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Catalogue 2013-2014

Catalogue 2013-2014 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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English: III. Advanced Prerequisite: Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor.
	ENGL 302 - Adaptations Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) (Same as CLCS 302 and MEDS 302 ) If works of art continue each other, as Virginia Woolf suggested, then cultural history accumulates when generations of artists think and talk together across time. What happens when one of those artists switches to another language, another genre, another mode or medium? In the twenty-first century we may reframe Woolf’s conversation in terms of intertextuality-art invokes and revises other art-but the questions remain more or less unchanged: What motivates and shapes adaptations? What role does technology play? Audience? What constitutes a faithful adaptation? “Faithful” to what or whom? In this course we consider the biological model, looking briefly at Darwin’s ideas about the ways organisms change in order to survive, and then explore analogies across a range of media. We’ll begin with Virgil’s Georgics; move on to Metamorphoses, Ovid’s free adaptations of classical myths; and follow Orpheus and Eurydice through two thousand years of theater (Euripides, Anouilh, Ruhl, Zimmerman); painting and sculpture (Dürer, Rubens, Poussin, Klee, Rodin); film and television (Pasolini, Cocteau, Camus, Luhrmann); dance (Graham, Balanchine, Bausch); music (Monteverdi, Gluck, Stravinsky, Birtwistle, Glass); narratives and graphic narratives (Pynchon, Delany, Gaiman, Hoban); verse (Rilke, H.D., Auden, Ashbery, Milosz, Heaney, Atwood, Mullen, Strand); and computer games (Battle of Olympus, Shin Megami Tensei). During the second half of the semester, we investigate other adaptations and their theoretical implications, looking back from time to time at what we’ve learned from the protean story of Eurydice and Orpheus and their countless progeny. M. Mark. Prerequisite(s): Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor. One 3-hour period.
	ENGL 305 - Composition Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) Advanced study and practice of various forms of prose and poetry. Open in the senior year to students concentrating in English. Deadline for submission of writing samples immediately before spring break. Mr. Kumar. Prerequisite(s): Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor. Yearlong course ENGL 305-ENGL 306 .
	ENGL 306 - Composition Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) Advanced study and practice of various forms of prose and poetry. Open in the senior year to students concentrating in English. Deadline for submission of writing samples immediately before spring break. Mr. Kumar. Prerequisite(s): Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor. Yearlong course ENGL 305 -306.
	ENGL 307 - Senior Writing Seminar Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) An advanced writing course in parallel with the long-established senior composition sequence, accommodating the multiple approaches, genres, forms and interests that represent the diversity of a contemporary writing life. Mr. Joyce. Prerequisite(s): Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor.
	ENGL 315 - Studies in Performance Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) This course offers advanced study in the relationship between performance and text. Performance in this case is broadly conceived. It can include dramatic performances of plays, as well as storytelling, comic or musical performance, performance art, and poetry. The course may also explore such categories as gender or identity as forms of performance. Topic for 2013/14b: Writing for Performance. This seminar examines a range of culturally significant entertainments from Homer to Homer Simpson; Euripides to YouTube; Beowulf to Snoop Dogg; and Shakespeare to Shakira-but it is designed chiefly as a workshop for theatrical writers who already know, and value, the Western dramatic tradition. Coursework includes theater visits and the rehearsal of one another’s original writing (monologues, forms of dialogue, scenes, a one-act play). Our emphasis is insistently dramaturgical, though not without a dose of criticism, and performance theory. Focus: writing for the stage, not for TV or film. Mr. Foster. Prerequisite(s): Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor. an original writing sample; evidence of successfully completed coursework in dramatic literature; and permission of the instructor. One 2-hour period. Limited enrollment.
	ENGL 317 - Studies in Literary Theory 1 unit(s) Advanced study of problems and schools of literary criticism and theory, principally in the twentieth century. May include discussion of new criticism, structuralism, deconstruction, reader-response theory, new historicism, and Marxist, psychoanalytic, phenomenological, and feminist analysis. Ms. Park. Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2013/14.
	ENGL 318 - Literary Studies in Gender and Sexuality 1 unit(s) Advanced study of gender and sexuality in literary texts, theory and criticism. The focus will vary from year to year but will include a substantial theoretical or critical component that may draw from a range of approaches, such as feminist theory, queer theory, transgender studies, feminist psychoanalysis, disability studies and critical race theory. One 2-hour period. Open to Juniors and Seniors with two units of 200-level work in English or by permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2013/14.
	ENGL 319 - Race and Its Metaphors 1 unit(s) Re-examinations of canonical literature in order to discover how race is either explicitly addressed by or implicitly enabling to the texts. Does racial difference, whether or not overtly expressed, prove a useful literary tool? The focus of the course varies from year to year. Prerequisite(s): Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2013/14.
	ENGL 320 - Studies in Literary Traditions 1 unit(s) This course examines various literary traditions. The materials may cross historical, national and linguistic boundaries, and may investigate how a specific myth, literary form, idea, or figure (e.g., Pygmalion, romance, the epic, the fall of man, Caliban) has been constructed, disputed, reinvented and transformed. Topics vary from year to year. Prerequisite(s): Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2013/14.
	ENGL 325 - Studies in Genre 1 unit(s) An intensive study of specific forms or types of literature, such as satire, humor, gothic fiction, realism, slave narratives, science fiction, crime, romance, adventure, short story, epic, autobiography, hypertext, and screenplay. Each year, one or more of these genres is investigated in depth. The course may cross national borders and historical periods or adhere to boundaries of time and place. Prerequisite(s): Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor. One 2-hour period. Not offered in 2013/14.
	ENGL 326 - Challenging Ethnicity Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) (Same as AFRS 326 and URBS 326 ) An exploration of literary and artistic engagements with ethnicity. Contents and approaches vary from year to year. Topic for 2013/14a: Gay Harlem. This course explores Harlem’s role in the production of sexual modernity and in particular as a space of queer encounter. We will consider what conditions may have increased opportunities for interclass and interethnic contact in Harlem and examine how such encounters helped to generate the sexual subcultures more commonly associated with other parts of Manhattan, such as Greenwich Village, Chelsea or Times Square. Although cultural production from the Harlem Renaissance will feature centrally in our discussions, we will also consider the longer history of Harlem, from slavery to the Great Migration and through to the present day, taking into special account the relationship of space to erotics. While much of our investigation will be devoted to the intersection of race and sexuality in African American life, we also consider Harlem’s history as an Italian, Puerto Rican, and Dominican neighborhood as well as its discrete micro-cosmopolitanism within the larger global city. Mr. Perez. Prerequisite(s): Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor. One 2-hour period.
	ENGL 328 - Literature of the American Renaissance Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) Intensive study of major works by American writers of the mid-nineteenth century. Authors may include: Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, Fuller, Stowe, Delany, Wilson, Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson. In addition to placing the works in historical and cultural context, focusing on the role of such institutions as slavery and such social movements as transcendentalism, the course also examines the notion of the American Renaissance itself. Mr. Kane. Prerequisite(s): Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor.
	ENGL 329 - American Literary Realism Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) Exploration of the literary concepts of realism and naturalism focusing on the theory and practice of fiction between 1870 and 1910, the first period in American literary history to be called modern. The course may examine past critical debates as well as the current controversy over realism in fiction. Attention is given to such questions as what constitutes reality in fiction, as well as the relationship of realism to other literary traditions. Authors may include Henry James, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, Charles Chestnutt, Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, and Willa Cather. Ms. Graham. Prerequisite(s): Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor.
	ENGL 330 - American Modernism Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) Intensive study of modern American literature and culture in the first half of the twentieth century, with special attention to the concept of “modernism” and its relation to other cultural movements during this period. Authors may include Dreiser, Wharton, Cather, Frost, Anderson, Millay, Pound, Stein, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, O’Neill, H. D., Faulkner, Wright, Eliot, Williams, Moore, Stevens, Crane, Yezierska, Toomer, Hughes, Cullen, Brown, Hurston, McKay, and Dos Passos. Mr. Antelyes. Prerequisite(s): Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor.
	ENGL 331 - Postmodern American Literature Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) Advanced study of American literature from the second half of the twentieth century to the present date. Authors may include Welty, Ellison, Warren, O’Connor, Olson, Momaday, Mailer, Lowell, Bellow, Percy, Nabokov, Bishop, Rich, Roth, Pynchon, Ashbery, Merrill, Reed, Silko, Walker, Morrison, Gass, and Kingston. Mr. Hsu. Prerequisite(s): Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor.
