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HIST 1200
Course Description
How can we learn about the past? How do we tell stories about the past? How do we judge the truth of falsity of evidence? Writing History seminars introduce students to many different ways of interpreting ... view course details
FWS Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Writing the Environment
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- MWFUris Hall 369
Instructors
Dallos, M
Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Topic: FWS:Camera Historian/Colonial-Era Photographs/Asia
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- MWFGoldwin Smith Hall 158
Instructors
Fernandez, J
Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Topic: FWS:Climate Change and Human History
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- MWFWhite Hall B02
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Bloomfield, K
Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Topic: FWS:Pirates-Protestants:SeafarersMedievalAtlantic
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- MWFUris Hall G24
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Lyons, C
Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/
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3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Topic: FWS: The Early Modern Death Penalty
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- TRUris Hall 398
Instructors
Pontzer, K
Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/
FWS Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Topic: FWS:MakingUpPeople:Psychology/Medicine/Philosophy
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- MWFUris Hall 398
Instructors
Boling, N
Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/
HIST 1321
Course Description
No description available. view course details
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- TRUris Hall 369
Instructors
King-O'Brien, K
Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/
HIST 1400
Course Description
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), most famous today as the author of children's stories, including The Jungle Book, was one of the most popular and acclaimed writers of his day. He was also a noted chronicler ... view course details
FWS Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
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- TRWhite Hall B02
Instructors
Travers, T
Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/
HIST 1402
Course Description
This course looks at Islam as a global phenomenon, both historically and in the contemporary world. We spend time on the genesis of Islam in the Middle East, but then move across the Muslim would in various ... view course details
FWS Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- MWUris Hall 303
Instructors
Tagliacozzo, E
Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/
HIST 1415
Course Description
The Han Dynasty (206 b.c.e.-220 c.e.) saw the development of institutions, values, and practices that had lasting influences on later societies. Much as people today invoke Greek exemplars such as democracy, ... view course details
FWS Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- MWBalch Hall - Tatkon Ctr 3331
Instructors
Hinrichs, T
Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/
HIST 1453
Course Description
Ethiopia, one of the oldest states in Africa, has a rich history that is often enveloped in myths and legends. Home to a number of ethnic and religious communities, Ethiopia's political geography changed ... view course details
FWS Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- MWAfricana Ctr B07
Instructors
Byfield, J
Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/
HIST 1511
Course Description
How do we make sense of the Brexit vote in Great-Britain, the rise of political Islam and the "veil" debates in France, the anti-globalization movements in Spain and Greece, the growth of demagogic ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion.
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MWMorrill Hall 106
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Weil, R
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- FUris Hall 204
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Staff
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- FWhite Hall 104
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- FWhite Hall 106
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HIST 1595
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Focusing on political and social history, this course surveys African-American history from Emancipation to the present. The class examines the post-Reconstruction "Nadir" of black life; the mass black ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 1595, ASRC 1595
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MWRockefeller Hall 122
Instructors
Rickford, R
HIST 1660
Course Description
Globalization may seem like a recent hot topic, but it was already very much in vogue 1000 years ago when Norse explorers burst out of Scandinavia to journey as far as North America, Azerbaijan, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: MEDVL 1660, NES 1660
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TRBaker Laboratory 135
Instructors
Falk, O
HIST 1700
Course Description
From ancient seafarers to the Mars rovers, from Christopher Columbus to the Apollo astronauts, humans have for centuries explored the far reaches of our planet and are now venturing into the solar system ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ASTRO 1700
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3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MWGoldwin Smith Hall G64-Kau Aud
