History Courses

Note: With the exception of students enrolled in the School of Education’s M.A.T. in Social Studies program, and M.A./Ph.D. students majoring in Ancient History who take courses from the approved list below, the History department allows graduate students to take undergraduate courses only in special circumstances.

• HIST–A 301 Colonial America (3 cr.)

• HIST–A 302 Revolutionary America (3 cr.)

• HIST–A 303 United States, 1789 to 1865 I (3 cr.)

• HIST–A 304 United States, 1789 to 1865 II (3 cr.)

• HIST–A 313 Origins of Modern America (3 cr.)

• HIST–A 314 The United States, 1917–1945 (3 cr.)

• HIST–A 315 United States since World War II (3 cr.)

• HIST–A 317 American Social and Intellectual History (3 cr.)

• HIST–A 325 American Constitutional History I (3 cr.)

• HIST–A 326 American Constitutional History II (3 cr.)

• HIST–A 329 Social History of American Enterprise I (3 cr.)

• HIST–A 330 Social History of American Enterprise II (3 cr.)

• HIST–A 337 The American Frontier I (3 cr.)

• HIST–A 338 The American Frontier II (3 cr.)

• HIST–A 339 History of the South I (3 cr.)

• HIST–A 340 History of the South II (3 cr.)

• HIST–A 345 American Diplomatic History I (3 cr.)

• HIST–A 346 American Diplomatic History II (3 cr.)

• HIST–A 347 American Urban History (3 cr.)

• HIST–A 348 Civil War and Reconstruction (3 cr.)

• HIST–A 352 History of Latinos in the United States (3 cr.)

• HIST–A 353 American Economic History I (3 cr.)

• HIST–A 354 American Economic History II (3 cr.)

• HIST–A 355 Afro-American History I (3 cr.)

• HIST–A 356 Afro-American History II (3 cr.)

• HIST–A 361 Studies in American History for Teachers I (3 cr.)

• HIST–A 362 Studies in American History for Teachers II (3 cr.)

• HIST–A 364 History of Black Americans (3 cr.)

• HIST–A 371 History of Indiana I (3 cr.)

• HIST–A 372 History of Indiana II (3 cr.)

• HIST–A 402 Readings in American Environmental History (3 cr.)

• HIST–A 410 American Environmental History (3 cr.)

• HIST–A 421 Topics in United States History (3 cr.) Intensive study and analysis of selected historical issues and/or problems in United States history. Topics will vary from semester to semester.

• HIST–A 507 American Cultural History (3 cr.) Central topics in American cultural life and thought from the late nineteenth century to the present. Special focus on the changing sense of personal selfhood among specific ethnic and religious groups, social classes, genders, and professions. Examination of how this changing sense has manifested itself in cultural forms.

• HIST–B 341 History of Spain and Portugal (3 cr.)

• HIST–B 351 Western Europe in the Early Middle Ages (3 cr.)

• HIST–B 352 Western Europe in the High and Later Middle Ages (3 cr.)

• HIST–B 353 The Renaissance (3 cr.)

• HIST–B 354 The Reformation (3 cr.)

• HIST–B 355 Europe: Louis XIV to French Revolution (3 cr.)

• HIST–B 356 French Revolution and Napoleon, 1763–1815 (3 cr.)

• HIST–B 357 Modern France (3 cr.)

• HIST–B 359 Europe from Napoleon to the First World War I (3 cr.)

• HIST–B 360 Europe from Napoleon to the First World War II (3 cr.)

• HIST–B 361 Europe in the Twentieth Century I (3 cr.)

• HIST–B 362 Europe in the Twentieth Century II (3 cr.)

• HIST–B 363 European Diplomatic History since 1870 I (2 cr.)

• HIST–B 364 European Diplomatic History since 1870 II (2 cr.)

• HIST–B 366 Paris and Berlin in the 1920s: A Cultural History (3 cr.)

• HIST–B 377 History of Germany since 1648 I (3 cr.)

