2021-2022 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Undergraduate Courses
000 to 499 subdivided as follows:
000 to 099 designate courses which normally are not counted towards a student’s baccalaureate.
100 to 299 designate Lower Division courses. This category is further subdivided as follows:
100 to 199 designate undergraduate Lower Division courses recommended for, but not restricted to, students studying the subject at a freshman or sophomore level. Such courses generally do not require any prerequisite course work for fully matriculated students.
200 to 299 designate undergraduate Lower Division courses recommended for, but not restricted to, students studying the subject at sophomore level. Courses in this category require specific or general prerequisites which are usually completed at the freshman level.
300 to 499 designate Upper Division courses. This category of courses is further subdivided as follows:
300 to 399 designate undergraduate Upper Division courses recommended for, but not restricted to, students studying the subject at a junior or senior level. These courses presume specific or general prerequisite course work at the Lower Division level.
400 to 499 designate undergraduate Upper Division courses recommended for, but not restricted to, students studying the subject at the senior level. Courses in this category have prerequisites which students have usually completed at the junior level.
Graduate Courses
500 to 899 subdivided as follows:
500 to 599 designate courses offered at the graduate level which prepare students for a graduate degree program or designate professional teacher-training courses.
600 to 699 designate courses at the master’s and credential level.
700 to 799 designate courses at the doctoral level.
800 to 899 designate courses at the School of Law.
5000 to 6999 designate courses at the MBA level.
7000 to 7999 designate courses at the doctoral Nursing level.
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HIST 220 - World Geography
Unit(s): 4
Systematic approach to the spatial distribution of resources, populations, cultural features, processes, and relationships. Required of students who would like to obtain a teaching credential in the Social Sciences. Offered every other year.
College of Arts and Sciences
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HIST 230 - Print and Controversy
Unit(s): 4
How did Catholicism go from the dominant religion of Europe to a minority presence in places like Germany and England? It involved a technological revolution and the first successful multimedia campaign in history. In this class, we will look more closely at this complex history while also learning about how to work with early printed books as historical sources. We learn about how printed controversies fit into the worldview of learned and popular Europeans of the time; how these controversies continue to reverberate even in modern American society; and how working with primary sources can help you become more astute and informed consumers of “news” during the political and cultural controversies of our day.
College of Arts and Sciences
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HIST 240 - Global Environmental History
Unit(s): 4
This course introduces students to the methods and sources of environmental history, a field that seeks to understand the changing relationship between human societies and the natural world. Since global environmental history is at times an unwieldy historical field, I have chosen to organize the course around two axes which are important in the framing of historical research-geographical scope and timescale. The impacts of environmental change can be local (clearing a field), regional (damming a river), or global (pollution). As such, the choice of a unit of analysis shapes how a historian approaches a topic and their conclusions. Similarly, where a historian chooses to begin and end their story has implications for their final interpretation. The choice of geographical and chronological scope influences the methods environmental historians use to recover the past. In addition to drawing upon traditional documentary sources, environmental historians often work in an interdisciplinary fashion, incorporating scientific data and methods with those of the humanities and social sciences. To better understand this process we will interrogate a sampling of environmental history methods and the sources, including “big history,” evolutionary history, transnational and regional history, comparative history, and ecosystem or microhistory.
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HIST 259 - Civ. Rights Mov’t Hist/Film
Unit(s): 4 to 6
Explores the history of the civil rights movement in the U.S. through scholarship and film. Considers historical scholarship and historical films as complementary ways of understanding the history of the movement.
College of Arts and Sciences
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HIST 269 - Oral History
Unit(s): 4
Introduction to oral history, its evolution, methodology, and application. Students will learn about the many facets of the oral history process, interview techniques, the nature of oral historical evidence, transcribing and editing, legal and ethical concerns, and the various uses of oral history.
College of Arts and Sciences
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HIST 270 - Sex&TransgressionIslWrld
Unit(s): 4
This course explores sexuality and transgression in the pre-modern, colonial, and modern Muslim world including the Ottoman and Qajar Empires, and the modern Middle East.
College of Arts and Sciences
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HIST 290 - Sp Top Historical Methodology
Unit(s): 4
Experimental course focusing on exploration and discussion of material which complements that found in the regularly offered history curriculum. Topics are variable; the course involves the study of rarely-taught subject matter and/or innovative approaches to traditional historical themes.
College of Arts and Sciences
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HIST 300 - The World Since 1945
Unit(s): 4
An interpretive political history of the world since 1945, focusing on major actors, events, and international affairs, both Western and non-Western.
College of Arts and Sciences
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HIST 310 - The Ancient Near East
Unit(s): 4
The rise and development of the societies, cultures, religions and governments of the eastern Mediterranean (Mesopotamia, Egypt, Palestine, Asia Minor, Minoan Crete and Mycenean Greece), from the fourth millennium to about 1000 B.C.
