| HS112 | HUM: PROPHECY AND ORDER | Introduction to the history of Christian religious communities through an examination of the contributions of ascetic and apostolic figures who have acted as prophetic critics and strong supporters of the Church and the social/political structures of... |
| HS113 | ISJ: SAINTS AND SCOUNDRELS: THE JESUITS FROM RENAISSANCE TO REVOLUTION | Spirituality, intellectual life, ministry, and political involvements of the Jesuits from their origins in the Renaissance to the present day as seen in a global and historical context. Formerly: HS 218.Equivalent to: HS 218. |
| HS114 | ISJ: REVOLUTIONARY EUROPE | Transformation in European government, economy, society, and culture in the period of the French and Industrial Revolutions.Formerly: HS 220Equivalent to: HS 220 |
| HS115 | ISJ: TRIALS OF THE CENTURY | Examines 10 to 12 notable trials from the 15th to the 20th centuries. Analyzes individual cases, but also larger issues that attracted attention to each trial. Issues considered include not only what makes a trial “fair” but also freedom of thought,... |
| HS121 | HUM: THE COLD WAR | Developments between 1917 and 1991 in U.S.-European and broader international perspective. Circumstances at the end of World War II; alliance formation; the Korean War; censorship in East and West; Cold War influence on domestic developments in NATO... |
| HS125 | ISJ: INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN RIGHTS | Survey of thinking on human rights from antiquity to the present, with special attention to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other post-1945 developments. Case studies may vary, but will generally include such key human rights concerns a... |
| HS131 | ISJ: AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY | Overview of the black experience from its West African roots, through slavery, and finally to freedom in modern America. Focus on leaders, movements, community, and race relations. Formerly: HS 235.Equivalent to: HS 235. |
| HS135 | ISJ: FRONTIER AMERICA | Examines the evolution of America’s frontiers, from early European contact in North America to the 20th-century American West. Topics include imperial conflicts, western land speculation, the fur trade, America’s wars of expansion, western mining and... |
| HS136 | ISJ: NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY | History of the indigenous peoples of North America from their initial contact with European invaders in the 17th century until their last major battles against the Euro-Americans on the western Plains in the late 19th century. Focuses on the impact o... |
| HS137 | ISJ: HISTORY OF MEDICINE IN AMERICA | Surveys the art and science of healing from the colonial period through the present. Focuses on the conception of the healing arts, the evolution of the hospital system, the shift to private insurance, the growth of scientific research, and the socia... |
| HS138 | ISJ: HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND THE BODY IN AMERICA | Explores how the human body has been scientifically constructed with respect to race, sex, and gender over time, which served to create and justify patterns of social inequality. Examines how bodies were differentially exposed to pathogens, dissected... |
| HS139 | ISJ: HEALTH, MEDICINE, AND SOCIETY | Explores the history of health, disease, and medicine in the West: how health and disease were understood and addressed in the ancient world; how these ideas and experiences continued or changed in medieval Europe; ways in which the Scientific Revolu... |
| HS143 | HUM: ETHNICITY IN AMERICA | Focuses on the role that ethnicity and race have played in American history since 1865. Examination of how these categories have been socially constructed and the role they have played in politics, society, and culture. Formerly: HS 243.Equivalent to... |
| HS144 | HUM: HISTORY OF THE U.S. PRESIDENCY | This course examines the political careers and personal lives of the men who have occupied the office of President of the United States from George Washington to Joe Biden. Students will gain an understanding of how the American presidency has change... |
| HS152 | HUM: THE OLD SOUTH | Development of the slaveholding regions of the U.S. from the beginning of European contact through the end of the Civil War. Transplantation of European cultures in the New World, the evolution of a biracial society based on slavery, Southern distinc... |
| HS162 | ISJ: SEXUALITY IN AMERICA | Surveys the history of American sexuality and gender from the colonial era to the present. Cross-cultural encounters, male-female sexual politics, and changing conceptions of homosexual and heterosexual identities. Expectations for sexual and gender... |
