Recommendations
Majors and other students intending to pursue graduate study in history should be sure that language training appropriate to their fields of interest is part of their undergraduate degree program.

Prelaw Track
Students intending to study law should follow the general requirements for the major, and the department recommends courses in a range of political or constitutional history.

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Minor in History

Requirements

1. Students must complete 15 credit hours of history, at least 9 of which must be taken on the Bloomington campus.
2. Of the 15 credit hours in history, 9 must be at the 300 or 400 level. J200 may be substituted for 3 of those 9 credit hours.
3. Completion of a seminar (J200, J400, or J450) is highly recommended.

Departmental Honors Program

To graduate with honors in history, students must complete bachelor's degree requirements with at least 33 credits in history and grade point averages of at least 3.5 in history courses and 3.3 overall. (Note that no more than 42 credit hours in history may count toward the minimum of 122 credit hours required for graduation.) The history credits must include at least one 3-credit Honors Seminar (K392), which may substitute for the upper-division seminar (J400 or J450) required of all majors. In some cases, individual directed Readings for Honors (K393) may be done in place of the Honors Seminar. Honors work culminates in either a one-semester Honors Paper or a two-semester Honors Thesis (K499). The latter, which is defended orally, is recommended for students who plan to undertake graduate study in history. Interested students with strong records in lower-division courses should consult with the departmental honors director. Students must also meet all College of Arts and Sciences requirements for departmental honors.

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Languages and Overseas Study

History majors in good standing and with appropriate language training may earn credit toward the major and toward other degree requirements in the university's overseas study programs. See "Overseas Study Programs" in this bulletin, or inquire at the Office of Overseas Study, Franklin Hall 303, (812) 855-9304.

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Course Descriptions

Introductory Courses
Comparative History
United States History
Medieval and Modern Europe
Ancient and Near Eastern History
Russian and East European History
African History
Latin American History
Asian History
Proseminars and Special Topics
Honors Courses

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Introductory Courses

H101-H102 The World in the Twentieth Century I-II (3-3 cr.) H101, SHHS; H102, SHHS, CSA Enrollment limited to freshmen and education majors. Principal world developments in the twentieth century, stressing Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Europe; global and regional problems; political revolutions; social and cultural diversity.
H103 Europe: Renaissance to Napoleon (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA Major developments in European thought during the Renaissance, Reformation, scientific revolution, and Enlightenment; traditional politics, economy, and society and their transformation by enlightened despotism, the French Revolution, and Napoleon. Enrollment limited to freshmen and sophomores only.
H104 Europe: Napoleon to the Present (3 cr.) SHHS, CSB The development of European society from the downfall of Napoleon in 1815 to the present; the impact of the industrial revolution; the rise of the middle class; liberalism, Marxism, and mass politics; nationalism and imperialism; international communism and fascism. Enrollment limited to freshmen and sophomores only.
H105-H106 American History I-II (3-3 cr.) SHHS Evolution of American society: political, economic, social structure; racial and ethnic groups; sex roles; Indian, inter-American, and world diplomacy of United States; evolution of ideology, war, territorial expansion, industrialization, urbanization, international events and their impact on American history.

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Comparative History

H333 Epidemics in History (3 cr.) SHHS Epidemic infectious disease in human history, explored in a wide variety of cultures and civilizations.
B391 Themes in World History (3 cr.) SHHS The shared experience of humankind from earliest times to the present. Topics include the Neolithic "evolution," Eurasian and African cultural exchanges, the era of European reconnaissance, the development of the world economy, "underdevelopment," and contemporary world interrelationships.
W100 Issues in World History (3 cr.) SHHS Study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems of general import. Topics will vary from semester to semester, but will usually be broad subjects that cut across fields, regions, and periods. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
W200 Issues in World History (3 cr.) SHHS Study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems of general import. Topics will vary from semester to semester, but will usually be broad subjects that cut across fields, regions, and periods. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
W300 Issues in World History (3 cr.) SHHS Study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems of general import. Topics will vary from semester to semester, but will usually be broad subjects that cut across fields, regions, and periods. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
W400 Issues in World History (3 cr.) SHHS Study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems of general import. Topics will vary from semester to semester, but will usually be broad subjects that cut across fields, regions, and periods. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.

