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Course Catalog 2008-2009 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Oberlin College Courses

 
  

  • HIST 203 - The Royal Treatment: The Construction of Charismatic Leadership throughout History


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 SS

    New course added 05.13.08.

    King. Tyrant. Dictator. Hero. Why do people follow a leader? What kind of power do leaders have? Does gender make a difference? How have religious leaders, popular writers, and political theorists used the idea of Kingship? This class explores leaders such as Augustus Caesar, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Elizabeth I and Shaka Zulu to deconstruct the meaning of royal power, the circumstances leading to its creation, and its significance to the societies in which it exists. Enrollment limit: 20.
    Instructor: S.M.Miller
  

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


    Next Offered: 2009-10
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS

    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 211 - Social History of European Consumerism


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 SS

    New course added 05.13.08.

    This course examines the cultural and social history history of consumers and consumption in Europe . Readings introduce historiographical controversies about the rise of a consumer society and its impact on Europe from the eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries. Looking at tea, textiles, other commodities, and culture itself, we explore how people ascribed meaning to the goods and services they bought, and how attitudes and “taste” changed over time. Enrollment limit: 35.
    Instructor: D. Shull
  

  • HIST 214 - Economic History of the Modern Middle East and North Africa


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS

    This course examines the economic history of countries in the MENA region, including Egypt, Turkey, Algeria, Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia from the nineteenth century to the present. It follows their experiences of ‘great transformations’ of the world. We look at how societies in this region became peripheries of European economies under colonialism, and subsequently, how they experienced socialist regimes, managed their oil, and are now living through market economy reforms. Enrollment limit: 30.
    Instructor: Z. Abul-Magd
  

  • HIST 215 - Italy During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 SS

    New course added 05.13.08.

    After the fall of Rome, the social, political and economic landscape of Italy changed dramatically from the cosmopolitan world that had existed under the Caesars. This course examines important developments in medieval Italian history including the Rise of the Papacy, the creation of civic communes, the growth of humanism, and the origins of modern banking and corporations, all of which contributed to the phenomenon known as the Italian Renaissance. Enrollment limit: 35.
    Instructor: S.M.Miller
  

  • HIST 219 - Social History of Disease and Public Health in Europe


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 SS

    This course examines the European experience of disease in a series of case studies from the Black Death to HIV/AIDS. Diseases stimulated the creation of new technologies and institutions, shaping cultural values and beliefs that, in turn, shaped the way humans experienced and understood disease. These disease-human interactions changed over time, as people continually modified their societies, environments, and behavior and interacted in new ways with diseases, plants, and animals. Enrollment limit: 30.
    Instructor: D. Shull
  

  • HIST 221 - Revolutions of 1989


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    REES
    Next Offered: 2009-10
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 SS, CD, WRi

    This course will examine the overturning of the post-war European order by a series of largely peaceful revolutions in 1989. Topics include: the rise of dissident and popular protest movements; the events of 1989 itself; the legal, political, economic, intellectual, and social consequences of the transition from Communist to post-Communist societies; the problem of dispensing justice for Communist crimes; the reunification of Germany; and the break-up of Yugoslavia. Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Instructor: A. Sammartino
    Prerequisites & Notes
  

  • HIST 222 - Modern Germany and Eastern Europe, 1848-1989


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, WR, CD

    How should a community constitute itself politically? What does it mean to be a citizen? What is the relationship between the state and the nation? These questions were at issue throughout modern Central European history. We will examine the various answers offered to this question over this period: from nationalists to social democrats to Nazis and Communists. To contextualize these issues further, we will integrate theories of nationality, ethnicity, and identity into our empirical readings. Enrollment Limit: 35.
    Instructor: A. Sammartino
  

  • HIST 224 - Twentieth Century Europe, I: 1900-1945


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    REES
    Next Offered: 2010-2011
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 SS

    This course focuses on the near self-destruction of European civilization as it unfolded in the first half of the 20th century. Particular topics include: the cultural, diplomatic, and political fragility of Europe in the “Belle Époque;” World War I, the failed attempt at returning to “normalcy” in the 1920’s; the disintegrating European empires; the Great Depression; the rise of fascism; and World War II. Mixture of lecture and discussion. Enrollment Limit: 40.
    Instructor: L. Smith
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: HIST 102 or AP credit in European history.
  

  • HIST 225 - Twentieth Century Europe, II: 1945-Present


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    REES
    Next Offered: 2010-2011
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 SS

    This intermediate-level course examines the political, social, and cultural forces that changed Europe in the decades following the end of World War II. Using a variety of media as sources, we will examine defining events like the Cold War, decolonization, the upheavals of 1968, the rise of the welfare state, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the Yugoslavian wars. Throughout, we will pay special attention to the notion of “Europe” as a unifying identity. Enrollment Limit: 40.
    Instructor: A. Sammartino
  

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


    Next Offered: 2009-10
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 SS, 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: 60.
    Instructor: L. Smith
  

  • HIST 229 - Gender in Modern Europe, 1789-1989


    Next Offered: 2010-2011
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 SS, CD, WR

