Course	JS 101 Introduction to Jewish Studies
Professor	Cecile Kuznitz
CRN	18207
Schedule	Mon Wed 3:00 -4:20 pm PRE 128
Distribution	Humanities/ Rethinking Difference

Cross-listed: History, Religion

This interdisciplinary course will introduce students to major themes in the field of Jewish Studies. The primary focus will be on the history of the Jewish people and on Judaism as a religion, but we will also examine topics in Jewish literature, society, and politics. The course will treat selected themes from the Biblical period to the present, but with a greater emphasis on the medieval and especially the modern period. Among the issues to be explored: What role has the Land of Israel played in Jewish life, and how have Jews responded to their nearly 2,000-year experience of exile and Diaspora? How have they negotiated both the “push” of antisemitism and the “pull” of assimilation to maintain distinct forms of community and identity? What role have various types of texts played in Jewish culture, and what is their relationship to lived Jewish experience? Finally, what are the implications of such momentous recent events as the Holocaust, the establishment of the State of Israel, and the rise of the American Jewish community? On-line registration

Course	HIST 102 Europe from 1815 to present
Professor	Gennady Shkliarevsky
CRN	18215
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 -2:50 pm RKC 101
Distribution	History

Related interest: Global & Int’l Studies, Human Rights, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Victorian Studies

The course has two goals: to provide a general introduction to European History in the period from 1815 to 1990 and at the same time to examine a number of especially important developments in greater depth. The first half of the course will range in time from the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to the outbreak of World War I in 1914. The following issues will be emphasized: the rise of conservative, liberal and socialist thought; the establishment of parliamentary democracy in Great Britain; the revolutions of 1848; Bismarck and the Unification of Germany; European imperialism; and the origins of World War I. The second half of the course will stress the following problems: World War I; the Russian Revolution and the emergence of Soviet Russia; the Versailles Treaty; the Great Depression; the rise of fascism, especially Nazism; the Holocaust; the emergence of a new Europe with the "European Community"; the Cold War; the fall of communism in Eastern Europe; and the reunification of Germany. On-line registration

Course	HIST 115 Race as Variable in History
Professor	Myra Armstead
CRN	18195
Schedule	TuTh 10:30 - 11:50 am Olin 203
Distribution	History/ Rethinking Difference

Cross-listed: American Studies, Human Rights, SRE

With a focus on African Americans, this course explores the evolution of "race" as an idea and its impact upon American social experience mainly since the late eighteenth century. As such, it will serve as a survey of African-American history following the colonial period. The course takes as its central premise the uniqueness of black American experience owing to the very particular meanings attached to "racialization" in the African American case. The course, therefore, will necessarily but briefly also consider whiteness as a emergent social category, particularly during the nineteenth century, and how "race" when applied to European immigrants took on similar, but ultimately substantially different meanings for them when compared to blacks. Questions to be addressed include the following: What is "race"? When did it first emerge as a social category and to whom was it applied? In what ways were blacks "raced" differently from other groups? What has been the utility of racialization, and for whom? What is the meaning of racialization, and for whom? What is the meaning of "race" advancement for blacks? Has "race" declined in significance for blacks? If so, does it make sense to talk about the deracialization of blacks? The course will conclude by considering the following questions: What does it mean to be "race-blind" in the context of the early twenty-first century? For the 2007-2008 academic year only, this course will serve as the core course for students seeking to concentrate in SRE (Studies in Race and Ethnicity). On-line registration

Course	HIST 127 Crisis and Conflict: Introduction to Modern Japanese History
Professor	Robert Culp
CRN	18202
Schedule	TuTh 1:00 -2:20 pm Olin 203
Distribution	History/ Rethinking Difference

