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History Courses for Spring
2003
100 Level Courses
History 101A
& 101B. Western Civilization to 1700 (4c/3h).
MWF 8-8:50 & 9-9:50. A102. Beachy.
This course poses the questions: what is “Western Civilization”
and what would motivate us to study it? We pursue our answers
with a survey of European history from the ancient period to
approximately 1700. This includes careful consideration of the
ancient societies of Greece and Rome, the emergence of early
Christian cults and the establishment of Christendom, the European
Middle Ages, and, finally, the dawn of modern European consciousness
with the Renaissance and the Reformation. Are there genuine
continuities in this trajectory or is “Western Civilization”
an ideological construct? By the end of the course, you will
decide.
History 101C.
Western
Civilization to 1700
(4c/3h).
TR 9:30-10:45. B117. Hughes.
This course will introduce you to the perennial problems of
human existence in complex societies by focusing on a historically
important but diverse area of the world, the Mediterranean basin
and its outliers, over an extended period of time. Some of the
problems that will concern us are: the nature of divinity and
people's relationship to the divine; the nature of evil; the
nature and sources of human knowledge; forms of social intercourse;
the organization and legitimation of political power. Two particular
emphases will be environmental history (why did the Mediterranean
remain a center of world power for 4500 years-and then become
a backwater?) and cultural interaction (why and how did human
groups develop different cultures within similar, neighboring
environments and how did their interaction with one another
affect their development?). Americans are, perforce, cultural
heirs to this part of the world, and a study of its development
should give you some understanding of how the culture you live
in-and some of your own modes of thought-came to be.
History 101D.
Western Civilization to 1700 (4c/3h).
TR 9:30-10:45. A102. Williams. At light speed
(in one class period) we will traverse the prehistory of our
species and then set about a more intensive review of the next
5200 years (3500 B.C.E to 1700 C.E). Our journey will carry
us from Sumeria and the appearance of that form of culture historians
call civilization to the eve of industrialization and political
revolution in Western Europe. While examining the the communal
structures, achievements, tribulations, and transformations
of peoples who, for the most part, spoke Indo-European languages
and who, from their origins somewhere north of the Caucasus,
came to control not only Europe, but the Americas and the whole
of northern Asia, we will try to determine what sense it makes
to speak of the tangible and intangible worlds they made as
a single civilization and on what bases we might distinguish
this civilization from others that appeared elswhere.
History 102A.
Europe and the World in the Modern Era (4c/3h). MWF
1-1:50. A102. Gillespie.
This
course examines the legacy of the western world from the end
of the seventeenth century to the present and considers this
legacy for understanding the human experience in all its diversity
today. We will explore the role of Europe in shaping the trans-Atlantic
economy and the spread of slavery, the scientific revolution
and the ideas of the Enlightenment, the causes and meanings
of the French Revolution, industrialization and the Marxist
response, the ideologies of change and the national state, the
rise of modernity and the age of anxiety, the new imperialism,
the world wars and their consequences, the Cold War and the
transition to a new European order in a global society. We will
pay close attention to identity and its connection to changing
ideas about the relationship between the individual and society
in Europe and the world.
History 102B.
Europe and the World in the Modern Era (4c/3h). MWF
12-12:50. A102. Barefield.
A survey of
modern Europe from 1700 to the present.
Focus varies with instructor.
History 102C.
Europe and the World in the Modern Era (4c/3h). TR
12-1:15. A102. Sinclair. A survey
of modern Europe from 1700 to the present.
History 102D&
102E. Europe and the World in the Modern Era (4c/3h).
TR
12-1:15 & 1:30-2:45. A103. Smith.
Much of the American heritage has come
from its European backgrounds or from the influence of areas
within European empires. Within the twentieth century, certainly,
the presumption that European culture is the standard of the
world has been questioned by fresh and more accurate knowledge
of what has been happening in the rest of the world. Governmental
systems have emerged based on the values of the American and
French Revolutions, the less violent English evolution, and
the emergence of modern European states. The outflow of the
Industrial Revolution and of the inevitable internationalistic
globalism in the twentieth century raises questions about the
future role of patriotic nationalism and of the states themselves.