    This course will examine how gender roles, gender expectations and the opportunities for participation for men and women changed over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries. We will be using gender as a way of gaining greater insight into different forms of social and political organization. We will also be using these forms of social and political organization as a way of understanding how ideologies of gender function in diverse contexts. Enrollment Limit: 30.
    Instructor: A. Sammartino
  

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


    Next Offered: 2009-10
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 to 4 Hours
    Attribute: 3 to 4 SS, CD, WR

    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 234 - Good and Evil: Ethics and Decision Making in the Holocaust


    Next Offered: 2010-2011
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 to 4 Hours
    Attribute: 3 to 4 SS, CD, WR

    This course focuses on the decision making of five groups: German civilians, Jews, allies, churches, rescuers, and bystanders during the Nazi era; on the often unconscious value judgments that we bring to the study of this subject; and the basis for expectation that individuals, groups, or governments behave ethically in extreme situations. Aside from readings, some films and possible lectures by outside specialists will be required. Previous historical study of the Holocaust strongly recommended. Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Instructor: S. Magnus
    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-listed with JWST 234.
  

  • HIST 235 - East European Jewry, 1772-1939: Adaptation, Innovation, and Crisis


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    REES
    Next Offered: 2010-2011
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 SS, CD, WR

    This course explores the transformation of East European Jewry from the partitions of Poland through the rise of the Soviet Union and the facsist regimes of interwar Poland. Studies include: the Musar and Jewish enlightenment movements; government Jewry policies and Jewish responses; economic and demographic change; Jewish nationalism, Jewish socialism; Jewish political parties and strategies; the birth of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature; massive emigration; and Jewish strategies under overtly anti-Jewish regimes in the interwar period.
    Instructor: S. Magnus
    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-listed with JWST 235.
  

  • HIST 237 - Women in Jewish Society, Antiquity to Modernity


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    GSFS
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD, WR

    Topics in Jewish women’s history from antiquity to the 20th century, examining ‘normative’ constructions of women’s roles, idealized constructions of Jewish maleness and femaleness, and realities of gendered behavior. Using rabbinic and communal materials, women’s letters, memoirs and rituals, explores family and power relations between women and men; women’s economic functions and power; women, men, and religion; transformation of roles in modernity; gendered responses to persecution; feminism. Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Instructor: S. Magnus
    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-listed with JWST 237.
  

  • HIST 238 - History of Medicine


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 SS

    New course added 10.13.2008.

    This course introduces students to some major conceptual problems in the history of medicine. It focuses on critical problems, including medicalization, ethics, inequalities, and mind/body problems, both for their inherent interest, and as illustrations of the ways historians think about medicine. Students who want to study areas not covered in the assigned readings can do so in their term papers. Enrollment Limit: 30.
    Instructor: J. Sadowsky
  

  • HIST 244 - The United States in the Second World War


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 SS

    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: 35.
    Instructor: R. Romano
  

  • HIST 246 - American Orientalism


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD

    Asking how ideas about  “Orientals” shaped articulations of American identity, this course examines the cultural and intellectual history of American Orientalism beginning in the late 1700s. We focus on domestic discourse and Asians and Asian Americans in the U.S. Topics include: writings about Chinese “coolies” after the Civil War; inscription of abnormal sexuality on Asian bodies during America’s modernization; Cold War origins of the Model Minority; return of the ‘Yellow Peril’ in contemporary life.
    Instructor: S. Lee
    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-listed with CAST 246.
  

  • HIST 251 - U.S. Foreign Policy


    Next Offered: 2009-2010
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS

    This course analyzes the United States as a world power from World War I to the present. Topics receiving emphasis are World War II, the Cold War, Vietnam, and recent developments in the Middle East. Conflicting historiographical interpretations receive particular attention. Enrollment Limit: 35.
    Instructor: C. Koppes
  

  • HIST 253 - The Shaping of Contemporary America


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS

    An analysis of political, social, and cultural issues in United States history since 1960.  The course will emphasize the shifting dynamics of American politics, with attention to foreign policy and to various liberation movements in dialogue with the political process. Since 2008 is an unusually fluid presidential election year, the course will pay particular attention to presidential elections and voting patterns from 1960 to the present. Enrollment Limit: 30.
    Instructor: C. Koppes
  

  • 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) :
    LATS
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD

    The American West occupies a special place in American history. This course will survey 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. Themes will include: the West as geographic region, the West as place of cultural mixing, and the West of desire and fantasy. Enrollment Limit: 50.
    Instructor: S. Lee
  

  • HIST 258 - Industrial Revolution in America


    Next Offered: 2009-10
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 SS, WR

    The development of the United States from an overwhelmingly agrarian society to the world’s premier industrial power, ca.1790-1890. Topics include the origins of American capitalist development and of mechanization; rise of the 19th century metropolis; sources of labor radicalism; the impact of immigration; the growth of big business; industrialization and the Civil War; consumer culture; class struggles and the great strikes of the Gilded Age. Lecture/discussion format; independent research projects in primary sources. Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Instructor: G. Kornblith
  

  • HIST 259 - Revolutionary America and the Early Republic


    Next Offered: 2009-10
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 SS, CD, WR

    The transformation of American society, economy, culture, and politics from 1750 to 1820. Topics include the cultural diversity of late colonial society; imperial crisis and causes of the American Revolution; the construction of a federal government; race, class, and gender in the new nation; market expansion and the spread of slavery; deference, democracy, and capitalism in the formation of an “American character.” Lecture/discussion format; independent research projects in primary sources. Enrollment Limit: 20.
    Instructor: G. Kornblith
  

  • HIST 260 - Asian American History


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    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: 40.
    Instructor: S. Lee
    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-listed with CAST 260.
  

