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History Courses for Spring
2007
100 Level Courses
History 102A & 102C. Europe and the World in the Modern Era (3h). MWF 10-10:50 & 12-12:50. B117. Rupp. This course provides a survey of European history in the modern era. Broad themes addressed in the course include the following: differing forms of government and the principles upon which they have been based; the role of ideas in influencing historical change; the impact of social structures and struggles on forms of political power; the rights and powers of the individual and how these have been defined relative to the community and the state. |
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| History 102B & 102D. Europe and the World in the Modern Era (3h). MWF 11-11:50 & 12-12:50. A103. Bobroff. A survey of modern Europe from 1700 to the present. Focus varies with instructor. |
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| History 102E & 102F. Europe and the World in the Modern Era (3h). TR 12-12:50 & 1-1:50. A208. Bennett. A survey of modern Europe from 1700 to the present.
Focus varies with instructor. |
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| History 102G & 102H. Europe and the World in the Modern Era (3h). TR 9:30-10:45 & 12-1:15. B117. Hughes. Europe was backward and poor, compared to China, India, and the Middle East, as late as the 17th and even 18th centuries. But in the late 19th century it dominated and strongly influenced the world. Brutal wars, 1914-1918 and 1939-1945, dramatically eroded its influence, as did economic development elsewhere in the world. Yet it still remains rich and powerful. Moreover, the Untied States derived its major institutions and values from its European origins. This course will examine the ways in which Europe, in no small part through its interactions with the rest of the world, developed and exported, and other parts of the world in turn adopted and adapted, the key ideologies and institutions that characterize the world in which we live. We will talk about intellectual movements, economic development and competition, and political institutions and cultures; about bureaucracies, markets, corporations, trade unions, political parties, and social movements. We’ll start in the 17th century and end with the collapse of communism and beginnings of our current, post-Cold War, world. |
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| History 104A & 104B. World Civilizations since 1500 (3h). MWF 8-8:50 & 9-9:50. A102. McConnell. Survey of the major civilizations of the world in the modern and contemporary periods. |
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| History 104C & 104E. World Civilizations since 1500 (3h). MWF 9-9:50 & 10-10:50. A103. Greenspan. This class will examine the last five hundred years of world history with particular attention to how ordinary people are affected by the events going on around them. To this end, in addition to a main textbook, we will read five primary sources that address the issues confronted by average people around the world. We will read works by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Frederick Douglass, Karl Marx, Chinua Achebe and Mohandas Gandhi. Students will be asked to discuss these works in class, as well as answering a required question on them for both the midterm and final exams. In addition to lectures, discussions and exams, students will be asked to write an 8-10 page research paper on a topic which is agreed to by both the student and the instructor. |
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| History 104D & 104F. World Civilizations since 1500 (3h). MWF 10-10:50 & 11-11:50. A208. Fitzgibbon. This course will provide you with an overview of world history since 1500. Topics covered will include state building, long-distance trade, the development of capitalism, plantation economies, the political and religious ideologies of major 18th c. states, new urban cultures, new ideas and political movements, industrialization, imperialism, mass societies, anti-colonial struggles, woman’s emancipation, the Cold War, and ethnic violence. The supplementary reading will be used to explore the social construction of race and ethnicity in the modern world. |
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| History 104G & 104H. We Are What We Eat: World History
Since 1500 Through Foods and Beverages (3h). MW 2-3:15 & TR 9:30-10:45. A102 & A103. Hellyer. The aim of this course is to explore patterns in world history since
1500 and consider how those patterns shape our world today. We will use
foods, beverages, and intoxicating substances to first explore prominent
world civilizations before moving to consider globalization,
colonization, slavery, and the development of national cultures and
political systems. We will also use foods and beverages to examine how
and why industrialization developed first in some parts of the world and
how the industrial global economy defines our world today, particularly
the gap between rich and poor. |
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| History 104I & 104J. World Civilizations since 1500 (3h). TR 9:30-10:45 & 12-1:15. A102 & A103. Wilkins. This course offers an overview of world history since 1500. It examines four major themes -- colonialism and imperialism; political and social revolution; industrialization, and the rise of consumer society -- and how these interact. Within this framework the course will give special attention to the history of the family and of slavery. A range of different types of readings will be assigned, from primary sources (writings from the times), to historical narratives, to historiography (debates about history), to works of fiction. |
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Credit cannot be received for both 101 and 103 or 102 and 104.