This is the framework of the course. It will cover the Industrial
Revolution, the legacy of the Revolutions, the rise of nation
states, the rise and fall of empires, the clash of capitalism
and Marxism, the World Wars, the Cold War, the empowerment of
the "Third World," and the rise of global economics
that must deal with a world that can produce more than the market
can absorb.
History 102F&102G.
Europe and the World in the Modern Era (4c/3h).
MWF 9-9:50 & 11-11:50. A103. Bobroff.
A survey of modern Europe from 1700 to the present.
History 103A.
World Civilizations to 1500 (4c/3h). MWF
10-10:50. A103. Villagomez. A
survey of the ancient, classical and medieval civilizations
of Eurasia with a brief look at American and sub-Sararan societies.
Focus varies with instructor.
History 104A
& 104C. World Civilizations since 1500 (4c/3h).
MWF
1-1:50 & 2-2:30. A103.
Parent. This course surveys
global development since 1500 using documentary, analytical,
and narrative texts. Particular attention will be paid to the
emergence of world systems, regional comparison, migrations
of people, technological innovation, and class, racial and gender
differentiation. Class participation and attendance are both
critical to the success of this course. These areas will count
twenty-five percent of the grade. The seven-page theme paper,
midterm and final will each count twenty-five percent of the
grade. The registrar schedules the final. Students are required
to develop a theme paper from the required texts.
History 104B.
World Civilizations since 1500 (4c/3h). MWF 12-12:50.
A208. Watts. A
survey of the major civilizations of the world in the modern
and contemporary periods.
History 104D
&104F. World Civilizations since 1500 (4c/3h).
MWF 9-9:50 & 11-11:50. A208. Hastings. This
course will consider the major world civilizations as they have
developed both in isolation and in contact with other cultures
over the past 600 years. The focus will be on the civilizations
of India, China, the Islamic World, Latin America, Southeast
Asia and Africa...their internal developments as well as their
respective encounters with European culture. We will be concerned
with such topics as exploration and conquest, trade, slavery,
colonialism and resistance, the rise of nationalism, and above
all social change. We will therefore incorporate into our analysis
non-Western and non-elite perspectives on history, concerning
ourselves with how major (and often seemingly minor) historical
developments have affected the lives of ordinary people and
how they have dealt with change.
History 104E
& 104I. World Civilizations since 1500 (4c/3h).
TR 12-1:15 & 3-4:15. A104 & A208. Wilson. A
survey of the major civilizations of the world in the modern
and contemporary periods.
History 104G
& 104H. World Civilizations since 1500 (4c/3h).
TR 12-1:15 & 1:30-2:45. B117. Meyers. A
survey of the major civilizations of the world in the modern
and contemporary periods.
History 162.
History of Wake Forest University (2c/1.5h). T 3-4:15.
A103. Hendricks. A survey of the history of Wake Forest
University from its beginnings--to include reading assignments,
lectures, tours, and presentations. A tour of the Old Campus
is encouraged. More...
Credit cannot be
received for both 101 and 103 or 102 and 104.
All classes held in Tribble Hall unless otherwise noted.
200 Level
Courses
History 211A.
CLQ: Thomas Dixon and Birth of New South (2c/1.5h).
