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Course Number PAWS Number Course Name Days Times Instructor Pre-Modern? Region College Core
HIS165-02 82132 Disease and Health in US History Tue/ Fri 9:30am-10:50am Finger No United States None
HIS165-03 82133 Disease and Health in US History Tue/ Fri 11am-12:20pm Finger No United States None
HIS165-04 82209 US Slavery in TV and Film Mon/ Thu 2pm-3:20pm Audain No United States None
HIS173-01 82134 19th Century US History Mon/ Thu 11am-12:20pm Hollander No United States None
HIS173-02 82135 19th Century US History Mon/ Thu 2pm-3:20pm Hollander No United States None
HIS177-01 82136 20th Century US History Tue 5:30pm-8:20pm Zvalaren No United States None
HIS179-01 82138 African American History to 1865 Mon/ Thu 9:30am-10:50am Audain No United States

Race and Ethnicity

HIS179-02 82139 African American History to 1865 Mon/ Thu 11am-12:20pm Audain No United States

Race and Ethnicity

HIS187-01 82140 Memory and World War 2 Mon/Thu 12:30pm-1:50pm Campo No World Topics None
HIS187-02 82751 Witches and Witchcraft in Film and Fact Tue/ Fri 11am-12:20pm Kovalev No World Topics None
HIS187-03 82752 Key Moments in Russian History Through Film Tue/Fri 3:30pm-4:50pm Kovalev No World Topics None
HIS198-01 82722 Teaching American History Wed 5:30pm-8:20pm Lifland No United States None
HIS198-02 82723 Teaching American History Tue/Fri 2pm-3:20pm Benson No United States None
HIS210-01 82141 The Craft of History Tue/ Fri 12:30pm-1:50pm Boero No None Global
HIS210-02 82142 The Craft of History Tue/Fri 2pm-3:20pm Boero No None Global
HIS210-03 82143 The Craft of History Tue/ Fri 3:30pm-4:50pm Boero No None Global
HIS230-01 82144 Imperialism and Colonialism 1500-Present Tue/Fri 2pm-3:20pm Chakraborty No None None
HIS230-02 82145 Imperialism and Colonialism 1500-Present Tue/Fri 3:30pm-4:50pm Chakraborty No None None
HIS301-01 82146 Classical Greek Civilization Mon/Thu 9:30am-10:50am Chiekova Yes Europe/ Eurasia None
HIS303-01 82147 Roman Republic Mon/Thu 9:30am-10:50am Jones Yes Europe/ Eurasia None
HIS325-01 82148 Modern Germany Mon/Thu 11am-12:20pm Paces No Europe Global
HIS330-01 82674 Women in Asia Mon/Thu 12:30pm-1:50pm Weinstein No East Asia Global
HIS352-01 82311 Colonial and Modern Africa Mon/Thu 2pm-3:20pm Bender No Africa Global, Race and Ethnicity, Behavioral, Social, and Cultural Perspectives
HIS366-01 82696 Origins of the US Constitution Mon 5:30pm-8:20pm TBD No United States None
HIS368-01 82700 LGBTQ History in the US Thu 5:30pm-8:20pm Warren No United States Gender and Sexuality
HIS382-01 82150 The US in the Gilded Age Mon/Thu 2pm-3:20pm McGreevey No United States Global, Race and Ethnicity
HIS382-02 82387 The US in the Gilded Age Mon/Thu 3:30pm-4:50pm McGreevey No United States Global, Race and Ethnicity
HIS456-01 82151 South Africa Wed 5:30pm-8:20pm Bender No Africa None
HIS460-01 82152 America's Slave Trade, Then and Now Mon 5:30pm-8:20pm Hollander No United States None
HIS461-01 82153 Gender, Film, and History in Eastern Europe Thu 2pm-4:50pm Paces No Europe None
HIS498-01 82155 Seniors Honors Capstone Mon/Thu 11am-12:20pm McGreevey No None None
HIS499-01 82156 Senior Capstone Seminar Tue/Fri 2pm-3:20pm Kovalev No None None
HED390-01 82159 Methods and Tools of Teaching Social Studies Mon/Wed 5:30pm-7:25pm Marino No None None
HED490-01 82160 Student Teaching MTWRF

