History course catalog

All 233 recorded UW–Madison courses in this department, including courses not offered this term. Open a course for prerequisites, historical grades and instructors.

• AAE/ANTHRO/C&ESOC/GEOG/HISTORY/LACIS/POLISCI/PORTUG/SOC/SPANISH 982: Interdepartmental Seminar in the Latin-american Area

  1–3 credits

  Interdisciplinary inquiry in Latin American society and culture.

• AFRICAN/AFROAMER/ANTHRO/GEOG/HISTORY/POLISCI/SOC 277: Africa: an Introductory Survey

  4 credits

  African society and culture, polity and economy in multidisciplinary perspectives from prehistory and ancient kingdoms through the colonial period to contemporary developments, including modern nationalism, economic development and changing social structure.

• AFRICAN/AFROAMER/HISTORY/POLISCI 297: African and African-american Linkages: an Introduction

  4 credits

  Analysis of retention of African elements in African-American oral, written, and material culture. Social, cultural, and political issues regarding race, self-definition, and self-determination in both Africa and North America will be examined.

• AFRICAN/ANTHRO/ECON/GEOG/HISTORY/POLISCI 983: Interdepartmental Seminar in African Studies Topics

  3 credits

  Interdisciplinary inquiry in African societies and cultures.

• AFRICAN/HISTORY 106: Introduction to African History

  Credits unavailable

  Introductory exploration of a thematic or chronological area of African history. Topics vary by instructor.

• AFRICAN/HISTORY 129: Africa on the Global Stage

  Credits unavailable

  Explores the interplay between Africa and the World from the 19th century to the present, covering subjects such as the slave- trade, repatriation, Africanizing of culture in the Americas and Europe, the spread and revival of world religions, colonialism, global capitalism, the rise of global popular culture such as pop music and video films, environmental concerns and global epidemics.

• AFROAMER/ANTHRO/C&ESOC/GEOG/HISTORY/LACIS/POLISCI/SOC/SPANISH 260: Latin America: an Introduction

  Credits unavailable

  Latin American culture and society from an interdisciplinary perspective; historical developments from pre-Columbian times to the present; political movements; economic problems; social change; ecology in tropical Latin America; legal systems; literature and the arts; cultural contrasts involving the US and Latin America; land reform; labor movements; capitalism, socialism, imperialism; mass media.

• AFROAMER/EDPOL/HISTORY 712: Education and the Civil Rights Movement

  Credits unavailable

  Explores the historical relationship between education and the African American freedom struggle from the early twentieth century to the present. Topics include school segregation, desegregation, and resegregation; high school and college student activism; Black Power; civil rights protest strategies and tactics, and the role of the federal government.

• AFROAMER/HISTORY 321: African American History Since 1900

  Credits unavailable

  Survey of African American history from 1900 to the present. Topics covered include segregation, the Civil Rights Movement, the political, social and cultural changes of the late 20th century, and the Obama presidency.

• AFROAMER/HISTORY 322: African American History to 1900

  Credits unavailable

  Survey of African American history from its roots in Africa to the end of the 19th century. Topics considered include the slave trade, the political and cultural practices of enslaved communities, forms of resistance, Reconstruction, and systems of segregation.

• AFROAMER/HISTORY 347: The Caribbean and Its Diasporas

  Credits unavailable

  Surveys the history of the Caribbean from the 15th century to the present. Emphasizes the importance of colonialism, commodity-based capitalism, globalization, slavery, and forced labor for the modeling of the region's social, economic, cultural, and political structures. Pay particular attention to the resilient, creative and resourceful ways in which Caribbean people have responded to these adverse conditions. Examine the circumstances that have shaped migrations from the region to the United States and Canada during the 20th and 21st centuries. Study how these diasporic communities have created social spaces in these two countries that have remained closely linked to the Caribbean through economic, political, and filial networks.

• AFROAMER/HISTORY 393: Slavery, Civil War, and Reconstruction, 1848-1877

  Credits unavailable

  African-American slavery and its impact on mid-19th century social, political, and economic life; the causes, course, and consequences of the Civil War; the rise and fall of postwar Reconstruction and non-racial citizenship; the impact of these histories on contemporary American society.

• AFROAMER/HISTORY 628: History of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States

  3 credits

  Civil rights history from 1930-1970. Legal, historical and economic origins of the civil rights movement. Study of the movement's impact on United States culture, politics, and international relations.

• AMERIND/HISTORY 190: Introduction to American Indian History

  3–4 credits

  A broad survey of American Indian history which centers Indigenous peoples, communities, and nations in the context of U.S. policy and culture that emphasizes decolonial methods and Native ways of knowing the past.

• AMERIND/HISTORY 380: Sovereignty and the Schoolhouse

  Credits unavailable

  Introduction to the history of American Indian education. Evaluate the relationship between education and sovereignty through a survey of schools including missions, boarding schools, survival schools, tribal colleges, language nests, charter schools, and more.

• ANTHRO/ARTHIST/DS/HISTORY/LANDARC 264: Dimensions of Material Culture

  Credits unavailable

  This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of material culture studies. It is intended for students interested in any professional endeavor related to material culture, including careers in museums, galleries, historical societies, historic preservation organizations, and academic institutions. During the semester, students have varied opportunities to engage with and contemplate the material world to which people give meaning and which, in turn, influences their lives. Sessions combine in some way the following: presentations from faculty members and professionals who lecture on a phase of material culture related to his/her own scholarship or other professional work; discussion of foundational readings in the field; visits to collections and sites on campus and around Madison; discussion of readings assigned by visiting presenters or the professors; and exams and short papers that engage material culture topics.

• ANTHRO/ARTHIST/DS/HISTORY/LANDARC 764: Dimensions of Material Culture

  Credits unavailable

  This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of material culture studies. It is intended for students interested in any professional endeavor related to material culture, including careers in museums, galleries, historical societies, historic preservation organizations, and academic institutions. During the semester, students have varied opportunities to engage with and contemplate the material world to which people give meaning and which, in turn, influences their lives. Sessions combine in some way the following: presentations from faculty members and professionals who lecture on a phase of material culture related to his/her own scholarship or other professional work; discussion of foundational readings in the field; visits to collections and sites on campus and around Madison; discussion of readings assigned by visiting presenters or the professors; and exams and short papers that engage material culture topics.

• ARTHIST/ENVIRST/GEOG/HISTORY/LANDARC 239: Making the American Landscape

  Credits unavailable

  Traces the history and evolution of the American cultural landscape from precolonial times to present. Explores how class, ethnic, and racial inequality have shaped the appearance of the American landscape over time, and how that landscape in turn has affected relationships between people and groups through the present day. Examines extraordinary things (civic structures (like our State Capitol), National Parks, War Memorials) and more ordinary kinds of places (mining towns, cotton plantations, sites of recreation and leisure, and suburban tract housing) to stimulate critical thinking about how these places have served people and groups unequally and disproportionately over time and across space. Considers complex meanings of American spaces and places to different people and groups, stimulating empathy and encouraging participation in a multicultural society.

• ARTHIST/HISTORY/JOURN/LIS 650: History of Books and Print Culture in Europe and North America

  Credits unavailable

  History of books and print culture in the West from ancient times to the present. Focus on the influence of reading and writing on social, cultural, and intellectual life. Methodologies, theories, and sources for study of book and print culture history.

• ASIAN/ASIANAM/HISTORY 246: Southeast Asian Refugees of the "cold" War

  Credits unavailable

  In-depth study of the peoples, conflicts, and wars in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, with emphasis on the Cold War era (1945-1990) and on the resulting migration and resettlement of over one million Hmong, Khmer, Lao, and Vietnamese in the United States. Not open to students with credit for LCA 246 prior to Fall 2019.

• ASIAN/GEOG/HISTORY/POLISCI/SOC 244: Introduction to Southeast Asia: Vietnam to the Philippines

  Credits unavailable

  As an introduction to Southeast Asia, covers the ethnic, cultural, religious, and political histories of the region from the classical states period to the present, with an emphasis on colonialism, nationalism, decolonization, and the emergence of modern political and social systems into the 21st century, including an exposure to region's contemporary literature. Not open to students who completed LCA 244 prior to Fall 2019.

• ASIAN/HISTORY 103: Introduction to East Asian History: China

  3–4 credits

  Survey of major developments in Chinese history from 1500 B.C. to the founding of the Communist state in 1949. Emphasis on patterns and themes; equal time devoted to the classical and traditional period and the modern era.

• ASIAN/HISTORY 104: Introduction to East Asian History: Japan

  3–4 credits

  Survey of major cultural, social, political and economic developments in Japanese history from ancient to recent times.

• ASIAN/HISTORY 108: Introduction to East Asian History - Korea

  Credits unavailable

  Survey of major cultural, social, political, and intellectual developments in Korea from the 10th century to the 21st century.

• ASIAN/HISTORY 319: The Vietnam Wars

  3–4 credits

  Explores the prolonged cycle of wars in Vietnam and its neighbors, 1940 to date, with due regard for both local and U.S. perspectives.

• ASIAN/HISTORY 335: The Koreas: Korean War to the 21st Century

  Credits unavailable

  A historical examination of the Korean War and the politics and society of North Korea and South Korea.