Cross-listed: Asian Studies

Japan in the mid-19^th century was beleaguered by British and American imperialism and rocked by domestic turmoil. How, then, did it become an emerging world power by the early 20^th century? Why did Japan’s transformations during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries lead to the total war of the 1930s and 1940s? And why did the horrible destruction experienced after World War II ultimately result in rapid economic growth and renewed global importance for Japan after the 1950s? These questions provide the framework for our study of modern Japanese history. Throughout the course we will focus special attention on Japan’s distinctive urban culture, the changing role of women in Japanese society, the re-invention of Japan’s imperial institution, the domestic and international effects of Japanese imperialism, and the question of the United States’ role in Japan’s post-war reconstruction. Readings of drama, fiction, satire, and memoir will contribute to our exploration of these and other topics. No prior study of Japan is necessary; first-year students are welcome. On-line registration

Course	HIST 159 Modern France
Professor	Tabetha Ewing
CRN	18204
Schedule	TuTh 4:00 -5:20 pm Olin 204
Distribution	History/ Rethinking Difference

Cross-listed: Africana Studies, French Studies

Related interest: Asian Studies

The French nation gave birth to itself in 1789 but would be reborn as demographic and economic changes brought about through colonial relations forced new ideas about the progress of its political identity. This is a survey of French politics, society, and economy in the 19th and 20th centuries: from the French and Haitian Revolutions to the imperialist “civilizing mission  especially in West Africa to the fall of France in Indochina up to the Algerian War. Special attention will be given to France in southeast Asia. Making France modern (and anti-modern and colonial modern) would involve far more than a republican legacy and industrialization. The rise of the French intellectual, the reformulation of gender roles, the invention of race, and revolution and resistance in overseas territories contributed somehow to give France the most strongly articulated modern identity in Europe. First year students are encouraged.

Course	HIST 192 Topics in Modern European History 1789 - 2000
Professor	Gregory Moynahan
CRN	18211
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 -2:50 pm Olin 205
Distribution	History

Cross-listed: Global & Int’l Studies

This course will present a thematic survey of the modern period. Each week we will use methodologies and historiographies ranging from gender and demographic history to diplomatic and military history. It will thus offer both an in-depth presentation of key aspects of modernity and a survey of contemporary historiography. Key issues discussed will include: the relation of the industrial revolution to the creation of new institutions of invention and patent, the role of colonialism in shaping domestic social relations and definitions of race, the role of gender in relation to the demographic explosion of European population and to new attempts at state control of human activity, the development of the ‘military-indistrial-academic complex,’ the role of institutional structure in diplomacy, and the affect of new mass media on citizenship. This course is intended as a complement to HIST 102, the department’s narrative history of the modern period, but this course is not required if students have a basic grasp of modern European history. Supplemental reading will provide a broad narrative base for students who need a refresher. On-line registration

Course	HIST 201 Alexander the Great: Monster or Philosopher-King?
Professor	James Romm
CRN	18214
Schedule	TuTh 10:30 - 11:50 am Olin 204
Distribution	History

Cross-listed: Classics

Alexander the Great changed the world more completely than any other human being, but did he change it for the better? How should Alexander be understood -- as a tyrant of Hitlerian proportions, or as a philosopher-king seeking to save the Greek world from self-destruction, or as an utterly deluded madman?  Such questions remain very much unresolved among modern historians.  In this course we will attempt to find our own answers (or lack of them) after reading the ancient sources concerning Alexander and examining as much primary evidence as can be gathered.  Students will attain insight not only into a cataclysmic period of history but into the moral and ideological complexities that surround the assessment of historical personality, whether in antiquity or in the modern world.  No Prerequisite, but students will be greatly helped by some familiarity with Greek history or civilization. On-line registration

Course	HIST 2110 Early Middle Ages
Professor	Alice Stroup
CRN	18217
Schedule	TuTh 9:00 - 10:20 am Olin 308
Distribution	History

