HIST 377 - HISTORY OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, 1453-1918 Credits: 3 Enriched version of HIST 277. May not receive credit for both HIST 277 and 377. Equivalency: HIST 277. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 378 - THE ARAB WORLD IN THE 20TH CENTURY, 1918-PRESENT Credits: 3 Enriched version of HIST 278. May not receive credit for both HIST 278 and 378. Equivalency: HIST 278. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 379 - THE CARIBBEAN IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION, 1770-1820 Credits: 3 An enriched version of HIST 279. Students may not receive credit for both HIST 279 and 379. Equivalency: HIST 279. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 381 - GOD, TIME AND HISTORY Credits: 3 How is the passage of time given meaning, and what roll - if any- is assigned to divinity in shaping the direction of events? Course explores various forms of recording and interpreting events, drawing from ancient Mesopotamia, Israel, and the Greco-Roman world - the cultures in which modern ideas of history began. Cross-list: RELI 385. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 382 - CLASSICAL ISLAMIC CULTURES Credits: 3 An introduction to the cultures and religions of the Islamic world from the 9th through the 14th centuries. Topics include Islamic law and theology, philosophy, ritual, Islamic science and medicine, classical Arabic literature, the impact of Arabo-Islamic culture on Jewish and Christian cultures of the Islamic world. Cross-list: MDST 382. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 386 - RECENT U.S. FOREIGN POLICY Credits: 3 Course will examine American policy during the climactic years of the Cold War. Topics will include detente under Nixon and Carter, confrontation under Reagan, the "new thinking" of Gorbachev, regional conflicts, and the fall of the Soviet Union. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 387 - LIFE ON THE NILE Credits: 3 Egyptian society, culture, and religion from the 18th to 20th centuries. Course will use travel accounts, ethnographies, novels, historical chronicles, and movies, to examine the position of Egypt in the Ottoman and British Empires. Focus will be the long-term Egyptian cultural and social structures and their transformation in different political contexts. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 388 - THE ATLANTIC WORLD: ORIGINS TO THE AGE OF REVOLUTION Credits: 3 Enriched version of HIST 188. Students may not receive credit for both HIST 188 and 388. Equivalency: HIST 188. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 389 - MIGRATIONS AND DIASPORAS IN THE INDIAN OCEAN WORLD Credits: 3 The Indian Ocean World presents an enormously varied arena of cultural exchange and interaction spanning coastal regions of Africa, the Middle East, South, and Southeast Asia and Australia. Course introduces the region by examining societies and empires shaped by voyages of exploration, religious pilgrimages, trading diasporas and forced migration. Cross-list: ASIA 389. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 395 - THE AMERICAN SOUTH Credits: 3 An enriched version of HIST 295. May not receive credit for both HIST 295 and 395. Equivalency: HIST 295. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 396 - THE RISE OF TRANSNATIONAL ACTIVISM Credits: 3 Interdisciplinary exploration of the historical roots of contemporary transnational social movements. Topics include the history of globalization; the concept of world citizenship; the origins of transnational activism in the antislavery and women's suffrage movements; the development of international norms and institutions; and the contested ideals of patriotism and cosmopolitanism. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 398 - TOPICS IN LEGAL HISTORY Credits: 3 Course on selected topics in legal history. Contents vary. Cross-list: SWGS 398. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 403 - HONORS THESIS Credits: 3 Restricted to students who have been admitted to the honors program; consent of the director of the honors program is required. Students must take both HIST 403 and 404 to gain credit. Instructor permission required College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 404 - HONORS THESIS Credits: 3 Continuation of HIST 403, which is prerequisite for enrollment. Completion of this course is required to obtain credit for HIST 403. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 405 - THEMES IN RUSSIAN HISTORY Credits: 3 Seminar will focus on recent historical literature on the formation of the Soviet state, 1914-1932: World War One, the revolutions of 1917, the civil war, the consolidation of the Bolshevik regime, and Stalinization. Readings will include recent work on social, cultural, and economic history, along with original documents. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 406 - GREAT JOURNEYS: FROM MARCO POLO TO MARK TWAIN Credits: 3 Why, how, where, and with what consequence were great journeys undertaken? Seminar explores the global history of long-distance travel and encounter from the 13th to the 19th century. Evolutions in travel literature and cartography considered with the shifting boundaries of the "known" and "civilized" world. Special focus on non-Western perspectives. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 415 - THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE Credits: 3 Seminar on how the largest empire in world history came into existence, the impact it had on people and states worldwide, and its decline and fall. Course work will consist of reading, viewing, and evaluating films, and preparing and summarizing in class a research paper on a topic of choice. Recommended prerequisite(s): Some background in either British history or one of the areas impacted by the British. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 416 - SEMINAR IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY Credits: 3 An examination of the exigencies of African American life from the Reagan era to the age of Obama. A reading- and writing-intensive seminar focusing on selected issues in black culture, politics, and community in the United States since the climax of the civil rights movement. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 417 - PERSPECTIVES ON SILICON VALLEY Credits: 3 Examines the history of microelectronics, biotechnology, and the software industry through the lens of Silicon Valley. Topics include: the role of universities and government in innovation; labor and environmental issues; growth of Bay Area venture capital and libertarian technophilia; and other regions' use of Silicon Valley as a model. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 418 - SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & COLD WAR Credits: 3 Research seminar will examine the mobilization of science and engineering in World War II and the ensuing confrontation between capitalism and communism. Topics include the Nuclear Age, science and diplomacy, the new American university, scientists and McCarthyism, the space race, social-ism and social science, and the counterculture in environmentalism, biotechnology and computing. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 421 - RACE, EDUCATION AND REFORM IN THE URBAN SOUTH Credits: 3 An examination of urban life and education since the decision in Brown v. Board. Seminar focuses on the Brown cases, the development of the post war city in the context of American race relations, the course of court-ordered desegregation, and the impact of recent reforms on urban schools and neighborhoods. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 422 - SEMINAR TOPICS IN THE HISTORY OF RICE UNIVERSITY Credits: 3 Research seminar on selected topics in the history of the university, with papers to be based on primary sources in the Woodson Research Center of Fondren Library and/or oral interviews. Topics will include academic departments and schools, student life, administrative evolution, community involvement, and Rice in a comparative context. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 423 - AMERICAN RADICALS AND REFORMERS Credits: 3 Seminar on radicals and reformers in American history. Readings vary and will focus on a selected group of reformers, such as abolitionists, labor radicals, socialists, feminists, pacifists, Progressives, environmentalists, or health reformers. Students may conduct original research for a thesis-driven paper related to course themes. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 424 - RAJ AND RESISTANCE Credits: 3 Examination of the development and nature of the British-Indian relationship. From John Company to Company Raj (17th to 10th centuries), British merchantile and imperial ambitions in South Asia were met by indigenous movements of political independence and popular resistance across the subcontinent, in Bengal, Mysore, Punjab, Delhi and beyond. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 425 - 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN CONSERVATION MOVEMENT Credits: 3 Exploration of the American conservation movement from Pres. Theodore Roosevelt, Sierra Club founder John Muir, and Chief of the U.S. Forest Service Gifford Pinchot to naturalists John Burroughs and John Perkins Marsh - focusing on their work in context of current issues in global warming, and wetlands restoration. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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