Past Years' Courses - Sp'12

History Department - Spring 2012

HIST 10100-01, 02 FOUNDATIONS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION 1 G H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Matthew Klemm, Muller 405, Ext. 4-1306
ENROLLMENT: 32
PREREQUISITES: None.
STUDENTS: This is a beginning level survey course. As such it is designed for first year students and sophomores. Not open to seniors except by permission of instructor.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will provide an overview of "western" (i.e., primarily European) history from Ancient Greece to the Reformation. Topics covered will include Greek democracy, the Roman Empire, the medieval history of the Roman Catholic Church, the Protestant Reformation, and the Age of Religious Wars.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Primarily lecture, some discussion.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Two examinations, several short essays, one longer essay, class attendance and discussion; grading based on class participation, examinations, and essays.

HIST 10200-01, 02 MODERN WESTERN CIVILIZATION 1 G H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Chad Wheaton
ENROLLMENT: 32
PREREQUISITES: None.
STUDENTS: This is a beginning level survey course. As such it is open to all students.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will provide an overview of European history from 1648 to the present. Topics covered will include the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, socio-political change in the nineteenth century, Marxism and the Russian Revolution, the causes and the courses of World Wars I and II, and the Holocaust.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Primarily lecture, some discussion.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Two examinations, two analytical essays, class attendance and discussion.

HIST 11200-01 UNITED STATES HISTORY SINCE 1865 1 H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Michael Trotti, Muller 412, Ext. 4-1591
ENROLLMENT: 32
PREREQUISITES: None.
STUDENTS: Any interested students of Junior standing or below; seniors should take our 200-level classes or above.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Survey of the important cultural, social, economic, and political developments in the U.S. from 1865 to the present. As a survey, this course will give you a sound knowledge of the most important moments of our recent past. Special emphasis will be placed upon: the emergence of the nation as an economic superpower, the growing engagement of the U.S. in world affairs, and the rich social history (race, class, and gender) of the nation in this period.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Lecture and discussion.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: 1. Three books. 2. One paper, 2 essay exams, and regular quizzes.

HIST 11200-02 UNITED STATES HISTORY SINCE 1865 1 H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Michael Smith, Muller 320, Ext. 4-1290
ENROLLMENT: 32
PREREQUISITE: None.
STUDENTS: Primarily first and second year students from all majors. Open to students of all majors. This class is not open to seniors.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: I assume that American history is not a fixed set of facts, figures, and events; it is a story, shaped by countless forces and varying according to perspective. People, places, motivation and circumstance are the content for rigorous historical thinking in this course. History was contested all along and continues to be contested. It is that complexity we will explore throughout the semester. To that end, this course broadly explores major themes and issues that led to the making of the modern United States. We will focus on social and intellectual currents, labor and business, farmer protest, immigration and ethnicity, race and gender, the development of reform and radical thought and activities, American involvement in war, civil liberties issues, Progressivism and the New Deal, and major changes in post-World War II America. Through few short lectures, readings (both primary and secondary), DVDS/videos, hands on work with primary sources, LOTS OF DISCUSSION, and creating your own digital narrative of history you will become acquainted with the central concerns of US history and you will begin to cultivate habits of critical understanding that allow you to draw significance from the past.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Discussion of readings (primary and secondary sources), DVDs/videos and some interactive lectures.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Readings from a foundation text (Give Me Liberty! 3rd ed. by Eric Foner and supplemental other readings on-line and through handouts. Also regular attendance, regular writing assignments, and 2 exams (part take-home, part in-class; grading based on attendance, class participation and above requirements.

HIST 11200-03 UNITED STATES HISTORY SINCE 1865 1 H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: TBA
ENROLLMENT: 32
PREREQUISTIES: None.
STUDENTS: This is a beginning level survey course. As such it is open to all students. This class is not open to seniors except by permission of instructor.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will provide an overview of European history from 1648 to the present. Topics covered will include the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, socio-political change in the nineteenth century, Marxism and the Russian Revolution, the causes and the courses of World Wars I and II, and the Holocaust.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Primarily lecture, some discussion.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: examinations and analytical essays, class attendance and discussion.

HIST 18200-01 WORLD CIVILIZATION II 1 G H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: TBA
ENROLLMENT: 32
PREREQUISITES: None.
STUDENTS: Primarily freshmen and sophomores. Not open to students who have completed HIST-10100: The Development of Western Civilization.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will provide students with an understanding of world history from 1492 through the present. Global interactions, whether peaceful or violent, have profoundly shaped the course of world history. The major focus of this course, then, is the examination of how different national, religious, ethnic and racial groups have shaped and influenced one another. The course will begin with an examination of the balance of economic and military power in the world before 1492. After examining European exploration and conquest and the variety of responses by Asians, Africans and Native Americans we will consider the growth of the nation-state, the development of trans-Atlantic slavery, and the subsequent rise of revolutionary ideologies, industrialization, and imperialism in the nineteenth century. We will conclude with an examination of the impacts of the First and Second World Wars on global history up to the First Gulf War.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Discussion, lecture, student presentations.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: quizzes, midterm, short paper, final exam.

HIST 18200-02 WORLD CIVILIZATION II 1 G H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Jason Freitag, Muller 423, Ext. 4-5798
ENROLLMENT: 32
PREREQUISITES: None.
STUDENTS: Open to all students. Not open to students who have completed HIST-10200: Modern Western Civilization.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This class starts roughly at 1500 and moves through to the present day. Topics will include the rise of great empires in the Middle East and Asia (Ming, Ottoman, Mughal) and their relationship to the emerging European global powers. We will then examine the rise of European empires, beginning with the Spanish and Portuguese, and continuing through the Dutch, English and French imperial formations. Special consideration will be given to the encounters with indigenous populations in the Americas, Africa, and Asia, and the rise of independence and nationalist movements across the globe. Finally, we will consider the post-colonial world, the Cold War, the process of "globalization" and the conflicts and relationships that shape our world today.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Lectures, discussion of readings. Each class one student will be responsible for making a brief, thematic presentation of the day's readings.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Readings, response papers, class attendance and participation, comparative response paper, midterm and final; grading-based on performance on each of the above requirements.

HIST 22200-01 RISE AND FALL OF THE USSR 1 G H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Zenon Wasyliw, Muller 427, Ext. 4-1587
ENROLLMENT: 27
PREREQUISITES: One course in the humanities or social sciences and sophomore standing.
STUDENTS: Open to all students.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course is a comparative, analytical survey of Soviet history. We begin with pre-revolutionary conditions at the turn of the century, appraise the 1917 revolutions and then proceed through the varied stages, policies, leaders and both their internal and global impact through 1991 and beyond. An interdisciplinary approach with an emphasis on interpreting historical primary sources is the foundation of analysis and critical appraisal. Political, social, cultural, economic and other modes of evaluation are implemented as are varied historical interpretations. Soviet history is complex yet extremely fascinating. We will engage in an interesting journey and evaluation of the Soviet past and its influence on the present and future.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Lectures, discussions and presentations.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Examinations, a comparative book critique, interpretations of primary sources and class participation. (GRADING: A-F).

HIST 22800-01 ISLAM IN THE MODERN WORLD HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Jason Freitag, Muller 423, Ext. 4-5798
ENROLLMENT: 27
PREREQUISITES: One course in the humanities or social sciences; sophomore standing or above.
STUDENTS: Open to all students.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This class will examine the histories of Islamic societies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and their responses to the challenges of modernity. The course will cover a range of historical moments, including the decline of the Ottoman Empire, European colonialism in Muslim lands, the rise of nationalism and nation-states in the Middle East and Islamic Asia, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the partition of India, the Islamic revolution in Iran, and the Gulf wars in Iraq. We will also cover a range of issues present in Islamic societies including the tension between militancy and quietism, religious extremism, women's economic empowerment and the changing roles of men and women as aspects of traditional Islamic society are transformed over time. Finally, the class will consider the relationship between terrorism and Islamic ideologies, and attempt to contextualize the political dimensions of Islam and its role in shaping Muslim identities worldwide.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Interactive lectures, discussion of assigned readings, student presentations.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Readings, response papers, class attendance and participation, critical essay (which will form the basis of an end-of-semester presentation). Grading is based on performance on each of the above requirements.

HIST 24000-01 THE JACKSONIAN ERA, 1815-1848 HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Pearl Ponce, Muller 406, Ext. 4-3606
ENROLLMENT: 27
PEREQUISITES: One course in the humanities or social sciences; sophomore standing.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course focuses on the political, economic, social, transportation, and communication revolutions that fundamentally altered the American Republic from the aftermath of the War of 1812 through the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848. Topics include democracy and the second-party system; internal improvements; immigration and demographics; the Second Great Awakening; modernization; and social change, among others.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Lecture, readings, and discussion.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: weekly reading and discussion, 2 short papers, and midterm and final examinations. Grading is based on performance on each of the requirements.

