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History
(HS)
Introduction to History Courses
110. THE SPANISH ARMADA 3 cr. Early modern European
political and cultural world as seen through the lens of the clash between
Spain and England in the later sixteenth century.
114. REVOLUTIONARY EUROPE 3 cr. Transformations in European
government, economy, society, and culture in the period of the French
and Industrial Revolutions.
116. WORLD WAR I & MODERNITY 3 cr. Origins of World
War I, with particular emphasis on social, political, economic and strategic
factors; the experience of modern industrial warfare in the trenches and
in civilian society; the impact of technology on perceptions of warfare;
radicalization of political sentiments among revolutionaries and supporters
of continued conflict; the peace settlement and its legacy.
119. THE WORLD AND THE WEST 3 cr. History of the world
from roughly 1300 through World War I; the emergence of the modern West
to global dominance.
120. TWENTIETH CENTURY GLOBAL HISTORY 3 cr. Introduction
to the major themes of twentieth century history that have shaped our
contemporary world.
124. WOMEN IN REVOLUTION 3 cr. The active role of women
and the consequences for the position of women in three modern revolutions:
the Russian, Chinese, and Iranian (Islamic).
131. AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY 3 cr. Overview of Black
experience from West Africa to slavery and finally to freedom in modern
America. Focus on leaders, movements, community, and race relations.
150. WOMEN IN UNITED STATES HISTORY 3 cr. Role of women
in and out of the mainstream of American political, economic, and social
history. Women in reform movements, in the labor force, in the home, and
the Black woman.
151. THE ATLANTIC WORLD 3 cr. Economic, social, and demographic
impact of the interactions between Native American, West African, and
Western European cultures in the New World from 1450 to 1812. Topics include
the slave trade, the cultural development of the British colonies, Indian-European
relations, and the exchange of goods, cultures, peoples, and diseases.
152. THE OLD SOUTH 3 cr. Development of the slaveholding
regions of the United States from the beginning of European contact through
the end of the Civil War. Transplantation of European cultures in the
New World, the evolution of a biracial society based on slavery, southern
distinctiveness, and the origins of the Civil War.
153. WORKING CLASS AMERICA 3 cr. Introduction to American
labor history during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; segmentation
of the labor force by race, ethnicity, gender, and region; working class
culture, family, communities; workplace, unionization, role of government
in labor relations.
154. THE WITCHES OF SALEM 3 cr. Possible causes of the
Salem Village Witchcraft outbreak of 1692 through use of primary sources
and conflicting secondary accounts; presentation of the episode to modern
audiences through literature and film.
155. SPORTS IN AMERICAN SOCIETY 3 cr. History of sports
in America seen both as product and shaper of the surrounding society
and culture. Topics examined include relationships between sports and
urbanization, economic development, race, and gender.
168. THE BORDER/LA FRONTERA 3 cr. Historical introduction
to the U.S.-Mexico border region as both connected to and as distinct
from Mexico and the United States; the historical presence and continuing
migration of Mexicans into the United States; the border region’s
historical, present, and potential impact on American identity and society.
170. INTRODUCTION TO LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE 3 cr.
Surveys the main topics in Latin American history using movies as discussion
settings. Topics include Indian groups, women’s roles, military
dictatorships, and problems of human rights.
180. INTRODUCTION TO EAST ASIAN HISTORY AND CULTURE 3 cr.
Thematic introduction to the cultures of China, Japan, and Korea with
an emphasis on their historical development and regional relationships.
195 197. SPECIAL TOPICS 1-3 cr. Topics: 195: American;
196: European; 197: Asian, African or Latin American. Specific title and
number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. Directed
readings or individual research by permission of chair.
Survey Courses
201, 202. WESTERN CIVILIZATION 3 cr. each. Major ideas,
events, and individuals that have shaped European society from its antecedents
in ancient times to the contemporary era. 201: earliest times to the sixteenth
century; 202: sixteenth century to the present. (Not open to students
who have taken HS 103-104.)
208. THE IRISH IN HISTORY (108) 3 cr. Ireland’s
pasts and impacts on goals of unity and independence; comparison with
other European and non European colonized peoples seeking national and
cultural identity; beliefs on “national character” in fiction
and film.
