HIST 113-F1 10833 |
Time Travelers: Tourism in Global History |
Days: T R
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Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm
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Room: MAIN 010
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Instructor: Jessica Pearson
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Avail./Max.: 1 / 16
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*First-Year Course only; first day attendance required*
Details
This first-year course explores the global history of travel and tourism in the modern world. We will consider how tourists engaged with transnational processes like war, decolonization, and global economic shifts that allowed for the slow and uneven democratization of leisure travel over the course of the twentieth century. We will also investigate the ways that racism and other forms of discrimination have become deeply embedded in global travel networks and infrastructure. Over the course of the semester we will "visit" a wide range of locales, traveling from the United States and its Pacific empire to Antigua, the Soviet Union, and Peru. As we "tour" the globe, we will contemplate a range of transportation options, including the role that cars, trains, and planes played in shaping the evolution of global tourism. In this history course we will engage in multidisciplinary approaches to studying the past as you develop your own scholarly projects. We will also work to foster a supportive community as we grow as writers, researchers, and humans.
General Education Requirements:
Writing WA
Internationalism OR U.S. Identities and Differences
Distribution Requirements:
Humanities
Course Materials
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HIST 114-01 10344 |
History of Africa to 1800 |
Days: M W F
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Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am
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Room: CARN 204
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Instructor: Tara Hollies
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Avail./Max.: 3 / 20
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Details
A study of the history of Africa before 1800, this course covers the major themes relating to the development of African societies and cultures from the earliest times. Students will engage with themes of state-building, trade and religion as catalysts for change and learn how historians have reconstructed the history of early Africa. This course will provide students with knowledge of specific case studies from North, South, East, West, and Central Africa. Meets the pre-1800 requirement, and can count towards "Colonization and Empire," or "Race and Indigeneity," or "Africa & Atlantic World" fields.
General Education Requirements:
Writing WP
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Humanities
Course Materials
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HIST 121-01 10816 |
The Greek World |
Days: T R
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Time: 08:00 am-09:30 am
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Room: ARTCOM 102
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Instructor: Brian Lush
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Avail./Max.: 1 / 20
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*First day attendance required; cross-listed with CLAS 121-01*
Details
This course surveys the political, economic, and cultural development of the peoples of the ancient Greek world from the late Bronze Age through the Hellenistic era. Students will hone their critical thinking skills while working with translations of ancient literature, archaeological remains and works of art. The basic structure of the course is chronological, but we will examine major themes across time and space, which may include the interaction between physical landscape and historical change; rule by the one, the few and the many; the nature and development of literary and artistic genres; the economic, military, and/or cultural dimensions of empire; or the intersections of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, slave/free status and civic identity in the Greek world. Meets History Department pre-1800 requirement.
General Education Requirements:
Distribution Requirements:
Humanities
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HIST 140-01 11002 |
Introduction to East Asian Civilization |
Days: T R
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Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm
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Room: MAIN 011
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Instructor: Yue Him Tam
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Avail./Max.: 11 / 20
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*Cross-listed with ASIA 140-01*
Details
This course introduces the cultures and societies of China, Japan and Korea from the earliest times to the present day. Primarily an introductory course for beginners in East Asian civilization, this course considers a variety of significant themes in religious, political, economic, social and cultural developments in the region. Meets global and/or comparative history requirement. Can count towards "Colonization and Empire," or "Race and Indigeneity," or "Law and Social Justice," or "Asia" fields.
General Education Requirements:
Distribution Requirements:
Humanities
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HIST 154-01 10345 |
African Life Histories |
Days: M W F
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Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am
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Room: CARN 204
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Instructor: Tara Hollies
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Avail./Max.: 8 / 20
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Details
In this course we will learn about African history through the stories that Africans themselves have told about their own lives. We will use oral history, songs of West Africa's griots; slave narratives; political autobiographies; theatre and film to explore the personal narration of lived experience. To guide our class discussions we will also consult scholarly essays about life history as a genre, to help us understand the methodology behind the production of these important texts. Class activities will include seminar discussions, writing workshops, a field trip and intermittent background lectures. Each student will carry out an individual research project on their topic of choice. Can count towards "Colonization and Empire," or "Race and Indigeneity," or "Africa & Atlantic World" fields.
