printer friendly pageHISTORY 6N: Utopia: History of Nowhere Land
What would the perfect society be? How would work be organized, and education, honor and profit be distributed? How would children be raised, and who would govern? Such questions have engaged philosophers, revolutionaries, and dreamers in every historical age. Examines utopian literature from ancient Greece through the modern age, focusing on the early modern period.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 4
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UG Reqs: GER:DBHum
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: Stokes, L.
HISTORY 7S: The Age of Discovery: Maritime Imperialism and Science, 1400-1850
Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, and British voyages of trade, exploration and science. The voyages of Zheng He, Da Gama, Magellan, Cook, Malaspina, Darwin. Topics include: developments in maritime technology during this period; the interrelationship between science and empire in the early modern world; non-European accounts of the Age of Discovery with examples from Japan, Malacca, and E. Africa; and changing perspectives on exploration and explorers, using Columbus and Zheng He as comparisons.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 5
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors: Aranda, M.
HISTORY 10A: Europe from Antiquity to 1500
(Same as History 110A. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 110A.) Focus is on religion and politics. Issues include: the rise of Christianity and its impact on Rome; transformations of Catholicism and its institutions including the impact of barbarian tribes and the struggle between church and state; antisemitism, heresy, Crusades, and inquisition; courtly love; and scholasticism.
Terms: Win
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Units: 3
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UG Reqs: GER:DBHum
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors: Buc, P.
HISTORY 10B: Early Modern Europe
(Same as HISTORY 110B. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 110B.) Survey of early modern European history from the Reformation through the Enlightenment. Topics include religious war, state building and revolt, exploration and colonialism, gender and society.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 3
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UG Reqs: GER:DBSocSci, GER:ECGlobalCom
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: Stokes, L.
HISTORY 11SC: How Is a Buddhist
Buddhism as a system of thought, a culture, a way of life, a definition of reality, a method for investigating it, and a mental, physical, and social practice. Buddhism as a total phenomenon. Readings, films, music, and art. How Buddhist practices constitue the world of the Buddhist.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 2
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
HISTORY 12N: The Early Roman Emperors: HIstory, Biography, and Fiction (CLASSHIS 37N)
Preference to freshmen. The politics, drama, and characters of the period after the fall of the Roman Republic in 49 B.C.E. Issues of liberty and autocracy explored by Roman writers through history and biography. The nature of history writing, how expectations about literary genres shape the materials, the line between biography and fiction,and senatorial ideology of liberty. Readings include: Tacitus' Annals, Suetonius' Lives of the Caesers, and Robert Graves' I Claudius and episodes from the BBC series of the same title.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 3
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UG Reqs: GER:DBHum
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
HISTORY 13N: Slavery and Rebellion in Ancient Rome: Spartacus in Legend and History (CLASSHIS 23N)
Preference to freshmen. Spartacus and his army of slaves resisted the power of the Roman legions for two years and became the stuff of legend. Introduction to Roman history. Slavery in ancient Rome in its psychological, social, and economic dimensions. Causes of Spartacus' rebellion; how the traumatic end of the rebellion gave rise to a legend popularized in Stanley Kubrick's 1960 film.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: Saller, R.
HISTORY 14N: The Crusades
What were the European crusades? How can we explain this phenomenon, which mobilized entire societies for holy wars against pagans, Muslims, heretics, and sometimes bad kings? Was religion the main motivator, or should one factor in economics and political ambitions? How did European minorities, including Jews, fit within this phenomenon? Was there a difference between crusading warfare and ordinary warfare?
Terms: Aut
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DBSocSci
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors: Buc, P.
HISTORY 20A: Russian Civilization from Beginnings to the Enlightenment
(Same as HISTORY 120A. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 120A.) Fundamental building blocks of Russian civilization, treated thematically, from the tenth to the eighteenth centuries: religion, art and architecture, literature, social structures, political ideology, and political culture.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3
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UG Reqs: GER:DBHum, GER:ECGlobalCom
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors: Kollmann, N.
HISTORY 20Q: Russia in the Early Modern European Imagination
Preference to sophomores. The contrast between the early modern image of Europe as free, civilized, democratic, rational, and clean against the notion of New World Indians, Turks, and Chinese as savage. The more difficult, contemporary problem regarding E. Europe and Russia which seemed both European and exotic. Readings concerning E. Europe and Russia from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment; how they construct a positive image of Europe and conversely a negative stereotype of E. Europe. Prerequisite: PWR 1.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: Writing2, GER:DBHum, GER:ECGlobalCom
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: Kollmann, N.
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