Undergraduate Program

While exploring the history of Europe and its neighbors from the ancient to the medieval period, this course focuses on how people borrowed from, adapted, and reconciled various ideas to suit their own needs to form, over time, a coherent set of cultural values. To this end, we will consider several themes throughout the semester, including changing models of political organization, ideas of individual rights and responsibilities, attitudes towards women and outsiders, and understandings of nature and of divine power.

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Hutchison Hall Room 473 (MW 10:25AM - 11:40AM)

For thousands of years, Jerusalem has been a major center of Eastern and Western civilizations and three monotheistic religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam,  with a long and colorful history. This course will examine the city's development from pre-Biblical times to the modern period with special emphasis on the physical and architectural features of the city. We will also analyze the cultural, historical, religious, and sacred dimensions of its various quarters (Jewish, Christian, and Muslim), archeological sites, and its natural landscape that have provided the backdrop to its multilayered and fascinating history.

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Rush Rhees Library Room 442 (T 2:00PM - 4:40PM)

This course surveys seminal works of literature in Islamic cultures from the Middle East to South Asia. Through close analysis of primary texts in English translations and relevant historical and cultural contexts, students will gain an understanding of Islamic intellectual tradition across various literary genres and its influence on Western literature. Some of the key works that will be covered include early Arabic poetry and the Qur’an, One Thousand and One Nights, Sufi mystical poetry of Rumi and Hafiz, and the Conference of the Birds. The course will also examine the works of Al-Ma’arri, Ibn Tufayl, and Ibn Khaldun to demonstrate how Islamic literature engaged with philosophy, theology, and politics. By exploring translations of these classic works, students will explore themes such as love, death, loneliness, gender, friendship and betrayal, sexuality, imperfection, and animals.

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Bausch & Lomb Room 315 (MW 2:00PM - 3:15PM)

This course examines the Black Death (1346-53) as an epidemiological, cultural, and historical phenomenon. Analyzing such disparate types of evidence as paleogenetics, chronicles, art, and literature, we will address questions of the plague’s etiology, spread, mortality rate, and social and economic effects. Inspired by our own recent experience with COVID-19, we will also consider cultural reactions to pandemic disease and rampant death, as well as the disparate interpretations and responses of contemporaries and modern observers alike.

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Hutchison Hall Room 473 (TR 12:30PM - 1:45PM)

In this course we will survey the unique military, political, and economic history of ancient Greece from the Bronze Age to the death of Alexander the Great. In addition, and more unusually, we will look at ancient Greece's rich cultural and social history.

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Dewey Room 2110E (TR 11:05AM - 12:20PM)

This course examines the history of the Russian Empire from the reign of Peter the Great (1692-1725) to the revolutions of 1917. Students will read primary sources in translation, academic articles, and a survey text. About one-half of class time will be devoted to discussion of the readings. Topics will include Peter's westernization of Russian elites and the costs thereof, the Pugachev rebellion of 1773-1775, the spread of Enlightenment ideals to Russia during the Napoleonic Wars, the abolition of serfdom, Sergei Wittes industrialization drive, socialist movements in Russia, World War I, and the causes of the revolutions of 1917.

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Meliora Room 205 (MW 3:25PM - 4:40PM)

Students will follow current events in Russia through the internet, newspapers, magazines, and other sources (including satellite broadcasts when available). Along with a general attention to current events, each student will follow a particular area of interest (e.g. national identity, the market economy, politics, health issues, crime, culture, foreign policy) throughout the term, do background work on this topic and write it up towards the end of the term. Students who read Russian will be encouraged to use available sources in that language. This course is designed to (1) familiarize students with the most important issues facing Russia today and the historical/political/cultural context in which to place them; (2) to acquaint students with a variety of resources from the US, Russia, and a number of other countries and the different perspectives these sources may give on one and the same issue. Students write two short essays and one longer research paper.