General Education Requirements:
Writing WP
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Humanities
Course Materials
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HIST 170-01 10346 |
History of Childhood |
Days: T R
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Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm
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Room: THEATR 201
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Instructor: Amy Sullivan
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Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 20
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*Cross-listed with WGSS 170-01*
Details
This course examines the history of childhood and youth in the United States. The historical voices and perspectives of childhood that we study will pay close attention to the significance of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, time periods, and social settings. Some questions we will consider relevant to the study of history: Do children have agency? What is the role of children as subjects in history? How has childhood been socially and historically constructed? Why are children such galvanizing social and political symbols? How is identity shaped in childhood and what impact does this have on adult society at certain historical moments?
General Education Requirements:
Writing WC
U.S. Identities and Differences
Distribution Requirements:
Humanities
Course Materials
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HIST 181-01 10348 |
Introduction to Latin America |
Days: T R
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Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm
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Room: MAIN 111
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Instructor: Ernesto Capello
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Avail./Max.: 2 / 20
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*Cross-listed with LATI 181-01*
Details
This course offers a general survey of the complex and heterogeneous region we somewhat reductively term Latin America. It follows a roughly chronological approach, beginning with the eve of encounter and continuing through the contemporary era. Discussions will consider themes such as the institution and legacy of colonialism, the search for new national identities, and the onset of modern racial and political strife. The course will emphasize the import of global economic, political, and cultural trends on the formation of the region. Meets the global and/or comparative history requirement. Can count towards "Colonization and Empire," or "Race and Indigeneity," or "Latin American/Caribbean" fields.
General Education Requirements:
Writing WA
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Humanities
Course Materials
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HIST 194-01 10801 |
Black Music, Black History |
Days: T R
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Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm
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Room: THEATR 205
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Instructor: Walter Greason
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Avail./Max.: 9 / 25
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Details
Blues, Jazz, Gospel, and Hip hop shaped the Black Freedom Struggle in numerous important ways between 1870 and 2020. This course will examine the cultural history of African-American musical traditions and analyze the connections to major transitions in the evolution of the African diaspora.
General Education Requirements:
Distribution Requirements:
Humanities
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HIST 213-01 10350 |
Women in African History |
Days: M W F
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Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm
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Room: HUM 212
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Instructor: Tara Hollies
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Avail./Max.: 7 / 20
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*Cross-listed with WGSS 294-03*
Details
The objective of this course is to explore the role that women have played in the development of African history and to understand the major issues that define their experience as women from this region of the world. This course introduces students to the ways in which gender is studied in African history and to the major "break-through" works on women in African history. An important component of this course is the study of life histories of women from various geographical regions of the continent. Can count towards "Colonization and Empire," or "Gender," or "Race and Indigeneity," or "Africa & Atlantic World" fields.
General Education Requirements:
Writing WP
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Humanities
Course Materials
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HIST 225-01 10351 |
Native History to 1871 |
Days: M W F
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Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am
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Room: HUM 111
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Instructor: Jacob Jurss
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Avail./Max.: Closed 3 / 20
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*Cross-listed with AMST 225-01*
Details
The history of American Indians is wonderfully complex, but this history is simultaneously fraught with misconceptions and misinterpretations. European (and, later, Euro-Americans) alternated among fascination, fear, and frustration toward American Indians, while American Indians sought to maintain tribal sovereignty and control over their lands, cultures, religions, politics, and lifestyles amidst continuing encroachment and settlement. This course examines American Indian history to 1871 - the year that Congress stopped making treaties with Native nations - by considering the complicated and multifaceted history of the nation's indigenous people. By looking at American Indian interactions with Spanish, French, British, and American explorers, settlers, missionaries, militaries, and government officials, this courses argues that the history of American Indians is essential to understanding past as well as present issues. Furthermore, this course looks to move beyond the notion that American Indian history is one of inevitable decline by creating a more nuanced understanding of the American Indian experience from pre-contact toward the twentieth century. Can count towards "Colonization and Empire," or "Race and Indigeneity," or "Law and Social Justice," or "North America" fields.