| HS167 | ISJ: HISTORY OF THE CARIBBEAN | Examines the evolving contest for power in the Caribbean Basin. Conquest of the Caribbean basin by the colonial European powers, hierarchies of race and class, resistance to colonial masters, dismantling of major European New World empires by piracy,... |
| HS173 | HUM: COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA: NATIVES, EUROPEANS, AND AFRICANS IN THE NEW WORLD | Colonial period in Latin America (to 1810). Focuses on the impact of the European conquest over the native groups, the effects of conversion to Catholicism, and subsequent changes in gender roles.Formerly: HS 273.Equivalent to: HS 273. |
| HS174 | HUM: MODERN LATIN AMERICA: DICTATORS AND REVOLUTIONARIES | Main issues involved in the making of modern Latin America (1810 to present). Identity formation processes, military history, gender problems, and human rights topics. Formerly: HS 274.Equivalent to: HS 274. |
| HS175 | ISJ: LATIN AMERICAN MILITARY DICTATORSHIPS: GLOBALIZATION, U.S. FOREIGN POLICY, AND HUMAN RIGHTS | Introduction to military-run regimes in Latin America as a way to understand the global influences at work in the area. The impact of dictatorships on human rights, as well as of the multi-layered responses by civil societies to cope with state-run t... |
| HS185 | AFRICAN HISTORY THROUGH AUTOBIOGRAPHY | Introduction to the study of modern African history through the lives of both ordinary people and national figures. Examines autobiographical writing as a means for understanding the political, cultural, social, and economic contours of life in sever... |
| HS195 | SPECIAL TOPICS: AMERICAN | Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. Directed readings or individual research by permission of chair. |
| HS195A | SPECIAL TOPICS: AMERICAN | Topics: 195: American; 196: European; 197: Asian, African, or Latin American. Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. Directed readings or individual research by permission of chair. |
| HS195B | SPECIAL TOPICS: AMERICAN | Topics: 195: American; 196: European; 197: Asian, African, or Latin American. Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. Directed readings or individual research by permission of chair. |
| HS195C | SPECIAL TOPICS: AMERICAN | Topics: 195: American; 196: European; 197: Asian, African, or Latin American. Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. Directed readings or individual research by permission of chair. |
| HS195D | SPECIAL TOPICS: AMERICAN | Topics: 195: American; 196: European; 197: Asian, African, or Latin American. Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. Directed readings or individual research by permission of chair. |
| HS195E | SPECIAL TOPICS: AMERICAN | Topics: 195: American; 196: European; 197: Asian, African, or Latin American. Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. Directed readings or individual research by permission of chair. |
| HS196 | SPECIAL TOPICS: EUROPEAN | Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. Directed readings or individual research by permission of chair. |
| HS196A | SPECIAL TOPICS: EUROPEAN | Topics: 195: American; 196: European; 197: Asian, African, or Latin American. Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. Directed readings or individual research by permission of chair. |
| HS196B | SPECIAL TOPICS: EUROPEAN | Topics: 195: American; 196: European; 197: Asian, African, or Latin American. Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. Directed readings or individual research by permission of chair. |
| HS196C | SPECIAL TOPICS: EUROPEAN | Topics: 195: American; 196: European; 197: Asian, African, or Latin American. Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. Directed readings or individual research by permission of chair. |
| HS197 | SPECIAL TOPICS: ASIAN, AFRICAN, OR LATIN AMERICAN | Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. Directed readings or individual research by permission of chair. |
| HS197A | SP TP:ASIAN,AFRICAN,LATIN AMER | Topics: 195: American; 196: European; 197: Asian, African, or Latin American. Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. Directed readings or individual research by permission of chair. |
| HS197B | SP TP:ASIAN,AFRICAN,LATIN AMER | Topics: 195: American; 196: European; 197: Asian, African, or Latin American. Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. Directed readings or individual research by permission of chair. |