	ENGL 339 - Shakespeare in Production 1 unit(s) (Same as DRAM 339 and MRST 339 ) Students in the course study the physical circumstances of Elizabethan public and private theaters at the beginning of the semester. The remainder of the semester is spent in critical examination of the plays of Shakespeare and several of his contemporaries using original staging practices of the early modern theater. The course emphasizes the conditions under which the plays were written and performed and uses practice as an experiential tool to critically analyze the texts as performance scripts. Enrollment limited to Juniors and Seniors. Prerequisite(s): Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor. One 3-hour period. Not offered in 2013/14.
	ENGL 340 - Studies in Medieval Literature 1 unit(s) Intensive study of selected medieval texts and the questions they raise about their context and interpretation. Issues addressed may include the social and political dynamics, literary traditions, symbolic discourses, and individual authorial voices shaping literary works in this era. Discussion of these issues may draw on both historical and aesthetic approaches, and both medieval and modern theories of rhetoric, reference, and text-formation. Prerequisite(s): Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2013/14.
	ENGL 341 - Studies in the Renaissance Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) Intensive study of selected Renaissance texts and the questions they raise about their context and interpretation. Topic for 2013/14b: Sex And The City In 1600: Gender, Marriage, Family, and Sexuality In Early Modern London. This course explores everyday life in the rapidly expanding early modern metropolis of London at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries. We pay special attention to religious, social, legal as well as informal control mechanisms that influenced issues of gender, marriage, and sexuality in various layers of London society. We anchor our investigations in a handful of plays by Beaumont, Dekker, Jonson, Marston, Middleton, and Shakespeare, but also explore ballads, homilies, conduct books, legal and travel narratives, pamphlets, treatises, works by female authors, and other literary and non-literary texts. Mr. Márkus. Prerequisite(s): Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor. One 2-hour period.
	ENGL 342 - Studies in Shakespeare Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) Advanced study of Shakespeare’s work and its cultural significance in various contexts from his time to today. Topic for 2013/14a: After Shakespeare: The Poetics and Politics of Adaptation. While Shakespeare once served as an icon of England and Englishness, he is now the most popular playwright of the non-Anglophone world, and his cultural currency circulates across nations, cultures, languages, and media. This course explores the theory and practice of adapting Shakespeare for worldwide contemporary audiences. Topics include the Shakespeare myth and the Shakespeare “brand;” postcolonial and feminist re-visions; the poetics and politics of “tradaptation;” Shakespeare in popular culture; and “local Shakespeares” in theatre, film, and video. Each seminar member will complete an original research or creative project. Ms. Dunn. Prerequisite(s): Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor. One 2-hour period.
	ENGL 345 - Milton 1 unit(s) Study of John Milton’s career as a poet and polemicist, with particular attention to Paradise Lost. Prerequisite(s): Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2013/14.
	ENGL 350 - Studies in Eighteenth-century British Literature Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) Focuses on a broad literary topic, with special attention to works of the Restoration and eighteenth century. Topic for 2013/14a: John Milton and the Metaphysical Tradition from John Donne to Alexander Pope. Paradise Lost is the principal work to be studied, but there will also be attention to poetry by Andrew Marvell, John Dryden, Alexander Pope and some other writers who wrote in the metaphysical mode, even if they did so to mock it. Mr. DeMaria. Prerequisite(s): Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor. One 2-hour period.
	ENGL 351 - Studies in Nineteenth-Century British Literature 1 unit(s) Study of a major author (e.g., Coleridge, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde) or a group of authors (the Brontes, the Pre-Raphaelite poets and painters) or a topical issue (representations of poverty; literary decadence; domestic angels and fallen women; transformations of myth in Romantic and Victorian literature) or a major genre (elegy, epic, autobiography). Prerequisite(s): Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor. One 2-hour period. Not offered in 2013/14.
	ENGL 352 - Romantic Poets: Rebels with a Cause Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) Intensive study of the major poetry and critical prose of Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge (ENGL 352a), and Byron, Shelley, and Keats (ENGL 353 ) in the context of Enlightenment thought, the French Revolution, and the post-Napoleonic era. Readings may include biographies, letters, and a few philosophical texts central to the period. Some preliminary study of Milton is strongly recommended. Mr. Sharp. Prerequisite(s): Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor.
	ENGL 353 - Romantic Poets: Rebels with a Cause Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) Intensive study of the major poetry and critical prose of Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge (ENGL 352 ), and Byron, Shelley, and Keats (ENGL 353a) in the context of Enlightenment thought, the French Revolution, and the post-Napoleonic era. Readings may include biographies, letters, and a few philosophical texts central to the period. Some preliminary study of Milton is strongly recommended. Mr. Sharp. Prerequisite(s): Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor.
	ENGL 355 - Modern Poets 1 unit(s) Intensive study of selected modern poets, focusing on the period 1900-1945, with attention to longer poems and poetic sequences. Consideration of the development of the poetic career and of poetic movements. May include such poets as Auden, Bishop, Eliot, Frost, Hopkins, Moore, Pound, Stein, Stevens, Williams, and Yeats. Prerequisite(s): Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2013/14.
	ENGL 356 - Contemporary Poets 1 unit(s) Intensive study of selected contemporary poets, with attention to questions of influence, interrelations, and diverse poetic practices. May include such poets as Ashbery, Bernstein, Brooks, Graham, Harjo, Heaney, Hill, Merrill, Rich, and Walcott. Prerequisite(s): Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2013/14.
	ENGL 357 - Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) Intensive study of literatures of the twentieth century, with primary focus on British and postcolonial (Irish, Indian, Pakistani, South African, Caribbean, Australian, Canadian, etc.) texts. Selections may focus on an author or group of authors, a genre (e.g., modern verse epic, drama, satiric novel, travelogue), or a topic (e.g., the economics of modernism, black Atlantic, Englishes and Englishness, themes of exile and migration). Topic for 2013/14b: Goodbye to All That: Texts of the Great War and Beyond. An investigation of the Great War (1914-1918) and the long shadow it has cast on the British imagination. Materials may include the work of the war poets (Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg), memoirs (Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth; Robert Graves’ Goodbye to All That), fiction (Rudyard Kipling’s The Gardener; Katherine Mansfield’s The Fly; D. H. Lawrence’s The Ladybird; Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room and Mrs. Dalloway; Pat Barker’s Regeneration trilogy; J. L. Carr’s A Month in the Country; Sebastian Faulks’ Birdsong), films (All Quiet on the Western Front; Gallipoli), and music (Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem). Mr. Russell. Prerequisite(s): Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor.
	ENGL 362 - Text and Image Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) (Same as AFRS 362 ) Explores intersections and interrelationships between literary and visual forms such as the graphic novel, illustrated manuscripts, tapestry, the world-wide web, immersive environments, the history and medium of book design, literature and film, literature and visual art. Topics vary from year to year. Topic for 2013/14a: Because Dave Chappelle Said So. The course will explore the history and movement of black, mostly male, satirical comic narratives and characters. From Hip Hop to Paul Beatty’s White Boy Shuffle to Spike Lee’s Bamboozled to Dave Chappelle to Aaron McGruder’s Boondocks to Sacha Baron Cohen’s Ali G character, black masculinity seems to be a contemporary site of massive satire. Using postmodernism as our critical lens, we will explore what black satirical characters and narratives are saying through “tragicomedy” to the mediums of literature, film, television and politics. We will also think about the ways that black archetypes (coon, mammy, sapphire, uncle tom, pickaninny, sambo, tragic mulatto, noble savage, castrating bitch) have evolved into cutting edge comedy on the internet like Awkward Black Girl. We start to see the beginnings of this strategic evolution taking place in the Civil Rights movement when black leaders use television and visual expectations of blackness to their national and global advantage. How did black situation comedies and black comedians of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s speak to and/or disregard that history. Are contemporary comic narratives, narrators and characters, while asserting critical citizenship, actually writing black women’s subjectivities, narratives and experiences out of popular American History? Does satire have essentially masculinist underpinnings? How are these texts and characters communicating with each other and is there a shared language? Is there a difference between a black comic text and a black satirical text? Have comic ideals of morality, democracy, sexuality, femininity and masculinity changed much since the turn of the century? Did blaxploitation cinema revolutionize television for black performers and viewers? How has the internet literally revolutionized raced and gendered comedy? These are some of the questions we will explore in Because Dave Chappelle Said So. Topic for 2013/14a: Cartoons, Comics, and Graphic Novels. This course examines major forms of comic art from 1900 to the present, including comic strips, comic books, graphic novels, and independent minicomics. It is organized both historically and thematically, with classes exploring such topics as: the roles played by gender, sexuality, race, and class in the creation and marketing of comic art; the debates over the morality of comics, and the effects of the “Comics Code”; the relation of the comics to various subcultures, such as the “underground” movement of the 1960s; the representation of politics and the politics of representation; the positioning of “graphic novels” in the academy and the literary world more generally. Among the artists/works we might consider: McCay (Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend and Little Nemo in Slumberland), Herriman (Krazy Kat), Siegel and Shuster (Superman), Schulz (Peanuts), Spiegelman (Maus and In the Shadow of No Towers), Trudeau (Doonesbury), Barry (The Greatest of Marlys), McGruder (Boondocks), Ware (Jimmy Corrigan), and Bechdel (Fun Home), as well as magazines from Mad to Raw. We will also be looking at criticism and theory in the areas of media and cultural studies. Mr. Laymon. Mr. Antelyes. Prerequisite(s): Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor. One 2-hour period.