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United States History

A100 Issues in United States History (3 cr.) SHHS Study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems of general import. Topics will vary from semester to semester but will usually be broad subjects that cut across fields, regions, and periods. May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
A200 Issues in United States History (3 cr.) SHHS Study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems of general import. Topics vary from semester to semester but are usually broad subjects that cut across fields, regions, and periods. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
H220 American Military History (3 cr.) SHHS From settlement of colonies to present. European background, colonial militia, Indian fighting. Principal foreign wars and their strategic objectives. Technological changes and effect of military on American society. Army is emphasized, with some attention to the Navy, Marines, and Air Force.
A222 Law in America (3 cr.) SHHS This course will examine the American legal system from the Revolution to the present. It will use trials, judicial opinions, statutes, stories, films, and other materials to study criminal prosecutions, private law suits, constitutional conflicts, and other critical parts of the American legal experience. The basic goals of the course are to help students understand why law has had a powerful role in the development of American society and the consequences of the American reliance on law.
A225 Elvis and Post-World War II America (3 cr.) SHHS Surveys changes in American society from World War II through the 1950s. Using lectures, readings, and films, the course looks at the debates over sexuality, race, and teen rebellion and how these issues were expressed in the careers of stars like Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, and others.
H259 American Jewish History (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA American Jewry from its colonial beginnings to the present, emphasizing such topics as immigration; political, economic, religious, cultural, philanthropic, communal, and intellectual activities; anti-Semitism; and Zionism.
H260 History of Women in the United States (3 cr.) SHHS How have women's lives changed from the colonial period to the twentieth century? This introductory survey focuses on women's historical roles in the workplace, the family, and politics. Material will be drawn from legal, constitutional, political, social, demographic, economic, and religious history.
H263 Indiana University, Past and Present (3 cr.) SHHS A survey of the history and culture of Indiana University since 1820 in the context of the development of American higher education. Emphasis on the people, programs, and events that have shaped the institution in distinctive ways.
A300 Issues in United States History (3 cr.) SHHS Study analysis of selected historical issues and problems of limited scope. Topics will vary but usually cut across fields, regions, and period. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of nine credit hours.
A301-A302 American Colonial History I-II (3-3 cr.) SHHS European background of American history; discovery and exploration of New World by Spain, France, and England. Colonization: motives, causes, types. Social and intellectual developments in English colonies in seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Birth of the Republic, 1763-1789.
A303-A304 United States, 1789-1865 I-II (3-3 cr.) SHHS The young Republic from Washington's presidency through the Civil War. Political, economic, and social conditions and changes. Hamiltonian Federalists and Jeffersonian Republicans, the Jacksonian era, the slavery conflict, and the crisis of the Union. I., 1789-1829. II., 1829-1865.
A307 American Cultural History (3 cr.) SHHS Major themes in American cultural life since the Civil War. Focus on the cultural expressions of immigrants, racial minorities, religious groups, social classes, women, artists, and professional groups in response to changing conditions.
A309 The South before the Civil War (3 cr.) SHHS Social, intellectual, and cultural features of the American South, from English settlement to secession. Emphasis on the development of a distinctive southern regional culture and how it helped shape the coming of the Civil War.
A310 Survey of American Indians I (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA The Native American experience from the pre-Columbian period through American Civil War. Lectures and readings will focus upon Native American cultural patterns, and the Native American response to French, British, and American Indian policies.
A311 Survey of American Indians II (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA Native American-white relations from Civil War through 1980s. Focus on Native American attempts to defend their homelands in American West, establishment of Indian reservations in late nineteenth century. Impact of the Sawes and Wheeler-Howard Acts, emergence of Native American church, urbanization of Native Americans in twentieth century.
A313 Origins of Modern America, 1865-1917 (3 cr.) SHHS 1865-1917: social, economic, cultural, and political ways in which Americans accommodated and resisted changes introduced by large-scale industrialization. Populism and progressivism receive special attention.
A315 United States History since World War II (3 cr.) SHHS Political, demographic, economic, and intellectual transformations from 1945 to the present: World War II, Cold War, problems of contemporary America.
A317 Modern American Social and Intellectual History (3 cr.) SHHS Development of modern American intellectual and social patterns since 1880. Social thought, literature, science, the arts, religion, morals, education.
A319 The Presidents and the Press (3 cr.) SHHS Relationship in American history between the presidents and the press over the decades, its bearing on the success or failure of particular administrations, and its important role in the American system of government.
A325-A326 American Constitutional History I-II (3-3 cr.) SHHS Changing constitutional system from seventeenth-century colonies to contemporary nation. Structure of government: federalism, division of powers, political institutions. Relationship of government to society and economy. Civil liberties and democracy. Constitutional law and politics. I., 1607-1865. II., 1865-present.
