HISTORY 1A:
Global History: The Ancient World (CLASSICS 76)
World history from the origins of humanity to the Black Death. Focuses on the evolution of complex societies, wealth, violence, and hierarchy, emphasizing the three great turning points in early history: the evolution of modern humans, the agricultural revolution, and the rise of the state.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 1B:
Global History: The Early Modern World, 1300 to 1800
Topics include early globalization and cross-cultural exchanges; varying and diverse cultural formations in different parts of the world; the growth and interaction of empires and states; the rise of capitalism and the economic divergence of "the west"; changes in the nature of technology, including military and information technologies; migration of ideas and people (including the slave-trade); disease, climate, and environmental change over time. Designed to accommodate beginning students, non-majors, and more advanced history students
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 1C:
Global History: The Modern Age
This course explores the heterogeneous forces that have shaped our modern world. Analyzing a variety of documents and sources, including memoirs, novels, and films, we will investigate how key political ideas have transformed societies, cultures, and economies across the globe from the late eighteenth century through to the present.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 3:
The Historical and Geographical Background of Current Global Events
This one-unit lecture course aims to provide the historical and geographical context necessary for understanding the most important global issues of the day. Weekly lectures will explore two or more major issues in some detail, illustrating them with maps, timelines, photographs, and other images. Topics are not planned in advance, but will instead reflect stories currently in the news.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 3 units total)
HISTORY 3A:
Making Palestine Visible (COMPLIT 42, CSRE 3A)
The course will discuss topics that inform the debate over Israel-Palestine. We will address common misperceptions, key themes, concepts, and issues and present information aimed at helping students understand the complex history and array of contemporary political, cultural and legal structures at play and how they tend to render Palestinian claims to rights illegible for much of the American public. This learning experience, incorporating discussion and clarification at its core, connects with the national and Stanford campus discussion of activism on Israel-Palestine.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1
HISTORY 3B:
Trans History: The Long View (FEMGEN 3B)
This mini-course explores the history of gender crossing and transgressions, broadly defined. A series of Stanford faculty and one visitor will present historical interpretations of who, why, and how individuals have crossed gender boundaries, as well as how different societies have reacted to gender crossing. The topics range across time from medieval to modern times and across geographic regions from Europe, China, and Iran to the Americas. Short reading assignments will be made available for each class meeting; students must attend all five sessions, complete the readings, and write a summary paper to receive one unit of credit for the series.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
HISTORY 3C:
Talking About Jews (JEWISHST 3C)
Professors Beinin and Zipperstein will initiate discussions on a broad range of topics related to Jews and Jewish identity in the modern world and then invite the class to join in the discussion. Topics include: Who are the Jews, secularism, Jewish capitalists and leftists, anti-Semitism, Israel and Zionism, Jews in American life. For the one unit option attendance at the discussions is required. For the three unit option, students will do the prescribed readings and attend a discussion section.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1
HISTORY 3D:
Dangerous Ideas (ARTHIST 36, EALC 36, ENGLISH 71, MUSIC 36H, PHIL 36)
Ideas matter. Concepts such as equality, progress, and tradition have inspired social movements, shaped political systems, and dramatically influenced the lives of individuals. Others, like freedom of the press, fact versus fiction, and citizenship play an important role in contemporary debates in the United States. All of these ideas are contested, and they have a real power to change lives, for better and for worse. In this one-unit class we will examine these dangerous ideas. Each week, a faculty member from a different department in the humanities and arts will explore a concept that has shaped human experience across time and space. Some weeks will have short reading assignments, but you are not required to purchase any materials.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
HISTORY 3E:
Michelle Obama in American Culture (AFRICAAM 3E, AMSTUD 3E, CSRE 3E, FEMGEN 3E)
Never before has the United States had a First Lady like Michelle Obama. During her eight years in the White House, Michelle Obama transformed traditional meanings of womanhood, marriage, motherhood, and style and created new possibilities for what it means to be strong and what it means to be beautiful. No First Lady has ever been so scrutinized but also so beloved: from her J. Crew dresses to her Let's Move campaign, from her vegetable gardens to her chiseled arms, and from her powerful speeches to her casual and always authentic personality. This class examines the impact on American culture of the most popular First Lady in American history.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
HISTORY 4:
Introduction to Geospatial Humanities (HISTORY 104)
This course introduces undergraduate students to the theory and methods of the geospatial humanities, understood broadly as the application of GIS techniques and other quantitative methods in the humanistic study of social and cultural patterns in past and present settings.
Last offered: Spring 2016
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 4N:
A World History of Genocide (JEWISHST 4N)
Reviews the history of genocide from ancient times until the present. Defines genocide, both in legal and historical terms, and investigates its causes, consequences, and global dimensions. Issues of prevention, punishment, and interdiction. Main periods of concern are the ancient world, Spanish colonial conquest; early modern Asia; settler genocides in America, Australia, and Africa; the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust; genocide in communist societies; and late 20th century genocide.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 5A:
History of Information: From Moveable Type to Machine Learning (HISTORY 105A)
Students who have taken HISTORY 205A/305A should not enroll in this course. Information has a history-- and it's not the one we've been told by Silicon Valley. In a series of propulsive, empirically rich, and provocative lectures and discussions, this course deep-dives into the history of information and IT, including moveable type, telegraphy, typewriting, personal computing, gaming, social media, algorithms, machine learning, Digital Humanities, and more. You will leave the course with entirely new perspectives on information, including how IT shapes-- and is shaped by-- culture, nationality, gender, ethnicity, economy, and environment.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
HISTORY 5C:
Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives (CSRE 5C, EMED 5C, FEMGEN 5C, HUMBIO 178T)
(Same as History 105C. History majors and others taking 5 units, enroll in 105C.) Interdisciplinary approach to understanding the extent and complexity of the global phenomenon of human trafficking, especially for forced prostitution, labor exploitation, and organ trade, focusing on human rights violations and remedies. Provides a historical context for the development and spread of human trafficking. Analyzes the current international and domestic legal and policy frameworks to combat trafficking and evaluates their practical implementation. Examines the medical, psychological, and public health issues involved. Uses problem-based learning. Students interested in service learning should consult with the instructor and will enroll in an additional course.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 5S:
Comparative Partitions: Pakistan, Israel, and the Modern World (FEMGEN 5S)
Modern maps of the world simplify history by portraying the partitioning of territory as adding another border to a map, a naturalized action in the histories of sovereignty. The partitions of India and Palestine in 1947 and 1948 involved division of territory, but were also influenced by international commitments to secure representation for religious minorities. This course focuses on the key global discussions deployed by Indian Muslims and European Jews to understand the nature of their demands for a nation and determine the historical situations that resulted in the creation of sovereign nations. These partitions demonstrate how events, people, geographies, histories and ideas are powerfully linked on a global scale.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 6Q:
Fairy Spotting: A Practicum in Historical Inquiry
A guided mini-research inquiry into the fae and related historical phenomena: stories about and beliefs in non-human, sentient beings with a separate society and different physical reality.
| Units: 3
HISTORY 6W:
Service-Learning Workshop on Human Trafficking (FEMGEN 6W)
Considers purpose, practice, and ethics of service learning. Provides training for students' work in community. Examines current scope of human trafficking in Bay Area, pressing concerns, capacity and obstacles to effectively address them. Students work with community partners dedicated to confronting human trafficking and problems it entails on a daily basis. Must currently be enrolled in or have previously taken History 5C/105C (FemGen 5C/105C, HumBio 178H, IR 105C, CSRE 5C/105C). (Cardinal Course certified by the Haas Center)
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
HISTORY 7E:
Islamic Routes: Archaeology and Heritage of Muslim Societies (ANTHRO 13A, ARCHLGY 13, HISTORY 107E)
How has archaeology changed our knowledge of the spread of Islam and past Muslim societies? How does archaeology shape heritage debates, conflicts and ideas about Islam today? Topics include the city and urban change, secular and religious life, gender, economy, and globalization. These topics are explored using archaeological and critical heritage approaches. Focus is on examples drawn from Syria-Palestine, Egypt, Iraq, Arabian Peninsula, India, and Africa. Sources include archaeological data and material culture, historical texts in translation, and photography.
Last offered: Autumn 2014
| Units: 3-5
HISTORY 7G:
Making Anglo-American Capitalism (HISTORY 107G)
This course addresses capitalism in global perspective to identify the roots of our current economic system. We will consider theories about capitalism, the politics and policies of implementation, and the human and environmental consequences through topics such as the imperial political economy, consumerism, plantation economies, the East India Company, and the rise of credit. Embedding markets in a range of social relations, cultural practices, and institutional arrangements, reveals how capital became an -ism in specific and knowable historical circumstances.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 7N:
Humanitarianism and Its Histories
This seminar will explore when and under what circumstances humanitarian sensibilities, including the idea of human rights, became powerful components of modern politics and ethical thinking. Far from being a straightforward ideology, humanitarianism has been invoked in myriad ways ¿ both idealistically and cynically ¿ in the course of modern history, in debates over phenomena as varied as slavery, colonialism, world war, genocide, famine, and immigration. As a result, contemporary ethical motivations for assisting those in need remain deeply shaded by humanitarianism¿s long engagement with political categories, ideologies, and practices of the past, including Christianity, race, liberalism, capitalism, and imperialism. We will examine the shifting narratives and media strategies that activists, NGOs, and governments have employed to draw widespread attention to crises and abuses from the late eighteenth century to the present.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
HISTORY 7W:
Service-Learning Workshop on Human Trafficking Part II (FEMGEN 7W)
Prerequisite: HISTORY6W (FEMGEN 6W). Continuation of HISTORY 6W (FEMGEN 6W). Students will continue working on their projects with their community partners. Several class meetings and small group consultations throughout the quarter. (Cardinal Course certified by the Haas Center)
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
HISTORY 8N:
Women Against War!
Course examines the presumed connection between women and peace and the political activity and authority this has inspired from the time of the ancient Greeks to the present. Begins with theoretical issues and historical origins of women¿s peace movements. Analyzes the changing forms of women¿s activism, exploring questions of motivation, legitimization, methods, values, goals, results, limitations, linkages to other issues of social justice, and the public reception of women¿s activist response to war.
| Units: 4
HISTORY 8S:
Counterinsurgency and Torture: Algeria, Vietnam, and Iraq
How are the post-WWII guerrilla wars in Algeria, Vietnam, and Iraq connected? How have French and American counterinsurgency planners applied ¿lessons learned¿ from prior wars? Are torture and violence against civilians the results of mishandled counterinsurgency, or are they inherent to the doctrine? Why have counterinsurgency strategies persisted despite long-term failures and public criticism? We will apply historical thinking to current debates by examining declassified government documents, films, photographs, music, television and radio broadcasts, memoirs, graffiti, and Oval Office tapes. Priority given to history majors and minors.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 8W:
Human Trafficking Service Learning
Continuation of service learning. Only for students who completed HISTORY 6W/7W. (Cardinal Course certified by the Haas Center)
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2
HISTORY 9N:
How to Start Your Own Country: Sovereignty and State-Formation in Modern History
What does it mean to start a country, or to acquire and possess sovereignty over a territory? This course will examine the historical evolution of fundamental concepts in our international system: state formation, statehood, and sovereignty. Each week will spotlight a case-study in which sovereignty and statehood have appeared greatly confused and hotly contested. These include: the UK-China lease for control of Hong Kong; the US Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay; the corporate state of the legendary British East India Company; and Disney World.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
HISTORY 10B:
Survey of Early Modern Europe
(Same as HISTORY 110B. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 110B.) Few historical settings offer a more illuminating perspective on our world today than old-regime Europe. Few cast a darker shadow. Science and the enlightened ambition to master nature and society, the emergence of statehood and its grasp for human mobility, bloodshed and coexistence in the face of religious fragmentation, as well as capitalism and the birth of modern finance: this course surveys some of the most consequential developments in European societies between the late fifteenth and the early nineteenth century.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
HISTORY 10C:
The Problem of Modern Europe
(Same as HISTORY 110C. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 110C.) From the late 18th century to the present. How Europeans responded to rapid social changes caused by political upheaval, industrialization, and modernization. How the experience and legacy of imperialism and colonialism both influenced European society and put in motion a process of globalization that continues to shape international politics today.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 3
HISTORY 10N:
Thinking About War
This course examines classic approaches to war as an intellectual problem, looking at how a matter of such great physical violence and passions can be subjected to understanding and used in philosophy, political theory, and art. Questions to be examined include the definition of war, its causes, its moral value, the nature of its participants, its use in the self-definition of individuals and societies, its relation to political authority, warfare and gender, and the problem of civil war.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 10SC:
Biography in History, Fiction, and Elsewhere
How biographers, novelists, critics and others have written about the rhythms of life the lives of the famous as well as the obscure - will be explored in this course. Biographical writing can be frivolous, but at its best it has the capacity to undercover so much of life's richness, complexity, and confusions. We'll study biography with the use of some of the most resonant, compelling examples of the genre. Together we'll read books about poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, Henry James Aspern Papers, the brilliant novel on biographical writing, A. S. Byatt's Possession, and Norman Mailer on Marilyn Monroe. How one chooses one topic over another; the differences and similarities between the representation of lives in fiction and biography; the benefits and pitfalls of an intense identification with one's own subjects these and other matters will be examined. We'll meet in San Francisco with local writers wrestling with issues of this sort, and students will be encouraged to try their hands at writing about lives based on research, personal observation, or both.
Last offered: Summer 2012
| Units: 2
HISTORY 11N:
The Roman Empire: Its Grandeur and Fall (CLASSICS 26N)
(Formerly CLASSHIS 24N.) Preference to freshmen. Explore themes on the Roman Empire and its decline from the 1st through the 5th centuries C.E.. What was the political and military glue that held this diverse, multi-ethnic empire together? What were the bases of wealth and how was it distributed? What were the possibilities and limits of economic growth? How integrated was it in culture and religion? What were the causes and consequences of the conversion to Christianity? Why did the Empire fall in the West? How suitable is the analogy of the U.S. in the 21st century?
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:IHUM-3, WAY-SI
HISTORY 11S:
Dante's World: A Medieval and Renaissance Journey
Dante's epic through the afterlife has fascinated readers for centuries. Yet, his tale also comments upon and interprets his complex, violent, wealthy, and deeply religious world. This class will investigate that world, a world that included merchants, bankers, nobles, university students, friars, nuns, and heretics, popes, prostitutes, and the city-states in which they lived. Our guide to this world will be Italy¿s most famous medieval poet, philosopher, politician, critic, and exile, as we explore his society and culture.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
HISTORY 11SC:
How Is a Buddhist
Buddhism as a system of thought, a culture, a way of life, a definition of reality, a method for investigating it, and a mental, physical, and social practice. Buddhism as a total phenomenon. Readings, films, music, and art. How Buddhist practices constitue the world of the Buddhist.
Last offered: Autumn 2008
| Units: 2
HISTORY 11W:
Service-Learning Workshop on Issues of Education Equity (CSRE 11W)
Introduces students to a variety of issues at stake in the public education of at-risk high school youth in California. Participants will hear from some of the leading faculty in the School of Education as well as the Departments of Psychology, Sociology, and others, who will share perspectives on the problems and challenges of educating a diverse student body in the state's public school system. The service-learning component of the workshop is a mentoring project (Stanford Students for Educational Equity) with junior class history students from East Palo Alto Academy High School, a Stanford charter school.
Last offered: Spring 2014
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 2 units total)
HISTORY 12:
Medicine and Disease in the Ancient World
(Same as HISTORY 112. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 112.) This course explores medicine and disease through case studies from civilizations of the ancient world such as Egypt, Greece, and Peru. We will discuss how these cultures conceptualized disease, and in turn, how they contended with illnesses. Lectures will address different forms of illness through medical texts, art, and human remains. Weekly discussion will incorporate evidence from these sources to explore both their potential and their limitations.
Last offered: Autumn 2014
| Units: 3
HISTORY 12N:
The Early Roman Emperors: HIstory, Biography, and Fiction
Preference to freshmen. The politics, drama, and characters of the period after the fall of the Roman Republic in 49 B.C.E. Issues of liberty and autocracy explored by Roman writers through history and biography. The nature of history writing, how expectations about literary genres shape the materials, the line between biography and fiction,and senatorial ideology of liberty. Readings include: Tacitus' Annals, Suetonius' Lives of the Caesers, and Robert Graves' I Claudius and episodes from the BBC series of the same title.
Last offered: Autumn 2008
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
HISTORY 13:
The Historical and Geographical Background of Current Global Events
This three-unit course is designed to complement History 3, which aims to provide the historical and geographical context necessary for understanding important global issues of the day. Students taking the three-unit course will, in addition to attending the weekly lectures, participate in a weekly seminar in which the same topics addressed in lecture will be examined in greater depth. Students will also be required to write a research paper on a generally neglected news topic of their own choosing. Instructor consent required. Please contact Professor Martin Lewis at mwlewis@stanford.edu.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
HISTORY 13C:
Talking About Jews (JEWISHST 13C)
Professors Beinin and Zipperstein will initiate discussions on a broad range of topics related to Jews and Jewish identity in the modern world and then invite the class to join in the discussion. Topics include: Who are the Jews, secularism, Jewish capitalists and leftists, anti-Semitism, Israel and Zionism, Jews in American life. For the one unit option attendance at the discussions is required. For the three unit option, students will do the prescribed readings and attend a discussion section.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 15D:
The Civilization and Culture of the Middle Ages (HISTORY 115D, RELIGST 115X)
This course provides an introduction to Medieval Europe from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance. While the framework of the course is chronological, we¿ll concentrate particularly on the structure of medieval society. Rural and urban life, kingship and papal government, wars and plagues provide the context for our examination of the lives of medieval people, what they believed, and how they interacted with other, both within Christendom and beyond it.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 15N:
Inequality: the Last 100,000 Years (CLASSICS 28N)
(Formerly CLASSHIS 13N.) This seminar traces the evolution of resource inequality from the Stone Age to the present. Only this long-term perspective reveals the forces that drive inequality and allows us to address two key questions: what causes inequality, and what factors have been capable of reducing it, at least for a while? We are going to confront challenging arguments: that inequality has been closely tied up with overall economic and human development, and that over the long course of history, war, revolution and pestilence were the most effective equalizers of income and wealth. This class will help you appreciate contexts and complexities that are usually obscured by partisan polemics and short-term thinking. Seminar participants will be directly involved in the instructor's current research project on the history of inequality.
Last offered: Spring 2015
| Units: 3
HISTORY 16:
Traders and Crusaders in the Medieval Mediterranean (HISTORY 116)
Trade and crusade were inextricably interconnected in the high Middle Ages. As merchant ships ferried knights and pilgrims across the Mediterranean, rulers borrowed heavily to finance their expeditions, while military expansion opened new economic opportunities. Course themes include the origins of the Crusading movement; the rise of Venice and other maritime powers; the pivotal roles of the Byzantine and Mongol Empires; relations between Christians, Muslims, and Jews; new military, maritime, and commercial technologies; and the modern legacy of the Crusades.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 20A:
The Russian Empire, 1450-1800
(Same as HISTORY 120A. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 120A.) Explores rise of Russian state and expanse of empire; patterns of governance of a Eurasian empire; strategies and institutions of governance; survey of various ethnic and religious groups in empire and their varied cultures and political economies; gender and family; serfdom; Russian Orthodox religion and culture; reforms and Europeanization of 18th century.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
HISTORY 20N:
Russia in the Early Modern European Imagination
Preference to freshmen. The contrast between the early modern image of Europe as free, civilized, democratic, rational, and clean against the notion of New World Indians, Turks, and Chinese as savage. The more difficult, contemporary problem regarding E. Europe and Russia which seemed both European and exotic. Readings concerning E. Europe and Russia from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment; how they construct a positive image of Europe and conversely a negative stereotype of E. Europe. Prerequisite: PWR 1.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI, Writing 2
HISTORY 22:
St Petersburg Overseas Seminar Preparation
This course prepares students accepted for the BOSP Overseas Seminar to St. Petersburg in June/July 2017 led by Prof. Jack and Nancy Kollmann. Consists of three lecture and discussion sessions to provide background (scheduled at student convenience), as well as individual consultations with instructors and TA to define a research topic to be pursued on site. Students will submit a brief written summary of their topic and a concrete plan for on-site follow-up. Research theme is open but instructors will suggest workable topics and background readings. n1 unit, S/NC grading. Mandatory for students attending BOSP Overseas Seminar to St. Petersburg. Students at BOSP overseas campuses in Spring Quarter will be accommodated. Requirements: attendance at three two-hour lecture and discussion sessions (time TBA), individual consultations with professors, brief research report and plan.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-2
HISTORY 25:
St. Petersburg: A Cultural Biography
This course explores the rich cultural heritage of St. Petersburg: art, architecture, urban planning, literature, dance, music, theater. Lectures will be extensively slide-illustrated, particularly on architecture and art. The course will meet Thursday evenings 7:00-9:00 pm as part of the Continuing Studies Program (CSP) for adult students; undergraduate students are welcome to participate by enrolling in this 1-unit History course. Readings will be posted in Coursework for CSP participants and will be available but optional for undergraduate students. Satisfactory credit for undergraduates will be earned by attending 80% of the lectures and by submitting a 5-page paper on a topic of the student's choice utilizing the CSP assigned readings and sources suggested by the instructor.
Last offered: Spring 2015
| Units: 1
HISTORY 25N:
Stalin's Europe, 1944-1948
This freshman seminar explores the history of wartime and postwar Europe through the lenses of the communist parties of Europe, the anti-Soviet forces on the continent, the devastation of the civilian population, and the intentions and actions of the Soviet Union on the one hand, and the United States on the other. We will analyze issues of resistance and collaboration under the Nazis, Allied occupation, and the division of Europe. We will also consider the forcible displacement of peoples and the fate of Jewish survivors. The idea is to understand the harsh and complex realities of European life and politics in this crucial time frame spanning war and peace. One can discover the beginnings of the Cold War in this period, the first signs of the "Iron Curtain," and the origins of the European Union. Our sources for the reconstruction of European life at this crucial time include documents, memoirs, literature, film, and various collections at the Hoover Archives. In addition to analyzing written and visual materials in discussion, presentations, and short essays, you will engage in a quarter long project on one thematic or country study during this period.
Last offered: Winter 2016
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 26SC:
Art and Ideas in Russian Culture
The course explores the most important trends in Russian creative arts from the early period through the nineteenth century, exploring the ideas that were behind the production and reception of various types of Russian art. It tracks the major cultural changes in Russian history, primarily the transformation from a world shaped by Orthodox religious art (icons, frescos) to a world shaped by West European canons. Peter I (ruled 1682-1725) forcibly imposed cultural Westernization on his elites (not the peasant or merchant classes). Noblemen were forced to dress in European clothes, adopt European etiquette and pastimes (dancing), design their homes in European architectural styles and fill them with art painted (by Europeans and Russians) to European tastes, including portraits. By the nineteenth century, artists were using art as a political statement, allegorically criticizing autocratic reality in their choice of topics, particularly historical paintings. Throughout we explore art in the context of ideas -- why were various kinds of art produced? what were their intended purposes? who were their intended audiences? How can we appreciate creative works as art when they weren't intended to be art, such as icons? They were considered holy objects, actors in liturgical worship. Similarly, realist paintings of the nineteenth century were intended as critique more than art, as were penny broadsheets that circulated. Other works, such as portraits of noblemen and decorative elements on maps, were intended to assert social status or political authority. So the course is an opportunity to join appreciation of creative works with a more historical and cultural assessment of their production and reception. Students will be asked to write a paper on one particular work of art an icon, a portrait, an oil painting. This course should be interesting to students interested in the broad sweep of Russian history as well as in medieval religious art (especially Orthodox) and modern European art. Class sessions will discuss assigned readings and images posted to class art gallery from Professor Kollmann's extensive collection of images of Russian icons and art. Students will report on their research paper along the way, culminating in formal presentations. Field trips and events are planned to various works of Russian art in the area, including: Cantor Art Museum (small collection of icons, including a 17th c icon; De Basily Room, Hoover Institution (18th-c Russian portraits; Art Collection, Hoover Institution Library (rare editions of Russian art publications, late 19th c.); Green Library Special Collections (facsimile edition of 16th-c illustrated historical chronicle); Rumsey Map Center, Green Library (18th-c Russian maps and their decorative cartouches); Legion of Honor, San Francisco (Makovskii's great canvas in his Boyar's Wedding series); Christ the Savior Church (Orthodox Church of America), 12th and Anza, San Francisco. Discussion with parish priest Rev. Philip Halliwell. To see icons in situ in small neighborhood parish and discuss the role and theory of icons in Orthodox liturgy with Fr Halliwell; The Joy of All who Sorrow Cathedral, Geary St., San Francisco (Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia). To see icons in situ in large, imposing cathedral; Katia's Restaurant, San Francisco (authentic Russian cuisine); Fort Ross, northern California (restored Russian fortress and chapel; art in situ;Viewing of movie Andrei Rublev, about an icon painter in 15th-c Russia.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 2
HISTORY 27SC:
American Road Trips
"Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road." --Jack Kerouac, On the Road, 1957. From Jack Kerouac's On the Road to Cheryl Strayed's Wild, this Sophomore College explores epic road trips of the twentieth century. Travel is a fundamental social and cultural practice through which Americans have constructed ideas about the self, society, the nation, the past, and the future. The open road, as it is often called, offered excitement, great adventure, and the space for family bonding and memory making. But the footloose and fancy-free nature of travel that the Beat Generation novelist Jack Kerouac waxed lyrical about in the 1957 classic On the Road were available to some travelers but not to others. Engaging historical and literary texts, as well as imaginative modes including film, autobiography, memoir, photography, and music, we will consider the ways that travel and road trips have been represented in American society. This course explores the following questions: How did men and women experience travel differently? How did the motivations for travel change over time? What role did race, ethnicity, class, relationships, and sexuality play in these trips? This Sophomore College examines how writers have explored the theme of travel, American writing, American history and culture, and American life. Students will work together to plan a road trip of their own which the class will take during the period of the Sophomore College.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 2
HISTORY 30A:
In Sickness and In Health: Medicine and Society in the United States: 1800-Present (AMSTUD 130A, HISTORY 130A)
Explores the history of medical institutions, ideas and practices in the United States from the early nineteenth century to the present. How are ideas of illness and health historically rooted and socially constructed? How did scientific and medical discoveries lead to the rise of scientific medicine, and how were these innovations adopted within the American cultural landscape? Topics include the transformation of therapeutics and technologies, medicine and the scientific ideal in the U.S., gender and race and medicine, the history of public health, and the professionalization and specialization of American medical practice.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
HISTORY 30C:
Culture and Society in Reformation England
(Same as History 130C. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 130C.) Focuses on the appeal of both Reformed and Catholic ideas in the political and cultural contexts of early modern Europe. Topics include: the Lutheran revolt; the spread of Protestant ideas; Calvin's Geneva; the English Reformation; Tridentine reform and the Jesuits; toleration and the underground churches; wars and religious violence; and the making of European confessional identities. Sources include sermons, religious polemic, autobiographies, graphic prints, poetry, and music.
| Units: 3
HISTORY 30N:
Eighteen-Year-Olds Go to War: Global Experiences of World War I
Exactly one hundred years ago, eighteen-year-olds like you went to war, imagining a romantic, life-changing experience. They found instead an apocalyptic nightmare, senseless mass death, unending stalemate, mud, rats, and endless trauma. In this course we will revisit the journeys of young men and women who lived through the First World War in Europe, India, the Middle East, and Africa. We will explore the causes, unfolding, legacy, and memory of the war, using diaries, letters, memoirs, novels, poetry, films, and works of historical analysis. Witness the birth of the modern world.
Last offered: Autumn 2014
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
HISTORY 32S:
Medicine and Society: The Rise of Expertise in Early Modern Europe
How did medicine emerge as a distinctive body of knowledge? Why did physicians, rather than other medical practitioners, come to dominate medicine? What was the role of women in medicine? How did law and medicine, two areas that have so many points of intersection in today¿s world, interact in early modern society? This course investigates the history of medicine in Renaissance and early modern Europe. With its emphasis on primary sources, the course provides an introduction to medical and legal historical research. Priority given to history majors and minors.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 33A:
Blood and Roses: The Age of the Tudors
(Same as HISTORY 133A. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 133A.) English society and state from the Wars of the Roses to the death of Elizabeth. Political, social, and cultural upheavals of the Tudor period and the changes wrought by the Reformation. The establishment of the Tudor monarchy; destruction of the Catholic church; rise of Puritanism; and 16th-century social and economic changes.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI
HISTORY 35S:
Sex, Race, and Nazism in 20th Century Germany (CSRE 35S, FEMGEN 35S)
How can we make sense of race after Hitler? Although the Nazis' murderous attempts to engineer a racially pure society crumbled in 1945, Germany's dark past continues to influence today's heated debates about immigration, multiculturalism, Islamophobia, and right-wing extremism. Using various sources-- speeches, oral histories, memoirs, films, and rap music-- we will explore the experiences of historically persecuted groups: colonial subjects, Jews, homosexuals, women, Afro-Germans, Turkish immigrants, and Syrian refugees. All majors welcome. Priority given to history majors and minors.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP
HISTORY 36N:
Gay Autobiography (FEMGEN 36N)
Preference to freshmen. Gender, identity, and solidarity as represented in nine autobiographies: Isherwood, Ackerley, Duberman, Monette, Louganis, Barbin, Cammermeyer, Gingrich, and Lorde. To what degree do these writers view sexual orientation as a defining feature of their selves? Is there a difference between the way men and women view identity? What politics follow from these writers' experiences?
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-EDP
HISTORY 38A:
Germany and the World Wars, 1870-1990 (JEWISHST 38A)
(Same as HISTORY 138A. Majors and others taking 5 units, enroll in 138A.) This course examines Germany's tumultuous history from the Second Empire through the end of the Cold War. During this time, Germany ushered in five regimes and two world wars, seesawing between material ruin and economic prosperity on the frontline of Europe's military and ideological rifts. Beginning with Bismarck's wars of unification, the class spans World War One, the Weimar Republic, the rise of Nazism, World War Two, the Holocaust, the division of communist East and capitalist West Germany, and the fall of the Iron Curtain.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 39:
Modern Britain and the British Empire
(Same as HISTORY 139. History majors and others taking 5 units, register in 139.) From American Independence to the latest war in Iraq. Topics include: the rise of the modern British state and economy; imperial expansion and contraction; the formation of class, gender, and national identities; mass culture and politics; the world wars; and contemporary racial politics. Focus is on questions of decline, the fortunes and contradictions of British liberalism in an era of imperialism, and the weight of the past in contemporary Britain.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 40A:
The Scientific Revolution
(Same as History 140A. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for History 140A.) What do people know and how do they know it? What counts as scientific knowledge? In the 16th and 17th centuries, understanding the nature of knowledge engaged the attention of individuals and institutions including Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, the early Royal Society, and less well-known contemporaries. New meanings of observing, collecting, experimenting, and philosophizing, and political, religious, and cultural ramifications in early modern Europe.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
HISTORY 41Q:
Madwomen: The History of Women and Mental Illness in the U.S.
Explores how gender and historical context have shaped the experience and treatment of mental illness in U.S. history. Why have women been the witches and hysterics of the past, and why have there historically been more women than men among the mentally ill? Topics include the relationship between historical ideas of femininity and insanity, the ways that notions of gender influence the definition and treatment of mental disorder, and the understanding of the historically embedded nature of medical ideas, diagnoses, and treatments.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 41S:
From Muybridge's Galloping Horses to Silicon Valley: Stanford and the History of Science
This classes uses Stanford as a lens on the history of science and technology. We will consider how science works in action by examining sources from Stanford Special Collections. How are Eadweard Muybridge's photographs of galloping horses related to new conceptions of objectivity? Which limits of human subject research did the Stanford Prison experiment cross? How did defense funding in the early Cold War shape the development of Stanford and its relationship to Silicon Valley? Priority given to history majors and minors.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 42S:
The Circle of Life: Visions of Nature in Modern Science, Religion, Politics and Culture
A new understanding of nature emerged in the 1700s that fundamentally altered our perception of the living world and humanity's relationship with it. By tracing the evolution of this understanding forward, we gain insight into the interactions among science, religion, politics and culture. Topics include: nature in Romantic science, poetry and art; Darwin's theory of evolution and its afterlife in science, literature and popular culture; the science and politics of the 20th-century environmental movement; and the philosophical presuppositions underlying modern debates about biodiversity. In addition to close readings of canonical texts and contemporary commentaries, students will be introduced to digital history methods. Students will design their own final projects in consultation with the instructor.
Last offered: Spring 2014
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
HISTORY 44:
Women and Gender in Science, Medicine and Engineering
(Same as HISTORY 144. Majors and others taking 5 units, enroll in HISTORY 144.) Men's and women's roles in science, medicine, and engineering over the past 200 years with a focus on the present. What efforts are underway globally to transform research institutions so that both men's and women's careers can flourish? How have science and medicine studied and defined males and females? How can we harness the creative power of gender analysis to enhance knowledge and spark innovation?
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 44Q:
Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment (FEMGEN 44Q)
Section 1 focuses on the history of women in science, medicine, and engineering. Section 2 looks at transforming research institutions so that both men and women can flourish. Section 3 explores how sex and gender analysis can enhance creativity. We discuss concrete examples of how taking gender into account has yielded new research results. Stanford University currently has a multiple year collaboration with the European Commission for Gendered Innovations, and this class will be part of that project. This course fulfills the second level Writing and Rhetoric Requirement (WRITE 2) and will emphasize oral and multimedia presentation.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI, Writing 2
HISTORY 45B:
Africa in the Twentieth Century
(Same as HISTORY 145B. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 145B.) The challenges facing Africans from when the continent fell under colonial rule until independence. Case studies of colonialism and its impact on African men and women drawn from West, Central, and Southern Africa. Novels, plays, polemics, and autobiographies written by Africans.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
HISTORY 46S:
Economies of Africa: Entrepreneurialism, Informality and the History of Capitalism, 1400-Present
This course will consider the history of African economic activity, paying particular attention to the ways that Africans have participated in, and experienced the impact of, capitalist modes of production and exchange. Stretching from the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the postcolonial period, the course will seek to answer the broad questions of what capitalism in Africa has looked like and to what extent African capitalisms should be conceptualized differently than their Western counterparts. Priority given to history majors and minors.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
HISTORY 47:
History of South Africa (AFRICAAM 47, CSRE 74)
(Same as HISTORY 147. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 147.) Introduction, focusing particularly on the modern era. Topics include: precolonial African societies; European colonization; the impact of the mineral revolution; the evolution of African and Afrikaner nationalism; the rise and fall of the apartheid state; the politics of post-apartheid transformation; and the AIDS crisis.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 47N:
Global History of Death and Dying
Does death have a history? Explores the changing realities of, attitudes towards and ways of coping with death. The role of death in shaping the modern world via the global slave trades, imperial conquests, pandemics, wars and genocides. Ways people have made sense of death in extraordinary circumstances and during calmer times. Continuities and transformations in death rituals, intellectual and philosophical debates about the personal and social meanings of death, and the consequences of ways and patterns of dying.
| Units: 4
HISTORY 48:
The Egyptians (AFRICAAM 30, CLASSICS 82, HISTORY 148)
Overview of ancient Egyptian pasts, from predynastic times to Greco-Roman rule, roughly 3000 BCE to 30 BCE. Attention to archaeological sites and artifacts; workings of society; and cultural productions, both artistic and literary. Participation in class is required.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
HISTORY 48Q:
South Africa: Contested Transitions (AFRICAAM 48Q)
Preference to sophomores. The inauguration of Nelson Mandela as president in May 1994 marked the end of an era and a way of life for South Africa. The changes have been dramatic, yet the legacies of racism and inequality persist. Focus: overlapping and sharply contested transitions. Who advocates and opposes change? Why? What are their historical and social roots and strategies? How do people reconstruct their society? Historical and current sources, including films, novels, and the Internet.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI, Writing 2
HISTORY 50A:
Colonial and Revolutionary America
(Same as HISTORY 150A. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 150A.) Survey of the origins of American society and polity in the 17th and 18th centuries. Topics: the migration of Europeans and Africans and the impact on native populations; the emergence of racial slavery and of regional, provincial, Protestant cultures; and the political origins and constitutional consequences of the American Revolution.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
HISTORY 50B:
Nineteenth Century America (AFRICAAM 50B)
(Same as HISTORY 150B. History majors and others taking 5 units, register in 150B.) Territorial expansion, social change, and economic transformation. The causes and consequences of the Civil War. Topics include: urbanization and the market revolution; slavery and the Old South; sectional conflict; successes and failures of Reconstruction; and late 19th-century society and culture.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-SI
HISTORY 50C:
The United States in the Twentieth Century
(Same as HISTORY 150C. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 150C.) This course begins around 1900, when women and most African-Americans could not vote; automobiles were virtually unknown and computers unimaginable; and the U.S. was a minor power overshadowed by Europe. Yet fierce debates over the purpose of government and role of the U.S. in the world animated national politics, as they do today. This course surveys U.S. politics, culture, and social movements to answer the question: How did we get from there to here? Suitable for non-majors and majors.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 50K:
John F. Kennedy: Fifty Years Later
November 22, 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination. Half a century on, our visually saturated culture remains besotted with images of the youthful president and his strikingly photogenic family. But the passage of time has also yielded new perspectives on Kennedy's presidency and on his era. November 22, 1963 may well come to be remembered not only as the day when the life of a promising young leader was violently cut short, but also as the pivot between two distinct eras in American history. Ironically, though Kennedy was the first World War II veteran to reach the White House, his death heralded the end of the long postwar season of national pride, optimism, confidence, and widely shared prosperity¿and may have opened the road to the great catastrophe that was the Vietnam War. His passing also helped to pry open the portals to historic changes in the lives of millions of African Americans, as witnessed by Lyndon Johnson's artful invocation of the fallen president to bring about passage of the epic civil rights legislation of the late 1960s. nnThis course will examine the postwar domestic and international settings in which Kennedy rose to and exercised power. It will probe our continuing fascination with his character and with his family; his role as a Cold Warrior, especially in the tense confrontation known as the Cuban Missile Crisis; and his relation to the African American struggle to bury Jim Crow. We will conclude with an assessment of the longer-term historical consequence of his brief moment in the arenas of celebrity and power. Guest speakers will include noted Kennedy biographer Robert Dallek; Johnson biographer Bruce Schulman; Taylor Branch, acclaimed biographer of Martin Luther King, Jr.; and Stanford's own Jennifer Burns, historian of modern America.
