HIST 10101-10102. Introduction to African Civilization I-II.

Completion of the general education requirement in social sciences recommended. Taking these courses in sequence is recommended but not required. This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. African Civilization introduces students to African history and cultures in a two-quarter sequence.

HIST 10800-10900. Introduction to the Civilizations of South Asia I-II.

This sequence introduces core themes in the formation of culture and society in South Asia from the early modern period until the present. This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. These courses must be taken in sequence.

HIST 11900. Early Monasticism. 100 Units.

This course examines early monasticism from its origins among the desert fathers of the Greek and Syriac East to its development in the Latin West, especially in Italy and Spain, concluding with the Carolingian reformation of monasticism in the ninth century.  We will examine such themes as monastic rules, monastic hagiography, women in monasticism, ideas of virginity, and the economics of monasticism. (A)

Instructor(s): L. Pick     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): RLST 21600

HIST 12700-12800. Music in Western Civilization I-II.

Prior music course or ability to read music not required. Students must confirm enrollment by attending one of the first two sessions of class. This two-quarter sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies; it does not meet the general education requirement in the dramatic, musical, and visual arts. This two-quarter sequence explores musical works of broad cultural significance in Western civilization. We study pieces not only from the standpoint of musical style but also through the lenses of politics, intellectual history, economics, gender, cultural studies, and so on. Readings are taken both from our music textbook and from the writings of a number of figures such as St. Benedict of Nursia and Martin Luther. In addition to lectures, students discuss important issues in the readings and participate in music listening exercises in smaller sections.

HIST 13001-13002-13003. History of European Civilization I-II-III.

Students who plan to complete a three-quarter sequence will register for HIST 13003 in Spring Quarter after completing HIST 13001-13002. Students may not combine HIST 13003 with one other quarter of European Civilization to construct a two-quarter sequence. This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. "European Civilization" is a two-quarter sequence designed to use close readings of primary sources to enrich our understanding of Europeans of the past. As we examine the variety of their experiences, we will often call into question what we mean in the first place by "Europe" and "Civilization." Rather than providing a narrative of high politics, the sequence will emphasize the contested geographic, religious, social and racial boundaries that have defined and redefined Europe and its people over the centuries. We will read and discuss sources covering the period from the early middle ages to the present, from a variety of genres: saga, biography, personal letters, property records, political treatises, memoirs and government documents, to name only a few. Individual instructors may chose different sources and highlight different aspects of European Civilization, but some of the most important readings will be the same in all sections. The two-quarter sequence may also be supplemented by a third quarter, in which students will have the opportunity to explore in greater depth a particular topic in the history of European civilization.

HIST 13100-13200-13300. History of Western Civilization I-II-III.

Available as a three-quarter sequence (Autumn, Winter, Spring) or as a two-quarter sequence (Autumn, Winter; or Winter, Spring). This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. The purpose of this sequence is threefold: (1) to introduce students to the principles of historical thought, (2) to acquaint them with some of the more important epochs in the development of Western civilization since the sixth century BC, and (3) to assist them in discovering connections between the various epochs. The purpose of the course is not to present a general survey of Western history. Instruction consists of intensive investigation of a selection of original documents bearing on a number of separate topics, usually two or three a quarter, occasionally supplemented by the work of a modern historian. The treatment of the selected topics varies from section to section. This sequence is currently offered twice a year. The amount of material covered is the same whether the student enrolls in the Autumn-Winter-Spring sequence or the other sequence.

HIST 13500-13600-13700. America in World Civilization I-II-III.

Available as a three-quarter sequence (Autumn, Winter, Spring) or as a two-quarter sequence (Autumn, Winter; or Winter, Spring). This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. This sequence uses the American historical experience, set within the context of Western civilization, to (1) introduce students to the principles of historical thought, (2) probe the ways political and social theory emerge within specific historical contexts, and (3) explore some of the major issues and trends in American historical development. This sequence is not a general survey of American history.

HIST 13900-14000. Introduction to Russian Civilization I-II.

This two-quarter sequence provides an interdisciplinary introduction to Russian civilization. The first quarter covers the ninth century to the 1880s; the second quarter continues on through the post-Soviet period. Working closely with a variety of primary sources—from oral legends to film and music, from political treatises to literary masterpieces—we will track the evolution of Russian civilization over the centuries and through radically different political regimes. Topics to be discussed include: the influence of Byzantine, Mongol-Tataric, and Western culture in Russian civilization; forces of change and continuity in political, intellectual and cultural life; the relationship between center and periphery; systems of social and political legitimization; and symbols and practices of collective identity. This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. Taking these courses in sequence is recommended but not required. This sequence is offered in alternate years.

HIST 14900. History of Medicine since the Renaissance. 100 Units.

Equivalent Course(s): HIPS 14900

HIST 15100-15200-15300-15400. Introduction to the Civilizations of East Asia I-II-III-IV.

Taking these courses in sequence is not required. This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. This is a three-quarter sequence on the civilizations of China, Japan, and Korea, with emphasis on major transformation in these cultures and societies from the Middle Ages to the present.

HIST 15602-15603-15604. Ancient Empires I-II-III.

This sequence introduces three great empires of the ancient world. Each course in the sequence focuses on one empire, with attention to the similarities and differences among the empires being considered. By exploring the rich legacy of documents and monuments that these empires produced, students are introduced to ways of understanding imperialism and its cultural and societal effects—both on the imperial elites and on those they conquered.

HIST 15702-15703-15704. Semitic Languages Cultures and Civilizations I-II-III.

THIS SEQUENCE IS NOT OFFERED ACADEMIC YEAR 2012-2013.

HIST 15800. Ancient Near Eastern Thought and Literature II: Anatolian Literature. 100 Units.

Topic: Hittite

Instructor(s): T. van den Hout     Terms Offered: Spring
Note(s): Taking these courses in sequence is not required. This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies
Equivalent Course(s): NEHC 20005,ANST 22650

HIST 16101-16102-16103. Introduction to Latin American Civilization I-II-III.

Taking these courses in sequence is not required. This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. This sequence is offered every year. This course introduces the history and cultures of Latin America (e.g., Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean Islands).

HIST 16500. Brazil. 100 Units.

This course will survey the history of Brazil, 1500-2002, with emphasis on the twentieth century.  It will raise questions concerning slavery and forms of freedom, the consequences of rapid industrialization and urbanization, meanings of popular culture, and the implications of religious diversity and change.

Instructor(s): D. Borges     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 36501,LACS 16500,LACS 36501

HIST 16700-16800-16900. Ancient Mediterranean World I-II-III.

Available as a three-quarter sequence (Autumn, Winter, Spring) or as a two-quarter sequence (Autumn, Winter; or Winter, Spring). This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. This sequence surveys the social, economic, and political history of Greece to the death of Alexander the Great (323 BC), Autumn Quarter; the Roman Republic (509 to 27 BC), Winter Quarter; and the five centuries between the establishment of imperial autocracy in 27 BC and the fall of the Western empire in the fifth century AD, Spring Quarter.

HIST 17104. Losing the Farm: Globalization and Food Production in the Twentieth Century. 100 Units.

Who grows the food you eat? How do they grow it? Where do they grow it? And how is it that you can buy fresh fruit in the dead of winter? This course aims to answer these questions through an examination of the development of industrial agriculture in the twentieth century. We pay particular attention to how the development of industrial agricultural emerged in the twentieth century as a global phenomenon—from the import and export of new and exotic foods to the global food crisis of the 1970s. Lastly, we examine critiques of industrial and global agriculture, from the new agrarians to the rising popularity of the local foods movement. One Saturday field trip required.

Instructor(s): V. Bivar     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): ENST 22504

HIST 17300-17400-17501-17502. Science, Culture, and Society in Western Civilization I-II-III-IV.

Taking these courses in sequence is recommended but not required. This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. This three-quarter sequence focuses on the origins and development of science in the West. Our aim is to trace the evolution of the biological, psychological, natural, and mathematical sciences as they emerge from the cultural and social matrix of their periods and, in turn, affect culture and society.

HIST 17602. Introduction to Asian/Pacific Islander American History. 100 Units.

Looking through a broad interdisciplinary lens, this course examines the trajectory of Asians and Pacific Islanders in America. How did nineteenth- and early–twentieth-century "sojourners" become "citizens?" What constituted the public's shift in perception of Asians from unassimilable alien to ostensible "model minority?" We interrogate not only what it means to have been and to be an Asian in America but also what role Asian Americans have played in striving for a multiracial democracy. Conscious of the tendency to homogenize all Asians in the historical imagination, the course is explicitly comparative, incorporating the diverse and disparate experiences of East, Southeast, and South Asians, as well as Pacific Islanders in America. We also investigate and compare the histories of African Americans, Native Americans, ethnic whites, Latinas/os, and Arab Americans to highlight the Asian American experience.

Instructor(s): M. Briones     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): CRES 17602

HIST 18301-18302-18303. Colonizations I-II-III.

This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. This three-quarter sequence approaches the concept of civilization from an emphasis on cross-cultural/societal connection and exchange. We explore the dynamics of conquest, slavery, colonialism, and their reciprocal relationships with concepts such as resistance, freedom, and independence, with an eye toward understanding their interlocking role in the making of the modern world.

HIST 18600. U.S. Labor History. 100 Units.

This course will explore the history of labor and laboring people in the United States. The significance of work will be considered from the vantage points of political economy, culture, and law. Key topics will include working-class life, industrialization and corporate capitalism, slavery and emancipation, the role of the state and trade unions, race and sex difference in the workplace.

Instructor(s): A. Stanley     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): HMRT 28600,LLSO 28000

HIST 18710. Early America in 1800. 100 Units.

