printer friendly pageHISTORY 263C: Nature's Bounty: Natural Resources and U.S. Political Economy
The United States has long been among the wealthiest countries in the world, and its economic life has been closely tied to natural resource extraction. Taking the relation between these two historical facts as a question to be examined rather than a truism to be repeated, this course considers the histories of fossil fuels, plantation agriculture, farming, forestry, fishing, and nuclear energy as they relate to wealth, poverty, and economic thought.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Adams, B. (PI)
HISTORY 263D: Junipero Serra
Why is Junipero Serra considered a representative figure of California? How have assessments of Serra evolved over the last 200 years? Why does his name appear so often on our campus? In this course we will consider these and other questions in terms of Spanish empire, Native American history, California politics of memory and commemoration, among other approachs. Requirements include weekly reading, class discussion, a field trip to Carmel Mission, short writing assignments, and a formal debate on the ethics naming university or public buildings after historical figures with contested pasts. Taught in English.
Last offered: Autumn 2016
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
HISTORY 264: History of Prisons and Immigration Detention (AMSTUD 264, CSRE 264, HISTORY 364)
This course will explore the history of the growing prison and immigration detention systems in the United States. They will pay particular attention to how they developed and how they affect different populations.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Minian Andjel, A. (PI)
HISTORY 264D: Modern America in Historical Perspective (SIW 185)
Last offered: Autumn 2018
HISTORY 269F: Modern American History: From Civil Rights to Human Rights (HISTORY 369F)
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History 269F is an undergraduate course offered for 5 units;
History 369F is a graduate course offered for 4-5 units.) This focuses on American social justice movements during the years since the passage of landmark civil rights legislation during the 1960s, with particular emphasis on efforts to extend rights to all people.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Carson, C. (PI)
HISTORY 270F: History of the Police in the United States
How did police come to have the power to use violence? Who counts as a police officer and why? Topics include: growth of professional policing, creation of private police forces and vigilantism, slave patrols, political economy of policing, global policing, and cultural depictions of police. The entanglement of race, class, gender, and state power with police work is central.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Adams, B. (PI)
HISTORY 274C: The History of Mexicans and Mexican Americans (CHILATST 274, HISTORY 374C)
This course will explore the history of Mexican migrants and Mexican Americans from 1848 to the present.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Minian Andjel, A. (PI)
HISTORY 278B: The Historical Ecology of Latin America (HISTORY 378)
What role did the natural environment play in the emergence of Latin America as a distinct geographical and socio-cultural world region? How do we analyze the historical relationship between the regions rich and seemingly abundant natural resources and its status as "underdeveloped"? What historical consequences did this relationship have and what alternative, more sustainable developmental paths can we envision for the future in light of the past that we will study? In this course, students will become familiar with the historiography on Latin America (with emphasis on Mexico) that has explored these questions through a variety of approaches, methodologies and points of view.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Wolfe, M. (PI)
HISTORY 279: Latin American Development: Economy and Society, 1800-2014 (HISTORY 379)
The newly independent nations of Latin America began the 19th century with economies roughly equal to the U.S. and Canada. What explains the economic gap that developed since 1800? Why are some Latin American nations rich and others poor and how have societies changed over time? Marxist, dependency, neoclassical, and institutionalist interpretive frameworks are explored. The effects of globalization on Latin American economic growth, autonomy, and potential for social justice are examined and debated.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
Instructors:
Frank, Z. (PI)
HISTORY 280B: The Birth of Islam: Authority, Community, and Resistance (GLOBAL 134, GLOBAL 234, HISTORY 380B)
This course explores the historical problem of how authority and community (in both the political and religious sense) were defined and challenged in the early Islamic period. Chronological topics covered include: the political, cultural, and religious world of Late Antiquity into which Muhammad was born; the crystallization of a small community of believers who supported Muhammad's message of radical monotheism and aided him in the conquest and conversion of the Arabian Peninsula; the problems of legacy and leadership in the community of the faithful after Muhammad's death; the Arabo-Islamic conquests beyond Arabia during the 7th and early 8th centuries and the establishment of the first Islamic empire under the rule of the Umayyad clan; the Sunni/Shi'a split (and further splits in Shi'ism); the revolution of 750 A.D. and overthrow of the Umayyads by the 'Abbasids; the flourishing of a sophisticated world of learning and culture under the 'Abbasids; and the waning of the 'Abbasids empire in the tenth century and political reconfiguration of the Islamic lands.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Izzo, J. (PI)
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