Last offered: Autumn 2013
| Units: 1
HISTORY 50N:
Who Killed Jane Stanford... The Podcast
In 1905 Jane Stanford died of strychnine poisoning. Who may have killed her remains unknown. For this seminar, you will become collaborative historians and journalists to research the case and create investigative audio podcast much like WBEZ Serial. Building on research by a previous freshman seminary, you will together you will examine suspects, circumstances, and the often odd actions of central figures and then build an audio story out of interviews, archival materials, and sound recordings. In your (application?) explain your interest, and any experience with, podcasting.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE, WAY-SI
HISTORY 51G:
American Legal History, 1930- 2000: New Deal, Rights Revolution, Conservative Reaction (HISTORY 151G)
This course examines major transformations in American law brought about by the momentous social and political movements of the mid- to late 20th Century: Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal and its expansion after World War II; the "Rights Revolution" of 1954-75 that granted new rights to equality and protection from arbitrary treatment to blacks, women, aliens, criminal defendants and others; and finally the fierce political reaction to liberal policies in which the modern conservative movements arose and came to power.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
HISTORY 51K:
Election 2016 (CSRE 51K, POLISCI 51K)
The 2016 Presidential Election season has been anything but ordinary. So much in the Democratic and Republican primaries consistently defied conventional wisdom and upended the predictions of experts. This course will attempt, with the help of distinguished guests, to make sense of an election that defies all historical precedent and to take stock of the health of American democracy.nClass is jointly offered for Continuing Studies students and Stanford students. As a 1 unit, online course for Stanford students, enrollment is unlimited. Registration for the course offers online access to a livestream of each class session, participation in online discussions, access to course website and materials, and admission to a lottery for attending each class in person.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1
HISTORY 54N:
African American Women's Lives (AFRICAAM 54N, AMSTUD 54N, CSRE 54N, FEMGEN 54N)
Preference to freshmen. We will examine the struggles of African American women to define their own lives and improve the social, economic, political and cultural conditions of black communities. Topics will include women¿s enslavement and freedom, kinship and family relations, institution and community building, violence, labor and leisure, changing gender roles, consumer and beauty culture, social activism, and the politics of sexuality.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
HISTORY 54Q:
African American Women's Lives (AFRICAAM 54Q, AMSTUD 54Q, FEMGEN 54Q)
Preference to sophomores. African American women have been placed on the periphery of many historical documents. This course will encourage students to think critically about historical sources and to use creative and rigorous historical methods to recover African American women¿s experiences. Drawing largely on primary sources such as letters, personal journals, literature and film, this course explores the everyday lives of African American women in 19th- and 20th-century America. We will begin in our present moment with a discussion of Michelle Obama and then we will look back on the lives and times of a wide range of African American women including: Charlotte Forten Grimké, a 19th-century reformer and teacher; Nella Larsen, a Harlem Renaissance novelist; Josephine Baker, the expatriate entertainer and singer; and Ida B. Wells and Ella Baker, two luminaries of civil rights activism. We will examine the struggles of African American women to define their own lives and improve the social, economic, political and cultural conditions of black communities. Topics will include women¿s enslavement and freedom, kinship and family relations, institution and community building, violence, labor and leisure, changing gender roles, consumer and beauty culture, social activism, and the politics of sexuality.
| Units: 3-4
HISTORY 54S:
The American Civil War
Few events in American history match the significance of the Civil War, a conflict that freed 4 million people held in bondage and left 750,000 men dead. This course will explore the war from a range of perspectives, including those of Union and Confederate soldiers, African Americans, women, and Native Americans. Based on the documents these different groups left behind, as well as the histories they inspired, we will seek to understand how the Civil War was experienced and commemorated. Priority given to history majors and minors.
Last offered: Winter 2016
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 55N:
Social Movements through Song in Modern America (AMSTUD 55N, FEMGEN 55N)
This discussion class will explore a series of social movements in modern America through the songs produced to support efforts to achieve labor unions, civil rights and racial justice, peace, and women's rights. For each class we will read short historical texts to provide contexts for the movements and then concentrate on the role of music within them. We will listening to and discuss several core songs for each topic. Biographical and autobiographical readings on a key set of musicians (including Joe Hill, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Malvina Reynolds, and Bernice Johnson Reagon) will provide personal accounts of the relationship of songs to social movement . The music we include in class will range from ballads to anthems, from oral traditions to the work of singer-songwriters.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 55Q:
The Origins of the Modern American City, 1865-1920 (AMSTUD 25Q, URBANST 25Q)
Are we living in a new Gilded Age? To answer this question, we go back to the original Gilded Age, as well as its successor, the Progressive Era. How did urban Americans around the turn of the twentieth century deal with stark inequalities of class, race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality? And what can we learn from their struggles for our own time? Students use primary and secondary sources in digital and print formats. Possible field trip to San Francisco.
Last offered: Winter 2016
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 57E:
State of the Union 2014 (POLISCI 57E)
This course will examine major themes that contribute to the health, or disease, of the US body politic. Challenges and opportunities abound: we live in an age of rising inequality, dazzling technological innovation, economic volatility, geopolitical uncertainty, and the accumulating impact of climate change. These conditions confront our political leaders and us as citizens of a democracy plagued by dysfunction. What are the implications for the body politic? Led by Rob Reich (Political Science, Stanford), David Kennedy (History, Stanford), and James Steyer (CEO, Common Sense Media), the course will bring together distinguished analysts of American politics. Together, we will examine the following topics: inequality; energy and the environment; media and technology; the economy; and the 2014 midterm elections. The course is designed for the entire Stanford community: jointly offered for undergraduate and graduate students at Stanford (through listings in Political Science and History) and for community members through the Continuing Studies Program. For students, the course is available for 1 credit. This course may not be taken for a Letter Grade.
Last offered: Autumn 2014
| Units: 1
HISTORY 60N:
Revolutionaries and Founders
Americans remain fascinated by the revolutionary generation which secured independence and established a national constitutional republic. Books about the founders come steadily from the presses, some describing the lives of individual revolutionaries, others trying to analyze and explain what made these events possible. This seminar will approach the Revolution through both a biographical and analytical framework, relying both on scholarly writings and the massive array of primary sources that are readily available through letterpress editions and on-line. The course will rely on the instructor's own recent book, Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America, which carries the story from the crisis around the Boston Tea Party of 1773 through the end of President Washington's first administration. The course will be divided evenly between modern scholarship and the careful reading of original materials, and students will write short essays that will involve the analysis of explanatory problems, the close interpretation of documents, and the crafting of historical narratives. Topics to be discussed will include the outbreak of the revolution, constitution-making at both the state and national levels of government, the conduct of the war, and the legacies that Americans particularly associate with Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton.
Last offered: Winter 2014
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 61N:
The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson assumed many roles during his life¿Founding Father, revolutionary, and author of the Declaration of Independence; natural scientist, inventor, and political theorist; slaveholder, founder of a major political party, and President of the United States. This introductory seminar explores these many worlds of Jefferson, both to understand the multifaceted character of the man and the broader historical contexts that he inhabited and did so much to shape.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 64:
Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Modern America (CSRE 64)
How ethnicity influenced the American experience and how prevailing attitudes about racial and ethnic groups over time have affected the historical and contemporary reality of the nation's major minority populations. Focus is on the past two centuries.
Last offered: Winter 2014
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 64E:
Acting Free: Assertive Performance in African American History and Cultural Expression (AFRICAAM 64E, AFRICAAM 164E, DANCE 101, HISTORY 164E)
This course will explore the imaginative ways black Americans have expressed their desire for freedom through dance, movement, visual art, and musical performance. Each week, historian Clayborne Carson will discuss the theme of assertive performance during various periods of African American history, and dance Lecturer Aleta Hayes will guide students as they perform their own interpretations through distinctive historical periods and styles. Course will culminate in informal performance by participating students.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
HISTORY 66:
Introduction to African American History - the Modern Freedom Struggle (AFRICAAM 166, AMSTUD 166, CSRE 166, HISTORY 166)
Using the unique documentary resources and publications of Stanford's Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute, this course will utilize multi-media materials to shed light on the relationship between grassroots activism and King's visionary leadership.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul
HISTORY 69:
American Environmental History (EARTHSYS 145, HISTORY 169)
This course examines the historical relationship between human beings and nature in the geographical space that became the United States, from earliest settlement to the late twentieth century. Students will be introduced to themes in American Environmental History, including: Native Americans and the environment, ecological changes following European colonization, the impact of industrialization and urbanization, evolving ideas about nature, the rise of conservation and environmentalist movements in the twentieth century, environmental inequality, and the historical roots of today¿s environmental problems.
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
HISTORY 69Q:
On the Road: A History of Travel in 20th Century America (AMSTUD 109Q)
From Mark Twain's Roughin It to Cheryl Strayed's Wild, this seminar explores epic road trips of the twentieth century. Travel is a cultural practice through which Americans have constructed ideas about the self, society, race, the past, and the future. Engaging historical and literary texts, film, autobiography, photography, and music, we will consider how writers have explored the theme of travel and what the differences in their texts tell us about American writing, American history, and American life.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
HISTORY 70:
Culture, Politics, and Society in Latin America
(Same as HISTORY 170B. History majors and others taking 5 units, enroll in HISTORY 170B.) This course examines Latin American history from the colonial era to the present day. Key issues include colonialism, nationalism, democracy, and revolution. Sources include writings in the social sciences as well as primary documents, fiction, and film.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 71S:
American Political Thought from the Civil War to the Cold War
This course explores America's most important political tradition: liberalism. What does liberalism mean? Does it mean something different today than it did in the past? Using multiple textual and visual sources, students will grapple with how Americans remade liberalism in the 19th and 20th centuries and how political thinkers have understood its meaning over time. We will see how American liberalism was shaped by factors of race, gender, and class and by competing ideologies like conservatism and socialism.
Last offered: Winter 2014
| Units: 5
HISTORY 73:
Mexican Migration to the United States (AMSTUD 73, CHILATST 173, HISTORY 173)
This class examines the history of Mexican migration to the United States. In the United States we constantly hear about Obama¿s immigration plan, the anti-immigrant laws in Arizona, and the courage of DREAM Activists; in Mexico news sources speak about the role of remittances, the effect of deportations, and the loss of life at the border. Unfortunately, few people truly understand the historical trends in these migratory processes, or the multifaceted role played by the United States in encouraging individuals to head there. Moreover, few people have actually heard the opinions and voices of migrants themselves. This course seeks to provide students with the opportunity to place migrants¿ experiences in dialogue with migratory laws as well as the knowledge to embed current understandings of Latin American migration in their meaningful historical context.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
HISTORY 73S:
History of the Police in the United States: Slave Patrols to Ferguson
How did police come to have the power to use violence? Themes: growth of professional policing, creation of private police forces and vigilantism, and public portrayals of police--by Hollywood and the press. The historical relationship between race and the administration of policing is a central question. Students will hone the methodology necessary to examine primary sources such as police memoirs, court records, police files, detective novels, music videos and photographs. The course fulfills the departmental Sources and Methods requirement. Priority given to history majors and minors.
Last offered: Autumn 2015
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 74:
Mexico Since 1876: History of a "Failed State"?
This course is an introduction to the history and diverse peoples of modern Mexico from 1876 to the present. Through lectures, discussions, primary and secondary readings, short documentaries, and written assignments, students will critically explore and analyze the multiplicity of historical processes, events and trends that shaped and were shaped by Mexicans over the course of a century. The course will cover some of the social and political dimensions of rural social change, urbanization and industrialization, technological innovation and misuse, environmental degradation and conservation, education, ideology, culture and media, migration, and the drug trade.
| Units: 3
HISTORY 74S:
Sounds of the Century: Popular Music and the United States in the 20th Century
What can popular music teach us about the pst? What can we learn about music if we study it historically? This course grapples with these two questions by examining various examples of American music in the 20th century, as well as more conventional historical sources, scholarly books, and essays. Will pay special attention to how issues of race, gender, sexuality, class, and nation were reflected in and produced by people's interactions with music, inside and outside American borders.
Last offered: Spring 2014
| Units: 5
HISTORY 76F:
CITY, URBANISATION PROCESSES AND URBAN POLICIES IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN (HISTORY 176F)
Note: Course is taught in Spanish. This course is structured around two key concepts: dependence and irregularity in urban development. This course reviews the urbanisation process and urban policies of Latin America and the Caribbean, exploring their consequences and challenges at the intra-urban level in relation to economic, social and cultural processes. Special attention will be paid to the case of Cuba, a socialist country with its own internal dynamics which is currently undergoing a period of transition.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
HISTORY 78:
Film and History of Latin American Revolutions and Counterrevolutions (HISTORY 178)
Note: Students who have completed HISTORY 78N or 78Q should not enroll in this course. In this course we will watch and critique films made about Latin America's 20th century revolutions focusing on the Cuban, Chilean and Nicaraguan revolutions. We will analyze the films as both social and political commentaries and as aesthetic and cultural works, alongside archivally-based histories of these revolutions.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
HISTORY 78Q:
Film and History of Latin American Revolutions and Counterrevolutions
In this course we will watch and critique films made about Latin America's 20th century revolutions focusing on the Mexican, Cuban, Chilean and Nicaraguan revolutions. We will analyze the films as both social and political commentaries and as aesthetic and cultural works, alongside archivally-based histories of these revolutions.
Last offered: Spring 2016
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
HISTORY 82C:
Making of the Islamic World, 600-1500
(Same as HISTORY 182C. Majors and other taking 5 units, register for 182C.) The History of Islam and Muslim peoples from 600-1500. Topics include Muhammad and his community; the early Arab conquests and empires; sectarian movements; formation of Islamic belief, thought, legal culture and religious institutions; transregional Sufi and learned networks; family and sexuality; urban, rural and nomadic life; non-Muslim communities; the development of Mediterranean and Indian Ocean trade; relations with Byzantium, the Latin West, China; the Crusades and the Mongols.
Last offered: Spring 2015
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
HISTORY 83D:
Global History of Muslim Peoples (from the Crusades to Modern Times) (HISTORY 183D)
How to make sense of the Muslim World today in a historical perspective from Africa to the Middle East, from Central Asia to India and Southeast Asia? Topics include: the Muslim world as connected but diverse reality; great Muslim Empires and Sunni, Shi`ite and Salafi confessionalisms; Sufis, Merchants, and Nomads; Christians, Jews and Hindus living in the Islamic world; Muslim responses to European dominance; Reforms, revolutions and Islamic Enlightenment; Alternative modernities: Cosmopolitanism, Islamism and Nationalism. Is the Muslim World today in crisis?
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
HISTORY 83S:
Refugees of Palestine and Syria: History, Identity, and Politics of Exile in the Middle East
Mass displacements of Palestinians (1948, 1967) and Syrians (2011-) remain crucial to our understanding of history and politics of the modern Middle East. The course topics include the media's role in alleviating or worsening refugee crises, the Palestinian "right of return," and the place of religion in the Syrian civil war. By looking at autobiographies, graffiti, revolutionary posters, and music, we will study the construction of refugee identities, through the prism of race, ethnicity, statelessness, gender, and sexual orientation. Priority given to history majors and minors.
Last offered: Spring 2016
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 84N:
The American Empire in the Middle East
What have been the traditional objectives of U.S. policy in the Middle East since the end of World War II? What forces shape U.S. policy towards the Middle East? Did those interests and the means employed to pursue them change substantially after the demise of the Soviet Union? What has been the impact of U.S. policy on the region itself? The three principal cases to be examined are Afghanistan, Iraq and Israel/Palestine.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
HISTORY 84S:
Between Toleration and Persecution: Iran and its Minorities in the Twentieth Century (JEWISHST 84S)
What does it mean to be Jewish or Christian in a country where most citizens are categorized as Shi'i Muslims? How have Kurds and Azeris figured into Iranian national and political rhetoric? What has it meant to identify as transgender or transsexual? This course explores religious, ethnic, and sexual minority groups in Iran in the twentieth century. Topics include minority rights, identity formation, minorities¿ involvement in political movements, the impact of westernizing efforts on minorities, and the Iranian diaspora. Priority given to history majors and minors.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 85B:
Jews in the Contemporary World: Faith and Ethnicity, Visibility and Vulnerability (CSRE 85B, JEWISHST 85B, REES 85B)
(Same as HISTORY 185B. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 185B.) This course explores the full expanse of Jewish life today and in the recent past. The inner workings of religious faith, the content of Jewish identify shorn of belief, the interplay between Jewish powerlessness and influence, the myth and reality of Jewish genius, the continued pertinence of antisemitism, the rhythms of Jewish economic life ¿ all these will be examined in weekly lectures, classroom discussion, and with the use of a widely diverse range of readings, films, and other material. Explored in depth will the ideas and practices of Zionism, the content of contemporary secularism and religious Orthodoxy, the impact Holocaust, the continued crisis facing Israel and the Palestinians. Who is to be considered Jewish, in any event, especially since so many of the best known (Spinoza, Freud, Marx) have had little if anything to do with Jewish life with their relationships to it indifferent, even hostile?
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 91B:
The City in Imperial China
The evolution of cities in the early imperial, medieval, and early modern periods. Topics include physical structure, social order, cultural forms, economic roles, relations to rural hinterlands, and the contrast between imperial capitals and other cities. Comparative cases from European history. Readings include primary and secondary sources, and visual materials.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
HISTORY 91D:
China: The Northern and Southern Dynasties
(Same as HISTORY 191D. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 191D.) Examines one of the most dynamic periods of Chinese history with the emergence of the institutional religions (Buddhism and Daoism), the development of the garden as an art form, the rise of landscape as a theme of verse and art, the invention of lyric poetry, and the real beginnings of the southward spread of Chinese civilization.
Last offered: Spring 2010
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
HISTORY 92A:
The Historical Roots of Modern East Asia (HISTORY 392E)
Focus is on China and Japan before and during their transition to modernity. The populous, urbanized, economically advanced, and culturally sophisticated Ming empire and Muromachi shogunate in the 16th century when Europeans first arrived. How the status quo had turned on its head by the early 20th century when European and American steamships dominated the Pacific, China was in social and political upheaval, and Japan had begun its march to empire.
Last offered: Winter 2008
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
HISTORY 92S:
Shanghai: Home of Sojourners, Gateway to the Modern World (CHINA 92S)
Shanghai is both China's most modern city and the country's gateway to the world. Among the makers of the city¿s modern preeminence were not only its indigenous peoples and ideas, but also loans from British banks, films of Hollywood, policemen from colonial India, and revolutionary thoughts imported from Japan. This course will situate Shanghai's transnational history and its role in the formation of modern China from mid-nineteenth century onward. Key themes include Western and Japanese colonialisms, the rise of Chinese capitalism, WWII, the Cultural Revolution, and the still ongoing economic reform. This course fulfills the departmental Sources and Methods requirement.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 93:
Late Imperial China (CHINA 93, FEMGEN 93)
(Same as HISTORY 193. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 193.) A survey of Chinese history from the 11th century to the collapse of the imperial state in 1911. Topics include absolutism, gentry society, popular culture, gender and sexuality, steppe nomads, the Jesuits in China, peasant rebellion, ethnic conflict, opium, and the impact of Western imperialism.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI
HISTORY 94B:
Japan in the Age of the Samurai
(Same as HISTORY 194B. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 194B.) From the Warring States Period to the Meiji Restoration. Topics include the three great unifiers, Tokugawa hegemony, the samurai class, Neoconfucian ideologies, suppression of Christianity, structures of social and economic control, frontiers, the other and otherness, castle-town culture, peasant rebellion, black marketing, print culture, the floating world, National Studies, food culture, samurai activism, black ships, unequal treaties, anti-foreign terrorism, restorationism, millenarianism, modernization as westernization, Japan as imagined community.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI
HISTORY 95:
Modern Korean History
(Same as HISTORY 195. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 195.) This lecture course provides a general introduction to the history of modern Korea. Themes include the characteristics of the Chosôn dynasty, reforms and rebellions in the nineteenth century, Korean nationalism; Japan's colonial rule and Korean identities; decolonization and the Korean War; and the different state-building processes in North and South, South Korea's democratization in 1980s, and the current North Korean crisis.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 95C:
Modern Japanese History: From Samurai to Pokemon
(Same as History 195C. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 195C.) Japan's modern transformation from the late 19th century to the present. Topics include: the Meiji revolution; industrialization and social dislocation; the rise of democracy and empire; total war and US occupation; economic miracle and malaise; Japan as soft power; and politics of memory. Readings and films focus on the lived experience of ordinary men and women across social classes and regions.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
HISTORY 95N:
Maps in the Modern World
Preference to freshmen. Focus is on cutting-edge research. Topics: the challenge of grasping the globe as a whole; geography's roots in empire; maps as propaganda and as commodities; the cultural production of scale; and the cartography of imaginery worlds.Sources include resources in the Green Library Special Collections and in the Stanford Spatial History Lab.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
HISTORY 96:
Gandhi in His Time and Ours
Place the paradox of Gandhi in context of global convulsions of 20th century. Gandhi lived across continents; maturing in South Africa, struggling in India, attaining celebrity in Europe. As leader of masses, his method of Satyagraha was distinctively at odds with his times. Yet, he also privileged sacrifice, dying, even euthanasia. In a world beset by fear and war, Gandhi's complex theory of nonviolence is compelling. What kind of nonviolent politics did Gandhi envision after Fascism, Auschwitz, Hiroshima, and Pakistan?
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-ER, WAY-SI
HISTORY 97:
Southeast Asia: From Antiquity to the Modern Era (HISTORY 197)
The history of S.E. Asia, comprising Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Burma, Cambodia, and Laos, from antiquity to the present. The spread of Indian cultural influences, the rise of indigenous states, and the emergence of globally linked trade networks. European colonization, economic transformation, the rise of nationalism, the development of the modern state, and the impact of globalization.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
HISTORY 97S:
Toxic Water and the "Airpocalypse": Industrial Pollution and Society in Modern East Asia
As East Asia's economic power and influence has grown over the past century, environmental issues linked to its industrialization attract worldwide alarm. Growing concerns about global climate change make the understanding and resolution of East Asia's pollution problem not just a regional issue, but an imperative for global survival. In this course, we will explore societal debates about the problem of industrial pollution in China, Japan, and Korea from a historical perspective. Priority given to history majors and minors.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
HISTORY 98:
The History of Modern China
(Same as HISTORY 198. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 198.) Do you want to understand Modern China? If so, this course is for you. And even if you've studied China before, or grew up there, this course will deepen and challenge your perspectives. Through vivid and propulsive lectures - drawing on fiction, film, political essays, and more - Professor Tom Mullaney will chart out China¿s historical transformations from 1800 to today, equipping you to speak and write intelligently about Chinese politics, society, economy, culture, gender, ethnicity, and international affairs.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
HISTORY 98N:
Beijing, Shanghai, and the Structure of Modern China
This course examines the transformation of China from the late empire to the present by studying the nature of its two greatest cities. Topics examined will include the evolving physical structure of the cities, their changing relations to the Chinese state and the outside world, shifting understandings of the urban population/crowd, the changing nature of time, new modes of self-definition through patterns of consumption, the cities as topics of literature and movies, and the nature of urban modernity.
Last offered: Autumn 2014
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 101:
The Greeks (CLASSICS 83)
(Formerly CLASSHIS 101.) 250 years ago, for almost the first time in history, a few societies rejected kings who claimed to know what the gods wanted and began moving toward democracy. Only once before had this happened--in ancient Greece. This course asks how the Greeks did this, and what they can teach us today. It uses texts and archaeology to trace the material and military sides of the story as well as cultural developments, and looks at Greek slavery and misogyny as well as their achievements. Weekly participation in a discussion section is required.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
HISTORY 102:
History of the International System (INTNLREL 102)
After defining the characteristics of the international system at the beginning of the twentieth century, this course reviews the primary developments in its functioning in the century that followed. Topics include the major wars and peace settlements; the emergence of Nazism and Communism; the development of the Cold War and nuclear weapons; the rise of China, India, and the EU; and the impact of Islamic terrorism. The role of international institutions and international society will also be a focus as will the challenge of environment, health, poverty, and climate issues to the functioning of the system.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
HISTORY 102A:
The Romans (CLASSICS 84)
(Formerly CLASSHIS 60.) How did a tiny village create a huge empire and shape the world, and why did it fail? Roman history, imperialism, politics, social life, economic growth, and religious change. Weekly participation in a discussion section is required; enroll in sections on Coursework.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI
HISTORY 103D:
Human Society and Environmental Change (EARTHSYS 112, ESS 112)
Interdisciplinary approaches to understanding human-environment interactions with a focus on economics, policy, culture, history, and the role of the state. Prerequisite: ECON 1.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 103E:
The International History of Nuclear Weapons (POLISCI 116)
An introduction to the history of nuclear weapons from World War II to the present. The focus is on politics, but the role of technology transfer, whether legal or illicit, in the development of nuclear weapons will be examined; so too will the theories about the military and political utility of nuclear weapons. We will look at the efforts to control and abolish nuclear weapons and at the international institutions created to reduce the danger of nuclear war.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
HISTORY 103F:
The Changing Face of War: Introduction to Military History
Introduces students to the rich history of military affairs and, at the same time, examines the ways in which we think of change and continuity in military history. How did war evolve from ancient times, both in styles of warfare and perceptions of war? What is the nature of the relationship between war and society? Is there such a thing as a Western way of war? What role does technology play in transforming military affairs? What is a military revolution and can it be manufactured or induced? Chronologically following the evolution of warfare from Ancient Greece to present day so-called new wars, we will continuously investigate how the interdependencies between technological advances, social change, philosophical debates and economic pressures both shaped and were influenced by war.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 104:
Introduction to Geospatial Humanities (HISTORY 4)
This course introduces undergraduate students to the theory and methods of the geospatial humanities, understood broadly as the application of GIS techniques and other quantitative methods in the humanistic study of social and cultural patterns in past and present settings.
Last offered: Spring 2016
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 105A:
History of Information: From Moveable Type to Machine Learning (HISTORY 5A)
Students who have taken HISTORY 205A/305A should not enroll in this course. Information has a history-- and it's not the one we've been told by Silicon Valley. In a series of propulsive, empirically rich, and provocative lectures and discussions, this course deep-dives into the history of information and IT, including moveable type, telegraphy, typewriting, personal computing, gaming, social media, algorithms, machine learning, Digital Humanities, and more. You will leave the course with entirely new perspectives on information, including how IT shapes-- and is shaped by-- culture, nationality, gender, ethnicity, economy, and environment.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
HISTORY 105C:
Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives (CSRE 105C, EMED 105C, FEMGEN 105C, INTNLREL 105C)
(Same as HISTORY 5C. History majors and others taking 5 units, enroll in 105C.) Interdisciplinary approach to understanding the extent and complexity of the global phenomenon of human trafficking, especially for forced prostitution, labor exploitation, and organ trade, focusing on human rights violations and remedies. Provides a historical context for the development and spread of human trafficking. Analyzes the current international and domestic legal and policy frameworks to combat trafficking and evaluates their practical implementation. Examines the medical, psychological, and public health issues involved. Uses problem-based learning. Students interested in service learning should consult with the instructor and will enroll in an additional course.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 106A:
Global Human Geography: Asia and Africa
Global patterns of demography, economic and social development, geopolitics, and cultural differentiation, covering E. Asia, S. Asia, S.E. Asia, Central Asia, N. Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa. Use of maps to depict geographical patterns and processes.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
HISTORY 106B:
Global Human Geography: Europe and Americas
Patterns of demography, economic and social development, geopolitics, and cultural differentiation. Use of maps to depict geographical patterns and processes.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
HISTORY 107E:
Islamic Routes: Archaeology and Heritage of Muslim Societies (ANTHRO 13A, ARCHLGY 13, HISTORY 7E)
How has archaeology changed our knowledge of the spread of Islam and past Muslim societies? How does archaeology shape heritage debates, conflicts and ideas about Islam today? Topics include the city and urban change, secular and religious life, gender, economy, and globalization. These topics are explored using archaeological and critical heritage approaches. Focus is on examples drawn from Syria-Palestine, Egypt, Iraq, Arabian Peninsula, India, and Africa. Sources include archaeological data and material culture, historical texts in translation, and photography.
Last offered: Autumn 2014
| Units: 3-5
HISTORY 107G:
Making Anglo-American Capitalism (HISTORY 7G)
This course addresses capitalism in global perspective to identify the roots of our current economic system. We will consider theories about capitalism, the politics and policies of implementation, and the human and environmental consequences through topics such as the imperial political economy, consumerism, plantation economies, the East India Company, and the rise of credit. Embedding markets in a range of social relations, cultural practices, and institutional arrangements, reveals how capital became an -ism in specific and knowable historical circumstances.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 109E:
Global Women Leaders: Past, Present, and Future
What conditions prompted the emergence of women political leaders around the world and what difference has their leadership made? This course introduces students to global women's history and focuses on a series of individual women leaders in the 20th century. We look at movements for women's self-determination in the 19th and 20th centuries that set the stage for women's emergence as national political leaders and activists in the 20th century. We then focus on a series of global women leaders including Eleanor Roosevelt, Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher, Benazir Bhutto, Michelle Bachelet and Aung San Suu Kyi. By studying their biographies and historical contributions, we will explore the ways women leaders make distinctive contributions as heads of state and political activists.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 3-4
HISTORY 110B:
Renaissance to Revolution: Early Modern Europe
(Same as HISTORY 10B. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 110B.) Few historical settings offer a more illuminating perspective on our world today than old-regime Europe. Few cast a darker shadow. Science and the enlightened ambition to master nature and society, the emergence of statehood and its grasp for human mobility, bloodshed and coexistence in the face of religious fragmentation, as well as capitalism and the birth of modern finance: this course surveys some of the most consequential developments in European societies between the late fifteenth and the early nineteenth century.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
HISTORY 110C:
The Problem of Modern Europe
(Same as HISTORY 10C. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 110C.) From the late 18th century to the present. How Europeans responded to rapid social changes caused by political upheaval, industrialization, and modernization. How the experience and legacy of imperialism and colonialism both influenced European society and put in motion a process of globalization that continues to shape international politics today.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI
HISTORY 112:
Medicine and Disease in the Ancient World
(Same as HISTORY 12. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for HISTORY 112.) This course explores medicine and disease through case studies from civilizations of the ancient world such as Egypt, Greece, and Peru. We will discuss how these cultures conceptualized disease, and in turn, how they contended with illnesses. Lectures will address different forms of illness through medical texts, art, and human remains. Weekly discussion will incorporate evidence from these sources to explore both their potential and their limitations.
Last offered: Autumn 2014
| Units: 5
HISTORY 113:
Before Globalization: Understanding Premodern World History
(Formerly CLASSHIS 147.) This course covers the history of the world from 60,000 years ago until 1500 by asking big questions: Why did civilizations develop the way they did? What factors were responsible for similarities and differences between different parts of the world? What does this mean for our newly globalized world?
Last offered: Spring 2014
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 114:
Origins of History in Greece and Rome (CLASSICS 88)
(Formerly CLASSHIS 117.) The beginnings and development of historical writing in the ancient world. Emphasis on major classical historians and various models of history they invented, from local to imperial, military, cultural, biographical, world history and church history. Focus on themes of power, war, loss, growth and decline, as put by the ancients into historical narrative forms and probed by way of historical questioning and explanation. Attention to how these models resonate still today. Readings in translation: Herodotus, Thucydides, Tacitus, Livy and others.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
HISTORY 115D:
The Civilization and Culture of the Middle Ages (HISTORY 15D, RELIGST 115X)
This course provides an introduction to Medieval Europe from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance. While the framework of the course is chronological, we¿ll concentrate particularly on the structure of medieval society. Rural and urban life, kingship and papal government, wars and plagues provide the context for our examination of the lives of medieval people, what they believed, and how they interacted with other, both within Christendom and beyond it.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 116:
Traders and Crusaders in the Medieval Mediterranean (HISTORY 16)
Trade and crusade were inextricably interconnected in the high Middle Ages. As merchant ships ferried knights and pilgrims across the Mediterranean, rulers borrowed heavily to finance their expeditions, while military expansion opened new economic opportunities. Course themes include the origins of the Crusading movement; the rise of Venice and other maritime powers; the pivotal roles of the Byzantine and Mongol Empires; relations between Christians, Muslims, and Jews; new military, maritime, and commercial technologies; and the modern legacy of the Crusades.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 116N:
Howard Zinn and the Quest for Historical Truth (EDUC 116N)
With more than two million copies in print, Howard Zinn¿s A People's History is a cultural icon. We will use Zinn¿s book to probe how we determine what was true in the past. A People's History will be our point of departure, but our journey will visit a variety of historical trouble spots: debates about whether the US was founded as a Christian nation, Holocaust denial, and the "Birther" controversy of President Obama.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
HISTORY 120A:
The Russian Empire, 1450-1800
(Same as HISTORY 20A. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 120A.) Explores rise of Russian state and expanse of empire; patterns of governance of a Eurasian empire; strategies and institutions of governance; survey of various ethnic and religious groups in empire and their varied cultures and political economies; gender and family; serfdom; Russian Orthodox religion and culture; reforms and Europeanization of 18th century.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
HISTORY 120B:
The Russian Empire
From Peter the Great to the Bolsheviks. Russia as an empire; its varied regions, including the Caucasus, Central Asia, Ukraine, Poland, and the Baltics. Focus is on the politics and cultures of empire. Sources include novels, political tracts, paintings, music, and other primary sources.
Last offered: Autumn 2008
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
HISTORY 120C:
20th-Century Russian and Soviet History
The Soviet polity from the 1917 Revolution to its collapse in 1991. Essentials of Marxist ideology; the Russian Empire in 1917. Causation in history; interpretations of the Revolution; state building in a socialist polity; social engineering through collectivization of agriculture, force-paced industrialization, and cultural revolution; terror as concept and practice; nationality policies in a multiethnic socialist empire; the routinization, decline, and collapse of the revolutionary ethos; and the legacy of the Soviet experiment in the new Russia.
Last offered: Autumn 2006
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
HISTORY 126B:
Protestant Reformation (RELIGST 126)
The emergence of Protestant Christianity in 16th-century Europe. Analysis of writings by evangelical reformers (Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, Sattler, Hubmeier, Müntzer) and study of reform movements (Lutheran, Reformed, Anabaptist, Spiritualist) in their medieval context and as expressions of new and influential visions of Christian belief, life, social order.
Last offered: Autumn 2014
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
HISTORY 130A:
In Sickness and In Health: Medicine and Society in the United States: 1800-Present (AMSTUD 130A, HISTORY 30A)
Explores the history of medical institutions, ideas and practices in the United States from the early nineteenth century to the present. How are ideas of illness and health historically rooted and socially constructed? How did scientific and medical discoveries lead to the rise of scientific medicine, and how were these innovations adopted within the American cultural landscape? Topics include the transformation of therapeutics and technologies, medicine and the scientific ideal in the U.S., gender and race and medicine, the history of public health, and the professionalization and specialization of American medical practice.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
HISTORY 132:
Ordinary Lives: A Social History of the Everyday in Early Modern Europe
What war meant for foot soldiers and the peasants across whose fields they marched. Ordinary people's lives in the eras of Machiavelli, Shakespeare, the Reformation, and the scientific revolution. Topics include: birth, marriage, and death; city life and peasant culture; lay encounters with religious and intellectual ideas; war and crime; and gender and sexuality.
