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Course Catalog 2010-2011 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Oberlin College Courses Offered in 2010-11 (and planned offerings in future years)

 
  

  • GREK 202 - Herodotus


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    Readings and discussion of selections from Herodotus’ Histories in Greek, supplemented by readings from the critical literature.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: K. Ormand
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: GREK 201 or equivalent.
  

  • GREK 304 - Greek Lyric Poetry


    Next Offered: 2011-2012

    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    Reading of the major Greek Lyric poets, including Archilochus, Anacreon, Bacchylides, Simonides, and Solon. Particular attention to the works of Sappho, in their literary and social context. We will study the development of a lyric genre or genres, with attention to erotic, political, and satiric themes. Secondary readings on individual authors and their influence.
    Instructor: K. Ormand
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: GREK 202 or equivalent.
  

  • GREK 305 - Sophocles


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    Readings, discussion, and papers on the tragedy of Sophocles. Close analysis of Oedipus Tyrannus and a survey of the criticism and scholarship dealing with Sophocles.
    Instructor: T. Van Nortwick
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: GREK 202 or the equivalent.
  

  • GREK 306 - Homer’s Odyssey


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    Careful reading of selections from the Odyssey, with a survey of the criticism and scholarship on the poem. Special attention to issues of heroism and gender.

     
    Instructor: T. Van Nortwick
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: GREK 202 or equivalent.
  

  • GREK 307 - Comedies of Aristophanes


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    We will read one Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazousae in Greek, and most of the other extant plays in English translation. We will also review recent scholarship on Aristophanes, with a particular focus on his comedies as political commentary, as literary criticism, and as evidence for social and sexual norms in Classical Athens.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: K. Ormand
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: GREK 202 or the equivalent.
  

  • GREK 501 - Senior Project


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3-6 hours
    Attribute: 3-6HU
    Intensive work on a topic selected in consultation with a member of the department, culminating in a presentation of a paper or other project.

     
    Instructor: K. Ormand
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: Senior major standing and invitation of the department.
  

  • GREK 502 - Senior Honors


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3-6 hours
    Attribute: 3-6HU
    Intensive work on a topic selected in consultation with a member of the department, culminating in a presentation of a paper or other project.

     
    Instructor: K. Ormand
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: Senior major standing and invitation of the department.
  

  • GREK 995 - Private Reading


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 0.5-3 hours
    Attribute: 0.5-3HU
    Readings on topics selected upon consultation with a faculty member.



    Enrollment Limit: 5
    Instructor: B. Lee, K. Ormand, T. Van Nortwick, A. Wilburn
    Consent of the Instructor Required? A signed Private Reading Card must be submitted to the Registrar’s Office
  

  • GSFS 200 - HIV/AIDS in Africa


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This course examines the evolution of HIV/AIDS in Africa—focusing on Sub-Saharan Africa, which bears two-thirds of the global epidemic. Grounding our analysis in historical, political-economic and sociocultural processes, we will analyze the effects of the epidemic at the individual, family, community, national, and regional levels. Students will develop an understanding of responses to the epidemic and examine the current debates, research, and programmatic interventions.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: P. Kibera
  

  • GSFS 300 - Maternal Health and Black Women


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    Black women of childbearing age around the globe have worse maternal health indicators and outcomes than their non-Black counterparts. These indicators stem from life-long poverty, racism, gender discrimination, and limited life opportunities. This course examines the complex interplay of socio-historical factors and lived experiences affecting Black women’s health during reproductive years and assesses public health efforts geared toward improving their maternal health.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: P. Kibera
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • GSFS 302 - Politics of Rape: Gender, Race, and Sexual Violence in American History


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 hour
    Attribute: 1SS
    This mini-course, taught by Stanford History Professor Estelle Freedman, explores the intersections of gender and race in the historical construction of rape in America, with a focus on changing definitions, laws, and cultural representations. How have changes in the economy, the family, and politics reshaped sexual values and behaviors, and how have individuals and groups responded to these changes? We will meet five times during the week of September 12. Consent of instructor (Romano) required.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: R. Romano
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • 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: M. Kamitsuka
    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 hours
    Attribute: 0 EX
    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: R. Romano
    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: R. Romano
    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. Martínez-Tapia
    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: M. Boyle, C. Guijarro-Cazorla, L. Martínez Marco
    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: F. Gómez Herrero