  • HIST 263 - American Civil War and Reconstruction


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Law and Society
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, CD, WR

    A critical examination of the causes, course and consequences of the Civil War. Topics include slavery and the development of the sectional crisis; abolitionism, antislavery politics, and the emergence of the Republican party; secession; the military experience; the meaning of emancipation; and the dilemmas of Reconstruction. Emphasis on primary sources and recent scholarship in social and political history. Lectures, online and in-class discussions, videos. Enrollment Limit: 30.
    Instructor: G. Kornblith
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Recommended Preparation: HIST 103 or its equivalent.
  

  • HIST 265 - American Sexualities


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    GSFS
    Semester Offered: Second 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: 25.
    Instructor: P. Mitchell
  

  • HIST 267 - Nineteenth Century American Women: Cultures, Politics and Identities


    Next Offered: 2009-2010
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 SS, CD

    This course explores the social, political and economic histories of different racial, ethnic, religious and cultural groups of women to develop an understanding of the varieties of womanhood in nineteenth century America. Topics addressed include: colonization, slavery, the differential impact of industrialization, the ideologies of woman’s sphere, education, activism, and power. Enrollment limit: 35.
    Instructor: C. Lasser
  

  • HIST 268 - Oberlin History as American History-canceled


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3-4 hours
    Attribute: 3-4SS, CD

    This course is canceled effective 10.13.08.

    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: 25
    Instructor: C. Lasser
    Prerequisites & Notes
    No first-year students.
  

  • HIST 270 - Latina/Latino Survey


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    GSFS, LATS
    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: 25.
    Instructor: P. Mitchell
  

  • HIST 273 - Globalization and Capitalism


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4SS

    This class will explore world economic history from Columbus to the present with a focus on rising global interconnectedness, on the one hand, and widening global inequalities, on the other. We will address issues such as the rise of Western economic hegemony, the role of colonies and environmental factors in economic development, the making of global markets, and whether globalization is something old or new. Some background in economics preferred but not essential. Enrollment limit: 25.
    Instructor: S. White
  

  • 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
    Next Offered: 2009-2010
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 SS, 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 282 - The Invention of Asia


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    EAST
    Next Offered: 2010-2011
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 SS, CD

    Examines the contact Europeans and Americans have had with Asian societies and peoples from antiquity to modern times and how they ‘invented’ a variety of Asias. Key questions include: How do these conceptions of Asia reflect on Westerners’ changing attitudes toward their own societies and on historical and intellectual developments in the modern West? How have they mediated Western contact with Asians and Asian societies? Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: D. Kelley
  

  • HIST 283 - Environmental Histories of South Asia


    Semester Offered: First 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


    Semester Offered: First 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 286 - World War II in Asia, 1931-45


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    East Asian Studies
    Next Offered: 2010-2011
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 SS, CD

    This course examines World War II on the entire Asian continent and covers East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and the Pacific Islands. The course considers traditional subjects such as diplomatic, political, and military history, but also newer fields such as social and cultural history. Enrollment Limit: 40.
    Instructor: L. Smith
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: Recommended preparation HIST 226, or course work in Japanese, Chinese, South Asian, or Korean history.
     
  

  • HIST 287 - Japan’s Empire, 1895-1945


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD

    This course examines the political, social, and economic development of Japan’s empire, with attention to the dynamic exchange between metropolitan center and colonial periphery. Analysis of individual colonies and spheres of influence will emphasize both the diversity of imperial structures of rule and competing rationales for empire that complicated the coherence of the project as a whole. Additional topics include: comparative colonialism, ‘imperial democracy,’education, women’s roles, resistance and postwar repatriation. Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Instructor: E. O’Dwyer
  

  • HIST 293 - Dirty Wars and Democracy


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Hispanic Studies, LATS
    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 294 - The United States and Latin America


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    LATS
    Next Offered: 2010-2011
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 SS, CD, WR

    In this course we will explore an overview of the basic elements which have shaped the United States presence in Latin America and the way in which Latin America has been represented in the United States from the early nineteenth century to the present day, exploring both official (public) policy as well as the impact of corporations and the market, ideology, cultural representations, the media, and others. Enrollment Limit: 40.
    Instructor: S. Volk
  

  • HIST 296 - Early Modern Russia


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    REES
    Next Offered: 2009-10
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 SS, CD

    This course examines the period from the consolidation of the Muscovite state under Ivan III (1462-1505) through the emergence of a powerful empire under Peter I and Catherine II over the course of the 18th c. Topics include the nature of autocratic rule; expansion into the steppe and across Siberia; serfdom; Orthodoxy; gender and female rule; aristocratic culture and the life of the provincial nobility. Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: H. Hogan
  