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HIST 311 - Classical Mediterranean World
Unit(s): 4
A study of the new forms of society, culture, economy, and government that arose in the central and eastern Mediterranean after the collapse of ancient civilization around 1200 B.C.; the origins of the Greek city-states; the creations of the new empires by Athens, Alexander the Great, and the Romans; the creation of classical literature, philosophy, and art.
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HIST 312 - The Roman Empire
Unit(s): 4
The origins and evolution of Roman imperial society, government, and culture, from the first century B.C. to the third century A.D. The class also examines the interrelationship between archaeology and history as a means of discovering the past.
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HIST 313 - Late Antiquity
Unit(s): 4
The evolution and reorganization of the late Roman Empire, and a study of its social, cultural, religious, and political transformations.
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HIST 314 - Medieval Europe
Unit(s): 4
The social, economic, political, cultural and administrative revolutions of the twelfth through the early fifteenth century in Western Europe.
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HIST 315 - Renaissance Europe
Unit(s): 4
During the Renaissance, artists such as Leonardo da Vinci began to experiment with new visual techniques, theorists such as Machiavelli forwarded bold and new political ideas, and Italian merchants began to perfect an economy based on currency and trade. These developments helped end the Middle Ages and, in the long run, paved the way for the rise of secularism, individualism, mass communication, and capitalism - in short, the rise of modern society. Yet, as this course will reveal, there is more to the Renaissance than beautiful art and the beginnings of progress. Themes include the persistence of the “medieval”; princely and papal courts; gender and religion in everyday life; early printed books; politics and conspicuous consumption; European encounters with Islam; art and society; and the value of the idea of the Renaissance today.
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HIST 316 - Rel & Soc Reformation Europe
Unit(s): 4
How did an arcane theological dispute explode into what some call the first successful mass media campaign in history? We trace the massive cultural, political, and social changes that the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reform wrought in sixteenth-century Europe, not only in the realm of religion, but also in politics, popular culture, gender roles, and printed communications.
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HIST 317 - Transatlantic Encounters
Unit(s): 4
We examine the first major wave of European exploration, conquest, and colonization in the Americas from 1492 to 1700, a complex series of encounters that profoundly changed European, American, and African peoples and cultures on both sides of the Atlantic. Themes include religious and cultural interactions; violence and coexistence in everyday life; constructions of race, gender, and ethnicity; slavery and other forms of labor; trans-Atlantic migration, both voluntary and forced; and European and indigenous anthropologies of the ‘other.’ Focus is on Spanish, French, and Portuguese territories in Latin America.
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HIST 318 - Early Modern Europe
Unit(s): 4
Tumultuous transformations marked the end of the Middle Ages in Europe. We examine the period that began with the Black Death, and led to the Renaissance, the Protestant and Catholic Reformations, the New World discoveries, scientific thought, and, finally, the French Revolution. Themes include witchcraft; sexuality, gender, and everyday life; women and religion; heresy and the Inquisition; and European encounters with the New World and Islam. Additional topics: the emergence of print; attitudes toward the poor and poverty; politics and the papacy; peasant revolt and religious change; and new consumer products such as coffee and sugar.
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HIST 319 - Muslim/Xians/Jews in Spain
Unit(s): 4
Examines interactions between members of the three religions in Islamic and Christian Spain through Muslim, Jewish, and Christian historical sources, literature, art, and architecture. Also analyzes mythologizations of medieval Spain in modern films, literature, and scholarship.
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HIST 327 - Mod. Euro. Intellectual Hist.
Unit(s): 4
A study of the breakthrough to modernity. The course covers major philosophical, cultural, and literary currents from Romanticism to the present day.
College of Arts and Sciences
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HIST 330 - Britain to AD 600
Unit(s): 4
This class examines the archaeology and history of Britain from about 8,000 BC to the re-appearance of Christianity in 600. Topics examined include human colonization of the island after the last Ice Age; the rise of the Neolithic period and its associated monuments, such as at Stonehenge and Orkney; the social, economic, and political transformations of the Iron Age; and the Roman conquest. The second half of the course will consider the collapse of Roman Britain and the appearance and rise of the Anglo-Saxons.
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HIST 335 - Modern German History
Unit(s): 4
A survey of the most important developments in Germany from the Bismarck Reich to the unification of 1990. Particular emphasis on the social, economic and cultural conflicts of the second Empire; the Weimar Republic; competing interpretations of the rise of Nazism; the Holocaust; and the post-World War II period. Offered intermittently.
