printer friendly pageHISTORY 6N: Utopia: History of Nowhere Land
What would the perfect society be? How would work be organized, and education, honor and profit be distributed? How would children be raised, and who would govern? Such questions have engaged philosophers, revolutionaries, and dreamers in every historical age. Examines utopian literature from ancient Greece through the modern age, focusing on the early modern period.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Stokes, L. (PI)
HISTORY 7S: The Age of Discovery: Maritime Imperialism and Science, 1400-1850
Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, and British voyages of trade, exploration and science. The voyages of Zheng He, Da Gama, Magellan, Cook, Malaspina, Darwin. Topics include: developments in maritime technology during this period; the interrelationship between science and empire in the early modern world; non-European accounts of the Age of Discovery with examples from Japan, Malacca, and E. Africa; and changing perspectives on exploration and explorers, using Columbus and Zheng He as comparisons.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Aranda, M. (PI)
HISTORY 10A: Europe from Antiquity to 1500
(Same as
History 110A. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 110A.) Focus is on religion and politics. Issues include: the rise of Christianity and its impact on Rome; transformations of Catholicism and its institutions including the impact of barbarian tribes and the struggle between church and state; antisemitism, heresy, Crusades, and inquisition; courtly love; and scholasticism.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Buc, P. (PI)
HISTORY 10B: Early Modern Europe
(Same as
HISTORY 110B. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 110B.) Survey of early modern European history from the Reformation through the Enlightenment. Topics include religious war, state building and revolt, exploration and colonialism, gender and society.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI, GER:EC-GlobalCom, GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Stokes, L. (PI)
HISTORY 13N: Slavery and Rebellion in Ancient Rome: Spartacus in Legend and History (CLASSHIS 23N)
Preference to freshmen. Spartacus and his army of slaves resisted the power of the Roman legions for two years and became the stuff of legend. Introduction to Roman history. Slavery in ancient Rome in its psychological, social, and economic dimensions. Causes of Spartacus' rebellion; how the traumatic end of the rebellion gave rise to a legend popularized in Stanley Kubrick's 1960 film.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Saller, R. (PI)
HISTORY 14N: The Crusades
What were the European crusades? How can we explain this phenomenon, which mobilized entire societies for holy wars against pagans, Muslims, heretics, and sometimes bad kings? Was religion the main motivator, or should one factor in economics and political ambitions? How did European minorities, including Jews, fit within this phenomenon? Was there a difference between crusading warfare and ordinary warfare?
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Buc, P. (PI)
HISTORY 20A: Russian Civilization from Beginnings to the Enlightenment
(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: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Kollmann, N. (PI)
HISTORY 20Q: Russia in the Early Modern European Imagination
Preference to sophomores. The contrast between the early modern image of Europe as free, civilized, democratic, rational, and clean against the notion of New World Indians, Turks, and Chinese as savage. The more difficult, contemporary problem regarding E. Europe and Russia which seemed both European and exotic. Readings concerning E. Europe and Russia from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment; how they construct a positive image of Europe and conversely a negative stereotype of E. Europe. Prerequisite:
PWR 1.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI, GER:EC-GlobalCom, GER:DB-Hum, Writing 2
Instructors:
Kollmann, N. (PI)
HISTORY 21SC: Celluloid America: Explorations in Film and History
Examination of U.S. history and culture through film, from perspective of the history of film and film representations of U.S. history. Topics include the invention of moving picture technology, the creation of cinema language, the rise and fall of the Hollywood studio system, the emergence and evolution of film genres (westerns, romantic comedies, film noir, science fiction, Blaxploitation), the quest for overseas markets for American movies, race and film, and the future of movies in the digital age.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Campbell, J. (PI)
HISTORY 22N: Crime, Punishment, and Rebellion in Early Modern Russia
Preference to freshmen. Goal is to understand the social values that shaped and moderated violence in Russia and the stresses created by the rise of the early modern state. Rising crime and banditry, corporal and capital punishment, and bloody rebellions as response to the rising demands that the state placed on society. The early modern state-building project, a process of empire building and military reform that required higher taxation and more stringent social control. Forms in which violence erupted in early modern Russia. Causes, the moral economy"of violence and rebellion, and the symbolism of public executions. Readings include law codes, court cases, and studies of rebellions in the time of troubles and in Catherine the Great's time. Violence engendered by religious dissidents in the name of true faith in the late 17th century.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Kollmann, N. (PI)
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