  • HIST 297 - The Soviet Union/Russia Since 1953


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    REES
    Next Offered: 2010-2011
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 SS, CD, WRi

    Beginning with the impact of World War II on Soviet society, this course explores the domestic consequences of Stalinism and the early Cold War; the reform initiatives of Khrushchev; the ‘stagnation’ of the Brezhnev period; Gorbachev’s program of glasnost and perestroika; the dramatic collapse of the Soviet Union and the establishment of the Yeltsin regime; and the Putin presidency. Focus will be on socio-economic conditions and popular culture. Major research project.
    Instructor: H. Hogan
    Prerequisites & Notes
  

  • HIST 298 - Russia in Central Asia


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    REES
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD

    A survey of the relationship between core Russian lands and the cultures and polities of Central Asia, beginning with early interactions of sedentary and nomadic peoples on the Eurasian steppe. Topics include: the rise of Islamic states in the region, their Perso-Islamic cultural and religious traditions and Turko-Mongolian political practices; the question of ‘decline’ of Central Asian khanates; colonization and conquest; imperial policies toward the steppe and Muslim peoples; the Soviet transformation of Central Asia. Enrollment limit: 25.
    Instructor: H. Hogan
  

  • HIST 301 - The Politics of Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Europe


    Next Offered: Second Semester 2010
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD, WR

    This seminar examines European women’s history from the twelfth century to the French Revolution. By situating their lives within evolving social, economic, political and religious structures, we consider how women have acted individually and collectively, as agents of change and defenders of tradition, and how changing notions of gender have shaped communities, individuals and institutions. Topics include mysticism and sainthood, family and marriage, household production, witchcraft and scientific enquiry. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment limit: 12.
    Instructor: E. Wurtzel
  

  • HIST 306 - Germans and Jews


    Next Offered: 2009-10
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 to 4 Hours
    Attribute: 3 to 4 SS, CD, WR

    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; on the creativity, tensions, hopes of that stance and its resonance 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. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 15.
    Instructor: S. Magnus
    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-listed with JWST 306.
  

  • HIST 307 - Seminar: Jewish Memoirs & Memory


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2-4 hours
    Attribute: 2-4SS, CD, WR

    Explores cultivation of memory in Jewish tradition and the emergence of a genre of writing about the self in a culture that emphasizes the collectivity. Readings about memory and writing and selected memoirs from early Jewish modernity to the present, looking at motivation for writing; intended and actual audience; the role of gender and class in memory and writing; the relationship between personal and collective identity and experience; and memoirs as sources of Jewish history. Note: prior study of Jewish history (HIST 131 or 132 or equivalent) recommended. Consent of Instructor Required. Enrollment limit: 12.
    Instructor: S. Magnus
    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-listed with JWST 307
  

  • HIST 309 - Seminar: Modern Jewish Identity


    Next Offered: 2010-2011
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    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. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 15.
    Instructor: S. Magnus
    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-listed with JWST 309.
  

  • HIST 310 - Marx and Marxism


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, WR

    This seminar examines one of the most important modern thinkers and his intellectual legacy. After spending a few weeks on an intensive analysis of Marx’s own work, we will explore later 20th century interpretations of Marxism. Throughout this course, we will be concerned with the evolution of such concepts as class, ideology, political engagement, and capitalism. We will also investigate the relationship between Communist politics and the philosophical work of Marxists in the twentieth century.
    Instructor: A. Sammartino
  

  • HIST 312 - Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge


    Next Offered: 2009-2010
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3 SS, WR

    Every museum is a narrative, every visit to a museum a chance to explore the ways that narrative shapes and reflects how we think about the past and the present, underlying ideologies that represent or challenge dominant thought, and assumptions about how we learn. This course is intended for students interested in the way we look at and “conserve” the past via the organization of material culture, and in how museum design and practice reflects contemporary epistemology, ethnography, nationalism and colonialism. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 12.

     
    Instructor: S. Volk
    Prerequisites & Notes
  

  • HIST 313 - The French Empire


    Next Offered: 2009-2010
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 to 4 Hours
    Attribute: 3 to 4 SS, CD, WR

    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. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 12.
    Instructor: L. Smith
  

  • HIST 314 - Existentialism


    Next Offered: 2009-10
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 SS

     This course explores the history of European existentialism. We shall examine the major themes of existentialism (authenticity vs. inauthenticity, meaninglessness, absurdity, freedom and anguish, etc.) through reading philosophers such as Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre and de Beauvoir. We will be looking both at the development of existentialism as a philosophical trend and at the ways that existentialist philosophers anticipate, inspire and respond to political events. Consent of instructor required.
    Instructor: A. Sammartino
  

  • HIST 315 - From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic: Europe and the Sea from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Era


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4SS

    New course added 05.13.08.

