Survey of world history from human origins to the sixteenth century.

Survey of world history from the sixteenth century to the present.

An introduction to the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe through each of the major disciplines represented in the program: language, literature, anthropology, geography, history, government, sociology, and economics.

Introduction to Chinese civilization, past and present, including religion, literature, arts, philosophy, and history.

Introduction (in translation) to the most important texts and other sources by, for, and about women in Chinese intellectual, political, social, and cultural history.

Introduction to the history of popular culture in modern Japan focusing on works of literature, film, and visual culture.

Examine the familiar and unfamiliar fragments of what remains from pre-Christian European culture--the limited written records, the artifacts, and the folklore--as well as the more plentiful anti-pagan writings of early Christian missionaries. Test many of the popular claims about how Europe's pre-Christian inhabitants lived, what they believed, and how Christianization impacted their lives against the limits of what we can actually know, using the tools from the study of history, cultural studies, and religious studies.

Survey of English civilization from Roman times to the death of Queen Elizabeth I.

Survey of English history from the seventeenth century to the present.

Examines the intertwined historical developments of the religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and explores the principal beliefs and practices of Jews, Christians, and Muslims.

Investigate, using a range of primary and secondary readings, how religious identity was imagined and expressed in the 4th-6th centuries CE. Examine the complex interactions of, in particular, Jews, Christians, and Pagans.

Explore the literature and film of Korea from earliest times to the present.

A survey of the traditional history and culture of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.

A survey of the modern history of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.

An in-depth survey of the culinary traditions, history, and practices of Central and Eastern Europe.

The responses of the societies of the Middle East and North Africa (Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Israel, and the Arab world) to Western cultural and political challenges, primarily since about 1800.

A survey of the history and civilization of the Middle East from the sixth to the fourteenth century.

Introduction to the history, culture, and religion of the Jewish people from around 1000 BC to the end of the medieval period. Subjects may include ancient Israel, late Second Temple sectarianism, the rise of Christianity, rabbinic Judaism, medieval Jewish philosophy, Jewish mysticism, and Hebrew poetry.

Subjects may include trends toward secularization, the emancipation of European Jewry, the emergence of American Jewry, the Holocaust, the establishment of the State of Israel, and the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Introduction to the major themes of North African history from the sixteenth century to the present.

The history of Spain from its beginnings in the stone age through the great social and economic upheavals of the twentieth century.

Examines historical texts from four different magical traditions to find the truth behind the fiction and the historical events that sometimes permitted and sometimes persecuted the religions, philosophies, and sciences that some call magic.

The history of human sexuality is approached from four angles: sexual behaviors; sexual consequences; sexual regulation, and sexual science.

Broad introductory course to acquaint students with the main areas of interest in Latin American studies.

The beliefs, theology, history, and main social and legal institutions of Islam, including the concept of God and society, the role of women, and Islamic government and movements.

Survey the history of the Middle East from the beginning of the Neolithic period (9000 BCE) through the invasion of the region by Alexander the Great in 332 BCE and into the pre-Islamic era.

Survey of the history of the Indian subcontinent from prehistoric times to the present.

Examine how violence acts as a force shaping history in the modern era. Historicize violence to understand how it has changed over time.

Examine interdisciplinary perspectives (including historical, political, socio-psychological, and cultural methods and insights) on genocide as a global phenomenon.

Explore the history of medieval Europe primarily through the lens of material culture.

Examines how freedom of conscience and religion crystallized in western and central Europe, both as a pragmatic practice and as a matter of principle.

Explore new conceptions of medieval Europe by examining how the social practices, ideas, and institutions of the middle ages developed through interactions with Europe's neighbors.

Introduction to modern Africa, with focus on colonial and postcolonial development in political organization, economics, sociolinguistics, and literature.

Introduction to the study of indigenous religions in Mesoamerica, a geographic and cultural area spanning north-central Mexico through western Honduras, from approximately 250 BC - AD 1700. Examine the role of religion and ritual in daily life, as well as the lines of evidence available today for understanding them.

A broad survey of the political, economic, social, and cultural aspects of the Latin American past, stressing both that area's achievements and its enduring problems.

A broad survey of the political, social, and cultural aspects of the Latin American past.

Introduction to selected subjects in Latin American history and culture through film, readings, documentaries, class discussion, and lectures.

Introduction to selected subjects in Latin American history and culture through film, readings, documentaries, class discussion, and lectures.

Examine the history of anti-colonial struggles in North Africa and the victory over European colonial powers.

An exploration of the different social, economic, political, and cultural structures and concerns that came to both divide and unite the western hemisphere (North, Central, and South America, as well as the Caribbean) following independence from Europe.

An introduction to the history of Israel, from the emergence of the modern Zionist movement beginning in 1881 to the present.

Introductory, interdisciplinary course on the peoples and cultures of Africa.

Explore the formation of political borders in nineteenth- and twentieth-century North America, their contestation, and the multiple meanings attached to them.

Examines the origin and growth of the Mexican American community in the United States.

An interdisciplinary introduction to the historical exploration of American culture.

Survey of United States history from the colonial period through the Civil War.

Survey of United States history since the Civil War.

Explore the cultures, politics, and policies that shape the many Latinx histories in the United States.

Examines the history of Mexican and Mexican American women in the United States from the twentieth century to the present.

Focuses on the rise and fall of the British-American Atlantic Empire in the third quarter of the eighteenth century.

Examines building in American society from the late 1860s to 1980.

Introduction to the foundations of American History.

Explores instances of religious dominance and religious diversity in United States history. Moving from the pre-colonial period to the present, it examines the changing circumstances of several religious communities, including American Indians and Puritans, Protestant evangelicals, Mormons, Roman Catholics, Jews, Muslims, and Hindus.

Explores how historians read between the lines and where they look for clues, looking at the many methods historians use to discover and make sense of their evidence.

