History

College of Arts & Sciences

Concentration in History (2205)
Grade Requirement
Language Study
Previously Earned Credits
Transfer Students
Independent Work for Distinction
Minor Concentration in History (2205)
Organizations
Warren O. Ault Prize
COURSES
Introductory Courses
Core Course for Concentrators
Lecture Courses
Undergraduate Colloquia
Distinction Work
Directed Study

Chair Charles Dellheim

Director, Undergraduate Studies Cathal Nolan

Professors Bacevich, Blakely, Capper, Chehabi, Dellheim, Diefendorf, Ferleger, Fromkin, Geifman, Glick, Goldstein, Halter, Heywood, Keylor, Lukes, Mayers, McCann, McConville, Roberts, Schmidt, Schulman, Silber, Thornton, Westling, Wylie

Associate Professors Anderson, Backman, Johnson, Landes, Nolan, Payaslian, Richardson, Rubin, Zatlin

Assistant Professors Blower, Chernock, Menegon, O’Brien

The Department of History offers undergraduates a choice of several programs. These include, in addition to a general concentration in history, specializations in American, European, world/regional, and intellectual/cultural history, as well as three interdisciplinary tracks. The department stresses its colloquium program, wherein students pursue intensive reading and research on specific historical problems in a seminar format. Note: Students who declared a concentration in history prior to September 2007 will fulfil the requirements in place at the time of their declaration; complete information is available in the department office.

Concentration in History (2205)

Option A: General Track in History Minimum of ten courses required, of which no more than four may be below the 300 level.

Method and Historiography: All concentrators are required to take CAS HI 200, ideally in their sophomore year, but in no event later than one semester after declaring a history concentration.

Geographical/Chronological Distribution (four courses): At least one course is required in each of the following areas: American history, European history, world/regional history. One of the four courses must focus on premodern history; a list of courses satisfying this requirement is available in the department office and in the “Course Areas” section of the departmental website.

Colloquium Requirement: Concentrators must take at least two colloquia, which in the general history track may be in any area.

Option B: Specialty Tracks in History Minimum of eleven courses required, of which no more than four may be below the 300 level.

Method and Historiography: All concentrators are required to take CAS HI 200, ideally in their sophomore year, but in no event later than one semester after declaring a history concentration.

Colloquium Requirement: Concentrators must take at least two colloquia. Ordinarily students specializing in one area of history should take colloquia in their designated field (e.g., those pursuing the American history track should take American history colloquia). If, however, suitable colloquia are not available, students may request their advisor’s permission to take other colloquia instead.

Additional requirements for the specialty tracks are given below. A list of courses approved for each track is available in the department office and in the “Course Areas” section of the departmental website.

Track 1: History of the United States and the North American Colonies Minimum of six courses required in American history: CAS HI 151, 152, and four additional courses, two of which must be colloquia.

Track 2: European History Minimum of six courses required in European history, two of which must be colloquia.

Track 3: World/Regional History Minimum of six courses required: CAS HI 175, 176, and four additional courses, two of which must be colloquia. Students develop a coherent program with their advisor. In addition to the history courses in this track, students may include designated courses from the Departments of Anthropology, Archaeology, Economics, Geography & Environment, Political Science, Religion, and Sociology.

Track 4: Intellectual and Cultural History Minimum of six courses, two of which must be colloquia, required from the following:

CAS HI 306 Magic, Science, and Religion

CAS HI 314 The European Enlightenment

CAS HI 315 Intellectual History of Europe in the Nineteenth Century

CAS HI 316 Intellectual History of Europe in the Twentieth Century

CAS HI 339 Cities and Cultures

CAS HI 343 Darwin, Freud, and Einstein

CAS HI 354 Religious Thought in America

CAS HI 368 Science and American Culture

CAS HI 369 Science and Christianity in Europe and North America Since 1500

CAS HI 373 American Thought and Culture, 1776–1900

CAS HI 374 American Thought and Culture, 1900 to the Present

CAS HI 379 Modern American Cultural History

CAS HI 381 The Samurai in Myth and History

CAS HI 424 European Socialism, 1914–1945

CAS HI 426 Music and Ideas from Mozart to the Jazz Age

CAS HI 428 Postwar European Culture

CAS HI 435 Histories of Human Rights

CAS HI 440 Refugee Intellectuals (1933–1950)

CAS HI 445 Introduction to Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Russian Intellectual History

CAS HI 448 Science and Modern Culture: Darwin, Freud, and Einstein

CAS HI 456 Religion and American Culture

CAS HI 481 Blacks in Modern Europe

CAS HI 493 History of Science

CAS HI 550 Jews in Modern Culture

CAS HI 568 The Modern Metropolis: Approaches to Urban History

CAS HI 579 Race and the South: Questions of Interpretation in History and Literature

CAS HI 580 The History of Racial Thought

CAS HI 583 Black Radical Thought

Option C: Interdisciplinary Tracks

Track 1: History and Religion Minimum of twelve courses required as follows:

