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 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 14203. Freshman Colloquium: Doing History Theories and Practices. 100 Units.

This colloquium is designed for first- and second-year students interested in majoring in history. Over the course of the quarter, we will be pursuing two question, "What is history?" and "How do you do history?" In relation to the first question, we'll explore the kinds of questions that have oriented recent historical practice. Topics to be examined include possibilities and limitations of doing national, global, and microhistory, as well as cultural history, visual and material culture, gender and sexuality, environmental, and public history. In exploring the practice of history, we'll think about how historians find and use sources, how they analyze them, and how they narrate their findings. This course will include several field trips, including a visit to the Special Collections Research Center in Regenstein Library and off-campus visits to the Chicago Historical Museum and the Newberry Library. Requirements include weekly Chalk postings and a final research paper of approximately 15 pages.

Instructor(s): S. Burns     Terms Offered: Spring
Note(s): Priority registration for first-year students, open to others.

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 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 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 17805. America in the Twentieth Century. 100 Units.

This lecture course provides an introductory survey of major developments in American history in the twentieth century. It is structured around a political history narrative, but we will examine events from a wide range of perspectives—legal, intellectual, social, economic, diplomatic, military, religious. The course is not encyclopedic, nor is it focused on mastering facts (although this is not discouraged). It is rather concerned with "big" questions about American history since ca. 1900, including the role and scope of government and the rights and obligations of citizens.

Instructor(s): J. Dailey     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): LLSO 25904

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 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 20109. Politics and Culture in African American History. 100 Units.

In this course we will explore historically the political implications of black cultural formations and expressions, focusing on the diverse ways in which culture has been explicitly invoked or deployed to political ends, has served as a means of political mobilization, and has marked African Americans as fit or unfit for citizenship rights. Through this debate-which has been sometimes explicit and at other times sub-rosa-we will probe the meanings and significance attributed to race, culture, and their interrelationship. Among the topics to be addressed in lectures and discussions are the debates on the relation between slave culture and resistance, the contrasting ways black and white performers have engaged the minstrel tradition, the social interpretations of black musical expression, the role to the state in promoting black cultural expression, and culture as a site of resistance. Each topic will be addressed through lectures and class discussions.

Instructor(s): T. Holt     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): LLSO 27601

HIST 20802. 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): CLAS 34506,CLCV 24506,HIST 30802

HIST 20803. Aristophanes' Athens. 100 Units.

This course will focus on nine of Aristophanes' plays in translation (Acharnians; Wasps; Clouds; Peace; Birds; Lysistrata; Thesmophoriazousai; Frogs; and Ploutos) in order to determine the value Old Comedy possesses for reconstructing sociohistorical structures, norms, expectations, and concerns. Among the topics to be addressed are the performative, ritual, and political contexts of Attic comedy, the constituency of audiences, the relationship of comedy to satire, the use of dramatic stereotypes, freedom of speech, and the limits of dissent.

Instructor(s): J. Hall     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): CLCV 23608,CLAS 33608,ANCM 33900,HIST 30803,FNDL 23608

HIST 21303. Byzantine Historians. 100 Units.

Reading and analysis of Byzantine historians and Byzantine historical thought. Includes Procopius Michael Attaleiates, Michael Psellos, Anna Comnena, Niketas Choniates. Lectures and discussion. Two take home essays.

Instructor(s): W. Kaegi     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 31303

HIST 21400. 18th-Century Britain. 100 Units.

This mixed lecture and discussion course explores the main political, social, intellectual, economic, and religious developments in Britain from the Glorious Revolution to Napoleonic wars. Emphasis is on the relationship between politics and the social order, and on the evolution of modes of political behavior.

Instructor(s): T. Cook     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 31400

HIST 21703. Byzantine Empire, 1025 to 1453. 100 Units.

Internal and external problems and developments. Internal tensions on the eve of the arrival of the Seljuks. Eleventh-century economic growth. The Crusades. Achievements and deficiencies of Komnenian Byzantium. The Fourth Crusade and Byzantine successor states. Palaeologan political and cultural revival. Religious topics such as relations with the papacy, Bogomilism, and Hesychasm. Readings will include M. Angold, The Byzantine Empire 1025–1204; D. M. Nicol, Last Centuries of Byzantium; the histories of Michael Psellos and Anna Comnena. Course grade will include a final examination and a 10-page paper.

Instructor(s): W. Kaegi     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): ANCM 36700,HIST 31703,NEHC 20507

HIST 22002. Byzantine Military History. 100 Units.

Interpretation of major issues of institutional, operational, and strategic history between the fourth and fourteenth centuries. Readings include selections from Byzantine military manuals and historians, as well as recent historical assessments. Among topics are debates on the theme system and numbers. Final examination and short paper.

Instructor(s): W. Kaegi     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): ANCM 34606,NEHC 20510,NEHC 30510,HIST 32002

HIST 22113. Jewish History and Society I: Ancient Jerusalem. 100 Units.

