zionism; Jewish socialism; the Shoah; founding of Israel.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: S. Magnus
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with JWST 132
  

  • HIST 159 - Japan Earliest Times to 1868


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This course examines the origins of Japanese civilization and surveys the classical, medieval, and early modern periods. From the emergence of a court-centered state through the rise and fall of a warrior-dominated society, Japan’s pre-modern history is explored by focusing on political, social, cultural and intellectual developments. Early interactions with Asia and the West will be considered as a means of questioning the ‘opening’ of Japan in the mid-nineteenth century.
    Enrollment Limit: 40
    Instructor: E. O’Dwyer
    Consent of the Instructor Required: N
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with EAST 131.
  

  • HIST 160 - Modern Japan


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This course surveys Japan’s modern transformation from the Meiji Restoration of 1868 to the present. It examines how political, social, and economic modernization were simultaneous projects while considering their impact on the lives of citizens at home and imperial subjects abroad. We focus on how economic volatility, popular struggles for representative democracy, war, and colonization represent aspects of Japan’s twentieth century experience as well as widely shared dilemmas of modernity.
    Enrollment Limit: 40
    Instructor: E. O’Dwyer
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with EAST 132
  

  • HIST 162 - Cultures and Peoples of Ancient India


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    Surveys the development of South Asian civilization from its origins to the beginnings of the European conquest (c. 2500 BCE-1700 CE). This course has as its fundamental concerns the several competing social, religious, and political institutions within Indian civilization including those of the aboriginal, Vedic-Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic traditions. We explore the interactions among linguistic, gender, ethnic, religious, ‘caste,’ and class identities.
    Enrollment Limit: 45
    Instructor: M. Fisher
    Consent of the Instructor Required: N
  

  • HIST 163 - Modern South Asia: From British Imperialism to the Present


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3-4 hours
    Attribute: 3-4SS, CD
    Introduction to South Asian civilization from the European conquest through the colonial period to post-colonial nationhood. Discusses developments within Indian and British-Indian society concerning religion, gender, ‘caste,’ and class. Using largely indigenous (primary) sources, we explore issues of British imperialism, nationalism, and anti-colonial political mobilization. We conclude with an assessment of the current conditions in South Asia.
    Enrollment Limit: 45
    Instructor: M. Fisher
  

  • HIST 204 - Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in Eurasia, 1914-2000


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    The course examines major incidents of ethnic cleansing and genocide in modern Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia. 1914-2001. The readings focus on the following events: the Armenian genocide, Holodomor in Ukraine, the Holocaust, the wholesale deportation of Chechens under Stalin, the position of the Roma in Europe, and the ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Kosovo. In addition to these case studies, the theory of human rights and critical genocide studies receives serious consideration.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: M. Dumancic
  

  • HIST 206 - Food and Drink in History


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS
    This course explores the role of food and drink in world history from ancient times to the present day. We will examine food and drink from environmental, cultural, and economic perspectives and discuss a wide range of topics from the origins of cooking to the spread of coffee to modern fast food. (NB: This course was previously offered in seminar format as Hist 324.)
    Enrollment Limit: 40
    Instructor: S. White
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Credit cannot be earned for both HIST 206 and HIST 324.
  

  • HIST 207 - Science, Technology and the Politics of Cold War Europe


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 SS
    Politicians strongly believed in the power of science and technology to win ideological battles between East and West during the Cold War. This course examines the developments in science and technology in Western and Eastern Europe during the 1950s and the 1960s in order to analyze how technological artifacts and scientific data have been used as pivotal mechanisms to mediate power relationships in the societies of the Soviet bloc and Western Europe.  
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: E. Grama
    Consent of the Instructor Required: No
    Prerequisites & Notes
    100-level history course
  