W 3:30-6:00. A104. Gillespie & Hall. Throughout
a long career as an actor, lawyer, politician, minister, lecturer,
and writer, Wake Forest graduate Thomas Dixon Jr. (1864-1946)
cultivated controversy about some of the most important issues
facing the South and the nation in his time and in ours. This
colloquium explores the intellectual and cultural world of Thomas
Dixon and its relationship to modernization in the South and
in America as a whole. It will examine his role in the Social
Gospel movement in religion, explore the reasons for the popular
appeal of his romantic (and racist) novels, The Leopard's
Spots and The Clansman, and discuss the power of
mass media as embodied in The Birth of a Nation, the film adaptation
of Dixon's work that the class will screen. The class will also
read selections from the contemporaneous writings of black intellectual
W. E. B. Du Bois and other African American writers. We will
also address Dixon's experiences at Wake Forest using Dixon's
autobiography and Wake Forest archival sources. The colloquium
will meet once per week for two hours for seven weeks and requires
attending the symposium on Dixon offered in conjunction with
this course.
History 211B.
CLQ: Biographies of American Revolutionaries (2c/1.5h).
R 3-4:15. A103. Hendricks. This course focuses
on the period from 1765 to l800 and assumes a working knowledge
of United States history during this period. If needed, any
good history text or brief history will help if used diligently.
One text: Risjord, Representative Americans: The Revolutionary
Generation, will be required. Assignments from this, to
include at least one class presentation, will be discussed in
class and will be tested on the mid-term and final.
The course will be taught primarily from a biographical perspective.
Each student will be expected to read and present an oral and
written report on four full-length (totaling at least 1,500
pages) biographies of significant individuals from this period.
Reports should follow an assigned format, which asks for a review
of the contents of the book and an analysis of the volume from
a historical perspective. Written reports should range between
750 and l000 words and will be graded on content as well as
form and style. Oral reports should follow the same format in
an abbreviated form (about ten minutes).
Students will be expected to contribute to class discussion
and to respond, when called on, to questions about current reading.
Material from lectures, reports, and reading will be included
on the exams.
History
211WA. CLQ: Colonialism in Africa (4c/3h). W 2-4:30.
B117. Wilson. This course will
examine the political, economic, cultural, ecological, and religious
histories that shaped the colonial era in Africa, starting at
the end of the 19th century until the 1990s with the end of
Apartheid in South Africa. The course will concentrate on all
four regions of the African continent, and a major emphasis
of the course will examine the daily experiences of colonialism
from the perspectives of the African people. Typically, the
voices of African subalterns are never included in the narrative
of colonial history. In this course, we will examine the many
ways Africans struggled and succeeded in negotiating their local
autonomies as they lived under the rule of European colonialism.
History 211WB.
CLQ: THE HINDU-MUSLIM ENCOUNTER IN SOUTH ASIA (4c/3h).
TR 1:30-2:45. A208. Hastings. Hindus and Muslims have lived
together in the Indian subcontinent for close to one thousand
years. Although this century has been marked by outbursts of
communal violence and enmity between adherents of the two religions,
associated with events such as the partition into India and
Pakistan in 1947 and the Hindu attack upon a mosque in Ayodhya
in the early 1990s, the relationship between the two has not
always been marked by such antagonism. In fact, the history
of Islam in South Asia indicates a good deal of give-and-take
which has manifested in what might be termed 'syncretism' in
cultural traits and even in religion. We shall consider this
prolonged cultural dialogue as it manifests in religious and
other everyday practices, while examining as well the effects
of sociopolitical forces, focusing on North India today as well
as during the principal years of Mughal rule (1526-1720 CE),
the period of British colonialism, and partition.
History 252.
The United States after 1865 (4c/3h).
MWF 2-2:50. A208.
Watts. Political,
social economic, and intellectual aspects.
History 287.
Honors in History I (4c/3h). MWF 11-11:50. A104.
Parent. Seminar on problems of historical synthesis and
interpretation. All honors students must take History 287. POI.
History 288.
Honors in History II (4c/3h). Staff.
Writing of a major
research paper. POI. Times arranged.
300 Level
Courses
History 308
& 608. World of Alexander the Great (4c/3h).
TR 12-1:15. A208. Lerner. This course surveys the rise of
Macedonia first under Philip II, and then his son, Alexander
III, whose conquests fused the destinies of the Greek World
and those of Asia and Africa. Even after the kingdoms of his
successors yielded to the conquests of the Romans and Parthians,
the composite Hellenistic Civilization, or imitations of it,
prevailed for several generations in the lands between the Ganges
River and Cornwall, and between Gilbraltar and the Aral Sea.
