2023-2024 Academic Year

Fall 2023

HIST 106 Early Modern Europe to 1799
Society, culture, and politics from the Renaissance through the French Revolution.

WGSS 202 European Women's History
Cross-listed with HIST 278-01.This course will explore the lives of European women in the modern period (1789 to the post WWII period). It looks at both rural and urban women, issues of class, family and motherhood as well as demands for social and political rights for women. The readings include primary sources such as housekeeping guides, novels and war propaganda as well as secondary sources such as biographies and anthropological studies.

HIST 278 European Women's History
Cross-listed with WGSS 202-02.

HIST 404 From Bach to Big Hair
This senior seminar will explore how music has been used as an historical source, and whether scholars or teachers have hesitated to incorporate music into their historical narratives. How important, for example, was music in the development of nationalism, or how was it used in various political protest movements? We will also examine the development of music as an industry in both Europe and America. The first part of the course will concentrate on primary sources and secondary readings, then students will develop research projects which explore our core questions.

Spring 2024

HIST 213 Fashion-Backward
Part of the Fashioning the Body, Shaping the Nation Mosaic. This course will investigate the history of clothing and the development of fashion from the Renaissance into the twentieth century, looking mainly at Europe. Clothing has been intertwined with vital elements of society including definitions of class, gender, race, and national identities. We will explore the role apparel played in courtly consumption, how industrialization transformed how garments were produced, and the rise of fashion houses. The class will also look at representations of clothing and the body - whether in art, advertising or propaganda posters - keeping in mind that the body itself has a history of important changes, for example, in average heights and a dramatic increase in life expectancy and well-being. We will also examine what views of the ideal body were in different historical periods. This course can be taken on its own or as part of the spring 2024 mosaic, "Fashioning the Body, Shaping the Nation: Fashion through the lens of History, Culture, Gender, and Race."

AMST 500 Independent Study
Cross-listed with WGSS 500-01, HIST 500-01, FMST 500-01 and ITAL 500-01. Permission of Instructor Required. Part of the Fashioning the Body, Shaping the Nation Mosaic.

FMST 500 Independent Study
Cross-listed with WGSS 500-01, HIST 500-01, AMST 500-01 and ITAL 500-01. Permission of Instructor Required. Part of the Fashioning the Body, Shaping the Nation Mosaic.

HIST 500 Independent Study
Cross-listed with WGSS 500-01, FMST 500-01, AMST 500-01 and ITAL 500-01. Permission of Instructor Required. Part of the Fashioning the Body, Shaping the Nation Mosaic.

ITAL 500 Independent Study
Cross-listed with WGSS 500-01, HIST 500-01, AMST 500-01 and FMST 500-01. Permission of Instructor Required. Part of the Fashioning the Body, Shaping the Nation Mosaic.

WGSS 500 WGSS Independent Study
Cross-listed with AMST 500-01, HIST 500-01, FMST 500-01 and ITAL 500-01. Permission of Instructor Required. Part of the Fashioning the Body, Shaping the Nation Mosaic.

HIST 550 Independent Research