• ASIAN/HISTORY 337: Social and Intellectual History of China, 589 Ad-1919

  3–4 credits

  The culture of the literati in the T'ang; major trends of Neo-Confucianism during the Sung and Ming; the Confucian response to the West in the nineteenth century; the emergence of the modern Chinese intelligentsia and iconoclasm in the early May Fourth period.

• ASIAN/HISTORY 341: History of Modern China, 1800-1949

  Credits unavailable

  The disintegration of traditional Chinese society under the impact of Western imperialism, the rise of modern Chinese nationalism, and the emergence of modern revolutionary movements and ideologies.

• ASIAN/HISTORY 342: History of the Peoples Republic of China, 1949 to the Present

  Credits unavailable

  The social, economic and political transformation of China under Communism; the role of ideology in contemporary Chinese historical development; the nature of that historical development in the comparative perspective of other post-revolutionary histories.

• ASIAN/HISTORY 363: China and World War II in Asia

  Credits unavailable

  This course is intended to help students understand World War II from the perspective of Asia. The focus is not only on the American and Japanese roles in the war but also on lesser, often overlooked participants such as China, Korea, and Southeast Asia. The course will focus not only on the diplomatic, political, and military situation of wartime Asia, but also on perceptions and experiences of the war from those most heavily affected by it: those experiencing it on the ground. Understanding this war is critical for helping us understand contemporary Asia. The foundations of the Cold War and the post-Cold War world that we live in today were forged on battlefields in mainland China, Burma, small islands in the Pacific, and in the skies over the archipelago of Japan. In order to provide the background and understand the legacies, this course covers an extended time frame, beginning in the 19th century with the arrival of the West in Asia and continues into the 1950s.

• ASIAN/HISTORY 454: Samurai: History and Image

  Credits unavailable

  Japanese warriors, their ideals, and their images from the tenth century to the present.

• ASIAN/HISTORY 456: Pearl Harbor & Hiroshima: Japan, the US & the Crisis in Asia

  Credits unavailable

  Events leading to the Pearl Harbor attack, the conduct of World War II in the Pacific, the nature of the wartime Japanese state and effects of the war on Japanese society, the dropping of the atomic bombs, and Japan's decision to surrender. The war as an epoch in Japanese history.

• ASIAN/HISTORY 458: History of Southeast Asia Since 1800

  Credits unavailable

  Effects of the modern Western revolution on the established societies of Southeast Asia through colonial rule and economic and cultural change. Not open to students with credit for LCA 458 prior to Fall 2018.

• ASIAN/HISTORY/POLISCI 255: Introduction to East Asian Civilizations

  3–4 credits

  Multidisciplinary and historical perspectives on the East Asian civilizations of China, Japan, Korea, Tibet and Mongolia from prehistory to the present, including developments in philosophy, economy, governance, social structure, kinship, geography, etc.

• ASIAN/HISTORY/RELIGST 308: Introduction to Buddhism

  3–4 credits

  The basic thought, practices and history of Buddhism, including selflessness and relativity, practices of meditation, merit- making and compassion from both local and translocal perspectives. Includes a discussion of Buddhism as a contemporary, North American religion. Not open to students with credit for E ASIAN or LCA 308 prior to Fall 2019.

• ASIANAM/HISTORY 160: Asian American History: Movement and Dislocation

  3–4 credits

  Examines the impact of colonialism, war, and capitalism on the movement of Asians to the U.S. Considers how racial, gendered, class, sexual, and national formations within the U.S. structured Asian immigration to North America.

• ASIANAM/HISTORY 161: Asian American History: Settlement and National Belonging

  Credits unavailable

  Examines the social, cultural, and political citizenship of Asians in the U.S. with particular emphasis on diaspora, transnationality, and place.

• C&ESOC/HISTORY/POLISCI/SOC 259: Forward? the Wisconsin Idea, Past and Present

  1–3 credits

  Engage in ongoing reflection and dialogue on the Wisconsin Idea and how it informs the mission of the University of Wisconsin. Consider the Wisconsin Idea as it has developed since its beginnings, with a focus on what it means today and what it can mean in the future.

• CHICLA/GEN&WS/HISTORY 245: Chicana and Latina History

  Credits unavailable

  Introduces the cultural, economic, social, and political history of Chicanas and Latinas in the U.S. and focuses on four major themes: contact between different ethnic/racial groups; ideas of nation and nationalism; constructions of identity; and struggles for social justice.

• CHICLA/HISTORY 151: The North American West to 1850

  3–4 credits

  Explores the history of places that have been called the American West before 1850. We start with Indigenous occupation; continue with European invasion and the creation of two new nations, Mexico and the U.S.; and end with U.S. conquest. We watch Indian lands becoming the object of Spanish, French, and English empires, and then see European incursions giving way to the hopes of new nation-states and newly empowered Indian peoples like Lakotas and Comanches. After studying the trails and trades that brought newcomers west, we reach key converging events: U.S. seizure of the Mexican North, resolution of the Oregon boundary dispute, discovery of western gold, West Coast arrival of Chinese immigrants, and Mormon exodus to the Great Basin. We use economic, environmental, political, cultural, and social analyses, and we attend to the dreams of many westerners: of North American, Latin American, European, African, and Asian origin or descent, and of all genders and class statuses.

• CHICLA/HISTORY 152: The United States West Since 1850

  Credits unavailable

  Introduction to histories of places that have been called the American West, focusing on the period since 1850. Beginning in the mid nineteenth century, the United States sought to establish power over vast western regions that it claimed on maps but did not in fact control. Moving through the twentieth century to the present day, considers how attention to the American West allows us to reimagine US history more broadly - and how the United States represents just one facet the region's pasts. Learn to think like a historian by analyzing primary sources, evaluating competing narratives, and formulating arguments about the past. Investigate how people, ideas, and infrastructures have transformed a region repeatedly redrawn and consider the ongoing legacies of the past - and the stories we tell about it - in the American West today.

• CHICLA/HISTORY 153: Latina/latino/latinx History

  3–4 credits

  Examines the historical, social, and legal experiences of Latinas/Latinos/Latinxs in the US since the mid-1800s with emphasis on Mexican migrations. Latinxs became an important part of the US population through western expansion, conquest, and immigration. We will learn about the 3 main Latinx groups in the US: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Cubans, but will also learn about other Latinx communities. We begin with an examination of conquest by studying the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that annexed roughly half of former Mexican territory and the Spanish-American War that resulted in the possession of Puerto Rico. Then, we examine the history of Latinx immigration to understand the experiences of Mexicans, Central Americans, South Americans, and people from the Caribbean who have immigrated to the US in search of economic opportunities and political asylum. This course serves as an introduction to the varied experiences of Latinxs in the US in order to understand their unique histories.

• CHICLA/HISTORY 435: Colony, Nation, and Minority: the Puerto Ricans' World

  3 credits

  A historical introduction to the Puerto Rican experience, from island to mainland. Varieties of colonial rule, social institutions, cultural processes, and ethnic and national identity. Migration to the U.S. and social dynamics of stateside communities.

• CHICLA/HISTORY/LACIS/POLISCI 268: The U.s. & Latin America From the Colonial Era to the Present: a Critical Survey

  Credits unavailable

  A critical examination of US-Latin American relations from the colonial era to the present, tracing the emergence and evolution of the United States as a hemispheric and global power and its political and economic impact on Latin America. Primary attention will be focused on US relations with Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, but other Latin American countries will figure prominently during certain episodes.

• CHICLA/HISTORY/LACIS/POLISCI 355: Labor in the Americas: US & Mexico in Comparative & Historical Perspective

  Credits unavailable

  Critical examination of the history of labor and working people in the Americas from the colonial era to the present. Focuses on the experiences of the U.S. and Mexico, offering a comparative perspective on their distinct but interconnected histories. Surveys major episodes in the evolution of labor systems, from colonial structures imposed by Spanish and British empires to the roles of slavery, forced labor, and industrialization. Examines the rise of corporate capitalism, labor unrest in the post-Civil War U.S., labor's role in the Mexican Revolution, and the impact of the Great Depression and post-WWII labor incorporation. Includes the shift to neoliberalism in the late twentieth century and the emergence of an integrated North American production system and its consequences for workers on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.

• CHICLA/HISTORY/POLISCI 422: Latino History and Politics

  Credits unavailable

  Students will examine the historical, social, political, economic, and cultural experiences and conditions of Latinos, one of the largest US racial/ethnic minority groups. Course focus is on people who trace their origins to Mexico, the Caribbean, and countries of Latin America.

• CLASSICS/HISTORY 110: The Ancient Mediterranean

  Credits unavailable

  An examination of the evolution of the human community in the Mediterranean Basin, from the beginning of the earliest civilizations in the Near East (3,000 B.C.E.) until the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West (500 C.E.).

• CLASSICS/HISTORY 801: Seminar-ancient History

  Credits unavailable

  Special problems in Greek and Roman history.

• CLASSICS/HISTORY/POLISCI 362: Athenian Democracy

  Credits unavailable

  Explores key issues in the ideology and practice of Athenian democracy. Examines democratic values, institutions, rhetoric, and sociology in order to provide the basic tools to understand democracy in its ancient context. Engages with a variety of source material (literary, archaeological, epigraphic) in order to develop multiple skills of interpretation. Some questions examined include: What are the key features of Athenian democracy, how did it change over time, and how did it differ from modern democracy? How did the Athenians justify and critique this political system? How did they reconcile citizen egalitarianism with social inequalities of wealth, gender, and status? To what extent were women, foreigners, slaves, or the poor included or excluded from politics? Was Athenian democracy a robust political system or a system in crisis?