| HS197C | SP TP:ASIAN,AFRICAN,LATIN AMER | Topics: 195: American; 196: European; 197: Asian, African, or Latin American. Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. Directed readings or individual research by permission of chair. |
| HS201 | EGC: WORLD CIVILIZATION TO 1500 | Earliest times to the sixteenth century.Prerequisite: EN 125 or equivalent. |
| HS202 | EGC: WORLD CIVILIZATION SINCE 1500 | Sixteenth century to the present.Prerequisite: EN 125 or equivalent. |
| HS205 | HUM: WOMEN IN ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME | Continuities and changes in the status and experiences of women in ancient Greece and Rome; examination of the relationship between democracy and gender and the lasting definitions of femininity that were developed out of these two particular cultura... |
| HS211 | ISJ: HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES TO 1877 | Survey of U.S. political, economic, social, and cultural history through the post-Civil War era. Emphasizes diversity of the nation's people and how subjective categories - particularly race and ethnicity, class, and gender - have influenced historic... |
| HS212 | HUM: HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES FROM 1877 | Survey of U.S. political, economic, social, and cultural history from the end of Reconstruction to the present. Emphasizes diversity of the nation's people and how subjective categories - particularly race and ethnicity, class, and gender - have infl... |
| HS216 | EGC: THE SPANISH ARMADA | Early modern European political and cultural world as seen through the lens of the clash between Spain and England in the later sixteenth century.Prerequisite: EN 125 or equivalent. |
| HS221 | LINK: ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND | Considers the causes and consequences of the period of political instability known as the Wars of the Roses, years marked by political murders, the overthrow of monarchs, and civil war. These events were dramatized in Shakespeare’s historical plays.P... |
| HS223 | LINK: HISTORY OF THE SUPERNATURAL | History of the supernatural from the ancient world to the Enlightenment. Traces the variety of beliefs in forms of magic through primary sources and scholarship starting with Babylonian, Egyptian, and classical Greek and Roman contexts. Examines chan... |
| HS225 | LINK: WORLD WAR I AND MODERNITY | Origins of World War I, with particular emphasis on social, political, economic, and strategic factors; the experience of modern industrial warfare in the trenches and in civilian society; the impact of technology on perceptions of warfare; radicaliz... |
| HS231 | EGC: PEACEBUILDING AFTER EMPIRE | Employs approaches from the fields of history and literature to examine the impact empire-building has had on societies that experienced (and, in some cases, continue to experience) sectarian conflict related to imperialism. Case studies might includ... |
| HS238 | HUM: ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF THE USA | Explores the complex relationship between Americans and their natural environment from colonial times through the present. Emphasizes key environmental transformations related to colonization, frontier settlement, industrialization, urbanization, sub... |
| HS240 | LINK: SPIRITUAL AWAKENINGS IN EARLY AMERICA | An exploration of early American religious history, focusing on a time frame encompassing the two major religious revivals historians have referred to as the Great Awakening and the Second Great Awakening. Considers spiritual birth and rebirth within... |
| HS245 | EGC: UNITED STATES FOREIGN RELATIONS | Examines America's diplomatic, economic, military, and cultural relationships with other nations, with emphasis on the period from 1895 through the present.Prerequisite: EN 125 or equivalent. |
| HS251 | LINK: ATLANTIC WORLD TO 1700 | Examines the early history of European exploration of the Atlantic World. Shaped by new diseases, new plants and animals, new technologies, and new political configurations, the New World gave rise to new sets of identities, as people from Europe, Af... |
| HS257 | HUM: U.S. MILITARY HISTORY | Overview of the development of the American armed forces and their role in society. The place of war in U.S. history; professionalization of the military; analysis of battlefield experience. |
| HS258 | SPORTS IN AMERICAN SOCIETY | History of sports in America seen both as product and shaper of the surrounding society and culture. Topics examined include relationships between sports and urbanization, economic development, race, and gender. |