    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 293 - Dirty Wars LxC


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 1 Hour
    Attribute: 1 HU, CD
    New Course Added 08.03.10

    This is an optional one-credit course allowing students enrolled in Prof. Volk’s HIST 293, Dirty Wars and Democracy, to earn an extra credit by attending a one-hour discussion section in Spanish and doing part of their coursework in Spanish. Only open to students enrolled in HIST 293 whose Spanish is at the Intermediate or higher level (having passed, or being concurrently enrolled, in HISP 203 or equivalent.)
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: S. Volk
    Prerequisites & Notes
    HISP 202
  

  • 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: M. Boyle, A. Cara, C. Tovar
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Note: This course fulfills prerequisites for upper-division literature courses and may be counted for the major or minor.
  

  • HISP 306 - Primer Encuentro: Hispanic Studies Colloquium on Literature and Film


    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
    A first encounter with the main ideas and literary currents that have contributed to create the field of Hispanic Studies. Students will analyze poems, short stories, essays, plays, and films from Spain and Latin America in light of current literary theory. Authors and directors studied include Almodovar, Neruda, Borges, Cervantes, etc. The course will also allow students to develop research and academic writing skills. Designed particularly for freshmen and sophomores, this colloquium serves as a bridge to the Spanish-taught upper level courses. Offered every year; taught in Spanish.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: M. Boyle, C. Guijarro-Casorla
  

  • HISP 307 - Segundo Encuentro: Hispanic Studies Colloquium on Short Stories and Films


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    This course is canceled effective 10.29.2010.

    An exploration of short stories and films using the main ideas and literary currents that have contributed to create the field of Hispanic Studies. We will particularly focus on a practical analisis of relevant contemporary short stories and films from Spain and Latin America in light of current literary, aesthetic and cultural theories. Films featured include Amores Perros, Los lunes al sol, La cancion de Carla, etc. Designed particularly for freshmen and sophomores, but open to all students, this colloquium serves as a bridge to the Spanish-taught upper level courses. Taught in Spanish.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: V. Pérez de León
  

  • HISP 309 - Survey of Spanish Literature I: Humor and Horror


    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
    This course is a survey of some of the most representative works that have shaped the canon of Early Modern Literature in Spanish. Special attention will be paid to Humor and Horror, as two topics that are part of Hispanic literature from its origins. Novels and short stories to be read include Lazarillo de Tormes, Don Quijote, Cervantes and Zayas’ Exemplary Novels, La Celestina and Noches Lugubres. The frame of the course will be established through different theoretical approaches to humor and laughter, and a study in depth of horror - a generic term that will include fantasy, witchcraft, necrophilia, etc. Taught in Spanish.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: V. Pérez de León
  

  • HISP 310 - Survey of Spanish Literature II: Women in Law, Literature, and Film


    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
    This course will study some of the most prominent Spanish authors and filmmakers from the eighteenth century to the present (Pérez Galdós, Pardo Bazán, Lorca, and Almodóvar, among others), focusing on Spanish women’s legal and cultural history. We will examine how their works reflect on different social, legal and cultural attitudes towards women and their rights, or lack of rights. 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


    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
    A panoramic approach to names, texts and contexts, issues, and situations originating within a Latin American frame vis-à-vis Europe and the US. The signs “literature” and “culture” provide the excuse for a trip through time and geography: the “Latin” or “Hispanic” or “Spanish” portion of the American continent, mostly in the 20th century. Issues: politics and aesthetics, imperialism/colonialism, nation formation, the “modern” making of the “Third World,” the canon, high culture vs. pop culture. Taught in Spanish.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: F. Gómez-Herrero
  

  • HISP 327 - Surrealism Narrative from Center to Margins


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    This course will begin with manifestoes and non-fictional texts by Breton and Aragon, and film, paintings, and collage-novels by Buñuel, Dalí and Ernst, and move to two “margins of Europe” where Surrealism was particularly strong, Latin America and Eastern Europe. Texts by Bombal, Rulfo, Felisberto Hernández, Cortázar, early García Márquez, Walser, Schulz, and Gombrowicz; paintings and films by Varo, Kahlo, Carrington, Svankmajer, and the Quay Brothers. Taught in English.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: P. O’Connor
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with CMPL 327.
  

