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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
See History 277 for a course description.
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4.00 Credits
American Studies, Environmental Studies Since the OldWorld first encountered the New, a battle has raged over what this New World might become. For some, it meant moral and spiritual rejuvenation. For most, it meant an opportunity to transform material circumstances. At no time have those two visions been compatible, despite the best efforts of artists and scientists to reconcile them. This course is about that battle. It looks specifically at the United States and the attempts to fashion a scientific or aesthetic rationale for the use and abuse of natural resources, to subdue or preserve the wilderness, and to understand the relationship between humans and nature.
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4.00 Credits
American Studies, Environmental Studies, Social Policy This course investigates the history of Americans' interaction with their environment from roughly 1890 to the present. It considers how the role of the federal government has changed from the "conservation" to the "environmental" eras, wthe Dust Bowl occurred, how chemical warfare changed the life span of bugs, whether wilderness should be central to the environmental movement, and other topics that address how we live in the world. Readings draw from both primary and secondary historical sources.
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4.00 Credits
GSS Women make history, as historical actors and as historians. This course considers the "woman question" in the medical, legal, religious, and political discourses of the early modern period through processes such as the centralization of European states, Protestant and Catholic reformations, explorations, and colonial settlement. Course readings examine how social, economic, and other material circumstances shaped the history of working and bourgeois women. Where possible, the course focuses on women's cultural production-literary, musical, and artistic-andserves as an opportunity to reflect upon the history of women's studies, both as a field of inquiry and as an academic institution.
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4.00 Credits
American Studies, Environmental Studies, Social Policy This course examines the period from the late 1930s until the early 1950s. During this period, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, America and its Allies fought and won a global war, and the United States dropped the atomic bomb and launched the nuclear arms race, and finally entered into a Cold War with the Soviet Union that shaped political and cultural life at home and abroad. Questions explored include: Why did the United States drop the atom bomb on Japan? How did the military planning for World War II shape the Cold War? What roles are played by propaganda and pop culture in setting the national agenda?" Students take advantage of the archival resources of the Roosevelt Library and the Cold War International History Project. Students select a research topic early in the semester and based on primary and secondary sources produce a journal-length article.
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4.00 Credits
Africana Studies, GSS, Human Rights, SRE A study of African American women's ideas about slavery, race, color, anger, class, work, suffrage, resistance, gender and sexuality, marriage, motherhood, charity, religion and spirituality, Africa (imagined), and escape. Essayists such as Patricia Hill Collins, Audre Lord, and Alice Walker are read first, and their methodologies are then used to guide the class through an exploration of primary sources. Students work chronologically from the mid-19th to mid-20th century, always across the discipline, using letters, fiction, institutional documents, music, art, and film to approach this subject.
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4.00 Credits
American Studies, SRE This course provides an opportunity for students to pursue specialized study and research in American urban history. Topics include urban space and its meanings, urban planning and design, new urbanism, suburbanism, the postmodern city, urban politics, urban infrastructure, and urban culture, among others. Students initially consider a common set of readings having to do with urban historiography; the focus then shifts to individual student research projects, and the literature and methods informing them.
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4.00 Credits
Anthropology, Asian Studies, Human Rights Bastille Day, the U.S. presidential inauguration, Japan's celebration of victory in the Russo- Japanese War, and rallies at Nuremberg and at Tiananmen Square: in all these forms and many others, political ritual has been central to nationbuilding, colonialism, and political movements over the last three centuries. This course uses a global, comparative perspective to analyze the modern history of political ritual. Students explore the emergence of new forms of political ritual with the rise of the nation-state in the 19th century and track global transformations in the performance of politics as colonialism spread the symbols and pageantry of the nation-state. Central topics include state ritual and the performance of power, the relationship between ritual and citizenship in the modern nation-state, the ritualization of politics in social and political movements, and the role of mass spectacle in the construction of both fascism and state socialism.
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4.00 Credits
This course is not a comprehensive history of the British Empire, but an attempt to examine the concept of imperialism in its many guises- as a cluster of historically identifiable ideologies and as a possible mode of analysis in the study of history. It focuses primarily on the political, economic, and cultural relations between Great Britain and its non-European subject peoples in the period since the American Revolution.
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4.00 Credits
Human Rights, SRE Human migration predates recorded history. For the purpose of this course, however, students concentrate on the age of modernity, roughly between 1850 and the present day, which is defined, in part, by the increased volume and speed of people's movement. Rather than focus on immigration, the course concerns itself with the experiences of moving through space and across cultures. Articles, primary source documents, film, and photography are enlisted to better understand the impact of movement on the identity of individuals and communities and whether that impact is historically significant. Has it made any difference whether people migrated voluntarily or not? Have migrating peoples thought differently of their identities before and during their journey? These and other questions are considered.
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