  • HIST 209 - The City in Europe, 1100-1789


    Next Offered: 2013-2014
    Semester Offered: Second Semester 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, WP
    The medieval city–birthplace of political freedom or site of repression? Cultural haven or den of iniquity? This course explores the role of cities in the creation of Europe from the Middle Ages to the French Revolution; it draws on both sociological theories of urbanization and historical accounts of lived experience. We examine medieval origins, commercial capitalism and craft production, Renaissance urbanism and space, the civilizing process, political reform, and the nature of popular protest.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: E. Wurtzel
  

  • HIST 213 - First Wave American Feminism


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This course explores the quest for gender equality from the end of the American Revolution through the enfranchisement of women in 1920, including issues of race, class, sexuality, health and citizenship. Readings include narratives, novels, classic texts advocating social, political, and economic advancement, and the biographies and autobiographies of activists.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: C. Lasser
  

  • HIST 226 - World War II and the Making of the 20th Century


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    A comparative overview of how World War II transformed nations, groups, and individuals. This course endeavors to pay equal attention to the two regional wars in Asia and in Europe that joined to become ‘World War II’ only in 1941. Particular topics include: conventional military, political, and diplomatic history; the ‘totalization’ of war as it became global; gender and the cultural history of military experience.
    Enrollment Limit: 40
    Instructor: L. Smith
  

  • HIST 233 - Jewish Memoirs and Memory: Writing the Self in Jewish Society


    Next Offered: 2013-2014
    Semester Offered: Second Semester 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3 SS, WR, CD
    Explores the focus on group memory in traditional Jewish culture and the emergence of writing about the self and individual Jewish experience. Selected memoirs from Europe and the United States from early Jewish modernity to the present, studying motivation for writing, intended and actual audience, gender and class in memory and writing, the relationship between personal and group experience, memoirs as sources of Jewish history.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: S. Magnus
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with JWST 233.
  

  • HIST 235 - Inside the Pale: East European Jewry, 1772-1939


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Russian and East European Studies
    Next Offered: 2013-2014
    Semester Offered: First Semester 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, WR, CD
    East European Jewry was once the world’s largest community and one of the most creative in Jewish history. This course explores its transformation, creativity, and responses to crisis from the partitions of Poland to the eve of World War II: Hasidism, the Musar and Jewish enlightenment movements; economic, family and demographic transformation; secularism; Hebrew and Yiddish literature, cinema and music; forms of Zionism; Jewish cultural nationalism and socialism; government policies, anti-Jewish violence, and Jewish responses.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: S. Magnus
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with JWST 235.
  

  • HIST 239 - Animals in Human History


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    This course looks at the role of animals in human society from prehistory to the present, including both environmental and cultural issues. We cover topics such as how animals were domesticated, the ecological impact of keeping large animals, animal breeding, and vegetarianism.
    Enrollment Limit: 40
    Instructor: S. White
  

  • HIST 241 - History and the Formulation of U.S. National Security Policy and Strategy


    Next Offered: 2013-2014
    Semester Offered: Second Semester, Second Module 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    Attribute: 2 SS
    This course considers how history should be an integral factor in the formulation of national security strategy and policy. The course will define strategy and policy and then use case studies of security issues from the post World War II period such as the Cold War, North Korea, Vietnam, Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Student interest and background will be considered in case study selection. Prerequisite: at least one year of college level survey history course.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: J. Kim
    Consent of the Instructor Required: No
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Two college-level courses in History or the equivalent
  

  • HIST 244 - The US in World War II


    Next Offered: 2013-2014
    Semester Offered: First Semester 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    World War II is perhaps the most important event in twentieth-century American history. The war had a profound effect on American society, the economy, and America’s global status. This course examines the ways in which WWII influenced and transformed America through a study of military, social, cultural, and political history. Topics include the combat experience; politics and technological developments; the war’s impact on gender, race, and sexual relations; propaganda and censorship; and popular culture.
    Enrollment Limit: 40
    Instructor: R. Romano
  