Examine the changing population of the United States from colonial times to present.

Examine the history of Jews in the United States from the seventeenth century to the present. Explore the formation of a distinct American Judaism and the involvement of Jews in American cultural and political affairs.

Examine economic development within the United States and South Africa.

Examine the history of social entrepreneurship in the United States and China.

Examine Mexican American history from the point of view of three distinct places: Los Angeles, the mountains of northern New Mexico, and the far southern tip of Texas.

Explore American history through visual and auditory media--films, paintings, photographs, plays, and songs--examining how these multimedia sources have shaped national identity, conveyed social movements, and captured historical moments.

Discuss the origins, growth, and development, of college football from its elite Ivy League school origins, to what is has become today: arguably one of the most popular sports in America. Examine college football within the broader history of American history and culture from the Gilded Age to the Age of Trump.

Explore the experiences of Black people during the age of segregation, more commonly referred to as Jim Crow. Discuss the timeframe of 1890-1954, while also talking about the legacy of slavery and the Juneteenth generation. Examine how Black southerners responded to segregation by creating a vibrant community culture rooted in self-help, entrepreneurship, family, and faith.

Introduces students to the national and transnational histories of Asian Americans in the United States. Explores a wide range of themes related to the Asian American experience.

The United States during a period marked by the spread of knowledge and experience of the world through conflict, economic exchange, cultural creativity, exploration, New World colonization, technological innovation, and religious reformation and counter-reformation.

History of political, economic, and cultural relations between the United States and Africa from the early origins of the slave trade to the present.

Examine the history of Native American societies in North America from the earliest records to the present.

Examines the major organizations, key figures, and ideologies of the Black Power movement from the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Analyzes claims from popular books in the light of accurate historical sources. Introduction to the process of making discoveries in historical research.

Survey of the ancient Mediterranean from ca. 3000 BC to AD 476. Focus on the development of ideas and institutions in the Greek and Roman worlds and on the active cultural exchange among the diverse civilizations of the broader region that shaped Greek and Roman history and cultural identity.

This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of History. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.

Focus on the basic history of Texas from roughly 1450 to 1900. Investigate major events such as the Texas Revolution and Civil War with an emphasis on how and why Texas, its culture, and its groups of people changed or did not change over time.

Examine the steady dissociation of Texas from its Old South status to a transitional state and a power in national politics.

Explore selected topics in the field of Texas history.

Introduction to the historical experience of Mexican-American persons in Texas.

Surveys the history of blacks in Texas from before American settlement to the present.

Explore evolving ideas and meanings concerning the most significant events, personages, and social processes in Texas' history.

To understand history as an academic discipline in terms of research methods, evidence, and analysis.

A survey of the Roman world from Augustus to Constantine the Great.

Examine the practices of slavery in the ancient Mediterranean world, focusing on the case of Rome.

Examine the core question about the way the Late Roman Republic was governed: To what extent and in what ways was the Republic "democratic or not?

Examine how Roman law operated at three levels of granularity, focusing mainly on attested disputes that made it to court for resolution.

Explore the history of Roman Africa with emphasis on what is now Tunisia and northern Algeria.

A survey of Roman history from the founding of Rome to the death of Julius Caesar.

Cultural history of science from ancient times to the seventeenth century.

The history of science and its place in society from the mid-sixteenth century to the time of Isaac Newton.

History of the life sciences from the eighteenth century to the present.

The history of science and its place in society from the time of Newton to the present.

Explores questions about human behavior related to biological factors as compared with personal experiences and societal standards.

The history of genetics and eugenic practices in the twentieth century.

Examine Europe in the period that witnessed the "birth" of a consumer society, the transition to fossil fuel as an energy source during the Little Ice Age, the Protestant reformation that trashed formerly treasured relics, the rise of imperial networks of global trade, and much more. Trace the circulation, use, and consumption of things from the renaissance to the consumer revolution using material culture, environmental history, and economic history.

Survey course emphasizing the impact of the two world wars on European social, political, and cultural life in the twentieth century.

Investigates how demolitions have shaped the material and social lives of two compelling, rapidly-changing global cities: Sao Paulo and Austin. Develop technical skills in digital mapping in a supportive environment.

Explore the global reach of the Catholic Church before modernity. Examine the tension between the local and the "universal" church, that is, how encounter, religious devotion, and political power were shaped by local circumstances as well as global connections. Analyze recent scholarship, texts, artwork, and objects made by early modern people who shaped Catholicism in this period.

Examine Jewish, Christian, and Muslim communities in the Ottoman Empire (fourteenth to twentieth centuries), with a focus on dynamics both within and between the communities.

Examine the South Asian diaspora in the United States.

Examine the role and force of the Orthodox Church in Russian history, from the Christianization of the pagan Slavs in the 10th century, through the Russian Revolution into the Soviet era, and up to the present, while considering the prescriptive tenets of the Orthodox faith (religion) alongside descriptive experiences of life within and under Russian Orthodoxy (religiosity).

Examine major thinkers and movements in both Jewish philosophy and Jewish mysticism since the Middle Ages, with a focus on the importance of modern Jewish thought in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Examine the early-modern networks established by the Sephardi Jews (Sephardim) across the Mediterranean and Atlantic, the rich Ladino Judeo-Spanish culture that thrived in the Ottoman Empire, and Sephardi encounters with the modern world.

Examine a wide array of American attitudes towards Russia and Russians. Using a variety of political, social, and cultural events and encounters, analyze the ways in which nationalism, imperialism, and geopolitics informed American narratives about Russia and Russians, assessments that range from enthusiasm and curiosity to condemnation and outright hostility.

Examine ordinary people's experience of socialism in the Soviet Union and the plural interpretations of this experience after the USSR's collapse.

The social, economic, political, and cultural forces that have shaped modern Brazil.

