printer friendly pageHISTORY 66: Introduction to African American History - the Modern Freedom Struggle (AFRICAAM 166, AMSTUD 166, HISTORY 166)
Using the unique documentary resources and publications of Stanford's Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute, this course will utilize multi-media materials to shed light on the relationship between grassroots activism and King's visionary leadership.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul
Instructors:
Carson, C. (PI)
HISTORY 69Q: On the Road: A Cultural History of Travel in 20th Century America (AMSTUD 109Q)
From Mark Twain¿s Roughin¿ It to Cheryl Strayed¿s Wild, this seminar explores epic road trips of the twentieth century. Travel is a cultural practice through which Americans have constructed ideas about the self, society, race, the past, and the future. Engaging historical and literary texts, film, autobiography, photography, and music, we will consider how writers have explored the theme of travel and what the differences in their texts tell us about American writing, American history, and American life.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Hobbs, A. (PI)
HISTORY 69S: Race, Science, and Medicine in U.S. History (CSRE 69M, FEMGEN 69S)
How have scientific ideas about race been shaped by their historical contexts, and what effects do these ideas have on people, institutions, law, and medicine? Is racial science always racist science? How do ideas about race intersect with ideas about gender, class, and disability? This course explores how natural philosophers and scientists have defined, used, and sometimes challenged ideas about race from the eighteenth century to today. Topics include medicine and slavery, eugenics, sociology, psychiatry, race-based medicine, and genetic ancestry. This course fulfills the departmental Sources and Methods requirement. Priority given to history majors and minors.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
LeBlanc, H. (PI)
HISTORY 70: Culture, Politics, and Society in Latin America
(Same as
HISTORY 170B. History majors and others taking 5 units, enroll in
HISTORY 170B.) The course of Latin American history from the colonial era to the present day. Key issues such as colonialism, nationalism, democracy, and revolution will be examined critically in light of broad comparative themes in Latin American and world history. Sources include writings in the social sciences as well as primary documents, fiction, and film.
Last offered: Autumn 2014
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 70A: Colonial Latin America, 1400-1830
(Same as
HISTORY170. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for
HISTORY170.) This survey course covers the history of Latin America from 1400 to 1830. Topics covered include Iberian overseas expansion, the conquest of Mexico and Peru, critiques of conquest, indigenous resistance and collaboration; interactions between Europe and the Americas, including the Columbian Exchange, religious syncretism, trans-Atlantic economies, and the role of race and gender in new colonial societies; we will conclude with the Bourbon reforms and the Latin American Wars of Independence.Readings include primary and secondary sources.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
Instructors:
Aranda, M. (PI)
HISTORY 71S: American Political Thought from the Civil War to the Cold War
This course explores America's most important political tradition: liberalism. What does liberalism mean? Does it mean something different today than it did in the past? Using multiple textual and visual sources, students will grapple with how Americans remade liberalism in the 19th and 20th centuries and how political thinkers have understood its meaning over time. We will see how American liberalism was shaped by factors of race, gender, and class and by competing ideologies like conservatism and socialism.
Last offered: Winter 2014
HISTORY 73: Mexican Migration to the United States (HISTORY 173)
This class examines the history of Mexican migration to the United States. In the United States we constantly hear about Obama¿s immigration plan, the anti-immigrant laws in Arizona, and the courage of DREAM Activists; in Mexico news sources speak about the role of remittances, the effect of deportations, and the loss of life at the border. Unfortunately, few people truly understand the historical trends in these migratory processes, or the multifaceted role played by the United States in encouraging individuals to head there. Moreover, few people have actually heard the opinions and voices of migrants themselves. This course seeks to provide students with the opportunity to place migrants¿ experiences in dialogue with migratory laws as well as the knowledge to embed current understandings of Latin American migration in their meaningful historical context.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Minian Andjel, A. (PI)
HISTORY 73S: History of the Police in the United States: Slave Patrols to Ferguson
How did police come to have the power to use violence? Themes: growth of professional policing, creation of private police forces and vigilantism, and public portrayals of police--by Hollywood and the press. The historical relationship between race and the administration of policing is a central question. Students will hone the methodology necessary to examine primary sources such as police memoirs, court records, police files, detective novels, music videos and photographs. The course fulfills the departmental Sources and Methods requirement. Priority given to history majors and minors.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
Instructors:
Adams, B. (PI)
HISTORY 74: Mexico Since 1876: History of a "Failed State"?
This course is an introduction to the history and diverse peoples of modern Mexico from 1876 to the present. Through lectures, discussions, primary and secondary readings, short documentaries, and written assignments, students will critically explore and analyze the multiplicity of historical processes, events and trends that shaped and were shaped by Mexicans over the course of a century. The course will cover some of the social and political dimensions of rural social change, urbanization and industrialization, technological innovation and misuse, environmental degradation and conservation, education, ideology, culture and media, migration, and the drug trade.
HISTORY 74S: Sounds of the Century: Popular Music and the United States in the 20th Century
What can popular music teach us about the pst? What can we learn about music if we study it historically? This course grapples with these two questions by examining various examples of American music in the 20th century, as well as more conventional historical sources, scholarly books, and essays. Will pay special attention to how issues of race, gender, sexuality, class, and nation were reflected in and produced by people's interactions with music, inside and outside American borders.
Last offered: Spring 2014
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