One of the following: CAS HI 101, 102

One of the following: CAS HI 151, 152

CAS HI 200

One additional course in history (not limited to area or chronological period)

Three of the following:

CAS HI 204 Europe Between Renaissance and Revolution

CAS HI 223 Jews in the Modern World

CAS HI 306 Magic, Science, and Religion

CAS HI 308 History of the Crusades

CAS HI 309 Millenarian Expectations in Western History

CAS HI 310 Heresy and Persecution in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries

CAS HI 312 The Reformation Era: Sixteenth-Century Europe

CAS HI 354 Religious Thought in America

CAS HI 369 Science and Christianity in Europe and North America Since 1500

CAS HI 407 Topics in Medieval Religious Culture (also offered as CAS RN 470)

Three additional courses as follows:

One of the following:

CAS RN 103 Religions of the World: Eastern

CAS RN 104 Religions of the World: Western

CAS RN 210 Buddhism

CAS RN 211 Chinese Religion

CAS RN 212 Christianity

CAS RN 213 Hinduism

CAS RN 214 Islam

CAS RN 215 Japanese Religion

CAS RN 216 Judaism

Two of the following:

CAS RN 201 The Hebrew Bible

CAS RN 202 From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of Christianity

CAS RN 219 Mysticism and Philosophy: Medieval Jewish Perspectives

CAS RN 220 The Holy City: Jerusalem in Time, Space, and Imagination

CAS RN 242 Magic, Science, and Religion from Plato to Voltaire

CAS RN 301 Varieties of Early Christianity

CAS RN 307 Medieval Christian Spirituality

CAS RN 313 Hinduism in America

CAS RN 328 Judaism in the Modern Period

CAS RN 334 Dead Sea Scrolls

CAS RN 335 Judaism in the First Century

CAS RN 384 The Holocaust

CAS RN 413 Gender in Medieval Christian Mysticism

CAS RN 427 Topics in American Religion

CAS RN 498 Topics in Ancient Christianity

Two colloquia in history, one of which must be from the following list:

CAS HI 406 Monks, Friars, and Saints

CAS HI 407 Topics in Medieval Religious Culture

CAS HI 443 Jews in Modern German History

CAS HI 456 Religion and American Culture

CAS HI 552 Topics in Jewish History

Track 2: History and Art History Minimum of twelve courses required as follows:

History (eight courses):

At least one course in each of the following areas: American history, European history, world/regional history

CAS HI 200

Three electives at the 300 or 400 level, preferably in intellectual/cultural history

One colloquium

Art History (four courses):

One of the following:

CAS AH 111 Introduction to Art History I: Antiquity to the Middle Ages

CAS AH 112 Introduction to Art History II: Renaissance to Today

CAS AH 215 Arts of Africa

CAS AH 225 The Arts of Asia

Two courses in any two fields, at least one at the 300 level

One 400- or 500-level seminar

Track 3: History and International Relations Minimum of twelve courses required as follows:

History (eight courses):

At least one course in each of the following areas: American history, European history, world/regional history

CAS HI 200

Three courses numbered 300 or above

One colloquium

International Relations (four courses):

CAS IR 230 or IR 271

Three of the following:

CAS IR 303 Universal History

CAS IR 320 The American Military Experience

CAS IR 325 Great Powers and the Eastern Mediterranean

CAS IR 330 Diplomatic Practice

CAS IR 341 Central Europe

CAS IR 349 History of International Relations, 1900–45

CAS IR 350 History of International Relations Since 1945

CAS IR 363 Soviet Politics, 1917–1991

CAS IR 367 Introduction to Latin American Politics and International Relations

CAS IR 369 Southeast Asia in World Politics

CAS IR 370 China: From Revolution to Reform

CAS IR 382 Understanding the Middle East

CAS IR 465 The United States and the Cold War

CAS IR 509 Islam in Middle East Politics

CAS IR 524 War and Statecraft

CAS IR 545 Central/East European Diplomatic History, 1814–1918

CAS IR 552 Nordic Europe

CAS IR 567 Latin American Politics

CAS IR 579 Japan in International Politics

CAS IR 581 The Evolution of Strategic Intelligence

CAS IR 589 North Atlantic/European Security Issues

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Grade Requirement

A grade of C or higher is required for all courses counted toward the concentration.

Language Study

The department strongly recommends that all history concentrators, but especially those planning graduate study in history or any related discipline, be proficient in reading at least one foreign language, and if possible two, by the time of their graduation. Concentrators should consult with their advisors early in their history program to determine their language needs.

Previously Earned Credits

Students who complete CGS SS 102 and SS 201 with a grade of C or higher will receive credit for CAS HI 102 and HI 176 respectively. Students who complete the four-semester humanities sequence of the College of Arts & Sciences Core Curriculum with a grade of C or higher will receive credit for CAS HI 101 and HI 102.

