Spring 2022

Achievements of the near East, Greece, and Rome with emphasis on the development of ideas, arts, and institutions which have influenced modern man.

Study of the lives of selected individuals who have helped to shape Chinese politics and culture.

Japan from the earliest times to the present; social, cultural,and political dimensions.

History of South Asia from the tenth century to the present day; examines imperialism, capitalism, nationalism, and immigration.

Methods and theories of historical interpretation of evidence; uses of archives; modes of presenting the past to the public. Required of all History majors. Duplicates credit in former HIST-300.

Examines the origins of the idea of race and how this idea influenced the development of the United States from the colonial period to the present day.

Comparative historical analysis of the American experience of war: war decision-making processes; evolution of strategy and tactics; the political, economic, and social effects of war.

An examination of how the shifting norms, discourses and representations of gender and sexuality have rocked American society during the last 150 years

A history of gender in the Ancient and Spanish Americas, focusing on the ways women participated in the livelihood, politics and rituals of their communities.

Overview of the history of the Ottomans and their imperial subjects.

Europe 1100-1400. Knights, castles, chivalry, the early university, monks, popes and the Gothic cathedral. Miracles, plague and war.

Development of the Japanese samurai from the 6th to the 16th centuries. Recommended preparation: a course in East Asian history

Survey of the impact of World War II, American occupation, and rapid economic growth on Japan's politics, society, economy, and culture; Japan as a post-modern nation.

Early modern English and European social and cultural history viewed though everyday and luxury material objects.

Critical turning-points in the twentieth century; sources of major social and political change. Course materials include primary documents and historic radio/television recordings.

Introduction to the diversity of religions in the Middle East and how they have responded to imperialism, colonialism and nationalism in the modern period.

History of people of African descent in Latin America; explores slavery and its legacy, the impact of liberalism and capitalism and of globalization and multiculturalism.

Exploration of major themes and events in Latin American history from independence to the present.

Racial and cultural background of Mexico; immigration and conquest; the Mexican in California and the southwest; the rise of contemporary Mexican-American consciousness.

Arab immigration and acculturation in the U.S. from late-19th century to present; emphasis on community formation, race, religion and gender.

An introduction to the study of law from a historical perspective; explores the interaction of law, culture and politics from the Revolution through the New Deal.

History of South Asia with attention to questions of gender, sexuality and power with a focus on the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Explores concepts of identity, community- and state-building, diaspora, and migration through historical and ethnographic research in Southern California

Explores changes in gender expectations in England between 1700 and 1900 through readings and one-week travel to London

Uses waste as a lens to explore the ties between economic development, ecological disruption, resource extraction and racial, class and gender exploitation.

Examines themes in European and English cultural history 1500-1800, including identity, power, group dynamics, display, space, communication, control.

A historical overview of apocalyptic hopes and fears, from Revelations to the present. New World explorations, utopian communes, nuclear war, zombies, climate change.

Exploration of African-American history through primary and secondary sources employing a colloquium format with an emphasis on shared responsibility for comprehensive discussion and analysis.

Explores the connections between historical and contemporary methods of incarceration - confinement, punishment, surveillance and discipline - and the production of racial hierarchies.

Examines the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans and its impact on issues of civil liberties as well as national security.

An examination of how museums collect and display objects, shaping ideas about human cultures and the world, from the Renaissance to the present.

An exploration of the Mongol era in China through an examination of three great historical figures, including how depictions of them have changed over time.

Individual research and readings. Not available for graduate credit.

Advanced study of the persecution and mass murder of the European Jewry, its history and its historiography.

Introduction to readings and major historiographical developments in the study of Latin America and the Caribbean after independence, focusing on key fields and debates.

Introduction to historiography and research in the political, economic, social, cultural, and intellectual history of the 19th Century United States.

Research leading to the master's degree. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department. Graded CR/NC.

Credit on acceptance of thesis. Graded IP/CR/NC

Credit on acceptance of thesis. Graded IP/CR/NC

Credit on acceptance of Thesis. Graded CR/NC.

Basic principles of history pedagogy, with emphasis on practical applications and the importance of career-long skill development. Required for first semester teaching assistants in history. Graded CR/NC.

Selected topics in the history of the American frontier and the West.

Research leading to the doctorate. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department. Graded CR/NC.

Credit on acceptance of Dissertation.

Credit on acceptance of Dissertation.

Credit on acceptance of Dissertation.

Credit on acceptance of Dissertation.

Credit on acceptance of Dissertation.