• HIST–B 378 History of Germany since 1648 II (3 cr.)

• HIST–B 383 European Intellectual History I (3 cr.)

• HIST–B 383 European Intellectual History I (3 cr.)

• HIST–B 391 Themes in World History (3 cr.)

• HIST–B 393 German History: From Bismarck to Hitler (3 cr.)

• HIST–B 421 Topics in European History (3 cr.)

• HIST–B 568 Modern Italy (3 cr.) Risorgimento and unification; liberal Italy and the mutilated victory (WWI); Italian opera; Fascism; alliance with Nazi Germany and defeat (WWII); Christian Democrats vs. Communists; major cultural movements; the economic miracle; the Mafia; left- and right wing violence and terrorism; the kickbacks scandal and the Second Republic.

• HIST–C 386 Greek History (3 cr.)

• HIST–C 388 Roman History (3 cr.)

• HIST–C 391 History of the Medieval Near East (3 cr.)

• HIST–C 392 History of the Modern Near East (3 cr.)

• HIST–C 393 Ottoman History (3 cr.)

• HIST–C 394 Inner Asia before the Mongol Conquest (3 cr.)

• HIST–C 580 History of Ancient Medicine (3 cr.) Covers the history of ancient medicine in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece (Homeric, Hippocratic, and Asclepian), China, India, Alexandria, and Rome (Soranus, Galen, and the medical service of the Roman army), and modern uses of humoral theory. Major focus is on the Hippocratic treatises as primary sources.

• HIST–D 313 Russian Social and Cultural History, 1801–1917 (3 cr.)

• HIST–D 314 Soviet Social and Cultural History (3 cr.)

• HIST–D 401 History and Civilization of the Byzantine Empire I (3 cr.)

• HIST–D 402 History and Civilization of the Byzantine Empire II (3 cr.)

• HIST–D 418 Russian and Soviet Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century (3 cr.)

• HIST–D 419 The Mongols and Medieval Europe (3 cr.)

• HIST–D 430 History of the Eastern and Southern Baltic Region (3 cr.)

• HIST–D 506 Muscovy and Imperial Russia, 1500–1801 (3 cr.)

• HIST–D 510 Russian Revolutions and the Soviet Regime (3 cr.)

• HIST–D 521 Hungarian History and Civilization to 1711 (3 cr.)

• HIST–D 522 Hungarian History and Civilization, 1711–1918 (3 cr.)

• HIST–D 525 Path to Emancipation: Nationalism in the Balkans, 1804–1923 (3 cr.)

• HIST–D 527 The People vs. The Emperor: Nation-Making and Imperial Decline in East Central Europe, 1780–1918 (3 cr.)

• HIST–D 528 The Search for European Integration: Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century (3 cr.)

• HIST–E 531 African History from Ancient Times to Empires and City States (3 cr.) Origins and groupings of African peoples; political, social, and economic evolution to ca. 1750; Africa’s contacts with the ancient world, trans-Sahara and Indian ocean trades; growth of states and empires; spread of Islam.

• HIST–E 532 African History from Colonial Rule to Independence (3 cr.) The slave trade and its abolition; European imperialism and colonial rule; impact of Islam and Christianity; nationalism and the struggle for independence; reassertion of African culture and identity; development issues.

• HIST–E 533 Conflict in Southern Africa (3 cr.) Early populations and environment; spread of European settlement, interaction with African societies and early race relations; Zulu power and white power; discovery of minerals and industrialization; urbanization and segregation; African and Afrikaner nationalism; south Africa and its neighbors; Mandela and the new South Africa.

• HIST–E 534 History of Western Africa (3 cr.)

• HIST–E 536 History of East Africa (3 cr.) Developments over the past two millennia in East Africa (Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, and northern Mozambique). Topics include the environment and peoples of the region, the emergence of hierarchical societies, the economic and political changes of the nineteenth century, the era of European imperialism, the transformations associated with the colonial period, and African independence.