 

 

HIS165-01 Gender and the Body in US History

This course examines the historical development of the United States from the early colonial period to the present day through the lens of gender. While the actions, words, and lives of American women will form the basis of our inquiry, we will also explore the construction of manhood and womanhood in the past. Though often treated as immutable facts, the meaning of manhood and womanhood in the United States has fluctuated significantly over the course of four centuries. These categories are crosscut by other identities, such as race, class, sexuality, language, and national origin. Students will use primary sources and secondary readings to understand the how gender informs the historical experience of a diverse group of Americans and shaped the meaning of citizenship, politics, social roles, identity, and national belonging.

HIS165-02 and -03 Disease and Health in US History

This course will explore changing American understandings of what it means to be healthy or sick, and how the quest to promote healthiness and avoid disease shaped American history and culture from the colonial era to the 21st century. Using a variety of sources and an interdisciplinary approach, we will examine the relationship of health and environment, disease outbreaks and the responses to them, and battles over health policy. Topics will include the role of disease in American aboriginal depopulation, the catastrophic outbreaks of Yellow Fever and Cholera in the Early Republic, the doctor-patient relationship, the role of medicine in sustaining slavery, movements for dietary and health reform, the effects of urbanization on American health, debates over quarantine and immigration policy, and the role of the media in spreading information and misinformation about preserving health.

HIS165-04: US Slavery in TV and Film

Within the past ten years, there has been a renewed interest in showing the experiences of enslaved Black people to both national and international audiences. In this course, students will view films and TV mini-series to learn about eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century U.S. slavery. Students will also read primary sources and scholarly book chapters to better understand the historical context of the films and miniseries that they watch. Among the questions we will consider in this course are: how do people use TV and film to remember slavery and how do these works reimagine the experiences of slavery?

HIS187-01: Memory and World War Two

This course is designed to give students an appreciation for how the history of the Second World War unfolded and to explore how different groups of peoples at different periods after 1945 have contested the memories of those events. It pays particular attention to three themes: those wars and experiences that history seemingly forgot, crucial/controversial developments that have competing interpretations, and how even after the war was “over,” it has been (and still is) very much a central part in many people’s lives. Its main objective is to get students to comprehend that this was indeed a world war, that is, it had an impact on the entire globe.

HIS187-02 and -03: Witches and Witchcraft in Film and Fact

Based on the close study of primary sources and secondary literature, students shall explore and evaluate a number of films about the phenomena of “Witches” and “Witchcraft” for their historical accuracy and context of material and intellectual culture of the period.

HIS230-01: Colonialism and Imperialism 1500-Present

How did empire-building, colonialism, trans-oceanic trade and migrations transform the world into the globalized space we inhabit today? How have notions of the world itself changed in the last six centuries? This course offers a broad historical foundation of the modern world from the late 1400s, while trying to curtail Eurocentric assumptions from the narrative of world history and the history of empires. We will begin by exploring the powerful Islamic gunpowder empires such as the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals, and their struggles with rising European powers hungry for colonial expansion. What made European colonialism and global hegemony eventually possible, and how did various local cultures respond? Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, and British imperialists not only imposed European norms and systems on the new territories they colonized, but also adapted to American, African and Asian forms of science and governance, and forged domestic ties with local people. This hierarchical cultural interaction not only changed the political, economic and knowledge structures of non-Western societies, but in the process also transformed Europe.

In this course, we will look at the crucial role played by ideologies of race, gender, class, religion, sexuality and morality in sustaining imperialism and colonialism. How were these ideologies naturalized by colonial science? Both Western and non-Western imperialism were legitimized through cultural products which permeated the everyday lives of ordinary people. We will explore how imperialism led to the world wars and how colonized people were dragged into the wars. We will look at anti-colonial nationalist struggles that led to decolonization, as well as transnational collaborations against Western imperialism and neo-colonialism. This course will not only enable us to understand imperial motives and methods, but also how ordinary people experienced empire. Finally, this course will help us think over the relationship between imperial history and memory – why certain events/individuals are remembered and memorialized, while others are forgotten.

 

 

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