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HIST 340 - History of South Africa
Unit(s): 4
Introduction to South African history from the 16th century to the present. Topics examined include the interaction between African societies and European settlers, economic development, apartheid, the struggle for majority rule, and the problems plaguing the New South Africa.
College of Arts and Sciences
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HIST 341 - Feast and Famine
Unit(s): 4
A comparative study of how food has shaped human societies and the environment. Topics include: food production, role of technology, food cultures, famine, and politics of food distribution. Case studies from Africa and the United States.
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HIST 342 - Environmental History of Africa
Unit(s): 4
Introduction to the environmental history of Africa from 1800 to the present. Topics examined include Africa’s physical environment, role of natural resources in the development of African societies, demography, agriculture, desertification, deforestation, conservation, famine, and economic development.
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HIST 343 - Pre-Colonial Africa
Unit(s): 4
This course introduces students to the diverse history of pre-colonial Africa. Topics examined include the development of African states, spread of Islam, economic development, slave trades, and European interests in Africa.
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HIST 351 - Slavery in US Hist & Culture
Unit(s): 4
This course focuses on the development of black chattel slavery in the U.S. and situates slavery in the U.S. on a broad continuum of coerced labor throughout world history.
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HIST 352 - Civil War/Reconstruction
Unit(s): 4
An examination of the epic conflict between North and South in 19th-century America. This course will analyze the causes of the war and explore the war’s meaning to its varied participants: whites and African Americans, women and men, soldiers and civilians. It will trace the war’s aftermath and its legacy for race relations in the United States.
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HIST 358 - Women in U.S. History
Unit(s): 4
This course presents women’s history both as an integral part of U.S. history and as a distinct subject of historical study. Using a variety of sources, it explores the private lives and public roles of women of different class, race, ethnic and religious backgrounds from the colonial period to the present.
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HIST 360 - Amer. Women & Pol. Activism
Unit(s): 4
American Women and Political Activism provides an overview of women’s involvement in social and political movements in the twentieth-century U.S. Topics to be covered include: the women’s suffrage movement, social welfare and social reform, anti-lynching campaigns, peace movements, labor politics, feminism and anti-feminism, the civil rights and black power movements, and women in right-wing political movements.
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HIST 361 - Hist American Popular Culture
Unit(s): 4
A survey of the development and effect of popular culture in America, focusing on the rise of the Western, pulp fiction, popular music, the urban comic tradition, inspirational literature, movies, radio, and television.
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HIST 363 - Race/Ethnicity/US Hist
Unit(s): 4
An exploration of the major racial and ethnic groups that have contributed to the making of American history, focusing on their distinctive cultures and patterns of interaction with one another.
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HIST 365 - Radical Lbr Movemnts US Hist
Unit(s): 4
This course traces the rise of working-class consciousness and labor organizing in the US in response to the rise of capitalism. Because labor unions at times revolted against the capitalist system and at other times embraced it, a central question of this course will be: Just how “radical” was this new American working class?
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HIST 367 - History & Geography of CA
Unit(s): 2 to 4
A study of California’s development from the American conquest and statehood to the present time of its social, economic, and political pre-eminence.
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HIST 368 - The American City
Unit(s): 4
This course traces urbanization in the United States from the colonial period to the 21st century through an interdisciplinary lens. We will examine the development of cities and suburbs; locate and discuss various trends, phenomena, and issues; and understand the significance of space and place in American history.
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HIST 370 - Colonial Latin America
Unit(s): 4
The blending of indigenous, European, and African cultures during the colonial period to form and create Latin America. This survey explores the tensions and richness embedded in this diverse and dynamic history and tracks how colonial attitudes and ideologies shape the region today.
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HIST 371 - Modern Latin America
Unit(s): 4
A survey of Latin America from the late colonial period to the present. Major themes include: political instability, authoritarianism, and the struggle for democracy; economic dependency, underdevelopment, and the search for national sovereignty; social inequality, culture wars, and recent religious transformations.
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HIST 372 - Indigenous & Col Mexico
Unit(s): 4
A comprehensive analysis of the social, political, economic and cultural history of colonial Mexico. Questions of power, identity, gender, race, ethnicity, and popular culture among Mexico’s indigenous and colonial societies are central to the class. Course themes focus on pre-colonial societies, patterns of colonization in Northern, Central, and southern Mexico, development of a Spanish-Mexican society and culture, and the process leading to independence from Spain.
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HIST 373 - Modern Mexico
Unit(s): 4
A comprehensive analysis of the social, political, economic and cultural processes that shaped the growth and development of modern Mexico. Questions of power, identity, gender, race, ethnicity, and popular culture are central to the class. Course themes will focus on: nation building; the search for order, stability, industrialization, progress, modern development, popular upheaval, social reform, and national identity.