Transfer Students

Of the courses required for the concentration, at least five must be taken at Boston University: CAS HI 200, two colloquia, and two additional courses at the 300 level or above.

Independent Work for Distinction

Work for graduation with distinction presupposes attainment of the requisite College of Arts & Sciences grade point level (a minimum of 3.0 in all courses, 3.5 in all principal courses). In the senior year, the student must prepare an honors thesis, which will be credited as one course each semester, and defend it in an oral examination toward the end of that year. Students interested in work for distinction should apply to the Independent Study Committee in their junior year. Work for distinction does not fulfill the departmental colloquium requirement.

Minor Concentration in History (2205)

A minor concentration in the Department of History consists of six courses, four of which must be at the 300 level or above and one of which must be a colloquium. Students must earn a minimum grade of C in courses taken toward the minor concentration. The purpose of this program is to offer students a chance to develop their own particular interests in history. A planned program must be approved by the Director of Undergraduate Studies.

Organizations

Phi Alpha Theta See Honor Societies.

Undergraduate History Association For students interested in the study of history; activities include discussions, lectures, and museum trips.

Warren O. Ault Prize

Named for a former chair of the department, this prize is awarded annually to a senior for outstanding academic achievement in history.

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Courses

Courses marked with a (†) satisfy the divisional studies requirement.

Note to nonconcentrators: All history courses are open to nonconcentrators, but colloquia are designed for advanced undergraduates, require instructor’s consent, and generally presuppose some knowledge of the field. Students are advised to take introductory courses (100 and 200 level) or lecture courses (300 level) before enrolling in a colloquium.

Introductory Courses

CAS CL 321 Greek History

Introduction to the political, social, economic, and cultural history of Greece from the age of Mycenae and Troy through Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic period. Carries history concentration credit. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS CL 322 Roman History

Introduction to the political, social, economic, and cultural history of Rome from the foundation of the city through the Age of Constantine. Carries history concentration credit. 4 cr, 2nd sem.

CAS HI 100 Freshman History Seminar

Prereq: CAS WR 098 or CAS WR 099, or BUWA results. Focusing on provocative themes and dramatic moments, these seminars introduce the art of historical writing while cultivating practical skills. Students learn how to analyze historical literature and debates as well as primary sources such as memoirs and fiction. Freshman only, carries Writing Program credit (CAS WR 100). Deese. 4 cr, 1st sem.

†CAS HI 101 The Dawn of Europe: Antiquity to the Renaissance

Covers the origins and rise of Europe, with emphasis on Greek and Roman antiquity, medieval institutions, the Renaissance city-state, religious reform. Typical readings may include Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War, The Bible, Machiavelli’s The Prince, and Luther’s Christian Liberty. Westling, Staff. 4 cr, 1st sem. (SS)

†CAS HI 102 The Emergence of Modern Europe: Renaissance to the Present

Political and religious change; Enlightenment and Revolution; industrialization and the nation state; and modernity, the World Wars, and their consequences. Typical readings may include Rousseau’s Social Contract, Marx and Engels’ Communist Manifesto, and Silone’s Bread and Wine. Westling, Staff. 4 cr, 2nd sem. (SS)

CAS HI 150 Freshman Writing and Research Seminar

Prereq: CAS WR 100 or BUWA results. These seminars bring students out of the classroom and into the archive and library. Students hone their detective skills by learning how historians investigate the past through primary sources including diaries, novels, government documents, and scientific treatises. Freshmen only, carries Writing Program credit for CAS WR 150. Blakely, Nolan. 4 cr, either sem.

†CAS HI 151 The Emerging United States to 1865

Colonial society and the roots of the American Revolution; federalism, nationalism, Jeffersonian democracy; Jackson and democratic capitalism; expansion and imperialism; slavery and civil war. Roberts, Staff. 4 cr, 1st sem. (SS)

†CAS HI 152 The United States Since 1865

Reconstruction, industrialism, and recent social movements; labor and populism, imperial expansion, progressive politics, World War I, 1920s prosperity and the Great Depression, the New Deal, World War II, and the Cold War. Schulman, Staff. 4 cr, 2nd sem. (SS)

CAS HI 175 World History I: Origins of Humanity to ca. 1500

Interrelationships among major world civilizations of Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe to 1500. Thornton, Staff. 4 cr, 1st sem.

†CAS HI 176 World History II: 1500 to the Present

Interrelationships among major world civilizations of Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe from 1500 to the present. Anderson, Staff. 4 cr, 2nd sem. (SS)

CAS HI 203 History of Medieval Europe

Traces the evolution of medieval civilization from the fourth to the fourteenth centuries. Emphasizes three main themes: the political and social development of western Europe, the evolution of Latin Christianity, and the role of popular culture. Landes. 4 cr, 2nd sem.

