Fall 2009

HIST-10100-01, 02 FOUNDATIONS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION HU LA 1 g h
3 CREDITS
01/02: Karin Breuer, Muller 419, Ext. 4-1489
ENROLLMENT: 30 per section
PREREQUISITES: None.
OBJECTIVES: 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.
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.
FORMAT AND STYLE: Primarily lecture, some discussion
REQUIREMENTS: Three examinations, three 4-5 page analytical essays, class attendance and discussion.
GRADING: Based on class participation, examinations, and analytical essays.

HIST-10100-03, 04 FOUNDATIONS OF THE WESTERN CIVILIZATION 1 G H HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Matthew Klemm, Muller 405, Ext. 4-1306
ENROLLMENT: 29 per section
PREREQUISITES: None.
OBJECTIVES: 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.
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.
FORMAT AND STYLE: Primarily lecture, some discussion
REQUIREMENTS: Three examinations, two short essays, one longer essay, class participation.
GRADING: Based on class participation, examinations, and essays.

HIST-11100-01 UNITED STATES HISTORY TO 1865 HU LA 1 h
3 CREDITS
01: Pearl Ponce, Muller 406, Ext. 4-3606
02-04: TBA
ENROLLMENT: 30 per section
PREREQUISITES: None.
OBJECTIVES: Survey of historical development, 1492-1865. Stress will be placed on political and social developments through the end of the American Civil War.
STUDENTS: Usually first-year students and sophomores of all majors.
FORMAT AND STYLE: Lecture and Discussion.
REQUIREMENTS: 1) Mid-term; 2) final; 3) 2 short papers; and 4) weekly reading.
GRADING: Based on discussion, papers, and exams.

HIST-111000-02,03,04 UNITED STATES HISTORY TO 1865 HU LA 1 H
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: TBA
ENROLLMENT: 30
PREREQUISTE: None.
OBJECTIVES: a SURVEY OF United States history from the colonial period through the Civil War. Included are problems of colonial settlement, the achievement of political independence and stability, territorial expansion, industrialization, and the struggle over slavery. Not open to senior except by permission of instructor. (F, Y)
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HIST-11100-05 UNITED STATES HISTORY TO 1856 HU LA 1 h
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Michael Trotti, Muller 412, Ext. 4-1591
ENROLLMENT: 30
PREREQUISITE: None.
OBJECTIVES: To introduce students to some of the most important issues and themes in United State 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.
STUDENTS: First year students and upperclassmen of all majors and disciplines; not open to senior.
FORMAT AND STYLE: Class periods will consist of a mixture of lecture and discussion.
REQUIREMENTS: Three books and a variety of shorter pieces and documents.
GRADING: Based upon a midterm, a final, one paper essay, and four quizzes.

HIST-18100-01, 02 WORLD CIVILIZATION I HU LA 1 g h
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Joanne Izbicki, Muller 416, Ext. 4-3035
ENROLLMENT: 30
PREREQUISITES: None
OBJECTIVES: 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.
STUDENTS: Seniors allowed only by instructor’s permission.
FORMAT AND STYLE: Lecture, discussion of readings, films, student presentations
REQUIREMENTS: Readings, quizzes, 2 midterm exams, student presentations, and a 5 to 8-page paper.

HIST-18100-03 WORLD CIVILIZATION I HU 1 h g
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Jason Freitag, Muller 423, Ext. 4-5798
ENROLLMENT: 30
PREREQUISITE: None
OBJECTIVE: 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.
STUDENTS: Primarily freshmen and sophomores: seniors require permission of instructor. Not open to students who have completed HIST-10100; The Development of Western Civilization.
FORMAT AND STYLE: Lectures, discussion of readings. Each class one student will be responsible for making a brief, thematic presentation of the day’s readings.
REQUIREMENTS: Readings, response papers, class attendance and participation, midterm and final.
GRADING: Based on performance on each of the above requirements.

HIST-18200-02, 03 WORLD CIVILIZATION II HU LA 1 g h
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Jonathan Ablard, Muller 403, Ext. 4-3558
ENROLLMENT: 30 per section
PREREQUISITES: None
OBJECTIVES: 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.
STUDENTS: Open to all students. Not open to students who have completed HIST-10200: Modern Western Civilization.
FORMAT AND STYLE: Lecture and discussion.
REQUIREMENTS: Two exams and three short papers

HIST-20300-01 INTRODUCTORY GEOGRAPHY LA SS 1 g
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Jarett Powers
ENROLLMENT: 25
PREREQUISITES: One course in the humanities or social sciences and sophomore standing.
OBJECTIVES: 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.
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.
FORMAT AND STYLE: Lecture, discussion of readings and current events, and videos.
REQUIREMENTS: Readings, exams, active class participation, and a 5 to 8 page research paper.
GRADING: A-F.

