Courses

• CAS HI 392: The History of Israel: An Introduction
  Beginning with Israel's creation in 1948, covers the political and military history of Israel, including the 1956 War with Egypt, the 1967 War, and the State's development to the present day. Also considers immigration and the Palestinian question.
• CAS HI 393: Topics in the History of Israel
  Special topics in the history of Israel. Topics differ from year to year. Topic for Fall 2011: Israel's Identity: Peace, Conflict, and Neo-Liberalism. A diverse country, containing many different communities, from ultra-orthodox to secular Jews, from Bedouin in the south to Druze in the north, Israel also faces the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a neo-liberal economic order. The class considers this social complexity. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 383.
• CAS HI 396: Introduction to Latin American History
  Analysis and discussion of the historical and cultural antecedents of Latin America; the influence of geographic, cultural, and economic forces on the land, people, and patterns of social change during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 281.
• CAS HI 397: 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. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 386.
• CAS HI 398: Protest, Revolution, and Human Rights in Latin America
  What happens when ordinary people and activists rise up to claim human rights? This course examines movements for land, sustainable agriculture, indigenous rights, women's rights, urban services, and freedom from racial discrimination and violence in twentieth-century Latin America.
• CAS HI 401: Senior Independent Work
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: approval of Independent Study Committee.
  
• CAS HI 402: Senior Independent Work
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: approval of Independent Study Committee.
  
• CAS HI 406: Monks, Friars, and Saints
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing and consent of instructor.
  Examines various aspects of the concept of holiness in medieval society. Principal focus on the monastic and mendicant orders, tracing the changing ideals of Christian sanctity and the impact of those ideals on social movements, economic developments, and state policies.
• CAS HI 407: Topics in Medieval Religious Culture
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: consent of instructor.
  Topic for Fall 2011: Magic, Witchcraft, and the Demonic in Medieval Europe. Explores magic, witchcraft, and the demonic as understood, employed, and feared in Christian and Jewish communities. Emphasis on relationship between literate and "folk" ideas and practices; intersections with formal religious practice; and forms of social control, including counter-magic and inquisition. Also offered as CAS RN 470.
• 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.
• CAS HI 412: Popular Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
  An exploration of the various expressions of culture among the commoners of Europe, ca. 400-1600. Topics include religion, storytelling, material life, social and political organization, law and justice, gender roles, witchcraft and popular crusades, and the impact of the printing press.
• CAS HI 413: Gender in Medieval Christian Mysticism
  Study of the Christian mystical traditions of medieval Europe, both orthodox and heretical, with particular emphasis on the role of gender and authority in mystical writing, practice, and teaching. Also offered as CAS RN 413.
• 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.
• CAS HI 425: Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe
  Examination of women's roles from the later Middle Ages through the era of the French Revolution. Women at work and in the family, their place in religious practice, civil society, and political change.
• CAS HI 426: Music and Ideas from Mozart to the Jazz Age
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: consent of instructor.
  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.
• CAS HI 428: Postwar European Culture
  Selected topics in western European culture since 1945, including the legacy of war, the impact of economic recovery, the press, colonialism and its critics, new departures in literature and film, the decline of Marxism, and attitudes toward America.
• 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.
• CAS HI 435: Histories of Human Rights
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: consent of instructor.
  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.
• 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.
• CAS HI 440: Refugee Intellectuals (1933-1950)
  Examination of the flight of intellectuals (including Mann, Adorno, Schoenberg) from Europe to the United States in the wake of Hitler's rise to power, drawing on accounts by the exiles themselves, their works, and subsequent studies by historians of the period.