A337-A338 American Frontier I-II (3-3 cr.) SHHS I: the Turner thesis: frontier and American character. America as frontier of Europe and Africa, 1500-1720. The frontier-rural mode of American life, 1720-1860: public domain, population growth, migration. II: the trans-Mississippi West. Frontier in literature and music. Miners, cowboys, Indians, settlers. The Hispanic West. The West becomes metropolitan.
A345-A346 American Diplomatic History I-II (3-3 cr.) SHHS American diplomacy from 1775 to 1823; diplomacy of American continental expansion to 1898. America as a world power. Involvement in Far Eastern affairs after 1898, diplomacy of World Wars I and II, developments to present.
A347 American Urban History (3 cr.) SHHS Evolution of cities and urban life in United States from colonial times to present. Rise of cities (New York, Chicago, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Miami, and others). Creation of modern urban districts (ghettos, suburbia), city planning, political and economic power structures, ethnic and race relations, law and order (crime, police, prisons).
A351 The United States in World War II (3 cr.) SHHS Examination of U.S. effect on the outcome of World War II and change in America caused by the war. Major topics: the process of U.S. involvement, strategies of the major land and sea campaigns, relations within the Grand Alliance, development of the A-bomb, and the origins of the Cold War.
A352 History of Latinos in the United States (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA Latino experience in the United States from 1848. Economic and social factors of the Latino role in a non-Latin nation.
A353-A354 American Economic History I-II (3-3 cr.) SHHS Historical development of American economy; colonial and early national economic growth, agricultural specialization and unrest, transportation, industrialization, urbanization, big business and its regulation, labor organization, foreign trade, problems of wars and depressions. I., to 1860. II., since 1860.
A355-A356 (AFRO A355-A356) Afro-American History I-II (3-3 cr.) SHHS, CSA History of blacks in the United States. I: slavery, abolitionism, Reconstruction, post-Reconstruction to 1900. II: 1900 to present; migration north, NAACP, Harlem Renaissance, postwar freedom movement.
A361-A362 Studies in American History for Teachers I-II (3-3 cr.) SHHS Contemporary bibliography and interpretations of major problems in United States history.
A363 Survey of Indiana History (3 cr.) SHHS A survey of Indiana history and culture from the original inhabitants to recent times, with emphasis on the growth of a distinctive Hoosier culture.
A365 The Republican Party, 1854 to Present (3 cr.) SHHS Origins of modern Republican party; significance of Lincoln, Civil War, and Reconstruction; party divisions over civil service reform, tariffs, monetary policies, and immigration; impact of Theodore Roosevelt and Progressives; ascendancy in 1920s and disasters in 1930s and 1940s; McCarthyism; Eisenhower, triumph of conservatives; and beyond.
A366 The Democratic Party, 1828 to Present (3 cr.) SHHS Antecedents of Democratic party; the Jacksonian coalition; party divisions on major antebellum issues; era of Civil War and postwar reconstruction; resurgence under Cleveland and Wilson; harmony and discord from Al Smith to Jimmy Carter; and beyond.
A380 The Vietnam War (3 cr.) SHHS The story of America's longest war-the battles, the protests, the movies, and the controversies. The Vietnam War was an epic event, the climax of the cold war and the high-water mark of American power. Students will learn about the experiences of combatants on both sides, the reasoning behind American strategy, and the history of Vietnam's struggle for independence. The course will also deal with the war's legacies, its place in popular culture, and the war's economic and political aftershocks. Credit given for only one of A380 and H228.
A381 Civil Rights Era in the United States (3 cr.) SHHS Examination of race and racial protest after 1945. A look at several protest organizations, key social battles, individual leaders, and the struggle to end racial segregation and exclusion in education, politics, public accommodations, the workplace, and housing. Credit given for only one of A381 and AFRO A405.
A382 The Sixties (3 cr.) SHHS An intensive examination of the decade that tore apart post-World War II American society, beginning with the confident liberalism that believed the nation could "pay any price" and "bear any burden" in order to stop communism abroad and to promote reform at home. Focuses on the internal contradictions and external challenges that destroyed this liberal agenda: civil rights and black power, the New Left, the counterculture, second-wave feminism, the sexual revolution, the Vietnam War, and the globalization of the economy, and finishing with the more conservative order that emerged in the early 1970s to deal with the conflicting realities of limited national power and wealth on the one hand, and rising demands for rights and opportunities on the other.
A383 From Ragtime to Rap: Popular Music in the Making of Modern America (3 cr.) SHHS History of popular music in the social, cultural, political, and economic history of the modern United States. Examination of a broad range of musical cultures from the late nineteenth century to the present, including ragtime, Tin Pan Alley, jazz, swing, Broadway, blues, gospel, country, Cajun, Zydeco, Tex-Mex, rhythm and blues, folk, rock and roll, soul, and rap. Considers the interrelationship between music on the one hand, and class, gender, race, ethnicity, and generation, on the other, and the role of popular music in American mythmaking.
A389 Twentieth-Century American Intellectual History (3 cr.) SHHS A survey of American intellectual history in the twentieth century. This course examines the evolution of American thought and culture since the 1890s, as well as the public role of intellectuals as a social group. Topics to be considered include the modern progressive tradition and its radical and conservative critics; the place of religion in a secular culture; the rise of modern feminism and cultural radicalism; debates about American national identity in a age of racial and ethnic pluralism; and the responses of intellectuals to two world wars, the Great Depression, the Cold War, and the upheavals of the 1960s.
A400 Issues in United States History (3 cr.) SHHS Intensive study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems of limited scope. Topics vary but ordinarily cut across fields, regions, and periods. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.

