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September 1-May 31
Weekdays 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
June 1-August 31
Tuesdays 8 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Spring 2013 Class Schedule - updated May 25, 2012 at 05:56 pm
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| HIST 100-01 Discovering World History | |||
| TR | 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Karin Velez | |
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| HIST 110-01 Introduction to European History | |||
| MWF | 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | STAFF | |
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| HIST 136-01 American Violence 1800 to 1865: Warfare from Early Republic to the Civil War | |||
| MWF | 09:40 am-10:40 am | Eric Otremba | |
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| HIST 234-01 American Environmental History | |||
| MWF | 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | STAFF | |
| *Cross-listed with ENVI 234-01; first day attendance required; permission of instructor required for ACTC students |
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| HIST 244-01 US Since 1945 | |||
| TR | 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Peter Rachleff | |
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| HIST 260-01 Rise/Fall of Tsarist Russia | |||
| MWF | 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Peter Weisensel | |
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| HIST 275-01 The Rise of Modern China | |||
| TR | 09:40 am-11:10 am | Yue-him Tam | |
| *Cross-listed with ASIA 275-01* |
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| HIST 282-01 Latin America: Art and Nation | |||
| MWF | 10:50 am-11:50 am | Ernesto Capello | |
| *Cross-listed with LATI 282-01* |
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| HIST 294-01 Race, Nation and Genocides in the Modern World | |||
| MWF | 09:40 am-10:40 am | STAFF | |
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| HIST 294-02 Topics Latin American History | |||
| MWF | 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | STAFF | |
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| HIST 294-03 Topics US History | |||
| MWF | 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | Eric Otremba | |
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| HIST 294-04 Topics US History | |||
| MWF | 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | STAFF | |
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| HIST 294-05 Sex and the City: Gender, Sexuality, and Urban Life | |||
| MWF | 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | Catherine Batza | |
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| HIST 294-06 Topics US History | |||
| MWF | 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | STAFF | |
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| HIST 294-07 Global Encounters in History: China and Africa | |||
| TR | 09:40 am-11:10 am | Catherine Batza | |
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| HIST 294-08 History of Latinos in the US | |||
| TR | 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | Peter Rachleff | |
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| HIST 294-09 Miracle or Myth: Constructing Spiritual Histories | |||
| TR | 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Karin Velez | |
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| HIST 294-10 Women's History through Oral History | |||
| MWF | 10:50 am-11:50 am | Catherine Batza | |
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| HIST 364-01 Germany from 1871 to Present | |||
| MWF | 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | Peter Weisensel | |
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| HIST 378-01 War Crimes and Memory in East Asia | |||
| TR | 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | Yue-him Tam | |
| *Cross-listed with ASIA 378-01* |
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| HIST 379-01 The Study of History | |||
| M | 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | Jamie Monson | |
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Fall 2012 Class Schedule - updated May 25, 2012 at 05:56 pm
| Number/Section Title | |||
| Days | Time | Room | Instructor |
| HIST 110-01 Introduction to European History | |||
| MWF | 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | MAIN 001 | Peter Weisensel |
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| HIST 135-01 American Violence to 1800: Warfare From The Age of Contact To The Revolutionary War | |||
| TR | 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | MAIN 010 | Eric Otremba |
| *Cross-listed with AMST 194-02* |
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| HIST 140-01 Introduction to East Asian Civilization | |||
| MWF | 03:30 pm-04:30 pm | MAIN 002 | Yue-him Tam |
| *Cross-listed with ASIA 140-01* |
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| HIST 181-01 Introduction to Latin America and the Caribbean | |||
| MWF | 09:40 am-10:40 am | MAIN 002 | Ernesto Capello |
| *Cross-listed with LATI 181-01* |
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| HIST 194-01 African Life Histories | |||
| TR | 09:40 am-11:10 am | HUM 102 | Jamie Monson |
| *First Year Course only* |
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| HIST 194-02 Mediterranean, Baltic, Black: Seas Identities, and History | |||
| TR | 09:40 am-11:10 am | HUM 112 | Igor Tchoukarine |
| *Cross-listed with INTL 194-01* |
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| HIST 201-01 History of U.S. Feminisms | |||
| TR | 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | HUM 227 | Catherine Batza |
| *Cross-listed with WGSS 201-01* |
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| HIST 232-01 Immigration and Ethnicity in US History | |||