  • HISP 330 - México After the Earthquakes


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    The roller-coaster last 25 years of Mexican history, culture, and politics: “the lost decade,” new women’s writing, neo-liberal hopes, a revived film industry, new indigenist revolts, another economic crash, the end of a one-party system, and border crises, all as seen in the writings of Mastretta, Fuentes, Palou, Subcomandante Marcos, Volpi, and Rivera Garza, and the films of Rotberg, del Toro, Cuarón, González Iñárritu, and Reygadas. Taught in Spanish.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: P. O’Connor
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: HISP 304 or equivalent.
  

  • HISP 331 - Enacting Identities: Introduction to Spanish Theater and Performance


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3HU
    New Course Added 10.29.2010.

    This course aims to give students a working vocabulary for the study of theater and performance in Spain from the Renaissance to the present, underscoring theoretical and historical dimensions and the stage’s relation to race and gender. By examining the ways in which identities are staged throughout Spanish history, we will explore the intersection between major cultural events and theatrical performance. Playwrights studied will include Lope, Ana Caro, Calderón, Moratín, Zorrilla and García Lorca. Taught in Spanish.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: M. Boyle
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
  

  • HISP 339 - Latin American Cityscapes


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3HU
    New course added 10.29.10.

    Buenos Aires, México City, Havana, Lima: like art, culture and tradition, urban architecture is a conversation between generations carried out across time and all around us, affecting us sometimes to the core. In this course, we will look at prints, maps, photography, film, and literature in order to develop an understanding of the conversation between Latin American urban spaces and society, and their connection to identity and memory formation. Taught in Spanish.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: C. Tovar
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
    Prerequisites & Notes
    HISP 304 or equivalent.
  

  • HISP 344 - Images of the Other: The Construction of Immigration in Contemporary Spanish Literature and Cinema.


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3HU
    New course added 10.29.2010.

    During the last two decades Spain has attracted a rising number of immigrant communities from North Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe. In this course, our goal will be to examine portrayals of how immigration has transformed Spain and continues to change the face of Spanish national identity. We will examine and discuss concepts of “race,” “culture” and “ethnicity” within the literary and audio-visual works studied in the class in their social and historical contexts. Taught in Spanish.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: C. Guijarro Cazorla
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
    Prerequisites & Notes
    HISP 304 or equivalent.
  

  • HISP 356 - Hispanic America in Verse


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    An exploration of poetry from Latin America, the Caribbean and Latino/a U.S. Special attention will be paid to Nobel Poets from this area (Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz) but also to regional and popular poets. The course will begin with Rubén Darío and Modernismo and then will focus on the twentieth century, with references to earlier traditions. Taught in Spanish.
    Enrollment Limit: 20
    Instructor: A. Cara
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Hisp 304 or equiv.
  

  • HISP 407 - Grandes Novelas Grandes: Cortázar, García Márquez, Roa Bastos, Bolaño


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    A close reading of four “great big” Latin American novels: Rayuela (Cortázar, 1963), Tres tristes tigeres (Cabrera Infante, 1965), Cien años de soledad (García Márquez, 1967), and, Thirty years after the “Boom” caused by these great writers, Los detectives salvajes (1998) by Roberto Bolaño. Myth, metafiction, magical realism, tyranny, and the loss of all these things. Taught in Spanish.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: P. O’Connor
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Two Spanish-Taught 300-level courses.
  

