History

• CAS HI 337: The United States, 1900-1945
  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. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 363.
• CAS HI 338: 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. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 364.
• CAS HI 339: 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. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 365.
• CAS HI 341: Political and Cultural Revolution
  Comparative historical analysis of modern and contemporary revolutionary upheavals and cultural change in Europe, the Americas, East Asia, Africa, Middle East, and the former Soviet republics. Examines the challenges posed by modernization, crisis of legitimacy, nationalism, imperial decline, and globalization. Carries social science divisional credit in the College of Arts & Sciences. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 215.
• CAS HI 342: Imperialism and Independence
  Examines nineteenth- and twentieth-century imperialist and independence movements, focusing on the colonial projects in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Analyzes imperialist ideologies and the roles nationalism, liberalism, communism, and socialism played in independence movements.
• CAS HI 347: 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. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 291. Carries social science divisional credit in CAS.
• CAS HI 348: 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. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 292.
• CAS HI 349: History of Religion in Precolonial Africa
  The study of the development of religious traditions in Africa during the period prior to European colonialism. An emphasis on both indigenous religions and the growth and spread of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in the continent as a whole. Also offered as CAS AA 382 and CAS RN 382. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 382.
• CAS HI 350: Atlantic History
  Examines the various interactions that shaped the Atlantic World, connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas between 1400 and 1800. Begins by defining the political interaction, then emphasizes cultural exchange, religious conversion, and the revolutionary era. Also offered as CAS AA 385. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 385.
• CAS HI 351: Environmental History of Africa
  Focus on the African environment and ecological systems over the past 150 years. Topics include climatic change, hydrography, agriculture, deforestation, soil erosion, disease, conservation, famine, and the role of colonialism and government policy in environmental change. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 394.
• CAS HI 352: Power, Leadership, and Governance in Africa and the Caribbean
  Haitian Revolution; British Caribbean, leadership, governance, and power in Africa during the period of legitimate trade; visionaries, dictators, and nationalist politics in the Caribbean; chiefs, western elites, and nationalism in colonial Africa; road to governance in post-colonial Caribbean and Africa. Also offered as CAS AA 395 and IR 394. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 395.
• CAS HI 353: States and Commerce in Atlantic Africa, 1450-1850
  Examines--both by region and across the larger Atlantic area--the ways that overseas commerce, in particular the slave trade, interacted with and was shaped by African politics and economic variables. Also offered as CAS AA 396. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 396.
• CAS HI 360: Blacks in Modern Europe
  Readings from recent scholarly books on Blacks in Britain, France, Germany, and Russia, as well as related primary materials revealing the evolving image of Blacks in European history, folklore, religion, art, and literature. Also offered as CAS AA 380. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 380.
• CAS HI 361: 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 388. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 388.
• CAS HI 363: 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. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 389.
• CAS HI 364: 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. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 390.
• CAS HI 369: Introduction to Modern Japanese History
  Developments from late Tokugawa Japan and the Meiji Restoration (1868) to the present. Focus 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. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 391.
• CAS HI 370: The Samurai in Myth and History
  Explores how samurai, Japan's (in)famous warrior class, defined themselves, and how others have portrayed them in literature, art, plays, film, and animation from ancient times to the present. Investigates why samurai ideals have become the most widely recognized Japanese "tradition." Also offered as CAS LJ 282. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 381.
• CAS HI 372: Asian American History
  Historically follows experiences of Asian and Pacific Islander groups from circumstances of departure to arrival and adjustment to the United States. Covers themes such as similarities and dissimilarities, images and stereotypes, discrimination and oppression, resistance and adaptation, community and family. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 262.
• CAS HI 378: 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. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered CAS HI 276.

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