• CLASSICS/HISTORY/RELIGST 517: Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean

  3 credits

  Ancient religions in their political, social and cultural contexts; topics include ritual, literary and artistic representations, religious persecutions, and/or modern approaches to the study of ancient religions. Chronological and geographical focus will vary between Greece, Rome, Judaea and Egypt.

• CURRIC/EDPOL/HISTORY/JEWISH 515: Holocaust: History, Memory and Education

  Credits unavailable

  Explores the ways in which Holocaust history, memory and education are mutually entangled, politically charged and morally complex. Using primarily American sites of memory, critically analyze a variety of representations of the Shoah--in literature, films, memoirs, monuments, museums and classrooms.

• ECON/HISTORY 466: The American Economy Since 1865

  Credits unavailable

  Emergence of the large corporation; growth and instability since the mid-nineteenth century; increasing government participation in the economy; the impact of war, depression, discrimination, and international responsibilities.

• EDPOL/HISTORY 107: The History of the University in the West

  3 credits

  Traces the development of higher education and, specifically, the institution known as the "university," in the United States and Europe since the Middle Ages. Concentrates on the intellectual, political, and social history of higher education, focusing particularly on the history of the "university" as an IDEA, an INSTITUTION, and as a community of PEOPLE, including students and faculty.

• EDPOL/HISTORY 143: History of Race and Inequality in Urban America

  3 credits

  Examine the historical relationships between metropolitan change, economic transformation, and the construction of race and how those processes have shaped mass incarceration, educational, housing, and income inequality, and the experiences of racial/ethnic minorities who have been marginalized or discriminated against. Key questions include: What is the historical nature of inequality and opportunity in metropolitan America? What policies and ideas have historically promoted inequality, and how have those policies and ideas shifted over time? How have marginalized people responded to inequality, and what impacts have various modes of resistance had? Lastly, what is "race," how has its meaning changed over time, and how has it historically shaped inequality and opportunity?

• EDPOL/HISTORY 412: History of American Education

  3 credits

  Examines the history of education in America from the colonization of North America to the present to consider education in its broadest sense - as a process of individual development and cultural transmission. Explores such topics as the rise of common schools in the urban North; the education of Native Americans, immigrants, slaves, and free blacks; the evolution of teacher training (primarily for women); various philosophies of "progressive" school reform; the politics of desegregation, bilingual education, and special education; the articulation between high school and college work; and the evolving federal role in American education.

• EDPOL/HISTORY 478: Comparative History of Childhood and Adolescence

  Credits unavailable

  Examines the growth of modern childhood and adolescent sub-cultures, class differences, literary and pictorial representations, legal and demographic developments, and the growth of educational theories and institutions.

• EDPOL/HISTORY 612: History of Student Activism From the Popular Front to Black Lives Matter

  Credits unavailable

  Explore the history of student activism in the United States, with an emphasis on the experiences racial/ethnic minority youths who have been marginalized or discriminated against. What motivated students to become politically active, and what forms did their activism take? How did student activism vary across time and space and from one group of activists to another? Why did some students become activists while others did not? What role did education and educational institutions play in their activism? What impact have student activists had, and what do their histories reveal about the capacity and mechanisms for achieving racial equity in particular and for affecting social, political, and economic change more broadly?

• EDPOL/HISTORY 622: History of Radical and Experimental Education in the US and Uk

  3 credits

  Examines the comparative history of radical and experimental education in the United States and United Kingdom since 1800. It focuses on the social, cultural, and intellectual history of diverse educational experiments, including experiments related to socialism, abolitionism, anarchism, and religious fundamentalism.

• EDPOL/HISTORY 665: History of the Federal Role in American Education

  3 credits

  Examines the history of federal aid to education from 1776 to the present, with heavy emphasis on the post-World War II period. Explores the federal role in public education in the Early Republic and during Reconstruction; Traces the evolution of federal policies concerning racial desegregation, compensatory education for low-income students, bilingual education, and special education for the disabled. Critically reflect on the tradition of "local control," policy implementation and evaluation, accountability, block grants, interest groups and lobbies; nationally standardized testing, and the different goals assigned to public schooling in the United States (e.g., social integration/inclusion, individual academic achievement, etc.).

• EDPOL/HISTORY 713: History of Higher Education in Europe and America

  Credits unavailable

  Development of colleges, universities, and higher learning in Europe and America.

• EDPOL/HISTORY 903: History of Education of Multicultural America

  Credits unavailable

  Selected topics, issues and themes concerning the history of education of various groups of people of color in the United States, as well as selected issues, topics and themes focusing on immigration and ethnicity.

• EDPOL/HISTORY 906: Proseminar on the History of Education

  Credits unavailable

  Reading in European or American educational history.

• EDPOL/HISTORY 907: Seminar-history of Education

  Credits unavailable

  Studies in European and American educational history.

• ENGL/HISTORY/RELIGST 360: Early Medieval England

  3 credits

  Introduction to the peoples and cultures of Early Medieval England (c450-c1100), with primary emphasis on texts written in Old English and Latin. Interdisciplinary approach including history, literature, religion, and material culture. Attention to literary genres ranging from elegy to riddles; the development of Christianity; encounters with Romans, Vikings, and Normans; and other political and social concerns. All readings in translation.

• ENVIRST/GEOG/HISTORY 460: American Environmental History

  4 credits

  Survey of interactions among people and natural environments from before European colonization to present. Equal attention to problems of ecological change, human ideas, and uses of nature and history of conservation and environmental public policy.

• ENVIRST/HISTORY 328: Environmental History of Europe

  Credits unavailable

  Explores a new approach to a part of the world with a very old history, but one that is now as 'modern' as any. The changing, complex relations between Europeans and their environments from antiquity to the twenty-first century offer instructive comparison with American and current global environmental concerns. Approaching Mediterranean and Western civilizations from an environmental viewpoint also offers fresh perspective on these enduring cultures.

• ENVIRST/HISTORY 369: Thinking Through History with Animals

  Credits unavailable

  Explores the history of human relationships with animals around the world with focus on agriculture and hunting, political economic development, human identity, and biological science and conservation.

• ENVIRST/HISTORY 465: Global Environmental History

  Credits unavailable

  Explores the history of human relationships with the environment on a global scale through analysis of long-term changes, from early civilizations, to the beginnings of global trade, the Industrial Revolution, urbanization, and 20th century technological developments. Offers first-hand historiographical research experience and training in writing for public web audiences.

• ENVIRST/HISTORY/HISTSCI 125: Green Screen: Environmental Perspectives Through Film

  Credits unavailable

  From Teddy Roosevelt's 1909 African safari to the Hollywood blockbuster King Kong, from the world of Walt Disney to The March of the Penguins, cinema has been a powerful force in shaping public and scientific understanding of nature throughout the twentieth and twenty-first century. How can film shed light on changing environmental ideas and beliefs in American thought, politics, and culture? And how can we come to see and appreciate contested issues of race, class, and gender in nature on screen? Explore such questions and come to understand the role of film in helping to define the contours of past, present, and future environmental visions in the United States, and their impact on the real world struggles of people and wildlife throughout the world.

• ENVIRST/HISTORY/LEGALST 430: Law and Environment: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

  Credits unavailable

  Explores environmental studies through a focus on law and legal history. Although its main concentration is on U.S. environmental law, the course will begin and end with broader historical and global perspectives. Topics include a survey of English, European, and early American legal approaches to land use, natural resources, and pollution through World War II as well as an examination of the development and practice of contemporary U.S. environmental law and consideration of the recent emergence of international environmental law.

• FRENCH/GERMAN/HISTORY/POLISCI/SOC 804: Interdisciplinary Western European Area Studies Seminar

  Credits unavailable

• GEN&WS/HISTORY 134: Women and Gender in World History

  Credits unavailable

  A global (comparative and transnational) survey of women and gender from the ancient world to the modern period. Introduces students to key issues in the history of women and gender, including the historical construction of identities, roles, symbols, and power relationships.

• GEN&WS/HISTORY 346: Trans/gender in Historical Perspective

  Credits unavailable

  Focuses on sex/gender crossing and variation in historical contexts including Japan, South Africa, Europe, the African diaspora, and North America. Considers perspectives of people who themselves passed, crossed, transitioned, transed, or otherwise exceeded their culture's definitions of normative sex/gender. Alongside, consider the ways that dominant social institutions reinforced norms, recognized, tolerated, punished and/or celebrated gender variation. Examine popular culture, medical and legal perspectives, memoir, queer and trans theory, and social movement treatises.

• GEN&WS/HISTORY 353: Women and Gender in the U.s. to 1870

  Credits unavailable

  An advanced and comparative study of the roles of gender, class, and race in American history and historiography. Themes include women as agents of social change and as builders of community.

• GEN&WS/HISTORY 354: Women and Gender in the U.s. Since 1870

  3–4 credits

  See 520.

• GEN&WS/HISTORY 392: Women and Gender in Modern Europe

  Credits unavailable

  An examination of the cultural role of gender and the social, economic, and political activities of women in modern Europe from the 18th to the late 20th centuries.