The development, use, and influence of nuclear weapons from the 1930s to 1954.

This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of History. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.

Explores the intellectual, social, and cultural history of science and mathematics, focusing on the 17th century to the present. Designed for students in the UTeach-Natural Sciences program.

Examine the history of modern media and media culture.

A survey of Ottoman society and culture and of the empire's place on the world scene.

Examine the historical, social, and political processes of change experienced by the Palestinian-Arab community in Israel, including the fundamental aspects pertaining to the founding of Israel as "a Jewish and democratic state" and the relations between the Arab minority and the Jewish majority.

Examine the elements of the Arab-Israeli conflict, including the main figures involved, events, and turning-points in its history.

A survey of the social, economic, and religious components unique to Iran from the pre-Islamic empire of the Achaemenids through the development of Iran as a medieval and premodern Islamic state.

Explore cross cultural contacts between the East and the West during the modern period. Analyze Islamic civilization in the Middle East of the modern era by addressing the development of religion, law, government, and morality during and after the colonial period.

A general survey of the origins and development of Arabic civilization.

Explore the development of modern Iran; special attention is given to the impact of the West, the constitutional movement, nationalism, the oil crisis, and the Islamic Revolution of 1979.

Introduction to 20th-century Arab world history, primarily focusing on the Eastern Mediterranean, including Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Palestine, and Egypt. Explore the transformation of this region from a single cultural and political entity under imperial Ottoman rule, through colonial rule to the age of the nation-state and its struggles. Discuss key themes including colonial rule and relation to Europe and the US, Arab nationalism, revolutionary modernism, the impact of Zionism and Israel, the Palestinian revolution, the emergence of political Islam, civil wars, and the oil revolution. Examine internal and external forces and pivotal processes that have shaped the region over the past century through political, social, intellectual, and economic factors.

Introduction to the history of the Middle East in the twentieth century. Examines forces that transformed the area from a relatively peaceful region to a radicalized environment. Explores colonialism, nationalism, secular modernism, impact of Zionism, rise of political Islam, status of women, and the oil revolution.

Explores significant intellectual developments in Europe throughout the nineteenth century. Themes include romanticism, positivism, socialism, and nihilism.

Explores significant intellectual developments in Europe in the twentieth century. Topics include psychoanalysis, sociology, existentialism, and poststructuralism.

Explore political philosophies from the continental tradition (Heidegger/Arendt, Nietzsche, Adorno/Horkheimer, and Agamben/Schmitt) implicated in radical politics and answering to political turning points, with a focus on research and reading in historical contexts.

Introduction to the writings of Karl Marx as well as to those of his intellectual successors in Europe and around the globe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The history of United States foreign policy and diplomacy from the founding of the United States to the outbreak of the First World War.

The history of United States foreign policy and diplomacy from the First World War to the present.

A historical and ethnomusicological survey of the Arab, Turkish, and Persian music cultures.

Explore myths and legends contained in a variety of ancient sources, including texts from Israel, Greece, Egypt, and Mesopotamia.

Critically examines the social, political, and intellectual dynamics that shaped the different forms of political community, economic organization, and public culture over the past century. Covers colonialism, liberalism, Arab socialism, authoritarian capitalism, and Islamic republicanism.

Explore the history and culture of modern Egypt through selected readings in twentieth-century film and fiction.

Examine the cultural production that surrounds key moments of political and social change in the Middle East.

Explore how Turkish culture is neither static nor monolithic but is continuously contested and redefined. Investigate tensions between secularism and Islam, Orientalist and Occidentalist fantasies, and imperialist and nationalist desires to better understand the sociopolitical dynamics that define Turkish society today.

Surveys the political, social, economic, and intellectual history of England and Great Britain from the restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660 to the conclusion of the War for American Independence in 1783.

The Revolutionary transformation of America between 1763 and 1800.

Examine the history of the Levant, a region that includes Syria, Israel, Palestine, and Jordan.

Explore the evolution of crime and law enforcement in the modern Middle East.

Explore how past, present, local, and regional events inform current Jordanian culture and identity.

Explore and (re)asses the diplomatic, strategic-military relations and socio-cultural entanglements between the United States and the German Democratic Republic, thus complicating our understanding of the West-East divide and Cold War culture.

Explore the history and aesthetics of German cinema from 1918 until 1945.

Explore and compare German and American memory cultures, analyzing the Holocaust, slavery, and colonialism. Analyze the diversity and complexity of (inter)national, local, and indigenous memory cultures while also discussing how Germany and the United States might "learn from each other.

Uncover the dark side of the Nordic countries, from gritty streets to icy fjords, and explore the history, culture, literature, and movies these societies produce.

Survey of German political and military institutions, economic development, culture, and society.

Survey the history of the medieval Middle East, from the period of Late Antiquity (in the seventh century) to the rise of early modern empires of the Safavids, Ottomans, and Mughals (in the seventeenth century), through close examination of the meaning and significance of 100 objects.

Explore Sufism and other Islamic mystical traditions that color cultural milieus spanning four continents and fourteen centuries. Focus on the historical developments in the Islamic theosophical tradition, as well as the relationship between Sufism and poetics, colonialism, and post-colonial resistance movements.

Explores narratives of migration, race, ethnicity, and a wide range of experiences of acculturation and assimilation from the perspective of a sending society--China--which has one of the longest and most diverse histories of sending people overseas. Over the last millennia, Chinese have migrated around the world and made homes under a great range of adversity and opportunity, producing many stories of human differences and commonalities.

Examines in a historical context the Chinese economy, society, politics, and culture during the reform era that began in the late 1970s. Explores the transformation of rural and urban economies and related social consequences; government systems, political ideologies, and popular values; and China's integration into the global system and its impact on China's role in world politics.

History of China from the intrusion of the West circa 1500 to the Communist revolution.