This course surveys major themes in the settlement of the British colonies, the crisis of the American Revolution, and the growth of American society and politics.

Instructor(s): E. Cook     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): LLSO 20606

HIST 18804. 19th Century Segment of the U.S. Survey. 100 Units.

This is where modern America begins. Before there was a Great Recession or an Occupy Wall Street, there was the nineteenth-century roller coaster of prosperity and panic, the robber barons and newfound workers' unions of the Gilded Age; the passionate public debates over the central bank, monetary policy, and the national currency. Before the Tea Party, the Founders themselves debated over which ways to make their Revolution realized, enduring, and meaningful in daily interactions as well as institutions. To understand the debates over the recently concluded Iraq War, we must return to the origins of American imperialism in the 1800s. To appreciate the significance and symbolism of the first African-American president, we have to revisit the nation's long history of slavery, racism, and segregation.
The nineteenth-century survey will examine the experiences and the conflicts that made up the history of modern American society, as it unfolded over the course of the 1800s. Weather permitting, the class will take at least one short trip to relevant historical site in (or around) Chicago. Requirements include careful reading, active and thoughtful participation, and a series of short written assignments.

Instructor(s): A. Lippert     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): GNSE 18804,LLSO 22106

HIST 20010. African Women in Chicago. 100 Units.

Since the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act altered previous restrictions on immigration to the United States, African immigration has increased fourfold, constituting what scholars refer to as "the new African immigration." By 2000, Chicagoland's African population constituted 21,828 in the city and 35,000 in Cook County. Initially, the vast majority of immigrants were men, but by the 1980s, nearly fifty percent of African immigrants were women, However, there has been relatively no research and we know little about the experiences of African women immigrants.  This colloquium explores the question "how does gender matter in a transnational context?" by analyzing African women and their varied modes of immigration and documenting the experiences of African women who migrated to Chicagoland over the course of the twentieth century. We will explore this question not only through intensive course readings and discussions, but also through fieldwork and collecting oral histories that document African women's life histories. This course will work partnership with the United Africa Organization that has launched the Africans in Chicago Oral History Project. The final class assignment will be an original research paper on the themes of gender, immigration, and human rights based on the oral histories collected.

Instructor(s): R. Jean-Baptiste     Terms Offered: Autumn
Prerequisite(s): Upper-level Ugrad; Intense readng required
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 30010,HMRT 20010,HMRT 30010

HIST 20101. Colonial Autobiography. 100 Units.

The focus of this course will be the reading of works which deal, in one way of another, with "coming of age under colonialism" in Africa, the Caribbean, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.  Some are autobiographies in the normal sense, other are works of fiction, and many fall in between.  Most are colonial but some are literally postcolonial. The focus will be upon themes of developing a personal identity in negotiation between a local culture and a dominant colonial one, with formal schooling as a major common site.  There are obviously major issues of "postcoloniality" as stake her, in a mixture of political and cultural terms which we ourselves will need to negotiate.  The two weekly session will normally(but not always) be divided between a lecture, which will introduce the historical context and author, and a discussion of the assigned text.  Additional texts will be suggest both for background reading and potential paper topics.

Instructor(s): R. Austen     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): CRES 20101,HIST 30101,LLSO 20702

HIST 20208. African Sources of African History. Units.

One of the challenges that historians face in writing about Africa prior to the twentieth century is locating and using historical documents produced by Africans.  This discussion-based course will consider the sources and methods that historians use to access African perspectives and African voices.  We will investigate an array of primary sources, including Arabic chronicles, oral traditions, epics, and songs.  We will also consider technology, architecture, and material and visual culture.  Non-majors with an interest in Africa are welcome, as are students concerned with historical methodologies generally.

Instructor(s): E. Osborn     Terms Offered: Winter

HIST 20502. Empire and Enlightenment. 100 Units.

The European Enlightenment was a formative period in the development of modern historiography. It was also an age in which the expansionist impulse of European monarchies came under intense philosophical scrutiny on moral, religious, cultural, and economic grounds. We chart a course through these debates by focusing in the first instance on histories of Rome by William Robertson and Edward Gibbon, as well as writing on law and historical method by Giambattista Vico.

Instructor(s): C. Ando and R. Lerner     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): CLCV 25107,CLAS 35107,HIST 30502

HIST 20503. Greek and Roman Historiography. 100 Units.

This course will provide a survey of the most important historical writers of the Greek and Roman world.  We will read extensive selections from their work in translation, and discuss both the development of historiography as a literary genre and the development of history as a discipline in the ancient world.  Finally, we will consider the implications these findings hold for our ability to use the works of Greek and Roman historical writers in our own efforts to construct narratives of the past.

Instructor(s): C. Hawkins     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): ANCM 38609,CLAS 38609,CLCV 28609,HIST 30503

HIST 21005. Economy and Society in Ancient Greece and Rome. 100 Units.

In this course we will explore not only the nature of ancient Greek and Roman economies, but also the way in which social and political structures constrained or facilitated the efforts of individuals to devise successful strategies within those economies.  We will consider trade, manufacture, and agriculture, and we will devote considerable attention to issues of methodology: what questions should we ask about ancient economic life, and with what evidence can we answer them?

Instructor(s): C. Hawkins     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): CLAS 36508,CLCV 26508,HIST 31005

HIST 21701. Byzantine Empire, 330-610. 100 Units.

A lecture course, with limited discussion, of the formation of early Byzantine government, society, and culture.  Although a survey of event and changes, including external relations, many of the latest scholarly controversies will also receive scrutiny.  There will be some discussion of relevant archaeology and topography.  No prerequisite.  Readings will include some primary sources in translation and examples of modern scholarly interpretations.  Final examination and a short paper.

Instructor(s): W. Kaegi     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): CLAS 34306,CLCV 24306,HIST 31701

HIST 21702. Byzantine Empire, 610 to 1025. 100 Units.

This is a lecture course, with limited discussion, of the principle developments with respect to government, society, and culture in the Middle Byzantine Period. Although this course is a survey of events and changes, including external relations, many of the latest scholarly controversies also receive scrutiny. Readings include some primary sources in translation and examples of modern scholarly interpretations.

Instructor(s): W. Kaegi     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): CLAS 34307,CLCV 24307,HIST 31702

HIST 22505. Modern Britain 1688-1901. 100 Units.

This upper level survey course considers the vexed question of Britain's modernity. Why and how did this island nation on the periphery of Europe evolve into the first industrial nation and a global empire? Through primary sources and case studies we will track the transformation of British society between the Glorious Revolution and the death of Queen Victoria. Major themes include state building, empire, environment, political economy, industrialization, and class formation. Readings will include texts by Pincus, Brewer, Thompson and Wrigley.

Instructor(s): F. Albritton Johnsson     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 32505

HIST 22906. Thinking Total War. 100 Units.

This course focuses on World War II, although the discussion on total war will radiate out backwards and forwards in time.  The theme is what military theorists in the nineteenth century had called guerre a outrance, war to the extreme  We want to find out and discuss how soldiers, politicians, academics, and everyday people saw and discussed such themes as comprehensive social and economic mobilization, war against civilians, and the ideological as well as emotional dimensions of war making.  We will also be interested to se how and why nations (and militaries) set limits to an all-out escalation and where they thought military necessity ended and war crimes and genocide began.  Needless to say that, although Micheal Geyer is specialist in German and James Sparrow a specialist in US history, this kind of exploration will have to take into account the eastern European and Russian as well as the East Asian experience.  If time permits, we will also look at colonial and national liberation wars.  Caution: This course requires some commitment to extensive reading and active participation.

Instructor(s): M. Geyer & J. Sparrow     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 32906,HMRT 22906,HMRT 32906

HIST 23001. Northern Renaissance/Early Reformation. 100 Units.

In surveying the history of this period, attention is devoted to the relationships between the movements of Renaissance and Reformation in northern Europe from the late fifteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries.  Primary texts are emphasized.

Instructor(s): H. Gray     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 33001,LLSO 28611

HIST 23003. Urban Europe 1600-present. 100 Units.

This course examines the growth, structure, and impact of urban Europe from an era of guilds, merchant capitalism, and state-building to the present.  Attention goes both to the changing forms and functions of urban systems and to the defining features of different categories of town and city - to the occupational structure, the built environment, the provisioning, the physical and other disamenities, the policing, and so on.  Emphasis is on the spatial, the economic, the social, and the political, but consideration is also given to shifting images of urban life, pro and con, and to current thinking about the prospect of urban Europe.

Instructor(s): J. Craig     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): GEOG 23003,GEOG 33003,HIST 33003

HIST 23102. 20th Century East Central Europe. 100 Units.

This course traces the history of East Central Europe from the Habsburg Empire to the Soviet Empire.  Major themes include the rise of nations and nationalism; interwar democracy and fascism; the experience of Total War and Occupation; and the construction of Socialist societies after World War II.

Instructor(s): T. Zahra     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 33102

HIST 23401. Genocide Euro Jews, 1933-1945. 100 Units.

What were the main features of the Jewish society that the Nazis destroyed and what were the conditions of Jewish life in inter-war Europe?  Why and how did the genocide occur?  Who were the perpetrators? What were the respective roles of the German policy apparatus, of the Germany army, of the Nazi Party, of the state bureaucracy, of ordinary Germans?  What were the responses of occupied populations of neutral countries, of the Allies, and of the Jews themselves?

Instructor(s): B. Wassserstein     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 33401,JWSC 23401,LLSO 28311,PLSC 23401,PLSC 33401

HIST 23704. War and Peace. 100 Units.

Instructor(s): W. Nickell     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): RUSS 22302,CMLT 22301,CMLT 32301,ENGL 28912,ENGL 32302,FNDL 27103,RUSS 32302

HIST 24001. Love and Eros: Japanese History. 100 Units.