HIST 27000-01 HISTORY OF AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL THOUGHT 1 H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Michael Smith, Muller 320, Ext. 4-1290
ENROLLMENT: 27
PREREQUISITES: One course in the humanities or social sciences and sophomore standing.
STUDENTS: Sophomore standing and up. Priority given to history and environmental studies majors and minors.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course traces the evolution of American ideas about nature and the environment from the colonial period to the present. Although rooted in intellectual history, this course will also explore cultural and social history as they relate to environmental thought. Students will examine the changing definition of concepts such as wilderness, conservation, and nature itself. Over the course of the semester students should develop a solid understanding of the ways politics, economics, religion, gender, and race have shaped environmental thought in this country. Students can also expect to practice historical interpretation through short writing assignments and a local environmental history project undertaken in cooperation with The History Center of Tompkins County.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: A mix of interactive lecture, discussion, and media presentations.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Two books and other short readings, regular attendance, several short papers and film critiques, local environmental history project, final paper. A-F, Standard breakdown. Based on performance of each of the above requirements.

HIST 27500-01 THE HISTORY OF UNITED STATES POPULAR CULTURE 1 H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Michael Trotti, Muller 412, Ext. 4-1591
ENROLLMENT: 27
PREREQUISITES: One course in the humanities or social sciences and sophomore standing.
STUDENTS: Any interested students at the sophomore level or above.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Popular Culture has become synonymous with America – it is one of our chief exports and a defining part of what America is in the 21st century. This course explores the history of American popular culture from the earliest mass media and genres – minstrelsy, dime novels, photography, movies, baseball, vaudeville, radio, TV – that were the most popular pastimes of their respective eras. Particular emphasis will be placed upon the role of pop culture in a number of important historical themes: differences in the experience of popular culture according to race, gender, class, and sexual orientation, changes in technology and the business of pop culture, and how different media expressed the stereotypes of their times.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Lecture and discussion.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Several books, essay exams, participation, a short research project, and smaller assignments.

HIST 29000-01 THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES FOREIGN RELATIONS 1 H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Pearl Ponce, Muller 406, Ext. 4-3606
ENROLLMENT: 27
PREREQUISITES: One course in the humanities or social sciences; sophomore standing and higher.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will trace the evolution of American foreign policy as the country developed: What drove foreign policy when the United States was a small republic struggling to maintain its independence? Once the Old World withdrew from the American continent, how did a growing regional power treat its neighbors? What drew an isolationist nation onto the world stage? How did the struggle to contain communism change the nation’s policy parameters? Finally, how does the most powerful democracy in the world find its footing in an uncertain global environment? In addition, throughout this course, we will trace how foreign policy has reflected an evolving American sense of mission.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Lectures, readings, and discussion.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Weekly readings & discussion, 2 short papers (1 of which is in preparation for a group presentation), and midterm and final examinations. GRADING is based on performance of each of the above requirements.

HIST 29100-01 ST: STUDIES IN EUROPEAN HISTORY: EARLY SCIENCE & MEDICINE H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Matthew Klemm, Muller 405, Ext. 4-1306
ENROLLMENT: 27
PREREQUISITES: None.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will examine science and medicine in western civilization from their roots in the ancient Near East and Greece, where the general framework of scientific and technical knowledge and practice was first articulated, until the breakdown of this system in the scientific revolution in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Among other questions, we will consider definitions of "science," the ways humans understood themselves in relation to the natural world, and the relationship between scientific and religious truth in the various cultures covered in the course.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Lecture and discussion.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Grading is based on participation, essays, exams.

HIST 29200-01 ST: STUDIES IN GLOBAL HISTORY: INTRO TO CHINESE CULTURE 1 G H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Lu Liu, Muller 416, Ext. 4-3035
ENROLLMENT: 27
PREREQUISITES: One course in the humanities and/or social sciences; sophomore standing.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Introduction to the history and culture of China incorporates history, literature, geography, religion, and contemporary affairs to create an understanding of China from its origins to the present.
COURE FORMAT/STYLE: Lecture, discussion, student presentations.
COURSE REQUIREMENS & GRADING: Exams, book review, class presentations.

HIST 30800-01 THE UNITED STATES IN THE AGE OF COLD WAR HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Michael Smith, Muller 320, Ext. 4-1290
ENROLLMENT: 20
STUDENTS: Sophomore standing and above.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: The United States emerged from World War II as the most powerful nation on earth—this new status brought with it both opportunities and challenges. This course examines these opportunities and challenges in some detail. Among the topics we will explore are the origins, development, and end of the Cold War; the Civil Rights Movement and rights consciousness generally; the high tide of Liberalism and the rise of the political right; and deindustrialization and the rise of the service economy. Students will also be honing their skills as historians, writing several papers that develop their skills in finding and analyzing primary sources, in understanding historiography, and in synthesizing interpretations of the past.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: A mix of interactive lecture and discussion.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Several books, essay exams, class participation, a research project, and smaller assignments.

HIST 38300-01 REVOLUTIONARY CHINA HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Lu Liu, Muller 416, Ext. 4-3035
ENROLLMENT: 20
PREREQUISITE: Three courses in the humanities and/or social sciences; sophomore standing.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Study of China’s 19th and 20th century passage from empire to a People’s Republic. Course will include the end of the Qing dynasty’s imperial rule, the first republic, civil war among warlords, hostilities between new political parties, war against Japanese invasion, civil war between the Nationalist Party and the Communist Party, and the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). A large portion of the course will be about the PRC from inception through the Cultural Revolution of 1966-1976. The course aims to provide background for understanding China’s position in the 21st century.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Lecture, discussion, student presentations.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: exams, class presentations, and a 15-page research paper.

HIST 39100-01 ST: THE CULTURE OF THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES H HU LA
3 CREDITS
ENROLLMENT: 20
INSTRUCTOR: Matthew Klemm, Muller 405, Ext. 1306
PREREQUISITES: Three courses in the humanities and or social sciences; sophomore standing.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This class will consider the culture of the European Middle Ages at its peak from c. 1100-1347. Topics will include the rise of feudal monarchies, the Renaissance of the 12th Century, the creation of cities, changes in religious thought and practice, heresy and the inquisition, the first universities, gothic art and architecture, among others.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Lecture and discussion.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Research paper; take home exams, class participation. GRADING is based on the above requirements.

HIST 39300-01 ST: STUDIES IN US HISTORY: BRAVE NEW WORLDS: GENDER IN EARLY AMERICA H HU LA
3 CREDITS
ENROLLMENT: 20
INSTRUCTOR: Vivian Bruce Conger, Muller 408, Ext. 4-3572
PREREQUISITES: Three courses in the humanities and/or social sciences; sophomore standing.
STUDENTS: Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors of all majors.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will explore the ways in which gender is relevant for understanding early settlement, the formation of the American republic, the development of democracy and republican citizenship, and the development of ideas about race, class, and sexuality. It is arranged both topically and chronologically, from the colonial period (which includes the English background) through the antebellum period. We will examine issues such as the economy, early industrialization, war, families, and politics. Throughout the semester we will be asking what difference a gendered analysis makes to our understanding of Anglo-America. How do we come to understand the various meanings attributed to sexual differences--that is to constructed definitions of femininity and masculinity--and the impact of gender on relations of power (relations of authority and subordination)?
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: In-depth analysis of (that is, reading and discussion of) major books and journal articles in the field—which will be supplemented by primary source readings, videos, and visual material.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: In addition to the readings assigned, you will have two take-home exams and a major research paper on the topic of your choice. Grading is based on attendance, class participation, and the above requirements.

HIST 48100-01 EUROPEAN SEMINAR: THE EAST OF EUROPE: THE LANDS AND PEOPLES BETWEEN RUSSIA AND GERMANY HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Zenon Wasyliw, Muller 427, Ext. 4-1587
ENROLLMENT: 10
PREREQUISITES: Senior standing.
STUDENTS: Senior history and social studies teaching majors and minors have preference; others welcome if space is available.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: The seminar assesses the twentieth century evolution of national and
transnational identities through the lens of constructed memories and competing narratives with a focus
on the lands and peoples between Russia and Germany. The construction of the national or transnational
ideal will be evaluated through a study of the transformative realities of everyday life and values.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Qualitative discussion of assigned readings and individual research projects.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Seminar discussion participation and the completion of a twenty-five page research paper.

