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(Same as HISTORY 110B. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 110B.) From 1350 to 1789, Europe went from being a provincial backwater to a new global center of power. This course surveys the profound changes of the period that shape our world today: the spread of humanism and science, religious reformation, new styles of warfare, the rise of capitalism and a new global economy, the emergence of the state, and revolution which sought to overthrow established governments.

This course examines some classic approaches to war as an intellectual problem, to how a matter of such great physical violence and passions can be subjected to understanding and used in art, philosophy, or politics. Questions will include the causes of war, its use in self-definition, the problem of civil war, war's relations to political authority, etc. Readings will include extracts from Clausewitz's On War, Sunzi's The Art of War, Herodotus's Histories ,Thucydides's Peloponnesian War, and Caesar's Gallic War.

The most famous figures of pre-modern Europe are kings, popes, and emperors. But life was largely lived outside the castles and courts of the elite. How can historians study the perspectives of these commoners? What sources are available and how are they best used? What can we learn about the ordinary lives of peasants, artisans, and merchants in the late medieval and early modern periods? Special emphasis on literacy, class, gender, and family. Sources include autobiographies, judicial records, and more.

(Same as HISTORY 133A. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 133A.) English society and state from the Wars of the Roses to the death of Elizabeth. Political, social, and cultural upheavals of the Tudor period and the changes wrought by the Reformation. The establishment of the Tudor monarchy; destruction of the Catholic church; rise of Puritanism; and 16th-century social and economic changes.

Explores how gender and historical context have shaped the experience and treatment of mental illness in U.S. history. Why have women been the witches and hysterics of the past, and why have there historically been more women than men among the mentally ill? Topics include the relationship between historical ideas of femininity and insanity, the ways that notions of gender influence the definition and treatment of mental disorder, and the understanding of the historically embedded nature of medical ideas, diagnoses, and treatments.

(Same as HISTORY 147. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 147.) Introduction, focusing particularly on the modern era. Topics include: precolonial African societies; European colonization; the impact of the mineral revolution; the evolution of African and Afrikaner nationalism; the rise and fall of the apartheid state; the politics of post-apartheid transformation; and the AIDS crisis.

(Same as HISTORY 150A. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 150A.) Survey of the origins of American society and polity in the 17th and 18th centuries. Topics: the migration of Europeans and Africans and the impact on native populations; the emergence of racial slavery and of regional, provincial, Protestant cultures; and the political origins and constitutional consequences of the American Revolution.

Focuses on the November 2012 election. Serial examinations of major topics at stake: foreign policy, the economy, the Supreme Court, and campaign strategy. One session will be devoted to California. Distinguished guests will participate in sessions moderated by the instructors with participation by students. Students enrolling for credit must attend regularly and contribute to a course blog. Sign up for the waitlist through PoliSci 51K. In order for a student to be enrolled in the course via the waitlist process, the student must not exceed the maximum unit enrollment for the quarter OR have a time schedule conflict with another course on his/her study list. If the student will either exceed the maximum units or has a class time conflict, the waitlist will bypass this student for enrollment, and will enroll the next eligible student into this course.

Preference to freshmen. The everyday lives of African American women in 19th- and 20th-century America in comparative context of histories of European, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American women. Primary sources including personal journals, memoirs, music, literature, and film, and historical texts. Topics include slavery and emancipation, labor and leisure, consumer culture, social activism, changing gender roles, and the politics of sexuality.