| HIST 117-01 |
American History 1607 to 1877
Instructor: Matthew Pinsker
Course Description:
This course covers colonial, revolutionary, and national America through Reconstruction. Include attention to historical interpretation. Multiple sections offered.
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
DENNY 211 |
| HIST 118-01 |
American History 1877 to Present
Instructor: Emily Hawk
Course Description:
This course 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.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
DENNY 313 |
| HIST 122-01 |
Middle East since 1750
Instructor: David Commins
Course Description:
Cross-listed with MEST 122-01. Bureaucratic-military reforms of the 19th century in Egypt and the Ottoman Empire, European imperialism, regional nationalisms, contemporary autocratic regimes, and the politicization of religion.
This course is cross-listed as MEST 122.
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11:30 AM-12:20 PM, MWF
DENNY 203 |
| HIST 171-01 |
African History since 1800
Instructor: Jeremy Ball
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AFST 171-01. In this course we will study the political, social, economic and ecological forces that have shaped African societies since 1800. We will examine in depth the Asante kingdom in West Africa, the Kongo kingdom in Central Africa, and the Zulu kingdom in Southern Africa. European's colonization of Africa and Africans' responses will be a major focus of the course.This course is cross-listed as AFST 171.
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09:30 AM-10:20 AM, MWF
DENNY 203 |
| HIST 204-01 |
Introduction to Historical Methodology
Instructor: Jeremy Ball
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.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
LIBRY ARCHCLS |
| HIST 206-01 |
American Environmental History
Instructor: Emily Pawley
Course Description:
Examines the interaction between humans and the natural environment in the history of North America. Explores the problem of sustainable human uses of the North America environment form the pre-colonial period to the present. Also serves as an introduction to the subfield of environmental history, which integrates evidence from various scientific disciplines with traditional documentary and oral sources. Topics include: American Indian uses of the environment, colonial frontiers, agricultural change, industrialization, urbanization, westward expansion, the Progressive-Era conservation movement, changes in lifestyle and consumption including their increasingly global impact, shifts in environmental policy, and the rise of the post-World War II environmental movement.
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10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MWF
DENNY 313 |
| HIST 211-01 |
Choreographing Gender and Sexuality in American Dance
Instructor: Emily Hawk
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 202-02. The 20th century witnessed profound change in American ideas about gender and sexuality, from the "separate spheres" ideology at the turn of the century, to the rise of multiple feminist waves, to the construction of the "closet" and the gay liberation movement, and beyond. Dance - as an embodied art form - provides a powerful lens for examining this evolution. This course interweaves the history of dance with the history of gender and sexuality to illuminate larger social, political, and cultural trends in American life. We will consider how dancers and choreographers used their bodies to absorb, contest, and reconstruct existing norms about masculinity, femininity, and queerness; we will also consider how critical and audience response to dance performance revealed shifting ideas about gender, sexuality, and the body. Topics include social dance and working-class leisure at the turn of the century; feminism and the early modern soloists; contested masculinity from modern dance to breakdance; and dance amid the AIDS epidemic. No prior experience with dance is necessary to enroll; this course welcomes all students interested in cultural history, intellectual history, and the history of gender and sexuality. Through reading and viewing assignments, class discussion and activities, and written assessments, students in this course will learn to analyze movement, write clearly and vividly about dance performance, conduct primary source research, and assess the historical significance of dance in American life and culture.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
DENNY 204 |
| HIST 211-02 |
History of American Feminism
Instructor: Amy Farrell
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AMST 200-03 and WGSS 220-01. This course will emphasize such topics as the 19th century women's movement, the suffrage movement, radical and liberal feminism, and African-American feminism. We will pay particular attention to the diversity of women's experiences in the United States and to women's multiple and often conflicting responses to patriarchy and other forms of oppression.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 212 |
| HIST 215-01 |
History of Madness
Instructor: Kendall Thompson
Course Description:
This course will explore the history of madness and the scientific disciplines of psychology and psychiatry. We will explore madness chronologically, beginning in the eighteenth century and ending in the present. But we will also take time to examine madness thematically, examining how race, gender, sexuality, and other factors impacted who was deemed mad and sane. How has the treatment of the mad changed in history? Who defined psychiatric illnesses and how were these definitions shaped? How have social and scientific approaches to the study of madness shaped the treatment and perception of the mad?