Equivalent Course(s): GNSE 24001,GNSE 34001,HIST 34001,JAPN 24001,JAPN 34001

HIST 24106. Class and Inequality in Contemporary China. 100 Units.

In the past thirty years, income distribution in China changed from one of the most equal in the world to one of the most unequal ones. This course looks at the roots of inequality in Maoist developmental strategies that favored the cities over the countryside, at the decline of the socialist working class since the 1990s, the emergence of a new working class composed of migrants and of a new urban bourgeoisie, at the administrative structures and ideologies that support inequality in a nominally socialist state, and at protests by workers, farmers, and other disenfranchised social groups. All readings are in English.

Instructor(s): J. Eyferth     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): EALC 28800,EALC 38800,HIST 34106

HIST 24403. Political and Intellectual History of China, A.D. 100-700. 100 Units.

Dynastic failures to maintain both court and local control after about 150 AD:  Local leading families during E. Han and Three Kingdoms periods, Political pressures from non-Chinese states to the north and northwest, Elite concerns that led to personal and factional power: management of political legitimation; reading, editing, and pedagogy; antiquarianism and collecting that led to reevalutations of history. Voices of interiority and selfhood: Poetic voices of entertainment and independence among leading personalities, Other voices of counter-culture and cultural hierarchies. Factions and dynastic turnover in the Jin and the South Dynasties (265-525 AD): Cultural and religious trends of this time: political implications, Social organization in northern China in this period. The nature of our sources: Collections and transmissions of texts, Texts from discovered tombs, Other sources. The Tang Dynasty as a New Military Type, 600-750 AD:  Organization of the Tang state, Tang China and the wider world. Trends in Tang-era thought: Belles lettres as social and career process, statecraft, institutions. Overview of major changes from late-Han to Tang.

Instructor(s): Howard Goodman     Terms Offered: Winter 2013
Equivalent Course(s): EALC 32501,EALC 22501

HIST 24500. Reading Qing Documents. 100 Units.

Reading and discussion of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century historical political documents, including such forms as memorials, decrees, local gazetteers, diplomatic communications, essays, and the like.

Instructor(s): G. Alitto     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): EALC 24500,EALC 34500,HIST 34500

HIST 24505. Reading the Revolution: Chinese Social History in Documents. 100 Units.

How can we reconstruct the life experience of “ordinary” people at a time of revolutionary change? What are the sources for a history of the Chinese revolution? What can we learn from newspaper articles and official publication? What kind of information can we expect to find in unpublished sources, such as letters and diaries? How useful is oral history, and what are its limitations? We will look at internal and “open” publications and at the production of media reports to understand how the official record was created and how information was channeled, at official compilations such as the Selections of Historical Materials (wenshi ziliao), at “raw” reports from provincial archives, and finally at so-called “garbage materials” (laji cailiao), i.e. archival files collect from flea markets and waste paper traders.

Instructor(s): J. Eyferth     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): EALC 28200,EALC 38200,HIST 34505

HIST 24805. 20th Century China Local Community and Oral History. 100 Units.

After a general survey of local and oral history studies in 20th century Chinese history, students will examine secondary scholarly literature and primary documents from three ongoing local rural history research projects (a country history, a regional history and a village history).  Documents including transcripts of oral interviews and individual life histories, local gazetteers, memorials, edicts, biographies, social surveys, household registrations, essays, and recent county histories.  Some of these Chinese documents have English language translations appended.  Students will examine two oral history cases studies in detail.

Instructor(s): G. Alitto     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): EALC 24805,EALC 34805,HIST 34805

HIST 24904. Tutorial: Medicine, Disease, and Death in American History. 100 Units.

Equivalent Course(s): HIPS 29606

HIST 24905. Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" and "Descent of Man" 100 Units.

This lecture-discussion class will focus on a close reading of Darwin's two classic texts.  An initial class or two will explore the state of biology prior to Darwin's Beagle Voyage, and then consider the development of his theories before 1859.  Then we will turn to his two books.  Among the topics of central concern will be: the logical, epistemological, and rhetorical status of Darwin's several theories, especially his evolutionary ethics; the religious foundations of his ideas and the religious reaction to them; and the social-political consequences of his accomplishment.  2009 is the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth and the 150th of the publication of the "Origin."

Instructor(s): R. Richards     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): CHSS 38400,HIPS 24901,HIST 34905,PHIL 23015,PHIL 33015

HIST 24914. Philosophy of Cognitive Science. 100 Units.

Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field in which theories and methods from psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, artificial intelligence, and philosophy are used to study cognition. Computational models play an increasingly significant role in the understanding of cognitive phenomena such as perception, categorization, concept formation, and problem solving. In this course, students will become familiar with some of the methods and models used in cognitive science, and discuss philosophical issues pertaining to the methodology and basic premises of cognitive science. 

Instructor(s): C. Bloch     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): CHSS 34914,HIPS 24914,HIST 34914,PHIL 22200,PHIL 32200

HIST 25109. Introduction to the Philosophy of Science. 100 Units.

The natural sciences aim at discovering and explaining truths about the world. This enterprise gives rise to various philosophical questions, among them are: What distinguishes science from other forms of enquiry? Is there anything unique about the scientific method—in both its conceptual and experimental elements—that enables the discovery of different aspects of reality? Is science a progressive enterprise advancing towards uncovering truths about the world, or does it consist of one theory arbitrarily replacing its predecessor, without ever coming closer to a final truth? Is there such a thing as scientific objectivity, or are scientists trapped in their preexisting theoretical assumptions? What are the criteria for a scientific explanation? What are scientific laws? In discussing these questions, we will engage with some of the most influential views in the philosophy of science, and critically examine their arguments in light of important case-studies from the history of science. (B)

Instructor(s): C. Bloch     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): PHIL 22000,CHSS 33300,HIST 35109

HIST 25208. Motion Pictures in the Human Sciences. 100 Units.

This course will examine the relationship between moving images, particularly motion-picture films, and the human sciences broadly construed, from the early days of cinema to the advent of FMRI.  It will use primary source documents alongside screenings to allow students to study what the moving image meant to researchers wishing to develop knowledge of mind and behavior - what they thought film could do that still photography, and unmediated human observation, could not.  The kinds of motion pictures we will study will vary widely, from infant development studies to psychiatric films, from documentaries to research films, and from films made by scientists or clinicians as part of their laboratory or therapeutic work, to experimental films made by seasoned film-makers.  We will explore how people used the recordings they made, in their own studies, in communications with other scientists, and for didactic and other purposes.  We will also discuss how researchers' claims about mental processes - perception, memory, consciousness, and interpersonal influence - drew on their understandings of particular technologies.

Instructor(s): A. Winter     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): CHSS 35208,HIPS 25208,HIST 35208

HIST 25302. History and Philosophy of Psychology. 100 Units.

This lecture-discussion course will trace the development of psychology from the early modern period through the establishment of behaviorism. In the early period, we will read Descartes and Berkeley, both of whom contributed to ideas about the psychology of perception. Then we will jump to the nineteenth centruy, especially examining the perceptual psychology of Wundt and Helmholtz. Next, we will turn to the origins of experimental psychology in the laboratory of Wundt, and follow some threads of the development of cognitive psychology in the work of William James. The course will conclude with the behavioristic revolution inaugurated by Chicago's own John Watson and expanded by B. F. Skinner.

Instructor(s): R. Richards     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): CHSS 36901,HIPS 26901,HIST 35302,PHIL 22810,PHIL 32810

HIST 25503. Junior Seminar: My Favorite Readings in the History and Philosophy of Science. 100 Units.

This course introduces some of the most important and influential accounts of science to have been produced in modern times. It provides an opportunity to discover how philosophers, historians, anthropologists, and sociologists have grappled with the scientific enterprise, and to assess critically how successful their efforts have been. Authors likely include Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn, Robert Merton, Steven Shapin, and Bruno Latour.

Instructor(s): R. Richards     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): HIPS 29800

HIST 25701. North Africa, Late Antiquity-Islam. 100 Units.

Examination of topics in continuity and change from the third through ninth centuries CE, including changes in Roman, Vandalic, Byzantine, and early Islamic Africa. Topics include the waning of paganism and the respective spread and waning of Christianity, the dynamics of the seventh-century Muslim conquest and Byzantine collapse. Transformation of late antique North Africa into a component of Islamic civilization. Topography and issues of the autochthonous populations will receive some analysis. Most of the required reading will be on reserve, for there is no standard textbook. Readings in translated primary sources as well as the latest modern scholarship. Final examination and 10 page course paper.

Instructor(s): W. Kaegi     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): CLAS 30200,CLCV 20200,CRES 25701,HIST 35701,NEHC 20634,NEHC 30634

HIST 25704-25804-25904. Islamic History and Society I-II-III.

This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. This sequence surveys the main trends in the political history of the Islamic world, with some attention to economic, social, and intellectual history. Taking these courses in sequence is recommended but not required.

HIST 25902. History of Israeli-Arab Conflict. 100 Units.

This lecture course traces the development of the Arab-Israeli conflict from its nineteenth-century origins to the present day. It examines the social and ideological roots of Zionism and Palestinan Arab nationalism, the growth of Arab-Jewish hostility in Palestine during the late Ottoman and British mandate periods, the involvement of the Arab state and the great powers, the series of Arab-Israeli wars, the two intifadas, and the effects towards negotiated agreements between Israel and the Arab states and between Israel and the Palestinians.

Instructor(s): B. Wasserstein     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 35902,INRE 36000,INST 25902,JWSG 25902,JWSG 35902,NEHC 20996,NEHC 30996

HIST 26004. The Arab-Israeli Conflict in Literature and Film. 100 Units.