    Seas have been potent vectors for trade, cultural exchange and imperialism for Western Europe. This course investigates the shifting importance to Europeans of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. We read primary sources including Renaissance merchant notebooks, medieval crusade accounts, and missionary writings as well as the well-developed secondary literature to examine the meaning of theses shifting seas in trade, politics, religion and culture. Enrollment limit: 15.
    Instructor: S.M. Miller
  

  • HIST 319 - Migration in 20th Century Europe


    Next Offered: 2009-10
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 SS

    This course will explore migration in 20th century Europe. We will investigate a wide range of topics from European responses to asylum seekers, to the integration of former colonial subjects and labor migrants, and the responses of these migrants to European culture and society. Throughout we will be questioning the various meanings assigned to migration throughout this period as well as evolving notions of belonging in Europe. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 12.
    Instructor: A. Sammartino
  

  • HIST 323 - Liberty and Power, Democracy and Slavery in Jacksonian America


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, CD, WR

    An exploration of the cultural dynamics, social relations, economic forces, and political structures that shaped the lives of ordinary Americans-African American, Euro-American and Native American; male and female; rich, middling, and poor; urban and rural; northern and southern, eastern and western; native-born and immigrant-between approximately 1820 and 1850. After reading Alexis de Tocqueville’s classic analysis of Jacksonian democracy, we will focus on recent case studies and current scholarly controversies. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 14.
    Instructor: G. Kornblith
  

  • HIST 325 - Native American History, ca. 1450-1900


    Next Offered: 2010-2011
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 SS, CD, WR

    Explorations in the history of Native American peoples from before the European invasion of North America through the end of the 19th century. Topics include social diversity in North America on the eve of European contact; dynamics of early Indian-European encounters; causes of demographic decline among Native Americans; accommodation and resistance to Euro-American expansion; relations with African Americans; assimilation, adaptation, and rejection of Euro-American values and behavioral norms. Heavy reading load; discussion-based pedagogy. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 12.
    Instructor: G. Kornblith
  

  • HIST 327 - Borderlands


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    GSFS, LATS
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3-4 hours
    Attribute: 3-4SS, CD, WR

    The American Southwest, roughly the United States-Mexico border area from Texas to California, is a political, economic, and cultural crossroads. We will investigate interactions between Native Americans and Spanish colonists beginning in the 16th century, emerging United States economic and political control during the 19th century, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, land dispossession, the Mexican Revolution, immigration, civil rights, and 20th century demography. We also discuss borderlands as a literary and symbolic concept. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 12.
    Instructor: P. Mitchell
  

  • HIST 328 - American Mixed Blood


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD, WR

    From the coyote and the half-breed to the ‘tragic’ mulatto, people of mixed ethnic and racial heritage occupy a conflicted and controversial place in American history. This course will chart the histories of people of mixed heritage from the colonial period to the present, exploring the relationship between the historical experiences of mixed heritage and broader trends in American history including slavery, imperialism, legal transformation, and changing cultural patterns. We will also consider current social theories of hybridity and mestizaje. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 12.
    Instructor: P. Mitchell
  

  • HIST 329 - Perfecting the World: Abolition and Radical Movements in the United States before the Civil War


    Next Offered: 2009-10
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4SS

    Early nineteenth century American radicals optimistically believed they could identify and resolve the evils their society faced. This course explores their ideas, their organizational strategies, and the impact of their efforts to end slavery and racism; promote temperance and peace; affirm Native American  and women’s rights; and establish utopian communities. Readings and discussion will position students to pursue major research projects in primary sources.
    Instructor: C. Lasser
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of the instructor is required.
  

  • HIST 332 - Historical Memory in the United States


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4SS

    This seminar examines the ways American history is presented in monuments, films, museums, theme parks, products, and commemorations. We look at how representations of the past influence the construction of identity and shape political arguments about contemporary issues. Through study of diverse topics from the Alamo to civil rights memorials, students analyze how public representations of the past can become contested sites of political and racial struggle. Enrollment limit: 15. Consent of the instructor required.
    Instructor: R. Romano
  

  • HIST 333 - The Cold War


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS

    Why the Cold War came about and what it means are the subjects of this colloquium. Emphasizing clashing historiographical interpretations, the course focuses on the period from the end of World War II to 1960. In addition to traditional great power policy issues, the course addresses ambiguities of the “cultural” Cold War and the paradoxes of race (domestically and internationally) and the Cold War. Enrollment Limit 12.
    Instructor: C. Koppes
  

  • HIST 339 - Motion Picture Censorship


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS

    For a century American movies have operted within controversial systems that have defined 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, moviemakers have maneuvered at the boundaries of cultural expression and economic ambition. After considering new theoretical approaches to the question of censorship in various media, the colloquium explores the impulses behind various drives foer censorship, filmmakers’ responses, and censorship systems’ ambiguous and shifting results. Several landmark films will be screened.  Enrollment Limit: 12.
    Instructor: C. Koppes
  

  • HIST 342 - Race, Gender, and American Social Movements


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    GSFS
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD

    We consider theories of social movements and take comparative approach to the study of the black freedom struggle, the Asian American movement, and Latino movement, among others. We also discuss struggles that cross (and complicate) ethnic and racial identity such as feminism, gay rights, and third world liberation. Enrollment Limit: 12.
    Instructor: S. Lee
    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-listed with CAST 342
  

  • HIST 344 - Gender, Marriage and Kinship in China


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    EAST
    Next Offered: 2009-2010
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 to 4 hours
    Attribute: 3 to 4 SS, CD, WR

    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: 12.
    Instructor: D. Kelley
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Recommended Preparation: HIST 105/ 106, or equivalent.