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Lattimore Room 401 (MW 3:25PM - 4:40PM)

The first of a sequence of two, the course approaches 'The Divine Comedy' both as a poetic masterpiece and as an encyclopedia of medieval culture. Through a close textual analysis of 'Inferno,' and the first half of 'Purgatorio,' students learn how to approach Dantes poetry as a vehicle for thought, an instrument of self-discovery, and a way to understand and affect the historical reality. They also gain a perspective on the Biblical, Christian, and Classical traditions as they intersect with the multiple levels of Dantes concern, ranging from literature to history, from politics to government, from philosophy to theology. A visual component, including illustrations of the 'Comedy' and multiple artworks pertinent to the narrative, complements the course. Class format includes lectures, discussion, and a weekly recitation session. Intensive class participation is encouraged. Dante I can be taken independently from Dante II. No prerequisites. Freshmen are welcome. Part of the Dante Humanities Cluster.

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Gavett Hall Room 310 (MW 3:25PM - 4:40PM)

This course surveys the history of China from the late-nineteenth century to the twenty-first century. From the May Fourth Movement to the Cultural Revolution, Chinese society and culture underwent significant transformation as it was incorporated into the global capitalist system of nation-states.  By examining the country’s modern experiences, students will analyze a variety of currents that shaped the everyday lives of its people as they strived to recreate China in their own vision.  The first part of the course examines the domestic and global dynamics that led to the downfall of the Qing imperial dynasty.  The second part focuses on Chinese efforts to establish a modern nation-state through the revolutionary politics of the Nationalist and Communist parties.  The third part examines the establishment of the People’s Republic and the construction of a socialist society and culture in the context of the Cold War international system.

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Wilmot Room 116 (TR 3:25PM - 4:40PM)

This course surveys the history of Japan from the eighteenth century to the twentieth-first century.  From the Meiji Restoration to the Freedom and People’s Rights Movement, Japanese society underwent significant transformation as it was incorporated into the global capitalist system of nation-states.  By examining the country’s modern experiences, students will analyze a variety of currents that shaped the everyday lives of its people as they strived to recreate Japan in their own vision. The first part of the course examines the domestic and global dynamics that led to the downfall of the Tokugawa regime.  The second part focuses on Japanese efforts to establish a nation-state and empire after the Meiji Restoration.  The third part examines Japanese society and culture in the context of rapid industrialization and the Cold War international system.

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Morey Room 502 (TR 12:30PM - 1:45PM)

This discussion-based course interrogates the construction and evolution of Japan’s cultural traditions and idioms from ancient times to the eve of modernity. Drawing from oral records and mythology, performing and visual arts,  literary, religious and historical texts, among other mediums, this course asks students to understand and appreciate the dynamic contexts of Japanese “tradition.” At the same time, innovative evocations of the past will help us understand the processes through which literary, cultural and religious traditions are challenged, (re)invented, and (re)made. This course is therefore invested in both the historical legacy of traditional Japan and the ways in which tradition itself remains central to contemporary evocations of Japanese culture. No prior knowledge of Japan is required or expected.

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Frederick Douglass Room 420 (MW 4:50PM - 6:05PM)

This course examines the complicated relationship between religion and society in China. It takes a sociological approach, emphasizing that religion should be studied as a social phenomena that closely interacts with the development of society at large. The focus is on contemporary times from the end of the 19th century through present. During this period of time, China experienced tremendous change. This course introduces how such change impacted on and was expressed through religion, religiosity, and religious politics.

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Genesee Hall Room 309 (TR 11:05AM - 12:20PM)

Latinos now number more than 60 million people and represent one of the quickest population surges in the history of the American republic. But they include a diverse collection of nationalities and ethnic groups whose variety poses analytical challenges to historians and other scholars. Using a case study approach that will emphasize primary sources and monographs, we will analyze a variety of strategies through which recent historians have interpreted the relationship of Latinos to American society. We will ask whether it makes a difference to understand Latinos as immigrants with unique histories, products of empire resulting from American economic expansion, or sojourners with ongoing ties to Latin America. We will consider national differences between Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. And we will examine how scholars have interpreted the relationship of Latinos to America's other myriad peoples. Our ultimate concern will be to prepare students for further research and writing in the field.

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Rush Rhees Library Room 456 (MW 3:25PM - 4:40PM)

This introductory course will highlight major institutions, events and trends as Brazil transitioned from a rural, slave society to a highly urbanized society with one of the worlds most promising economies. Divided into three periods, the course first considers how Portuguese, African and indigenous institutions and traditions molded the colonial period, where sugar and then gold dominated Brazils economy. The second part begins with Brazils independence from Portugal in 1822 and covers the persistence of slavery, the introduction of railroads, European immigration and the importance of coffee during the Brazilian Empire. The third part of the course shows how samba, Carnaval, industrialization, and futebol as well as underdevelopment, dictatorships, and favelas define modern Brazilian history.