European exploration, the commerce of the East India Companies, and the beginnings of empire in South and Southeast Asia from the fifteenth to the early nineteenth century.

The British in India and Malaya, the Dutch in Indonesia, and the French in Indochina since 1800.

History of the Chinese in the United States from their first arrival in significant numbers during the California Gold Rush of the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

Explores issues of ethnicity, empire, and modernization in East Asia from the sixteenth century to the present, as seen through encounters between Taiwan and aborigines, Han Chinese, Dutch, Portuguese, the imperial Qing, Japanese, mainland Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), and the United States.

Focus is on the cultural outsider's perceptions of East Asia in greater travel" dating from as early as Marco Polo up to works published in contemporary America. Selected memoirs and travelogues are presented from the perspective of the cultural outsider, written by missionaries, colonizers, journalists, POW's, scholars, students, and tourists.

Examines ways in which Asia and other areas of the globe have had connected intellectual, artistic, and social developments with focus on world histories centrally involving Asia from the medieval period to the present.

The political, social, and cultural relationship between North and South Korea, and between the Koreas and the United States, since 1945.

Explore the fraught and entangled histories of modern Japan and Korea as depicted in literature and film to consider experiences of imperialism, rapid modernization, war, decolonization, and trauma.

Japan to the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution, with a focus on the culminating age of samurai rule, the Tokugawa period (1600-1867).

Japan from the Meiji transformation through war, defeat, and occupation.

Japan since the war and occupation.

Historical development of the Japanese economy since early modern times.

Examines late medieval religion, the rise of Protestant movements, and the Catholic response in their cultural, political, and social contexts.

Examine how various groups of people understood, experienced, and imagined concepts such as "the East" and "Asia" with a primary focus on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Introduction to modern Middle Eastern and Islamic history in the broader context of globalization, with a primary focus on the nineteenth century to the present.

Survey the history of the medieval Middle East, from 1500 to the present, through close examination of the meaning and significance of 100 objects.

Explore the history of food and beverages in the Middle East and Asia, including Palestine/Israel, Egypt, Iran, India, China, and Japan. Investigate themes of identity, capitalism, and globalization to reflect on the role of food consumers in an interconnected world.

Survey of political, socioeconomic, religious, and intellectual trends during the Italian Renaissance.

Survey of Russian history from seventeenth-century Muscovy to the fall of the Romanovs in 1917.

A survey of Russian history from the revolution of 1917 to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

An in depth examination of the political, social, economic, and cultural dynamics at work in early twentieth-century Russia.

Explores the role of families and concepts of gender as expressed in key economic, social, political, and cultural patterns in early modern Europe.

Social, cultural, political, and economic history of France from the fall of the Roman Empire to the fifteenth century; emphasis on the development of feudalism and nationalism.

The political, social, cultural, and legal history of England from about 410 to 1154. Lectures and discussion of primary sources.

An examination of social, cultural, and intellectual developments in eleventh- and twelfth-century Europe.

Political, social, and legal history of England from the Norman conquest in 1066 to the end of the reign of Richard III in 1485.

Social history of early modern Europe (1400-1700), with emphasis on material conditions of social existence.

Investigate ancient Chinese beliefs and practices surrounding death and the afterlife from the Neolithic era to the arrival of Buddhism. Explore tombs, burial objects, and funeral rites; philosophical essays and historical accounts; medical practices; religious relics, tokens, and talismans; ghost stories; poetry; and paintings.

Explore Northern Europe's transition from medieval to Early Modern in and through the northern Renaissance. Examine humanist culture and its many tensions with the Church, technological breakthroughs and their social and economic consequences, the connections between the discovery of new lands and the recovery of ancient learning, and the formation of the early modern state.

Through Niccolo Machiavelli's chief writings, consider the local, regional, Mediterranean, European, and global aspects of his work.

An exploration of the religious encounters between eastern and western Christians, Christian heretics, Jews, Muslims, and polytheists; political, military, and cultural changes of the high middle ages; and the ways that crusading ideas and symbols have been reused in contemporary politics and popular culture.

Research seminar on how historians have explored the significance of law, criminal and civil, in the lives of early modern Europeans. Topics include infanticide, fornication, drunkenness, theft, debt, slander, and family disputes.

Lecture and discussion course dealing with the historical conditions that led to the American Civil War.

Lecture and discussion course on the Civil War and Reconstruction period.

Examine the role that debt has played in the formation of colonial and neocolonial practices in the Caribbean region. Take a broad approach to the concept of debt in order to explore the financial and monetary dynamics of debt, but also the political and cultural implications of debt. Focus in particular on debt as justification in the furtherance of colonialism throughout the Caribbean. Engage in a historical examination of the United States' colonial projects and military interventions in the region throughout the 20th and into the 21st centuries.

History and culture of South Asia from its protohistoric beginnings in the Indus Valley through the period of the early empires of the Mauryas and Guptas.

History and culture of South Asia from approximately 500 to 1500, with emphasis on religious and political institutions and the emergence of regional cultures.

Study European-indigenous encounters in Mesoamerica, a geographic and cultural area spanning north-central Mexico through western Honduras, between approximately 1450-1750. Examine strategies of contact, accommodation, and resistance that indigenous communities and European colonizers used to communicate with each other and negotiate the conduct of daily life in colonial society.

Surveys the history of South Asia during the era prior to British colonial rule.

Examines objects, such as paintings, reliquaries, monstrances, and churches from colonial Latin America in order to understand colonial culture. Includes critical reading of original texts.

Basic survey course, designed as an introduction to Latin American history in the colonial period.

Continuation of History 346K and Latin American Studies 366 (Topic 2).

The history and culture of South Asia from approximately 1500 to 1750.

Examines the cultural and political movements and events that led to formation of the two nation-states India and Pakistan.

An overview of Contemporary India, a republic that emerged from the British Empire.

