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History
Chair: Benjamin W. Westervelt
The Department of History seeks to ground students in the foundations of the human experience. It introduces them to cause-and-effect relationships in human affairs, and encourages them to understand the power and the complexity of the past in shaping the contemporary human condition. Departmental courses probe American, Latin American, Middle Eastern, European, and Asian history and address such topics as popular culture; the nature of ideology; social and political change; economic systems; migration; and the roles of race, gender, religion, and ethnicity.
The department stresses the use of primary sources and endeavors to hone students' skills in research methods, writing, and historical analysis. Students are expected to bring these skills to bear as they discuss and interpret the past.
The Major Program
The department curriculum focuses on three primary subject fields: American, Asian, and European history. Students are strongly encouraged to enroll in the introductory sequences as a foundation for more advanced study in these concentrations. History majors are required to complete some work in each of the three fields in order to obtain a breadth of historical understanding. Most introductory sequences are offered at the 100 level. The entry-level U.S. sequence (History 230A, 230B, 230C) is offered at the 200 level and is open to first-year students. The department counsels students to take courses in related fields of language, literature, fine arts, social sciences, and international affairs to deepen their understanding of their area of concentration.
Major Requirements
A minimum of 40 semester credits (10 courses), distributed as follows:
- History core courses: History 300, 400, and 450.
- Seven other history courses distributed as follows: a) At least one of the seven from each of the three departmental concentrations: Asia; Europe; Americas, North and South. The Asian requirement may be fulfilled by taking courses in East Asia (China and Japan), Southeast Asia, South Asia (India and Pakistan), and the Middle East. History 218, Perspectives on the Vietnam War, may be counted in either the Asian or American concentration. History 328, The British Empire, is in the European concentration. b) At least one of the seven courses in premodern Asian, European, or Latin American history: History 110, 120, 141, 210, 215, 221, 227, 259, 320, and 324; Religious Studies 251 and 373. c) At least two of the seven courses at the 300 level in addition to History 300; History 444 not included. d) Optional: Maximum of 4 semester credits of 244/444 practicum. e) The following courses may count toward the 10 history courses required for the major:
Economics
255 Technology, Institutions, and Economic Growth
256 The Industrial Revolution
Religious Studies
251 History and Thought of Western Religion: Medieval
253 Witches, Prophets, and Preachers: Religion in American History to the Civil War
254 Religion in Modern America, 1865 to Present
340 Women in American Religious History
373 The Reformation in Social Perspective
(See the department listings for course descriptions.)
Minor Requirements
A minimum of 24 semester credits (six courses), distributed as follows:
- Two history core courses: History 300, and 400 or 450.
- At least one course from each of two of the departmental concentrations listed under Major Requirements.
- At least one course at the 300 level in addition to History 300.
Practicum Program
Because history is useful in a variety of careers, the department encourages students in the junior or senior year to participate in a practicum. History practica have placed students in a variety of settings including the museum and library of the Oregon Historical Society, publishing companies, land-use-planning agencies, historic preservation organizations, and other enterprises needing the skills of a person knowledgeable in the liberal arts and trained in history.
The practicum is an off-campus experience designed by the student in conjunction with an off-campus supervisor and a faculty supervisor according to departmental guidelines. Arrangements on and off campus must be made with the appropriate supervising persons in the semester prior to enrollment.
Honors
Each year the department invites meritorious students with an overall GPA of at least 3.500 to participate in the honors program. Students choose a faculty member with whom they want to work on a research project. The program may involve a major paper based on primary source materials or an extensive review and evaluation of the secondary literature in a particular subject area. Students present the project to the department. Following an oral examination, the department determines whether to grant honors on graduation.
Resources For Nonmajors
All of the department's course offerings are open to nonmajors. Preference is given to majors and minors for enrollment in Historical Materials, the Reading Colloquium, and the History Seminar.
Faculty
Stephen Dow Beckham, Dr. Robert B. Pamplin Jr. Professor of History. U.S. history, American West, American Indians, Pacific Northwest.
Andrew Bernstein, associate professor. Japanese history.
David Campion, associate professor. British, South Asian history.
Susan L. Glosser, associate professor. Chinese history.
Maureen Healy, associate professor. European history, women's and gender history, war and genocide.
Jane H. Hunter, professor. U.S. history, post–Civil War, women's history.