| HS259 | ISJ: WOMEN IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD | Twentieth-century women’s history from a global perspective focusing on women’s political activism and involvement in movements for social change. Explores significance of gender, the body, and sexuality in the lives of women worldwide. Cannot be tak... |
| HS260 | LINK: CHILDHOOD IN AMERICAN HISTORY | Exploration of the history of childhood in America, highlighting its variability across time and cultural groups. Considers conceptualizations of childhood such as Puritan notions of "miniature adulthood," Lockean concepts of "tabula rasa" and modern... |
| HS263 | LINK: ITALIAN HISTORY, 1914-1957 | Survey of Italian history from WW I to the early years of democracy after WW II. Focuses on nationalism and the experience of war; the emergence of fascism, social change, and attempts to establish an imperial presence under Mussolini; Italy as a the... |
| HS264 | WORLD WAR TWO | Examines the causes, conduct, and consequences of the Second World War from a global perspective. In addition to the general study of land and naval operations and tactics, special attention will be given to the war’s impact on civilian populations,... |
| HS265 | HUM: VIETNAM WAR | The course examines the origins, conduct and consequences of the American Phase of the Vietnam War. The period 1945-1975 will be viewed from the perspective of the United States, the North Vietnamese and the South Vietnamese. The course theme is base... |
| HS270 | EGC: LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE | Surveys the main topics of Latin American history down to the present, emphasizing native peoples, gender roles, military dictatorships, and human rights. |
| HS271 | EGC: WORLD GEOGRAPHY | Thorough review of place geography; relationships between humans and the physical environment, including climate, soils, resources, and landforms. Analysis of regional areas.Prerequisites: EN 125 or equivalent. |
| HS276 | LINK: MASTERS AND UNDERDOGS LATIN AMERICA | Explores the power dynamics that have shaped Latin American history since 1492. Special attention is given to the interplay between powerful and subordinated groups and the ways in which they have influenced one another. The course draws on films as... |
| HS277 | THE EMPIRE OF PAPER: THE SPANISH COLONIAL EXPERIENCE THROUGH LITERARY SOURCES | Explores Spanish colonialism (1500-1800) in Latin America and Asia using literary texts as primary sources. Discusses issues of (self) representation, dominance, hegemony, and the construction of identity/ethnicity. |
| HS278 | EGC: CUBA: PAST AND PRESENT | Exploration of Cuba’s history from pre-Columbian times to the present, with an emphasis on connections to global systems. Particular focus on the reciprocal influences that international actors and domestic politics have had on Cuban society and econ... |
| HS279 | EGC: PRE-MODERN EAST ASIAN HISTORY | China, Japan, and Korea from their prehistoric origins to the mid-nineteenth century. The contribution of their cultural foundations and traditions to modernization and the impact of their historic development on contemporary events.Prerequisites: EN... |
| HS280 | EGC: MODERN EAST ASIAN HISTORY | Impact of imperialism, revolution, and war from the mid-nineteenth century to the present on East Asian modernization and globalization; focus on China, Japan, and Korea.Prerequisite: EN 125 or equivalent. |
| HS281 | LINK: CONTEMPORARY EAST ASIAN HISTORY | The political, social, economic, cultural, and foreign relations of China, Japan, and Korea since 1945.Prerequisite: EN 125 or equivalent.Corequisite: PO 231. |
| HS283 | EGC: POPULAR CULTURE IN JAPANESE HISTORY | Focuses on the culture of ordinary Japanese - their interests, lifestyles, consumption, activities - rather than those of the elites. Covers the period from the 17th-century Tokugawa Era to present day. Cross listed with IC 220. Students who have tak... |
| HS295 | SPECIAL TOPICS: AMERICAN | Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. Directed readings or individual research by permission of chair. |
| HS295A | SPECIAL TOPICS: AMERICAN | Topics: 295: American; 296: European; 297: Asian, African, or Latin American. Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. Directed readings or individual research by permission of chair. |
| HS295B | SPECIAL TOPICS: AMERICAN | Topics: 295: American; 296: European; 297: Asian, African, or Latin American. Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. Directed readings or individual research by permission of chair. |
| HS296 | SPECIAL TOPICS: EUROPEAN | Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. Directed readings or individual research by permission of chair. |
