Course Descriptions

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History Discipline Courses

Course ID Title Latest Offering
HIST 110 History of Western Civilization I (3) Fall 2009
HIST 111 History of Western Civilization II (3) Fall 2009
HIST 114 World History to 1500 (3) Fall 2009
HIST 115 World History Since 1500 (3) Fall 2009
HIST 120 History of the U.S. through Reconstruction (3) Fall 2009
HIST 121 History of the U.S. since Reconstruction (3) Fall 2009
HIST 130 Survey of U.S. History for Foreign Students (3) Fall 2009
HIST 300 GW Seminar in Historical Analysis - GWAR (3) Fall 2009
HIST 302 Doing Local History (3) Effective Spring 1981
HIST 313 Comparative History of Love and Sexuality (3) Fall 2008
HIST 317 The Holocaust and Genocide (3) Fall 2008
HIST 320 Archaic and Classical Greece (3) Fall 2007
HIST 321 Hellenistic Greece (3) Spring 2008
HIST 322 The Roman Republic (3) Fall 2008
HIST 323 Imperial Rome (3) Fall 2009
HIST 325 Late Antiquity (3) Fall 2008
HIST 326 The Byzantine Empire (3) Spring 2008
HIST 328 Early Christian Church to 313 (3) Fall 2009
HIST 329 Early Christian Church, 313-787 (3) Spring 2008
HIST 330 The Early Middle Ages (3) Spring 2009
HIST 331 The High Middle Ages (3) Fall 2009
HIST 334 The Renaissance (3) Spring 2009
HIST 336 The Reformation (3) Fall 2008
HIST 337 Knowing and Unknowing in Early Modern Europe (3) Spring 2009
HIST 340 Europe During the Old Regime: 1715-1789 (3) Spring 2007
HIST 342 Europe and the French Revolution (3) Fall 2008
HIST 344 Nineteenth Century Europe (3) Spring 2009
HIST 346 Recent European History (3) Fall 2009
HIST 347 Women in Modern Europe (3) Fall 2008
HIST 348 Modern European Intellectual and Cultural History (3) Spring 2009
HIST 349 Topics in European History (3) Effective Spring 1981
HIST 349 Variable topics:
  HIST 349 Medieval Popular Beliefs (3) Fall 2009
  HIST 349 Venetians and Ottomans in the Eastern Mediterranean (3) Effective Spring 2010
HIST 350 Greece and the Balkans (3) Spring 2006
HIST 385 The Russian Revolution (3) Fall 2009
HIST 386 Soviet Russia, the West, and the Cold War (3) Spring 2009
HIST 389 European International History, 1848-1918 (3) Fall 2009
HIST 390 European International History, 1918 to 1945 (3) Spring 2009
HIST 400 History of Modern European Imperialism (3) Fall 2007
HIST 418 Society and Politics in American History (3) Fall 2008
HIST 420 American Colonial History (3) Fall 2009
HIST 422 The Founding of the American Nation (3) Fall 2009
HIST 424 History of the United States: 1827-1877 (3) Spring 2008
HIST 426 History of the United States: 1877-1916 (3) Fall 2009
HIST 427 History of the United States: 1916-1945 (3) Fall 2009
HIST 428 History of the United States Since 1945 (3) Fall 2009
HIST 448 The American West (3) Fall 2009
HIST 449 American Jewish History (3) Fall 2008
HIST 450 History of California (3) Fall 2009
HIST 460 U.S. Foreign Relations to 1913 (3) Fall 2009
HIST 461 U.S. Foreign Relations, 1913 - Present (3) Spring 2009
HIST 462 Making Whites: Race-making in America (3) Spring 2009
HIST 463 History of Raza in U S (3) Fall 2009
HIST 464 American Ethnic and Racial Relations I: 1740-1890 (3) Fall 2009
HIST 465 American Ethnic and Racial Relations II: 1890-Present (3) Spring 2009
HIST 466 History of People of Color in the U.S. (3) Fall 2008
HIST 467 Women in the U.S. to 1890 (3) Fall 2007
HIST 468 Women in U.S.: 1890-Present (3) Spring 2009
HIST 469 American Childhoods: Past and Present (3) Spring 2009
HIST 470 The U.S. Constitution to 1877 (3) Fall 2009
HIST 471 U.S. Constitution Since 1877 (3) Spring 2009
HIST 473 Unfree Labor in Early America (3) Fall 2008
HIST 474 History of Labor in the United States (3) Summer 2009
HIST 476 American Environmental History (3) Fall 2008
HIST 480 Thought and Culture in America to 1880 (3) Effective Summer 2009