• GEN&WS/HISTORY 519: Sexuality, Modernity and Social Change

  Credits unavailable

  A history of sexuality approach to a period of major social, economic, and political change in US history, 1880-1930; medical, legal, and popular discourses shaping urbanization, reform, nationalism and colonialism.

• GEN&WS/HISTORY 938: History of Sexuality

  Credits unavailable

  Using sexuality as a category of historical analysis, examines historiographical, methodological, and theoretical contributions to understanding all aspects of the past.

• GEOG/HISTORY/POLISCI/SLAVIC 253: Russia: an Interdisciplinary Survey

  Credits unavailable

  Comprehensive interdisciplinary survey of Russian civilization from its beginnings through the present day.

• GEOG/HISTORY/POLISCI/SLAVIC 254: Eastern Europe: an Interdisciplinary Survey

  Credits unavailable

  Comprehensive interdisciplinary survey of East European culture, society, politics, and literature from its beginnings to the present day.

• GNS/HISTORY 265: An Introduction to Central Asia: From the Silk Route to Afghanistan

  Credits unavailable

  Examination of human geography, ethnicity, nomadism and pastoralism, oases cultures, religion and international politics of the silk routes of central Asia. Not open to students with credit for HIST 265 prior to Fall 2018.

• HISTORY 100: Historical Studies: Introductory

  3 credits

  Introduction to elementary-level historical studies at the research university. Emphasis on interpretation and critical thinking. Topics vary.

• HISTORY 101: Amer Hist to the Civil War Era, the Origin & Growth of the U S

  4 credits

  American political, economic, and social development from the founding of the colonies to the Civil War.

• HISTORY 102: American History, Civil War Era to the Present

  4 credits

  American political, economic and social development from the Civil War to the present.

• HISTORY 109: Introduction to U.s. History

  Credits unavailable

  Exploration of a thematic or chronological area of United States history from a variety of critical historical perspectives. Topics vary by instructor.

• HISTORY 115: Medieval Europe 410-1500

  4 credits

  From the later Roman Empire to the end of the Middle Ages.

• HISTORY 119: Europe and the World, 1400-1815

  4 credits

  Introduces Europe when it entered the global stage economically, politically, socially, and culturally. How Europeans took to the seas and developed new forms of empire. How did this wave of contact, encounter, and conquest affect Europeans, indigenous peoples of the Americas, and Africans? Examine the early global economy and the development of plantation slavery. How did Europeans develop new ways to make sense of their world, its size, its peoples, its flora and fauna? Explore new forms of Christianity, the Jewish diaspora, and the globalization of Christianity. As thinkers debated how rulers should wield political power, monarchs strove to expand their authority and territory, and ordinary people demanded a greater share of political power, provoking revolutions across the Atlantic world. Encounter the lives of women and men from many backgrounds, from peasants to queens, and all kinds of people on the move.

• HISTORY 120: Europe and the Modern World 1815 to the Present

  4 credits

  Political, economic, social, and cultural history of modern Western civilization.

• HISTORY 124: Britain Since 1688

  Credits unavailable

  Introduction to the major themes in the history of imperial Britain and the modern world. Themes include (but are not limited to) the changing patterns of life during those centuries, the development of modern identities and notions of the self, the emergence of a modern, commercial civil society, the rise of industrial capitalism, liberalism, the modern state, and imperial and total war.

• HISTORY 130: An Introduction to World History

  3–4 credits

  Introduction to major themes in world history. Such themes might include: empire and imperialism, environmental impacts, global trade and globalization, war, migration, gender, race, religion, nationalism, class, and the like.

• HISTORY 133: Global Military History (5000 Bce - Present)

  3–4 credits

  Introductory examination of the role of war and peace in human history from the earliest forms of organized violence to the 21st century "War on Terror." Rather than center on tactics, key battles, or even particular critical conflicts, instead focuses on how different military cultures and technologies emerged over time across the globe. Explores how organized violence shaped not just the lives of soldiers, but all members of society by examining key pieces of popular culture including poetry, propaganda, music, movies, and social media. Takes a deliberately global approach by examining the connections and commonalities of war across different world regions.

• HISTORY 136: Sport, Recreation, & Society in the United States

  3–4 credits

  As much as we may try to convince ourselves that sport offers an escape from the "real world," constant news of players' strikes, stadium financing controversies, and the lack of diversity in league management remind us that we cannot separate the games we play and watch from the political, social, and cultural contexts in which they are embedded. Explore how sport has shaped and been shaped by major trends in American social, political, and economic history. The focus is not on player stats or the morning edition of SportsCenter, rather with serious historical arguments and debates about sport's relationship to American capitalism, social movements, and urban development. Readings also provide a diverse set of perspectives on the politics of race, gender, and class in American sport in the twentieth century.

• HISTORY 137: The History of War in Film

  3 credits

  Is there such a thing as a genuinely anti-war movie? The acclaimed, late French filmmaker Francois Truffaut thought not, as even the most brutal and honest depictions of war in film cannot help but valorize sacrifice and arouse something primordial in certain members of the audience. Nevertheless, some of the greatest films of all time are regarded as "anti-war classics" and not a few might be labeled "pro-war." Critically examine more than fifteen full movies (and parts of many more) from across this spectrum and from around the world. In addition to testing the "Truffaut Rule," evaluate the movies as both fictionalized secondary sources (conveying knowledge and influencing memory) and as primary sources that shed light on the moment and place in which they were created.

• HISTORY 139: Introduction to the Modern Middle East

  3–4 credits

  Traces the formation of the states and societies that compose the contemporary Middle East. How have global phenomena, including two world wars, the Cold War, women's movements, and modern science, technology, and fossil fuels, affected the politics, culture, and daily lives of Middle Eastern people? What is Islamism, and how should we explain its influence? Why has the United States had such a troubled relationship with this part of the world? Balances a generally thematic approach with several weeks of country-specific studies, including Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria, and Israel and the Palestinian territories.

• HISTORY 142: History of South Asia to the Present

  Credits unavailable

  Survey of the development of societies within the Indian subcontinent. Equal segments for the ancient, medieval and modern periods.

• HISTORY 145: America and China, 1776-today

  Credits unavailable

  Analyzes the relationship between China and the United States since the birth of the U.S. in 1776, and tracks how the relationship has changed over time. Seeks to offer a broader perspective on the US-China relationship that includes not only diplomacy and war, but also culture, economics, and domestic politics. Contextualize the steady drumbeat of news stories about America and China, and make educated, historically rooted arguments about China, the US, and their complex relationship.

• HISTORY 154: Who Is an American?

  3–4 credits

  Organized around the title question: Who is an American? Explores how answers to that question have changed over time, focusing on people whose actions and ideas shaped those answers. Rather than an overview of U.S. history, focuses on a variety of topics related to our central theme, moving roughly chronologically from the Revolutionary era to the present. Covers the history of racial ideologies and racial inequities, arguments over citizenship and "American" identity, and the ways that various groups have been included or excluded from the nation.

• HISTORY 155: The Long Black Freedom Struggle From the Civil War to the Present

  Credits unavailable

  Explores the generations-long effort by African Americans and allied forces to achieve full citizenship in the U.S. and equitable footholds in American society. Forged in a history of enslavement and in many ways ongoing, this freedom struggle encompasses the history of abolitionism to the struggle for civil rights to the fight for Black Power to the effort to make Black Lives Matter. Introduces the history of African American people in the U.S. from the end of the era of slavery to the present day; explores how that history has been shaped directly by the actions and activism of Black people and their allies; considers how that history intersects with, shapes, and is shaped by other historical moments and movements; provides opportunities to think more actively about issues of belonging, citizenship, difference, and interpersonal and structural power; develops skills in historical analysis and argumentation.

• HISTORY 170: East Meets West: Myth, Meaning, and Modernity

  Credits unavailable

  The modern history of the concept "East Meets West" (or its variant "East vs. West"), with an emphasis on its changing meanings and uses from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries in East Asia (primarily Japan) and the United States. Analyzing works in the arts, literature, philosophy, political economy, and popular culture, trace how and why this intellectual construction became an important influence in modern history.

• HISTORY 179: Afro-atlantic Histories and Peoples, 1791-present

  Credits unavailable

  The African-descended population of the Americas is around 180 million people. Roughly two-thirds of those live outside of the United States, mostly in Brazil and the Caribbean. Provides an overview of the histories, aspirations, and problems that have most impacted peoples of the African diaspora in the years since the Haitian Revolution. As such, the focus will be thematic rather than chronological. The primary emphasis will be on the history of political, social, and intellectual movements. Topics will include slave resistance, black nationalism, socialism, and anti-colonialism. Learn about figures as varied as Toussaint L'Ouverture, Ida B. Wells, Marcus Garvey, WEB DuBois, Carolina Maria de Jesus, Frantz Fanon, Paul Robeson, and many others. Other topics to be covered include: the meaning of "freedom," the construction of black "masculinities," diasporic religious expressions, art and literature, and race and medicine.

• HISTORY 194: US Labor and Working-class History

  Credits unavailable

  An introductory survey of labor and working-class history. Describes processes of class formation and trajectories of labor movements. Interprets the contributions of diverse workers to American economy, culture, and politics. Maintains a central analytic focus on the intersections of race and gender with economic class in US History.