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Medieval and Modern Europe

H206 Medieval Civilization (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA European institutions, social and intellectual history from late Roman Empire to Renaissance. Greco-Roman legacy, Christian institutions, Byzantine and Islamic influences, town revival and trade, rise of universities, emergence of national states and literatures. II Sem.
H209-H210 English History: General Course I-II (3-3 cr.) H209, SHHS, CSA; H210, SHSI, CSB I: England to 1688. Political and constitutional developments, particularly in relation to Henrician Reformation and Puritanism. II: England from 1688 to present. Political and economic movements, such as liberalism and socialism, arising out of the industrialization of Britain. H209, I Sem.; H210, II Sem.
H213 The Black Death (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA Europe in the age of bubonic plague, 1348-1715, with emphasis on changes in climate, population, food supplies, public health measures, economy, social relations, and religious and artistic responses to disaster.
H251 Introduction to Jewish History: From the Bible to the Crusades (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA Topics include the origins of Judaism, Jewish life in ancient Israel and the Diaspora, Judaism and the origins of Christianity, Jewish society and culture under Christian and Muslim rule in the Middle Ages.
H252 Introduction to Jewish History: From the Crusades to the Present (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA Jewish history from medieval to modern times. Topics include Christian-Jewish relations in the Middle Ages, Jewish daily life in medieval and early modern Europe, Jews in the Renaissance and Reformation, Jewish emancipation, modern Judaism, anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, and Zionism.
B100 Issues in Western European History (3 cr.) SHHS Study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems of general import. Topics will vary from semester to semester but will usually be broad subjects that cut across fields, regions, and periods. May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
B200 Issues in Western European History (3 cr.) SHHS Study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems of general import. Topics vary from semester to semester but usually are broad subjects that cut across fields, regions, and periods. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
B260 Women, Men, and Society in Modern Europe (3 cr.) SHHS, CSB An overview of the development of gender roles in Europe since the French Revolution; development of the private and public spheres; political ideology and women's roles in society; the industrial revolution, Darwinism, imperialism, nationalism, communism and gender roles; feminism and the sexual revolution.
B300 Issues in Western European History (3 cr.) SHHS Study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems of limited scope. Topics vary but usually cut across fields, regions, and periods. May be repeated with a different topic with a maximum of 6 credit hours.
B321 Modern Jewish History: from Expulsion to Revolution (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA Jewish history from 1492 to 1789. Topics include the expulsion from Spain; the Inquisition, and the marranos; the society and culture of Italian, Turkish, and Polish Jewry; Court Jews in central Europe; Hasidism in eastern Europe; the Enlightenment; Jews and the French Revolution.
B322 Modern Jewish History since the French Revolution (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA Topics include Emancipation, the Jewish Enlightenment, modern Judaism, Eastern European Jewry, Jewish politics, women in Jewish society, American Jewry, the Holocaust, Israel.
B323 History of the Holocaust (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA Anti-Semitism in imperial and Weimar Germany; the Nazi rise to power; the destruction of European Jewry; Jewish behavior in crisis and extremity; the attitude of the Allied nations; mass murder in comparative historical perspective; theological, moral, and political implications.
B324 Zionism and the State of Israel (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA Origins of modern Jewish nationalism in nineteenth century Europe, creation of a Zionist political movement, varieties of Zionist ideology, alternatives to Zionism, its international diplomatic context, growth of Jewish settlements in the land of Israel, the State of Israel from 1948 to the present.
B325 Christian-Jewish Relations (3 cr.) SHHS Mutual relations between Christians and Jews in western Europe from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century; continuity and change in the development of anti-Semitism; Jewish perceptions of Christians and Christianity.
B342 Women in Medieval Society (3 cr.) SHHS An overview of the history of women in the medieval west. The situation of women will be addressed according to their position in society-be it noblewoman, queen, peasant, saint, or prostitute. Both primary and secondary sources will be examined. Attention will also be paid to medieval theories about women and prevailing attitudes toward women, as expressed in both learned and popular circles. Methodological and epistemological problems will be highlighted.
B343 Medieval Sexuality (3 cr.) SHHS Christian theorists were convinced that human sexuality underwent an irreversible debasement as a result of the sin of Adam and Eve-a negative perspective that remains with us. This course will grapple with both the origins of this negative bequest as well as some of the anomalies of the medieval tradition. By examining the institutions and ideas that dominated the construction of gender in the Middle Ages, this course will illuminate problems such as the cult of virginity, a clerical gay subculture, transvestite saints, and many others. What will emerge is not one but many "sexualities."
B351 Western Europe in the Early Middle Ages (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA Evolution of European civilization from the fall of Rome, development of Christianity and the Germanic invasions through Charlemagne's empire and the subsequent development of feudalism, manorialism, papacy, and Romanesque architecture.
B352 Western Europe in the High and Later Middle Ages (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA P: one of the following: H206, B351, an upper-level medieval history seminar, or permission from the instructor. Expansion of European culture and institutions: chivalry, the Crusades, rise of towns, universities, Gothic architecture, law, revival of central government. Violent changes in late medieval Europe: overpopulation, plague, Hundred Years' War, peasant revolt, crime, inquisition and heresy.
B353 The Renaissance (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA Italian Renaissance as a political and cultural phase in the history of Western civilization. Its roots in antiquity and the Middle Ages; its characteristic expression in literature, art, learning; social transformations; manners and customs. Expansion of the Renaissance into France, Germany, and England.
B354 The Reformation (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA Economic, political, social, and religious background of the Protestant Reformation; Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican, and Anabaptist movements, with reference to their political and theological trends; Catholic Reformation.
B355 Europe: Louis XIV to French Revolution (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA Absolutism to enlightened despotism; the European state and its authority in fiscal, judicial, and military affairs; sources, content, diffusion of the Enlightenment; agriculture, commerce, and industry in preindustrial economies; Old Regime France.
B356 French Revolution and Napoleon (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA Crisis of Old Regime; middle-class and popular revolt; from constitutional monarchy to Jacobin commonwealth; the Terror and revolutionary government; expansion of revolution in Europe; rise and fall of Napoleonic empire.
B357 Modern France (3 cr.) SHHS, CSB A social, political, and cultural survey of France in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
B359-B360 Europe from Napoleon to the First World War I-II (3-3 cr.) SHHS, CSB Vienna settlement and period of reaction in Europe; liberalism and nationalism; revolutions; industrial revolution, capitalism; socialist movement; unification of Italy and Germany; clericalism and anticlericalism; struggles for political democracy; social legislation; imperialism, nationalist rivalries, and background of World War I.
B361-B362 Europe in the Twentieth Century I-II (3-3 cr.) SHHS Economic, social, political, and military-diplomatic developments, 1900 to present. I: 1900-1930: origins, impact, and consequences of World War I; peacemaking; postwar problems; international communism and fascism; the Great Depression. II: 1930-present: depression politics; crisis of democracy; German national socialism; World War II; Cold War; postwar reconstruction and recovery.
B366 Paris and Berlin in the 1920s: A Cultural History (3 cr.) SHHS, CSB A cultural history of Paris and Berlin in the 1920s, focusing on the French avant garde, dada and surrealism, expressionist painting and cinema, Bauhaus architecture, Brechtian theater, Reichian psychoanalysis, and the American expatriate literature of Stein, Hemingway, and Miller.
B368 Modern Italy (3 cr.) SHHS, CSB Risorgimento and unification; liberal Italy and the mutilated victory (WWI); Italian opera; Fascism; alliance with Nazi Germany and defeat (WWII); Christian Democrats v. Communists; major cultural movements; the economic miracle; Mafia, left- and right-wing violence and terrorism; the kickbacks scandal and the Second Republic.
B377-B378 History of Germany since 1648 I-II (3-3 cr.) SHHS, CSB Political, economic, and cultural state of Germany in 1648; growth of absolutist dynasties, especially Habsburg and Hohenzollern; economic and cultural development under absolutism; impact of French Revolution; struggles between reaction and liberalism; unification; industrialization; imperialism, international friction; internal political conflicts; World War I; Weimar Republic; Hitler regime; problems since 1945.
B400 Issues in Western European History (3 cr.) SHHS Intensive study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems of limited scope. Topics vary but ordinarily cut across fields, regions, and periods. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.

