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HISTORY 27S: Life in the Divided City: A History of Postwar Berlin, 1945-2009

Sources such as declarations by the Allies, speeches, Berliners' diaries, novels, examples of East and West Berlin art, popular music ,and film. Topics include the emergence of the Cold War, postwar reconstruction, 60s youth protests in the West, life under Stasi surveillance, the fall of the wall, and historical memory.
Terms: Aut | Units: 5
Instructors: Matro, K. (PI)

HISTORY 30Q: English Society Through Fiction

Preference to sophomores. England from the eighteenth century to the twentieth century through the reading of seven novels ranging from Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews, to Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust. Focus is on the novels themselves and the historical context of the novels to acquire a knowledge of British history over two hundred years.
Terms: Spr | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors: Stansky, P. (PI)

HISTORY 31S: The Renaissance of War: War, Technology, and Art in the High Renaissance

How did the Renaissance contribute to the history of warfare? The Italian Wars (1494-1530) were a critical period of military innovation, laying the foundations for European military advantage. Topics include tactics, grand strategy, and the development of diplomatic system, state-building, and war finance. Also examines the rapid development of field artillery, handguns, new fortifications, and related military technology as well as the intersections with art and literature. Sources include Ariosto, Castiglione, Cellini, Contarini, da Vinci, Guicciardini, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, Vasari.
Terms: Win | Units: 5
Instructors: Brege, B. (PI)

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: Win | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI
Instructors: Como, D. (PI)

HISTORY 34A: European Witch Hunts

(Same as HISTORY 134A. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 134A.) After the Reformation, in the midst of state building and scientific discovery, Europeans conducted a series of deadly witch hunts, violating their own laws and procedures in the process. What was it about early modernity that fueled witch hunting? Witch trials and early modern demonology as well as historians' interpretations of events to seek answers to this question.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI
Instructors: Stokes, L. (PI)

HISTORY 34S: From Tears of Joy to the Reign of Terror: The French Revolution, 1789-1794

How politicians described themselves and each other, and how competing political groups claimed to speak for the people, energized the French Revolution of 1789. Declaring themselves representatives of the people against traitors, royalists, aristocrats, and most of Europe, French politicians destroyed the social order and reformed it with a mixture of bombastic rhetoric and practical solutions. The changing political discourse that first spoke of an ideal community and eventually declared it necessary to kill political opponents.

HISTORY 36N: Gay Autobiography

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
Instructors: Robinson, P. (PI)

HISTORY 39: Modern Britain and the 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: Spr | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: WAY-SI, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP
Instructors: Satia, P. (PI)

HISTORY 40: World History of Science, Technology and Medicine: From Prehistory to the Scientific Revolution

(Same as HISTORY 140. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 140.) The earliest developments in science, the prehistoric roots of technology, the scientific revolution, and global voyaging. Theories of human origins and the oldest known tools and symbols. Achievements of the Mayans, Aztecs, and native N. Americans. Science and medicine in ancient Greece, Egypt, China, Africa, and India. Science in medieval and Renaissance Europe and the Islamic world including changing cosmologies and natural histories. Theories of scientific growth and decay; how science engages other factors such as material culture and religions.
Terms: Win | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
Instructors: Proctor, R. (PI)

HISTORY 41A: The Emergence of Medicine: The Middle Ages and Renaissance

(Same as HISTORY 141A. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 141A.) How did medicine emerge as a distinctive body of knowledge and a profession? The history of medicine from ca. 1000 to 1750. Topics: new ways of examining and treating the body; the religious and cultural significance of disease; the development of hospitals; and the rise of public health systems. Comparison of the status of medicine in Europe and the Islamic world. The work of key figures such as Vesalius and Harvey.
Terms: Win | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors: Findlen, P. (PI)
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