Last offered: Winter 2009
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
HISTORY 133A:
Blood and Roses: The Age of the Tudors
English society and state from the Wars of the Roses to the death of Elizabeth. Political, social, and cultural upheavals of the Tudor period and the changes wrought by the Reformation. The establishment of the Tudor monarchy; destruction of the Catholic church; rise of Puritanism; and 16th-century social and economic changes.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI
HISTORY 137:
The Holocaust (HISTORY 337, JEWISHST 183, JEWISHST 383)
The emergence of modern racism and radical anti-Semitism. The Nazi rise to power and the Jews. Anti-Semitic legislation in the 30s. WW II and the beginning of mass killings in the East. Deportations and ghettos. The mass extermination of European Jewry.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 137A:
Europe, 1945-2002
Europe's transformation from the end of WW II to an expanded EU. Political, cultural, economic, and social history. Topics: postwar reconstruction, Cold War, consumer versus socialist culture, collapse of Communism, postcommunist integration.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
HISTORY 138A:
Germany and the World Wars, 1870-1990 (JEWISHST 138A)
(Same as HISTORY 38A. Majors and others taking 5 units, enroll in 138A.) This course examines Germany's tumultuous history from the Second Empire through the end of the Cold War. During this time, Germany ushered in five regimes and two world wars, seesawing between material ruin and economic prosperity on the frontline of Europe's military and ideological rifts. Beginning with Bismarck's wars of unification, the class spans World War One, the Weimar Republic, the rise of Nazism, World War Two, the Holocaust, the division of communist East and capitalist West Germany, and the fall of the Iron Curtain.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
HISTORY 139:
Modern Britain and the British Empire
(Same as HISTORY 39. History majors and others taking 5 units, register in 139.) From American Independence to the latest war in Iraq. Topics include: the rise of the modern British state and economy; imperial expansion and contraction; the formation of class, gender, and national identities; mass culture and politics; the world wars; and contemporary racial politics. Focus is on questions of decline, the fortunes and contradictions of British liberalism in an era of imperialism, and the weight of the past in contemporary Britain.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 140A:
The Scientific Revolution
What do people know and how do they know it? What counts as scientific knowledge? In the 16th and 17th centuries, understanding the nature of knowledge engaged the attention of individuals and institutions including Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, the early Royal Society, and less well-known contemporaries. New meanings of observing, collecting, experimenting, and philosophizing, and political, religious, and cultural ramifications in early modern Europe.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
HISTORY 144:
Women and Gender in Science, Medicine and Engineering (FEMGEN 144)
(Same as HISTORY 44. Majors and others taking 5 units, enroll in HISTORY 144.) Men's and women's roles in science, medicine, and engineering over the past 200 years with a focus on the present. What efforts are underway globally to transform research institutions so that both men's and women's careers can flourish? How have science and medicine studied and defined males and females? How can we harness the creative power of gender analysis to enhance knowledge and spark innovation?
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 145A:
Africa Until European Conquest
Episodes in African history from the earliest records up until European partition of the continent, focusing on how knowledge about the natural, social, and spiritual worlds was linked to the exercise of power. The effects of technological innovations on states and other forms of social complexity; use of religious beliefs and practices to legitimate or critique authority. The effects of slave trades and imperial conquest on these forms of authority.
Last offered: Autumn 2006
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom
HISTORY 145B:
Africa in the 20th Century (AFRICAAM 145B)
(Same as HISTORY 45B. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 145B.) The challenges facing Africans from when the continent fell under colonial rule until independence. Case studies of colonialism and its impact on African men and women drawn from West, Central, and Southern Africa. Novels, plays, polemics, and autobiographies written by Africans.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
HISTORY 146:
History of Humanitarian Aid in sub-Saharan Africa
Explores humanitarian endeavors through the era of the slave trade, colonialism, the Cold War and the present. Our focus is both local and global examining international humanitarian policy and the effects and perceptions of humanitarian aid within different African localities. Assignments use primary and secondary sources including organizational reports, ethnographies, memoirs and film. Topics: anti-slave trade and abolition movements, `civilizing¿ missions, development, refugees, peacekeeping, famine and women's rights.
Last offered: Winter 2016
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 147:
History of South Africa (AFRICAAM 147, CSRE 174)
(Same as HISTORY 47. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 147.) Introduction, focusing particularly on the modern era. Topics include: precolonial African societies; European colonization; the impact of the mineral revolution; the evolution of African and Afrikaner nationalism; the rise and fall of the apartheid state; the politics of post-apartheid transformation; and the AIDS crisis.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 148:
The Egyptians (AFRICAAM 30, CLASSICS 82, HISTORY 48)
Overview of ancient Egyptian pasts, from predynastic times to Greco-Roman rule, roughly 3000 BCE to 30 BCE. Attention to archaeological sites and artifacts; workings of society; and cultural productions, both artistic and literary. Participation in class is required.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
HISTORY 149C:
The Slave Trade
(Same as HISTORY 49C. History majors and others taking 5 units, enroll in 149C.) Slave trades and forms of slavery in W. Africa from 1000 to 1885; impacts on lives, social organization, and political structures. Slavery in Islam, the slave market in the Mediterranean and Middle East, and the Saharan slave trade. Slavery within Africa, growth of the Atlantic trade, the Middle Passage, and war and trade that produced slaves. Impact of the Industrial Revolution and European abolition movements on the use of slaves and warfare in Africa. The relationship between slaving and the European conquest of Africa.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
HISTORY 150A:
Colonial and Revolutionary America (AMSTUD 150A)
(Same as HISTORY 50A. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for HISTORY 150A.) Survey of the origins of American society and polity in the 17th and 18th centuries. Topics: the migration of Europeans and Africans and the impact on native populations; the emergence of racial slavery and of regional, provincial, Protestant cultures; and the political origins and constitutional consequences of the American Revolution.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
HISTORY 150B:
Nineteenth Century America (AFRICAAM 150B, AMSTUD 150B)
(Same as HISTORY 50B. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 150B.) Territorial expansion, social change, and economic transformation. The causes and consequences of the Civil War. Topics include: urbanization and the market revolution; slavery and the Old South; sectional conflict; successes and failures of Reconstruction; and late 19th-century society and culture.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-SI
HISTORY 150C:
The United States in the Twentieth Century (AMSTUD 150C)
(Same as HISTORY 50C. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 150C.) This course begins around 1900, when women and most African-Americans could not vote; automobiles were virtually unknown and computers unimaginable; and the U.S. was a minor power overshadowed by Europe. Yet fierce debates over the purpose of government and role of the U.S. in the world animated national politics, as they do today. This course surveys U.S. politics, culture, and social movements to answer the question: How did we get from there to here? Suitable for non-majors and majors.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 151:
The American West (AMSTUD 124A, ARTHIST 152, ENGLISH 124, POLISCI 124A)
The American West is characterized by frontier mythology, vast distances, marked aridity, and unique political and economic characteristics. This course integrates several disciplinary perspectives into a comprehensive examination of Western North America: its history, physical geography, climate, literature, art, film, institutions, politics, demography, economy, and continuing policy challenges. Students examine themes fundamental to understanding the region: time, space, water, peoples, and boom and bust cycles.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
HISTORY 151D:
The Age of the City in Nineteenth Century America
Ranging from New York to New Orleans to San Francisco and beyond, this course explores urban life as a lens into broader historical change during the long nineteenth century, when America tripled in size, fought a bloody Civil War, and became an industrial powerhouse. Baseball stadiums, ethnic and "bohemian" enclaves, skyscrapers, settlement houses, parks, and community festivals will help us analyze large-scale phenomena such as war, economic depression, industrial capitalism, slavery and Jim Crow, and the advent of consumer culture.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
HISTORY 151G:
American Legal History, 1930- 2000: New Deal, Rights Revolution, Conservative Reaction (HISTORY 51G)
This course examines major transformations in American law brought about by the momentous social and political movements of the mid- to late 20th Century: Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal and its expansion after World War II; the "Rights Revolution" of 1954-75 that granted new rights to equality and protection from arbitrary treatment to blacks, women, aliens, criminal defendants and others; and finally the fierce political reaction to liberal policies in which the modern conservative movements arose and came to power.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
HISTORY 152:
History of American Law (HISTORY 352B)
(Formerly Law 318. Now Law 3504.) This course examines the growth and development of American legal institutions with particular attention to crime and punishment, slavery and race relations, the role of law in developing the economy, and the place of lawyers in American society, from colonial times to the present. Special Instructions: Any student may write a paper in lieu of the final exam with consent of instructor. After the term begins, students accepted into the course can transfer from section (01) into section (02), which meets the R requirement, with consent of the instructor. Elements used in grading: Final exam or paper. Automatic grading penalty waived for writers. Cross-listed with History (HISTORY 152 Consent of instructor required) & (HISTORY 352B).
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
HISTORY 152E:
From Gold Rush to Google Bus: History of San Francisco (AMSTUD 150X, URBANST 150)
This class will examine the history of San Francisco from Native American and colonial settlement through the present. Focus is on social, environmental, and political history, with the theme of power in the city. Topics include Native Americans, the Gold Rush, immigration and nativism, railroads and robber barons, earthquake and fire, progressive reform and unionism, gender, race and civil rights, sexuality and politics, counterculture, redevelopment and gentrification. Students write final project in collaboration with ShapingSF, a participatory community history project documenting and archiving overlooked stories and memories of San Francisco. (Cardinal Course certified by the Haas Center)
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 153:
CREATION OF THE CONSTITUTION
(Same as LAW 230.) The course begins with readings setting forth the intellectual and experiential background of the framing, including common law and natural rights theory, republicanism, economic & political scientific ideas, and colonial and post-Independence experience. We then study large parts of the debates at the Constitutional Convention, primarily using Madison's Notes. Next come the ratification debates, including readings from antifederalist writers, about half of The Federalist, and overviews of the Virginia and New York ratification conventions. We conclude with the addition of the Bill of Rights. Classes consist of a combination of lecture and extensive participation by students. Elements used in grading: Exam.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
HISTORY 154:
American Intellectual and Cultural History to the Civil War (AMSTUD 154)
(Same as HISTORY 54. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 154.) How Americans considered problems such as slavery, imperialism, and sectionalism. Topics include: the political legacies of revolution; biological ideas of race; the Second Great Awakening; science before Darwin; reform movements and utopianism; the rise of abolitionism and proslavery thought; phrenology and theories of human sexuality; and varieties of feminism. Sources include texts and images.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
HISTORY 154D:
Religion and War in America (AMSTUD 105R, CSRE 105, HISTORY 354D, RELIGST 105)
Scholars have devoted much attention to wars in American history, but have not agreed as to whether religion was a major cause or simply a cover for political, economic, and other motives. We will compare interpretations that leave religion out, with those that take it into account. We will also look at the impact of war on the religious lives of ordinary Americans. We will examine both secondary as well as primary sources, beginning with King Philip's War in the 17th century, and ending with the "War on Terror" in the present day.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
HISTORY 155:
American Constitutional History from the Civil War to the War on Poverty
(Same as LAW 738.) American Constitutional History from the Civil War to the Cold War. This course will address U.S. constitutional history from the post-Civil War Reconstruction period through the mid-20th century. Because of the breadth of the subject matter, the view will necessarily be partial. In particular we will take as our focus the way the Constitution has provided a point of political mobilization for social movements challenging economic and social inequality. Topics covered include: Civil War Reconstruction and restoration; the rise of corporate capitalism and efforts to constrain it; Progressive Era regulation; the New Deal challenge to federalism and the anti-New Deal backlash; government spending; the World Wars and emergency powers; Civil Liberties including speech and privacy; and the beginning of the Civil Rights Era. Readings will include both legal and historical materials with a focus on the relationship between law and society. Elements used in grading: Class Participation, Attendance, Written Assignments, Final Paper. Paper extensions will be granted with instructor permission. No automatic grading penalty for late papers.
Last offered: Spring 2016
| Units: 5
HISTORY 156:
American Economic History (AMSTUD 116, ECON 116)
The American economy from colonial times to the present, illustrating the role of history in economic life. Topics: U.S. economic development in global and comparative context; slavery as an economic system; emergence of American technology and business organization; economics of the Great Depression and the New Deal; post-World War II economic performance and social change; globalization, information technology, and inequality. Prerequisite: 1 or 1V.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-SI
HISTORY 156G:
Women and Medicine in US History: Women as Patients, Healers and Doctors (AMSTUD 156H, FEMGEN 156H)
Women's bodies in sickness and health, and encounters with lay and professional healers from the 18th century to the present. Historical consttruction of thought about women's bodies and physical limitations; sexuality; birth control and abortion; childbirth; adulthood; and menopause and aging. Women as healers, including midwives, lay physicians, the medical profession, and nursing.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 157:
The Constitution: A Brief History (AMSTUD 157, POLISCI 128S)
A broad survey of the Constitution, from its Revolutionary origins to the contemporary disputes over interpretation. Topics include the invention of the written constitution and interpretative canons; the origins of judicial review; the Civil War and Reconstruction as constitutional crises; the era of substantive due process; the rights revolution; and the Constitution in wartime.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul
HISTORY 158C:
History of Higher Education in the U.S. (AMSTUD 165, EDUC 165, EDUC 265)
Major periods of evolution, particularly since the mid-19th century. Premise: insights into contemporary higher education can be obtained through its antecedents, particularly regarding issues of governance, mission, access, curriculum, and the changing organization of colleges and universities.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
HISTORY 161:
Women in Modern America (AMSTUD 161, CSRE 162, FEMGEN 161)
This course explores the transition from Victorian to modern womanhood in the U.S. from the 1890s to the end of the 20th century, including the experiences of Native, European, African, Mexican, and Asian American women. It asks how, when, and why the majority of American women become wage earners, gained full citizenship, and enacted political opportunities; how race- and class-specific ideals of womanhood changed in popular culture; and how women have redefined their reproductive and sexual relations.
Last offered: Spring 2016
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 163:
A History of North American Wests
The history, peoples, and natural systems of a region that has never been contained within a single empire or nation state, but has been united by the movement of peoples, species, and things. Topics include smallpox, horses, gold, salmon, rivers, coal, and oil.
Last offered: Spring 2009
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
HISTORY 164C:
From Freedom to Freedom Now: African American History, 1865-1965 (AMSTUD 164C)
(Same as HISTORY 64C. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 164C.) Explores the working lives, social worlds, political ideologies and cultural expressions of African Americans from emancipation to the early civil rights era. Topics include: the transition from slavery to freedom, family life, work, culture, leisure patterns, resistance, migration and social activism. Draws largely on primary sources including autobiographies, memoirs, letters, personal journals, newspaper articles, pamphlets, speeches, literature, film and music.
Last offered: Spring 2011
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul
HISTORY 164E:
Acting Free: Assertive Performance in African American History and Cultural Expression (AFRICAAM 64E, AFRICAAM 164E, DANCE 101, HISTORY 64E)
This course will explore the imaginative ways black Americans have expressed their desire for freedom through dance, movement, visual art, and musical performance. Each week, historian Clayborne Carson will discuss the theme of assertive performance during various periods of African American history, and dance Lecturer Aleta Hayes will guide students as they perform their own interpretations through distinctive historical periods and styles. Course will culminate in informal performance by participating students.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
HISTORY 166:
Introduction to African American History - the Modern Freedom Struggle (AFRICAAM 166, AMSTUD 166, CSRE 166, HISTORY 66)
Using the unique documentary resources and publications of Stanford's Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute, this course will utilize multi-media materials to shed light on the relationship between grassroots activism and King's visionary leadership.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul
HISTORY 166B:
Immigration Debates in America, Past and Present (CSRE 166B, HISTORY 366B)
Examines the ways in which the immigration of people from around the world and migration within the United States shaped American nation-building and ideas about national identity in the twentieth century. Focuses on how conflicting ideas about race, gender, ethnicity, and citizenship with respect to particular groups led to policies both of exclusion and integration. Part One begins with the ways in which the American views of race and citizenship in the colonial period through the post-Reconstruction Era led to the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882 and subsequently to broader exclusions of immigrants from other parts of Asia, Southern and Eastern Europe, and Mexico. Explores how World War II and the Cold War challenged racial ideologies and led to policies of increasing liberalization culminating in the passage of the 1965 Immigration Act, which eliminated quotas based on national origins and opened the door for new waves of immigrants, especially from Asia and Latin America. Part Two considers new immigration patterns after 1965, including those of refugees, and investigates the contemporary debate over immigration and immigration policy in the post 9/11 era as well as inequalities within the system and the impact of foreign policy on exclusions and inclusions.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 166C:
The Cold War: An International History (INTNLREL 154)
Though it ended twenty years ago, we still live in a world shaped by the Cold War. Beginning with its origins in the mid-1940s, this course will trace the evolution of the global struggle, until its culmination at the end of the 1980s. Students will be asked to ponder the fundamental nature of the Cold War, what kept it alive for nearly fifty years, how it ended, and its long term legacy for the world.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 167A:
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Global Freedom Struggle
Using the unique documentary resources and publications of Stanford's King Research and Education Institute, this course will be taught by Professor Carson and his colleagues at the Institute. It will provide a general introduction to the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as devote attention to the movements he inspired. In addition to lectures, the course will include presentations of documentaries such as Eyes on the Prize. Students will be expected to read the required texts, participate in class discussions, and take a final exam or submit a research paper (or an audio-visual project developed in consultation with the professor).
Last offered: Winter 2014
| Units: 3-5
HISTORY 168:
American History in Film Since World War ll
U.S. society, culture, and politics since WW II through feature films. Topics include: McCarthyism and the Cold War; ethnicity and racial identify; changing sex and gender relationships; the civil rights and anti-war movements; and mass media. Films include: The Best Years of Our Lives, Salt of the Earth, On the Waterfront, Raisin in the Sun, Kramer v Kramer, and Falling Down.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
HISTORY 169:
American Environmental History (EARTHSYS 145, HISTORY 69)
This course examines the historical relationship between human beings and nature in the geographical space that became the United States, from earliest settlement to the late twentieth century. Students will be introduced to themes in American Environmental History, including: Native Americans and the environment, ecological changes following European colonization, the impact of industrialization and urbanization, evolving ideas about nature, the rise of conservation and environmentalist movements in the twentieth century, environmental inequality, and the historical roots of today¿s environmental problems.
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
HISTORY 170B:
Culture, Society and Politics in Latin America
(Same as HISTORY 70. History majors and others taking 5 units, enroll in HISTORY 170B.) This course examines Latin American history from the colonial era to the present day. Key issues include colonialism, nationalism, democracy, and revolution. Sources include writings in the social sciences as well as primary documents, fiction, and film.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 172A:
Mexico: From Colony to Nation, or the History of an impossible Republic?
Was a republican form of government even possible in 19th-century Mexico after 300 years of colonial rule under the Spanish monarchy? Was the Spanish colonial heritage a positive or a negative legacy according to 19th-century Mexican politicians? How were they to forge a new national identity with so many ethnically and culturally diverse peoples throughout the territory? Just how ¿traditional¿ was, in fact, the colonial period? These are some of the questions we will explore in this course. Journeying from the late colonial period (c.1700) to the 35-year dictatorship known as El Porfiriato (1876-1911) we will examine how Mexico¿s diverse indigenous peoples adapted to both colonial and postcolonial rule, how they actively participated in politics and political discourse to preserve their cultures, customs and colonial privileges, and how after independence in 1821, a new republican political culture was forged. Mexico was not an impossible republic, but rather another kind of republic.
Last offered: Spring 2014
| Units: 5
HISTORY 173:
Mexican Migration to the United States (AMSTUD 73, CHILATST 173, HISTORY 73)
This class examines the history of Mexican migration to the United States. In the United States we constantly hear about Obama¿s immigration plan, the anti-immigrant laws in Arizona, and the courage of DREAM Activists; in Mexico news sources speak about the role of remittances, the effect of deportations, and the loss of life at the border. Unfortunately, few people truly understand the historical trends in these migratory processes, or the multifaceted role played by the United States in encouraging individuals to head there. Moreover, few people have actually heard the opinions and voices of migrants themselves. This course seeks to provide students with the opportunity to place migrants¿ experiences in dialogue with migratory laws as well as the knowledge to embed current understandings of Latin American migration in their meaningful historical context.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
HISTORY 174:
Mexico Since 1876: HIstory of a "Failed State"?
(Same as History 374.) This course is an introduction to the history and diverse peoples of modern Mexico from 1876 to the present. Through lectures, discussions, primary and secondary readings, short documentaries, and written assignments, students will critically explore and analyze the multiplicity of historical processes, events and trends that shaped and were shaped by Mexicans over the course of a century. The course will cover some of the social and political dimensions of rural social change, urbanization and industrialization, technological innovation and misuse, environmental degradation and conservation, education, ideology, culture and media, migration, and the drug trade.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP
HISTORY 176F:
CITY, URBANISATION PROCESSES AND URBAN POLICIES IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN (HISTORY 76F)
Note: Course is taught in Spanish. This course is structured around two key concepts: dependence and irregularity in urban development. This course reviews the urbanisation process and urban policies of Latin America and the Caribbean, exploring their consequences and challenges at the intra-urban level in relation to economic, social and cultural processes. Special attention will be paid to the case of Cuba, a socialist country with its own internal dynamics which is currently undergoing a period of transition.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
HISTORY 177D:
U.S. Intervention and Regime Change in 20th Century Latin America
Policy discussions of regime change by US politicians, journalists and pundits usually focus on Iraq, Iran, Syria and North Korea, often with little or no historical context or perspective. This course does the opposite and takes seriously the proverbial saying "if history is any guide..." by examining U.S. interventions in Latin America, a region where so-called preventive regime change (covert as well as overt) has been operative policy for well over a century. Investigates the rationales, motivations and strategies behind U.S.-backed or engineered regime changes in Mexico in the 1910s, Guatemala in the 1950s, Chile in the 1970s, and Nicaragua in the 1980s.
Last offered: Spring 2015
| Units: 5
HISTORY 178:
Film and History of Latin American Revolutions and Counterrevolutions (HISTORY 78)
Note: Students who have completed HISTORY 78N or 78Q should not enroll in this course. In this course we will watch and critique films made about Latin America's 20th century revolutions focusing on the Cuban, Chilean and Nicaraguan revolutions. We will analyze the films as both social and political commentaries and as aesthetic and cultural works, alongside archivally-based histories of these revolutions.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
HISTORY 181B:
Formation of the Contemporary Middle East
Focusing on the period from World War I to the recent past, the course emphasizes the eastern Arab world Egypt, greater Syria, and Iraq plus Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iran, and Israel. Themes include: integration of the region into the world economy; imperialism and the formation of the contemporary state system; competing forms of identity (national states, pan-Arab nationalism, Islam) and ideology (liberalism, Marxism, fascism, Islamism); changing gender relations; Palestine/Israel, decolonization, the Cold War; the transition from British to U.S. hegemony; and several contemporary crises.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 182C:
Making of the Islamic World, 600-1500
(Same as HISTORY 82C. Majors and other taking 5 units, register for 182C.) The History of Islam and Muslim peoples from 600-1500. Topics include Muhammad and his community; the early Arab conquests and empires; sectarian movements; formation of Islamic belief, thought, legal culture and religious institutions; transregional Sufi and learned networks; family and sexuality; urban, rural and nomadic life; non-Muslim communities; the development of Mediterranean and Indian Ocean trade; relations with Byzantium, the Latin West, China; the Crusades and the Mongols.
Last offered: Spring 2015
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
HISTORY 183D:
Global History of Muslim Peoples (from the Crusades to Modern Times) (HISTORY 83D)
How to make sense of the Muslim World today in a historical perspective from Africa to the Middle East, from Central Asia to India and Southeast Asia? Topics include: the Muslim world as connected but diverse reality; great Muslim Empires and Sunni, Shi`ite and Salafi confessionalisms; Sufis, Merchants, and Nomads; Christians, Jews and Hindus living in the Islamic world; Muslim responses to European dominance; Reforms, revolutions and Islamic Enlightenment; Alternative modernities: Cosmopolitanism, Islamism and Nationalism. Is the Muslim World today in crisis?
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
HISTORY 185B:
Jews in the Contemporary World: Faith and Ethnicity, Vulnerability and Visibility (CSRE 185B, HISTORY 385C, JEWISHST 185B, REES 185B)
(Same as HISTORY 85B.) This course explores the full expanse of Jewish life today and in the recent past. The inner workings of religious faith, the content of Jewish identify shorn of belief, the interplay between Jewish powerlessness and influence, the myth and reality of Jewish genius, the continued pertinence of antisemitism, the rhythms of Jewish economic life ¿ all these will be examined in weekly lectures, classroom discussion, and with the use of a widely diverse range of readings, films, and other material. Explored in depth will the ideas and practices of Zionism, the content of contemporary secularism and religious Orthodoxy, the impact Holocaust, the continued crisis facing Israel and the Palestinians. Who is to be considered Jewish, in any event, especially since so many of the best known (Spinoza, Freud, Marx) have had little if anything to do with Jewish life with their relationships to it indifferent, even hostile?
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 187D:
Zionism and Its Critics
Zionism from its genesis in the 1880s up until the establishment of the state of Israel in May, 1948, exploring the historical, ideological and political dimensions of Zionism. Topics include: the emergence of Zionist ideology in connection to and as a response to challenges of modernity; emancipation; Haskalah (Jewish enlightenment); other national and ideological movements of the period; the ideological crystallization of the movement; and the immigration waves to Palestine.
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 191B:
The City in Imperial China
The evolution of cities in the early imperial, medieval, and early modern periods. Topics include physical structure, social order, cultural forms, economic roles, relations to rural hinterlands, and the contrast between imperial capitals and other cities. Comparative cases from European history. Readings include primary and secondary sources, and visual materials.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
HISTORY 191D:
China: The Northern and Southern Dynasties
(Same as HISTORY 91D. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 191D.) Examines one of the most dynamic periods of Chinese history with the emergence of the institutional religions (Buddhism and Daoism), the development of the garden as an art form, the rise of landscape as a theme of verse and art, the invention of lyric poetry, and the real beginnings of the southward spread of Chinese civilization.
Last offered: Spring 2010
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
HISTORY 193:
Late Imperial China (CHINA 183, FEMGEN 193)
(Same as HISTORY 93. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 193.) A survey of Chinese history from the 11th century to the collapse of the imperial state in 1911. Topics include absolutism, gentry society, popular culture, gender and sexuality, steppe nomads, the Jesuits in China, peasant rebellion, ethnic conflict, opium, and the impact of Western imperialism.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI
HISTORY 194B:
Japan in the Age of the Samurai
(Same as HISTORY 94B. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 194B.) From the Warring States Period to the Meiji Restoration. Topics include the three great unifiers, Tokugawa hegemony, the samurai class, Neoconfucian ideologies, suppression of Christianity, structures of social and economic control, frontiers, the other and otherness, castle-town culture, peasant rebellion, black marketing, print culture, the floating world, National Studies, food culture, samurai activism, black ships, unequal treaties, anti-foreign terrorism, restorationism, millenarianism, modernization as westernization, Japan as imagined community.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI
HISTORY 195:
Modern Korean History (HISTORY 395)
(Same as HISTORY 95. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 195.) This lecture course provides a general introduction to the history of modern Korea. Themes include the characteristics of the Chosôn dynasty, reforms and rebellions in the nineteenth century, Korean nationalism; Japan's colonial rule and Korean identities; decolonization and the Korean War; and the different state-building processes in North and South, South Korea's democratization in 1980s, and the current North Korean crisis.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 195C:
Modern Japanese History: From Samurai to Pokemon
(Same as HISTORY 95C. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 195C.) Japan's modern transformation from the late 19th century to the present. Topics include: the Meiji revolution; industrialization and social dislocation; the rise of democracy and empire; total war and US occupation; economic miracle and malaise; Japan as soft power; and politics of memory. Readings and films focus on the lived experience of ordinary men and women across social classes and regions.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
HISTORY 196:
Gandhi in His Time and Ours
(Same as HISTORY 96. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 196.) Place the paradox of Gandhi in context of global convulsions of 20th century. Gandhi lived across continents; maturing in South Africa, struggling in India, attaining celebrity in Europe. As leader of masses, his method of Satyagraha was distinctively at odds with his times. Yet, he also privileged sacrifice, dying, even euthanasia. In a world beset by fear and war, Gandhi's complex theory of nonviolence is compelling. What kind of nonviolent politics did Gandhi envision after Fascism, Auschwitz, Hiroshima, and Pakistan?
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-ER, WAY-SI
HISTORY 197:
Southeast Asia: From Antiquity to the Modern Era (HISTORY 97)
The history of S.E. Asia, comprising Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Burma, Cambodia, and Laos, from antiquity to the present. The spread of Indian cultural influences, the rise of indigenous states, and the emergence of globally linked trade networks. European colonization, economic transformation, the rise of nationalism, the development of the modern state, and the impact of globalization.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
HISTORY 198:
History of Modern China
(Same as HISTORY 98. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 198.) Do you want to understand Modern China? If so, this course is for you. And even if you've studied China before, or grew up there, this course will deepen and challenge your perspectives. Through vivid and propulsive lectures - drawing on fiction, film, political essays, and more - Professor Tom Mullaney will chart out China¿s historical transformations from 1800 to today, equipping you to speak and write intelligently about Chinese politics, society, economy, culture, gender, ethnicity, and international affairs.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
HISTORY 198G:
Beijing, Shanghai, and the Structure of China
China's modern history through the rivalry of its two most important cities. The course begins in the nineteenth century, contrasting Beijing, the classic imperial capital and a foreign foundation paradoxically celebrated as the embodiment of "traditional" China, with Shanghai, a treaty port and demographic/economic center of China, but identified as a "foreign" city. After following the cities' history through the warlord period, the "Shanghai decade" of Nationalist rule, and the Japanese occupation, the course examines the two cities' developments under Mao and Deng. The course concludes with a look at their current relations and roles, and the transformed nature of China's cities.
Last offered: Summer 2011
| Units: 3-5
HISTORY 201:
Introduction to Public History and Public Service (AFRICAAM 102, CSRE 201)
Gateway course for Public History/Public Service track. Examines various ways history is used outside of the classroom, and its role in political/cultural debates in the U.S. and abroad. Showcases careers in public history with guest speakers.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 201B:
Spatial History: Concepts, Methods, Problems (HISTORY 401A)
What can digital mapping and spatial analysis bring to history? How have historians written spatial history in the past? How do scholars in other disciplines deal with space and what can we learn from them? The course provides students with conceptual and technical skills in spatial history. As part of the exercise to think spatially about the past, students will receive training in Geographic Informational Science (GIS) and develop their own spatial history projects. No prior technical skills are needed for this course.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 201C:
The U.S., U.N. Peacekeeping, and Humanitarian War (INTNLREL 140C)
The involvement of U.S. and the UN in major wars and international interventions since the 1991 Gulf War. The UN Charter's provisions on the use of force, the origins and evolution of peacekeeping, the reasons for the breakthrough to peacemaking and peace enforcement in the 90s, and the ongoing debates over the legality and wisdom of humanitarian intervention. Case studies include Croatia and Bosnia, Somalia, Rwanda, Kosovo, East Timor, and Afghanistan. * Course satisfies the WiM requirement for International Relations majors.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 201E:
Life Under Nazism (HISTORY 301E)
This course explores everyday life in the Third Reich. Moving inside political events, students will examine daily experiences in the Nazi state-- from Hitler's tumultuous rise to power through the end of World War Two. We will see how people navigated new ideologies, practices, anti-Semitism, war, and mass murder. Through analysis of memoirs, diaries, essays, novels, propaganda, scholarship, and film, students will investigate how social and political developments can reveal the very boundaries between self and society.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 201J:
Objects of History: From "Material Culture" to "Making" (HISTORY 301J)
This class considers objects as historical sources. It surveys diverse approaches to the study and display of physical evidence, from "material culture" to "making." These explorations of object-oriented research will inform the course's hands-on components, working with objects and replicating historical experiences. With its focus on the question of what historical knowledge can be gained through interactivity, the course is suited to students whose interests include museums and public history, reenactment and performance, the maker movement, or interdisciplinary methodology.
Last offered: Spring 2016
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 201K:
A History of the Global Left: Revolutionary Movements against Empire (HISTORY 301K)
This class will trace the formation of trans-regional movements against imperialism in the modern period that helped create a "global Left." We will read contemporary works by thinkers such as Lord Byron, Karl Marx, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Annie Besant, and Faiz Ahmad Faiz, as well as historical studies of these figures and the movements in which they figured. Key topics include the American Revolution, the Indian "Mutiny" of 1857, the Ghadar movement, Pan-Islamism, Irish nationalism, and global communism.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
HISTORY 202K:
The Holocaust and Its Aftermath (HISTORY 302K, JEWISHST 282K, JEWISHST 382K)
This seminar gives an overview over different aspects of the history of the Holocaust and its aftermath and will examine key issues in recent Holocaust historiography and questions of memory and representation. Special emphasis is put on the nature of the historian's task, as viewed through the lens of historians of the Holocaust, as well as to the significance of the Holocaust in history and how it has changed over time. The course will confront students with historiographical texts and historical documents, with photography and film, works of scholarship and art.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 203:
Premodern Economic Cultures (HISTORY 303)
Modern economists have made a science of studying the aggregate effects of individual choices. This science is based on the realities of personal freedom and individual choice. Prior to the modern era, however, different realities comprised very different economic cultures: moral economies in which greed was evil and generosity benefitted the patron's soul; familial collectives operating within historical conditioned diasporas; economies of obligation that threatened to collapse under their own weight as economic structures shifted. In this course we will be reading cross-culturally to develop an understanding of the shared and distinct elements of premodern economic cultures.
Last offered: Spring 2014
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 203D:
The Holocaust in Recent Memory: Conflicts - Commemorations - Challenges (HISTORY 303D, JEWISHST 283D, JEWISHST 383D)
This course offers an in-depth approach to the study of the Holocaust as a historical point of reference for European memory, or for the memory cultures of European nations, where the international context in particular the USA and Israel will also be taken into consideration. The starting point is the transformations in Holocaust memory: after 1945, in the era of European postwar myths, the Holocaust was on the periphery of historical thinking, of scholarly and public interest. Today the Holocaust is acknowledged as a 'break in civilization', a watershed event in human history. This approach has only evolved since the 1980s.
Last offered: Autumn 2014
| Units: 5
HISTORY 203J:
Water in World History (HISTORY 303J)
Examines the human relationship to water in various geographical, ecological, technological, cultural and sociopolitical settings, primarily during, but not limited to, the 19th and 20th centuries. Develops a broad historical understanding of the dwindling supply, deteriorating quality and inequitable distribution of freshwater today.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
HISTORY 203K:
Trauma and History: Intergenerational suffering and collective healing
This course will examine trauma as a historical process, following the intergenerational impacts of history's darker dramas, analyzing collective strategies for coping and healing after trauma, and asking whether we can speak of "traumatized societies." Readings for graduate students will include Ben Shephard's A War of Nerves, Didier Fassin and Richard Rechtman's The Empire of Trauma, and selections from Yael Danieli, ed., Intergenerational Handbook of Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma. Colloquium will be discussion-oriented, but will also include guest discussants from around the world. The course will culminate in a conference to be held at Stanford, June 4-6: "Soul Wounds: Trauma and Healing Across Generations." Undergraduate requirements for 1 credit: Attend weekly "Mind, Body, and Culture" workshop and first hour of Wednesday morning discussion, attend some part of conference on June 4-6. Graduate requirements for 4-5 credits: Attend workshop, read weekly, discussion on Wednesday mornings, write a paper and if desired present at conference.
Last offered: Spring 2015
| Units: 1
HISTORY 204:
What is History?
An introduction to the discipline of history, designed for current or prospective History majors. Focusing on methods and theories of historical inquiry, students will learn how historians frame problems, collect and analyze evidence, and contribute to on-going debates. Through a series of case studies or exemplary works of historical study, the course will also explore different genres of historical writing (such as narrative, biography, social history) and different methodological approaches to history (such as Annales school, microhistory, and cultural history).
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 204E:
Totalitarianism (HISTORY 307E)
Modern revolutionary and totalitarian politics. Sources include monographs on the medieval, Reformation, French Revolutionary, and Great War eras. Topics: the essence of modern ideology, the concept of the body national, state terror, charismatic leadership, gender assignments, private and public spheres, and identities.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
HISTORY 204G:
War and Society (HISTORY 304G, REES 304G)
How Western societies and cultures have responded to modern warfare. The relationship between its destructive capacity and effects on those who produce, are subject to, and must come to terms with its aftermath. Literary representations of WW I; destructive psychological effects of modern warfare including those who take pleasure in killing; changes in relations between the genders; consequences of genocidal ideology and racial prejudice; the theory of just war and its practical implementation; and how wars are commemorated.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
HISTORY 204K:
Photographing the Past: Every Photograph is a History
The premise of this course is that all photographs¿including contemporary photographs -- are historical photographs, and that history in often unrecognized ways is visual. Photographs always and inevitably capture a past that can only be told by combining them with other photographs and documents. The seminar will look at how photographers, historians, and cultural critics treat the visualization of the past and how this opens up new ways of approaching history.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II
HISTORY 205F:
Digital History: Concepts, Methods, Problems
This course confronts the current and potential influence of digital media on the theory and practice of history. We will focus on resources enabling new forms of scholarship, looking at tools for visualization and text analysis for generating historical interpretations, and explore alternative forms of publishing, design, and research. The course covers a range of readings along with a critical engagement with tools and resources. Students will also contribute to a digital spatial exhibit on the history of Silicon Valley.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
HISTORY 205G:
Creative Political Thinking: From Machiavelli to Madison (HISTORY 305G, POLISCI 235J, POLISCI 335J)
How can we account for creativity and innovation in political thinking? Are these qualities simply a product of political expediency and rhetorical urgency, or do they also depend on qualities of mind and historical contingencies that have to be studied individually? This class will explore these questions with three noteworthy cases: Niccolo Machiavelli, John Locke, and James Madison. Extensive reading in both primary writings and secondary sources.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 206A:
City, Society, Literature- 19th Century Histories (HISTORY 306A, URBANST 106)
This course examines the rise of modern cities through an analysis of urban society and the imaginative literature of the 1800s.