Comparison of the Mexican and Cuban revolutions and of their challenges to inter-American relations.

An introduction to recent Latin American history, with emphasis on phenomena that explain the apparent social unrest and political instability of the region.

The special economic and political relationship between the United States and Cuba from 1898 to 1967; and how the 1959 revolution affected the Cold War relationships between East and West, North and South.

Examines causes of some of the unresolved conflicts affecting Latin America today, including the social-agrarian relationships linking landlords and campesinos; the role of the state and the impact of official ideologies involving indigenous people; religion and the Catholic Church; the history of rural institutions; and the success or failure of land reforms.

History of Church-state relations and religious politics in modern Latin America, with emphasis on the nineteenth to early twentieth-century periods.

Explores Cuban-United States relations from the nineteenth century to the present, including issues of empire and transnationalism, and social change engagements between Cuba and the United States before and after the Cuban Revolution.

Explore Cuba's peoples, cultures, ethnicities, and the social and historical processes that go far beyond the common media stereotypes.

Designed to familiarize students in the honors program with general problems of historiography, historical interpretation, and the philosophy of history.

Examines urban slavery in the Americas.

The history of Catholicism in twentieth-century Mexico, often seen as Latin America's most "Catholic" nation.

An examination of the key political, social, and economic events that underpin contemporary Chilean society.

A broad survey of world military systems from ancient times to about 1640.

An investigation of world military systems and of the evolution of military technology from about the time of the Thirty Years' War to the end of the nineteenth century.

Lectures, discussion, reading, and research on selected topics in the field of history.

Explore Gandhi's life, work, philosophy, and influence, as well as his historical and cultural context.

Focus on India's classical epics, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, with emphasis placed on understanding the epic characters in relation to the heroic traditions of premodern India, as well as on the role of the epics in contemporary Indian political and religious culture.

Overview of Caribbean history from 1492 to the present. Topics include contact between European and native cultures, piracy, slavery, colonialism and decolonization, and revolutions.

Following the life and work of Albert Einstein, course examines the rise of the theories of relativity and quantum mechanics upon the stage of international political upheaval.

Focuses on South Asia during the era of the Mughal empire (1550-1750), continuing through the symbolic relevance of the Mughal dynasty in British India and in India today.

Examines the historical experiences of people of African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean beginning in the slavery era, and focuses on the histories of Afro-Latin Americans after emancipation.

Explores the era of decolonization of the British empire after World War II.

Explores the emergence of the political and economic ideas of liberalism in Britain and the evolution of British overseas expansion during the seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and early nineteenth- centuries.

Explores important episodes in the history of biology regarding the classification of human races.

Explores the "conquest" of Mexico and the social, cultural, political, and economic processes which were set in motion by the Spanish invasion of Mexico.

Examines histories of Africa and travel through eyewitness accounts. Studies journeys Africans have made within and from the continent alongside accounts of travelers visiting Africa from elsewhere.

Examination of the Cold War and the ensuing conflicts around the world (1945-1990).

Questions the geographical category of Latin America by examining the kinds of trends and forces of the nineteenth century that contributed to its conceptual emergence and to its growing political, economic, and cultural significance on the global stage.

Explore how human societies and natural environments have shaped each other in world history.

An exploration of how communities have confronted disease throughout Africa's history.

Investigate how financial crises have arisen in the past and to what extent they transpired because of wrongdoing.

Explore the meaning of "radical hope" and how it is related to the environment, climate change, or the Anthropocene.

Explore the connected histories of the geographical regions and economic communities that share the littoral space of the Indian Ocean.

Explore the vital role of commodities in Asian history with a particular focus on East and Southeast Asia.

Lectures, discussion, reading, and research on selected topics in the field of United States history.

Examines the gendered experience of chattel slavery in the United States. Includes critical analysis of classic and contemporary texts, films, and songs that focus on slave labor, family, community, sexuality, and the economy.

Uses primary sources, historical monographs, and essays to provide a chronological and thematic overview of the experiences of black women in America from their African roots to the circumstances they face in the present era.

Explores medical and biological views throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries of women and women's health, the social context of those views, the development of medical practices, and the treatment of illness and debility.

Explores the evolution of American popular culture and its relationship to national consolidation, and at times, disunion, over the last 330 years.

A brief introduction to Islam. Defines the role of Islam and views of Muslims in the early history of the United States, and introduces students to major issues concerning contemporary American Muslims.

Studies Native American life and culture from the late nineteenth- to the twentieth- century through the use of historical and anthropological texts, autobiographies, documentaries, and fiction.

Explores the inner workings of the domestic slave trade from the perspectives of slaveholders, speculators, and the enslaved. Analysis of maps, letters, diaries, newspaper advertisements, and legislation relating to the domestic slave trade.

Surveys the changing material culture of the western hemisphere from pre-Columbian times to the beginning of the industrial revolution.

Examination of the precipitant events and ideas leading up to the American Declaration of Independence through discussions, lectures, and an extended exercise in historical role playing.

Focuses on African American and Mexican American struggles for civil rights. Asian American and Native American movements will also be addressed. Using a comparative approach the student will consider the distinctiveness of each of these struggles while also viewing them in relation to each other.

Explores the history of refugees in the twentieth century, with special attention to the United States and its engagement in the international arena of refugee politics.

Focuses on the impact of Barack Obama's watershed presidency on American democracy.

Using press coverage of historical and contemporary court cases and trials of women ranging from Angela Davis to Marissa Alexander, explores how media shapes public and popular perceptions of race, class, gender, sexuality, and the law.

Investigate terrorism throughout American history through selective case studies and independent research.

Study of the American use and perception of drugs, including alcohol, and how they have changed over time. Examines significant shifts in American attitudes toward individualism and social control.

The history of humanity's influence on the plants, animals, microlife, soils, water, and air of North America, and vice versa, from the arrival of the proto-Indians to the contemporary environmental crisis.