  • HIST 252 - American Environmental History


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    The environmental history of the United States from European contact to the present. We will explore topics ranging from Native American ecologies to dams to urban pollution and inequality.
    Enrollment Limit: 40
    Instructor: S. White
    Consent of the Instructor Required: N
  

  • HIST 253 - The US Since 1945


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This course examines major developments in US history from World War II to today using primary and secondary sources. Topics include civil rights and the rise of the right; the Cold War and the War on Terror; the welfare state and deregulation, consumerism and deindustrialization; and immigration and globalization. Scholarly controversies receive particular attention.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: J. Petrulis
  

  • HIST 256 - Immigration in U.S. History


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, WR, CD
    History of immigration and migration in the United States, from nineteenth to early twenty-first centuries. Includes international context of migration, migrants’ encounters with American society, policy responses, and significance of immigration in American culture. Also covers internal migrations such as the ‘Great Migration’ of blacks from the South. Aim is to provide introduction to major developments in history of U.S. immigration, historicize contemporary debates, and develop comparative understanding of experiences among Asians, Blacks, Europeans, Latinos.
    Enrollment Limit: 40
    Instructor: S. Lee
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with CAST 256.
  

  • HIST 257 - Westward Bound: The West in American History


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Latin American Studies, Hispanic Studies
    Next Offered: 2013-2014
    Semester Offered: Second Semester 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This course surveys major events in Western history, from the journey of Cabeza de Vaca and the Pueblo revolt, to the Gold Rush and the Mexican American War, to World War II, the rise of the urban West, and 1960?s political mobilization from Tierra Amarilla to Orange County to the Castro. We explore the West variously as a geographic region, a place of cultural mixing, and the object of desire and fantasy.
    Enrollment Limit: 50
    Instructor: P. Mitchell
  

  • HIST 260 - Asian American History


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies
    Next Offered: 2013-2014
    Semester Offered: Second Semester 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This course is an introduction to the history of peoples of Asian ancestry in the United States and the construction of an Asian American collectivity. Major themes will include the place of Asian Americans in the American imagination, migrations, labor, communities, and responses to social and legal discrimination. The categories of race, ethnicity, gender, class and sexuality will figure prominently as we explore similarities and differences among Asian American experiences.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: S. Lee
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with CAST 260.
  

  • HIST 265 - American Sexualities


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD, WR
    This course will examine the creation, maintenance, and reproduction of sexual differences and identities over a broad time span in North American history, beginning with Native American sexual practices and social formations, and stretching through the modernization of sex. Major topics will include: marriage, changing gender roles, the intersection of sexuality with race and ethnicity, commercialized sex, reproduction, same sex sexual practices, contraception, sexual violence, heterosexism, danger, desire and pleasure.
    Enrollment Limit: 45
    Instructor: P. Mitchell
    Consent of the Instructor Required: N
  

  • HIST 268 - Oberlin History as American History


    Next Offered: 2013-2014
    Semester Offered: Second Semester 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 3-4 hours
    Attribute: 3-4SS, CD
    This course explores episodes in the history of the city of Oberlin as a multicultural community within the larger context of American history. Topics include abolition, race relations and civil rights, temperance, religion, women’s rights, civic improvement, and community leaders. The course also introduces the sources and methods available to construct Oberlin’s history. Students collaborate on local history projects with community partners.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: C. Lasser
    Prerequisites & Notes
    No first-year students.
  

  • HIST 270 - Latina/o History


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies; Hispanic Studies; Latin American Studies
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD, WR
    What historical forces have brought together diverse groups including Chicanos from Los Angeles, Cubans from Miami, and Dominicans and Puerto Ricans from New York City? From the 16th century to the present, we map the varied terrains of Latina/o history. Major themes include: conquest and resistance, immigration, work, and the creation of racial and sexual differences within and between Latino/a communities. We survey Latina/o writers from Cabeza de Vaca to Jose Marti to Gloria Anzaldua.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: P. Mitchell
    Consent of the Instructor Required: N
  