  • HISP 408 - (Neo)Baroque: Culture of Excess


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 Hours
    Attribute: 3 HU, CD
    Baroque, Barroco: i.e, the marvellous, complex, shocking, weird, queer—excess. In the seventeenth century, it was the “first” international style, connecting both sides of the Atlantic, a tool of absolutism and colonialism. In the twentieth, the neo-baroque becomes the trademark style of Latin(o) American intellectuals, filmmakers, artists (Carpentier, Lezama Lima, Sarduy, González Echevarría, Gómez-Peña). We consider literary figures (Góngora, Calderón, Quevedo), painters (Velázquez), (art) historians, philosophers (Ortega, Deleuze, Bataille). Taught bilingually (Span/Eng), writing in Spanish, other languages welcome.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: F. Gómez Herrero
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisites: Two Spanish-taught 300-level courses.
  

  • HISP 409 - Bad Girls on Stage in Early Modern Spain and Spanish America


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3HU, CD
    In both Early Modern Spain and Spanish America, the figure of the “bad girl” includes, for example, prostitutes, single women, orphans, abused wives, brainy women and back-stabbing girlfriends. Against the backdrop of the Spanish Inquisition, this course rethinks the “bad girl” by examining early modern plays, chronicles and institutional manuals. We will also watch her adapted into contemporary popular films in order to examine the relationships between gender, deviance, spectacle and rehabilitation. Taught in Spanish.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: M. Boyle
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Prerequisite: Two Spanish-taught 300-level courses.
  

  • 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 examines the social, political, and aesthetic dimensions of tango. By looking at dance, music, lyrics and other tango manifestations - complemented by films, recordings, printed documents, and guest speakers - students 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. Taught in Spanish.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: A. Cara
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with CMPL 410
  

  • HISP 500 - Hispanic Studies Capstone


    Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 0
    Attribute: 0HU
    All majors will designate one 400-level course taken in their senior year as their capstone course. In addition to the normal coursework, the capstone includes a substantive individual project and a public presentation. See http://new.oberlin.edu/arts-and-sciences/departments/hispanic_studies/capstonehonors.dot
    Instructor: P. O’Connor
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • 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
    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: 20
    Instructor: A. Cara, S. Faber, E. Martínez-Tapia, P. O’Connor, B. Sawhill, Staff, K. Tungseth-Faber
  

  • 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: 30
    Instructor: E. Wurtzel
  

  • HIST 102 - Modern European History


    Semester Offered: First 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: 30
    Instructor: L. Smith
  

  • HIST 103 - American History to 1877


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    Central issues in the development of American society, culture, and politics from the eve of European colonization through the close of Reconstruction. Emphasis on modes of historical analysis and important scholarly controversies. Topics include: 17th century cultural encounters; origins of American slavery and racism; dynamics of nation-building; the growth of capitalism and democracy in the early republic; race, class, and gender in the antebellum North and South; causes and consequences of the Civil War. Lecture/discussion format.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: G. Kornblith
  

  • 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: 60
    Instructor: C. Koppes, R. Romano
  

  • 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
    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
    Prerequisites & Notes
    Identical to EAST 122.
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with East 122
  

  • HIST 107 - Russian History I


    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: 3SS, CD, WR
    An introductory survey of Russian history from earliest times to the mid-19th c. Beginning with an overview of the Kievan Rus and the Mongol overlordship, we will explore the diverse influences of the steppe, Orthodox Christianity, and `the west’ on the nature of the Muscovite and Imperial Russian state, the relationship between state and society, the formation of national and imperial identities, and dominant cultural values.
    Enrollment Limit: 40
    Instructor: M. Dumancic
  

  • 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: Fall 2011
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    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
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
  

  • 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: Spring 2012
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    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
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
  

  • 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
  

  • HIST 122 - Modern History of the Middle East and North Africa, 1800 to 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 125 - Pre-modern African History


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This class will trace the development of human civilization in Africa from ‘Lucy’ to the European Age of Exploration in the 15th and 16th century. The Sahara desert will be used as a centerpiece for connecting not only West, East, and North African experiences, but also connecting these experiences with Mediterranean, Islamic and Indian Ocean regions. Key themes include the Agricultural Revolution, the Bantu Migration, the spread of Christianity and Islam, trade and state construction.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    Instructor: B. Yates
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with AAST 203
  

  • 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
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    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
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with JWST 131
  

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


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    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 From 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: R. Adal
    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: R. Adal
    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
  