| HS296A | SPECIAL TOPICS: EUROPEAN | Topics: 295: American; 296: European; 297: Asian, African, or Latin American. Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. Directed readings or individual research by permission of chair. |
| HS296B | SPECIAL TOPIC: ITALIAN HISTORY | Italian History (HS 296B): Survey of Italian history from WW I to the early years of democracy after WW II. Focuses on nationalism and the experience of war; the emergence of fascism, social change, and attempts to establish an imperial presence unde... |
| HS297 | SPECIAL TOPICS: ASIAN, AFRICAN, OR LATIN AMERICAN | Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. Directed readings or individual research by permission of chair. |
| HS297A | SP TP:ASIAN,AFRICAN,LATIN AMER | Topics: 295: American; 296: European; 297: Asian, African, or Latin American. Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. Directed readings or individual research by permission of chair. |
| HS297B | SP TP:ASIAN,AFRICAN,LATIN AMER | Topics: 295: American; 296: European; 297: Asian, African, or Latin American. Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. Directed readings or individual research by permission of chair. |
| HS297C | SP TP:ASIAN,AFRICAN,LATIN AMER | Topics: 295: American; 296: European; 297: Asian, African, or Latin American. Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. Directed readings or individual research by permission of chair. |
| HS297D | SP TP:ASIAN,AFRICAN,LATIN AMER | Topics: 295: American; 296: European; 297: Asian, African, or Latin American. Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. Directed readings or individual research by permission of chair. |
| HS300 | HISTORICAL METHODS | Exploration of history as a way of knowing and communicating the past; historiography, research, and writing methodology; developing a historical perspective. |
| HS301 | HUM: TOPICS IN ANCIENT GREEK HISTORY | Introduction to Greek history through consideration of primary sources (e.g., historical documents, material culture, literary texts). Topics may focus on a period or theme in Greek history between the Bronze Age and the incorporation into the Roman... |
| HS302 | TOPICS IN ROMAN HISTORY | Introduction to Roman history through consideration of primary sources (e.g., historical documents, material culture, literary texts). Topics may focus on a period or theme from the Roman Republic and/or Empire. |
| HS305 | HUM: ROME: CITY OF EMPERORS, POPES, AND SAINTS | History and culture of the city of Rome from the classical and imperial age to the sixteenth century. Focus on the institutions and historical figures that have been prominent in the shaping of the city and its history. Highlighted by a one-week, on-... |
| HS307 | ISJ: HISTORY OF THE POPES | Examines the history of the popes, and the papacy as an institution, from the origins of Christianity in Rome in the first century to the present. Major topics include the growth of papal power both theological and administrative in Late Antiquity an... |
| HS310 | ISJ: WOMEN IN EUROPE SINCE 1500 | Examination of the legal, economic, domestic, and ideological status of women in the early modern period and the impact of the Reformation, Enlightenment, French and Industrial Revolutions, and world wars on women, as well as women's contributions to... |
| HS318 | LINK: HISTORY AND MEMORY | Examines historical memory among those who experienced an event or era, and how the past is commemorated to communicate memory to future generations who do not share lived experience. Investigates theories of memory developed by historians, social sc... |
| HS326 | HUM: TWENTIETH-CENTURY EUROPE | Political, social, and economic developments from approximately 1900 to the post-9/11 era. Emphasis on the impact of the world wars, right and left radical regimes, the Cold War, and European attempts at unity and self-determination. |
| HS330 | EGC: IMPERIALISM AND DECOLONIZATION | Examines motivations and justifications for European expansion into Asia and Africa during the 19th and 20th centuries, and strategies for accommodation and resistance - and ultimately revolution - developed by newly colonized people. Focuses primari... |
| HS332 | EGC: BERLIN: FROM REICH TO REPUBLIC | German history and politics from 1918 to the present, employing Berlin as the focal point for significant developments. The interwar republic and the rise of the Nazis; the Third Reich; postwar occupation and Cold War division; political systems and... |