  • HIST 281 - Ethnicity and Nation in Modern China


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    East Asian Studies
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD, WR
    While often seen as a long-unified state and culture, this course explores China as a diverse and multiethnic society shaped by tensions between the hegemonic drive of the state’s nation building and the multiplicity of human experiences, histories and ideological and social realities. Topics include Turkic and Muslim populations; Tibet’s historic relation to China; the spread of Han population and cultural practices into ‘minority areas’; and transnational connections with Southeast and Central Asia.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: D. Kelley
  

  • HIST 283 - Environmental Histories of South Asia


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD, WR
    This course explores crucial material, socio-political, and cultural relationships between the diverse peoples of South Asia and their ecosystems, from the pre-colonial period down to the present. We focus on a series of integrated issues including ‘forest as frontier and/or home,’ ‘shaping and using the land,’ and ‘meanings and control of water.’ Students will write short position papers and a substantial research paper on a relevant topic of her/his individual interest.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: M. Fisher
  

  • HIST 284 - Tokyo: History and the City, 1600-2000


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    East Asian Studies
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This course charts the history of one of the world’s first metropolises. From shogunal capital in the early seventeenth century to global commerce center in the twenty-first, Edo/Tokyo will be examined from political, economic, social, and cultural angles to question familiar assumptions about the course and nature of modernity.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: E. O’Dwyer
  

  • HIST 285 - American Indians: Pre-Columbus to the Present


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 SS, CD
    This survey course examines the indigenous cultures of North America from the “pre-contact” period through the late twentieth century. It explores such salient themes as native encounters with European and African foreigners, pan-Indian movements and the development of race, the emergence of reservation life, the Indian New Deal, the termination of reservations and urban relocation. The course will also consider the bearing of the past on contemporary issues regarding native sovereignty and self-determination.       
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: M. Bahar
  

  • HIST 291 - Latin America in the US Imagination


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Latin American Studies, Hispanic Studies
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD, WR
    How people in the United States understand Latin America may have more to do with imagery than scholarship. Through editorial cartoons, photographs, and films, ‘Latin America’ has appeared in the U.S. imagination as perpetual child, bandit, revolutionary, temptress, drug dealer, and much else. In this course, we will study how images do their work, and how they have fashioned a representation of Latin America in the United States that makes understanding problematic.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: S. Volk
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Preferred preparation: HIST 110.
  

  • HIST 293 - Dirty Wars and Democracy


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Hispanic Studies, Latin American Studies
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD, WR
    In this study of the military dictatorships of Chile, Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay in the 1970’s and 1980’s, we will examine why these regimes arose, the nature and methods of the dictatorial state, resistance movements, and the dictators’ demise. The course will also focus on the search for truth and justice under post-dictatorial governments. Students will engage a variety of cross-disciplinary methodologies. Lecture and discussion format.
    Enrollment Limit: 40
    Instructor: S. Volk
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: Recommended preparation HIST 110.
  

  • HIST 299 - The Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment, 1600-1800


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 SS
    Perhaps the key intellectual movement to signal the dawn of modernity, the European Enlightenment is known as an “age of reason” that spanned the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and dismantled religion as the dominant force in European societies. But by no means did the Enlightenment spell the end of belief or superstition. Predominantly through sources from the period, we examine the ideas of both the philosophes and their often outspoken opponents.   
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: D. Wasserman
  

  • HIST 303 - Seminar: Possession and Property in Medieval Europe


    Next Offered: 2013-2014
    Semester Offered: Second Semester 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, WR
    This seminar traces the development of notions of possession, property and ownership in a historical context. Using some of the important texts of the western tradition, and drawing from historical, anthropological and sociological traditions, we will examine experiments in communal possession and individual ownership, notions of bodily possession, from mystical experiences to witchcraft, and the nature of goods that are owned, consumed and circulated, from land and movables to other people.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: E. Wurtzel
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • HIST 306 - Seminar: Germans and Jews


    Next Offered: 2013-2014
    Semester Offered: Second Semester 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 3-4 hours
    Attribute: 3-4SS, WR, CD
    Focuses on cultural hybridity: how Jews in Germany emerged from mental and cultural as well as physical ghettos and constructed an identity that was both Jewish and German; the creativity, tensions, hopes of that stance; its resonance and rejection in larger German society. Studies German policies and attitudes to Jews; trends in German Jewish society, family and culture; attitudes to east European Jews; German Jew-hatred and Jewish responses; how the Jewish case sheds light on modern German history.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: S. Magnus
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with JWST 306.
  