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Genesee Hall Room 309 (TR 9:40AM - 10:55AM)

This introductory course uses film and the film industry to understand several trends and elements central to Latin American society and culture in the twentieth century. Students will engage the tension of film's role in teaching history, and telling untold stories, alongside the medium's limitations. The class will be structured around five main themes: Latin America and the United States; Class, Race and Gender; Revolution and Repression; Underdevelopment and Informality; and (Im)migration. By the end of the course, students will have a strong introduction to modern Latin American history.

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Meliora Room 205 (TR 12:30PM - 1:45PM)

Today’s culture wars over gender identities, affirmative action, abortion rights, and similar issues rest on a history of earlier battles that have roiled American society. This course will explore struggles over such topics as censorship, immigration restriction, Prohibition, religion in public schools, sex education, jazz, and the behaviors of youth in order to understand the political tensions, values, and anxieties involved in cultural conflict in the modern United States. Reading assignments will be drawn from primary sources.

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Rush Rhees Library Room 305 (TR 11:05AM - 12:20PM)

After a brief review of the primary features of pre-European African society, we will examine the affect of the 'Middle Passage' -- the transportation of enslaved Africans to the Western Hemisphere. We will then focus on the process of 'Americanization'; as the Africans became African-Americans. The struggle for freedom and citizenship will conclude our survey. The main course readings will be a representative sample of African-American autobiographies, and short selections from a secondary text. Using the autobiographies as historical source material, we will produce a brief history of the values and cultural practices of Africans in America, and the ways in which African-Americans adapted to and shaped American life and society.

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Bausch & Lomb Room 270 (TR 11:05AM - 12:20PM)

This course surveys the history of technology and its impacts on agriculture, communication, transportation, housing, health, war and society. Technology has been used to build empires and improve human societies, but also to destroy, enslave, and censor. Today we face limits on technology as well as new and seemingly boundless opportunities for the future. The unifying theme of the course is exploring and understanding the impact of technology on individuals and society.

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Meliora Room 221 (MW 6:15PM - 7:30PM)

Framed as a historical introduction to Islamic traditions, this course will explore the political, social, and intellectual histories of Islam as a global tradition from its emergence through the modern period. The goal of the course is to introduce students to the central texts, personalities, events, geographies, institutions, and schools of thought that make up Islamic histories. We will begin by tracing Islam’s political history as it spreads from the Arabian Peninsula and encounters diverse cultures and peoples, before moving on to discuss the development of intellectual sciences and social institutions. In the process of studying Islamic histories, the course will engage several critical issues in the academic study of Islam such as orientalism, authority and writing history, authenticity, and gendered representations of Muslim societies.

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Lattimore Room 210 (TR 12:30PM - 1:45PM)

This course surveys American history through the words and work of women. Well-known historical events and developments--including but not limited to the Revolutionary War, the abolition of slavery, the Great Depression, and the protest movements of the 1960s--look different when considered from the perspective of women. The course will further examine how social categories such as race, class, sexuality, and religion have shaped women's historical experiences. Broad in chronological scope, this course is not intended to be comprehensive. Rather, we will utilize primary and secondary sources to delve into important historical moments and to explore questions about the practice and politics of studying women's history.

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Computer Studies Room 209 (MW 11:50AM - 1:05PM)

This course explores the creation and function of national parks, and herefore more broadly nature conservation, around the globe from the 19th century until the present. The course will be broken into two parts. The first part explores the history of national parks in the United States, examining Ken Burn’s claim, and later the National Park Service’s centennial slogan, that national parks were “America’s best idea.” The course will cover the creation of well-known national parks in the American West, the influence of New Deal era programs like the Civilian Conservation Corp, the controversy regarding national parks in Alaska, and the rising popularity of national parks in the postwar era. The second part of the course will then examine national parks outside the United States where some countries exported the American model, while others formed national parks in completely different historical contexts.