General Education Requirements:
U.S. Identities and Differences
Distribution Requirements:
Humanities
Course Materials
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HIST 234-01 10240 |
U.S. Environmental History |
Days: M W F
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Time: 02:20 pm-03:20 pm
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Room: THEATR 202
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Instructor: Chris Wells
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Avail./Max.: -1 / 37
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*First day attendance required; permission of instructor required; cross-listed with ENVI 234-01; not available to ACTC students*
Details
People have always had to contend with the natural world, but only recently have historians begun to explore the changing relationships between people and their environment over time. In this course, we will examine the variety of ways that people in North America have shaped the environment, as well as how they have used, labored in, abused, conserved, protected, rearranged, polluted, cleaned, and thought about it. In addition, we will explore how various characteristics of the natural world have affected the broad patterns of human society, sometimes harming or hindering life and other times enabling rapid development and expansion. By bringing nature into the study of human history and the human past into the study of nature, we will begin to see the connections and interdependencies between the two that are often overlooked. Meets History's post-1800 requirement, and can count towards "Environment," or "Law and Social Justice," or "North America" fields.
General Education Requirements:
Writing WP
U.S. Identities and Differences
Distribution Requirements:
Humanities
Course Materials
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HIST 265-01 10839 |
Europe in the Era of World War |
Days: T R
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Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm
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Room: MAIN 010
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Instructor: Jessica Pearson
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Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 20
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Details
Rather than approaching the history of Europe in wartime solely through the lens of military history or the history of international relations, this course will also delve into European culture, politics, and society in the period 1914-1945 and will explore the ways that both world wars profoundly changed the lives of Europeans living at the time, as well as the landscape of Europe itself. We will take a peripatetic approach, diving into different themes in different places and times. We will explore, for example, the lives of a young British nurse and a young German soldier during the First World War. We will grapple with the experiences of a concentration camp survivor during the Holocaust. We will think about the ways that critics of empire drew on the experiences of fascism in the twentieth century to build their case against colonialism. And finally, using more contemporary accounts and news coverage, we will consider the legacies of these two transformative wars and think about how they shape our conceptions of Europe and Europeans today. The class will strongly emphasize the development of research and writing skills. We will engage with a wide range of primary source material and students will conduct historical research on a topic of their choice, culminating in a major research paper that they will present as part of an in-class research conference. Can count towards "Race and Indigeneity," or "Law and Social Justice," or "Europe" or "Post-1800" fields.
General Education Requirements:
Writing WA
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Humanities
Course Materials
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HIST 271-01 10354 |
Uses and Abuses: Drugs, Addiction and Recovery |
Days: M W F
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Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm
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Room: HUM 302
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Instructor: Amy Sullivan
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Avail./Max.: Closed 0 / 20
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*Cross-listed with AMST 271-01*
Details
After a brief but essential global history of drugs, this course will focus primarily on the 20th century to the present. We will examine histories of substance use and abuse, temperance and prohibition, the "War on Drugs," the shifting concept of addiction as a moral failing to addiction as a treatable disease, as well as study the history of the recovery movement and harm reduction. This course is not intended to be an exhaustive, comprehensive history of the subject-but it will provide you with a solid base from which to explore other aspects of this fascinating and contentious aspect of human history. Meets the post-1800 requirement, and can count towards "Gender," or "Race and Indigeneity," or "Law and Social Justice," or "North America" fields.
General Education Requirements:
U.S. Identities and Differences
Distribution Requirements:
Humanities
Course Materials
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HIST 274-01 10356 |
The Great Tradition in China before 1840 |
Days: T R
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Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am
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Room: MAIN 010
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Instructor: Yue Him Tam
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Avail./Max.: 5 / 20
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*Cross-listed with ASIA 274-01*
Details
A study of the culture and society of China from earliest times to the eighteenth century, when the impact of the West was strongly felt. The course will feature themes in Chinese history, including the birth of the Great Philosophers, the story of the Great Wall, the making and sustaining of the imperial system, the Silk Road and international trade and cultural exchange, the emergence of Chinese Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism, Genghis Kahn and his Eurasian Empire, the splendid literary and artistic achievements, the Opium War and its impact on modern China. Lecture/discussion format. Meets the pre-1800 requirement, and can count towards "Colonization and Empire," or "Law and Social Justice," or "Asia" fields.