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Squyres, S
Tagliacozzo, E
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- FWhite Hall 104
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Staff
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- FUris Hall 498
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- RMcGraw Hall 365
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- FMcGraw Hall 145
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- FMcGraw Hall 365
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- FWhite Hall 104
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- RMcGraw Hall 366
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- FUris Hall G26
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HIST 1802
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This course seeks a fuller recounting of U.S. history by remapping what we understand as "America." We will examine traditional themes in the teaching of U.S. history—territorial expansion and empire, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 1802, LATA 1802, LSP 1802
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TRMcgraw Hall 165
Instructors
Garcia, M
HIST 1920
Course Description
This course surveys modern Chinese history from 1600 to present. Time will be devoted to each of the three major periods into which modern Chinese history is conventionally divided: the Imperial ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 1192, CAPS 1920
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TRRockefeller Hall 230
Instructors
Du, Y
HIST 1970
Course Description
What is the Caribbean? How did its native inhabitants fared in the aftermath of the arrival of Europeans? How did the region shift from a Spanish Lake to a heavily contested geopolitical site where all ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TRMcgraw Hall 165
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Bassi Arevalo, E
HIST 2001
Course Description
Independent Study based supervised reading with history faculty. Student must complete Independent Study Form with faculty supervisor for determining requirements and for permission to enroll through ... view course details
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HIST 2082
Course Description
The Middle Ages are usually imagined as a time of manly men and feminine women: no room for gender ambiguity in Conan the Barbarian! Yet gender, then as now, was in fact unstable, multiple, and above all, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FGSS 2082, MEDVL 2082
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- TRRockefeller Hall 187
Instructors
Falk, O
HIST 2157
Course Description
Tolstoy is impossible. An aristocrat who renounced his wealth. A man of titanic appetites who repeatedly swore off meat, alcohol and sex. A Christian who didn't believe in God. An anarchist who ruled his ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: RELST 2157, RUSSL 2157
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- TRMcGraw Hall 145
Instructors
Litvak, O
HIST 2165
Course Description
What is democracy? What does it need to thrive? When does it die? How do anti-liberal, authoritarian regimes emerge? What makes them tick? In 1921, a British liberal announced that democracy had already ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MWMcGraw Hall 145
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Florea, C
HIST 2296
Course Description
This course will use digital resources to study the history of African-American resistance to and organization against slavery, Jim Crow, and mass incarceration/racialized policing from 1619 to the present. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 2296
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- MWGoldwin Smith Hall 181
Instructors
Baptist, E
HIST 2315
Course Description
In August 1945, Japan was a devastated country; its cities burned, its people starving, its military and government in surrender. World War II was over. The occupation had begun. What sort of society emerged ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 2315, ASIAN 2258
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Meeting Pattern
- MWWhite Hall B14
Instructors
Roebuck, K
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HIST 2530
Course Description
At the beginning of the 7th century, a new religion, Islam, appeared in Arabia and by the end of the century, Muslims had defeated the Byzantines and Persians and created an empire that stretched from ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: MEDVL 2655, NES 2655, NES 6555, RELST 2655
Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MWGoldwin Smith Hall 142
Instructors
Powers, D
HIST 2543
Course Description
World War II was one of the most transformative periods in the history of the 20th century. As a result, scholars, writers and filmmakers continue to re-examine the war from multiple angles. Nonetheless, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 2543
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- TRRockefeller Hall 230
Instructors
Byfield, J
HIST 2562
Course Description
An exploration of processes of change in health care practices in China. Focuses on key transitions, such as the emergence of canonical medicine, of Daoist approaches to healing and longevity, of "scholar ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 2262, BSOC 2561, CAPS 2262, STS 2561
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- TRMcgraw Hall 165
Instructors
Hinrichs, T
Additional Information
Depending on enrollment levels, required discussion sessions may be added. For more information contact the instructor.