	ENGL 365 - Selected Author 1 unit(s) Study of the work of a single author. The work may be read in relation to literary predecessors and descendants as well as in relation to the history of the writer’s critical and popular reception. This course alternates from year to year with ENGL 265 . Prerequisite(s): Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor. One 2-hour period. Not offered in 2013/14.
	ENGL 370 - Transnational Literature Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) This course focuses on literary works and cultural networks that cross the borders of the nation-state. Such border-crossings raise questions concerning vexed phenomena such as globalization, exile, diaspora, and migration-forced and voluntary. Collectively, these phenomena deeply influence the development of transnational cultural identities and practices. Specific topics studied in the course vary from year to year and may include global cities and cosmopolitanisms; the black Atlantic; border theory; the discourses of travel and tourism; global economy and trade; or international terrorism and war. Topic for 2013/14a: India Elsewhere. “I am writing to you from your far-off country/Far even from us who live here,” Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali writes. The seminar will examine such complexities of location and identity by focusing on literature in English with subcontinental affinities or allegiances. We will examine the literary and visual contexts that have shaped the works, such as religious epics, and popular or “Bollywood” film, as we trace the genealogy of the current boom in the metropolitan Indian-English writing. Critically, the seminar will examine the cruxes of interpretation and interpellation, including controversies over postcolonial exoticism and cosmopolitanism. Works will include Bharati Mukherjee’s Miss New India, Hari Kunzru’s Gods without Men, Arvind Adiga’s The White Tiger, Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses, Vikram Chandra’s Love and Longing in Bombay, Amit Chaudhuri’s Afternoon Raag, and the Nina Paley’s animated film Sita Sings the Blues. Ms. Kane. Prerequisite(s): Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor. One 2-hour period.
	ENGL 378 - Black Paris Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) (Same as AFRS 378 and FREN 378 ) This multidisciplinary course examines black cultural productions in Paris from the first Conference of Negro-African writers and artists in 1956 to the present. While considered a haven by African American artists, Paris, the metropolitan center of the French empire, was a more complex location for African and Afro-Caribbean intellectuals and artists. Yet, the city provided a key space for the development and negotiation of a black diasporic consciousness. This course examines the tensions born from expatriation and exile, and the ways they complicate understandings of racial, national and transnational identities. Using literature, film, music, and new media, we explore topics ranging from modernism, jazz, Négritude, Pan-Africanism, and the Présence Africaine group, to assess the meanings of blackness and race in contemporary Paris. Works by James Baldwin, Aime Césaire, Chester Himes, Claude McKay, the Nardal sisters, Richard Wright. Ousmane Sembène, Mongo Beti, among others, are studied. Ms. Célérier and Ms. Dunbar. Prerequisite(s): Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor. One 2-hour period.
	ENGL 380 - English Seminar Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) (Same as MRST 380 and WMST 380 ) Topic for 2013/14b: Representing Elizabeth I. This course considers the verbal and visual strategies that Elizabeth I used to legitimize her rule and that her subjects used to persuade the queen. Major topics include women’s education in the 16th century, problems of female rule in the 16th century, Elizabeth as defender of the English Bible, Elizabeth as the focus of court culture, and the myth of Elizabeth in the 20th century. Ms. Robertson. Prerequisite(s): Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor. One 2-hour period.
	ENGL 381 - English Seminar 1 unit(s) Prerequisite(s): Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2013/14.
	ENGL 382 - English Seminar 1 unit(s) Prerequisite(s): Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2013/14.
	ENGL 383 - English Seminar 1 unit(s) Prerequisite(s): Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2013/14.
	ENGL 384 - English Seminar 1 unit(s) Prerequisite(s): Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2013/14.
	ENGL 385 - English Seminar 1 unit(s) Prerequisite(s): Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2013/14.
	ENGL 386 - English Seminar 1 unit(s) Prerequisite(s): Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2013/14.
	ENGL 399 - Senior Independent Work Semester Offered: Fall or Spring 1/2 or 1 unit(s) One unit of credit given only in exceptional cases. Prerequisite(s): Open to Juniors and Seniors with 2 units of 200-level work in English, or by permission of the instructor. Open by permission of the chair.
History: I. Introductory
	HIST 101 - Martin Luther King Jr. 1 unit(s) (Same as AFRS 101 ) This course examines the life and work of Martin Luther King, Jr. We immediately rethink the image of King who liberals and conservatives construct as a dreamer of better race relations. We engage the complexities of an individual, who articulated a moral compass of the nation, to explore racial justice in post-World War II America. This course gives special attention to King’s post-1965 radicalism when he called for a reordering of American society, an end to the war in Vietnam, and supported sanitation workers striking for better wages and working conditions. Topics include King’s notion of the “beloved community”, the Social Gospel, liberalism, “socially conscious democracy”, militancy, the politics of martyrdom, poverty and racial justice, and compensatory treatment. Primary sources form the core of our readings. Two 75-minute periods. Fulfills the Freshman Writing Seminar Requirement. Not offered in 2013/14.
	HIST 103 - Hindus and Muslims in Pre-Colonial India Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) (Same as ASIA 103 ) We explore the history of Hindu-Muslim relations in India from the first Arab conquests in the 8th century through the 18th century waning of the Mughal Empire. As we examine the documents and events commonly cited as evidence of incompatibility between these major religious communities, we place controversial events, individuals, and trends in context to discover how they were understood in their own time. Our primary sources include royal panegyrics, court chronicles, mystical poetry, and the memoirs of emperors in translation. Ms. Hughes. Two 75-minute periods. Open only to freshmen; satisfies college requirement for a Freshman Writing Seminar.
	HIST 116 - The Dark Ages Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) (Same as MRST 116 ) Was early medieval Europe really Dark? In reality, this was a period of tremendous vitality and ferment, witnessing the transformation of late classical society, the growth of Germanic kingdoms, the high point of Byzantium, the rise of the papacy and monasticism, and the birth of Islam. This course examines a rich variety of sources that illuminate the first centuries of Christianity, the fall of the Roman Empire, and early medieval culture showing moments of both conflict and synthesis that redefined Europe and the Mediterranean. Ms. Bisaha. Two 75-minute periods.
	HIST 120 - Japan’s American Revolution, 1945-52 1 unit(s) Many Americans are unaware that Japan was ostensibly run by the US for nearly seven years after World War II. The US Occupation of Japan lasted longer than the war itself, and left indelible imprints upon modern Japanese history that remain visible today. As a grandly ambitious and idealistic project that forced people to be free, the Occupation was riddled with contradictory goals and visions. Democratization, demilitarization, the “Peace Constitution,” and ideological reform are among its legacies. So, too, are authoritarianism, miscarriage of justice in the Tokyo Trial, conflicts over new social values, and Japan’s unlikely transformation into “America’s unsinkable aircraft carrier.” We use John W. Dower’s Pulitzer Prize winner Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (Norton, 1999) as a historiographical springboard to discuss the art and science of writing history. Students focus not on learning Japanese or American history as much as developing historical thinking, critical analysis of textual evidence, and effective writing skills. Two 75-minute periods. Fulfills the Freshman Writing Seminar Requirement. Not offered in 2013/14.
	HIST 121 - Readings in Modern European History 1 unit(s) This course explores key developments in European history from the French Revolution in 1789 to the collapse of communism two centuries later. While roughly chronological, the class is not a survey. Readings explore the impact of the French and Industrial revolutions, the rise of nation states, World War I and the Russian revolution, Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, and Europe’s Cold War division and continuing, contested integration. Ms. Pohl. Not offered in 2013/14.
	HIST 122 - Encounters in Modern East Asia Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) (Same as ASIA 122 ) This course introduces the modern history of East Asia (China, Japan, and Korea) through various “encounters,” not only with each other but also with the world beyond. Employing regional and global perspectives, we explore how East Asia entered a historical phase generally known as “modern” by examining topics such as inter-state relations, trade network, the Jesuit missionary, philosophical inquiries, science and technology, colonialism, imperialism and nationalism. The course begins in the seventeenth-century with challenges against the dynastic regime of each country, traces how modern East Asia emerges through war, commerce, cultural exchange, and imperial expansion and considers some global issues facing the region today. Mr. Song. Two 75-minute periods.
	HIST 123 - Europe at the Crossroads, 1500-1789 Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) Between 1492 and 1789, Europe faced a series of profound challenges and hard choices. Which was more important: individual conscience or religious unity, local or national allegiance, individual enrichment or the welfare of the community? This course explores the way the people of Europe, both rulers and ruled, men and women, responded to the extraordinary changes and challenges of their times. Topics include Spanish unification and the Inquisition, European encounters with the Americas, the Protestant Reformation, the rise of absolutism and republicanism, and the discovery of a new relationship between the earth and the heavens. Ms. Choudhury.