  • HIST 308 - Seminar: Gender and the Suburbs


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 SS
    This seminar examines the history of the suburbs in the United States since the mid-19th century, with special attention to gender as it interacts with race, space, and class. Topics include domesticity, ranch houses, segregation, car culture, malls, soccer moms, and teenage boredom. Students will plan and complete a major research project using primary sources and recent secondary sources.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: J. Petrulis
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    History 104 or the Equivalent
  

  • HIST 309 - Seminar: Modern Jewish Identity


    Next Offered: 2013-2014
    Semester Offered: Second Semester 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 3 to 4 Hours
    Attribute: 3 to 4 SS, CD, WR
    This course studies ways that Jews redefined Jewish identity after the breakdown of the traditional, autonomous Jewish community and the creation of entirely new sites of Jewish settlement, especially in the United States, made affiliation and the content of Jewishness subjective and extremely varied. Why and how did Jews choose Jewish identity in these circumstances, and what new forms did identity assume? Studies pressures on Jews to renounce or limit Jewishness, social and ideological forces that supported identity formation, class and gender as variables, and selected cases of individual and group expression.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: S. Magnus
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with JWST 309.
  

  • HIST 317 - Politics and Culture in the Weimar Republic/Politik und Kultur in der Weimarer Republik


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, CD
    The period between 1918 and 1933 was one of incredible political and cultural ferment in Germany. How do we think about the fact that the society that produced the Bauhaus and Marlene Dietrich was also riven with political discord and ended with the rise of Nazism? This course will trace the history of Weimar Germany to explore this paradox. Students have the option of doing some readings in German.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: A. Sammartino
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • HIST 318 - American Orientalism


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, CD, WR
    Through readings and work on original research projects, students will study how ideas about ‘Orientals’ have shaped historical understandings of American identity, from the late eighteenth century onward. Topics of examination include: Chinese ‘coolies’ during Reconstruction; constructions of gender and sexual deviance; wartime representations of Asian enemies; Cold War origins of the Model Minority; revival of ‘Yellow Perilism’ in contemporary life.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: S. Lee
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with CAST 318.
  

  • HIST 337 - American Democracy


    Next Offered: 2013-2014
    Semester Offered: Second Semester 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, WR
    An examination of the American democratic experience taught in conjunction with partners at Al-Quds University and Tel Aviv University. We will analyze essential characteristics of the American democratic tradition, with particular emphasis on how that tradition has developed over time. To examine our subject from multiple perspectives, we will read widely in primary documents, undertake cross-cultural conversations, and apply the disciplinary methods of both history and political science.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: G. Kornblith, C. Lasser
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Primarily for History majors, juniors and well-qualified sophomores.

     
  

  • HIST 345 - Social Movements in China, Late Imperial Times to the Present


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    East Asian Studies
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, WR, CD
    Social movements from the Qing Dynasty to the present will be analyzed using social science theories about social movements, while interrogating them in the Chinese context. Cases may include: the White Lotus Rebellion, the Taiping Revolt, the Boxer Uprising, the Communist-led Revolution, strike waves of the 1930’s and 1957, the Cultural Revolution, the 1989 protests, and the Falungong protests of 1999-2000. Students will write a theoretically-informed research paper on a social movement of their choice.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: D. Kelley
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • HIST 357 - Non-Violent Opposition to British Imperialism: M. Gandhi