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Ancient and Near Eastern History

C100 Issues in Ancient and Near East History (3 cr.) SHHS Study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems of general import. Topics will vary from semester to semester but will usually be broad subjects that cut across fields, regions, and periods. May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
C200 Issues in Ancient History (3 cr.) SHHS Study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems of general import. Topics vary from semester to semester but usually are broad subjects that cut across fields, regions, and periods. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
H203 Islamic Civilization to 1300 (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA Pre-Islamic Arabia, the Prophet Muhammad, Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates, Saljuq and Mongol invasions. Islamic art, architecture, and literature of the early period. Relations among Christians, Jews, and Arabs; trade, navigation, technology, and Islamic science. From 600 to 1300 A.D.
H205 Ancient Civilization (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA From birth of civilization in Mesopotamia and Egypt until Constantine's conversion to Christianity (337 A.D.). Role of the city in ancient world; nature of imperialism; and impact of Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and other charismatic leaders. Archaeology as a source for political and social history.
C300 Issues in Ancient History (3 cr.) SHHS Study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems of limited scope. Topics vary but usually cut across fields, regions, and periods. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
C380 History of Ancient Medicine (3 cr.) SHHS 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.
C386 Greek History from the Minoans to Alexander (3 cr.) SHHS R: one of the following: HIST H205, CLAS C101, C206, C412, C413, or consent of instructor. Political, social, and economic developments in Greek world from the Bronze Age through the fourth century: Trojan War, Persian Wars, Periclean Athens, Sparta, archaeological and literary sources.
C387 Greek History from Alexander to Cleopatra (3 cr.) SHHS R: one of the following: HIST H205, C386; CLAS C101, C206, C412, C413; or consent of instructor. Fourth-century Athens and the rise of Macedonia under Philip, Macedonian hegemony of Greece, Alexander's conquests, and the hellenistic kingdoms. The culture of the hellenistic world; science, art, urbanization, new roles for women.
C388 Roman History (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA P: one of the following: HIST H205; CLAS C101, C102; or consent of instructor. History of Roman people, from legendary origins to death of Justinian (A.D. 565), illustrating development from city-state to world empire. Evolutionary stages exemplify transition from early kingship to republican forms, finally replaced by monarchy of distinctively Roman type.
C390 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA P: one of the following: HIST H205; CLAS C101, C102; or consent of instructor. History of the Roman Empire from the Golden Age of the second century A.D. until the collapse of Roman power in the West (476 A.D.) and the rise of Islam; Christianity and the fate of classical culture in an age of political, social, and religious transformation; the impact of recent archaeological discoveries on "the fall of Rome" as a historical problem.
C391 History of Medieval Near East (3 cr.) SHHS Rise of Islam to the fall of Baghdad to Mongols. Muhammad, prophet and statesman; Islam; Muslim commonwealth of Medina; Orthodox Caliphate; wars of apostacy and unification of Arabia; Islamic conquests; Umayyads; Abbasids; fall of Baghdad and end of Abbasid Caliphate A.D. 1258.
C393 Ottoman History (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA Political, social, and economic developments in Ottoman Empire from rise of its power in Antolia (1299) to the end of the classical period (1826). Evolution of Ottoman institutions and relations with major European powers.
C400 Issues in Ancient History (3 cr.) SHHS Intensive study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems of limited scope. Topics vary but ordinarily cut across fields, regions, and periods. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.