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
DENNY 110 |
| HIST 217-01 |
History of Medicine and the Body in East Asia
Instructor: Evan Young
Course Description:
Cross-listed with EASN 206-02. This course is an introduction to the history of medicine in East Asia. We will begin by exploring the theoretical and practical underpinnings of classical Chinese medicine, which was the foundation of healing practices in premodern China, Korea, and Japan. We will then move on to trace the introduction of modern bio-medicine and the eventual reemergence of "Traditional Chinese Medicine" as an alternative style of therapy in the 20th century. We will also consider a wide range of topics that have generated compelling intellectual dialogue, including the relationship between doctors and patients and between medicine and the state.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
DENNY 103 |
| HIST 219-01 |
From Abraham to Al-Qaeda: Jews, Christians, and Muslims from their Origins to the Present
Instructor: Peter Schadler
Course Description:
Cross-listed with MEST 200-01 and RELG 111-01. Permission of Instructor Required. Part of the Sicily Mosaic. This course will survey relations between Jews, Christians, and Muslims, from their origins up to the present day, with heavy attention to the premodern period, and to those areas under the political control of Muslims. We will, however, also consider the relations between these three in the modern period, and how the beliefs of these three groups have coincided and collided to generate specific tensions between them.
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10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MWF
EASTC 411 |
| HIST 219-02 |
U.S. - Middle East Relations
Instructor: David Commins
Course Description:
Cross-listed with INST 290-04 and MEST 200-02. This course examines the history of US-Middle East relations from the Barbary Wars to the present. Topics will include American travel and missionary activity in "the Holy Land" during the 1800s; the American role in post-World War I diplomacy affecting the Middle East; rivalry with the Soviet Union; Arab-Israeli diplomacy; petroleum policy; anti-American terrorism; and military interventions.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 110 |
| HIST 219-03 |
History of Saudi Arabia
Instructor: David Commins
Course Description:
Cross-listed with MEST 200-03. The course follows the rise and fall of Saudi power to the present day, with particular attention to the Wahhabi religious movement, strategic and economic ties to Western powers, social transformation, cultural tensions, and political opposition to the monarchy.
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10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MWF
DENNY 204 |
| HIST 224-01 |
Rise and Fall: Political History in the Ancient Mediterranean
Instructor: Scott Farrington
Course Description:
Cross-listed with CLST 213-01 and LAWP 258-01. Part of the Sicily Mosaic. A study in the political history of the societies of the ancient Mediterranean world. We focus on the episodes of constitutional creation and change, the intersection of politics and the judiciary, concepts of citizenship and enfranchisement, and the legalities of war from declaration to cessation. Regular topics will include the Achaemenid Empire, Carthage, Athens after Salamis, and the Women of the Republic and Principate. Readings will be chosen primarily from the ancient biographers, ancient constitutions, the epistolary tradition, and modern scholarship. We will also frequently consider evidence from the material record. This course is cross-listed as CLST 213 and LAWP 258.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
ALTHSE 204 |
| HIST 234-01 |
Fascism, Socialism, and Daily Life: Europe, 1914-1945
Instructor: Karl Qualls
Course Description:
Europeans between the two world wars experienced dramatic changes. The economy collapsed, exciting and controversial art movements emerged, developments in psychology and physics changed the way we understood humans and the physical world, and of course extreme forms of politics arose across the continent, particularly fascist and communist countries building on the politics of division, hatred, and violence. This highly dynamic period often gets ignored because it is overshadowed by the two world wars that preceded and followed it. Part of this course will be to examine how the ripples from one war led to developments that anticipated the second. Moreover, we will examine how some of the democratic societies allowed themselves to slip into authoritarian dictatorships.
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12:30 PM-01:20 PM, MWF
DENNY 211 |
| HIST 254-01 |
Revolution, War, and Daily Life in Modern Russia
Instructor: Karl Qualls
Course Description:
Cross-listed with RUSS 254-01. Taught in English. 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.This course is cross-listed as RUSS 254.
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11:30 AM-12:20 PM, MWF
DENNY 211 |
| HIST 278-01 |
European Women's History
Instructor: Regina Sweeney
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 202-01. 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.
