Courses

• CAS HI 406: Monks, Friars, and Saints
  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
  Topic for Spring 2012: Biblical Origins of Democratic Culture. Explores the contribution of biblical, rabbinic, and Christian social and political values to creating a demotic culture, their contribution to the establishment of modern democracies, and the challenges that face democratic culture in the twenty-first century. 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 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
  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 434: Monarchy in Modern Britain
  A seminar probing seminal moments in the history of modern British sovereignty, when the politics of the court intersected with the politics of the people. Particular consideration is given to how monarchy has survived as an institution.
• 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.
• 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 448: Science and Modern Culture: Darwin, Freud, and Einstein
  Development of scientific theories of Darwin, Freud, and Einstein; impact of those ideas in different national cultures and their influence on literature, art, religion, and politics of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
• CAS HI 453: Three Revolutions
  Examines the rise of a distinctive Anglo-American political culture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Focus on the effects of the English civil wars, the Glorious Revolution, and the American Revolution on political thought, institutions, and behavior in America and Britain.
• CAS HI 454: War and American Society, 1607-1973
  Examines the American experience with war between the time of the initial European settlement in the seventeenth century and the end of the Vietnam war. Attention to theoretical and institutional change as well as events.
• CAS HI 455: Early American History and Culture
  Selected topics in the social and cultural history of America during the colonial and revolutionary eras. Emphasis on the exploration and colonization of New England and the transition from a pre-industrial to an industrializing society.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• CAS HI 468: American Society since 1970: Issues in Domestic Political, Cultural, and Social History
  A historical investigation of the United States at the end of the American century, including Watergate and the imperial presidency, stagflation, the "New Politics" and the "Me Decade," conservatism, feminism, race relations, religion, politics, culture, community and family life.
• 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.

Back to full list of College of Arts & Sciences