Last offered: Spring 2014
| Units: 4
HISTORY 206E:
CAPITALS: How Cities Shape Cultures, States, and People (COMPLIT 100, DLCL 100, FRENCH 175, GERMAN 175, ILAC 175, ITALIAN 175, URBANST 153)
This course takes students on a trip to eight capital cities, at different moments in time: Renaissance Florence, Golden Age Madrid, Colonial Mexico City, Enlightenment and Romantic Paris, Existential and Revolutionary St. Petersburg, Roaring Berlin, Modernist Vienna, and bustling Buenos Aires. While exploring each place in a particular historical moment, we will also consider the relations between culture, power, and social life. How does the cultural life of a country intersect with the political activity of a capital? How do large cities shape our everyday experience, our aesthetic preferences, , and our sense of history? Why do some cities become cultural capitals? Primary materials for this course will consist of literary, visual, sociological, and historical documents (in translation); authors we will read include Boccaccio, Lope de Vega, Sor Juana, Montesquieu, Baudelaire, Dostoyevsky, Irmgard Keun, Freud, and Borges.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
HISTORY 207:
Biography and History (HISTORY 308)
The relationship between biographical and historical writing, primarily in Europe and America. Problems of methodology, evidence, dispassion, and empathy. Texts: biographies, critical literature on biographical work, and novels (A. S. Byatt's Possession, Bernard Malamud's Dubin's Lives) that illuminate the intellectual underpinnings of biographical labor.
Last offered: Spring 2010
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
HISTORY 207B:
Environment, Technology and Revolution in World History
Exploration of historiographical and interdisciplinary methodologies and approaches to intersections among environmental, technological, and revolutionary social change in diverse geographical and temporal contexts. Readings include broad theoretical and synthetic works as well as case studies of American, French, Mexican, Russian, Chinese, and Hungarian revolutions.
Last offered: Spring 2013
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 207C:
The Global Early Modern (HISTORY 307C)
In what sense can we speak of "globalization" before modernity? What are the characteristics and origins of the economic system we know as "capitalism"? When and why did European economies begin to diverge from those of other Eurasian societies? With these big questions in mind, the primary focus will be on the history of Europe and European empires, but substantial readings deal with other parts of the world, particularly China and the Indian Ocean. HISTORY 307C is a prerequisite for HISTORY 402 (Spring quarter).
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 208:
Private Lives, Public Stories: Autobiography in Women's History
Changing contexts of women's lives and how women's actions have shaped and responded to those contexts.
Last offered: Winter 2010
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender
HISTORY 208B:
Women Activists' Response to War (FEMGEN 208B, HISTORY 308B)
Theoretical issues, historical origins, changing forms of women's activism in response to war throughout the 20th century, and contemporary cases, such as the Russian Committee of Soldiers Mothers, Bosnian Mothers of Srebrenica, Serbian Women in Black, and the American Cindy Sheehan. Focus is on the U.S. and Eastern Europe, with attention to Israel, England, and Argentina.
Last offered: Winter 2016
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender
HISTORY 208G:
Taking to the Streets: Experiencing the Age of Revolutions (FRENCH 215)
This seminar seeks to understand the experience of living in a time of revolution. It draws on recent histories describing the second half of the eighteenth century as a global 'Age of Revolutions,' not only in the United States and France, but in places as varied as Bengal, Haiti, and Latin America. The course will give an introduction to the spread of revolutions in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Readings and viewings for the course will include works of history as well as novels, plays, paintings, and operas to bring the experience of street protest to life. Students will explore how revolutionary moments are structured by political, economic, and cultural forces, but are also deeply unpredictable and dependent on the felt experience of their participants. The course will be taught in English, with the option of readings in French for departmental majors.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
HISTORY 208S:
Facing the Past: The Politics of Retrospective Justice
Forms of injustice in history including slavery, genocide, ethnic cleansing, mass rape, forced religious conversion, and torture of prisoners. Mechanisms developed over the last century to define, deter, and alleviate the effects of such offenses, including war crimes tribunals, truth commissions, national apologies, and monetary reparations. Case studies chart the international field of retrospective justice, exploring the legal, political, and moral implications of confronting traumatic pasts.
Last offered: Autumn 2010
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
HISTORY 209B:
The Idea of Politics (HISTORY 309B)
Can we live without politics? Is politics indispensable for humanity and vice-versa? The idea of politics is that it must transform, through human action, conditions of collective life. But the 20th century produced colliding beliefs about what that life might be and what the human being itself might look like. Explore whether, after the century, we might still think of politics as an ethical idea and the "human" as foundational political category. Keywords: Civility, Cruelty, Friendship, Empire, Democracy, Humanism, Animals.
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 209D:
Postcolonialism and Universalism (HISTORY 309A)
Key texts and motifs from postcolonial theory: empire, class, exile, suffering, textuality, archive in juxtaposition to 20th-century philosophical questions about universal history and the relevance of humanist inquiry.
Last offered: Winter 2011
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 209S:
Research Seminar for Majors
Required of History majors. How to conduct original, historical research and analysis, including methods such as using the libraries and archives at Stanford and elsewhere, and working collaboratively to frame topics, identify sources, and develop analyses. Autumn quarter focuses on 20th Century and History of Science; Winter quarter on Colonialism, culture/politics in modern Europe, and Europe before the 1500s; Spring quarter on travel and geographies.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 5
HISTORY 211:
Out of Eden: Deportation, Exile, and Expulsion from Antiquity to the Renaissance (HISTORY 311)
This course examines the long pedigree of modern deportations and mass expulsions, from the forced resettlements of the ancient world to the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492, and from the outlawry of Saga-era Iceland to the culture of civic exile in Renaissance Italy. The course focuses on Europe and the Mediterranean from antiquity to the early modern period, but students are welcome to venture beyond these geographical and chronological boundaries for their final papers.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 212:
Knights, Monks, and Nobles: Masculinity in the Middle Ages (FEMGEN 212X, FEMGEN 312, HISTORY 312, RELIGST 212X, RELIGST 312X)
This course considers masculinity as historically and culturally contingent, focusing on the experiences and representations of medieval men as heroes, eunuchs, fathers, priests, husbands, boys, and fighting men. Recognizing that the lives of men, like those of women, were governed by gendered rules and expectations, we will explore a wide range of medieval masculinities, paying close attention to the processes by which manhood could be achieved (e.g. martial, spiritual, sexual), and to competing versions of manliness, from the warrior hero of the early middle ages to the suffering Christ of late medieval religion.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 214D:
Mediterranean Crossroads: Power, Culture, and Religion in Medieval Sicily (HISTORY 314D)
Sicily in the Middle Ages was a Mediterranean crossroads, a dynamic and diverse kingdom in which Muslim and Christian, Viking and African, European and Eastern Cultures all came together. Explores the life and times of Frederick II (1194-1250). He claimed universal authority as a Christian emperor, yet ruled multireligious Sicily as king. He promoted crusading, yet was accused of being a heretic and a crypto Muslim. He spoke six languages and actively patronized the arts and sciences. Topics include: structures and influences that made such a figure possible; how he managed the tensions of governing a diverse and disparate empire; how religion and cultural production created and maintained his authority; how contemporaries and later generations reacted to this enigmatic emperor; why has he continued to generate such polarizing reactions; and how did Frederick become a figure revered by Nazis and multiculturalists alike.
Last offered: Spring 2014
| Units: 5
HISTORY 214G:
Revolutions from Ancient Greece to the Arab Spring (DLCL 127, FRENCH 147)
This course looks at theories of revolution and political or social change from ancient Greece to the Arab Spring. The course will provide a close reading of a selection of texts from ancient Greek political writing (Plato, Aristotle), medieval and early modern political advice literature (Marsilius of Padua, Machiavelli), and modern political thought (Tocqueville). Later sections of the course look at how the insights derived from the history of political thought can help generate a new framework for the study of modern revolutions, such as the Iranian Revolution and the Arab Spring. INSTRUCTOR: Vasileios Syros Note: Instructor has submitted WTWD for Social Inquiry (SI) and Ethical Reasoning (ER).
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-ER
HISTORY 215:
Saints and Sinners: Women and Religion in the Medieval World (FEMGEN 215, HISTORY 315A, RELIGST 215X)
Although the Apostle Paul taught that "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus" (Gal. 3:28), men and women experienced medieval Christianity in ways that were often vastly different. In this course we examine the religious experiences of women from the origins of Christianity through to the end of the medieval period, with particular attention paid to female prophets and religious authority, saints and martyrs, sexuality and virginity, literacy and education within the cloister, mysticism, relations between religious women and men, and the relevance of gender in the religious life -- especially as gender intersected with fears of heresy, sin, and embodiment.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 216:
Women and the Book: Scribes, Artists, and Readers from Late Antiquity through the Fourteenth Century (ARTHIST 206H, FEMGEN 216, HISTORY 316)
This course examines the cultural worlds of medieval women through particular attention to the books that they owned, commissioned, and created. Beginning with the earliest Christian centuries, the course proceeds chronologically, charting women¿s book ownership, scribal and artistic activity, and patronage from Late Antiquity through the fourteenth century. In addition to examining specific manuscripts (in facsimile, or digitally), we will consider ancillary questions to do with women¿s authorship, education and literacy, reading patterns, devotional practices, and visual traditions and representation.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 217S:
Minorities In Medieval Europe (RELIGST 217X)
This course examines attitudes towards outsider groups within medieval society and the treatment of these groups by medieval Christians. Heretics, Jews, Muslims, homosexuals, prostitutes and usurers occupied ambivalent and at time dangerous positions within a society that increasingly defined itself as Christian. Differences in the treatment of these various 'outcast' groups, their depiction in art, their legal segregation, and their presumed association with demonic activity are addressed through discussion, and readings from primary and secondary source material.
Last offered: Spring 2015
| Units: 5
HISTORY 219C:
Science, Technology, and Modernity in the Soviet Union (HISTORY 319C)
Science and technology were integral to the Soviet claim to offer a vision of modernity superior to that of Western capitalism. Science and technology would flourish; society would develop on a scientific basis. The results were more complex than the vision. Topics to be covered: science and Marxism-Leninism; the Lysenko affair; the R&D system; the role of the secret police; the atomic project; the space race; missile development; Andrei Sakharov; technology and innovation.
Last offered: Spring 2014
| Units: 5
HISTORY 220G:
Demons, Witches, Old Believers, Holy Fools, and Folk Belief: Popular Religion in Russia (HISTORY 320G, REES 220G, REES 320G)
19th and early 20th centuries. Peasants, parish priests, witches, possessed persons, cults and sects, old believers, saints, and women's religious communities. Nominally Christian, and members of the Orthodox Church, Russians embraced beliefs and customs that combined teaching from Church and folk traditions.
Last offered: Autumn 2015
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
HISTORY 221A:
Men, Women, and Power in Early Modern Russia, 1500-1800
Social values, gender relations, and social change in an era of rapid change; challenges to established norms by new constructions of deviance (witchcraft, religious reform, and revolt) and new standards of civility; encounters with non-Russians and the construction of national consciousness. Social values as political ethos: patrimonial autocracy and the reality of female rule in the late 17th and 18th century.
Last offered: Winter 2010
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-SI
HISTORY 221B:
The 'Woman Question' in Modern Russia (FEMGEN 221B)
Russian radicals believed that the status of women provided the measure of freedom in a society and argued for the extension of rights to women as a basic principle of social progress. The social status and cultural representations of Russian women from the mid-19th century to the present. The arguments and actions of those who fought for women's emancipation in the 19th century, theories and policies of the Bolsheviks, and the reality of women's lives under them. How the status of women today reflects on the measure of freedom in post-Communist Russia.
Last offered: Spring 2014
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-Gender
HISTORY 222:
Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Europe and Russia
Explores criminal law in early modern Europe and Russia, ca 1500-1800, in law and in practice. Engages debates about use of exemplary public executions as tactic of governance, and about gradual decline in "violence" in Europe over this time. Explores practice of accusatory and inquisitory judicial procedures, judicial torture, forms of punishment, concepts of justice.
Last offered: Spring 2015
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 223:
Art and Ideas in Imperial Russia (HISTORY 323)
Poetry, novels, symphonic music, theater, opera, painting, design, and architecture: what they reveal about the politics and culture of tsarist Russia.
Last offered: Winter 2009
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
HISTORY 223E:
Cities of Empire: An Urban Journey through Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean (HISTORY 323E, REES 204, REES 304)
This course explores the cities of the Habsburg, Ottoman and Russian empires in the dynamic and turbulent period of their greatest transformation from the 19th century through the Two World Wars. Through the reading of urban biographies of Venice and Trieste, Vienna, Budapest, Cracow, Lviv, Sarajevo, Belgrade, Salonica, and Odessa, we consider broad historical trends of political, economic, and social modernization, urbanization, identity formation, imperialism, cosmopolitanism, and orientalism. As vibrant centers of coexistence and economic exchange, social and cultural borderlands, and sites of transgression, these cities provide an ideal lens through which to examine these themes in the context of transition from imperial to post-imperial space.
Last offered: Spring 2016
| Units: 3-5
HISTORY 224A:
The Soviet Civilization (HISTORY 424A, REES 224A)
Socialist visions and practices of the organization of society and messianic politics; the Soviet understanding of mass violence, political and ethnic; and living space. Primary and secondary sources. Research paper or historiographical essay.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
HISTORY 224C:
Genocide and Humanitarian Intervention (HISTORY 324C, JEWISHST 284C, JEWISHST 384C, PEDS 224)
Open to medical students, graduate students, and undergraduate students. Traces the history of genocide in the 20th century and the question of humanitarian intervention to stop it, a topic that has been especially controversial since the end of the Cold War. The pre-1990s discussion begins with the Armenian genocide during the First World War and includes the Holocaust and Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s. Coverage of genocide and humanitarian intervention since the 1990s includes the wars in Bosnia, Rwanda, Kosovo, the Congo and Sudan.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 224D:
The Soviet Civilization, Part 2 (HISTORY 424B)
Prerequisite: HISTORY 224A/424A
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 225:
The Russian Empire Between Europe and Asia (HISTORY 325, REES 325)
Analyzes theoretical construct of "Eurasian Empire" and assesses how well the early modern Russian empire (1450- 1800) fits the concept; sets Russian empire in European and Asian context.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 226E:
Famine in the Modern World (HISTORY 326E, PEDS 226)
Open to medical students, graduate students, and undergraduate students. Examines the major famines of modern history, the controversies surrounding them, and the reasons that famine persists in our increasingly globalized world. Focus is on the relative importance of natural, economic, and political factors as causes of famine in the modern world. Case studies include the Great Irish Famine of the 1840s; the Bengal famine of 1943-44; the Soviet famines of 1921-22 and 1932-33; China's Great Famine of 1959-61; the Ethiopian famines of the 1970s and 80s, and the Somalia famines of the 1990s and of 2011.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 227:
East European Women and War in the 20th Century (FEMGEN 227, HISTORY 327)
Thematic chronological approach through conflicts in the region: Balkan Wars, WWI, WWII, and Yugoslav wars. Ways women in E. Europe involved in and affected by wars; comparison with women in W. Europe in the two world wars. Examines women's involvement in war as members of military services, backbone of underground movements, workers in war industries, mothers of soldiers, subjects and supporters of war aims and propaganda, activists in peace movements, and objects of wartime destruction, dislocation, and sexual violation.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-SI
HISTORY 227D:
All Quiet on the Eastern Front? East Europe and Russia in the First World War (HISTORY 327D, REES 227, REES 327)
Until recently history has been comparatively quiet about the experience of World War I in the east. Far from being a peripheral theater of war, however, the experiences of war on the Eastern Front were central to shaping the 20th century. Not only was the first shot of the war fired in the east, it was also the site of the most dramatic political revolution. Using scholarly texts, literature and film, this course combines political, military, cultural and social approaches to introduce the causes, conduct and consequences of World War I with a focus on the experiences of soldiers and civilians on the Eastern Front. Topics include: the war of movement, occupation, extreme violence against civilians, the Armenian genocide, population exchanges, the Russian Revolution and civil war, and the disintegration of empires and rise of nation-states.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
HISTORY 228:
Circles of Hell: Poland in World War II (HISTORY 328, JEWISHST 282, JEWISHST 382)
Looks at the experience and representation of Poland's wartime history from the Nazi-Soviet Pact (1939) to the aftermath of Yalta (1945). Examines Nazi and Soviet ideology and practice in Poland, as well as the ways Poles responded, resisted, and survived. Considers wartime relations among Polish citizens, particularly Poles and Jews. In this regard, interrogates the traditional self-characterization of Poles as innocent victims, looking at their relationship to the Holocaust, thus engaging in a passionate debate still raging in Polish society.
Last offered: Spring 2015
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
HISTORY 230A:
The Witness in Modern History: Memoir, Reportage, Image
The rise of the witness as icon and debates about its reliability as a historical source. The power of eyewitness accounts to convict accused criminals, inspire indignation about war and genocide, and attract attention to humanitarian crises. Their notorious unreliability due to exaggeration and misapprehension. Sources include reportage, photography, and documentary film. Case studies include criminal cases, war, poverty, and natural disasters.
Last offered: Winter 2010
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
HISTORY 230D:
Europe in the World, 1789-Present (HISTORY 330D)
The European conquest of parts of Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific by European merchants, missionaries, armies, and administrators had significant, and often cataclysmic, effects on indigenous political alliances, cultural practices, and belief systems. But were the effects of expansion entirely one-sided? What impact did the experiences of colonialism have on European politics, culture,and Europe's relations with the rest of the world? Explores how interaction between Europe and the rest of the world redefined the political, racial, sexual, and religious boundaries of both Europe and its colonies and gave rise to the more "globalized' society we live in today.
Last offered: Autumn 2010
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 230F:
Surveillance in Modern Europe (HISTORY 330F)
This course investigates the rise of modern surveillance in twentieth-century Europe through the present day. We consider different forms of surveillance---in domestic security, international spying, police practices, social monitoring, corporate data collecting, self-surveillance, and subversion. Students will explore these themes in historical works, contemporary journalism, novels, film, and visual arts. Students will also pursue individual topics of interest and, over the quarter, prepare op-eds for publication.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 231A:
European Security during the Cold War (HISTORY 431A, POLISCI 216A, POLISCI 416A)
During the Cold War two highly armed military blocs confronted each other in the center of Europe. What role did they play in the Cold War? How dangerous was their confrontation? This seminar will use archival materials from Britain, France, Germany, the Soviet Union to explore the US-Soviet rivalry in Europe, the politics of the two alliances, the role of nuclear weapons, the crises that took place, and the ending of the Cold War in Europe.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 231B:
European Security during the Cold War (HISTORY 431B, POLISCI 216B, POLISCI 416B)
Prerequisite: HISTORY 231A/431A. During the Cold War two highly armed military blocs confronted each other in the center of Europe. What role did they play in the Cold War? How dangerous was their confrontation? This seminar will use archival materials from Britain, France, Germany, the Soviet Union to explore the US-Soviet rivalry in Europe, the politics of the two alliances, the role of nuclear weapons, the crises that took place, and the ending of the Cold War in Europe.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 231C:
The Great War: WWI in Literature, Film, Art, and Memory (FRENCH 258, FRENCH 358)
This course concerns how writers, artists, and other cultural producers understood and represented the traumas of the First World War and its aftermath. Rather than tracing a political or military history of the conflict, we¿ll focus on how the horrors of War (both in the trenches and on the home front) fostered broader social and cultural shifts, as people questioned the very foundations of European civilization. Most specifically, we'll explore the connections between the War and the emergence of post-War modernist movements, as writers and artists created new works to help them make sense of the catastrophe and the new world it wrought. Though France provides our starting point, we'll also travel beyond the Hexagon to incorporate other views and major works. Course readings will be in English, though students may elect to read works in French if they wish.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
HISTORY 231E:
Paper, Printing, and Digital Revolutions: Transformations of the Book (HISTORY 331E)
What is a book? This seminar explores the conceptual implications of approximately two millennia of transformations in the physical and material properties of books. How have the meaning and authority we assign the written word changed as technologies of book production and dissemination have evolved, and how have they remained continuous? Topics covered include the rise of the medieval manuscript codex, the emergence of print culture in early modern Europe, and current debates over the nature of text in the digital age.
Last offered: Autumn 2014
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
HISTORY 231G:
European Reformations (HISTORY 331G, RELIGST 231, RELIGST 331)
Readings in and discussion of theological and social aspects of sixteenth century reformations: Luther, Radical Reform, Calvin, and Council of Trent, missionary expansion, religious conflict, creative and artistic expressions. Texts include primary sources and secondary scholarly essays and monographs.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
HISTORY 232B:
Heretics, Prostitutes and Merchants: The Venetian Empire (ITALIAN 232B)
Between 1200-1600, Venice created a powerful empire at the boundary between East and West that controlled much of the Mediterranean, with a merchant society that allowed social groups, religions, and ethnicities to coexist. Topics include the features of Venetian society, the relationship between center and periphery, order and disorder, orthodoxy and heresy, the role of politics, art, and culture in the Venetian Renaissance, and the empire's decline as a political power and reinvention as a tourist site and living museum.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 5
HISTORY 232F:
The Scientific Revolution
Was there a scientific revolution in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? How did modern science emerge as a distinctive kind of knowledge and practices? Explores changing ideas of nature and knowledge during the age of Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, Bacon, and Newton. Examines the contexts in which western science emerged, issues of scientific methodology (e.g. induction, deduction, probability, and the rise of experimentation), the development of scientific institutions, and the emergence of the scientist as a historical figure. Instructor consent required to enroll in History 232F.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
HISTORY 233:
From Reformation to Civil War: England under the Tudors and Stuarts (HISTORY 333)
English political and religious culture from the end of the Wars of the Roses to the Civil War of the 1640s. Themes include the growth of the size and power of the state, Reformation, creation of a Protestant regime, transformation of the political culture of the ruling elite, emergence of Puritanism, and causes of the Civil War. HISTORY 333 is a prerequisite for HISTORY 402 (Spring quarter).
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI
HISTORY 233C:
Two British Revolutions (HISTORY 333C)
Current scholarship on Britain,1640-1700, focusing on political and religious history. Topics include: causes and consequences of the English civil war and revolution; rise and fall of revolutionary Puritanism; the Restoration; popular politics in the late 17th century; changing contours of religious life; the crisis leading to the Glorious Revolution; and the new order that emerged after the deposing of James II.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI
HISTORY 233F:
Political Thought in Early Modern Britain
1500 to 1700. Theorists include Hobbes, Locke, Harrington, the Levellers, and lesser known writers and schools. Foundational ideas and problems underlying modern British and American political thought and life.
Last offered: Autumn 2009
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-ER, WAY-SI
HISTORY 233G:
Catholic Politics in Europe, 1789-1992
What led to the creation of a specifically Catholic mass politics? How did these parties and movements interact with the Vatican and the wider Church? What accounts for political Catholicism's involvement in clerical-fascist states and its important role in shaping the EU? Sources focus on monographs. Research paper using primary sources.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
HISTORY 233K:
The Invention of the Modern Republic (HISTORY 333K)
Examines the history of republican thinking in the Atlantic World from the Renaissance to the French Revolution.
Last offered: Spring 2010
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 234:
The Enlightenment (DLCL 324, FRENCH 244, HISTORY 334, HISTORY 432A, HUMNTIES 324)
The Enlightenment as a philosophical, literary, and political movement. Themes include the nature and limits of philosophy, the grounds for critical intellectual engagement, the institution of society and the public, and freedom, equality and human progress. Authors include Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Hume, Diderot, and Condorcet.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
HISTORY 234G:
Literature and Empire (ENGLISH 234G, HISTORY 334G)
This course will explore the relationship between modern British literature and imperialism. We will attend to the way imperialism shaped the evolution of a range of styles and genres, from romantic to gothic to modern, epistolary to mystery to fantasy. We will read works by authors such as Charlotte Bronte, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, complementing them with key works of literary criticism.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
HISTORY 235:
The Renaissance of War: Politics, Technology, and War in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy
The dynamic societies of the Italian Peninsula of the 14th to 16th centuries "prosperous, astonishingly creative, politically fractious, and endemically violent" produced sweeping, deeply consequential changes. Among these were new developments in the theory and practice of war, politics, and diplomacy that laid the foundations for the modern state system and European military power. The class covers: new diplomatic practice; the Military Revolution; state-building; war finance; court culture; and the intersection of these with the shimmering brilliance of Renaissance culture.
Last offered: Spring 2015
| Units: 5
HISTORY 235C:
Readings in the Supernatural (HISTORY 335C)
Class will read and discuss a selection of monographs, scholarly essays, and primary sources on the rich supernatural world of early modern Europe. We will discuss how fairies, werewolves, nightmares, and trolls all became witches, how the binary of angels and demons figured in European thought, and how the marginalized imaginary was reconstituted in theatre and fiction.
Last offered: Autumn 2014
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 235F:
Camus (CSRE 129, FRENCH 129)
"The Don Draper of Existentialism" for Adam Gopnik, "the ideal husband of contemporary letters" for Susan Sontag, and "the admirable conjunction of a man, of an action, and of a work" for Sartre, Camus embodies the very French figure of the "intellectuel engagé," or public intellectual. From his birth in 1913 into a poor family in Algeria to the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957, from Saint Germain-des-Prés to his predilection for the mediterranean culture, Camus captured the quest for universalism, for the politics of justice, and engaged in the great ethical battles of his time, from the fight against nazism and communism, from questioning colonial rules to the haunting Algerian War, and his complex "silence" over the war. Camus the Algerian, Camus the moralist, Camus the Resistant: through readings and films, we will explore his multiple, long-lasting legacies. Readings from Albert Camus, Kamel Daoud, Mouloud Feraoun, Alice Kaplan, Orhan Pamuk, A.B. Yehoshua, Assia Djebar, Jean-Paul Sartre, Yasmina Khadra. Movies include "The Stranger," and "Far from Men." This course is a gateway for French Studies, with special emphasis on oral proficiency. Taught in French.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
HISTORY 235G:
Famous French Figures: Celebrity and the Making of French Identity (FRENCH 209, HISTORY 335G)
How do we think historically about something as fleeting as fame? In this seminar we¿ll engage with the biographies of eight famous French figures, exploring how each of these celebrated lives influenced popular perceptions of what it has meant to be French over the past two centuries. Questions we will ask include: How and why are public figures remembered and memorialized differently at different times and in different places? Who does and does not qualify for the role of French celebrity, and why? What work must biographers do to frame something as complex as a human life into a coherent narrative? What is gained and lost in approaching a given era through a close examination of one individual? Most central to this course: How do people create and contest their cultural and national identities through the collective celebration of particular individuals? We will study the lives and times of three men and five women: Marie Antoinette, Napoleon Bonaparte, Edouard Manet, Sarah Bernhardt, Josephine Baker, Coco Chanel, Albert Camus, and Francoise Sagan.
Last offered: Spring 2016
| Units: 3-5
HISTORY 236:
The Ethics of Imperialism
Can a commitment to liberty, progress, and universal rights be reconciled with imperialism? The ethical underpinnings of empire; how modern Europeans provided ethical and political justifications for colonial expansion. How European ideals were used to defend and justify inequality, violence, and genocide. The ethics of American-driven globalization and humanitarianism. Texts include primary sources, philosophical treatises, and historical studies.
Last offered: Autumn 2007
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
HISTORY 236B:
Hobbes to Habermas: The Idea of Society in Modern Thought (HISTORY 336B)
Classic texts in social theory from the seventeenth century to the present. Readings include Locke, Smith, Hegel, Comte, and Durkheim, and Weber.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
HISTORY 236E:
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: Transportation, Tourism, and the Making of Modern Europe (FRENCH 217)
This course traces a history of how over the past two centuries various innovations in transportation technologies have shaped so much of how our world works: from how we eat, to how we relax, to how we dream, to the houses we live in, to how our financial systems work, and to how new ideas spread.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
HISTORY 236F:
The End of the World As They Knew It: Culture, Cafés, and Crisis in Europe, 1880-1918 (HISTORY 336F)
The years stretching from roughly 1880 to end of the First World War were marked by profound social upheaval and an intense burst of creativity. This seminar will focus on the major cultural movements and big ideas of the period. Topics covered include the rise of mass culture and cinema, the origins of psychoanalysis, anti-Semitism and Zionism, new anxieties about sexuality and the 'New Woman,' anarchism, decadence, degeneration, and Dada - with cameos from Bernhardt, Freud, Klimt, Nietzsche, Toulouse-Lautrec, Wilde, Zola, and other luminaries of the age.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 237D:
The French Revolution and the Birth of Modern Politics (HISTORY 337D)
(Students who have taken HISTORY 134 should not enroll in this course.) This course will focus on the birth of modern politics in the French Revolution. The goal will be to understand the structural contradictions of the French monarchy in the pre-revolutionary period, the reasons for the monarchy's failure to resolve those contradictions, and the political dynamic unleashed as they were solved by the revolutionary action of 1789. Sovereignty, democracy, rights, representation, and terror will be principal themes. Lectures will be combined with close reading and discussions of political and philosophical writings of the period.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 237F:
20th Century British History through the Hoover Archives (HISTORY 337F)
From the rich resources of the Hoover Institution, the students in this course will select a particular archive (war posters, politician, spy, literary figure, diplomat, etc. etc.) to investigate, to write about,discuss in class, and, it is hoped, present in an exhibition at the Hoover, learning museum skills along the way as well as the history of Britain in the 20th century.
Last offered: Spring 2016
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 237K:
Speed and Power: Travel and Travel Writing in the 20th Century (FRENCH 237K, HISTORY 337K, URBANST 155)
Every story is in some ways a travel story, a journey from here to there. In this seminar we'll explore how different people in different times and places experimented with the travel-story form to make sense of their social worlds. We'll focus on the twentieth century, during which people, images, and ideas moved around the world at an unprecedented scale and with increasing speed. Some journeys take us across oceans, while others are limited to just a few city blocks. For a final project students may complete a standard research paper related to themes of the course, or may produce their own travel narrative, however they choose to interpret this rubric. nSPECIAL GUEST LECTURER: Pico Iyer, travel writer.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 238:
France Since 1900: Politics, Culture, Society (FRENCH 259, FRENCH 359, HISTORY 338)
This course explores how France experienced some of the most tumultuous episodes in modern history, including world wars, collaboration and genocide, wars of decolonization, globalization, immigration, and economic decline. Our sources will include a rich combination of novels, films, architecture, and memoirs, including many classics of their chosen genres.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 238G:
Ethnography of the Late Middle Ages: Social history and popular culture in the age of the plague (HISTORY 338G)
During the late Middle Ages, as Europe was recovering from the devastation of the Black Death, political reorganization contributed to a burst of archival documentation that allows historians richly detailed glimpses of societies in transition. We will be reading selected scholarly articles and monographs covering such topics as persecution, prechristian cultural remnants, folk theologies, festival cultures, peasant revolts, heresy, and the advent of the diabolic witch.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 238J:
The European Scramble for Africa: Origins and Debates
Why and how did Europeans claim control of 70% of African in the late nineteenth century? Students will engage with historiographical debates ranging from the national (e.g. British) to the topical (e.g. international law). Students will interrogate some of the primary sources on which debaters have rested their arguments. Key discussions include: the British occupation of Egypt; the autonomy of French colonial policy; the mystery of Germany¿s colonial entry; and, not least, the notorious Berlin Conference of 1884-1885.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
HISTORY 239E:
Paris: The Making of a Modern Icon (FRENCH 227, URBANST 142)
Few places have been as heavily romanticized and mythologized as Paris. To many observers, Paris and its attractions serve as icons of modernity itself. By engaging with fiction, film, journalism, painting, photography, poetry, song, and other media, we¿ll trace how different people at different times have used Paris as both backdrop and main protagonist, and we'll consider how the city itself has incorporated and rebelled against such representations. The scope of our inquiry will stretch from the late 18th century to the present, covering a host of topics, figures, and sites: from the French Revolution to the protests of May '68, from Baudelaire to Hemingway, from the Impressionists to the Situationists. Taught in English
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
HISTORY 239F:
Empire and Information (HISTORY 339F)
How do states see? How do they know what they know about their subjects, citizens, economies, and geographies? How does that knowledge shape society, politics, identity, freedom, and modernity? Focus is on the British imperial state activities in S. Asia and Britain: surveillance technologies and information-gathering systems, including mapping, statistics, cultural schemata, and intelligence systems, to render geographies and social bodies legible, visible, and governable.
Last offered: Autumn 2005
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom
| Repeatable
for credit
HISTORY 239G:
The Algerian Wars (CSRE 249, FRENCH 249)
This course offers to study the Algerian Wars since the French conquest of Algeria (1830-1847) to the Algerian civil war of the 1990s. We will revisit the ways in which the wars have been narrated in historical and political discourse, and in literature. A special focus will be given to the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962). The course considers the continuing legacies surrounding this traumatic conflict in France and Algeria and the delicate re-negotiation of the French nation-state that resulted. A key focus will be on the transmission of collective memory through transnational lenses. We will examine how the French and Algerian states, but also civil societies (Pieds-Noirs, Arabs, Kabyles, Jews, veterans, Harkis, "suitcase carriers") have instrumentalized the memories of the war for various ends, through analyses of commemorative events and monuments. Readings from Alexis de Tocqueville, Albert Camus, Frantz Fanon, Mouloud Feraoun, Rachid Mimouni, Wassyla Tamzali, Germaine Tillion, Pierre Nora, Benjamin Stora, Todd Shepard, Sarah Stein, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, James Lesueur. Movies include "The Battle of Algiers," "Indigènes," and "Viva Laldjérie." Taught in French.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
HISTORY 239H:
Colonialism and Empire in Modern Europe
To better understand the history of modern Europe within a global context, explores the following questions: What impact did more than a century of colonialism have on the social lives, cultural attitudes, political loyalties, and intellectual world views of European women and men during the nineteenth century? What accounts for the resiliency of empire during a period of rapid global change that witnessed the rise of modern democracy, economic liberalism, ethnic nationalism, and international socialism?
Last offered: Winter 2010
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
HISTORY 239K:
Revolutionary Moments in French Thought (FRENCH 128)
French intellectual and political culture has often been associated with revolutionary attempts to break free from the hold of tradition. Indeed, the concept of "revolution" has itself become a French tradition of sorts. Over the last 500 years, these revolutions have taken place in a number of arenas. In philosophy, René Descartes challenged all traditional learning and defined new principles that were central to the so-called ¿Revolution of the Mind.¿ In religion, Enlightenment thinkers not only advocated the toleration of different faiths but also questioned the veracity of Christianity and of all theistic worldviews. In politics, the French Revolution redefined the very concept of a political revolution and set the stage for modern conceptions of sovereignty. French socialist thinkers of the 19th century, in turn, reshaped the ways their contemporaries thought about socio-economic arrangements. Finally, 20th-century existentialists have attempted to rethink the very purpose of human existence. In this course, we will explore these and other seminal revolutionary moments that not only transformed French society, but that also had implications for European and, indeed, global culture. Taught in English, readings in English.
Last offered: Autumn 2014
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
HISTORY 241G:
Science and Religion in Western History since 1500 (HISTORY 341G)
Contemporary arguments concerning the relationship between science and religion often emphasize their differences, either as incompatible modes of thought in conflict, or as equally valid but "non-overlapping magisterial," which is to say inherently separate domains of inquiry. Such stark distinctions are a relatively recent development. The story of the relationship between science and spiritual belief is one of historically intimate connections and mutual influences. In this class we will examine forms of engagement of scientific and religious ideas in the West from 1500 to the present day.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
HISTORY 242F:
Medicine in an Age of Empires (HISTORY 342F)
This course connects changing ways of understanding the body and disease in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the business of empire. How did new ideas and methods of selling medicine relate to the rise of state-sponsored violence, resource extraction, global trade, and enslaved labor? Following black ritual practitioners in the Caribbean, apothecaries in England, and scientists abroad reveals the diversity of medical traditions and knowledge production in the early modern period that formed the basis of modern medicine today.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 243C:
People, Plants, and Medicine: Colonial Science and Medicine (HISTORY 343C)
Explores the global exchange of knowledge, technologies, plants, peoples, disease, and medicines. Considers primarily Africans, Amerindians, and Europeans in the eighteenth-century West but also takes examples from other knowledge traditions. Readings treat science and medicine in relation to voyaging, colonialism, slavery, racism, plants, and environmental exchange. Colonial sciences and medicines were important militarily and strategically for positioning emerging nation states in global struggles for land and resources.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 243S:
Human Origins: History, Evidence, and Controversy (HISTORY 443A)
Research seminar. Debates and controversies include: theories of human origins; interpretations of fossils, early art, and the oldest tools; the origin and fate of the Neanderthals; evolutionary themes in literature and film; visual rhetoric and cliché in anthropological dioramas and phyletic diagrams; the significance of hunting, gathering, and grandmothering; climatological theories and neocatastrophic geologies; molecular anthropology; the impact of racial theories on human origins discourse. Background in human evolution not required.