HIST-22700-01 EARLY ISLAM: MUHAMMAD TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURY HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Jason Freitag, Muller 423, Ext. 4-5798
ENROLLMENT: 25
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 HU LA 1 g h
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Jonathan Ablard, Muller 403, Ext. 4-3558
ENROLLMENT: 25
PREREQUISITES: One course in the humanities or social sciences; sophomore standing.
OBJECTIVES: 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.
FORMAT AND STYLE: Discussion and presentations.
REQUIREMENTS/GRADING: Two exams, three short papers and a research paper.

HIST-27000-01 HISTORY OF AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL THOUGHT HU LA 1 h
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Michael Smith, Muller 320, Ext. 4-1290
ENROLLMENT: 25
PREREQUISITES: One course in the humanities or social sciences; sophomore standing.
OBJECTIVES: 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.
STUDENTS: Sophomore standing and up. Priority given to history and environmental studies majors and minors.
FORMAT AND STYLE: A mix of interactive lecture, discussion, and media presentations.
REQUIREMENTS: Three books, regular attendance, several short papers and film critiques, final portfolio.
GRADING: A-F, Standard breakdown. Based on performance of each of the above requirements.

HIST-27200-01 HISTORY OF THE FUTURE HU LA 1 h
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Michael Smith, Muller 320, Ext. 4-1290
ENROLLMENT: 25
PREREQUISITES: One course in the humanities or social sciences; sophomore standing.
OBJECTIVES: How have societies in the past thought about and represented the future? In this course we will examine a wide range of material from a variety of cultures (primarily the cultures of Western civilization) that will help us answer this question, to religious tracts, science fiction, and utopian literature, film and television, and popular science writing. Central to our investigation of the history of the future will be how the idea of progress has evolved over the past two millennia, especially the past 500 years. How a society imagines the future can reveal a great deal about the values and assumptions, the hopes and fears of that society. Students in the course can expect to practice historical interpretation, both orally and in writing.
STUDENTS: This course is open to all students of all majors and schools of at least sophomore standing.
FORMAT AND STYLE: Interactive lectures, discussions, collaborative learning – this is not a course for those who want to hide in the back row.
REQUIREMENTS: There will be an extensive course packet of primary and secondary sources, on-line reading assignments, and Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake.
GRADING: Standard A - F breakdown with evaluation based on written and oral performance.

HIST-27300-01 TWENTIETH-CENTURY GLOBAL REVOLUTIONS HU LA 1 g h
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Zenon Wasyliw, Muller 427, Ext. 4-1587
ENROLLMENT: 30
PREREQUISITES: One course in the humanities or social sciences; sophomore standing.
OBJECTIVES: This course offers a survey of twentieth and twenty-first century world history through the comparative thematic study of global revolutions. We shall evaluate th following, 1) the evolution of a world system of development and liberal democracy; 2) comparative communist revolutions; 3) anti-colonialist and non-aligned revolutions and revolutionary movements in the post Second World War era; 4) comparative cultural revolutions of 1968 and 1979; 5) The velvet revolutions of 1989 – 1991; 6) globalization and the global crisis of 2009 and beyond – new global revolutionary paradigms?
STUDENTS: Sophomore standing and up.
FORMAT AND STYLE: Interactive lectures, discussion of assigned readings, collaborative presentations, implementation of revolutionary models.
REQUIREMENTS: Tentative reading list: Defronzo, James Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements; Huntington, Samuel, et al. The Clash of Civilizations? The Debate; Kapuscinski, Ryszard Shah of Shahs; Zhenhau, Zhai Red Flower of China; Sharp, Gene From Dictatorship to Democracy; Jeremi Suri, Global Revolutions of 1968.
GRADING: Essay examinations, book critiques, class participation.

HIST-29300-01, 02 ST: HISTORICAL STUDIES “THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR” HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Pearl Ponce, Muller 406, Ext. 4-3606
ENROLLMENT: 25
PREPREQUISITES: None
OBJECTIVES: 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.
STUDENTS: All
FORMAT AND STYLE: Lecture and Discussion
REQUIREMENTS: 1) 6 books; 2) midterm exam; 3) 2 short papers; and 4) final exam.
GRADING: Based on discussion, papers, and exams.

HIST 30700-01 THE UNITED STATES IN THE AGE OF Global Crisis, 1914-1945 HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Michael Trotti, Muller 412, Ext. 1591
ENROLLMENT: 20
PREREQUISITE: Three courses in the humanities or social sciences.
OBJECTIVES: Emphasis is upon the response of the United States to a series of crises in the thirty years between the star of World War I and the end of World War II. In this era, the United States became the most important economic, political, and military power in the world, and the nation created the foundations for the postwar growth that has made us what we are today. We will look closely at changes in both domestic and foreign affairs that were important in this rise to the height of American influence. This rise was neither a smooth nor an uncontested development, giving us many different currents of history to explore in both our discussions and in your research papers.
FORMAT AND STYLE: Discussion and lecture, centered upon themes, readings, and the examples of media regularly introduced into the classroom.
REQUIREMENTS: Readings: five books and assorted primary documents; writing: two essay exams, and a research paper.