The course will survey biblical, archaeological, and other early sources, as well as scholarly literature, to trace a history of ancient Jerusalem and to probe the religious significance of the city, its king, the temple that stood there, the activities that took place in and around it, and ideas that developed about it. Along the way, the course will model the modern, academic study of biblical literature, of the history and society of ancient Israel and Judea, and of religion.

Instructor(s): S. Chavel     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): JWSC 20001,CRES 20001,NEHC 20401,NEHC 30401,RLST 20604,BIBL 31400

HIST 22202. Jewish History and Society III: Narratives of Assimilation. 100 Units.

This course offers a survey of the manifold artistic strategies of (self-)representations of Jewish writers from East Central Europe from the perspective of assimilation, its trials, successes, and failures. During this course, we will inquire how the condition called assimilation and its attendants—secularization, acculturation, trans-nationalism, etc.—have been explored by Mary Antin, Anzia Yezierska, Adolf Rudnicki, Eva Hoffman, and others. Students will be acquainted with problems of cultural alienation and linguistic isolation, hybrid identity, and cultural transmission in conjunction with theoretical approaches by Zygmunt Bauman, Benjamin Harshav, Ryszard Nycz. All texts will be read in English.

Instructor(s): B. Shallcross     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): JWSC 20003,NEHC 20403,NEHC 30403

HIST 22406. Jewish History and Society II: Jews in the Modern World. 100 Units.

Jews under Muslim Rule. The class covers Jewish-Muslim relations from the early Islamic state to the modern period. The history of Jews in Arab lands was typically told as either as a model of a harmonious coexistence, or, conversely, as a tale of perpetual persecution. Our class will try to read beyond these modes of analysis, by looking into particular contexts and the unique historical circumstances of a variety of Jewish communities whose members lived under Muslim rule. The class will explore the ways in which Jewish culture—namely, theology, grammar, philosophy, and literature—thrived, and was transformed, in the medieval and early modern periods, as a result of its fruitful interactions with Muslim and Arab cultures. Likewise we will study how liberal and communist Jews struggled to attain equal rights in their communities, and their understanding of various concepts of citizenship. Finally, the class will study the problems faced by Jews from Muslim lands as they immigrated to Israel in the 1950s. The class will discuss such concepts as “Sephardim,” “Mizrahim,” and “Arab-Jews,” as well as “Dhimmis” and “People of the Book” and investigate how their meaning changed in various historical contexts.

Instructor(s): O. Bashkin     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): JWSC 20002,CRES 20002,NEHC 20402,NEHC 30402

HIST 23000. Intellectual Property and Piracy. 100 Units.

Intellectual property presents some of the most pressing problems in modern science, industry, and law. This course helps students to understand why. It explains the principles of modern intellectual property, by examining their historical development over the last five hundred years. Using sources from the history of literature, art, and music—as well as from modern science and information technology—students will discover how piracy and property have clashed since the Renaissance, and still do so today. They will then be well-placed to address the central problem of intellectual property, and one of the most basic questions facing today's universities: What is the proper relation between creativity and commerce?

Instructor(s): A. Johns     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): CHSS 31900,HIPS 26700,LLSO 22104,HIST 33000

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: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 33001,LLSO 23112

HIST 23302. Europe, 1815-1914. 100 Units.

This is the second installment of a three-quarter sequence (HIST 23305, HIST 23302, HIST 23306), which surveys the history of Europe from the era of its greatest hegemony in the world to the eve of World War I. Themes considered include industrialization; the revolutions of 1848; the formation and consolidation of modern nation-states; the rise and travails of political liberalism and laissez faire; the spread of socialism in its various guises; international rivalries, alliances, and imperialism; and the causes, character, and effects of World War I.

Instructor(s): J. Craig     Terms Offered: Winter
Note(s): Only offered at the undergraduate level in 2013/2014
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 33302

HIST 23305. Europe, 1660-1815. 100 Units.

This is the first installment of a three-quarter sequence (HIST 23305, HIST 23302, HIST 23306), which offers a general introduction to the processes and events that constituted the passage to modernity in Europe: monarchical absolutism as a means to state-building on the Continent and its parliamentary alternative in Britain; the intellectual and cultural transformations effected by the Enlightenment, including the creation of a liberal public sphere; the French Revolution and its pan-European implications; the rise of the laissez-faire market and the Industrial Revolution; the emergence of feminism and socialism. The course will be conducted primarily by means of lectures. Readings will include both primary and secondary sources.

Instructor(s): J. Goldstein     Terms Offered: Autumn
Note(s): Only offered at the undergraduate level in 2013/2014
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 33305

HIST 23306. Europe, 1914-present. 100 Units.