CAS HI 204 Europe Between Renaissance and Revolution

Surveys the key movements that transformed European culture, politics, and intellectual life between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries: the Renaissance, Protestant and Catholic Reformations, new age of science and exploration, absolutism and constitutional monarchy, Enlightenment, and French Revolution. Westling. 4 cr, 2nd sem.

CAS HI 210 The Age of Discoveries

Not offered 2009/2010

†CAS HI 215 Political and Cultural Revolution in the Contemporary World

Basic aim is to make today’s experience more meaningful in the broad problem area of revolutionary change. Starting point of discussion for each problem is contemporary revolutionary upheaval and cultural changes illumined by analysis of historical parallels and antecedents. Payaslian. 4 cr, 2nd sem. (SS)

CAS HI 216 Women and Gender in European History

An overview of women’s public and private roles and the attitudes that have shaped these roles from the Middle Ages to the present. The cultural construction of femininity and its social, economic, and political consequences for European women. Diefendorf. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 223 Jews in the Modern World

The Jewish nation in the Ottoman Empire; social and economic effects of European emancipation; rise of modern antisemitism; intra-European and cross-Atlantic immigration patterns; the Holocaust; the state of Israel and modern Jewish identity. Rabinovitch. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 232 History of Contemporary Europe, 1900 to the Present

Narrative and interpretive account of twentieth-century Europe. Stress on sociopolitical and cultural aspects of the topic, the impact of World War I, the Communist and Fascist revolutions, the loss of European significance after World War II, and the emergence of the European Common Market. Zatlin, Staff. 4 cr, 2nd sem.

CAS HI 235 The Culture of World War I

Prereq: CAS Honors Program. Studies World War I through works of literature, art, and music. Themes include initial optimism, the brutal reality of the trenches, and consequences of the peace. Works by Owen, Sassoon, Brooke, Kandinsky, Picasso, Grosz, Mahler, Stravinsky, Berg, Jünger, Céline, Woolf. Johnson. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 248 Catastrophe and Cultural Memory

Examines the ways in which catastrophes—both natural and social—enter into cultural memory. Goal is to understand how events that seem to defy comprehension are represented in works of art and given a place in the memory of a culture. Schimdt. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 259 Colonial British America from Settlement to Revolution

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 275 Science and Technology in World History

Surveys developments in the history of science and technology in world history from the invention of agriculture to twenty-first century globalization. Examines how science and technology grow and the ways in which they interact in the ambient culture. Glick. 4 cr, 2nd sem.

CAS HI 276 Armenia from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

Introduction to Armenian history from antiquity to the medieval period. Themes include geopolitical competition for regional hegemony, the conversion to Christianity, adoption of the Armenian alphabet, quality of leadership under the five kingdoms, and the national struggle for survival. Payaslian. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 277 A Country at a Crossroads: Modern Armenian History and Literature

Introduction to modern Armenian history and literature from the nineteenth-century “cultural renaissance” to the upheavals of the twentieth century—genocide, independence, and Sovietization—and the literatures of Soviet Armenia and the diaspora. Payaslian. 4 cr, 2nd sem.

†CAS HI 291 Reconstructing the African Past

Discusses the uses of archaeological evidence and oral tradition, as well as primary and secondary documentation, in the study of precolonial African history: early states and empires, kinship, cosmology and social order, slavery and the slave trade, and origins of racial conflict in southern Africa. McCann. 4 cr, 1st sem. (SS)

CAS HI 292 Colonialism in Africa: Impact and Aftermath

Uses case studies of particular African societies or nations to examine patterns of European conquest and African resistance; forms of colonial administration and socioeconomic consequences of colonial rule; decolonization and contemporary African liberation movements; economic and political developments since independence; and contemporary social and cultural change. Wylie. 4 cr, 2nd sem.

Core Course for Concentrators

CAS HI 200 The Historian's Craft

Required introductory course for concentrators, normally taken in their sophomore year. Intended to develop critical reading and analytical skills in history. Works examined are drawn from different fields and periods. Weekly written exercises, oral reports, and class discussions. Staff. 4 cr, either sem.

Lecture Courses

CAS HI 304 Honor-Shame: Middle Ages, Modern World

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 305 Medieval Intellectual History: The Latin West

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 306 Magic, Science, and Religion

Boundaries and relationships between magic, science, and religion from late antiquity through the European Enlightenment. Topics include transformation of pagan traditions, distinctions between learned and popular traditions, and changing assumptions about God and Nature. Also offered as CAS RN 242. Klepper. 4 cr, 2nd sem.

CAS HI 307 History of War

Survey of warfare from early modern times. Topics include siege warfare and the rise of mass infantry armies, war at sea, battle histories that illustrate the transition to gunpowder technology and the revolution in military affairs and the advent of total war. Nolan. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 308 History of the Crusades

The origin and development of the Crusade movement in Western Christendom: the first four Crusades, their cause and results; crusader finance, preaching, and military recruitment; changing focus of Crusade movements from the Holy Land to other areas. Backman, Staff. 4 cr, 2nd sem.

