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Following internship work, students complete a research report outlining work activity, problems investigated, key results and follow-up projects. Meets the requirements for curricular practical training for students on F-1 visas. Student is responsible for arranging own internship and faculty sponsorship.

Required of junior History majors planning to write a History honors thesis during senior year. Meets four times during the quarter.

May be repeated for credit.

Prerequisite: Approved petition by the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Petitions to revise or expand work previously done for a history course must be submitted to the Director of Undergraduate Studies for review by the first day of the quarter in which the student intends to revise or expand previous work.

May be repeated for credit.

Explores the global story of the struggle over drugs from the nineteenth century to the present. Topics include the history of the opium wars in China, controversies over wine and tobacco in Iran, narco-trafficking and civil war in Lebanon, the Afghan 'narco-state,' Andean cocaine as a global commodity, the politics of U.S.- Mexico drug trafficking, incarceration, drugs, and race in the U.S., and the globalization of the American 'war on drugs.'

This 1-credit course will introduce students to the functioning of the criminal justice system in the city-states of Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern Italy through an archival approach. Drawing on materials in Stanford's Special Collections, students will trace step-by-step the development of a criminal case, with each course meeting focusing on a specific phase of the legal procedure and its resulting documentation. Along the way, students will receive basic training in the analysis of medieval and early modern handwriting, scribal conventions, and notarial formulas. A basic knowledge of Latin is therefore helpful, though not required.

Can historical thinking produce more humane forms of governance? This course exposes students to the discipline of history as an instrument of policy critique and formulation. Students will pursue their own research projects with the option of creating papers and/or audio/visual products.

Many of the basic commodities that we consider staples of everyday life became part of an increasingly interconnected world of trade, goods, and consumption between 1200 and 1800. This seminar offers an introduction to the material culture of the late medieval and early modern world, with an emphasis on the role of European trade and empires in these developments. We will examine recent work on the circulation, use, and consumption of things, starting with the age of the medieval merchant, and followed by the era of the Columbian exchange in the Americas that was also the world of the Renaissance collector, the Ottoman patron, and the Ming connoisseur. This seminar will explore the material horizons of an increasingly interconnected world, with the rise of the Dutch East India Company and other trading societies, and the emergence of the Atlantic economy. It concludes by exploring classic debates about the "birth" of consumer society in the eighteenth century. How did the meaning of things and people's relationships to them change over these centuries? What can we learn about the past by studying things? This course requires a permission number to enroll. Please reach out to Professor Findlen at pfindlen@stanford.edu to request permission to enroll in the course.