History of Asia, Egypt, and the Mediterranean world from Alexander's expedition to Asia to Rome's defeat of the last of the Hellenistic monarchs at Actium (ca. 334 to 31 BC).

Introduction to the history of religion in the United States of America from the nineteenth century to the present. Focuses on how diverse peoples imagined and transformed the landscape, interacted with one another at different sites, and moved within and across national borders.

Examine slavery in the New Testament.

Explore the initial decade of the Mexican Revolution, the first of the twentieth-century nationalist social revolutions. Examine the historical antecedents and the political, economic, social, and intellectual elements of the upheaval.

Introduction to the history of modern Mexico from the close of the Mexican Revolution (1940) to the present.

A survey of political, economic, social, and intellectual trends, with emphasis on class relationships.

Analysis of the social, political, and economic origins and outcomes of the French Revolution and Napoleon's empire.

Survey of Greek history from the emergence of the city-states to the rise of Macedonia.

Focuses on 20th century France, with an emphasis on three critical conflicts: World War One, World War Two, and the Algerian war.

Explore the Nazi occupation of France and Vichy's collaboration. Consider the devastating fall of the French Republic, the organization of Vichy France, Vichy's complicity in the Holocaust, the ethical complexities of collaboration and resistance, and the ramifications of World War II for the French empire.

The impact of revolution on French political, economic, and social development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Examines the Gilded Age and Progressive Era to depict the rise of modern America.

A history of political, economic, diplomatic, military, social, and cultural developments in the United States between the two world wars.

Traces the development of American culture and society from the colonial era until the end of the Civil War. Major themes include racial conflict, religion, slavery, the development of democracy, and cultural reform.

A history of political, economic, diplomatic, social, and cultural developments in the United States since the nation's entry into World War II.

A lecture and discussion course dealing with the history of the development of the American constitutional tradition from colonial times to the present.

Explore how the history of land helps explain the society we live in today and ideas about the human-nature relationship.

Examines the history of the trans-Mississippi West with a special focus on the concepts of conquest, resistance, and region from the nineteenth to the twentieth century.

Traces the development of American culture and society from the end of the Civil War to the present. Major themes include racial conflict, pluralism, religion, urban development and reform, modernism, government centralization, cultural radicalism, and the rebirth of conservatism.

Examines United States history in the post-World War II era, including how civil rights and other racial issues helped shape the politics, popular culture, and social life of this period.

Examines the presidency and the individuals who have held it, with an eye toward discovering trends of historical and contemporary interest.

Review of West African origins; New World settlement patterns, social life, and culture; discussion of the Atlantic slave trade, the development of capitalism and plantation slavery, and the origins of racism.

Survey of the history of African Americans in the United States from 1860 to the present: Emancipation, Reconstruction politics, migration and urbanization, and the evolution of African American culture; kinds of sources and methods valuable for analyzing African American life and culture.

Explore German immigration to the United States from the colonial era to the present. Examine the motivations for migration; settlement patterns; construction of identity through traditions and festivals; German American's economic, social, and cultural contributions to the United States; and challenges to assimilation.

Apply historical methods in office and organizational workplaces. Utilize research, analytical, writing, and information skills.

Surveys the political, social, economic, and intellectual history of Great Britain from the years preceding the outbreak of the French Revolution to the conclusion of World War I.

Explore Africa's past through the story of urbanization beginning with an overview of African cities around 1500--a time of increasing human migration and global trade. Assess African cities in the modern period, focusing on the advent of European colonialism in the 1800s and its aftermath.

Examine fashion history through readings, videos, social media, and textile making to provide an immersive experience in African design history. Address the ways in which textiles are tied to class distinctions and politics, wrapped up in the history of trade (including human trafficking and slavery), mixed into revolutionary struggles and post-independent governance, and inspire haute couture and global fashion trends.

Development of sub-Saharan Africa from the end of the slave trade to independence.

A survey of the history of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda from prehistoric times to the postindependence era.

A history of the West Africa region: the rise and fall of kingdoms, relations with Europe and Asia, the great revolutions of the nineteenth century, colonial administration, decolonization, and the search for economic development and political stability since independence.

Introduction to the main contours of social and cultural British history, both in Britain and in its burgeoning empire.

Examination of the complex relationship between the Western Church and Jews over two millenia.

Study of fictional and real rebels and revolutionaries across almost a century of Russian literature.

Introduces key themes and methodologies of intellectual history and social theory by exploring the dueling approaches to secularization and sacralization in modern European thought.

Examines the war in Eastern Europe with a particular emphasis on occupation, collaboration, and resistance; the Holocaust; and the connection between ethnic cleansing, population transfer, and the establishment of communism in postwar Eastern Europe.

Examine the development of warfare between the late Roman Empire and the early modern world (c. 400-1500), including a brief retrospective on war in the ancient world.

Explore complex history of Orthodox Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism in Russia. Examine important worship sites, including monasteries and pilgrimage destinations. Have discussions with Russian scholars of religion and practitioners of different faiths.

An introduction to the history of relations between the United States and Latin America. Designed to prepare each student for a potential experience in Latin America (or with Latino communities in the United States) such as study abroad, research, and/or community engagement.

Explore fundamental questions about the unique role of culture in modern democracies and dictatorships by taking an overview of culture and politics in the Third Reich. Examine questions about the relationship between political propaganda and modern entertainment, mass media and authoritarianism, political aesthetics and ideology, and the dynamics of oppression, resistance, and consent.

Examine the development and transformation of espionage, intelligence, and surveillance in Europe from the first World War to the end of the Cold War.

Examine an overview of major developments in the economic, political, social, cultural, and gender and sexuality fields of East European history before 1914. Explore diplomacy, institutional legacies of war and peace, urban and rural developments and inequalities, spaces of language and religion, race, labor migration, and the arts.

Explore alternatives to nation-state imaginaries across Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Examine spatial thinking, utopia, dystopia, the history of geosciences, counter-mapping, and the decolonial geopoetics of space.

Learn how technologies and social changes shape each other. Use case studies from Eastern Europe and Russia from the Industrial Revolution to the Era of AI. Explore the industrialization of production and consumption, the professionalization of engineering, the emergence of multidivisional industrial enterprises, the relationship between humans and machines, the uses of "cheap nature", and technological utopianism.

Focus on multicultural history, shared imperial and national spaces, and geopolitics of entangled Russian-Ukrainian relations.

Examines the ways in which cultural memory has shaped, and continues to shape, urban life in Vienna, Austria.

An examination of the phenomenon of colonialism, with an emphasis on the European expansion across the globe that began at the end of the western Middle Ages and continued throughout the early modern period.

Examine the tensions and conflicts between 1914 and 1918 that set the stage for the violent twentieth century.

Examine different ways of narrating the Chernobyl disaster and general disasters through history, environmental history, sociology, art, film, fiction, and science.

Examine the occupation of Poland by Germany and the Soviet Union and the ways in which this dual occupation impacted people and their communities.

Discover the primary historical developments of the post-war period in Eastern Europe from the imposition of communism in 1945 until its collapse in 1989. Explore political, economic, and cultural transformations of the Cold War.

Introduction to the core of Spinoza's writings and the diverse reactions they have elicited. Examines Spinoza's refusal of mind-body dualism, as well as a transcendent god or ideal as a way of understanding Spinoza's concepts and ideas.

Examines the major political, social, and cultural events that shaped Eastern European society in the twentieth century.

Explores the history and culture of Jews in Eastern Europe.

Explores the key events and developments of Southeastern Europe, the region commonly referred to as the Balkans, in the twentieth century.

Explores the theologies, politics, and personal identities that emerged and passed away in this era.

Explore and relate commodification of nature, the climate crisis, and preserving biodiversity from the past and present. Investigate how human societies have changed their environments and how the environment has influenced the courses of societies through case studies from the ecological impact of the Teutonic Crusades to nuclear waste management in Chernobyl.

Examine the Holocaust as part of Nazi Germany's quest to build a new racial order.

Examine the complex and dynamic legacies of World War II and questions of memory, identity, and politics from 1945 to the present.

An overview of principal trends and issues in Argentine history from independence to the present.

Focuses on the histories of the Catholic Church and religious devotion in colonial Latin America between 1521 and 1821.

Discuss the role of maps in the creation of Latin America as a specific sort of place. As such, allows familiarity with a broad overview of Latin American history from Pre-Columbian civilizations to the modern period.

Varied perspectives on the central role played by the Old Testament in the construction of colonial cultures in the Americas.

Examine an overview of life and politics in contemporary Mexico.

Explore the impact of the Cuban revolution in Latin American politics, gender roles, and women's participation in public life during the sixties.

History of major doctrines, practices, and institutions that shaped the development of Hinduism; how religions adapt to social and cultural change and often provide the catalyst for change.

A detailed study of the prophet Muhammad's life and message, and of the means by which his life was recorded and popularized.

Explore the social, economic, and political challenges of the past fifty years of Africa's history through an examination of several popular films.

Introduction to key religious, philosophical, and political ideas from part of the Islamicate world through sustained readings of core texts.

Major themes include politics, economics, religion, the family, culture, technology, feminism, colonialism, nationalism, and development in relation to the lives of African women.

Explore the cultural history of Japan from the 1980s to the present, with particular attention paid to economic and ecological issues represented in literature, film, and visual culture.

A study of the social, political, economic, and cultural history of South Africa to contextualize the rise of apartheid. Primarily focuses on the period since 1948 from the perspectives of women, children, and men of all racial backgrounds who lived through that particular period.

The development of regions within the Mediterranean, variously called the West and East or Europe and Islam, with an emphasis on the role of modern France and France's Mediterranean empire.

Examines the different historical experiences of mainland China and Taiwan in the context of the East Asian model of development.

Examine the history of slavery in the Atlantic from 1450 to 1865.

Examine how Catholicism and national identity work for Catholics in the United States, with an emphasis on Catholic women and Latino/as.

Examines classic texts and recent and varied writings on LGBT history, focused on experiences, ideas, and conflicts that have shaped modern LGBT identities.

Introduction to the history of the United States and Mexico border region.

Examines the intersection of racial ideology and legal culture in the United States.

Explore the use of "authorized violence" and "unauthorized violence" by the U.S. military and examine how both types of violence have changed American history since initial colonization.

Examine the history of unbelief and the role that it has played in US history.

Trace the origins and development of Mexican American Studies at the national, regional, and local levels. Collaborate to help preserve and recognize the significance of Mexican American Studies at the University in historical and contemporary contexts.

Explore seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and early nineteenth-century American higher education.

Examine the history, varieties, and philosophies of museums.

Traces the history of popular music in the United States and its influence on American politics, economics, and culture from the 1880s to present day.

Investigate the histories of Native American women to reaffirm and reclaim their place and role in the histories of Native Americans, indigenous peoples, women, Chican@/xs, Greater Mexico, and the United States. Contemplate how many understandings that center colonization, settler colonialism, genocide, race, and environmentalism are essential to examining Native American women's history. Explore the stories, struggles, and ideas of community-building, sovereignty, and liberation as integral to their genders and sexualities as Native American, Indian, First Nations, indigenous, and red and brown women.

Examine the twentieth-century expansion of commercial agriculture and concomitant labor organizing struggles waged by agricultural workers in the United States, including Arkansas, California, Hawai'i, Puerto Rico, and Texas. Explore the role of the United Farm Workers of America.

Explore the diplomatic and military history of the United States and Great Britain and how the two nations have interacted and shaped each other's national security policies and visions of a liberal international order.