Benjamin W. Westervelt, associate professor. Medieval and early modern European history.
Elliott Young, associate professor. Latin America.
HIST 110 Early East Asian History
Staff
Content: Early histories of China and Japan from earliest origins to the 13th century. Prehistory; early cultural foundations; development of social, political, and economic institutions; art and literature. Readings from Asian texts in translation. The two cultures, covered as independent entities, compared to each other and to European patterns of development.
Prerequisite: None.
Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
HIST 111 Making Modern China
Glosser
Content: Key events and institutions in China from the 13th to the 20th century through primary sources (philosophical and religious texts, vernacular fiction, contemporary accounts and essays, translated documents). Social and familial hierarchies, gender roles, imperialism, contact with the West, statesociety relations, nationalism, modernization.
Prerequisite: None.
Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
HIST 112 Making Modern Japan
Bernstein
Content: History of Japan from the start of the Tokugawa shogunate to the end of the 20th century. Tokugawa ideology, political economy, urban culture; intellectual and social upheavals leading to the Meiji Restoration; the Japanese response to the West; rapid industrialization and its social consequences; problems of modernity and the emperor system; Japanese colonialism and militarism; the Pacific war; postwar developments in economy, culture, politics.
Prerequisite: None.
Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
HIST 120 Early European History
Westervelt
Content: Social, intellectual, political, and economic elements of European history, 800 to 1648. Role of Christianity in the formation of a dominant culture; feudalism and the development of conflicts between secular and religious life. Contacts with the non-European world, the Crusades, minority groups, popular and elite cultural expressions. Intellectual and cultural life of the High Middle Ages, secular challenges of the Renaissance, divisions of European culture owing to the rise of national monarchies and religious reformations.
Prerequisite: None.
Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
HIST 121 Modern European History
Healy
Content: Social, intellectual, political, and economic elements of European history, 1648 to the present. The scientific revolution, Enlightenment, national political revolutions, capitalism, industrial development, overseas imperial expansion. The formation of mass political and social institutions, avant-garde and popular culture, the Thirty Years' War of the 20th century, bolshevism, fascism, the Cold War, and the revolutions of 1989.
Prerequisite: None.
Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
HIST 141 Colonial Latin American History
Young
Content: History of Latin America from Native American contact cultures through the onset of independence movements in the early 19th century. Cultural confrontations, change, and Native American accommodation and strategies of evasion in dealing with the Hispanic colonial empire.
Prerequisite: None.
Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
HIST 142 Modern Latin American History
Young
Content: Confrontation with the complexity of modern Latin America through historical analysis of the roots of contemporary society, politics, and culture. Through traditional texts, novels, films, and lectures, exploration of the historical construction of modern Latin America. Themes of unity and diversity, continuity and change as framework for analyzing case studies of selected countries.
Prerequisite: None.
Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
HIST 209 Japan At War
Bernstein
Content: In-depth study of the causes, dynamics, and outcomes of the wars fought by Japan in Asia and the Pacific from the late 19th century through World War II. The trajectories of Japanese imperialism, sequence of events leading to the attack on Pearl Harbor, social impact of total war. Japan's wartime culture as seen through diaries, newspaper articles, propaganda films, short stories, government documents. Short- and long-term effects of the atomic bomb and the American occupation of Japan.
Prerequisite: None.
Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
HIST 210 China's Golden Age (Tang And Song)
Glosser
Content: The Tang and Song dynasties, 7th to the 13th century. Transition from one dynasty to the next. Changes in the elite classes, transformation of women's roles, rulership and landholding, philosophical developments, aesthetic expression. How these developments defined the issues and set the context for China's contact with the West and its emergence into the modern world. Literature, religious texts, art, dress, biographies, and political and philosophical essays.
Prerequisite: None.
Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
HIST 211 Reform, Rebellion, And Revolution In Modern China
Glosser
Content: The commercial revolution of the 12th century and the cultural flowering and political structures of Ming and early Qing dynasties (1367 to 1800) that shaped China's response to Western invasion. Major peasant rebellions, elite reforms, and political revolutions of the last 150 years including the Opium War, Taiping Rebellion, Hundred Days Reform, Boxer Rebellion, collapse of the Qing dynasty, Nationalist and Communist revolutions.
Prerequisite: None.
Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
HIST 213 Chinese History Through Biography
Glosser
Content: Political, economic, and cultural history of China, traced through the lives of individual Chinese, including the mighty and the low: venerable philosophers and historians, powerful women, mighty emperors, conscientious officials, laboring women and men, evangelizing missionaries, zealots of all political persuasions. Sixth century B.C.E. to late 20th century, with emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. Lectures cover the historical milieu in which the various subjects lived. Through class discussion and essay assignments, students unite their knowledge of particular individuals and the broad sweep of events to form a rich and lively familiarity with Chinese history.
Prerequisite: None.
Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
HIST 215 Culture And Politics In Japan To 1600
Bernstein
Content: History of Japan from earliest times to Tokugawa Ieyasu's victory at Sekigahara. Cultural foundations; mythology; literature; aesthetics; religion; philosophy; key economic, social, political institutions. The production of and relationship between culture and politics in premodern Japan.
Prerequisite: None.
Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
HIST 217 The Emergence Of Modern South Asia
Campion
Content: The social, economic, and political history of the Indian subcontinent from the 18th century to the present. The cultural foundations of Indian Society; the East India Company and the expansion of British power; the experience of Indians under the British Raj; Gandhi and the rise of Indian nationalism; independence and partition; postcolonial South Asian developments in politics, economy, and culture. Thematic emphasis on the causes and consequences of Western imperialism, religious and cultural identities, and competing historical interpretations.
Prerequisite: None.
Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
HIST 218 Perspectives On The Vietnam War
Staff
Content: A broadly humanistic and introductory perspective on the problem of the Vietnam War. Root causes of the war from Vietnamese and American perspectives; the nature of the war as it developed and concluded. The war as a problem in American domestic politics.
Prerequisite: None.
Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
HIST 221 Tudor And Stuart Britain, 1485 To 1688
Campion
Content: The development of the British Isles from the late medieval period to the Glorious Revolution. The church and state in late medieval Britain; the English and Scottish reformations; Elizabeth and her realm; the evolution of monarchical and aristocratic power under the Tudors and Stuarts; Shakespeare, Milton, and the English literary renaissance; the conquest and settlement of Ireland; Cromwell, the Puritans, and the English Civil War; life in the villages and the growth of the mercantile economy; the Glorious Revolution and the shaping of constitutional monarchy.
Prerequisite: None. History 120 recommended.
Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
HIST 222 Britain In The Age Of Revolution, 1688 To 1815
Campion
Content: A history of Britain and its people from the Glorious Revolution to the end of the Napoleonic War. The end of absolutism and the rise of the constitutional monarchy; the Augustan Age: arts, letters, and religion; the Atlantic world and British overseas expansion; the Enlightenment and scientific revolution; the American Revolution and its aftermath; union with Scotland and Ireland and the creation of the British national identity; the revolution in France and the wars against Napoleon; the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution.
Prerequisite: None. History 121 recommended.
Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
HIST 224 The Making Of Modern Britain, 1815 To Present
Campion
Content: The history of Britain from the Industrial Revolution to the present. Industrialization and its social consequences; the shaping of Victorian society; the rise and fall of the British Empire; the Irish question and the emancipation of women; political reform and the rise of mass politics; Britain in the age of total war; popular culture, immigration, and the making of multicultural Britain. Themes include the growth of the social and economic class structure, the shaping of national and regional identities, cultural exchanges with the empire. Extensive use of primary sources, literature, music.
Prerequisite: None. History 121 recommended.
Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
HIST 225 Europe In The Age Of The French Revolution
Healy
Content: Social, economic, and intellectual origins of the revolution of 1789; major developments in France; the spread of revolution to the remainder of Europe. European responses to the threat of revolution, defeat of the Napoleonic armies, the attempt to return to normalcy after 1815.
Prerequisite: None. History 121 recommended.
Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
HIST 226 20th-Century Germany
Healy
Content: Origins and consequences of World War I; attempts to develop a republican government; Nazism; evolution of the two Germanies after 1945 and their reunification. Readings on relationship between individual and state, pressures for conformity, possibility of dissent.
Prerequisite: None.
Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
HIST 227 Medieval Europe, 800 To 1400
Westervelt
Content: Social, intellectual, political, and cultural elements of European life during the period from about 800 to 1400. Emphasis on Christianity as a dominant aspect of public life; feudalism and other forms of economic and social life; developing conflicts between secular and ecclesiastical institutions; emergence of European nation-states; contacts with the non-European world; high medieval culture.