General Education Requirements:
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Humanities
Course Materials
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HIST 275-01 10358 |
The Rise of Modern China |
Days: T R
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Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm
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Room: HUM 215
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Instructor: James Coplin
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Avail./Max.: 5 / 20
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*Cross-listed with ASIA 275-01*
Details
A study of leading institutions and movements of nineteenth- and twentieth-century China. Major emphases include the impact of Western imperialism, intellectual and cultural changes, the transformation of peasant society through revolution, the rise of Mao Tse-Tung, and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, and the rise of China as a world power. Special attention will be given to China's international relations. Meets the post-1800 requirement, and can count towards "Colonization and Empire," or "Race and Indigeneity," or "Law and Social Justice," or "Asia" fields.
General Education Requirements:
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Humanities
Course Materials
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HIST 281-01 10362 |
The Andes: Landscape and Power |
Days: T R
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Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm
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Room: MAIN 111
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Instructor: Ernesto Capello
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Avail./Max.: 6 / 20
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*Cross-listed with ENVI 281-01 and LATI 281-01*
Details
This course explores the interaction between landscape and power in Andean history from the colonial period to the present day. The dramatic mountains have both shaped and have been shaped by sociopolitical relations, from the "vertical archipelagos" of ancient Andean peoples to the extractive economies of the Spanish and post-colonial Andean states. The course incorporates analytical perspectives from environmental, cultural, and urban history, alongside eyewitness accounts, to consider the relationship between the natural and built environments, on the one hand, and Andean racial and social identities, on the other. In selected years, this course will involve collaboration with contemporary Andean communities deploying oral history as a means of community and environmental preservation. Meets the post-1800 requirement, and can count towards "Colonization and Empire," or "Environment," or "Race and Indigeneity," or "Latin American/Caribbean" fields.
General Education Requirements:
Writing WA
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Humanities
Course Materials
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HIST 294-01 10367 |
Listen Closely: Oral History |
Days: T R
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Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am
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Room: MAIN 001
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Instructor: Amy Sullivan
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Avail./Max.: 2 / 15
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Details
What does the theory and practice of oral history have to offer in today's world of video chatting, social media, and the ability of anyone, anywhere to record and broadcast their own version of reality? What is oral history, exactly, and why is it important to formally record, transcribe, and preserve the memories and narratives of people involved in both historical and current events? This course provides students with a theoretical understanding of oral history as well as the opportunity to practice interviewing, transcribing, and interpreting events, memories, and narratives through a variety of local projects and community collaborations. All majors are welcome--oral history is an interdisciplinary practice!
General Education Requirements:
Distribution Requirements:
Humanities
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HIST 294-02 10619 |
Between Europe and Asia |
Days: M W F
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Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm
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Room: THEATR 203
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Instructor: Maria Fedorova
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Avail./Max.: 3 / 20
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*Cross-listed with RUSS 294-01*
Details
What is Northern Eurasia? Who inhabited the territory of present-day Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic countries, the Caucasus, and parts of Central Asia? How did groups of diverse ethnic, religious, cultural, and economic backgrounds interact with one another? This course aims to answer these questions and explore the history of peoples and spaces in Northern Eurasia from the medieval period to the fall of the Soviet Union. Stretching from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean, Northern Eurasia has been a place of intensive cultural exchange for many centuries. During this time, various groups came into contact that resulted in trade, wars, imperial rule, and revolutionary insurrections, as well as socialist experiments. The complex history of relations among peoples is the subject of this course. Drawing on a variety of primary sources, literary works, and films, we will discuss such topics as Eurasian identities; indigenous peoples; ideas of Russianness, imperialism, and Orientalism; the Eurasianist movement of the early 20th century; and the Soviet nation-building project.