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Morey Room 525 (TR 2:00PM - 3:15PM)

This course will explore "Anti-Semitism" as a historical phenomenon and a rhetorical one from the end of the 18th Century until today, particularily in Germany. We also aim to examine the specific discoursive history of anti-semitic tropes –– with a special focus on the figure of the "enemy of the state." The course will examine a variety of genres of texts – historical documents, legal texts, theoretical / historiographic texts, cultural objects, newspaper articles, fictional narratives, state propeganda, etc. to explore the construction and political explotation of anti-semitic tropes, and the forms of state violence they explicitly or implicitly underwrite. Course language will English but opportunities for German minors and majors to work with German language primary materials. 

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Lattimore Room 401 (TR 9:40AM - 10:55AM)

Race and Labor in American History will cover the various ways labor in American history is racialized to specific ethnic groups as a byproduct of migration and immigration. Often, this labor is stereotyped as these immigrants, migrants, and their ethnic groups often get associated with specific labor niches; it was expected for only that group to be said workers. This course will cover topics from the Mammy to H1-B visas in the tech industry. From this course, students will gain an understanding of the ways labor in this country is racialized, where these stereotypes come from, and to what extent these labor niches have become part of the American narrative.

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Rush Rhees Library Room 222 (MW 11:50AM - 1:05PM)

History 200 is an introduction to historical practice what professional historians actually do. It is a requirement for history majors, but we encourage all interested undergraduates to enroll.

Fall 2024 topic: Eastern Front: In this course, we will examine the most gigantic, devastating war in world history: the Nazi-Soviet conflict of 1941-45. We will explore life on the Soviet home front, the Holocaust and life in the occupied territories, partisan warfare, the significance of Lend Lease for the Soviet war effort, soldiers’ experience of the war, and key battles such as the Battle of Moscow in the winter of 1941-42 and the Battle of Stalingrad.

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Goergen Hall Room 110 (MW 11:50AM - 1:05PM)

This course is an introductory survey of the tragically intermingled histories of England and Ireland from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the present. Main topics include the effects of the Wars on England and Ireland; industrialization (and the lack thereof); class conflict in the 1830s and 40s; the Great Famine; the Irish emigration; Liberalism; Irish Nationalism and the IRA; the Depression; the two world wars, etc. Course consists of lectures, small-group discussions, and a few films.

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Bausch & Lomb Room 270 (MW 9:00AM - 10:15AM)

This course is an introductory survey of the tragically intermingled histories of England and Ireland from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the present. Main topics include the effects of the Wars on England and Ireland; industrialization (and the lack thereof); class conflict in the 1830s and 40s; the Great Famine; the Irish emigration; Liberalism; Irish Nationalism and the IRA; the Depression; the two world wars, etc. Course consists of lectures, small-group discussions, and a few films.

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Bausch & Lomb Room 270 (MW 9:00AM - 10:15AM)

What is the FAIRY? An ever-changing entity that emerges from various oral and literary sources. Demons? Fallen angels?, Elementals? This course examines the figure of the Fairy in antiquity, medieval, renaissance, and twentieth-century texts for the liminality, category crisis, gender, poetic inspiration and allegory this figure inspires, as well as its social, political, and religious controversies in early English and Celtic ballads and romances. The Fairy signals both instability and literary self-fashioning in the grafting of histories and genealogies upon fairy ancestors (Melusine, The Fairie Queene) care-takers of “nature” (Midsummer Night's Dream); and both childhood and loss in later poetry (Keats, Yeats, Conan Doyle) Throughout time, readers have been fascinated by a “hidden people” not entirely foreign, evil, or human who abduct them, deceive them, seduce them, and make them poets. Forget the pretty Hallmark cards. These entities were sexy, devious, and scary!

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Hylan Building Room 105 (TR 2:00PM - 3:15PM)

This class centers African American religiosity—examining African religious retentions in America from the 17th century to the present. We will examine religious traditions of African Americans that include Voodoo, Black Hebrew Israelites, Moorish Movement, Five Percenters, Christianity, and the Nation of Islam.  Themes of liberation, humanity, nationhood, love, language, identity, and culture will be explored throughout the semester.