CAS HI 309 Millenarian Expectations in Western History, Year 1–2000

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 310 Heresy and Persecution in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 311 Renaissance Europe

The main political, socioeconomic, intellectual, and artistic currents in Italy (c. 1350–1530) and northwestern Europe (c. 1500–1560); emphasis on leading thinkers (Petrarch, Bruni, Machiavelli, Erasmus, More, and Montaigne) as creators of the modern Western mind. Diefendorf. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 312 The Reformation Era: Sixteenth-Century Europe

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 314 The European Enlightenment

Survey of the intellectual and social transformation of Europe from the 1680s to the French Revolution. Readings draw on both eighteenth-century sources (including Voltaire, Diderot, Condorcet, Lessing, Smith, and Hume) and recent work by historians. Also offered as CAS PO 395. Schmidt. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 315 Intellectual History of Europe in the Nineteenth Century

Major figures and movements from 1799 to 1890. Topics include the impact of the French Revolution, romanticism, social utopias, the rise of nationalism, the artistic avant-garde, conflicts between science and religion, technology and urban planning, and the aesthetic ideal. Johnson. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 316 Intellectual History of Europe in the Twentieth Century

Major figures and movements from 1890 to the present. Topics include the critique of positivism, the exploration of the unconscious, modern styles in art, reshaping Marxist theory, advances in sociology, the impact of war on modern literature and ethics. Johnson. 4 cr, 2nd sem.

CAS HI 318 England in the Middle Ages

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 319 Tudor England, 1485–1603

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 321 The Making of Modern Britain

Political, social, and intellectual developments; emphasis on evolution of cabinet government and the party system; the industrial revolution and social problems; political reform and the emergence of democracy. Chernock. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 322 Twentieth-Century Britain

A political, social, and cultural history of England with emphasis on the impact of the two world wars, the emergence of the welfare state, the loss of empire, and Britain’s relations with Europe. Chernock. 4 cr, 2nd sem.

CAS HI 331 French Feudal Society, 496–1339

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 333 French Revolution and Napoleon

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 338 Germany, 1914 to the Present

German history from the beginning of World War I to the present, with emphasis on the politico-social developments, the Nazi attempt to control Europe, the growing division of Germany, the integration of West and East Germany into power blocs, and German reunification. Zatlin. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 339 Cities and Cultures

Examines the relationship between cultural expression and political, social, and economic change by focusing on cities such as Florence, Amsterdam, Paris, London, and Vienna during times of intense creativity and upheaval. Dellheim. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 341 Central Europe

Intellectual, cultural, political, diplomatic, and military history of the region between Germany and Russia, from the end of the Middle Ages to the present. Also offered as CAS IR 341. Lukes. 4 cr, 2nd sem.

CAS HI 344 The Great Powers and the Eastern Mediterranean

The Eastern Mediterranean as center of Great Power confrontation. Its impact on wider international relations, the domestic political results, the role of sea power, and the origins, conduct, and resolution of wars. Also offered as CAS IR 325. Goldstein. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 345 History of Russia, 1689 –1917

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 346 History of the Soviet Union and Post-Communist Russia, 1917 to the Present

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 347 Issues in Modern Russian and Soviet History, 1861–1956

Modern Russia in the imperial and Soviet eras: from the Great Reforms of Alexander II through the end of Stalin’s reign. Examines Russia’s political, socioeconomic, and cultural transformation from the traditional society into the first Communist state. Geifman. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 348 Communications Revolutions from Language to Cyberspace

History of communications revolutions from the origin of human language through writing to current global revolutions. Focus on the western socio-political matrix of communications technology, implications for both cognitive and social relations, and dilemmas created for cultures by the increased flow of information. Landes. 4 cr, 2nd sem.

CAS HI 349 History of International Relations, 1900–45

The causes and consequences of the First World War; the search for postwar reconstruction and stability during the twenties; economic collapse, revolutionary nationalism, and fascism during the 1930s; the Second World War and the advent of the bipolar world. Also offered as CAS IR 349. Keylor. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 350 History of International Relations Since 1945

The causes and consequences of the Soviet-American Cold War from its origins in Europe to its extension to Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The rise of the multipolar international system, the emergence of the nonaligned blocs, and inter- and intra-alliance conflicts. Also offered as CAS IR 350. Keylor. 4 cr, 2nd sem.

CAS HI 354 Religious Thought in America

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 356 The American Revolution, 1750 –1800

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 361 The Civil War Era

Social, economic, and political consequences of slavery; Southern secession and the Civil War; political reconstruction; the New South; and the betrayal of black rights. Silber. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 362 The Gilded Age, 1877 –1914

Known as a period of obscene ostentation, this period also reveals considerable tension between a society seething with social conflict and a culture creeping toward nationalization. Emphasis on social conflict, regional differences, and new cultural pursuits. Ferleger. 4 cr, 2nd sem.