  

  • 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: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3-4 hours
    Attribute: 3-4SS, CD, WR

    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. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 15.
    Instructor: D. Kelley
    Prerequisites & Notes
    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :  East Asian Studies
  

  • HIST 352 - The City in Japanese History


    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

    This course examines physical and cultural aspects of Japanese cities over time. Ancient cities were based on the Chinese imperial model. In medieval times an emerging market economy led to the proliferation of urban sites and the beginnings of a distinctive urban culture. Castle towns predominated during the Tokugawa period, complete with a thriving bourgeois culture. In modern times Japan became an industrialized society whose intellectual and social character was grounded in an urban base. Consent of the instructor required. Enrollment limit: 12
    Instructor: S. Gay
  

  • HIST 353 - 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): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, 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. Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: E. O’Dwyer
  

  • HIST 356 - The British Empire in Asia and Africa


    Next Offered: 2010-2011
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 SS, CD, WR

    Examines origins and development of British imperialism in Britain, India, China, and Africa, from the 17th through the 20th centuries. Common readings and individual research projects explore issues including: What changes within Britain, Asia, and Africa led to their incorporation within the Empire? What resulted from their interactions? What forces culminated in the disintegration of the Empire? Finally, what were the legacies of the Empire for Britain and the former Asian and African colonies? Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 15.
    Instructor: M. Fisher
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of the instructor is required.
  

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


    Semester Offered: Second 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. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: M. Fisher
  

  • HIST 359 - On the Road in Mughal India


    Next Offered: 2009-10
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 SS, CD, WR

    What was life actually like for Asian and European travelers in Mughal (16th-19th century) India? Original travel narratives by Indians, other Asians, and Europeans described the everyday experience of travel from the perspective of the particular author, her/his natal culture, and the travel narrative genre.  In addition to readings about the theory and praxis of travel writing, each student undertakes a substantial research project on a select traveler and her/his narrative.  Enrollment Limit: 15.
    Instructor: M. Fisher
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required.
  

  • HIST 360 - History of Vietnam


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    East Asian Studies
    Next Offered: 2009-10
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 to 4 Hours
    Attribute: 3 to 4 SS, CD, WR

    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. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 12.
    Instructor: D. Kelley
    Prerequisites & Notes
     

     
  

  • HIST 361 - The Mexican Revolution: Birth, Life, Death


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Hispanic Studies, LATS
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD, WR

    The Mexican Revolution is widely studied and thoroughly disputed. This seminar engages the argument by exploring the bloody origins, institutionalization, and (perhaps) demise of the Revolution. Whether or not the Revolution happened, it did produce a rich historiography, as well as epic cultural artifacts. Our analysis of the Revolution will follow the chronology of its historiographic and cultural products. Classes will be organized and discussions led by students. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 15.
    Instructor: S. Volk
  

  • HIST 367 - Narrating the Nation: Historical and Literary Approaches to Nationalism


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    LATS
    Next Offered: 2009-2010
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 2 HU, 2 SS, CD, WR

    This course offers an analysis of the narratives through which nationalisms acquire credibility and authority. This discussion-centered class will examine the nationalisms of Latin America, the Caribbean, and South Asia with particular reference to those of Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Haiti, and India. Narrative theories as deployed in and by the disciplines of History and English literary studies provide the overarching critical methodologies for interdisciplinary analysis. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 25.
    Instructor: A. Needham, S. Volk
    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-listed with ENG 386.
  

  • HIST 371 - The Russian Intelligentsia in the Late Imperial Period


    Next Offered: 2009-10
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 SS

    This course examines the social and cultural construction of the Russian intelligentsia, its self-identity, and its intellectual products. We will read some of the great works of social, political and literary commentary on such topics as the Slavophile-Westernizer debates, nihilism and populism, Social Democracy and the “worker question”, liberalism, the crisis of values at the turn of the century. Readings will include works by Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Lenin. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 12.

     
    Instructor: H. Hogan

  

  • HIST 379 - Stalinism


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    REES
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD,WR

    This course explores in depth the origins and nature of Stalinism and focuses in particular on recent historiographical approaches to the study to Stalinism. Among the topics to be explored are everyday life under Stalin, the literature of personal experience, and the impact of the 2nd World War on Soviet society. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 12.
    Instructor: H. Hogan
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: Suggested preparation HIST 108.
  