How do historical processes find their expression in culture? What is the relationship between the two? What can we learn about the Arab-Israeli conflict from novels, short stories, poems and films? Covering texts written by Palestinians and Israelis, as well as works produced in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and the United States, this course attempts to discover the ways in which intellectuals defined their relationship to the "conflict" and how the sociopolitical realities in the Middle East affected their constructions of such term as nation and colonialism.

Instructor(s): O. Bashkin     Terms Offered: Autumn
Prerequisite(s): Knowledge of Arabic and/or Islamic studies helpful but not required
Equivalent Course(s): NEHC 20906,HIST 36004,JWSC 25903

HIST 26310. History of Spain. 100 Units.

Spain is the region, the country, the dimension that is at the roots of what is called "modern" in the West. And yet Spain is not often seen either as fully western, or as the truly great "partera" of modern times. To the contrary, it is commonly ignored, not belonging to either the arbitrary clusters: "Europe" and "Latin America." And yet Spain portentously shaped the destiny of Europe and the Americas. The course is designed as a general introduction to the political, cultural, and social history of Spain from the Napoleonic wars—when the French invasion of Spain produced wars of "independence" both in the peninsula and in the Americas—to the 1970s Spanish transition to democracy which very significantly marked the beginning of a new world's democratic wave in the 20th century. What the course fundamentally aims at is to spark your curiosity, to learn more, and to think history—American, "Latin" American, European, African—with its indispensable ingredient revisited, namely, Spain. The course will consist of lectures and class discussions.

Instructor(s): M. Tenorio     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): LACS 26310

HIST 26600. Critics of Colonialism. 100 Units.

Equivalent Course(s): SALC 20700,HIST 36600

HIST 26601. Postcolonial Theory. 100 Units.

Equivalent Course(s): SALC 20701,HIST 36601,SALC 30701

HIST 26602. Mughal India: Tradition and Transition. 100 Units.

The focus of this course is on the period of Mughal rule during the late sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, especially on selected issues that have been at the center of historiographical debate in the past decades.

Instructor(s): M. Alam     Terms Offered: Autumn
Prerequisite(s): Advanced standing and consent of instructor. Prior knowledge of appropriate history and secondary literature.
Equivalent Course(s): SALC 27701,HIST 36602,SALC 37701

HIST 26607. History as a Form of Knowledge. 100 Units.

The course will discuss some key texts from the last 100 years or so that have debated the status of history as a brance and discuss how historians have moved from the idea of "historical truth" to that of "objectivity" and how they debate and discuss the move.

Instructor(s): D. Chakrabarty     Terms Offered: Winter

HIST 26608. History and Literature of Pakistan: Postcolonial Representations. 100 Units.

Instructor(s): C.R. Perkins     Terms Offered: Autumn 2012
Equivalent Course(s): SALC 26903,NEHC 26903,SALC 46903

HIST 26905. Orality, Literature, and Popular Culture of Afghanistan and Pakistan. 100 Units.

Instructor(s): C. R. Perkins     Terms Offered: Winter 2013
Equivalent Course(s): SALC 26910,CMLT 26901,CMLT 36901,HIST 36905,NEHC 20901,NEHC 30901,SALC 36901

HIST 27001. Law and Society in Early America. 100 Units.

This mixed level colloquium is intended for upper-level undergrads and early state graduate students. It considers law, legal institutions, and legal culture within the lived experience of colonial and revolutionary America. It will emphasize the interaction of social development and legal development, and will explore the breadth of everyday experience with legal institutions like the jury, with courts as institutions for resolving disputes, and with the prosecution of crime.

Instructor(s): E. Cook     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 37001,LLSO 26000

HIST 27102. Lincoln: Slavery, War, and the Constitution. 100 Units.

This course is a study of Abraham Lincoln’s view of the Constitution, based on close readings of his writings, plus comparisons to judicial responses to Lincoln’s policies.

Instructor(s): D. Hutchinson.     Terms Offered: Winter
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor
Equivalent Course(s): LLSO 24711,FNDL 24711

HIST 27506. Changing America in the Twentieth Century. 100 Units.

This course explores the regional organization of U.S. society and its economy during the pivotal twentieth century, emphasizing the shifting dynamics that explain the spatial distribution of people, resources, economic activity, human settlement patterns, and mobility. We put special focus on the regional restructuring of industry and services, transportation, city growth, and cultural consumption. Two-day weekend field trip to the Mississippi River required.

Instructor(s): M. Conzen     Terms Offered: Winter
Note(s): This course offered odd years.
Equivalent Course(s): GEOG 22100,GEOG 32100,HIST 37506

HIST 27900. Asian Wars of the 20th Century. 100 Units.

This course examines the political, economic, social, cultural, racial, and military aspects of the major Asian wars of the 20th century: the Pacific War, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. At the beginning of the course we pay particular attention to just war doctrines, and then use two to three books for each war(along with several films) to examine alternative approaches to understanding the origins of wars, their conduct and their consequences.

Instructor(s): B. Cumings     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): CRES 27900,EALC 27907,EALC 37907,HIST 37900

HIST 28000. U.S. Latinos: Origins and Histories. 100 Units.

An examination of the diverse social, economic, political, and cultural histories of those who are now commonly identified as Latinos in the United States. Particular emphasis will be placed on the formative historical experiences of Mexican-Americans and mainland Puerto Ricans, although some consideration will also be given to the historians of other Latino groups—i.e., Cubans, Central Americans, and Dominicans. Topics include cultural and geographic origins and ties; imperialism and colonizations; the economics of migration and employment; legal status; work, women, and the family; racism and other forms of discrimination; the politics of national identity; language and popular culture; and the place of Latinos in U.S. society.

Instructor(s): R. Gutierrez     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): CRES 28000,GNSE 28202,HIST 38000,LACS 28000,LACS 38000

HIST 28601. Family and Community in Early America. 100 Units.

This course will explore a series of topics around the experience of living in local and family settings, form settlement to the early nineteenth century.  We will try to understand both the social and economic processes that shaped modes and standards of life and the values that informed people's lives. Discussion with some lecture.

Instructor(s): E. Cook     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 38601

HIST 28702. Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations. 100 Units.

Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations is one of the most important works of philosophy written in the twentieth century.  Its influence has reached far and wide beyond the limits of philosophy.  Yet its meaning remains deeply controversial.  This is in part because Wittgenstein broke radically with some of the most common assumptions human beings, especially educated human beings, like to make about themselves, their minds, and the world.  It is also because Wittgenstein's philosophical method made it a point of principle to propose no theories of any kind.  The purpose of this course is make the Philosophical Investigations intellectually accessible to students with no professional training or interest in philosophy.  The format will consist of a mixtrue of lecture and commentary, with some room fro discussion of selected passages and points of special interest.

Instructor(s): C. Fasolt     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): FNDL 24301

HIST 28703. Baseball and American Culture, 1840 to Present. 100 Units.

This course will examine the rise and fall of baseball as America's national pastime. We will trace the relationship between baseball and American society from the development of the game in the mid-nineteenth century to its enormous popularity in the first half of the twentieth century to its more recent problems and declining status in our culture. The focus will be on baseball as a professional sport, with more attention devoted to the early history of the game than to the recent era. Emphasis will be on using baseball as a historical lens through which we will analyze the development of American society rather than on the celebration of individuals or teams. Crucial elements of racialization, ethnicity, class, gender, nationalism, sexuality, and masculinity will be in play, as we consider the Negro Leagues, women's leagues, internment-era baseball, the Latinization and globalization of the game, and more.

Instructor(s): M. Briones     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): CRES 28703

HIST 28704. Race in the 20th Century Atlantic World. 100 Units.

This lecture course will provide an introduction to the workings of race on both sides of the Atlantic form the turn of the 20th century to the present. Topics covered will include: the very definition of the term "race"; politics on the naming, gathering and use of statistics on racial categories; the changing uses of race in advertising; how race figures in the politics and practices of reproduction; representations of race in children's books; race in sports and the media.  We will explore both relatively autonomous developments with in the nation-states composing the Atlantic world, but our main focus will be on transfer, connections, and influences across that body of water.  Most of the materials assigned will be primary sources ranging from films, fiction, poetry, political interventions, posters, advertisements, music, and material culture.  Key theoretical essays from the Caribbean, France, England, and the United States will also be assigned.

Instructor(s): T. Holt & L. Auslander     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): CRES 28704,GNSE 28703,GNSE 38702,HIST 38704,LLSO 28313

HIST 28800. Historical Geography of the United States. 100 Units.

This course examines the spatial dynamics of empire, the frontier, regional development, the social character of settlement patterns, and the evolution of the cultural landscapes of America from pre-European times to 1900. All-day northern Illinois field trip required.

Instructor(s): M. Conzen     Terms Offered: Autumn
Note(s): This course offered in even years.
Equivalent Course(s): GEOG 21900,GEOG 31900,HIST 38800

HIST 28900. Roots of the Modern American City. 100 Units.

This course traces the economic, social, and physical development of the city in North America from pre-European times to the mid-twentieth century. We emphasize evolving regional urban systems, the changing spatial organization of people and land use in urban areas, and the developing distinctiveness of American urban landscapes. All-day Illinois field trip required.

Instructor(s): M. Conzen     Terms Offered: Autumn
Note(s): This course offered in odd years.
Equivalent Course(s): GEOG 26100,ENST 26100,GEOG 36100,HIST 38900

HIST 28905. 19th Century U.S. West. 100 Units.

"Go west, young man, go west!" newspaper editor Horace Greeley loved to say, although he only visited the region and did not coin the phrase. It referred to the host of opportunities thought to be lying in wait among the uncharted territories out yonder. The West has embodied the American dream; it has also represented an American nightmare. This course will examine the changing definitions, demographics, conceptualizations, and significance of the nineteenth-century North American West. We will cover an exceptionally dynamic period between the Northwest Ordinance and the Spanish-American War—an endpoint that inherently calls into question the very concept of the West itself.