HIST-34300-01 CHINA AND THE OPIUM TRADE IN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Joanne Izbicki, Muller 416, Ext. 4-3035
ENROLLMENT: 20
PREREQUISITES: Three courses in the humanities or social sciences; sophomore standing or above.
OBJECTIVES: Poppies—the source of opium and heroin. By the early 1800s, the British East India Company controlled poppy-growing lands between South and East Asia. Faced with a seriously unfavorable trade imbalance with China, the EIC expanded opium production and promoted the drug’s use in that country. Within a short period addiction rose dramatically and China’s silver flowed out to pay for the opium: thus the BEIC solved its trade imbalance. This use of a destructive narcotic to promote an economic (and ultimately, political) agenda marked a practice that has burdened the modern world ever since. Using the effects of the opium trade on China, this course will examine the connections between narcotics, imperialism in the 19th century, and the many military and political conflicts of 20th century China.
FORMAT AND STYLE: Lecture, discussion, student presentations.
REQUIREMENTS: Discussion of readings, midterm exam, brief presentation, extended panel presentation, and a major research paper.

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.
OBJECTIVES: 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.
STUDENTS: Open to all students.
FORMAT AND STYLE: Primarily discussion, some lecture.
REQUIREMENTS: Two take-home examinations, 15-page research paper, and active participation in class.
GRADING: Based on performance on each of the above requirements.

HIST- 39100-01 ST: THE CULTURE OF THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES HU LA h
3 CREDITS
ENROLLMENT: 20
INSTRUCTOR: Matthew Klemm, Muller 405, Ext. 1306
PREREQUISITES: Three courses in the humanities and or social sciences; sophomore standing.
OBJECTIVES: 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.
FORMAT AND STYLE: lecture and discussion.
REQUIREMENTS: Research paper, take home exams, class participation.
GRADING: Based on the above requirements.

HIST-39200-01 SELECTED TOPICS: HISTORICAL STUDIES HU LA
TOPIC: South Asia: State & History
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Jason Freitag, Muller 423, Ext. 4-5798
ENROLLMENT: 20
PREREQUISITE: None
OBJECTIVES: One of the major elements of the Orientalist view of South Asia is that Indians have been a people without, and possibly incapable of History. This course will examine historical discourses in South Asia, and the relationship between these discourses and the varieties of state forms that have existed in South Asia. We will look at the development of early South Asian models of historical inquiry (cosmology, genealogy, bardic court literature) and the ways in which imperial encounters on the subcontinent (first Mughal, then British) brought new ideas about historical consciousness and the value of traditional notions of history. Finally, we will examine how history was deployed as a marker of modernity in colonial, nationalist and postcolonial discourses. In the process, we will analyze issues of voice and agency, official vs. popular histories, and the development of subaltern studies as an historical and political intervention in the field of South Asian historiography.
STUDENTS: Open to all students.
FORMAT AND STYLE: Lectures, discussion of readings, student presentations.
REQUIREMENTS: Readings, response papers, class attendance and participation, research paper and presentation.
GRADING: Based on performance on each of the above requirements.

HIST 48100-01 HISTORY SEMINAR, EUROPEAN HU LA
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Karin Breuer, Muller 418, Ext. 4-1489
ENROLLMENT: 10
TOPIC: Agency and Individualism in Reformation Europe
PREREQUISITES: Permission of instructor and senior standing or equivalent.
OBJECTIVES: This course examines individual agency and religious beliefs in Reformation Europe. Although we will discuss leading religious reformers like Martin Luther and the Tudor monarchs, this is primarily a course about the peasants, artisans, laborers, and petty clergy who made up the vast majority of the early modern populace. Individuals discussed include a fifteenth century German drummer, a heretical Italian miller, a puritan artisan in seventeenth century London, and an accused witch in Stuart England. In discussing these “ordinary” individuals, this seminar aims to assess the extent to which these men and women shaped and were shaped by the world around them.
STUDENTS: Junior and Senior history and social studies majors and minors have preference; others welcome.
REQUIREMENTS: Readings, active participation, and a 25-30 page research paper based on primary and secondary source material.

HIST 48200-01 HISTORY SEMINAR: GLOBAL
Topic: East Asia in Film and History
3 CREDITS
INSTRUCTOR: Joanne Izbicki, Muller 416, Ext. 4-3035
ENROLLMENT: 10
PREREQUISITES: Permission of instructor and senior standing or equivalent; must be taken at home campus.
OBJECTIVES: Can we learn about the past from movies? Whether documentaries or feature films set in historical eras, movies lodge such strong images in the mind’s eye that imagination and historical record can blur and merge. This course examines films produced in or about East Asia and whether those films document or construct an East Asian past. Readings coordinate with film topics.
STUDENTS: Junior and senior history and social studies majors and minors have preference; others welcome if enrollment maximum has not been reached.
FORMAT AND STYLE: discussion, student presentations, research paper, film viewings in and outside of class.