Last offered: Winter 2006
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
HISTORY 244:
Egyptomania! The Allure of Ancient Egypt Over the Past 3,500 Years (AFRICAAM 87, CLASSICS 87)
Why does Egypt fascinate us? From Napoleon's invasion to Katy Perry's latest music video, we have interpreted ancient Egyptian history and mythology for centuries; in fact, this obsession dates back to the Egyptians themselves. This seminar explores Egyptomania from the Pharaonic period to the 20th century. Topics include: ancient Egypt, Greek historians, medieval Arabic scholars, hieroglyphic decipherment, 19th century travel, 20th century pop culture, and how historians have interpreted this past over the centuries.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
HISTORY 244C:
The History of the Body in Science, Medicine, and Culture (HISTORY 444C)
The human body as a natural and cultural object, historicized. The crosscultural history of the body from the 18th century to the present. Topics include: sciences of sex and race; medical discovery of particular body parts; human experimentation, foot binding, veiling, and other bodily coverings; thinness and obesity; notions of the body politic.
Last offered: Spring 2007
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-Gender
HISTORY 244F:
Beyond Pink and Blue: Gender in Tech (FEMGEN 344F, HISTORY 344F)
This d-school seminar prototypes concepts and methods for "inclusive" design. From the moment we arrive on the planet, gender shapes our perception of the world. Examples of products (including objects, services, and systems) gone awry will serve as prompts for design activities, challenges, and discussions on gender issues to illustrate the different needs of women, men, and gender-fluid people. Class sessions mix use case explorations with design methodology, design thinking abilities, and guest speakers from technology, design, and academia. Students will be asked to work in interdisciplinary teams on several design challenges, culminating in the development of a toolkit for inclusive design. Methods will interact in crucial ways to create "intersectional thinking" (i.e., to consider how gender, ethnicity, sexuality, socio-economic status, etc. work together to require new solutions in design). Topics include: algorithms, media, seat belts for pregnant women, robotics, assistive technologies, tech for developing worlds, video games, urban/rural design, software development, and many more.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 245G:
Law and Colonialism in Africa (HISTORY 348D)
Law in colonial Africa provides an opportunity to examine the meanings of social, cultural, and economic change in the anthropological, legal, and historical approaches. Court cases as a new frontier for the social history of Africa. Topics: meanings of conflicts over marriage, divorce, inheritance, property, and authority.
Last offered: Autumn 2012
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
HISTORY 246:
The Dynamics of Change in Africa (AFRICAST 301A, HISTORY 346, POLISCI 246P, POLISCI 346P)
Crossdisciplinary colloquium; required for the M.A. degree in African Studies. Open to advanced undergraduates and PhD students. Addresses critical issues including patterns of economic collapse and recovery; political change and democratization; and political violence, civil war, and genocide. Focus on cross-cutting issues including the impact of colonialism; the role of religion, ethnicity, and inequality; and Africa's engagement with globalization.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 247J:
History and Memory in Africa (HISTORY 347J)
Scholars, like the English social historian H. Trevor-Roper and the philosopher-historian Georg Hegel, once denied that Africa even had a history worth telling. We know better. Rich accounts of African pasts have been constructed by historians who pioneered linguistics, oral tradition and folklore research, documentary analysis, archaeology, and other methods. At the same time, Africans' own accounts of the past are often passed down through memories and commemorations that are shared, disputed, and memorialized within their communities. In many cases, historians and African communities manage to work together to construct shared understandings of the past, but sometimes their interpretations conflict with each other. In this course, we will look at the ways that history and memory overlap in Africa, beginning with the Atlantic slave trade and focusing on two particular events -- the Ethiopian victory over Italy at the Battle of Adwa and the abortive 19th century West African attempt to construct an independent state known as the Fante Confederation. We will work with all kinds of primary sources from the past as well as music videos, architecture, documentaries, official celebrations, museum exhibitions, and performances to construct arguments that take into account methodology, ethics, and philosophy within and beyond the discipline of history.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 248S:
Colonial States and African Societies, Part I (HISTORY 448A)
Colonialism set in motion profound transformations of African societies. These transformations did not occur immediately following military conquest, nor did they occur uniformly throughout the continent. This research seminar will focus directly on the encounter between the colonial state and African societies. The seminar will examine problems of social transformation, the role of the colonial state, and the actions of Africans. Following four weeks of collloquim style discussion, students then embark on independent research on the encounter between one colonial state and its constituent African societies.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
HISTORY 249S:
Colonial States and African Societies, Part II (HISTORY 448B)
Second part of the research seminar offered in the Winter. Students continue their research and present their penultimate drafts in week 8.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 250A:
History of California Indians (CSRE 117S, NATIVEAM 117S)
Demographic, political, and economic history of California Indians, 1700s-1950s. Processes and events leading to the destruction of California tribes, and their effects on the groups who survived. Geographic and cultural diversity. Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo-American periods. The mission system.
Last offered: Autumn 2015
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-EDP
HISTORY 250E:
Taxing America: From the Puritans to Prop. 13
Taxes have shaped American society and politics since before the Revolution. And they've been extremely controversial just as long. In this course we'll try to understand American society and government by looking at the politics of taxation from the colonial period to the twentieth century. Topics include the legitimacy of taxation, the constitution, economic development, inequality, gender, and race.
Last offered: Spring 2015
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 252B:
Diplomacy on the Ground: Case Studies in the Challenges of Representing Your Country (INTNLREL 174)
The tragic death of Ambassador Chris Stevens has recently highlighted the dangers of diplomacy in the modern era. This class will look at how Americans in embassies have historically confronted questions such as authoritarian rule, human rights abuses, violent changes of government, and covert action. Case studies will include the Berlin embassy in the 1930s, Tehran in 1979, and George Kennan's experiences in Moscow, among others. Recommended for students contemplating careers in diplomatic service. * Course satisfies the WiM requirement for International Relations majors.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
HISTORY 253F:
Thinking the American Revolution (HISTORY 353F)
No period in American history has generated as much creative political thinking as the era of the American Revolution. This course explores the origins and development of that thought from the onset of the dispute between Great Britain and its American colonies over liberty and governance through the debates surrounding the construction and implementation of the United States Federal Constitution. Readings will principally be based in primary sources with some weeks supplemented by secondary sources.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 254:
Popular Culture and American Nature
Despite John Muir, Aldo Leopold, and Rachel Carson, it is arguable that the Disney studios have more to do with molding popular attitudes toward the natural world than politicians, ecologists, and activists. Disney as the central figure in the 20th-century American creation of nature. How Disney, the products of his studio, and other primary and secondary texts see environmentalism, science, popular culture, and their interrelationships.
Last offered: Spring 2015
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
HISTORY 254D:
Law, Slavery, and Race (AFRICAAM 254D, CSRE 154D, HISTORY 354)
(Same as LAW 747.) This course will explore the interaction of law, slavery and race in the United States, as well as from a comparative perspective. We will read original documents, including excerpts of trial transcripts, appellate opinions, treatises, codes, and first-person narratives. We will study the way law, politics and culture interacted to shape the institution of slavery and the development of modern conceptions of race. Course lectures and discussions will focus on questions such as: Did different legal regimes (Spanish, French, British) foster different systems of race and slavery in the Americas? How did/does law work "on the ground" to shape the production of racial hierarchy and creation of racial identities? In what ways did slavery influence the U.S. Constitution? How has race shaped citizenship in the U.S., and how can we compare it to other constitutional regimes? The course will begin with the origins of New World slavery, race and racism, and move chronologically to the present day.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 5
HISTORY 254G:
The Causes and Consequences of the American Revolution
Why did Britain's North American colonies declare independence from an empire they had long revered? What did the American Revolution mean for the people who experienced it? In this course we will explore the explosive origins of the American republic. Topics: revolutionary ideology, empire, the federal constitution, slavery, social conflict, and the international consequences of the American Revolution.
Last offered: Autumn 2014
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 255:
Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Social Gospel and the Struggle for Justice
The religious and political thought of Martin Luther King, Jr., using the documentary resources of the King Institute at Stanford. His social gospel Christianity and prophetic message of radical social transformation. Readings include the forthcoming The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume VI: Advocate of the Social Gospel.
Last offered: Autumn 2006
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
HISTORY 255D:
Racial Identity in the American Imagination (AFRICAAM 255, AMSTUD 255D, CSRE 255D, HISTORY 355D)
From Sally Hemings to Barack Obama, this course explores the ways that racial identity has been experienced, represented and contested throughout American history. Engaging historical, legal and literary texts and films, this course examines major historical transformations that have shaped our understanding of racial identity. This course also draws on other imaginative modes including autobiography, memoir, photography and music to consider the ways that racial identity has been represented in American society. Most broadly, this course interrogates the problem of American identity and examines the interplay between racial identity and American identity. This course moves along both chronological and thematic axes to investigate the problems of racial mixture, mixed-race identity, racial passing and racial performance across historical periods. Themes of ambiguous, hidden and hybrid identity will be critical to this course. This course will also explore the interplay of the problems of class, gender and sexuality in the construction of racial identity.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-EDP
HISTORY 255E:
Education, Race, and Inequality in African American History, 1880-1990 (AFRICAAM 116, AMSTUD 216, CSRE 216X, EDUC 216)
Seminar. The relationship among race, power, inequality, and education from the 1880s to the 1990s. How schools have constructed race, the politics of school desegregation, and ties between education and the late 20th-century urban crisis.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-AmerCul
HISTORY 256E:
American Civil War
This course examines the Civil War through multiple lenses, which will include the common political and military narrative but emphasize other themes, such as the social experiences of soldiers and slaves, the social effect of industrial-scale death, war profiteering and the foundations of postwar industrial capitalism, and the meaning of freedom. It will also consider the American Civil War as a pivotal event in global history, and examine the politicized uses of the war as memory.
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 256G:
Constructing Race and Religion in America (CSRE 246, HISTORY 356G, RELIGST 246, RELIGST 346)
This seminar focuses on the interrelationships between social constructions of race, and social interpretations of religion in America. How have assumptions about race shaped religious worldviews? How have religious beliefs shaped racial attitudes? How have ideas about religion and race contributed to notions of what it means to be "American"? We will look at primary and secondary sources, and at the historical development of ideas and practices over time.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 257:
Was the American Revolution a Social Revolution? (HISTORY 357)
What kind of a revolution was the American Revolution? The revolution gave colonial Americans political independence from Britain to found the United States. But did the revolution also transform American society in its wake? This course explores how historians and historical participants alike have answered this question paying attention to historical changes (or lack thereof) that took place in American society between c. 1750-1820 as well as grappling with what conceptually constitutes a "social" revolution in the first place.
Last offered: Autumn 2015
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 257C:
LGBT/Queer Life in the United States (FEMGEN 140D, FEMGEN 240D)
An introductory course that explores LGBT/Queer social, cultural, and political history in the United States. By analyzing primary documents that range from personal accounts (private letters, autobiography, early LGBT magazines, and oral history interviews) to popular culture (postcards, art, political posters, lesbian pulp fiction, and film) to medical, military, and legal papers, students will understand how the categories of gender and sexuality have changed over the past 150 years. This class investigates the relationship among queer, straight and transgender identities. Seminar discussions will question how the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality influenced the construction of these categories.
Last offered: Spring 2016
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-Gender, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 257F:
19th Century American Pop Culture
Examining a broad range of primary and secondary sources, this course explores popular culture during the nineteenth century, an era of mass immigration, the rise of industrial capitalism, the entrenchment and abolition of slavery, and myriad reform movements. How were these developments experienced and given meaning in Americans' everyday lives? We will look at leisure, foodways, religious rituals, pedagogy, and consumerism, and will examine the circulation, in texts, images, and music of popular ideas of race, gender, class, and ethnicity.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 258:
Sexual Violence in America (AFRICAAM 192, AMSTUD 258, CSRE 192E, FEMGEN 258, FEMGEN 358, HISTORY 358)
This undergraduate/graduate colloquium explores the history of sexual violence in America, with particular attention to the intersections of gender and race in the construction of rape. We discuss the changing definitions of sexual violence in law and in cultural representations from early settlement through the late-twentieth century, including slavery, wartime and prison rape, the history of lynching and anti-lynching movements, and feminist responses to sexual violence. In addition to introducing students to the literature on sexual violence, the course attempts to teach critical skills in the analysis of secondary and primary historical texts. Students write short weekly reading responses and a final paper; no final exam; fifth unit research or CEL options.nnLimited enrollment, permission of instructor required. Submit application form (available in course syllabus or History department main office, 200-113) by November 15, 2016 and indicate interest in CEL option. Priority admission to History, FGSS, CSRE, AFRICAAM, and AMSTUD declared majors and minors. (Cardinal Course certified by the Haas Center)
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 258B:
History of Education in the United States (AMSTUD 201, EDUC 201)
How education came to its current forms and functions, from the colonial experience to the present. Focus is on the 19th-century invention of the common school system, 20th-century emergence of progressive education reform, and the developments since WW II. The role of gender and race, the development of the high school and university, and school organization, curriculum, and teaching.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
HISTORY 258E:
History of School Reform: Origins, Policies, Outcomes, and Explanations (EDUC 220D)
Required for students in the POLS M.A. program; others welcome. Focus is on 20th-century U.S. Intended and unintended patterns in school change; the paradox of reform that schools are often reforming but never seem to change much; rhetorics of reform and factors that inhibit change. Case studies emphasize the American high school.nnThis course is required for POLS students pursuing the PreK-12 concentration.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
HISTORY 259A:
Poverty and Homelessness in America
Service learning. Students participate in a two quarter internship at a local shelter for homeless individuals or families. Readings include historical, social science, and social commentary literature. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center).
Last offered: Winter 2010
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
HISTORY 259D:
From Colony to Empire: America and the World in the Long Eighteenth Century (HISTORY 359D)
At the start of the eighteenth century, European empires claimed much of North America. By the century's close, however, thirteen colonies had become a republic and began to build an empire of their own. This course explores the relationship of America and empire in a globalizing world. We will follow the movement of people, money, and ideas across North America and the Atlantic Ocean through the Seven Years' War, plantation slavery, westward expansion, and Indian removal.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 259E:
American Interventions, 1898-Present (HISTORY 359E, INTNLREL 168A)
This class seeks to examine the modern American experience with limited wars, beginning with distant and yet pertinent cases, and culminating in the war in Iraq. Although this class will examine war as a consequence of foreign policy, it will not focus primarily on presidential decision making. Rather, it will place wartime policy in a broader frame, considering it alongside popular and media perceptions of the war, the efforts of antiwar movements, civil-military relations, civil reconstruction efforts, and conditions on the battlefield. We will also examine, when possible, the postwar experience.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 260:
California's Minority-Majority Cities (CSRE 260, URBANST 169)
Historical development and the social, cultural, and political issues that characterize large cities and suburbs where communities of color make up majority populations. Case studies include cities in Los Angeles, Santa Clara, and Monterey counties. Comparisons to minority-majority cities elsewhere in the U.S. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center).
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 260K:
Exploring American Religious History (AMSTUD 91, RELIGST 91)
This course will trace how contemporary beliefs and practices connect to historical trends in the American religious landscape.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 261:
Race, Gender, and Class in Jim Crow America
How African American life and labor were redefined from 1890-1954. Topics include family life, work, leisure patterns, transnational relations, cultural expressions emphasizing literature and music, resistance and social activisim. Primary sources including visual materials, literature, and film; historical interpretations of the period.
Last offered: Winter 2009
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
HISTORY 261G:
Presidents and Foreign Policy in Modern History (INTNLREL 173)
Nothing better illustrates the evolution of the modern presidency than the arena of foreign policy. This class will examine the changing role and choices of successive presidential administrations over the past century, examining such factors as geopolitics, domestic politics, the bureaucracy, ideology, psychology, and culture. Students will be encouraged to think historically about the institution of the presidency, while examining specific case studies, from the First World War to the conflicts of the 21st century.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 262K:
Straight Out of Compton- History and Culture of an Infamous American City (CSRE 262K)
The history of race relations in the City of Compton, California will provide the backdrop for understanding the status of this now infamous place in American popular culture.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
HISTORY 263D:
Junipero Serra (ILAC 127E)
Why is Junipero Serra considered a representative figure of California? How have assessments of Serra evolved over the last 200 years? Why does his name appear so often on our campus? In this course we will consider these and other questions in terms of Spanish empire, Native American history, California politics of memory and commemoration, among other approachs. Requirements include weekly reading, class discussion, a field trip to Carmel Mission, short writing assignments, and a formal debate on the ethics naming university or public buildings after historical figures with contested pasts. Taught in English.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 264G:
The Social History of Mental Illness in the United States
(Formerly HPS 158.) Explores the variety of meanings of mental illness in the past, and the diagnostic, therapeutic, cultural and policy challenges historically posed by mental illness. Focus is on the U.S. but is not limited to it. How has mental illness been defined in history? How has the mind been medicalized and managed? Topics include the rise of institutions for the mentally ill, the growth of the psychiatric profession and the relationship between psychiatry, deviance and anti-psychiatry,and gender and psychiatric norms.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 265:
Writing Asian American History (AMSTUD 265, ASNAMST 265, HISTORY 365)
Recent scholarship in Asian American history, with attention to methodologies and sources. Topics: racial ideologies, gender, transnationalism, culture, and Asian American art history. Primary research paper.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 267E:
Martin Luther King, Jr. - His Life, Ideas, and Legacy (AFRICAAM 267E, AMSTUD 267E)
Using the unique documentary resources and publications of Stanford's King Research and Education Institute, this course will provide a general introduction to King's life, visionary ideas, and historical significance. In addition to lectures and discussions, the course will include presentations of documentaries such as Eyes on the Prize. Students will be expected to read the required texts, participate in class discussions, and submit a research paper or an audio-visual project developed in consultation with the professor.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 270E:
Queer History of the Americas (HISTORY 370E)
This course will examine LGBT history in the Americas. It traces the development of homosexuality as a category of analysis; the construction of trans identity; the ways in which same-sex desire and gender identity were regulated over time; and queer people's struggles for recognition, liberation, and, ultimately, rights.
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 271:
Mexicans in the United States (AMSTUD 271, CHILATST 171, CSRE 171H)
This course explores the lives and experiences of Mexicans living in the United States, from 1848 to the present. Themes and topics include: the legacies of colonialism, the Mexican-American War, transnational migration, the effects of economic stratification, race and racialization, and the impact of sexual and gender ideologies on the lives of Mexicans residing north of the border.
Last offered: Spring 2015
| Units: 5
HISTORY 271D:
The Country and the City in Colonial Latin America
This class considers key questions in the colonial history of Latin America from the perspective of urban and rural development: power, resistance, and colonial rule; religion and culture; the relationship between capital accumulation and agriculture; and the role of intellectuals and regional power bosses.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
HISTORY 272D:
Teaching Mexican American History in High School
This service-learning course will provide students with historical background about Mexican American history that they will use in working with students at Luis Valdez Leadership Academy HS in San Jose.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
HISTORY 272E:
Theories of Citizenship and Sovereignty in a Transnational Context (AMSTUD 272E, CHILATST 172, CSRE 172H, FEMGEN 272E, HISTORY 372E)
This course explores the multiple meanings of citizenship and the ways in which they change when examined using different geographic scales (from the local to the transnational). The course will pair theoretical readings on citizenship with case studies that focus on North America. Topics include: definitions of citizenship; the interrelation of ideas of citizenship with those of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality; the relationship between sovereignty and territoriality; human and civil rights; and immigration.
Last offered: Autumn 2014
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 273:
The European Expansion (HISTORY 373A)
The relationship between European monarchies and their colonial domains from the 16th-18th centuries. Reasons for expansion, methods, and results. Case studies include the Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, French, and English domains in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Readings include primary and secondary sources.
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 273C:
Caribbean Migration to the United States (HISTORY 373C)
The course will explore the history of Caribbean migration to the United States.
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 273E:
The Emergence of Nations in Latin America: Independence Through 1880 (HISTORY 373E)
This course provides an introduction to the main themes of nineteenth-century Latin American history, including independence from Spain, the emergence of various nation-states, and the development of a new social, political, and economic order in the region
Last offered: Winter 2016
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 274E:
Urban Poverty and Inequality in Latin America
We examine historical issues of social inequality, poverty, crime, industrialization, globalization, and environment in major Latin American cities.
Last offered: Spring 2015
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 275B:
History of Modern Mexico (AMSTUD 275B, CHILATST 275B, CSRE 275B, HISTORY 375C)
Surveys the history of governance, resistance, and identity formation in Mexico from the nineteenth century to the present. Explores Mexico's historical struggles to achieve political stability, economic prosperity, and social justice and examines how regional, class, ethnic, and gender differences have figured prominently in the shaping of Mexican affairs. Topics include Mexico's wars and their legacies, the power of the state, violence and protest, debates over the meaning of "Mexicanness," youth culture, and the politics of indigenismo.
Last offered: Winter 2016
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 278S:
The Ethical Challenges of Climate Change (HISTORY 478)
This course explores the ethical challenges of climate change from historical, social, economic, political, cultural and scientific perspectives. These include the discovery of global warming over two centuries, the rise of secular and religious denialism and skepticism toward the scientific consensus on it, the dispute between developed and developing countries over how to forge a binding global agreement to mitigate it, and the "role morality" of various actors (scientists, politicians, fossil fuel companies, the media and ordinary individuals) in the US in assessing ethical responsibility for the problem and its solutions.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-EthicReas, WAY-ER, WAY-SI
HISTORY 279:
Latin American Development: Economy and Society, 1800-2014 (HISTORY 379)
The newly independent nations of Latin America began the 19th century with economies roughly equal to the U.S. and Canada. What explains the economic gap that developed since 1800? Why are some Latin American nations rich and others poor and how have societies changed over time? Marxist, dependency, neoclassical, and institutionalist interpretive frameworks are explored. The effects of globalization on Latin American economic growth, autonomy, and potential for social justice are examined and debated.
Last offered: Autumn 2014
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
HISTORY 279D:
Modern Brazil: Economy, Society & Culture (HISTORY 379D)
This course addresses the history of modern Brazil from independence in 1822 to the present day. The class focuses on theories of economic development, social structure and change, and cultural life in Brazil's diverse regions.
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 281A:
Twentieth-Century Iraq: A Political and Social History
The colonial experience, creation of the modern Iraqi state, and transition to military dictatorship. Political movements, religious and tribal elements, and their relation to the state. Geopolitical context.
Last offered: Spring 2009
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
HISTORY 281B:
Modern Egypt (HISTORY 381B)
From the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Topics: European imperialism, the political economy of cotton, rise of nationalism, gender and the nation, minorities, the coup of 1952, positive neutralism and the Cold War, and the neo-liberal reconstruction of Egypt.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
HISTORY 281D:
Shia Islam (HISTORY 381D)
This course explores the history of the Shia tradition from its origins to the present. Drawing on a wide range of sources, students will trace the religious, political, social, and cultural transformations that have shaped Shia communities throughout the Middle East, South and Central Asia, and Africa.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 282:
The United States and the Middle East since 1945 (HISTORY 382)
Since the end of WW II, U.S. interests in the Middle East have traditionally been defined as access to oil at a reasonable price, trade and markets, containing the influence of the Soviet Union, and the security of Israel. Is this the full range of U.S. interests? How has the pursuit of these interests changed over time? What forces have shaped U.S. policy? What is the impact of U.S. policy on the region itself?
Last offered: Winter 2011
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
HISTORY 282C:
Women in the Modern Middle East (HISTORY 382C)
Historical changes in factors structuring women's status and sociopolitical roles: the rise of Islam and Muslim orthodoxy; less formal expressions of women's religiosity and sexuality; the integration of the Middle East into the world market and its effects on women's labor; and social movements concerned with women's status. Case studies of women's participation in anti-colonial revolutions. Sources include historical studies, primary texts, fiction, memoirs, and films.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 283:
The New Global Economy, Oil and Origins of the Arab Spring (HISTORY 383)
This class uses the methods of political economy to study the trajectory of global capitalism from the end of World War II to the current phase of neoliberal globalization. The argument is that the role of oil, and its primary repository " the Middle East " has been central in the global capitalist order and that neoliberalism and the oil economy are closely linked to the eruption of the Arab uprisings of 2011.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
HISTORY 283G:
Place, Nature, and Life: Spacetime through Ottoman Texts (HISTORY 383G)
Prerequisite: Reading ability in Ottoman-Turkish and/or Arabic. This course explores how women and men in the early modern Ottoman world (16th to 18th centuries) imagined their physical and spiritual environment, their past and future, their immediate places and far geographies, life and afterlife. The theoretical framework of discussions will be heavily based on Henri Lefebvre's Production of Space and primary readings include various texts in Ottoman-Turkish, such as The Descriptions of Places of Matrakç Nasuh (d.1564) and The Travels of Eviya Çelebi (d.1682). We will also examine the Ottoman-Turkish manuscripts in Green Library.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 284F:
Empires, Markets and Networks: Early Modern Islamic World and Beyond, 1500-1800 (HISTORY 384F)
Focuses on political regimes, economic interactions and sociocultural formations in the early modern Balkans and Middle East to Central and South Asia. Topics include complex political systems of the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires; experiences of various Muslim, Christian, Jewish and Hindu, as well as urban, rural and nomadic communities; consolidation of transregional commerce and cultural exchange; incorporation of the Islamic world in the global economy; transimperial networks of the Muslim and Non-Muslim merchants, scholars and sufis.
Last offered: Autumn 2014
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
HISTORY 285D:
A History of Jews in Russia: An Introduction (JEWISHST 285D)
Since Russia annexed territories formerly belonging to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and absorbed that region's large Jewish community, Russia has been a center of the Jewish world. Russia's Jews have been a potent force in the Jewish world as they struggled against discrimination, pursued utopian dreams, and devoted themselves to religious, cultural, and political movements. This course will introduce students to the history of Russian Jews, in the hope that they will gain a deeper understanding of this fascinating community.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
HISTORY 287C:
Zionism and its Critics
Zionism from its genesis in the 1880s up until the establishment of the state of Israel in May, 1948, exploring the historical, ideological and political dimensions of Zionism. Topics include: the emergence of Zionist ideology in connection to and as a response to challenges of modernity; emancipation; Haskalah (Jewish enlightenment); other national and ideological movements of the period; the ideological crystallization of the movement; and the immigration waves to Palestine.
Last offered: Spring 2014
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 287F:
Anti-Semitism in the Modern World: An Introduction (JEWISHST 287F)
This course will introduce students to varying forms that anti-Semitism has taken in the modern world. We will be using film, music, imagery, political texts, and scholarly sources to examine regional, cultural, and chronological differences, so that students will better understand the phenomenon. All sources will be available in English.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 288:
Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (HISTORY 388, JEWISHST 288, JEWISHST 388)
This course examines some salient issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the late 19th century to the present. At the end of the course you should be able to articulate the positions of the major parties to the conflict, with the understanding that there is no single, unified Zionist (or Jewish) or Palestinian (or Arab) position. One quarter does not allow sufficient time to cover even all of the important topics comprehensively (for example, the role of the Arab states, the USA and the USSR, and the internal history of Israel receive less attention than is desirable). Some prior knowledge of Middle East history is desirable, but not required. Vigorous debate and criticism are strongly encouraged. Criticism and response expressed in a civil tone is an important way to get a fuller and more truthful picture of something. This is not only a fundamental democratic right and a basic citizenship skill, but it is essential to interpreting information and making good policy. Rights not used are easily lost.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI
HISTORY 288D:
American Jewish History: Learning to be Jewish in America (AMSTUD 279X, EDUC 279, JEWISHST 297X, RELIGST 279X)
This course will be a seminar in American Jewish History through the lens of education. It will address both the relationship between Jews and American educational systems, as well as the history of Jewish education in America. Plotting the course along these two axes will provide a productive matrix for a focused examination of the American Jewish experience. History students must take course for at least 3 units.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 2-4
HISTORY 289:
The Indian Ocean World: Winds, Merchants & Empires (HISTORY 389)
Focuses on the Indian Ocean World, a critical historical arena of large-scale cultural and economic contact among societies of South Asia, the Middle East, East and Southeast Asia, and East Africa. We will explore this contact zone chronologically and thematically, examining the influence of environment, the demands of commerce, the bonds of Islam, and the political tensions of empires from medieval to modern times. We will pay particular attention to the networks and individuals that have made up the social fabric of this oceanic world: merchants, pilgrims, smugglers, and laborers. Texts will include scholarly studies as well as travel and fictional accounts.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 290:
North Korea in Historical Perspective (HISTORY 390)
This colloquium will approach North Korea from a longer historical perspective and also discuss the country's current crisis and its future. Themes will include the northern region in colonial Korea, Kim Il Sung and Manchurian guerrillas, the USSR and North Korean Revolution, the reconstruction after the Korean War, Juche ideology and the political system, the everyday life of North Korea people, the Cold War and North Korean diplomacy, culture and mass performance, the great famine and economy in transition, the military and nuclear development, and refugees and the succession of leadership.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 290E:
Movies and Empire in East Asia (HISTORY 390E)
Cinema was invented in the 1890s and simultaneously introduced to East Asia. This colloquium explores how this new medium changed the cultural and social landscape of East Asia and how the visual power of films also affected the culture politics of empires in the region. The themes include cinema and urban spaces, cultural imperialism, film images and gender discourse, colonial modernity, Americanism and Asianism, the visual and the textual, wartime propaganda, and Hollywood movies and cold war empires.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-GlobalCom
HISTORY 291A:
Archaeology and Modernity in Asia: The Excavation of Ancient Civilizations in Modern Times (HISTORY 391A)
The interplay in Asia between antiquity and modernity, civilization and nation state, and national versus colonial science. The recent excavation of artifacts and places associated with Asian civilization such as the terracotta warriors in China and Angkor Wat in Cambodia. How Asian states have grappled with modernity and colonialism as they simultaneously dug up their ancient pasts.
Last offered: Spring 2007
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
HISTORY 291E:
Maps, Borders, and Conflict in East Asia (HISTORY 391E)
The nature of borders and border conflicts in N.E. Asia from the 17th to the early 20th century. Focus is on contact zones between China, Russia, Korea, and Japan. The geopolitical imperatives that drove states to map their terrain in variable ways. Cultural, diplomatic, and imperial contexts. European pressures and contributions to E. Asian cartography; the uses of maps in surveillance, diplomacy, identity, and war. Student projects focus on a contested border zone.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
HISTORY 292F:
Culture and Religions in Korean History (HISTORY 392F)
This colloquium explores the major themes of Korean history before 1800 and the role of culture and religions in shaping the everyday life of Chosôn-dynasty Koreans. Themes include the aristocracy and military in the Koryô dynasty, Buddhism and Confucianism in the making of Chosôn Korea, kingship and court culture, slavery and women, family and rituals, death and punishment, and the Korean alphabet (Hangûl) and print culture.
Last offered: Spring 2015
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 292J:
Sino-Korean Relations, Past and Present (CHINA 156, CHINA 256, KOREA 156, KOREA 256)
Korea and China have long been intertwined in their political, economic, and cultural histories. The depth of this historical relationship has enormous ramifications for East Asia today. This course will investigate the history of Korea-China relations from its deep roots in the ancient past, through its formative periods in the early modern period and the age of imperialism, to the contemporary era. Topics to be covered include formation of Chinese and Korean national identity, Sino-Korean cultural exchange, premodern Chinese empire in East Asia, China and Korea in the wake of Western and Japanese imperialism, communist revolutions in East Asia, the Korean War, and China's relations with a divided Korea in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Particular attention will be paid to how the modern and contemporary ramifications of past historical relations and how contemporary Chinese and Koreans interpret their own and each others' pasts.nThis course will ask students to engage with diverse interpretations of the past and to consider how a common history is interpreted by different audiences and for different purposes. What are the implications of divergent memories of a single historical event for Chinese and Korean political, cultural, and ethnic identities? How are political, cultural, and ethnic identities constructed through engagement with difference? And what is at stake in different constructions of identity?In addressing these issues, students will also engage in social inquiry. They will be asked to understand how political ideology, economic organization, and social forces have shaped the character of Sino-Korean relations. What are the economic and political institutions that influence these relations in each time period? How do ideologies like Confucianism, Communism, or free-market liberalism interface with Chinese and Korean societies and impact their relations?
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 293B:
Queer History in Comparative Perspective (FEMGEN 293B, FEMGEN 393B, HISTORY 393B)
Comparative history of homoerotic desire, relations, and identity through scholarship on different historical periods and parts of the world: the classical Mediterranean, early modern European cities, late imperial and modern China, Tokugawa and modern Japan, and the U.S.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-Gender, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 293E:
Female Divinities in China (HISTORY 393E, RELIGST 257X, RELIGST 357X)
This course examines the fundamental role of powerful goddesses in Chinese religion. It covers the entire range of imperial history and down to the present. It will look at, among other questions, what roles goddesses played in the spirit world, how this is related to the roles of human women, and why a civilization that excluded women from the public sphere granted them a dominant place, in the religious sphere. It is based entirely on readings in English.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 294D:
Manchuria: Cradle of Conflict, Cockpit of Asia (HISTORY 394D)
How did Manchuria become Chinese? This course utilizes the dual waves of early twentieth-century writings and a wide array of recent scholarship dealing with Manchuria to explore the formation of nation-states out of the Qing and Japanese empires in Northeast Asia through the lenses of opium, migration, cities, warlords, and memoir. This course will be of interest to students concerned with developing transcultural understandings of Northeast Asian history.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 294J:
Science, Power, and Knowledge: East Asia to 1900 (CHINA 157, CHINA 257, JAPAN 157, JAPAN 257, KOREA 157, KOREA 257)
In the early modern period, East Asian societies featured long-established institutions of learning and traditions of knowledge. This course examines the relationship between knowledge and power in East Asia societies prior to 1900. It explores how knowledge production operated in late imperial China (1550-1900), Chos'n Korea (1392-1910), and Tokugawa Japan (1600-1868). Among the themes addressed are: the state's role in patronizing science and knowledge; major intellectual movements; engagement with Western science and religion; East Asian statecraft; and East Asian understandings of space and geography. nTaking a holistic perspective, it places science and technology in 1) a social and cultural context 2) in relation to other bodies and fields of knowledge 3) in comparison to other societies in a similar historical time period. A socially embedded perspective on knowledge and science seeks to appreciate how politics, society, and knowledge are integrated, and in particular how science and knowledge can be both instruments and sites of political power. By exploring these links, the course will also illustrate how our modern disciplinary categories of natural science,social science and the humanities cannot be taken for granted and the areas of knowledge they cover can be deeply intertwined. nnThe course will also address these issues historically and across geographic regions in East Asia and beyond. The comparative lens and frameworks these perspectives can offer will bring an awareness of the diverse traditions of knowledge production in East Asia. Its examination of East Asian encounters with Western paradigms of knowledge throughout the early modern period will also illustrate how communication occurs across cultural, social, and linguistic barriers and how diverse world-views were managed in these encounters. These encounters of knowledge-exchange between Jesuit missionaries, Ming literati, Korean aristocrats, and Japanese doctors also show how cultural identities were constructed, reinforced, and challenged. These identities, expressed through the mastery of knowledge, are essential for understanding how East Asian reckoned with growing pressures to adopt Western industrial technology and military science in the late nineteenth century.
| Units: 3-5
HISTORY 295F:
Race and Ethnicity in East Asia (ASNAMST 295F, HISTORY 395F)
Intensive exploration of major issues in the history of race and ethnicity in China, Japan, and Korea from the early modern period to the present day.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
HISTORY 296:
Communism and Revolution in China
From the formation of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1921 through the 1949 founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Topics include: early theories of socialism in China; the relationship between Chinese communism and the Communist International and Soviet Union; agrarian reformulation of communism by Mao; the communist-nationalist civil war; the Communist Revolution of 1949; and the consolidation of communist power in the PRC.
Last offered: Spring 2009
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
HISTORY 296F:
Short Stories from India and Pakistan (ICA 296F)
The course introduces the main periods and trends of 20th- and 21st-century Urdu short story: Progressive Writers' Movement, Partition literature, Modernism, contemporary fiction. Classes include close reading and discussion of selected short stories, with special focus on prominent themes such as social problems; personal loss, exile, displacement, alienation, and questions of identity; gender and sexuality; history, memory, and nostalgia; myth and imagination. Readings include: Premchand, Manto, Ismat Chughtai, Qurratulain Hyder, Intizar Husain, Naiyer Masud. All readings are in English.
Last offered: Spring 2014
| Units: 3-5
HISTORY 297:
The Cold War and East Asia (HISTORY 397)
Explores how East Asia negotiated superpower rivalry and global ideological competition during the Cold War. Considers the ways in which China, Japan, and Korea were more than battlegrounds for US-Soviet contestation and played active roles in defining the nature and dynamics of the conflict. Re-examines conventional narratives and periodizations against alternative conceptual models and interpretive frameworks highlighting the constructed nature of the struggle as well as the role of historical and cultural factors in shaping the East Asian experience.