• HISTORY 199: Directed Study

  Credits unavailable

  Independent study in collaboration with a faculty member.

• HISTORY 200: Historical Studies

  1–4 credits

  Introduction to historical studies at the research university. Emphasis on interpretation and critical thinking. Topics vary.

• HISTORY 201: The Historian's Craft

  3–4 credits

  Conduct original historical research and convey the results to others. Through engagement with archival materials, become historical detectives; practice defining important historical questions, collecting and analyzing evidence, presenting original conclusions, and contributing to ongoing discussions. Confer individually with and receive feedback from instructors to improve skills of historical analysis and communication in both written and spoken formats. May not be repeated for credit.

• HISTORY 221: Explorations in American History (h)

  Credits unavailable

  Topics vary reflecting the interests, expertise, and innovating intention of the instructor.

• HISTORY 223: Explorations in European History (h)

  3–4 credits

  Topics vary reflecting the interests, expertise, and innovating intention of the instructor.

• HISTORY 225: Explorations in Third World History (h)

  Credits unavailable

  Topics vary reflecting the interests, expertise, and innovating intention of the instructor.

• HISTORY 227: Explorations in the History of Race and Ethnicity

  Credits unavailable

  Topics on racial/ethnic minorities in the US in historical perspective; or topics that intersect with race or ethnicity in the US; or comparative historical topics that address how racial/ethnic minorities in the US negotiate exclusion and marginalization.

• HISTORY 229: Explorations in Transnational/comparative History (humanities)

  3 credits

  Explores topics that involve at least two continents. Topics vary reflecting the interests, expertise, and innovating intention of the instructor.

• HISTORY 269: War, Race, and Religion in Europe and the United States, From the Scramble for Africa to Today

  Credits unavailable

  Investigates the complex history of European and American violence and war-making through the lens of race and religion. Taking a comparative approach, analyzes several major conflicts of the twentieth century, from World War I to the wars of decolonization, and from the genocide of the Herero peoples to the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, and beyond. Key topics include the genealogy of the modern idea of "race" in Europe and the U.S.; the drive towards a world of more homogeneous nation-states after World War I; and the emergence of transnational protest movements opposed to racism, imperialism, antisemitism, and Islamophobia. Drawing on a range of texts, songs, and films, investigates new connections between Europe and the United States. Take an international look at concepts like race and nation, and try to make sense of extreme violence, war-making, and the pre-requisites of peace.

• HISTORY 270: Eastern Europe Since 1900

  Credits unavailable

  Introduces the dramatic history of twentieth-century Eastern Europe, a place where imperialism, Nazism, Communism, genocide, democracy, and capitalism all left their mark. Three interrelated themes--war, revolution, and society--allow us to place Eastern Europe within broader comparative contexts. In addition to exploring significant political, economic, and cultural changes, discover how ordinary people--including workers, peasants, women, and children--experienced attempts to change the region and its people. Throughout, discuss how East Europeans continue to wrestle with the ghosts of their past today.

• HISTORY 271: Study Abroad in History: European History

  Credits unavailable

  A study abroad equivalency that does not equate to a UW-Madison course. Requires current enrollment in a UW-Madison sponsored study abroad program.

• HISTORY 272: Study Abroad in History: United States History

  Credits unavailable

  A study abroad equivalency that does not equate to a UW-Madison course. Requires current enrollment in a UW-Madison sponsored study abroad program.

• HISTORY 273: Study Abroad in History: Non-western History

  Credits unavailable

  A study abroad equivalency that does not equate to a UW-Madison course. Requires current enrollment in a UW-Madison sponsored study abroad program.

• HISTORY 274: Study Abroad in History: Transnational/global History

  Credits unavailable

  A study abroad equivalency that does not equate to a UW-Madison course. Requires current enrollment in a UW-Madison sponsored study abroad program.

• HISTORY 275: Topics in Lgbt History

  Credits unavailable

  Topics in the major issues and themes in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, considered across race, class, nationality, and time.

• HISTORY 278: Africans in the Americas, 1492-1808

  Credits unavailable

  Topics include demography and structure of the slave trade, but major focus on continuities and transformations of African cultures and social structures in the Americas--ethnicity, religion, kinship, gender, oral tradition, creolization, etc.

• HISTORY 283: Intermediate Honors Seminar-studies in History

  Credits unavailable

  Honors, intermediate-level exploration of selected topics, featuring intensive reading, writing, and small-group discussion. Topics vary reflecting the interests, expertise, and innovating intention of the instructor.

• HISTORY 300: History at Work: Professional Skills of the Major

  1–2 credits

  Focuses on how a History major applies to the world of work. Explores how history skills relate to the needs of professional employers. Guides in the process of finding and obtaining professional internships. Polishes written and oral communication skills in forms appropriate for professional situations. Learn from the experiences of guest alumni speakers from a variety of fields.

• HISTORY 301: History at Work: History Internship Seminar

  1 credits

  Identify and analyze the differences between an internship and a non-professional job, with an eye towards articulating how a History degree and the skills it confers can be valuable in professional settings. Share internship experiences with classmates through short presentations. Discuss any issues or challenges that arose during internship experience. Concurrent enrollment inHISTORY 300for 2 credits, which includes a discussion section, or previous credit inHISTORY 300is required.

• HISTORY 302: History of American Thought, 1859 to the Present

  Credits unavailable

  Designed for those who are interested in the role of ideas and culture in modern American history. Examine developments in philosophy, science, political theory, social criticism, and the arts in American life from 1859 to the present. Read the works of a number of influential thinkers and writers, as well as explore a variety of intellectual movements, which shaped the cultural worlds of late 19th- and 20th-century Americans. Themes include: the influence of Darwinism on religion; the impact of industrialization on ideas about American society; the revolt against formalism in philosophy, literature, and the social sciences; early twentieth-century conceptions of race, ethnicity, and gender; the responsibility of the intellectual in times of national and global crisis; post-WWII liberalism and existentialism; the rise of postmodernism in the academy and American popular culture, and the persistent contestations over the meaning and scope of American national identity.

• HISTORY 303: A History of Greek Civilization

  3–4 credits

  From the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Age. Special emphases may vary with each offering.

• HISTORY 306: The United States Since 1945

  Credits unavailable

  Political, social, economic, and cultural changes in the U.S. from World War II to the present.

• HISTORY 307: A History of Rome

  Credits unavailable

  Roman civilization from the monarchy through the collapse of the Roman Empire in the west.

• HISTORY 329: History of American Capitalism

  Credits unavailable

  Survey of political, social, and economic change in the history of American capitalism from the late colonial period to the near-present.

• HISTORY 336: Chinese Economic and Business History: From Silk to Iphones

  Credits unavailable

  Utilizes an historical approach to explore the economic and business history of pre-modern and modern China. Topics addressed include: how people thought about property, labor, and value, money and the banking and financial systems, development of domestic and international markets and trade, major industries, the search for resources, agricultural economy, the connection of law and economy, organizations that affected the economy, systemic changes during the Republic and People's Republic, China's participation in international economic institutions, and more.

• HISTORY 340: Cultural History of Korea

  Credits unavailable

  The culture and society of Korea have evolved hand in hand with the country's transformation from the Choson dynasty, a relatively isolated Confucian kingdom built on an agrarian economy, to South Korea and North Korea, two modern, industrialized nation-states in the globalized present. Explores key aspects of Korea's great cultural and social transformation from the 15th century to the 21st century. Delves into recent studies on gender history and on the constructed notion of "national culture." Also analyzes primary sources from different historical periods, as well as cinematic representations of Korea's past and present.

• HISTORY 344: The Age of the American Revolution, 1763-1789

  3–4 credits

  Structure of American society, Britain and the Colonies; the revolutionary movement for independence; the war for independence; social, political, and constitutional change.

• HISTORY 345: Military History of the United States

  Credits unavailable

  The founding and growth of the military establishment, the exercise of the military art, and military policies treated in connection with relevant political, social, and economic factors.

• HISTORY 348: France From Napoleon to the Great War, 1799-1914

  Credits unavailable

  Politics, society and culture in nineteenth century France. Emphasis on France's revolutionary heritage and problems of establishing a democratic regime.

• HISTORY 349: Contemporary France, 1914 to the Present

  Credits unavailable

  Social, political, and cultural history of twentieth century France, especially the Great War, the Popular Front, the Vichy Regime, DeGaulle and the Fifth Republic, Mitterrand's socialist experiment, France's changing role in the world and the European Community.

• HISTORY 350: The First World War and the Shaping of Twentieth-century Europe

  Credits unavailable

  The experience and legacy of the First World War has been linked to nearly every social, cultural, and political transformation that marked the short century that followed: mobilization and the experience of total war transformed the relations between governments and citizens, between men and women, and between social classes. Europeans experienced death on an unprecedented scale and came to terms with new forms of industrialized warfare, from the use of poison gas to modern practices of genocide. Europeans now learned to live with violence, both during as well as after the war, and found new ways to mourn or remember the dead. Using a wide variety of contemporary sources -- memoirs, essays, poems, or cinematic representations -- situates the upheaval of 1914-1918 within the larger framework of twentieth-century European history.

• HISTORY 357: The Second World War

  Credits unavailable

  Background and history of World War II. Problems of peacemaking and international organizations; rise of Fascism, National Socialism, and Japanese imperialism; breaking the peace; World War II.