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HIST 374 - Central Amer & Caribbean
Unit(s): 4
A comprehensive analysis of the historical processes that have shaped the lives, values, beliefs, and practices of the people of Central America and the Caribbean. It focuses on the region’s response to global trends: colonization, integration into the world economy, imperialism, modernization, development, the cold war, and revolutionary movements. Offered every other year.
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HIST 375 - Brazil and Amazonia
Unit(s): 4
Interdisciplinary survey of the geography, culture, and history of Brazil and Amazonia since 1500. Course themes include indigenous cultures, the impact of European expansion on the native people and the land, African and indigenous slavery, colonialism and its legacies, development, extractive economies, and nationalism.
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HIST 377 - The Southern Cone
Unit(s): 4
A survey and thematic comparison from the histories of Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Most of the material will date from the last two centuries with some attention given to the colonial period. Course themes include the impact and legacy of colonialism, the process of nation building, militarism and civilian politics, and the significance of women and modernization.
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HIST 378 - Andean Nations
Unit(s): 4
A survey and thematic comparison of the histories of Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela, focusing mostly on the national period. Salient themes include Andean civilizations and cultures, the impact of European colonialism, the process of nation building in multiethnic societies, violence and social change, and the tensions between dictatorship and democracy.
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HIST 379 - Latinos in the U.S.
Unit(s): 4
A study of the historical experiences of Mexican Americans/Chicanos, Central Americans, Puerto-Ricans, Cubans and Dominicans, as well as other Latin Americans living in the United States. Topics: identity, prejudice, immigration, social and political experiences, and participation in film, art, music, and other artistic expressions.
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HIST 380 - Traditional China
Unit(s): 4
A broad survey of China’s history prior to 1840, covering social, political, economic, and cultural developments.
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HIST 381 - Modern China: Rev & Moderniz
Unit(s): 4
A broad survey of China since 1840, emphasizing China’s response to the West and the impact of the Revolutions of 1911 and 1949.
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HIST 383 - Modern Japan Since Perry
Unit(s): 4
A survey of Japan’s history after 1868, emphasizing its rapid modernization and its rise to great power status.
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HIST 384 - The Rise of China Since Mao
Unit(s): 4
A comprehensive survey of the enormous changes, yet also important continuities, in China’s domestic and foreign policy since 1978. Important themes include the transition to a market economy or “market Leninism”; environmental impacts and the sustainability of growth; population policy; military modernization and the “China threat” scenario; village democracy and human rights issues; changing attitudes to sex and sexuality; and the search for values both new and traditional. Offered every other year.
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HIST 385 - Living Muslim History
Unit(s): 4
This course is a study of moments in Muslim history through the lens of auto/biographical writing. Through such narratives, we will study the relationship between the past and the present in the Muslim world, how Muslim history has been lived and experienced, and how the drawing of national boundaries, the disappearance of old empires, and the experience of exile, displacement, and colonialism has shaped individual lives. Our sources include life narratives from the pre-modern Islamic world, auto/biographies and travel accounts written under Ottoman rule, and writings from colonial and post-colonial Asia and the Middle East. Though a study of the lives of people living in the Muslim world, this course will shed light on the universal nature of human experience, and on how experience is filtered through the specificity of historical circumstances. This course will introduce students to a theoretical approach for studying autobiography in the Muslim world, and to situating auto/biographies within the context of the times in which they were written. This approach includes challenging the Euro-American origins of the genre of “autobiography” and understanding the literary dimensions of historical narration.
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HIST 386 - History of US-China Rel
Unit(s): 4
A study of the United States-China relations from the 1780s to the present day, with special emphasis on the period since 1945.
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HIST 387 - Hist/US/Japan Relations
Unit(s): 4
Consideration of a broad variety of political, social, economic, and cultural issues concerning America’s relationship with Japan, beginning with Commodore Perry’s visit in 1853 and including contemporary economic and security concerns.
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HIST 388 - Islamic Empires
Unit(s): 4
This is an upper-division course that addresses empire in the Islamic world. This course focuses on three Islamic Empires, the Ottoman Empire (1300-1922), the Safavid Empire (1501-1722), and the Mughal Empire (1526-1707) and is arranged both chronologically and thematically. While the focus of this course is pre-modern empire, this course will examine how a study of the pre-modern Islamic world challenges current narratives of empire, imperialism, and Islamic identity.
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HIST 390 - Special U. G. Studies
Unit(s): 2 to 4
Experimental course focusing on exploration and discussion of material which complements that found in the regularly offered history curriculum. Topics are variable; the course involves the study of rarely-taught subject matter and/or innovative approaches to traditional historical themes.
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HIST 396 - History Internship
Unit(s): 4
Provides an overview of the many ways that history is practiced in the field of public history. Includes supervised work at a public history placement, such as museums, archives, and historical sites.