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Bausch & Lomb Room 269 (MW 9:00AM - 10:15AM)

Recent acts of protest by high school, collegiate, and professional athletes--including, at times, a refusal to play--remind us that sports are not and have never been separate from the world of politics, nor are they isolated from social, cultural, and economic contexts. Rather, sports reflect the society in which they are embedded and at times have spurred change in these realms. This course will explore U.S. history in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries through the lens of sports. Among the many questions we will consider are: How might one define a sport, and how have popular understandings of sport changed over time? What functions have sports served in American life? How have sports reinforced inequities in American society, such as those along racial, socioeconomic, and/or gendered lines? To what degree have sports defied these boundaries, acting as agents of democratization? Above all, we will ask: What does it mean to study sports historically?

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Morey Room 205 (MW 9:00AM - 10:15AM)

Recent acts of protest by high school, collegiate, and professional athletes--including, at times, a refusal to play--remind us that sports are not and have never been separate from the world of politics, nor are they isolated from social, cultural, and economic contexts. Rather, sports reflect the society in which they are embedded and at times have spurred change in these realms. This course will explore U.S. history in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries through the lens of sports. Among the many questions we will consider are: How might one define a sport, and how have popular understandings of sport changed over time? What functions have sports served in American life? How have sports reinforced inequities in American society, such as those along racial, socioeconomic, and/or gendered lines? To what degree have sports defied these boundaries, acting as agents of democratization? Above all, we will ask: What does it mean to study sports historically?

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Morey Room 205 (MW 9:00AM - 10:15AM)

This lecture course considers New York as a dynamic site of historic encounters and development from 1500 to 1850, a multicultural frontier where Indigenous, Dutch, French, British, and American clashed and mingled. We will particularly emphasize New York City and Western New York's past as we study global events through local lenses. 

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Rush Rhees Library Room 456 (TR 9:40AM - 10:55AM)

This lecture course considers New York as a dynamic site of historic encounters and development from 1500 to 1850, a multicultural frontier where Indigenous, Dutch, French, British, and American clashed and mingled. We will particularly emphasize New York City and Western New York's past as we study global events through local lenses. 

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Rush Rhees Library Room 456 (TR 9:40AM - 10:55AM)

bell hooks published her landmark book Ain’t I a Woman in 1981, and with it, she became one of the most prominent voices to emerge from the Black feminist movement. hooks challenged intersecting oppressions throughout her versatile canon. She authored more than two dozen books with topics ranging from classism to education, history, movies, literature, and love. hooks gravitated towards popular culture because she wanted to connect with larger audiences while still maintaining her critical voice. Scholars and readers are now starting to assess this prolific writer’s legacy after hooks died in 2021. In this course, we will read hooks's work as a lens for examining larger themes within Black women’s intellectual history. We will also explore nineteenth- and twentieth-century Black women writers—hooks’s peers and foremothers—as we ask questions about hooks's intellectual lineage, revolutionary vision, populist approach, and lasting legacy.

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Hylan Building Room 101 (TR 3:25PM - 4:40PM)

bell hooks published her landmark book Ain’t I a Woman in 1981, and with it, she became one of the most prominent voices to emerge from the Black feminist movement. hooks challenged intersecting oppressions throughout her versatile canon. She authored more than two dozen books with topics ranging from classism to education, history, movies, literature, and love. hooks gravitated towards popular culture because she wanted to connect with larger audiences while still maintaining her critical voice. Scholars and readers are now starting to assess this prolific writer’s legacy after hooks died in 2021. In this course, we will read hooks's work as a lens for examining larger themes within Black women’s intellectual history. We will also explore nineteenth- and twentieth-century Black women writers—hooks’s peers and foremothers—as we ask questions about hooks's intellectual lineage, revolutionary vision, populist approach, and lasting legacy.

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Hylan Building Room 101 (TR 3:25PM - 4:40PM)

This seminar course investigates the relationship between Jewish, Christian, and Muslim societies in medieval Spain from the establishment of Muslim Spain (Al-Andalus) in 711 to the expulsion of Jews from the Iberian Peninsula in 1492 after the Christian ‘reconquest’. The course will analyze the concept of ‘peaceful coexistence’ among the Muslim, Jewish, and Christian communities, referred to as convivencia, and explore the evolving dynamics of power and interconfessional relations between them. By analyzing primary sources such as historical chronicles, legal documents, and literary texts, students will explore various themes including religious and ethnic identity, gender and sexuality, religious conversion and tolerance, law and political authority, the notion of a ‘Golden Age’ of convivencia, Islamic architecture, intellectual encounters between Muslims and Jews, and their influence on Christian Europe. The course will also examine scholarly debates on convivencia, reconquista, and conversos with an emphasis on how the memory of medieval Iberia is utilized in modern academic and public discourse.