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Russian and East European History

D100 Issues in Russian and East European History (3 cr.) SHHS Study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems of general import. Topics will vary from semester to semester but will usually be broad subjects that cut across fields, regions, and periods. May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
D101 Icon and Axe: Russia Through the Ages (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA Principal events, leaders, and questions in Russia's development from earliest times to the present, including the founding of the Russian state, Ivan the Terrible, enserfment of the peasantry, Peter the Great's reforms, imperial expansion, industrialism, revolutions of the twentieth century, Stalinism, and the fall of the Soviet Union. Credit given for only one of H261 and D101.
D200 Issues in Russian/East European History (3 cr.) SHHS Study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems of general import. Topics vary from semester to semester but usually are broad subjects that cut across fields, regions, and periods. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
H223 Between Rome and Constantinople: Eastern Europe and Russia to mid-Fifteenth Century (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA Development of Slavic and non-Slavic peoples and the influences of the Holy Roman and Byzantine empires on their multiple cultures; Mongol conquest of Steppe and Rus'; problems of nation-states; the Renaissance; the Czech-Hussite Reformation; invasion of Ottoman Turks and Islam; and the fall of Constantinople and ascendancy of Muscovy.
D300 Issues in Russian/East European History (3 cr.) SHHS Study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems of limited scope. Topics vary but usually cut across fields, regions, and periods. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
D302 Historical Roots of Contemporary Russian Society (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA An examination of the new Russia taking shape after the breakup of the Soviet Union. Historical background, events since 1985, examination of selected issues: the political structure, economy, family, education, media, etc., with particular attention to historical roots of current issues. Credit given for only one of D302 or REEI R302.
D303 Heroes and Villains in Russian History (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA Biographies of a number of Russia's most colorful personalities and the times in which they lived; among them, Ivan the Terrible, Pugachev, Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, Bakunin, Tolstoy, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin.
D305 Women in Russian History and Soviet Society (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA R: H202 and D302/REEI R302. Women's contribution to Russian history and the woman question in Soviet society. Includes working women, revolutionary women, feminism, women of privilege. Social, political, and cultural histories are treated.
D306 Muscovy and Imperial Russia, 1500-1801 (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA Russian history from 1500 to 1801, including cultural, religious, and secular trends, political theory and administration; social stratification and social psychology; industrialization; rural and agricultural life; enlightenment and the development of national self-consciousness; and revisions in traditional historiography. Credit given for only one of D306 and D406.
D308 Empire of the Tsars (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA Russian empire under Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, Napoleon's invasion, expansion across Asia into the Americas, nationalism, war, and revolution. Other topics include daily life of the common people, gender issues, religion, and the emergence of a modern industrial society. Credit given for only one of D308 and D409.
D309 Russia in World War II: Battles and People (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA Issues covered include Soviet politics and society on the eve of WWII, prewar diplomacy, the major battles of WWII on the Eastern Front, the Soviet "home front," popular culture, and the impact of WWII on the Soviet Union and on the Soviet Union's international position.
D310 Russian Revolutions and Soviet Regime (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA Causes and development of Russian revolutions and civil war; Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin; purges, terror, economic development, society, and arts under Stalin; struggle against Hitler; scope and limits of de-Stalinization under Khrushchev; minorities, dissent, and life in the Soviet Union. Credit given for only one of D410 and D310.
D321 Hungarian History and Civilization to 1711 (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA Origin of the Hungarian people; settlement of the Danubian basin; adoption of Christianity; formation of Hungarian state; impact of western European civilization and economic system during Middle Ages and Renaissance; effect of Ottoman domination; Ottoman-Habsburg conflict; liberation of Hungary from Turkish rule. Credit given for only one of D421 and D321.
D322 Hungarian History and Civilization 1711-1918 (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA Modernization and rebuilding of Hungary during Habsburg enlightened absolutism; age of reform and the revolution of 1848-1849; compromise of 1867; social and economic transformation of Hungary within the framework of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy; problems of a multinational state; World War I and collapse of historical Hungary. Credit given for only one of D422 and D322.
D325 Path to Emancipation: Nationalism in the Balkans, 1804-1923 (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA Decline of the Ottoman Empire. Revolutionary traditions and movements; peasant societies and folk customs; literary and linguistic nationalism; Balkan irredentism. Formation of Serbian (Jugoslav), Greek, Rumanian, Bulgarian, Albanian, and Turkish national states. Austro-Hungarian, Russian, and British influence and imperialism in southeastern Europe and Near East. Credit given for only one of D425 and D325.
D327 Nation-Making and Imperial Decline in East Central Europe, 1780-1918 (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA Enlightened despotism; Metternichian system; struggle for German unification; Habsburg culture and civilization. German-Austrian, Hungarian, Czechoslovak, South Slavic, Rumanian, and Polish nationalism. Industrialization; Christian socialism and Austro-Marxism; murder at Sarajevo; destruction of the empire; its legacy to Europe. Credit given for only one of D427 and D327.
D328 The Search for European Integration: Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA World War I; the peace settlements in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece, Romania, and Turkey. Parliamentary democracy vs. military dictatorship; irredentism; economic transformation; Nazi domination; Munich; Soviet seizure of power. National communism of Tito, Gomulka, Kádár, Ceausescu, Dubcek, and Hoxha. Soviet and Western rivalry in Eastern Europe. Credit given for only one of D428 and D328.
D400 Issues in Russian/East European History (3 cr.) SHHS Intensive study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems of limited scope. Topics vary but ordinarily cut across fields, regions, and periods. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.