• HIST–E 538 History of Muslim West Africa (3 cr.) Introduction to the history and historiography of Muslim West Africa; develops the origins of Islam in West Africa and the ways West Africans have incorporated, transformed, and amplified Muslim beliefs and practices throughout history.

• HIST–F 342 Latin America: Evolution and Revolutions since Independence (3 cr.)

• HIST–F 341 Latin America: Discovery, Conquest, and Empire (3 cr.)

• HIST–F 432 Twentieth-Century Revolutions in Latin America (3 cr.)

• HIST–F 536 Modern Central American History (3 cr.) Studies social, economic, cultural, and political development from 1821 to 1990. Major topics include coffee and liberalism, United States and Nicaragua, the era of reform, revolution and counterrevolution.

• HIST–F 543 Modern Brazil since 1850 (3 cr.)

• HIST–F 546 Modern Mexico (3 cr.) Places contemporary Mexico in historical perspective, focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Topics include nineteenth-century social and political movements, the causes and consequences of the 1910 revolution, the formation of Mexico’s political system, problems of economic growth, and the changing patterns of gender, class, and ethnicity in Mexican society.

• HIST–G 465 Chinese Revolutions and the Communist Regime (3 cr.)

• HIST–G 467 Traditional Japan (3 cr.)

• HIST–G 468 Early Modern Japan (3 cr.)

• HIST–G 567 Premodern Japan (3 cr.) Society and culture on the Japanese archipelago from their origins to the high middle ages. Prehistoric Jomon and protohistoric Yayoi. Formation of the Japanese state under the influence of Chinese and Korean models. Heian courtly culture. Ascendancy of military elites and developments in popular culture during Kamakura and Muromachi periods.

• HIST–G 568 Early Modern Japan (3 cr.) Samurai culture, expansion of Buddhism, and sectarian violence. High feudalism, unification, and the Tokugawa settlement after 1600. Encounter with European civilization, closed country. Urbanization, social and cultural change, rise of agrarian prosperity in the Edo period to about 1800.

• HIST–G 569 Modern Japan (3 cr.) Western impact and social and intellectual change in late Tokugawa Japan from about 1720. The Meiji Restoration. State capitalism and the Japanese development process. Empire, war, defeat, U.S. occupation, and renewal in the twentieth century. Japan’s rise to the front rank of world economic powers after World War II.

• HIST–G 580 Early China (3 cr.) China from its neolithic background through the Quin and Western Han dynasties. Examines the Shang tribal polity, royal and aristocratic phases of the Zhou state, and the creation of the imperial system in the Qin-Han period. Changing patterns of ideology, political legitimacy, and social organization through archaeological and textual sources.

• HIST–G 582 Imperial China I (3 cr.) The Chinese empire from the Han through the Tang dynasties (second century B.C. through tenth century A.D.). Relations among demographic patterns, political forms, social classes, economic developments, religious movements, and cultural diversification, investigated through secondary and translated primary sources. Credit given for only one of G582 or G461.

• HIST–G 583 Imperial China II (3 cr.) The Chinese empire from the Song through the middle Qing dynasties (tenth through eighteenth centuries A.D.). Relations among demographic patterns, political forms, social classes, economic developments, philosophical movements, and cultural diversification, investigated through secondary and translated primary sources. Credit given for only one of G583 or G461.

• HIST–G 585 Modern China (3 cr.) Survey of the final century of dynastic rule and the rise to power of the Nationalist and Communist parties, highlighting social and cultural developments, the impact of Western imperialism, and the evolution of revolutionary ideologies. Credit given only for G585 or G462.

• HIST–G 587 Contemporary China (3 cr.) Survey of recent Chinese history focusing on social, cultural, and political life in the People’s Republic of China and post-1949 Taiwan. Events covered include the Long March, the Cultural Revolution, and the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Credit given for only one of G587 or G462.

• HIST–H 425 Topics in History (1–3 cr.)

