History

Course Offerings Fall 2013

Course Code	Title/Instructor	Meets
HIST 105-01	Medieval Europe Instructor: Stephen Weinberger Course Description: This survey course will study the development of European civilization during the period ca.300 to 1300. It will consider the impact of such events as the decline of the Roman Empire, the Germanic invasions, the development of Christianity and the Church, the emergence of feudalism, the expansion of Islam and the Crusades, and the creation of romantic literature.	0900:TR DENNY 203
HIST 106-01	Modern Europe to 1815 Instructor: Regina Sweeney Course Description: Society, culture, and politics from the Renaissance through the French Revolution.	0930:MWF DENNY 211
HIST 117-01	American History to 1877 Instructor: Emily Pawley Course Description: 1607 to 1877 covers colonial, revolutionary, and national America through Reconstruction. Include attention to historical interpretation. Multiple sections offered.	1030:MWF DENNY 313
HIST 117-02	American History to 1877 Instructor: Christopher Bilodeau Course Description: 1607 to 1877 covers colonial, revolutionary, and national America through Reconstruction. Include attention to historical interpretation. Multiple sections offered.	0830:MWF DENNY 311
HIST 118-01	American History since 1877 Instructor: Roger Turner Course Description: 1877 to the present covers aspects of political evolution, foreign policy development, industrialization, urbanization, and the expanding roles of 20th century central government. Includes attention to historical interpretation. Multiple sections offered.	1500:TR DENNY 104
HIST 121-01	Middle East to 1750 Instructor: Derek Mancini-Lander Course Description: Cross-listed with MEST 121-01.	1130:MWF DENNY 313
HIST 130-01	Latin American History I Instructor: William Visser Course Description: Cross-listed with LALC 230-01.	1130:MWF DENNY 110
HIST 204-01	Intro Historical Methodology Instructor: Emily Pawley Course Description: Local archives and libraries serve as laboratories for this project-oriented seminar that introduces beginning majors to the nature of history as a discipline, historical research techniques, varied forms of historical evidence and the ways in which historians interpret them, and the conventions of historical writing. Prerequisite: one previous course in history.	1330:TF DENNY 112
HIST 211-01	20th Century American Radicals Instructor: Kim Rogers Course Description: Cross-listed with AMST 200-03. This course is focused on radical movements in the United States between 1900 and 2000. We will study political, religious, and cultural radicals that range from the Industrial Workers of the World (the "Wobblies") to the Nation of Islam to the feminist movement that featured activists like Emma Goldman, Margaret Sanger, and Eleanor Roosevelt. The lives and work of cultural radicals Mabel Dodge Luhan, Allen Ginsberg, and Ram Dass will also be explored. Students may expect to take an in-class midterm and final, and to write several short analytical papers.	1330:TF DENNY 103
HIST 211-02	War, Violence, and Memory Instructor: Kim Rogers Course Description: This course will explore the consequences of war and violence for combatants and civilians. Students will examine and interpret texts that document what the processes of war and violence do to military women and men, and to the civilians who are the objects of direct attacks, or who are merely the victims of "collateral damage." We will read texts such as Paul Fussell's Wartime, Victoria Clendinnen's Reading the Holocaust, James Gilligan's Violence, and others. Students will write several 3-5 page papers that will synthesize their thinking about aspects of the readings. Class will feature lectures and discussion.	1330:MR DENNY 103
HIST 211-03	Sex and the City Instructor: Crystal Moten, Regina Sweeney Course Description: Not to be confused with the popular book and television comedy drama of the same name, this class uses the 20th century American city as a site of historical analysis. In this class, we will consider the ways in which gender and sexuality have been created, contested, defined, and performed in the urban environment. We will examine several United States cities to illuminate how gender has been inscribed on the urban environment and the ways in which the gendered city reflects complex intersections of race, class, and sexual orientation. The course might include a day trip to Philadelphia; Washington, DC; or New York City.	1500:MR DENNY 203