All classes held in Tribble Hall unless otherwise noted.
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200 Level Courses
History 224. Great Britain eighteenth century to present (3h). TR 4:30-5:45. A103. Lewis. Survey of British history. Topics include religion, revolution and reform, war, poverty and poor relief, women, social and economic change, and empire. |
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| History 240. African American History (3h). TR 1:30-2:45. A102. Parent. The role of African Americans in the development of the U.S., with attention to African heritage, forced migration, Americanization and influence. |
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| History 243. The Middle East Since 1500 (3h). TR 1:30-2:45. B117. Wilkins. This course surveys Middle Eastern history from the emergence of the Ottoman and Safavid Empires in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries to the development of nation-states in the late twentieth century. Thematically, the course focuses on the transformation of state and society first under expanding Muslim power and subsequently under the impact of a changing world economy and European imperialism. Along the way, the course traces currents of social change wrought by political and economic transformations, resulting in tremendous population growth and urbanization and the rise of nationalist and religious movements. The course also examines the causes of war, revolution and social conflict in the 20th century. |
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| History 249. Introduction to East Asia (3h). TR 12-1:15. A208. Heyller. After providing an introduction to the roots of East Asian civilization,
the course explores the dramatic political, economic, social and
cultural changes that occurred in the three largest states of East
Asia—China, Japan, and Korea—as interaction with Western nations
increased in the nineteenth century. It will then analyze the
conflicts—political, economic, and military—that occurred in East Asia
throughout much of the twentieth century. In the concluding weeks, it
will focus on the tremendous economic development that has defined East
Asia in recent decades.
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300 Level Courses History 311AA & 611AA. Special Topics: American Ethnic History (3h). MW 3-4:15. A103. Greenspan. This class will examine the eperiences of a wide number of ethnic groups in the United States starting in the early nineteenth century and going up to the present day. we will read seven books, which will be a mixture of primary and secondary sources. Students will be asked to consider the role that ethnicity plays in American life, and whether Americans can ever be free of their ethnicity, or if they even wish to be. In addition to class discussions on the readings, students will take an all essay midterm and final exam, as well as writing a 10-15 page research paper on a topic agreed to by both the student and the instructor. |
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| History 311AB & 611AB. Special Topics: Daughters of the South (3h). TR 12-1:15. A102. Gillespie. This seminar explores women's conflicts and coalitions across lines of race, class, sexuality, politics and the state, language, work and ideals in the 19th and 20th U.S. South, using classic texts, film and current scholarship. |
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| History 311AC & 611AC. Special Topics: Vietnam War (3h). MW 3-4:15. A208. Bennett. |
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| History 311E & 611E. Special Topics: Origins of World War I (3h). MWF 2-2:50. A103. Bobroff. The subject of the course "Origins of World War I" are the immediate causes of the First World War, with a concentration on the events of 1911-1914. The core of the course is diplomatic history, examining the crises which led to the outbreak of the war. However, not only the foreign relations of the major powers but also their internal politics will be examined in an effort to understand better the comparative foreign-policy formulation in the different states. To do this, political structures and systems of government, nationality problems, and the balance of power between government and society will be studied. Students will read both texts and contemporary documents that will illuminate the differing perspectives among the participants. These materials will also assist us in considering the causes of the war from various interpretive angles. |
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| History 311WA & 611WA. Special Topics: Colonial Latin America (3h). TR 3-4:15. A208. Fitzgibbon. Instead of simply assuming that Latin America was conquered and dominated by Spain and Portugal, we will explore colonialism as a contested process. We will examine the institutions used by the Spanish and the Portuguese state to control and exploit indigenous peoples, women, people of mixed race, and African slaves, but we will also investigate the ways in which these supposed subjects of colonial rule evaded or subverted systems of social control. Special topics will include town life, the mining-hacienda complex, the survival of Mayan and indigenous Andean cultures, the origins of Afro-Brazilian culture, women, the Church, sorcery, and popular uprisings. |
