printer friendly pageHISTORY 260: California's Minority-Majority Cities (CSRE 260)
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: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-SI, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
McKibben, C. (PI)
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
Instructors:
Rakove, R. (PI)
HISTORY 262E: Atlantic America: Politics, Economics, and Empire
The British North American colonies and their relationship to Africa, Europe, and Latin America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The course focuses on both the connections between Britain's colonies and the rest of the world as well as the ways in which they were similar and different to other European expansion efforts. Topics include ideas about colonization and empire, politics- both local and imperial, state building, economic development, and slavery.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
Instructors:
duRivage, J. (PI)
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
Instructors:
Horn, M. (PI)
HISTORY 266C: 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.
Last offered: Winter 2013
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 281B: Modern Egypt
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: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Beinin, J. (PI)
HISTORY 282F: 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.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
Instructors:
Yaycioglu, A. (PI)
HISTORY 283: The New Global Economy, Oil, and Islamic Movements in the Middle East (HISTORY 383)
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 combined with case studies of Egypt, Iraq, and Palestine.
Last offered: Winter 2009
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
HISTORY 288: Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (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: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Steinfeld, R. (PI)
HISTORY 292D: Japan in Asia, Asia in Japan (HISTORY 392D)
How Japan and Asia mutually shaped each other in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Focus is on Japanese imperialism in Asia and its postwar legacies. Topics include: pan-Asianism and orientalism; colonial modernization in Korea and Taiwan; collaboration and resistance; popular imperialism in Manchuria; total war and empire; comfort women and the politics of apology; the issue of resident Koreans; and economic and cultural integration of postwar Asia.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI, GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
Instructors:
Uchida, J. (PI)
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