• HISTORY 358: French Revolution and Napoleon

  Credits unavailable

  Explores the French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon. Why did Revolution break out in one of the most powerful and traditional monarchies of Europe? What were the roots of discontent and the sources of revolutionary ideas? Probes the exciting twists and turns of revolutionary politics and the attempt to spread "liberty equality" into ordinary life, even abolishing slavery in response to massive slave revolt in the French colonies. Asks how the French interacted with a transnational revolutionary movement across Europe, the US, and the Atlantic world. Though focused on a specific revolutionary era, we will also reflect on timeless questions: Why is it so difficult to create democracy? Is violence ever justified to overcome oppression and injustice? Finally, why did this experiment in radical democracy also unleash the Terror and launch Napoleon Bonaparte, the politician and general who built an astonishing European Empire? And how did he pull it off for as long as he did?

• HISTORY 359: History of Europe Since 1945

  Credits unavailable

  Political, cultural, and social history of Europe from the Second World War to the present.

• HISTORY 400: Undergraduate History Symposium

  Credits unavailable

  Whatever we do, wherever we go, we are encountering history and reckoning with some consequence radiating out from the past. Designed to awaken us to the myriad ways in which the past is present all around us, and to help cultivate the historian's habits of mind in our everyday experiences. In addition to faculty-led group discussions, centers on intellectual opportunities in Madison such as special lecture series and conversations with UW faculty and outside guests. Themes and topics will vary, depending on the instructor and opportunities for engagement with the wider intellectual community of Madison.

• HISTORY 401: Public History Workshop

  3 credits

  Introduction to the practice of public history. Public historians ground their work in rigorous, academic research with the goal of presenting history in a collaborative and publicly focused manner. These projects come in many forms including exhibits, walking tours, podcasts, documentaries, web projects, and place-based interpretation, to name a few. Learn how academic history gets presented to the public, not only by reading about public history, but by doing it.

• HISTORY 403: Immigration and Assimilation in American History

  Credits unavailable

  Survey of immigration to the U.S. from colonial times to the present with analyses of the roles of ethnic and racial groups in economics and politics, the reactions of earlier arrivals to their successors, the extent of assimilation and contemporary ethnic and racial consciousness.

• HISTORY 410: History of Germany, 1871 to the Present

  Credits unavailable

  Political and social development of Central Europe from the establishment of the German Empire to the post-World War II period.

• HISTORY 417: History of Russia

  Credits unavailable

  Origins and evolution of the Russian people and state; political, economic, and social history; foreign relations as they affect domestic policy; from the ninth century to 1800.

• HISTORY 418: History of Russia

  3–4 credits

  Russian political, economic, and social history from 1800 to 1917; foreign relations as they affect domestic policy.

• HISTORY 419: History of Soviet Russia

  Credits unavailable

  Major political, economic and social developments in Russia since 1917.

• HISTORY 420: Russian Social and Intellectual History

  Credits unavailable

  Main currents of Russian social thought in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

• HISTORY 424: The Soviet Union and the World, 1917-1991

  Credits unavailable

  Surveys Soviet foreign relations from 1917-1991, examining the causes, course, and outcome of the Cold War. Topics include: Soviet-US relations, World War II, the Socialist Bloc, espionage, the space race, Sino-Soviet relations, and Soviet intervention in the 'Third World.'

• HISTORY 427: The American Military Experience to 1902

  Credits unavailable

  A survey of American military experience from the 16th century through the development of a nascent American "empire" at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, examining the influence of warfare on all aspects of American society.

• HISTORY 428: The American Military Experience Since 1899

  Credits unavailable

  A survey of American military experience in the 20th and 21st centuries, examining the influence of warfare on all aspects of American society.

• HISTORY 434: American Foreign Relations, 1901 to the Present

  Credits unavailable

  America's relations with the world, emphasizing the economic, political and ideological elements determining policy.

• HISTORY 450: Making of Modern South Asia

  Credits unavailable

  Everything you ever hear about South Asia is true. But the exact opposite is also true. Tradition and modernity, development and stagnation, the past and the future all exist simultaneously, at times in harmony and at other times in conflict with one another. Through an exploration of the political, social and economic history of this region from the 18th century to the present day, learn about the making of modern South Asia and attempt to understand this paradox.

• HISTORY 500: Reading Seminar in History

  3 credits

  Advanced exploration of selected topics, featuring small group discussion and intensive engagement with historical materials. Topics vary.

• HISTORY 600: Advanced Seminar in History

  3 credits

  Development and application of advanced research skills to a specific historical topic. Intensive writing and small group discussion results in a project demonstrating original or creative analysis of primary and secondary sources.

• HISTORY 601: Historical Publishing Practicum

  Credits unavailable

  Hands-on instruction and experience in historical publishing. Discussion of the nature of historical research and writing.

• HISTORY 607: The American Impact Abroad: the Historical Dimension

  Credits unavailable

  Analysis of diplomatic, economic, cultural, and social interaction of Americans with foreign peoples and nations.

• HISTORY 680: Honors Thesis Colloquium

  2 credits

  Colloquium for honors thesis writers. Students must be concurrently enrolled inHISTORY 681or682, orHIST SCI 681or682, and be declared in an Honors program.

• HISTORY 681: Senior Honors Thesis

  1–3 credits

  Mentored independent research and thesis writing on an original topic for honors. Students must be concurrently enrolled inHISTORY 680and be declared in an Honors program.

• HISTORY 682: Senior Honors Thesis

  1–3 credits

  Mentored independent research and thesis writing on an original topic for honors. Requires completion ofHISTORY 681. Must be concurrently enrolled inHISTORY 680.

• HISTORY 690: Thesis Colloquium

  2 credits

  Colloquium for thesis writers. Students must be concurrently enrolled inHISTORY 691or692.

• HISTORY 691: Senior Thesis

  1–3 credits

  Mentored independent research and writing on an original topic. Students must be concurrently enrolled inHISTORY 690.

• HISTORY 692: Senior Thesis

  1–3 credits

  Mentored research and writing on an original topic. Requires completion ofHISTORY 691. Must be concurrently enrolled inHISTORY 690.

• HISTORY 698: Directed Study

  1–4 credits

  Directed study under the supervision of a faculty member. Graded on a Cr/N basis.

• HISTORY 699: Directed Study

  1–4 credits

  Directed study under the supervision of a faculty member. Graded on a lettered basis.

• HISTORY 700: Proseminar: Traditional & Early Modern Chinese Intellectual History

  Credits unavailable

  The major problems of historical interpretations in Chinese intellectual history from the classical period to 1840 on the basis of English translations of primary sources and English-language secondary sources. Topics vary.

• HISTORY 701: History in a Global Perspective

  1 credits

  Introduction to the ways of thinking characteristic of historical study and to the questions and methods that motivate the research fields in which department faculty work. Foundational instruction for PhD and History of Science, Medicine, and Technology PhD taken during the first semester of those programs.

• HISTORY 702: Teaching Practicum & Professional Development

  Credits unavailable

  Introduction to inclusive teaching practices and professional development strategies. Combines hands-on pedagogical training with guidance for navigating key milestones in academic life.

• HISTORY 703: History and Theory

  Credits unavailable

  Explorations of the role of theory in historical research and writing. Content varies.

• HISTORY 705: Topics in Global History

  Credits unavailable

  Examines the significance of a particular historical phenomenon from the perspective of its importance world-wide.

• HISTORY 706: Topics in Transnational History

  3 credits

  Examines the significance of a particular event, phenomenon or question across national borders and in terms of the history of nation-state formation.

• HISTORY 707: Proseminar in Early Modern European History, 1500-1789

  Credits unavailable

  Readings and/or research on the social, cultural, and political history of France from the late seventeenth century through the French Revolution.

• HISTORY 708: Introduction to Professional Research in History

  3 credits

  Introduction to professional research in the discipline of history. Discuss recent, exemplary historical monographs and explore diverse methodological approaches. Identify how authors start from a set of questions and concerns and develop them into a full historical study. Focus on developing as ethical, conscientious, and reflexive historians.

• HISTORY 710: Professional Development Seminar

  3 credits

  Topics in professional development for historians with an emphasis on building skills that are valuable both inside and outside the academy, such as managing the writing process, teaching college history, or communicating historical research to a broad, nonspecialist audience. Content varies.

• HISTORY 725: Seminar in East Asian History

  Credits unavailable

  Major problems of historical interpretation in the early modern and recent histories of China, Japan, and Korea. Topics and periods of emphasis vary each year.

• HISTORY 730: Proseminar in Latin American History

  Credits unavailable

  Historical literature of significant topics in Latin American history. The colonial period, Brazilian history, and Spanish-America in the national period.

• HISTORY 752: Seminar in Transnational Gender History

  Credits unavailable

  Themes in Gender and Women's History within a transnational context.

• HISTORY 753: Seminar-comparative World History

  Credits unavailable

  Topics significant for the histories of Latin America, Africa, Islamic core, South Asia and Southeast Asia. A single topic chosen each semester for a series of comparative essays by seminar members.

• HISTORY 755: Proseminar in Southeast Asian History

  1–3 credits

  Introductory seminar in modern Southeast Asian history; work mostly in English-language sources.

