printer friendly pageHISTORY 4N: A World History of Genocide
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.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Naimark, N. (PI)
HISTORY 5C: Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives (FEMST 5C, SOMGEN 205)
(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 and labor exploitation, 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 and offers an optional service-learning component.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
HISTORY 10A: Europe from Late Antiquity to 1500
(Same as
History 110A. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 110A.) Course will provide a fundamental understanding of the material civilization, political and legal institutions, and cultural imagination of the Middle Ages, when the fundamental structures of life in Europe were transformed. Students will explore the documents and cultural artifacts of medieval civilization, which remain stunning monuments of perennial importance for understanding how pre-modern human beings grappled with and overcame material hardship, organized their political and economic communities, and led their spiritual and intellectual lives.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Fredona, R. (PI)
HISTORY 10B: From Renaissance to Revolution: Early Modern Europe
(Same as
HISTORY 110B. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 110B.) From 1350 to 1789, Europe went from being a provincial backwater to a new global center of power. This course surveys the profound changes of the period that shape our world today: the spread of humanism and science, religious reformation, new styles of warfare, the rise of capitalism and a new global economy, the emergence of the state, and revolution which sought to overthrow established governments.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Duchacek, S. (PI)
HISTORY 10C: Introduction to 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.
Last offered: Spring 2012
HISTORY 10N: Thinking About War
This course examines some classic approaches to war as an intellectual problem, to how a matter of such great physical violence and passions can be subjected to understanding and used in art, philosophy, or politics. Questions will include the causes of war, its use in self-definition, the problem of civil war, war's relations to political authority, etc. Readings will include extracts from Clausewitz's On War, Sunzi's The Art of War, Herodotus's Histories ,Thucydides's Peloponnesian War, and Caesar's Gallic War.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
Instructors:
Lewis, M. (PI)
HISTORY 10W: Visualizing Evidence
Seeks to advance visual and technical literacy among humanists through directnnengagement with research processes from conception to completion. Students will attend presentations of scholarly work and visualization methods, workshops on the use of visualization tools led by expert faculty and staff, and engage in hands-on application of research concepts and tools with curated primary source materials in supervised lab time. Over the course of the quarter, students will be introduced to a broad range of techniques and technologies, including GIS for geospatial analysis, Tableau for tabular data, and Gephi for network rendering and analysis.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1
Instructors:
Frank, Z. (PI)
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.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 2 units total)
Instructors:
Camarillo, A. (PI)
HISTORY 17N: Intimacy, Secrets and the Past: Biography in History and Fiction (JEWISHST 17N)
Biography is one of the most popular- and controversial- modes of writing about the past and perhaps its greatest draw is in its promise to revel the otherwise sequestered details of life, its everyday secrets otherwise sequestered from view. This, of course, is also at the heart of most modern fiction, and the two modes of writing have many other similarities as well as, needless to say, differences. The rhythms of life writing in biography as well as fiction will be explored in this class, along with the difficulties (factual, ethical, and otherwise) of ferreting out the secrets of individual lives. Among the figures explored in the course will be Sigmund Freud, Sabina Spielrein, Sylvia Plath, Hannah Arendt, and Woody Allen.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Zipperstein, S. (PI)
HISTORY 20A: The Russian Empire, 1450-1796
(Same as
HISTORY 120A. 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: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Kollmann, N. (PI)
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