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 9: Human Rights and Humanitarianism: A Global History
(SAME AS
HISTORY 109. History majors and others taking 5 units, enroll in
HISTORY 109.) Do human beings have certain inalienable rights? Are we obliged to help those in need? Examines the historical origins as well as the political, social, economic, legal, and cultural contexts of ideas about human rights and humanitarianism from the time of the Old Testament to the International Criminal Court. Class time will blend short lectures with town hall style discussions of subjects including slavery, torture, colonialism, genocide, and the work of NGO's.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Daughton, J. (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: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Miner, J. (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 sovereignty and the state, courtly life and manners, science and technology, the print and military revolutions, piety and religious practice, popular culture and village life, women and gender, witchcraft and sexual deviance, the rose if international trade, the history of consumption and material things, encounters with non-Western peoples and colonialism, and scholarship and the republic of letters.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Fredona, R. (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.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Daughton, J. (PI)
HISTORY 10SC: Biography in History, Fiction, and Elsewhere
How biographers, novelists, critics and others have written about the rhythms of life ¿ the lives of the famous as well as the obscure - will be explored in this course. Biographical writing can be frivolous, but at its best it has the capacity to undercover so much of life¿s richness, complexity, and confusions. We¿ll study biography with the use of some of the most resonant, compelling examples of the genre. Together we¿ll read books about poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, Henry James¿ Aspern Papers, the brilliant novel on biographical writing, A. S. Byatt¿s Possession, and Norman Mailer on Marilyn Monroe. How one chooses one topic over another; the differences and similarities between the representation of lives in fiction and biography; the benefits and pitfalls of an intense identification with one¿s own subjects ¿ these and other matters will be examined. We¿ll meet in San Francisco with local writers wrestling with issues of this sort, and students will be encouraged to try their hands at writing about lives based on research, personal observation, or both.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Zipperstein, S. (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 (first class day each week), workshops on the use of visualization tools led by expert faculty and staff (second class day of each week), and engage in hands-on application of research concepts and tools with curated primary source materials in supervised lab time. Concludes with presentations and critique of student projects. 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: 1-3
HISTORY 11N: The Roman Empire: Its Grandeur and Fall (CLASSHIS 24N)
Preference to Freshmen. Prerequisite:
IHUM 69A. Explore themes on the Roman Empire and its decline from the 1st through the 5th centuries C.E.. What was the political and military glue that held this diverse, multi-ethnic empire together? What were the bases of wealth and how was it distributed? What were the possibilities and limits of economic growth? How integrated was it in culture and religion? What were the causes and consequences of the conversion to Christianity? Why did the Empire fall in the West? How suitable is the analogy of the U.S. in the 21st century?
Last offered: Spring 2011
| UG Reqs: GER:IHUM-3, WAY-SI
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 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)
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