  • HIST 381 - Colonial and Post-Colonial States in the Middle East and North Africa


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD

    Through monographs, fiction, documentaries and movies, this course examines issues of state, social and cultural formations in the region during colonial and post-colonial periods. Looking at states such Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Sudan, Algeria, Morocco, Iran and Turkey, we study issues of modernity and capitalism, national identities, nation and gender, rise and fall of Arab nationalism and socialism, democratization and economic liberalization, societies of “oil,” Islamic movements, and, finally, globalization. Enrollment limit: 12.
    Instructor: Z. Abul-Magd
  

  • HIST 382 - Climate Change and Disaster in World History


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    ENVS
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4SS

    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
  

  • HIST 392 - Victorian London


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 SS

    This course thematically explores London, the “city of dreadful delights,” focusing on the urban experience over the course of the long nineteenth century. We examine the growth of Victorian London and the challenges that urbanization presented to laissez-faire liberalism. Topics include the demographic foundations of the city; the city’s aesthetics and opportunities for leisure; the netherworld of crime and prostitution; public health and housing; and the numerous plans for reform promoted throughout the era.  Enrollment limit: 12.
    Instructor: D. Shull
  

  • HIST 393 - Prejudice and Policy in Victorian Britain


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4SS

    New course added 05.13.08.

    Proud of their liberal philosophy and representative government, many Victorian Britons, also betrayed an undercurrent of deep-rooted prejudice towards those they defined as “the other”: Catholics, the Irish, the working classes, colonial subjects, and, many times, women. We examine the nature of prejudice in Victorian Britain: its origins and its relationship with the fashionable science and “pseudo-science” of the day, its impact on legislation and modes of government, and its legacy. Enrollment limit: 12.
    Instructor: D. Shull
  

  • HIST 395 - Method in Modern European History


    Next Offered: 2010-2011
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3 SS, WR

    An advanced historiographical colloquium exploring the paradigms underpinning the writing of European history since the 19th century. Particular varieties of history to be read include: ‘scientific,’ Romantic, and nationalist approaches to history; the Annales School; Marxist history; the evolution of “political” history; feminist history; and contemporary cultural history. Frequent presentations and short papers. Consent of instructor required.
    Instructor: L. Smith
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: HIST 102 or equivalent.
    Note: This course is designed for, but not limited to, junior history majors. 
     
  

  • HIST 501 - Senior Honors


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-4 hours
    Attribute: 1-4SS

    The goal of the seminar is to provide a forum for discussing progress and problems in carrying out honors projects, and to establish a sense of shared enterprise among honors students. Discussions will include methodology, research methods, and progress reports on individual projects. Consent by department invitation.
    Instructor: Staff
  

  • HIST 502 - Senior Honors


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 1-4 hours
    Attribute: 1-4SS

    The goal of the seminar is to provide a forum for discussing progress and problems in carrying out honors projects, and to establish a sense of shared enterprise among honors students. Discussions will include methodology, research methods, and progress reports on individual projects. Consent by department invitation.
    Instructor: Staff
  

  • HIST 900 - OCEAN: American History


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2-4 hours
    An interpretive survey of American history from precolonization to the recent present this course introduces students to a variety of approaches to the study of history and develops students’ capacities to read both primary and secondary materials.  Students write a research paper based on primary source material.
    Instructor: Staff
  

  • HIST 995 - Private Reading


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 0.5-3 hours
    Attribute: 0.5-3SS

    Independent study of a subject beyond the range of catalog course offerings. Private readings and Honors information is on the History web site at www.oberlin.edu/history and the Registrar’s page at www.oberlin.edu/regist. Available faculty members are listed on these sites as well. Consent of instructor required.
    Instructor: M. Fisher, H. Hogan, D. Kelley, C. Koppes, G. Kornblith, C. Lasser, S. Lee, S. Magnus, P. Mitchell, A. Sammartino, L. Smith, S. Volk, R. Romano
  

  • HPRF 111 - Historical Performance in Context: Music of France


    Semester Offered: Second Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    First of a projected set of four courses designed to introduce students to a wide range of styles. Each course focuses on the music of a different country and will include an overview of the significant repertoire as well as the historical context (art, politics, and society). NB students who participate as performers earn 1 credit; non-performers who do only the academic work receive .5 credit.
    Instructor: D. Breitman
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of the instructor required. Limit: 30.
  

  • HPRF 112 - Historical Performance in Context: Music of England


    Next Offered: [2009-2010]
    Semester Offered: First Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    One of a set of four courses designed to introduce students to a wide range of styles. Each course focuses on the music of a different country and will include an overview of the significant repertoire as well as the historical context (art, politics, and society).
    Instructor: D. Breitman
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required. Limit 30.
  

  • HPRF 113 - Historical Performance in Context: Music of Italy


    Next Offered: [2009-2010]
    Semester Offered: Second Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    One of a set of four courses designed to introduce students to a wide range of styles. Each course focuses on the music of a different country and will include an overview of the significant repertoire as well as the historical context (art, politics, and society). The course will be team-taught by members of the HP program and guests.
    Instructor: D. Breitman
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required. Limit 30.
  