HIST 2640
Course Description
An introductory history of Chinese, Japanese, Asian Indians, Filipinos, and Koreans in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1990s. Major themes include racism and resistance, labor ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AAS 2130, AMST 2640
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TRMcgraw Hall 165
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Chang, D
HIST 2665
Course Description
As we approach the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, this course provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the origins, character, and results of the American ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 2665
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MWGoldwin Smith Hall G22
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Parmenter, J
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- FMcGraw Hall 366
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Parmenter, J
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- FMcGraw Hall 366
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Parmenter, J
HIST 2749
Course Description
The largest of the three great Islamic empires of the early modern era, the Mughal empire at its height ruled over most of the Indian subcontinent, and more than 100 million subjects. This course offers ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 2274
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TRGoldwin Smith Hall 142
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Travers, T
HIST 2792
Course Description
In this course we will examine how we have come to narrate social, cultural, and political history in the United States, investigating the ways scholarly, curatorial, archival, and creative practices shape ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 2792
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TRUris Hall 202
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Vider, S
HIST 2851
Course Description
Jewish men and women in early modern Europe lived their lives within a gendered social order inherited from the Talmudic period. The relationship between sex and power remained fundamental to Jewish communal ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: JWST 2851, RELST 2851
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4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- MWKlarman Hall KG42
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Litvak, O
HIST 2860
Course Description
In the turbulent and violent years from 1789 to 1815, France experienced virtually every form of government known to the modern world. This course explores the rapidly changing political landscape of this ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: FREN 2860
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TRBaker Laboratory 335
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Friedland, P
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- WUris Hall 498
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Staff
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- WMcGraw Hall 365
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- WMcGraw Hall 365
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- WMcGraw Hall 145
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HIST 2920
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Explores the history of information technology from the 1830s to the present by considering the technical and social history of telecommunications (telegraph and the telephone), radio, television, computers, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 2980, ECE 2980, ENGRG 2980, INFO 2921, STS 2921
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3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- MWPhillips Hall 101
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Kline, R
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- FPhillips Hall 101
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Kline, R
HIST 2969
Course Description
This course surveys the history of the world's first socialist society from its unlikely beginnings in 1917 to its unexpected demise in 1991. Traditional topics such as the origins of the revolutions of ... view course details
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MWGoldwin Smith Hall 132-HEC Aud
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Florea, C
HIST 3002
Course Description
Independent Study based supervised research with a history faculty member. Student must complete an on-line Independent Study form with a faculty supervisor to determine requirements and for permission. ... view course details
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HIST 3031
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This course will examine the "age of democratic revolutions" in the Americas from the perspective of the Black Atlantic. During this momentous era, when European monarchies were successfully challenged ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3032, ASRC 3031, LATA 3031
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TRRockefeller Hall 122
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Washington, M
HIST 3312
Course Description
If you have ever wondered what the Vietnam War was all about, how did it begin, how was it fought, why was it so controversial, why did the American people turn against it, why was it important, why were ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 3312
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TRGoldwin Smith Hall 142
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Taylor, K
HIST 3430
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A survey of the turning point of US. history: The Civil War (1861-1865) and its aftermath, Reconstruction (1865-1877). We will look at the causes, the coming, and the conduct, of the war, and the way in ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 3430
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MWBaker Laboratory 135
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Baptist, E
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- RGoldwin Smith Hall G20
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- FGoldwin Smith Hall 122
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- RStimson Hall 206
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HIST 4000
Course Description
This seminar is an introduction to the theory, practice, and art of historical research and writing. One key purpose of this course is to prepare students to work on longer research projects—especially ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- WMcGraw Hall 215
Instructors
Craib, R
Additional Information
Enrollment limited to: History majors.
HIST 4001
Course Description
This course provides structure for the student's research and introduces them to research techniques. Enrollment limited to students admitted to the History Department's Honors Program. view course details
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TMcGraw Hall 366
Instructors
Sachs, A
Additional Information
Prerequisite: HIST 4000.
Department Consent Required (Add)
HIST 4085
Course Description
Our current age is not the first time in modern history that economic globalization is seen by many as a cause of democratic crisis. This course brings together the history of capitalism with the political ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 6085
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TMcGraw Hall 366
Instructors
Mulder, N
HIST 4295
Course Description
The borders that separate the United States from Canada and Mexico are among the longest in the world. The southern border with Mexico, however, receives a disproportionate amount of attention ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4295, AMST 6295, HIST 6295, LSP 4295, LSP 6295
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MMcGraw Hall 366
Instructors
Garcia, M
Parmenter, J
Additional Information
This class will run as the Rabinor Seminar in American Studies.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
HIST 4641
Course Description
This seminar explores Latin American political violence since the 1970s, focusing on the role technology played in internal conflicts called "Dirty Wars," in which the state employed extrajudicial violence ... view course details
HIST 4666
Course Description
This reading seminar will explore the expansion and influence of mass media in the Middle East from the late nineteenth to the turn of the twenty-first century. We will examine how the intersection of ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 6666, NES 4666, NES 6666
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- WLincoln Hall B08
Instructors
Fahmy, Z
HIST 4751
Course Description
This course is divided into three major thematic sections. The first looks at the history of racial thinking in the West. We begin with the existence (or not) of conceptions of biological race in the early- ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: STS 4751
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TRockefeller Hall 189
Instructors
Seth, S
Additional Information
Department Consent Required (Add)
HIST 4945
Course Description
In medieval and renaissance Europe, criminals were fined, branded, or executed; after the 18th century, more of them went to jail. For some observers, the birth of the prison was a triumph of humanitarian ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 6945
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MUris Hall 312
Instructors
Weil, R
HIST 6006
Course Description
No description available. view course details
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
1 Credit Sat/Unsat(Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TWhite Hall B02
Instructors
Craib, R
HIST 6065
Course Description
This course examines the relationship between scientific development, technological innovation and maintenance, and the capitalistic forces that support and benefit from these activities. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: STS 6061
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TMorrill Hall 423
Instructors
Ratcliff, J
HIST 6085
Course Description
Our current age is not the first time in modern history that economic globalization is seen by many as a cause of democratic crisis. This course brings together the history of capitalism with the political ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 4085
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TMcGraw Hall 366
Instructors
Mulder, N
HIST 6131
Course Description
No description available. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 6131, LATA 6131
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- WWhite Hall 106
Instructors
Bassi Arevalo, E
Additional Information
Enrollment limited to: Graduate Students.
