2019-2020 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.
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HIST 127 - Women in US History
Unit(s): 4
This course is designed to present US women’s history as both an integral part of US history and a distinct field of historical study focusing on gender.
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HIST 128 - Ideal of Citizenship
Unit(s): 4
This course provides an introduction to the historic struggles of diverse Americans to be recognized as citizens of the United States. Using the framework of citizenship, the course explores the ways that systems of power and inequality have been both constructed and challenged throughout American history.
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HIST 130 - East Asian Civilizations
Unit(s): 4
Introductory survey of the three East Asian civilizations of China, Japan, and Korea. The course offers a selective treatment of key issues and important achievements of these societies. Its methodology is historical, analyzing the political, economic, social, and cultural institutions as they have developed from antiquity to the present. The emphasis will be on the modern period, primarily after the middle of the nineteenth century. Offered every semester.
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HIST 135 - Indian Civilizations
Unit(s): 4
A broad survey of South Asian history from antiquity to modern times. Beginning with the rise of the Indus valley civilization, the course considers topics like European colonialism and imperialism, nationalism, and the post-independence period.
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HIST 140 - Latin American Perspectives
Unit(s): 4
A social and cultural survey from pre-Columbian roots to the present, focusing on how Latin Americans have shaped their lives within colonial, authoritarian, and paternalistic societies.
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HIST 150 - Modern African History
Unit(s): 4
This course introduces students to the diverse history of Africa from 1450 to the present. Topics examined include the development of African societies and political systems, internal and external slave trades, African societies and politics, African resistance to foreign rule, European colonization, nationalist struggles for independence, and legacies of colonial rule.
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HIST 160 - World History
Unit(s): 4
This course offers a broad survey of world history, focusing especially on the period from 1400 to the present. Limited to History majors.
Restriction: Field of study restricted to History Major
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HIST 195 - First-Year Seminar-Top in Hist
Unit(s): 4
First Year Seminars are designed and taught by faculty who have a special passion for the topic. All FYSeminars are small classes (16 students) that count toward the university Core. Many FYSeminars include enrichment activities such as excursions into the city or guest speakers. FYSeminars are only open to students in their first or second semester at USF, and students may only take one FYS, in either Fall or Spring. For a detailed description of this course, and other FYSeminars this semester, go to this webpage by cutting and pasting the link: https://myusf.usfca.edu/arts-sciences/first-year-seminars
Restriction: Class restricted to Freshman
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HIST 210 - Historical Methods
Unit(s): 4
A study of the history of historical writing based on primary sources, and devoting attention to the theories, philosophies, methodologies, and issues of interpretation that arise from the texts. Completion of a research paper on an approved topic. Required of all History majors and suggested for History minors.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 331 - History of Sexuality
Unit(s): 4
An examination of the various and changing western attitudes towards human sexuality. While we might think that most men and women in western history have shared our own sexual beliefs, or at least those of our parents, we will discover that both the biological and the social understanding of this important human drive has been very contested over time and space. To this end, we will look at various sorts of sources: scientific and medical, philosophical, practical, theological, and literary. We will at the same time encounter some of the major trends in the historiography of sexuality, especially feminism and post-modernism, and see how these challenge our traditional understanding of the past.
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HIST 334 - History of Modern France
Unit(s): 4
The development of France from the Revolution of 1789 to the present. Offered intermittently.
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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.
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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 - Environ Hist 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 353 - Gilded Age/U.S. Hist.1870-1900
Unit(s): 4
A study of the era named for its conspicuous display of wealth: an era of ascendant capitalism, the rise of big cities, racial segregation, and the acquisition of Hawaii and the Philippines.
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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 362 - Religion in U. S. History
Unit(s): 4
An examination of the central themes and issues in the history of American religion, emphasizing the links between religious experience and American society and culture.
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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 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 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 Amer in US Hist 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 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 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 Curric Priority
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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 Curric Priority
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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 Curric Priority
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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 ‘glocal’ 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 Curric Priority
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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
Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Curric Priority
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HONC 200 - Gateway Sem: Global Humanities
Unit(s): 4
This seminar introduces interpretive methods of the global humanities, critiques ofEurocentrism, and non-Western humanities traditions as living traditions that speak to contemporary issues. Speci\c 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 Curric Priority
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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 Curric Priority
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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.
Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Curric Priority
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HONC 203 - GTWY Western Civ in Wider Wrld
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 Curric Priority, and St. Ignatius Institute
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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.
Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Curric Priority
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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 Curric Priority
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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 Curric Priority
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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.
Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Curric Priority
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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.
Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Curric Priority
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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 Curric Priority
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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.
Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors (Humanities), and Honors College Curric Priority
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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.
Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors (Humanities), and Honors College Curric Priority
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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.
Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors (Humanities), and Honors College Curric Priority
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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 Curric Priority
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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.
Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Curric Priority
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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 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.
Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Curric Priority
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HONC 360 - City Life in Africa & Diaspora
Unit(s): 4
An interdisciplinary exploration of urban life in Africa and the Diaspora. The course is organized around the in-depth study of two cities in Central Africa (Kinshasa and Brazzaville) and their relationships with the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince and the former colonial capitals Brussels and Paris.
Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors (Global Humanities), Honors (Humanities), and Honors College Curric Priority
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HONC 365 - Global Ethics
Unit(s): 4
This course explores different ethical theories from around the globe. Themes of individualism and the self are discussed within the contexts of Western and Asian approaches. In particular the course studies classical ethical theories from the Western philosophical cannon (Aristotle, Kant, and Mill), Confucianism and Buddhism.
Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Curric Priority
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HONC 371 - From Acupuncture to Yoga
Unit(s): 4
This course examines complementary and integrative health (CIH) from a social scientific perspective. Students will study how everyday people understand, use, and debate the use of CIH especially in comparison to biomedicine. Many weeks, a CIH practitioner will come to class for hands-on demonstrations of different health modalities.
Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Curric Priority
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HONC 380 - The Art of Protesting
Unit(s): 4
This course stresses the relationship of the fine art printing with the social revolutions, as it explores the studio discipline of making fine art prints. Lectures and guest master printers help students understand this multi-disciplinary art rooted on east and west traditions. Practical understanding with new environmentally safe methods, complemented with a working knowledge of traditional techniques will be investigated.
Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors College Curric Priority
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HONC 390 - Special Topics
Unit(s): 1 to 4
This course focuses on a special subject in Global Humanities. Course may be repeated for credit as subject varies.
Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors (Global Humanities), and Honors College Curric Priority
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HON 314 - Origins Judaism/Christianity
Unit(s): 4
The intersection of the history, politics, religion, and culture of the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean World from 500 BCE to 500 CE is examined on the basis of primary literary and extra-literary sources. Particular attention is given to the origin and development of Judaism and Christianity within the course of empire building. Offered every Fall.
Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors (Humanities), and Honors College Curric Priority
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HON 318 - Mediaeval Wayfare
Unit(s): 4
This seminar discusses the phenomena of knight and court as fundamental social and civilizing processes in European culture (10th-14th Centuries) and the modern indebtedness to these phenomena. The seminar examines the concepts of kingship and its classical inheritance, and the aristocratic family as a culture of power. Special consideration is given to the characteristically medieval interrelationships between literature, art and music. Offered every Fall.
Restriction: Course Student Attribute Restricted to Honors (Humanities), and Honors College Curric Priority
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