HIST 48200-01 GLOBAL SEMINAR: TRAVEL, TOURISM AND HISTORY HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Jason Freitag, Muller 423, Ext. 4-5798
ENROLLMENT: 10
PREREQUISITES: Senior standing or equivalent; permission of instructor.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Many of our great historical texts involve travel in some way. From Herodotus to al-Biruni to Richard Burton, the traveler’s gaze has opened new worlds, introduced new peoples, and structured the way we view large parts of the globe. Travel literature remains an important method for accessing the past and present of other cultures. This seminar will explore the role of travel and travel writing in history. We will read classic traveler’s accounts, modern travel narratives, and contemporary tourist guides to examine how travel and tourism both create and become implicated in the historical and cultural representations of societies around the world.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Discussion, student presentations.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: class presentations, 30-page research paper.

HIST 48200-02 GLOBAL SEMINAR: WAR, SOCIETY & CULTURE: THE PACIFIC, 1931-45 HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Lu Liu, Muller 416, Ext. 4-3035
ENROLLMENT: 10
PREREQUISITES: Senior standing or equivalent; permission of instructor.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Long before the Pearl Harbor, East Asia had been involved in military conflicts known as the Second Sino-Japanese War in China and the Fifteen-Year War in Japan. This course reviews briefly the background and progress of the war, with a focus more on the social and cultural aspects of the war. It mainly investigates the Asia-Pacific War as a modernizing force that further transformed East Asia. This course counts toward the global requirement for history department majors.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Discussion, student presentations.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Short essays, research paper.

HIST 48300-01 US SEMINAR: THE AGE OF CONSUMERISM IN EARLY ANGLO-AMERICA HU LA
3 CREDITS
ENROLLMENT: 10
INSTRUCTOR: Vivian Bruce Conger, Muller 408, Ext. 4-3572
PREREQUISITES: Permission of instructor and senior standing or equivalent; must be taken at home campus.
STUDENTS: Junior and Senior history and social studies majors and minors have preference; others welcome
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This seminar is an exploration of material culture in the colonial, revolutionary, and early national periods. As it traces the transition from production to consumption in early modern England and early America, it will examine how the ability of capitalism to shape taste, fashion, architecture, material culture, and even manners led to “a refinement of America.” It will explore the meaning of consumption to both the genteel and ordinary folk, the purposes that consumption served, and the systems of value in which consumption was embedded. It will also study how and why consumerism created as well as reflected moral ideologies and political attitudes as old structures were first subverted and then radically modified.
COURSE FORMAT AND STYLE: In-depth weekly discussion of readings in books and journal articles. Each week two students will be responsible for leading the class discussion about the readings.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Readings, class discussion, and a 25-page research paper (all phases of this paper will be presented to the class for discussion, comment, and revision). Grading will be based on attendance and the stated requirements.

HIST 49301-01 US TUTORIAL: A HOUSE DIVIDED: THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR & RECONSTRUCTION HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Pearl Ponce, Muller 406, Ext. 4-3606
ENROLLMENT: 5
PREREQUISITES: Permission of instructor and senior standing (or advanced junior standing).
COURSE DESCRIPTION: The American Civil War, Mark Twain observed, “uprooted institutions that were centuries old, changed the politics of a people, transformed the social life of half the country, and wrought so profoundly upon the national character that the influence cannot be measured short of two or three generations.” As such, this tutorial will investigate both this war which divided the American government and the process of rebuilding this house afterwards. Students will immerse themselves in the literature of this field, engage in rigorous and intensive dialogue on the tutorial readings, and write a significant research paper.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Weekly, one-on-one discussions of readings; reports on the writing process and the progress of the research paper.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Weekly attendance; discussion of assigned books; and a 20-25 page. research paper as well as shorter papers designed to aid in the development of the final paper; grading based on performance of each of these requirements.

HIST 49500-01 INTERNSHIP: HISTORY NLA
1-6 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Vivian Bruce Conger, Muller 408, Ext. 4-3572
ENROLLMENT: 5
PREREQUISITES: Four history courses; junior standing or above; permission of instructor and chair. Available for variable credit; only 6 credits may be counted toward the history major.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: An opportunity for practical experience in a variety of history-related activities in the United States, under the joint supervision of the sponsoring agency and a history department faculty member. Internships are arranged individually and must be approved by the chair of the history department.

HIST 49900-01 INDEPENDENT STUDY: HISTORY LA
1-3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Vivian Bruce Conger, Muller 408, Ext. 4-3572
ENROLLMENT: 1
PREREQUISITES: Senior standing, or equivalent.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Special research on an individual project arranged by a student with a particular faculty member. The project may include reading books and/or writing papers under the guidance of the faculty member, with a performance expectation of senior-level work. Offered on demand only.

History Department - Fall 2011

HIST 10100-01 FOUNDATIONS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION 1 G H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Karin Breuer, Muller 419, Ext. 4-1489
ENROLLMENT: 32
PREREQUISITES: None.
STUDENTS: This is a beginning level survey course. As such it is designed for first year students and sophomores. Not open to seniors except by permission of instructor.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will provide an overview of "western" (i.e., primarily European) history from the Ancient Greeks to the Treaty of Westphalia (1648). Topics covered will include Greek democracy, the Roman Empire, the medieval history of the Roman Catholic Church, the Protestant Reformation, and the Age of Religious Wars.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Primarily lecture, some discussion
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Three examinations, three 4-5 page analytical essays, class attendance and discussion. Grading will be based on class participation, examinations, and analytical essays.

HIST 10100-02 FOUNDATIONS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION 1 G H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Matthew Klemm, Muller 405, Ext. 4-1306
ENROLLMENT: 32
PREREQUISITES: None.
STUDENTS: This is a beginning level survey course. As such it is designed for first year students and sophomores. Not open to seniors except by permission of instructor.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will provide an overview of "western" (i.e., primarily European) history from Ancient Greece to the Reformation. The focus will be on those aspects of this history that we judge to have shaped modern notions of western mentalities and western civilization. Topics covered include Ancient Greek culture and the development of democracy, the diffusion of Greek culture, the evolution of Roman government, the Christianization of Europe, the reclamation of ancient learning in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation, and the Age of Religious Wars.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Primarily lecture, some discussion
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Three examinations, two short essays, one longer essay, class participation. Based on class participation, examinations, and essays.

HIST 10100-03, 04 FOUNDATIONS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION 1 G H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: STAFF
ENROLLMENT: 32 per section
PREREQUISITES: None.
STUDENTS: Not open to seniors except by permission of instructor. Also offered through the London Center.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Introduction to the development of Western civilization from its heritage in the ancient world to the early modern age of the 17th or 18th centuries. Major political, socioeconomic, and cultural trends are examined. Students may not receive credit for both HIST 10100 and HIST 18100.

HIST 11100-01 UNITED STATES HISTORY TO 1865 1 H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Pearl Ponce, Muller 406, Ext. 4-3606
ENROLLMENT: 32
PREREQUISITES: None.
STUDENTS: Usually first-year students and sophomores of all majors.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Survey of historical development, 1492-1865. Stress will be placed on political and social developments through the end of the American Civil War.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Lecture and Discussion.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: 1) Mid-term; 2) final; 3) 2 short papers; and 4) weekly reading. Based on discussion, papers, and exams.

HIST 11100-02 UNITED STATES HISTORY TO 1865 1 H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Michael Trotti, Muller 412, Ext. 4-1591
ENROLLMENT: 32
PREREQUISTE: None.
STUDENTS: First year students and upperclassmen of all majors and disciplines; not open to seniors.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course introduces students to some of the most important issues and themes in United States history from the colonial era through the Civil War. Of particular importance in this class will be the contact and conflict between cultures, the founding of our national government, and a discussion of the causes and effects of two of our most important wars – the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. In the process, the course will provide students with a basic understanding of the historical method as well as practice with their critical thinking and writing skills.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Lecture and discussion
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Three books plus shorter readings; grade is based upon a midterm, final, one essay, and a series of quizzes.

HIST 11100-03, 04 UNITED STATES HISTORY TO 1865 1 H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Chad Wheaton, Williams 119H, Ext. 4-1084
ENROLLMENT: 32 per section
PREREQUISTE: None.
STUDENTS: Not open to seniors except by permission of instructor.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: A survey of United States history from the colonial period through the Civil War. Included are our European heritage, problems of colonial settlement, the achievement of political independence and stability, territorial expansion, industrialization, and the struggle over slavery.