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Todd Union Room 202 (T 3:25PM - 6:05PM)

Study of European expansion into Africa and the Americas from the ages of Discovery to Revolution has taken many forms. Some pursued their investigations topically (slavery, migration, economic development, etc.) and others focused on particular colonies or regions. We shift the focus of inquiry to the Atlantic Ocean itself, as the geographic center of an expanding European world. Rather than treat the ocean as peripheral while studying the settlement of the Atlantic coast, we will be primarily concerned with activities that took place upon its watery face, delving into the lives of the tens of thousands of mariners who were catalysts in identity formation, migration, and economic development. Our focus will be on three topics: migration, (forced and free), maritime activities (seafaring, shipping, and fishing), and trade (how merchants did business and integrated regional economies). By the end, you will hopefully appreciate the centrality of the sea to the development of Africa, Europe, and the Americas.

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Rush Rhees Library Room 456 (T 2:00PM - 4:40PM)

This course will approach the tortured history of the 20th century by way of the life and writings of George Orwell. Best known for his late dystopian novels 1984 and Animal Farm, Orwell wrote many other memorable books and essays commenting on the signal events of his time. He experienced first hand (among other things): India, the British Empire, the Depression, the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War, post-war austerity and affluence, and the Cold War. And he wrote about them all with unrivaled clarity and force. Students will immerse themselves in Orwells life, work, and times and write a substantial research paper on a relevant topic of their own choice and design.

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Rush Rhees Library Room 305 (M 2:00PM - 4:40PM)

According to data from the National Safety Council, unintended injuries cause over 224,000 deaths and62,000,000 cases involving medical attention per year across the country. Since the nineteenth century,“accidents” from car crashes to the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster have become increasingly centralto American life. This course charts the history of accidents and explains why U.S. society has chosen to control some risks but not others. We will explore how accidents have changed over time alongside the introduction and diffusion of new technologies; cultural beliefs about safety; the political and economic interests of specific stakeholders; and the efforts of experts, corporations, nonprofits, families, and the government to keep the public safe. On one level, the course follows the unforeseen effects of modern industry, transportation, infrastructure, and consumer products. On another, it demonstrates how the ideals of personal responsibility and free enterprise continue to influence the safety movement. Using injuries as a lens, we will combine history with technical communication and public policy. We will also learn skills including close reading, critical thinking, primary and secondary research, and writing.

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(R 2:00PM - 4:30PM)

According to data from the National Safety Council, unintended injuries cause over 224,000 deaths and62,000,000 cases involving medical attention per year across the country. Since the nineteenth century,“accidents” from car crashes to the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster have become increasingly centralto American life. This course charts the history of accidents and explains why U.S. society has chosen to control some risks but not others. We will explore how accidents have changed over time alongside the introduction and diffusion of new technologies; cultural beliefs about safety; the political and economic interests of specific stakeholders; and the efforts of experts, corporations, nonprofits, families, and the government to keep the public safe. On one level, the course follows the unforeseen effects of modern industry, transportation, infrastructure, and consumer products. On another, it demonstrates how the ideals of personal responsibility and free enterprise continue to influence the safety movement. Using injuries as a lens, we will combine history with technical communication and public policy. We will also learn skills including close reading, critical thinking, primary and secondary research, and writing.

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(R 2:00PM - 4:30PM)

This course will provide students with a grasp on the fluid ideal of the “normative” human body throughout history; it will also provide them with a toolkit for writing, at the graduate school level, rigorous historical work that focuses on the body and its discontents. Students will consider the body from an interdisciplinary perspective, looking at the different ways in which the body has been conceptualized and represented in medicine and culture throughout historical periods and in different geographical areas. These scientific and cultural conceptualizations of the body have had and continue to have significant implications for patients and for the scientists and clinicians who study the body and who provide care. Throughout the fourteen themes explored this semester, students will learn to question and disassemble the binaries, categorization methods, and social constructions of the body.