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD, WR
    This colloquium concentrates on, but is not limited to, the life of Mohandas Gandhi. Parallel to our study of Gandhi’s life in India, England, and South Africa, we analyze indigenous Indian and European notions about issues like non-violent activism and moral and secular law. Students, through research papers, compare and contrast M. Gandhi’s conception and practice of non-violence with the strategies of other nationalists or social reformers.
    Enrollment Limit: 16
    Instructor: M. Fisher
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • HIST 382 - Seminar: Climate Change and Disaster in History


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Environmental Studies
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    Using both scientific and historical evidence, this seminar examines case studies of climate-related disasters around the world from ancient and modern times. We will look at why some societies collapsed in the face of natural climate changes and how others persevered, and consider whether historical examples hold any relevance as we confront global warming today.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: S. White
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • HIST 383 - Seminar: Islam and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Middle East and North Africa
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, CD
    This course follows the history of political Islamic thought and activism from the rise of Islam until present. It studies concepts such as authority, political succession, resistance, and jihad in the Qur’an, Hadith and classical Islamic law. It reads medieval texts from Islamic theology, philosophy, and mirrors of princes on the same issues. Finally, it studies Islamic thought and movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in colonial and post-colonial contexts.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: Z. Abul-Magd
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • HIST 393 - History and the Formulation of U.S. National Security Policy and Strategy


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4SS
    New course added 10.23.12.

    This course considers how history should be an integral factor in the formulation of national security strategy and policy. The course will define strategy and policy and then use case studies of security issues from the post World War II period such as the Cold War, North Korea, Vietnam, Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Student interest and background will be considered in case study selection. Not available to students who have previously taken History 241.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: J. Kim
    Prerequisites & Notes
    One 100-level survey in History or the equivalent.

  

  • HIST 396 - Seminar: US Foreign Policy and MENA


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, CD
    American presence in the Middle East went through different stages from WWI until the present. The U.S had a controversial role the region during and after the Cold War, and there is a current debate on whether it is acting now as an empire. This course analyzes the U.S. strategic interests and its relation with the different regimes in MENA. It critically studies issues of oil, Israel-Palestine conflict, globalization, democratization, occupation, and terrorism.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: Z. Abul-Magd
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • HIST 398 - Seminar: Archiving Sex: Researching America’s Sexual Pasts


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, WR
    The main goal of this course is to produce a 20-25 page research paper on some aspect of the history of American sexualities. Students will identify a paper topic, survey relevant secondary material, and conduct basic primary research. The course will emphasize research methods, effective writing strategies for long papers, peer critique and support, and oral presentations skills.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: P. Mitchell
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite & Notes: Recommended preparation is History 265 or its equivalent.
  

  • HIST 399 - Seminar: European Missions in the Global Age, c. 1500-1700


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 SS
    For many Europeans, the Reformation raised fundamental questions about religion. The simultaneous discovery of a new world with no knowledge of the Christian God opened the door for an opportunity to build a new, pristine Church. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, thus, witnessed a wave of missionary zeal. This course explores the writings of European missionaries who sought to bring Christianity to all corners of the world, focusing especially on sources concerning Asia and America.   
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: D. Wasserman
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    History 101 or the equivalent
  

  • HIST 405 - Colloquium: Environmental Disasters in the USSR


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, WR, CD
    The course introduces students to key environmental disasters in Russia, Ukraine, and Central Asia during the Soviet period, 1917-1991. The disappearance of the Aral Sea, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and the Virgin Lands campaign receive particular attention and emphasis. In addition to these key events, readings also investigate the idiosyncratic ways in which the Soviet authorities approached science, the environment, and demography.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: M. Dumancic
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • HIST 406 - Motion Picture Censorship