Prerequisite: None. History 120 recommended.
Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
HIST 228 Middle East In Modern Times
Powers (Religious Studies)
Content: The Middle East, its religious and cultural contributions, indigenous empires, and outside imperialists. The region's strategic significance as the connecting link to three continents. Effects on the region of the discovery of oil in the 20th century. The impact of nationalism on each nation's viability in the region, economic dilemmas, pressing national problems.
Prerequisite: None.
Taught: Every third year, 4 semester credits.
HIST 229 The Holocaust In Comparative Perspective
Healy
Content: The Nazi genocide of European Jews during World War II in comparison to other cases of 20th-century mass violence in countries such as Armenia, Cambodia, the former Yugoslavia, and Rwanda. Nazi Germany serves as the principal case study for discussion of the broader question: What has made possible the organization and execution of mass violence against specific ethnic and religious groups in a wide variety of societies around the world over the past century? Includes examination of strategies for the prevention of future incidents of mass ethnic violence.
Prerequisite: None.
Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
HIST 230A United States: The Colonial Centuries, 1492 To 1788
Staff
Content: First course in U.S. history sequence. Cultural encounters between European settlers, Native Americans, and African slaves. Political, economic, and social patterns of colonial development in the north, middle colonies, south, and southwest. Imperial competition, Native American strategies of adaptation and resistance, development of economic and political systems, religious revival and the Age of Reason, sources of the American Revolution, the founding of the United States.
Prerequisite: None.
Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
HIST 230B United States: The National Century, 1789 To 1898
Beckham
Content: Second course in U.S. history sequence. How the young American nation coped with major changes and adjustments in its first century. Emergence of political parties; wars with Indians and Mexico, and expansion into a continental nation; the lingering problem of slavery; the rise of industry and urbanization; immigration; the development of arts and letters into a new national culture.
Prerequisite: None.
Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
HIST 230C United States: The Modern Century, 1898 To 1998
Staff
Content: Third course in U.S. history sequence. Expansion of the federal government and the birth of mass society. The founding and fortunes of the welfare state; imperialism, world wars, and globalization; conflicts over minority and women's rights and status; growth of cultural "modernism." Coverage of traditional topics (Progressivism, the New Deal, the Civil Rights movement, the Cold War) combined with a thematic approach and readings in primary and secondary sources.
Prerequisite: None.
Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
HIST 231A U.S. Women's History, 1600 To 1980
Hunter
Content: The diverse experiences of American women from the colonial era to the recent past. Changing ideologies from the colonial goodwife to the cult of true womanhood. Impact of Victorianism, sexuality and reproduction, the changing significance of women's work. Origins of the women's rights movement, battles and legacy of suffrage, history of 20th-century feminism, competing ideologies and experiences of difference.
Prerequisite: None.
Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
HIST 233 History Of New York
Staff
Content: An overview of the urban history and urban structure of New York. Emphasis on examining the process of continuity and change of New York from the colonial period to the 20th century.
Prerequisites: None.
Taught: Annually, on New York program, 4 semester hours.
HIST 235 History Of The Pacific Northwest
Beckham
Content: Historical development of the Pacific Northwest over the past 200 years. Native American cultures, Euro-American exploration and settlement, fur trade, missions, overland emigration, resource development, the question of regionalism.
Prerequisite: None.
Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
HIST 242 Borderlands: U.S.-Mexico Border, 16th Century To Present
Young
Content: Exploration of the concept and region known as the Borderlands from when it was part of northern New Spain to its present incarnation as the U.S.-Mexico border. Thematic focus on the roles of imperialism and capitalism in the formation of borderlands race, class, gender, and national identities. The transformation of this region from a frontier between European empires to a borderline between nations.
Prerequisite: None.
Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
HIST 244 Practicum
Staff
Content: Experience in historical research, writing, interpreting, or planning. Specifics vary depending on placement with sponsoring agency.
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Taught: Each semester, 1-4 semester credits. Eight credits may be applied to graduation requirements, but only four may be applied to the major.
HIST 259 India In The Age Of Empire
Campion
Content: The political, cross-cultural, and social development of the Indian subcontinent from the classical civilizations of late antiquity to the beginnings of colonial rule in the 18th century. The artistic and architectural achievements of Indo-Islamic civilization; the Mughal Empire and regional polities; religious and cultural syncretism; the influence of contact with the West. Special emphasis on the historical antecedents of contemporary debates about regional identities, state formation and fragmentation, and the origins of colonial rule.