The course examines Alexander’s conquests, and then the
main features of Hellenistic Civilization from about 350 until
50 B.C.E. Special attention will be given to aspects of Hellenistic
literature, philosophy, science, religion, culture, and art.
History 310A
& 610A. Seminar: Memory, Culture and Making of the South
(4c/3h). M 3:30-6:00. A104. Gillespie. This
course turns on the themes of history, memory, and popular culture
in the South since the Civil War. It addresses how different
groups of people, and especially southerners, have constructed
collective representations of their pasts by paying attention
to these representations as evidenced in the media, literature,
historic sites, civic events, music and other venues for popular
culture. Special emphasis will be placed on exploring the roles
of ideology, politics, race, class and gender in shaping collective
memory. The class will meet for half the semester and then meet
only with the instructor to ensure students have ample opportunity
to design, research and write a substantial paper based on primary
sources on some aspect of the course theme. There will also
be opportunities to think about course themes and meet several
authors of course readings through participation in the upcoming
symposium on Thomas Dixon and the Making of Modern America.
History 310E
& 610E. Seminar: War, Revolution and Individual Experience
(4c/3h). R 3-5:30. A104. Williams. If war
and revolution can alter the structure or function of governments,
reorder what we call economies and societies, and overturn the
international distribution of power, what changes do they effect
in the lives of individuals? How, and to what extent, do they
deflect the course of individuals’ lives and transform
their experience? What meaning, if any, do individuals manage
to find in the course of these tumultuous public events? These
are the questions we will address in this seminar. To answer
them we will rely on a particular kind of historical source—the
various forms of first person expression (e.g., diaries, journals,
memoirs, letters)—with its own possibilities and problems,
which it will also be our business to explore.
History
310W
& 610W. Seminar: Cold War in Asia, 1950-present
(4c/3h). W 2-4:30. B116. Sinclair.
History
320 & 620. Germany:
UNIFICATION TO UNIFICATION 1871-1990 (4c/3h). MWF 12-12:50.
B117. Hughes.
For much of the 20th century, Germany was at the center
of world history. At first, it was a great power seeking to
dominate Europe (ca. 1890 to 1945); then it became the center
of the conflict between the United States and its liberal democratic
allies on the one hand and the Soviet Union and its communist
satellites on the other (1945 to 1990). This course will examine
the complex, fraught, and all-too-often horribly fascinating
history of Germany, as it came together into a unified nation,
set out to seize hegemony in Europe, collapsed in catastrophic
defeat and division, and eventually managed to unify once again
under very new conditions in 1990. We will also be looking at
how another industrial and post-industrial society grappled
with the economic, political, and social problems that have
challenged the nations of the world over the last 150 years.
History 323
& 623. Great Britain to 18th Century (4c/3h).
MWF 10-10:50. A102. Barefield. Britain from the Anglo-Saxons
to the Glorious Revolution (1688). Cultural, social, and political
topics will be stressed. Readings will include selections from
Bede, Chaucer, Malory, the Paston Letters, and Pepys.
History 332
& 632. Russia and the Soviet Union: 1865 -Present
(4c/3h). MWF 11-11:50. A102. Rupp. This course explores
the social, political and economic history of Russia and the
Soviet Union from the late imperial period to the collapse of
Communism. It will focus on those issues which have been of
fundamental, longterm significance for Russia and the Soviet
Union, such as economic underdevelopment and the problematic
relationship between state and society.
History 333&
633. European Diplomatic History 1848-1914 (4c/3h).
MWF 1-1:50. A208. Bobroff. The diplomacy of the great powers,
with some attention given to the role of publicity in international
affairs.