HIST 11200-01 UNITED STATES HISTORY SINCE 1865 1 H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Vivian Bruce Conger, Muller 408, Ext. 4-3572
ENROLLMENT: 32
PREREQUISITES: None.
STUDENTS: Primarily first and second year students from all majors. Open to students of all majors. This class is not open to seniors.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: I assume that American history is not a fixed set of facts, figures, and events, that it is not a done deal. People, places, motivation and circumstance are the content for rigorous historical thinking. History was contested all along and continues to be contested. It is that complexity we will explore throughout the semester. To that end, this course broadly explores major themes and issues that led to the making of the modern United States. We will focus on social and intellectual currents, labor and business, farmer protest, immigration and ethnicity, race and gender, the development of reform and radical thought and activities, American involvement in war, civil liberties issues, Progressivism and the New Deal, and major changes in post-World War II America. Through few short lectures, readings (both primary and secondary), videos, hand on work with primary sources, and LOTS OF DISCUSSION, you will become acquainted with the central concerns of US history and you will begin to cultivate habits of critical understanding that allow you to draw significance from the past.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Discussion of readings (primary and secondary sources), videos and some lectures.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Readings from a foundation text, a collection of essays that set up key points of debate, a collection of primary documents, and two additional books (one will be a novel). Also regular attendance, weekly writing assignments, and 2 in-class exams (essay and short-answer identifications). Grading is based on attendance, class participation, written assignments, and exams.

HIST 18100-01, 02 WORLD CIVILIZATION I 1 G H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Lu Liu, Muller 416, Ext. 4-3035
ENROLLMENT: 32 per section
PREREQUISITES: None
STUDENTS: Seniors allowed only by instructor’s permission.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: What constitutes civilization? How did people thousands of years ago create structures, adornments, arts, ideas, and implements still admired today? How did people from distant places come into contact with each other and how did they interact? Why did some conquer others and when conquest was done, how did ruler and ruled coexist? This course considers the emergence of complex human societies and their interactions until the development of global avenues of intercommunication in the 16th century.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Lecture, discussion of readings, films, student presentations
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Readings, quizzes, 2 midterm exams, student presentations, and a 5 to 8-page paper.

HIST 18100-03 WORLD CIVILIZATION I 1 G H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Jason Freitag, Muller 423, Ext. 4-5798
ENROLLMENT: 32
PREREQUISITE: None
STUDENTS: Primarily freshmen and sophomores: seniors require permission of instructor. Not open to students who have completed HIST-10100; The Development of Western Civilization.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course is the first in a two-semester World Civilizations sequence, and in it we will cover the period from the beginnings of human society until 1500 CE. The course will proceed chronologically, but has the objective of exploring certain crucial themes in the development of human history. Issues of migration, urbanization, tradition, family and social structure, identity (caste, class, race, sex ethnicity), authority and resistance, globalization and cultural encounter will help to guide out thinking as we move through the early millennia of history. The course will introduce the world’s major religions – Hinduism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam – and discuss their growth and impact. Finally, the course will look critically at “historiography,” or the writing of history, as we try to understand how writers in the past have tried to understand their world historically.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Lectures, discussion of readings. Each class one student will be responsible for making a brief, thematic presentation of the day’s readings.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Readings, response papers, class attendance and participation, midterm and final. Based on performance on each of the above requirements.

HIST 20300-01 INTRODUCTORY GEOGRAPHY 1 G LA SS
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Jarett Powers, Williams 119H, Ext. 4-1084
ENROLLMENT: 27
PREREQUISITES: One course in the humanities or social sciences and sophomore standing.
STUDENTS: The course is open to any who have an interest in geography or wish to view the interaction of humans with their environment from a different perspective.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Shakespeare tells us “All the world’s a stage,” and geography is the study of the stage upon which almost all human events have taken place. This course will focus on world regional geography and will use specific situations as examples of broader issues. Far from being devoted to memorization of place names and locations, the course will attempt to explain, for example, why a city is located where it is, how earlier mistakes might frustrate current development programs, why some long established states are threatened with disintegration, and numerous other problems which appear in the daily news.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Lecture, discussion of readings and current events, and videos.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Readings, exams, active class participation, and an 8 to 10 page research paper. (GRADING: A-F)

HIST 20800-01 HIDDEN FROM HISTORY: AMERICAN HERSTORY 1 H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Vivian Conger, Muller 408, Ext. 4-3572
ENROLLMENT: 27
PREREQUISITES: One course in the humanities or social sciences and sophomore standing.
STUDENTS: Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors of all majors
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course is specifically designed to teach you to think critically, analytically, and contextually about women’s lives since the arrival of Europeans on the North American continent. It is intended to introduce students to the methodology of women’s history in addition to exploring the too-often hidden and forgotten gender dimensions of many aspects of the American past. Both continuity and change in women’s lives will be explored from a wide variety of topics including Native American women, African-American women, immigrant women, the family, class, politics, reform movements, religion, sexuality, and the interplay between real and expected social values. Readings will be based on both secondary and primary sources. Because I believe strongly in letting women tell their own stories you will have many opportunities to “hear women’s voices” through letters, diaries, journals, and autobiographies.
FORMAT AND STYLE: Readings (secondary sources but with an emphasis on primary sources), videos, lots of discussion, and some lecture.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Readings, class participation, class presentation/research paper and 2 take-home exams. Grading is based on attendance and the preceding requirements.

HIST 20900-01 ETHNIC UNITED STATES SINCE THE CIVIL WAR 1 H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Michael Trotti, Muller 412, Ext. 4-1591
ENROLLMENT: 27
PREREQUISITES: One course in the humanities or social sciences; sophomore standing.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: To examine the impact of immigration, and therefore racial and ethnic diversity, upon American life. Particular emphasis will be placed on the interaction between ethnic groups and the dominant Anglo-Saxon culture. We will look at the history of modern American through the eyes of a variety groups, yielding a very different perspective than our standard view of history. Of particular importance to the students is the assignment of a family history paper in which they examine their own ethnic roots and culture and trace the history of their own family within the larger context of both American and Ethnic history.

HIST 22100-01 RUSSIAN HISTORY 1 G H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Zenon Wasyliw, Muller 427, Ext. 4-1587
ENROLLMENT: 27
PREREQUISITES: One course in the humanities or social sciences and sophomore standing.
STUDENTS: Open to all students.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course offers an interpretive survey of Russia's
historical development. We shall commence our study with an
evaluation of medieval Kievan Rus and its competing legacies, continue
with the rise of Muscovy and concentrate on the evolution of Imperial
Russia under the leadership of the Tsarist Romanov dynasty with a
comparative assessment of Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great and Catherine
the Great. We shall conclude with an appraisal of Russia's great author's
and poets, the role of the intelligentsia and the rise of nineteenth
century revolutionary movements leading to the revolutions of 1917, imperial and colonial concepts of power and authority, and competing historical narratives.
COURSE FORMAT/ STYLE: Lectures, discussions, projects and presentations.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Essay examinations, a comparative book critique and class
participation

HIST 22700-01 ISLAMIC CIVILIZATIONS: MUHAMMAD TO THE 19TH CENTURY: EARLY ISLAM HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Jason Freitag, Muller 423, Ext. 4-5798
ENROLLMENT: 27
PREREQUISITES: One course in the humanities or social sciences and sophomore standing.
OBJECTIVES: This course deals with the worldwide development of Islamic societies, beginning in the Arabian Peninsula just before the time of Muhammad. The course then considers the rise and consolidation of Islam in Arabia, and follows the global development and impact of Islamic societies as they become established from Europe to Indian and Southeast Asia. The course examines Islam in its various religious, cultural and political forms, and the ways in which it has provided aspects of a stable identity for Muslims worldwide while adapting itself to the social and cultural needs of the areas to which is spread. The course will also look critically at “historiography,” or the writing of history, as we try to understand how Muslim writers construed the form and meaning of their faith and their place as Muslims within this world. The course ends as the European colonial powers encounter the Middle Eastern and Asian Islamic worlds and a series of transformations begin that result in the contours of Islam in the modern world. Counts toward “the global history” requirement for our majors.
STUDENTS: Open to all students.
FORMAT AND STYLE: Lectures, discussion of readings.
REQUIREMENTS: Readings, response papers, class attendance and participation, midterm and final.
GRADING: Based on performance on each of the above requirements.

HIST 23400-01 MODERN LATIN AMERICA 1 G H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Jonathan Ablard, Muller 403, Ext. 4-3558
ENROLLMENT: 27
PREREQUISITES: One course in the humanities or social sciences; sophomore standing.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course analyzes major political, economic and social developments that have shaped Latin America since the late colonial period. Important frameworks of analysis will include, class, race and gender. Emphasis will be placed on integrating different forms of historical scholarship in order to gain a more synthetic picture of modern Latin America. Throughout the course, we will pay close attention to Latin America’s relationship with the United States, in terms of trade, foreign relations, and immigration.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Discussion and presentations.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Two exams, three short papers and a research paper.

HIST 24500-01 ST: THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Pearl Ponce, Muller 406, Ext. 4-3606
ENROLLMENT: 27
PREPREQUISITES: None
STUDENTS: All
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Examination of how this crucial conflict in American History, from the election of 1860 to the defeat of the Confederacy in 1865, transformed the nation. Although military strategy and tactics will be considered, this course will emphasize the American Civil War as a revolutionary experience.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Lecture and Discussion
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: 1) 6 books; 2) midterm exam; 3) 2 short papers; and 4) final exam. Based on discussion, papers, and exams.