| HS333 | HUM: HISTORY ON FILM | Cinematic recreations of the past and methods of assessing them; comparison of visual and written history; documentaries and dramatic features as historical sources that reflect their eras of origin. |
| HS336 | LINK: THE HOLOCAUST | Racism and antisemitism in modern Europe; Nazi propaganda and legal measures against German Jews in 1930s; transition from discrimination to Europe-wide genocide during World War II; victims, perpetrators and bystanders; legacy.Prerequisite: EN 125 o... |
| HS338 | HUM: WAR IN COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA | Examines the experience of warfare in colonial North America, from initial contact to the French and Indian War. Topics include cultural attitudes toward warfare, the extent to which wars were limited or total, the impact of war on peoples and imperi... |
| HS340 | ISJ: ABRAHAM LINCOLN | Examines the history of the U.S. from the early nineteenth century through 1865 by studying the life and times of the 16th president. Special attention to the roots of the Civil War, presidential leadership, and the dilemma of slavery in a society pl... |
| HS343 | ISJ: SLAVERY AND ABOLITION | Development of African slavery in the Western hemisphere in the early modern period. Themes include the African background, the European origins of chattel slavery, the development of racism, labor, resistance, community life, religion, and the aboli... |
| HS371 | OUR UNRULY DAUGHTERS: WOMEN AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN EARLY MODERN SPAIN AND LATIN AMERICA | Focuses on the relationship between women and the Catholic Church in early modern Spain and colonial Latin America. Includes women who found an intellectual shelter in the Church, as well as those in trouble with the Inquisition because of religious... |
| HS372 | HUM: RACE AND GENDER IN LATIN AMERICA | Considers the role of women (European, black, and Indian) and different ethnic groups (whites, Indians, and peoples of African descent) in the making of Latin American history. Special attention is paid to the socially-based construction of ethnicity... |
| HS373 | EGC: WOMEN IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE AMERICAS | Explores the role that Catholicism and the Catholic Church played in shaping women’s roles in colonial Latin America (1500-1800). Examines lives of famous female saints and sinners, as well as women intellectuals who found an ambiguous role in nunner... |
| HS381 | LINK: JAPANESE HISTORY | Development of Japanese culture, society, politics, and economics from prehistory to modern times.Prerequisite: EN 125 or equivalent.Corequisite: EN 288. |
| HS382 | HUM: CHINESE HISTORY | Social, political, economic, and cultural development of China from earliest to modern times. |
| HS395 | SPECIAL TOPICS: AMERICAN | Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. Directed readings or individual research by permission of chair. |
| HS395A | SPECIAL TOPICS: AMERICAN | Topics: 395: American; 396: European; 397: Asian, African, or Latin American. Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. Directed readings or individual research by permission of chair. |
| HS395B | SPECIAL TOPICS: AMERICAN | Topics: 395: American; 396: European; 397: Asian, African, or Latin American. Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. Directed readings or individual research by permission of chair. |
| HS396 | SPECIAL TOPICS: EUROPEAN | Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. Directed readings or individual research by permission of chair. |
| HS396A | SPECIAL TOPICS: EUROPEAN | Topics: 395: American; 396: European; 397: Asian, African, or Latin American. Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. Directed readings or individual research by permission of chair. |
| HS396B | SPECIAL TOPICS: EUROPEAN | Topics: 395: American; 396: European; 397: Asian, African, or Latin American. Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. Directed readings or individual research by permission of chair. |
| HS397 | SPECIAL TOPICS: ASIAN, AFRICAN, OR LATIN AMERICAN | Topics: 395: American; 396: European; 397: Asian, African, or Latin American. Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. Directed readings or individual research by permission of chair. |
| HS397A | SP TP:ASIAN,AFRICAN,LATIN AMER | Topics: 395: American; 396: European; 397: Asian, African, or Latin American. Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. Directed readings or individual research by permission of chair. |
| HS397B | SP TP:ASIAN,AFRICAN,LATIN AMER | Topics: 395: American; 396: European; 397: Asian, African, or Latin American. Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. Directed readings or individual research by permission of chair. |