This is the third installment of a three-quarter sequence (HIST 23305, HIST 23302, HIST 23306). This lecture course will provide an advanced, introductory survey into twentieth-century European history. It provides a critical overview of the main political, social, and cultural developments. It pays attention to the shifting "weight" of European regions and, especially, of eastern and southern Europe. Of course, the course will cover the usual aspects of any such history, which include causes, experiences, and effects of World War I and World War II as well as the history of the Cold War in Europe and its intersection with decolonization; the emergent realities of an expanding European integration in a globalizing migration and trade regime and the resulting struggles with European identities; and, not least, the shifting balance from a work-oriented to a leisure- and consumer-oriented society. The latter is of particular interest because this shift is often linked to the growing renunciation of violence in European society, a veritable value-change, and the emergence of Europe as a peaceable kingdom or, as one American pundit has it, the transition of Europe from Mars to Venus. The turn to violence and the formation of extremely violent societies on one hand and the pacification of Europe and its societies on the other is the real thread running through the course. But the proof is, as they say, in the pudding. Has Europe really become more peaceable after 1989 than, say, in 1913? And if 2013 is like 1913, what might 2014 look like?

Instructor(s): M. Geyer     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 33306

HIST 23312. Jews in the Diaspora since 1945. 100 Units.

This lecture course surveys the main features of the social and political history of the Jews in the Diaspora from 1945 to the present. Among the topics discussed will be demographic change and migration; the long-term impact of the Shoah; Israel-Diaspora relations; the dissolution of the Jewish communities of the Muslim world; Soviet Jewry; and evolving Christian attitudes towards Jews.

Instructor(s): B. Wasserstein     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 33312

HIST 23509. Jews of Central & East-Central Euro during the Interwar Period. 100 Units.

The course intends to lay the foundations for understanding the historical constellation of the Jews in Central and East-Central Europe in the inter-war period, 1919-1939. First, we consider the structural transformation from empires into nation-states as the backdrop of World War I and its aftershocks, especially the pogroms and anti-Jewish violence that accompanied the rise of ethnic nationalism in newly established nations-states. Next, we concentrate on the year 1919 and the Paris Peace Conference, with the minority-treaties as the "Jewish" theme. Finally, we focus on the dissolution of the political order, using the framework of the League of Nations and its repercussions on Jewish life in the region. The course focus will be to gain knowledge and historical awareness concerning Central and East-Central Jewish life; the course will also consider questions of methodology and theory of Jewish history in the modern age.

Instructor(s): PENDING PENDING      Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 33509,JWSC 23509,GRMN 23514,GRMN 33514,SLAV 23509

HIST 23511. Industry and Empire 1600-1830. 100 Units.

What was the place of the empire in Britain's Industrial Revolution? How much did colonial markets and resources contribute to economic growth in the metropole? Readings will include works by Williams, Brenner, de Vries, Parthasarathi, Zahedieh, Inikori, Barbier, and Belich, among others.

Instructor(s): F. Albritton Johnsson     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 33511

HIST 23602. Pushkin and His Age. 100 Units.

This course approaches the Golden Age of Russian culture through the prism of the artistic and intellectual legacy of its most influential writer. We read and analyze Pushkin’s poetry, prose fiction, essays, and critical works in the context of the critical, philosophical, and political debates of his time. We also consider writers such as Rousseau, Montesquieu, Karamzin, Balzac, Chaadaev, and Belinsky. Texts in English or the original; classes conducted in English.

Instructor(s): Daria Khitrova     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): RUSS 34101,HIST 33602,RUSS 24101

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

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

HIST 24206. Medicine and Culture in Modern East Asia. 100 Units.

This course will focus on the cultural history of medicine in China, Japan, and Korea from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1980s. We will be concerned with tracing the circulation of new medical knowledge and understanding its cultural and social implications. Topics to be explored include the introduction of "Western medicine" and its impact for "traditional" medicine, the struggles over public health, gender, medicine, and modernity, consumer culture, and medicine. No knowledge of an East Asian language is required, but those with reading skills will be encouraged to utilize them.

Instructor(s): S. Burns     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): EALC 26201,EALC 36201,HIST 34206

HIST 24211. Family, State, and Community in China, 1750-present. 100 Units.

Upper-level undergraduate course, combining lecturers, discussions, and other formats(e.g., group projects) as appropriate. No previous background in Chinese history is required, but students who are complete novices in this area may find some additional reading helpful. Major themes include the breakdown of the Qing empire and the formation of a modern national state which had different expectations of its citizens than the Qing had had of their subjects; changes in kinship and family life; gender roles; notions of the individual; and changing bases of authority in local society.

Instructor(s): K. Pomeranz     Terms Offered: Spring

HIST 24307. 20th-Century China through Great Trials. 100 Units.

This course begins in the late nineteenth century and concludes at the present day. From international political negotiations to show trials, from struggle sessions to investigative journalism, the class will trace China’s turbulent twentieth century through a series of trials, occurring at pivotal historical junctures. Students will witness public and private "justice" in action both in and beyond the courtroom and across the century's radically different governmental regimes. Readings and lectures will address the broader historical context as well as details of the various trials featured in the course.

