2009-2010 University Catalog archived
Course Descriptions
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HIST 102 - European Civilization, 1789 to the Present
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Winter
Prerequisite: First-year or sophomore standing.The French Revolution and Napoleon, the age of Metternich, the era of nationalism, the rise of socialism, imperialism, and the two world wars.Staff.
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HIST 103 - China: Origins to 20th-Century Reforms
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Fall 2010 and alternate years
China’s history embodies the full range of experience -as domain of imperial dynasties, target of imperial aggression, dissident member of the cold war Communist bloc, and current regional superpower in East Asia. This course tracks these transitions in political and social organization that, among other things, terminated history’s longest lasting monarchical system, ignited two of its largest revolutions, began World War II and produced the most populous nation on earth. A wide range of cultural, political and intellectual stereotypes of China are challenged in the process of exploring its particular historical experience.Bello.
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HIST 104 - Japan: Origins to Atomic Aftermath
FDR: HU, GE4b.
Credits: 3
When Offered: Fall 2011 and alternate years
This course traces the span of Japan’s historical development from its origins through the Cold War, with a special, but not exclusive, emphasis on an environmental perspective. The first half of the course covers the emergence of indigenous Japanese society and its adaptation to cultural and political influences from mainland East Asia, including Buddhism, Confucianism, and Chinese concepts of empire. The second half covers Japan’s successful transition from a declining Tokugawa Shogunate to a modern imperial nation to a reluctant U.S. Cold War ally from the mid?19th to the mid?20th centuries.Bello.
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HIST 107 - History of the United States to 1876
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Fall
The colonial period, the American Revolution, the formation of the Constitution, the rise of parties, western expansion, the slavery controversy, sectionalism, secession, Civil War and Reconstruction.Staff.
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HIST 108 - History of the United States Since 1876
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Winter
Industrialization and urbanization, the closing of the Frontier, the New South, the Gilded Age, Progressivism, World War I, the Twenties, the New Deal, World War II, post-war adjustment and emergence of the Cold War, the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam, Watergate, participation in the world economy, conservative reaction, end of the Cold War.Staff.
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HIST 109 - History of Ancient Egypt
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Fall
The origins of civilization and the Bronze Age ideology; the rise of Dynastic Egypt and its relations with the other African, Near Eastern and Mediterranean states; Pharaonic society, art, literature, and mythology; the New Kingdom, the empire, and the collapse of the Bronze Age system; social, technological, commercial, climatic change and the advent of the Iron Age.Sanders.
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HIST 110 - History of Ancient Greece
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Winter
The formation of the Greek people. Dark, archaic and classical eras. Athens, Sparta and the Persian Wars. Conflict among the city states and the pentecontaetia. Macedonia, Philip and Alexander the Great. Alexander’s successors, the Hellenistic kingdoms and their relations with Rome, Greece and the Roman Peace.Sanders.
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HIST 111 - Seminar: History of Ancient Rome
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Winter
Early Italy and the Etruscans. The rise of the Roman Republic, the conflict of the orders and the political unification of Italy. The wars with Carthage and the Hellenistic kingdoms. Civil War and the reign of Augustus. The Imperial peace, the spread of Christianity, and the problem of decline and fall.Sanders.
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HIST 114 - Seminar: The World of Dante
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Spring 2012
A reading of Dante’s Divine Comedy in the context of the emergence of Renaissance art and culture in Florence, and the church-state conflicts and scholastic culture of his time.Peterson.
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HIST 115 - The Machiavellian Moment
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 4
When Offered: Spring
Prerequisite: HIST 100, 101 or permission of the instructor. Is it better to be loved or feared? How much of our destiny can we control? When are societies fit for self-government? When and how must people be forced to be good? Niccolò Machiavelli, the first and most controversial modern political theorist, raises issues of universal human and political concern. Yet he did so in a very specific context–the Florence of the Medici, Michelangelo and Savonarola–at a time when Renaissance Italy stood at the summit of artistic brilliance and on the threshold of political collapse. This course draws on Machiavelli’s personal, political, historical and literary writings, and readings on history and art, as a point of entry for exploring both the Italian Renaissance and perennial issues in politics and history such as the corruption and regeneration of societies.Peterson.
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HIST 130 - Latin America: Mayas to Independence
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Fall
An introduction to the “Indian” and Iberian people active from Florida to California through Central and South America between 1450 and 1750.Carey.
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HIST 131 - Modern Latin America
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Winter
Surveys the history of Latin American nations from independence to the present. Covers social, cultural, economic, and political history in diverse countries and regions. Topics include nation-state formation, export economies, liberalism and neoliberalism, gender relations, race and ethnic divisions, science and technology, labor movements, popular culture, military dictatorships, civil wars, environmental change, and globalization.Carey.
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HIST 150 - Seminar in American History for First-years and Sophomores
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Spring 2011
An investigation of selected American presidents from 1789 to 1865. An introduction to methods of researching and writing American history. Class discussion of assigned reading and term papers.Merchant.
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HIST 156 - Seminar in East Asian History for First-years and Sophomores
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Spring 2011
This course explores special topics in China’s late imperial period (960-1911) through a variety of media, including scholarly monographs, film, and material culture.Bello.
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HIST 170 - History of Islamic Civilization I: Origins to 1500
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Fall
This course surveys the political, social, and cultural history of the Islamic World from the 7th to 15th centuries, with particular attention paid to the diverse geographical and cultural contexts in which pre-modern Islamic civilization flourished. Topics include the origins of Islam in late Antiquity; the development of Islamic religious, political, and cultural institutions; the flourishing of medieval Islamic education, science, and literature; the tension among state, ethnic, sectarian, and global Muslim identities; and the emergence of a distinctly Muslim approach to historiography.Hatcher.