| HS406 | MEDIEVAL EUROPE | Explores the various forces at work in the development of the political, religious, and cultural institutions of the Middle Ages from 500 to 1500. |
| HS411 | RENAISSANCE EUROPE | Political, intellectual, and cultural developments in Renaissance Italy. The movement of Renaissance culture into Northern Europe, emphasizing the continuity and differences with the Italian Renaissance. |
| HS412 | REFORMATION EUROPE | Breakup of the unity of Christendom. Emphasis on the major Protestant reform movements (Lutheranism, Calvinism, Anglicanism) and the Catholic Reformation. |
| HS414 | THE CATHOLIC EXPERIENCE | The capstone course for the minor in Catholic Studies that requires students to examine major issues in the Catholic intellectual tradition in a historically critical way. An underlying issue is the development of doctrine. Open to students enrolled... |
| HS415 | EARLY MODERN FRANCE | Development of the French monarchy from Francis I to Louis XV; the effects of the Renaissance, Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and Enlightenment on French society. |
| HS416 | EARLY MODERN ENGLAND | Political, social, economic, religious, and cultural development of England from the War of the Roses through the Glorious Revolution. |
| HS417 | FRENCH REVOLUTION AND NAPOLEON | Eighteenth-century society and culture; liberal and radical revolutions; impact on Europe and the world. |
| HS432 | AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY ERA | The Revolution as a colonial war for independence and as a struggle for reform within America. Examines achievement of these goals as a new nation created. |
| HS438 | THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION | Social and political origins of the Civil War in the Old North and Old South, the secession crisis, military strategy, soldiers’ lives, leadership, the home front, women’s experiences, emancipation, and political and social reconstruction. |
| HS440 | UNITED STATES SINCE 1945 | Significant events and trends of the post World War II period. Origins of the Cold War, McCarthyism, the civil rights and women’s movements, the Vietnam War, and recent developments in foreign and domestic policies. |
| HS441 | AMERICA IN THE 1960S | Attempts to make sense of the most polarizing and turbulent decade of the twentieth century, including its major issues and events—the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, the New Left, the resurgence of conservatism, and urban unrest. |
| HS444 | UNITED STATES CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY | Development of the American constitutional system and interaction with other strands of the nation's history, including political, social, economic, and religious. Focus on decisions of the Supreme Court. |
| HS452 | MODERN JAPANESE HISTORY | Japan’s rise as a world power, from the late Tokugawa Era (nineteenth century) to its postwar comeback (HS 280 or 381 suggested as preparation, but not required). |
| HS453 | MODERN CHINESE HISTORY | Political, cultural, social, and economic changes in China from the arrival of Westerners through the post-Mao era. |
| HS464 | GENOCIDE AND WAR CRIMES | Examines the period from the First World War to the present. Close study of the evolution of international understanding of genocide, crimes against humanity, and human rights violations through selected case studies. Focus on social, political, econ... |
| HS473 | NAZI GERMANY: ORIGINS, STRUCTURES, CONSEQUENCES | Turbulent German circumstances resulting from the Revolutions of 1918-19, the rise of the Nazi Party, establishment of the Nazi state, and the politics of race and genocide. Examines ways that postwar historians have approached the rise of National S... |
| HS474 | GERMANY SINCE 1945: RECONSTRUCTION TO REUNIFICATION | History of East and West Germany since the collapse of Nazism. Post-WW II occupation, denazification, and reconstruction; integration into rival Cold War alliances. Society, politics, economy and culture in the two Germanys. Protest and collapse of s... |
| HS476 | THE INCAS : CIVILIZATION AND EMPIRE | Incas' imperial splendor and subsequent collapse as a result of the Spanish conquest. The role of the Incas as a utopian model of social organization among the native peoples of the Andean region. |
| HS477 | THE CUBAN REVOLUTION | Origins of the Cuban Revolution beginning with Spanish-American War; conditions as an informal U.S. colony; revolutionary currents leading into 1959; the role of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara; Cuba during the Cold War and beyond.Equivalent to the prev... |