HIST 481 Thought and Culture in America: 1880 to the Present (3) Effective Summer 2009
HIST 482 Religion in America (3) Fall 2007
HIST 489 Dynamics of the American City (3) Fall 2009
HIST 490 Topics in American History (3) Effective Spring 1980
HIST 490 Variable topics:
  HIST 490 History of Violence in U.S. (3) Fall 2008
  HIST 490 The History and Literature of Baseball (3) Spring 2007
  HIST 490 The US and the Cold War (3) Effective Spring 2010
HIST 500 Colonial Latin America (3) Fall 2008
HIST 501 Latin America: The National Period (3) Spring 2009
HIST 520 Central America and the Caribbean (3) Fall 2009
HIST 524 History of Mexico (3) Fall 2008
HIST 528 History of Brazil (3) Fall 2008
HIST 535 History of Women in Latin America (3) Spring 2009
HIST 550 Social Change in Modern Latin America (3) Fall 2009
HIST 569 Ancient Chinese Civilization (3) Fall 2009
HIST 570 Imperial China (3) Spring 2009
HIST 571 History of Modern China (3) Spring 2009
HIST 575 History of Women in China and Japan (3) Fall 2009
HIST 578 History of Japan (3) Fall 2008
HIST 584 History of the Indian Subcontinent (3) Fall 2007
HIST 584 History of the Indian Subcontinent (3) Fall 2009
HIST 585 India since Gandhi (3) Spring 2009
HIST 588 History of Southeast Asia (3) Fall 2009
HIST 600 Ancient Near East (3) Effective Spring 1980
HIST 604 Islamic World I: 500-1500 (3) Fall 2009
HIST 605 Islamic World II: 1500-present (3) Fall 2008
HIST 606 History of Iran and Afghanistan 1500-Present (3) Fall 2009
HIST 610 History of Africa (3) Fall 2009
HIST 611 Modern Africa (3) Spring 2009
HIST 632 Jewish History I: Beginnings to 1650 (3) Fall 2009
HIST 633 Jewish History II: 1650 to Present (3) Spring 2009
HIST 640 Proseminar in European History (3) Effective Spring 1981
HIST 640 Variable topics:
  HIST 640 Crisis and Creativity: Culture and Politics in Interwar Europe (3) Spring 2009
  HIST 640 Intolerance in Medieval Europe (3) Spring 2006
  HIST 640 Origins of World War II (3) Fall 2009
  HIST 640 Second World War (3) Fall 2008
  HIST 640 The Black Death (3) Spring 2008
  HIST 640 The Crusades (3) Spring 2007
  HIST 640 The European Witch Craze, 1550-1650 (3) Spring 2007
  HIST 640 The Roman Empire (3) Fall 2009
HIST 642 Proseminar in American History (3) Effective Fall 1981
HIST 642 Variable topics:
  HIST 642 American Revolution (3) Spring 2009
  HIST 642 California Cities: Los Angeles/San Francisco (3) Fall 2009
  HIST 642 Documenting American Social Change (3) Spring 2007
  HIST 642 Historical Perspectives on Culture, Identity, and Food (3) Spring 2009
  HIST 642 Labor in the U.S. West (3) Fall 2008
  HIST 642 Law and Society (3) Fall 2007
  HIST 642 Proseminar in American History: California in the Great Depression, 1929-1941 (3) Fall 2008
  HIST 642 Proseminar: Americans and Nature (3) Effective Spring 2010
  HIST 642 The Civil War and Reconstruction (3) Spring 2009
  HIST 642 U.S. Race Relations and the Law, 1865-1965 (3) Fall 2005
  HIST 642 U.S., Vietnam and the War (3) Fall 2009
HIST 644 Proseminar in World History (3) Effective Fall 1985
HIST 644 Variable topics:
  HIST 644 Confucius Says -- Or Not (3) Spring 2009
  HIST 644 History, Society, and Restorative Justice (3) Fall 2009
  HIST 644 Journeys to the New World: Discovery, Exploration, and Science (3) Fall 2006
  HIST 644 Latin American: Nation Building and the World Economy (3) Fall 2007
  HIST 644 One Hundred Years of Latin American Writing (3) Fall 2008
  HIST 644 Seminar on Topics in the Middle East: 1700-Present (3) Spring 2007
HIST 660 Computer Methodology for Historians (3) Fall 2008
HIST 661 Introduction to SPSS (3) Spring 2007
HIST 675 Emma Goldman: Historical Editing (3) Fall 2007
HIST 680 Archives or Historical Agency Internship (3-4) Effective Spring 1988
HIST 680 Variable topics:
  HIST 680 Archives or Historical Agency Internship (3) Fall 2009