• HISTORY 790: Proseminar: Empire and Colonialism in South Asia

  Credits unavailable

  Designed to develop historiographic command of colonial and postcolonial South Asian history as a teaching and research field. Carefully explores the master narratives or "schools" of historiography of South Asia, and analyzes the erasures as well as the normative theoretical and archival axes around which the sub-field has developed. Topics include pre-colonial modes of representing the past; the social, cultural and economic turns in colonial and nationalist historiography; legal and environmental historiographical methods; South Asia in the world/global South Asia.

• HISTORY 800: Research Seminar in History

  3 credits

  Introduction to the life of a professional historian, to different styles and methods of history. Opportunity to present one's findings in a conference-type setting. Structured to support completion of the research paper requirement for the History MA, regardless of specialty.

• HISTORY 805: Seminar-medieval History

  Credits unavailable

  Topics in Medieval history.

• HISTORY 845: Seminar-central European History

  Credits unavailable

  Modern German history and the history of Central Europe.

• HISTORY 850: Smr-hist of the Soviet Union & Modern Hist of E Central Europe

  Credits unavailable

  Development of the Soviet Union since 1917 and the political and diplomatic history of the nations lying between Russia and Germany.

• HISTORY 854: Seminar in Modern Chinese History

  Credits unavailable

  Chinese history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with emphasis on intellectual history and the history of Chinese Communism.

• HISTORY 855: Seminar in Japanese History

  1–3 credits

  Research seminar in Japanese history. Focus varies each year.

• HISTORY 861: Seminar-the History of Africa

  1–3 credits

  Research studies in aspects of African history with emphasis on field research techniques and interpretation of non-archival data.

• HISTORY 868: Seminar in Modern French History

  Credits unavailable

  Social, political, and cultural history of France, 1800 to the present.

• HISTORY 891: Proseminar in Modern European History

  Credits unavailable

  History of Europe since 1500.

• HISTORY 900: Introduction to History for U.s. Historians

  Credits unavailable

  A survey of U.S. history by period and field with extensive discussion on how to plan a successful career as a historian. Designed to introduce masters and doctoral graduate students in the United States History field of study to the U.S. history faculty members.

• HISTORY 901: Studies in American History

  Credits unavailable

  Reading seminar in American history. Topics and periods of emphasis vary.

• HISTORY 910: History of Colonial North America

  3 credits

  The history of North America from the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries, with the primary focus on Anglo-America.

• HISTORY 936: The History of Women and Gender in the U.s., to 1870

  Credits unavailable

  Surveys key theoretical work and secondary literature on the history of women and gender in the United States to 1870.

• HISTORY 940: Seminar-american History 1900-1945

  Credits unavailable

  Readings and research on United States History, 1900-1945.

• HISTORY 943: Race & Nationalism: Comparative & Theoretical Perspectives

  Credits unavailable

  Historical intersections of race and nationalisms. Explores questions of the origin of race and nationalisms, the position and status of a variety of nationalisms and anti-colonial nationalisms; and the contemporary debates over postmodernism, postindustrialism, postcolonialism, and multiculturalism.

• HISTORY 951: Seminar-intellectual History of America

  Credits unavailable

  Readings on the intellectual history of the United States/North America.

• HISTORY 952: Seminar in Comparative History

  2–3 credits

• HISTORY 958: Seminar-american Military History

  1–3 credits

  Readings on U.S. military history.

• HISTORY 990: Research and Thesis

  1–9 credits

  Independent research and writing of a thesis under the supervision of a faculty member.

• HISTORY 999: Independent Work

  1–6 credits

  Directed study under the supervision of a faculty member.

• HISTORY/HISTSCI 323: The Scientific Revolution: From Copernicus to Newton

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  An introduction to the formative period of modern science, including major ideas and events in the physical and life sciences from Copernicus to Newton.

• HISTORY/HISTSCI/MEDHIST 132: Bees, Trees, Germs, and Genes: a History of Biology

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  How did today's biology emerge out of the diverse traditions of agriculture and natural history (bees and trees), biomedicine and molecular biology (germs and genes), which stretch back into the eighteenth century? Examines classic texts and "game-changers" in the history of biology, putting them into broader scientific and social contexts to see how these different ways of knowing intertwined, competed, and yielded novel approaches to the study of life that still shape today's life sciences.

• HISTORY/HISTSCI/MEDHIST 508: Health, Disease and Healing II

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  Medicine in Europe from the 18th century to mid-20th century, investigating changes in disease and demography, state interest in health care, the medical professions, and both scientific and alternative medical ideas.

• HISTORY/HISTSCI/MEDHIST 564: Disease, Medicine and Public Health in the History of Latin America and the Caribbean

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  Examines the history of illness and medical practice in Latin America and the Caribbean from the colonial era until the present. Using an interdisciplinary set of sources, students will explore the different meanings of disease, body normativity, medical practice, and ideas about public health across different historical circumstances in the region.

• HISTORY/INTLST 146: A Global History of Now

  3–4 credits

  An introduction to key historical events, movements, and systems that have shaped our present moment. Examines the relationship between empire-building and anti-colonial movements from the late 18th century to the current day. Focuses on the political, economic, and social/cultural dimensions of major global history themes, such as colonialism, capitalism, and revolution.

• HISTORY/INTLST 330: Global History of Humanitarianism

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  What motivates us to try to alleviate the suffering of people in distant parts of the world? Examine the origins of humanitarian ideas and institutions, and how various humanitarian campaigns have been shaped by geopolitical processes, including the abolition of the slave trade, the spread of missionary Christianity, European imperialism, the Cold War, neoliberalism and the emergence of new media forms. Questions include: who has benefited from various humanitarian aid campaigns throughout history? How have various humanitarian campaigns shaped, and been shaped by, patterns of global inequality? Why have some populations, and not others, been deemed worthy of the world's compassion? Explore the worlds, perspectives and visions of humanitarians through a range of primary sources, including diary entries, political propaganda, memoirs, journalistic reportage, photography and documentary film.

• HISTORY/INTLST 332: East Asia & the U.s. Since 1899

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  From the Boxer Rebellion, to the dropping of the atomic bombs, to the nuclear stand-off with North Korea, American foreign relations with East Asia during the 20th century were as consequential as they were controversial. Survey the issues and questions that alternately made allies and enemies of these nations: How did the quest for markets influence American policy towards China? How did European imperialism shape Japan's rise? Why did communism seem to offer a more compelling economic and political arrangement to China and North Korea? While squarely rooted in East Asia this course will also explore the questions that united and divided Americans over their nation's foreign policy. Through examining these questions, develop answers and construct their own narrative of the relationship between the United States and East Asia.

• HISTORY/INTLST 366: From Fascism to Today: Social Movements and Politics in Europe

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  Investigates how everyday people shaped European history and politics, from World War I through today. Takes a comparative and interdisciplinary approach to analyze a range of major social movements in Europe, thinking in detail about what constitutes a social movement in the first place, and what determines its effectiveness. Key topics include the rise and fall of Fascism; the fate of the Communist and Socialist Left in Europe; the role of youth movements as drivers of change; and the constraints imposed on political organizing by both democratic and authoritarian societies. Drawing on a range of texts, songs, and films, investigates how people power has shaped the European state, and vice-versa, from 1922 through today.

• HISTORY/INTLST 375: The Cold War - From World War II to End of Soviet Empire

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  The Cold War was the first event to impact virtually all of humanity and left a lasting legacy that still shapes the current world order. Exploration of its conduct on five continents entails both a diversity of sources (film, fiction, documents, and memoir) and a range of topics (geopolitics, ideology, internationalism, empire, revolution, counterinsurgency, and covert operations). Its half-century history was marked by nuclear-armed stalemate and ideological competition in Europe, cultural politics of repression and generational revolt in America, interplay of anti-colonial nationalism and counterinsurgency in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and a succession of major wars worldwide in Korea, Vietnam, Angola, and Afghanistan. By adopting an international perspective that carries us beyond the narrow ambit of the Moscow-Washington rivalry, integrate diverse global forces and particular national histories for a fuller understanding of an ever-changing world system.

• HISTORY/INTLST/LACIS 242: Modern Latin America

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  A broad overview of Latin American history in the modern period, since independence but with a primary focus on the twentieth century. Particular emphasis will be placed on the socioeconomic, cultural, and political structures and processes that shaped and continue to influence life in Latin America. Key issues such as colonialism, nationalism, democracy, and revolution will be examined critically in light of broad comparative themes in Latin American and world history. Among the topics to be explored in detail will be the Mexican and Cuban revolutions, populism and dictatorship, socialism and neoliberalism, and drugs and migration.

• HISTORY/JEWISH 156: The American Jewish Experience: From Shtetl to Suburb

  3–4 credits

  A century and a half ago, the United States was a backwater of the Jewish world, then centered in Europe with significant Jewish communities in the Ottoman Empire and elsewhere. Yet, by the 1950s, the United States became home to the largest Jewish community at that time. Why did millions of Jews come to the United States? How has life in a liberal political and capitalist economic order shaped the Jewish experience in the United States? In turn, how have Jews influenced American culture, politics, and society? Surveys the history of American Jews from the 17th century to the 21st century. Using Jews as the primary, though not only, case, examines themes in the history of immigration, ethnicity, and religion. Topics include patterns of political activity, social mobility, processes of integration and exclusion, Jewish culture, religion, and problems in community building. Not open to students with credit for JEWISH 219 prior to Fall 2026.