| HS488 | RUSSIA IN REVOLUTION, 1900 TO THE PRESENT | Russia’s turbulent history since 1900. Fall of tsarism, Bolshevik seizure of power and creation of the Soviet Union, Leninism and Stalinism, Second World War and Cold War, Gorbachev’s reforms, collapse of the USSR, and post Soviet developments. |
| HS490 | SENIOR SEMINAR | The culminating experience of the history major, requiring students to demonstrate historical skills through common readings, class discussion, and written assignments. Fulfills the additional writing requirement in the major (AW) mandated by the Uni... |
| HS491 | SENIOR THESIS | Individual research project developed and written in consultation with appropriate department member. Typically restricted to students with a 3.5 GPA overall. Especially recommended for students pursuing graduate study in history. Fulfills the additi... |
| HS495 | SPECIAL TOPICS: AMERICAN | Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. |
| HS495A | SPECIAL TOPICS: AMERICAN | Topics: 495: American; 496: European; 497: Asian, African, or Latin American. Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. |
| HS495B | SPECIAL TOPICS: AMERICAN | Topics: 495: American; 496: European; 497: Asian, African, or Latin American. Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. |
| HS495H | SPECIAL TOPICS | No Description Set |
| HS496 | SPECIAL TOPICS: EUROPEAN | Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. |
| HS496A | SPECIAL TOPICS: EUROPEAN | Topics: 495: American; 496: European; 497: Asian, African, or Latin American. Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. |
| HS496B | SPECIAL TOPICS: EUROPEAN | Topics: 495: American; 496: European; 497: Asian, African, or Latin American. Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. |
| HS496C | SPECIAL TOPICS: EUROPEAN | Topics: 495: American; 496: European; 497: Asian, African, or Latin American. Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. |
| HS496D | SPECIAL TOPICS: EUROPEAN | Topics: 495: American; 496: European; 497: Asian, African, or Latin American. Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. |
| HS497 | SPECIAL TOPICS: ASIAN, AFRICAN, OR LATIN AMERICAN | Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. |
| HS497A | SPECIAL TOPICS | Topics: 495: American; 496: European; 497: Asian, African, or Latin American. Specific title and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. |
| HS498 | INTERNSHIP | No more than 3 credits may be applied to the major. Supervised work, typically in museums, archives, public history sites or agencies, relevant to major sequence of study. Journal and reflective paper required in addition to work responsibilities. In... |
| HS499 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | Directed reading or individual research.Prerequisite: Permission of project advisor and Department Chair. |
| HS499A | INDEPENDENT STUDY | Prerequisites: permission of project advisor and department chair. Directed reading or individual research. |
| HS499B | INDEPENDENT STUDY | Prerequisites: permission of project advisor and department chair. Directed reading or individual research. |
| HS499C | INDEPENDENT STUDY | Prerequisites: permission of project advisor and department chair. Directed reading or individual research. |
| HS499D | INDEPENDENT STUDY | Prerequisites: permission of project advisor and department chair. Directed reading or individual research. |
| HS499E | INDEPENDENT STUDY | Prerequisites: permission of project advisor and department chair. Directed reading or individual research. |
| HS499F | INDEPENDENT STUDY | Prerequisites: permission of project advisor and department chair. Directed reading or individual research. |
| HS500A | SPECIAL TOPICS | No Description Set |
| HS500B | SPECIAL TOPICS | No Description Set |
| HS500C | SPECIAL TOPICS | No Description Set |
| HS500D | SPECIAL TOPICS | No Description Set |
| HS500E | SPECIAL TOPICS | No Description Set |
| HS500F | SPECIAL TOPICS | No Description Set |
| HS500G | SPECIAL TOPICS | No Description Set |
| HS500H | SPECIAL TOPICS | No Description Set |
| HS500I | SPECIAL TOPICS | No Description Set |
| HS500J | SPECIAL TOPICS | No Description Set |
| HS500K | SPECIAL TOPICS | No Description Set |
| HS2214 | LINK: HOMER AND (PRE)HISTORY | Examination of the history, prehistory, and archaeology that frames and contextualizes Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Includes the transmission history of these epics from papyrus to manuscript to print, the nature of the Aegean Bronze Age as it forms th... |