Cross-listed: Classical Studies, Medieval Studies

Related interest: French Studies

The European "middle ages" -originally so called as a term of derision—are more complex and heterogeneous than is commonly thought. This course surveys seven centuries, from the Germanic invasions and dissolution of the Roman Empire to the Viking invasions and dissolution of the Carolingian Empire. Topics include early Christianity, "barbarians," Byzantine Empire, Islam, monasticism, the myth and reality of Charlemagne. Readings include documents, Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, Einhard's Life of Charlemagne, and selections from Ammianus Marcellinus's The Later Roman Empire and Gregory of Tours's History of the Franks. Open to first year students. On-line registration

Course	HIST 2133 Making of the Atlantic World
Professor	Christian Crouch
CRN	18197
Schedule	Mon Wed 10:30 - 11:50 am Olin 201
Distribution	History/ Rethinking Difference

Cross-listed: American Studies, SRE

Related interest: Africana Studies

The Atlantic: an English lake, an African lake, a Dutch lake, a French lake, a First Peoples lake, an Iberian lake, an American lake, a connector, a barrier, a source of trade, a source of sorrow. The Atlantic World encompasses the histories of the peoples, economies, ideas, and products that interacted around the oceanic basin in the early modern period. This was an international arena that shaped or destroyed new communities and developed as a result of voluntary and involuntary movement. If the rhetoric of empire ushered in the birth of the “Atlantic World”, today we live with the mature, and lasting, effects and memories of these vital interactions. Students will consider not only the histories of the actors and agents who shaped or were shaped by Atlantic systems but they will also investigate what the implications are of how we write or remember that history. On-line registration

Course	HIST 2271 Black Thought Francophone Worl
Professor	Tabetha Ewing
CRN	18205
Schedule	TuTh 6:00 -7:20 pm Olin 202
Distribution	History/ Rethinking Difference

Cross-listed: Africana Studies; Gender Studies; Studies in Race & Ethnicity

In this survey of contemporary African-American intellectuals on such subjects as cultural representation, black feminism, black neo-conservatism, aesthetics, nationalism, colonialism, and American legal discourse, we will read essays by Toni Morrison, Cornel West, Kimberle Crenshaw, Derrick Bell, Patricia Williams, and Bell Hooks. They are at once scholars and polemicists in the contemporary liberal press. Students will be required to read regularly such publications as The Nation, New Republic, and the New York Times in order to engage critically and cogently in current debates. We will look back at the Hill-Thomas hearings and the plethora of essays published in response and at the new affirmative action debates. As an introduction to contemporary black thought, this course will begin with canonical essays written from 1890 to 1980 on the subject of race, and more specifically of blackness, métissage, and gender.

Course	HIST 2307 The American Dream: History of an Idea
Professor	Myra Armstead
CRN	18196
Schedule	Mon Wed 3:00 -4:20 pm Olin 203
Distribution	History

Cross-listed: American Studies

“But there has been also the American dream, that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for every man, with opportunity for each according to his ability or achievement." These words from James Truslow Adams summarize the optimism and sense of exceptionalism that have defined much of American experience. In this course, we will consider the various articulations of the Dream, the ideological and structural supports for the Dream, limits of the Dream, and how these have changed over time. We will look briefly and comparatively at alternative dreams, e.g, the postwar Australian Dream, the new European Dream, in an effort to assess implicit understandings of the Dream's uniqueness, and critiques of the Dream within a global context. We will read from James Truslow Adams, Jim Cullen, Robert Fossum and John Roth, Andrew Hurley, Frank Luntz, Helen and Scott Nearing, Jeremy Rifkin, and Robert Samuelson on the subject. Along the way, we will also consult such relevant primary texts as John Winthrop's invocation of "A City on a Hill"; Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur's letter, "What is an American?"; Horatio Alger's fiction; Langston Hughes's poem, "A Dream Deferred"; and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. On-line registration

Course	HIST 2356 Native Peoples of North America
Professor	Christian Crouch
CRN	18199
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 -2:50 pm HEG 102
Distribution	History/ Rethinking Difference