211, 212. HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 3 cr. each. Survey
of U.S. political, economic, social, and cultural history. Emphasizes
diversity of the nation’s people and how subjective categories—particularly
race and ethnicity, class, and gender—have influenced historical
behavior and historical analysis. 211: through the post Civil War era;
212: from the post Civil War era.
230. WORLD WAR II 3 cr. Crises of the 1930s and the course
of war from 1939 to 1945. Emphases on European and Asian fronts, ethics
and extermination policies, front-line behaviors, and American homefront
culture through literature and films of the time.
261. HISTORY AS ART AND SCIENCE 3 cr. Exploration of
history as a way of knowing and communicating the past; historiography,
research, and writing methodology; developing a historical perspective.
Designed for prospective majors; does not offer Division II core credit.
271. WORLD GEOGRAPHY 3 cr. Thorough review of place geography;
relationships between humans and the physical environment, including climate,
soils, resources, and landforms. Analysis of regional areas. Does not
offer Division II core credit.
273. COLONIAL LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY 3 cr. Colonial period in
Latin America (to 1810). Focus on the impact of the European conquest
over the native groups, the effects of conversion to Catholicism, and
subsequent changes in gender roles.
274. MODERN LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY 3 cr. Main issues
involved in the making of modern Latin America (1810 to present). Identity
formation processes, military history, gender problems, and human rights
topics.
279. PRE-MODERN EAST ASIAN HISTORY 3 cr. China, Japan,
and Korea from their pre-historic origins to the mid-nineteenth century.
The contribution of their cultural foundations and traditions to modernization
and the impact of their historic development on contemporary events.
280. MODERN EAST ASIAN HISTORY 3 cr. Impact of imperialism,
revolution, and war from the mid nineteenth century to the present on
East Asian modernization and globalization; focus on China, Japan, and
Korea.
295-297. SPECIAL TOPICS 1-3 cr. Topics: 295: American;
296: European; 297: Asian, African, or Latin American. Specific title
and number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. Directed
readings or individual research by permission of chair.
Advanced Courses
300. HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST (RL 300) 3 cr.
History, culture, and religion of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Syro Palestine.
301. ANCIENT GREEK HISTORY (CL 301) 3 cr. From the beginnings
to the Roman conquest.
302. ROMAN HISTORY (CL 302) 3 cr. History of Rome through
the reign of Constantine.
310. WOMEN IN EUROPE SINCE 1500 3 cr. Examination of
the legal, economic, domestic, and ideological status of women in the
early modern period and the impact of the Reformation, Enlightenment,
French and Industrial Revolutions, and world wars on women, as well as
women’s contributions to these events.
321. NINETEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE (421) 3 cr. Political,
social, diplomatic, and economic developments in western Europe. Rise
of the national state; growth of industry; political democracy.
326. TWENTIETH-CENTURY EUROPE (426) 3 cr. Political, social,
and economic developments from approximately 1900 to the collapse of the
Eastern Bloc. Emphasis on the impact of the world wars, right and left
radical regimes, and European attempts at unity and self-determination.
332. BERLIN: FROM REICH TO REPUBLIC 3 cr. German history
and politics from 1918 to the present, employing Berlin as the focal point
for significant developments. The interwar republic and the rise of the
Nazis; the Third Reich; postwar occupation and Cold War division; political
systems and society in East and West Germany; Berlin as capital of a reunified
Germany in an increasingly integrated Europe. Culminates in a week-long
study tour in Berlin during spring break.
333. HISTORY ON FILM 3 cr. Cinematic recreations of the
past and their assessment, especially as compared with written history;
documentaries and dramatic features as historical sources that reflect
their eras of origin.
336. THE HOLOCAUST 3 cr. Racism and anti-Semitism in
modern Europe; Nazi propaganda and legal measures against German Jews
in 1930s; transition from discrimination to Europe-wide genocide during
Second World War; experiences of victims and perpetrators; postwar Holocaust
denial; impact of the Holocaust on memory in Germany and American life
since 1945.
341. RACE AND SEX IN AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE 3 cr. How
nineteenth and twentieth-century American popular culture has reflected
and contributed to the construction of racial identities, particularly
in popular culture’s use and treatment of sexual themes.
