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  • HIST 362: African American History 1865-Present

    1.00 Credits
    Willamette University

    This course examines the experience of African Americans in the United States from Reconstruction to the present. Course topics will include Reconstruction, the Jim Crow period, the Great Migration, the urban experience, the Civil Rights Movement, and African American leadership. Offering: Spring Instructor: Eisenberg
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  • HIST 367: The American Revolution

    1.00 Credits
    Willamette University

    This course examines the causes and consequences of the American Revolution. Course materials explore the events of 1763 to 1789 from many different perspectives-as a set of diplomatic and military encounters which fractured a long-standing colonial relationship, as a pivotal moment in the history of Anglo-American political thought, as part of the expansion of a market-oriented economy in North America, and as a socially transformative event in the lives of the laboring men, women, African-Americans, and Native Americans who took part in the war. Students will engage with a wide range of primary and secondary sources which will enable them to assess in what ways the American War for Independence was or was not a revoluntionary war. Offering: Spring Instructor: Cotlar
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  • HIST 370: Renaissance and Reformation

    1.00 Credits
    Willamette University

    Explores the connection between the Italian Renaissance and the Protestant and Catholic Reformations of early modern Europe, paying particular attention to the inter-relationship between politics, learning, and religion that influenced the development and effects of the Renaissance and Reformations. The course will also investigate briefly the late medieval roots of both movements. Offering: Spring Instructor: Petersen
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  • HIST 372: History of Modern Russia

    1.00 Credits
    Willamette University

    The uniqueness of Russian civilization, the Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union. The emancipation period, revolutionary thought and action, the constitutional monarchy, the 1917 revolutions and the establishment of the Soviet regime, the development of agriculture and industry and the evolution of the Communist Party. Offering: Spring Instructor: Smaldone
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  • HIST 373: History of Modern France

    1.00 Credits
    Willamette University

    From the Revolution of 1789 to the present, considering the revolutionary tradition and its impact, and the difficulties of France culturally, socially and economically in making the adjustment to the 20th century. Offering: Alternate years in fall Instructor: Duvall
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  • HIST 377: Chinese Microcosms

    1.00 Credits
    Willamette University

    Chinese Microcosms will take a multi-disciplinary approach to examining Chinese traditional ideas about the structure of the universe and how these cosmological concepts are reflected in important sites from the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties. These sites are referred to as microcosms, or reflections of the structure of the universe in miniature. After a strong grounding in Chinese traditional cosmological models, this course will focus on understanding key examples of microcosms within their imperial ritual sites in Beijing, and the Tibetan Buddhist temple complexes in Beijing and at the Qing imperial summer retreat at Chengde, Hebei province. Mode of Inquiry: Thinking Historically Offering: Spring Instructor: Greenwood
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  • HIST 380: History of Traditional Japan

    1.00 Credits
    Willamette University

    A course on Japanese history from early time to approximately 1800. The primary focus will be on major political and social trends that led to the transformation of the state and society. Attention will also be given to religious belief, rituals, art and literature. Offering: Spring Instructor: Staff
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  • HIST 381: History of Modern Japan

    1.00 Credits
    Willamette University

    This course examines the history of modern Japan from the late Tokugawa period (1800) through the Meiji Restoration (1868) and Japan's first industrial revolution, the rise of militarism and the road to Pearl Harbor, and Japan's remarkable growth and development in the postwar era. The emphasis will be on coming to terms with the nature and process of change in Japan's modern historical experience. Mode of Inquiry: Thinking Historically Offering: Alternate years in fall Instructor: Loftus
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  • HIST 383: Mao's China

    1.00 Credits
    Willamette University

    Examination of the major events which took place during Mao's era, 1949-1976, and political and economic reforms during Deng Xiaoping's era. The issues will be focused on the structure of the CCP, its ideology, its left-oriented policies, its foreign policies and the power struggles within the leadership. Assessment of the role of Mao Zedong will provide a basis for understanding Chinese politics and society. Offering: Fall Instructor: McCaffrey
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  • HIST 390: Germany from Bismarck to Hitler

    1.00 Credits
    Willamette University

    This course surveys the making of modern Germany from the creation of the Hohenzollern Empire under Bismarck until the collapse of the Third Reich in 1945. It examines the key social, economic, cultural, and political developments that led to the Empire's collapse at the end of the First World War, the founding of the Weimar Republic, and the rise and fall of Nazism. General Education Requirement Fulfillment: Writing centered; Fourth Semester Language Requirement Offering: Spring Instructor: Smaldone
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