Cross-listed: American Studies, Human Rights, SRE

From Sacajawea's appearance on the dollar coin to Squanto's role in elementary school classrooms teaching the first Thanksgiving, Americans obsess, discuss, question, imagine, construct, impose, and ponder the role and place of the indigenous population in this country. The legacy of colonial interactions has become particularly relevant to current Native American politics and the question of financial and land reparations. This course provides an overview of the history created by and between native peoples, Indians, and Africans, from the initial colonial exchanges of the fifteenth century up through the twentieth century. It will focus on primary sources from the northeast, southwest, and southeast and the ways in which those sources have been manipulated for different purposes over time. The changing cultural and political self-understanding of native peoples will be examined in conjunction with the appropriation of native peoples' culture and agency by the federal state and professional nineteenth and early twentieth century scholarship. On-line registration

Course	HIST 2391 Reason and Passions
Professor	Alice Stroup
CRN	18218
Schedule	TuTh 1:00 -2:20 pm Olin 308
Distribution	History

What is the good life? In hard times, is it better to serve or to flee society? What power does reason have over the passions? Descartes and Pascal, Molière and Racine, Fontenelle and Foigny debated these fundamental questions during seventeenth-century hard times. Optimists and pessimists alike developed their views in philosophical treatises, plays, fables, utopias, and other genres designed to reach a large Francophone audience. We will sample their writings, exploring the influences – ancient and modern, religious and libertine, scientific and political – on their thought. On-line registration

Course	HIST 2530 China in Revolution: Nationalism to Maoism
Professor	Robert Culp
CRN	18203
Schedule	TuTh 10:30 - 11:50 am RKC 102
Distribution	History/ Rethinking Difference

Cross-listed: Asian Studies, GISP, Human Rights

In October 1949 Mao Zedong stood at the Gate of Heavenly Peace outside the old imperial palace and proclaimed the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Mao’s declaration was the culmination of several generations’ efforts to create New China. This course explores the intertwined processes of nationalism and revolution that drove this transformation. Studying China’s successive republican, cultural, nationalist, "fascist," and communist revolutions will allow us to explore the causes and effects of different kinds of revolutionary movements. We will trace China’s revolutionary process from the beginnings of modern mass mobilization at the start of the twentieth century to the revolutionary cataclysms of Mao’s Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution during the 1950s and 1960s to the astounding economic changes of the past three decades. At the same time, we will explore how novels, films, and folk songs, hairstyles and popular fashions, mass protests and state-run spectacles transformed Chinese culture and taught China’s people to think of themselves as citizens of a nation for the first time in their 3,000-year history. No prior study of Chinese history is necessary for this class; first-year students are welcome. HIST 2530 forms a sequence with PS130 “Introduction to Chinese Politics”, which analyzes modern Chinese politics in comparative perspective.  On-line registration

Course	HIST 2627 Diaspora and Homeland
Professor	Cecile Kuznitz
CRN	18208
Schedule	Mon Wed 10:30 - 11:50 am Olin 306
Distribution	History/ Rethinking Difference

Cross-listed: Jewish Studies, SRE

In recent years the concept of Diaspora has gained widespread popularity as a way of thinking about group identity and its relationship to place. In an era of increasing migration and globalization, individuals are both more likely to leave their homeland and to maintain links on it. In this course we will read some recent theoretical work on Diaspora and then examine the first and longest-lived Diasporic minority group: the Jewish people, which has maintained a distinct religious and ethnic identity during a worldwide dispersion lasting two thousand years. We will look at how Jews’ attitudes towards homeland and Diaspora have changed over time, as place has become increasingly important as a basis of secular identity in the modern period. We will also examine other Diasporic groups, including Southeast Asians and Africans. Readings will include theoretical writings and literature as well as historical studies. For a final project, students may choose to examine a group not discussed in class. On-line registration

Course	HIST 277 EMPIRES, Ancient and Modern
Professor	Richard Davis / Carolyn Dewald
CRN	18011
Schedule	Mon Wed 3:00 -4:20 pm OlinLC 115
Distribution	History