342. IMMIGRANT AMERICA 3 cr. Immigration and ethnicity
in nineteenth and twentieth- century America; emphasis on voluntary migrants.
Topics include expectations and adaptations of particular ethnic groups,
tensions between group identity and assimilation, and response of native
born Americans to immigrants and immigration.
343. SLAVERY AND ABOLITION 3 cr. Development of African
slavery in the Western hemisphere in the early modern period with a focus
on the development of a biracial society on the North American mainland.
Themes include the African background, the European origins of chattel
slavery, the development of racism, labor, resistance, community life,
religion, and the abolition movement.
357. U.S. MILITARY HISTORY (157) 3 cr. Overview of the
development of the American armed forces and their role in society. The
place of war in U.S. history; professionalization of the military; analysis
of battlefield experience.
364. MODERN AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS 3 cr. U.S. foreign
policy and diplomacy from the late nineteenth century to the present day;
America’s emergence as a world power; foreign policy in a nuclear
age.
381. JAPANESE HISTORY (281) 3 cr. Development of Japanese
culture, society, politics, and economics from prehistory to modern times.
382. CHINESE HISTORY (282) 3 cr. Social, political, economic,
and cultural development of China from earliest to modern times.
395 397. SPECIAL TOPICS 1-3 cr. Topics: 395: American;
396: European; 397: Asian, African or Latin American. Specific title and
number of credits announced in the semester course schedule. Directed
readings or individual research by permission of chair.
406. MEDIEVAL SOCIETY AND INSTITUTIONS 3 cr. Various
forces at work in the development of the political, religious, and cultural
institutions of the Middle Ages from 500 to 1500.
411. RENAISSANCE EUROPE 3 cr. Political, intellectual,
and cultural developments in Renaissance Italy. The movement of Renaissance
culture into Northern Europe, emphasizing the continuity and differences
with the Italian Renaissance.
412. REFORMATION EUROPE 3 cr. Breakup of the unity of
Christendom. Emphasis on the major Protestant Reform movements (Lutheranism,
Calvinism, Anglicanism) and the Catholic Reformation.
415. EARLY MODERN FRANCE 3 cr. Development of the French
monarchy from Francis I to Louis XV; the effects of the Renaissance, Reformation,
Scientific Revolution, and Enlightenment on French society.
416. EARLY MODERN ENGLAND 3 cr. Political, social, economic,
religious, and cultural development of England from the War of the Roses
through the Glorious Revolution.
417. FRENCH REVOLUTION AND NAPOLEON 3 cr. Enlightenment
and the Old Regime; Jacobinism; social revolution; impact of the revolution
on Europe and the world.
431. TOPICS IN COLONIAL AMERICAN HISTORY 3 cr. Social, political,
religious, economic, and cultural development of England’s North
American colonies from first settlement to mid-eighteenth century.
432. AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY ERA 3 cr. The Revolution
as a colonial war for independence and as a struggle for reform within
America. Examines achievement of these goals as a new nation created.
433. TOPICS IN THE EARLY AMERICAN REPUBLIC, 1789-1828 3 cr.
Social, cultural, political, and economic development of the United States
from the beginning of constitutional government to the election of Jackson.
436. ANTEBELLUM U.S. 3 cr. United States history from
1815 until 1861. Focus on social and cultural issues, including women’s
lives, Indian cultures, economic developments, social reform movements,
political culture, slavery and the South, and the origins of the Civil
War.
437. EARLY AMERICAN CULTURE 3 cr. Intellectual and cultural
history of the British mainland colonies and the United States, 1600-1865.
Topics include religious developments, regionalism, popular culture, and
American-European cultural relations.
438. THE UNITED STATES, 1850-1877 3 cr. Social and political
origins of the Civil War in the Old North and Old South, the secession
crisis, military strategy, soldiers’ lives, leadership, the home
front, women’s experiences, emancipation, and political and social
reconstruction.
440. POLITICS AND REFORM IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA, 1877-1945 3 cr.
Social and political changes subsequent to and in response to the development
of the U.S. as an industrial and urban nation and as a world military
power.
442. UNITED STATES SINCE 1945 3 cr. Significant events
and trends of the post-World War II period. Origins of the Cold War, McCarthyism,
the civil rights and women’s movements, the Vietnam War, and recent
developments in foreign and domestic policies.