	HIST 124 - Europe 1945 Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) On May 8, 1945 the Second World War ended in Europe. After six years of fighting, millions of soldiers and civilians had been killed. The Nazi genocide had led to the brutal murder of millions of Jews and other minorities. Some of Europe’s most magnificent cities lay in ruins, while some twenty million refugees, expellees, or displaced persons wandered the highways in search of shelter and security. Readings explore the roots of the war, and how European countries dealt with the destruction, the questions of guilt, collaboration and resistance, and the challenge to create a peaceful Europe in the emerging Cold War order. Ms. Hoehn. Two 75-minute periods.
	HIST 125 - Infamy on Trial: Famous Trials in Early Modern Europe 1 unit(s) This course examines several of the most famous trials of Europe’s early modern period (1500-1700). Each trial allows us to explore how communities and individuals responded to the changing nature of European society during this period of upheaval. Through cases involving all sorts of people-men and women, peasants and kings, we have access to conflicting understandings of authority, family, religion, and gender. The trial of Galileo challenged contemporary understandings of what it meant to be a Christian while the execution of King Charles I raised questions about kingship. By studying criminal cases, we engage with a rich selection of primary sources, such as trial records, contemporary accounts, and private papers. Through these readings, the class investigates how early modern people interpreted crime and justice during moments of crisis. Ms. Choudhury. Two 75-minute periods. Not offered in 2013/14.
	HIST 126 - Terrorism in Russia and Eurasia Semester Offered: Fall or Spring 1 unit(s) Terror is a tactic as old as warfare, and it creates many dangers in the present. Sectarians and revolutionaries, powerful states and small regimes, guerillas and jihadists all have carried out bloody attacks and assassinations in the name of religion, liberation, politics, identity, and empowerment. This course explores the use and legacies of terror starting in 1789. We investigate nihilism, Lenin and the Bolsheviks in Russia, the anti-Nazi resistance and guerilla movements, anti-Soviet Afghanistan, Shamil Basaev and Chechnya, Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda, and contemporary global suicide terrorism, taking care to elicit historical connections and breaks between them. We encounter leaders and ordinary people engaged in acts of violence, as well as their victims; we discuss scholarship on the invention of modern terror and state terror, and using their own texts and acts as evidence, we investigate how violent practitioners represent themselves and make claims of transcendence and social transformation. How have they been perceived? What happens when such movements come to power? How do violent campaigns end? Ms. Pohl. Two 75-minute periods.
	HIST 127 - Deadly Embrace: France and Germany, 1805-1945 1 unit(s) The tumultuous relationship between France and Germany turned into a duel of nations that made Europe a “dark continent” for more than a century and led straight into several terrible catastrophes, culminating in two world wars and the occupation of France by Nazi soldiers. This course investigates the explosive impact of the French revolution on its German admirers before and after more than a dozen Napoleonic invasions across the Rhine, the war of 1870-71 and its impact on liberal German nationalism and on French socialism (the fall of the Paris commune), the Dreyfus affair and how it shaped French politics and society, and the Schlieffen plan and why its execution led to three years of bloody trench warfare. We get a unique perspective on the failure of socialism and victory of fascism in interwar Europe. The most provocative readings explore how the rise of Hitler led to the occupation of France, the creation of a collaborationist government, and French participation in the Holocaust. Final topic is the “miraculous turn” in French-German relation after 1945 that made the creation of the European Union possible. Ms. Pohl. Not offered in 2013/14.
	HIST 128 - Europe 1945 - Rethinking History Semester Offered: Fall 1/2 unit(s) On May 8, 1945 the Second World War ended in Europe. After six years of fighting, millions of soldiers and civilians had been killed. The Nazi genocide had led to the brutal murder of millions of Jews, and other minorities. Some of Europe’s most magnificent cities lay in ruins, while some twenty million refugees, expellees, or displaced persons wandered the highways in search of shelter and security. Readings for this class explore how European countries dealt with the aftermath of the war, as well as the questions of guilt, collaboration, and resistance. In particular, readings and discussions focus on the tension between history and memory as Europeans tried to come to terms with the war. Ms. Hoehn. One 2-hour meeting. Second 6-weeks of the fall semester.
	HIST 132 - Globalization in Historical Perspective, 1850 to the Present 1 unit(s) Commentators tell us that we live in “a global age,” but dramatic increases in worldwide contacts-economic and social, political and cultural-are not unique to our time. In the late nineteenth century, for example, steamships, telegraphs, railroads, and even movies fostered an increase of interaction across national boundaries and across oceans that was every bit as remarkable as today’s. Using such sources as novels, maps, and picture postcards from the Aran Islands to Senegal, this course explores the modern roots and historical development of globalization. Not offered in 2013/14.
	HIST 141 - Tradition, History and the African Experience 1 unit(s) (Same as AFRS 141 ) From ancient stone tools and monuments to oral narratives and colonial documents, the course examines how the African past has been recorded, preserved, and transmitted over the generations. It looks at the challenges faced by the historian in Africa and the multi-disciplinary techniques used to reconstruct and interpret African history. Various texts, artifacts, and oral narratives from ancient times to the present are analyzed to see how conceptions and interpretations of African past have changed over time. Mr. Rashid. Fulfills the Freshman Writing Seminar Requirement. Not offered in 2013/14.
	HIST 151 - British History: James I (1603) to the Great War Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) This course explores the central developments in Britain from the age of Shakespeare to the age of total war. We study the political and scientific revolutions of the seventeenth century, the eighteenth-century rise of commercial society and the “British” nation, and the effects of industrialization on Britain’s landscape, society, and politics. The course concludes by exploring how the First World War transformed British society. Ms. Murdoch.
	HIST 160 - American Moments: Rediscovering U.S. History Semester Offered: Fall or Spring 1 unit(s) This is not your parents’-or your high school teacher’s-American history course. No textbook: Instead we read memoirs, novels, newspaper articles, letters, speeches, photographs, and films composed by a colorful, diverse cast of characters-famous and forgotten, slaves and masters, workers and bosses. No survey: Instead we pause to look at several illuminating “moments” from the colonial era through the Civil War to civil rights and the Cold War. Traveling from the Great Awakening to the “awakening” that was the 1960s, from an anticolonial rebellion that Americans won (1776) to another that they lost (Vietnam), the course challenges assumptions about America’s past-and perhaps also a few about America’s present and future. The department.
	HIST 161 - From Gold Rush to Dust Bowl: Writing the American Frontier Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) This course considers episodes in the history of the United States and its Western frontiers from the California Gold Rush through the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Themes include economic risk-taking and cycles of boom and bust; racial and interpersonal violence; forced removal of native peoples and their responses; frontier myth-making; and the emergence of a wilderness ethos. As students investigate different strategies for telling about the past, readings include eyewitness accounts, historical narratives, and works of fiction. Ms. Edwards. Two 75-minute periods. Open only to Freshmen; satisfies college requirement for a Freshman Writing Seminar.
	HIST 174 - The Emergence of the Modern Middle East Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) An exploration of the Middle East over the past three centuries. Beginning with economic and social transformations in the eighteenth century, we follow the transformation of various Ottoman provinces such as Egypt, Syria/Lebanon, and Algeria into modern states, paying careful attention to how European colonialism shaped their development. We then look at independence movements and the post-colonial societies that have emerged since the middle of the twentieth century, concluding with study of colonialism’s lingering power-and the movements that confront it. Mr. Schreier. Fulfills the Freshman Writing Seminar Requirement.
	HIST 175 - Mandela: Race, Resistance and Renaissance in South Africa Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) (Same as AFRS 175 ) This course critically explores the history and politics of South Africa in the twentieth century through the prism of the life, politics, and experiences of one of its most iconic figures, Nelson Mandela. After almost three decades of incarceration for resisting Apartheid, Mandela became the first democratically elected president of a free South Africa in 1994. It was an inspirational moment in the global movement and the internal struggle to dismantle Apartheid and to transform South Africa into a democratic, non-racial, and just society. Using Mandela’s autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, as our point of departure, the course discusses some of the complex ideas, people, and developments that shaped South Africa and Mandela’s life in the twentieth century, including: indigenous culture, religion, and institutions; colonialism, race, and ethnicity; nationalism, mass resistance, and freedom; and human rights, social justice, and post-conflict reconstruction. Mr. Rashid. Two 75-minute periods.
History: II. Intermediate The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history.