Prerequisite: HIST 210
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HIST 398 - Directed Study
Unit(s): 1 to 9
The written permission of the instructor and the dean is required. Offered under special circumstances.
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HIST 400 - Senior Seminar in History
Unit(s): 4
Research seminar on a specialized historical topic culminating in seminar paper and oral presentation. Topics vary.
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HIST 410 - European History Seminar
Unit(s): 4
Topics will be announced before the seminars are offered, and range from Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the early Modern period, to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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HIST 420 - United States History Seminar
Unit(s): 4
Topics vary.
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HIST 421 - Native Americans in U.S. History: Seminar
Unit(s): 4
Readings and discussions of major recent works exploring the place of Native American peoples in the history of the United States. The course will survey the field both chronologically and geographically, but will focus intensively on the impact of the dominant American culture on a selection of particular tribes. Offered intermittently.
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HIST 430 - UG Seminar in Latin Amer Hist
Unit(s): 4
A reading and research seminar focused on specific geographical areas - the Southern Cone, Brazil, the Andean Region, Central America and the Caribbean, Mexico, the Borderlands - or on particular comparative themes relevant to Latin America - Revolution, Religion, Labor and Politics, Women, Race and Class. Offered once per year.
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HIST 470 - Honors Senior Thesis
Unit(s): 4
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HONC 099 - Immersion Program
Unit(s): 0
Immersion Program
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HONC 100 - Honors College Gateway
Unit(s): 2
This small, interactive seminar introduces students to the mission and the pillars of the Honors College: liberal arts foundations, global perspectives, interdisciplinary inquiry, and experiential engagement. The class provides a common intellectual framework for all HONC students as they begin their time at USF. While each Gateway is tied to a theme reflective of the faculty member’s areas of expertise, all sections include foundational readings and engagement activities, and provide opportunities for contemporary application of these foundations to contemporary real-world scenarios.
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HONC 101 - More Than a Meal: Thailand
Unit(s): 2
This two-week immersion course will examine the role of food in shaping culture, politics, and society’s relationship with the environment in Thailand. We will examine food production, exchange, and consumption to better understand the role of cultural practices, gender norms, and technology in shaping how people produce the sustenance they need to survive.
Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Priority Reg
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HONC 102 - Global Citizenship
Unit(s): 2
This global education course in Colombia empowers the student to understand the concept of global citizenship and the shared experiences and concerns of the worldwide community through the specific case side study of Colombia. The course blends reading, research, writing, seminar discussion and studio workshop, excursions, on-site service learning and presentations to investigate social and political questions. We visit Cali, Colombia for two full weeks at Javeriana University Campus where we will settle and learn.
Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Priority Reg
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HONC 103 - Photography in Budapest
Unit(s): 2
A city of tensions and contradictions with a complex and multilayered historical past, Budapest is the Central European city to watch in order to comprehend, not only the current appeal of the Alt-Right in Europe, but also citizen engagement and creative grass root resistances to these global trends. With an urban studies focus and a practicum in photography, this class first introduces students to various aspects of the Hungarian capital, including a brief introduction to Budapest’s contemporary history. Special attention is paid to the rise of nationalism and the Alt-right, the Roma question, the refugee situation, the struggle to preserve the urban and historical heritage of the city, the role of arts in advancing or resisting the current political landscape. Walking the city helps us discover how these pressing issues are apparent in the very façades of buildings, in ruins from its past and in the dynamic urban life of the city by the Danube. During the last third of the class, we use the city as a canvas to document with cameras or smart phones the complex and current reality of this fascinating Central European city.
Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Priority Reg
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HONC 104 - Biology of Cancer
Unit(s): 2
This course covers current concepts and knowledge of cancer, including cancer research and cancer treatment. We explore the different types of cancers; learn why cancers form and investigate whether there is an inheritance link to cancer; and cover cancer treatments, from chemotherapy to targeted therapy and future therapies. Using examples from San Francisco and the ‘Biotech Bay’ (e.g. Genentech, Amgen, Merck) as well as examples from New Zealand biotechnology companies, we investigate how cancer therapies are developed and how drugs are brought to market. We further explore the ethics and economics of cancer, alternative medicine, medical practices of the Maori people and the cultural dimension to cancer, while exploring our surroundings in New Zealand.
Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Priority Reg
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HONC 105 - S. Korean Health & Well-being
Unit(s): 2
This two week global immersion course explores health and well-being in South Korea, with special attention given to cultural influences on health beliefs, behaviors and indigenous health practices, and current health research and services in South Korea.
Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Priority Reg
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HONC 130 - Rhetoric Across Borders
Unit(s): 4
HONC 130/131 is a two-semester-long course that works towards meeting Core A requirements for writing and public speaking, while also building reading, listening, languaging and digital literacy skills. In the first semester, students develop arguments around ‘local’ issues through storytelling, debates, historical research, and argument analysis. In the second semester, students apply their issue expertise and their rhetorical skills to real-world advocacy.
Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Priority Reg
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HONC 131 - Rhetoric Across Borders II
Unit(s): 2
In the second semester of this year-long course, students explore how local entities are addressing an aspect of their ‘glocal’ issue. Students analyze rhetorical issues in the outreach and advocacy strategies of their chosen entity, and create a public-facing project (website, event, podcast) that furthers their entity’s mission and reflects the group’s evaluation of optimal rhetorical strategies.
Prerequisite: HONC 130
Corequisite: HONC 130
Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Priority Reg
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HONC 132 - Rhetorical Communities
Unit(s): 2
This course is the third course in the Honors College Rhetoric sequence. This course refreshes and expands the knowledge and skills students gain in HONC 130 and HONC 131 and facilitates the development of a more abstract or “meta” awareness of communication practices and their hidden assumptions and ideologies. Students learn to identify the benefits and limitations of communication practices in their chosen field and across a variety of rhetorical communities.
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HONC 200 - GTWY: Global Humanities
Unit(s): 4
This seminar introduces interpretive methods of the global humanities, critiques of Eurocentrism, and non-Western humanities traditions as living traditions that speak to contemporary issues. Special topics vary by instructor. It is a requirement of the Global Humanities track.
Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors (Global Humanities), Honors (Humanities), and Honors College Priority Reg
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HONC 201 - GTWY: Decolonizing Humanities
Unit(s): 4
This course offers an intercultural, transdisciplinary study of the humanities with five broad domains of inquiry: a critical reassessment of Eurocentrism; West African religion in Cuba; Chicana spirituality and art; Freireian pedagogy; and the activist Theater of the Oppressed of Augusto Boal.
Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Priority Reg
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HONC 202 - GTWY: Global Poetry
Unit(s): 4
This gateway seminar in the Honors College has three main goals. First, this class is an immersion in poetic theory, vocabulary, structure, and history. Second, we read, write about, and talk about poems written across the globe in order to better understand the international impact of poetry. Lastly, we look at the ways poets have turned to poetry as a means of taking on global issues such as climate change, colonialism, discrimination, genocide, censorship, and war.
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HONC 203 - GTWY: Western Civ, Wider World
Unit(s): 4
We critique the concept of Western Civilization while studying its history from antiquity to modernity. Themes include religion, politics, and society; gender, race, and sexuality; everyday life; concepts of civilization and barbarity; and contemporary debates about the West in a global perspective.
Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors (Global Humanities), Honors College Priority Reg, and St. Ignatius Institute
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HONC 204 - GTWY: Performing Sexuality
Unit(s): 4
In this honors level seminar course, we explore the fascinating and ever-changing relationship between sexuality, gender and society through the lens of theater. By reading and seeing a range of plays written by American playwrights, as well as examining critical essays written by queer and feminist thinkers, we consider how evolving American perspectives about sexuality and gender impact our culture and our individual and collective identities.
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HONC 205 - GTWY: Decolonizing Languages
Unit(s): 4
What languages do we use or consume in our daily lives, in our academic work, our leisure activities? What languages dominate others in the spaces we inhabit? All languages have evolved over time, sometimes as a result of violent encounters, and stand in relationship of power to other languages. Given the recent history of colonization in Africa, language debates have great pertinence and urgency on the continent. We study these debates in the context of African literary production. Understanding the historical evolution of language in Africa and studying current usages helps raise awareness of, and provide tools for thinking about, the politics of language in other contexts.
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HONC 206 - GTWY: Humans, Nature, & Art
Unit(s): 4
This course investigates the relationship between humans and nature through both comparative and cross-cultural examination of visual depictions of nature and landscape from multiple artistic traditions. Topics include questions of representation in East Asian and European traditions, images of landscape and nature in various contexts of colonization and moments of cultural encounter across Asia, Europe, and the United States, the role of landscape photography in documenting natural disaster, and contemporary environmental art in the age of climate crisis.
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HONC 302 - Gospel Portraits of Christ
Unit(s): 4
This course introduces the primary historical-critical methods of biblical interpretation in order to illuminate the distinctive literary portraits of Christ presented in the four canonical gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
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HONC 310 - Satire from Athens to SNL
Unit(s): 4
This course examines the voices of those who criticize, lampoon, mock, praise, and generally comment upon Greek, Roman, and modern heroes, rulers, and social climbers. We begin with the comic tradition of Classical Athens, considering the social function of Aristophanes satirical (and often cruelly personal) invective in the Athenian democracy. We then move onto the biting satire of Romethe genre that the Romans claimed as wholly ours. Through the works of Horace, Petronius, Juvenal, and others, we examine how satires biting wit reflected the changing values of the Roman world as it transitioned from Republic to Empire, saw new social arrivals attain unprecedented wealth and power, and discovered new targets and topics of poetic rage. Along the way, we consider the place of satire and self-construction in the modern world as we think about the interaction of the collective and the personal voice in this most modern of ancient genres.