HIST 215-01	Imperial China Instructor: Hilary Smith Course Description: Cross-listed with EASN 206-03. In this class, you will learn about change and continuity in imperial China, from the third century BC through 1911. Over the course of this more than two thousand years, what we refer to as China changed a great deal politically, economically, socially, and even ecologically. We will explore many of these changes, while at the same timekeeping an eye on the continuities that continued to characterize this amazing place and people over the long term. Among the topics you can expect to learn about in this course are:Who and what constituted China in different periodsHow the geography and climate of China differ from place to placeHow the imperial government was organized and how the ruling family established their legitimacyHow different forms of religionincluding Daoism, Buddhism, the state cult and popular practices such as ancestor worshipdeveloped and related to one anotherHow the Chinese empire interacted with the nomadic peoples and states on its bordersHow the role and treatment of women in Chinese society changed, and what has remained the same.	0830:MWF DENNY 203
HIST 215-02	Cold War in Southern Africa Instructor: Jeremy Ball Course Description: Cross-listed with AFST 220-02. By the mid-1960s the only remaining African countries governed by colonial rulers and/or resident white minorities were in Southern Africa. This course examines the Cold War calculations of the superpowers in the region and explores why white supremacy and colonialism had such staying power in Southern Africa. After an examination of Cold War history and an assessment of Southern Africas historical development, we will focus on case studies: The Congo, the Portuguese colonies of Angola and Mozambique, Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, and South Africa. The course ends in 1990 with the release from prison of Nelson Mandela and the negotiated end of apartheid in South Africa.	1030:TR DENNY 311
HIST 215-03	Middle Eastern Film Instructor: Derek Mancini-Lander Course Description: Cross-listed with MEST 200-01 and FLST 210-01. This course will cover the history of film in the Middle East and North Africa from its origins to the present day. We will explore the history of the diverse technical and formal approaches to filmmaking and the modes of storytelling that have characterized the range of films produced in various social and cultural centers of the Middle East. Our overarching goal will be to examine networks of film artists and other social actors across the Middle East that facilitated the movement of ideas, technologies, funds, and labor across the region and beyond. While the course will be structured around the history of film, students will also learn how to effectively use films as a source for studying cultural and social history of the modern Middle East. While the majority of films will be in Arabic, Turkish, Persian, all films will be subtitled in English.	1500:TF DENNY 110 1830:R WEISS 235
HIST 215-04	Globalization: Then and Now Instructor: William Visser Course Description: Cross-listed with INBM 300-04. Globalization "the removal of barriers to free trade and the encouragement of cross-border investments" leads to a close integration of national economies, and has had a long tradition. This course suggests that this international system has progressed through several stages in modern history before culminating in the one we presently experience. Do these stages have in common characteristics and patterns, which we can examine for a better understanding of the complexities of the problem? Are the changes that are implied in the process irreversible? Are these a part of a continuing process of economic development and social change? What will be the consequences and prospects "political, social, economic and cultural" of this fundamental shift in the relationship between the state and the market? The course will end with a close look at the current globalized system, which due to the accompanying financial meltdown, shows itself to be in a severe distress and, according to a number of theorists, is possibly heading to its own collapse.	0900:TR DENNY 313
HIST 223-01	Renaissance Europe Instructor: Stephen Weinberger Course Description: A study of prevailing conditions (social, economic, political, and cultural) in western Europe with particular attention given to the achievements and failures of the Renaissance. Offered every other year.	1030:TR DENNY 110
HIST 234-01	Europe: 1914-1945 Instructor: Karl Qualls Course Description: An examination of the evolution of European society between 1914 and 1945 under the impact of communism, fascism, and world war. Offered every other year.	0930:MWF DENNY 203
HIST 254-01	Russian History since 1894 Instructor: Karl Qualls Course Description: This course explores Russia's attempts to forge modernity since the late 19th century. Students will explore the rise of socialism and communism, centralization of nearly all aspects of life (arts, politics, economics, and even sexual relations), and opposition to the terror regime's attempts to remake life and the post-Soviet state's attempts to overcome Russia's past.	1030:MWF DENNY 203