    Next Offered: 2013-2014
    Semester Offered: Second Semester 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS
    For a century American movies have operated within controversial systems that define the boundaries of cinematic expression. Whether censored by state and municipal governments, contained within Hollywood’s Production Code Administration, or rated by today’s industry ratings agency, movie makers maneuvered at the boundaries of cultural expression and economic ambition. We consider new theoretical approaches to censorship, then explores film makers responses, and the ambiguous and shifting results. Several landmark films are screened. The course is letter-grading only; no P/NP option.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: C. Koppes
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • HIST 423 - Colloquium: (US)SR: Comparative Cold Wars


    Next Offered: 2013-2014
    Semester Offered: First Semester 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, CD
    How the United States and Soviet Union experienced, contributed to, and were affected by the Cold War. The course examines not only foreign policy in both countries and their blocs but cultural and social trends and how they were influenced by and, in turn, affected the onset, perdurance, and ultimate demise of the Cold War.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: M. Dumancic, C. Koppes
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Background in Russian and/or United States history highly desirable.
  

  • HIST 427 - Colloquium: Borderlands


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, WR, CD
    The US-Mexico border region is a political, economic, and cultural crossroads. The course investigates interactions between Native Americans and Spanish colonists beginning in the 16th century, emerging United States economic and political control during the 19th century, and immigration, community building, and civil rights movements in the 20th century. We also discuss la frontera as a literary and symbolic concept.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: P. Mitchell
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    History 270, Latina/o History is strongly encouraged as preparation for this course.
  

  • HIST 443 - Colloquium: Crisis of Confidence: American History and Culture in the 1970s


    Next Offered: 2013-2014
    Semester Offered: First Semester 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, WR, CD
    Explores the decade between the ‘groovy 60s’ and ‘Age of Reagan’ as a distinct era in American history and a critical period whose legacies continue to inform our contemporary world. Through consideration of developments including Watergate, the oil crisis, white backlash, the ‘Battle of the Sexes,’ and punk music, we interrogate how such moments shed light on contestations over national identity, inclusion, and power in an era regarded as a high point of American cynicism.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: S. Lee
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • HIST 444 - Colloquium: Gender, Marriage, and Kinship in China


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    East Asian Studies
    Next Offered: 2013-2014
    Semester Offered: First Semester 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, WR, CD
    A colloquium exploring the construction of gender, varieties of marriage, and conceptions of family in China from imperial times to the present. Special attention will be paid to the state’s attempts to shape ideals and enforce norms in these areas, along with the response of various groups in the society to those efforts.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: D. Kelley
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Suggested preparation: History 105, History 106, or equivalent.
  

  • HIST 451 - Colloquium: The French Empire


    Next Offered: 2013-2014
    Semester Offered: Second Semester 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, WR, CD
    This advanced colloquium will consider issues of French colonialism since the 18th century. Particular issues include: causes of imperial expansion; slavery in the French empire; imperialism and republican ideology; the role of the colonial army; the wars of decolonization in Southeast Asia and Algeria; immigration to metropolitan France and the origins of French multiculturalism. Frequent presentations and short papers. Readings in French available for students with proper language proficiency.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: L. Smith
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • HIST 464 - Colloquium: History of Vietnam


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    East Asian Studies
    Next Offered: 2013-2014
    Semester Offered: Second Semester 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, WR, CD
    A colloquium emphasizing reading and discussion. The course will examine the history of Vietnam from the beginnings to the present. A topical approach will be taken through a variety of readings structured chronologically. Topics will cover pre-colonial history and society, colonialism and nationalism, and Vietnam?s struggle for national independence and security, in both national and international contexts.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: D. Kelley
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • HIST 465 - Colloquium: Histories of Second Wave Feminisms


    Next Offered: 2013-2014
    Semester Offered: First Semester 2013-2014
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, WR, CD
    This course takes a wide-ranging view of the re-emergence of the struggle over the status of women in American society between the 1950s and the 1980s to explore the multiple feminisms that took shape, and their relation to social and cultural developments. It focuses in particular on the competing narratives constructed to explain the histories of this social movement, taking into account differences in race, class, religion, ethnicity, employment, sexuality, health, education and immigration.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: C. Lasser
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
  