History 338
& 638. Gender in Modern America (4c/3h). MWF
11-11:50. B117. Caron. This
course examines the impact of political, economic, andcultural
changes on gender relations from the late nineteenth century
to the present. We will analyze the varying definitions of femininity
and masculinity, the changing notions of sexuality, and the
continuity and diversity of gender roles. We will pay particular
attention to race, class and ethnicity. This class will be discussion-oriented.
History 339
& 639. The History of American Medicine (4c/3h).
MWF
10-10:50. B117. Caron. This course is a broad
survey of the social history of American medicine from the precolonial
period to the present. We will examine the indigenous healing
methods of Native Americans; the introduction of European methods;
the development of medical technology; the use of anesthesia
and surgical progression; the professionalization of medicine;
changes in medical education; changes in childbirth procedures;
health care during war time; the impact of diseases; the economics
of health care; the ethics of human experimentation; sexually
transmitted diseases; and reproductive health issues. The class
is a combination of lecture and discussion, with a heavy emphasis
on the latter.
History 344
& 644. Modern China
(4c/3h).
TR 1:30-2:45. A102. Sinclair.
A study of China from 1644 to the present.
History 345
& 645. The Middle East since 1500 (4c/3h).
MWF 12-12:50. A103. Villagomez. A
survey of modern Middle Eastern history from the collapse of
the last great Muslim unitary states to the present day. Topics
include the rise and demise of the Ottoman and Safavid empires;
socio-political reform; the impact of colonialism; Qajar Iran;
the development of nationalism; and contemporary social and
economic challenges.
History 357 &
657. The Civil War & Reconstruction (4c/3h).
TR 1:30-2:45. A104. Escott. The political and military events
of the war and the economic, social, and political readjustments
which followed.
History 360
& 660. United States since WWII (4c/3h). TR 9:30-10:45.
A103. Smith. The United States has gone through
World War II and the Cold War with the prosperity that both
created. In the prosperity of the 1950's and 1960's the nation
experimented with the idea of providing equal opportunity to
all or most of its children. The heated realities of Vietnam
and Watergate withered that optimism. For two decades conservative
ideals and free market rhetoric salved the nation's wounds and
promised healing. In more recent times internationalism made
inevitable by technology, the lack of a major moral enemy, and
the problem of overproduction have left the nation to face the
question of how to prosper and to be proud in a world without
a war. It must also solve the question of how minorities can
appreciate, admire, and empathize with other minorities and
at the same time be immensely glad that they are of their own
minority.
History 362
& 662. American Constitutional History (4c/3h).
TR 3-4:15. A102. Zick. Origins of the Constitution, the
controversies involving the nature of the Union, and constitutional
readjustments to meet the new American industrialism.
History 373
& 673. History of Mexico (4c/3h). TR 3-4:15.
B117. Meyers. This course examines the history
of modern Mexico, focusing particularly on the period since
Independence in 1810, the Mexican-American War, its Revolution
from 1910 and 1920, the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas, 1994
to the present, Immigration, the importance of its oil reserves
to the United States, and the increasing importance of the relationship
between the U.S. and Mexico.
History 397.
Historical Writing Tutorial (2c/1.5h). Staff.
Individual supervision of historical writing to improve a project
initiated in History 288 or History 310. Permission of instructor
required. Does not count toward major or minor requirements.
Times arranged.
History 398
& 698. Individual Study (1-4c/1-3h). Staff.
A project in an area of study not otherwise available in the
department; permitted upon departmental approval of petition
presented by a qualified student. Times
arranged.
History
399 & 699. Directed Reading (1-4c/1-3h). Staff. Concentrated
reading in an area of study not otherwise available. Permission
of instructor required.Times
arranged.
First Year
Seminars
FYS 100. Alexander
the Great (4c/3h). T 2-4:30. A104. Lerner.
FYS 100. Fallout
Shelters & Cold War (4c/3h). TR 9:30-10:45. A104.
Hendricks.
FYS 100.
Merry Apocalypse: ...(4c/3h). MWF 9-9:50. A104. Rupp.
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