HIST 272-01	Atlantic Slave Trade 1450-1850 Instructor: Jeremy Ball Course Description: Cross-listed with AFST 220-01 and LALC 272-01. Part of the Atlantic Slave Trade Mosaic. During several centuries of European colonization in the New World, a thriving slave trade forced the emigration of millions of Africans across the Atlantic, an immigration far larger than the simultaneous immigration of Europeans to the same regions. We will address not only the workings of the slave trade on both sides (and in the middle) of the Atlantic, but also the cultural communities of West and West-Central Africa and encounters and exchanges in the new slave societies of North and South America. Through examination of work processes, social orders, cultural strategies and influences, and ideas about race and geography, across time and in several regions, we will explore the crucial roles of Africans in the making of the Atlantic world.	0930:MWF DENNY 311
HIST 275-01	The Rise of Modern China Instructor: David Strand Course Description: Cross-listed with EASN 206-01.	1030:MWF STERN 103
HIST 277-01	European Empires Instructor: Regina Sweeney Course Description: This course will investigate the building, celebration and dissolution of the European empires moving from the 15th century into the 20th century. Definitions of imperialism as it developed over time will be discussed. The readings look at the effects of empire in Europe as well as some of the effects in the colonies, including works by Christopher Columbus, Willam Shakespeare, George Orwell, and Chinua Achebe. Offered every two years.	1230:MWF DENNY 304
HIST 304-01	Yrs of Service: Dson Pc Corps Instructor: Kim Rogers Course Description: This course will be focused on the intersections between college study, international service, aqnd later careers of the more than 200 Dickinsonians who served in the Peace Corps since that organization was founded in 1961, as part of President John F. Kennedy's "New Frontier". Students will read selections from the historiography of service professions, biography, and oral history, and then will become acquainted with the records in the College Archives detailing the volunteers' lives at Dickinson, and will then conduct biographical research on a volunteer's life at Dickinson, his/her life at Dickinson, and their lives and careers after the Peace Corps. Students will then conduct interviews with nearby volunteers and with family members. Students will be expected to write two essays on the readings, to summarize research reports and discoveries in an ongoing journal, to conduct oral history interviews with their volunteer, and to produce a transcript of their interview, and to write a biography of the volunteer for the archives. Cds of interviews, transcripts, and biographical essays will be deposited in the Dickinson College Archives.	1030:TR CMST SEM
HIST 311-01	Violence and Colonialism Instructor: Christopher Bilodeau Course Description: This course will place, in a comparative perspective, the key role of violence in Eurpoean colonization of numerous parts of the world. Three geographical locations will be analyzed (North America, South America, and Africa) and four imperial powers (English, French, Spanish and German) over the period of the 16th through 20th centuries. The goal is not a comprehensive look at the roles of violence in colonialism, but an episodic analysis of the ways in which violence manifests itself in colonial situations across time and space. Topics will include (among others) theories of violence, the origins of colonial violence, the roles of violence in colonizing versus colonized societies, overt resistance to colonial domination, and the power and persistence of symbolic violence.	1330:W DENNY 212
HIST 315-01	Disease in World History Instructor: Hilary Smith Course Description: In this course, we will examine how and why concepts of disease have changed over time. We will also take a close and critical look at the roles that scholars have assumed diseases such as smallpox, plague, and influenza played in military conquest, social and economic transformations, and cultural changes around the globe.	1030:MWF DENNY 204
HIST 378-01	Society and the Sexes Instructor: Regina Sweeney Course Description: Cross-listed with WGST 378-01.	1330:MR DENNY 112
HIST 404-01	Imperial Rivals Instructor: Christopher Bilodeau Course Description: This course examines the contentious rivalry between Great Britain and France in their North American and Caribbean colonies between 1689 and 1763. Subjects will cover a wide range of social, economic, cultural, religious, and military topics, such as both empires' relations with American Indian populations, their slave-labor sugar plantations in the Caribbean, their contests over imperial boundaries, and, ultimately, the four wars they fought during the period.	1500:MR LIBRY ALDEN
HIST 500-01	Independent Study Instructor: Hilary Smith Course Description:	: