A critical examination of major transformations in the Arab World from the colonial era to the present day. The course focuses on the political, social, and cultural reforms, revolts, revolutions, and resistances that have shaped the Arab World. Credits:4 Satisfactory Grading: Eligible for the Satisfactory/No Credit grade mode. Integrating KnowledgeCitizenship, Social Responsibility, and Global Awareness
Examines the ways in which colonial empires impacted the environment of conquered lands and the influence of the environment on colonial policies. Credits:4 Satisfactory Grading: Eligible for the Satisfactory/No Credit grade mode. Integrating KnowledgeScience, Technology, and Society
This course will examine the historical origins, evolution, and global history of fascist movements. It will examine the origins and transformation of fascist thought and organizations, the role of fascism in the Second World War, and the rise of neo-fascist movements. Credits:4 Satisfactory Grading: Eligible for the Satisfactory/No Credit grade mode. Integrating KnowledgeCitizenship, Social Responsibility, and Global Awareness
Provides a means by which students may earn upper division credit for research, writing, reporting, discussion and career-related and/or participatory skills. Credits:1-6 Satisfactory Grading: Eligible for the Satisfactory/No Credit grade mode.
The Senior Seminar is required of all history majors. In consultation with history faculty, students will develop a research project or complete an internship or practicum. Through their work in the senior seminar, students will demonstrate historical research and writing skills for the internship or thesis option. Students will need to complete HST 499 with a C- or higher for the history degree. Credits:4 Prerequisite:HST 420C with a grade of C- or better Satisfactory Grading: Eligible for the Satisfactory/No Credit grade mode.
Students will be placed with private and/or governmental agencies where they will work as a historian and become familiar with the requirements and the possibilities of applying their skills in the public sector. Eligible for the RP grade option. Credits:1-6
An introduction to the methods and philosophy of conserving and collecting archival records and professional standards of organizing, indexing and controlling access to printed materials of historical significance. May be repeated for up to 8 credits. Credits:4
An introduction to the methods and philosophy of conducting and developing oral interviews with primary actors as a source for historical research and analysis. Credits:4
Review of the special skills of the historian’s craft. Then students are introduced to the sectors of public history such as business-related opportunities, government service, archival and museum work and historical editing. Credits:4
Selected historical issues that are both contemporary and significant. Attention given to the political, economic and social aspects of these global issues. Credits:4
Course examines the constructive and destructive components of the Yugoslav experiment. Students will explore the intellectual origins of Yugoslavism and the formation of the first Yugoslav state after the first world war. Credits:4
First of a two-course sequence that explores the history of Britain from its dim prehistoric beginning to the 18th century. Course investigates the Celtic, Roman, Christian, Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Norman and Plantagenet influences that together created complex identities and shaped the religious and political institutions that affected the daily lives of people in the British Isles. Also considers England’s relationships with Ireland, Scotland and Wales, as well as with the wider medieval world. May be taken out of sequence. Credits:4
Second of a two-course sequence that explores the history of Britain from its dim prehistoric beginnings to the 18th century. Provides critical analysis of the evolving British society and culture during the crises of famine, plague and war of the late Middle Ages. Explores the early modern transformations of religious practices, government and identity during the Tudor and Stuart dynasties. Considers the contributions of Ireland, Scotland and Wales, concluding with the creation of the United Kingdom. May take British History courses out of sequence. Credits:4
A close look at the origins and development of the Protestant Reformation in Europe from the 14th through the 15th and 16th centuries and the relationship between the Reformation and the rise of nation states. The religious wars of the 16th and 17th centuries and the Catholic Reformation will also be examined. Credits:4
Movements and events of the 17th and 18th centuries; the Enlightenment; the Old Regime; the classical age in art, architecture and literature; the development of modern science, society and nation states. Credits:4
A survey of the key issues influencing the construction and early history of a unified German state founded under Prussian dominance in 1871. The changing faces of liberalism, nationalism, conservatism and socialism will be analyzed, as they evolved after the aborted revolution of 1848 up to the outbreak of World War I. Credits:4
A survey of the nature and evolution of German society, culture and politics with an emphasis on World War I, the Revolution of 1918-1919, the Weimar Republic and the Nazi state. Credits:4
Beginning with the post-World War II division of Germany, the politics and economics of East Germany, the remarkable economic recovery starting in the 1950s and the impact of new social movements of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s in the West are some key developments that will receive prominent attention. Credits:4
The structure of the Ancient Regime, its demolition by the Revolution, the anatomy and the achievements of the Revolution and its transformation by Napoleon. Credits:4
The political, economic and social development of France in the 19th century, its changing governments and its attempts to achieve the ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity, which had been set forth in its 1789 revolution; its changing international position. Credits:4
Europe from the Congress of Vienna to the Treaty of Versailles, including the rise of liberalism, conservatism, nationalism, socialism, industrialism, imperialism, irrationalism and militarism culminating in World War I. Credits:4
HST 529 20th-Century Europe: From World Wars to Cold War
Crisis in European diplomacy resulting in World War I drifting into totalitarianism to World War II in the first half of the century and subsiding into Cold War between the two super powers during the second half. Credits:4
Problems of reconstruction in postwar Europe; the birth and demise of the Cold War; disintegration of Communist Europe and its aftermath; European intellectual culture in the second half of the 20th century. Credits:4
Examines the history of Russia from the Kievan Rus state to the reforms of Peter the Great. Particular attention is given to the Mongol conquest and the subsequent rise of Moscow and a universal service state. Credits:4
An examination of Russian history from the formation of the imperial state in the 18th century to the first world war. Focal points of will be the various attempts from above and below to reform and modernize this state. Credits:4
Examines the history of the Mediterranean in the 18th and 19th centuries with an emphasis on the decline of Ottoman influence and the rise of European power in the region. Course focuses on the relationship between the Northern and Southern Mediterranean, as well as the Western and Eastern Mediterranean and compares experiences on different sides of the Mediterranean. Credits:4
Examines the history of the Mediterranean in the 20th century with an emphasis on the decline of empires and the rise of nation-states in the regions, cultures and countries of each of these continents. Credits:4
Examines the development of Paris from the beginnings through the present with emphasis on the last three centuries. The city is examined from the political, social, ecological and architectural points of view as well as through the perspective of urban planning and immigration. Credits:4
Course covers Modern European imperialisms in the 19th and 20th centuries. We will pay particular attention to the role of European Imperial Era in shaping our world today and analyze parallels between global conflicts today and in the 19th and 20th centuries. Credits:4
Examines popular spectacles of Empire in film, art, expositions, advertisements, literature and newspapers in modern Europe with an emphasis on Great Britain and France. Analyzes the connections between European identities and representations of the colonies. Credits:4
Examines the relationship between gender and colonialism in the modern era. We will analyze the ways in which gendered ideologies shaped colonial interactions and the influence of colonialism on the development of gender norms in colonized and colonizing societies. Credits:4
Examines decolonization in former European colonies in the modern era and introduces students to post-colonial theories. Will analyze different types of decolonization movements and the lingering effects of colonialism and decolonization on post-colonial societies around the world. Credits:4
Examines postcolonial North Africa from the Battle of Algiers to the Arab Spring. We will analyze the transition from colonial to independent regimes and will begin with the anticolonial revolutionary movements that led to independence from Europe in the 1950s and 60s. Will conclude by tracing the events that formed the Arab Spring. Credits:4
A study of pandemics and crises, including natural disasters and their social, political and economic impact, in Latin America since pre-colonial times until present days. Credits:4
A study of the origins and early development of medieval European culture and institutions, 450- 850 AD, focusing particularly on the Greco-Roman cultural heritage, the role of the Christian church and the contribution of the Germanic tribes. Credits:4
A study of Europe, 850-1200 AD, focusing on the economic, political, social, religious and intellectual revival of the 9th and 12th centuries and culminating in the crusading movement of the 12th century. Credits:4
Study of the social transformations in Latin America through the prosecution and criminalization of certain behaviors and the role of the state in preserving the status quo through criminal legislation. This course includes public and private matters such as rebellion, illegal trade, and corruption, as well as controlled sexual and family relations, among others. Credits:4
Focuses on the religious and cultural inspiration for the crusading movement as well as its impact in the Middle East and its legacy both in the medieval and modern worlds. Credits:4
A survey of Latin American Indian cultures and civilizations, their discovery and conquest by the Spanish and Portuguese and the development of Iberian empires in America. Examination of the colonial systems and their cultures. Credits:4
The Caribbean has developed its own identity with respect to the continental mainland, marked by the coexistence of multiple races, languages and cultures from the largest islands to the lesser Antilles, and its study is essential to understand the history of the Atlantic World. This course examines the most important events that have affected this region including the indigenous demographic collapse, the African slave system, the center of operations of pirates and outlaws, the Haitian Revolution, the interventions of the United States, and the Cuban Revolution. Credits:4
A study of Latin America since the independence including national revolutions, political and economic problems of the new republics, militarism, industrialization, populism, social revolution, and neoliberalism, until present days. Credits:4
An overview of the Indian and Spanish background of Mexico with emphasis on 19th century liberalism, foreign intervention, the Mexican Revolution and modernization. Credits:4
To survey Chinese civilization from the earliest times to the mid-17th century, this course focuses on the aspects of history and culture that define the character of Chinese civilization. Credits:4
Focuses on the historical process that witnessed the modernization of the major Asian civilization of China and Japan. Attention will be given to the different paths each of these countries has taken and the different problems each has faced in the attempt to build a modern state. Credits:4
HST 568 Modern China II: The Republic of China in the 20th Century
Course explores the issues of envisioning state and society, the experiments in democracy, war and revolution, as well as political reform and economic miracle in Taiwan. Credits:4
HST 569 Modern China III: People’s Republic of China, Confucianism and Socialism
Course examines the birth of the Chinese Communist Party and the people of democratic China and how Chinese socialism adjusted to live in the world. Credits:4
Broad survey of women’s positions and status in the institutions of marriage and family; factors that altered women’s conditions; and how womanhood has been defined and redefined from traditional to modern Japanese society. Credits:4
Course explores the lives of various groups of women (wife, concubines, courtesans, singer girls and maids), including their activities in public and domestic dichotomy. Credits:4