Instructor(s): A. Lippert     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): ENGL 25417,GNSE 28905,HIST 38905,LLSO 21103

HIST 29000. Latin American Religious, New and Old. 100 Units.

This course will consider select pre-twentieth-century issues, such as the transformations of Christianity in colonial society and the Catholic Church as a state institution. It will emphasize twentieth-century developments: religious rebellions; conversion to evangelical Protestant churches; Afro-diasporan religions; reformist and revolutionary Catholicism; new and New-Age religions.

Instructor(s): D. Borges     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): CRES 29000,HCHR 38900,HIST 39000,LACS 29000,LACS 39000,RLST 21400

HIST 29301. Human Rights I: Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights. 100 Units.

Human rights are claims of justice that hold merely in virtue of our shared humanity. In this course we will explore philosophical theories of this elementary and crucial form of justice. Among topics to be considered are the role that dignity and humanity play in grounding such rights, their relation to political and economic institutions, and the distinction between duties of justice and claims of charity or humanitarian aid. Finally we will consider the application of such theories to concrete, problematic and pressing problems, such as global poverty, torture and genocide.

Instructor(s): B. Laurence     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): HMRT 30100,PHIL 21700,PHIL 31600,HIST 39301,INRE 31600,LAWS 41200,MAPH 40000,LLSO 25100,HMRT 20100

HIST 29302. Human Rights II: History and Theory. 100 Units.

This course is concerned with the theory and the historical evolution of the modern human rights regime. It discusses the emergence of a modern “human rights” culture as a product of the formation and expansion of the system of nation-states and the concurrent rise of value-driven social mobilizations. It proceeds to discuss human rights in two prevailing modalities. First, it explores rights as protection of the body and personhood and the modern, Western notion of individualism. Second, it inquires into rights as they affect groups (e.g., ethnicities and, potentially, transnational corporations) or states.

Instructor(s): J. Sparrow     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): HMRT 20200,HMRT 30200,CRES 29302,HIST 39302,INRE 31700,JWSC 26602,LAWS 41301,LLSO 27100

HIST 29303. Human Rights III: Contemporary Issues in Human Rights. 100 Units.

For U.S. students, the study of international human rights is becoming increasingly important, as interest grows regarding questions of justice around the globe. This interdisciplinary course presents a practitioner’s overview of several major contemporary human rights problems as a means to explore the utility of human rights norms and mechanisms, as well as the advocacy roles of civil society organizations, legal and medical professionals, traditional and new media, and social movements. The course may be co-taught by faculty from the Pritzker School of Medicine. Topics may include the prohibition against torture, problems of universalism versus cultural relativism, and the human right to health.

Instructor(s): S. Gzesh     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): HMRT 20300,HMRT 30300,HIST 39303,INRE 31800,LAWS 78201,LLSO 27200

HIST 29306. Problems in the Study of Gender. 100 Units.

This course will explore interdisciplinary debates in the analysis of gender and feminism in a transnational perspective. Course readings will primarily traverse the twentieth century encompassing Africa, Europe, and the Americas. We will consider how understandings of gender intersect with categories of ethnicity, race, class, and sexuality. Topics to be covered include gendered experiences of: colonial encounters; migration and urbanization; transformations in marriage and family life; medicine, the body, and sexual health; and decolonization and nation-building, religion, and masculinity. Materials will include theoretical and empirical texts, fiction, memoirs, and films.

Instructor(s): L. Auslander     Terms Offered: Autumn
Note(s): May be taken in sequence or individually.
Equivalent Course(s): GNSE 10100,CRES 10101,ENGL 10200,SOSC 28200

HIST 29312. Human Rights in Russia and Eurasia. 100 Units.

This course focuses on the political economy of human rights in Russia and Eurasia. We will study how international norms have been “imported” by post-Soviet states. How have regional politics and cultures shaped how rights norms are understood and how they are protected in practice? Why do many post-Soviet countries fail to protect the rights of their citizens? Using knowledge of the history, political culture, and social practices of the region, we will work to identify those rights issues with the most potential for positive change and those more likely to remain enduring problems.

Instructor(s): A. Janco     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 39313,SLAV 26500,SLAV 36500,HMRT 26500

HIST 29511. Civilians and War. 100 Units.

In this course, we will study the history of war and forced migration. We will focus on how particular historical crises have led to the development of human rights protections for people displaced by war. What were these crises and how have they shaped the way we define the rights and status of refugees? How have these conventions been adapted to reflect the challenges of the World Wars, the Cold War, guerrilla warfare, and insurgency? We will study both developments in warfare and strategies for protecting civilians during war.

Instructor(s): A. Janco     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): HMRT 36700,HIST 39511,HMRT 26700

HIST 29628. History Colloquium: Nazi Germany. 100 Units.

This colloquium examines the history of the Nazi regime from its origins in the Weimar Republic to its collapse in 1945.  The course is designed around both primary and secondary readings and will introduce students to the major historiographic debates surrounding the history of Nazi Germany. Key themes will include the social, political, and economic conditions that facilitated the Nazi rise to power; the formation of the Nazi racial state; gender, culture, and everyday life; collaboration and resistance; the radicalizing dynamics of total war and occupation in Eastern Europe; the Holocaust; and the legacies of Nazism in postwar Europe.

Instructor(s): T. Zahra     Terms Offered: Winter
Prerequisite(s): Priority registration for third-year History majors

HIST 29630. History Colloquium: American Twilight the Late 1940s. 100 Units.

This course explores the simultaneous emergence of human rights politics and its nemesis, "realism," in the United States around the second half of the 1940s.  Virtually all scholars treat these two political traditions as historical matter and anti-matter- that is, when they acknowledge the other camp at all.  You will search in vain for index entries to"human rights" in any of the classic works on the diplomatic history or international relations of this period.  Likewise, even the best work on the human rights history of these foundational year largely ignores or brackets realpolitik.  Despite this mutual avoidance by academics (which dates to these same year), the transitional period 1945-1950 saw the institutionalization of both kinds of politics in the UN and NATO, the UDHR and the Truman Doctrine, refugee relief and the Marshall Plan.

Instructor(s): J. Sparrow     Terms Offered: Spring
Prerequisite(s): Consent of Instructor
Equivalent Course(s): HMRT 29630

HIST 29632. History Colloquium: The CIA and American Democracy. 100 Units.

This colloquium will examine all aspects of American intelligence and its influence on history, politics, society and academe since the inception of the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. Particular attention will be paid to how intelligence is gathered and interpreted, intelligence failures and why they happened, the close association between top Ivy League universities and origins of US intelligence, the penetration of the early Central Intelligence Agency by British individuals spying for the Soviets, the wide influence of the CIA in the 1950s and 1960s and through the 1970s, the revival of intelligence vigor in the 1980s, and the uses and misuses of intelligence in the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Instructor(s): B. Cumings     Terms Offered: Spring
Prerequisite(s): Priority Registration for 3rd year History Majors

HIST 29633. History Colloquium: Slavery and Antislavery in American Life. 100 Units.

This course draws on primary sources to explore the contradictions in national and regional political culture and in consciousness and daily life generated by the interdependent of slavery and various forms of abolition in United States. The course materials explore the presence of slavery-institutional, material, and symbolic--from the perspectives of a wide range of historical actors, including laboring men and women(slave and free), middle-class reformers, clergymen and publicists in the slaveholding and non-slavingholding states. Course materials include historical studies, imaginative literature, visual culture and published historical documents.

Instructor(s): J. Saville     Terms Offered: Winter
Prerequisite(s): Priority Registration for 3rd year History Majors

HIST 29635. History Collquium: Imperial Europe. 100 Units.

This colloquium examines the inner workings of modern Europe's imperial societies, drawing on case studies of the empires that maintained overseas colonies as well as the continent’s overland powers (the Russian, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman empires). It considers technologies of imperial rule as well as everyday life in imperial societies, asking what kinds of political cultures, communities, and identities empires have produced. The class will be run in a workshop format: we will devote Tuesday classes to discussing exemplary studies of imperial societies, and we will devote Thursday classes to discussing historiographical approaches and research techniques. Over the course of the quarter, students will be expected to design and carry out an original research project. Please come to the first day of class having read and ready to discuss Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference (2010).

Instructor(s): F. Hillis     Terms Offered: Autumn
Prerequisite(s): Priority Registration for 3rd year History Majors

HIST 29636. History Collquium: Japan and the U.S.: 19th Century Encounters. 100 Units.

This course traces the course of Japan-U.S, political relations in the nineteenth century and explores the cultural, social, and intellectual interactions of Japanese and Americans in relation to issues such as race, religion, gender, and material culture.  The focus of the coursewill be the production of an original research paper of 15-20 pages.

Instructor(s): S. Burns     Terms Offered: Autumn
Prerequisite(s): Priority Registration for 3rd year History Majors

HIST 29700. Readings in History. 100 Units.

Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course Form.

Terms Offered: Autumn, Winter, Spring
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor and undergraduate program coordinator

HIST 29801. BA Essay Seminar. 100 Units.

HIST 29801 and 29802 form a two-quarter sequence that is required of students with fourth-year standing who are majoring in history and writing a BA essay. Must be taken for a quality grade. This seminar provides students with a forum within which research problems are addressed and conceptual frameworks are refined. The class meets weekly.

Instructor(s): L. Auslander     Terms Offered: Autumn
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor and undergraduate program coordinator

HIST 29802. BA Essay Seminar. 100 Units.