HIST 27000-01 HISTORY OF AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL THOUGHT 1 H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Michael Smith, Muller 320, Ext. 4-1290
ENROLLMENT: 27
PREREQUISITES: One course in the humanities or social sciences; sophomore standing.
STUDENTS: Sophomore standing and up. Priority given to history and environmental studies majors and minors.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course traces the evolution of American ideas about nature and the environment from the colonial period to the present. Although rooted in intellectual history, this course will also explore cultural and social history as they relate to environmental thought. Students will examine the changing definition of concepts such as wilderness, conservation, and nature itself. Over the course of the semester students should develop a solid understanding of the ways politics, economics, religion, gender and race have shaped environmental thought in this country. Students can also expect to practice historical interpretation through short writing assignments. There will also be a collaborative local environmental history project.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Three books, regular attendance, several short papers, group project, final portfolio. A-F, Standard breakdown. Based on performance of each of the above requirements.

HIST 29200-01 ST: STUDIES IN GLOBAL HISTORY: INTRO TO CHINESE CULTURE 1 G H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Lu Liu, Muller 416, Ext. 4-3035
ENROLLMENT: 27
PREREQUISITE: One course in the humanities and/or social sciences; sophomore standing.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Occasional courses of an experimental nature are offered under this number and title. These may be of lecture and/or discussion format, of great breadth, or highly specialized. Any prerequisites are announced when printed descriptions of the study topic are distributed. This course may be repeated for credit for selected topic on different subjects. This course counts toward the global requirement for history department majors.

HIST 31300-01 THE OTHER EUROPE: MODERN EASTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE 1 G H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Zenon Wasyliw, Muller 427, Ext. 4-1587
ENROLLMENT: 20
PREREQUISITES: Three courses in the humanities and/or social sciences and sophomore standing.
STUDENTS: Any interested students.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: The peoples of Eastern and Central Europe experienced revolutionary transformations in their political systems, economy, society and the structures of everyday life and values. We shall begin with a general political and cultural overview of Eastern and Central Europe from the pre World War I period through World War II. The course will concentrate on the recent history of post World War II Eastern and Central Europe. An interdisciplinary assessment of dissident and reform movements, popular revolts and other events and trends (e.g. Titoism, Hungary 1956, Prague Spring 1968, the Solidarity movement, underground music, etc.) will be discussed and analyzed within the framework of intellectual, social and cultural challenges to the existing communist order and the competing political influences of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and the west. Finally, we shall use our acquired historical expertise to assess transformations, conflicts and concerns experienced throughout Eastern and Central Europe in the nineties and into the twenty first century.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Lecture/discussion.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Readings to be announced. Grading based on research paper, examinations, semester project, and discussion.

HIST 35400-01 IMPERIAL AND WEIMAR GERMANY HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Karin Breuer, Muller 418, Ext. 1489
ENROLLMENT: 20
PREREQUISITES: Three courses in the humanities or social sciences; sophomore standing or above.
STUDENTS: Open to all students.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: One of the key questions of German history is whether the nation took a "special path" resulting inevitably in Nazism. This course is organized around this theme. It will examine Germany from the Wars of Unification through the end of the Weimar Republic, focusing particularly on social, political, and economic trends.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Primarily discussion, some lecture.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Two take-home examinations, 15-page research paper, and active participation in class. Grading based on performance on each of the above requirements.

HIST 36500-01 THE SECTIONAL CONFLICT, 1820-1861 HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Pearl Ponce, Muller 406, Ext. 4-3606
ENROLLMENT: 20
PREREQUISITES: Three courses in the humanities or social sciences; sophomore standing & higher.
STUDENTS: All
COURSE DESCRIPTION: By the time South Carolina Representative Preston S. Brooks brutally beat Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner on the floor of the Senate in retaliation for his “The Crime against Kansas” speech in 1856, some Americans had come to believe the South and the North had developed so differently that separation was both desirable and inevitable. The four decades known as the sectional conflict, from the Missouri Compromise to the election of Abraham Lincoln, are critical to understanding why civil war would rend the country five short years after the caning of Charles Sumner. As such, this course on the coming of the war will address the political, cultural, social, and ideological differences between the North and the South. Among other topics, we will consider the nullification crisis; the impact of the developing western region; the territorial system; slavery and expansionism; the Mexican War; and Bleeding Kansas among others.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: lectures, readings, and discussion.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: weekly readings & discussion, research paper, and midterm and final examinations. Graded based on performance on these aspects.

HIST 38700-01 HISTORY OF DISEASE AND HALTH IN LATIN AMERICA HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Jonathan Ablard, Muller 403, Ext. 4-3558
ENROLLMENT: 20
PREREQUISITES: Three courses in the humanities and/or social sciences; sophomore standing.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: In the last decade, there has been a tremendous growth in historical scholarship on topics relating to disease and health in Latin America. Influenced by the growing field of the social history of medicine, many of these works challenge assumptions about the motives, design and implementation of public health initiatives since the period of early independence. Scholars have demonstrated that popular and professional notions of health and illness were not static but changed over time in response to an array of social, political and economic forces. This course has four major goals that are inspired by this new and dynamic body of literature. First, students will develop an historical awareness of the political and social dimensions of disease and health in Latin America. Second, students will gain insight into how the disease and health reflect broader political and economic developments in Latin America. Third, we will examine how interactions between medical practitioners and their clients have shaped public health policy in Latin America, perceptions of what constitutes “ill-health,” and notions of race, class and gender. Finally, students will develop a global perspective not just on issues of health and disease, but also economic, racial, and social inequality (at the local, national and international levels).

HIST 39200-01 ST: STUDIES IN GLOBAL HISTORY: THE MUGHAL EMPIRE HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Jason Freitag, Muller 423, Ext. 4-5798
ENROLLMENT: 20
PREREQUISITES: Three course in the humanities and/or social sciences; sophomore standing.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Occasional courses of an experimental nature are offered under this number and title. These may be of lecture and/or discussion format, of great breadth, or highly specialized. Any additional prerequisites are announced when printed descriptions of the study topic are distributed. This course may be repeated for credit for selected topics on different subjects. This course counts toward the global requirement for history department majors.

HIST 48100-01 HISTORY SEMINAR EUROPEAN: GENDER AND CITIZENSHIP IN MODERN EUROPE HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Karin Breuer, Muller 418, Ext. 4-1489
ENROLLMENT: 10
PREREQUISITES: Permission of instructor and senior standing or equivalent.
STUDENTS: Junior and Senior history and social studies majors and minors with instructor’s permission.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will explore the complex relationship between citizenship and gender in Europe from the late eighteenth century to the present. It will examine numerous different contexts for the gendered nation, including the following: the creation of citizenship in the French Revolution, the relationship between gender and class in the era of industrialization, the gendering of race and imperial conquest, the limits of female inclusion in militarized states, and the gendered order of fascist and socialist states.
STUDENTS: Juniors and Seniors
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Discussion
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Readings, active participation in discussion, annotated bibliography, and two drafts of a 20-25 page research paper.

HIST 48101-01 HISTORY SEMINAR: EUROPEAN: MEDIEVAL HERESY HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Matthew Klemm, Muller 405, Ext. 4-1306
ENROLLMENT: 10
PREREQUISITES: Senior standing or equivalent; permission of instructor.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course explores how the social, political, and intellectual efforts by churchmen to make the Catholic Church the single religious authority in medieval Europe simultaneously defined many people as heterodox, or heretics. We will examine a variety of heretical groups and the ways that they were suppressed and orthodoxy was enforced.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Seminar

HIST 48200-01 HISTORY SEMINAR: GLOBAL: COLD WAR IN LATIN AMERICA HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Jonathan Ablard, Muller 403, Ext. 4-3558
ENROLLMENT: 10
PREREQUISITES: Senior standing or equivalent; permission of instructor.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course seeks to explore the domestic and international origins of civil violence in post-1945 Latin America. To that end, we will grapple with a set of questions that concern state and public violence. When and why do state actors (the military, bureaucrats, the police, etc.) employ violence against their own citizens? When they use violence, who do they target and why? How do these state actors justify or explain their actions? Is violence a “rational” choice to meet the goals of the state actors? We also have to consider the question of the insurrectionary and revolutionary movements (both armed and/or political) that are often the cause (or excuse) for state repression. The most basic question is what constitutes a revolution and why do they happen? Why are some revolutions successful in seizing power while others are not? In the case of Latin America, violent revolutions were rarely successful and yet out of the conflicts emerged civic organizations and social movements that continue to shape the political culture of Latin America.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Discussion
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Response Papers and Research Paper

HIST 48300-01 U.S. HISTORY SEMINAR: THE GREATEST AND GRAVEST GENERATION, 1939-1955 HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Michael Trotti, Muller 412, Ext. 1591
ENROLLMENT: 10
PREREQUISITE: Three courses in the humanities or social sciences; instructor’s permission.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This will be an intensive exploration into the United States at high tide. During and just after World War II, the United States had more power and authority – domestically and internationally, economically and militarily and according to every sort of measure – than ever before or ever since. How did this “greatest” generation accommodate themselves to the tremendous range of fears in this age as well as the tremendous possibilities that the future seemed to be unfolding before them? In what ways are “grave” problems that we now face (internationally, politically, economically, environmentally, and others) due to the choices we made in this peculiar moment of power and authority? We will be exploring those questions and more in this focused seminar.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Discussion of common readings plus independent research.