A survey on Chinese culture. Included are social relationships, religions and philosophies, sciences and medicines, geomancy and cosmology, food and health, arts and cinemas from traditional to modern time period. Credits:4
A survey on Japanese culture. Included are patterns of behavior, popular morality, philosophies and religions, folk tales, arts, music, theater, also the taste of nature shown in the daily diet, flower arrangement and gardens. Credits:4
Examines the imperial conquest and colonization of North America by European empires with an emphasis on the experiences of colonized peoples and colonizers in comparative perspective, from early contact through the emergence of revolutionary sentiment and independent republics by the early 19th century. Credits:4
Examines the transformations of thought and industry that challenged nationalist identities in the United States after 1850, the resulting constitutional crisis and war and efforts to reconstruct the nation and reunite its people. Credits:4
Examines the history of the United States from the period 1914 to 1945 by considering internationalism and nationalism, global and regional conflicts, the economy, gender, race, ethnicity and class, and transformations in American culture and society. Credits:4
This course will examine the impact of the Cold War on Americans and American society. Students will consider such issues as national and international policy, McCarthyism, the Vietnam conflict and the military-industrial complex. Credits:4
HST 584 Health, Medicine and Gender in Historical Perspective
This course presents three key areas of analysis for the study of health, medicine and gender in historical perspective. The first concerns gendered ideas about sexuality and gender roles and how these relate to health care in history. The second is a comparative examination of women and men as health care providers in different cultures. The third is a focus on women and men as recipients of health care and as health care activists. Credits:4
Study of the races and ethnicities that have lived, coexisted, and mixed in Latin America since pre-colonial times until today, as well as the cultural, political, and legal consequences of their interactions. This course includes Native Americans, Europeans, Africans, and Asians. Credits:4
A history of people of Mexican descent in the United States with emphasis on the origins of their constitutional status as citizens of the United States. Credits:4
Examines the history of Canada from the pre-contact era through confederation in 1867 with attention to nationalist trends at the provincial and regional levels and with particular emphasis on comparative colonial cultures within the region of North America now included as part of Canada. Credits:4
Examines the history of modern Canada from confederation (1867) through the present with attention to nationalist trends at the provincial and regional levels and federal efforts to secure a sense of Canadian nationalism, in the context of counter national movements and interpretive themes of particular relevance in the study of comparative North American cultures, including First Nations movement and immigration trends of the late 19th and 20th centuries. Credits:4
Examines the history of ecological transformations associated with historical patterns of community organization, population movements, agricultural production, scientific inquiry, industrial development, urban growth and systems of trade and commerce from ancient times to the present. Credits:4
An exploration of the origins, traditions and interactions of people living in the North American West from the pre-contact era through the late 19th century with particular attention to comparative colonial experiences and the integration of the region into the industrial, political and social frameworks of the United States and British North America (Canada) as developing imperial systems. Credits:4
Examines the transformation of the trans-Mississippi West in the 20th century with particular attention to market networks, community traditions and historical myths that have shaped the ways in which people who lived in the West viewed themselves in relation to their surroundings. Credits:4
Explores emerging traditions of community and government in the Pacific Northwest. Begins with a survey of pre-contact communities and the ecological and human implications of evolving modes of production as they relate to local community traditions and various incarnations of imperial power, immigration and industry through the late 20th century. Credits:4
Connects students with primary and secondary sources to analyze the history of women in Oregon. Students will consider gender as a category of analysis in assessing the history of Oregon women from native peoples through the present with attention to differences in race, ethnicity, class and gender identity and across regions in the state. Credits:4
Comparative study of constitutional history in Canada and the United States, with attention to colonial North America and emerging nationalist movements in the United States and Canada. Explores the evolving concepts of constitutional law and constitutional theory at the state, provincial and national levels. Credits:4
A critical examination of major transformations in the Arab World from the colonial era to the present day. The course focuses on the political, social, and cultural reforms, revolts, revolutions, and resistances that have shaped the Arab World. Credits:4
Examines the ways in which colonial empires impacted the environment of conquered lands and the influence of the environment on colonial policies. Credits:4
This course will examine the historical origins, evolution, and global history of fascist movements. It will examine the origins and transformation of fascist thought and organizations, the role of fascism in the Second World War, and the rise of neo-fascist movements. Credits:4
Provides a means by which students may earn upper division credit for research, writing, reporting, discussion and career-related and/or participatory skills. Credits:1-6
Supplementary enriching work related to a regular course taken simultaneously is guided by an instructor during weekly meetings. Students and work are subject to approval by the Honors Committee. Credits:1 Satisfactory Grading: Ineligible for the Satisfactory/No Credit grade mode.
Supplementary enriching work related to a regular course taken simultaneously is guided by an instructor during weekly meetings. Students and work are subject to approval by the Honors Committee. Credits:1 Satisfactory Grading: Ineligible for the Satisfactory/No Credit grade mode.