HIST 29801 and 29802 form a two-quarter sequence that is required of students with fourth-year standing who are majoring in history and writing a BA essay. Must be taken for a quality grade. The purpose of this course is to assist students in the preparation of drafts of their BA essay, which are formally presented and critiqued. The class meets weekly.

Instructor(s): L. Auslander     Terms Offered: Winter
Prerequisite(s): HIST 29801

HIST 30010. African Women in Chicago. 100 Units.

Since the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act altered previous restrictions on immigration to the United States, African immigration has increased fourfold, constituting what scholars refer to as "the new African immigration." By 2000, Chicagoland's African population constituted 21,828 in the city and 35,000 in Cook County. Initially, the vast majority of immigrants were men, but by the 1980s, nearly fifty percent of African immigrants were women, However, there has been relatively no research and we know little about the experiences of African women immigrants.  This colloquium explores the question "how does gender matter in a transnational context?" by analyzing African women and their varied modes of immigration and documenting the experiences of African women who migrated to Chicagoland over the course of the twentieth century. We will explore this question not only through intensive course readings and discussions, but also through fieldwork and collecting oral histories that document African women's life histories. This course will work partnership with the United Africa Organization that has launched the Africans in Chicago Oral History Project. The final class assignment will be an original research paper on the themes of gender, immigration, and human rights based on the oral histories collected.

Instructor(s): R. Jean-Baptiste     Terms Offered: Autumn
Prerequisite(s): Upper-level Ugrad; Intense readng required
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 20010,HMRT 20010,HMRT 30010

HIST 30101. Colonial Autobiography. 100 Units.

The focus of this course will be the reading of works which deal, in one way of another, with "coming of age under colonialism" in Africa, the Caribbean, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.  Some are autobiographies in the normal sense, other are works of fiction, and many fall in between.  Most are colonial but some are literally postcolonial. The focus will be upon themes of developing a personal identity in negotiation between a local culture and a dominant colonial one, with formal schooling as a major common site.  There are obviously major issues of "postcoloniality" as stake her, in a mixture of political and cultural terms which we ourselves will need to negotiate.  The two weekly session will normally(but not always) be divided between a lecture, which will introduce the historical context and author, and a discussion of the assigned text.  Additional texts will be suggest both for background reading and potential paper topics.

Instructor(s): R. Austen     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 20101,CRES 20101,LLSO 20702

HIST 30502. Empire and Enlightenment. 100 Units.

The European Enlightenment was a formative period in the development of modern historiography. It was also an age in which the expansionist impulse of European monarchies came under intense philosophical scrutiny on moral, religious, cultural, and economic grounds. We chart a course through these debates by focusing in the first instance on histories of Rome by William Robertson and Edward Gibbon, as well as writing on law and historical method by Giambattista Vico.

Instructor(s): C. Ando and R. Lerner     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): CLCV 25107,CLAS 35107,HIST 20502

HIST 30503. Greek and Roman Historiography. 100 Units.

This course will provide a survey of the most important historical writers of the Greek and Roman world.  We will read extensive selections from their work in translation, and discuss both the development of historiography as a literary genre and the development of history as a discipline in the ancient world.  Finally, we will consider the implications these findings hold for our ability to use the works of Greek and Roman historical writers in our own efforts to construct narratives of the past.

Instructor(s): C. Hawkins     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 20503,ANCM 38609,CLAS 38609,CLCV 28609

HIST 30802. Alexander the Great. 100 Units.

The exploits of Alexander the Great have fascinated historians since the end of the third century B.C. This course will provide an introduction not only to the history of Alexander’s reign, but also to the main historiographical traditions (both ancient and modern) that shape our view of his legacy. All sources will be read in translation.

Instructor(s): C. Hawkins
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 20802,CLAS 34506,CLCV 24506

HIST 31005. Economy and Society in Ancient Greece and Rome. 100 Units.

In this course we will explore not only the nature of ancient Greek and Roman economies, but also the way in which social and political structures constrained or facilitated the efforts of individuals to devise successful strategies within those economies.  We will consider trade, manufacture, and agriculture, and we will devote considerable attention to issues of methodology: what questions should we ask about ancient economic life, and with what evidence can we answer them?

Instructor(s): C. Hawkins     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 21005,CLAS 36508,CLCV 26508

HIST 31701. Byzantine Empire, 330-610. 100 Units.

A lecture course, with limited discussion, of the formation of early Byzantine government, society, and culture.  Although a survey of event and changes, including external relations, many of the latest scholarly controversies will also receive scrutiny.  There will be some discussion of relevant archaeology and topography.  No prerequisite.  Readings will include some primary sources in translation and examples of modern scholarly interpretations.  Final examination and a short paper.

Instructor(s): W. Kaegi     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 21701,CLAS 34306,CLCV 24306

HIST 31702. Byzantine Empire, 610 to 1025. 100 Units.

This is a lecture course, with limited discussion, of the principle developments with respect to government, society, and culture in the Middle Byzantine Period. Although this course is a survey of events and changes, including external relations, many of the latest scholarly controversies also receive scrutiny. Readings include some primary sources in translation and examples of modern scholarly interpretations.

Instructor(s): W. Kaegi     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 21702,CLAS 34307,CLCV 24307

HIST 32906. Thinking Total War. 100 Units.

This course focuses on World War II, although the discussion on total war will radiate out backwards and forwards in time.  The theme is what military theorists in the nineteenth century had called guerre a outrance, war to the extreme  We want to find out and discuss how soldiers, politicians, academics, and everyday people saw and discussed such themes as comprehensive social and economic mobilization, war against civilians, and the ideological as well as emotional dimensions of war making.  We will also be interested to se how and why nations (and militaries) set limits to an all-out escalation and where they thought military necessity ended and war crimes and genocide began.  Needless to say that, although Micheal Geyer is specialist in German and James Sparrow a specialist in US history, this kind of exploration will have to take into account the eastern European and Russian as well as the East Asian experience.  If time permits, we will also look at colonial and national liberation wars.  Caution: This course requires some commitment to extensive reading and active participation.

Instructor(s): M. Geyer & J. Sparrow     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 22906,HMRT 22906,HMRT 32906

HIST 33001. Northern Renaissance/Early Reformation. 100 Units.

In surveying the history of this period, attention is devoted to the relationships between the movements of Renaissance and Reformation in northern Europe from the late fifteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries.  Primary texts are emphasized.

Instructor(s): H. Gray     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 23001,LLSO 28611

HIST 33003. Urban Europe 1600-present. 100 Units.

This course examines the growth, structure, and impact of urban Europe from an era of guilds, merchant capitalism, and state-building to the present.  Attention goes both to the changing forms and functions of urban systems and to the defining features of different categories of town and city - to the occupational structure, the built environment, the provisioning, the physical and other disamenities, the policing, and so on.  Emphasis is on the spatial, the economic, the social, and the political, but consideration is also given to shifting images of urban life, pro and con, and to current thinking about the prospect of urban Europe.

Instructor(s): J. Craig     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 23003,GEOG 23003,GEOG 33003

HIST 33102. 20th Century East Central Europe. 100 Units.

This course traces the history of East Central Europe from the Habsburg Empire to the Soviet Empire.  Major themes include the rise of nations and nationalism; interwar democracy and fascism; the experience of Total War and Occupation; and the construction of Socialist societies after World War II.

Instructor(s): T. Zahra     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 23102

HIST 33401. Genocide Euro Jews, 1933-1945. 100 Units.

What were the main features of the Jewish society that the Nazis destroyed and what were the conditions of Jewish life in inter-war Europe?  Why and how did the genocide occur?  Who were the perpetrators? What were the respective roles of the German policy apparatus, of the Germany army, of the Nazi Party, of the state bureaucracy, of ordinary Germans?  What were the responses of occupied populations of neutral countries, of the Allies, and of the Jews themselves?

Instructor(s): B. Wassserstein     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 23401,JWSC 23401,LLSO 28311,PLSC 23401,PLSC 33401

HIST 34001. Love and Eros: Japanese History. 100 Units.

Equivalent Course(s): GNSE 24001,GNSE 34001,HIST 24001,JAPN 24001,JAPN 34001

HIST 34106. Class and Inequality in Contemporary China. 100 Units.

In the past thirty years, income distribution in China changed from one of the most equal in the world to one of the most unequal ones. This course looks at the roots of inequality in Maoist developmental strategies that favored the cities over the countryside, at the decline of the socialist working class since the 1990s, the emergence of a new working class composed of migrants and of a new urban bourgeoisie, at the administrative structures and ideologies that support inequality in a nominally socialist state, and at protests by workers, farmers, and other disenfranchised social groups. All readings are in English.

Instructor(s): J. Eyferth     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): EALC 28800,EALC 38800,HIST 24106

HIST 34500. Reading Qing Documents. 100 Units.

Reading and discussion of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century historical political documents, including such forms as memorials, decrees, local gazetteers, diplomatic communications, essays, and the like.

Instructor(s): G. Alitto     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 24500,EALC 24500,EALC 34500

HIST 34505. Reading the Revolution: Chinese Social History in Documents. 100 Units.

How can we reconstruct the life experience of “ordinary” people at a time of revolutionary change? What are the sources for a history of the Chinese revolution? What can we learn from newspaper articles and official publication? What kind of information can we expect to find in unpublished sources, such as letters and diaries? How useful is oral history, and what are its limitations? We will look at internal and “open” publications and at the production of media reports to understand how the official record was created and how information was channeled, at official compilations such as the Selections of Historical Materials (wenshi ziliao), at “raw” reports from provincial archives, and finally at so-called “garbage materials” (laji cailiao), i.e. archival files collect from flea markets and waste paper traders.

Instructor(s): J. Eyferth     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): EALC 28200,EALC 38200,HIST 24505

HIST 34805. 20th Century China Local Community and Oral History. 100 Units.