HIST 49500-01 HISTORY INTERNSHIP NLA
1/6 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Vivian Bruce Conger, Muller 408, Ext. 4-3572
ENROLLMENT: 1
PREREQUISITES: Four history courses; junior standing or above; permission of instructor and chair. Available for variable credit; only 6 credits may be counted toward the history major.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: An opportunity for practical experience in a variety of history-related activities in the United States, under the joint supervision of the sponsoring agency and a history department faculty member. Internships are arranged individually and must be approved by the chair of the history department.

HIST 49900-01 INDEPENDENT STUDY: HISTORY LA
1/3 CREDIT
INSTRUCTOR: Vivian Bruce Conger, Muller 408, Ext. 4-3572
ENROLLMENT: 1
PREREQUISITES: Senior standing, or equivalent.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Special research on an individual project arranged by a student with a particular faculty member. The project may include reading books and/or writing papers under the guidance of the faculty member, with a performance expectation of senior-level work. Offered on demand only.

History Department - SPRING 2011

HIST 10100-01 FOUNDATIONS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION 1 G H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Matthew Klemm, Muller 405, Ext. 4-1306
ENROLLMENT: 30
PREREQUISITES: None.
STUDENTS: This is a beginning level survey course. As such it is designed for first year students and sophomores. Not open to seniors except by permission of instructor.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will provide an overview of "western" (i.e., primarily European) history from Ancient Greece to the Reformation. Topics covered will include Greek democracy, the Roman Empire, the medieval history of the Roman Catholic Church, the Protestant Reformation, and the Age of Religious Wars.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Primarily lecture, some discussion
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Two examinations, several short essays, one longer essay, class attendance and discussion; grading based on class participation, examinations, and essays.

HIST 10200-01 MODERN WESTERN CIVILIZATION 1 G H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Karin Breuer, Muller 418, Ext. 4-1489
ENROLLMENT: 30
PREREQUISITES: None.
STUDENTS: This is a beginning level survey course. As such it is open to all students.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will provide an overview of European history from 1648 to the present. Topics covered will include the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, socio-political change in the nineteenth century, Marxism and the Russian Revolution, the causes and the courses of World Wars I and II, and the Holocaust.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Primarily lecture, some discussion
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Three examinations, 3 mid-length (4 page) analytical essays, class attendance and discussion

HIST 10200-02, 03 MODERN WESTERN CIVILIZATION 1 G H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: STAFF
ENROLLMENT: 30
PREREQUISITES: None.
STUDENTS: This is a beginning level survey course. Not open to seniors except by permission of instructor.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Continuation of HIST 10100, extending from the early modern period to the present . Students may not receive credit for both HIST 10200 and HIST 18200.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Primarily lecture, some discussion
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Based on class participation, examinations, and essays.

HIST 11100-01 UNITED STATES HISTORY TO 1865 1 H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: STAFF
ENROLLMENT: 30
PREREQUISITE: None
STUDENTS: Primarily first and second year students from all majors; not open to seniors.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course broadly explores the history of the United States from its colonial antecedents through the Civil War. It treats early settlement, the transition from colonies to states, the growth of democracy and a new political system, the impact of early urbanization and industrialization, and the expansion west. Within this chronological framework, it examines Native Americans, race and slavery, gender and the family, the class structure, and ethnicity. This course will acquaint you with the central concerns of early US history and it will begin to cultivate habits of critical understanding and analysis that allow you do draw significance from the past.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Lectures, readings (primary and secondary sources), videos and discussion
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Readings from a foundation text, a collection of essays that set up key points of debate, a collection of primary documents, and two additional books (one will be a novel). Also regular attendance, home assignments, 2 short papers, and 2 in-class exams; grading based on attendance, class participation and the above requirements

HIST 11200-01 UNITED STATES HISTORY SINCE 1865 1 H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Michael Trotti, Muller 412, Ext. 4-1591
ENROLLMENT: 30
PREREQUISITES: None.
STUDENTS: Any interested students of Junior standing or below; seniors should take our 200-level classes or above.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Survey of the important cultural, social, economic, and political developments in the U.S. from 1865 to the present. As a survey, this course will give you a sound knowledge of the most important moments of our recent past. Special emphasis will be placed upon: the emergence of the nation as an economic superpower, the growing engagement of the U.S. in world affairs, and the rich social history (race, class, and gender) of the nation in this period.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Lecture and discussion.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: 1. Three books. 2. One paper, 2 essay exams, and regular quizzes.

HIST 11200-02, 03 UNITED STATES HISTORY SINCE 1865 1 H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Michael Smith, Muller 320, Ext. 4-1290
ENROLLMENT: 30
PREREQUISITE: None.
STUDENTS: Primarily first and second year students from all majors. Open to students of all majors. This class is not open to seniors.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: I assume that American history is not a fixed set of facts, figures, and events; it is a story, shaped by countless forces and varying according to perspective. People, places, motivation and circumstance are the content for rigorous historical thinking in this course. History was contested all along and continues to be contested. It is that complexity we will explore throughout the semester. To that end, this course broadly explores major themes and issues that led to the making of the modern United States. We will focus on social and intellectual currents, labor and business, farmer protest, immigration and ethnicity, race and gender, the development of reform and radical thought and activities, American involvement in war, civil liberties issues, Progressivism and the New Deal, and major changes in post-World War II America. Through few short lectures, readings (both primary and secondary), DVDS/videos, hands on work with primary sources, LOTS OF DISCUSSION, and creating your own digital narrative of history you will become acquainted with the central concerns of US history and you will begin to cultivate habits of critical understanding that allow you to draw significance from the past.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Discussion of readings (primary and secondary sources), DVDs/videos and some interactive lectures.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Readings from a foundation text (Give Me Liberty! 3rd ed. by Eric Foner and supplemental other readings on-line and through handouts. Also regular attendance, regular writing assignments, and 2 exams (part take-home, part in-class; grading based on attendance, class participation and above requirements.

HIST 18200-01, 02 WORLD CIVILIZATION II 1 G H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Jonathan Ablard, Muller 403, Ext. 4-3558
ENROLLMENT: 30
PREREQUISITES: None.
STUDENTS: Primarily freshmen and sophomores. Not open to students who have completed HIST-10100: The Development of Western Civilization.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will provide students with an understanding of world history from 1492 through the present. Global interactions, whether peaceful or violent, have profoundly shaped the course of world history. The major focus of this course, then, is the examination of how different national, religious, ethnic and racial groups have shaped and influenced one another. The course will begin with an examination of the balance of economic and military power in the world before 1492. After examining European exploration and conquest and the variety of responses by Asians, Africans and Native Americans we will consider the growth of the nation-state, the development of trans-Atlantic slavery, and the subsequent rise of revolutionary ideologies, industrialization, and imperialism in the nineteenth century. We will conclude with an examination of the impacts of the First and Second World Wars on global history up to the First Gulf War.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: discussion, lecture, student presentations
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: quizzes, midterm, short paper, final exam.