CAS HI 363 The United States, 1900 –45

Industrialization; Progressivism; science; religion; expansion and World War I; immigration; the women’s movement; Jim Crow; the Great Depression and New Deal; World War II; politics, culture, and diplomacy. Phillips, Staff. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 364 The United States, 1945 –68

Origins and development of Cold War; McCarthyism, Eisenhower era; civil rights; Great Society; Vietnam; New Left and counterculture; feminism; rise of conservatism; religion, culture, and politics. Schulman, Staff. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 365 The United States Since 1968

Recent political, economic, social, and cultural history. Includes Nixon, Carter, and Reagan presidencies; stagflation; Watergate; “Me Decade;” end of the Cold War. Schulman, Staff. 4 cr, 2nd sem.

CAS HI 366 History of American Foreign Relations Since 1898

Analysis of the history of American foreign policy from the perspective of the changing world and regional international systems; emphasis on the effect of these systems and the impact of America on the creation and operation of international systems. Also offered as CAS PO 366. Mayers, Staff. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 367 Americans in the World: United States History in Transitional Perspective

Examines how political, cultural, and social movements in the United States have connected with people and developments around the world. Topics include views of American society by outside observers, Americans’ activities abroad, and their part in shaping global integration. Blower. 4 cr, 2nd sem.

CAS HI 368 Science and American Culture

From the colonial period to the present. Such topics as the American reception of Copernicus and Newton, scientific exploration, the interaction of science and religion, the impact of science on social theory, the rise of “big science,” and contemporary “science wars.” Roberts. 4 cr, 2nd sem.

CAS HI 369 Science and Christianity in Europe and North America Since 1500

Examines the relationship between science and the Christian tradition in Europe and North America since 1500. Considers the epistemological and metaphysical foundations of both science and Christian thought as they have evolved over time. Also offered as CAS RN 369. Roberts. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 370 The American Military Experience

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 371 African American History

The history of African Americans from African origins to present time; consideration of slavery, reconstruction, and ethnic relations from the colonial era to our own time. Also offered as CAS AA 371. Rabig. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 372 The Twentieth-Century American Presidency

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 373 American Thought and Culture, 1776–1900

Major thinkers and movements in intellectual and cultural history from the Revolution to 1900. Topics include Revolutionary republicanism, evangelical theology and democratic theory, Transcendentalism and Romantic culture, antislavery and nationality, Victorian realism, liberal Protestantism and Darwinism, and evolutionary social science. Capper. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 374 American Thought and Culture, 1900 to the Present

Major thinkers and movements in intellectual and cultural history since 1900. Topics include pragmatism and progressivism; ethnic and cultural pluralism; Marxism and liberalism; Cold War ideology and neoconservatism; artistic modernism; psychoanalysis and modernization theory; the New Left, multiculturalism, and postmodernism. Deese. 4 cr, 2nd sem.

CAS HI 375 A History of Women in the United States

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 376 American Foreign Policy Since 1945

America’s tradition and heritage in foreign policy. American foreign policy during the Cold War. Conflicting approaches to the formulation of American foreign policy in the current international environment. Domestic and institutional actors in policy formulation: Congress, media, Presidency, CIA, military. Also offered as CAS IR 376. TBA. 4 cr. 1st sem.

CAS HI 377 Economic History of the United States

Analysis of American economic development; role of factory and frontier; changes in economic structure and institutions; parts played by government and business enterprise in development. Influence of economic conditions and occupation groupings on political alignments and on public policy. Ferleger. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 378 History of the Civil Rights Movement

History of the African American struggle for racial equality and democracy from the turn of the century through the 1960s. Use is made of the most recent scholarship, memoirs, documentary films, and oral history accounts. Also offered as CAS AA 310. Rabig. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 379 Modern American Cultural History

Examines Americans’ beliefs and the cultural forms used to convey their experiences since the late nineteenth century. Includes challenges to the Victorian order, growth of commercial entertainments, new rules and reactions to modern life, and changing understandings of the self. Blower. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 385 Atlantic History

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 386 Modern Latin America

Political, economic, and cultural evolution of Latin American republics. Nineteenth-century conflicts over “civilization” vs “barbarism,” liberalism vs conservatism, and slavery. Democracy and military rule in the twentieth century and efforts to create new forms of politics and citizenship. Rubin. 4 cr, 2nd sem.

CAS HI 389 Introduction to Early Chinese History

The development of Chinese civilization through the traditional, medieval, and early modern periods; emphasis on intellectual history and political, social, and economic institutions. Menegon. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 390 Introduction to Modern Chinese History

History of China from the Opium War through the Chinese revolution to the post-Mao era. Analysis of the traditional continuities and political, economic, social, and intellectual changes stimulated by modernization and revolution. TBA. 4 cr, 2nd sem.