General Education Requirements:
Distribution Requirements:
Humanities
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HIST 340-01 10258 |
US Urban Environmental History |
Days: T R
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Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am
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Room: OLRI 243
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Instructor: Chris Wells
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Avail./Max.: 3 / 15
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*First day attendance required; not available to ACTC students; cross-listed with ENVI 340-01*
Details
In the minds of many Americans, cities are places where nature is absent-places where nature exists only in the crevices and on the margins of spaces dominated by technology, concrete, and human artifice. This course confronts this assumption directly, drawing on the scholarship from the relatively young field of urban environmental history to uncover the deep interconnections between urban America and the natural world. Among the other things, we will examine how society has drawn upon nature to build and sustain urban growth, the implications that urban growth has for transforming ecosystems both local and distant, and how social values have guided urbanites as they have built and rearranged the world around them. Using the Twin Cities has a backdrop and constant reference point, we will attempt to understand the constantly changing ways that people, cities, and nature have shaped and reshaped one another throughout American history. Meets the History post-1800 requirement, and can count towards "Environment," or "North America" fields.
General Education Requirements:
Distribution Requirements:
Humanities
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HIST 367-01 10789 |
The Holocaust |
Days: W
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Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm
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Room: MAIN 002
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Instructor: Jessica Pearson
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Avail./Max.: Closed 1 / 16
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Details
This reading- and writing-intensive course will explore one of the most tragic and transformative events of the 20th century: The Holocaust. Over the course of the semester, we will ask: What made the Holocaust possible? In what ways did Nazi genocide in the 1940s build on previous centuries of religious and racial prejudice? What factors shaped the way that people experienced the Holocaust? Why did so many people collaborate and how can we understand resistance and survival as complex and multi-faceted experiences? How can employing a global or comparative historical approach expand our understanding of the Holocaust? And finally, in what ways did the Holocaust bring about a revolution in human rights? Whenever possible, we will explore these questions through the first-hand perspectives. In addition to our shared course material, students will engage in their own independent research and writing projects. Throughout the semester we will work together to foster a supportive intellectual community. Meets the global and/or comparative requirement for the history major and can count towards the "Law and Social Justice," "Race and Indigeneity," or "Global/Comparative" fields. Prerequisite(s): One previous History course.
General Education Requirements:
Writing WA
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Humanities
Course Materials
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HIST 394-03 10370 |
World Economies |
Days: T R
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Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm
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Room: MAIN 001
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Instructor: Walter Greason
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Avail./Max.: 9 / 15
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Details
What is a world system? How did scholars create concepts like Gross Domestic Product? These questions, and the evidence used to answer them, will be the main focus of this course. Starting with a detailed look at the economies of Islamic caliphates in the early modern period, students will combine historical, architectural, and archaeological resources to construct new perspectives on the evolution of world economies over the last five hundred years.
General Education Requirements:
Distribution Requirements:
Humanities
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HIST 394-04 10371 |
Indigenous America |
Days: M W F
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Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm
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Room: MAIN 011
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Instructor: Jacob Jurss
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Avail./Max.: 10 / 15
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Details
This course examines the histories, cultures, and lived experiences of the peoples who are Indigenous to the Americas. Highlighting the complexities and diversities of these vast regions, the course explores Indigenous ways of life while providing a space for deep engagement with the ways in which Indigenous Americans have encountered, engaged with, and resisted centuries of colonialism and imperialism.
General Education Requirements:
U.S. Identities and Differences
Distribution Requirements:
Humanities
Course Materials
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HIST 490-01 10372 |
Senior Seminar |
Days: M W
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Time: 08:00 am-09:30 am
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Room: MAIN 001
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Instructor: Karin Velez
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Avail./Max.: 8 / 20
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Details
The senior seminar is taught every fall on themes that cross chronological and geographic lines. Past themes have included Memory, Migration, Gender and Micro-History.
General Education Requirements:
Writing WA
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Humanities
Course Materials
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