• HISTORY/JEWISH 213: Jews and American Pop. Culture

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  Explores the interplay between Jews and U. S. popular culture, covering such subjects as early 20th century vaudeville, the "golden age" of Hollywood, rhythm and blues music, television, and stand-up comedy.

• HISTORY/JEWISH 220: Introduction to Modern Jewish History

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  The history of the Jews in selected parts of the world since the 17th century. Particular attention will be paid to the fact that this is the history of a minority group whose life unfolds in relationship to a larger society.

• HISTORY/JEWISH 310: The Holocaust

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  References to the Holocaust abound in contemporary political debates and in our popular culture. But most people know very little about the history of the Holocaust, despite the mountains of superb historical scholarship that experts in the field have produced over decades of dedicated research. Utilize correspondence, diaries, or other firsthand accounts of Holocaust victims, together with study of the larger events around them, to reconstruct the experiences of ordinary families swept up in the Nazi genocide.

• HISTORY/JEWISH/SOC 518: Antisemitism in European Culture

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  Through a critical and interdisciplinary lens, review the history and major theories of modern antisemitism in its past and present-day forms. Read scholarship on antisemitism, as well as canonical antisemitic texts, with attention to geographic, chronological, and cultural contexts. Learn about the origins, major themes, continuities and changes, and surprising endurance of antisemitism. Use historical thinking to understand antisemitism as a major historical problem and to address related contemporary issues with nuance.

• HISTORY/JOURN 560: History of U.s. Media

  4 credits

  Evolution of the mass media in the United States in the context of political, social, and economic change.

• HISTORY/JOURN 808: Mass Communication History

  3 credits

  Intensive reading and discussion designed to introduce literature of mass communication.

• HISTORY/LACIS 243: Colonial Latin America: Invasion to Independence

  3–4 credits

  An introductory survey of colonial Latin American history, from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth century. Examines developments in Spanish and Portuguese America by reading both secondary and primary sources. Beginning with fifteenth-century Europe, the Americas and West Africa, discusses European expansion and invasion, first contacts between the so-called Old and the so-called New Worlds, as well as the role of religion, sexuality, gender, labor and production, trade and exchange, and politics. Each week, a central question will address the topic for that week. Become familiar with and contextualize key processes and events in colonial Latin American history and learn about the nature of colonization. Identify and evaluate historical arguments. Practice interpreting primary sources and building historical arguments about them.

• HISTORY/LEGALST 235: Prisons: From Antiquity to Supermax

  3–4 credits

  Examines the development of prisons from the ancient Mediterranean world to the present in the US and Europe. Pays particular attention to the way in which imprisonment has been used against marginalized populations. Examines the development of carceral tactics across a number of registers, including the prison as an ancient political tactic, the economic logic of early modern debtors' prisons, the relationship of prisons and workhouses to forms of capitalism, prisons and colonial expansion, the relationship between mass incarceration and democratic forms of government, as well as the connections between the abolition of slavery and modern carceral practices. Also looks at the legal and constitutional limitations that have been put on imprisonment by the American legal system. Relies on interdisciplinary approaches to the study of prisons, including History, law, literature, and political theory.

• HISTORY/LEGALST 261: American Legal History to 1860

  3–4 credits

  Surveys the development of American law down to the U.S. Civil War. Reviews the English historical background, and examines how law changed in colonial America, culminating in the framing of the U.S. Constitution. Explores how territorial expansion, democracy, and slavery shaped nineteenth-century American law. Emphasis is on how law interacts with political, social, and cultural change, with a focus on the origins of modern civil and constitutional rights.

• HISTORY/LEGALST 262: American Legal History, 1860 to the Present

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  Surveys the development of American law from the Civil War to the early Twenty-First Century. After a review of the U.S. Constitution and its modification by the Civil War amendments, examine the legal dimensions of such topics as race relations and the Civil Rights movement, the growth of modern business, the New Deal, labor rights, the women's movement, the individual rights revolution of the postwar period, and the contemporary conservative reaction. Emphasis on how law interacts with political, social, and cultural change.

• HISTORY/LEGALST 426: The History of Punishment

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  Examines punishment across a vast range of historical traditions, examining how wrongdoing and punishment have been figured in law, literature, art and philosophy. Examines ancient, medieval and modern traditions.

• HISTORY/LEGALST 459: Rule of Law: Philosophical and Historical Models

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  From the perspectives of history and political theory, examines the multiple meanings of the idea of the rule of idea, and its uses in American history. Explore prominent critiques of the rule of law ideal.

• HISTORY/LEGALST 476: Medieval Law and Society

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  Introduction to the central historical developments of law and legal institutions in the European middle ages (400-1500).

• HISTORY/LEGALST 477: History of Forensic Science

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  Examines the diverse paths followed by forensic science (including medical jurisprudence or forensic medicine) in various times and places, focusing on the English-speaking world from the nineteenth century until the present. Explore the many ways that law and science have worked together--or at cross-purposes--to generate and assess evidence at the crime scene, in the lab, in the courtroom, and beyond.

• HISTORY/LEGALST 510: Legal Pluralism

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  Historical and anthropological perspectives on non-state "law," or systems of rules generated by normative orders that lay beyond the state; case studies include the mafia, Tokyo tuna traders' court, orthodox Jewish diamond merchants, California gold miners' courts, Inuit song dueling.

• HISTORY/LIS 734: Introduction to Archives and Records Management

  3 credits

  An introduction to the archives profession and basic theory and practice of archives and records administration, including the uses of primary sources in research, appraisal, access, and preservation.

• HISTORY/MEDIEVAL/RELIGST 309: The Crusades: Christianity and Islam

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  An examination of the Crusades from both Christian and Islamic perspectives; the historical, social, and religious context and significance of the Crusades for both Christians and Muslims.

• HISTORY/RELIGST 205: The Making of the Islamic World: the Middle East, 500-1500

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  Development of society and culture in the Middle East and North Africa from the emergence of Islam (7th century) to early modern times.

• HISTORY/RELIGST 208: Western Intellectual and Religious History to 1500

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  Survey of key themes in Western intellectual history and religious thought from ancient Greece through the Renaissance, focusing on relationships among classical, Jewish, and Christian traditions.

• HISTORY/RELIGST 209: Western Intellectual and Religious History Since 1500

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  A survey of major trends in Western intellectual history and religious thought in the modern era, a period that saw a new range of competing ideas about the divine, the human condition, justice and the social order, and the quest for meaning. Explores shifts in Christian and Jewish thought as well as secular alternatives to religious outlooks. Topics include the impact of the Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and Enlightenment; radical critiques of religion; existentialism; theological responses to World Wars and the Holocaust; and civil rights and social justice. Sources include films, novels, autobiographies, essays, theological works, and political manifestos.

• HISTORY/RELIGST 212: The History of Western Christianity to 1750

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  A survey of Christianity from being a small, persecuted sect in the Roman Empire to becoming the dominant religion of western Europe, penetrating into the lives of Europeans, fissuring into multiple churches, and spreading across the globe. Attention is given to doctrine, ritual, worship, architecture, images, and music.

• HISTORY/RELIGST 409: Christianity in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800

  3 credits

  Between the late Middle Ages and the era of democratic revolutions Western Christianity saw a series of sweeping changes that altered its global profile and helped form the modern world - examines some of these shifts and their impact. Questions explored include: Why did the Reformations of the 16th century occur and with what effects on people's lives and on early modern societies? What was the relationship between European colonization, the Atlantic slave trade, new theories of race, and the spread of Christianity to the "New World"? How was the Christian religion resisted, received, and reshaped by Native Americans and people of African descent? What sparked movements of reform and renewal - including new Catholic religious orders and the Protestant Evangelical Awakening - and with what consequences for modern Christianity? How did the nature of Christian belief and identity change under the impact of religious conflict, political revolution, and new intellectual movements?

• HISTORY/RELIGST 411: The Enlightenment and Its Critics

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  European intellectual history in the 17th and 18th centuries, from the Wars of Religion to the French Revolution. Examines the rise of Enlightenment thought in relation to political and religious conflict, revolutions in science and philosophy, and the emergence of the public sphere. Special attention is paid to the Enlightenment's relationship to religion and to contemporary critiques made of Enlightenment thinking, including those of the early Romantic movement.

• HISTORY/SCANDST 431: History of Scandinavia to 1815

  3 credits

  Political, social, economic, and cultural developments of Scandinavia through the "Viking Age" to the break-up of Sweden-Finland and Denmark-Norway; emphasis on the interplay between social and political forces and institutions and the area's relationship with the rest of Europe.

• HISTORY/SCANDST 432: History of Scandinavia Since 1815

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  Political, social, economic, and cultural development: political realignments and rise of nationalism, industrialization and rise of liberalism and socialism, democratization, independence struggles and social conflict, evolution of welfare states, World War II and its aftermath.

• HISTORY/SCANDST 577: Contemporary Scandinavia: Politics and History

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  Social, economic, and ideological changes, institutions, and movements and their relationships with the political processes and structures in the Nordic states.

• HISTORY/SOC 670: Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy in America Since 1890

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  Political institutional arrangements which have emerged since 1890 and how they have influenced social and economic policies implemented since the Second World War. Why the working class has been politically weak in America; policy consequences of this weakness.