| MWF | 10:50 am-11:50 am | MAIN 009 | Peter Rachleff |
| *Cross-listed with AMST 232-01* Immigration continues to be a controversial issue in the second decade of the 21st century, as does the changing landscape of race and ethnicity, on the one hand, and racism and xenophobia, on the other. This course, which is open to students with no experience in college-level history -- asks what we can learn from studying the ways that the U.S. government, economy, and culture received immigrants in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the ways those immigrants and their children responded to the challenges that they faced. These experiences provided templates, patterns, and structures which shape the present. The United States is in the midst of its third substantial wave of immigration, with more than one million new arrivals each year since 1990. We will employ critical historical studies, oral histories, memoirs, novels, drama, music, and graphic texts in our investigations, and we will learn how historians ask questions, seek and gather information, and provide analyses. We will explore how historians do not merely study the past but are engaged in constructing bridges and conversations between the past and the present. |
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| HIST 234-01 American Environmental History | |||
| MWF | 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | OLRI 101 | Ryan Edgington |
| *Cross-listed with ENVI 234-01; first day attendance required; permission of instructor required for all ACTC students* |
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| HIST 256-01 Transatlantic Slave Trade | |||
| TR | 01:20 pm-02:50 pm | HUM 228 | Eric Otremba |
| *Cross-listed with AMST 256-01* |
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| HIST 257-01 Empires | |||
| MWF | 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | MAIN 001 | Peter Weisensel |
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| HIST 274-01 The Great Tradition in China before 1840 | |||
| MWF | 02:20 pm-03:20 pm | MAIN 002 | Yue-him Tam |
| *Cross-listed with ASIA 274-01* |
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| HIST 277-01 The Rise of Modern Japan | |||
| W | 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | MAIN 002 | Yue-him Tam |
| *Cross-listed with ASIA 277-01* |
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| HIST 283-01 Amazon: A Cultural History | |||
| MWF | 12:00 pm-01:00 pm | MAIN 010 | Ernesto Capello |
| *Cross-listed with LATI 283-01* |
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| HIST 294-01 Science, Magic and Belief in the Early Modern Atlantic | |||
| MWF | 09:40 am-10:40 am | MAIN 010 | Karin Velez |
| *Cross-listed with RELI 294-04* Events of the distant European past continue to shape our modern attitudes towards religion, magic and science. How did people in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Atlantic world use these frameworks to make sense of the world around them? In this course, we will journey back to the period of the "Scientific Revolution" to investigate how and why people began to distinguish sharply between the three systems. Who lost, and who profited, from this transition ? What similarities between religion, magic and science persisted ? To understand this turning point, we will compare contemporaneous cases of individuals who practiced magic, science and religion and ran afoul of authorities. Their trials highlight how the three spheres began to diverge. Cases we will consider might include the 1633 trial of Galileo, and the 1663 witchcraft trial of Tempel Anneke in Germany. |
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| HIST 294-02 Asian American History | |||
| MWF | 01:10 pm-02:10 pm | MAIN 010 | Peter Rachleff |
| The category "Asian-American" was constructed by student activists in the 1960s and 1970s. Inspired by the civil rights and black power movements, college students from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, and South Asian families and communities came together, embraced their own histories as well as their common bonds, and called for curricular and cultural responses from institutions of higher education. These movements rippled outwards from the academia, influencing art, theater, poetry, music, and museums, as well as community and political organizing. They also impacted the construction of historical knowledge itself, creating "Asian-American Studies" and "Asian-American History." This course will take up this challenge by exploring the specific experiences of immigrants to the United States from Asian countries and regions, the receptions they were accorded, and the evolution of their identities, cultures, and communities over time. We will pay attention to difference among Asian-Americans as well as shared elements in their experiences, and we will be as interested in their relationships with specific groups within U.S. society (African Americans, Latinos, workers, etc.) as we will be in their changing locations within U.S. society as a whole. We will also be interested in the experiences of those Asian immigrants -- Vietnamese, Hmong, Cambodian, Laotian, South Asian, etc. -- who came after the emergence of "Asian-American" as a concept or a project. We will rely on critical historical scholarship, oral histories, memoirs, poetry, drama, and fiction, and primary documents in our journey. This course is open to students who do not yet have experience in college-level history. |
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| HIST 294-03 Gender, Race, and Health in 20th Century US | |||
| TR | 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | MAIN 011 | Catherine Batza |
