HIST 281 - THE MIDDLE EAST FROM THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD TO SULAYMAN THE MAGNIFICENT Credits: 3 Introduction to the Middle East from the rise of Islam to the middle of the 16th century. Topics include conquests and classical Islamic states, Arabization, Jewish and Christian communities, impact of Turkic peoples, and the Ottoman Empire, with emphasis on social, cultural, and political trends which shaped the region's history. Cross-list: MDST 281. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 283 - WOMEN IN THE MODERN ISLAMIC WORLD Credits: 3 Lecture course introduces students to the history of women in the Islamic world. Topics include women and law, family relations, work, women as political actors in Islamic history, the harem as a social and political institution, women as property owners, veiling, and modern feminist movements throughout the Islamic world. Cross-list: SWGS 283. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 291 - 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN PRESIDENTS Credits: 3 Course will study the American presidency and the evolving use of executive power from Theodore Roosevelt to Bill Clinton. It will analyze how presidents develop foreign and domestic policy, relate to congress and their cabinets, and lead the nation in wartime. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 295 - THE AMERICAN SOUTH Credits: 3 Survey of the American South from development of Native American cultures to present. Topics include slavery and plantation economy; emergence of southern distinctiveness; Civil War and Reconstruction; political reform and the civil rights movement; rise of the Sunbelt, southern religion, music, and literature; and the future of southern regionalism. Credit may not be received for both HIST 295 and HIST 395. Equivalency: HIST 395. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 300 - INDEPENDENT STUDY Credits: Hours Variable Independent study under the supervision of a history faculty member. Hours are variable. Department permission required College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 302 - TRADITIONAL CHINESE CULTURE Credits: 3 An interpretive Introduction to the language, philosophy, religion, art, literature, and social customs of premodern China. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 303 - THE HELLENISTIC AGE: ALEXANDER TO AUGUSTUS Credits: 3 We examine the art, architecture, and cultural history of the Hellenistic Age, from Alexander the Great (d. 323 BC) until the death of Cleopatra (31 BC). During this period a brilliant Greek-based culture developed from the Mediterranean to the Indus Valley, transforming Greeks, Persians, Jews, Romans and many others. Cross-list: CLAS 313, HART 313. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 307 - IMPERIAL ROME FROM CAESAR TO DIOCLETIAN Credits: 3 Examination of how Rome acquired, maintained, and understood her empire. Includes the development of a political, social, and ideological system reaching from Scotland to Mesopotamia during the three centuries of Rome's greatest power. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 308 - THE WORLD OF LATE ANTIQUITY Credits: 3 Study of the social, religious, and political history of the Roman world from Diocletian to the rise of Islam, with emphasis on the breaking of the unity of the Mediterranean world and the formation of Byzantine society in the Greek East. Cross-list: MDST 308. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 310 - CONTEMPORARY CHINA Credits: 3 Introductory course is designed to encourage creative ways of thinking about "Cultural China"- a broad-ranging concept that includes the People's Republic of China, the Special Administrative Region (SAR) of Hong Kong, the Republic of China on Taiwan, and overseas Chinese communities throughout the world. Equivalency: HIST 220. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 313 - MODERN MEXICO Credits: 3 Lecture and discussion course examining the roots of the Mexican Revolution with the development of the coalitions of peasants, workers, and middle-class politicians that participated in the 1910-1917 revolution and the slow institutionalization that followed. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 314 - CARIBBEAN NATION BUILDING Credits: 3 Enriched version of HIST 214. May not receive credit for both HIST 214 and 314. Equivalency: HIST 214. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 315 - BLACKS IN THE AMERICAS Credits: 3 Enriched version of HIST 215. May not receive credit for both HIST 215 and 315. Equivalency: HIST 215. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 316 - THE INVENTION OF PAGANISM IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE Credits: 3 Course examines the concept of "paganism" from the first through seventh centuries A.D. Includes examination of the mutually tolerant character of Roman religions, invention of the category, and Christian application to all polytheists of the empire and beyond. Cross-list: CLAS 318. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 317 - AMERICAN RELIGIOUS HISTORY Credits: 3 Course covers the wide variety of American religious experiences, from the pre-contact period to the early Republic. Consideration will be given to Indian and African religious practices in North America as well as European Christianities. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 319 - FORTUNE-TELLERS AND PHILOSOPHERS: THE ROLE OF DIVINATION IN CHINESE HISTORY Credits: 3 An examination of the way that fortune-telling beliefs and practices - including the use of "oracle bones," consultation of the Yijing (Classic of Changes), physiognomy, spirit-writing, and fengshui - have evolved over 3000 years in China. Attention will also be given to the way these practices have traveled to other countries and cultures. Equivalency: HIST 219. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 320 - IMPERIAL GARDENS: A CULTURAL COMPARATIVE Credits: 3 Course will examine the design and development of gardens (primarily those of the Islamic world - Al Andalus, the Middle East, Persia, Central and South Asia) and their use as political and religious metaphors, havens for meditation, stages of imperial performance and ritual, sites of social interaction, and affirmations of power and legitimacy. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 328 - POVERTY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE IN LATIN AMERICA Credits: 3 Course surveys the economic, political, social, environmental and geographic origins of poverty and inequality in Latin American countries since independence. It compares welfare policies to promote social justics across these nations and examines their different outcomes in historical perspective. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 330 - ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE AND THE ORIGINS OF AFRO AMERICA Credits: 3 An examination of black society, culture, and politics from the late 15th century through the late 18th century (focusing geographically on the Caribbean, and on black life within the present limits of what is now Mexico and the United States). College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 335 - CARIBBEAN HISTORY TO 1838 Credits: 3 Study of Caribbean history from the arrival of the Europeans to the abolition of slavery in the British West Indies in 1838, with emphasis on the social and economic history of the region. Includes the question of why slavery and the plantation system both emerged and fell. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 336 - CARIBBEAN HISTORY 1838 TO PRESENT Credits: 3 Study of the social, economic, and political history of the Caribbean people from the abolition of slavery to the emergence of independent nations in the modern era. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 338 - HUMANIST TRADITIONS AND ITS CRITICS Credits: 3 Exploration of aspects of Western humanist and anti-humanist traditions from the early modern period to the present, with emphasis on how writers within each tradition understood fundamental terms like human nature, self, community, morality, and freedom. Includes literary, theological, and philosophical texts, as well as contemporary critical theory. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 339 - BEAUTY AND THE BODY Credits: 3 Class explores what bodies have meant in the West, and how those meanings have changed over time. Study how self-presentation (bodily, sartorial, cosmetic) has been used and examine what beauty ideals have been over the past centuries, and the means by which elites and ordinary people have strived to realize them. Cross-list: SWGS 339. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 340 - HISTORY OF FEMINISM Credits: 3 Explores feminism as political thought and social movement in various times and places. Readings will include classic as well as non-canonical texts, consider the historical contexts of feminist action, and examine controversies over and within feminisms. Cross-list: SWGS 345. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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HIST 341 - PRE-MODERN CHINA Credits: 3 Survey of Chinese history from antiquity to c.1800, highlighting major themes, issues, personalities and events. College: School of Humanities Department: History
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