printer friendly pageHISTORY 257C: LGBT/Queer Life in the United States (FEMGEN 140D, FEMGEN 240D)
An introductory course on LGBT social, cultural, and political history in the United States. This course explores how categories of sexuality have changed over time, with particular emphasis on the relationship among homosexuality, heterosexuality, and transgenderism. Students will analyze how the intersections of race, class, and sexuality influenced the constitution of these categories and the politics of social relations. Historical and literary sources will be used to examine changes in LGBT experiences and identities, primarily in the twentieth century.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-Gender, WAY-SI, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Davies, A. (PI)
HISTORY 258: Topics in the History of Sexuality: Sexual Violence (AMSTUD 258, CSRE 192E, FEMGEN 258, FEMGEN 358, HISTORY 358)
Recent historical interpretations of sexual violence, with particular attention to the intersections of gender and race in the construction of rape, from early settlement through the twentieth century. Topics include the legal prosecution of rape in Early America; the racialization of rape in the U.S.; lynching and anti-lynching in the U.S.; and feminist responses to sexual violence.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Freedman, E. (PI)
HISTORY 258D: School: What Is It Good For? (EDUC 207)
Focus is on authors who establish claims that the purposes, functions, impacts, and social roles of schooling promote human capital, citizenship, social reproduction, values transmission, social mobility, class equality, racial equality, social stratification, disciplinary power, and the pursuit of individual interests. Historical and sociological approaches.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Labaree, D. (PI)
HISTORY 258E: History of School Reform: Origins, Policies, Outcomes, and Explanations (EDUC 220D)
Required for students in the POLS M.A. program; others welcome. Focus is on 20th-century U.S. Intended and unintended patterns in school change; the paradox of reform that schools are often reforming but never seem to change much; rhetorics of reform and factors that inhibit change. Case studies emphasize the American high school.nnThis course is required for POLS students pursuing the PreK-12 concentration.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Labaree, D. (PI)
HISTORY 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 269: History of Capitalism (HISTORY 369)
What is capitalism? An economic and social system that maximizes both individual freedom and social good? An exploitative arrangement dependent on the subordination of labor to capital? A natural arrangement guided by a munificent invisible hand? Or a finely tuned mechanism requiring state support? We will study the history of debates about markets and social organization, taking capitalism as both an economic system and a culture. Focus on American and British writers including Keynes, Lippmann, Hayek, Rand, Schumpeter, and Friedman.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Burns, J. (PI)
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