| *Cross-listed with AMST 294-03 and WGSS 294-03* This course explores the complex historical relationships between gender, race, health, sickness, and oppression over time. Three main questions drive this course: 1) How do changing definitions of health construct, reinforce, and challenge racial and gender oppression? 2) How does race and gender impact experiences of health, sickness, and health care? 3) How, and to what effect, have social movements fighting gender and racial oppression employed health as a political tool? Likely topics include in-depth study of various epidemics, the Tuskegee Syphilis experiments, the Medical Committee for Human Rights, Black Panther Party health initiatives, the women’s health movement and reproductive rights, homosexuality, and genetics. |
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| HIST 294-05 U.S. in the 1930s | |||
| W | 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | MAIN 009 | Peter Rachleff |
| This history course is a rare treat to teach and to take -- devoting an entire semester to one decade of history. The 1930s deserves this sort of attention. It saw the greatest breakdown of institutions ever experienced in the U.S., and it also saw the reorganization of political, economic, social, and cultural institutions. We will use critical historical studies, oral histories, documentary and dramatic films, primary documents, novels, poetry, drama, visual art, and music, as resources in our effort to understand this period. Our three-hour class sessions will allow us to reach significant depths in our discussions, and writing assignments will allow you to develop your own investigations and arguments into key elements of this rich period. An intended by-product of the course is to give us experience in connecting economic, political, social, and cultural institutions and processes in our analytical thinking, to become better able to understand how race and class, or gender and race, or art and economics, etc., are interwoven. We will also be interested in building bridges and conversations between the past and the present, particularly as our society continues to face challenges that seem quite similar to those of the 1930s. |
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| HIST 294-06 Vikings, Tartars, Slaves: Early Russia starting from the Viking Conquest | |||
| TR | 09:40 am-11:10 am | MAIN 010 | Peter Weisensel |
| Viking chieftains sailing down the Volga in their dragon boats, Tatar hoards besieging Kiev, Slavic herders in a forest clearing sacrificing a bullock to the lightening god Perun, Arab traders plying the “Silk Road” between China and Constantinople – all of these people, and others, we will encounter in this course that covers the period from the 600s to 1703. In their own distinctive ways they will set the roots of Russian social, cultural and political institutions. How did a small band of Viking marauders come to dominate the much larger Slavic population? Why did the Russians become Orthodox Christians, and not Roman Catholics or Muslims, and how did that impact their future? What happened to the eastern Slavs under the Tatars (called the “Tatar yoke”)? How did Siberia become part of the Russian Empire? How did tsars like Ivan I (called “The Moneybag”) and Ivan IV (“The Terrible”) tilt Russian political behavior in ways that leave echoes even today? Why do they behave this way? How was it that the Russian peasant farmer was free in c. 1000 CE, when his equivalent in Western Europe was a serf, but by c. 1600 CE, when the Western European peasant farmer had become free, the Russian had become a serf? Why does the founding of St. Petersburg change the direction of Russian history? Our course will provide answers to these questions and many more. Classroom activities will vary: lectures, class discussions of readings, student reports and debates, and films and field trips. Students will be evaluated on the basis of three take-home essays, in-class quizzes and contributions to class discussions. The course is open to all students, to first-years with the permission of the instructor. |
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| HIST 343-01 Imperial Nature: The United States and the Global Environment | |||
| TR | 03:00 pm-04:30 pm | OLRI 270 | Chris Wells |
| *Cross-listed with ENVI 343-01; first day attendance required; permission of instructor required for all ACTC students* |
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| HIST 394-01 Oceans in World History | |||
| MWF | 10:50 am-11:50 am | MAIN 010 | Karin Velez |
| *Cross-listed with INTL 394-01* Between 1450 and 1850, people started to venture farther outward into oceans that had previously been understood as dangerous and hostile environments. This course takes the Age of Sail as a starting point to track changes in human approaches to boundless waters. We will consider two questions in particular: How have oceans functioned as a means of global integration rather than division? How are historians using oceans to further the study of world (versus regional) history? Readings will cover and compare the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, and address themes of diaspora, port cities, banditry, trade, and imperial encounters. |
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| HIST 394-02 Food, Environment and Society in 20th Century America | |||
| MWF | 10:50 am-11:50 am | MUSIC 228 | Ryan Edgington |
| *Cross-listed with ENVI 394-01; permission of instructor required for ACTC students* |
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| HIST 490-01 Senior Seminar: Migration | |||
| M | 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | CARN 05 | Karin Velez |
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| HIST 490-02 Senior Seminar: Memory | |||
| M | 07:00 pm-10:00 pm | MAIN 009 | Jamie Monson |
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