	HIST 208 - Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy Since 1945 1 unit(s) This course examines U.S. National Security issues through the prism of human rights, weaving humanitarian concerns into the fabric of traditional security studies. We survey the most important literature and debates concerning the concepts of human rights and the U.S. national interest. We also use case studies to explore the intersection of human rights, economic aims, strategic concerns, and peace building. In addition, we will test the consistency of U.S. guiding principles, the influence of non-state actors on policy formation, and the strength of the international human rights regime. Mr. Brigham. Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history. Two 75-minute periods. Not offered in 2013/14.
	HIST 214 - The Roots of the Palestine-Israel Conflict Semester Offered: Fall and Spring 1 unit(s) (Same as JWST 214 ) An examination of the deep historical sources of the Palestine-Israel conflict. The course begins some two centuries ago when changes in the world economy and emerging nationalist ideologies altered the political and economic landscapes of the region. It then traces the development of both Jewish and Arab nationalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries before exploring how the Arab and Jewish populations fought-and cooperated-on a variety of economic, political, and ideological fronts. It concludes by considering how this contest led to the development of two separate, hostile national identities. Mr. Schreier. Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history.
	HIST 215 - The High Middle Ages, c. 950 - 1300 1 unit(s) This course examines medieval Europe at both its cultural and political height. Topics of study include: the first universities; government from feudal lordships to national monarchies; courtly and popular culture; manorial life and town life; the rise of papal monarchy; new religious orders and spirituality among the laity. Relations with religious outsiders are explored in topics on European Jewry, heretics, and the Crusades. Ms. Bisaha. Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history. Not offered in 2013/14.
	HIST 216 - History of the Ancient Greeks 1 unit(s) (Same as GRST 216 ) This course examines the history and culture of the ancient Greeks from the emergence of the city-state in the eighth century BCE to the conquests of Alexander the Great in 335 BCE. In addition to an outline of the political and social history of the Greeks, the course examines several historical, cultural, and methodological topics in depth, including the emergence of writing, Greek colonialism and imperialism, ancient democracy, polytheism, the social structures of Athenian society, and the relationship between Greeks and other Mediterranean cultures. Students both read primary sources (for example, Sappho, Tyrtaios, Herodotus, Thucydides, Aristophanes, and Plato) and examine sites and artifacts recovered through archaeology; the development of students’ critical abilities to evaluate and use these sources for the study of history is a primary goal of the class. Ms. Olsen. Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history. Not offered in 2013/14.
	HIST 217 - History of the Ancient Romans Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) (Same as GRST 217 ) This course examines the history of the ancient Romans from the foundation of their city around the eighth century BCE to the collapse of their Mediterranean Empire in the fifth century CE. The course offers a broad historical outline of Roman history, but focuses on significant topics and moments in Roman history, including the Republican aristocracy, the civil and slave wars of the Late Republic, the foundation of the Empire by Caesar Augustus, urbanism, the place of public entertainments (gladiatorial combats, Roman hunts, chariot races, and theater) in society, the rise of Christianity, the processes of Romanization, and barbarization, and the political decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Students read primary sources such as Plautus, Cicero, Livy, Tacitus, and Suetonius, and secondary accounts dealing with important issues such as slavery, religious persecution and multiculturalism. Students also examine important archaeological sites and artifacts. The development of students’ critical abilities to evaluate and use these sources for the study of history is a primary goal of the class. Mr. Lott. Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history. Two 75-minute periods. Alternate years.
	HIST 224 - Wars in 20th Century East Asia Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) This course examines social, economic, political, cultural and military aspects of the four major Asian wars of the last century: the Pacific War, the Chinese Civil War, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. We begin with definitions of war and the conundrum of just and unjust wars. We next examine alternative interpretations of the origins of war in Asia, including the perspectives of international relations, the social origins, and culture and racism. This is not a course in military history; instead, we pay special attention to the organic socio-historical linkages that connected those four wars. We also examine the domestic side of each war in the U.S. and China, as both countries were deeply involved in all the four wars. The ongoing competitions among East Asian countries and the U.S. in the west Pacific region constitute a backdrop for this course. Students are encouraged to follow them in the newspapers and online and to bring their own observations to the class. Mr. Song. Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history. Two 75-minute periods.
	HIST 225 - Renaissance Italy 1 unit(s) This course examines the history of Italy between 1300 and 1565. Italian intellectual, political, and religious history is emphasized, but some attention is also given to cross-cultural, gender, and social history. Looking beyond Italy, we also consider developments in Byzantium and the Ottoman Empire and their impact on Italy and Europe. Topics to be covered include the Black Death, the rise of humanism, the Renaissance papacy, and the Catholic Reformation. Finally, throughout the course, we question the meaning of the term “Renaissance”: is it a distinct period, a cultural movement, or an insufficient label altogether? Ms. Bisaha. Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history. Two 75-minute periods.
	HIST 226 - Northern Europe in the Renaissance, c. 1300-1550 Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) As a famous scholar has argued, the north witnessed a long “autumn of the Middle Ages,” holding tightly to medieval ideals of chivalry, pageantry, and piety - precisely at the same time Italy seemed to be forging ahead into modernity. Yet by the end of the period, Northern states overshadowed Italy politically, economically and, increasingly, culturally. This course examines Northern Europe during this remarkable period of transformation. The Hundred Years War, the Black Death, the Tudors, French and German state building and court life, and urban society in Flanders, are addressed along with the poetry of Chaucer, the humanism of More and Erasmus, and the doctrine of Luther. In turn, we examine the complex meanings of the terms “Renaissance” and “Reformation” and the relationship between them. Ms. Bisaha. Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history. Two 75-minute periods.
	HIST 230 - From Tyranny to Terror: The Old Regime and the French Revolution 1 unit(s) Eighteenth-century France was a society in transition, a society in which social and cultural ideals and realities were increasingly at odds. The tensions within society and the state finally erupted into the cataclysmic French Revolution, which paved the way for modern political life. Using primary and secondary sources, this course focuses on topics such as the social structure of the Old Regime, the Enlightenment, and the volatile political climate preceding the revolution. We examine different interpretations of what caused the French Revolution as well as the dynamics of the Revolution itself between 1789 and 1799. Ms. Choudhury. Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history. Not offered in 2013/14.
	HIST 231 - France and its “Others” 1 unit(s) Over the last two centuries, France has had a complicated relationship with difference. This course traces modern French history with a particular eye towards the place of various “others” in the nation. Of special interest are Jews, Muslims, women, and Africans. In addition to certain central texts, the course considers writing by French revolutionaries, feminists, colonialists, and racists to get a better idea of how various people have framed debates about difference. We conclude in recent times, using films, novels, and music to sketch the contours of multi-cultural France. Mr. Schreier. Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history. Not offered in 2013/14.
	HIST 235 - Ending Deadly Conflict Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) (Same as INTL 235 ) This course uses historical case studies to identify practical ways to end conflict and build sustainable peace. It is concerned with the vulnerability of the weak, failed and collapsed states, with post conflict periods that have reignited into violence, and problems of mediating conflicts that are unusually resistant to resolution. Of particular interest will be the role that third party intermediaries and global governance institutions have played in bringing about a negotiated end to violence. Major topics may include: the Paris Peace Accords, South Africa’s truth and reconciliation commissions, the Good Friday Agreement, Israel-Palestine negotiations, the Dayton Peace Accords ending the Balkans wars, and negotiations to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mr. Brigham. Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history. Two 75-minute periods.
	HIST 236 - Germany, 1740-1918 1 unit(s) This course covers the history of the German lands from 1740 to the end of World War I. Aside from providing a chronological political narrative, assigned readings focus in greater detail on a number of themes to illuminate the specific character of German history. Topics include: the demise of the universalist idea of the Holy Roman Empire; the German Enlightenment and the legacy of enlightened absolutism on state/society relations; the impact of the Napoleonic revolution; the failures of 1848; the Prussian-led unification; the legacy of Bismarck’s domestic policies on German political culture and social life; German imperialism and World War I. Ms. Höehn. Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history. Not offered in 2012/13.
	HIST 237 - Germany, 1918-1990 Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) This course covers German history from the end of World War I to the 1990 unification that ended the post-World War II split of German society into East and West. Aside from familiarizing you with a narrative of German political, social, and cultural history, the readings also explore some of the so-called “peculiarities” of German history. Did Bismarck’s unification from above and the pseudo-constitutional character of the Second Reich create a political culture that set the country on a Sonderweg (special path) of modernization ending in the catastrophe of Auschwitz? Why did Weimar, Germany’s first experiment with democracy, fail, and why is Bonn not Weimar? Finally, what road will the new Germany take within Europe and the world? Ms. Höehn. Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history.
