printer friendly pageHISTORY 150B: 19th-Century America (AFRICAAM 150B, AMSTUD 150B)
(Same as
HISTORY 50B. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 150B.) Territorial expansion, social change, and economic transformation. The causes and consequences of the Civil War. Topics include: urbanization and the market revolution; slavery and the Old South; sectional conflict; successes and failures of Reconstruction; and late 19th-century society and culture.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-SI
HISTORY 150C: The United States in the Twentieth Century (AMSTUD 150C)
(Same as
HISTORY 50C. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 150C.) Major political, economic, social, and diplomatic developments in the U.S. Themes: the economic and social role of government (Progressive, New Deal, Great Society, and Reagan-Bush eras); ethnic and racial minorities in society (mass immigration at the turn of the century and since 1965, the civil rights era of the 50s and 60s); the changing status of women since WW II; shifting ideological bases, institutional structures, and electoral characteristics of the political system (New Deal and post-Vietnam); determinants of foreign policy in WW I and II, and the Cold War.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-SI, GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-EDP
HISTORY 151: The American West (AMSTUD 124A, ARTHIST 152, ENGLISH 124, POLISCI 124A)
The American West is characterized by frontier mythology, vast distances, marked aridity, and unique political and economic characteristics. This course integrates several disciplinary perspectives into a comprehensive examination of Western North America: its history, physical geography, climate, literature, art, film, institutions, politics, demography, economy, and continuing policy challenges. Students examine themes fundamental to understanding the region: time, space, water, peoples, and boom and bust cycles.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Cain, B. (PI)
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Freyberg, D. (PI)
;
Jones, G. (PI)
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Instructors:
Cain, B. (PI)
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Freyberg, D. (PI)
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Jones, G. (PI)
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Kennedy, D. (PI)
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Nemerov, A. (PI)
HISTORY 156: American Economic History (AMSTUD 116, ECON 116)
The American economy from colonial times to the present, illustrating the role of history in economic life. Topics: U.S. economic development in global and comparative context; slavery as an economic system; origins and consequences of the American technology and business organization; economics of the Great Depression and New Deal; post-World War II economic performance and social change. Prerequisite: 1 or 1A.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI, GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul
Instructors:
Wright, G. (PI)
HISTORY 159: Introduction to Asian American History (AMSTUD 159, ASNAMST 159)
(Same as
HISTORY 59. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 159.) The historical experience of people of Asian ancestry in the U.S. Immigration, labor, community formation, family, culture and identity, and contemporary social and political controversies. Readings: interpretative texts, primary material, and historical fiction. (Chang)
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-AmerCul, GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Khor, D. (PI)
HISTORY 165: Mexican American History through Film
Focus is on the 20th century. Themes such as immigration, urbanization, ethnic identity, the role of women, and the struggle for civil rights.
Last offered: Spring 2010
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 166: Introduction to African American History: The Modern African American Freedom Struggle (AFRICAAM 166, AMSTUD 166)
This course is an introduction to African-American Political movements of the period after 1930, with special emphasis on mass protest and civil rights activism as well as leaders such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcom X, Jesse Jackson, and Barack Obama. The lectures will utilize audio-visual materials extensively, and the exams will cover these materials as well as the traditional lectures. In addition to attending lectures, students are encouraged to undertake research projects.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul
Instructors:
Carson, C. (PI)
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Hill, R. (TA)
HISTORY 250A: History of California Indians (CSRE 117S)
Demographic, political, and economic history of California Indians, 1700s-1950s. Processes and events leading to the destruction of California tribes, and their effects on the groups who survived. Geographic and cultural diversity. Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo-American periods. The mission system.
Last offered: Winter 2011
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-EDP
HISTORY 251G: Topics in Constitutional History (AMSTUD 251, POLISCI 222S)
Ideas of rights in American history emphasizing the problem of defining constitutional rights, the free exercise of religion, freedom of expression, and the contemporary debate over rights talk and the idiom of human rights.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul
Instructors:
Rakove, J. (PI)
HISTORY 255E: Education, Race, and Inequality in African American History, 1880-1990 (AFRICAAM 116, CSRE 216X, EDUC 216)
Seminar. The relationship among race, power, inequality, and education from the 1880s to the 1990s. How schools have constructed race, the politics of school desegregation, and ties between education and the late 20th-century urban crisis.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-AmerCul
Instructors:
Gordon, L. (PI)
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