|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
3.00 Credits
D. Robinson This course has a dual focus: China's internal development during this period and its complex interaction with the newly dominant powers of the West and Japan. The course begins with the prosperous "high Qing," and then turns to the tumultuous Taiping rebellion of the mid-19th century and the political, military, and social changes it engendered. Then the Chinese efforts to meet the challenges of the new world order first through a Confucian revival and later through embracing Western technology and ideas are examined. The class traces the development of the Chinese Communist party and the KMT, warlordism, China's involvement in World War II, and the founding of the People's Republic of China. The course concludes with a look at the effects of the economic and political reforms of the past two decade
-
3.00 Credits
D. Robinson This course traces the origins and impact of the greatest land empire in history. Late in the 12th century, Ghenghis Khan unified the steppe and assembled an awesome military force. During the next decades, the Mongols conquered most of Eurasia. Students examine steppe military traditions, relations between the steppe and the sown, and the establishment of the Mongol empire. Drawing on eye-witness accounts, historical chronicles, art, and modern scholarship, the course explores Mongol methods of rulership in the Middle East, East Asia, and Inner Asia and how a century of Mongol domination reshaped world history.
-
3.00 Credits
Staff This course surveys African history to 1880: its peoples and their environments, early Islamic North Africa, Bantu expansion, early states of the northern savannas, the kingdom of Ethiopia, the impact of medieval Islam, Europe's discovery of Africa and the slave trade, and later European missionary and commercial enterprise.
-
3.00 Credits
T. Etefa This study of Africa from 1880 to the present includes the following topics: European settlement in South Africa and Rhodesia/Zimbabwe; background to the scramble for the rest of Africa; partition by the European powers; British, French, Portuguese, and Belgian colonial regimes; nationalist resistance movements; "patrimonial" post-independence regimes and growing resistance to them in the 1990s.
-
3.00 Credits
Staff This course explores three related themes in the modern history of Africa: the production and consumption of alcohol, women's social and political roles, and oral poetry and song. Examination of these themes - one might say, of wine, women, and song - focuses on how people exercise power, either to reinforce existing authority or to defy it. The course looks at how colonial rule and policy on alcohol affected African women in largely patriarchal colonial societies, how alcohol consumption has been tied to official and ceremonial displays of power, and how women (and others) have used song and oral poetry to speak out against injustice and hardship in defiance of social norms and state controls that otherwise silence their voices. Recommended: HIST 200. This course is crosslisted as ALST 384
-
3.00 Credits
T. Etefa This course examines the history of the Darfur crisis. Topics include the people of Darfur, ethnic relations and conflicts, conquest and colonial legacy, Darfur and the Sudan government, the rebels, responses of the Sudan government and Janjaweed, the war, human rights violations, foreign powers, the challenge of humanitarian intervention, and the future of Darfur. Students explore the responsibilities and opportunities we have, as individuals and as a nation, to respond to the refugee migrations, human rights abuses, and genocides that haunted the 20th century and that are beginning to plague the 21st century. The course exposes students to historical causes of the crisis and some of the humanitarian challenges facing the world today. The course also offers multiple frameworks for thinking about what roles we might play in influencing public policy and having an impact on people in need. Through lectures, discussions, group work, paper presentations, film, and guest speakers, students are able to understand and analyze the crisis that the United Nations called "the world's worst humanitarian disaster" and the United States called "genocide
-
3.00 Credits
D. Robinson Selected problems in East Asian history from early modern times to the present. Typical offerings include social history of late Imperial China, chaos and order in early modern Japan, and moments in East Asian history. Prerequisite: one course in Asian history or permission of instructor. Normally offered in the fall.
-
3.00 Credits
B.L. Moore This seminar studies the societies of the former British colonies in the Caribbean in the period from the emancipation of slavery in 1838 to the end of the First World War (1918). It focuses on the transformation and reconfiguration of these societies after slavery consequent on the importation of new ethnic groups, and examines in depth the salience of race, color-class, and culture in determining social status. Social and cultural change consequent on British efforts to "civilize" society through religion and education is analyzed, and inter-ethnic relations resulting from efforts to preserve white minority dominance are examined. This course is crosslisted a s ALST 455 . Normally offered in the fall.
-
3.00 Credits
N. Khan This course covers selected topics in the history of the Middle East from 1600 A.D., including political and social institutions of the Ottoman Empire, European economic and cultural penetration, and the colonialism and nationalisms that developed from 1798. Although the majority of the assigned readings focus on the territories once belonging to the Ottoman Empire, research on Iran and the Persian Gulf as well as some Central Asian and/or North African territories is allowed. Students become familiar with the major historiographical debates in the field and are expected to refer to them in their independent research projects. Prerequisites: HIST 259 or 359, or sufficient documented background to secure the permission of the instructor. Normally offered in the fall.
-
3.00 Credits
Staff This course examines some of the processes by which European colonial, economic, and cultural energies overflowed into the non-Western world in modern times. The response of non-Western societies to European penetration receives equal attention. Each seminar is devoted to the comparative study of a specific issue or problem. Prerequisites: HIST 101 or 102, or permission of instructor; acquaintance with some aspect of Asian or African history is desirable. Normally offered in the fall.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Cookies Policy |
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2025 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|