	HIST 242 - The Russian Empire, 1552-1917 Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) This course introduces major events and issues in the history of the Russian empire from the conquest of Kazan to the February revolution, 1552-1917. What effect did expansion have on Russia and what role did non-Russians play in this multi-ethnic empire? Why did autocratic rule last so long in Russia and what led to its collapse? Using primary sources-including documents in translation and ethnographic accounts-and drawing on new ways of seeing the imperial experience, we explore not only sources of conflict, but points of contact, encounters, and intersections of state and social institutions. Ms. Pohl. Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history.
	HIST 243 - The Soviet Union and the Rebirth of Russia, 1917-Present Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) This course examines the history of Russian and non-Russian peoples in the Soviet Union, focusing on the Bolshevik revolution, the Stalin period, and the difficulties of reforming the system under Krushchev and Gorbachev. Using sources including oral history and ethnographic accounts, we explore how Soviet society was shaped by the imperial legacy, Communist ideology, modernization, and war. Special attention is paid to the collapse of the Soviet Union and to the nature of change in the post-Soviet era. Ms. Pohl. Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history.
	HIST 251 - A History of American Foreign Relations 1 unit(s) This course examines the foreign relations of the United States from the 19th century to the present day emphasizing the motivations, objectives, and tactics of U.S. policy makers. The course will focus on America’s role in the Spanish-American War; its embroilment in two world wars; its Cold War struggle with the Soviet Union; its wars in Korea and Vietnam; its response to human rights abuses and mass atrocities; and its leadership in the global war on terror. Mr. Brigham. Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history. Not offered in 2013/14.
	HIST 252 - Imagining India: Colonial Experience and the Pathways to Independence 1 unit(s) (Same as ASIA 252 ) This course introduces major events and figures of colonial South Asia by exploring how everyday Indian identities were constituted under British imperialism from 1757 through 1947. Topics include nationalism, gender, caste, and Hindu-Muslim relations. Alongside influential scholarship on colonialism, nationalism, and identity, we read government reports and political speeches, poetry and petitions, autobiographies and travelogues. Ms. Hughes. Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history. Two 75-minute periods. Not offered in 2013/14.
	HIST 253 - The Jungle in Indian History Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) (Same as ASIA 253 ) When pre-modern Indians used the Sanskrit word for jungle (jangala), they didn’t imagine trees or tigers; they pictured open savannah and antelope. When modern Indians speak of the jungle, they think of forests and wilderness. Why did the jungle change its identity and how does its transformation relate to developments in South Asian environments, politics, culture, and society? We read classical Indian literature alongside colonial and post-colonial natural histories, works of fiction, activist polemics and forestry treatises. Ms. Hughes. Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history. Two 75-minute periods.
	HIST 254 - Victorian Britain Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) (Same as URBS 254 ) This course examines some of the key transformations that Victorians experienced, including industrialization, the rise of a class-based society, political reform, and the women’s movement. We explore why people then, and historians since, have characterized the Victorian age as a time of progress and optimism as well as an era of anxiety and doubt. Ms. Murdoch. Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history.
	HIST 255 - The British Empire Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) This course is an introduction to British imperialism from the mid-eighteenth century to the present, with particular attention to Britain’s involvement in Ireland, the Caribbean, India, and Africa. We examine British motives for imperialism, the transition from trade empires to more formal political control, and the late nineteenth-century “scramble for Africa.” Other main topics include responses to colonialism, the growth of nationalism, decolonization, and the effects of an increasingly multi-cultural domestic population on Britain. Throughout the course we explore the empire as a cultural exchange: the British influenced the lives of colonial subjects, but the empire also shaped British identity at home and abroad. Ms. Murdoch. Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history.
	HIST 259 - The History of the Family in Early Modern Europe 1 unit(s) (Same as WMST 259 ) This course examines the changing notions of family, marriage, and childhood between 1500 and 1800 and their ties to the larger early modern context. During this period, Europeans came to see the family less as a network of social and political relationships and more as a set of bonds based on intimacy and affection. Major topics include family and politics in the Italian city-state, the Reformation and witchcraft, absolutism, and paternal authority, and the increasing importance of the idea of the nuclear family. Ms. Choudhury. Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history. Two 75-minute periods. Not offered in 2013/14.
	HIST 260 - Sex & Reproduction in 19th Century United States: Before Margaret Sanger Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) (Same as WMST 260 ) Focusing on the United States from roughly 1800 to 1900, this course explores sex and reproduction and their relationship to broader transformations in society, politics, and women’s rights. Among the issues considered are birth patterns on the frontier and in the slave South; industrialization, urbanization, and falling fertility; the rise of sex radicalism; and the emergence of “heterosexual” and “homosexual” as categories of identity. The course examines public scandals, such as the infamous Beecher-Tilton adultery trial, and the controversy over education and women’s health that was prompted by the opening of Vassar College. The course ends by tracing the complex impact of the Comstock law (1873) and the emergence of a modern movement for birth control. Ms. Edwards. Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history. Two 75-minute periods.
	HIST 261 - Women in 20th Century America Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) (Same as WMST 261 ) How did class, race, and ethnicity combine with gender to shape women’s lives in the twentieth century? Beginning in 1890 and ending at the turn of this century, this course looks at changes in female employment patterns, how women from different backgrounds combined work and family responsibilities and women’s leisure lives. We also study women’s activism on behalf of political rights, moral reform, racial and economic equality, and reproductive rights. Readings include memoirs, novels, government documents, and feminist political tracts. Ms. Cohen. Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history. Two 75-minute periods.
	HIST 262 - Contesting Colonialism: Latin America 1450-1750 1 unit(s) This course examines the pre-Columbian worlds of Mesoamerica and the Andean region, then turns to a treatment of the consequences of contact between those worlds and the European. Special emphasis is placed on the examination of mindsets and motives of colonizer and colonized and the quest for identity in the American context (both issues intimately related to questions of race and ethnicity), the struggle to balance concerns for social justice against the search for profits, the evolution of systems of labor appropriation, the expansion of the mining sector, and the changing nature of land exploitation and tenure. Ms. Offutt. Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history. Two 75-minute periods. Not offered in 2013/14.
	HIST 263 - From Colony to Nation: Latin America in the Nineteenth Century Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) This course treats the transition from colony to nation in Spanish and Portuguese America. In part a thematic course treating such topics as the Liberal/Conservative struggles of the early nineteenth century, the consequences of latifundism, the abolition of slavery, and the impact of foreign economic penetration and industrialization, it also adopts a national approach, examining the particular historical experiences of selected nations. Ms. Offutt. Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history.
	HIST 264 - The Revolutionary Option? Latin America in the Twentieth Century Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) This course investigates why certain Latin American nations in the twentieth century opted for revolution and others adopted a more conservative course. It examines the efforts of selected Latin American nations (Mexico, Cuba, Chile, Nicaragua, Guatemala) to address the tremendous social and economic cleavages affecting them, with special attention paid to material, political, class, and cultural structures shaping their experiences. Ms. Offutt. Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history.
	HIST 265 - African American History to 1865 1 unit(s) (Same as AFRS 265 ) This course provides an introduction to African American history from the Atlantic slave trade through the Civil War. African Americans had a profound effect on the historical development of the nation. The experiences of race and slavery dominate this history and it is the complexities and nuances of slavery that give this course its focus. This course examines key developments and regional differences in the making of race and slavery in North America, resistance movements among slaves and free blacks (such as slave revolts and the abolitionist movement) as they struggled for freedom and citizenship, and the multiple ways race and gender affected the meanings of slavery and freedom. This course is designed to encourage and develop skills in the interpretation of primary and secondary sources. Mr. Mills. Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history. Not offered in 2013/14.
	HIST 267 - African American History, 1865-Present 1 unit(s) (Same as AFRS 267 ) This course examines some of the key issues in African American history from the end of the civil war to the present by explicating selected primary and secondary sources. Major issues and themes include: Reconstruction and the meaning of freedom, military participation and ideas of citizenship, racial segregation, migration, labor, cultural politics, and black resistance and protest movements. This course is designed to encourage and develop skills in the interpretation of primary sources, such as letters, memoirs, and similar documents. The course format, therefore, consists of close reading and interpretation of selected texts, both assigned readings and handouts. Course readings are supplemented with music and film. Mr. Mills. Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history. Not offered in 2013/14.