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HIST 171 - History of Islamic Civilization II: 1500 to the Present
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Winter
This course surveys the political, social, and cultural history of the Islamic World from the 16th to 21st centuries, with particular attention paid to the diverse experiences of the various regions that make up the Islamic world. Topics include the emergence of the early modern centralizing states in Iran, Turkey, India, and elsewhere; the spread of Islamic religious and political practices in Africa and Asia; the colonial and post-colonial confrontation between the Islamic World and Europe; and the evolution of new political, cultural, and intellectual movements as Muslim nations in the context of globalization.Hatcher.
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HIST 175 - History of Africa to 1800
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Fall 2010 and alternate years
Examination of the history and historiography of Africa from the origins of humankind to the abolition of the trans- Atlantic slave trade. Topics include human evolution in Africa, development of agriculture and pastoralism, ancient civilizations of the Nile, African participation in spread of Christianity and Islam, empires of West Africa, Swahili city-states, and African participation in the economic and biological exchanges that transformed the Atlantic world.Jennings.
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HIST 176 - History of Africa Since 1800
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Winter 2011 and alternate years
Examination of the history and historiography of Africa from the abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the present. Topics include precolonial states and societies, European colonial intrusions and African responses, development of modern political and social movements, decolonization, and the history of independent African nation-states during the Cold War and into the 21st century.Jennings.
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HIST 190 - Bibliographical Resources
Credits: 1
When Offered: Fall
Corequisite: Enrollment in a history course requiring a research paper.An introduction to bibliographical tools and their use, including finding aids to the historical literature of various countries and periods. Most class meetings and assignments take place in the first half of the term in order to permit completion of a specialized bibliography essential to the preparation of the research paper in the corequisite course. Degree credit is given for only one 190 course, regardless of academic discipline. Directed by the history faculty and the library staff.
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HIST 195 - Topics in History for First-years and Sophomores
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
Selected topic or problem in history. May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different.
Topics for Winter, 2010:
HIST 195A: World History Since 1300 (3). History of humanity from the Mongol conquests to the present. Focus on large-scale transformation, cross-cultural interaction, and the relationship between human history and natural history. Equal emphasis on Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. (HU, GE4b) Jennings
HIST 195B: The Diplomatic History of East Asia (3). This course introduces students to the social, political, economic and diplomatic history of East Asia. It traces historical developments from pre-colonial origins to the present, and raises questions about European diplomacy in Asia. Student readings include classic works of East Asian history which focus on four periods: pre-colonial, European colonialism, Cold War, and recent East Asian history. (HU, GE4b) Yamamoto
Topic for Fall, 2009:
HIST 195: World History to 1300 (3). An integrated, coherent approach to the story of humanity from its origins and evolution to the Mongol conquests. We focus on major turning points, large-scale transformations, and the ways in which interactions between human communities produced both integration and divergence. We view world history as essentially polycentric and cosmopolitan, placing equal emphasis on Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. (HU, GE4b) Jennings
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HIST 200 - Seminar: The Sea Peoples and the Collapse of the Bronze Age
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 4
When Offered: Spring, 2010
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and successful completion of HIST 109, 110, or 111. The crucial period encompassing the collapse of the Bronze Age in the Levant and in Greece saw the fall of powerful kingdoms (the Myceneans, the Hittites, individual states on the Syrian coast) and the weakening of the Egyptian Old Kingdom. A long dark age followed. When the dust cleared new peoples and states emerged on the scene (Hebrews, Assyrians, Philistines, Phoenicians, Phrygians, Dorian Greeks, etc.) The causes of the crisis are still hotly debated as is the chronology of the period. The era, which also saw the fall of Homer’s Troy, played a key role in later foundations myths (Greek, Italian, North African, even British). This course focuses on the various historical controversies that vie to explain the problem (climate change, system collapse, changes in military technology, disease, barbarian raids, piracy, “failure of nerve,” etc.)Sanders.
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HIST 201 - Europe in the Early Middle Ages, 325-1198
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Fall 2011
Examines, through lectures and discussions, the culture and society of late Roman antiquity, the rise of Christianity and the formation of the Western church, Europe’s relations with Byzantium and Islam, Germanic culture, monasticism, Charlemagne’s empire, the Vikings, feudalism, manorialism, agriculture and the rise of commerce, gender roles and family structures, warfare and the Crusades, the growth of the papacy and feudal monarchies, the conflict between church and state, the revival of legal studies and theology, and the development of chivalric and romantic ideals in the cultural renewal of the 11th and 12th centuries.Peterson.
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HIST 202 - Europe in the Late Middle Ages, 1198-1500
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Winter 2012
Examines, through lectures and discussions, the high medieval papacy; the rise of new lay religious movements; Franciscans and Dominicans; dissent and heresy; the Inquisition; Jews and minorities; the rise of universities; scholasticism and humanism; the development of law; Parliament and constitutionalism; the Hundred Years War; the Black Death; the papal schism and conciliarism; gender roles; family structures and child rearing; Europe’s relations with Islam and Byzantium; and the rise of commerce, cities and urban values, as well as of the “new monarchies.”Peterson.
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HIST 203 - The Italian Renaissance in Its Historical Setting
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Winter
Examines, through lectures and discussions, the Italian Renaissance within the framework of European religious, political and cultural development. The rise and impact of commercial and urban values on religious and political life in the Italian communes to the time of Dante. Cultural and political life in the “despotic” signorie and in republics such as Florence and Venice. The diffusion of Renaissance cultural ideals from Florence to the other republics and courts of 15th-century Italy, to the papacy, and to Christian humanists north of the Alps. Readings from Dante, Petrarch, Leonardo Bruni, Pico della Mirandola and Machiavelli.Peterson.
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HIST 204 - The Age of Reformation
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Winter 2011
Examines the origins, development, and consequences of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations of the 16th century. The late medieval religious environment; the emergence of new forms of lay religious expression; the impact of urbanization; and the institutional dilemmas of the church. The views of leading reformers, such as Luther, Calvin, and Loyola; and the impact of differing social and political contexts; and technological innovations, such as printing, on the spread of reform throughout Europe. The impact of reform and religious strife on state development and the emergence of doctrines of religious toleration and philosophical skepticism; recent theses and approaches emphasizing “confessionalization,” “social discipline,” and “microhistory.”Peterson.