• HIST–T 500 Topics in History (3 cr.) Intensive study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems of limited scope from the perspective of social and historical studies. Topics will vary but will ordinarily cut across fields, regions, and periods. May be repeated for credit.

General and Professional Skills Courses

• HIST–H 500 History of Historical Thought (4 cr.) Approaches to the historian's craft and reflections on history as a type of scholarly thinking. Recommended for new graduate students and others interested in history as a branch of knowledge. With the consent of the director of graduate studies, may be repeated for credit when the instructor differs.

• HIST–H 501 Historical Methodology (4 cr.) Discussion and application of the various methods and strategies used in historical research.

• HIST–H 509 Special Topics in European History (3 cr.) Study of special topics in history of Europe at graduate level. May be repeated once for credit.

• HIST–H 511 Special Topics in United States History (3 cr.) Intensive study and analysis of selected topics in United States history. Topics will vary from semester to semester.

• HIST–H 520 Shaping Careers in History (2 cr.) Introduces students to the history profession in order to facilitate planning of careers in the university and beyond. Emphasis placed on the chang­ing nature of careers inside and outside academia and ways students might construct a program of study to serve their professional goals.

• HIST–H 521 Special Topics in African, Asian, or Latin American His­tory (3 cr.) Intensive study and analysis of selected topics in African, Asian, or Latin American history. Topics will vary from semester to semester, e.g., traditional Asia, modern Asia, Latin American intellectual History.

• HIST–H 523 The Holocaust (3 cr.) Intensive introduction to the histori­cal events and intellectual developments leading up to and surrounding the destruction of European Jewry during World War II. The Holocaust will be examined against the backdrop of modern Jewish and modern German history.

• HIST–H 524 Issues in Contemporary Historiography (4 cr.) Overview of the discipline of history. Focuses on understanding and plac­ing in perspective current debates in the field. Topics vary, but attention will be paid in each case to overarching themes such as the differences between historical subfields and the overlaps and divergences between history and other disciplines.

• HIST–H 540 Quantitative Methods in History (4 cr.)

• HIST–H 541 Advanced Quantitative Methods (4 cr.)

• HIST–H 542 Public History (4 cr.) The application of history to public needs and public programs. Historic preservation, archival man­agement, oral history, editing, public humanities programming, historical societies, etc.

• HIST–H 543 Practicum in Public History (1–4 cr.) P: H542. Internships in public history programs, field work, or research in the histori­cal antecedents of contemporary problems.

• HIST–H 546 History of Science, Medicine, and Technology (3 cr.) Study of topics in the history of science, medicine, and technol­ogy. May be repeated once for credit.

• HIST–H 547 Special Topics in Public History (3 cr.) Intensive study and analysis of selected topics in public history. Topics will vary from semester to semester, e.g., to include historic preserva­tion, material history, archival practice, and historical editing.

• HIST–H 575 Graduate Readings in History (arr. cr.)

• HIST–H 580 The Teaching of College History (1–2 cr.) Approaches to college-level instruction in history, either (1) through training to be an associate instructor, or (2) through work as a course assistant, assisting a faculty member in planning and teaching a 300- or 400-level history course. S/F grading. May be repeated once for credit.

• HIST–H 591 Teaching World History (3 cr.) Introduction to the teach­ing of the undergraduate courses in world history. Topics include current curricula in world history; textbooks and other readings in world history; and multimedia resources. Students will prepare an undergraduate course syllabus of their own design.

• HIST–H 592 Teaching World History Practicum (3 cr.) A first practi­cal experience in teaching an undergraduate advanced top­ics course in world history. Topics are at the discretion of the student, but require authorization by the instructor and the Department of History. Students will have complete responsi­bility for the course taught.

• HIST–H 593 Teaching United States History (3 cr.) Introduction to teaching undergraduate courses in United States History. Top­ics include: curricula in U.S. history, pedagogy in U.S. history, textbooks, and multimedia resources. Students will design two undergraduate course syllabi.