  • 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 180 - Global Environmental History


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Environmental Studies
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This course explores the ways that humans have shaped the environment and that the environment has shaped human history from earliest times to the present. Topics range from the collapse of ancient civilizations to medieval plagues to modern pollution and climate change.
    Enrollment Limit: 45
    Instructor: S. White
  

  • HIST 205 - Silk Road Pipelines: The Great Powers in Central Asia, 1813-Present


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3 SS
    The Caucuses and Central Asia (which includes Afghanistan) have been at the center of global economic competition that defined much of the 19th and 20th centuries. This course examines how the interactions /conflicts between the native populations and the so-called Great Powers (Great Britain, Russia, China, and the U.S) shaped both the region and international politics in the modern era.
    Enrollment Limit: 30
    Instructor: M. Dumancic
  

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


    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 213 - First Wave American Feminism


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3 SS, 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
    Prerequisites & Notes
     
  

  • HIST 215 - The History and Ideologies of Museums


    Semester Offered: First Semester, first module
    Credits (Range): 2 Hours
    Attribute: 2 SS

    New course added 05.26.10

    The course deals with the European history of the collecting, displaying and managing of museum objects. Museums are seen as ideological in the sense that their ideas and their programs build on systems of values that have evolved over time. Topics íntroduced in this module are the history of institutional collecting, methods of collecting, uses and values of museum collections, unethical trade with art, and theories of conservation/preservation.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: M. Legnér
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
  

  • HIST 217 - Women and Gender in Islamic Law and Arab Legal Codes


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies
    Next Offered: 2011-12
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    This course studies how classical Islamic law and modern Arab legal codes deal with issues of women and gender. It looks at women and family in the Qur’an and Hadith. It then moves to the development of Islamic law and its rules on the subject. Finally, it follows the impact of the formation of modern codes in the Middle East with the rise of nation-states on women’s rights and position in contemporary Arab societies.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: Z. Abul-Magd
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

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


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD, WR
    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 226 - World War II and the Making of the 20th Century


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    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
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
  

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


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies
    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, WR, CD
    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: 35
    Instructor: A. Sammartino
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
  

  • HIST 231 - Invention of Japan


    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: 3 SS, CD
    New course added 05.24.10.

    Japanese cuisine, Japanese painting, Japanese dogs, Japanese sports, Japanese history, the Japanese race; there was a time when these concepts did not exist. How did they come about? When? Why? This course will trace how objects, animals, people, practices and concepts that are today considered Japanese were once understood as anything but Japanese, and how they were reinvented as part of modern Japanese culture.
    Instructor: R. Adal
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
  

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


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    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 in modernity. Selected memoirs from Europe and the US from early 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, and memoirs as sources of history. No prior background required.
    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


    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): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD, WR
    Focuses on the role of ethics in decision making in five groups during the Nazi era: German civilians; Jews; allies; churches; rescuers, and bystanders; on the often unconscious value judgments that we bring to historical study of this subject; expectations that individuals, groups, or governments behave ethically in extreme situations, and factors influencing and determining actual behavior during the Shoah. Aside from readings, films and possible lectures by outside specialists required. Background in Holocaust history recommended.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: S. Magnus
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with JWST 234.
  

  • 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; Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies
    Next Offered: Spring 2012
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, WR, CD
    This course explores the transformation of East European Jewry from the partitions of Poland through the rise of the Soviet Union and the fascist 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.

     
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: S. Magnus
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with JWST 235.
  

  • HIST 237 - Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Society, Antiquity to Modernity


    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

    Topics in Jewish women’s history and the construction of gender in Jewish society from Graeco-Roman antiquity to the present. Studies ‘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; gender 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 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 243 - Race Gender, and American Social Movements


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies
    Next Offered: Spring 2012
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, CD
    We consider theories of social movements and take a comparative approach to the study of the black freedom struggle, the Asian American movement, and Latina/o 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: 40
    Instructor: S. Lee
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with CAST 243
  

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


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    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 Americas 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 wars impact on gender, race, and sexual relations; propaganda and censorship; and popular culture.
    Enrollment Limit: 40
    Instructor: R. Romano
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
  