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African History

E100 Issues in African History (3 cr.) SHHS Study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems of general import. Topics will vary from semester to semester but will usually be broad subjects that cut across fields, regions, and periods. May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
E200 Issues in African History (3 cr.) SHHS Study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems of general import. Topics vary from semester to semester but usually are broad subjects that cut across fields, regions, and periods. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
H227 African Civilization (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA Introduction to African culture; African environment; early humans in Africa; precolonial history; traditional political, economic, and social systems; language, religion, art, music, literature.
E300 Issues in African History (3 cr.) SHHS Study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems of limited scope. Topics vary but usually cut across fields, regions, and periods. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
E331 African History from Ancient Times to Empires and City States (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA Origins and groupings of peoples of Africa; political, social, and economic evolution to 1750; Africa's contacts with ancient world, trans-Sahara and Indian Ocean trades, growth of states and empires, spread of Islam. Credit given for only one of E431 and E331.
E332 African History from Colonial Rule to Independence (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA 1750 to present. Slave trade, European imperialism; impact of Islam and Christianity, new state formations, reassertion of African culture and identity. Credit given for only one of E432 and E332.
E333 Conflict in Southern Africa (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA 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 nationalisms; South Africa and its neighbors; Mandela and the new South Africa. Credit given for only one of E433 and E333.
E334 History of Western Africa (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA History of Senegambia, Mali, and Upper Guinea Coast. The Mali Empire, African "landlord" and European "stranger" relationships, slave and non-slave trade, spread of Islam, European conquest and colonial rule, and the integration of western Africa into the world economy. Credit given for only one of E434 and E334.
E336 History of East Africa (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA Developments over the past two millennia in Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, and northern Mozambique. Topics include the environment and peoples; the emergence of hierarchical societies; nineteenth-century economic and political changes; European imperialism; transformations in the colonial era; African independence. Credit given for only one of E436 and E336.
E338 History of Muslim West Africa (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA Develops the origins of Islam in West Africa and the ways West Africans incorporated, transformed, and amplified Muslim beliefs and practices throughout history. Credit given for only one of E438 and E338.
E400 Issues in African History (3 cr.) SHHS Intensive study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems of limited scope. Topics vary but ordinarily cut across fields, regions, and periods. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.

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Latin American History

F100 Issues in Latin American History (3 cr.) SHHS Study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems of general import. Topics will vary from semester to semester but will usually be broad subjects that cut across fields, regions, and periods. May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
F200 Issues in Latin American History (3 cr.) SHHS Study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems of general import. Topics vary from semester to semester but usually are broad subjects that cut across fields, regions, and periods. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
H211-H212 Latin American Culture and Civilization I-II (3-3 cr.) SHHS, CSA I: 1492-1850. African, Indian, Spanish, Portuguese heritage. Discovery and conquest. Clash of cultures. Spanish empire. Society, culture, economics, politics. Bourbon reform, independence, new republics. II: 1850-present. Cultural and national identities. Diplomacy, dictators, social progress. National cultures. Mexican revolution: Latin America in a world community. Revolution and counterrevolution. H211, I Sem., II Sem., SS; H212, I Sem., II Sem., SS.
F300 Issues in Latin American History (3 cr.) SHHS Study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems of limited scope. Topics vary but usually cut across fields, regions, and periods. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
F336 Modern Central American History (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA Studies social, economic, cultural, and political development from 1821-1990. Major topics include coffee and liberalism, the United States and Nicaragua, the era of reform, revolution, and counter-revolution. Credit given for only one of F436 and F336.
F343 Modern Brazil since 1850 (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA Brazil from modernization to the present. Selected topics in political, social, and cultural development. Credit given for only one of F443 and F343.
F346 Modern Mexico (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA 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. Credit given for only one of F346, F446, LTAM L400.
F400 Issues in Latin American History (3 cr.) SHHS Intensive study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems of limited scope. Topics vary but ordinarily cut across fields, regions, and periods. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.