Last offered: Spring 2014
| Units: 5
HISTORY 297F:
Religion and Power in the Making of Modern South Asia (RELIGST 255, RELIGST 355)
This course examines the diverse ways that religious traditions have been involved in the brokering of power in South Asia from the late seventeenth century to the present day. We will examine the intersection of religion and power in different arenas, including historical memory, religious festivals, language politics, and violent actions. At the core of our inquiry is how religion is invoked in political contexts (and vice-versa), public displays of religiosity, and the complex dynamics of religion and the state. Among other issues, we will particularly engage with questions of religious identity, knowledge, and violence. Undergraduates must enroll in RELIGST 255 for 5 units. Graduate students must enroll RELIGST 355 for 3-5 units. HISTORY297F must be taken for 4-5 units.
Last offered: Spring 2016
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 298:
Modern China: Intellectual and Cultural History (HISTORY 398)
Besides the infamous 'Cultural Revolution' of the 1960s, modern China experienced at least four other sweeping cultural and intellectual revolutions that students rarely think about: the 1890s, the 1910s, the 1980s, and the present day. This course charts major historical transformations in modern Chinese cultural and intellectual history, examining a time when China was flooded with a dizzying array of new isms," including feminism, liberalism, realism, anarchism, fascism, individualism, pragmatism, communism, socialism, and more. Come join the discussion. May be repeat for credit
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
HISTORY 299A:
Senior Research I
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Baker, K. (PI);
Beinin, J. (PI);
Bernstein, B. (PI);
Buc, P. (PI);
Camarillo, A. (PI);
Campbell, J. (PI);
Carson, C. (PI);
Chang, G. (PI);
Como, D. (PI);
Crews, R. (PI);
Daughton, J. (PI);
Dorin, R. (PI);
Duus, P. (PI);
Findlen, P. (PI);
Frank, Z. (PI);
Freedman, E. (PI);
Gienapp, J. (PI);
Griffiths, F. (PI);
Hanretta, S. (PI);
Herzog, T. (PI);
Hobbs, A. (PI);
Holloway, D. (PI);
Jolluck, K. (PI);
Kennedy, D. (PI);
Klein, H. (PI);
Kollmann, N. (PI);
Kumar, A. (PI);
Lewis, M. (PI);
Lougee, C. (PI);
Miller, K. (PI);
Minian Andjel, A. (PI);
Moon, Y. (PI);
Morris, I. (PI);
Mullaney, T. (PI);
Naimark, N. (PI);
Nirei, Y. (PI);
Press, S. (PI);
Proctor, R. (PI);
Rakove, J. (PI);
Riskin, J. (PI);
Roberts, R. (PI);
Robinson, P. (PI);
Rodrigue, A. (PI);
Satia, P. (PI);
Schiebinger, L. (PI);
Sheehan, J. (PI);
Sheffer, E. (PI);
Sommer, M. (PI);
Stansky, P. (PI);
Stokes, L. (PI);
Uchida, J. (PI);
Weiner, A. (PI);
White, R. (PI);
Wigen, K. (PI);
Winterer, C. (PI);
Wolfe, M. (PI);
Yaycioglu, A. (PI);
Zipperstein, S. (PI)
HISTORY 299B:
Senior Research II
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Baker, K. (PI);
Beinin, J. (PI);
Bernstein, B. (PI);
Buc, P. (PI);
Camarillo, A. (PI);
Campbell, J. (PI);
Carson, C. (PI);
Chang, G. (PI);
Como, D. (PI);
Crews, R. (PI);
Daughton, J. (PI);
Dorin, R. (PI);
Duus, P. (PI);
Findlen, P. (PI);
Frank, Z. (PI);
Freedman, E. (PI);
Gienapp, J. (PI);
Griffiths, F. (PI);
Hanretta, S. (PI);
Herzog, T. (PI);
Hobbs, A. (PI);
Holloway, D. (PI);
Jolluck, K. (PI);
Kennedy, D. (PI);
Klein, H. (PI);
Kollmann, N. (PI);
Kumar, A. (PI);
Lewis, M. (PI);
Lougee, C. (PI);
Miller, K. (PI);
Minian Andjel, A. (PI);
Moon, Y. (PI);
Morris, I. (PI);
Mullaney, T. (PI);
Naimark, N. (PI);
Nirei, Y. (PI);
Press, S. (PI);
Proctor, R. (PI);
Rakove, J. (PI);
Riskin, J. (PI);
Roberts, R. (PI);
Robinson, P. (PI);
Rodrigue, A. (PI);
Satia, P. (PI);
Schiebinger, L. (PI);
Sheehan, J. (PI);
Sheffer, E. (PI);
Sommer, M. (PI);
Stansky, P. (PI);
Stokes, L. (PI);
Uchida, J. (PI);
Weiner, A. (PI);
White, R. (PI);
Wigen, K. (PI);
Winterer, C. (PI);
Wolfe, M. (PI);
Zipperstein, S. (PI)
HISTORY 299C:
Senior Research III
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
9 times
Instructors: ;
Baker, K. (PI);
Beinin, J. (PI);
Bernstein, B. (PI);
Buc, P. (PI);
Camarillo, A. (PI);
Campbell, J. (PI);
Carson, C. (PI);
Chang, G. (PI);
Como, D. (PI);
Crews, R. (PI);
Daughton, J. (PI);
Dorin, R. (PI);
Duus, P. (PI);
Findlen, P. (PI);
Frank, Z. (PI);
Freedman, E. (PI);
Gienapp, J. (PI);
Griffiths, F. (PI);
Hanretta, S. (PI);
Herzog, T. (PI);
Hobbs, A. (PI);
Holloway, D. (PI);
Jolluck, K. (PI);
Kennedy, D. (PI);
Klein, H. (PI);
Kollmann, N. (PI);
Kumar, A. (PI);
Lewis, M. (PI);
Lougee, C. (PI);
Miller, K. (PI);
Minian Andjel, A. (PI);
Moon, Y. (PI);
Morris, I. (PI);
Mullaney, T. (PI);
Naimark, N. (PI);
Nirei, Y. (PI);
Press, S. (PI);
Proctor, R. (PI);
Rakove, J. (PI);
Riskin, J. (PI);
Roberts, R. (PI);
Robinson, P. (PI);
Rodrigue, A. (PI);
Satia, P. (PI);
Schiebinger, L. (PI);
Sheehan, J. (PI);
Sheffer, E. (PI);
Sommer, M. (PI);
Stansky, P. (PI);
Stokes, L. (PI);
Uchida, J. (PI);
Weiner, A. (PI);
White, R. (PI);
Wigen, K. (PI);
Winterer, C. (PI);
Wolfe, M. (PI);
Zipperstein, S. (PI)
HISTORY 299D:
Tooling Up for Digital Humanities
What are the digital humanities? The twenty-first century presents new opportunities in the humanities, such as unprecedented access to millions upon millions of digitized sources along with powerful technological tools to study those sources. Yet it also raises new challenges, such as the responsible and effective use of technology, and defining the nature of digital scholarship and communication. This workshop offers an introduction to fundamental concepts, methods, and issues within the growing field of digital humanities, including managing your online identity, digitizing sources, managing databases, text mining, spatial analysis, visualization, and pedagogy.
Last offered: Spring 2011
| Units: 1
HISTORY 299H:
Junior Honors Colloquium
Required of junior History majors planning to write a History honors thesis during senior year. Meets four times during the quarter.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1
HISTORY 299M:
Undergraduate Directed Research: Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute
May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-4
| Repeatable
for credit
HISTORY 299P:
Undergraduate Directed Research: Pioneering Women
May be repeated for credit.
Last offered: Winter 2016
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
for credit
HISTORY 299S:
Undergraduate Directed Research and Writing
May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Baker, K. (PI);
Beinin, J. (PI);
Bernstein, B. (PI);
Buc, P. (PI);
Burns, J. (PI);
Camarillo, A. (PI);
Campbell, J. (PI);
Carson, C. (PI);
Chang, G. (PI);
Como, D. (PI);
Crews, R. (PI);
Daughton, J. (PI);
Dorin, R. (PI);
Duus, P. (PI);
Findlen, P. (PI);
Frank, Z. (PI);
Freedman, E. (PI);
Gienapp, J. (PI);
Griffiths, F. (PI);
Hanretta, S. (PI);
Herzog, T. (PI);
Hobbs, A. (PI);
Holloway, D. (PI);
Horn, M. (PI);
Jolluck, K. (PI);
Kennedy, D. (PI);
Klein, H. (PI);
Kollmann, N. (PI);
Kumar, A. (PI);
Lewis, M. (PI);
Lougee, C. (PI);
Mancall, M. (PI);
Miller, K. (PI);
Minian Andjel, A. (PI);
Moon, Y. (PI);
Morris, I. (PI);
Naimark, N. (PI);
Nirei, Y. (PI);
Press, S. (PI);
Proctor, R. (PI);
Rakove, J. (PI);
Riskin, J. (PI);
Roberts, R. (PI);
Robinson, P. (PI);
Rodrigue, A. (PI);
Satia, P. (PI);
Schiebinger, L. (PI);
Sheehan, J. (PI);
Sheffer, E. (PI);
Sommer, M. (PI);
Stansky, P. (PI);
Stokes, L. (PI);
Vardi, G. (PI);
Ward, J. (PI);
Weiner, A. (PI);
White, R. (PI);
Wigen, K. (PI);
Winterer, C. (PI);
Wolfe, M. (PI);
Yaycioglu, A. (PI);
Zipperstein, S. (PI);
Watkins, G. (GP)
HISTORY 299T:
Tough Questions (HISTORY 399T)
A H&S initiative course.
| Units: 1
HISTORY 299X:
Preparing for International Field Work: Public Service or Research (HISTORY 399A)
Open to students in all classes, those planning internships abroad and those planning research, from juniors with honors theses and sophomores with Chappell Lougee grants to freshmen thinking ahead. Introduces resources on campus for planning international research and service. Raises issues that need to be considered in advance of going abroad: ethical concerns, Human Subjects Protocol, networking, personal safety and gender issues, confronting cultural differences. Exposes students to research methods: case studies, interviewing, working in foreign libraries and archives.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
HISTORY 301E:
Life Under Nazism (HISTORY 201E)
This course explores everyday life in the Third Reich. Moving inside political events, students will examine daily experiences in the Nazi state-- from Hitler's tumultuous rise to power through the end of World War Two. We will see how people navigated new ideologies, practices, anti-Semitism, war, and mass murder. Through analysis of memoirs, diaries, essays, novels, propaganda, scholarship, and film, students will investigate how social and political developments can reveal the very boundaries between self and society.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 301J:
Objects of History: From "Material Culture" to "Making" (HISTORY 201J)
This class considers objects as historical sources. It surveys diverse approaches to the study and display of physical evidence, from "material culture" to "making." These explorations of object-oriented research will inform the course's hands-on components, working with objects and replicating historical experiences. With its focus on the question of what historical knowledge can be gained through interactivity, the course is suited to students whose interests include museums and public history, reenactment and performance, the maker movement, or interdisciplinary methodology.
Last offered: Spring 2016
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 301K:
A History of the Global Left: Revolutionary Movements against Empire (HISTORY 201K)
This class will trace the formation of trans-regional movements against imperialism in the modern period that helped create a "global Left." We will read contemporary works by thinkers such as Lord Byron, Karl Marx, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Annie Besant, and Faiz Ahmad Faiz, as well as historical studies of these figures and the movements in which they figured. Key topics include the American Revolution, the Indian "Mutiny" of 1857, the Ghadar movement, Pan-Islamism, Irish nationalism, and global communism.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 302J:
Federal Indian Law
(Same as LAW 600.) This course will provide an overview of the field of federal Indian law. It will consider the origins and scope of tribal sovereignty as recognized under federal law, as well as current federal law on tribal legislative, executive, and judicial authority. It will also explore the division of authority between tribal, federal, and state governments; federal statutory schemes governing Natives and Native nations; and constitutional issues affecting Natives. Additional current legal issues which may be covered include Native land claims, gaming, family law, religious and cultural rights, and natural resources. Elements used in grading: Class Participation, Final Exam.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 302K:
The Holocaust and Its Aftermath (HISTORY 202K, JEWISHST 282K, JEWISHST 382K)
This seminar gives an overview over different aspects of the history of the Holocaust and its aftermath and will examine key issues in recent Holocaust historiography and questions of memory and representation. Special emphasis is put on the nature of the historian's task, as viewed through the lens of historians of the Holocaust, as well as to the significance of the Holocaust in history and how it has changed over time. The course will confront students with historiographical texts and historical documents, with photography and film, works of scholarship and art.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 303:
Premodern Economic Cultures (HISTORY 203)
Modern economists have made a science of studying the aggregate effects of individual choices. This science is based on the realities of personal freedom and individual choice. Prior to the modern era, however, different realities comprised very different economic cultures: moral economies in which greed was evil and generosity benefitted the patron's soul; familial collectives operating within historical conditioned diasporas; economies of obligation that threatened to collapse under their own weight as economic structures shifted. In this course we will be reading cross-culturally to develop an understanding of the shared and distinct elements of premodern economic cultures.
Last offered: Spring 2014
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 303C:
History of Ignorance
Scholars pay a lot of attention to knowledge--how it arises and impacts society--but much less attention has been given to ignorance, even though its impacts are equally profound. Here we explore the political history of ignorance, through case studies including: corporate denials of harms from particular products (tobacco, asbestos), climate change denialism, and creationist rejections of Darwinian evolution. Students will be expected to produce a research paper tracing the origins and impact of a particular form of ignorance.
Last offered: Autumn 2015
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 303D:
The Holocaust in Recent Memory: Conflicts - Commemorations - Challenges (HISTORY 203D, JEWISHST 283D, JEWISHST 383D)
This course offers an in-depth approach to the study of the Holocaust as a historical point of reference for European memory, or for the memory cultures of European nations, where the international context in particular the USA and Israel will also be taken into consideration. The starting point is the transformations in Holocaust memory: after 1945, in the era of European postwar myths, the Holocaust was on the periphery of historical thinking, of scholarly and public interest. Today the Holocaust is acknowledged as a 'break in civilization', a watershed event in human history. This approach has only evolved since the 1980s.
Last offered: Autumn 2014
| Units: 5
HISTORY 303F:
Words and Things in the History of Classical Scholarship (CLASSICS 331)
How have scholars used ancient texts and objects since the revival of the classical tradition? How did antiquarians study and depict objects and relate them to texts and reconstructions of the past? What changed and what stayed the same as humanist scholarship gave way to professional archaeologists, historians, and philologists? Focus is on key works in the history of classics, such as Erasmus and Winckelmann, in their scholarly, cultural, and political contexts, and recent critical trends in intellectual history and the history of disciplines.
Last offered: Autumn 2015
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 303J:
Water in World History (HISTORY 203J)
Examines the human relationship to water in various geographical, ecological, technological, cultural and sociopolitical settings, primarily during, but not limited to, the 19th and 20th centuries. Develops a broad historical understanding of the dwindling supply, deteriorating quality and inequitable distribution of freshwater today.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 303K:
Trauma and History: Intergenerational suffering and collective healing
This course will examine trauma as a historical process, following the intergenerational impacts of history's darker dramas, analyzing collective strategies for coping and healing after trauma, and asking whether we can speak of "traumatized societies." Readings for graduate students will include Ben Shephard's A War of Nerves, Didier Fassin and Richard Rechtman's The Empire of Trauma, and selections from Yael Danieli, ed., Intergenerational Handbook of Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma. Colloquium will be discussion-oriented, but will also include guest discussants from around the world. The course will culminate in a conference to be held at Stanford, June 4-6: "Soul Wounds: Trauma and Healing Across Generations." Undergraduate requirements for 1 credit: Attend weekly "Mind, Body, and Culture" workshop and first hour of Wednesday morning discussion, attend some part of conference on June 4-6. Graduate requirements for 4-5 credits: Attend workshop, read weekly, discussion on Wednesday mornings, write a paper and if desired present at conference.
Last offered: Spring 2015
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 304:
Approaches to History
Required of first-year History Ph.D. students. This course explores ideas and debates that have animated historical discourse and shaped historiographical practice over the past half-century or so. The works we will be discussing raise fundamental questions about how historians imagine the past as they try to write about it, how they constitute it as a domain of study, how they can claim to know it, and how (and why) they argue about it.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| Repeatable
for credit
HISTORY 304G:
War and Society (HISTORY 204G, REES 304G)
How Western societies and cultures have responded to modern warfare. The relationship between its destructive capacity and effects on those who produce, are subject to, and must come to terms with its aftermath. Literary representations of WW I; destructive psychological effects of modern warfare including those who take pleasure in killing; changes in relations between the genders; consequences of genocidal ideology and racial prejudice; the theory of just war and its practical implementation; and how wars are commemorated.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 305:
Graduate Pedagogy Workshop
Required of first-year History Ph.D. students. Perspectives on pedagogy for historians: course design, lecturing, leading discussion, evaluation of student learning, use of technology in teaching lectures and seminars. Addressing today's classroom: sexual harassment issues, integrating diversity, designing syllabi to include students with disabilities.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
HISTORY 305C:
Graduate Workshop Series
This is a 1-credit course for which only regular attendance is required, and graduate students may audit any or all of the sessions as they find useful. The majority of the course addresses questions of research, grant writing, and professionalization, while the last few sessions offer general guidance on preparing for the job market.
Last offered: Winter 2016
| Units: 1
HISTORY 305G:
Creative Political Thinking: From Machiavelli to Madison (HISTORY 205G, POLISCI 235J, POLISCI 335J)
How can we account for creativity and innovation in political thinking? Are these qualities simply a product of political expediency and rhetorical urgency, or do they also depend on qualities of mind and historical contingencies that have to be studied individually? This class will explore these questions with three noteworthy cases: Niccolo Machiavelli, John Locke, and James Madison. Extensive reading in both primary writings and secondary sources.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 306A:
City, Society, Literature- 19th Century Histories (HISTORY 206A, URBANST 106)
This course examines the rise of modern cities through an analysis of urban society and the imaginative literature of the 1800s.
Last offered: Spring 2014
| Units: 4
HISTORY 306D:
World History: Graduate Colloquium
How do historians engage the global scale in the classroom as well as in research? The world history canon including Toynbee, McNeill, Braudel, Wolf, and Wallerstein; contrasting approaches, recent research, and resources for teaching. Recommended: concurrent enrollment in HISTORY 306K.
Last offered: Autumn 2015
| Units: 4
HISTORY 306F:
Identities and Identification in the Atlantic World
How identities and processes of identification changed in Europe, Africa, and the Americas during the early modern period and as a result of the engagement of the inhabitants of these three continents in the Atlantic world.
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 306G:
Colonial Law
Examines the relationship between law and colonialism in Latin America, Africa and Asia during both the early modern and the modern period. By reading some of the seminal works that have been published on this issue, we will seek to understand how law both facilitated and limited colonialism and how colonialism, in turn, had modified the legal systems that had existed previously. Attention will also be given to law an an acculturating agent and to the legal arena as a sphere for conflict resolution, negotiation,and identity formation.
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 306K:
World History Pedagogy Workshop
Students draft a syllabus and create a curriculum module for use in a world history lecture course. Corequisite: HISTORY 306D, recommended.
Last offered: Autumn 2015
| Units: 1
HISTORY 307A:
Legal History Workshop
(Same as LAW 372.) The Legal History Workshop is designed as a forum in which faculty and students from both the Law School and the History Department can discuss some of the best work now being done in the field of legal history. Every other week, an invited speaker will present his or her current research for discussion. This year the theme of the Workshop will be Conservative Legal Movements from 1950 to the Present. Speakers will include Reva Siegel, the Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law at Yale Law School, and Thomas Sugrue, the David Boies Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, as well several other scholars of law, the social sciences and humanities writing about this topic. In the week prior to a given speaker's presentation, the class will meet as a group to discuss secondary literature relevant to understanding and critiquing the speaker's research. Students will then read the speaker's paper in advance of the following week's workshop presentation. Special Instructions: Students are required to write a brief response to each speaker's paper. There will be a total of four speakers, and thus four papers. Guidance will be provided concerning how to frame these response papers, which will be due every two weeks - i.e., on the day before speaker presents and students will receive "W" writing credit. Students taking the course to receive "R" research credit are required to write a research paper on a legal history topic that they choose (in consultation with the professor). After the term begins, students accepted into the course can transfer from section (01) into section (02), which meets the R requirement, with consent of the instructor. Students taking the course for R credit can take the course for either 2 or 3 units, depending on the paper length. Elements used in grading: Class participation, attendance, assignments and final paper. This course is open to first-year Law School students. Writing (W) credit is for students entering prior to Autumn 2012.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 307C:
The Global Early Modern (HISTORY 207C)
In what sense can we speak of "globalization" before modernity? What are the characteristics and origins of the economic system we know as "capitalism"? When and why did European economies begin to diverge from those of other Eurasian societies? With these big questions in mind, the primary focus will be on the history of Europe and European empires, but substantial readings deal with other parts of the world, particularly China and the Indian Ocean. HISTORY 307C is a prerequisite for HISTORY 402 (Spring quarter).
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 307E:
Totalitarianism (HISTORY 204E)
Modern revolutionary and totalitarian politics. Sources include monographs on the medieval, Reformation, French Revolutionary, and Great War eras. Topics: the essence of modern ideology, the concept of the body national, state terror, charismatic leadership, gender assignments, private and public spheres, and identities.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 308:
Biography and History (HISTORY 207)
The relationship between biographical and historical writing, primarily in Europe and America. Problems of methodology, evidence, dispassion, and empathy. Texts: biographies, critical literature on biographical work, and novels (A. S. Byatt's Possession, Bernard Malamud's Dubin's Lives) that illuminate the intellectual underpinnings of biographical labor.
Last offered: Spring 2010
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 308B:
Women Activists' Response to War (FEMGEN 208B, HISTORY 208B)
Theoretical issues, historical origins, changing forms of women's activism in response to war throughout the 20th century, and contemporary cases, such as the Russian Committee of Soldiers Mothers, Bosnian Mothers of Srebrenica, Serbian Women in Black, and the American Cindy Sheehan. Focus is on the U.S. and Eastern Europe, with attention to Israel, England, and Argentina.
Last offered: Winter 2016
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 308F:
Law and Humanities Workshop: History, Literature, and Philosophy
(Same as LAW 516.) The Law and Humanities Workshop: History, Literature, and Philosophy is designed as a forum in which faculty and students from the Law School and from various humanities departments can discuss some of the best work now being done in law and humanities. Every other week, an invited speaker will present his or her current research for discussion. In the week prior to a given speaker's presentation, the class will meet as a group to discuss secondary literature relevant to understanding and critiquing the speaker's research. Students will then read the speaker's paper in advance of the following week's workshop presentation. Students have two options. Those taking the course for 4 units are required to write a brief response to each speaker's paper. There will be a total of four speakers, and thus four papers. Guidance will be provided concerning how to frame these response papers, which will be due every two weeks - i.e., on the day before the speaker presents. Students taking the course for 5 units are required to write a research paper on a law and humanities topic that they choose (in consultation with the professors). Law students who complete this 3-unit track will receive an "R" credit. After the term begins, students accepted into the course can transfer from section (01) into section (02), which meets the R requirement, with consent of the instructor. Enrollment will be limited to 30 students -- 20 from SLS who will be selected by lottery and 10 from H&S. Elements used in grading: Class participation, attendance, and writing assignments.
Last offered: Winter 2016
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 309A:
Postcolonialism and Universalism (HISTORY 209D)
Key texts and motifs from postcolonial theory: empire, class, exile, suffering, textuality, archive in juxtaposition to 20th-century philosophical questions about universal history and the relevance of humanist inquiry.
Last offered: Winter 2011
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 309B:
The Idea of Politics (HISTORY 209B)
Can we live without politics? Is politics indispensable for humanity and vice-versa? The idea of politics is that it must transform, through human action, conditions of collective life. But the 20th century produced colliding beliefs about what that life might be and what the human being itself might look like. Explore whether, after the century, we might still think of politics as an ethical idea and the "human" as foundational political category. Keywords: Civility, Cruelty, Friendship, Empire, Democracy, Humanism, Animals.
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 309E:
History Meets Geography
Focus is on developing competence in GIS computer applications and applying it to historical problems. Previous experience with GIS not required. Recommended: complete the GIS tutorial in Branner Library before the course starts.
Last offered: Spring 2006
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 309F:
Historical Geography Colloquium: Maps in the Early Modern World
The significance of cartographic enterprise across the early modern world. Political, economic, and epistemological imperatives that drove the proliferation of nautical charts, domain surveys, city plans, atlases, and globes; the types of work such artifacts performed for their patrons, viewers, and subjects. Contributions of indigenous knowledge to imperial maps; the career of the map in commerce, surveillance, diplomacy, conquest, and indoctrination. Sources include recent research from Asia, Europe, and the Americas.
Last offered: Spring 2016
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 309G:
Paleography of Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts (CLASSICS 215, DLCL 209, RELIGST 204)
Introductory course in the history of writing and of the book, from the late antique period until the advent of printing. Opportunity to learn to read and interpret medieval manuscripts through hands-on examination of original materials in Special Collections of Stanford Libraries as well as through digital images. Offers critical training in the reading of manuscripts for students from departments as diverse as Classics, History, Philosophy, Religious Studies, English, and the Division of Languages Cultures and Literatures.
Last offered: Spring 2014
| Units: 3-5
HISTORY 311:
Out of Eden: Deportation, Exile, and Expulsion from Antiquity to the Renaissance (HISTORY 211)
This course examines the long pedigree of modern deportations and mass expulsions, from the forced resettlements of the ancient world to the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492, and from the outlawry of Saga-era Iceland to the culture of civic exile in Renaissance Italy. The course focuses on Europe and the Mediterranean from antiquity to the early modern period, but students are welcome to venture beyond these geographical and chronological boundaries for their final papers.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 311A:
Family, Gender, and Production in Ancient Rome
Seminar. The household as the basic unit of production in Rome in the context of family relations and ideologies of gender. Methodological challenges of doing social and economic history from literary, epigraphic, and literary texts. Demography of family and kinship in ancient Rome. Ideologies of gender and family roles and their influence on economic production. Economic theories of the family and human capital.
Last offered: Winter 2008
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 311G:
Big Ancient History
How the shift away from thinking about European history in terms of a western civilization model toward embedding it in stories of how global history affects research and teaching on ancient Greece and Rome. Conventional, evolutionary, and global history narratives of the past 5,000 to 15,000 years and some new ideas about how Greco-Roman history might fit into different storylines.
Last offered: Spring 2009
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 312:
Knights, Monks, and Nobles: Masculinity in the Middle Ages (FEMGEN 212X, FEMGEN 312, HISTORY 212, RELIGST 212X, RELIGST 312X)
This course considers masculinity as historically and culturally contingent, focusing on the experiences and representations of medieval men as heroes, eunuchs, fathers, priests, husbands, boys, and fighting men. Recognizing that the lives of men, like those of women, were governed by gendered rules and expectations, we will explore a wide range of medieval masculinities, paying close attention to the processes by which manhood could be achieved (e.g. martial, spiritual, sexual), and to competing versions of manliness, from the warrior hero of the early middle ages to the suffering Christ of late medieval religion.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 314D:
Mediterranean Crossroads: Power, Culture, and Religion in Medieval Sicily (HISTORY 214D)
Sicily in the Middle Ages was a Mediterranean crossroads, a dynamic and diverse kingdom in which Muslim and Christian, Viking and African, European and Eastern Cultures all came together. Explores the life and times of Frederick II (1194-1250). He claimed universal authority as a Christian emperor, yet ruled multireligious Sicily as king. He promoted crusading, yet was accused of being a heretic and a crypto Muslim. He spoke six languages and actively patronized the arts and sciences. Topics include: structures and influences that made such a figure possible; how he managed the tensions of governing a diverse and disparate empire; how religion and cultural production created and maintained his authority; how contemporaries and later generations reacted to this enigmatic emperor; why has he continued to generate such polarizing reactions; and how did Frederick become a figure revered by Nazis and multiculturalists alike.
Last offered: Spring 2014
| Units: 5
HISTORY 315:
Advanced Paleography (CLASSICS 216, RELIGST 329X)
This course will train students in the transcription and editing of original Medieval and Early Modern textual materials from c. 1000 to 1600, written principally in Latin and English (but other European languages are possible, too). Students will hone their archival skills, learning how to describe, read and present a range of manuscripts and single-leaf documents, before turning their hand to critical interpretation and editing. Students, who must already have experience of working with early archival materials, will focus on the full publication of one individual fragment or document as formal assessment.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 5
HISTORY 315A:
Saints and Sinners: Women and Religion in the Medieval World (FEMGEN 215, HISTORY 215, RELIGST 215X)
Although the Apostle Paul taught that "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus" (Gal. 3:28), men and women experienced medieval Christianity in ways that were often vastly different. In this course we examine the religious experiences of women from the origins of Christianity through to the end of the medieval period, with particular attention paid to female prophets and religious authority, saints and martyrs, sexuality and virginity, literacy and education within the cloister, mysticism, relations between religious women and men, and the relevance of gender in the religious life -- especially as gender intersected with fears of heresy, sin, and embodiment.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
HISTORY 316:
Women and the Book: Scribes, Artists, and Readers from Late Antiquity through the Fourteenth Century (ARTHIST 206H, FEMGEN 216, HISTORY 216)
This course examines the cultural worlds of medieval women through particular attention to the books that they owned, commissioned, and created. Beginning with the earliest Christian centuries, the course proceeds chronologically, charting women¿s book ownership, scribal and artistic activity, and patronage from Late Antiquity through the fourteenth century. In addition to examining specific manuscripts (in facsimile, or digitally), we will consider ancillary questions to do with women¿s authorship, education and literacy, reading patterns, devotional practices, and visual traditions and representation.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 319B:
Secularity
Classic theories of secularity. Is a secular world possible? How does, historically seen, the notion of the secular emerge, impose itself, and get challenged? Readings include Max Weber, E. Durkheim, R.A. Markus, Carl Schmitt, and Hans Blumenberg, and studies bearing on the Middle Ages, English monastic secularization, the French Revolution, and 20th-century political religions.
Last offered: Spring 2010
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 319C:
Science, Technology, and Modernity in the Soviet Union (HISTORY 219C)
Science and technology were integral to the Soviet claim to offer a vision of modernity superior to that of Western capitalism. Science and technology would flourish; society would develop on a scientific basis. The results were more complex than the vision. Topics to be covered: science and Marxism-Leninism; the Lysenko affair; the R&D system; the role of the secret police; the atomic project; the space race; missile development; Andrei Sakharov; technology and innovation.
Last offered: Spring 2014
| Units: 5
HISTORY 320G:
Demons, Witches, Old Believers, Holy Fools, and Folk Belief: Popular Religion in Russia (HISTORY 220G, REES 220G, REES 320G)
19th and early 20th centuries. Peasants, parish priests, witches, possessed persons, cults and sects, old believers, saints, and women's religious communities. Nominally Christian, and members of the Orthodox Church, Russians embraced beliefs and customs that combined teaching from Church and folk traditions.
Last offered: Autumn 2015
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 321A:
State, Society and Nation in Modern Russian Historiography
Main trends of Russian intellectual history as seen through major historians' treatment of Muscovy: Romanticism, Slavophilism, Hegelianism, Populism, Social Democracy, New Idealism, and Marxism-Leninism.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 321B:
Imperial Russian Historiography
Last offered: Spring 2005
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 323:
Art and Ideas in Imperial Russia (HISTORY 223)
Poetry, novels, symphonic music, theater, opera, painting, design, and architecture: what they reveal about the politics and culture of tsarist Russia.
Last offered: Winter 2009
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 323B:
Research Methodologies in Early Modern Russian History
Last offered: Winter 2009
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 323E:
Cities of Empire: An Urban Journey through Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean (HISTORY 223E, REES 204, REES 304)
This course explores the cities of the Habsburg, Ottoman and Russian empires in the dynamic and turbulent period of their greatest transformation from the 19th century through the Two World Wars. Through the reading of urban biographies of Venice and Trieste, Vienna, Budapest, Cracow, Lviv, Sarajevo, Belgrade, Salonica, and Odessa, we consider broad historical trends of political, economic, and social modernization, urbanization, identity formation, imperialism, cosmopolitanism, and orientalism. As vibrant centers of coexistence and economic exchange, social and cultural borderlands, and sites of transgression, these cities provide an ideal lens through which to examine these themes in the context of transition from imperial to post-imperial space.
Last offered: Spring 2016
| Units: 3-5
HISTORY 324C:
Genocide and Humanitarian Intervention (HISTORY 224C, JEWISHST 284C, JEWISHST 384C, PEDS 224)
Open to medical students, graduate students, and undergraduate students. Traces the history of genocide in the 20th century and the question of humanitarian intervention to stop it, a topic that has been especially controversial since the end of the Cold War. The pre-1990s discussion begins with the Armenian genocide during the First World War and includes the Holocaust and Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s. Coverage of genocide and humanitarian intervention since the 1990s includes the wars in Bosnia, Rwanda, Kosovo, the Congo and Sudan.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
HISTORY 324F:
The Caucasus and the Muslim World
The linkages connecting the societies of the Caucasus to Muslim communities in Iran, Russia, the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, S. Asia, and the Middle East.
Last offered: Spring 2009
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 325:
The Russian Empire Between Europe and Asia (HISTORY 225, REES 325)
Analyzes theoretical construct of "Eurasian Empire" and assesses how well the early modern Russian empire (1450- 1800) fits the concept; sets Russian empire in European and Asian context.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 326A:
Modern Europe: Society and Politics
The goal of this course is to introduce graduate students to major works of history and literature in the field of nineteenth and early-twentieth century history. A colloquia will be given in tandem with a research seminar.
Last offered: Winter 2014
| Units: 5
HISTORY 326C:
Graduate Colloquium on Balkan History
Designed for History Ph.D. students to develop competence in the history and historiography of the modern Balkans, from the French Revolution to the present. Areas of study include the influence of empires on the region, the rise of nationalism and nation states, the dilemmas of independence, the emergence and decline of communism in the region, and the recurrence of war and ethnic conflict.
Last offered: Autumn 2009
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 326E:
Famine in the Modern World (HISTORY 226E, PEDS 226)
Open to medical students, graduate students, and undergraduate students. Examines the major famines of modern history, the controversies surrounding them, and the reasons that famine persists in our increasingly globalized world. Focus is on the relative importance of natural, economic, and political factors as causes of famine in the modern world. Case studies include the Great Irish Famine of the 1840s; the Bengal famine of 1943-44; the Soviet famines of 1921-22 and 1932-33; China's Great Famine of 1959-61; the Ethiopian famines of the 1970s and 80s, and the Somalia famines of the 1990s and of 2011.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
HISTORY 327:
East European Women and War in the 20th Century (FEMGEN 227, HISTORY 227)
Thematic chronological approach through conflicts in the region: Balkan Wars, WWI, WWII, and Yugoslav wars. Ways women in E. Europe involved in and affected by wars; comparison with women in W. Europe in the two world wars. Examines women's involvement in war as members of military services, backbone of underground movements, workers in war industries, mothers of soldiers, subjects and supporters of war aims and propaganda, activists in peace movements, and objects of wartime destruction, dislocation, and sexual violation.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 327D:
All Quiet on the Eastern Front? East Europe and Russia in the First World War (HISTORY 227D, REES 227, REES 327)
Until recently history has been comparatively quiet about the experience of World War I in the east. Far from being a peripheral theater of war, however, the experiences of war on the Eastern Front were central to shaping the 20th century. Not only was the first shot of the war fired in the east, it was also the site of the most dramatic political revolution. Using scholarly texts, literature and film, this course combines political, military, cultural and social approaches to introduce the causes, conduct and consequences of World War I with a focus on the experiences of soldiers and civilians on the Eastern Front. Topics include: the war of movement, occupation, extreme violence against civilians, the Armenian genocide, population exchanges, the Russian Revolution and civil war, and the disintegration of empires and rise of nation-states.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
HISTORY 328:
Circles of Hell: Poland in World War II (HISTORY 228, JEWISHST 282, JEWISHST 382)
Looks at the experience and representation of Poland's wartime history from the Nazi-Soviet Pact (1939) to the aftermath of Yalta (1945). Examines Nazi and Soviet ideology and practice in Poland, as well as the ways Poles responded, resisted, and survived. Considers wartime relations among Polish citizens, particularly Poles and Jews. In this regard, interrogates the traditional self-characterization of Poles as innocent victims, looking at their relationship to the Holocaust, thus engaging in a passionate debate still raging in Polish society.
Last offered: Spring 2015
| Units: 5
HISTORY 330:
Core Colloquium on Early Modern Europe: Ancien Regime
Topics in the social, political, and religious history of Western Europe, 1550-1789, with an emphasis on France. May be repeated for credit.