445. HISTORY OF CLEVELAND 3 cr. Cleveland’s development
in the context of urban history. Students explore the city’s historical
resources to produce significant historical research.
447. UNITED STATES CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY 3 cr. Development of the American
constitutional system and interaction with other strands of the nation’s
history, including political, social, economic, and religious. Focus on
decisions of the Supreme Court.
452. MODERN JAPANESE HISTORY 3 cr. Japan’s rise
as a world power, from the late Tokugawa Era (nineteenth century) to its
postwar comeback. (HS 381 suggested as preparation, but not required.)
453. MODERN CHINESE HISTORY 3 cr. Political, cultural,
social, and economic changes in China from the arrival of Westerners through
the post-Mao era. (HS 382 suggested as preparation, but not required.)
456. RELATIONS OF THE PACIFIC RIM 3 cr. International,
military, economic, and social relations among the cultures and nations
of the Pacific Rim. Focus on the relations, cultures, and nations of the
Northern and Western Pacific.
464. GENOCIDE AND HUMAN RIGHTS 3 cr. Examines the period
from the First World War to the end of the twentieth century. Close study
of the evolution of the concept of human rights through classic international
writings and case studies in human-rights violations. Focus on social,
political, economic, and cultural factors in the perpetration of mass
killing and genocide, and on the development of human-rights protection.
473. NAZI GERMANY: ORIGINS, STRUCTURES, CONSEQUENCES 3 cr. Explores
turbulent German circumstances resulting from the Revolutions of 1918/19,
the rise of the Nazi Party, establishment of the Nazi state, and the politics
of race and genocide. Examines ways that postwar historians have approached
the rise of National Socialism and the controversy over the singularity
of Nazi crimes against humanity.
474. GERMANY SINCE 1945: RECONSTRUCTION TO REUNIFICATION 3 cr.
History of East and West Germany from the collapse of Nazism.
Occupation, denazification, and reconstruction; integration into rival
Cold War alliances. Social and economic security, political stability,
and cultural criticism in the West; East Germany as the showcase of the
Eastern bloc under state socialism from the 1960s through the 1980s. The
“Revolution of 1989,” reunification, its social and economic
costs, and the European response; reflections on the Nazi and Stalinist
pasts.
476. IN THE NAME OF THE INCAS: FROM IMPERIAL SPLENDOR TO COLONIAL COLLAPSE
AND MESSIANIC RETURNS 3 cr. Incas’ imperial splendor and
subsequent collapse as a result of the Spanish conquest. The role of the
Incas as a utopian model of social organization among the native peoples
of the Andean region.
488. RUSSIA IN REVOLUTION, 1900 TO THE PRESENT 3 cr.
Russia’s turbulent history since 1900. Fall of tsarism, Bolshevik
seizure of power and creation of the Soviet Union, Leninism and Stalinism,
Second World War and Cold War, Gorbachev’s reforms, collapse of
the USSR, and post-Soviet developments.
489. RUSSIAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS 3 cr. In a global context,
the governmental and cultural relationships between the United States
and the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and Russia and the post-Soviet
successor states, from the late eighteenth century to the present.
490. SENIOR SEMINAR 3 cr.
Prerequisites: HS 261 and the completion of five additional courses
in the major. The culminating experience of the history major, in
which students demonstrate historical skills through common readings,
class discussion, and written assignments.
491. SENIOR THESIS 3 cr.
Prerequisites: HS 261 and the completion of five additional courses
in the major. Individual research project developed and written
in consultation with appropriate department member. Especially recommended
for students pursuing graduate study in history. Chair's permission
required.
495-497. SPECIAL TOPICS 1-3 cr. Topics: 495: American; 496: European;
497: Asian, African or Latin American. Specific title and number of credits
announced in the semester course schedule. Directed readings or individual
research by permission of chair.
498. INTERNSHIP 1-6 cr. Permission of chair required;
open to majors only; 2.7 average in major courses required. No more than
3 credits may be applied to the major. Supervised work, typically in museums,
archives, public history sites or agencies, relevant to major sequence
of study. Journal and reflective paper required in addition to work responsibilities.
Internships must be planned in advance with supervising faculty member.
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