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HIST 205 - Public and Private in Europe, 1700-1900
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 4
When Offered: Spring 2011 and alternate years
This course investigates the construction of and relationship between public and private spheres in Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries. This class investigates the relationship between civil society and democracy, how women’s roles were redefined at the advent of modernity and the relationship between the public and the private spheres.Horowitz.
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HIST 208 - France: Old Regime and Revolution
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Fall 2010 and alternate years
Historical study of France from the reign of Louis XIV to the Revolution, tracing the changes to French society, culture and politics in the 17th and 18th centuries. Topics include absolutism under Louis XIV, the Enlightenment, socioeconomic changes during the 18th century, and the Revolution.Horowitz.
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HIST 213 - Germany, 1815-1914
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Fall 2010 and alternate years
The impact of the French Revolution on Germany, the onset of industrialization, the revolution of 1848, the career of Bismarck and Germany’s wars of national unification, the Kulturkampf between Protestants and Catholics, the rise of the socialist labor movement, liberal feminism and the movement for women’s rights, the origins of “Imperialism” in foreign policy, and Germany’s role in the outbreak of the First World War.Patch.
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HIST 214 - Germany, 1914-2000
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Winter 2011 and alternate years
The failure of Germany’s first attempt at democracy in the Weimar Republic, the interaction between art andpolitics, the mentality of the Nazis, the institutions of the Third Reich, the Second World War and Holocaust, the occupation and partition of Germany in 1945, the reasons for the success of democratic institutions in the Federal Republic, the origins of modern feminism, the economic collapse of the German Democratic Republic, and the process of national reunification in 1989-91.Patch.
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HIST 215 - Venetian History
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Not offered in 2009-2010
Foundation of island state, commercial and naval greatness of Venice, Venetian culture of the Renaissance and Baroque eras, fall of the republic and subjection to Austria, Venetia redenta.Futch.
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HIST 216 - Rome and the Papacy Since the Schism
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Not offered in 2009-2010
Politics and art in Renaissance Rome. Counter- Reformation culture. Heretics, Jesuits, and Spaniards in the 16th-17th centuries. The baroque papacy vs. Enlightenment and Revolution. Destruction of Temporal Power. Papacy and totalitarianism in the 20th century.Futch.
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HIST 217 - History of the British Isles to 1688
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Fall 2009 and alternate years
An examination of British history to 1688 through the study of various themes and events, such as social, political and constitutional development, the breach with Rome, the Puritan Revolt, and the Revolution of 1688.Sanders.
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HIST 218 - History of the British Isles Since 1688
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Spring 2010 and alternate years
An examination of British history since 1688 through the study of various themes and events, such as the England of Newton and Johnson; conflict with France; the growth of the Empire; adjustments to economic, social, and political changes in the 19th and 20th centuries.Sanders.
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HIST 220 - Imperial Russia, 1682 to 1917
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Fall
From the rise to power of Peter the Great, Russia’s first emperor, through the fall of the Romanov dynasty.Bidlack.
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HIST 221 - Soviet Russia, 1917 to 1991
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Winter
The revolutions of 1917, the emergence of the Soviet system, the Stalinist period, Stalin’s successors, and the eventual collapse of the USSR.Bidlack.
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HIST 223 - International Relations, 1815-1918: Europe and the World
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Fall 2009 and alternate years
Prerequisite: HIST 102 or permission of the instructor.Topics include the “Metternich system” for maintaining peace, strains in that system caused by the rise of nationalism, European relations with Africa and Asia during the era of Free Trade, the dramatic expansion of Europe’s colonial empires in the late nineteenth century (with special emphasis on the partition of Africa), the development of rival alliance systems within Europe, and the causes of the First World War. Our goal is to understand the causes of international conflict and the most successful strategies for maintaining peace.Patch.
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HIST 224 - International Relations, 1919-1970: The End of European Hegemony
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Winter 2010 and alternate years
Prerequisite: HIST 102 or permission of Instructor.Topics include the Versailles peace settlement of 1919, the spread of the British Empire to the Middle East and birth of Palestinian nationalism, the impact of the Great Depression and totalitarianism on international relations, the outbreak of the Second World War, the Holocaust and foundation of the State of Israel, the Nuremberg Trials, decolonization in Africa and Asia, the origins of the Cold War, and the foundation of the European Economic Community. What have Europeans learned about conflict resolution from their experience of two world wars and numerous colonial wars?Patch.
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HIST 226 - European Intellectual History, 1880 to 1960
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Fall
The central ideas of Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud, and the responses by the religious and cultural establishment to these subversive thinkers.Patch.
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HIST 229 - Topics in European History
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
A course offered from time to time depending on student interest and staff availability, on a selected topic or problem in European history. May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different.
Topic for Fall, 2009:
HIST 229: Women & Gender: Early Modern Europe. An investigation of the history of Europe from the 16th century to the French Revolution through the lens of gender – examining how historical events and movements, such as the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the French Revolution changed gender roles and women’s lives, and conversely how and why gender roles remained relatively constant in the early modern era. The four main units of this course are: women’s roles within the family and the European demographic system; the role of women in religious orders and movements, as well as Catholic and Protestant ideas about gender; how society treated women and men deemed “deviant”; how equality between the sexes became both a possibility and a problem during the Enlightenment and Revolution. (HU, GE4b) Horowitz
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HIST 233 - U.S.-Latin American Relations
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Winter 2011 and alternate years
Examines historical interactions between Latin America and the United States during the past two centuries. Explores foreign policy and government affairs, as well as the social, cultural, economic, and ecological dimensions of these transitional interactions. Topics range from military intervention, trade, and international policy to Donald Duck, mountaineering, bananas, and illicit drugs.Carey.
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HIST 234 - Nationalism in Latin America
(SOC 234)FDR: This course does not meet FDR or GE requirements.