CAS HI 391 Introduction to Modern Japanese History

Developments from late Tokugawa Japan and the Meiji Restoration (1868) to the present. Focus is on Japan’s economic, political, and social adjustment to modern times, the evolution of twentieth-century Japanese imperialism, and Japan’s growth after World War II. O’Brien. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 392 Introduction to the Middle East

General introduction to the history, culture, and current development in the Middle East. Objective is to introduce students to a specific geographical and historical experience, as well as to acquaint them with some of the literature in the field. Anderson. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 393 Americans and the Middle East

Examines the intersecting histories of America and the Middle East from the late eighteenth century to the present, focusing first on American missionary and educational efforts in the region and then on American political and military involvement after World War II. Anderson. 4 cr, 2nd sem.

CAS HI 394 Environmental History of Africa

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 395 Power, Leadership, and Governance in Africa and the Caribbean

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 396 States and Commerce in Atlantic Africa, 1450–1850

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 397 History of Modern Iran, 1900-Present

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 398 Turko-Persia in the Twentieth Century

The twentieth-century history of the non-Arab Muslim Middle East, i.e., Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. Analysis of the constitutional revolutions in Turkey and Iran, Kemalism, the Islamic revolution in Iran, and communism in the Soviet Union and Afghanistan. Also offered as CAS IR 328. Chehabi. 4 cr, 2nd sem.

CAS HI 399 Modern History and Geopolitics of the Caucasus

Surveys history of the Caucasus with a focus on Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, from the early nineteenth century to the post-Soviet period. Explores advantages and problems of modernization, nationalism, and major power geopolitics within the context of international political economy. Payaslian. 4 cr, 1st sem.

Undergraduate Colloquia The following courses are normally restricted to juniors and seniors, have limited enrollment, and require the consent of the instructor.

CAS HI 406 Monks, Friars, and Saints

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 407 Topics in Medieval Religious Culture

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 409 Medieval Science and Technology

Introduction to medieval science and technology, including the Greek and Roman inheritance, the transmission of Greek science to Europe by the Arabs, and medieval developments leading to the Scientific Revolution. Glick. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 412 Popular Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 414 Society and Culture in Early Modern Europe

Selected topics in the social history of Europe between the Renaissance and the Age of Revolution: family and society, urban history, elites, social protest, and popular rebellion. Diefendorf. 4 cr, 2nd sem.

CAS HI 417 England from Reformation to Revolution

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 423 History of the European Union, 1945 to the Present

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 424 European Socialism, 1789–1989

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 425 Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 426 Music and Ideas from Mozart to the Jazz Age

Studies selected masterworks of western music in historical context. Critical essays, literature, and philosophy from the period illuminate each work’s setting, and recent scholarship provides varied approaches for understanding the influences affecting each work. Johnson. 4 cr, 2nd sem.

CAS HI 430 Comparative European Fascism

Analysis of the fascist phenomenon stressing its comparative and cross-cultural aspects. Delineation of characteristics of fascist movements in Italy, Germany, England, France, southeastern Europe, and the Iberian Peninsula. Zatlin. 4 cr, 2nd sem.

CAS HI 435 Histories of Human Rights

Traces Westerners’ development of a humanitarian sensibility in the eighteenth century and considers how this sensibility was deployed in struggles over the rights of various groups during the modern period. Emphasis on Anglo-American contributions. Chernock. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 436 The Great War and the Fragile Peace

Exploration of the military, political, social, economic, and cultural consequences of the First World War and the peace conference of 1919. Focuses on technological innovations, the expanded role of the state, and the long-range impact of the Versailles settlement. Also offered as CAS IR 436. Keylor. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 440 Refugee Intellectuals (1933–1950)

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 443 Jews in Modern German History

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 446 The Russian Revolution

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 448 Science and Modern Culture: Darwin, Freud, and Einstein

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 453 Three Revolutions

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 454 War and American Society, 1607–1973

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 455 Early American History and Culture

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 456 Religion and American Culture

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 461 The Civil War in American Memory

Examines the ways in which Americans have thought about the experiences of the Civil War, from the immediate postwar period through the later years of the twentieth century. Silber. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 465 The United States and the Cold War

Examination of U.S. Cold War foreign policy from its origins at the end of World War II to the collapse of the Berlin Wall and of the Soviet Union. Also offered as CAS IR 465. Keylor. 4 cr, 2nd sem.

CAS HI 467 Postwar America: Issues in Political, Cultural, and Social History, 1945–69

Topics include Cold War, McCarthyism, fifties ideology, War on Poverty, civil rights movement, Vietnam, New Left, counterculture, rise and decline of liberalism. Phillips. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 468 American Society Since 1970: Issues in Domestic Political, Cultural, and Social History

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 472 Wars of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Examines the origins, conduct, and consequences of major conflicts of the past century, beginning with the Boer War and ending with the U.S. conflict in Iraq. Also offered as CAS IR 472. Bacevich. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 475 American Consumer History

The history of consumerism in modern America. Topics include origins and critiques of the culture of consumption; the development of national markets; advertising and commercial amusements; and the relationship of consumer society to religion, gender, ethnicity, and class. Halter. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 476 Technology in American Society

Technology in American society from the colonial era to World War II. Topics include industrialization, scientific management, household technologies, and the auto age. Ferleger. 4 cr, 2nd sem.

