Category: 4000 Level Course Requirement
This course focuses on the peoples, societies, and cultures that shaped early North America before the American Revolution. Courses in “Colonial America” have traditionally followed the beginnings and development of…
This course explores the history of the American Revolution, examining questions and issues such as the history of democracy and social groups in the revolution and the creation…
This class explores the rationales and excuses used to justify why the United States has gone to war over the span of two centuries. Exploring the various moral…
Dr. Shailaja Paik This course deals with key topics of Indian political and social history from 1885 to 1947 including Indian nationalist responses to colonialism, socio-religious reform and revival…
This course focuses on the spaces, places, and things in the American past which are both markers of cultural change, and also a means of constituting the social, economic, and…
The course examines the forces, events, and demographic movements that shaped the development of racially isolated low-income African American communities in American cities in the 20th century; starting in…
The goal of this course is to examine the causes, events, and consequences of the destruction of European Jewry during World War II; an event known historically as the…
This course will introduce students to a variety of propaganda films made during World War II. The class will focus on Germany, Britain, and the United States; the three nations…
Explores the history of immigration, race, and citizenship in the United States through multidisciplinary frameworks, examining how distinct disciplinary approaches yield different understandings.
Dr. Sigrun Haude This course explores the social, economic, sexual, religious, and political aspects of women’s lives in European history from 1600-1850; placing women’s experience into a range of broad historiographical…
This course studies gender as a category of historical analysis in the modern Middle East and North Africa (1650-present). Students will read a wide range of primary and…
Dr. Shailaja Paik To explore women in South Asia, particularly in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. We will study traditional topics like patriarchy, marriage and family, gender and sexuality, and also explore…
This course offers students the opportunity to apply digital history methods to focused historical topics. The topics will vary from year to year and will be determined by…
Dr. Maura O’Connor This course will examine how Britain made the modern world and how the modern world made Britain, particularly in the decades that followed the Second…
Through the decades leading to the Civil War, African Americans and other opponents of slavery increasingly acted in secret to help runaways to safety in violation of Federal…
Dr. Isaac Campos This course explores the history of the Cold War in Latin America with particular emphasis on the relationship between the United States and the region…
In this course, we compare how people define their races and ethnicities in urban settings in the early modern to modern era comparing a number of areas. How…
This mixed lecture and discussion course examines the changing American environment and its relationship to the development of American environmentalism in the twentieth century. Our investigation will include…
Dr. Erika A Gasser This course focuses on the trades in three commodities, each of which played a central role in the economic, social, and military development of the…
This course explores the development of the American state, broadly construed, from the period of the early American Republic through the recent past. This course will be designed to…
This course explores relations between the U.S. and Asia in their diplomatic, economic, demographic, cultural, and military contexts from the mid-19th through early 21st centuries. This course will be designed…
This course examines the multiple factors that influenced the physical growth and rising importance of world cities in the nineteenth century. Topics to be studied include questions of…
Dr. Maura O’Connor This course will explore the connections and disconnections between popular and elite culture from sixteenth-century England when Shakespeare wrote most of his plays to early…
This class explores the changing role of visual representation, particularly film, as it relates to societies in war. Most of the class will center around film in the Second…
Dr. Isaac Campos This course will explore the history of intoxicants in the Americas within a comparative global perspective. Primarily the course will explore the political, economic, and cultural forces…
The Spanish Civil War was the defining event in twentieth-century Spanish history. Though a “civil war” it was a global conflict, serving as a proxy war for the…
Dr. Sigrun Haude This course explores the conflicting ideas and realities that brought about the great conflicts of early modern Europe, in particular, the Thirty Years War. The…
Dr. Shailaja Paik This course investigates how colonial and post-colonial encounters have shaped gender, sexuality, race, class, caste, nationalism, and imperialism in South Asia. Students will consider the various…
Dr. Shailaja Paik To explore women in South Asia, particularly in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. We will study traditional topics like patriarchy, marriage and family, gender and sexuality, but also explore…
Dr. Sigrun Haude This course explores the conflicting ideas and realities that brought about the great conflicts of early modern Europe, in particular, the Thirty Years War. The course…