Credits: 3
When Offered: Spring 2011 and alternate years
Prerequisite: ANTH 101, SOC 102, or permission of the instructor.This course focuses on the emergence and development of nationalism in Latin America. Readings include works by scholars from across the range of the social sciences, including history, political science, and sociology. The course devotes consideration to the following issues: a variety of explanatory accounts that scholars have provided of why the region turned to nationalism in the early 19th century; the main social and political implications of this transformation of identity; the various competing images of the nation in the region; the question of whether some Latin American nations understand themselves in “civic” and others in “ethnic” terms; the relationship between particularistic Latin American nationalisms and Bol??var’s pan-American dream; and, finally, the nature and roles of nationalism in more recent Latin American politics. Background knowledge of Latin American history is not required.Eastwood.
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HIST 235 - Canada Since 1837
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Not offered in 2009-2010
Rebellion of 1837: the Union of the Canadas. Confederation: Macdonald, Conservatives, Manitoba, Riel, the CPR and western expansion. Ontario’s centrality. Laurier and Liberalism. Borden, World War I, the 1920’s, the Depression, and World War II. Evolution of foreign policy and of welfare state: Mackenzie King, St. Laurent, Diefenbaker, and Pearson. Canada as a Middle Power. Québec: Duplessis, Quiet Revolution, Levesque, PQ and indépendantisme. Western growth, oil, resources, and alienation. Trudeau: bicultural federalism and the Canada Act. Mulroney and Conservatism fail: Liberal revival. Bloc Québec, Parizeau and the PQ’s second coming.Porter
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HIST 238 - Anthropology of American History
(ANTH 238)FDR: SS4 as anthropology only; GE6d: anthropology area only.
Credits: 3
When Offered: Fall 2009 and alternate years
Prerequisite: ANTH 101, SOC 102, HIST 107, 240, or permission of the instructor.This course explores issues within historic American communities that ethnographers often investigate among living groups, including cultural values, religious ideologies, class structures, kinship networks, gender roles, and interethnic relations. Although the communities of interest in this course ceased to exist generations ago, many of their characteristic dynamics are accessible through such means as archaeology, architectural history, and the study of documents. Case studies include early English settlement in Plymouth, Mass.; the 18th-century plantation world of Virginia and South Carolina; the post-Revolutionary Maine frontier and 19th-century California.Bell.
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HIST 240 - Early American History to 1788
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Fall 2011 and alternate years
An intensive study of the political, constitutional, economic and social development of British North America from European discovery through the American Revolution and the years of the Confederation government.DeLaney.
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HIST 242 - The United States, 1789-1840
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Winter
The political, constitutional, economic and social history of the United States from the beginning of Washington’s first term as president to the end of Van Buren’s only term. Launching the Republic; Hamiltonian economic program; the first party system; the Revolution of 1800, the second war for independence; the second party system; westward expansion; Nullification; the Bank War; and the second Great Awakening.Merchant.
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HIST 244 - The Military Leadership of the Civil War: Four Case Studies
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 4
When Offered: Spring, 2010
Prerequisite: HIST 345 or permission of the instructor. Preference given to history majors. This seminar examines the role of military decision-making, the factors that shape it and determine its successes and failures, by focusing on four Civil War battles: Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. Extensive reading and writing. Battlefield tours.Merchant.
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HIST 245 - The American Civil War
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Winter 2011 and alternate years
The sectional crisis. The election of 1860 and the secession of the southern states. Military strategy and tactics. Weapons, battles, leaders. Life of the common soldier. Diplomacy: King Cotton and King Wheat. The politics of war. The economics of growth and destruction. Emancipation. Life behind the lines. Victory and defeat.Merchant.
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HIST 247 - America in the Gilded Age, 1870-1900
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Winter 2010 and alternate years
A survey of the transformation of American society under the impact of industrialization and urbanization. It examines how business leaders, workers, farmers, and the middle class attempted to shape the new industrial society to their own purposes. Emphasis is given to social, intellectual, and cultural experiences and to politics.Senechal.
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HIST 248 - Populism, Progressivism, and the New Deal
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Winter
The major political, economic, social and intellectual changes that occurred in American life between 1890 and 1945 are examined.Michelmore.
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HIST 253 - Gay and Lesbian Life in 20th-Century United States
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Spring 2011
An intensive study of the gay and lesbian experience, with some focus on bisexual and transgendered persons. This course also traces social perceptions of homosexuality from the beginning of the 20th century through the cultural and religious wars of the early 21st century.DeLaney.
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HIST 257 - History of Women in America, 1609-1870
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Fall 2010 and alternate years
An examination of women’s social, political, cultural and economic positions in America through the immediate post-Civil War. Changes in women’s education, legal status, position in the family, and participation in the work force with emphasis on the diversity of women’s experience, especially the manner in which class and race influenced women’s lives. The growth of organized women’s rights.Senechal.
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HIST 258 - History of Women in America, 1870 to the Present
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Fall 2009 and alternate years
A survey of some of the major topics and themes in American women’s lives from the mid-19th century to the present, including domestic and family roles, economic contributions, reproductive experience, education, suffrage, and the emergence of the contemporary feminist movement. The influence on women’s roles, behavior, and consciousness by the social and economic changes accompanying industrialization and urbanization and by variations in women’s experience caused by differences in race, class, and region.Senechal.
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HIST 259 - The History of the African-American People to 1877
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Fall 2010 and alternate years
An intensive study of the African-American experience from the colonial period through Reconstruction. Special emphasis is given to the slave experience, free blacks, black abolitionists, development of African-American culture, Emancipation, Black Reconstruction, and racial attitudes.DeLaney.
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HIST 260 - The History of the African-American People since 1877
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Fall 2009 and alternate years
An intensive study of the African-American experience from 1877 to the present. Special emphasis is given to the development of black intellectual and cultural traditions, development of urban communities, emergence of the black middle class, black nationalism, the civil rights era, and the persistence of racism in American society.DeLaney.
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HIST 261 - The History of Violence in America
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Winter 2011 and alternate years
A broad survey of the social origins, evolution, and major forms of extralegal, violent conflict in the United States, including individual and collective violence and conflict related to race, class, gender, politics, and ethnicity, especially emphasizing the 19th and 20th centuries. Major topics include theories of social conflict, slavery and interracial violence, predatory crime, labor strife, and the response to crime, especially the rise of prisons and a professional police force.Senechal.
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HIST 262 - The Old South to 1860
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Fall 2009 and alternate years
A study of the making of the Old South. Slavery. Antebellum political, economic, social, and cultural developments. The origins and growth of sectionalism.Merchant.
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HIST 263 - The South Since 1877
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Winter 2010 and alternate years
Restoration of conservative control. The New South Creed. Tenant farms and mill villages. The agrarian revolt and the Populist party. Racial segregation. Progressives and Dixie demagogues. The Great Depression and the New Deal. The crusade for civil rights. Economic and political transformation since 1945.Merchant.
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HIST 268 - Building a Suburban Nation: Race, Class, and Politics in Postwar America
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Fall 2010 and alternate years
Together, the overdevelopment of the suburbs and the underdevelopment of urban centers have profoundly shaped American culture, politics and society in the post-WWII period. This course examines the origins and consequences of suburbanization after 1945. Topics include the growth of the national state, the origins and consequences of suburbanization, the making of the white middle class, the War on Poverty, welfare and taxpayers “rights” movements, “black power,” and how popular culture has engaged with questions about race and class. In the process of understanding the historical roots of contemporary racial and class advantage and disadvantage, this course will shed new light on contemporary public policy dilemmas.Michelmore.
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HIST 269 - Topics in United States, Latin American or Canadian History
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
A course offered from time to time, depending on student interest and staff availability, on a selected topic or problem in United States, Latin American or Canadian history. May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different.
Topic for Winter, 2010:
HIST 269: The Civil Rights Movement: Witnessing and Testifying (3). The trajectory of the civil rights movement and its major milestones. Through course readings and engagement with primary documents, students examine the importance of various types of personal witness and testimony in mobilizing the movement and altering the nation’s view of American race relations. Moreover, this course explores the ways in which personal storytelling has continued to be an important instrument of memory and meaning-making, shaping and challenging historical narratives and political rhetoric. Throughout the term, the class discusses the ways in which the individual experience of the movement has been circulated, mediated, and appropriated through news coverage, popular histories, and academic scholarship. (HU, GE4b) Devlin
Topic for Fall, 2009:
HIST 269: American Protest in the 20th Century. An examination of 20th-century protest movements in the United States, exploring the expression of dissent through “outrageous acts” and “everyday rebellions.” Students engage with a broad range of movements, organization strategies, and protest tactics over the course of the semester, and consider how popular protest has altered our understanding of social and cultural reform. (HU, GE4b) Krutko
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HIST 270 - Australia and New Zealand
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Not offered in 2009-2010
Indigenous peoples, European exploration and settlement, colonial evolution, wool, gold, aboriginal degradation, the Maori Wars, social experiments, urbanization, depression and federation (in Australia). Constitutional and party history, industrialization, labor relations, Depression, and the world wars. Foreign policy, the welfare state, immigration: postwar South Pacific powers. Decline of British influence, America’s hegemony, Vietnam, free markets, the choice for Asia and the Pacific.Porter.
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HIST 271 - Climate and Society
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 4
When Offered: Spring 2011
This course examines climate change from a historical and social perspective, two approaches to this critical international environmental issue that receive limited attention in academic research, media reporting, and policymaking. The course focuses on four topics: historical understandings of climate; societal responses to climatic fluctuations; global warming in historical context; and adaptation to climate change. The interdisciplinary approach and world environmental history perspective provide diverse context s for understanding climate issues today - not only the changing climate itself but also the social, cultural, scientific, political, economic, and environmental aspects that underlie how societies grapple with climate change.Carey.
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HIST 274 - Histories of Everything
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 4
When Offered: Spring 2010 and alternate years
Intensive reading and analysis of diverse works of world history and “universal history.” Students develop understanding of historiographical traditions and develop their own framework for thinking about the human past.Jennings.
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HIST 278 - The Indian Subcontinent: European Imperialism and the Rise of the Succession States, 1498 to the Present
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Spring
Rise and fall of the Mughal Empire. The Portuguese, Dutch, French, and English in India. Indian resistance and the domination of the English East India Company’s empire in India. Bengali renaissance, Reform, and the Indian Mutiny. The conservative British Raj. The Indian Congress Party: Tilak, Gokhale, and Gandhi. Congress, the world wars, Jinnah and the Muslim League. Divided independence-Pakistan: creation, dictatorship, division and the Bhuttos. Bangladesh: deprivation, disaster, independence and poverty. India: Nehru; democracy, socialism, and Cold War. Indira and Rajiv Gandhi: dynasty’s destruction. Economic reform. Sri Lanka: European domination, independence, cultural division and disaster. Nepal’s independent dependence.Porter.
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HIST 280 - Japan to 1800: From Shamans to Samurai
FDR: HU, GE4b.
Credits: 3
When Offered: Winter 2012 and alternate years
A specialized survey. The emergence of indigenous Japanese society and its adaptation to cultural and political influences from mainland East Asia, including Buddhism, Confucianism, and Chinese concepts of empire. The course also focuses on the development of a uniquely Japanese model of social organization, samurai society, from these earlier influences.Bello.
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HIST 283 - China’s Imperial Shadow: Prehistoric Origins to 1600
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Not offered in 2009-2010
A specialized survey. Pre-modern Chinese civilization arguably invented and certainly reinvented the theory and practice of empire. This course follows the ebb and flow of imperial political, economic and cultural power across China and as it periodically spilled over into Southeast Asia and Inner Asia to include parts of the histories of Mongolia, Vietnam, and Korea, as well. Themes include the inventions of Confucianism; the popular culture of the civil service exam; Mongol apartheid; relating to the barbarians; keeping Chinese men and women in their places; Chinese Buddhism’s Silk Road; traditional religion and popular revolt; premodern bureaucracy in action and stagnation.Bello.
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HIST 289 - Topics in Asian or African History
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
A course offered from time to time depending on student interest and staff availability, on a selected topic or problem in Asian or African history. May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different.
Topic for Winter, 2010:
HIST 289: Japanese Political History Since 1945 (3). This course provides a historical survey of postwar Japanese domestic politics, with special emphasis on social and cultural perspectives. The first half of the course focuses on the period between 1945 and 1993, and examines the historical development of domestic political systems during the postwar period. In the second half, the focus shifts to the problems that plagued the regime after 1993, and examines how particular historical events transformed Japanese politics. (HU, GE4b) Yamamoto
Topics for Fall, 2009:
HIST 289A: East Africa: A Thousand Years. An in-depth study of East Africa (the area today occupied by Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda) during the past millennium. Topics include: Swahili city-states of the coast; farming and herding societies of the Rift Valley savannas; kingdoms of the Great Lakes; the Sultanate of Zanzibar; British and German colonial conquest and administration; and the successes and failures of modern nation-states. For each of these topics, we examine East Africa on its own terms and as an interlinked part of a larger world history. (HU, GE4b) Jennings
HIST 289B: Problems of Modernity in Islamic Societies. An intensive study of the political, social, economic, and intellectual history of Muslim-majority nations from the 18th century to the present. Some coverage of the earlier Islamic religious and historical context enables a rational discussion of long-term currents and trends. Students reflect on and discuss the Orientalist, and what remains of the colonial perspective on Muslim history. Examples are drawn from Iran, Turkey, Egypt, South Asia, and Central Asia (including Pakistan and Afghanistan). (HU, GE4b) Sheiban
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HIST 296 - History of Washington and Lee
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Spring 2011
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and completion of preliminary research.An examination of the history of Washington and Lee University concentrating on the period between 1910 and 1945, and applying interpretations from general literature on the history of higher education in America. Several papers are required. During the fall and winter terms prior to enrollment, interested students should consult with the instructor about their research project.Sanders.
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HIST 300 - Seminar in Ancient History
(CLAS 300)FDR: HU, GE4b: only as History.
Credits: 3
When Offered: Fall 2010 and alternate years
Prerequisites: Junior standing and permission of the instructor.A consideration of the major Greek and Roman historians, and the influence of various literary and philosophical conventions on the development of their method, and their approach to selected problems in ancient history evaluated in the light of modern historical research.Sanders.
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HIST 305 - Seminar: Religion, Church, and Politics in Medieval and Renaissance Society
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Winter 2011
Prerequisite: HIST 100, 201 and 202, or 203, or permission of the instructor.The seminar draws on primary and secondary sources to examine the rise of Christianity in Europe, church-state relations, scholastic theology, mendicant piety, lay religious life, mysticism, heresy, humanism, gender and religion, urban and rural contexts, and church reform.Peterson.
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HIST 306 - Seminar: Medieval and Renaissance Political Thought
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Winter 2012
Prerequisite: HIST 100, or 201 and 202, or 203, or permission of the instructor.The seminar draws on primary and secondary sources to survey the evolution of legal and political thought from St. Augustine to Machiavelli. Topics include church-state relations, scholasticism, the revivals of Greek and Roman thought, and humanism. Readings include St. Augustine, John of Salisbury, Thomas Aquinas, Marsilius of Padua, Leonardo Bruni, and Niccolò Machiavelli.Peterson.
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HIST 312 - Seminar on Nazism and the Third Reich
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Winter 2010 and alternate years
Prerequisite: HIST 214 or 224 or permission of the instructor.Common readings introduce students to some of the most lively debates among scholars about the causes of the failure of democracy in the Weimar Republic, the mentality of Nazi leaders and followers, the nature of the regime created by the Nazis in 1933, the impact of the Third Reich on the position of women in German society, and the degree to which the German people supported this regime’s policies of war and racial persecution. Students develop a research topic related to one of these debates for analysis in a substantial research paper utilizing both primary and secondary sources.Patch.
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HIST 319 - Seminar on The Great War in History and Literature
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Winter 2011 and alternate years
Prerequisite: One course chosen from HIST 213, 218, and 223, or permission of the instructor.An advanced seminar in which students analyze different kinds of written accounts of the First World War (memoirs, autobiographical novels, poems, and diaries) by different kinds of participants, including common soldiers, government leaders, and women who worked on the “home front.” In class discussions and two short papers, students evaluate the reliability of these witnesses and what the historian can learn from them about the psychological, cultural, and political consequences of the First World War in Great Britain, France, and Germany. Students choose one question raised in our common meetings for more detailed investigation in a substantial research paper integrating primary and secondary sources.Patch.
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HIST 322 - Seminar in Russian History
Credits: 4
When Offered: Spring
Selected topics in Russian history, including but not limited to heroes and villains, Soviet biography, Stalin and Stalinism, the USSR in the Second World War and origins of the Cold War, the KGB, and the decline and fall of the Soviet Union and the re-emergence of Russia. May be repeated for degree and major credit if the topics are different.Bidlack.
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HIST 336 - Seminar: Environmental History of Latin America
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Winter 2010 and alternate years
Analysis of diverse people’s historical interactions with Latin American environments to show how people created environments and how nature affected human history. Probes social, spiritual, economic, political, and intellectual forces influencing human?environment relations over time. Delves into many geographical areas and themes, including Amazon rainforests, Andean farms, Patagonian peaks, the Panama Canal, Costa Rican national parks, and Caribbean sugar plantations, as well as U.S. coffee shops, supermarkets, and fast food chains.Carey.
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HIST 337 - Seminar: Revolutions in Latin America
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Fall 2009 and alternate years
Detailed analysis of 20th?century revolutionary movements in Latin America. Examines historical power struggles, social reforms, and major political changes, with in?depth exploration of Mexico, Bolivia, Cuba, Peru, Chile, and Nicaragua. Explores the social movements and ideologies of underrepresented historical actors, such as peasants, guerrillas, artists, workers, women, students, and indigenous people.Carey.
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HIST 339 - Seminar: Natives and Strangers
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Winter 2011 and alternate years
An intensive study of the earliest contacts between the eastern tribes of North America and new arrivals from Europe and Africa. Student research papers include primary source materials.DeLaney.
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HIST 344 - Seminar on The United States, 1840-1860
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Fall 2010 and alternate years
An intensive examination of the sectional conflict: the Mexican War, Manifest Destiny, slavery and the territories, the abolition movement, the failure of compromise, and secession. Emphasis on the study of primary sources and class discussion of assigned reading.Merchant.
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HIST 346 - Seminar on Reconstruction, 1865-1877
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Spring
Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, and the restoration of the Union. Congressional Reconstruction and the crusade for black equality. Impeachment of the President. Reconstruction in the South. Carpetbaggers, Scalawags and Freedmen. The politics of growth and greed. Collapse of Republican governments and restoration of conservative control. Implications for the future.Merchant.
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HIST 350 - Seminar: Going Nuclear: American Society, Culture and Politics in the Cold War Era
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Fall 2010 and alternate years
This seminar offers a topical survey of the popular culture, social changes, and domestic politics of the Cold War United States. Themes covered in this course include the dawn of the atomic age, the social and cultural anxieties produced by the Cold War, the privatization of suburban family life, the problems of historical memory, the boundaries of political dissent, and the relationship between international and domestic politics. This course pays special attention to how popular culture responded to, interpreted, and shaped key episodes in the recent national past.Michelmore.
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HIST 354 - Seminar: The History of the American Welfare State
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Spring
This course uses a lecture and surveys the history of the U.S. welfare state from its origins in the poorhouses of the nineteenth century to the “end of welfare as we knew it” in 1996. The historical development of the American welfare state is covered, touching on such key policy developments as Progressive Era mothers’ pension programs, the Social Security Act of 1935, Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty, and the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act. Although this course focuses primarily on the United States, students are also asked to compare the U.S. case with the welfare states of other western democracies - including Great Britain, France and the Scandinavian nations - to understand how and why the United States took such a different path. Moving beyond simple policy history, students engage such questions as how the U.S. welfare state has reflected, reinforced, and in some cases produced class, racial, and gendered identities.Michelmore.
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HIST 355 - Seminar: America in the 1960s: History and Memory
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Winter 2011 and alternate years
Hippies, Flower Power, Panthers, Berkeley, Free Love, Free Speech, Freedom Rides, Dylan, Woodstock, Vietnam, Jimmi, Janice, Bobby and Martin. The events and images of the 1960s remain a powerful and often divisive force in America’s recent history and national memory. This course moves beyond these stereotypical images of the “Sixties” to examine the decade’s politics, culture and social movements. Topics include: the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, the Great Society and the War on Poverty, Vietnam, the Anti-War movement and the Counterculture, Massive Resistance, the “Silent Majority” and the Rise of the Conservative Right.Michelmore.
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HIST 364 - Seminar on the Origins of the Constitution
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Fall
An examination of the historical origins and development to 1791 of the Federal Constitution, including English and colonial backgrounds, state constitutions, the Articles of Confederation, drafting and ratification of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.Merchant.
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HIST 366 - Seminar: Slavery in the Americas
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Winter 2012 and alternate years
An intensive examination of slavery, abolition movements and emancipation in North America, the Caribbean and Latin America. Emphasis is on the use of primary sources and class discussion of assigned readings.DeLaney.
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HIST 367 - Seminar in American Social History
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 4
When Offered: Spring
An examination of selected topics in the social history of the United States. Requirements include a major research paper based on original source material. May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different.Senechal.
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HIST 377 - Congo, Rwanda, and The Modern World
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Winter 2010 and alternate years
Examines how this seemingly remote region became the inspiration for the first modern human rights campaign, the source of the uranium used to build the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, a hot spot in the Cold War, and the setting for a genocide that spilled over into an “African World War” fueled by intricate links between African resources and the global economy.Jennings.
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HIST 381 - Seminar: Japan in World War II
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Not offered in 2009-2010
A study of Japan in the war including the Manchurian Incident, the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, the road to Pearl Harbor, the war, Japan’s decision to surrender, the controversy over the role of Emperor Hirohito. Using films, memoirs, and wartime and later Japanese writings, the period is viewed from both Japanese and western perspectives.Bello.
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HIST 385 - Seminar: The Yin and Yang of Gender in Late Imperial China (10th-19th centuries)
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Winter 2011 and alternate years
Relations between men and women are the basis of any human society, but the exact nature and interpretation of these relations differ from time to time and from place to place. The concepts of Yin (female) and Yang (male) were integral to the theory and practice of Chinese gender relations during the late imperial period, influencing marriage, medicine and law. This course examines the historical significance of late-imperial gender relations across these, and other, categories from both traditional and modern perspectives.Bello.
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HIST 386 - Seminar: Managing Mongols, Manchus, and Muslims: The Control of Ethnic Diversity in China (16th-20th Centuries)
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Winter 2011 and alternate years
The unprecedented expansionism of China’s last dynasty, the Qing (1644-1911), produced an ethnically and geographically diverse empire whose legacy is the current map and multiethnic society of today’s People’s Republic of China. The Qing empire’s establishment, extension and consolidation were inextricably bound up with the ethnic identity of its Manchu progenitors. The Manchu attempt to unify diversity resulted in a unique imperial project linking East, Inner and Southeast Asia. This course explores the multiethnic nature and limits of this unification, as well as its 20th-century transformations.Bello.