Cross-listed: Classics, Religion

"The United States today is an empire, but a peculiar kind of empire,” says the conservative British historian Niall Ferguson, and he urges American leaders to learn from British imperialists. The British empire-builders, in their time, garbed themselves in the classical robes of Roman emperors. The Romans set out to complete the conquest of the world that the Macedonian Alexander had tried unsuccessfully to accomplish. And when Alexander conquered the Achaemenids under Darius III, he adopted the imperial customs of the defeated Persian Empire. Where does the idea of world-conquest arise? What is its legacy for American proponents and opponents of our imperial enterprise? This course will explore several of the great world empires of the past: the Achaemenid Empire under Darius I, the Greek world-conquest of Alexander, the Mauryan Empire of Candragupta and Asoka, the Roman Empire, and the modern sea-based British Empire. Along with the individual histories of these imperial formations, the course will attend to the poetics of empire. We will read visions of world-conquest and celebrations of the victors, and explore universalist ideologies as well as the military and administrative practices that enable empires to function and persist. We will look also at some of the struggles for liberation of imperial subjects. On-line registration

Course	HIST 280B American Environmental History II
Professor	Mark Lytle
CRN	18209
Schedule	Wed Fr 10:30 - 11:50 am Olin 203
Distribution	History

Cross-listed: American Studies, Environmental Studies (core course); Social Policy

This course will investigate the history of Americans’ interaction with their environment from roughly 1890 to the present. It will explore different strategies that historians have used to examine environmental history. It will also investigate question such as how the role of the federal government has changed from the “conservation” to the “environmental” eras, why the Dust Bowl occurred, how chemical warfare changed the life span of bugs, whether wilderness should be central to the environmental movement, whether you can be an environmentalist if “you work for a living,” whether Sunbelt cities are part of the environment, if blocking dams in the Grand Canyon was good for the environment, how the environmental justice movement and Earth First! have impacted the environmental movement, whether you can find “nature” at Yosemite National Park, Sea World, and the Nature Company, and other topics central to how we live in the world. It will include reading of both primary and secondary historical sources as well as two short papers and one longer research project. On-line registration

Course	HIST 302 World War II and the Cold War in Politics and Film
Professor	Mark Lytle
CRN	18210
Schedule	Mon 7:00 -8:20 pm Olin 301 Wed 1:30 -2:50 pm Olin 301
Distribution	History

Cross-listed: American Studies; Environmental Studies; Social Policy

This course looks at the period from the late 1930s until the early 1950s. During this period, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the United States and its Allies fought and won a global war, dropped the atomic bomb and thereby launched the nuclear arms race, and finally entered into a Cold War with the Soviet Union that shaped political and cultural life at home and abroad. This course is above all a research seminar. It is designed to allow junior History, American Studies, Environmental Studies and others with appropriate needs and interests to explore such questions as “Why did the US drop the atom bomb on Japan?”, “How did the military planning for World War II shape the Cold War?”, “What role do propaganda and pop culture play in setting the national agenda?”  In doing so it takes advantage of the archival resources of the Roosevelt Library and the Cold War International history Project.  Students will select a research topic early in the semester and based on primary and secondary sources produce a journal length article. Many students will be able to use this opportunity to define or refine topics for senior project.  On-line registration

Course	HIST 3107 Fugitives, Exile, Extradition
Professor	Tabetha Ewing
CRN	18206
Schedule	Fr 9:30 - 11:50 am RKC 200
Distribution	History/ Rethinking Difference

Cross-listed: Historical Studies, Human Rights

This picaresque history studies letters that exile, flights of fugitives, asylum, and rendition. It covers the period from the rise of European states (when rulers effectively kidnapped their subjects from foreign territories) to the birth of the modern extradition system. Lone individuals, caught up in the competition between states, contributed unwittingly to the invention of national borders, international policing, and modern international law. The primordial freedom of the individual confronts sovereign jurisdiction—on foreign ground. Thus, extradition is always an encroachment on some body’s sovereignty. Runaway wives, fugitive slaves, dissident pamphleteers, and an anti-imperial revolutionary are among the cases we study. Prerequisites: European history, Theories of Justice, International Relations, or History of Punishment.