  • HPRF 114 - Historical Performance in Context: Music of Germany


    Semester Offered: First Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    One of a set of four courses designed to introduce students to a wide range of styles. Each course focuses on the music of a different country and will include an overview of the significant repertoire as well as the historical context (art, politics, and society). The course will be team-taught by members of the HP program and guests.
    Instructor: D. Breitman
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of the instructor required. Limit: 30

     
  

  • HPRF 302 - Introduction to Historical Performance


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: DDHU

    What does a score tell us? What does it not tell us? And what is expected of the performer? A study of changing performance styles in music from the 19th century to the Middle Ages. Topics include the evolution of instruments, ensembles, and orchestras; and conventions of rhythm, tempo, articulation, phrasing, and ornamentation. Students will compare editions and prepare an edition themselves. Enrollment Limit: 30.
    Instructor: D. Breitman
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites and Notes
    Prerequisites: MHST 101, and one 200-level Music History course, or consent of the instructor.
     
     

    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-listed with MHST 302. Also see HPRF 502.
  

  • HPRF 303 - Seminar in Performance Practice


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    For students specializing in Historical Performance. Close reading of historical treatises, and the application of precepts found in the treatises to actual performance, workshop-style, in class.
    Instructor: D. Breitman
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: HPRF 302 (or MHST 302).
    Enrollment Limit: 10
  

  • HPRF 312 - Special Topics in Performance Practice


    Semester Offered: Second Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 1 hour
    Topic: TBA

    One group meeting and one individual meeting per week, schedule TBD.
    Instructor: D. Breitman
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: HPRF 302 (or MHST 302). Also see HPRF 512.
    Note: May be repeated for credit if the topic changes
    Consent of instructor required
    Enrollment Limit: 30
  

  • HPRF 312B - Special Topics in Performance Practice


    Semester Offered: Second Semester, Second Module
    Credits (Range): 1 Hours
    Topic: TBA
    Instructor: D. Breitman
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: HPRF 302 (or MHST 302). Also see HPRF 512B.
    Note: May be repeated for credit if the topic changes
    Consent of instructor required
    Enrollment Limit: 30
  

  • HPRF 502 - Introduction to Historical Performance


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: DDHU

    Enrollment Limit: 30.
    Instructor: D. Breitman
    Cross List Information
    This course is cross referenced with HPRF 302 but with additional assignments for graduate students.
  

  • HPRF 503 - Seminar in Performance Practice


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    Topic TBA
    Instructor: D. Breitman
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Enrollment Limit: 10.
     

    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-referenced with HPRF 303, but with additional assignments for graduate students.
  

  • HPRF 512 - Special Topics in Performance Practice


    Semester Offered: Second Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Topic TBA
    Instructor: D. Breitman
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: HPRF 302/502 or MHST 302.
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 30.

    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-referenced with HPRF 312 but with additional assignments for graduate students.
  

  • HPRF 512B - Special Topics in Performance Practice


    Semester Offered: Second Semester, Second Module
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Special Topics in Performance Practice
    Instructor: D. Breitman
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: HPRF 302/502 or MHST 302.
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment Limit: 30.

    Cross List Information
    This course is cross-referenced with HPRF 312B but with additional assignments for graduate students.
  

  • HPRF 521 - Graduate Studies in Historical Performance


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester, First Module
    Credits (Range): 1 to 2 Hours
    This course constitutes an extension to ‘Historical Performance in Context’ (HPRF 111, 112, 113, 114), which is to be taken concurrently. Students will undertake one or two independent research projects relating to the performance practice of national repertoires, to be designed in collaboration with their applied teacher. Two (2) hours of HPRF 521 will be required of each Historical Performance graduate student.
    Instructor: D. Breitman
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Consent of instructor required.
    Enrollment limit: 30. 
    For graduate students in the Historical Performance program.
  

  • HPRF 521B - Graduate Studies in Historical Performance


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester, Second Module
    Credits (Range): 1 to 2 Hours
    This course constitutes an extension to ‘Historical Performance in Context’ (HPRF 111, 112, 113, 114), which is to be taken concurrently. Students will undertake one or two independent research projects relating to the performance practice of national repertoires, to be designed in collaboration with their applied teacher. Two (2) hours of HPRF 521 will be required of each Historical Performance graduate student.
    Instructor: D. Breitman
  

  • INDV 000 - Interdivisional Courses


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 0

    For a complete listing of courses available in this area, please see:catalog.oberlin.edu/content.php
  

  • ITAL 101 - Beginning Italian I


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 5 Hours
    Attribute: 5 HU, CD

    Taught in Italian. Acquisition of the fundamentals of grammar and pronunciation with an emphasis on elements of grammar. The course is designed for beginners and no previous experience or study of Italian is anticipated. Consent of instructor required. Enrollment Limit: 22 (11 places for Conservatory students).
    Instructor: I. DiSiena
  

  • ITAL 102 - Beginning Italian II


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 5 Hours
    Attribute: 5 HU, CD

    Taught in Italian. Continuation of ITAL 101 completing coverage of grammar with an emphasis on reading, writing, conversation, and general oral skills. Enrollment Limit: 22 (11 places for Conservatory students).
    Instructor: I. DiSiena
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: ITAL 101 or consent of instructor or appropriate score on placement test.
  

  • ITAL 995 - Private Reading


    Semester Offered: First and Second Semester
    Credits (Range): .5 to 3 Hours
    Attribute: .5 to 3 HU, CD

    Signed permission of the instructor is required.
    Instructor: I. DiSiena
 

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