Offered every two years.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
DENNY 311 |
| HIST 282-01 |
Diplomatic History of the United States
Instructor: Matthew Pinsker
Course Description:
Cross-listed with INST 282-01. Description and analysis of the nation's role in world affairs, from the earliest definitions of a national interest in the 18th century, through continental expansion, acquisition of empire, and world power, to the Cold War.
This course is cross-listed as INST 282.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 211 |
| HIST 311-01 |
African American Thought and Culture Since Emancipation
Instructor: Emily Hawk
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AFST 320-01. As jazz composer Duke Ellington once said, African Americans are "something apart" within American society, but still "an integral part" of the nation's identity and history. This course takes up Ellington's provocation to consider how Black Americans have advanced important ideas about race, citizenship, activism, and culture that offer vital insight into African American and American history alike. Taking a broad view of intellectual history, the course will pair secondary literature with relevant primary sources from politics, literature, education, and the visual and performing arts. We will explore how, denied full access to political representation, education, and mobility in public space, African Americans have developed innovative and insurgent modes of making their ideas about the world known to a multiracial public. Each week, we will ask: what does it mean to be an intellectual? How are ideas and actions interconnected? What forms can ideas take, and how do they circulate beyond texts? How do these examples help us understand discourse, culture, and activism in our current moment? Across class discussion and written assignments, students will come to appreciate the breadth, multiplicity, and dynamism of African American thought and culture. Together, we will examine the complex ambitions, morals, struggles, and triumphs of African American people to unlock a more profound understanding of past and present.
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01:30 PM-04:30 PM, W
DENNY 103 |
| HIST 317-01 |
Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japanese History
Instructor: Evan Young
Course Description:
Cross-listed with EASN 306-01 and WGSS 302-01. This course is an exploration of how sexuality and gender have been continually redefined and experienced throughout modern Japanese history. We will analyze the changes Japanese society underwent from the 19th century to the present, paying particular attention to transformations as well as continuities in eroticism, same-sex love, family structure, and gender roles. A key theme of the course is the socially-constructed nature of gender norms and how women and men frequently transgressed feminine and masculine ideals, a theme that we will explore through both primary sources in translation and secondary scholarship. Building upon in-class workshops and a series of short-essay assignments, the final goal of the course will be to produce a paper that analyzes the development of this new and exciting field of history.
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01:30 PM-04:30 PM, W
DENNY 303 |
| HIST 333-01 |
The First World War
Instructor: Regina Sweeney
Course Description:
A study of the causes, progress, and consequences of the first global conflict of modern times. Particular attention is paid to the political and social impact of total warfare on the participating nations.
Offered every other year.
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
DENNY 303 |
| HIST 404-01 |
Nature
Instructor: Emily Pawley
Course Description:
In this class, the capstone of the history major, we will build on the skills you have already developed for a semester long research project. As you did in History 204, in this class you will gather and analyze primary source documents to help you understand a specific research question. As you did in your 300-level classes you will contextualize your primary source work in terms of the conversations of other historians and will work to meaningfully contribute to or critique those conversations. Finally, you will assemble new stories and arguments, supported by powerful evidence. This is a writing-intensive methods class. Therefore, our goal is not to memorize material but to develop skills, and to reflect and sharpen our intellectual process, through discussion, peer review, and continual work with primary and secondary sources. To promote meaningful in-class intellectual work, your semester-long research projects will all explore aspects of a common theme. "Nature" is one of the richest words in the English language-encompassing fundamental ideas about landscape, science, religions, human bodies, and social formations. We will explore ideas about nature and the natural as a jumping off point for our projects. In doing so, we will come to question our own understandings of this word and the range of claims, practices, and policies it is invoked to justify.
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01:30 PM-04:30 PM, M
DENNY 303 |
| HIST 500-01 |
Catholic Education in Francoist Spain
Instructor: Karl Qualls
Course Description:
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| HIST 500-03 |
Medieval Europe
Instructor: Peter Schadler
Course Description:
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| HIST 550-01 |
Interconnected Forms of Violence Perpetrated During the West Virginia Mine Wars
Instructor: Emily Pawley
Course Description:
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