Instructor(s): J. Ransmeier     Terms Offered: Spring

HIST 24308. Republican China. 100 Units.

Increasingly historians of modern China have begun to turn to the complex decades between the fall of China’s last dynasty and the establishment of the PRC, not merely to better understand the emergence of Communism or the fate of imperial traditions, but as a significant period in its own right. In addition to examining the major social and political changes of this period, this seminar course will explore the emergence of new cultural, artistic, and literary genres in a time notorious for its turbulence. Readings explore both new and classic interpretations of the period, as well as recent scholarship which benefits from expanding access to Chinese archives. Students should expect regular short writing assignments. The class will culminate with each student choosing either a historigraphical final paper or a close reading of a primary source in light of the issues explored in the course.

Instructor(s): Ransmeier Johanna      Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 34308

HIST 24401. History of the Fatimid Caliphate. 100 Units.

Instructor(s): P. Walker     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): NEHC 30645,HIST 34401,NEHC 20645

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: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): EALC 24500,EALC 34500,HIST 34500

HIST 24802. Gender and Japanese History. 100 Units.

This course explores issues of gender within Japanese history from ancient to modern times, with a focus on the period from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.

Instructor(s): S. Burns     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): EALC 25506,GNSE 24701,GNSE 34700,JAPN 25506,JAPN 35506,HIST 34802

HIST 24806. History of Japanese Philosophy. 100 Units.

What is philosophy and why does looking at Japanese philosophy make a difference? By examining Buddhist, Confucian, Shinto, and modern academic philosophical traditions, this course will provide a history of ideas found in Japan and central to thinking about being/non-being, government, ethics, aesthetics, economics, faith, and practice.

Instructor(s): J. Ketelaar     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): EALC 24807,EALC 34807,HIST 34806

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

Equivalent Course(s): HIPS 29606

HIST 24913. Victorian Science. 100 Units.

This course examines how Victorians sought to understand the natural world, and how their scientific work helped develop modern intellectual conventions, social relations, and institutions. We will study a wide range of topics from the 1830s through the beginning of the twentieth century, in the service of developing a kind of panorama of scientific life, and when key features of modern science came into being.

Instructor(s): A. Winter     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): CHSS 34903,HIPS 24913,HIST 34913

HIST 25011. Approaching Infinity: A History of Imaginative Attempts. 100 Units.

This course is a history of an inquiry. The problem of infinity and the nature of the infinite have encroached upon the history of thought in sundry ways: it has inspired both caution and self-abandon, humility and hubris; it has driven thinkers to labyrinths of reasoning and heights of abstraction—and yet continued to defy the simplest logic; it has led us into the profusion of the natural world, and it has also turned us utterly away from nature. Where is the infinite to be found? Since antiquity, the infinite has been real to our minds—but some definitions have it that the infinite is precisely that which is beyond seeking. So a better question might be, what kind of mind would create something essentially impossible to find?

Instructor(s): L. Huang     Terms Offered: Spring 2013
Equivalent Course(s): HIPS 25303

HIST 25110. Philosophy of History: Narrative and Explanation. 100 Units.

This lecture-discussion course will trace different theories of explanation in history from the nineteenth century to the present. We will examine the ideas of Humboldt, Ranke, Dilthey, Collingwood, Braudel, Hempel, Danto, and White. The considerations will encompass such topics as the nature of the past such that one can explain its features, the role of laws in historical explanation, the use of Verstehen history as a science, the character of narrative explanation, the structure of historical versus other kinds of explanation, and the function of the footnote. (B) (II)

Instructor(s): R. Richards     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 35110,PHIL 20506,PHIL 30506,CHSS 35110

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 25300. American Revolution, 1763 to 1789. 100 Units.

This lecture and discussion course explores the background of the American Revolution and the problem of organizing a new nation. The first half of the course uses the theory of revolutionary stages to organize a framework for the events of the 1760s and 1770s, and the second half of the course examines the period of constitution-making (1776–1789) for evidence on the ways in which the Revolution was truly revolutionary.

Instructor(s): E. Cook     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 35300,LLSO 20601

HIST 25304. Goethe: Literature, Science, Philosophy. 100 Units.

This lecture-discussion course will examine Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's intellectual development, from the time he wrote Sorrows of Young Werther through the final states of Faust. Along the way, we will read a selection of Goethe's plays, poetry, and travel literature. We will also examine his scientific work, especially his theory of color and his morphological theories. On the philosophical side, we will discuss Goethe's coming to terms with Kant (especially the latter's third Critique) and his adoption of Schelling's transcendental idealism. The theme uniting the exploration of the various works of Goethe will be unity of the artistic and scientific understanding of nature, especially as he exemplified that unity in "the eternal feminine."

Instructor(s): R. Richards     Terms Offered: Winter
Note(s): German is not required, but helpful.
Equivalent Course(s): HIPS 26701,CHSS 31202,PHIL 20610,PHIL 30610,GRMN 25304,GRMN 35304,FNDL 23511

HIST 25309. History of Perception. 100 Units.

Knowing time. Feeling space. Smelling. Seeing. Touching. Tasting. Hearing. Are these universal aspects of human consciousness, or particular experiences contingent upon time, place, and culture? How do we come to know about our own perceptions and those of others? This course examines these and related questions through detailed readings of primary sources, engagement in secondary scholarship in the history and anthropology of sensation, and through close work with participants’ own sensations and perceptions of the world around them.

Instructor(s): Rossi Michael Paul      Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 35309,HIPS 25309,CHSS 35309

HIST 25415. History of Information. 100 Units.

'Information' in all its forms is perhaps the defining phenomenon of our age. But although we tend to think of it as something distinctively modern, in fact it came into being through a long history of thought, practice, and technology. This course will therefore suggest how to think historically about information. Using examples that range from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, we shall explore how different societies have conceptualized the subject, and how they have sought to control it. We shall address how information has been collected, classified, circulated, contested, and destroyed. The aim is to provide a different kind of understanding of information practices—one that can be put to use in other historical inquiries, as well as casting an unfamiliar light on our own everyday lives.

Instructor(s): A. Johns     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 35415,CHSS 35415,LLSO 23501

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 25510. Sciences of Memory in 20th Century. 100 Units.

This course will examine a series of episodes in the history of the understanding of autobiographical memory, beginning with the emergence of academic psychology, and also psychoanalysis, in the late nineteenth century, and ending with the "memory war" of the 1980s and 90s The course will include an examination of the yoked history of beliefs about individual and "collective" memory, of the impact of memory therapies during the first and second World Wars, of the impact of innovations in brain surgery on beliefs about the physiological memory record and the neurophysiology of remembering, and the impact of the rise forensic psychology on the popular, scientific, and legal understanding of memory.

Instructor(s): A. Winter     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): HIPS 28002,CHSS 31502,HIST 35505

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 states and the great powers, the series of Arab-Israeli wars, the two intifadas, and the zigzag progress towards negotiated agreements between Israel and the Arab states and between Israel and the Palestinians.

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

HIST 26005. Colloquium: Sources for the Study of Islamic History. 100 Units.

This course is designed to acquaint the student with the basic problems and concepts as well as the sources and methodology for the study of pre-modern Islamic history. Sources will be read in English translation and the tools acquired will be applied to specific research projects to be submitted as term papers. 

Instructor(s): J. Woods     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): NEHC 20605,NEHC 30605,HIST 36005

HIST 26100. History of Modern Spain, Circa 1808-1980. 100 Units.

Spain is the region, the country—the dimension—that is at the roots of what it 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 of 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 democratic wave in the world. The course fundamentally seeks to sparkle your curiosity to learn more about Spain, and to think History—U.S., "Latin American," "European," "African"—with its indispensable ingredient reinstalled in your historical imagination, namely, Spain.

Instructor(s): M. Tenorio     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): LACS 26100

HIST 26304. Literature and Society in Brazil. 100 Units.

This course surveys the relations between literature and society in Brazil, with an emphasis on the institution of the novel in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The nineteenth-century Brazilian novel, like the Russian novel, was an arena in which intellectuals debated, publicized, and perhaps even discovered social questions. We will examine ways in which fiction has been used and misused as a historical document of slavery and the rise of capitalism, of race relations, of patronage and autonomy, and of marriage, sex, and love. We will read works in translation by Manuel Antonio de Almeida, Jose de Alencar, Machado de Assis, Aluisio de Azevedo, and others.

Instructor(s): D. Borges     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): LACS 26304,LACS 36304,HIST 36304

HIST 26315. La Historia de las ideas en America Latina, Siglo XX. 100 Units.

Lectura, discusión y análisis de las principales obras sobre la identidad latinoamericana en el siglo XX, entre ellas, Ariel, de Rodo, Casa grande y Senzala, de Gilberto Freyre, La Radiografía de la Pampa, de Ezequiel Martínez Estrada, El laberinto de la soledad, de Octavio Paz y algunos otros textos contemporáneos.

Instructor(s): Michael Christopher      Terms Offered: Spring
Note(s): This course will be taught in Spanish.
Equivalent Course(s): LACS 39800,HIST 36315,SPAN 29801,SPAN 39801,LACS 29800

HIST 26409. Revolution, Dictatorship, & Violence in Modern Latin America. 100 Units.

This course will examine the role that Marxist revolutions, revolutionary movements, and the right-wing dictatorships that have opposed them have played in shaping Latin American societies and political cultures since the end of World War II. Themes examined will include the relationship among Marxism, revolution, and nation building; the importance of charismatic leaders and icons; the popular authenticity and social content of Latin American revolutions; the role of foreign influences and interventions; the links between revolution and dictatorship; and the lasting legacies of political violence and military rule. Countries examined will include Guatemala, Cuba, Chile, Argentina, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Mexico.

Instructor(s): B. Fischer     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): LACS 26409

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: Winter
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 27006. Not Just the Facts: Telling about the American South. 100 Units.

The great jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. once observed that "The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live." This course concerns itself with the various ways people have striven to understand the American South, past and present. We read fiction, autobiography, and history (including meditations on how to write history). Main themes of the course include the difference between historical scholarship and writing history in fictional form; the role of the author in each, and consideration of the interstitial space of autobiography; the question of authorial authenticity; and the tension between contemporary demands for truthfulness and the rejection of "truth."

Instructor(s): J. Dailey     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 37006,LLSO 25411

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 27301. Introduction to Black Chicago, 1895-2005. 100 Units.

This course surveys the history of African Americans in Chicago, from before the 20th century to the near-present. In referring to the history, we treat a variety of themes, including; migration and its impact, origins and effects of class stratification, relation of culture and cultural endeavor to collective consciousness, rise of institutionalized religions, facts and fictions of political empowerment, and the correspondence of Black lives and living to indices of city wellness (services, schools, safety, general civic feeling). This is a history class that situates itself within a robust interdisciplinary conversation. Students can expect to engage works of autobiography and poetry, sociology, documentary photography, and political science as well as more straightforward historical analysis. By the end of the class, students should have grounding in Black Chicago's history, as well as an appreciation of how this history outlines and anticipates Black life and racial politics in the modern United States.

Instructor(s): A. Green     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): AFAM 27305,CRES 27301

HIST 27306. U.S. Women and Gender. 100 Units.

Instructor(s): A. Stanley     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): HIST 37306,HMRT 27306,HMRT 37306,LLSO 27306

HIST 27411. Thought Reform and Social Control in the PRC. 100 Units.

Building up on fascinating recent research on thought reform, social control, reeducation, spycraft, and police work in the early PRC, we will examine how the new state sought to mold and reeducate its people. We will begin by reading some of the recent English language literature and then move on to read self-criticisms, confessions, petitions, denunciation letters, and police reports in Chinese. Third year Chinese or equivalent is required.

Instructor(s): J. Eyferth     Terms Offered: Autumn
Prerequisite(s): Third-year Chinese
Equivalent Course(s): EALC 38411,HIST 37411,EALC 28411

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 27507. Mass Culture in American Life. 100 Units.

This course examines the rise and evolution of mass culture in American life from the Revolution to the present day. The first half of the course will focus on the emergence of several culture industries in the nineteenth century. The second half will examine the impact of mass culture and measure its reach into American life in the twentieth century. Throughout we will focus on the historical relationship between commerce and culture in the United States and assess its influence on imagination, work, and politics. Readings will include historical scholarship and a selection of primary documents: plays, dime novels, advertisements, domestic goods, short stories, polemics, and films.

Instructor(s): C. Dingwall     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): AMER 27507

HIST 27605. U.S. Legal History. 100 Units.

This course focuses on the connections between law and society in modern America. It explores how legal doctrines and constitutional rules have defined individual rights and social relations in both the public and private spheres. It also examines political struggles that have transformed American law. Topics to be addressed include the meaning of rights; the regulation of property, work, race, and sexual relations; civil disobedience; and legal theory as cultural history. Readings include legal cases, judicial rulings, short stories, and legal and historical scholarship.

Instructor(s): A. Stanley     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): AMER 27605,CRES 27605,GNSE 27605,HMRT 27061,LLSO 28010

HIST 27706. Women, Gender, and Religion in America. 100 Units.

This course asks how religious communities have shaped gender roles in colonial North America and the United States, and how individuals have both reproduced and challenged the dominant gender discourses of their time. Among other topics we will discuss witchcraft accusations in early America, the ideology of “Republican motherhood” during the American Revolution, the controversies over women’s religious leadership in the nineteenth century, the rise of “muscular Christianity” at the turn of the twentieth century, and recent debates over homosexuality, same-sex marriage, and women’s ordination. Requirements: class attendance and participation, a class presentation, a midterm exam, and a final exam.

Instructor(s): C. Brekus     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): RLST 22101

HIST 27905. Religion and Society in the Middle Ages. 100 Units.

This course examines some of the roles played by religion within medieval society. We consider topics such as the conversion of Europe to Christianity, monasticism, the cult of saints, the rise of the papacy, and the rise of heresy and religious dissent. We study medieval religious ideals as well as the institutions created to perpetuate those ideals. weighing the experience of the individual and the group. We read autobiographies, saints' lives, chronicles, miracle collections, papal documents, among other kinds of sources.

Instructor(s): L. Pick     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): RLST 21801

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 28806. Turning Right: Conservative Politics in the Long 20th Century. 100 Units.

Historians have struggled to make sense of a “conservative turn” in the United States since the serial crises of the New Deal order and the rise of movement conservatism in the latter half of the 20th century. This course offers a deeper perspective on the historical varieties of conservative thought and politics in the American past by examining (1) the career of the Republican Party in shaping American political economy, culture, and mores between the 1850s and 1920s, and (2) responses to the New Deal state and social change between the 1930s and the age of Obama, in which conservatives have frequently been cast as dissidents, insurgents, populists, or an ascendant silent majority. Students will be asked to consider the shifting historical meanings of “conservative” politics and the usefulness of the “conservative turn” as a description of recent American history.

Instructor(s): J. McCallum III      Terms Offered: Spring

HIST 28807. Race and American Consumer Culture. 100 Units.

Race was central to the emergence of American consumer culture and, conversely, consumer culture was affected significantlyby race and the experiences of diverse groups including African Americans, Asian Americans, Mexican Americans, Native Americans, and white ethnic groups. This course will explore the juncture between race and American consumer culture from slavery to the late twentieth century. Engaging historical and literary texts, film, advertisements, and music, it will investigate the racialized commodification of groups and cultures, efforts to create a classless, racially-exclusive consumer culture, the fragmentation of the mass market, consumer activism, the process of Americanization, and the civil rights movement. This course will pay special attention to the ways consumer culture shaped interracial encounters, various freedom movements, and racial, ethnic, and gender, and class identities.

Instructor(s): T. Parker     Terms Offered: Spring

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 29005. Af-Am Life and Times: Harlem Renaissance. 100 Units.

This is a research colloquium in which we will examine selected topics and issues related to the cultural revitalization movement popularly know as the Harlem or Negro Renaissance. A principal theme of the course is that the demographic, social, and cultural changes in African American life during the first half of the 20th century were interconnected with the advent of modernity in America and Europe, as reflected in changes in labor and consumption, in the intensity of transnational relations, in new forms of cultural expression and technologies of communication, and in the resistance to or contestation of many of these developments.

Instructor(s): T. Holt     Terms Offered: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): LLSO 21811

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. (V) (I)

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

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): M. Bradley     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: Autumn
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): N. Atkinson, Autumn; J. Cole, Spring     Terms Offered: Autumn 2013, Spring 2014
Note(s): May be taken in sequence or individually.
Equivalent Course(s): GNSE 10100,CRES 10101,ENGL 10200,SOSC 28200

HIST 29311. Refugee History and Digital Archives. 100 Units.

This course is an advanced seminar in the history of refugees and digital archives. We will study the development of humanitarian and human rights protections for refugees, stateless people, and other categories of displaced persons. We will discuss the various ways that state and non-state actors have understood and justified their responses to the forced movements of people. In class discussion, we will place this historical experience in dialogue with the needs of contemporary humanitarian efforts and human rights organizations. As part of this work, we will discuss the use of digital archives for research as well as the development, creation, and information architecture of digital archival collections.

Instructor(s): A. Janco     Terms Offered: Autumn
Equivalent Course(s): HMRT 26800,HIST 39311,HMRT 36800

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: Winter
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: Winter
Equivalent Course(s): HMRT 36700,HIST 39511,HMRT 26700

HIST 29613. Colloquium: Hyde Park and Chicago's South Side as Historical Laboratory. 100 Units.

This colloquium uses Hyde Park and Chicago's South Side as a case study to introduce students to issues and methodologies in the history and historical geography of American urban life during the past century and a half. Discussions will focus on both primary and secondary source readings, and each participant will design and carry out an original research project.

Instructor(s): K. Conzen     Terms Offered: Autumn
Prerequisite(s): Priority registratiion for third-year history majors

HIST 29638. History Colloquium: America in Asia/Asia in America. 100 Units.

This course will examine the historical dynamic between America and Asia. We will consider the effect of over a century's worth of U.S. wars in Asia, as well as the complex interactions—politically, culturally, and ideologically—among these discrete Asian nations and the U.S. from 1898 to 1975 (and beyond). We will address problems and tensions over the long history of Asian sojourners, immigrants, and citizens in the U.S, while we debate the difficult, contentious, but highly textured role of America in the world. As a junior colloquium, the course will be reserved for third-year History majors.

Instructor(s): M. Bradley, M. Briones     Terms Offered: Winter
Prerequisite(s): Priority registration of third-year history majors

HIST 29639. History Colloquium: The Cartographic Imagination of America. 100 Units.

Maps aren't always what meets the eye . . . or what directs the traveler from point to point. They don't always measure linear distance. North is not always up. This research colloquium for history majors will investigate the multiple perspectives and themes of (primarily nineteenth-century) American cartography, investigating the ways that maps became tools of politics, economics, organization, and governance. Utilizing the considerable resources of the Special Collections Research Center and the Newberry Library, we will assess maps as primary sources capable of representing aggregate realities—such as the Census, as well as slavery, weather, and disease—in visual and spatial terms. Requirements include careful reading, active and thoughtful participation, and a 15-page work of original research that will be presented in class.

