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4.00 Credits
Origins of Zionism in the nineteenth century, Arab-Jewish conflicts in Palestine, emergence of Palestinian nationalism, the formation of the Israeli nation after 1948, and the development of the Palestinian movement. Focus on Palestinian and Israeli society and culture. ( VIII) 133A The Emergence of the Modern Middle East (4). Offers a survey of the history of the Middle East from the nineteenth century to the present time. ( VIII) 133B North Africa Since 1500: Islam and Colonialism (4). Examines the history of the Maghrib (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya) from the time of Ottoman expansion and the Sa'dian and Alawid dynasties in Morocco in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. ( VIII)
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3.00 Credits
134A Africa: Societies and Cultures (4). Introduction to the variety of cultures, political organizations, social structures, and artistic expressions created by Africans over a broad time span. The indigenous development of African societies in distinct regions of the continent. Issues, themes, processes for understanding history of Africa. ( VIII) 134B Modern Africa (4). Explores the last 200 years of history in Africa, from the end of the Atlantic slave trade through colonization to independence. (VIII) 134C Topics in the History of Africa (4). May be repeated for credit as topics vary. ( VIII) 134D Topics in South African History (4). Introduction to important historical events and processes in Southern Africa. Focuses on particular themes and explores how those themes change over time. Topics include: changing ideas about race, the development of class structures, identity formation, the role of gender. ( VIII) 134E History of the African Diaspora (4). Examines the causes and consequences of the multiple diasporas of African peoples since the sixteenth century in the Atlantic world, especially the Americas and Europe. Same as African American Studies 137. HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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3.00 Credits
135B Navigation (4). Explores the basics of oceanography, the evolution of ships and sailing in the ancient Mediterranean world, the North Atlantic, Polynesia, the South China Sea, the Arab Indian Ocean, the global oceanic world, and the discovery of celestial and terrestrial navigation. 135C Exploring the Cosmos (4). After briefly considering the invention of astronomy in antiquity and the Copernican revolution, examines the development of solar science; the triumph of the view of the expanding universe; and a medley of themes in post-1945 astrophysics and cosmology. 135D History of Cartography (4). Examines how technology has assisted in creating visual representations of place, space, and time beginning in ancient Babylonia to the present day. 135E Topics in the History of Science and Technology (4). May be repeated for credit as topics vary. 135F History of Technology (4). Explores the historical and contemporary products and processes that have improved and abused the forces of nature. Examines the earliest technicians, the transmission of technological ideas and practices, and the relationship between society and technological change. HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE
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3.00 Credits
136A The Making of Modern Medicine (4). Examination of medical care in Britain from the 1660 plague to establishment of the National Health Service Act in 1946. Structured around meanings of health and disease, the organization of medicine, and the politics of health care. 136B Race and Medicine (4). Examines racial politics in the development of American medicine from 1870 to 1990s. Racial subordination and the American Medical Association, discrimination in medical education and black medical schools, the National Medical Association, black doctors and war, health care inequities and AIDS. 136D Topics in the History of Medicine and Health Care (4). May be repeated for credit as topics vary. 136E History of Epidemics and Infectious Disease (4). Examines how epidemics tax political, economic, and spiritual resources and challenge prevailing medical theories and practices. Looks at how society has responded to epidemics and disease throughout history, beginning in antiquity and ending in the present.
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4.00 Credits
Requires at least 4,000 words of assigned composition based upon historical works. History majors are given admission priority. Prerequisites: satisfaction of the lower-division writing requirement; junior standing or consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit as topics vary. AMERICAN HISTORY
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3.00 Credits
Growth of a distinctively American society out of the colonial heritage, with emphasis on social and economic bases of culture and politics, sectionalism, industrialization, and the United States as a world power. 140A Early America: 1492-1740 (4). Examines the history of the land that became the first 13 states of the United States, from early attempts at exploration and discovery to the economic growth and demographic heterogeneity that marked the white settlements of the early 1700s. 140B Revolutionary America: 1740-1790 (4). An exploration of why 13 continental colonies, whose commercial and cultural connections with Britain far exceed their interaction with one another, resisted imperial reform after 1763 to the point of war in 1775 and independence the following year. 140C Coming of the Civil War (4). Investigates the social, political, economic, cultural, and constitutional changes that transformed antebellum America and culminated in civil war. 140D Civil War and Reconstruction (4). Focuses upon the social, economic, political, cultural, and constitutional changes that transformed the United States during the Civil War era. 140F The United States in the 1890s (4). A social, cultural, political history of U.S. in 1890s. Topics include racial politics of Jim Crow; Spanish- American War and conquest of the Philippines; "New Women" and genderingof modern culture; rise of cities, urban reform, labor resistance to new capitalist order. 140G The Cold War and After (4). Explores topics in gender, race, and class in American history since 1945, considering politics and popular culture, domestic issues, and foreign policy. Topics include McCarthyism and the civil rights, anti-war, and feminist movements.
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3.00 Credits
142A California in Modern America (4). California as a case study of national trends and as a unique setting: its specific problems and culture. Major themes include: colonization, immigration, race relations, agricultural development, industrialization, urbanization, working class movements, social conflict, and political reform. 142B Topics in American Social and Economic History (4). May be repeated for credit as topics vary.
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3.00 Credits
144A Early American Cultural and Intellectual History (4). Examination of ideas and culture during the early American period, with emphasis on the relationship of ideas to their social, political contexts. From contact to Puritanism to the Revolutionary era, with attention to constructions of class, race, gender. 144B Nineteenth-Century American Cultural and Intellectual History (4). Topics include religious revivals; antislavery thought; theories of the body; Transcendentalism; feminism and suffrage; the meanings of the Civil War; corporatism; realism; forms of racism and nativism. 144C Twentieth-Century American Cultural and Intellectual History (4). Topics include modernism and anti-modernism; Pragmatism; the Harlem Renaissance; theories of sexuality; mass culture and consumer culture; the rise of social science; Marxism; McCarthyism; the civil rights movement; the New Left; feminism, postmodernism. 144F Utopian Experiments in American History (4). Focus on the cooperative dimension of the American experience; the large number of intentional experiments in community living and alternative lifestyles in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Examination of both the ideological foundations of communitarianism and specific historical case studies. Formerly History 142B. 144G Topics in American Cultural and Intellectual History (4). May be repeated for credit as topics vary.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of changes in gender relations and in the conditions of women's lives from the 1700s on. Emphasis on race and class, cultural images of women and men, sexuality, economic power, and political and legal status. 146D Sex in the U.S. to 1860 (4). Perspectives on sexual behavior in colonial and U.S. history to c. 1860. Mainstream and non-mainstream sexual practices, beliefs, identities. Asks why various ideas of sexual behavior developed and how they related to religious, racial, ethnic, political, cultural belief systems. ( VII) 146E Gender in Nineteenth-Century America (4). A social and cultural history of women's lives in nineteenth-century America, examining how racial, sexual, class identities were constructed by women themselves and by their surrounding culture. Topics include slavery, anti-slavery movement, domesticity, experience of the Civil War. ( VII) 146F American Women to 1820 (4). (VII) 146G United States Women: 1820-1980 (4). (VII) 146H Topics in Women and Gender Relations in the United States (4). May be repeated for credit as topics vary. Formerly History 146C. ( VII)
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4.00 Credits
Examines the variety of cultural expressions through which the people who came to inhabit the United States historically signify their collective identities. May be repeated for credit as topics vary. ( VII)
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