After a general survey of local and oral history studies in 20th century Chinese history, students will examine secondary scholarly literature and primary documents from three ongoing local rural history research projects (a country history, a regional history and a village history).  Documents including transcripts of oral interviews and individual life histories, local gazetteers, memorials, edicts, biographies, social surveys, household registrations, essays, and recent county histories.  Some of these Chinese documents have English language translations appended.  Students will examine two oral history cases studies in detail.

Instructor(s): G. Alitto     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 24805,EALC 24805,EALC 34805

HIST 34905. Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" and "Descent of Man" 100 Units.

This lecture-discussion class will focus on a close reading of Darwin's two classic texts.  An initial class or two will explore the state of biology prior to Darwin's Beagle Voyage, and then consider the development of his theories before 1859.  Then we will turn to his two books.  Among the topics of central concern will be: the logical, epistemological, and rhetorical status of Darwin's several theories, especially his evolutionary ethics; the religious foundations of his ideas and the religious reaction to them; and the social-political consequences of his accomplishment.  2009 is the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth and the 150th of the publication of the "Origin."

Instructor(s): R. Richards     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 24905,CHSS 38400,HIPS 24901,PHIL 23015,PHIL 33015

HIST 34914. Philosophy of Cognitive Science. 100 Units.

Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field in which theories and methods from psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, artificial intelligence, and philosophy are used to study cognition. Computational models play an increasingly significant role in the understanding of cognitive phenomena such as perception, categorization, concept formation, and problem solving. In this course, students will become familiar with some of the methods and models used in cognitive science, and discuss philosophical issues pertaining to the methodology and basic premises of cognitive science. 

Instructor(s): C. Bloch     Terms Offered: Spring

HIST 35009. Medical Ethics: Who Decides and on What Basis? 100 Units.

Decisions about medical treatment take place in the context of changing health care systems, changing ideas about rights and obligations, and among doctors and patients who have diverse religious and cultural backgrounds. By means of historical, philosophical, and medical readings, this course examines such issues as paternalism, autonomy, the commodification of the body, and the enhancement of mental and/or physical characteristics.

Instructor(s): D. Brudney, J. Lantos, L. Ross, A. Winter     Terms Offered: Winter
Prerequisite(s): Third- or fourth-year standing
Note(s): This course does not meet requirements for the biological science major.

HIST 35109. Introduction to the Philosophy of Science. 100 Units.

The natural sciences aim at discovering and explaining truths about the world. This enterprise gives rise to various philosophical questions, among them are: What distinguishes science from other forms of enquiry? Is there anything unique about the scientific method—in both its conceptual and experimental elements—that enables the discovery of different aspects of reality? Is science a progressive enterprise advancing towards uncovering truths about the world, or does it consist of one theory arbitrarily replacing its predecessor, without ever coming closer to a final truth? Is there such a thing as scientific objectivity, or are scientists trapped in their preexisting theoretical assumptions? What are the criteria for a scientific explanation? What are scientific laws? In discussing these questions, we will engage with some of the most influential views in the philosophy of science, and critically examine their arguments in light of important case-studies from the history of science. (B)

Instructor(s): C. Bloch     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): PHIL 22000,CHSS 33300,HIST 25109

HIST 35208. Motion Pictures in the Human Sciences. 100 Units.

This course will examine the relationship between moving images, particularly motion-picture films, and the human sciences broadly construed, from the early days of cinema to the advent of FMRI.  It will use primary source documents alongside screenings to allow students to study what the moving image meant to researchers wishing to develop knowledge of mind and behavior - what they thought film could do that still photography, and unmediated human observation, could not.  The kinds of motion pictures we will study will vary widely, from infant development studies to psychiatric films, from documentaries to research films, and from films made by scientists or clinicians as part of their laboratory or therapeutic work, to experimental films made by seasoned film-makers.  We will explore how people used the recordings they made, in their own studies, in communications with other scientists, and for didactic and other purposes.  We will also discuss how researchers' claims about mental processes - perception, memory, consciousness, and interpersonal influence - drew on their understandings of particular technologies.

Instructor(s): A. Winter     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 25208,CHSS 35208,HIPS 25208

HIST 35302. History and Philosophy of Psychology. 100 Units.

This lecture-discussion course will trace the development of psychology from the early modern period through the establishment of behaviorism. In the early period, we will read Descartes and Berkeley, both of whom contributed to ideas about the psychology of perception. Then we will jump to the nineteenth centruy, especially examining the perceptual psychology of Wundt and Helmholtz. Next, we will turn to the origins of experimental psychology in the laboratory of Wundt, and follow some threads of the development of cognitive psychology in the work of William James. The course will conclude with the behavioristic revolution inaugurated by Chicago's own John Watson and expanded by B. F. Skinner.

Instructor(s): R. Richards     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 25302,CHSS 36901,HIPS 26901,PHIL 22810,PHIL 32810

HIST 35701. North Africa, Late Antiquity-Islam. 100 Units.

Examination of topics in continuity and change from the third through ninth centuries CE, including changes in Roman, Vandalic, Byzantine, and early Islamic Africa. Topics include the waning of paganism and the respective spread and waning of Christianity, the dynamics of the seventh-century Muslim conquest and Byzantine collapse. Transformation of late antique North Africa into a component of Islamic civilization. Topography and issues of the autochthonous populations will receive some analysis. Most of the required reading will be on reserve, for there is no standard textbook. Readings in translated primary sources as well as the latest modern scholarship. Final examination and 10 page course paper.

Instructor(s): W. Kaegi     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 25701,CLAS 30200,CLCV 20200,CRES 25701,NEHC 20634,NEHC 30634

HIST 35704-35804-35904. Islamic History and Society I-II; Islamic History and Society-III: The Modern Middle East.

This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. This sequence surveys the main trends in the political history of the Islamic world, with some attention to economic, social, and intellectual history. Taking these courses in sequence is recommended but not required.

HIST 35902. History of Israeli-Arab Conflict. 100 Units.

This lecture course traces the development of the Arab-Israeli conflict from its nineteenth-century origins to the present day. It examines the social and ideological roots of Zionism and Palestinan Arab nationalism, the growth of Arab-Jewish hostility in Palestine during the late Ottoman and British mandate periods, the involvement of the Arab state and the great powers, the series of Arab-Israeli wars, the two intifadas, and the effects towards negotiated agreements between Israel and the Arab states and between Israel and the Palestinians.

Instructor(s): B. Wasserstein     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 25902,INRE 36000,INST 25902,JWSG 25902,JWSG 35902,NEHC 20996,NEHC 30996

HIST 36004. The Arab-Israeli Conflict in Literature and Film. 100 Units.

How do historical processes find their expression in culture? What is the relationship between the two? What can we learn about the Arab-Israeli conflict from novels, short stories, poems and films? Covering texts written by Palestinians and Israelis, as well as works produced in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and the United States, this course attempts to discover the ways in which intellectuals defined their relationship to the "conflict" and how the sociopolitical realities in the Middle East affected their constructions of such term as nation and colonialism.

Instructor(s): O. Bashkin     Terms Offered: Autumn
Prerequisite(s): Knowledge of Arabic and/or Islamic studies helpful but not required
Equivalent Course(s): NEHC 20906,HIST 26004,JWSC 25903

HIST 36101-36102-36103. Introduction to Latin American Civilization I-II-III.

Taking these courses in sequence is not required. This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. This sequence is offered every year. This course introduces the history and cultures of Latin America (e.g., Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean Islands).

HIST 36501. Brazil. 100 Units.

This course will survey the history of Brazil, 1500-2002, with emphasis on the twentieth century.  It will raise questions concerning slavery and forms of freedom, the consequences of rapid industrialization and urbanization, meanings of popular culture, and the implications of religious diversity and change.

Instructor(s): D. Borges     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 16500,LACS 16500,LACS 36501

HIST 36600. Critics of Colonialism. 100 Units.

Equivalent Course(s): SALC 20700,HIST 26600

HIST 36601. Postcolonial Theory. 100 Units.

Equivalent Course(s): SALC 20701,HIST 26601,SALC 30701

HIST 36602. Mughal India: Tradition and Transition. 100 Units.

The focus of this course is on the period of Mughal rule during the late sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, especially on selected issues that have been at the center of historiographical debate in the past decades.

Instructor(s): M. Alam     Terms Offered: Autumn
Prerequisite(s): Advanced standing and consent of instructor. Prior knowledge of appropriate history and secondary literature.
Equivalent Course(s): SALC 27701,HIST 26602,SALC 37701

HIST 36905. Orality, Literature, and Popular Culture of Afghanistan and Pakistan. 100 Units.

Instructor(s): C. R. Perkins     Terms Offered: Winter 2013
Equivalent Course(s): SALC 26910,CMLT 26901,CMLT 36901,HIST 26905,NEHC 20901,NEHC 30901,SALC 36901

HIST 37001. Law and Society in Early America. 100 Units.

This mixed level colloquium is intended for upper-level undergrads and early state graduate students. It considers law, legal institutions, and legal culture within the lived experience of colonial and revolutionary America. It will emphasize the interaction of social development and legal development, and will explore the breadth of everyday experience with legal institutions like the jury, with courts as institutions for resolving disputes, and with the prosecution of crime.

Instructor(s): E. Cook     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 27001,LLSO 26000

HIST 37506. Changing America in the Twentieth Century. 100 Units.

This course explores the regional organization of U.S. society and its economy during the pivotal twentieth century, emphasizing the shifting dynamics that explain the spatial distribution of people, resources, economic activity, human settlement patterns, and mobility. We put special focus on the regional restructuring of industry and services, transportation, city growth, and cultural consumption. Two-day weekend field trip to the Mississippi River required.