  • HIST 251 - U.S. Foreign Policy


    Semester Offered: First 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: 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
  

  • HIST 253 - Recent America: US Since WWII


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    An analysis of political, social, and cultural issues in United States history from World War II to the present. The course will emphasize political developments (especially the triumph of midcentury liberalism and the ensuing conservative response), the black liberation movement and other movements for civil rights, foreign policy (with emphasis on the Cold War and Vietnam and implications for life at home), changing family and identity constructs, economic shifts, and changing cultural paradigms in relation to political and social relations.
    Enrollment Limit: 35
    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) :
    Latin American Studies, Hispanic Studies
    Next Offered: Spring 2012
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    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
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
  

  • 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: Spring 2012
    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: 35
    Instructor: S. Lee
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
    Cross List Information This course is cross-listed with CAST 260.
  

  • HIST 268 - Oberlin History as American History


    Next Offered: Spring 2012
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    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
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
    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) :
    Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies; Hispanic Studies; Latin American Studies
    Next Offered: Fall 2011
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, WR, CD
    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? No
  

  • HIST 273 - Money and Other Fictions: Early Modern Capitalism and Finance


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4SS
    This course explores the creation of capitalism and finance through the historical novels of David Liss: The Coffee Trader, A Conspiracy of Paper, and The Whiskey Rebels. We will discuss the political, social, and economic history of each setting (Amsterdam in the 1640s, London in the 1730s, and Philadelphia and New York in the 1790s) and analyze the making of markets, money, speculation, trade, and industry in the early modern world.
    Enrollment Limit: 25
    Instructor: Staff
  

  • 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 282 - The Invention of 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
    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 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
    Next Offered: Spring 2012
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, WR, CD
    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
    Consent of the Instructor Required? No
    Prerequisites & Notes
    This course counts as a Latin American Studies core course.  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, 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 303 - Possession and Property in Medieval Europe


    Semester Offered: First Semester
    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 - Germans and Jews


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    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; 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.
    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 - The Cold War in the Soviet Bloc, 1945-1991


    Semester Offered: First semester
    Credits (Range): 4 Hours
    Attribute: 4 SS
    Although the Cold War is generally defined as an economic, political, and military face-off between the U.S. and the U.S. S. R., this course approaches the Cold War from a Soviet and East European perspective. We will study how the Cold War affected the lived realities of different ethnic, class, and gender groups in the Soviet bloc. This course will help students plan and complete a significant research project based on primary and secondary sources.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: M. Dumancic
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • HIST 312 - Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge


    Next Offered: 2012-2013
    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
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
    Prerequisites & Notes
  

  • HIST 313 - The French Empire


    Next Offered: 2011-2012
    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: 2013-2014
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS
    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.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: A. Sammartino
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • HIST 324 - Food and Drink in World History


    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, CD
    This seminar 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.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: S. White
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

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


    Next Offered: 2012-2013
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS, WR, CD
    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.
    Enrollment Limit: 14
    Instructor: G. Kornblith
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • HIST 327 - Borderlands


    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
    Next Offered: Spring 2012
    Semester Offered: Second Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3 SS, WR, CD
    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.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: P. Mitchell
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • HIST 328 - American Mixed Blood


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies
    Next Offered: Fall 2011
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 3 hours
    Attribute: 3SS, WR, CD
    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.
    Enrollment Limit: 12
    Instructor: P. Mitchell
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
  

  • HIST 331 - Race and Sexuality in United States History


    This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
    Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies
    Next Offered: Fall 2011
    Semester Offered: First Semester
    Credits (Range): 4 hours
    Attribute: 4SS
    In 1933, James Weldon Johnson argued that the ‘sex problem’ was deeply rooted in the ‘heart of the race problem.’  This upper-level seminar explores the many different ways in which race and sexuality have interacted with each other throughout American history. Topics include how racism is expressed and maintained through sexual discourses and practices, the relationship between sexuality and race in the construction of identity, and the historical and contemporary legacies of sexual racism today.
    Enrollment Limit: 15
    Instructor: R. Romano
    Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
 

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