printer friendly pageHISTORY 120A: Russian Civilization from Beginnings to the Enlightenment
(Same as
HISTORY 20A. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 120A.) Fundamental building blocks of Russian civilization, treated thematically, from the tenth to the eighteenth centuries: religion, art and architecture, literature, social structures, political ideology, and political culture.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Kollmann, N. (PI)
;
Martin, L. (PI)
HISTORY 123: Reform and Revolution in Modern Russia, 1856-2009
The reforms under Alexander II and the autocracy's attempts to modernize and maintain Russia's great power status while curbing liberal and radical forces. The 1917 revolution and the Communist system under Lenin and Stalin. The influence of Marxist ideology through the Gorbachev years. What was Russian about the Soviet Union and what is Soviet about post-Soviet Russia.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Dobczansky, M. (PI)
;
Patenaude, B. (PI)
HISTORY 125: 20th-Century Eastern Europe
Major historical trends in 20th-century E. European history. Empires and national movements. The creation of independent Eastern Europe after WW I; social movements and the emergence of dictatorships and fascism in the inter-war period. WW II, Stalinism, and destalinization in contemporary E. Europe.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Jolluck, K. (PI)
;
Pece, U. (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.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
HISTORY 132A: Enlightenment and the Arts
Gateway course for the History, Literature, and the Arts track of the History major. Novels, poetry, music, paintings, and architecture, and what they reveal about the society that produced them.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Lougee, C. (PI)
;
Taylor, M. (PI)
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: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Como, D. (PI)
;
Lundberg, C. (PI)
HISTORY 134A: The European Witch Hunts
(Same as
HISTORY 34A. 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? Examines witch trials and early modern demonology as well as historians' interpretations of events to seek answers to this question.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Lichtenstein, E. (PI)
;
Stokes, L. (PI)
HISTORY 135: History of European Law, Medieval to Contemporary (HISTORY 335)
From the fall of the Roman Empire to the establishment of the EU. How law changed over time. Sources and nature of law, organization of legal systems, and relationships between law and society, law and lawmaker, law and the legal professions.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Herzog, T. (PI)
;
Brege, B. (TA)
HISTORY 137: The Holocaust (HISTORY 337)
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.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Felstiner, M. (PI)
;
Monkman, L. (PI)
HISTORY 138A: Germany and the World Wars, 1870-1990
Germany's history from Bismarck's wars of unification through the end of the Cold War. The radicalizing relationship between international conflict, social upheaval, and state transformation with a focus on the clashes of the Second Empire, the road to WW I, interwar instability, the rise of Nazism, WW II, the Holocaust, the division of communist E. and capitalist W. Germany, and the fall of the Iron Curtain.
Last offered: Autumn 2008
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
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