	HIST 271 - Perspectives on the African Past: Africa Before 1800 1 unit(s) (Same as AFRS 271 ) A thematic survey of African civilizations and societies to 1800. The course examines how demographic and technological changes, warfare, religion, trade, and external relations shaped the evolution of the Nile Valley civilizations, the East African city-states, the empires of the western Sudan, and the forest kingdoms of West Africa. Some attention is devoted to the consequences of the Atlantic slave trade, which developed from Europe’s contact with Africa from the fifteenth century onwards. Mr. Rashid. Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history. Not offered in 2013/14.
	HIST 272 - Modern African History Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) (Same as AFRS 272 ) Africa has experienced profound transformations over the past two centuries. Between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Africans lost and regained their independence from different European colonial powers. This course explores the changing African experiences before, during, and after European colonization of their continent. Drawing on primary sources, film, memoirs, and popular novels, we look at the creative responses of African groups and individuals to the contradictory processes and legacies of colonialism. Particular attention will be paid to understanding how these responses shape the trajectories of African as well as global developments. Amongst the major themes covered by the course are: colonial ideologies, African resistance, colonial economies, gender and cultural change, African participation in the two world wars, urbanization, decolonization and African nationalism. We also reflect on some of the contemporary developmental dilemmas as well as opportunities confronting post-colonial Africa. Mr. Rashid. Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history. Two 75-minute periods.
	HIST 274 - Beyond Jamestown and Plymouth Rock: Revisiting, Revising, and Reviving Early America Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) Without ignoring the Pilgrims, Pocahontas, and other popular icons of colonial times, this course will put them into a larger context of what unfolded between 1500 and 1750 when three worlds bordering the Atlantic-western Europe, west Africa, and eastern North America-first came together. The new American world that emerged from this momentous encounter was at once stranger and more interesting than conventional wisdom would have it. Slaves who became free and Indians who became Puritan, con men who tricked gullible colonists and pious folk who heckled learned ministers-these and other forgotten actors join the usual suspects (Saints and witches, John Smith and Benjamin Franklin) on a crowded colonial stage. While keeping in mind that the genesis of America today can be found in that long-ago era-the tangled roots of race relations, the curious blend of materialism and lofty ideals, the boisterous political culture, the freedom for self-fashioning-we will take early America as much as possible on its own terms rather than on ours. Mr. Merrell. Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history. Two 75-minute periods.
	HIST 275 - U.S. History’s Greatest Mystery: Revolutionary America, 1750-1830 Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) In 1815 John Adams asked Thomas Jefferson: “Who shall write the history of the American Revolution? Who can write it? Who will ever be able to write it?” “Nobody,” Jefferson replied. As these two men knew, the American Revolution ranks high among history’s mysteries. Why did a prosperous people get so mad about a modest tax increase? How did a scattered, squabbling array of colonies, who felt closer to Great Britain than to one another, unite sufficiently to declare independence from the “mother country” in 1776? How did they then defeat the greatest military power of the age while also contending with dissension in their own ranks, rebellious slaves in their midst, and powerful Indian nations at their backs? How, having won independence, did the victors avoid tyranny, civil war, or re-colonization while other Americans-poor men, white women, Native peoples, the enslaved-busily tested the elasticity of the phrase “all men are created equal”? Exploring these questions, we will also keep in mind a historian’s recent observation that this era “bequeathed us many of the values and institutions..that are now sites of important political, social, and ideological conflicts.” Mr. Merrell. Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history. Two 75-minute periods.
	HIST 276 - Democracy in America?: U.S. Capitalism and Continental Expansion, 1830-1890 Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) Tracing the economic, political, and social transformations of the nineteenth century United States, this course places the Civil War in the context of other U.S. nation-building projects, including industrialization, the Mexican-American War, and so-called “Indian Wars.” Key topics examined in the course include struggles over public policy in the Jacksonian era; rise of the Republican Party; sectional crisis and Civil War; Emancipation and national Reconstruction; the emergence of modern corporate capitalism; and expansion and conquest in the trans-Mississippi West. Comparisons with other nineteenth-century nations and empires will be made. Ms. Edwards. Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history. Two 75-minute periods.
	HIST 277 - The Making of the “American Century”: 1890-1945 Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) (Same as URBS 277 ) In 1941, Henry Luce, the publisher of Time and Life magazines, proclaimed the twentieth as “America’s century.” In comparison to the rest of the world, he noted, the United States was richer in material goods, with more opportunities for leisure. This course covers the major social, political, and cultural developments during the decades when the US emerged as the preeminent industrial power. We look closely at changes in the social and political institutions which emerged out of the crises of the 1890s, the Great Depression, and World War II. We also pay attention to the growth of mass consumption and mass leisure in this very diverse society. Among the sources we study are memoirs, government documents, political tracts, and popular films. Ms. Cohen. Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history.
	HIST 278 - Cold War America 1 unit(s) Following the Second World War, many Americans expected the United States to create a better world abroad and a more equitable society at home. We examine those expectations along with the major social, political, cultural, and economic changes in the United States since 1945, including the dawn of the cold war, McCarthyism, surbanization, high-mass consumption, civil rights, the Vietnam War, and the environmental movement. Mr. Brigham. Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history. Not offered in 2012/13.
	HIST 279 - The Viet Nam War 1 unit(s) An examination of the origins, course, and impact of America’s involvement in Viet Nam, emphasizing the evolution of American diplomacy, the formulation of military strategy, the domestic impact of the war, and the perspective of Vietnamese revolutionaries. Mr. Brigham. Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history. Not offered in 2012/13.
	HIST 283 - U.S. Consumer Culture 1 unit(s) (Same as AMST 283 ) This course examines the rise of consumer culture in twentieth century America. This culture has flourished, in part, because consumer capitalism has continuously transformed everyday wants into needs. We explore how the growth of mass production, advertising, department stores, shopping malls, modern technologies, and imperialism have shaped the nation’s desire for goods and pleasure. Americans’ relationships with these commodities and services reveal how people have come to understand themselves as consumers (staking claims to the ability to consume as a function of citizenship) and how consumption has shaped their lives (where they have defined themselves by what they buy). We take a chronological and thematic approach to contextualize the culture of consumption, in its many forms, across time and space. Mr. Mills. Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history. Two 75-minute periods. Not offered in 2013/14.
	HIST 290 - Field Work Semester Offered: Fall or Spring 1/2 or 1 unit(s) Individual or group field projects, especially in local, state, or federal history. May be taken either semester or in summer. The department. Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history. Prereq/Corequisite(s): an appropriate course in the department. Permission required.
	HIST 297 - Readings In History 1/2 or 1 unit(s) Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history.
	HIST 298 - Independent Work Semester Offered: Fall or Spring 1/2 or 1 unit(s) Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history. Permission required.
History: III. Advanced Prerequisite for advanced courses is ordinarily 2 units of 200-level work in history, or by permission of the instructor. Specific prerequisites assume the general prerequisite.
	HIST 300 - Thesis Preparation: Sources, Methods, and Interpretations Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) As a yearlong independent research project, a senior history thesis can be an exhilarating but also challenging experience. Many questions must be considered: How do I clearly define my research question? How do I locate my work within the existing scholarship in my field? Where are the most relevant sources? How do I organize and interpret the information that I have uncovered? This seminar provides the opportunity for students to grapple with these questions and to prepare for writing their senior history thesis. Through a common set of readings and workshops, students develop clear research ideas and questions, locate necessary sources, become acquainted with different historical methods, and discuss strategies for different stages of the process. The seminar also provides a community in which students share their experiences, approaches, and ideas about researching and writing their theses. Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite for advanced courses is ordinarily 2 units of 200-level work in history, or by permission of the instructor. Specific prerequisites assume the general prerequisite.
	HIST 301 - Senior Thesis Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) This 1-unit course, which builds on the work done in HIST 300 , culminates in the completion and submission of a thesis that is approximately 10,000 words long. The department. Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite for advanced courses is ordinarily 2 units of 200-level work in history, or by permission of the instructor. Specific prerequisites assume the general prerequisite. Yearlong course HIST 300 -301.