HIST 6202
Course Description
This course will explore the relationship between popular belief, political action, and the institutional deployment of social power. The class will be roughly divided in three parts, opening with a discussion ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 6202, ANTHR 6102, GOVT 6202, SOC 6200
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MWhite Hall 104
Instructors
Bensel, R
HIST 6221
Course Description
This graduate seminar offers an introduction to environmental history—the study of human interactions with nonhuman nature in the past. It is a subfield within the historical discipline that has complex ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: STS 6121
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MRockefeller Hall 127
Instructors
Sachs, A
HIST 6295
Course Description
The borders that separate the United States from Canada and Mexico are among the longest in the world. The southern border with Mexico, however, receives a disproportionate amount of attention ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4295, AMST 6295, HIST 4295, LSP 4295, LSP 6295
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MMcGraw Hall 366
Instructors
Garcia, M
Parmenter, J
Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
HIST 6617
Course Description
This course offers graduate students an opportunity to consider ways for analyzing texts from Asia, both modern and pre-modern, both literary and historiographical. The emphasis will be on how narratives ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 6671
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- TRockefeller Hall 380
Instructors
Taylor, K
Additional Information
Prerequisite: Reading knowledge of an Asian language.
HIST 6641
Course Description
This seminar explores Latin American political violence since the 1970s, focusing on the role technology played in internal conflicts called "Dirty Wars," in which the state employed extrajudicial violence ... view course details
HIST 6666
Course Description
This reading seminar will explore the expansion and influence of mass media in the Middle East from the late nineteenth to the turn of the twenty-first century. We will examine how the intersection of ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 4666, NES 4666, NES 6666
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- WLincoln Hall B08
Instructors
Fahmy, Z
HIST 6945
Course Description
In medieval and renaissance Europe, criminals were fined, branded, or executed; after the 18th century, more of them went to jail. For some observers, the birth of the prison was a triumph of humanitarian ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 4945
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- MUris Hall 312
Instructors
Weil, R
HIST 7090
Course Description
This course is designed to introduce entering graduate students to crucial issues and problems in historical methodology that cut across various areas of specialization. view course details
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- WMcGraw Hall 145
Instructors
Friedland, P
Glickman, L
Additional Information
Enrollment limited to: first-year graduate students in history, except by special permission. Required for: all first-year graduate students.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
HIST 7110
Course Description
Provides students with a foundation in the field of science and technology studies. Using classic works as well as contemporary exemplars, seminar participants chart the terrain of this new field. Topics ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: STS 7111
Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Class Number & Section Details
Meeting Pattern
- WMorrill Hall 423
Instructors
Ratcliff, J
Slayton, R
HIST 7937
Course Description
The Proseminar in Peace Studies offers a multidisciplinary review of issues related to peace and conflict at the graduate level. The course is led by the director of the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace ... view course details
HIST 8004
Course Description
Independent Study based supervised reading with a history faculty/field member. view course details
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
HIST 8010
Course Description
No description available. view course details