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HIST 387 - Seminar: The Struggle Over China’s Environment
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
When Offered: Fall 2010 and alternate years
The course covers the more recent periods of China’s so-called “3,000 years of unsustainable growth” from about A.D. 618 into the present. Themes focus on China’s historical experience with sedentary agriculture, fossil fuel and nuclear energy, wildlife and forest management, disease, water control, and major construction projects like the Great Wall.Bello.
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HIST 395 - Advanced Seminar
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Junior standing, 15 credits in history, and permission of the instructor.A seminar offered from time to time depending on student interest and staff availability, in a selected topic or problem in history. May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different.
Topics for Winter, 2010:
HIST 395A: Seminar: Congo, Rwanda, and the World (3). An examination of how this seemingly remote region became the inspiration for the first modern human-rights campaign, the source of the uranium used to build the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, a hot spot in the Cold War, and the setting for a genocide that spilled over into an “African World War” fueled by intricate links between African resources and the global economy. (HU, GE4b) Jennings
HIST 395B: Seminar: Women and Gender in Europe, 1750 to the Present (3). This research seminar investigates the history of Europe from 1750 to the present day through the lens of women’s lives and gender roles. We examine how historical events and movements, such as the French Revolution, industrialization, and the world wars had an impact on women. We also look at domesticity in the 19th century, the challenge of feminism, and women’s increasing entry into the public sphere and the workforce. Students write shorts papers, and a 20-page research paper on a topic of their choosing. (HU, GE4b) Horowitz
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HIST 397 - Spring-Term Topics in History
FDR: HU, GE4b
Credits: 4
When Offered: Spring
A seminar in a selected topic or problem in history. May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different.
Topic for Spring 2010:
HIST 397: Winning World War II: U.S. and Allied Grand Strategies, 1940-1945 (4). Prerequisite: 15 credits in history and/or politics or permission of the instructor or the History Department head. Counts toward the American history area of the history major. The United States fought World War II as part of a coalition, one of the most successful wartime coalitions in history. This seminar explores how and why it did so, and why the Allied effort was so successful. Emphasis is placed on U.S. strategic planning, its relationship to U.S. foreign policies, and the ensuing conflicts between U.S. strategies and policies and those desired by its British and Soviet allies, and the ways in which these conflicts were resolved by Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. As such, it also focuses on civil-military relations and Allied diplomacy during the war, as well as how and why the alliance collapsed after victory had been achieved. Readings include key primary and secondary sources. (HU, GE4b) Stoler.
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HIST 401 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 1
Prerequisites: Cumulative grade-point average of 3.250 in all history courses and permission of the instructor.A course which permits the student to follow a program of directed reading or research in an area not covered by other courses. May be repeated for degree credit with permission.Staff.
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HIST 402 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 2
Prerequisites: Cumulative grade-point average of 3.250 in all history courses and permission of the instructor.A course which permits the student to follow a program of directed reading or research in an area not covered by other courses. May be repeated for degree credit with permission.Staff.
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HIST 403 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Cumulative grade-point average of 3.250 in all history courses, completion of three 300-level history courses, permission of the instructor, and junior standing.A course which permits the student to follow a program of directed reading or research in an area not covered in other courses. May be repeated for degree credit each term of the junior and senior year.Staff.
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HIST 453 - Internship in History
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: 15 credits in history or in related disciplines (with the department head’s approval), cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.000, and permission of the department.An internship in history at a public or private agency or institution culminating in a major project completed in consultation with a faculty supervisor and the sponsoring agency or institution. Because of staff limitations, the department may give preference to history majors. See the department head for details. May be repeated with permission for degree credit for a total of six credits, if the topics are sufficiently different.Staff.
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HIST 456 - Internship in History
Credits: 6
Prerequisites: 15 credits in history or in related disciplines (with the department head’s approval), cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.000, and permission of the department.An internship in history at a public or private agency or institution culminating in a major project completed in consultation with a faculty supervisor and the sponsoring agency or institution. Because of staff limitations, the department may give preference to history majors. See the department head for details. May be repeated with permission for degree credit for a total of six credits, if the topics are sufficiently different.Staff.
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HIST 473 - Senior Thesis
Credits: 3-3
Prerequisites: Cumulative grade-point average of 3.500, permission of the department, and senior standing.This course serves as an alternative for History 493. Please consult the department head for more details.
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HIST 493 - Honors Thesis
Credits: 3-3
When Offered: Fall-Winter
Prerequisites: Cumulative grade-point average of 3.500, permission of the department, and senior standing.Honors Thesis.
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INTR 180 - FS: First-Year Seminar
Credits: 3
When Offered: Each first-year seminar topic is approved by the Dean of The College and The Committee on Courses and Degrees. Applicability to FDRs and other requirements varies.
Prerequisite: First-year standing.Offered Fall, 2009:
INTR 180: FS: Diversity and Discrimination in Employment and Higher Education (3). This first-year seminar explores diversity and discrimination laws as they apply to students and workers, with a special emphasis on issues arising in higher education. Topics include affirmative action in admissions, lawful recruiting practices, sexual harassment, retaliation, diversity initiatives, discrimination, accessibility and accommodations for persons with disabilities, sexual stereotyping, and lawful grooming and appearance policies. The syllabus is primarily case-based and the class operates like a law-school course. The goal is to have you thinking, analyzing, arguing, and writing like a lawyer. (SS4) Perdue
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INTR 201 - Information Technology Literacy
Credits: 1
When Offered: Fall, Winter
Pass/Fail only. Required of all Williams School majors. This course is a corequisite or prerequisite to Interdepartmental 202. MUST be completed by the beginning of the fall term of the junior year.Through the use of interactive online tutorials, students gain proficiency in and a working knowledge of five distinct areas of information technology literacy: Windows Operating System, spreadsheets (Microsoft Excel), word processing (Microsoft Word), presentation software (Microsoft PowerPoint), and basic networking (the Washington and Lee network, basic Web browsing, and Microsoft Outlook). Lessons, exercises, practice exams and exams mix online efforts and hands-on activities.Ballenger, Boylan (administrator)
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