CAS HI 479 Impact of Darwin

Influence of Darwinian evolution on various human activities. Genesis of Darwin’s theory; intellectual and social climate for reception of Darwinism in different societies; its impact on natural and social sciences; conflict between evolution and religion. Glick. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 481 Blacks in Modern Europe

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 482 Merchants, Pirates, Missionaries, and the State in Maritime Asia, 600–2000

Prereq: junior standing and consent of instructor. Oceans connected the peoples of coastal Asia, Africa, and Oceania for centuries before the arrival of Europeans in the 1500s. This course examines the commercial, religious, cultural, political, and military dynamics of maritime Asia up to the present, showing the region’s historical and current importance. Menegon. 4 cr, 2nd sem.

CAS HI 484 Revolutionary Change in North Africa and the Middle East

Analysis of problems of revolutionary change and development theories as they apply to North Africa and the Middle East. Anderson. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 485 Selected Problems in the Modern Middle East

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 487 Continuity and Change in Late Imperial and Modern China

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 488 Interwar Japan and the Pacific War

An examination of the cultural, social, and political impact of World War I on Japanese society; the nature of Taisho liberalism; 1930s militaristic nationalism, with emphasis on the role of the United States leading into and beyond World War II. O’Brien. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 489 The African Diaspora in the Americas

Topic for Spring 2010: African American History in Global and Comparative Perspective. African American history in an international framework. Examines development of racial categories in early transatlantic trade, Black participation in armed conflict, diverse Black communities in the twentieth century. Also offered as CAS AA 489. Rabig. 4 cr, 2nd sem.

CAS HI 493 History of Science

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 494 Histories for the New South Africa

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 496 Ideology and Conflict in World History

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 503 Psychohistory

Addresses the “Whys?” of history and focuses on the application of Freudian analysis and other psychological models to interpret past individual and group behavior. Emphasizes two key subfields: psychobiography and group psychohistory. Geifman. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 537 World War II: Causes, Course, Consequences

Begins with the origins of World War II in Asia and Europe, follows its major campaigns, and ends with its main consequences. Topics include diplomacy, grand strategy, command decisions, conditions of battle, and civilians in occupation and resistance. Nolan. 4 cr, 2nd sem.

CAS HI 549 Nationalism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 552 Topics in Jewish History

Examines various aspects of Jewish culture, politics, and society. Topics vary from year to year. Rabinovitch. 4 cr, 2nd sem.

CAS HI 560 The American Transcendentalists

Led by Emerson, Thoreau, Bronson, Alcott, Margaret Fuller, and others, the Transcendentalists constituted the first “counter-cultural” movement in American history. Seminar focuses on how and why they did so within the philosophical, religious, literary, antislavery, communitarian, and ecological currents they inhabited. Capper. 4 cr, 2nd sem.

CAS HI 566 Ideas and American Foreign Policy

Examines the intellectual foundations of U.S. foreign policy from the founding of the republic to the present. Also offered as CAS IR 522. Bacevich. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 568 The Modern Metropolis: Approaches to Urban History

Examines the development of the modern American metropolis during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Considers transformations in commercial life, popular entertainments, and the use of public spaces as well as social encounters across lines of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Blower. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 580 The History of Racial Thought

Not offered 2009/2010

CAS HI 582 Social Movements in Twentieth-Century Latin America

Examination of the origins, actions, and effects of social movements in twentieth-century Latin America, with particular attention to the relationship between the cultures of everyday life and pathways of political action and change. Rubin. 4 cr, 1st sem.

CAS HI 583 Black Radical Thought

Black radical thought in America, Europe, and Africa since the eighteenth century through writings of abolitionists, leaders of revolutions and liberation movements, Black nationalists, and Black socialists. Emphasizes the global nature of the “Black World” and its role in world history. Also offered as CAS AA 583. Blakely. 4 cr, 2nd sem.

CAS HI 584 Comparative Slavery

The institution of slavery in history with a special focus on slavery and the slave trade in Africa and the Americas in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Attention to cultural and political issues as well as economic and social aspects of slavery. Also offered as CAS AA 514. Thornton. 4 cr, 1st sem.

Distinction Work

CAS HI 401, 402 Senior Independent Work

Prereq: approval of Independent Study Committee. 4 cr each, 1st & 2nd sem.

Directed Study

CAS HI 491, 492 Directed Study

Prereq: consent of instructor and approval of the department and CAS Room 105. Variable cr, 1st & 2nd sem.

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