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HONC 312 - Ancient Greece & Rome
Unit(s): 4
The classical experience and imagination as the formative beginning and paradigm of Western civilization is traced through the study of select major literary works of Greek and Roman literature. The historical context, literary style, and intellectual influence of these works are explored and analyzed.
Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors (Humanities), and Honors College Priority Reg
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HONC 313 - Sport and Spectacle
Unit(s): 4
This course introduces students to the culture of performance in the ancient world from all angles, paying particular attention to: spaces of performance; who produced spectacles and how they benefitted from them; spectator response and fan culture; and the way in which public spectacles both reflect and shape dynamics of political power, attitudes towards violence and bloodshed, ideas of the body, religious beliefs, and social hierarchies. Looking at evidence from material culture, literary sources, and visual arts, students engage with the political, social, and personal dynamics of public performance from the ancient world to today. Through comparisons and continuities between ancient and modern-whether the Olympics, sports teams, theater performances-students reflect on the role of spectacle in reinforcing and reflecting cultural identities and values. Each student presents research on a comparative project of their choosing.
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HONC 316 - Late Anti/Dawn of Middle Ages
Unit(s): 4
Ranging from the conversion of the Roman Empire to the death of Charlemagne, this course examines the role of the humanities during the last days of the classical world and the beginning of the Middle Ages. Along with an examination of some of the most important works written during this 500-year period, the fine and minor arts and architecture are considered.
Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors (Humanities), and Honors College Priority Reg
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HONC 318 - Wisdom’s Lovers: Ancient & Med
Unit(s): 4
In this introductory course, students study Ancient and Medieval philosophers including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Boethius, Aquinas, Maimonides, and Averroes while reflecting upon appearance and reality, ignorance and knowledge, innocence and suffering, evil and a good God, and allied themes.
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HONC 320 - Slavery & Race in the Americas
Unit(s): 4
This comparative reading and research seminar explores the history of slavery in the Americas, and tracks the emerging and evolving sense of race in various national locations.
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HONC 321 - Early Modern Art & Science
Unit(s): 4
This interdisciplinary honors seminar explores the complex relationships between the visual arts, knowledge, and science in Europe, c. 1450-1700. Topics include: STEAM to STEM and Back Again: An Introduction to Early Modern Art and Science; Structuring the Visible World in the Renaissance; Making and Knowing through Craft and Materials; Early Printing Technologies in Europe; Constructing Knowledge: Engineering, Architecture & Machines; Anatomy, Physiognomy & Medicine; The Science of Light: Optics and Art; Global and Visual Explorations; Mapping and Astronomy; Botany; and Leonardo da Vinci: Between Art & Science. Class discussions are supplemented by class visits to the Donohue Rare Book Room on campus and to local museums with relevant early modern art collections.
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HONC 322 - Romance, Revolution, and Exile
Unit(s): 4
This course examines the themes of romance and exile in an age of global revolution (1776-1848) by closely tracking the lives and works of several authors from the period. The course first tracks the writings and lives of eminent romantic individuals in exile (the first true celebrities) and then investigates the representations of romance and exile through the birth of science fiction writing in the hands of Mary Shelley. The revolutions the course considers are several: the political independence movements around the world; the advancements in science, technology, and literature; the birth of celebrity culture and how it transformed the public sphere; the emergence of a free-market (and capitalist) economic system; and the rise of the aristocratic vampire legend that forever changed literary and popular culture.
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HONC 323 - Renaissance Art and Culture
Unit(s): 4
This interdisciplinary seminar is designed to explore the religious and cultural values, political and historical conditions, and philosophical, literary and artistic trends prevalent in Europe, especially in Italy and northern Europe, circa 1400 - 1600, primarily through the lens of Renaissance visual culture.
Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors (Humanities), and Honors College Priority Reg
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HONC 324 - Renaissance England/Its Roots
Unit(s): 4
This seminar explores the English Renaissance from social, historical, artistic, and literary perspectives and provides both an overview of Renaissance art and an examination of new conceptions of ‘the universe,’ ‘art’ and ‘man’. Topics include: humanism; religious skepticism; political theory; the situation of women.