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Course Descriptions

ENGL 302 - Adaptations

ENGL 305 - Composition

ENGL 306 - Composition

ENGL 307 - Senior Writing Seminar

ENGL 315 - Studies in Performance

ENGL 317 - Studies in Literary Theory

ENGL 318 - Literary Studies in Gender and Sexuality

ENGL 319 - Race and Its Metaphors

ENGL 320 - Studies in Literary Traditions

ENGL 325 - Studies in Genre

ENGL 326 - Challenging Ethnicity

ENGL 328 - Literature of the American Renaissance

ENGL 329 - American Literary Realism

ENGL 330 - American Modernism

ENGL 331 - Postmodern American Literature

ENGL 339 - Shakespeare in Production

ENGL 340 - Studies in Medieval Literature

ENGL 341 - Studies in the Renaissance

ENGL 342 - Studies in Shakespeare

ENGL 345 - Milton

ENGL 350 - Studies in Eighteenth-century British Literature

ENGL 351 - Studies in Nineteenth-Century British Literature

ENGL 352 - Romantic Poets: Rebels with a Cause

ENGL 353 - Romantic Poets: Rebels with a Cause

ENGL 355 - Modern Poets

ENGL 356 - Contemporary Poets

ENGL 357 - Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

ENGL 362 - Text and Image

ENGL 365 - Selected Author

ENGL 370 - Transnational Literature

ENGL 378 - Black Paris

ENGL 380 - English Seminar

ENGL 381 - English Seminar

ENGL 382 - English Seminar

ENGL 383 - English Seminar

ENGL 384 - English Seminar

ENGL 385 - English Seminar

ENGL 386 - English Seminar

ENGL 399 - Senior Independent Work

HIST 101 - Martin Luther King Jr.

HIST 103 - Hindus and Muslims in Pre-Colonial India

HIST 116 - The Dark Ages

HIST 120 - Japan’s American Revolution, 1945-52

HIST 121 - Readings in Modern European History

HIST 122 - Encounters in Modern East Asia

HIST 123 - Europe at the Crossroads, 1500-1789

HIST 124 - Europe 1945

HIST 125 - Infamy on Trial: Famous Trials in Early Modern Europe

HIST 126 - Terrorism in Russia and Eurasia

HIST 127 - Deadly Embrace: France and Germany, 1805-1945

HIST 128 - Europe 1945 - Rethinking History

HIST 132 - Globalization in Historical Perspective, 1850 to the Present

HIST 141 - Tradition, History and the African Experience

HIST 151 - British History: James I (1603) to the Great War

HIST 160 - American Moments: Rediscovering U.S. History

HIST 161 - From Gold Rush to Dust Bowl: Writing the American Frontier

HIST 174 - The Emergence of the Modern Middle East

HIST 175 - Mandela: Race, Resistance and Renaissance in South Africa

HIST 208 - Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy Since 1945

HIST 214 - The Roots of the Palestine-Israel Conflict

HIST 215 - The High Middle Ages, c. 950 - 1300

HIST 216 - History of the Ancient Greeks

HIST 217 - History of the Ancient Romans

HIST 224 - Wars in 20th Century East Asia

HIST 225 - Renaissance Italy

HIST 226 - Northern Europe in the Renaissance, c. 1300-1550

HIST 230 - From Tyranny to Terror: The Old Regime and the French Revolution

HIST 231 - France and its “Others”

HIST 235 - Ending Deadly Conflict

HIST 236 - Germany, 1740-1918

HIST 237 - Germany, 1918-1990

HIST 242 - The Russian Empire, 1552-1917

HIST 243 - The Soviet Union and the Rebirth of Russia, 1917-Present

HIST 251 - A History of American Foreign Relations

HIST 252 - Imagining India: Colonial Experience and the Pathways to Independence

HIST 253 - The Jungle in Indian History

HIST 254 - Victorian Britain

HIST 255 - The British Empire

HIST 259 - The History of the Family in Early Modern Europe