  • HIST 469 - Colloquium: Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, WR
    This course is designed to introduce students to the Western museum as a history-specific institution from the late 18th century. Museums are particular set of practices and institutions which produce, organize, and structure dominant knowledge. The birth of the museum is entwined with the birth of the modern and its systems of organization and classification. Through readings, museum visits, projects, and discussions the class will encourage students to understand the museum as a social text. (NB: this was formerly taught as HIST 312.)
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: S. Volk
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Credit cannot be earned for both HIST 469 and HIST 312.
  

  • HIST 470 - Colloquium: Transnational History in Northeast Asia


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    East Asian Studies
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, CD
    This course explores the history of China’s Northeast (`Manchuria’) as a site for challenging the boundaries imposed by histories of the nation-state. The histories of Japan, the United States, Britain, France, China and Russia will be interwoven to examine the region’s transformation from sparsely populated Manchu homeland, to staging ground for Japanese imperialism, to scene of Mao Zedong’s triumph over the Nationalists in the Chinese Civil War of 1945-49. (NB: this course was previously taught as HIST 353)
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: E. O’Dwyer
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Credit cannot be earned for both HIST 470 and HIST 353.
  

  • HIST 471 - Colloquium: Arab Spring: Revolution and State in MENA


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, CD
    The ‘Arab Spring’ has its deep roots in the modern history of the region. This course investigates revolutionary dynamics and the formation of post-revolutionary states from the colonial period to the present. It focuses on states such as Egypt, Syria, Libya, Iran, and Tunisia. It covers crucial themes such as the role of military, ideologies, peaceful tactics of protests, Islamic movements and parties, economic transformations, use of technology in mobilization, and constitution writing.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: Z. Abul-Magd
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    HIST 122
  

  • HIST 472 - Colloquium: Early Modern Atlantic World


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 SS, CD
    This seminar explores the cultural, economic, and intellectual networks gradually integrating disparate societies around the Atlantic basin from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Central to this historiographic examination are prominent themes that came to characterize the Atlantic such as migration, creolization, imperialism, the slave trade, maritime trade, piracy, and cross-cultural encounter.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: M. Bahar
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    History 103 or equivalent
  

  • HIST 473 - Colloquium: Violence and Terror in Early America


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 SS, CD
    This seminar explores the myriad functions of violence and terror in the development of American society from the early colonial period through the mid-nineteenth century. We will interrogate both the definition of these terms as well as the inter-national, inter-cultural, and inter-personal contexts in which early Americans experienced them. Prominent themes include Euro-American-American Indian warfare, imperial contestation, piracy and maritime violence, slavery and servitude, and sexual violence.

    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: M. Bahar
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    History 103 or equivalent
  

  • HIST 474 - Colloquium: Jews, Muslims, and Christians in the Mediterranean World, c. 1100-1650


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 SS
    Although Jews, Muslims, and Christians coexisted for years, some of history’s most tragic events originated in conflicts among these groups. But too often, we have misunderstood these clashes as the result of mere zealotry. Through recent scholarship on the Mediterranean during the medieval and early modern centuries, this course examines events and institutions considered today as offensive to western ideas of liberty (e.g., the Crusades, the inquisitions, the Islamic dhimmi system, forced expulsions, and slavery).   
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: D. Wasserman
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    History 101 or the equivalent
  

  • HIST 475 - Colloquium: Inquisitions in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, c.1200-1800


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 SS
    Few institutions in history are as infamous as the Inquisition. It represents some of the most notorious instances of intolerance and violence produced by religious belief. Our knowledge of this institution, however, too often relies upon myth. This course, thus, explores how religious authority functioned during a time very different from our own. Readings examine scholarship not only on Spain’s Inquisition but also on inquisitions elsewhere in Europe and the Americas. 
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: D. Wasserman
    Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    History 101 or the equivalent
 

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