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| History 311WB & 611WB. Special Topics: Genocide in Modern World History (3h). MWF 10-10:50. Wingate 302. McConnell. It is said that genocide may be as old as organized society. Hints of this phenomenon color the history of the West. The Hebrew Bible, for example, reports the story of Moses who carried out war against a foreign people to the point of their extermination. And while the impulse to destroy an identified group may be ancient, the social circumstances that form genocidal events in history is constantly changing. In perhaps the most familiar episode, Nazi Germany employed industrial ingenuity and bureaucratic efficiency to carry out their mass extermination of the Jews. More recent genocides, such as those in Rwanda, used means that were anything but modern. This course explores the history of genocide in the modern age throughout the globe. It seeks to understand the causative forces and intellectual frameworks that contribute to these events and their devastating legacies. Definitional questions about the nature of genocide will be considered throughout the semester as students examine contested historical episodes such as European and American confrontation with indigenous peoples of North and South America. In addition students will be asked to consider the propaganda and arguments lodged by various groups and government officials to deny genocidal events such as those by modern-day Turkey. |
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| History 318 & 618. Weimar Germany (3h). MWF 11-11:50. B117. Hughes. This course is an exploration of the arts in Central Europe, 1905-1937, in historical context. We will read novels, stories, and poems; view some of the best of the early films; listen to challenging and stimulating music; and look at vibrant and provocative paintings, etchings, woodprints, and sculptures. All along we will be seeking to understand how these works of art, which speak to us still, are nonetheless rooted in a particular time and place, in the economic, social, and political institutions and developments of their day. |
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| History 357 & 657. The Civil War & Reconstruction (3h). MWF 9-9:50. B117. Escott. This course focuses on America’s most destructive war, the changes it produced, and their meaning for national values and freedom. The scope of the course is broad, embracing political, social, economic and military history. The questions with which it deals have been and remain central to American values and government. |
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| History 360 & 660. US since World War II (3h). TR 1:30-2:45. A208. 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 world 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. |
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| History 390A & 690A. Research Seminar: A Delightful (Re)past: A History of Food and Drink (3h). T 1:30-4. A104. Rupp. Most of us give little thought to the meals we eat every day or the cup of coffee we share with friends at a local coffeeshop. And we’re even more unlikely to think about what we eat and drink in historical terms. Yet, in the last couple of decades an increasing number of historians have turned to the study of food and drink, with an understanding that what people consume reflects and in turn influences the economy, society and culture in which they live. In this course, we will consider the significance of a number of issues related to the history of food and drink, and students will pursue a research project of their own design based upon the theme of the course. |
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| History 390B & 690B. 1968 (3h). T 4-6:30. A104. Smith. A research seminar that will examine the hinge year of 1968 when the optimism of the previous decade melted under the onus of Vietnam, the mood of Watergate, and the burden of an exhausted wave of reform. It was a year when student revolts around the world besieged establishment institutions. |
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| History 390C & 690C. Memory, Culture and the Making of the New South (3h). W 2-4:30. A104. Gillespie. This seminar addresses how and why different groups of southerners have constructed collective representations of their pasts as evidenced in media, literature, historic sites, monuments, civic events, popular culture, etc. Students research and write original papers at least 25 pages in length based on analysis of secondary and primary sources that explore some aspect of collective memory in the modern South. |
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| History 391 & 691. Honors Seminar: Ancient Greek Democracy (3h). R 1:30-4. A104. Lerner. The seminar will explore the institution of Greek democracy (Demokratia) from its origins in the archaic period to its blossoming in classical Athens. Students will be introduced and encouraged to investigate in translation ancient texts and contemporary scholarship in order to glean insight about a variety of topics regarding ancient forms of democratic government. |
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| History 392 & 692. Individual Research (3h). Staff. To be announced. |
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| History 397 & 697. Historical Writing Tutorial (1.5h). Staff. To be announced. |
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History 399 & 699. Directed Reading (1-3h). Staff. To be announced.
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First Year Seminars FYS 100. The Two Reconstructions: Civil Rights in America (3h). MWF 8-8:50. A104. Escott. Our seminar will examine and compare two periods in which the rights of African-Americans were at the top of the nation’s agenda: reconstruction after the Civil War, and the modern civil rights movement. What made this issue so salient at those times? What caused progress in those periods? Why did progress stop? Together we will search for patterns, similarities and differences, and a deeper understanding of the dynamics of racial progress in America. |
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FYS 100. Before and After 1607: Virginia's Founding (3h). TR 3-4:15. Collins 008. Parent.
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