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(R 5:00PM - 7:30PM)

This course will provide students with a grasp on the fluid ideal of the “normative” human body throughout history; it will also provide them with a toolkit for writing, at the graduate school level, rigorous historical work that focuses on the body and its discontents. Students will consider the body from an interdisciplinary perspective, looking at the different ways in which the body has been conceptualized and represented in medicine and culture throughout historical periods and in different geographical areas. These scientific and cultural conceptualizations of the body have had and continue to have significant implications for patients and for the scientists and clinicians who study the body and who provide care. Throughout the fourteen themes explored this semester, students will learn to question and disassemble the binaries, categorization methods, and social constructions of the body.

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A research seminar in 20th century American history. Some common reading in recent work in the field will be coupled with independent, individualized student research projects.

Fall 2024 topic: What ideas, values, and anxieties found expression in the United States during the twentieth century? This seminar will pursue that question by exploring fiction, social commentary, the visual arts, and music in relation to such developments as the conduct and aftermath of war; the emergence of modern consumer culture; changing gender roles; economic hardship and affluence; and technological innovation. Reading will emphasize primary sources. Students will write a research paper reflecting their particular interests.

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Rush Rhees Library Room 305 (R 2:00PM - 4:40PM)

Through intensive reading and discussion, we will analyze the major institutional features of Congress, with an emphasis on historical development. We will examine the basic institutions of the House and Senate--committees, parties, leaders, and rules. In doing this, we will consider the rise of careerism, the seniority system, agenda-setting, electoral concerns, divided government, efforts at institutional reform, party polarization, gridlock, and the Senate filibuster.

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Harkness Room 329 (T 12:30PM - 3:15PM)

This Fall semester course (4.0 credits) is reserved for History seniors whose Honors proposal has been approved. (Approval process takes place during spring semester of junior year.) In HIST 389H students conduct independent Honors research under the supervision of their faculty advisor.  Students who successfully complete 389H will enroll in HIST 399H (2.0 credits with the Honors director) in the spring and continue their Honors research in HIST 393H (4.0 credits with their advisor). Students who have not demonstrated enough progress in HIST 389H will not advance to the spring sequence of Honors and will receive HIST 391W credit instead. ​

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This Fall semester course (4.0 credits) is reserved for History seniors whose Honors proposal has been approved. (Approval process takes place during spring semester of junior year.) In HIST 389H students conduct independent Honors research under the supervision of their faculty advisor.  Students who successfully complete 389H will enroll in HIST 399H (2.0 credits with the Honors director) in the spring and continue their Honors research in HIST 393H (4.0 credits with their advisor). Students who have not demonstrated enough progress in HIST 389H will not advance to the spring sequence of Honors and will receive HIST 391W credit instead. ​

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This Fall semester course (4.0 credits) is reserved for History seniors whose Honors proposal has been approved. (Approval process takes place during spring semester of junior year.) In HIST 389H students conduct independent Honors research under the supervision of their faculty advisor.  Students who successfully complete 389H will enroll in HIST 399H (2.0 credits with the Honors director) in the spring and continue their Honors research in HIST 393H (4.0 credits with their advisor). Students who have not demonstrated enough progress in HIST 389H will not advance to the spring sequence of Honors and will receive HIST 391W credit instead. ​

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This Fall semester course (4.0 credits) is reserved for History seniors whose Honors proposal has been approved. (Approval process takes place during spring semester of junior year.) In HIST 389H students conduct independent Honors research under the supervision of their faculty advisor.  Students who successfully complete 389H will enroll in HIST 399H (2.0 credits with the Honors director) in the spring and continue their Honors research in HIST 393H (4.0 credits with their advisor). Students who have not demonstrated enough progress in HIST 389H will not advance to the spring sequence of Honors and will receive HIST 391W credit instead. ​

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Individual instruction in the teaching of history under the supervision of a faculty member.

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Experience in an applied setting supervised on site. Approved and overseen by a University instructor.

Registration for Independent Study courses needs to be completed thru the instructions for online independent study registration.

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