Examine the history of Black women and mass incarceration in America. Explore how race, class, and gender have historically influenced the production of crime and unfair criminal justice policies. Investigate why mass incarceration matters, what its historical legacy is, and how it impacts Black women today.

Explore how slavery has evolved in the United States since the end of the Civil War.

Explore the history of American children and youth from the colonial era to the present.

The history of American capitalism from 1865 to 2000; examines innovation, economic rights, and the role of the state.

Introduction to the complex and controversial history of the wars fought in Vietnam from 1941 to the 1980s.

Explores the ethics of scientific experimentation on humans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Examination of slavery at its maturity during the nineteenth century.

Examines women's participation in well-known and lesser-known social movements during the twentieth century.

Examine attempts to find a measure of justice after the Holocaust. Explore themes of human rights and international law.

Examine food production, food consumption, and socio-cultural identities in Latin America through comparative and multidisciplinary research.

Surveys trends in Judeophobia/anti-Semitism over 2,500 years in both Christian and non-Christian societies. Designed to use anti-Semitism as way to explore more general ideas in social theory such as boundary making; models of racial, ethnic, and cultural conflict; and the role of intellectual and scientific elites.

Reading course in history, literature, and politics, and as a class in professional writing. Examines not only the literature, history, and politics of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, but also the interaction of British and other societies throughout the world.

Introduction to major themes in the history of medicine through the lens of disease. To be considered are the roles governments, medical practitioners, and patients play in the social construction of disease and health.

Explore gender as a broad analytical tool to understand key problems concerning social organization, power relations, and inequality in contemporary Latin America.

Examine key sections of Newton's Principia Mathematica Philosophiae Naturalis.

Examine the long history of commerce and enterprise in the Indian sub-continent up to the present.

Examine gender and the shifting nature of modernity between precolonial and colonial periods in the Indian subcontinent.

Survey of the Hajj, Islam's major pilgrimage to Mecca and the nearby Holy Places. It will examine the Islamic pilgrimage from its beginnings in the seventh century C.E. through today.

Examine the presence of slavery in the subcontinent in the third century BCE to the twentieth century.

Discover the experiences and memories of many different groups affected by the Partition of British India in 1947 while tracing the effects of the Partition until the present.

Explore the cultural, historical, philosophical, social, and scientific background against which the connection between food and healing has evolved through Chinese history.

Examine a history of the religious and cultural development across the Islamic world between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries, stemming from the rise of the Mongols and the end of the caliphate. Explore the early modern Muslim empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and the Mughals.

Examine how pirates helped bind East Asia together into an integrated zone of economic and cultural exchange. Explore how they formed the leading edge of early modern globalization and linking diverse economies and societies together.

Focus on banned works of literature, painting, photography, film, and manga that encountered censorship in Japan from the early eighteenth century to today. Explore the censored texts in-depth alongside the sociopolitical contexts of their banning in order to understand how censorship worked historically and to help us consider how it works in our own time and place.

Explore the history of Japan via an examination of the complex and ever-changing figure of the samurai.

Individual instruction in reading history and historiography.

Individual instruction in historical research and writing.

Examine the history of migration within and from the Mediterranean area.

An introduction to the impact of Islam on Spain and North Africa, with emphasis on social, economic, and cultural development.

Exploration of the most important political, religious, social, economic, and intellectual changes that occurred in England between the accession of Henry VII and the death of Elizabeth I.

Topical lecture course focusing on the most significant political, religious, social, economic, and cultural developments in seventeenth-century England.

Political, social, and economic changes in the nineteenth century: the Second Republic; the Spanish Civil War; the Franco Era and the transition to democracy after 1975.

Explore how the archipelago of islands that make up the nations of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland underwent a series of dramatic transformations in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Focus on politics, religious upheaval, and the beginnings of "British empire," a phrase first coined in this period.

Pursue in-depth the research interests and skills developed in other history classes.

Investigate questions at the intersection of history and computer science through collaborative projects. Develop computational tools and methods to study history. Explore how ideas in history and computer science can inform each other.

An individual instruction course to provide training in the methods and teaching of historical research and writing.

Topics cover scientific development since ancient times, including the scientific revolution, 1500-1800; the development of specific scientific disciplines; and the relationship between science and social change.

Study of the British empire in the Middle East, Asia and Africa.

Seminar on selected topics on precolonial African societies and African societies since 1875.

Explore the complicated nature of communist rule in Eastern Europe in its many forms, from Poland in the North to Yugoslavia in the South. Examine the variety of lived experiences of citizens of Eastern Europe, from the imposition of communism in the region after World War II to the collapse of the system in 1989. Discuss the most recent scholarship on the region that ties regional developments to the broader Cold War context, and covers issues ranging from state-society dynamics, to religion, consumer culture, urban change, and collectivization.

A historical study of economic development and economic policy.

Reading and research in the history of England under the Tudors and Stuarts, 1485-1689.

Examine Stalinism as a complex historical, ideological, and cultural phenomenon that crucially shaped Russia's destiny from the twentieth century to the present moment. Consider this phenomenon beyond popular stereotypes (blood-thirsty tyrant; miserable and terrorized population; total propaganda; etc).

Development of Middle Eastern history since the beginning of modern times.

Designed to expand the graduate student's opportunity for individual consultation.

Preparation for qualifying examinations.

Introduction to a variety of theoretical, methodological, or historiographical approaches to the past.

A seminar to acquaint the advanced student with the nature and extent of materials for study and writing in United States history.

Survey of historical writing and historiography from colonial times to the present.

Survey of historical writing and historiography to 1865. Designed to introduce students to the field of early American history.

Examines trends in American historiography from 1865 to the present.

Preparation of a report to fulfill the requirement for the master's degree under the report option.

Weekly group meetings with the instructor, individual consultations, and reports.