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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.
Terms: Aut | Units: 2
Instructors: Mancall, M. (PI)

HISTORY 12N: The Early Roman Emperors: HIstory, Biography, and Fiction (CLASSHIS 37N)

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.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors: Saller, R. (PI)

HISTORY 18S: Mobility in France and the Self: People, Products, and Ideas in Motion

Development of the introspective self and the unity of the idea of France through transformations in movement. Early modern to contemporary. Topics include: the journeyman's tour de France; roads; war; the Enlightenment; early modern ocean transport; rural life; cartography; surrealist tourism; and protests. Texts and non-texts, including maps, posters, travel journals, statistics, and fictional works.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5

HISTORY 19SC: Land and Water Policies in the West (ECON 19SC, POLISCI 21SC)

Historical development and current status, with a focus on California. Topics include: the political origins and economic implications of federal laws and programs that define and allocate rights to land and water; competition for resources between cities and agriculture; the history of federal involvement with the West; contemporary policies and controversies regarding resource management, agriculture, water, energy, and environmental quality. Field trip to California's Central Valley and Owens Valley.
Terms: Aut | Units: 2

HISTORY 20Q: Russia in the Early Modern European Imagination

Preference to sophomores. 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: 5 | UG Reqs: WAY-SI, GER:EC-GlobalCom, GER:DB-Hum, Writing 2
Instructors: Kollmann, N. (PI)

HISTORY 20SC: America in Vietnam (POLISCI 20SC)

The American intervention in Vietnam, focusing o:n political motives and moral justifications for intervention; the military and political strategies of counterinsurgency and nation building; the political uses of terror and the mobilization strategies of the Viet Cong and N. Vietnam; and consequences of the war at home, including the draft and the efforts of Congress to devise a constitutional remedy to the problem of unilateral, presidential war making. Readings include Michael Herr and Norman Mailer.
Terms: Aut | Units: 2

HISTORY 22N: Images and Practices of Violence in Early Modern Russian Art and Law

Preference to freshmen. Myths and realities about violence in 15th-17th century Russia. While Muscovy is often considered a brutal and violent state, political ideology stressed piety, judicial practice routinely mitigated sentences, and artistic imagery never depicted graphic violence. Theories of iconography, ritual, and imagery and their reception by beholders; judicial and political practice; political ideology; social behavior; and comparisons to early modern Europe in art, violence, and the law.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors: Kollmann, N. (PI)

HISTORY 34N: The European Witch Hunts

Preference to freshmen. Witch trials, early modern demonology, and historians' interpretations. What was it about early modernity that fueled witch hunting? Forms of the supernatural in history, whether from the ordered world of organized religion, or frightening, uncontrolled, and dangerous. The idea of witchcraft; the fear that some people harm others supernaturally. Reformation era witch hunts conducted in a period of state building and scientific discovery and in violation of extant laws and procedures.
Terms: Win | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI
Instructors: Stokes, L. (PI)

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 38N: The Body

Preference to freshmen. Cultural and social meanings of the body. How medicine, media, law, and culture construct changing ideals of the body. How to apply historical and feminist analyses to understand change and the difference that gender makes in the social and cultural construction of the body. Emphasis is on shifting historical ideals for female and male bodies, and the changing importance of body image in popular culture. Readings include girls' diaries, women's sports, masculinity in the media, sexual violence, and performing the body.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender
Instructors: Freedman, E. (PI)
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