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Global patterns of demography, economic and social development, geopolitics, and cultural differentiation, covering E. Asia, S. Asia, S.E. Asia, Central Asia, N. Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa. Use of maps to depict geographical patterns and processes.

Patterns of demography, economic and social development, geopolitics, and cultural differentiation. Use of maps to depict geographical patterns and processes.

This course takes students on a trip to major capital cities at different moments in time, including Renaissance Florence, Golden Age Madrid, colonial Mexico City, imperial Beijing, Enlightenment and romantic Paris, existential and revolutionary St. Petersburg, roaring Berlin, modernist Vienna, and transnational Dakar. While exploring each place in a particular historical moment, we will also consider the relations between culture, power, and social life. How does the cultural life of a country intersect with the political activity of a capital? How do large cities shape our everyday experience, our aesthetic preferences, and our sense of history? Why do some cities become cultural capitals? Primary materials for this course will consist of literary, visual, sociological, and historical documents (in translation). No prerequisites.

Today, for the first time in history, a majority of people live in cities. By 2050, cities will hold two-thirds of the world's population. This transformation touches everyone, and raises critical questions. What draws people to live in cities? How will urban growth affect the world's environment? Why are cities so divided by race and by class, and what can be done about it? How do cities change who we are, and how can we change cities? In this class, you will learn to see cities in new ways, from the smallest everyday interactions on a city sidewalk to the largest patterns of global migration and trade. We will use specific examples from cities around the world to illustrate the concepts that we learn in class. The course is intended primarily for freshmen and sophomores.

Modern life is marked by institutions - schools, hospitals, international conglomerates, even prisons - so how did they develop and become so common? Historical archaeology can help us tell a different history of institutions because it combines documents, especially official records, with the material items left behind by the people who lived and worked in the institution. This course uses archaeological case studies to look at the different theoretical frameworks used to explain why institutions exist and how they function. We will also use practical examples to make connections between historical institutions and modern life. For example, what can looking at nineteenth century prison menus tell us about prison or hospital food today? And how can we use the archaeology of institutions to 'read' the Stanford campus? No prior archaeological experience required.

Introduction to interdisciplinary approaches to gender, sexuality, queer, trans, and feminist studies. Topics include social justice and feminist organizing, art and activism, feminist histories, the emergence of gender and sexuality studies in the academy, intersectionality and interdependence, the embodiment and performance of difference, and relevant socio-economic and political formations such as work and the family. Students learn to think critically about race, gender, disability, and sexuality. Includes guest lectures from faculty across the university and weekly discussion sections.

In the 79 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on Japan, nuclear technologies have relied on and exacerbated conditions of insecurity and inequality. Dismissing health and environmental harms as "externalities," security experts have ignored this paradox and instead focused on the future of nuclear warfare. Yet for frontline communities --often Black or Indigenous in the US, and in formerly colonized territories elsewhere --nuclear activities pose a real, ongoing existential threat, not a hypothetical one. From nuclear testing in the Pacific and the deserts of Algeria, Kazakhstan, and the US, to uranium mines in Africa, Aboriginal Australia, and the Navajo Nation, the "security" promised by nuclear weapons involves sacrificing the lives and territories of (some) citizens, reinforcing racial, imperial, and colonial logics of disposability. This course will examine those patterns historically and ethnographically. It will explore how the pursuit of nuclear weapons joined people in otherwise disconnected parts of the world into a common history. For example, uranium extracted in apartheid South Africa was used in weapons tested in the Marshall Islands, dispossessing islanders from their homes; the ships used in these tests were later "decontaminated" in Bay Area naval shipyards, with deadly consequences for neighboring communities of color. It will also explore the differences in nuclear experience that resulted from pre-existing vulnerabilities distinct to each location. Finally, the course will explore how these different communities have sought remediation, compensation, and other forms of reparative justice.

( HISTORY 110B is 5 units; HISTORY 10B is 3 units). Few historical settings offer a more illuminating perspective on our world today than old-regime Europe. Few cast a darker shadow. Science and the enlightened ambition to master nature and society, the emergence of statehood and its grasp for human mobility, bloodshed and coexistence in the face of religious fragmentation, as well as capitalism and the birth of modern finance: this course surveys some of the most consequential developments in European societies between the late fifteenth and the early nineteenth century.

(Same as HISTORY 10C. 110C is 5 units; 10C is 3 units.) 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.