HIST 18200-03, 04 WORLD CIVILIZATION II 1 G H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Lu Liu, Muller 416, Ext. 4-3035
ENROLLMENT: 30
PREREQUISITES: None.
STUDENTS: Open to all students. Not open to students who have completed HIST-10200: Modern Western Civilization.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This class starts roughly at 1500 and moves through to the present day. Topics will include the rise of great empires in the Middle East and Asia (Ming, Ottoman, Mughal) and their relationship to the emerging European global powers. We will then examine the rise of European empires, beginning with the Spanish and Portuguese, and continuing through the Dutch, English and French imperial formations. Special consideration will be given to the encounters with indigenous populations in the Americas, Africa, and Asia, and the rise of independence and nationalist movements across the globe. Finally, we will consider the post-colonial world, the Cold War, the process of "globalization" and the conflicts and relationships that shape our world today.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Lectures, discussion of readings. Each class one student will be responsible for making a brief, thematic presentation of the day's readings.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Readings, response papers, class attendance and participation, comparative response paper, midterm and final; grading-based on performance on each of the above requirements

HIST 20100-01 Honors Intermediate Seminar: The Ocean of Stories: Sanskrit Literature in Translation
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Jason Freitag, Muller 423, Ext. 4-5798
ENROLLMENT: 20
PREREQUISITES: None
STUDENTS: Honors Students and others with permission of instructor.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Titled after the Kathāsaritsāgara, one of the most important and popular works in the classical Sanskrit canon, this seminar will be an intensive introduction to the classic texts of the Sanskrit literary world. The seminar will consider works within a range of genres from fables and fairy tales to court poetry to princely didactic texts and ending with an extended consideration of the major epics of the Indian tradition, the Mahābhārata and the Rāmāyaṇa. This seminar will take a fully multidisciplinary approach to the analysis of these texts. The works will be examined for what they are as individual expressive works, they will be placed in their contexts, both historically and as representatives of their genre within the history of Sanskrit literature, and students will explore the connections between these texts and larger currents in Indian society and culture. Further, the seminar will introduce students to aspects of the Sanskrit language and the distinctive features of Sanskrit that have made it one of the world’s premier literary languages. Finally, students in the seminar will consider the role of translation as both an historical and a literary process through an examination of selected excerpts from alternate translations of the texts under study.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Interactive lectures, discussion of assigned readings, student presentations.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Readings, response papers, class attendance and participation, critical essay (which will form the basis of an end-of-semester presentation); grading based on performance on each of the above requirements.

HIST 20300-01 INTRODUCTORY GEOGRAPHY 1 G LA SS
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Jarett Powers
ENROLLMENT: 30
PREREQUISITES: One course in the humanities or social sciences.
STUDENTS: Though designed with Social Studies majors in mind, the course is open to any who have an interest in geography or wish to view the interaction of humans with their environment from a different perspective.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Shakespeare tells us “All the world’s a stage,” and geography is the study of the stage upon which almost all human events have taken place. This course will focus on world regional geography and will use specific situations as examples of broader issues. Far from being devoted to memorization of place names and locations, the course will attempt to explain, for example, why a city is located where it is, how earlier mistakes might frustrate current development programs, why some long established states are threatened with disintegration, and numerous other problems which appear in the daily news.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Lecture and discussion.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: 2 exams, some map quizzes, and an 8 to 10 page research paper; A-F grading.

HIST 22300-01 Rise and Fall of the British Empire HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Jason Freitag, Muller 423, Ext. 4-5798
ENROLLMENT: 25
PREREQUISITES: One course in the humanities or social sciences; sophomore standing and above.
STUDENTS: Open to all students.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: At its height, the British Empire encompassed one quarter of the earth, and was so geographically dispersed that the sun literally never set on a British possession. This course will examine how and why Great Britain (a country half the size of France) acquired such a vast empire. The class will look at the scope of the empire – settlements and colonies in North America, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa; dependencies and protectorates in Africa and the Middle East; and finally the jewel in the imperial crown, India – and how the populations in both Britain and the colonized regions responded when faced with this empire. The class will also examine the technologies of power that enabled Britain to administer such a large area, and the ways in which imperial power was implicated in the construction of knowledge that introduced many of these places to a European audience, and formed the original basis of modern scholarship on much of the world. Finally, the course will focus on the dissolution of the empire in the twentieth century and the post-colonial legacy that continues to shape these former imperial possessions, as well as the modern British state. Counts towards the global history requirement for history department majors.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Interactive lectures, discussion of assigned readings (historical texts and novels) and films, student presentations.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Readings, response papers, class attendance and participation, critical essay (which will form the basis of an end-of-semester presentation); grading based on performance on each of the above requirements.

HIST 26940-01 HONORS INTERMEDIATE SEMINAR: THE POWER AND FATE OF REPUBLICS IN EARLY AMERICA LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Vivian Bruce Conger, Muller 408, Ext. 4-3572
ENROLLMENT: 20
PREREQUISITES: None
STUDENTS: Priority preference to honors students, but others welcome with instructor’s permission.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: In this course (which is based on the Reacting to the Past pedagogy) you will examine the experience of Americans from the time of first permanent settlement by English colonists in 1607 to the American Revolution (1770s). You will learn not only the basic data of early American history but also to express that knowledge in written and oral argument that employs evidence to prove historical theses. Most importantly, you will immerse yourself in primary source documents and play historically accurate roles in order to comprehend the complexities of Puritan life and thought in Massachusetts through the trial of Anne Hutchinson and of revolutionary America in New York City, 1775-76. You will be assigned different roles derived from each historical setting. Your roles are defined largely by the "game objectives." However, you will write (literally) your own scripts, derived from important texts in the history of ideas. The heart of each game is persuasion. For nearly every role to which you're assigned, you must persuade others that "your" views make more sense than those of your opponents.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Oral presentations and discussions (in class and on line).
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Readings (secondary and primary sources), active participation, and role playing involving reading, researching, writing and presenting. There will be a final reflective analysis due at the end of the semester.

HIST 27000-01 HISTORY OF AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL THOUGHT 1 H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Michael Smith, Muller 320, Ext. 4-1290
ENROLLMENT: 25
PREREQUISITES: One course in the humanities or social sciences and sophomore standing.
STUDENTS: Sophomore standing and up. Priority given to history and environmental studies majors and minors.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course traces the evolution of American ideas about nature and the environment from the colonial period to the present. Although rooted in intellectual history, this course will also explore cultural and social history as they relate to environmental thought. Students will examine the changing definition of concepts such as wilderness, conservation, and nature itself. Over the course of the semester students should develop a solid understanding of the ways politics, economics, religion, gender, and race have shaped environmental thought in this country. Students can also expect to practice historical interpretation through short writing assignments and a local environmental history project undertaken in cooperation with The History Center of Tompkins County.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: A mix of interactive lecture, discussion, and media presentations.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Five books, regular attendance, several short papers and film critiques, final paper. A-F, Standard breakdown. Based on performance of each of the above requirements.

HIST 27500-01, 02 THE HISTORY OF UNITED STATES POPULAR CULTURE 1 H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Michael Trotti, Muller 412, Ext. 4-1591
ENROLLMENT: 25
PREREQUISITES: One course in the humanities or social sciences and sophomore standing.
STUDENTS: Any interested students at the sophomore level or above.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Popular Culture has become synonymous with America – it is one of our chief exports and a defining part of what America is in the 21st century. This course explores the history of American popular culture from the earliest mass media and genres – minstrelsy, dime novels, photography, movies, baseball, vaudeville, radio, TV – that were the most popular pastimes of their respective eras. Particular emphasis will be placed upon the role of pop culture in a number of important historical themes: differences in the experience of popular culture according to race, gender, class, and sexual orientation, changes in technology and the business of pop culture, and how different media expressed the stereotypes of their times.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Lecture and discussion.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Several books, essay exams, participation, a short research project, and smaller assignments.

HIST 29105-01 ST: STUDIES IN EUROPEAN HISTORY: MEDIEVAL CIVILIZATION H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Matthew Klemm, Muller 405, Ext. 4-1306
ENROLLMENT: 25
PREREQUISITES: None.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course offers a survey of political, religious, and cultural developments in the western world, c. 300-1400. The primary theme will be the formation of a distinct European culture from a blend of Classical, Christian, and Germanic elements. Thus we will explore each of these elements individually before looking at how they contributed to new medieval cultures. We will also devote considerable attention to the interactions between Europe and the wider Mediterranean world.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Lecture and Discussion
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Grading is based on participation, Essays, Exams

HIST 29204-01 ST: STUDIES IN GLOBAL HISTORY: FROM SUGAR TO OIL IN THE NEW WORLD 1 G H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Jonathan Ablard, Muller 403, Ext. 4-3558
ENROLLMENT: 25
PREREQUISITES: One course in the humanities and/or social sciences; sophomore standing.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: From Sugar to Oil examines the ways in which commodities have shaped the Western Hemisphere from the arrival of Columbus to the BP oil spill. Students will gain an understanding of the way in which commodities fit into the larger fabric of world history since the 15th century. Our focus will not just be on what was produced and traded throughout history, but also on how historians, economists, and other social scientists have interpreted the social, political, environmental, and economic significance of particular commodities. Thus, while the course might appear to be about inanimate objects, it is in fact a course that focuses our attention on how these objects have shaped the human experience.

HIST 29304-01 ST: STUDIES IN U.S. HISTORY: THE ART AND CRAFT OF HISTORY HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Pearl Ponce, Muller 406, Ext. 4-3606
ENROLLMENT: 25
PREREQUISITES: One course in the humanities and/or social sciences; sophomore standing.
STUDENTS: Geared toward freshmen (who will be overridden into the course), sophomores and transfer students, but open to anyone interested in the discipline of history and in improving their academic skills. This counts as a US distribution requirement in the department.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: The Art and Craft of History will introduce students to the discipline of history and hone those analytical, writing, and presentation skills necessary to succeed as a major or minor in the department and throughout your career at IC. The focus will be on the nature of history; how historians interpret evidence; how they craft their interpretations; how those interpretations change over time; and how you can become a more persuasive and effective historian.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: colloquium (not lecture).
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: attendance, active participation, module specific readings, and a number of short papers and their revision. Your grade will be determined by your performance in discussion and your grades on the various papers.