Instructor(s): A. Lippert     Terms Offered: Autumn
Prerequisite(s): Priority registration for third-year history majors

HIST 29640. History Colloquium: Cultural and Political History of 20th Century Spain and Portugal. 100 Units.

This undergraduate colloquium explores great topics in the cultural and political history of 20th century Spain and Portugal, countries which are not often considered either by Latin American or by European histories. The course pays particular attention to such issue and moments as late colonialism, language, dictatorship, constitutional history, transition to democracy, nationalism, and literature and the arts.

Instructor(s): M. Tenorio     Terms Offered: Autumn
Prerequisite(s): Priority registration of third-year history majors

HIST 29643. History Colloquium: Slavery, Freedom, and Immigration in Brazil. 100 Units.

Instructor(s): D. Borges     Terms Offered: Autumn
Prerequisite(s): Priority registration for third-year history majors

HIST 29644. History Colloquium: The Greeks and Persian Empire. 100 Units.

The Greek politics of the late archaic and classical periods matured in the shadow of(and in some cases under the rule of)the Achaemenid Persian Empire, which, at its height, stretched from the Aegean to the Indus valley.  From the mid sixth century B.C. until the end of the fourth century B.C, Greek polities and the Persian Empire engaged regularly with one another in warfare, diplomacy, and cultural exchange. In this course we will explore what the extant evidence(much of which reflects the Greek perspective) can tell us not only about specific episodes of such engagement, but also about the ways in which these episodes shaped the historical development of the societies in question, and in particular those of the Greek world.

Instructor(s): C. Hawkins     Terms Offered: Autumn
Prerequisite(s): Priority registration for third-year history majors

HIST 29645. History Colloquium: Humanitarianism—A History. Units.

Humanitarianism in its most general form is an ethics benevolence and sympathy extending universally and impartially to all human beings. Humanitarians understand the world as an affective community and insist that the world can be transformed-and if not transformed, suffering an ill-treatment can be alleviated by fearless vanguards of compassion. Humanitarianism is the ideology of radical liberals.  Lately, the entire idea has come under attack as deceptive, fraudulent, and useless. Humanitarianism has failed and if anything it has not actively worsened humanitarian crises. Humanitarians promise relief and deliver a mess; the consort with the worst abusers of human rights; they have never changed anything. The main question we will explore is what we make of this critique. But first of all we ask: What do humanitarians do? What is their effect and when and where are they effective? Is it true that abolitionists have achieved the abolition of slavery? What about the struggle for social justice? About famine relief? About refugee aid? Rather than chasing one case after another, we will focus on the humanitarian rationale for action and how it differs from other rationales, say, of Pacifists, Marxists, liberal rights-based approaches, or power-political realists.

Instructor(s): M. Geyer     Terms Offered: Winter
Prerequisite(s): Priority registration for third-year history majors

HIST 29646. History Colloquium: The Business of Entertainment. 100 Units.

This course will introduce students to the evolution of entertainment as a business and social force from a broad historical perspective, beginning in the eighteenth century with the professionalization of theater and ending in 1950 with the stabilization of a mass-producing industry. Guiding our inquiry will be the following question: what was the business of entertainment? In the literal sense, how were the performing and cinematic arts managed, professionalized, and marketed so as to turn a profit? In the figurative sense, what were the perceived purposes of music, theater, and film in a modernizing society and to what extent were they challenged by entertainment’s commercial and technological transformations? To answer these questions, we will focus on the impresarios, actors, politicians, and audiences of France, the United States, and Brazil. Previous experience with historical methods is not required, although a basic knowledge of French, US, or Brazilian history is recommended.

Instructor(s): A. Levy     Terms Offered: Spring

HIST 29647. HIst Coll: China-Rise or Return? Hist Perspectives on Culture. 100 Units.

This course addresses the development through time of the Chinese state, society and culture from its beginning to the present. Only the most general of treatments is possible in addressing such an enormous subject, but the course provides an opportunity for individual research on a specialize topic of the student's choosing within this framework. No background in Chinese studies is required. The class discusses and critiques the weekly readings. Each set of readings centers on a broad historical question of crucial historical significance.

Instructor(s): G. Alitto     Terms Offered: Spring
Equivalent Course(s): EALC 24307

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 29902. Tolkien: Medieval and Modern. 100 Units.

J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings is one of the most popular works of imaginative literature of the twentieth centruy. This course seeks to understand its appeal by situating Tolkien's creation within the context of Tolkien's own work as both artist and scholar alongside its medieval sources and modern parallels. Themes to be addressed include the problem of genre and the uses of tradition; the nature of history and its relationship to place; the activity of creation and its relationship to language, beauty, evil, and power; the role of monsters in imagination and criticism; the twinned challenges of death and immortality, fate and free will; and the interaction between the world of "faerie" and religious belief.

Instructor(s): R. Fulton     Terms Offered: Spring
Prerequisite(s): Must have read The Lord of the Rings prior to first day.
Equivalent Course(s): RLST 22400,FNDL 24901