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Asian History

G100 Issues in Asian History (3 cr.) SHHS Study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems of general import. Topics will vary from semester to semester but will usually be broad subjects that cut across fields, regions, and periods. May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
G200 Issues in Asian History (3 cr.) SHHS Study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems of general import. Topics vary from semester to semester but usually are broad subjects that cut across fields, regions, and periods. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
H207 (EALC E252) Modern East Asian Civilization (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA Contrasting patterns of indigenous change and response to Western imperialism in East Asia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. China and Japan receive primary consideration; Korea and Vietnam, secondary. Emphasis on the rise of nationalism and other movements directed toward revolutionary change.
H208 American-East Asian Relations (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA Describes and analyzes the mutual interaction of the American countries and the major countries of East Asia-China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam-during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Emphasis on cultural interrelations and changing images.
H237 Traditional East Asian Civilization (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA A chronological and comparative survey of the traditional civilizations of East Asia through lectures and readings of source materials (in translation) in literature, history, philosophy, and the arts, with emphasis on the interrelationship among the cultures of East Asia from ancient times to the early modern era. Credit given for only one of H237 and EALC E251.
G300 Issues in Asian History (3 cr.) SHHS Study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems of limited scope. Topics vary but usually cut across fields, regions, and periods. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
G400 Issues in Asian History (3 cr.) SHHS Intensive study and analysis of selected historical issues and problems of limited scope. Topics vary but usually cut across fields, regions, and periods. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
G357 Premodern Japan (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA R: previous history course in any field, or previous East Asian Studies course related to Japan. 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. Credit given for only one of G467 and G357.
G358 Early Modern Japan (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA R: previous history course in any field, or previous East Asian Studies course related to Japan. 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. Credit given for only one of G468 and G358.
G369 Modern Japan (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA R: previous history course in any field, or previous East Asian studies course related to Japan. 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, social and economic structures, religious systems, gender, science and art, and Korea's interaction with its East Asian neighbors. Credit given for only one of G469 and G369.
G372 Modern Korea (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA R: previous history course in any field, or previous East Asian Studies course related to Korea. Early Modern (1800-1910), Colonial (1910-1945), and Era of Division (1945 to present) periods of Korean history, focusing on transformation of politics, economy, education, religion, and thought, as the nation falls under Japanese rule and subsequently splits into two states as a result of internal ideological division and the Cold War. Credit given for only one of G472 and G372.
G380 Early China (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA China from its neolithic background through the Qin 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.
G382 China: The Age of Glory (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA R: previous history course in any field, or previous East Asian Studies course related to China. 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 G382 or G482.
G383 China: The Later Empires (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA R: previous history course in any field, or previous East Asian Studies course related to China. The Chinese empire from the Song through the middle Qing dynasties (tenth to 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 G483 and G383.
G385 Modern China (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA R: previous history course in any field, or previous East Asian Studies course related to China. A 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 for only one of G485 and G385.
G387 Contemporary China (3 cr.) SHHS, CSA R: previous history course in any field, or previous East Asian Studies course related to China. A 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 G487 and G387.

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Proseminars and Special Topics

H115 Freshman Seminar in History: Topics (3 cr.) SHHS Introduction to the study of history through special focus on particular historical themes. From the perspective of arts and humanities. Freshmen only.
J200 Seminar in History (3 cr.) SHHS P: consent of instructor. Freshmen and sophomores. Selected topics of history. May be repeated twice for credit. I Sem., II Sem.
H217 The Nature of History (3 cr.) SHHS An introductory examination of (1) what history is, (2) types of historical interpretation, (3) common problems of historians, and (4) the uses of history. I Sem., II Sem.
J400 Seminar for History Majors (3 cr.) SHHS Selected topics of history. May be repeated twice for credit.
J450 Seminar in Women's History (3 cr.) SHHS Selected topics on women's history. Geographical areas will vary. May be taken three times for credit.
T495 Undergraduate Readings in History (1-12 cr., 12 cr. maximum)
H496 Internship in History (1-6 cr.) S/F grading. P: at least junior standing and 12 credit hours of related course work; prior arrangement with individual faculty member. Faculty-supervised experience in museum work, historic preservation, historical societies, oral history, or other history-related fieldwork in private and public institutions. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours; only 3 credit hours may count toward the major.

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Honors Courses

K392 Honors Seminar (3 cr.) For honors students only. Introduction to various approaches in historical scholarship, illustrated with the work of professors in the department. May be taken two times for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
K393 Reading for Honors (1-12 cr., 12 cr. Max.) P: approval of departmental honors committee.
K493 Reading for Honors (1-12 cr., 12 cr. max.) P: approval of departmental honors committee.
K498 Senior Honors Paper (1-3 cr.) Senior-level course for honors students only. Training in research and writing, culminating in an honors paper to be written under direction of a faculty member and reviewed by the director or the History Honors Program. May be repeated for a maximum of 3 credit hours.
K499 Senior Honors Thesis (1-6 cr., 6 cr. maximum) Senior-level course for honors students only. Training in research and writing, culminating in an honors thesis to be written under direction of a faculty member. An oral examination over the thesis is conducted by three faculty members.

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