Last offered: Spring 2009
| Units: 4-5
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
HISTORY 330A:
Early Modern Colloquium
Historiographical survey from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Topics include Renaissance, Reformation, European expansion, state and nation building, printing, military, and scientific revolutions, origins of Enlightenment. Designed to prepare students doing either a primary or secondary graduate field in early modern European history.
Last offered: Spring 2016
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 330D:
Europe in the World, 1789-Present (HISTORY 230D)
The European conquest of parts of Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific by European merchants, missionaries, armies, and administrators had significant, and often cataclysmic, effects on indigenous political alliances, cultural practices, and belief systems. But were the effects of expansion entirely one-sided? What impact did the experiences of colonialism have on European politics, culture,and Europe's relations with the rest of the world? Explores how interaction between Europe and the rest of the world redefined the political, racial, sexual, and religious boundaries of both Europe and its colonies and gave rise to the more "globalized' society we live in today.
Last offered: Autumn 2010
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 330F:
Surveillance in Modern Europe (HISTORY 230F)
This course investigates the rise of modern surveillance in twentieth-century Europe through the present day. We consider different forms of surveillance---in domestic security, international spying, police practices, social monitoring, corporate data collecting, self-surveillance, and subversion. Students will explore these themes in historical works, contemporary journalism, novels, film, and visual arts. Students will also pursue individual topics of interest and, over the quarter, prepare op-eds for publication.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 331B:
Core Colloquium on Modern Europe: The 19th Century
The major historical events and historiographical debates of the long 19th century from the French Revolution to WW I.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 331C:
Core Colloquium on Modern Europe
The historiography of 20th-century Europe. Topics include WW I, the Russian Revolution, National Socialism, and the EU.
Last offered: Winter 2016
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 331D:
Core Colloquium on Modern Europe: Intellectual History
Last offered: Autumn 2007
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 331E:
Paper, Printing, and Digital Revolutions: Transformations of the Book (HISTORY 231E)
What is a book? This seminar explores the conceptual implications of approximately two millennia of transformations in the physical and material properties of books. How have the meaning and authority we assign the written word changed as technologies of book production and dissemination have evolved, and how have they remained continuous? Topics covered include the rise of the medieval manuscript codex, the emergence of print culture in early modern Europe, and current debates over the nature of text in the digital age.
Last offered: Autumn 2014
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 331G:
European Reformations (HISTORY 231G, RELIGST 231, RELIGST 331)
Readings in and discussion of theological and social aspects of sixteenth century reformations: Luther, Radical Reform, Calvin, and Council of Trent, missionary expansion, religious conflict, creative and artistic expressions. Texts include primary sources and secondary scholarly essays and monographs.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 332B:
Heretics, Prostitutes and Merchants: The Venetian Empire (ITALIAN 332B)
Between 1200-1600, Venice created a powerful empire at the boundary between East and West that controlled much of the Mediterranean, with a merchant society that allowed social groups, religions, and ethnicities to coexist. Topics include the features of Venetian society, the relationship between center and periphery, order and disorder, orthodoxy and heresy, the role of politics, art, and culture in the Venetian Renaissance, and the empire's decline as a political power and reinvention as a tourist site and living museum.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 332F:
The Scientific Revolution
What do people know and how do they know it? What counts as scientific knowledge? In the 16th and 17th centuries, understanding the nature of knowledge engaged the attention of individuals and institutions including Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, the early Royal Society, and less well-known contemporaries. New meanings of observing, collecting, experimenting, and philosophizing, and political, religious, and cultural ramifications in early modern Europe.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 332G:
When Worlds Collide: The Trial of Galileo
In 1633, the Italian mathematician Galileo was tried and condemned for advocating that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the cosmos. The Catholic Church did not formally admit that Galileo was right until 1992. Examines the many factors that led to the trial of Galileo and looks at multiple perspectives on this signal event in the history of science and religion. Considers the nature and definition of intellectual heresy in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and examines the writings of Galileo's infamous predecessor Giordano Bruno (burned at the stake in 1600). Looks closely at documents surrounding the trial and related literature on Renaissance and Reformation Italy in order to understand the perspectives of various participants in this famous event. Focal point of seminar involves the examination of the many different histories that can be produced from Galileo's trial. What, in the end, were the crimes of Galileo?
Last offered: Winter 2011
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 333:
From Reformation to Civil War: England under the Tudors and Stuarts (HISTORY 233)
English political and religious culture from the end of the Wars of the Roses to the Civil War of the 1640s. Themes include the growth of the size and power of the state, Reformation, creation of a Protestant regime, transformation of the political culture of the ruling elite, emergence of Puritanism, and causes of the Civil War. HISTORY 333 is a prerequisite for HISTORY 402 (Spring quarter).
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 333C:
Two British Revolutions (HISTORY 233C)
Current scholarship on Britain,1640-1700, focusing on political and religious history. Topics include: causes and consequences of the English civil war and revolution; rise and fall of revolutionary Puritanism; the Restoration; popular politics in the late 17th century; changing contours of religious life; the crisis leading to the Glorious Revolution; and the new order that emerged after the deposing of James II.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 333K:
The Invention of the Modern Republic (HISTORY 233K)
Examines the history of republican thinking in the Atlantic World from the Renaissance to the French Revolution.
Last offered: Spring 2010
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 334:
The Enlightenment (DLCL 324, FRENCH 244, HISTORY 234, HISTORY 432A, HUMNTIES 324)
The Enlightenment as a philosophical, literary, and political movement. Themes include the nature and limits of philosophy, the grounds for critical intellectual engagement, the institution of society and the public, and freedom, equality and human progress. Authors include Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Hume, Diderot, and Condorcet.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
HISTORY 334F:
Science, Technology, and Empire
How modern Europe came to be connected to thennwider world through repeated cycles of expansion, circulation, andnnexchange from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Using weeklynnthemes and in-depth discussions of ¿watershed¿ moments, nnthe roles played by colonialism, migration, commerce, warfare,nntelecommunications, and popular culture in redefining the place ofnnEurope in a changing global landscape will be explored.
Last offered: Spring 2011
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 334G:
Literature and Empire (ENGLISH 234G, HISTORY 234G)
This course will explore the relationship between modern British literature and imperialism. We will attend to the way imperialism shaped the evolution of a range of styles and genres, from romantic to gothic to modern, epistolary to mystery to fantasy. We will read works by authors such as Charlotte Bronte, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, complementing them with key works of literary criticism.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 335:
The Renaissance of War: Politics, Technology, and War in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy
The dynamic societies of the Italian Peninsula of the 14th to 16th centuries "prosperous, astonishingly creative, politically fractious, and endemically violent" produced sweeping, deeply consequential changes. Among these were new developments in the theory and practice of war, politics, and diplomacy that laid the foundations for the modern state system and European military power. The class covers: new diplomatic practice; the Military Revolution; state-building; war finance; court culture; and the intersection of these with the shimmering brilliance of Renaissance culture.
Last offered: Spring 2015
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 335C:
Readings in the Supernatural (HISTORY 235C)
Class will read and discuss a selection of monographs, scholarly essays, and primary sources on the rich supernatural world of early modern Europe. We will discuss how fairies, werewolves, nightmares, and trolls all became witches, how the binary of angels and demons figured in European thought, and how the marginalized imaginary was reconstituted in theatre and fiction.
Last offered: Autumn 2014
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 335G:
Famous French Figures: Celebrity and the Making of French Identity (FRENCH 209, HISTORY 235G)
How do we think historically about something as fleeting as fame? In this seminar we¿ll engage with the biographies of eight famous French figures, exploring how each of these celebrated lives influenced popular perceptions of what it has meant to be French over the past two centuries. Questions we will ask include: How and why are public figures remembered and memorialized differently at different times and in different places? Who does and does not qualify for the role of French celebrity, and why? What work must biographers do to frame something as complex as a human life into a coherent narrative? What is gained and lost in approaching a given era through a close examination of one individual? Most central to this course: How do people create and contest their cultural and national identities through the collective celebration of particular individuals? We will study the lives and times of three men and five women: Marie Antoinette, Napoleon Bonaparte, Edouard Manet, Sarah Bernhardt, Josephine Baker, Coco Chanel, Albert Camus, and Francoise Sagan.
Last offered: Spring 2016
| Units: 3-5
HISTORY 336:
Modern France
(Daughton)
Last offered: Winter 2006
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 336B:
Hobbes to Habermas: The Idea of Society in Modern Thought (HISTORY 236B)
Classic texts in social theory from the seventeenth century to the present. Readings include Locke, Smith, Hegel, Comte, and Durkheim, and Weber.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 336E:
Humanities+Design: Visualizing the Grand Tour (CLASSICS 396, DLCL 396)
Study of the eighteenth-century Grand Tour of Italy through visualization tools of the digital age. Critical readings in both visual epistemology and current Grand Tour studies; interrogating the relationship between quantitative and qualitative approaches in digital humanities; what new insights in eighteenth-century British travel to Italy does data visualization offer us? Students will transform traditional texts and documents into digital datasets, developing individual data analysis projects using text mining, data capture and visualization techniques.
Last offered: Autumn 2014
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 336F:
The End of the World As They Knew It: Culture, Cafés, and Crisis in Europe, 1880-1918 (HISTORY 236F)
The years stretching from roughly 1880 to end of the First World War were marked by profound social upheaval and an intense burst of creativity. This seminar will focus on the major cultural movements and big ideas of the period. Topics covered include the rise of mass culture and cinema, the origins of psychoanalysis, anti-Semitism and Zionism, new anxieties about sexuality and the 'New Woman,' anarchism, decadence, degeneration, and Dada - with cameos from Bernhardt, Freud, Klimt, Nietzsche, Toulouse-Lautrec, Wilde, Zola, and other luminaries of the age.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 337:
The Holocaust (HISTORY 137, JEWISHST 183, JEWISHST 383)
The emergence of modern racism and radical anti-Semitism. The Nazi rise to power and the Jews. Anti-Semitic legislation in the 30s. WW II and the beginning of mass killings in the East. Deportations and ghettos. The mass extermination of European Jewry.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 4
HISTORY 337C:
Street History: Learning the Past in School and Out (EDUC 356)
Interdisciplinary. Since Herodotus, history and memory have competed to shape minds: history cultivates doubt and demands interpretation; memory seeks certainty and detests that which thwarts its aims. History and memory collide in modern society, often violently. How do young people become historical amidst these forces; how do school, family, nation, and mass media contribute to the process?
Last offered: Spring 2009
| Units: 3-5
HISTORY 337D:
The French Revolution and the Birth of Modern Politics (HISTORY 237D)
(Students who have taken HISTORY 134 should not enroll in this course.) This course will focus on the birth of modern politics in the French Revolution. The goal will be to understand the structural contradictions of the French monarchy in the pre-revolutionary period, the reasons for the monarchy's failure to resolve those contradictions, and the political dynamic unleashed as they were solved by the revolutionary action of 1789. Sovereignty, democracy, rights, representation, and terror will be principal themes. Lectures will be combined with close reading and discussions of political and philosophical writings of the period.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 337F:
20th Century British History through the Hoover Archives (HISTORY 237F)
From the rich resources of the Hoover Institution, the students in this course will select a particular archive (war posters, politician, spy, literary figure, diplomat, etc. etc.) to investigate, to write about,discuss in class, and, it is hoped, present in an exhibition at the Hoover, learning museum skills along the way as well as the history of Britain in the 20th century.
Last offered: Spring 2016
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 337K:
Speed and Power: Travel and Travel Writing in the 20th Century (FRENCH 237K, HISTORY 237K, URBANST 155)
Every story is in some ways a travel story, a journey from here to there. In this seminar we'll explore how different people in different times and places experimented with the travel-story form to make sense of their social worlds. We'll focus on the twentieth century, during which people, images, and ideas moved around the world at an unprecedented scale and with increasing speed. Some journeys take us across oceans, while others are limited to just a few city blocks. For a final project students may complete a standard research paper related to themes of the course, or may produce their own travel narrative, however they choose to interpret this rubric. nSPECIAL GUEST LECTURER: Pico Iyer, travel writer.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 338:
France Since 1900: Politics, Culture, Society (FRENCH 259, FRENCH 359, HISTORY 238)
This course explores how France experienced some of the most tumultuous episodes in modern history, including world wars, collaboration and genocide, wars of decolonization, globalization, immigration, and economic decline. Our sources will include a rich combination of novels, films, architecture, and memoirs, including many classics of their chosen genres.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 338A:
Graduate Colloquium in Modern British History, Part I
Influential approaches to problems in British, European, and imperial history. The 19th-century British experience and its relationship to Europe and empire. National identity, the industrial revolution, class formation, gender, liberalism, and state building. Goal is to prepare specialists and non-specialists for oral exams.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 338B:
MODERN BRITISH HISTORY PART II
Themes include empire and racism, the crisis of liberalism, the rise of the welfare state, national identity, the experience of total war, the politics of decline, and modernity and British culture.
Last offered: Autumn 2015
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 338G:
Ethnography of the Late Middle Ages: Social history and popular culture in the age of the plague (HISTORY 238G)
During the late Middle Ages, as Europe was recovering from the devastation of the Black Death, political reorganization contributed to a burst of archival documentation that allows historians richly detailed glimpses of societies in transition. We will be reading selected scholarly articles and monographs covering such topics as persecution, prechristian cultural remnants, folk theologies, festival cultures, peasant revolts, heresy, and the advent of the diabolic witch.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 339F:
Empire and Information (HISTORY 239F)
How do states see? How do they know what they know about their subjects, citizens, economies, and geographies? How does that knowledge shape society, politics, identity, freedom, and modernity? Focus is on the British imperial state activities in S. Asia and Britain: surveillance technologies and information-gathering systems, including mapping, statistics, cultural schemata, and intelligence systems, to render geographies and social bodies legible, visible, and governable.
Last offered: Autumn 2005
| Units: 4-5
| Repeatable
for credit
HISTORY 339H:
Modern European History in a Global Age
How scholars can write the history of modern Europe in a way that integrates global and transnational perspectives. Discussed the methodological challenges and merits of various approaches and reviews relevant theoretical and interdisciplinary models for how this can best be done. Topics include globalization, migration, internationalism, colonialism, post-colonialism, modern warfare, and the media.
Last offered: Autumn 2009
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 341G:
Science and Religion in Western History since 1500 (HISTORY 241G)
Contemporary arguments concerning the relationship between science and religion often emphasize their differences, either as incompatible modes of thought in conflict, or as equally valid but "non-overlapping magisterial," which is to say inherently separate domains of inquiry. Such stark distinctions are a relatively recent development. The story of the relationship between science and spiritual belief is one of historically intimate connections and mutual influences. In this class we will examine forms of engagement of scientific and religious ideas in the West from 1500 to the present day.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
HISTORY 342:
Darwin in the History of Life
Origins and impact of evolutionary theory from the nineteenth century to the present. Early theories of fossils, the discovery of deep time and uniformitarian geology, debates over evolution vs. extinction, the origin of life, and human origins; the rise of anthropology and racial theory; the changing challenge of creationism, the abuse of evolution in eugenics and Nazi racial hygiene; and new discoveries in the realm of extreme life, evo-devo, neocatastrophism, and the new technological frontier of biomimicry. Attendance at the lectures of HISTORY 142 is required.
Last offered: Spring 2013
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 342F:
Medicine in an Age of Empires (HISTORY 242F)
This course connects changing ways of understanding the body and disease in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the business of empire. How did new ideas and methods of selling medicine relate to the rise of state-sponsored violence, resource extraction, global trade, and enslaved labor? Following black ritual practitioners in the Caribbean, apothecaries in England, and scientists abroad reveals the diversity of medical traditions and knowledge production in the early modern period that formed the basis of modern medicine today.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 343C:
People, Plants, and Medicine: Colonial Science and Medicine (HISTORY 243C)
Explores the global exchange of knowledge, technologies, plants, peoples, disease, and medicines. Considers primarily Africans, Amerindians, and Europeans in the eighteenth-century West but also takes examples from other knowledge traditions. Readings treat science and medicine in relation to voyaging, colonialism, slavery, racism, plants, and environmental exchange. Colonial sciences and medicines were important militarily and strategically for positioning emerging nation states in global struggles for land and resources.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 344:
Narrative Knowing (PHIL 344)
Philosophers and historians have been debating the status of narrative explanation for well over 50 years. Until quite recently, a supposed dichotomy between natural science and history has shaped the discussion. Beginning from the origins, history, and limitations of the dichotomy, this seminar will explore how claims for narrative understanding and explanation have come to occupy an increasingly important role in the natural sciences as well as the social sciences. Some classic contributors are Hempel, Danto, Mink, Kuhn, White, Ricouer, Geertz, and Ginzburg. Current authors include Roth, Rheinberger, Kitcher, Beatty, Morgan, and (yes) Wise.
Last offered: Autumn 2014
| Units: 1-2
HISTORY 344F:
Beyond Pink and Blue: Gender in Tech (FEMGEN 344F, HISTORY 244F)
This d-school seminar prototypes concepts and methods for "inclusive" design. From the moment we arrive on the planet, gender shapes our perception of the world. Examples of products (including objects, services, and systems) gone awry will serve as prompts for design activities, challenges, and discussions on gender issues to illustrate the different needs of women, men, and gender-fluid people. Class sessions mix use case explorations with design methodology, design thinking abilities, and guest speakers from technology, design, and academia. Students will be asked to work in interdisciplinary teams on several design challenges, culminating in the development of a toolkit for inclusive design. Methods will interact in crucial ways to create "intersectional thinking" (i.e., to consider how gender, ethnicity, sexuality, socio-economic status, etc. work together to require new solutions in design). Topics include: algorithms, media, seat belts for pregnant women, robotics, assistive technologies, tech for developing worlds, video games, urban/rural design, software development, and many more.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 345A:
Africa in the Era of the Slave Trade
The slave trade, including the trans-Saharan, Indian Ocean, and trans-Atlantic trades, constituted nearly a millennium of interaction with the wider world and set in motion transformations in African societies, polities, and cultures. Topics include the debates about slavery in Africa, the impact of the slave trade on African societies, state formation, economic change, religious change, and household change in the period before the scramble for Africa in the late 19th century.
Last offered: Winter 2016
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 345B:
African Encounters with Colonialism
This colloquium is a broad sweep of some of the main themes in the history of the colonial period for Africa. A course of this nature can not help but be a selective sample of the field. For example, topics on the end of slavery in Africa, on the social history of law in colonial Africa, Islam and religious conversion, nationalism and decolonization are not included here because they are covered by more specialized courses. This course is designed to let students sample different approaches to the history of the colonial period.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 346:
The Dynamics of Change in Africa (AFRICAST 301A, HISTORY 246, POLISCI 246P, POLISCI 346P)
Crossdisciplinary colloquium; required for the M.A. degree in African Studies. Open to advanced undergraduates and PhD students. Addresses critical issues including patterns of economic collapse and recovery; political change and democratization; and political violence, civil war, and genocide. Focus on cross-cutting issues including the impact of colonialism; the role of religion, ethnicity, and inequality; and Africa's engagement with globalization.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 347J:
History and Memory in Africa (HISTORY 247J)
Scholars, like the English social historian H. Trevor-Roper and the philosopher-historian Georg Hegel, once denied that Africa even had a history worth telling. We know better. Rich accounts of African pasts have been constructed by historians who pioneered linguistics, oral tradition and folklore research, documentary analysis, archaeology, and other methods. At the same time, Africans' own accounts of the past are often passed down through memories and commemorations that are shared, disputed, and memorialized within their communities. In many cases, historians and African communities manage to work together to construct shared understandings of the past, but sometimes their interpretations conflict with each other. In this course, we will look at the ways that history and memory overlap in Africa, beginning with the Atlantic slave trade and focusing on two particular events -- the Ethiopian victory over Italy at the Battle of Adwa and the abortive 19th century West African attempt to construct an independent state known as the Fante Confederation. We will work with all kinds of primary sources from the past as well as music videos, architecture, documentaries, official celebrations, museum exhibitions, and performances to construct arguments that take into account methodology, ethics, and philosophy within and beyond the discipline of history.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 348D:
Law and Colonialism in Africa (HISTORY 245G)
Law in colonial Africa provides an opportunity to examine the meanings of social, cultural, and economic change in the anthropological, legal, and historical approaches. Court cases as a new frontier for the social history of Africa. Topics: meanings of conflicts over marriage, divorce, inheritance, property, and authority.
Last offered: Autumn 2012
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 351A:
Core in American History, Part I
May be repeated for credit.
Last offered: Autumn 2015
| Units: 4-5
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
HISTORY 351B:
Core in American History, Part II
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
HISTORY 351C:
Core in American History, Part III
Last offered: Winter 2016
| Units: 4-5
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
HISTORY 351D:
Core in American History, Part IV
May be repeated once for credit.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
HISTORY 351E:
Core in American History, Part V
Required of all first-year United States History Ph.D. students. Topics in Twentieth Century United States History.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
HISTORY 351F:
Core in American History, Part VI
Required of all first-year Ph.D. students in U.S. History.
Last offered: Spring 2016
| Units: 4-5
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
HISTORY 352B:
History of American Law (HISTORY 152)
(Formerly Law 318. Now Law 3504.) This course examines the growth and development of American legal institutions with particular attention to crime and punishment, slavery and race relations, the role of law in developing the economy, and the place of lawyers in American society, from colonial times to the present. Special Instructions: Any student may write a paper in lieu of the final exam with consent of instructor. After the term begins, students accepted into the course can transfer from section (01) into section (02), which meets the R requirement, with consent of the instructor. Elements used in grading: Final exam or paper. Automatic grading penalty waived for writers. Cross-listed with History (HISTORY 152 Consent of instructor required) & (HISTORY 352B).
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
HISTORY 353D:
Approaches to American Legal History
(Same as LAW 651.) Legal history may once have been primarily devoted to exploring legal doctrines and key judicial opinions, and thus to be of interest mainly to legal scholars and lawyers. Now, the best writing in legal history resembles historical writing more generally, and the study of legal ideas and practices is increasingly integrated with social, intellectual, cultural, and political history. Examines recent writings in American legal history, ranging broadly across time and space to ask how the field reflects developments in historical writing more generally, and how the use of legal materials affects our understanding of major aspects of American history.
Last offered: Autumn 2009
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 353F:
Thinking the American Revolution (HISTORY 253F)
No period in American history has generated as much creative political thinking as the era of the American Revolution. This course explores the origins and development of that thought from the onset of the dispute between Great Britain and its American colonies over liberty and governance through the debates surrounding the construction and implementation of the United States Federal Constitution. Readings will principally be based in primary sources with some weeks supplemented by secondary sources.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 354:
Law, Slavery, and Race (AFRICAAM 254D, CSRE 154D, HISTORY 254D)
(Same as LAW 747.) This course will explore the interaction of law, slavery and race in the United States, as well as from a comparative perspective. We will read original documents, including excerpts of trial transcripts, appellate opinions, treatises, codes, and first-person narratives. We will study the way law, politics and culture interacted to shape the institution of slavery and the development of modern conceptions of race. Course lectures and discussions will focus on questions such as: Did different legal regimes (Spanish, French, British) foster different systems of race and slavery in the Americas? How did/does law work "on the ground" to shape the production of racial hierarchy and creation of racial identities? In what ways did slavery influence the U.S. Constitution? How has race shaped citizenship in the U.S., and how can we compare it to other constitutional regimes? The course will begin with the origins of New World slavery, race and racism, and move chronologically to the present day.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 5
HISTORY 354D:
Religion and War in America (AMSTUD 105R, CSRE 105, HISTORY 154D, RELIGST 105)
Scholars have devoted much attention to wars in American history, but have not agreed as to whether religion was a major cause or simply a cover for political, economic, and other motives. We will compare interpretations that leave religion out, with those that take it into account. We will also look at the impact of war on the religious lives of ordinary Americans. We will examine both secondary as well as primary sources, beginning with King Philip's War in the 17th century, and ending with the "War on Terror" in the present day.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
HISTORY 355D:
Racial Identity in the American Imagination (AFRICAAM 255, AMSTUD 255D, CSRE 255D, HISTORY 255D)
From Sally Hemings to Barack Obama, this course explores the ways that racial identity has been experienced, represented and contested throughout American history. Engaging historical, legal and literary texts and films, this course examines major historical transformations that have shaped our understanding of racial identity. This course also draws on other imaginative modes including autobiography, memoir, photography and music to consider the ways that racial identity has been represented in American society. Most broadly, this course interrogates the problem of American identity and examines the interplay between racial identity and American identity. This course moves along both chronological and thematic axes to investigate the problems of racial mixture, mixed-race identity, racial passing and racial performance across historical periods. Themes of ambiguous, hidden and hybrid identity will be critical to this course. This course will also explore the interplay of the problems of class, gender and sexuality in the construction of racial identity.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 356G:
Constructing Race and Religion in America (CSRE 246, HISTORY 256G, RELIGST 246, RELIGST 346)
This seminar focuses on the interrelationships between social constructions of race, and social interpretations of religion in America. How have assumptions about race shaped religious worldviews? How have religious beliefs shaped racial attitudes? How have ideas about religion and race contributed to notions of what it means to be "American"? We will look at primary and secondary sources, and at the historical development of ideas and practices over time.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 357:
Was the American Revolution a Social Revolution? (HISTORY 257)
What kind of a revolution was the American Revolution? The revolution gave colonial Americans political independence from Britain to found the United States. But did the revolution also transform American society in its wake? This course explores how historians and historical participants alike have answered this question paying attention to historical changes (or lack thereof) that took place in American society between c. 1750-1820 as well as grappling with what conceptually constitutes a "social" revolution in the first place.
Last offered: Autumn 2015
| Units: 5
HISTORY 358:
Sexual Violence in America (AFRICAAM 192, AMSTUD 258, CSRE 192E, FEMGEN 258, FEMGEN 358, HISTORY 258)
This undergraduate/graduate colloquium explores the history of sexual violence in America, with particular attention to the intersections of gender and race in the construction of rape. We discuss the changing definitions of sexual violence in law and in cultural representations from early settlement through the late-twentieth century, including slavery, wartime and prison rape, the history of lynching and anti-lynching movements, and feminist responses to sexual violence. In addition to introducing students to the literature on sexual violence, the course attempts to teach critical skills in the analysis of secondary and primary historical texts. Students write short weekly reading responses and a final paper; no final exam; fifth unit research or CEL options.nnLimited enrollment, permission of instructor required. Submit application form (available in course syllabus or History department main office, 200-113) by November 15, 2016 and indicate interest in CEL option. Priority admission to History, FGSS, CSRE, AFRICAAM, and AMSTUD declared majors and minors. (Cardinal Course certified by the Haas Center)
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 359D:
From Colony to Empire: America and the World in the Long Eighteenth Century (HISTORY 259D)
At the start of the eighteenth century, European empires claimed much of North America. By the century's close, however, thirteen colonies had become a republic and began to build an empire of their own. This course explores the relationship of America and empire in a globalizing world. We will follow the movement of people, money, and ideas across North America and the Atlantic Ocean through the Seven Years' War, plantation slavery, westward expansion, and Indian removal.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 359E:
American Interventions, 1898-Present (HISTORY 259E, INTNLREL 168A)
This class seeks to examine the modern American experience with limited wars, beginning with distant and yet pertinent cases, and culminating in the war in Iraq. Although this class will examine war as a consequence of foreign policy, it will not focus primarily on presidential decision making. Rather, it will place wartime policy in a broader frame, considering it alongside popular and media perceptions of the war, the efforts of antiwar movements, civil-military relations, civil reconstruction efforts, and conditions on the battlefield. We will also examine, when possible, the postwar experience.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
HISTORY 362G:
The Pivotal Decade in U.S. History: 1960's or 1970's?
Which had more lasting impact, the civil war of the 1960s or the conservative revolt of the 1970s? Should the 1970s supersede the 1960s as a pivotal moment when something happened of considerable importance to historians? Considers this debate of the decades comparatively and thematically, addressing topics including civil rights, foreign policy, electoral politics, popular culture, law, economics, labor, and social movement organizing.
Last offered: Spring 2013
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 365:
Writing Asian American History (AMSTUD 265, ASNAMST 265, HISTORY 265)
Recent scholarship in Asian American history, with attention to methodologies and sources. Topics: racial ideologies, gender, transnationalism, culture, and Asian American art history. Primary research paper.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 5
HISTORY 366B:
Immigration Debates in America, Past and Present (CSRE 166B, HISTORY 166B)
Examines the ways in which the immigration of people from around the world and migration within the United States shaped American nation-building and ideas about national identity in the twentieth century. Focuses on how conflicting ideas about race, gender, ethnicity, and citizenship with respect to particular groups led to policies both of exclusion and integration. Part One begins with the ways in which the American views of race and citizenship in the colonial period through the post-Reconstruction Era led to the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882 and subsequently to broader exclusions of immigrants from other parts of Asia, Southern and Eastern Europe, and Mexico. Explores how World War II and the Cold War challenged racial ideologies and led to policies of increasing liberalization culminating in the passage of the 1965 Immigration Act, which eliminated quotas based on national origins and opened the door for new waves of immigrants, especially from Asia and Latin America. Part Two considers new immigration patterns after 1965, including those of refugees, and investigates the contemporary debate over immigration and immigration policy in the post 9/11 era as well as inequalities within the system and the impact of foreign policy on exclusions and inclusions.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 3-5
HISTORY 370:
Graduate Colloquium on Colonial Latin American History
Sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Indigenous cultures. The arrival of Europeans and its impact on native and European societies. Culture, religion and institutions, and everyday life. The independence period and the formation of new nations.
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 370E:
Queer History of the Americas (HISTORY 270E)
This course will examine LGBT history in the Americas. It traces the development of homosexuality as a category of analysis; the construction of trans identity; the ways in which same-sex desire and gender identity were regulated over time; and queer people's struggles for recognition, liberation, and, ultimately, rights.
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 371:
Graduate Colloquium: Explorations in Latin American History and Historiography
Introduction to modern Latin American history and historiography, including how to read and use primary sources for independent research.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 372A:
Mexico: From Colony to Nation or the History of an Impossible Republic?
Was a republican form of government even possible in 19th-century Mexico after 300 years of colonial rule under the Spanish monarchy? Was the Spanish colonial heritage a positive or a negative legacy according to 19th-century Mexican politicians? How were they to forge a new national identity with so many ethnically and culturally diverse peoples throughout the territory? Just how ¿traditional¿ was, in fact, the colonial period? These are some of the questions we will explore in this course. Journeying from the late colonial period (c.1700) to the 35-year dictatorship known as El Porfiriato (1876-1911) we will examine how Mexico¿s diverse indigenous peoples adapted to both colonial and postcolonial rule, how they actively participated in politics and political discourse to preserve their cultures, customs and colonial privileges, and how after independence in 1821, a new republican political culture was forged. Mexico was not an impossible republic, but rather another kind of republic.
Last offered: Spring 2014
| Units: 5
HISTORY 372E:
Theories of Citizenship and Sovereignty in a Transnational Context (AMSTUD 272E, CHILATST 172, CSRE 172H, FEMGEN 272E, HISTORY 272E)
This course explores the multiple meanings of citizenship and the ways in which they change when examined using different geographic scales (from the local to the transnational). The course will pair theoretical readings on citizenship with case studies that focus on North America. Topics include: definitions of citizenship; the interrelation of ideas of citizenship with those of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality; the relationship between sovereignty and territoriality; human and civil rights; and immigration.
Last offered: Autumn 2014
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 373A:
The European Expansion (HISTORY 273)
The relationship between European monarchies and their colonial domains from the 16th-18th centuries. Reasons for expansion, methods, and results. Case studies include the Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, French, and English domains in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Readings include primary and secondary sources.
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 373C:
Caribbean Migration to the United States (HISTORY 273C)
The course will explore the history of Caribbean migration to the United States.
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 373E:
The Emergence of Nations in Latin America: Independence Through 1880 (HISTORY 273E)
This course provides an introduction to the main themes of nineteenth-century Latin American history, including independence from Spain, the emergence of various nation-states, and the development of a new social, political, and economic order in the region
Last offered: Winter 2016
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 374:
Mexico Since 1876: History of a "Failed State"?
(Same as History 174.) This course is an introduction to the history and diverse peoples of modern Mexico from 1876 to the present. Through lectures, discussions, primary and secondary readings, short documentaries, and written assignments, students will critically explore and analyze the multiplicity of historical processes, events and trends that shaped and were shaped by Mexicans over the course of a century. The course will cover some of the social and political dimensions of rural social change, urbanization and industrialization, technological innovation and misuse, environmental degradation and conservation, education, ideology, culture and media, migration, and the drug trade.
| Units: 5
HISTORY 375B:
Borders and Borderlands in Modern Mexico
Surveys the history of Mexico's borders and borderlands from the nineteenth century to the present. Examines theoretical conceptualizations of the borderlands as well as the historical development of identities and geographic borders within and around Mexico. Topics include the legacies of war, map making, the construction of lo Mexicano, the politics of culture, and migrations to, from, and through Mexico. Analyzes the prevailing trends in Mexicanist historiography.
Last offered: Spring 2013
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 375C:
History of Modern Mexico (AMSTUD 275B, CHILATST 275B, CSRE 275B, HISTORY 275B)
Surveys the history of governance, resistance, and identity formation in Mexico from the nineteenth century to the present. Explores Mexico's historical struggles to achieve political stability, economic prosperity, and social justice and examines how regional, class, ethnic, and gender differences have figured prominently in the shaping of Mexican affairs. Topics include Mexico's wars and their legacies, the power of the state, violence and protest, debates over the meaning of "Mexicanness," youth culture, and the politics of indigenismo.
Last offered: Winter 2016
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 376F:
CITY, URBANISATION PROCESSES AND URBAN POLICIES IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Note: Course is taught in Spanish. This course is structured around two key concepts: dependence and irregularity in urban development. This course reviews the urbanisation process and urban policies of Latin America and the Caribbean, exploring their consequences and challenges at the intra-urban level in relation to economic, social and cultural processes. Special attention will be paid to the case of Cuba, a socialist country with its own internal dynamics which is currently undergoing a period of transition.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 378A:
The Logic of Authoritarian Government, Ancient and Modern
If authoritarianism is less economically efficient than democracy, and if authoritarianism is a less stable form of political organization than democracy, then why are there more authoritarian governments than democracies? To address this paradox, focus is on theoretical and empirical literature on authoritarian governments, and related literatures on the microeconomic analysis of property rights and credible commitments.
Last offered: Autumn 2007
| Units: 5
HISTORY 379:
Latin American Development: Economy and Society, 1800-2014 (HISTORY 279)
The newly independent nations of Latin America began the 19th century with economies roughly equal to the U.S. and Canada. What explains the economic gap that developed since 1800? Why are some Latin American nations rich and others poor and how have societies changed over time? Marxist, dependency, neoclassical, and institutionalist interpretive frameworks are explored. The effects of globalization on Latin American economic growth, autonomy, and potential for social justice are examined and debated.
Last offered: Autumn 2014
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 379D:
Modern Brazil: Economy, Society & Culture (HISTORY 279D)
This course addresses the history of modern Brazil from independence in 1822 to the present day. The class focuses on theories of economic development, social structure and change, and cultural life in Brazil's diverse regions.
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 381:
Economic and Social History of the Modern Middle East
The integration of the Middle East into the world capitalist market on a subordinate basis and the impact on economic development, class formation, and politics. Alternative theoretical perspectives on the rise and expansion of the international capitalist market are combined with possible case studies of Egypt, Iraq, and Palestine.
Last offered: Autumn 2015
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 381B:
Modern Egypt (HISTORY 281B)
From the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Topics: European imperialism, the political economy of cotton, rise of nationalism, gender and the nation, minorities, the coup of 1952, positive neutralism and the Cold War, and the neo-liberal reconstruction of Egypt.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 381D:
Shia Islam (HISTORY 281D)
This course explores the history of the Shia tradition from its origins to the present. Drawing on a wide range of sources, students will trace the religious, political, social, and cultural transformations that have shaped Shia communities throughout the Middle East, South and Central Asia, and Africa.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 382:
The United States and the Middle East since 1945 (HISTORY 282)
Since the end of WW II, U.S. interests in the Middle East have traditionally been defined as access to oil at a reasonable price, trade and markets, containing the influence of the Soviet Union, and the security of Israel. Is this the full range of U.S. interests? How has the pursuit of these interests changed over time? What forces have shaped U.S. policy? What is the impact of U.S. policy on the region itself?
Last offered: Winter 2011
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 382C:
Women in the Modern Middle East (HISTORY 282C)
Historical changes in factors structuring women's status and sociopolitical roles: the rise of Islam and Muslim orthodoxy; less formal expressions of women's religiosity and sexuality; the integration of the Middle East into the world market and its effects on women's labor; and social movements concerned with women's status. Case studies of women's participation in anti-colonial revolutions. Sources include historical studies, primary texts, fiction, memoirs, and films.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 382F:
History of Modern Turkey
Social, political and cultural history of Modern Turkey from the last decades of the Ottoman Empire in the late 19th century until Today. Themes include transformation from a multi-national empire to a national republic; Islam, secularism and radical modernism; military, bureaucracy and democratic experience; economic development, underdevelopment and class; Istanbul, Ankara and provincial Turkey; socialism, conservatism(s), and Kurdish challenge; Turkey in Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia; gender, sexuality and family; popular culture, soccer, and film industry; Post-Modernism, Neo-Ottomanism, and the New-Turkey; The class also include reading works of Turkish literature and watching movies by Turkish directors.