Prerequisite: None.
Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
HIST 299 Independent Study
Staff
Content: Opportunities for well-prepared students to design and pursue a substantive course of independent learning. Details determined by the student and the supervising instructor.
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Taught: Each semester, 4 semester credits.
HIST 300 Historical Materials
Staff
Content: Materials and craft of historical research. Bibliographic method; documentary editing; use of specialized libraries, manuscripts, maps, government documents, photographs, objects of material culture. Career options in history. Students work with primary sources to develop a major editing project. Topical content varies depending on instructor's teaching field.
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing.
Taught: Two or three seminars per year, 4 semester credits each. Enrollment preference given to history majors and minors.
HIST 310 China Discovers The West: Silk, Jesuits, Tea, Opium, And Milk
Glosser
Content: The nature and extent of China's contact with other countries, including the silk roads to Middle Asia in the first millennium B.C.E., Jesuits and the influx of Spanish-American silver in the 16th century, British tea and opium trade, and Chinese intellectual experiments with social Darwinism, anarchism, communism, and the nuclear family ideal. Primary sources showing foreign and Chinese perceptions of the content and significance of these exchanges.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor.
Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
HIST 311 History Of Family, Gender, And Sexuality In China
Glosser
Content: Development of family structure, gender roles, and sexuality in Chinese history, explored through oracle bones, family instructions, tales of exemplary women, poetry, painting, drama, fiction, and calendar posters. Key movements in the transformation of family and gender from 1600 B.C.E. to the 20th century. Close readings of texts to explore how social, economic, religious, and political forces shaped family and gender roles.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor.
Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
HIST 313 Religion, Society, And The State In Japanese History
Bernstein
Content: Japanese religious traditions and their impact on social and political structures from ancient times to the present. Examination of the doctrinal and institutional development of Buddhism, Confucianism, Shinto, and Christianity, as well as the creation and suppression of more marginal belief systems. Issues include pilgrimage, spirit possession, death practices, millenarianism, militarism, abortion, eco-spiritualism, and religious terrorism. Sources include canonical scriptures, short stories, diaries, government records, newspaper articles, artwork, films.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor.
Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
HIST 316 Popular Culture And Everyday Life In Japanese History
Bernstein
Content: Popular culture as the site of social change and social control in Japan from the 18th to the 20th century. Religion and folk beliefs, work and gender roles, theatre and music, tourism, consumerism, citizens' movements, fashion, food, sports, sex, drugs, hygiene, and forms of mass media ranging from woodblock prints to modern comic books, film, television. Concepts as well as content of popular and mass culture.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. History 112 recommended.
Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
HIST 320 Humanism In Renaissance Europe
Westervelt
Content: Writings by major figures in the humanist movement from the 14th to the 16th century. Social, political, intellectual contexts of humanism in the university and Italian city-state; ideal of return to sources of classical culture; civic humanism; interplay between Christian and secular ideals; relationship between Italian and northern forms of humanism; relationship between Renaissance humanism and the Protestant Reformation; comparative experience of Renaissance humanists and artists.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor.
Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
HIST 323 Modern European Intellectual History
Healy
Content: Approaches to the problem of ethical values in 19th- and 20th-century European thought, including Marxist, social Darwinist, Nietzschean, and Freudian perspectives; existentialism; postmodernism. Readings in philosophical, literary, artistic works.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. History 121 recommended.
Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
HIST 324 Religion And Society In Early Modern Catholicism, 1500 To 1600
Westervelt
Content: Charism and bureaucracy in the careers of Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, and Teresa of Avila, of the Discalced Carmelites. Ignatius and Teresa as mystics, theologians, founders and/or reformers of religious orders, believers. Impact of national origin, social status, gender on their careers and on early modern Catholicism.
Prerequisite: None. History 120 or Religious Studies 373 recommended.
Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
HIST 328 The British Empire
Campion
Content: The history of British overseas expansion from the early 17th century to the end of the 20th century. Theories of imperialism; Britain's Atlantic trade network; the Victorian empire in war and peace; collaboration and resistance among colonized people; India under the British Raj; Africa and economic imperialism; the effects of empire on British society; the creation of the British Commonwealth; the rise of nationalism in India, Africa, and the Middle East; decolonization and postcolonial perspectives. Extensive readings from primary sources.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. History 121 recommended.
Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
HIST 330 Race And Ethnicity In American History
Hunter
Content: The distinct experiences and culture of African Americans in relation to other minority ethnic and racial groups. The uniqueness of the African American experience; racism and prejudice; strategies of accommodation and resistance including gender and family relationships; the development of liberation movements. Readings of first-person narratives, secondary sources.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor.
Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
HIST 331 American Culture And Society: 1880 To 1980
Hunter
Content: Formation of modern culture from the late Victorian era to the "me decade." The influence of consumer culture, popular psychology, mass media, changing definitions of work and leisure in the development of a modern self. Origins and impact of the gender and race revolutions, relationship of "high" and "popular" culture. Readings in primary and secondary sources.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor.
Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
HIST 335 History And Culture Of American Indians
Beckham
Content: Purposes of archaeology and its contributions to the understanding of North American prehistory, the culture-area hypothesis, relations with tribes from colonial times to the present, Native American responses. Federal Indian policy and its evolution over the past 200 years.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor.
Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
HIST 336 Wilderness And The American West
Beckham
Content: History of the trans-Mississippi West, including Euro-American perceptions of North America, issues of progress and preservation, and environmental history. Role of the federal government; contributions of minorities, women, and men in shaping the trans-Mississippi West. Voices of those who have sought to develop and conserve the West.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor.
Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
HIST 345 Race And Nation In Latin America
Young
Content: Social thought about race and nation in Latin America. The Iberian concept of pureza de sangre, development of criollo national consciousness, 20th-century indigenista movements. Linkages between national identities and constructions of race, particularly in the wake of revolutionary movements. Freyre (Brazil), Marti (Cuba), Vasconcelos (Mexico), and Sarmiento (Argentina).
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor.
Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
HIST 347 Modern Mexico: Culture, Politics, And Economic Crisis
Young
Content: Origins and development of the modern Mexican nation from independence to the contemporary economic and political crisis. 1811 to 1940: liberal-conservative battles, imperialism, the pax Porfiriana, the Mexican Revolution, industrialization, and institutionalizing the revolution. 1940 to the present: urbanization, migration to the United States, the student movement, neoliberal economics and politics, disintegration of the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party), and the new social rebellions (Zapatistas, Popular Revolutionary Army, Civil Society). Constructing mexicanidad in music, dance, film, and the cultural poetics of the street and the town plaza.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. History 141 or 142 recommended.
Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
HIST 348 Modern Cuba
Young
Content: Development of the modern Cuban nation from the independence movement of the mid-19th century to the contemporary socialist state. Focus on how identity changed under the Spanish colonial, U.S. neocolonial, Cuban republic, and revolutionary states. 1840s to 1898: wars of independence, slavery, transition to free labor. 1898 to 1952: U.S. occupation and neocolonialism, Afrocubanismo, populism. 1952 to the present: Castro revolution, socialism, U.S.-Cuban-Soviet relations.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. History 142 recommended.
Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
HIST 400 Reading Colloquium
Staff
Content: Reading and critical analysis of major interpretive works. Organized around themes or problems; comparative study of historical works exemplifying different points of view, methodologies, subject matter. Focus varies depending on instructor's teaching and research area.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor.
Taught: Two to three colloquia annually, 4 semester credits each. May be taken twice for credit. Enrollment preference given to history majors and minors.
HIST 444 Practicum
Staff
Content: Same as History 244 but requiring more advanced work.
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Taught: Each semester, 1-4 semester credits. Eight credits may be applied to graduation requirements, but only four may be applied to the major.
HIST 450 History Seminar
Staff
Content: Work with primary documents to research and write a major paper that interprets history. Topical content varies depending on instructor's teaching field. Recent topics: the Americas; the United States and Asia; European intellectual history since 1945; women in American history; Indian policy on the Pacific Slope; World War II, the participants' perspectives; the British Raj; cultural nationalism in East Asia.
Prerequisites: History 300. Consent of instructor.
Taught: Three seminars annually, 4 semester credits each. May be taken twice for credit. Enrollment preference given to history majors and minors.
HIST 499 Independent Study
Staff
Content: Same as History 299 but requiring more advanced work.
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Taught: Each semester, 4 semester credits.