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HONC 325 - Opera and Society
Unit(s): 4
In this class we examine operas from 1600 to today, discussing not only musical and dramatic elements but also the social and political questions raised by the works; racial and gender issues; the environment in which they were created; and the status of musicians, impresarios, theater managers, and others. We also attend performances at the San Francisco Opera. No knowledge of music is necessary.
Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors Getty Scholars, and Honors College Priority Reg
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HONC 326 - Great Ideas in Mathematics
Unit(s): 4
This course, designed for students outside of the sciences, provides an overview of the highlights and breakthroughs in mathematics from ancient to modern times. The class fosters an appreciation for the beauty of mathematics, as students gain problem solving skills and an awareness of the pivotal role mathematics occupies in today’s modern world across the humanities, arts, social sciences, and natural sciences.
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HONC 329 - New World Encounters
Unit(s): 4
Examines conquest and colonization of Spanish Americas from 1492-1700 from European, African, and Native American perspectives. Themes include violence and coexistence; race, gender, and ethnicity; religious change; slavery and labor. Sources include historical, literary, and visual materials.
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HONC 332 - The American Experience
Unit(s): 4
Through a reading (and viewing) of classic American works, including the autobiographies of Malcolm X and Richard Rodriguez, the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the poetry of Emily Dickinson, the novels of Mark Twain, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton and Saul Bellow, the films and plays of Frank Capra and Sam Shepard and the painting of Edward Hopper, this seminar explores fundamental themes, tensions and values in U.S. culture.
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HONC 338 - The Modern Period
Unit(s): 4
This seminar attempts to clarify the characteristically ‘modern’ ways of defining and shaping reality through an examination of significant intellectual and imaginative works of our century, especially the ‘classical modern’ period (1890-1950). What dominant insights do we inherit from living in (or just after?) an era which has self-consciously called itself ‘modern’? Works of fiction are synthesized with readings selected from the physical and social sciences as well as the humanities.
Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors (Humanities), and Honors College Priority Reg
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HONC 351 - Rethinking Islam
Unit(s): 4
This course examines the invention of ‘Islam’ as an object of study in relation to the history of European and U.S. imperialisms and Muslims’ resistance to them. It also provides an introduction to global Islamic traditions, examining key beliefs, texts, rituals, and practices of Muslims.
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HONC 352 - Visual Arts East & West
Unit(s): 4
This course examines cross-cultural artistic exchanges between the West (Europe, US) and Asia (India, China, Japan) ca. 1500-1960. Focus is on how visual art facilitated cultural interaction and artistic encounters helped to shape national and cultural identities in Early Modern and Modern periods.
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HONC 354 - Liberating Theologies
Unit(s): 4
This course surveys theologies of liberation in Latin America, the United States, Africa, and Asia, in terms of the vital social movements in which they were born. Students become acquainted with inter-disciplinary theological methods; liberationist Catholic-Christian perspectives on faith, society, culture, and justice; and the decolonial social movements with which liberation theologies dialogued.
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HONC 355 - Global History of Food
Unit(s): 4
This seminar examines the relationship between human societies and the food we eat. Students learn about the development of food production systems, the role of crop, technology and ideological exchange, how politics affects food production and how food availability affects politics, the industrialization of food production systems, and the development of today’s global food economy.
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HONC 356 - Narratives of Freedom
Unit(s): 4
This course puts in conversation key Enlightenment-era (late 17th-18th Century) texts from political philosophys Social Contract tradition and key texts from the Black Atlantic and American slave narrative tradition. Learning these two traditions together magnifies the ideas they contain, criticize and defend: domination, natural law, liberty, equality, democracy, political representation, civic fraternity and sorority, individual civil rights, slavery, property, consent, and tolerance. We consider the ways these two traditions present both political treatises and narratives about the emergence of free, equal, and enlightened modern men, the birth of civil society, and the justification of political power. These treatises and narratives lead us to confront a conceptual conflict behind centuries of racial, class, and gender domination, and understand more deeply the struggle for liberty, equality, political revolution and reform.
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HONC 358 - Migrant and Diaspora Religion
Unit(s): 4
In this class, we analyze the reasons people leave their countries of origin, human rights issues during the immigration process, challenges faced when immigrants reach the United States, and the role religious organizations play in these complex negotiations. We focus in particular on San Francisco, one of the most linguistically and culturally diverse cities in the United States, where new migrants often turn to religious groups for help in making sense of their new city and country.
Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors Getty Scholars, and Honors College Priority Reg
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HONC 359 - Public Health in Action
Unit(s): 4
This course examines how public health provides solutions to preventing, managing, and controlling emerging infectious diseases and non-communicable diseases that are increasing rapidly in the 21st century. In this course, students analyze emerging health threats from a multidisciplinary perspective, including natural and social sciences as well as the humanities, and learn how to assess emerging global health challenges.
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