  HIST 680 Archives or Historical Agency Internship (4) Fall 2009
HIST 681 Community Service Learning in the Schools (3) Fall 2009
HIST 690 Editing and Publishing the History Journal (1-4) Effective Fall 1989
HIST 690 Variable topics:
  HIST 690 Editing and Publishing the History Journal (1) Fall 2009
  HIST 690 Editing and Publishing the History Journal (2) Fall 2009
  HIST 690 Editing and Publishing the History Journal (3) Fall 2009
  HIST 690 Editing and Publishing the History Journal (4) Spring 2009
HIST 697 Honors Thesis (3) Fall 2009
HIST 698 Directed Reading in History (3) Fall 2009
HIST 699 Special Study (1-4) Effective Spring 2006
HIST 699 Variable topics:
  HIST 699 Special Study (1) Fall 2009
  HIST 699 Special Study (2) Fall 2009
  HIST 699 Special Study (3) Fall 2009
  HIST 699 Special Study (4) Fall 2009
HIST 700 History as a Field of Knowledge (3) Fall 2009
HIST 701 The Historiography of World History (3) Spring 2009
HIST 710 Seminar in Ancient and Medieval History (3) Effective Fall 1983
HIST 710 Variable topics:
  HIST 710 Crime and Punishment in Medieval and Renaissance Europe (3) Fall 2006
  HIST 710 Religion and Empire: Historiography in Late Antiquity (3) Fall 2007
  HIST 710 Seminar in Ancient History: The Fall of the Roman Empire (3) Spring 2009
  HIST 710 Seminar in the Roman Empire (3) Fall 2005
  HIST 710 The Black Death (3) Spring 2005
HIST 720 Seminar in Medieval History (3) Effective Spring 1982
HIST 720 Variable topics:
  HIST 720 Imagining the Middle Ages (3) Fall 2008
  HIST 720 Land of THree Religions (3) Effective Spring 2010
HIST 730 Seminar in Early Modern European History (3) Effective Fall 1990
HIST 730 Variable topics:
  HIST 730 Church and Society in Europe, 1500-1800 (3) Fall 2009
  HIST 730 The Occult in the Renaissance and Reformation (3) Spring 1986
  HIST 730 The Old Regime and the French Revolution (3) Spring 2006
HIST 740 Seminar in the History of Europe Since 1815 (3) Effective Fall 1990
HIST 740 Variable topics:
  HIST 740 Crisis and Creativity: Culture and Politics in Interwar Europe (3) Fall 2009
  HIST 740 Culture and Society in the Belle Epoque (3) Fall 2008
  HIST 740 European Imperialism (3) Spring 2007
  HIST 740 Second World War (3) Fall 2007
HIST 759 Curriculum and Instruction I: Social Science/History (3) Fall 2005
HIST 780 Seminar in American History To 1877 (3) Effective Spring 1981
HIST 780 Variable topics:
  HIST 780 Antebellum Reform (3) Fall 2009
  HIST 780 Culture and Society in Early America (3) Fall 2008
  HIST 780 Early American Society (3) Effective Spring 1981
  HIST 780 Regionalism and Nationalism in Early America (3) Spring 2009
  HIST 780 U.S. Middle Period, 1828-1877 (3) Spring 2008
  HIST 785 College Teaching of History (1) Effective Summer 2009
HIST 785 College Teaching of History (3) Fall 2009
HIST 790 Seminar in American History Since 1877 (3) Effective Spring 1993
HIST 790 Variable topics:
  HIST 790 Great American Trials (3) Fall 2009
  HIST 790 History of Race and Ethnicity in the 20th Century U.S. (3) Fall 2008
  HIST 790 Readings in History of U.S. since 1900 (3) Fall 2009
  HIST 790 The American West (3) Fall 2007
  HIST 790 The Civil War and Its Memory (3) Fall 2004
  HIST 790 The US and the Cold War (3) Spring 2009
  HIST 790 Western Populism and Progressivism (3) Spring 2008
HIST 800 Selected Themes in American History (3) Effective Spring 1980
HIST 805 Seminar in the History of Women (3) Effective Spring 1981
HIST 805 Variable topics:
  HIST 805 European Women: Recent Research (3) Fall 1993
HIST 830 Seminar in Latin American History (3) Effective Spring 1980
HIST 830 Variable topics:
  HIST 830 Intellectual History of Latin America (3) Fall 2009
  HIST 830 Journeys in the New World: Discovery, Exploration, and Science (3) Spring 2008