• HIST–H 594 Teaching Unites States History II: Practicum (3 cr.) A first practical experience in teaching an undergraduate advanced topics course in United States history. Topics are at the discre­tion of the student, but require authorization by the instructor and the Department of History. The student will have complete responsibility for the course taught.

• HIST–H 601 Introduction to the Professional Study of History (4 cr.) Introduces graduate students into the demands of the his­torical profession, introduces theory and methods of history, historiography, and fundamental research skills.

• OS 500 Undistributed Overseas Study (0–30 cr.)

Colloquia

These colloquia are of seminar size and involve oral and writ­ten study of the problems, bibliographies, interpretations, and research trends in the fields with which they respectively deal; they are the chief means by which a student becomes knowledgeable in history at a professional level and prepares for the doctoral qualifying examination. Any of them may be taken more than once, upon approval of the student’s advisory committee.

• HIST–H 605 Colloquium in Ancient History (4 cr.)

• HIST–H 610 Colloquium in Medieval European History (4 cr.)

• HIST–H 615 Colloquium in Early Modern Western European History (4 cr.)

• HIST–H 620 Colloquium in Modern Western European History (4 cr.)

• HIST–H 630 Colloquium in British and British Imperial History (4 cr.)

• HIST–H 640 Colloquium in Russian History (4 cr.)

• HIST–H 645 Colloquium in East European History (4 cr.)

• HIST–H 650 Colloquium in United States History (4 cr.)

• HIST–H 661 Colloquium in History of Gender and Sexuality (4 cr.) Introduces students to the problems, bibliographies, interpreta­tions, and research trends in the history of gender and sexual­ity. Topic varies. May be taken more than once, upon approval of the student’s advisory committee.

• HIST–H 665 Colloquium in Latin American History (4 cr.)

• HIST–H 675 Colloquium in East Asian History (4 cr.)

• HIST–H 680 Colloquium in Cultural History (4 cr.)

• HIST–H 685 Colloquium in Near Eastern History (4 cr.)

• HIST–H 695 Colloquium in African History (4 cr.)

• HIST–H 699 Colloquium in Comparative History (4 cr.) Selected top­ics that cut across conventional geographic and chronological periods. May be used by thematic minors as one of the three colloquia required of Ph.D. candidates.

Seminars

These courses involve research at a mature level with primary sources in specialized topics and problems in the field with which they respectively deal. They train the student in histori­cal scholarship. Any of them may be taken more than once, upon approval of the student’s advisory committee.

• HIST–H 705 Seminar in Ancient History (4 cr.)

• HIST–H 710 Seminar in Medieval European History (4 cr.)

• HIST–H 715 Seminar in Early Modern European History (4 cr.)

• HIST–H 720 Seminar in Modern Western European History (4 cr.)

• HIST–H 730 Seminar in British and British Imperial History (4 cr.)

• HIST–H 740 Seminar in Russian History (4 cr.)

• HIST–H 745 Seminar in East European History (4 cr.)

• HIST–H 750 Seminar in United States History (4 cr.)

• HIST–H 760 Seminar in History of Gender and Sexuality (4 cr.) Course involves research at a mature level with primary sources in specialized topics and problems in the history of gender and sexuality. It will train the student in historical scholarship in that area. May be taken more than once, upon approval of the student’s advisory committee.

• HIST–H 765 Seminar in Latin American History (4 cr.)

• HIST–H 775 Seminar in East Asian History (4 cr.)

• HIST–H 780 Seminar in Cultural History (4 cr.)

• HIST–H 785 Seminar in Near Eastern History (4 cr.)

• HIST–H 795 Seminar in African History (4 cr.)

• HIST–H 799 Seminar in World History (4 cr.)

Thesis and Dissertation

These courses are eligible for a deferred grade.

• HIST–H 898 M.A. Thesis (1–6 cr.)

• HIST–H 899 Ph.D. Dissertation (arr. cr.)

• HIST–G 901 Advanced Research (6 cr.)