Last offered: Autumn 2014
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 382G:
Israel from the Margins
Although secular, European Jews form a minority of the population of the State of Israel, and its history is typically narrated and interpreted from that perspective. Israel looks like a rather different place if it is seen and understood from the point of view of Middle Eastern and North African Jews,including those indigenous to the country before the advent of the modern Zionist movement, orthodox and ultra-orthodox Jews, Palestinian Arabs (nearly twenty percent of Israel's population today), migrant workers (about 200,000), and women. This course does not suggest that their perspectives are necessarily more real or true, only that an understanding of Israel that does not adequately consider them is necessarily false.
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 383:
The New Global Economy, Oil and Origins of the Arab Spring (HISTORY 283)
This class uses the methods of political economy to study the trajectory of global capitalism from the end of World War II to the current phase of neoliberal globalization. The argument is that the role of oil, and its primary repository " the Middle East " has been central in the global capitalist order and that neoliberalism and the oil economy are closely linked to the eruption of the Arab uprisings of 2011.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 383G:
Place, Nature, and Life: Spacetime through Ottoman Texts (HISTORY 283G)
Prerequisite: Reading ability in Ottoman-Turkish and/or Arabic. This course explores how women and men in the early modern Ottoman world (16th to 18th centuries) imagined their physical and spiritual environment, their past and future, their immediate places and far geographies, life and afterlife. The theoretical framework of discussions will be heavily based on Henri Lefebvre's Production of Space and primary readings include various texts in Ottoman-Turkish, such as The Descriptions of Places of Matrakç Nasuh (d.1564) and The Travels of Eviya Çelebi (d.1682). We will also examine the Ottoman-Turkish manuscripts in Green Library.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 384F:
Empires, Markets and Networks: Early Modern Islamic World and Beyond, 1500-1800 (HISTORY 284F)
Focuses on political regimes, economic interactions and sociocultural formations in the early modern Balkans and Middle East to Central and South Asia. Topics include complex political systems of the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires; experiences of various Muslim, Christian, Jewish and Hindu, as well as urban, rural and nomadic communities; consolidation of transregional commerce and cultural exchange; incorporation of the Islamic world in the global economy; transimperial networks of the Muslim and Non-Muslim merchants, scholars and sufis.
Last offered: Autumn 2014
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 385A:
Core Colloquium in Jewish History, 17th-19th Centuries (JEWISHST 385A)
Last offered: Autumn 2015
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 385B:
Graduate Colloquium in Modern Jewish History (JEWISHST 385B)
Instructor consent required.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 385C:
Jews in the Contemporary World: Faith and Ethnicity, Vulnerability and Visibility (CSRE 185B, HISTORY 185B, JEWISHST 185B, REES 185B)
(Same as HISTORY 85B.) This course explores the full expanse of Jewish life today and in the recent past. The inner workings of religious faith, the content of Jewish identify shorn of belief, the interplay between Jewish powerlessness and influence, the myth and reality of Jewish genius, the continued pertinence of antisemitism, the rhythms of Jewish economic life ¿ all these will be examined in weekly lectures, classroom discussion, and with the use of a widely diverse range of readings, films, and other material. Explored in depth will the ideas and practices of Zionism, the content of contemporary secularism and religious Orthodoxy, the impact Holocaust, the continued crisis facing Israel and the Palestinians. Who is to be considered Jewish, in any event, especially since so many of the best known (Spinoza, Freud, Marx) have had little if anything to do with Jewish life with their relationships to it indifferent, even hostile?
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 385K:
History of Modern Antisemitism: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
The articulations of anti-Jewish hatred from the advent of Jewish emancipation in Europe. The legacy of premodern Christian demonization and its modern protean transformations as they penetrated and annexed new currents of ideology, notions of identity (social, national, racial), taste, and aesthetics. A history of ideas, representations, and stereotypes, and their relation to historical experience, action, and mobilization. Europe is the focus; case studies also include the Middle East and elsewhere.
Last offered: Winter 2009
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 386B:
The Ottoman Empire in the Age of Revolutions, 1750-1850
Investigates the Ottoman World (the Balkans and the Middle East under the Ottoman Empire) in the Age of Revolutions in the global context. While the Ottoman World is the primary interest, developments in Europe, India and China are also discussed in a comparative perspective. Topics include military and fiscal transformation; regionalism; urban life and formations of public spheres; political crisis, social disturbances and political violence; transformation in the ethnoreligious structures, gender relations and family life; protonationalism in the Balkans and Egypt.
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 387C:
Zionism and Its Critics
Zionism from its genesis in the 1880s up until the establishment of the state of Israel in May, 1948, exploring the historical, ideological and political dimensions of Zionism. Topics include: the emergence of Zionist ideology in connection to and as a response to challenges of modernity; emancipation; Haskalah (Jewish enlightenment); other national and ideological movements of the period; the ideological crystallization of the movement; and the immigration waves to Palestine.
Last offered: Spring 2014
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 387K:
Gentlemen and Jews: History of the Jews of England
Focuses on key chapters in the cultural and political histories of Britain and itsnnJews, between 1650 and 1950 and examines the advantages, as well as possible difficulties, that emerge when connecting Anglo-Jewish history to mainstream British history. What is unique about Jewish emancipation in England, and what are its connections to the formation of British national identity? Is there unique path in which Jewish Enlightenment developed in England? What was the contribution of Jews to British Imperialism? Is there a cultural affinity betweennnEnglish philosemitism and liberalism?
Last offered: Spring 2011
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 388:
Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (HISTORY 288, JEWISHST 288, JEWISHST 388)
This course examines some salient issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the late 19th century to the present. At the end of the course you should be able to articulate the positions of the major parties to the conflict, with the understanding that there is no single, unified Zionist (or Jewish) or Palestinian (or Arab) position. One quarter does not allow sufficient time to cover even all of the important topics comprehensively (for example, the role of the Arab states, the USA and the USSR, and the internal history of Israel receive less attention than is desirable). Some prior knowledge of Middle East history is desirable, but not required. Vigorous debate and criticism are strongly encouraged. Criticism and response expressed in a civil tone is an important way to get a fuller and more truthful picture of something. This is not only a fundamental democratic right and a basic citizenship skill, but it is essential to interpreting information and making good policy. Rights not used are easily lost.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 389:
The Indian Ocean World: Winds, Merchants & Empires (HISTORY 289)
Focuses on the Indian Ocean World, a critical historical arena of large-scale cultural and economic contact among societies of South Asia, the Middle East, East and Southeast Asia, and East Africa. We will explore this contact zone chronologically and thematically, examining the influence of environment, the demands of commerce, the bonds of Islam, and the political tensions of empires from medieval to modern times. We will pay particular attention to the networks and individuals that have made up the social fabric of this oceanic world: merchants, pilgrims, smugglers, and laborers. Texts will include scholarly studies as well as travel and fictional accounts.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 390:
North Korea in Historical Perspective (HISTORY 290)
This colloquium will approach North Korea from a longer historical perspective and also discuss the country's current crisis and its future. Themes will include the northern region in colonial Korea, Kim Il Sung and Manchurian guerrillas, the USSR and North Korean Revolution, the reconstruction after the Korean War, Juche ideology and the political system, the everyday life of North Korea people, the Cold War and North Korean diplomacy, culture and mass performance, the great famine and economy in transition, the military and nuclear development, and refugees and the succession of leadership.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 390A:
Major Topics in Modern Chinese History: Qing/Republican Transition
Continuities and discontinuities in society, economy, politics, culture, and thought during the transition from the Qing dynasty to the republic. May be repeated for credit.
Last offered: Spring 2009
| Units: 4-5
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 15 units total)
HISTORY 390E:
Movies and Empire in East Asia (HISTORY 290E)
Cinema was invented in the 1890s and simultaneously introduced to East Asia. This colloquium explores how this new medium changed the cultural and social landscape of East Asia and how the visual power of films also affected the culture politics of empires in the region. The themes include cinema and urban spaces, cultural imperialism, film images and gender discourse, colonial modernity, Americanism and Asianism, the visual and the textual, wartime propaganda, and Hollywood movies and cold war empires.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 391:
East Asia in the Early Buddhist Age
Evolution of cities in imperial China through early imperial, medieval, and early modern periods. Topics include physical structure, social order, cultural forms, economic roles, relations to rural hinterlands, and the contrast between imperial capitals and other cities. Comparative examination of cases from European history.
Last offered: Winter 2007
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 391A:
Archaeology and Modernity in Asia: The Excavation of Ancient Civilizations in Modern Times (HISTORY 291A)
The interplay in Asia between antiquity and modernity, civilization and nation state, and national versus colonial science. The recent excavation of artifacts and places associated with Asian civilization such as the terracotta warriors in China and Angkor Wat in Cambodia. How Asian states have grappled with modernity and colonialism as they simultaneously dug up their ancient pasts.
Last offered: Spring 2007
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 391B:
The City in Imperial China
The evolution of cities in the early imperial, medieval, and early modern periods. Topics include physical structure, social order, cultural forms, economic roles, relations to rural hinterlands, and the contrast between imperial capitals and other cities. Comparative cases from European history. Readings include primary and secondary sources, and visual materials.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 391C:
Early Imperial China
The first millennium of imperial China, what endured over the centuries, and the major changes that took place in the political, social, and intellectual realms. Topics include the evolving geographic and environmental background, cities, the countryside, kinship, relations with the outer world, religion, philosophy,and literature. Also examines the nature of empire as a distinctive political form.
Last offered: Spring 2011
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 391E:
Maps, Borders, and Conflict in East Asia (HISTORY 291E)
The nature of borders and border conflicts in N.E. Asia from the 17th to the early 20th century. Focus is on contact zones between China, Russia, Korea, and Japan. The geopolitical imperatives that drove states to map their terrain in variable ways. Cultural, diplomatic, and imperial contexts. European pressures and contributions to E. Asian cartography; the uses of maps in surveillance, diplomacy, identity, and war. Student projects focus on a contested border zone.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 392B:
Law and Society in Late Imperial China (CHINA 392B)
(Same as LAW 5031.) Connections between legal and social history. Ideology and practice, center and periphery, and state-society tensions and interactions. Readings introduce the work of major historians on concepts and problems in Ming-Qing history.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 392E:
The Historical Roots of Modern East Asia (HISTORY 92A)
Focus is on China and Japan before and during their transition to modernity. The populous, urbanized, economically advanced, and culturally sophisticated Ming empire and Muromachi shogunate in the 16th century when Europeans first arrived. How the status quo had turned on its head by the early 20th century when European and American steamships dominated the Pacific, China was in social and political upheaval, and Japan had begun its march to empire.
Last offered: Winter 2008
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 392F:
Culture and Religions in Korean History (HISTORY 292F)
This colloquium explores the major themes of Korean history before 1800 and the role of culture and religions in shaping the everyday life of Chosôn-dynasty Koreans. Themes include the aristocracy and military in the Koryô dynasty, Buddhism and Confucianism in the making of Chosôn Korea, kingship and court culture, slavery and women, family and rituals, death and punishment, and the Korean alphabet (Hangûl) and print culture.
Last offered: Spring 2015
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 392G:
Modern Korea
Examines seminal works and major historical debates in the study of modern Korea. Topics include the state and society in the Choson dynasty, reform and rebellion in the nineteenth century, colonization, gender and colonial modernity, national identity and assimilation, wartime colonial Korea, decolonization and the North Korean revolution, the Korean War and its aftermath, the Pak Chung Hee regime and labor relations, and democratization.
Last offered: Autumn 2014
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 393A:
State, Society, and Economy in Qing Dynasty China
Historical scholarship on China during the Qing period, including the gentry, civil examinations, and the debate about social mobility; merchants, cities, and the debate about civil society/public sphere; taxation, local security, and famine relief; heterodoxy, collective violence, and rebellion; and rival approaches (neo-Malthusian, neo-conservative, and neo-Marxist) to understanding the high Qing economy.
Last offered: Autumn 2015
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 393B:
Queer History in Comparative Perspective (FEMGEN 293B, FEMGEN 393B, HISTORY 293B)
Comparative history of homoerotic desire, relations, and identity through scholarship on different historical periods and parts of the world: the classical Mediterranean, early modern European cities, late imperial and modern China, Tokugawa and modern Japan, and the U.S.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 393C:
Late Imperial China (CHINA 383C)
A survey of Chinese history from the 11th century to the collapse of the imperial state in 1911. Topics include absolutism, gentry society, popular culture, gender and sexuality, steppe nomads, the Jesuits in China, peasant rebellion, ethnic conflict, opium, and the impact of Western imperialism.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 393E:
Female Divinities in China (HISTORY 293E, RELIGST 257X, RELIGST 357X)
This course examines the fundamental role of powerful goddesses in Chinese religion. It covers the entire range of imperial history and down to the present. It will look at, among other questions, what roles goddesses played in the spirit world, how this is related to the roles of human women, and why a civilization that excluded women from the public sphere granted them a dominant place, in the religious sphere. It is based entirely on readings in English.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 394D:
Manchuria: Cradle of Conflict, Cockpit of Asia (HISTORY 294D)
How did Manchuria become Chinese? This course utilizes the dual waves of early twentieth-century writings and a wide array of recent scholarship dealing with Manchuria to explore the formation of nation-states out of the Qing and Japanese empires in Northeast Asia through the lenses of opium, migration, cities, warlords, and memoir. This course will be of interest to students concerned with developing transcultural understandings of Northeast Asian history.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 395:
Modern Korean History (HISTORY 195)
(Same as HISTORY 95. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 195.) This lecture course provides a general introduction to the history of modern Korea. Themes include the characteristics of the Chosôn dynasty, reforms and rebellions in the nineteenth century, Korean nationalism; Japan's colonial rule and Korean identities; decolonization and the Korean War; and the different state-building processes in North and South, South Korea's democratization in 1980s, and the current North Korean crisis.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
HISTORY 395B:
Early Modern Japan
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 395F:
Race and Ethnicity in East Asia (ASNAMST 295F, HISTORY 295F)
Intensive exploration of major issues in the history of race and ethnicity in China, Japan, and Korea from the early modern period to the present day.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 395J:
Gender and Sexuality in Chinese History (CHINGEN 395, FEMGEN 395J)
Last offered: Spring 2016
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 396D:
Historiography of Modern Japan
Introduces students to the major historical problems and historiographic trends in the study of modern Japan from the Meiji period to the present. Themes include approaches to late Meiji culture and politics, the formation of imperial subjects and citizens, agrarian society and politics, gender in modern Japan, empire and modernity, total war and transwar state and society, U.S. occupation, and postwar Japan.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 397:
The Cold War and East Asia (HISTORY 297)
Explores how East Asia negotiated superpower rivalry and global ideological competition during the Cold War. Considers the ways in which China, Japan, and Korea were more than battlegrounds for US-Soviet contestation and played active roles in defining the nature and dynamics of the conflict. Re-examines conventional narratives and periodizations against alternative conceptual models and interpretive frameworks highlighting the constructed nature of the struggle as well as the role of historical and cultural factors in shaping the East Asian experience.
Last offered: Spring 2014
| Units: 5
HISTORY 398:
Modern China: Intellectual and Cultural History (HISTORY 298)
Besides the infamous 'Cultural Revolution' of the 1960s, modern China experienced at least four other sweeping cultural and intellectual revolutions that students rarely think about: the 1890s, the 1910s, the 1980s, and the present day. This course charts major historical transformations in modern Chinese cultural and intellectual history, examining a time when China was flooded with a dizzying array of new isms," including feminism, liberalism, realism, anarchism, fascism, individualism, pragmatism, communism, socialism, and more. Come join the discussion. May be repeat for credit
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
HISTORY 399A:
Preparing for International Field Work: Public Service or Research (HISTORY 299X)
Open to students in all classes, those planning internships abroad and those planning research, from juniors with honors theses and sophomores with Chappell Lougee grants to freshmen thinking ahead. Introduces resources on campus for planning international research and service. Raises issues that need to be considered in advance of going abroad: ethical concerns, Human Subjects Protocol, networking, personal safety and gender issues, confronting cultural differences. Exposes students to research methods: case studies, interviewing, working in foreign libraries and archives.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
HISTORY 399E:
Preparing for International Field Research: Public Svc or Research, Electronic Version
Restricted to students studying at a Stanford Overseas Studies campus; same course content as HISTORY 299X. Problems involved in research abroad: ethical issues; safety; security and conduct; human subjects protocol. Methodologies of research: interviewing, networking, case studies, participant observation, large surveys. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Last offered: Spring 2012
| Units: 1
HISTORY 399P:
Archives-Based Teaching Practicum
Through hands-on exercises and key readings, students will learn about basic archival handling techniques, usage guidelines, security issues, principles of archival organization, and bibliographic literacy around archival and Special Collections materials, along with an insiders tour of Stanford University Special Collections. During the second, students will partake in a hands-on session using Special Collections materials, with a class session enactment that demonstrates the program¿s concepts. Note: Enrollment only open to PhD students (ANY department) with instructor permission required.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
HISTORY 399T:
Tough Questions (HISTORY 299T)
A H&S initiative course.
| Units: 1
HISTORY 399W:
Graduate Directed Reading
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-10
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Baker, K. (PI);
Batinic, J. (PI);
Beinin, J. (PI);
Bernstein, B. (PI);
Buc, P. (PI);
Burns, J. (PI);
Camarillo, A. (PI);
Campbell, J. (PI);
Carson, C. (PI);
Chang, G. (PI);
Como, D. (PI);
Crews, R. (PI);
Daughton, J. (PI);
Dorin, R. (PI);
Duus, P. (PI);
Findlen, P. (PI);
Frank, Z. (PI);
Freedman, E. (PI);
Gienapp, J. (PI);
Griffiths, F. (PI);
Hanretta, S. (PI);
Herzog, T. (PI);
Hobbs, A. (PI);
Holloway, D. (PI);
Jolluck, K. (PI);
Kennedy, D. (PI);
Klein, H. (PI);
Kollmann, N. (PI);
Kumar, A. (PI);
Lewis, M. (PI);
Lougee, C. (PI);
Miller, K. (PI);
Minian Andjel, A. (PI);
Moon, Y. (PI);
Morris, I. (PI);
Mullaney, T. (PI);
Naimark, N. (PI);
Naranch, B. (PI);
Nirei, Y. (PI);
Press, S. (PI);
Proctor, R. (PI);
Rakove, J. (PI);
Rakove, R. (PI);
Riskin, J. (PI);
Roberts, R. (PI);
Robinson, P. (PI);
Rodrigue, A. (PI);
Satia, P. (PI);
Schiebinger, L. (PI);
Sheehan, J. (PI);
Sheffer, E. (PI);
Sommer, M. (PI);
Stokes, L. (PI);
Trumper, C. (PI);
Uchida, J. (PI);
Van Slyke, L. (PI);
Weiner, A. (PI);
White, R. (PI);
Wigen, K. (PI);
Winterer, C. (PI);
Wolfe, M. (PI);
Yaycioglu, A. (PI);
Zipperstein, S. (PI)
HISTORY 401A:
Spatial History: Concepts, Methods, Problems (HISTORY 201B)
What can digital mapping and spatial analysis bring to history? How have historians written spatial history in the past? How do scholars in other disciplines deal with space and what can we learn from them? The course provides students with conceptual and technical skills in spatial history. As part of the exercise to think spatially about the past, students will receive training in Geographic Informational Science (GIS) and develop their own spatial history projects. No prior technical skills are needed for this course.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 401B:
Spatial History, Part II
Prerequisite: 401A.
Last offered: Winter 2009
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 402:
Graduate Research Seminar: Early Modern History
Students may research any aspect of late medieval or early modern history, c. 1350-1800. Focus on early modern Europe, but open to students in all fields of late medieval/early modern history. Students wishing to take this seminar must enroll in History 307C (The Global Early Modern) or History 333 (From Reformation to Civil War: England under the Tudors and Stuarts) in Winter 2017.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 406:
Graduate Research Seminar on Colonial Law
Prerequisite: HISTORY 306G.
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 414A:
Medieval History
Last offered: Winter 2008
| Units: 4-5
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
HISTORY 414B:
Medieval History
Last offered: Spring 2008
| Units: 4-5
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
HISTORY 421A:
Early Modern Russia
Last offered: Spring 2009
| Units: 4-5
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
HISTORY 422A:
Research Seminar on the History of the Russian Empire
Last offered: Spring 2006
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 422B:
Research Seminar in Imperial Russia
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 424A:
The Soviet Civilization (HISTORY 224A, REES 224A)
Socialist visions and practices of the organization of society and messianic politics; the Soviet understanding of mass violence, political and ethnic; and living space. Primary and secondary sources. Research paper or historiographical essay.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 424B:
The Soviet Civilization, Part 2 (HISTORY 224D)
Prerequisite: HISTORY 224A/424A
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 424C:
The End of Communism in Europe
Causes, course, and consequences.
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 430:
Graduate Research Seminar: Early Modern Europe
Prerequisite: HISTORY 302B. Students may research any aspect of late medieval, Renaissance, and early modern history, ca. 1300-1800. Students wishing to take this seminar must enroll in HISTORY 302B (Coffee, Sugar, and Chocolate: Commodities and Consumption, 1200-1800) in Winter 2016.
Last offered: Spring 2016
| Units: 4-5
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
HISTORY 430A:
Graduate Research Seminar: Early Modern Europe
Students will begin a research project on any aspect of early modern European history, 1400-1800, by taking HISTORY 430A in winter quarter as the first quarter of this two-quarter sequence. Enrollment by permission of instructor.
Last offered: Winter 2011
| Units: 3-5
HISTORY 431:
Early Modern Things
How do objects reveal their histories? What can be learned about the past by studying things? The material culture of early modern Europe, ca 1450-1750. Recent work on the circulation, use, and consumption of things, starting with the Columbian exchange which expanded the material horizons of the early modern world in the late 15th century, exploring challenges to the meaning of things in the age of the Reformation and Scientific Revolution, and ending with the birth of consumer society in the 18th century How did the meaning of things and people's relationships to them change over these centuries? What objects, ordinary and extraordinary, secular and sacred, natural and man-made, came to define the emerging features of the early modern world?
Last offered: Winter 2010
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 431A:
European Security during the Cold War (HISTORY 231A, POLISCI 216A, POLISCI 416A)
During the Cold War two highly armed military blocs confronted each other in the center of Europe. What role did they play in the Cold War? How dangerous was their confrontation? This seminar will use archival materials from Britain, France, Germany, the Soviet Union to explore the US-Soviet rivalry in Europe, the politics of the two alliances, the role of nuclear weapons, the crises that took place, and the ending of the Cold War in Europe.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 431B:
European Security during the Cold War (HISTORY 231B, POLISCI 216B, POLISCI 416B)
Prerequisite: HISTORY 231A/431A. During the Cold War two highly armed military blocs confronted each other in the center of Europe. What role did they play in the Cold War? How dangerous was their confrontation? This seminar will use archival materials from Britain, France, Germany, the Soviet Union to explore the US-Soviet rivalry in Europe, the politics of the two alliances, the role of nuclear weapons, the crises that took place, and the ending of the Cold War in Europe.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 432A:
The Enlightenment (DLCL 324, FRENCH 244, HISTORY 234, HISTORY 334, HUMNTIES 324)
The Enlightenment as a philosophical, literary, and political movement. Themes include the nature and limits of philosophy, the grounds for critical intellectual engagement, the institution of society and the public, and freedom, equality and human progress. Authors include Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Hume, Diderot, and Condorcet.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
HISTORY 432B:
Grad Research Seminar: The Enlightenment, Pt. II
Prerequisite: Completion of HISTORY 234, 334 or 432A.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 433A:
Research Seminar in Modern Europe
Students will complete an article-length research paper based on primary sources.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| Repeatable
for credit
HISTORY 433B:
Research Seminar in Modern Europe
Prerequisite: HISTORY 433A.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
HISTORY 433F:
Graduate Research Seminar: The Scientific Revolution, Part II
Prerequisite: Completion of HISTORY 232F, 332F, or 432F.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 438:
European History Workshop
All European history graduate students in residence register for this weekly workshop, at which dissertation chapters and prospectuses, papers, and grant proposals by students and faculty are read and discussed.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
6 times
(up to 6 units total)
HISTORY 439A:
Graduate Research Seminar: Modern Britain and the British Empire
Last offered: Autumn 2007
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 439B:
Graduate Research Seminar: Modern Britain and the British Empire II
Last offered: Winter 2008
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 443A:
Human Origins: History, Evidence, and Controversy (HISTORY 243S)
Research seminar. Debates and controversies include: theories of human origins; interpretations of fossils, early art, and the oldest tools; the origin and fate of the Neanderthals; evolutionary themes in literature and film; visual rhetoric and cliché in anthropological dioramas and phyletic diagrams; the significance of hunting, gathering, and grandmothering; climatological theories and neocatastrophic geologies; molecular anthropology; the impact of racial theories on human origins discourse. Background in human evolution not required.
Last offered: Winter 2006
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 444:
Graduate Research Seminar: Gender in Science, Medicine, and Engineering (FEMGEN 444)
Theory and practice of gender in STEM. 1. "Fix the Numbers of Women" focuses on increasing women's participation; 2. "Fix the Institutions" promotes gender equality in careers through structural change in research organizations; 3. "Fix the Knowledge" or "gendered innovations" stimulates excellence in science and technology by integrating gender analysis into research. Seminar explores harnessing the creative power of gender analysis to enhance knowledge and spark innovation.
Last offered: Autumn 2014
| Units: 5
HISTORY 444C:
The History of the Body in Science, Medicine, and Culture (HISTORY 244C)
The human body as a natural and cultural object, historicized. The crosscultural history of the body from the 18th century to the present. Topics include: sciences of sex and race; medical discovery of particular body parts; human experimentation, foot binding, veiling, and other bodily coverings; thinness and obesity; notions of the body politic.
Last offered: Spring 2007
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 445A:
Research Seminar in African History
Primary sources such as government records and missionary archives. Students present work in progress. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Last offered: Winter 2014
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 445B:
Research Seminar in African History
Primary sources such as government records and missionary archives. Students present work in progress. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Last offered: Spring 2014
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 448A:
Colonial States and African Societies, Part I (HISTORY 248S)
Colonialism set in motion profound transformations of African societies. These transformations did not occur immediately following military conquest, nor did they occur uniformly throughout the continent. This research seminar will focus directly on the encounter between the colonial state and African societies. The seminar will examine problems of social transformation, the role of the colonial state, and the actions of Africans. Following four weeks of collloquim style discussion, students then embark on independent research on the encounter between one colonial state and its constituent African societies.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 448B:
Colonial States and African Societies, Part II (HISTORY 249S)
Second part of the research seminar offered in the Winter. Students continue their research and present their penultimate drafts in week 8.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 459A:
Grad Research Seminar in U.S. History
Last offered: Autumn 2014
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 460:
Research Seminar in America in the World
Ways to place American history in an international context. Comparative, transnational, diplomatic, and world systems are approaches to complete a research paper based on research into primary materials. Historical methodologies, research strategies, and essay projects. May be repeated for credit.
Last offered: Winter 2016
| Units: 4-5
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
HISTORY 461A:
Research Seminar on the Histories of Women, the Family, and Sexuality
Research design, research methods, and historical writing on topics in the histories of women, the family, or sexuality in the U.S. Prepares graduate students for dissertation work. Workshop model involves exchanging preliminary prospectus, outline, writing sample, and draft for peer responses. Article-length original paper based on primary sources, to be completed by the end of Spring Quarter.
Last offered: Winter 2011
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 461B:
Research Seminar on the Histories of Women, the Family, and Sexuality, Part II
Prerequisite: 461A.
Last offered: Spring 2011
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 469A:
Graduate Research Seminar: American Capitalism
Graduate students are invited to write a research paper on the history of American capitalism, broadly defined. Methodologies may include but are not limited to cultural, economic, intellectual, or social history.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 469B:
Graduate Research Seminar: American Capitalism
Prerequisite: HISTORY 469A. Graduate students are invited to write a research paper on the history of American capitalism, broadly defined. Methodologies may include but are not limited to cultural, economic, intellectual, or social history.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 471A:
Environmental History of Latin America
What role did the natural environment play in the emergence of Latin America as a distinct geographical and socio-cultural world region? How do we analyze the historical relationship between the regions rich and seemingly abundant natural resources and its status as underdeveloped? What historical consequences did this relationship have and what alternative, more sustainable developmental paths can we envision for the future in light of the past that we will study? In this course, students will become familiar with the historiography on Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Cuba and Honduras that has explored these questions through a variety of approaches, methodologies and points of view.
Last offered: Autumn 2013
| Units: 5
HISTORY 471B:
Environmental History of Latin America
What role did the natural environment play in the emergence of Latin America as a distinct geographical and socio-cultural world region? How do we analyze the historical relationship between the region's rich and seemingly abundant natural resources and its status as 'underdeveloped'? What historical consequences did this relationship have and what alternative, more sustainable developmental paths can we envision for the future in light of the past that we will study? In this course, students will become familiar with the historiography on Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Cuba and Honduras that has explored these questions through a variety of approaches, methodologies and points of view.
Last offered: Winter 2014
| Units: 5
HISTORY 477:
Graduate Research Seminar: Migration (FEMGEN 477)
The course explores the major trends in Latin American migration to the United States. At the end, students will write a publishable research paper on any topic related to migration worldwide.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 477B:
Graduate Research Seminar: Migration
Prerequisite: History 477. The course explores the major trends in Latin American migration to the United States. At the end, students will write a publishable research paper on any topic related to migration worldwide.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 478:
The Ethical Challenges of Climate Change (HISTORY 278S)
This course explores the ethical challenges of climate change from historical, social, economic, political, cultural and scientific perspectives. These include the discovery of global warming over two centuries, the rise of secular and religious denialism and skepticism toward the scientific consensus on it, the dispute between developed and developing countries over how to forge a binding global agreement to mitigate it, and the "role morality" of various actors (scientists, politicians, fossil fuel companies, the media and ordinary individuals) in the US in assessing ethical responsibility for the problem and its solutions.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 481:
Research Seminar in Middle East History (JEWISHST 287S, JEWISHST 481)
Student-selected research topics. May be repeat for credit
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
HISTORY 481A:
Research Seminar in Middle East History
Terms: Sum
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 486A:
Graduate Research Seminar in Jewish History (JEWISHST 486A)
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 486B:
Graduate Research Seminar in Jewish History (JEWISHST 486B)
Prerequisite: HISTORY 486A.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 491A:
Modern Korea Research Seminar
This graduate seminar prepares students to undertake research using Korean-language sources on a variety of themes in modern Korea. Students will identify characteristics of major online and offline archives in Korean studies, learn essential skills in investigating primary sources, and analyze selected sample documents in class.
Last offered: Spring 2016
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 491B:
Modern Korea Research Seminar
This graduate seminar prepares students to undertake research using Korean-language sources on a variety of themes in modern Korea. Students will identify characteristics of major online and offline archives in Korean studies, learn essential skills in investigating primary sources, and analyze selected sample documents in class.
Last offered: Winter 2014
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 492:
Society in Ancient and Medieval China
Proseminar on conducting research in ancient or medieval China. Focus is on the theme of the emotions of the period. Sources include theoretical and comparative materials in secondary literature and primary sources. Students present research paper to class.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 492B:
Origins of Technical Medicine in the Han Dynasty
How medicine as a technical, text-based art monopolized by specialists was established under the Han Dynasty in competition with practices aimed at nourishing life and securing longevity.
Last offered: Winter 2015
| Units: 4-5
| Repeatable
for credit
HISTORY 494A:
Graduate Research Seminar: Modern South Asia, Part I
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 494B:
Graduate Research Seminar: Modern South Asia, Part II
Prerequisite: HISTORY 494A.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 495A:
Qing Legal Documents (CHINA 495A)
(Same as LAW 5037.) How to use Qing legal documents for research. Winter: sample documents that introduce the main genres including: the Qing code and commentaries; magistrates' handbooks and published case collections; and case records from Chinese archives. Spring: class meets occasionally; students complete research papers. Prerequisite: advanced reading ability in Chinese.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 495B:
Qing Legal Documents (CHINA 495B)
How to use Qing legal documents for research. Winter: sample documents that introduce the main genres including: the Qing code and commentaries; magistrates' handbooks and published case collections; and case records from Chinese archives. Spring: class meets occasionally; students complete research papers. Prerequisite: advanced reading ability in Chinese.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 496A:
Research Seminar in Chinese History
First part of a two part sequence. Primary sources and research methods to be used in the study of modern Chinese history.
Last offered: Winter 2016
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 496B:
Research Seminar in Chinese History
Second part of a two part sequence. Primary sources and research methods to be used in the study of modern Chinese history. Prerequisite: HISTORY 496A.
Last offered: Spring 2016
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 497A:
Maps and Gazetteers as Sources for East Asian History
For graduate students of early modern or modern East Asia. Includes weekend workshop on Chinese historical GIS with Harvard's Peter Bol. Students work with the Stanford Spatial History Lab to develop analytical techniques. Prerequisite: background in GIS.
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 497B:
Maps and Gazetters as Sources for East Asian History, Part 2
Prerequisite: HISTORY 497A.
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 498D:
Japanese Imperial Archives, Part 2
Second part of a two-quarter research graduate seminar on Japanese imperialism in Asia. Students complete research papers based on research conducted for History 498C; the class meets occasionally to report on progress and discuss working drafts. Prerequisite: History 498C.
Last offered: Spring 2015
| Units: 4-5
HISTORY 499X:
Graduate Research
Units by arrangement. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-10
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Baker, K. (PI);
Beinin, J. (PI);
Bernstein, B. (PI);
Buc, P. (PI);
Burns, J. (PI);
Camarillo, A. (PI);
Campbell, J. (PI);
Carson, C. (PI);
Chang, G. (PI);
Como, D. (PI);
Crews, R. (PI);
Daughton, J. (PI);
Duus, P. (PI);
Findlen, P. (PI);
Frank, Z. (PI);
Freedman, E. (PI);
Gienapp, J. (PI);
Griffiths, F. (PI);
Hanretta, S. (PI);
Herzog, T. (PI);
Holloway, D. (PI);
Jolluck, K. (PI);
Kennedy, D. (PI);
Klein, H. (PI);
Kollmann, N. (PI);
Kumar, A. (PI);
Lewis, M. (PI);
Lougee, C. (PI);
Miller, K. (PI);
Minian Andjel, A. (PI);
Moon, Y. (PI);
Morris, I. (PI);
Mullaney, T. (PI);
Naimark, N. (PI);
Nirei, Y. (PI);
Press, S. (PI);
Proctor, R. (PI);
Rakove, J. (PI);
Riskin, J. (PI);
Roberts, R. (PI);
Robinson, P. (PI);
Rodrigue, A. (PI);
Satia, P. (PI);
Schiebinger, L. (PI);
Sheehan, J. (PI);
Sheffer, E. (PI);
Sommer, M. (PI);
Stokes, L. (PI);
Uchida, J. (PI);
Weiner, A. (PI);
White, R. (PI);
Wigen, K. (PI);
Winterer, C. (PI);
Wolfe, M. (PI);
Yaycioglu, A. (PI);
Zipperstein, S. (PI)
HISTORY 802:
TGR Dissertation
Units by arrangement.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 0
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors: ;
Baker, K. (PI);
Beinin, J. (PI);
Bernstein, B. (PI);
Buc, P. (PI);
Burns, J. (PI);
Camarillo, A. (PI);
Campbell, J. (PI);
Carson, C. (PI);
Chang, G. (PI);
Como, D. (PI);
Crews, R. (PI);
Daughton, J. (PI);
Dorin, R. (PI);
Duus, P. (PI);
Findlen, P. (PI);
Frank, Z. (PI);
Freedman, E. (PI);
Gienapp, J. (PI);
Griffiths, F. (PI);
Haber, S. (PI);
Hanretta, S. (PI);
Herzog, T. (PI);
Holloway, D. (PI);
Jolluck, K. (PI);
Kennedy, D. (PI);
Klein, H. (PI);
Kollmann, N. (PI);
Kumar, A. (PI);
Lewis, M. (PI);
Lougee, C. (PI);
Miller, K. (PI);
Minian Andjel, A. (PI);
Moon, Y. (PI);
Morris, I. (PI);
Mullaney, T. (PI);
Naimark, N. (PI);
Nirei, Y. (PI);
Press, S. (PI);
Proctor, R. (PI);
Rakove, J. (PI);
Riskin, J. (PI);
Roberts, R. (PI);
Robinson, P. (PI);
Rodrigue, A. (PI);
Satia, P. (PI);
Schiebinger, L. (PI);
Sheehan, J. (PI);
Sheffer, E. (PI);
Sommer, M. (PI);
Stokes, L. (PI);
Uchida, J. (PI);
Weiner, A. (PI);
White, R. (PI);
Wigen, K. (PI);
Winterer, C. (PI);
Wolfe, M. (PI);
Zipperstein, S. (PI)