HIST 30200-01 THE OLD REGIME AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION 1 G H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Karin Breuer, Muller 418, Ext. 4-1489
ENROLLMENT: 20
PREREQUISTIES: Three courses in the humanities and/or social sciences; sophomore standing.
STUDENTS: Open to all students.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will focus on the social, cultural, and political history of France from 1660 to 1815, from the absolutist monarchy of Louis XIV through the French Revolution and Napoleonic Era. After examining the structure of Old Regime society and government, we will explore the revolutionary challenge to that order. Particular themes will include absolutist monarchy vs. revolutionary republicanism; popular politics and the lives of ordinary men and women; the French colonial system and slavery; and the attempt by Enlightenment philosophies and then the French revolutionaries to rethink and transform their world; revolutionary politics, thought, and social reform; and Napoleon’s effort to create a massive European empire.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Primarily discussion, some lecture.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Two take-home examinations, 15-page research paper, and active participation in class.

HIST 30400-01 THE AGE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1 HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Vivian Bruce Conger, Muller 408, Ext. 4-3572, vconger@ithaca.edu
ENROLLMENT: 20
PREREQUISITIES: Three courses in the humanities and/or social sciences and sophomore standing.
STUDENTS: Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors of all majors
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will place the American Revolution within the context of colonial demographic, economic, social, political and cultural development during the latter half of the eighteenth century. In part it will focus on the tangible events of colonial resistance, forming a confederation, drafting and ratifying the Constitution, splitting into opposing political camps, and culminating in the War of 1812. It will also focus as well on the intangible impact of ideologies such as democracy, representation, liberty, republicanism, and nationalism. It will explore more specifically how women, Indians, blacks, the wealthy and poor affected and were affected by the American Revolution.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Discussion of primary and secondary sources as well as visual materials, and some lectures; two take-home exams and a 15-page research paper.

HIST 37000-01 SLAVERY & THE OLD SOUTH
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Pearl Ponce, Muller 406, Ext. 4-3606
ENROLLMENT: 20
PREREQUISITES: Three courses in the humanities or social sciences; sophomore standing
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course on the Old South will examine the rise and fall of the cotton kingdom with a focus on how the planter elite used slavery to dominate and shape southern society. While the South's colonial antecedents will be considered, the focus of this course will be on the development of the South as a conscious minority during the antebellum era and the death of the Old South as a result of the American Civil War and Reconstruction. This course counts toward the U.S. requirement for department majors and minors.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Lecture and discussion
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Attendance; discussion of the assigned readings; short research paper; midterm and final. Grade will be based on performance of each of these requirements.

HIST 39205-01 ST: STUDIES IN GLOBAL HISTORY: ISLAMIC CIVILIZATIONS: THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Jason Freitag, Muller 423, Ext. 4-5798
ENROLLMENT: 20
PREREQUISITES: Three courses in the humanities and/or social sciences; sophomore standing.
STUDENTS: Open to all students.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will provide a survey of major aspects of the Ottoman Empire, including the history of the empire, Ottoman political and commercial culture and relations with other world powers, religious culture, art, architecture, literature and music of the Ottoman period. The course will treat the empire as a case study of a diverse, multi-ethnic and multi-religious state composed of aspects of the earlier Byzantine Christian and Jewish cultures with Turkic and Islamic cultural elements. This layering of histories allows students to address long-term issues of cultural interaction and diversity, and helps to shape a discussion on the encounters between peoples and the ways that diverse groups have negotiated their relationships over time. Finally, this course is designed to provide students the background history that will prepare them for a post-semester, short-term trip abroad to Istanbul. The study abroad component seeks to deepen the students’ classroom experience through visits to some of the major historical and cultural sites discussed during the semester. Additionally, the trip to Turkey would provide an introduction to modern Turkish culture and expose students to a dynamic and increasingly important player in the global community.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Interactive lectures, discussion of assigned readings (historical texts and novels) and films, student presentations.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Readings, response papers, class attendance and participation, critical essay (which will form the basis of an end-of-semester presentation); grading based on performance on each of the above requirements.

HIST 48105-01 HISTORY SEMINAR EUROPEAN: POLYTHEISM TO MONOTHEISM: THE CONVERSION OF ROME HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Matthew Klemm, Muller 405, Ext. 4-1306
ENROLLMENT: 10
PREREQUISITES: Senior standing or equivalent; permission of instructor.
STUDENTS: Junior and senior history and social studies majors and minors
have preference; other majors welcome.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: The main focus of this seminar will be to explore religious change in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages. The conversion of the Roman Empire to Christianity is certainly one of the most remarkable transformations in Western history. We will examine the cultural context for the success of Christianity, especially the ways that this new religion managed to appeal to all levels of society, from Roman intellectuals to Germanic "barbarians."
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Weekly discussion of readings.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Readings, active participation in class discussions, presentation of research, and two drafts of a 20-page research paper.

HIST 48106-01 HISTORY SEMINAR EUROPEAN: STALIN AND STALINISM HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Zenon Wasyliw, Muller 427, Ext. 4-1587
ENROLLMENT: 10
PREREQUISITES: Junior or Senior standing.
STUDENTS: Junior and Senior history and social studies majors and minors have preference; others welcome.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: The Stalinist legacy lives on in the former communist states of Eurasia and East Central Europe. Historians hotly debate and assess the impact of Stalinism on the evolution of the USSR and neighboring former Easter Bloc states. This seminar evaluates Stalin’s rise to power and the implementation and impact of his politics that define Stalinism. We will engage the historical debate by closely reading and discussing interdisciplinary-based historical works and sources and through student research papers.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Qualitative discussion of assigned readings and individual research projects.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: Seminar discussion participation and the completion of a research paper.

HIST 48206-01 HISTORY SEMINAR GLOBAL: CHINA’S CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Lu Liu, Muller 416, Ext. 4-3035
ENROLLMENT: 10
PREREQUISITES: Senior standing or equivalent; permission of instructor.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will be an in-depth investigation of China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). The questions we are going to explore during the semester include, but not limit to: What motivated people, and particularly youth, to participate? What were the ideals the participants strove to realize? How has the Cultural Revolution been remembered in years since? A second goal of the course is to train students in a) close reading of such a variety of sources; and b) writing of well-organized and clearly written analyses of these primary sources, as well as selected secondary readings.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: Seminar with heavy reading load and discussion oriented class meetings. Short response papers and one long research paper.

HIST 49304-01 TUTORIAL: US HISTORY IN SPECIAL PROBLEMS IN UNITED STATES HISTORY: FORGING AN EMPIRE: AMERICAN 19TH C. DIPLOMACY HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Pearl Ponce, Muller 406, Ext. 4-3606
ENROLLMENT: 5
PREREQUISITES: Permission of instructor and senior standing (or advanced junior standing).
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This tutorial, on American diplomacy of the 19th century, focuses on the century when the United States forged an empire. It is a critical stage of development in which the country shed its past as a people on the fringe of powerful empire and moved toward the time when it would become a superpower. We will use the lens of foreign policy to investigate critical issues of race, religion, power, and identity. This tutorial will allow students to immerse themselves in the literature of this field, to engage in rigorous and intensive dialogue on the tutorial readings, and to write a significant research paper.
COURSE FORMAT/STYLE: weekly, one-on-one discussions of readings; reports on the writing process and the progress of the research paper.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS & GRADING: weekly attendance; discussion of assigned books; and a 20-25 page research paper as well as shorter papers designed to aid in the development of the final paper; grading based on performance of each of the above requirements.

HIST 49500-01 INTERNSHIP: HISTORY NLA
1/6 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Vivian Bruce Conger, Muller 408, Ext. 4-3572
ENROLLMENT: 5
PREREQUISITES: Four history courses; junior standing or above; permission of instructor and chair. Available for variable credit; only 6 credits may be counted toward the history major.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: An opportunity for practical experience in a variety of history-related activities in the United States, under the joint supervision of the sponsoring agency and a history department faculty member. Internships are arranged individually and must be approved by the chair of the history department.

HIST 49900-01 INDEPENDENT STUDY: HISTORY LA
1/3 CREDITS
ENROLLMENT: Vivian Bruce Conger, Muller 408, Ext. 4-3572
PREREQUISITES: Senior standing, or equivalent.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Special research on an individual project arranged by a student with a particular faculty member. The project may include reading books and/or writing papers under the guidance of the faculty member, with a performance expectation of senior-level work. Offered on demand only.