Instructor(s): M. Conzen     Terms Offered: Winter
Note(s): This course offered odd years.
Equivalent Course(s): GEOG 22100,GEOG 32100,HIST 27506

HIST 37900. Asian Wars of the 20th Century. 100 Units.

This course examines the political, economic, social, cultural, racial, and military aspects of the major Asian wars of the 20th century: the Pacific War, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. At the beginning of the course we pay particular attention to just war doctrines, and then use two to three books for each war(along with several films) to examine alternative approaches to understanding the origins of wars, their conduct and their consequences.

Instructor(s): B. Cumings     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 27900,CRES 27900,EALC 27907,EALC 37907

HIST 38000. U.S. Latinos: Origins and Histories. 100 Units.

An examination of the diverse social, economic, political, and cultural histories of those who are now commonly identified as Latinos in the United States. Particular emphasis will be placed on the formative historical experiences of Mexican-Americans and mainland Puerto Ricans, although some consideration will also be given to the historians of other Latino groups—i.e., Cubans, Central Americans, and Dominicans. Topics include cultural and geographic origins and ties; imperialism and colonizations; the economics of migration and employment; legal status; work, women, and the family; racism and other forms of discrimination; the politics of national identity; language and popular culture; and the place of Latinos in U.S. society.

Instructor(s): R. Gutierrez     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 28000,CRES 28000,GNSE 28202,LACS 28000,LACS 38000

HIST 38601. Family and Community in Early America. 100 Units.

This course will explore a series of topics around the experience of living in local and family settings, form settlement to the early nineteenth century.  We will try to understand both the social and economic processes that shaped modes and standards of life and the values that informed people's lives. Discussion with some lecture.

Instructor(s): E. Cook     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 28601

HIST 38704. Race in the 20th Century Atlantic World. 100 Units.

This lecture course will provide an introduction to the workings of race on both sides of the Atlantic form the turn of the 20th century to the present. Topics covered will include: the very definition of the term "race"; politics on the naming, gathering and use of statistics on racial categories; the changing uses of race in advertising; how race figures in the politics and practices of reproduction; representations of race in children's books; race in sports and the media.  We will explore both relatively autonomous developments with in the nation-states composing the Atlantic world, but our main focus will be on transfer, connections, and influences across that body of water.  Most of the materials assigned will be primary sources ranging from films, fiction, poetry, political interventions, posters, advertisements, music, and material culture.  Key theoretical essays from the Caribbean, France, England, and the United States will also be assigned.

Instructor(s): T. Holt & L. Auslander     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 28704,CRES 28704,GNSE 28703,GNSE 38702,LLSO 28313

HIST 38800. Historical Geography of the United States. 100 Units.

This course examines the spatial dynamics of empire, the frontier, regional development, the social character of settlement patterns, and the evolution of the cultural landscapes of America from pre-European times to 1900. All-day northern Illinois field trip required.

Instructor(s): M. Conzen     Terms Offered: Autumn
Note(s): This course offered in even years.
Equivalent Course(s): GEOG 21900,GEOG 31900,HIST 28800

HIST 38900. Roots of the Modern American City. 100 Units.

This course traces the economic, social, and physical development of the city in North America from pre-European times to the mid-twentieth century. We emphasize evolving regional urban systems, the changing spatial organization of people and land use in urban areas, and the developing distinctiveness of American urban landscapes. All-day Illinois field trip required.

Instructor(s): M. Conzen     Terms Offered: Autumn
Note(s): This course offered in odd years.
Equivalent Course(s): GEOG 26100,ENST 26100,GEOG 36100,HIST 28900

HIST 38905. 19th Century U.S. West. 100 Units.

"Go west, young man, go west!" newspaper editor Horace Greeley loved to say, although he only visited the region and did not coin the phrase. It referred to the host of opportunities thought to be lying in wait among the uncharted territories out yonder. The West has embodied the American dream; it has also represented an American nightmare. This course will examine the changing definitions, demographics, conceptualizations, and significance of the nineteenth-century North American West. We will cover an exceptionally dynamic period between the Northwest Ordinance and the Spanish-American War—an endpoint that inherently calls into question the very concept of the West itself.

Instructor(s): A. Lippert     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 28905,ENGL 25417,GNSE 28905,LLSO 21103

HIST 39000. Latin American Religious, New and Old. 100 Units.

This course will consider select pre-twentieth-century issues, such as the transformations of Christianity in colonial society and the Catholic Church as a state institution. It will emphasize twentieth-century developments: religious rebellions; conversion to evangelical Protestant churches; Afro-diasporan religions; reformist and revolutionary Catholicism; new and New-Age religions.

Instructor(s): D. Borges     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 29000,CRES 29000,HCHR 38900,LACS 29000,LACS 39000,RLST 21400

HIST 39301. Human Rights I: Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights. 100 Units.

Human rights are claims of justice that hold merely in virtue of our shared humanity. In this course we will explore philosophical theories of this elementary and crucial form of justice. Among topics to be considered are the role that dignity and humanity play in grounding such rights, their relation to political and economic institutions, and the distinction between duties of justice and claims of charity or humanitarian aid. Finally we will consider the application of such theories to concrete, problematic and pressing problems, such as global poverty, torture and genocide.

Instructor(s): B. Laurence     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): HMRT 30100,PHIL 21700,PHIL 31600,HIST 29301,INRE 31600,LAWS 41200,MAPH 40000,LLSO 25100,HMRT 20100

HIST 39302. Human Rights II: History and Theory. 100 Units.

This course is concerned with the theory and the historical evolution of the modern human rights regime. It discusses the emergence of a modern “human rights” culture as a product of the formation and expansion of the system of nation-states and the concurrent rise of value-driven social mobilizations. It proceeds to discuss human rights in two prevailing modalities. First, it explores rights as protection of the body and personhood and the modern, Western notion of individualism. Second, it inquires into rights as they affect groups (e.g., ethnicities and, potentially, transnational corporations) or states.

Instructor(s): J. Sparrow     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): HMRT 20200,HMRT 30200,CRES 29302,HIST 29302,INRE 31700,JWSC 26602,LAWS 41301,LLSO 27100

HIST 39303. Human Rights III: Contemporary Issues in Human Rights. 100 Units.

For U.S. students, the study of international human rights is becoming increasingly important, as interest grows regarding questions of justice around the globe. This interdisciplinary course presents a practitioner’s overview of several major contemporary human rights problems as a means to explore the utility of human rights norms and mechanisms, as well as the advocacy roles of civil society organizations, legal and medical professionals, traditional and new media, and social movements. The course may be co-taught by faculty from the Pritzker School of Medicine. Topics may include the prohibition against torture, problems of universalism versus cultural relativism, and the human right to health.

Instructor(s): S. Gzesh     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): HMRT 20300,HMRT 30300,HIST 29303,INRE 31800,LAWS 78201,LLSO 27200

HIST 39313. Human Rights in Russia and Eurasia. 100 Units.

This course focuses on the political economy of human rights in Russia and Eurasia. We will study how international norms have been “imported” by post-Soviet states. How have regional politics and cultures shaped how rights norms are understood and how they are protected in practice? Why do many post-Soviet countries fail to protect the rights of their citizens? Using knowledge of the history, political culture, and social practices of the region, we will work to identify those rights issues with the most potential for positive change and those more likely to remain enduring problems.

Instructor(s): A. Janco     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 29312,SLAV 26500,SLAV 36500,HMRT 26500

HIST 39511. Civilians and War. 100 Units.

In this course, we will study the history of war and forced migration. We will focus on how particular historical crises have led to the development of human rights protections for people displaced by war. What were these crises and how have they shaped the way we define the rights and status of refugees? How have these conventions been adapted to reflect the challenges of the World Wars, the Cold War, guerrilla warfare, and insurgency? We will study both developments in warfare and strategies for protecting civilians during war.

Instructor(s): A. Janco     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): HMRT 36700,HIST 29511,HMRT 26700

HIST 43801. Russia and the World. 100 Units.

Interrogating the image of Russia as an inward-looking power that has pursued its own historical path, this seminar will examine Russia’s interactions with the outside world in the early modern and modern periods. Topics to be considered include: Russian participation in international trade and diplomacy, the role of European and Asian cultures in Russian intellectual life, Russia’s role in migration and colonization processes, the status of minorities in the Russian empire and the Soviet Union, and Russia’s role in the production of transnational ideologies. This is a reading-intensive seminar taught at the graduate level; it is open to undergraduates with solid knowledge of Russian/Soviet history who have obtained the instructor’s permission.

Instructor(s): F. Hillis     Terms Offered: Winter
Prerequisite(s): This course is open to undergraduates with solid knowledge of Russian/Soviet history who have obtained the instructor’s permission.
Note(s): Knowledge of Russian is not necessary.

HIST 46601. South Asia From the Peripheries: Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Transnational. 100 Units.

Instructor(s): C.R. Perkins     Terms Offered: Autumn 2012
Equivalent Course(s): NEHC 46902,CMLT 46902,SALC 46902

HIST 58301. Advanced Ottoman Historical Texts. 100 Units.

Instructor(s): C. Fleischer     Terms Offered: Autumn
Prerequisite(s): Open to qualified undergraduates with consent of instructor.
Equivalent Course(s): TURK 40589

HIST 78201. Seminar: Ottoman World/Suleyman I. 100 Units.

Instructor(s): C. Fleischer     Terms Offered: Autumn
Prerequisite(s): Upper level undergrads with consent only; reading knowledge of at least 1 European Language recommended
Equivalent Course(s): NEHC 30852

HIST 78202. Seminar: Ottoman World/Suleyman II. 100 Units.

Instructor(s): C. Fleischer     Terms Offered: Winter
Prerequisite(s): NEHC 30852
Equivalent Course(s): NEHC 30853