Course	HIST 3142 Violence in Colonial America
Professor	Christian Crouch
CRN	18198
Schedule	Th 9:30 - 11:50 am Olin 305
Distribution	History/ Rethinking Difference

Cross-listed: Africana Studies, American Studies, Human Rights, SRE, French Studies

The frontier is one of the great underlying constructs of identity in the Western Hemisphere. This nebulous, turbulent borderland has been marshaled to defend everything from the natural expansion of the United States to the hallowed memory of a colonial past to the current political rights of indigenous groups. But what was the violence of the colonial Americas really like? Who participated, who suffered, who fought, and what did it all mean? What constituted "exceptional" or "daily" violence? This seminar investigates the violent interactions between Native Americans and Europeans, between competing European empires, between slaves and masters, and all the categories in between - that shaped life in the colonial Americas. Theories of violence will be considered in addition to the primary and secondary colonial sources in order to understand the role violence plays in social and cultural formations. On-line registration

Course	HIST / SOC 315. The Blending of American Peoples: Intermarriage: Assimilation and Group Continuity
Professor	Joel Perlmann
CRN	18502
Schedule	Th 4:00 -6:20 pm Olin 310
Distribution	Social Science / Rethinking Difference

Cross list: American studies, SRE, Jewish Studies
See Sociology section for description.

Course	HIST 3234 Your Papers Please? Technocracy, Technology, and Social Control in Nazi Germany, the DDR and BRD
Professor	Gregory Moynahan
CRN	18212
Schedule	Tu 1:30 -3:50 pm RKC 200
Distribution	History

Cross-listed: GISP; Human Rights, Science, Technology & Society

In this research course, we will address the coercive and violent powers of the modern state as they were refined through technologies and techniques in National Socialist Germany, and then alternately condemned and utilized in the two German nations of the (East) German Democratic Republic (DDR) and the (West) German Federal Republic (BRD). Topics will range from the development of new techniques of propaganda and military oversight to the manipulation of social technologies such as identification papers, the census, racial pseudo-science, and, most horrifically, the concentration camp system. At the end of the Nazi period, the DDR defined itself through its resistance to the Nazi party, and nearly the entirety of its ideology was grounded in anti-Fascism and cosmopolitanism.  The means of organizing and controlling society were often directly carried over from the Nazi past. Similarly, the liberal capitalist ideology of the BRD defined itself in complete opposition to the Nazi past, but here as well there were surprising number holdovers from the Nazi era, ranging from the system of registering with the police to the retention of leading bureaucrats. By comparing the two movements, ideologically complete opposites yet organizationally often surprisingly similar, we can address some of the most disturbing issues of modern techniques of social control.  Similarly, protests within each system against specific moments of state power – ranging from issues such as the use of the census and identity cards to methods of police surveillance and conscription – were frequently couched in terms of their links with the Nazi era. Please note that the core of this course will be spent writing and refining an independent historical research paper of approximately 30 pages in length. No previous knowledge of German history is required, although students without such knowledge will need to set aside time for some background reading. On-line registration

Course	HIST 347 1917 Revolution in Russia
Professor	Gennady Shkliarevsky
CRN	18216
Schedule	Th 4:00 -6:20 pm Olin 107
Distribution	History

Cross-listed: Human Rights, Russian & Eurasian Studies

The subject of the seminar will be the 1917 revolution in Russia. The topics under consideration will include: the economic and social developments which preceded the revolution, intellectual and cultural background of the revolutionary movement, ideology and practice of major political parties which participated in the revolutionary events, the role of women in the revolutionary movement, the political dynamics of the revolution and the reasons for the Bolshevik victory, as well as the effects of the revolution on Russian society. Readings will include original works and scholarly studies. On-line registration